Meme-tastic: 24 Questions On Music
Ripped this one from EDSBS, and it’s a lot of fun. I really want to see some responses on this from the readers.
1. A favorite political track.
Split this one down the middle between “Mr. Wendal” by Arrested Development and “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead” by XTC. One’s an infectious homage to a homeless guy in Atlanta that can be played/sung with two drumsticks, a mattress and a Ziploc bag full of socks (not that I ever did this with youth group friends on a mission trip in Tennessee in 8th grade), the other a JFK allegory that I don’t completely buy but still enjoy (I can’t deal with the alternate Jesus allegory theory at all). Side props to R.E.M.’s “Exhuming McCarthy” as well.
2. One of those tracks that will make you dance on the dancefloor no matter what.
At the risk of being way too trendy, I have to get up to Matisyahu’s “King Without A Crown.”
3. The song you’d use to tell someone you love them.
I’m gonna reserve my answer to this one for H’s and my first dance.
- A song you know would sell lots of VWs (or ipods, or whatever) if they paid for it. (One that hasn’t already been used).
Blackhawk, “Big Guitar”, or a slightly hopped-up version of James Taylor’s “Mexico.”
- A song that forced you to sit down and analyze its lyrics.
Metallica, “Master of Puppets”: the song is written from the perspective of heroin talking to an addict, and drives home the hopelessness of that life through the utter contempt dripping from every word. The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra adds some genuinely chilling strings on the S&M CD to complete the mood. More recently, Franz Ferdinand’s “The Fallen”: it’s another Jesus allegory that I don’t fully agree with, but it merited thought nonetheless.
24 March 2006 / 3 Comments / Tags: life