My Top 50 Survey - December 2, 2008

1. Arctic Monkeys
2. The Shins
3. The Mars Volta
4. Death Cab for Cutie
5. Beirut
6. Boys Like Girls
7. Elliott Smith
8. The Killers
9. Metro Station
10. Marilyn Manson
11. [PlayRadioPlay!
12. The Decemberists
13. Bloc Party
14. The Fratellis
15. Coldplay
16. Say Anything
17. Radiohead
18. Three Days Grace
19. All-Time Quarterback
20. Maximo Park
21. The Maccabees
22. Good Shoes
23. Vampire Weekend
24. Badly Drawn Boy
25. The Beatles
26. Bright Eyes
27. Cartel
28. Cute Is What We Aim For
29. David Guetta
30. Franz Ferdinand
31. My Chemical Romance
32. The Fray
33. Jimmy Eat World
34. John Mayer
35. Los Campesinos!
36. The Strokes
37. Modest Mouse
38. Milburn
39. Mayday Parade
40. Mystery Jets
41. Neutral Milk Hotel
42. The Postal Service
43. The White Stripes
44. We Are Scientists
45. Tokyo Police Club
46. Taking Back Sunday
47. Tokio Hotel
48. The Klaxons
49. Red Hot Chili Peppers
50. Paramore

1. How did you get into 29? David Guetta
My best friend

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Good Shoes
Never Meant to Hurt You

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33? Jimmy Eat World

I don't favor a specific phrase, but the lyrics to Pain are pretty good

4. What is your favorite album by 49? Red Hot Chili Peppers

Probably 'Stadium Arcadium.'

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Bloc Party

None... I just download

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Paramore

Probably have to say Misery Business

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Mayday Parade

Uhmmm.. I guess When I Get Home You're So Dead. I wouldn't say the song is necessarily sad, but the lyrics are somewhat... depressing (I'm still not sure if that's the right word).

8. What is your favorite album by 15? Coldplay

I'm not the biggest Coldplay fan, but all of their albums are pretty good (and similar).

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Beirut

Either Elephant Gun or Nantes.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? Boys Like Girls

All of their songs make me happy :) Especially head over heels

11. What is your favorite album by 40? Mystery Jets

Twenty One.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Marilyn Manson

The Nobodies

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Franz Ferdinand

Listening to Take Me Out as a middle schooler :-P

14. What is your favorite song by 38? Milburn

In my opinion, Send in the Boys

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? All-Time Quarterback

YES! Dinner At Eight In The Suburbs

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?

On account of my age, it is quite impossible for me to have ever seen The Beatles live.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? Vampire Weekend

A-Punk

18. What is your favorite album by 11? PlayRadioPlay!

My fav. album isn't titled.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? Arctic Monkeys

Alex fucking Turner.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? The Fratellis

Nope

21. What is a good memory involving 27? Cartel

Swimming, while a stereo blasted Say Anything Else and Honestly.. Ahhhh

22. What is your favorite song by 16? Say Anything

This is difficult... Arrgh, I guess it's Alive With The Glory of Love.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Tokio Hotel

Monsoon. (Back when I thought the lead singer was a female).

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Three Days Grace

One-X


25. What is your favorite song by 21? The Maccabees

This is tricky because I like all their songs equally... probably First Love

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? Bright Eyes

Road to Joy

27. What is your favorite album by 3? The Mars Volta

De-loused in the Comatorium

28. What is you favorite song by 2? The Shins

Australia

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? The Fray

Uhhh... Over My Head. (They are definately not amongst my favorite bands, I just needed this band to fill the list)

30. What is your favorite song by 8? The Killers

Tricky tricky tricky... Read My Mind probably comes closest to my favorite.


31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Radiohead

Zero... sadly :-(

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? We Are Scientists

YES, Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt is a very happy song (imo).

33. What is you favorite album by 12? The Decemberists

Mmmm... I like various tracks from all their albums, so I don't really have a favorite.

34. What is the worst song by 45? Tokyo Police Club

Don't know... I haven't listened to all their songs to know.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? John Mayer

This is really hard, because I started listening to John Mayer at a really young age.... I'm guessing Your Body Is a Wonderland?

36. What is your favorite album by 48?

'Myths of the Near Future' (although I haven't listened to all their albums to necessarily have a favorite)

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? The Postal Service

None

38. What is you favorite song by 36? The Strokes

Arghh... I can't pick any favorites! Either Reptilia or [track artist=The Strokes]Someday[/tack].

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Cute Is What We Aim For

The Curse Of Curves

40. What is your favorite album by 7? Elliott Smith

Either/Or

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? My Chemical Romance

Teenagers. I love that song <3

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Neutral Milk Hotel

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

43. What is your favorite song by 24? Badly Drawn Boy

Once Around the Block

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? Taking Back Sunday

I can't really think of any right now. They used to be one of my favorite bands a few years ago.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Los Campesinos!

It's You! It's Me! It's Dancing!. I really love that song.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Metro Station

Control. I can't even begin to describe what this song does to me.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? Death Cab for Cutie

This is really hard, because I love all their albums in a different way.
'Plans'. 'The Photo Album.' 'Something About Airplanes.'
I can't decide, there all so damn good!


48. Who is a favorite member of 37? Modest Mouse

Uhhh, I'm not to familiar with all the members of the band, so I'm just gonna say the lead singer (he seems like a quirky young fellow)

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? The White Stripes

Seven Nation Army

50. How many albums do you own by 20?

Zero... (once again, I just download)

i love these things. i meant to go to bauhaus and drink a million cups of coffee and do a fuckload of homework, but i'm still at my apartment. whatevz.

List your Top 25 on Last.FM

1: Modest Mouse
2: JFA
3: Sex Vid
4: The Pogues
5: Neil Young
6: Paul Baribeau
7: Creedence Clearwater Revival
8: Jellyroll Rockheads
9: Minutemen
10: Pinback
11: Black Lips
12: Dillinger Four
13: Rambo
14: Gogol Bordello
15: Sleep
16: Idol Punch
17: The Microphones
18: Dean Dirg
19: Lack of Interest
20: Pink Floyd
21: Built to Spill
22: Against Me!
23: Weezer
24: Mischief Brew
25: Sexy


Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
"ten things"

What is your favorite album by 2?
we know you suck is the only one i have, it's a best of collection. but hell, it's SWEET

What is your favorite lyric that 1 has sung?
i'm so bad with lyrics, even though modest mouse has amazing ones. RIGHT WING LEFT WING CHICKEN WING.

How many times have you seen 11 live?
NEVER. i definitely will the next time they run through town, though.

What is your favorite song by 7
run through the jungle or i put a spell on you

What is a good memory you have involving 20?
the whole album meddle makes me think of high school.

Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad?
it's fucking sex vid, they makes me either pissed off or pumped up

What is your favorite lyric that 14 has sung?
CAN'T THINK OF ANY.

What is your favorite song by 19?
maaaan i don't know

How did you get in to 22?
i borrowed 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1 from clay.

What was the first song you heard by 21?
randy described eternity.

What is your favorite song by 4?
fairytale of new york, sally maclennane, if i fall from the grace of god... it's too hard to choose one.

How many time have you seen 10 live?
nawh. i probably wouldn't, either.

What is a good memory you have involving 13?
none, really. i'm like the only person i know that listens to RAMBO.

Is there a song by 23 that makes you sad?
naaaah

What is your favorite album of 15?
holy mountain!!

What is your favorite lyric that 9 has sung?
i hate these lyric questions

What is your favorite song by 8?
no skate no thrash

What is your favorite song by 16?
hakone riot

How many times have you seen 5 live?
NEVER AAAAAH I WANNA SEE NEIL YOUNG.

What is your favorite album by 12?
midwestern songs of the americas

What is a good memory you have involving 25?
getting super stoked upon ever listen of every track of por vida

What was the first song you heard by 18?
i don't know. i saw a live video of them when they played in kavala, greece. dylan's friend's band opened for them.

What is your favorite song by 17?
i felt your shape

What is your favorite album by 24?
bellingham and philadelphia is really growing on me

You all know how these work - guess the song based on the first line or so. I'm going to post this both here and on FaceBook and see which site fares better :)


1. The curtains up, the crowd is waiting for you to come to life

2. One afternoon I heard a sound coming down

3. What was that scar situated from afar

4. How are things on the west coast?

5. Forced, we forced feeding you lines feeding you.

6. I can hear my train coming, it's a lonesome and distant cry

7. Remember the love we made (it's enough)

8. Growing tired of bedside resolve (politics lay out the pressure)

9. One drink, two drink, three drinks, four, she had eyes that I couldn't ignore

10. I've seen you darling, seen you hanging round town

11. Train I ride, sixteen coaches long

12. Wake up dreamer, it's happening without you

13. What I thought would never come has come, I wish I could say I did it 'cause I was young

14. You are my captor, my bayonet, it is my duty to fall on it

15. I feel a warm resistance beneath the outer layer

16. We were shooting at a mountain of dirt

17. Let's sing a song to end the world. No I'm not kidding. I said my prayers, or so I said, and nothing's hidden. coolkdog911

18. How can I just let you walk away, just let you leave without a trace when I stand here taking every breath with you?

19. It's not as if New York City burned down to the ground once you drove away.

20. I want to be forgotten and I don't want to be reminded. You say \please don't make this harder', no I won't yet tiffanysara

21. I'm coming home but my heart is here. I'm making plans not to make plans while I'm here.

22. So that you're not alone, I wanna take you home with me

23. Brick by brick, the night eclipsed pricked by the cuticle thorns. Dried the sleep on nursery slits, into this life I’m born

24. I know I want you and you know you want me, but can you promise please you'll say yes to me

25. I'll make a sound you can remember. (When it comes) it's not like it's gonna matter anyway

26. They only want you when you're seventeen, when you're twenty one, you're no fun

27. "Hey there love, let's get to catching up 'cause I been thinking those thoughts that must have slipped my mind

28. Stacks on deck, patron' on ice, we can pop bottles all night

29. I'll write you a song and it won't be hard to sing

30. All I do is sleep all day and think of you

31. Believe me Natalie, listen Natalie, this is your last chance to find [There is no excuse to NOT get this one]

32. I want to live where soul meets body, and let the sun wrap its arms around me [Again no excuse!]tiffanysara

33. In a sense it don't come easy, in a sense it never will

34. Love of mine, someday you will dietiffanysara

35. You walk straight, not like them

36. Don't look back now, we thought we had it won. And all that we've left, is the smoking of a gun.

37. The pig's spitting taxes and unwanted tasks. We say, "send me to the battle please sir!"

38. Brian, top marks for not tryin'. So kind of you to bless us with your effortlessness tiffanysara

39. Pay the president in cigarettes, pay the president in government bonds

40. No sleep - I haven't slept for a week


Anberlin
Arctic Monkeys
Bedouin Soundclash
Bloc Party
!!!
Circa Survive(x2)
City and Colour
Death Cab for Cutie(x2)
Death From Above 1979
Edison Glass
Elvis Presley
Eye Alaska
The Faint
Hard-Fi
Hot Snakes
Interpol
Jack's Mannequin
The Juliana Theory
The Killers
Kings of Convenience
Ladytron
The Mars Volta
Modest Mouse
Moving Units
N*E*R*D
Needtobreathe
Portugal. The Man
The Postal Service(x2)
Rilo Kiley
Sam Roberts
The Servant
Silversun Pickups
The Starting Line
The Strokes
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
T.I.
Tokyo Rose

Broken Social Scene sure know how to put on a concert. Wrapping up their 2008 tour with one last show in Toronto at the Sound Academy, they pulled out all the stops. Featuring special guest appearances by Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse, Emily Haines from Metric (who was unexpected to say the least) and several great highlights during their set, this was one of the best concerts that I’ve ever been to. The Beauties opened the night on a solid note as well.

For some pics of the concert, check out: http://katuwapitiya.com/?p=174

For a video of "Looks Just Like the Sun", check out: http://katuwapitiya.com/?p=233

For a video of "Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl" (featuring Emily Haines of course), check out: http://katuwapitiya.com/?p=235

Finally, for the highlight of the night, check out the video of "The World at Large" (with both Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse and Emily Haines from Metric (on backing vocals)): http://katuwapitiya.com/?p=237

With the end of 2008 nearing and me putting some thoughts into who my candidates for the Best Album of 2008 are, I decided to put up a list regarding 2007, as well.
I'm well aware, of course, that this list would look totally different would I have done it eleven months ago...or, let's say, last week ;)

Just Moe's Top 10 Albums of 2007:

1. Radiohead – "In Rainbows"
2. Dear and the Headlights - "Small Steps, Heavy Hooves"
3. Shout Out Louds - "Our Ill Wills"
4. Zookeeper - "Becoming All Things"
5. Aereogramme - "My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go"
6. Bloc Party - "A Weekend In the City"
7. M.I.A. – "Kala"
8. Björk - "Volta"
9. Modest Mouse - "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank"
10. Tegan and Sara - "The Con"

Other honorable mentions (in alphabetical order): Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible", Babyshambles - "Shotter's Nation", Beirut - "The Flying Club Cup", Editors - "An End Has A Start", Kate Nash - "Made of Bricks"

List the first song you heard, the one that made you fall in love and your current favourite of your top 10 artists.

1. Vampire Weekend
First Song heard: A-Punk
First Fell in Love With: Oxford Comma
Current Favorite: Kids don't stand a chance

2. Weezer
First Song Heard: Hash Pipe
First Fell in Love With: Buddy Holly
Current Favorite: Maladroit Era stuff, River Cuomo solo work.

3. Human Highway
First Song Heard: The sound
First Fell in Love With: All Day
Current Favorite: King's My Beach

4. Band of Horses
First Song Heard: The Funeral
First Fell in Love With: The Funeral
Current Favorite: Part One

5. Elliott Smith
First Song Heard: Needle in the Hay.
First Fell in Love With: between the bars
Current Favorite: Southern Belle

6. Radiohead
First Song Heard: Karma Police
First Fell in Love With: Bodysnatchers/15 step
Current Favorite: Subterranean Homesick Alien

7. Islands
First Song Heard: Rough Gem
First Fell in Love With: Don't Call me Whitney, Bobby.
Current Favorite: The Arm

8. The Strokes
First Song Heard: Someday
First Fell in Love With: Last Nite
Current Favorite: Trying your luck

9. Against Me!
First Song Heard: White People for Peace
First Fell in Love With: Cavalier Eternal
Current Favorite: Disco before the breakdown.

10. Modest Mouse
First Song Heard: Float On
First Fell in Love With: The ocean breathes salty
Current Favorite: alot of their old shit, everywhere and his nasty parlor tricks for the most part.

1. How did you get into 29 (Snow Patrol)?
A past relationship.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22 (The Fratellis)?
Chelsea Dagger!

3. How many albums by 13 do you own (The Kinks)?
8

4. What is your favorite song by 15 (This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb)?
Murder Bike

5. What is your favorite song by 5 (Siddharta)?
Hmm..."Napoj" is definitely one of them.

6. Is there a song by 6 (The Rocket Summer) that makes you happy?
Hold It Up.

7. What is your favorite song by 10(The Weepies)?
Gotta Have You.

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30 (Ramones)?
Summer(s) with my friends back home.

9. Is there a song by 19 (The Presidents of the United States of America) that makes you happy?
Love Everybody.

10. How many times have you seen 26 (Sublime) live?
Zero :(

11. What is the first song you ever heard by 23 (ABBA)?
Probably "Waterloo".

12. What is your favorite album by 11 (Bob Marley)?
Exodus.

13. Who is a favorite member of 1 (Jack Johnson)?
The one and (the) only Jack Johnson!

14. Have you ever seen 14 (Hinder) live?
No.

15. What is a good memory involving 27 (Metallica)?
Stalking my 6th grade crush.. :P

16. What is your favorite song by 16 (Kings of Leon)?
Taper Jean Girl.

17. What is your favorite album by 18 (The Beatles)?
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

18. What is your favorite song by 21 (The Roots)?
Livin' In A New World.

19. What is the first song you ever heard by 25 (Patrice)?
Moonrise.

20. What is your favorite album by 2 (Flogging Molly)?
Drunken Lullabies.

21. What is you favorite song by 3 (Mason Jennings)?
Duluth.

22. What is you favorite song by 8 (Fleet Foxes)?
White Winter Hymnal.

23. How many times have you seen 17 (Death Cab for Cutie) live?
Zeroooo.

24. What is the worst song by 12 (Coldplay)?
I don't like "A Whisper" too much...

25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28 (Nickel Creek)?
The Fox.

26. What is you favorite album by 7 (Modest Mouse)?
Good News For People Who Love Bad News.

27. What is your favorite song by 9 (Arctic Monkeys)?
Fake Tales of San Francisco.

28. Is there a song by 26 (Sublime) that makes you happy?
Yeah a few of them..."Waiting for my Ruca", "Date Rape", "Caress Me Down" etc.

29. What is your favorite album by 4 (3 Doors Down)?
Seventeen Days.

30. How many albums do you own by 36 (Elliott Smith)?
One.

That shuffled song thing.

1. Opening Credits: Doin' the Cockroach - Modest Mouse

2. Waking Up: My Iron Lung - Radiohead

3. First Day of School: A With Living - Do Make Say Think

4. Falling In Love: Infinite Horizons - God Is An Astronaut

5. Arguing: Cocoon - The Decemberists

6. Breaking-Up: Night on the Sun - Modest Mouse

7. Prom: Fire It Up - Modest Mouse

8. Life: March Into the Sea - Modest Mouse

9. Boring Job: 1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound - A Silver Mt. Zion

10. Mental Break Down: Graves - Tokyo Police Club

11. Driving: Sing Me To Sleep - Showbread

12. Flashback: Man Who Makes You Sick - Man Man

13. Getting Back Together: O Valencia! - The Decemberists

14. Wedding: La La Lulu - The Exponents

15. Birth of First Child: Happy Jack - The Who

16. Final Battle: An Eagle in Your Mind - Boards of Canada

17. Death: Miracle - Foo Fighters

18. Funeral: Something in the Air - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

19. End Credits: Doesn't Remind Me - Audioslave