1. The quarterback is the most important player on a football team. He controls the action, and the responsibility for the team's success is on his shoulders. Which musician is your choice for musical QB?
At first I wanted to say Green Day because from there evolved most of my future music choices, but they would be more like a pioneer, a guide. My musical QB, helping everyone look good and looking good because of everyone else around them, would be the Clash. See below:
2. What album scores a touchdown for you (i.e. it's just the best)?
London Calling. It is cliche, but really, it expanded punk rock. It took other genres, notably ska and reggae into the mix. It rules.
3. What song needs a game ejection?
A song off the aforementioned album? Hmm... oh man, this is tough. I just looked at the track listing. Maybe... I'm Not Down. Eeep. Someone shoot me. Haha once I read this awesome thread on a message board about what was the best song off London Calling and some poster's best would be someone's worst and they'd go at it like the other was crazy. Like someone said "Hateful." HATEFUL RULES!! ZOMG.
4. Football is about intense, bone-crushing excitement. What song or artist gives you that same feeling?
NIN's March of the Pigs always makes me want to riot. MARCH! Sham 69's Borstal Breakout and Blitz' Someone's Gonna Die Tonight are excellent boot stompers.
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Are you a completeist when it comes to your favorite recording artists? (Meaning do you have to have everything they release even if its another best of compilation or something of that nature)
Not a true completist, but pretty darn close. My sis verges on being a true completists, for Depeche Mode where she was buying singles and box sets and b-side comps and bootlegs and live recordings, which she currently does for Erasure, getting overseas versions and then the domestic ones when they are available. Also she collects rare mixes done by EvilJames. Ha! :P I did purchase Depeche Mode's latest Best Of... because it a) had a new single and b) came with VIDEOS. <3
But me! I like to have everything they release, even best of compilations and live albums (see Green Day--though I think I am still missing Bullet in A Bible--and Bouncing Souls--never even listened to that live album of a show we were at...) and comps that have a song that is not on any other release (i've done that like 3 times already for Rancid--though I am still missing one song of theirs backed by the ska group East Coast All Stars, which is on the Beavis and Butthead soundtrack). I also tried to hunt down Green Day's cover of the Simpsons theme tune but.. uh, i forgot the story. I think it was just a single and never on the Simpsons movie soundtrack.
Hmm, looking back at this question I am being more of a music nerd than the question is asking. Hell yeah if I like a group I buy all their releases. That's like 90% of my music collection. What fun is only owning one album by a band (unless that's like their only release-- Operation Ivy much? Though then of course I had to hunt down a bootleg LP with songs that were not on their one release. Bad quality though. Ha!)
Okay, that's enough for now.
Have you ever bought more than one copy of a certain album? If you did, tell us why.
Yessss. Because! They were special editions! Newly expanded booklets! Digitally enhanced! Pretty covers! Also some were signed. Plus some I share with my sis, so she sometimes has a copy and I want/need another. This is what we have two of, off the top of my head (and these are only CDs, forget about ALL the cassettes we had and later had to get CDs of)
- Green Day - Nimrod (special edition with biiiig colored booklet)
- Pet Shop Boys - Disco 2 (one of them had an extra disc!!)
- The Clash - London Calling (newly remastered! plus pretty packaging!!)
Gosh I know there's more. May make a list later. Gee. Obsessive much?
Which bands make up the majority of your collection? How many CDs, Lps, cassettes etc?
It used to be 90% cassettes, but I actually chucked about 30 or 40 cassettes a few months ago as I know have most of them on CD. Now it's 95% CDs and I have a few EPs (Bikini Kill!!! <3 and uh... Poison. It was at a flea market!!)
Do you buy an album from a band just because you like them or do you wait until you've heard it before making the purchase?
I've got to have heard at least one song. In my weak moments I buy an album because of one song. Oops I read the question wrong. Of course I buy the new album of a band that I like, DUH! I thought this question was about any ol' music purchase. In any case, I usually end up hearing new stuff off new albums by band's either from the internets or they play it at shows and I'm already acquainted with it by the time it gets in my grubby hands. Yum.
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