Music Survey

1. Your favorite song with the name of a city in the title or text.
Something Corporate - I Woke Up In A Car

2. A song you've listened to repeatedly when you were depressed at some point in your life.
Dashboard Confessional - This Ruined Puzzle

3. Ever bought an entire album just for one song and wound up disliking everything but that song?
I don't buy albums.

4. A great song in a language other than English.
Cool Joke - Undo (Full Metal Alchemist Opening Theme 3)

5. Your least favorite song on one of your favorite albums of all time.
Yellowcard - Twenty Three

6. A song you like by someone you find physically unattractive or otherwise repellent.
Clay Aiken - The Way

7. Your favorite song that has expletives in it that's not by Liz Phair.
Senses Fail - One Eight Seven. "I try so fucking hard, but I can't fit your mold."

8. A song that sounds as if it's by someone British but isn't.
Eh.

9. A song you like (possibly from your past) that took you forever to finally locate a copy of.
I find everything.

10. A song that reminds you of spring but doesn't mention spring at all.
Something Corporate - Watch the Sky

11. A song that sounds to you like being happy feels.
All-American Rejects - Swing Swing (Yes, even though that is a sad song, it sounds happy damnit)

12. Your favorite song from a non-soundtrack compilation album.
Umm...at this very moment in time, Straylight Run - Your Name Here (Sunrise Highway).

13. A song that reminds you of high school.
Weezer - Buddy Holly

14. A song that reminds you of college.
Shakira - Whenever, Wherever. (*shudder*...)

15. A song you actually like by an artist you otherwise dislike.
Clay Aiken - The Way

16. A song by a band that features three or more female members.
Umm...I guess that one song by The Donnas...

17. One of the earliest songs that you can remember listening to.
Random Chinese songs that I don't know the names of.

18. A song you've been mocked by friends for liking.
Michelle Branch - Goodbye to You

19. A really good cover version you think no one else has heard.
OZMA - Superstar (Originally by The Carpenters, Sung by Star)

20. A song that has helped cheer you up (or empowered you somehow) after a breakup or otherwise difficult situation.
Taking Back Sunday - You're So Last Summer

21. If you went crazy and decided to go on a mass killing spree, what song would you be listening to as you were pumping lead/tearing apart/stabbing your victims?
Boys Night Out - This Broken Killswitch. "I'm reaching in my chest, but the killswitch on my heart is broken and I've been dead for years."

22. Do you have a song that you can listen to that puts you in a better mood than you were in prior to listening to the song?
Motion City Soundtrack - The Future Freaks Me Out

23. What song is your "guilty pleasure"?
Not sure what that means...

24. Is there a song/songs that made you cry? What was it/were they?
Yellowcard - Firewater

25. Name an artist you like that would surprise people who think they know you.
Boys Night Out

26. Is there a song you could never get sick of?
There are a few: Matchbook Romance - Tiger Lily, OZMA - Korobeinki, The Postal Service - Nothing Better, Brand New - Failure By Design, Brand New - Play Crack the Sky, and maybe a couple other ones

27. Describe one memory you have (off the top of your head) that surrounds a particular song, which will immediately pop into your head as soon as you hear it, and name the song of course.
SR-71 - Right Now. Me and Jeff's project on Asian-American influence in the media for Poli Sci senior year of high school. We spliced the song into the intro of our video, along with a 5 minute Simpsons clip (the one where the mob fights the Japanese mafia). The genius part was, we used the same exact project for Chinese.

28. What song reduces you to giggles, or is guaranteed to cheer you up with the sheer absurdity of it when you need a good laugh?
Umm...the "Chicken Dance" song? Arden, Kevin, and Jon were playing it last night while doing their ECE homework...

29. What is your lifelong theme song, the music and/or lyrics that defines something about who - and how - you are?
Brand New - Failure by Design

30. What music piece from a movie stands out for you as particularly memorable and/or enjoyable?
Aladdin - One Jump Ahead

31. Finally, the omnipresent "20 random songs" question:
1) Yellowcard - Finish Line
2) Simple Plan - Perfect
3) Unwritten Law - Before I Go (Acoustic)
4) Toshiro Masuda - Rocks (Naruto Opening Theme 1)
5) Taking Back Sunday - Timberwolves at New Jersey
6) Dashboard Confessional - This Bitter Pill
7) Something Corporate - Break Myself
8) Copeland - Walking Downtown
9) Newfound Glory - Goonies R Good Enough
10) Something Corporate - I Want to Save You
11) Murder By Death - Holy Lord, Shawshank Redemption is Such a Good Movie
12) Taking Back Sunday - Slowdance on the Inside
13) OZMA - Rain of the Golden Gorilla
14) Weezer - Falling for You
15) Thrice - Stare At the Sun
16) Straylight Run - Another Word for Desperate
17) The Postal Service - Clark Gable
18) Nami Tanaki - Realize
19) Senses Fail - The Ground Folds (Acoustic)
20) Something Corporate - Konstantine

I just used the first 20 songs that played in Winamp that weren't already in in this survey.

Randomness: It's sad when people grow apart.