If you're on Facebook, you've doubtlessly encountered at least one or two of your friends taking part in one of these things. The 30-Day Song Selection Spectacular -- not to be confused with the 30 Day Song Challenge or the 30 Day Music Challenge -- is essentially just a way to clog up all your friends' feeds every day for an entire month with your unsolicited musical reminiscences and opinions. If you're friends with me on Facebook, you're probably sick of me regularly doing that anyway, so I thought I'd just consolidate it all into one handy little post here. This way I can get it done in one fell swoop and not have to prolong the agony for those acquaintances of mine who honestly couldn't really give a rolling rat fuck about, say, my "favorite song to clean house to." So let's get down to it, shall we?
1. Favorite cover version of a non-obscure song.
Most recently, it's the Porkka Playboys' cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."
2. Favorite love song.
"Love Her All I Can" by Kiss
3. A song from your favorite movie.
"You're Mine" by Robert & Johnny (from the Terminal Bar scene in Scorsese's "After Hours")
4. Favorite breakup song.
"I'm Not Always So Stupid" by The Wedding Present
5. A song you hear when you're shopping.
"Red Red Wine" by UB40 (heard this evening in a supermarket)
6. A song you can't listen to just once.
"Surf Combat" by Naked Raygun
7. A song that breaks your heart with the first few notes.
"This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush
8. A song that made you completely halt whatever it was you were doing the first time you heard it. "Eighties" by Killing Joke
9. A song that you first heard live, that you became instantly obsessed with.
"Shine On Elizabeth" by Cop Shoot Cop
10. A song which makes you think, if temporarily, that you love everybody! (think: uplifting anthem). "Life's What You Make It" by Talk Talk
11. A song which seems incredibly deep no matter how many times you hear it.
"This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush
12. A song you love but can't bring yourself to listen to. (You fill in the reason.)
Live recording of "Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World" by U2 from Yankee Stadium from August of 1992. It hardly matters anymore, but for a long time, I couldn't listen to it because of who I'd been there with and what happened afterwards and blah blah blah. Ancient history.
13. A song you put on everyone's mix tape.
"Spin Out" by Pussy Galore
14. Favorite duet/collaboration between two artists you love (or maybe you only love one of them). "Don't Box Me In' by Stewart Copeland and Stan Ridgway
15. A song you love from a genre you usually dislike.
"Give Me the Reason" by Luther Vandross
16. Biggest musical misstep by an artist you usually adore.
"America" by Killing Joke
17. A song you like recorded by an artist who was under 18 at the time of recording.
"Annette's Got The Hits" by Redd Kross
18. A song from the first album you ever bought with your own money (extra credit if you rode a spider bike to Woolworth's to make the purchase) or first 45 if you're old enough to know what that is.
"Room Service" by Kiss
19. First song you ever illegally downloaded.
"I Against I" by the Bad Brains as covered by Jeff Buckley
20. A song that you clean house to.
"Five Minutes Alone" by Pantera
21. A song by an artist that you used to love, but now are at least a little ashamed of (because either you or they changed).
"Looks That Kill" by Motley Crue
22. A song that infuriates you.
"My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas
23. Last song that got stuck in your head.
"Nothing But Heart" by Low
24. A song your parents would play during parties.
"Mas Que Nada" by Sergio Mendes & Brazil `66
25. A song you love to sing in the shower.
"Apologia" by Gavin Friday
26. A song by the first band you saw in concert.
"Going Under" by Devo (Radio City Music Hall, Halloween night 1981)
27. Favorite oldie (a song you grew up thinking of as an oldie).
"Lord Got Tomatoes" by Blind Blake
28. A song with chord changes that really thrill you.
"We're Desperate" by X
29. Your favorite vocal performance.
"Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil
30. Song from the album you played over and over and over in high school.
"Behind the Door" by the Circle Jerks
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