Friday Five, anyone?

[alwaysamy]

I've been drowning myself in music all week. Thus, a musical Friday Five for anyone who wants to play.

1) What's the first album (CD, whatever) you bought with your own money? (When you were a kid. If you bought music as a kid, which I sincerely hope you did.)

2) Do you still buy complete albums (CDs, whatever), or are you more likely to buy song-by-song off iTunes?

3) Admit it. Have you bought any of the songs used in either the old Gap ads or the new iTunes ones?

4) Name an album you wanted to like but never listen to.

5) What' songs would be on the soundtrack of your life?

Comments

[dachelle.livejournal.com]

1. With my own money? No idea. Probably something classic rock, since I started earning my own money in high school and I was really into 60s/70s stuff then.

2. It depends on the artist. If I love them, I'll buy the whole album.

3. I have, but it's always been that I have the song first, and then a commercial uses it! I'm still baffled by how much I've been hearing The Fratellis lately, for instance.

4. The new one by The Hold Steady. I'd heard so much good stuff about them, and when I finally heard the album, it was very disappointing.

5. Pretty much anything by The Libertines/Babyshambles/Dirty Pretty Things/Peter Doherty. 90% of my time is spent listening to them anyway.

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

1) Abbey Road

2) More often than not, complete albums whether it's in CD form or off iTunes. I buy song-by-song if there's something specific I want/need, but again, more often than not, I use that evil "Complete your album" link iTunes offers. Evil, I tell ya.

3) Ha! They pilfer from MY collection, thankyouverymuch. I had Jump, Jive, & Wail WAY before Gap used it and the JET CD before it was used for iTunes. The new Nano commercial with Feist makes me want to spit nails, however, so that one, they can keep.

4) I really, really wanted to love Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company which is an all duets album he did and he collaborated with some tremendous talents, but it was so close to the end of his life and the quality of his voice was just so diminished. I do love his duet with Elton John on "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word."

5) Ain't enough bandwidth, baby. You know that. But in the spirit of Friday Five, I'll give you five songs that would be on there for sure:

At Last
Eres
Little Wing
Anyone Who Had a Heart
When You Say You Love Me

[zmayhem.livejournal.com]

1. Kenny Rogers, The Gambler. To which I roller-skated graceful Olympic routines around the driveway for weeks.

2. Complete albums, usually used, from Amoeba. The most recent purchase was a Death Cab for Cutie album about a year ago, which promptly got lost, buried somewhere in the blizzard of CDs around the apartment. I've never even listened to it once, which makes me sad.

3. Not yet, but I'm tempted by the mournful/wistful girlsinger in one of the current iTunes ads. If I had any idea who she was.

4. Greg Brown's Milk of the Moon. I usually adore him, and I've tried several times, but it just doesn't... it just doesn't.

5. More than could be named. Much Beatles, much Greg Brown, almost all the big giant hits of the Jackson 5, lots of Cheryl Wheeler, much Jonathan Richman, both with and without the Modern Lovers. Lots of Aretha. Early Shawn Colvin. Almost the entirety of Handel's Messiah. Stuff like that.

[amy37.livejournal.com]

Early Shawn Colvin! This is like the Snoopy thing! I adore Shawn Colvin. And Handel's Messiah, which makes me think of church, and my parents, and completely overwhelms me in the best way.

The newest iPod ad features a girl who calls herself Feist. I can't decide if I like the song or loathe it.