Another music meme:

What’s a great late night song?

1. Don't Go Home-Kirsty MacColl
2. Self Control-Laura Branigan
3. Angel-Joe Jackson

Name 5-10 wistful/bittersweet songs

1. Night Music-Starflyer 59
2. Are 'Friends' Electric?-Gary Numan
3. Colored Lights-Kander/Ebb
4. Feline or Famine-Violet Indiana
5. Cruel-Thomas Dolby

The 4 Best Songs Ever Written

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Today, right now, I'll say:

1. Look Sharp-Joe Jackson
2. I Remember That-Prefab Sprout
3. Strawberry Fields Forever-John Lennon
4. Dulcinea-from "Man of La Mancha."

3 Current Favorite Songs:

1. Synchronicity-The Police
2. No Salt on her Tail-The Mamas & the Papas
3. A Little Priest-From "Sweeney Todd"

Classic Early Evening Drinking Music

I don't drink enough to be able to really answer this question, but...

1. Something by Roxy Music is always nice.
2. Liz Phair's "Extraordinary," maybe.
3. Or Spandau Ballet's "True."
4. The Junkie XL song with vocals by Robert Smith would probably be good for drinking alone.
5. I could see listening to Ray Davies' song from Absolute Beginners, "Quiet Life" while enjoying a drink at home, if I were the sort of person who did that.

3 All Time Faves That Never Get Old To You

1. I Can Dream About You-Dan Hartman
2. Mercy Street-Peter Gabriel
3. the best man's fall-Trash Can Sinatras

Song You Want (or did) To Play At Your Wedding

I'm changing this one to Four Songs I Associate With Weddings For Reasons I'm Not Sure I Can Explain:

1. Splitting Up With Your Girlfriend-Sensation
2. Losing My Religion-R.E.M.
3. Kiss Me-Stephen Duffy
4. Where The Streets Have No Name/Can't Take My Eyes Off You-Pet Shop Boys

4 Records You Really Dug from 2005:

Read this.

Favorite Records From This Year So Far

Besides Hail Social, I don't have much.

Good Angry Songs

Read this.

One of Your Favorite Lyrics

From OMD's Messages:

So don't ask me if I think it's true That
communications can bring hope To those
who have gone their separate ways
It hardly touched me when it should have then But
memories are uncertain friends
When recalled by messages

5 Cover Songs Arguably Better Than the Original

1. Kon Kan-Puss N Boots/These Boots (Are Made For Walking) -- Classic favorite "mash-up" of Led Zeppelin with Nancy Sinatra.
2. Shriekback-Get Down Tonight. Shriekback crash-landing on a KC song...Humanly impossible to disapprove, cos the Shriek keeps shrieking and the groove don't move...
3. Pet Shop Boys-Always On My Mind
4. Depeche Mode-Route 66. Even though in retrospect, this was an early warning sign of the groups getting into dreary rock, which almost killed Dave and from which they've never recovered to my ears.
5. Bananarama-Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye. I want it played at my funeral.

Ironic Song to Brutally Murder Someone to in a movie

"Go Insane"-Lindsey Buckingham

Great Dance Song You Maybe Never Realized Was a Great Dance song Back in the Day:

None. I can always tell a great dance song.

Good Album to Clean The House To

Scritti Politti's new album

Good Dining Music

Everything But The Girl

Good Album To Love On Each Other To

Disc two of Marvin Gaye four-disc complilation. The others work, too.

A Good Album To Put You In the Mood (that is NOT Sade, Marvin Gaye or Barry White):

Crowded House comp. Hey, I'm a guy, we don't need albums.

Good Album To Sleep To

• Alternative by Pet Shop Boys (CD-programmed for the slushy songs)
• Retrospectacle by Thomas Dolby (ditto)

5 Good Rock Songs That You Can Dance To

Preaching To The Perverted-Pop Will Eat Itself...other than that I don't know many such songs, really...oh, and "Brimful of Asha." I suppose I can't count Safety Dance or Wang Chung, can I? I didn't think I could. What about The Divine Comedy's Noel Coward cover? I don't like rock, is what I'm saying.

Song That Is Too Damn Sad

• Elgy-Howard Jones.
• Most anything by The Smiths.
• Mad World-Tears For Fears

Great [underrated] Love Song

Off My Mind-The Darling Buds

Song To An Ex That Isn’t Meanspirited

Everytime-Nick Heyward

Song To An Ex That Is Kinda Meanspirited

There Is No Love Between Us Anymore-Pop Will Eat Itself

Song to Listen to While in The Country Looking at Stars

• On The Willows-from "Godspell."
• Parts of the "Star Wars" soundtrack
• I'm Going To Go Back There Someday-from "The Muppet Movie"
• Down By The Sea-Men At Work. Ok, so this is for while at the beach looking at the stars, but...

Song to lose your Mind to

Reload -Junkie XL

Song To Cry In Your Pillow to

Suddenly Last Summer-Motels

Songs That Make You Feel Amped and Inspired

1. Commercial Breakup-Thomas Dolby
2. Sun City-Artists United Against Aparteid
3. Overture from "Shock Treatment"
4. Deja Voodoo-38 Special

Great Semi-Obscure B-side:

• Absolute (version) by Scritti Politti
• Lucky Bag (Miami Edit) by Electronic

Song That Makes You Miss Your Mom

There is no such song.

Criminally Underrated Band That Didn’t Get Attention and Then Broke Up

The Cinematics

Best Screw You I Am a Teenager in Pain Song

Never Tear Us Apart-INXS

Feel No Shame, Great Current Pop Songs

1. Stupid Girl or Dear Mr. President, Pink
2. Never Again, Kelly Clarkson

Album No One Would Expect You To Dislike
Night & Day 2, Joe Jackson

3 Contemporary Artists That Were Your Faves 10 Years Ago
The Spice Girls. That's all I got. Oh yes they are too.

Music That Makes You Feel Sophisticated
One On One, Hall & Oates

Fave Electronic Record You Own
Almost impossible to answer, but I'll say Actually by Pet Shop Boys

Hip-Hop Song You Know All the Lyrics To
"Smack My Bitch Up"...no, I'm kidding.

Random Album You Loved In High School But Are Afraid To Admit It
Rocky Horror soundtrack

Albums You May Have Listened To More In High School than Any Other

• The Pacific Age, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
• Black Celebration, Depeche Mode.
• Louder Than Bombs, The Smiths.
• Substance, New Order.
• Decade, Duran Duran.

If You Could Enter A Wrestling Ring to a Song It Would Be
The theme from "Huff." It's as likely as any.

Album To Clear A Room With
Haysi Fantayzee's 1983 album Battle Hymns For Children Singing
("one of the most willfully annoying records of all time"-Trouser Press)