Entertainment For Lively Minds
Choose your partner/friends by their musical choices
Posted by andy gallant on 6 May 2008 - 2:15pm.
If we were all compelled to fill out a musical questionnaire when meeting people for the first time, could ill-fated relationships and friendships be avoided? Here's a few choices to get the ball rolling:
Beatles or Stones?
Sgt. Pepper or Pet Sounds?
Revolver or Sgt Pepper?
The Monkees or Arctic Monkeys?
Girls Aloud or Sugarbabes?
60s & 70s or 80s & 90s?
Country or Folk
Oasis or Blur?
TOTP or Later?
Pink Floyd or Pink Fairies?
Tom Waits pre 'Raindogs' or after?
Duran, Duran or Spandau Ballet?
Radio 1 or Radio 2?
Kylie or Madonna?
Elvis Presley or Elvis Costello?
etc. etc. P.S. The answer 'neither' is not an option!
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A couple more
Jackson Browne or The Eagles?
Bob Dylan's version of Mr Tambourine Man or The Byrds' version?
I've always...
...rigorously adhered to the thought that anybody who prefers the Sid Vicious version of the Sex Pistols to the Glen Matlock version is way off the plot...
(although you have to give Sgr. Vicious credit for his top answer to this question:
Hapless Interviewer: Do you make your music for the man in the street?
Our Hero: Naaah. I've met the man in the street and he's a c***)
Then again...
....takes one to know one.
And wjhile I think of it...
Stones
Pet Sounds
Revolver
Monkees
Girls Aloud
60s/70s
Country
Blur
TOTP
Pink Faries
post Rain Dogs
Duran
Radio 2
Madge
Presley
"Son of a gun" OR "Son of a preacher man"?
"Fame is but a fruit tree" OR "Fame, its not your brain, it's just the flame"?
"Metal Warriors (Brothers of Metal Part One) OR "Metal Guru"?
Choices
Perhaps I should have added:
Beatles
Sgt Pepper
Revolver
Monkees
Sugarbabes
60s/70s
Country
Oasis
TOTP
Pink Floyd
pre Rain Dogs
Duran
Radio 2
Madonna
Presley
How about
Bryan Adams or Ryan Adams?
Johnny Cash or Johnny Rotten?
Bob Dylan or Bob Marley?
And in answer to the above
Stones
Sgt. Pepper
Revolver
Arctic Monkeys
Sugarbabes
60s & 70s
Country
Blur
TOTP
Pink Floyd
pre 'Raindogs
Duran, Duran
Radio 2
Kylie
Elvis Presley
OK, it's...
Ryan
Rotten
Dylan for songwriting, Marley for performance
"Karma Chameleon" OR "The Lizard King"
"I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar" OR "I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm."
"Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been" OR "Eleanor put those boots back on kick the heels into the Brooklyn dirt."
Splitting three more hairs
John or Paul?
Strat or Les Paul?
Whispering Bob or John Peel?
Beatles
Sgt. Pepper
Revolver
The Monkees
neither
60s & 70s
Country
neither
TOTP
neither
both
neither
Radio 2?
neither
Elvis Presley
Paul
Strat
Whispering Bob
Three hairs plaited
George
Ludwig
Peel
and the votes from the Italian Jury are as follows
Beatles
Sgt. Pepper
Revolver
The Monkees
Girls Aloud [as a gun to my head last resort]
60s
Folk
Oasis
Later?
Pink Floyd
Tom Waits pre 'Raindogs' or after? - will have to pass on this one as I am not aware of any of his "ouvre"
Duran, Duran
Radio 2
Madonna
Elvis Costello
Speaking of Pink Floyd...
Pre-"Dark Side" or "Dark Side" and onwards?
For me: Pre-"Dark Side", definitely.
Or there's:
Instrumental Jazz or Jazz Singers?
For me: Instrumental Jazz (there's no such thing as Jazz singing)
As for the rest:
Stones
Sgt. Pepper
Revolver
Arctic Monkeys
Sugarbabes (if choose I must)
60s & 70s
Folk
Blur
Later
Pink Floyd
Tom Waits 'Raindogs' and after
Duran, Duran
Radio 2
Kylie
Elvis Costello
How about...
Brian Jones Stones or Mick Taylor Stones (Taylor)
...and in answer to previous either/ors:
Beatles
Pet Sounds
Revolver
Monkees
Sugarbabes
60s & 70s
Country
Blur
TOTP
Pink Floyd
Pre Raindogs
Neither
Radio 2
Presley
Jackson Browne
Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man
Son Of A Preacher Man
Fruit Tree
Metal Guru
Ryan Adams
Johnny Cash
Bob Dylan
Lizard King
John
Strat
Peel
Pre Dark Side
Instrumental
Or...
Emerson, Lake or Palmer?
Palmer
...I can still play along with "Tarkus" and "Pictures At An Exhibition", using my knees as bongos. After which a set of crutches often proves useful.
Bongos
And what do you use for maracas?
Mine are....
Beatles
Sgt Pepper
Revolver
Monkees
Girls Aloud
60's & 70's
Country
Blur
Later
Floyd
Latter Tom Waits
Neither - can i have Japan instead? ;)
Radio 2
Madonna
Costello
I'll be your friend ?
Based mine on record collection + childhood recollection despite a couple of oooohs and arghhhs !
Stones
Sgt. Pepper
Revolver
The Monkees
Sugarbabes
60s & 70s
Country
Oasis
TOTP
Pink Fairies - lucky to have complete set of both PFs so got to choose this selection :)
Tom Waits pre 'Raindogs'
Spandau Ballet
Radio 2
Madonna
Elvis Presley
Still looking for the third "One The Juggler" fan ... there must have been another !
I used to play something similar a few years back that grew into one defining question
- "If you were a track, what one would you be?"
Hmmm...
...seems a few people didn't read my PS about' neither' not being an option! How could you be soembody's friend/partner if you can't make a simple commitment like this?
Well
I suppose it's only a bit of fun, but... if my opinion of the two choices comes down to "A is really shit, but B is really REALLY shit", then "Neither" is a damn sight more accurate than "A", as a "committed" answer. Sounds like you want commitment, for vanishingly small values of "commitment". But your gaff, your rules, I s'pose.
For your consideration
what about:
Queen or Queens of the Stone Age
Marilyn Monroe or Marilyn Manson
Eminem or M&Ms
Nirvana or Pearl Jam
Siouxsie with or without the Banshees
Alien Sex Fiend or Sex Gang Children
Spice Girls or S Club 7
Supergrass or Suede
Daft Punk or Deftones
Al Green or Green Day
Muse or Radiohead
Dolly Parton or Tammy Wynette
and finally
Coldplay or DEATH
Abandoning all pretense at credibility
Here I go...
Queen
Monroe
M&Ms
Nirvana
With
ASF
Spice Girls (oh, it hurts, it HURTS, but "neither"'s banned!)
Supergrass
Daft Punk
Al Green
Radiohead (though I'd prefer to have both)
Dolly
Coldplay (I'm not so up myself as to say "DEATH" for effect)
thank you
hayleyunlikely for mentioning the 'genre that time forgot' but I would've said the question was -
Sisters or Mission?
Shaken not stirred
Connery or Moore?
Connery
Bloody hell, this thread's got me stuck in an annoying "me too!" mode.
Calling Lucas
Jackson Browne or The Eagles?
Jackson Browne
Bob Dylan's version of Mr Tambourine Man or The Byrds' version?
The Byrds
Do I win?
Calling Suzy
You score 50%.