Hi-fi Challenge

Since I'm too small to be tagged, I'll take the Hi-Fidelity Challenge myself.

Top Five Lyrics that Move Your Heart

• Pavement - Range Life
  
  
  So drunk in the august sun
  And you’re the kind of girl I like
  Because you’re empty and I’m empty
  And you can never quarantine the past
  Did you remember in december
  That I won’t eat you when I’m gone
  And if I go there, I won’t stay there
  Because I’m sitting here too long
  I’ve been sitting here too long
  And I’ve been wasted
  
  
  
  
• REM - Don't Go Back To Rockville
  
  At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
  I don't care if you're not here with me
  'Cause it's so much easier to handle
  All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
  
  
  
• Unrest - June
  
  As you lay dying
  Morphine and ice cream
  Staining your sheets
  Confusing your mind
  and it reminds me
  They still get paid
  when you die.
  
  
  
  
• Neil Young - Powderfinger
  
  Shelter me from the powder and the finger
  Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
  Think of me as one you'd never figured
  Would fade away so young
  With so much left undone
  Remember me to my love,
  I know I'll miss her.
  
  
  
• Spoon - Anything You Want
  
  If there's anything you want
  Come on back cause it's all still here
  I'll be in the back room drinking my half of the beer
  And if you and me is so right
  Why's it the same thing every night
  
  It's just a matter of time
  It's almost measurable
  Imagination ain't kind on us tonight
  
  You're at your best when you got the guns turned a hundred eighty degrees
  And finding out if it adds all up right
  We go through all the same lines and sell out to appease
  But go to sleep in a bed of lies
  I made my own more than once or twice
  
  And now time is my time
  Time is my own
  And I feel so alive yet feel so alone
  Cause you know you're the one and that that hasn't changed
  Since you were nineteen and still in school waiting on a light
  On the corner by Sound Exchange
  
  
  

Top 5 Instrumentals

• I agree with Amanda, on this: all of Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue
  
• Dave Brubeck - Take Five
  
• Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
  
• Robyn Hitchcock, Chinese Water Python
  
• Doc Watson - Black Mountian Rag (live)
  

Top 5 Live Musical Experiences
This is tough. There are so many, it seems wrong to pick just five.

• Merlefest, 05. Of course.
  
• 1991, First Lollapalooza. At the time, it was amazing to see so many people so into "alternative" music - back when the label meant something.
  
• 1991, New Year's Eve. Maxwells, Hoboken, NJ. Mudhoney, The Mummys and The Lyres (?). Hanging out at the bar with the guys from Mudhoney and Thurston and Steve from Sonic Youth. We got them to fill up a postcard which we sent to a guy who couldn't make the show with us.
  
• Cowboy Junkies, Cat's Cradle ('03?). They somehow managed to make songs that seem distant and melancholy on the records sound warm and personal - and I liked 'em both ways.
  
• Nearly any Robyn Hitchcock show.
  

Top Five Artists You Think More People Should Listen To

• Spoon
  
• Cowboy Junkies
  
• Elliot Smith
  
• Yo La Tengo
  
• Gillian Welch
  

Top Five Albums You Must Hear From Start to Finish

• Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
  
• Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue
  
• Liz Phair, Exlie In Guyville
  
• My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
  
• Slint, Spiderland
  

Top Five Musical Heroes

• Robert Smith
  
• Robyn Hitchcock
  
• Ira Kaplan (vocals, guitar - Yo La Tengo)
  
• Eric Clapton
  
• Stephen Malkmus (vocals, guitar - Pavement)
  

(oh, and fuck stupid buggy Blogger for making me retype this thing)