On Life as a Music Meme

A friend of mine passed this along recently.

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people (or not) and include me. Try not to repeat a song title. It’s harder than you think.

It’s not that hard. I did a similar meme with the Beatles about two years ago.

Pick Your Artist: Elbow

  1. Are you male or female:
    Picky Bugger
  2. Describe yourself:
    Asleep in the Back
  3. How do you feel about yourself:
    Scattered Black and Whites
  4. Describe your current boy/girl situation:
    An Imagined Affair
  5. Describe where you currently live:
    The Long War Shuffle
  6. If you could go anywhere you wanted to go:
    Strangeways to Holcombe Hill in 4:20
  7. Your favorite form of transportation:
    Station Approach
  8. Your best friend(s) is(are):
    Friend of Ours
  9. Your favorite color is:
    Powder Blue
  10. Favorite time of day:
    About Time
  11. If your life were a TV show, what would it be called:
    Some Riot
  12. What is life to you:
    One Day Like This
  13. What is the best advice you have to give:
    Grace Under Pressure
  14. If you could change your name, what would it be:
    McGreggor
  15. Thought for the Day:
    Lay Down Your Cross
  16. How I would like to die:
    Lucky With Disease
  17. My soul’s present condition:
    The Stops

The other day, when I wrote that “I’m surprised I don’t make more music playlists, because when I do they usually turn out quite well,” I was referring to this list specifically. This wasn’t assembled as a playlist, yet I find that when I whipped up a playlist of these tracks, in this order, in Winamp, that it worked really well. It sounded cohesive.

Maybe I know Elbow’s music too well. Considering how many of these songs are B-sides, maybe that’s to be expected. 😉

Published by Allyn

A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.

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