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[coyotegoth]

1. Name a cover song you like.
“All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix, surely among the greatest covers of all time. (Supposedly, even Dylan said, “That’s Jimi’s song now.”)

2. Name a song that makes you get up and dance.
“Move Your Feet” by Junior Senior. Pretty much anything off of “Stop Making Sense.”

3. A song that takes you back to high school.
"Break on Through" by the Doors. (Yeah, I know. I was 17 then, which is probably the ideal age for the Doors- and while there aren’t more than half a dozen songs of theirs I’d miss if the masters were demagnetized tomorrow, try and imagine Apocalypse Now without “The End.”)

4. A song that relaxes you.
"Nocturne" by Kate Bush. The epitome of gorgeous languorousness.

5. A song you belt out while driving.
"Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen.

6. A song you hate that you know all the words to.
"Moondance" by Van Morrison. (I’m actually very fond of his Astral Weeks album- but this song is the Cocktail Jazz of the Living Dead.)

7. A song that always puts you in a good mood.
"Crucify" by Army of Lovers, largely because the video is such a campy, preposterous delight.

8. A song that makes you cry.
"Orange Claw Hammer" by Captain Beefheart

9. A song you don't like by an artist you love.
"Delius" by Kate Bush

10. A song you have downloaded or on CD that would surprise people
Huh- actually, you lot are probably familiar enough with my odd ways that it would be hard to surprise most of you. Hmm... Mozart’s “Requiem.”

11. A song you think is sexy.
"Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles. (I’m heard some damn fine covers of this at piano bars around the city, too.)

12. A song you wish they'd stop playing on the radio.
Too many to enumerate here. Certainly, anything that causes people to set the woofers in their car radios so that they rattle the fillings in my teeth.

13. A song you love from the 80's.
"Square Pegs theme" by the Waitresses.

14. Your favorite song right now.
"Behind Blue Eyes" by the Who.

15. The last song you listened to.
Actually, that would be this, which David Mansfield composed and performed for Heaven’s Gate. (Random: I’m somewhat surprised no one has ever published a biography of Cimino; while I can’t even remember the last movie he directed- The Sunchasers, perhaps?- there still seems to be a fair amount of curiosity/notoriety attached to Heaven’s Gate.)