the Dalaverse

Ten Albums you own...
The Joshua Tree -- U2
The White Album -- the Beatles
Blonde on Blonde -- Bob Dylan
South -- Heather Nova
Fly -- the Dixie Chicks
Blue -- Joni Mitchell
Songbird -- Eva Cassidy
Live 1975-85 -- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Dizzy Up the Girl -- Goo Goo Dolls
Rumours -- Fleetwood Mac

Nine bands you've seen live
Eric Clapton
Stevie Nicks
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Fleetwood Mac
Michelle Branch
Jackson Brown/Steve Earle
Third Eye Blind
James Taylor
Peter Paul and Mary
(okay, so those last three were at a free Earth Day even on the Mall and don't really count, but otherwise I wouldn't have hit nine)

Eight Songs you'd die without
All I Want is You -- U2
A Case of You -- Joni Mitchell
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right -- Bob Dylan
The Load Out/Stay -- Jackson Browne
My Girl -- the Temptations
Thunder Road -- Bruce Springsteen
Angel -- Sarah McLachlan
Time After Time -- Eva Cassidy

Seven of your favourite lines in songs
love ridden, i've looked at you/with the focus i gave to my birthday candles/i've wished on the lidded blue flames/under your brow... (fiona apple, "love ridden")

on the back of a cartoon coaster/in the blue t.v. screen light/i drew a map of canada, oh canada/with your face sketched on it twice... (joni mitchell, "a case of you")

yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free/silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands/with all memory and fate driven deep ebeneath the waves/let me forget about today until tomorrow... (bob dylan, "mr. tambourine man")

it's so hard to come by, this feeling of peace/this friend of mine said "close your eyes, and try a few of these"/i thought i was flying like a bird, so high about my sorrow/but when i looked down i was standing on my knees... (jackson browne, "bright baby blues")

asking only workman's wages i've come looking for a job, but i get no offers/just a come-on from the whores on seventh avenue/i do declare, there were times when i was so lonesome, i took some comfort there... (simon & garfunkel, "the boxer")

i wished i was smarter/i wished i was stronger/i wished i loved jesus/the way my wife does/i wish it had been easier/instead of any longer/i wished i could have stood/where you would have been proud/that won't happen now, that won't happen now... (patty griffin --> dixie chicks, "top of the world")

there's an old man sittin' next to me/makin' love to his tonic and gin/he says "son can you play me a melody/i'm not really sure how it goes/but it's sad and it's sweet and i knew it complete/when i wore a younger man's clothes"... (billy joel, "piano man")

Six albums you wish you owned
Oh MAN, I need CDs and I'm poor:
Born to Run -- Bruce Springsteen
Piano Man -- Billy Joel
Houses of the Holy -- Led Zeppelin
Who's Next -- the Who
Live at Blues Alley -- Eva Cassidy
The Naked Ride Home -- Jackson Browne

Five songs that make you sad
"Top of the World," Dixie Chicks
"Hallelujah," Rufus Wainwright
"Over the Rainbow," Eva Cassidy
"The Flower Seller," Harry O'Donoghue
"Little Green," Joni Mitchell

Four songs that make you happy
"Where the Streets Have No Name," U2
"Tiny Dancer," Elton John
"All I Want," Joni Mitchell
"All Over You," Live

Three bands/songs you're embarrassed to say you like
that song "Where Is the Love" -- the Black Eyed Peas?
"I Can," Nas
"Cruisin'," Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow (::cringes:: i KNOW, okay?)

Two voices you'd die without
Eva Cassidy
Actually it's just Eva Cassidy, but we'll add:
Bono
because it says two

One band you thank God for
U2



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