Music: Mememememe

Lovingly stolen borrowed from Earl
Like Earl - who's questions revolve around Jimmy Buffett - i apologize, many of these answers will be TOOL, TOOL, and more TOOL. Sigh. Onward!!

Musicology - the questions:
What is the first music album you remember owning? If not the same, what is the first music album you purchased for yourself?
What artist currently occupies the most space either in terms of shelf space or megabytes on your hard drive?
How many different types of music media (vinyl, cassette, CD, etc) have you owned in your lifetime?
Who or what has had the biggest effect on your music taste?
How do you currently prefer to listen to music?
In terms of music memorabilia, what is your most prized possession?
Have you ever "swapped headsets" with a complete stranger (meaning have you ever unplugged the earphones from your listening device and plugged them into someone else's player and had them do the same)? If yes, what did they play for you?
Have you ever been completely obsessed with a particular artist? Who and to what level did your fandom go?
What is the farthest you've ever traveled for a concert?
Who have you seen in concert the most?

The Answers:
1. What is the first music album you remember owning? If not the same, what is the first music album you purchased for yourself?

The first album i ever owned that was mine came from Columbia House, in cassette form. I remember it was a Christmas gift from my parents - but it hadn't come in the mail. So Chirstmas morning my parents told my older brother and i that there was still one more gift coming - and that it was in the mail and should be there anytime... when it arrived - my brother got:

Alanna Miles - Black Velvet


what i got was this:

New Kids on the Block - The Christmas Album. My first album. and i LOOVED it! keep in mind it was 1990 and i was ten years old. The first album i bought for myself, sadly, was Shania Twain's "Woman in Me". I know, i know... i feel shame. i was 13, and i lived in a small town in the interior of BC where the only radio station was the local AM station which played country and Golden Oldies. Sometimes, in my kitchen, if you put the radio right teeterin on the edge of the counter with the antenna pointing out the window you could get really scratchy poor reception of the Spokane radio station that played rock - it was all about the grunge at that time. Anyway, first album purchased with my own money - Shania Twain. i'm sorry.

2.What artist currently occupies the most space either in terms of shelf space or megabytes on your hard drive?

well, i'd have to say it's probably a toss up between Bjork and TOOL.

- if we just say strictly Bjork and Tool, i have 8 albums by Bjork and only 5 albums by TOOL...but if we expand that to include both Bjork and Maynard's other projects, i have 5 Tool Albums, 3 A Perfect Circle albums, and we will soon have the new Puscifer albums...and i also have a Sugarcubes album which is early Bjork.

Now that i think about it - my husband has the entire David Bowie discography on our computer, and it probably blows these two out of the water...spacewise. hm.

3. How many different types of music media (vinyl, cassette, CD, etc) have you owned in your lifetime?

uhm, lets see...Cassette, CD, Vinyl, DVD, DVDAudio, Minidisc... MP3, i think that's it. No 8 tracks for us.

4. Who or what has had the biggest effect on your music taste?

oh, probably B-rad. We both sort of fell in love with Pink Floyd and David Bowie at the same time - but he opened the doors for all kinds of metal bands; Metallica, Pantera, Tool, A Perfect Circle... but that's not to say that my music tastes have not influenced him just as much - cuz now he listens/enjoys Bjork, and Tegan & Sara, Jamiroquai, and many others that he wouldn't have touched with a ten foot pole before dating me.

5. How do you currently prefer to listen to music?

i listen to Cowtown's classic radio station online when i'm at work - so i don't have to have an annurism every time the local station plays Nickleback, or Hinder. But my most fave way to listen to music is in my overly large - dorky headphones while painting. OR - laying on the floor in the living room with B-rad with the lights off while listening to our LPs.

6. In terms of music memorabilia, what is your most prized possession?

well, i'd have to say our DVD of the Lateralus Video by TOOL that is signed by Alex Grey - who did the artwork for the video and the album. My friend Rain got it for us when she was in New York and visted the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

7. Have you ever "swapped headsets" with a complete stranger (meaning have you ever unplugged the earphones from your listening device and plugged them into someone else's player and had them do the same)? If yes, what did they play for you?

no, not a stranger, that's gross!! i did, however, share an earbud with my bro one day on the bus in Cowtown. We listened to the late great Bill Hicks "Rant in E-Minor". it made the 45 minute bus ride go much faster.

8. Have you ever been completely obsessed with a particular artist? Who and to what level did your fandom go?

i love Maynard. i want to have his babies. but i'd never stalk him, or hang out at his vinyard or whatever. It's not like i call his house and hangup... or have a restraining order or anything...uhm......

9. What is the farthest you've ever traveled for a concert?

Calgary. a seven hour drive. To see TOOL, and also to see Roger Waters.

10. Who have you seen in concert the most?

The Spice Girls!! WHAT?? no, i'm just kidding.... can't you guess??
i've seen TOOL 3 times so far - and by the end of November, that'll move up to Four times.