9, 12, 13, 18, 19, 26, 33, 34, 40, 44, 48, 50???
9. answered here. the idea of this question ever becoming a reality just depresses me though.
12. 7675 songs in my library and counting. i’ve actually been trying to get rid of some stuff lately, but somehow it keeps getting immediately replaced with new things.
13. ten songs i could never get tired of. *deep breath*
pictures of success - rilo kiley
sympathy for spastics - parenthetical girls
only skin - joanna newsom
the owl and the tanager - sufjan stevens
fast as you can - fiona apple
bad education - tilly and the wall
shuffle - bombay bicycle club
let up - now it’s overhead
change is hard - she & him
26. i’ll do tori amos, since she is basically the reason i listen to anything i listen to now, regardless of how much my tastes have shifted. okay, around the time i was 13, i got really into francesca lia block’s books, and in violet & claire, there is a mention of one of them listening to tori’s “bells for her.” i must have heard her name somewhere before to pay special attention to it then, but i decided to download the song. i don’t think i *loved* it at first, but i liked it (and a year or so later, it would become relevant to my life like WHOA). then one day, i was shopping and saw tales of a librarian, which had just recently come out, and bought it on a whim. over the next few months, i slowly started getting into all of the songs on there. then i started buying her individual albums. i think the first one i bought after tales was actually scarlet’s walk, which most tori fans would tell you is not the ideal choice. i actually didn’t love it at the time as much as i do now, but it got me to keep going with the rest of her discography, and then i was obsessed with her for a good 2-3 years, discovered a ton of other piano-based artists as a result, branched out from there, ended up where i am today, etc.
34. answered here, but there are definitely more. jenny lewis. janelle monae. claire boucher. sara quin. uhhhh… i’m trying to think of more guys, but, clearly, i don’t crush on them the way i do girls. oh, sufjan stevens is pretty sexy, i guess.
40. what one band member would i want to meet if i could? oh boy. i’d like to have a really intellectual and out-of-my-depth conversation with joanna newsom. i’d like to tell tori amos how much her music actually changed my life. i’d like to see if zac pennington is just as angelic in person. these are all conceivably possible, but in reality, i’d be either too shy to even approach or too awestruck to say anything smart.
44. the most important thing music has ever given me, i guess, is an outlet for my emotions. i’ve had some really rough times and still do occasionally, and music is about the only thing i can count on to always be there. it also gives me a hobby, so that i can justify sitting around doing nothing all the time by saying i’m evaluating new music.
48. i answered a question similar to this already, but definitely nsync. besides them, i was really into britney spears and christina aguilera (stripped was a jam, yo). all the usual suspects. i also liked evanescence, destiny’s child and jennifer lopez. i went through this really weird period of listening to the crappiest mainstream rap imaginable too, like nelly and ja rule. i actually owned a ja rule cd at one point.
50. music has for sure saved/helped my life. i guess “saved” seems a little drastic to me, since things have never been that level of bad. but it’s definitely helped me get through the worst years of my life and still helps me when i’m in a bad place emotionally and need to either purge those emotions or wallow in them a bit.