Music Sharing Party
 

This weekend, I am going to a Music Sharing Party. The concept is that everyone brings their MP3 player or a CD or whatever and they get to play 1 song. After the song, people get to comment and then the next person gets their turn.

The challenge is to find ONE song that epitomizes your unique taste in music. This, of course, is impossible. However, that's all you get, so you have to do the best you can.

What song would you pick to play and why?

ONE SONG!!!

I am thinking about playing "Change" by mind.in.a.box, but it is a dark, pounding electronic song that requires a rather good sound system to hear right. Knowing the sound system that will be in effect, I will probably choose a song from Elsiane, which is very slow and downbeat. It wont represent my music tastes completely, but it is a band that nobody knows about that I think I can turn people on to.

i'd play "Changes" by Tupac

interesting concept. do you have to dance to your song? is there a DJ? or do you just play it yourself?

Id play "Shelter" by Icon of Coil

Home by Dream Theater

Runner Up: One by Metallica

This question posed some odd difficulties for me. A lot of the music I listen to (power metal, mostly) plays much better in album form than single form. I don't really even know the names of most of the songs, because I listen to the entire disk when I do listen, so I had to kind of reach back and dig for something else.

damn that's a difficult one.

I mean.. most people are all over the place musically and there's no song I can think of that would combine all or even half of my music interests together.

I'll be thinking about this all day now..

My favorite song? Drops of Jupiter by Train.

My song to reflect my music interests? Sunburn by Muse, probably.

Oasis - Cast No shadow


/cool party! i love the idea!

Psyopus - Happy Valentines Day

It's loud and noisy, squealing pinch harmonics and throaty vocals but it ends in a rhythm everyone could enjoy.

And that Elsiane album is pretty awesome.

Now that the RIAA has stopped prosecuting individuals, defacto legalizing P2P and music sharing, there should be some hard drive copying going on in the background of this party :nod:

Bron-Yr-Aur by Zeppelin.
It doesn't sum up my music tastes in 2 minutes but it embodies what I like about music in general.

Echoes by Pink Floyd.

Bet nobody guessed that from my sig...

Sun King by the Cult. One of my favourite songs and fairly typical of their music. Pretty hard to pick one song - there are quite a lot of good ones.

Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd.

Why?--It nicely summarizes my life as a teenager, & my life now.

Circa Survive - Your Friends are Gone

"No one has to know
Playback, delete, and rewind"

"Paranoid Android" Radiohead

I'd choose this because it reflects my music tastes both artistically and technically, and in the greatest (albeit incomplete) measure. It has a layered (linear) structure (influenced by the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun") that always draws me in and speaks to me. Structurally, it takes some risks. Artistically, it has shifting moods and touches on a number of themes, all of which I can relate to and are predominant in my own mind. In many ways, the song can stand in as a manifestation (i.e. a snapshot, if you will) of my mind if you could observe it for a certain time and at the right time.

Last I heard, they haven't stopped prosecuting. They're just going about it a different way now. Instead of going to legal way and going after each individual with lawyers, they are going to get your ISP to throttle your net to severely low speeds.

/thread hijack

My answer: New Slang by The Shins

I would probably play "Freeborn Man" by Tony Rice and the New South, or something off of John Hartford's "AeroPlain" album...maybe "Goodle Days."

My SO immediately said Fugazi - Waiting Room and then Paranoid Android.


I have four difference music personalities.
Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
Radiohead - 15 Step
Metallica - Master of Puppets
New Order - Tainted Love

so I guess it would depend on my mood that night.

I've officially decided to play "Dead End" by mind.in.a.box