Infinite Monkeys

1. Not a Beatles fan
2. Dislike the Velvet Underground
3. Might dislike the Clash even more
4. Favorite New Order album? The One I have.
5. Do the Smithereens count?
6. Favorite Robyn Hitchcock album. Alfred?
7. Almost bought an Oingo Boingo album once.
8. Not pretentious enough to own a U2 album
9. I always liked the name Echo & The Bunnymen. WTF is "related" to the Pixies?

"5. Do the Smithereens count?"

Only if your answer is "Especially For You." Otherwise, no.

On second thought, let's just make that an unqualified "no."

Well I don't have anything by the Smithereerns anyway. Had an LP once, back in the day.

1. Rubber Soul... no, wait, Revolver! No, Sgt. Peppers... No, definitely Revol... er, Rubber Soul.
2. Velvet Underground and Nico
3. Super Black Market Clash
4. Eh, I never much cared for New Order. So I'll have to go with Rubber Soul.
5. Louder Than Bombs
6. Er,...Sgt. Peppers?
7. Only a Lad
8. War
9. See answer 4.
10. Black Letter Days by Frank Black and the Catholics

Really, though, this quiz isn't nearly snobby enough. No jazz...? What about favorite Roy Budd soundtracks? Don't tell me you don't have one...

Huh? What'd he say? Does Johnny Cash count?

"Really, though, this quiz isn't nearly snobby enough. No jazz...? What about favorite Roy Budd soundtracks? Don't tell me you don't have one..."

Well, I was going for just rock and roll, but if you're going to be THAT way, I'll step up to the plate.

And no, I don't have a Roy Budd soundtrack, you smug bastard.

Black Letter Days is a GOOD album. Probably my favorite FB&tC album. Both covers of "The Black Rider" are fantastic. But I like the Pixies better, as well as The Breeders' "Pod" and Frank Black's pre-Catholics "The Cult of Ray."

1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. I've never done the Velvet Underground thing
3. London Calling
4. only ever heard New Order singles (was tempted to answer Frente!'s "Marvin the Album")
5. Hatful of Hollow (I've never heard anyone agree with me)
6. I hardly know Robyn Hitchcock, though I did meet him once
7. Only a Lad
8. Boy (maybe War)
9. Porcupine
10. Wave of Mutilation (cop-out answer yes, and it's missing Isla de Encanta. If pressed I'd go shallow with Doolittle.)

Actually, I heard someone on WNYC's "Soundcheck" agree with you about Hatful of Hollow.

Hatful was the first Smiths album I bought, and I like it very much. I still associate it with "How Soon Is Now?" - partly because I heard it there first, and partly because I'm enough of a snob to know that only the American release of Meat is Murder contained that track.

I would say that it's in a three-way tie for #2 with Strangeways Here We Come and The World Won't Listen. That hasn't always been the case, but it definitely is now.

If you're going to cop-out on the Pixies, go all the way and choose Death to the Pixies

1. The Beatles (Is calling the White Album by its proper name snobby enough for ya'?)
2. The hugely overrated one. Come to think of it, that doesn't narrow it down much, does it?
3. London Calling, I guess. Not a big Clash guy.
4. The what now?
5. The Smiths
6. Eh... I prefer Squeeze.
7. Good For Your Soul.
8. I can almost listen to all of Achtung Baby without retching.
9. Ocean Rain, almost entirely on the basis of The Killing Moon.
10. Trompe le Monde. For related album, I'd go with Teenager of the Year.

"Is calling the White Album by its proper name snobby enough for ya'?"

Oh, yeah.

"The Killing Moon" is still my favorite Echo song, but I think Crocodiles is better end-to-end.

Crocodiles is one of the few examples where I prefer the "American" version to the original. Weaving singles into the intended album tracks usually doesn't work for me (cf. Meat Is Murder; Power, Corruption & Lies; and the early Beatles catalog) but in this case the songs flow perfectly. I do like the original album cover better, though.