Happy New MEME!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Memes - where do they come from? Where do they do? Where do they come from Cotton Eye Joe? They have to start somewhere and what better place than poptimists, the LJ pop community without pink background .gifs.

Over the next few weeks you will see a lot of people talking about their favourite records of 2005. They will do an albums list. They might do a singles list. This is all well and good but there's a lot more to music than favourite albums and singles.* So in the bath this morning it struck me - START AN MEME**! about 2005. And see what happens. So here we have it -


12 Months, 12 Questions: The Poptimists 2005 Round-Up Meme

Twelve questions about you and music as the year reaches its fade-out. Answer them and then tag five other people to do the same! If you can't answer for sure say the first thing that pops into your head.

1. What's your first musical memory of 2005?
2. What was this year's summer jam? And winter jam?
3. If your life in 2005 was a musician, which musician would it be?
4. Tell me a lyric from this year that meant something to you.
5. What was the most awful thing you saw on a stage this year? And the best thing?
6. Name the oldest music you got into in 2005.
7. What was your favourite instrumental of the year?
8. Your favourite conversation about music this year: who was it with, and what was it about?
9. Name one thing you surprised yourself by liking in 2005.
10. Your music wish for 2006 is...?
11. Describe the music of 2005 in one word!
12. What will be the last music you hear this year?


*I have nothing against such lists, I am however bone idle and won't do one myself.
**OK it's presumptuous to call it a 'meme' when nobody has answered it yet but one has to be optimistic.

Tell you what - answer on YOUR OWN LJs and tag people, then comment here with a link to your answers. (Or just answer here if you like!)

Comments

[juror8.livejournal.com]

1. What's your first musical memory of 2005?

Boredly flicking through the foreign digital channels on New Year's Day and discover a) that Arrested Development were still going and b) that their "Honeymoon Day" track isn't that bad, I suppose, if you like that kind of thing.

2. What was this year's summer jam? And winter jam?

Summer: "Signs" brings to mind those wonderfully depressing 12:30am cocktail orders in Lloyd's #1. The winter was entirely Robyn. We'll say "Be Mine!" because that's what the kids want these days.

3. If your life in 2005 was a musician, which musician would it be?

James Blunt. It achieved heights of success it totally didn't deserve, had a really weak and forgotten follow-up to its high-point, wallowed in drippy romanticism as opposed to the war zones it spent its previous years in, and to be honest I'll be glad when it finally fucks off.

4. Tell me a lyric from this year that meant something to you.

"From the Albert Hall to the uni ball how the might fall"

5. What was the most awful thing you saw on a stage this year? And the best thing?

Live music is for fools.

6. Name the oldest music you got into in 2005.

"The Devil Made Texas" by Hermes Nye from 1955.

7. What was your favourite instrumental of the year?

Do people still make instrumentals?

8. Your favourite conversation about music this year: who was it with, and what was it about?

The "You listen to Michael Buble" MSN conversation with thejivesession.

9. Name one thing you surprised yourself by liking in 2005.

Lethal Bizzle, he's got a few songs, huh?

10. Your music wish for 2006 is...?

Sway to spent eighteen weeks at #1 in the album charts.

11. Describe the music of 2005 in one word!

Underachieving.

12. What will be the last music you hear this year?

Knowing the girlfriend, probably Maximo Park or the Kills or something equally awful.