Sum up your personality in three pieces of music

do the maths.

It soothes me. Sometimes you just want to sit down and let the sound flow through you. I don't enjoy the confusion of discos, I am a "little pub with some friends" guy. Calm and relaxed.

Other pieces with similar effect:
Rodan - Bible Silver Corner
Fugazi - Long Division
Blur - Oily Water

The Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock

Makes me wanna fuck shit up. It brings up the violent side of me, that needs to be released once in a while, in order to be tamed. I am sometimes a difficult person to deal with, but, alas, it is just the demons trying to get out.

Other pieces with similar effect:
Duran Duran - Careless Memories
Yes - The Gates of Delirium
Fugazi - Caustic Acrostic

Genesis - After the Ordeal

Remembers me how much I love Music. It gives me chills up my spine and stimulates my brain. It just makes me happy. I am a happy person most of the times, who likes to make other people happy.

Other pieces with similar effect:
Smashing Pumpkins - Thru the eyes of Ruby
Radiohead - Lucky
Mike Oldfield - Taurus II

(Something keeps me from saying "Born Under Punches" actually describes me as well as these three.. but it would've been the fourth)

...but that's just today. I don't think I could find 3 that "represent" my personality in any reasonable way.

also just today

Half Japanese "Girl Athletes"
Tom Recchion "Mindless Dread"
Felt "Get Out Of My Mirror"

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

maybe.

because I like to become very still and notice tiny details

the for carnation - moonbeams

for my melancholy/beautiful streak

manitoba - every time she turns round it's her birthday

for vastness of scale while retaining relativity

...and Cold Summer by Banarama as a very close fourth.

drive like jehu - "new math"

hi i like to count 123412345612345671234561234512345 woah these drums are on the beat, now on the off beat, now they are everywhere and this guy is screaming about something while the guitarists are inventing new chords, make that new music. post-hardcore (aka "emo" circa 1992) and indie rock has nor ever will sound so perfect.

my bloody valentine - "to here knows when"

is this a guitar or a phased jet turbine? are those synths actually reprocessed drum sounds? why does the singular voice sound both like a man and a woman singing perfectly in synch? i can't tell if it's getting louder or softer and the VU meter keeps bleeding red and redder.

sade - "by your side"

i am sometimes running low on hope and sometimes music sustains what little hope is left in the tank. unrelated to that: coming up with music for weddings is obviously a lot different than the clubs, radio shows, or for your friends with eclectic tastes... it's a real lesson in humility for the snob side of your personality. this song is hopeful, reassuring, and such a testimonial to selfless love that i played it twice during the wedding reception. i hope nobody noticed (but even if they did it's like, "oh okay here's that really great song again".)

also,i just wanted to record the coincidence that as was reading this thread i pressed play on a dan abrahms cd,and was just wondering if there was a thread about him,and then damian mentioned shuttle 358...

wierd

Robert Wyatt "Beware"
Neil Young "Vampire Blues"
Charley Patton "When Your Way Gets Dark"

Why? Because I'm beautiful.

-tom ze "Defect 2: Curiosidade"
-laurie anderson "oh superman" (you know, cause i was a hit! * ducks!)
-unwound "the light at the end of this tunnel is a train"

m.

Sugarhill Gang "Rapper's Delight" (The full-on 15 min. version on vinyl)
Because I was a hip hopper before the word hip hop existed

William Orbit "Montok Point (Beth Orton Joint Mix)"
Because I still haven't gone to Ibiza

men without hats-"safety dance"-if your friends dont dance then they're no friends of mine (there are a couple exceptions, but i truly love to dance, particularly to synthpop)
magnetic fields-"i think i need a new heart"-because i always say i love you when i mean turn out the light, and i say let's run away when i just mean stay the night
en vogue-"never gonna get it"-honestly, if you don't know by now, you're never gonna get it

since I just put these three songs on a tape for a gal pal:

Nat 'King' Cole- "Nature Boy"
Betty Davis- "He Was a Big Freak"
Jean Plum- "Look at the Boy"

Queen And David Bowie “Under Pressure”
Adam Ant “Stand And Deliver”
Bob Dylan “Like A Rolling Stone”

smoking marijuana doing blotters i don't know which

Etude -- what I try to cultivate.

C # -- the most popular, right? Or close? The one I cop to when the authorities ask.

Daniel Johnston - "Peek A Boo"
--(quintessential song to listen to when wallowing in self-pity)

Arnold Schoenberg - "Moses und Aron" (especially Act II, Scene 3)
--beautiful, atonal, extremely frightening (act II, scene 3 is the orgy around golden calf sequence)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "Wolf Among Wolves"

and an extra for good luck:
Rob Crow - "Kill All the Humans"
--"I'm so filled with hate today
I want to cry but I can't seem to
I'm dry as a fucking desert
I just stare off into space
I must be a fucking robot
I don't want to be a fucking robot
Kill all the humans"

Shannon Wright- Dirty facade
Like a really morbid cabaret or fucked up, hysterical carnival music. Because, you know, I'm dramatic and emotional like that. I have a fixation on purity and corruption which, um, is sort of embodied by this song, in my personal interpretation.

Bel Canto- Unicorn
A sense of wonder and untainted idealism, the idea of a secret spiritual guide. Unicorns are a lifelong theme for me.

Runners-up could be "falling in love with the wolfboy" by Magnetic Fields, or "nothing rises to meet me" by bill callahan.

I'm a depressing, pretentious fuck!

The first song is about living at home and trying your best, the second song is about being a bit of a loser with guitar solos, the third song is about being a complete loser. Oh dear. I mean I like Poison and all that but I'm totally not Poison. I'm between twee and a hard place.

-so gently we go by i mother earth. it's very...erm....anthemic in a quiet, understated way (but gets nice and loud at the end)

-the day i tried to live by soundgarden. somehow i feel like that when i wake up in the morning but it never carries through the day ("i woke the same / as any other day except the voices in my head / said seize the day / pull the trigger, drop the blade / and watch the rolling heads....")

or if I were to pick just ONE THEME SONG:
Replacements- Unsatisfied

...the obvious answer. :)

5 Miles Out Mike Oldfield

Holiday in CambodiaDead Kennedys