I can't post a poll, but:

Which would choose? for the rest of life..
1.) Only get to hear your 100 favorite songs
2.) Never hear the same song twice

Had this discussion at dinner, so I'm interested in what the RM public thinks.

Old Favorites. I'm reading a book currently that can address why this is called "this is your brain on music"

old music I haven't heard yet...

old favorites

Definitely the first one.

new music. Because I can always play the old ones in my head .

groetjes,
Mirella (seeing 3 new bands tonight at a Live In Your Living Room concert)

im going to say old favorites. because old favorites become such because you have heard them so many times. i LOVE hearing a new song for the first time, partly because im thinking to myself 'shit i cant wait to listen to this again!'

i would go with old favorites, and space them out over time.

OLD FAVORITES!



And Mods can we get a M'Fing Poll.

old favorites.

However, if there was a choice to listen to the 100 old favorites or nothing but new songs each five or six times in a row then I would pick the new songs. I don't feel like you can really get a song until you've heard it a few times, and if I picked old favorites like five years ago, I never would have heard some really great new songs.

i can agree with this. my main argument against the new songs is that you only get one cold listen. the first time you hear a new song is fun and exciting, but the fifth, tenth, hundreth... etc time you hear are the times that its most magical because by then you know it, you can feel it, and it can define something as small as a single moment or as all encompassing as an era in your life.

Old favorites. I know I like them.

my girlfriend says this same thing about food. It drives me insane when she orders fried rice at a sushi joint or quesadillas at a mexican restaurant.

It's a little different though. She doesn't have to eat that same food for the rest of her life.

plus the fried rice and quesadillas vary from place to place. but i get what youre saying.

Yuppp.

Branching out is good too.

I like trying new things. Which is why I was inclined to pick option 2. But I could only get to hear them once? :/

I'll say old favorites.

Surprising you guys would choose to hear the same 100 songs. Roughly eight albums worth of music for the rest of your lives. Every movie, tv show, grocery store, radio station, party/bar... you would only hear one out of 100 possible songs. I can see it now: "OK, Mr. Director, the Transporter's Audi just exploded... what music will be playing during this scene? Citizen Erased? AGAIN?"

same 100 would be great. i'm bombarded by new music all the time and i find myself not liking any of it at all.
classic 100 would do me.

I see your point, but still.... you're ok with NEVER hearing Citizan Erased again (great song, btw)? I'd probably get tired of a good chunk of the 100, but I still couldn't part with them.

Give me Vitalogy, Yield, and six mix cds. I'll make due.