[Powderworks] Oils survey
Patrick Collins
patandmichelle at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 1 00:56:41 MDT 2004
>1. what's your name? Patrick
>2. where do you live? Sussex, England
>3. how old are you? 36
>4. what do you do for a living? Engineering Scientist
>5. what was the first song you heard by the Oils? Beds
>6. how old were you when you heard it? teens
>7. what are your two favorite albums, from one extreme to the other?
>Midnight Oil and ESM
>8. favorite energetic song? King of the Mountain
>9. favorite slow song? One Country
>10. what song(s) defines the Oils? Lucky Country, Concrete, dead Heart....
>11. what song is *least* characteristic of the Oils? One Too Many Times
>12. Martin or Jim? eeny meeny miny mo....
>13. what Oils song did you absolutely hate at first and now love? Most of
>Breathe
>14. did you buy any Oils releases totally on faith, without having heard a
>single song before buying it? All except Diesel and Dust. A friend of mine
>played me ESM once and I never looked back. Since then, have done my best
>to bankrupt myself buying Oils material.
>15. do you play any instruments? Drums, piano, guitar and French Horn - in
>that order of merit
>16. if you could go to any ONE place mentioned in an Oils song, where would
>you go? Antarctica
>17. have the Oils ever inspired you to take any direct action as part of
>any environmental/social activist cause? Not direct - joined Greenpeace as
>Frontline member though.
>18. have you ever had any Oils-related dreams? Yes. I remember writing an
>account of one to powderworkers before. Something about Pete in a happy
>clappy christian fundamentalist environment while I was driving by or
>something.....bit of a 'mare you might say.
>19. Bones or Giffo? eeny meeny miny mo.....
>20. what forgotten song deserves another spin? Jimmy Sharmans boxers