1. Do you collect vinyl? The majority of our participants said no, although 6% of our readers claimed they used to.

2.What was the last album you purchased or downloaded? Answers included:

• Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts 1-IV
• The Dresden Dolls, No, Virginia
• Monica Richards, Infra Warrior
• Rasputina, Oh Perilous World
• Daughters of Bristol, Jones Hall
• Veil Veil Vanish, Into A New Mausoleum
• Bell Hollow, Foxgloves
• Nouvelle Vague, Nouvelle Vague
• Bunnydrums, On The Surface
• The Opposite Sex, Violent Heartstrings

3. Favourite new album this year? Several folks admitted that they haven’t been paying attention to what’s new and tend to revert back to old favourites, but these albums definitely caught some hearts.

• Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts 1-IV
• The Dresden Dolls, No, Virginia
• Arcana, Raspail
• Memmaker, How to enlist in a robot uprising
• Portishead, Third
• Trance to the Sun, Spiders, Aether & Rain
• Rome, Masse Mensch Materials
• The Machine in the Garden, XV
• The Funeral Crashers, La Fin Du Monde
• Nine Inch Nails, The Slip

4. The song of the moment that you can’t stop listening to? We have an interesting cross-section of tracks here.

• Portishead, “Machinegun”
• Abecedarians, “The Misery of Cities”
• Poe, “Control”
• Strange Boutique, “A Certain Euphoria”
• The 69 Eyes, “Dance D’Amour”
• Siouxsie, “Here Comes That Day”
• Dave Gahan, “Deeper and Deeper”
• Skinny Puppy, “Addiction”
• Blacklist, “Language Of The Living Dead”
• The Floor, “What Do You Know”

5. Name the one album you are dying to get next. So many albums, so little time.

• The Dresden Dolls, No, Virginia
• Nine Inch Nails, The Slip
• Sigur Rós, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
• Rome, Masse Mensch Materials
• Helalyn Flowers, A Voluntary Coincidence
• Niyaz, Nine Heavens
• The Brides, Sofa City Sweetheart
• a full length album (and not just singles on vinyl) from The Hunt
• Collide, Two-Headed Monster (due out soon)
• holding out for the new Cure album

6. Your top “desert island” album? Pick one from your list of ten.

• Devo, Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
• David Bowie, Hunky Dory
• Siouxsie & the Banshees, Juju
• Dead Can Dance, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
• The Legendary Pink Dots, Any Day Now
• The Cure, Pornography
• Cocteau Twins, The Pink Opaque
• Skinny Puppy, Too Dark Park
• Type O Negative, Bloody Kisses
• Mozart, Requiem

7. Best song to dance to?

• DeVision, “Your Hands On My Skin”
• Gruesome Twosome, “Hallucination Generation”
• Fischerspooner, “Emerge”
• Depeche Mode, “Precious”
• Escape with Romeo, “Somebody”
• Gene Loves Jezebel, “Desire”
• Skinny Puppy, “Addiction”
• OMD, “Enola Gay”
• Cocteau Twins, “Carolyn’s Fingers”
• Alphaville, “Big in Japan”

8. Best song to chill out to?

• Slowdive, “Alison”
• This Mortal Coil, “Tarantula”
• Traum’er Leben, “Gebt Zum Abschied Mir Geleit”
• Love & Rockets, “Body and Soul”
• Unto Ashes, “Winter Born”
• Sieben, “Love’s Promise”
• Emilie Simon, “Le Vieil Amant”
• Qntal, “Hymni Nocturnalis”
• The Cure, “All Cats Are Grey”
• Dead Can Dance, “American Dreaming”

9. What are you listening to right now?

• Lisa Gerrard, “The Human Game”
• Monica Richards, “Fell to Regret”
• Johnette Napolitano, “La Chanson Noire”
• The Knife, “Like A Pen”
• Arcana, “Invisible Motions”
• Gogol Bordello, “Start Wearing Purple”
• Covenant, “Invisible and Silent”
• Beats Antique, “The Lantern”
• The people in my office talking
• Some horrendous 70s crap at work