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DAN NAILEN, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MUSIC CRITIC:

* "Lost" - Meat Puppets

* "Windfall" - Son Volt

* "Western Skyline" - Richmond Fontaine

* "Eye of Fatima (Pt. 1)" - Camper Van Beethoven

* "Kiss Me on the Bus" - The Replacements

* "One Big Holiday" - My Morning Jacket

* "Ticket to LA" - Urge Overkill

* "Naive Melody (This Must Be the Place)" - Talking Heads

* "City of New Orleans" - Willie Nelson

* "Dirt Track Date" - Southern Culture on the Skids

TOM WHARTON, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

TRAVEL WRITER:

* "Born to Be Wild" - Steppenwolf

* "Green River" - John Fogerty

* "Start Me Up" - Rolling Stones

* "Over and Over" - Dave Clark Five

* "Urge for Going" - Tom Rush

* "Far Side of the World" - Jimmy Buffett

* "Southern Cross" - Crosby, Stills and Nash

* "Sloop John B" - Beach Boys

* "Last Train to Clarksville" - Monkees

* "A Good Hearted Woman" - Waylon Jennings

UTAH GOV. JON HUNTSMAN:

* "Won't Get Fooled Again" -

The Who

* "All Good People" - Yes

* "Karn Evil 9" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

* "Return to Forever" - Chick Corea

* "The Wall" - Kansas

* "Roll With the Changes" - REO Speedwagon

* "2112" - Rush

* "London Calling" -

The Clash

* Anything by the Ramones

* Anything by the Sex Pistols

KEVIN KIRK, OWNER, HEAVY

METAL SHOP:

* "Hell No, I Ain't Happy" - Drive-By Truckers

* "Under My Wheels" - Alice Cooper

* "Southern Girls" - Cheap Trick

* "Hot Rod" - Black Oak Arkansas

* "Cowboy Song" - Thin Lizzy

* "Highway Star" - Deep Purple

* "Supersucker Drive-By Blues" - Supersuckers

* "Moonlight Mile" - The Rolling Stones

* "Hillbilly Highway" - Steve Earle

* "Stone Deaf in the USA" - Motörhead

UTAH SEN. ORRIN HATCH:

* "Brother, I'll Follow You" - "Joseph: A Nashville Tribute to the Prophet"

* "The Four Seasons" - Vivaldi

* "Amazing Grace" - Whitley Phipps

* "I Don't Want to Be Happy, I Just Want to Be With You" - Orrin Hatch

* "I Believe" - Diamond Rio

* Canon in D - Johann Pachelbel

* "Unspoken" - Jaci Velasquez

* "Greatest Hits Collection" - Alan Jackson

* "The Brandenburg Concertos" - J.S. Bach

* Symphony No. 3 - Johannes Brahms

CRAIG JESSOP, MORMON

TABERNACLE CHOIR DIRECTOR:

* "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis" - Ralph Vaughan Williams

* "Ein Deutsches Requiem" - Johannes Brahms

* Beethoven Symphony No. 7 - Beethoven

* "Gabriel's Oboe" from "The Mission" - Ennio Morricone, performed by Yo-Yo Ma

* "Pavane" - Gabriel Fauré

* "The Pines of Rome" - Ottorino Respighi

* B Minor Mass - Johann Sebastian Bach

* "John Williams Greatest Hits 1969-1999" - John Williams

* "Tuxedo Junction" - Manhattan Transfer

* "Greatest Hits" - James Taylor

KEITH LOCKHART, MUSIC

DIRECTOR, UTAH SYMPHONY:

* "Money for Nothing" - Dire Straits

* "Take It Easy" - The Eagles

* "America" - Simon and Garfunkel

* "Dream On" - Aerosmith

* "Songs of a Wayfarer" - Gustav Mahler

* "Take the Long Way Home" - Supertramp

* "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen

* "Songs of Travel" - Ralph Vaughan Williams

* "Hey Jude" - The Beatles

* "American Pie" - Don McLean

LEIGH VON DER ESCH, UTAH

DIVISION OF TRAVEL DIRECTOR:

* "In God's Country" - U2

* "Horse With No Name" - America

* "Take It Easy" - The Eagles

* "Call Me" - Blondie

* Symphony No. 2 - Gustav Mahler (Utah Symphony recording)

* "The Boxer" - Simon and Garfunkel

* Any song by Adiemus

* "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "Forrest Gump" - movie soundtracks

* Anything by The Beatles

* Anything by ABBA

SALT LAKE COUNTY MAYOR

PETER CORROON:

* "Mornin' " - Al Jarreau

* "Samba Pa Ti" - Santana

* "Reeling In the Years" - Steely Dan

* "Mexico" - James Taylor

* "Reasons" - Earth, Wind and Fire

* Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven

* "Forever and Ever Amen" - Randy Travis

* "Takin' It to the Streets" - Doobie Brothers

* "Rapper's Delight" - Sugarhill Gang

* "Live in Montreux" - Miles Davis

ANGELA BROWN, SLUG

MAGAZINE EDITOR:

* "Crazy Train" - Ozzy Osbourne

* "Straight Outta Compton" - N.W.A.

* "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" - Queens of the Stone Age

* "Bad Mouth" - Fugazi

* "Disorder" - Joy Division

* "Tupelo (Live Version)" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

* "Kool Thing" - Sonic Youth

* "Carrie" - Red Bennies

* "Prayer to God" - Shellac

* "Strange" - WIRE

BRIAN MICHEL, PROGRAM

DIRECTOR U92 (KUU) AND

KUDD RADIO:

* "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers

* "Shake" - Ying Yang Twins and Pitbull

* "Extra Ordinary" - Better Than Ezra

* "Two Step" - Dave Matthews Band

* "Parklife" - Blur

* "You Can Do It" - Ice Cube

* "Blue Side" - Rooney

* "Still D.R.E." - Dr. Dre

* "Slow Hands" - Interpol

* "Let's Ride" - The Game

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