Product: Acoustic Research AV100b
Value: $229
Description: A couple weeks ago we reviewed the AR AV100b and luved it (review after the jump). This week, we give one away to one lucky reader. Tube sound, retromodern look, quality build; this is an amazing unit for your iPod (ghost iPhone not included) or any other source you have at home. Would you like it? Yes you would and all you have to do is follow the jump to find out how to get your naughty little paws on it.
Take a look at the original review here.
How to Enter: Leave a comment below that tells us what kind of aliens you would like to see visiting earth and what is the first song you will play for them on the AR system. The contest begins today and ends on Monday, Oct 27th, at 11:59pm ET. We will choose one winner at random.
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An alien that looks like Jeff Bridges and play "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" from the Rolling Stones.
Aliens that look like puppies would be awesome. I'd have to serve them up "Beautiful Child" by Rufus Wainwright.
maybe an alien that looked like Chris Parnell - and I'd have to play "Mr. Spaceman" by The Byrds.
I'd be down with some cephalapodian aliens and I'd play B-52's "Rock Lobster" for 'em.
Well, I would like to see SMALL FRIENDLY aliens. The first song I would play for them is 'I'm A Believer' by the Monkeys!
An alien named Rhonda with the wisdom to turn this economy around. Song - "Help me Rhonda!"
ET aliens would be super cool. First song? Howabout theme from close encounter.
Easy. Brian Eno "Music for Airports" Song "2/1". Aliens...prepared to be mellowed.
This presupposes that there are not already aliens among us.
So I suggest that if I ever bump into David Bowie, he would would like to hear his own music, so we would rock out to Ziggy Stardust.
I would like to see any kind of aliens that are friendly. I'd play some good country western for them--maybe "Crazy" by LeAnne Rimes
What makes you think aliens can hear?
I think I'd like to meet and alien race of Don Rickles type faces, on a multilegged body, and depending on the shape of their ship, Journey's "wheel in the sky".
Agree with the Mars attack aliens, first song would probably be "A Mighty Wind" from the movie of the same name!
It would be nice to get a live performance from the singing alien in the 5th element, in recip I'd have to pick something from Aida.
Aliens that are not hostile, that look like Lenny Kravitz and just want to come here to vacation. I would play them Vein of Stars by The Flaming Lips.
Count me in.
Aliens that could teach how to use psychokensis. And they'd be treated to "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" done by the Andrews Sisters.
How about the whole Alien band from Star Wars, what was their name Max Rebo and the Max Rebo band? I would play some sweet Tom Waits, like bride of Rain Dogs to show them what good music sounds like.
Little green men like the guy on the Flintstones. I'd play him some Vampire Weekend.
if I ever meet ET (picked him because that was the 1st movie I ever saw) I'll play "Subterranean Homesick Alien" by Radiohead while we stare out a window
I'd play The Mars Volta for the Martians!
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I'm hoping for space jellies and that they are friendly. I would play them "The Happening" by the Pixies.
Glittery unicorn aliens. Staralfur by Sigur Ros. We'd have a magical moment.
I would play Fascination by Alphabeat for whatever is coming to visit earth. Hopefully they do not stay long, just long enough to purchase Alphabeat's CD and a CD player if they do not own one.
Huge,orange, aliens. The song I would play is Monster Mash! :)
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I would want to meet dancing aliens and play beat control by tilly and the wall for them!
looks like the guy on the flintstones and would play bohemian rhapsody
I'd like to see aliens that look like Sackboy or Sackgirl from Little Big Planet. I think I'd play them some Cat Stevens (Here Comes My Baby) first. Thanks!
The aliens are already here. And so many of us live with them already. Anyone else "own" a cat? My alien like James Brown. Go figure.
Aliens just now got the signals from the "Mary Tyler Moore Show", and transformed themselves to look like cast. The one who looks like Ted Baxter is their leader. I race to the box and play the theme song, "Love is All Around", and they start tossing hats in the air.
I think if they were the type of aliens who have been on a long journey and were getting on each others nerves I would play them Radiohead's "Subterranean Homesick Alien"!
I think I'd like to see any kind of alien. I'd probably play them some Willie Nelson songs. Hopefully they'd end up being better about paying taxes, though. Maybe they'd do away with taxes!
Marvin the martian --play the looney tunes theme just for the irony.
I'm waiting for the Martians. I'd play them Rock & Roll, by Led Zeppelin.
What kind of aliens you would like to see visiting earth?
Resident Aliens......
What is the first song you will play for them on the AR system.
Some Grok and roll..... because they would be a stranger in a strange land.....
I don't think I'd want to meet an alien! Green, three eyed, pointy eared beings freak me out! But if I did meet one I would play some Celine to scare them back to mars.
The AIs from Iain Banks Culture novels, and "The End Of The World As We Know It" by REM.
The aliens would arrive in ships like the ones on Boston's 1976 debut album "Boston." Naturally, with their extra-terrestrial love of butt-rock, I would imagine once they heard "Hotel California" it would become a theme song of their impending take over of planet earth.
I'd want the alien from The Explorers (80's movie with Ethan Hawke) to shuffle its feet in my backyard listening to Otis' Redding's "She's All Right".
ET would be nice. welcome to my world by eddy arnold.
ET
I'd love to meet an alien that looks like Michelle Pfeiffer and I would play Simple Things by Zero 7.
I think I'd like to see Big Black Furry Creatures From Mars and I would Play You Enjoy Myself by Phish!
What about the alien from Alien? I'd play her "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" just for laffs.
how bout the aliens from 'Earth Girls Are Easy'! i think they'd dig sum Blur, maybe 'Girls & Boys' from Parklife...
Ewoks in their tree-hut-gone-intergalactic-spacecraft, and we would get down to My Coco by Stellastar*
I'd want hirsute aliens, no green slimy things. I'd play them an Explosions in the Sky track after forcefully resisting against some Bowie.
I'd like to see aliens that gave away $1000 bills as calling cards. I wouldn't care WHAT they looked like. And I'd play Eminem's Shake That for them.
I'd like to see some Zabraks (from the Star Wars universe), and the first song I'd play for them the "Rage of the Shadow Warriors" from Republic Commando.
small, friendly, fluffy aliens with large eyes........and I'd play Willie Nelson's STARDUST.......
Aliens that look like Munchichis would be pretty cool. I would play them Golden Brown by the Stranglers.
I'd like to see aliens that looked like the band from the cantina in Star Wars and I'd teach them to play some Ramones' songs.
Friendly aliens like "Starman", and I'd play them Teresa Teng's "The moon represents my heart", cuz they probably know more chinese than english.
I would love to see an alien that looks very close to a human because it can morph shapes and I'd play Will Smith's MIB! :wink:
my aliens will look like lego men but have large daffy duck ears. i would play them Sir Mixalot - I like big butts to show my fondness of big butts.
I would like to see friendly aliens. I would play some John Coltrane, "My Favorite Things", for them.
How about adorable little Ewoks? :)
I'd play Radiohead for them.
I would like to see aliens that resemble characters from the muppets and I would play them "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N Roses!
i'd like to meet a probable type of alien life form, maybe a non-sentient interplanetary bacteria. i would play "rock you like a hurricane" by the scorpions (hanover's finest), which it couldn't hear anyway.
I would like to see aliens in dress similar to GWAR and I would play them " Revolution is my Name" by Pantera.
aliens that look like broccoli and i'd play them that cheese sauce song...
something cute and fluffy...like ewoks. no scary aliens please. i'd play 'subterranian homesick alien' by radiohead for 2 reasons. 1. they need to be welcomed to great music and radiohead is the best in my book 2. they are definitely aliens and they are probably homesick
I'd like it to be Gazoo from The Flintstones. I'd play a little "We Looked Like Giants" by Death Cab for him.
Clear bubbles with extraterrestrial Walker Texas Ranger look-alikes hovering inside of them ready to burst and attack at any moment. Keep On the Sunny Side by The Whites would quickly sooth them.
They would look like a clone of me and I'd be playing "Hello" by Lionel Ritchie
The little furry guy from the flight of the navigator and I would play huey lewis and the news "hip to be square".
The Yip Yips from Sesame Street would be fun. (but only for a minute or two). They would love the original Heart Beats by The Knife.
No question - "Apache" by Sugarhill Gang
I hope that they'd look like ET. Perhaps they'd have some pointers on clean energy innovations! I'd play "Bodysnatchers" by Radiohead. As a joke... I hope.
Time Lords... Soul Meets Body by Deathcab. Mellow yet enlightening
I'd like robot aliens. Then I'd play the Flight of the Conchords song about robots. That might inspire them to kill all the humans though...so maybe not.
Aliens that look like Antonio Sabado, Eric Maribus, and Mark Wahhlberg, naked of course. I would play You Outta Know by Alanis Morisette to teach them up front, the world suckls sometimes. :-)
I'd like to see Selkies (Celtic mythical creatures who are half human and half seal) visit - and I'd play the soundtrack from the movie Roan Inish
i hope the aliens are bruce springsteen fans, cuz i'ma throw em some thunder road!
I would want them to all look like Nibbler from Futurama. I'd sing be my little baby.. and feed them giant cans of space food.
Aliens that are just like humans except hotter in every single possible way.
I'd play them Ping Island Rescue Theme while making eye contact and thrusting my crotch in their direction suggestively.
Aliens that look like the Tivo mascot/thing and have superior time warp technology. I'd play "This Land Is Your Land" and hope they have come to stay.
I'd play "I turn my camera on" by Spoon. I hope they look like donuts.
Unicellular aliens. Bach fugues.
hmmm.. alien... i guess the alien would look all translucent in like a holographic kind of way, and probably smell like lollipops. As for the song I'd play- Definately "Fire on High" by ELO- it would be amazing!
Crustacean aliens akin to Dr. Zoidberg, who I would play "Sing Me Spanish Techno" by The New Pornographers for.
I would like to see the friendly kind... I would play "It's the end of the world as we know it" and I feel fine.
I would like to see aliens that look like Meatwad from Aquateen Hunger Force and I would play "Excursions" by A Tribe Called Quest.
I would think the Pherengie from Star Trek. Not because they are greedy and scheming but because they have those really large ears and would appreciate a system like this way more than the regular grey - no ear type aliens.
I probably would play some Moby. He is pretty alien and they would feel comfortable with that. In this world or Extreme Ways seem right.
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Cat people, like Anne McCaffery's Hrubans and I would play "Tuna" by Hooverphonic.
~Exotic fish will never be able to walk, as long as we live~
The Star Trek crew!
Aliens that use a human body as a host, living in their stomach. Kind of like Kuato, the mutant living in his brother's abdomen in Total Recall. "See you at the party Rickter!"
I would play "Eye in the Sky" by Alan Parson's Project
Mr chills for sure. I'd play him some Kinky Reggae.
Definitely an advanced shape changer that could appear as anyone that chose for them to be. And I would play "I Am The Walrus" by the Beatles and see if they could make any sense of it.
I would say just nice aliens then I would play Little Pink Houses"
The kind that would help to bring peace to the planet, not devour us or deplete our resources. From A Distance might be a fitting song.
the friendly kind, i'd hope! and the first song i'd play them is "Two Headed Boy pt 1" by Neutral Milk Hotel!
I would like to see aliens that looked like characters from Super Mario Bros.
The first song I would play them is "Karn Evil" by ELP.
ET, Bach unaccompanied cello
Aliens that smell like chocolate. Maybe that Mexican chocolate, with the hot peppers, that would be good. Or ginger. The aliens, not the chocolate. As for music ... Sun Ra, of course, unless they're from Saturn because Ra had this really bad weekend there once and they still haven't forgiven him.
Aliens like the ones in "The Day The Earth Stood Still", and I'd play them "Assimilate" by Skinny Puppy.
I'd like to see aliens that would laugh at the way we communicate and then feel sorry enough for us to show us how to improve it. I'd probably play "Reset" by Mute Math.
Keeping my fingers crossed that the Great Kazoo from the Flintstones will make an appearance hopefully animated in 2-D and I will whistle to the Great Kazoo the song from Bugs Bunny / a shave and a haircut medly.
Nice comforting aliens like Mrs. Whosits and Whatsits in A Wrinkle in Time. I'd play "Rainbow Connection" since who doesn't love Kermit the Frog?!
Naturally I would wish that things follow the universe that Gene Roddenberry would have us live in. We will be visited by Vulcans. They will take note of Zefram Cochrane's first warp ship, and come to visit. The first song they will hear is something from Carl Orff's "A Play to the End of Time." They will promptly leave.
I'd like to meet a alien evolved from a plant. (My first question would be how do they feed themselves, carnivorous maybe?) Id play the song Homeworld by Yes
Aliens like the toy ones from Toy Story. I'll play them the Battlestar Galactica (2003) opening song from the first few seasons.
That system is amazing! I'd hope for something like a Vulcan like Spock (are there any aliens besides Star Trek?). And I'd have to go with a song by Newsboys called "take me to your leader" because it's just the right thing to do. Otherwise something like Delilah by Plain White Tees for it's calming effect on the whole situation.
I'd hope they would be humanoid type beings so we'd have something in common before I blasted them with "Back in Black" by AC/DC. Earth don't mess around!
I think there are aliens on earth already...but if they came down from outer space, I hope they would have special abilities to teach us esp, and to speak to each other with our minds..all that cool star trek stuff..thanks for the contest.
Plutonians. And I would tell them that their homeworld is no longer a planet according to our scientists. Then I'd play them "Mercury" by Bloc Party just to rub it in.
I'd want an alien from Pluto to visit so they can prove that Pluto is a planet...just like it once used to be. I'd play Eye of the Tiger so they would feel all mighty and powerful!
Geez. I am so out of it. I don't know any kinds of aliens, but I do know what I'd play if they showed up: a little Pupy y los que son son--and if they can't dance, they're goin' back.
Wouldn't it be great if the aliens looked the the aliens in Sesame Street? Then I'd play them Mahna Mahna and see if it's their kind of song.
Well first off they would obviously have the the force and lightsabers, nuff said. And we'd have a good history lesson with to Billy Jole's 'We Didnt Start the Fire'; showing them it was in deed not our fault for the state of the world, but the generation before us. Guess we didn't have a chance ;)
CTHULHU!! ...and I'd play Plaster Casts of Everything by Liars to set the mood to my eventual descent into madness.
I always imagine the Close Encounters-type, even if they are just a figment of Steven Spielberg's imagination, though I am sure that they would enjoy more than just 5 tones over and over and over, so I would play them some classic 1970s-era Miles Davis
Beautiful femaliens- I'd play Tracy Morgan singing the theme song to "Astronaut Jones"!
Aliens that came in all colors and play Human Behavior by Björk.
The Simpsons aliens would get an earful of REO Speedwagon.
The aliens would look like Labrador Retrievers and I'd play them "Once Around the Block" by Badly Drawn Boy for no other reason than I happen to like that song a lot right now.
I like to imagine the government's solution here: No matter what they look like, play the background "music" from Space Invaders and shoot 'em! :)
how about palinians. all decked out in $150K outfits. hot.
tunes? blossom dearie - someone to watch over me
I'd like to see EcoAliens that share green technologies with us to rid our oil addiction (sigh). I'd play Bowie's "Life on Mars" for them.
I'm would look forward to seeing tribble's (and giving them to my ex girlfriend - who loves furry animals, but has never seen an episode of Star Trek in her life). I'd gladly play for them, and her, Fu-Schnickens "I'm a True Fu-Schnick".
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i'd like the vulcans to visit, and i'd play louie louie for them
I's like to meet someone like a Talaxian and play "Ride My Llama" by Neil Young for him!
Definitely ET. Maybe a little Instant Karma for the little, long-necked guy.
i would like to see an aliens that resemble the legion of doom. for the soundtrack... superman OST!
The Saturnians have arrived, and they demand Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower"!
Jonathan Richman's "Here come the martian martians" for, well, the martians.
Ummm...harmless aliens. I would probably play them some Bowie.
ALPHADRACONIANS
Reptilian beings who are said to have established colonies in Alpha Draconis. Like all reptilians, they claim to have originated on Terra thousands of years ago, a fact that they use to 'justify' their attempt to retake the earth for their own. They are apparently a major part of a planned 'invasion' which is eventually turning from covert infiltration mode to overt invasion mode as the "window of opportunity" (the time span before International human society becomes an interplanetary and interstellar power) slowly begins to close. They are attempting to keep the "window" open by suppressing advanced technology from the masses, which would lead to eventual Terran colonization of other planets by Earth and an eventual solution to the population, pollution, food and other environmental problems. Being that Terrans have an inbred "warrior" instinct, the Draconians DO NOT want them/us to attain interstellar capabilities and therefore become a threat to their imperialistic agendas.
Everyone knows aliens hate "Indian Love Call" by Slim Whitman
Fun loving aliens listening to Space Oddity by David Bowie.
The Red Lectroids from Planet 10 and I'd play Van Morrison's "into the Mystic"
I would like to see Kang and Kodos (from The Simpsons). I would play Danny Elfman's Simpsons theme as they go about Earth's destruction.
I'd play 'Surfin Bird' for those Overstuffed, Recliner-shaped aliens
I would love to have a visit from Martians so I could play them Martian Boogie by Brownsville Station. What a great song!
How about if the aliens were Gigantic Native Americans, and I'd play Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry"
I'd play Art Blakey, Moanin' for those cool dudes drivin' the UFO.
I would play some Elvis like Love Me Tender
I'd love to mellow out to "Dreamweaver" with some nice, short, and fangless aliens.
small, furry aliens . i'd play stevie wonder ribbon in the sky.
I'd like to see aliens resembling Nick Nolte's mug shot and I'd play Detachable Penis by King Missile in order to confuse the aliens as to the nature of human anatomy.
Friendly - Theme song from Rocky
illegal aliens.. and play gypsies tramps and theives
Hopefully they will be rich aliens, we can sell them some sub-prime loans and ride the gravy train. AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" would greet them.
Remember the futuristic society that Bill and Ted were supposed to create (by way of their excellent adventures, of course!)? I'd like those guys to visit (particularly if George Carlin were still around in this hypothetical reality) and we'd listen to Ziggy Stardust. Then we'd jam. Badly.
Incidentally, I made a pretty entertaining playlist a few days ago entitled "Sci-Fi Meets Hi-Fi." Now I might have to revise it to include some of these songs!
I would hope for very friendly aliens---then I would plsy My Way by Frank Sintra. LOL LOL LOL
I would love to see some Vulcans visiting earth only to be greeted with some Meatloaf "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" on my AR. They'd think we're totally nuts and not worth their time. Frankly, pretty much anything by Meatloaf would work.
I'd like to see some good-looking chilled-out aliens and I'd play some Steely Dan for them, start with some Deacon Blues. That would be cool! Thank you so much!
Ideally, probably "green" aliens (environmentally-friendly) and I would introduce them to Pink Floyd right away, "Confortably Numb".
Friendly dressed in all black with Devo hats on, playing some Johnny Cash "Man in Black".
I'd like some furry, cuddly aliens not those icky aliens that terrorized Sigourney Weaver. I'd play "Welcome to the Jungle" for them.
I would like to see aliens that believe in the future, cling to the past, and refuse to acknowledge the present.
I'd like to see some aliens with skin made of bacon, because everyone likes bacon. I would play "Dance Wiv Me" by Dizzee Rascal, because I think dancing with bacon aliens would be cool.
Klaatu, I want to meet an alien like Klaatu, and I would play for him Mogwai - Danphe and the Brain or the sun smells too loud,
I would play some amy winehouse, because the aliens probably could relate to her (or maybe she is one?).
furry aliens...
J. S. Bach - Suites for Solo Cello
Welcome to my World, want to see past residents of Mars visit!
I would like some aliens to come that would play ME some music!
I would like to meet friendly aliens who can recognize good music. I would play them "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder as a test of their musical taste.
Hopefully friendly aliens would visit and I would play Welcome to the Jungle :)
i'd drop a little Moonage Daydream on them. they wouldn't even know what hit them.
aliens just like ET and I'd play them "perfect drug" by Nine Inch Nails
Any aliens are okay, as long as they don't do any worse than we have! For my new alien masters I would play Sonic Youth's entire Daydream Nation album.
I'd hope for octopus-type aliens, and I'd play them Televators, by The Mars Volta.
Little green men from Mars and I'd play David Bowie - Space Oddity
Martians and David Bowie's Life on Mars, of course!
I hope they are friendly and I would play the song "God Bless the USA"
Moby. I think they could relate.
Oh, any sort of benevolent alien would be fine with me. I'd play them some Sigur Ros, so we can all be confused together.
What kind of aliens? Democrat-friendly, please. And "Come Together" by the Beatles would be the song I would play and I couldn't tell you why, but it's the first thing I thought of cuz it grooves.
hopefully democratic aliens - and we could play them some david bowie.
They would look like Diana Ross, circa 1978 only they would have would have 6 arms. I'd play "Endless Love" and they would slow dance with three of us at a time, with their spaceship serving as our disco ball.
I would like to see E.T. and play "Phone Home" by Lil Wayne.
The aliens from the movie "EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY" (Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carey, a Wayons) and I would play them STYX "Too Much Time on My Hands"!!!
E.T. and we'd share Reese's Peanut Butter Candies while listening to "Major Tom" by David Bowie.
I'd be jazzed to see some aliens from Uranus - they'd get to hear whatever is playing on KEXP - my favorite radio station!
Non-threatening aliens, and I'd play them some Bach just to make sure they didn't get jumpy and all dangeous and stuff (isn't classical music supposed to be calming?)
Fluffy talking dog aliens. Because seriously, one day my dog will talk.
And if it was still early on in the day - "Mars" by Lori Mckenna, but if it's a Friday night and I'm getting ready to go out - then we'd have to jam to "Bodysnatchers" by Radiohead.
I wanna see the little green men, singing:
'Oop Eep Oo Ah Ah, Ding Dang, Walla Walla Bing Bang'
Tiny little humanoid aliens....and I'd play them "Don't Worry About the Government" by Talking Heads
My aliens would be such highly intelligent and musical beings that the only thing to play for them is the most perfect piece of music ever written - Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in the performance by Carlos Kleiber and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
I'd like to see some really friendly oxygen-producing aliens, and I'd play them Eruption by Van Halen because 1. There are no lyrics, so no language barrier issues, 2. It's short enough to not stress them out or confuse them, and 3. It can't helpe but get them totally amped for Earth.
aliens that look like star wars characters would be cool. or maybe the aliens would take the form of extinct animals?!
i would play any song from either rufus wainwright or tom petty.
It'll probably be the "greys" that visit me every month or two. I'll play Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me".
I would want to meet big purple aliens and play the song "purple people eaters" and hope that they wouldn't get any ideas.
martians, fly me to the moon
7 of 9.
Picture Book.
flying monkeys
what else but the monster mash for dancing?!
The friendly, totally non-threatening child-like aliens from Close Encounters. I would treat them to Mozart's requiem, hoping they'd think I wrote it and be super impressed.
i would love for E.T. like aliens to visit earth. i'd play them ziggy stardust.
benevolent space polar bears would be nice. I would play them Otis Redding's "Happy Song" as to make a good impression.
Martians: the talking flowers from "Alice in Wonderland"
1st Song: Imagine, John Lennon
I'd love to play Belle and Sebastian for them and ask them to name the decade. :)
Being friendly and non threatening --and of course, they've been listening to our radio waves for many years-- they would be utterly confused. :D
DEVO! Definitely! they can play "Freedom of Choice"
Any kind of aliens that can dance -- to Rapture (blondie).
Little furry ones that look like a Furbie or a Poppel. I would play them A Summer Song by Chad and Jeremy because I think it would make them happy and maybe they would purr a little and take a nap with me.
Type of alien: Martians - the concept of martians is as retro as this unit.
Song: the Martian Hop by the Ran-Dells (awesome tune)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYlaJJqBXZM
Is the Swell Season on the ghost iPhone a suggestion that aliens would be ginger-haired and handy with a guitar. 'Cause that WOULD be swell.
The weird guy down the street is an alien and I can prove it. He can sing anything he wants as long as he stays out of my yard.
I want it. Badly.
80s punk aliens of the friend variety!
"It's Gonna Be Alright" by the Ramones
Tribbles, and I'd play John Coltrane's version of My Favorite Things for them.
I would like to aliens that look like woolly mammoths and I would play them "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield.
I'd love to kick it with some aliens that look like typical aliens- bright green, round-headed, and big-eyed. It wouldn't hurt to play they a little bit of Bob Dylan. Maybe some Black Keys.
Aliens that look like the monkey puppet Craig Ferguson has on his show ... "People of Earth!" ... and I'd play them "Roll Around the World" by the B-52s.
Aliens made out of chocolate cake so we could eat them... yum.
I would play them Weezer's "My Name is Jonas"
e-woks, (is that how you spell them?) , anyways,... and they would get down to nelly's 'it's gett'n hot in here'
Midget aliens....I would play them "The Final Countdown"
i'd have to go with a friendly, cyclopsed little green dude...and i'd play it some Shostakovitch, probably. perhaps a little Beethoven too.
Love that 'retromodern" doesn't have to be completely defined in this category. Too many of the tivoli style radios all look the same. This one has it's one look and feel. Way to go!
I would like to see aliens that look like the bowling pin girls from the big lebowski. I think that would be rad. and for them I would gamma ray by beck and watch them swing their bowling pin headpieces to the groove. yea that would be it!
I would play "Planet Clair". Pink hair would not be required, but that would be a plus.
aliens that like penguins and seahorses. i'd play them neil young's 'long may you run' and take them to the new california academy of sciences.
I'd like to meet aliens like Diva Plavalaguna from the movie "Fifth Element" - and I'd play Donna Summer's "I Will Go with You (Con te partirò)"...
...tho I wouldn't really have to play it because they'd be able to hear it playing in my mind.
friendly aliens, ha :0) and ones that bring superior eco knowledge so we can start reversing our damage to the planet.
and i would play them....SURFIN BIRD (The Trashmen)
I'm gonna go with ET. Or Chewy.
As for music, I think I'd have to come up with something one could moonwalk to. Just to be cheesy.
aliens that look like babies and i would play them "sweet home alabama" because you can't get more welcoming than that. :)
What kind of aliens? Preferably vegetarian pacifists--a big salad and hugfest for everyone.
As for the song, I'm all for gettin' my groove on with ETs via the savage sound of Nelly's "Hot in Here."
Or ABBA.
my aliens would be pink cloudlike puffs, like cotton candy, and they would like us to eat them, and i think they would like anything sung by doris day.
Aliens who look like my mother (she was pretty strange) and I'd play "All you need is love".
the best alien would be a canine. he'd would show up at my door and offer congratulations for the excellent reports my cardigan welsh corgi, hank, has been submitting about me. i'd put on "i'm your dog" by tate moore.
aliens that look like gizmo (the nice furry one) in gremlins (without the scary gremlin guys). I would play "we are the world".....cheesy, I know.
Blue Green friendly aliens, and I would play them the Big Chill sound track or anything from Mowtown.
I'd hope for music-loving aliens, rather than aliens that go berserk when someone plays music for them. I'd probably start with the most frequently played song on my iPod, Colin Hay's "Beautiful World".
I'd love to see good old fashioned Alien Robots come to enslave us. And of course, I'd have to greet them with "Come Sail Away"! Styx Rules!
cute, friendly aliens from another solar system. i'd play mos def's "ms. fat booty."
Sophia Pamela singing anything by Sophia Pamela.
I'd want aliens that can teach us how to end war, hate, and poverty, and help us create a world where governments and armies are obsolete. I would play "Nice Dream" by Radiohead.
teletubbie looking creature and for music, "Fantasy" by earth wind and fire
aliens that looked like us, but were really robots..wait, that's the Cylons! okay, i'd like the Cylons to come and make babies with us. We'd rock out to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing".
I'd like to see the yip yip aliens from Sesame Street visiting (you know, the one that went nope nope nope nope nope, yip yip yip yip yip). I'd play them "Enjoy" by Bjork.
Does Mork from the show "Mork and Mindy" count? I want that alien!
I'd probably play him some classic Johnny Cash... maybe "Burnin' Ring of Fire", heh.
I'd like to play David Bowie's "Life on Mars" to some Martians.
friendly aliens please. I'd play B52's Roam and travel with them on their spaceship!
All scuishy pinkeshly blooeshly transperent with liserdy cold, smooth and wet skin cha cha hopefully friendly :P and I would play " I push my thinger in to your eyes..." song
I would like some sweet, fuzzy aliens that spoke all languages well and I would play them Around the World and we'd dance!
I'd play "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses for aliens that look like the Gelflings from The Dark Crystal
I vote for Vulcans. Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of The Moon" blasting at full volume.
I would like to see Aliens with asymmetrical features as it seems humans can only imagine aliens that look just like them. I would play Here on Earth by Love and Rockets.
Well, to make my son happy they would have to be aliens from a galaxy far, far away... maybe a guy named Skywalker?
Anyway, I would play Dark Side of the Moon. Just because
they'd look like a Slinky and I would play for them David Bowie's Space Oddity
Evil dictators would be great (you know, replace the ones we have with intelligent beings.) I'd play Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees.
They would look like they always do when they visit....skinny green guys with big eyes the song would be....
Oscar the Grouch's version of "Somewhere over the rainbow"....very rare release for their special visit!
Oscar the grouch type aliens and we'd listen to "when you're strange" by the Doors.
I have always been scared of aliens ever since I was little and had a dream that they were living on my bottom bunk.
I picture them being translucent, flying around and glowy..really pretty but murderous..
I imagine myself playing them Ladytron "Ghosts"...cuz it sounds to me what a lady alien would sound like if she sang in English..I would hope they would love it and not eat my face off..
My aliens are short in stature but great in numbers. Thousands of 2 inch tall, 3 inch round beings, on four legs but with four arms, one to above each leg. They crawl about in a seemingly random manner, because any direction could be forward. They have no discernible front or back, even top and bottom is utterly identical to the naked eye, with their limbs each terminating with the same three tentacled "hand." They appear to move comfortably across our Earth's ground from their intergalactic transport, which bears an odd resemblance to Sophia from The Golden Girls in a racing-striped jumpsuit. They are led by the "large" one, measuring in at a full 3 inches high. Their color reminds me of Barney, all bright purple with accents of yellow and green about them. All but this leader. He is completely reflective. As reflective as chrome, but his body is as fluid as the rest of them.
I pull out my iPod and try to find something good for them to listen to, only to realize that they do not appear to have ears nor eyes or mouths, for that matter. I plug my iPod into my car stereo input anyway, and flip on the track with the most outrageous bass I've heard, something they wouldn't have to hear, they could feel it: Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend." Yes, I know, a guilty pleasure at best, but listen to it on a huge subwoofer. I dare you.
The two 12" subs in my car rumble to life a minute into the song. The old beater seems like it might shake to pieces, but she holds strong. The little E.T.s climb atop the roof of the car and start jumping and shuffling and shimmying around. It was the most fantastical thing I've ever seen.
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I really shouldn't work 14 hour shifts. They do strange things to my brain. But as a side note, this giveaway looks awesome.
I'd like to discover that aliens are like the sweet little doozers from Fraggle Rock. And I'd play them Springsteen's _Greetings from Asbury Park_ so they kick off their visit with the best.
Aliens that are exact replicas of 80's celebrities. I would play them Rock Me Amadeus by Falco and other 80's hits.
Niblonians would come to visit, and we'd all do a dramatic piece of performance art to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.
They would all be in costume trying to blend in with us humans...too bad all they know of us is our television broadcasts right before Halloween! There would be a Michael Myers and a Freddy...and of course Pinhead and maybe a couple of freaky doctors from the twilight zone. I'd see through their clever attempts and play them Subterrainian Homesick Alien from radiohead.
Aliens from a smoky jazz bar...I'll be playing Billie's "Them There Eyes"
I'd like to see peaceful aliens and I think I would play them something ethereal like Enya.
Aliens that fix our financial issues. I'd play something by the boss, of course.
The aliens are like the ones from the Ridley Scott movie, ferocious and out for blood. I would play them Boy George's "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" right before they eat me alive.
I would like to see yummy edible aliens, and the first song I would play for them is "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I got love in my tummy..."
a consciousness that can communicate greater mindfulness to humankind and all earthly beings "imagine" john lennon.
I'm hoping for the 3rd Rock aliens. They're getting an earful of Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack, starting with 'Dammit, Janet'. Welcome to Earth.
Aliens bearing the secrets of clean and plentiful energy would be welcome on my planet any day. And I'd play them a little Elvis Costello to greet them. How about "Radio, Radio?" Great song.
Tribbles! And I would play "Detachable Penis".
I would hope that they would be well dressed aliens and I would play them some Roxy Music.
I like Doctor Who just fine, the 8th one was pretty darn cute, although any of them would be swell. The first song I'd play for them would be Humans from Earth by T-Bone Burnett. (Although it's about us traveling to see them.) I really love that radio!!!
I would play "Cat Scratch Fever" for the Boov.
A female alien from the original Star Trek, love those sixties mini skirts and go go boots.
A little obvious maybe, but I'd play Fly Me to the Moon by Astrud Gilberto.
marcia brady aliens and play them atomic food by david guetta
Green ones with finger lights! We shall dance the night away to Idioteque by Radiohead.
hhmm... that's weird. i think i would prefer for the earth to remain alien-less. i have no clue what i would play. i tend to be pretty "down to earth."
Aliens that are just like us, but are like the hypothetical people in "If Everyone Cared" by Nickelback, which is what I"d play.
I'd like to see ghost aliens--like that iPod.
I'd probably play White Town - Your Woman, really, really loud.
Sorry -- it would have to be little green men. And I would play Haunted House by Gene Simmons.
shiny, sweet aliens... i would play them "gobbledigook" by sigur ros.
I'd hope for peace aliens...and I'd play them "All you need is love" by the Beatles!
Aliens that look like dachshunds. Cuddly. Long. Low. They want to hear Patty Griffin's "Heavenly Day."
First I'd welcome it with "Hello Spaceboy" then " Is there Life on Mars", for the aliens who I just have to assume all look like David Bowie. But is that sexist?
The aliens would have to be the Nibblonians and I would play some sort of catchy dance number and we would all break out in dance like some sort of musical.
Alien children of Cthulu infiltrate my starship, big slimy tentacled monsters that scream as I hack at their wildly flailing limbs. "Helena" by The Misfits plays over the com system as I laugh hysterically, covered in viscous green goop. Do you still love me anyway?
little green men. Play Yellow submarine by the Beatles
Like Mars attacks aliens, they are very funny. Any U2 song. :)
Anything friendly I hope, then sit them down (if they sit) for a random sampling of Beatles.
Hopefully non-violent Aliens who are a whole lot smarter than us. I will play CHILDREN OF THE SUN by Billy Thorpe
Expatriate Earthlings coming back after 8 thousand years.. They would be coming to repair their gene pool that had been wrecked by overproduction because they were all identical, all purple skin, all triangular shaped eyes resulting in all 23 inch penis' on the males and 2 inch deep vaginas on the females . They were expatriate Earthlings who had left planet Earth because they didn't like living with people who were black, yellow, red and white which they considered inferior. Their new motto agreed upon by their leaders is "Its not nice to fool Mother Nature". The first music I would play for them would be The Age Of Aquarius sung by Andrea Bocelli.
I would like aliens from Omicron Persiae 8 to visit and I would play "Stairway to Heaven" as covered by Dolly Parton. I would pretend to be a stairway salesmen, making a fair amount of money which I would spend on one last day of all the things I've ever wanted to do before they ate the entire human race because the stairway led to nowhere.
I hope they have ways of communicating and are relatively nice. I hope that there not green slime like people. I also hope they have some fresh ideas on how to save our planet from pollution and give us great technology ideas. I would play the song When the Children Cry by White Lion.
I'd like to see aliens who looks just like humans, and I'd play them some John Mayer... probably "Gravity."
I'd like to see cute Mars babies (though I do miss ET too) and I would play them our wedding CD with some Louis & Ella.
I would want to play for them Paranoid Android by Radiohead. Then after setting us straight with the facts.
I would imagine though they probably like David Bowie more.
*shrugs
Please, purty please pick me. ;)
A creature from a childs dream...then play -- It was a one eyed one horned flying purple people eater.
I guess the song date me from the 60's
I don't care what they look like, I just think aliens should smell like cookies, and I would play them Aretha Franklin's "Respect". Because it's awesome, and I would like them not to nuke me.
I would like to see aliens come to earth with the power to cure autism, and heal those afflicted with it.....then my child could live a "normal" life.
I would like my aliens to be pinguid, in the way of the Michelin Man, and have green hair. I would play them "Every Party Has a Winner and a Loser," so they don't get their hopes up too much.
I would play the Carpenter's "Calling Occupants of Interplantatery Craft" and I would hope for aliens that would be excited to bring along anyone who wanted to go with them to an adventurous (and free!) galactic civilization. Preferable really hot aliens who like the Carpenters.
I would say just nice aliens then I would play Little Pink Houses
the spiders from mars, space oddity
Vegetarians. I would have to play "Imagine" by John Lennon.
I guess I'd pick Martians that look like Marvin the martian and I'd play Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time" song so maybe they'd go back home ASAP.
Aliens that came and told us that Star Trek was a documentary, I'd play the Star Trek theme
I would like to see rock and roller aliens and I would play them "Clouds" by the Rumble Strips.
binary aliens from star trek next generation and i would play them "don't stop believin'" three times in a row.
i'd hope for an adorable alien with a english accent in the vain of ford prefect (and if he looked like mos def it would not hurt one bit...) and i would have to play him "so long and thanks for all the fish"
hopefully they look like hamsters cause hamsters would be cute! and i would play "across the universe".
I like cute and kind aliens, I would play them the Reckoner.
Love Love Love!
I would like aliens who teach peace. They'd better be impervious to our bullets, too. I would play Elvis Presley's "Welcome to My World" for them.
Aliens that would make me laugh--and their main purpose was to create a funnier(is that a word?) planet. I would have to play them some James Taylor.
I'd like to see the stereotypical green aliens that speak their own language. I'd play Thriller for them!
Friendly ones. I'd play them UFO, UFO, UFO by Rocket from the Crypt, of course.
The aliens are already here. The look just like us, and they LOVE Simon and Garfunkel.
I'D LIKE THEM TO LOOK LIKE US AND I'D PLAY IMAGINE BY JOHN LENNON.
I'd like them to be a friendly race that was really good at telling jokes. And I'd play for them some beatles music.
Rockers
Welcome To The Jungle Guns N' Roses
THANK YOU GOD BLESS
I'd like for them to be Alien's that "come in peace"! I would play them Back in Black (They would be rocker Alien's).
slightly pompous aliens who are only interested in our tables. I would play them 'alien vacation' by moon boot lover, but they would not be amused.
I would like them to be cute little intergalactic gardeners like E.T. Fist song? How about David Bowie "Loving The Alien".
i would want an alien that would cook and clean dishes. then in appreciation i would play brand new colony by postal service
Friendly and colorful aliens that would add some of their color to brighten up our homes and the economy (plus the government) while they were here visiting. "It's the End of The World As We Know It' by REM. And that's OK. Welcome Aliens!!
I definately would like to see intelligent ones that are a cross between ET and the ones from Signs...I would love for them to hear our national anthem.
OOoo, I would want completely naked green things. They should glow and have antennas. Oh, they'd have to be nice as well. Their song; "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell and Michael Jackson.
They would look fairly humanoid, and the "grey" look are just their space suits. I would play "Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong for them.
I would love to see Aliens come to earth that have in their possession secret DNA that can heal the earth of global warming and save our planet from all of its ecological dangers. This DNA can be extracted from the aliens with their permission and used to save the Rainforests and everything endangered in our environment. A little of this potent DNA goes a long way! The first song I would play for them is "Imagine" by John Lennon.
Aliens that looked like all about me people that when denied
the right to be selfish their big giant heads would burst!
I would play "Mr. Big Stuff" by Jean Knight.
I would want aliens to be little green men and then they could make our planet greener, and I would play Help me Make it thru the night ( and the rest of our life)
aliens that look like and act like pugs. That would be fun! I will play Hanky Code by Peaches!!!!
has to be the ET kind and not the X-Files kind, as for music beach boys or early beatles
Green figures of some sorts. I would play them "Green Onions" because it is the most timeless song I know. Or, perhaps Talking Heads,"Naive Melody" because it is perfect.
My aliens would be cute little cleaning fanatics-they would clean up our world. I would play them a cute little song-Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey.
I would love to have beings from Pluto show up and would play Coming To America by Neil diamond
Hot, sexy blond aliens and I would crank out Drop Dead Legs - VH
The aliens from The Simpsons, I'd play them, You Can't TTouch This. Cause they always go for the anus probe if you don't.
they'd look like little green oprahs and i'd blast some led zeppelin at 'em.
Well, currently my son with autism is obsessed with Mission to Mars aliens by Lego. So I would have to choose aliens like them and the song I would play Mr. Roboto by Styx so that the aliens head would hurt so bad he would exterminate that horrid song from the face of the earth and my hubby would never torture me with it again!
The little, peaceful kind of alien, that looks like a side of roast. I'd play Pink Floyd's "Run" for them as I break out the dinner ware... ;-)
I would choose to meet a purple friendly alien and I'd play the little guy Make Love in this Club by Usher! It's just an awesome song!
i'd want like the super genius aliens like the one in Mission to Mars! that was really cool! i'd play them some Beatles of course "Across the Universe" super cliche, but it works
Oh, this tube radio would go perfect with my tube clock! I love the orange glow! As for the aliens... they're us! And I'd play "Bruises" by Chairlift, since it's my newest obsession.
stereotypical green men as is always seen in movies and on tv, anything else would be a let down, and the first song I'd play is Pink Floyd off their Ummagumma Album, "Several small species of furry animals groovin in a cave with a pic"
I'd like to see little aliens that look like the ball on the top of a ski hat, with two legs, big eyes, and antennas. The first song I'd play would be "Stellar" by Incubus.
Aliens who look just like us, but maybe not as smart, haha and I'd play "people are people"
I would like to see robots, not aliens and I would play them some good ol talking heads.
Funny, friendly aliens would be great. I'd play "What a Wonderful World".
I'd like handsome aliens and I'd play Joe Cocker's version of "You are so beautiful"
Well friendly aliens because we're all about G and PG-13 around here - so aliens like Stitch and ET would be quite welcome -- we'd play Jump 5 for them - I think that might scare them away!!
How about an alien that looks like me!!
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And I would play beautiful Day, by U2! :)
I'd like to meet alien turtles, and I'd play them the song "Take it Easy" by The Eagles.
How about someone like Brian Setzer and the song Stray Cat Struff.
queen aliens
i'd play "eye in the sky" by alan parsons project for cute little ewoks
aliens with a sense of humor! ...we'd let them have first pic of the ole' i pod.
i want them to look just like humans because it would make george lucas oh so sad, and i'd play david bowie's 'changes'
I'd like to see mini sized aliens... about 1 inch tall and I would play for them: "These boots are made for walking..." the original...
THE ONES WITH GREEN CARDS OR THE ONES THAT MAKE THE CANDY BARS.......HA HA HA HA HA
Intelligent aliens who come in peace. :) oooh, several songs I'd like to play for them, but the one that comes to mind first is Dire Straits "Walk of Life". I think that if God has a favorite rock and roll song, that would be it!
I would like some nice ones. I would play "Baby come back".
i would like to see nice aliens and not too scary lookin..i would play..welcome to the jungle by guns and roses..lol
Those green aliens with big black eyes would be interesting. I'd probably start with early Devo, like "Satisfaction".
I'd like to see Aliens who'd help us create a sustainable environment. I'd play "We are the world" for them.
I want to see Aliens arrive in the 70s threads they left their planet in. Bellbottoms and all.
I would play them some Daft Punk Technologic.
I would love to meet alien transformers that play Another
One Bites The Dust
I would like them to look like the aliens from toy story that are stuck in the video machine
i would play them planet pea why me
Area 51 aliens, but with cupcake eyes. I'd play them Disney songs, like Little Mermaid stuff. :-)
maybe i'm a xenophobe, but ones that look just like us. and i'd play them something from duran duran's rio album.
they would be aliens that look like hot human hunks in their birthday suits ;) i'd play them "it's raining men".
Aliens able to teach us a lot of prudent insights on how to live. I'd play Paul Simon's "Graceland".
I think they should all be long haired, miniature dotsons. I'd play them Me and My Arrow by Harry Nilsson.
I would like the aliens to resemble the Jetsons complete with bubble cars and outergalactic angular outfits. And I would play "You Me and the Bourgeoisie " by The Submarines.
I would like to see the Scientologist mothership land in Tom's front yard. They'll have great haircuts and designer sunglasses. I would play for them "Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel.
I'm pretty sure David Bowie is an alien. If not then I'd like to meet some that look nothing like people and I would play Ziggy Stardust for them.
I'd say a classic green Martian, and I'd take a page out of "Stranger in a Strange Land" and play Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War."
I'll go for Chewbacca - and I'll play Video Killed the Radio Star.
I would like a martian in every nationality singing "we are the world" by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie