The guys:

1. James LaBrie (Dream Theater, MullMuzzler, Ayreon, Winter Rose, James LaBrie)



2. Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth, Ayreon)



3. Billy Joel (Billy Joel)



4. Ben Folds (Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five)



5. Morten Veland (Sirenia, Tristania)



6. Joshua Levi Ian Gentzke (Lux Interna)



7. Marco Hietala (Nightwish, Tarot, Sinergy, Northern Kings, Delain)



8. Neil Diamond (Neil Diamond)



9. Alexander Frank Spreng - a.k.a. Asp (ASP)



10. Tommy Shaw (Styx)



Honorable mentions (no particular order): B.J. Thomas, Bob Seger, Dave Gahan, Ian Anderson, Robert Plant, James Hetfield, Dennis DeYoung.


The girls:

1. Miki Berenyi (Lush)



2. Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gathering, Agua de Annique, Ayreon)



3. Sabine Dünser - may she RIP (Elis, Erben der Schöpfung)



4. Marjan Welman (Elister, Ayreon, Autumn)



5. Floor Jansen (After Forever, Ayreon)



6. Morgan Kibby (The Romanovs)



7. Helen Trevillion (Helen Trevillion)



8. Heather Findlay (Mostly Autumn, Odin Dragonfly, Ayreon)



9. Lisa Kelly



10. Anette Olzon (Nightwish, Alyson Avenue)



Honorable mentions (no particular order): Rachael Sage (who was sadly neglected previously and, while I like her more for songwriting than singing still deserves to be here), Aria Tesolin, Vibeke Stene, Kari Rueslåtten, Tori Amos, Jenn Manganiello (Tearwave), Sharon den Adel, Jessicka, Lana Lane, Ingrid Michaelson, Vanessa Carlton, Jessica Heine, Grace Slick, Kethelin Cocchi (Keys Of The Light), Jessica Thierjung (Lyriel), Siouxsie, Molly Pasutti (window to the next world), Greta Salpeter (The Hush Sound), Sandra Schleret, Johanna DePierre, Simone Simmons, Katherine Blake, Tarja Turunen - who, while tremendously overrated, can be great given the right material.

Comment if you want...or not, but thanks for reading that anyways.

Undoubtedly you've seen this particular quiz before. I'm a fan because the database is doing all the work. Anyway...

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Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently




The 94 related artists for my profile are Alice in Chains (2), Avengers In Sci-Fi, Balkan Beat Box, Bauhaus, Bob Mould, Bugy Craxone, Buzzcocks, Cabaret Voltaire, Camouflage, Ciccone Youth, Coldplay, Colin Newman, Collide, Cranes, Damon Albarn, Dave Gahan, DeVotchKa, Desert Sessions, Dinosaur Jr. (2), Eagles of Death Metal, Echo & the Bunnymen, Eddie Vedder, Electronic, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Erasure, Foo Fighters, Frank Black, Frank Black and the Catholics, Gang of Four, Graham Coxon, Green River, Grinderman, Halo33, Hartfield, Hole, Incubus, J.U.F., Jane's Addiction, Joe Jackson, Joe Strummer, Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros, Jonny Greenwood, Joy Division, KMFDM, Kultur Shock, Kyuss, Lenny Kravitz, Luminous Orange, Lush, Marilyn Manson, Martin L. Gore, Masters of Reality, Medicine, Mick Harvey, Ministry (2), Minutemen (2), Mission of Burma (2), Modwheelmood, Mondo Generator, Mother Love Bone, Mudhoney, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Cave, Nirvana, On a Friday, Pet Shop Boys, Pigface, Pixies, Pop Will Eat Itself, Pulp, Ramones, Recoil, Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden (2), Stone Temple Pilots, Suede, Supergrass, Talking Heads, The Birthday Party, The Breeders, The Chameleons, The Cure, The Dukes of Stratosphear, The Fall, The Replacements, Thom Yorke, Thurston Moore, Tindersticks, Wipers, Wire, honeydip

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A lot of bands I've never heard of, but out of that lot only one band that pops up twice (the Minutemen). Been meaning to get a copy of Double Nickels on the Dime.

There's also a super-eclectic test at the same link:

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Take your top 50 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 20 similar artists (where the artist itself is the #1 most similar). The resulting number of unique artists is your super-eclectic score. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/supereclectic.php

My super-eclectic score is currently



The most similar artists for my profile are The Psychedelic Furs (6), The Smiths (6), Wire (6), New Order (6), Blur (6), Pulp (6), The Jesus and Mary Chain (6), The Cure (6), Public Image Ltd. (5), Suede (5)

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(Bolded the bands not in my library)
I think that's a pass!

Right now, these are the bands recommended to me by last.fm.

Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Aleph-1
The Angelic Process
Aoki Takamasa
Arab on Radar
As the Sun Sets
Autolux
The Book of Knots
Byetone
CoH
Corrupted
Daughters
DJ QBert
Dødheimsgard
Enslaved
Frank Bretschneider
Fred Frith
Gehenna
Goatsnake
Graf Orlock
Grand Magus
Hellhammer
Holy Molar
Isengard
Kangding Ray
Keep of Kalessin
KTL
Lagwagon
Limbonic Art
Loveliescrushing
Lush
Manes
Microstoria
Mojave 3
Nadja
OM
Orange Goblin
Orthodox
Painkiller
Pale Saints
Pan Sonic
Pennywise
Polkadot Cadaver
Primordial
Professor Fate
Prurient
Radian
Ride
The Red Krayola
Red Sparowes
Sawako
Sculptured
Snakefinger
SND
Solefald
Some Girls
Summoning
Taylor Deupree
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
This Heat
Thorns
Tower of Rome
Tuxedomoon
Ufomammut
Velvet Cacoon
Weedeater
Whitehouse
Windir
Xasthur
XBXRX
Yakuza
Zu

Since I'm too lazy to go through all that and some of this are from genres I really don't know much about, I'd like to know which ones are worth listening to and which albums are good to start with.

I also got After Forever, I don't really like them very much but I'm curious about Decipher and Remagine, what are those albums like? Are they better than the other ones?

3 PM:
[BBC News Headlines]
The Beach Boys / I Should Have Known Better; Tell Me Why / Beach Boys' Party! (Capitol 65)
The Pete Best Band / Step Outside / Haymans Green (Lightyear Entertainment 08) [released September 16/appearing at Dan Electros Guitar Bar Friday, October 11]
The Rutles / Questionnaire / Archaeology (Virgin 96)
The Solipsistics / Ruin My Day / Selected and uncollected recordings (Frigidisk 08)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore / Where Is Love Now / Braver Newer World (Elektra 96)
Duffy / Warwick Avenue / Rockferry (Mercury 08)
Bridge Music: Ratatat / Shiller / LP3 (XL/Beggars Group 08)

3:30 PM:
The Pretenders / Boots of Chinese Plastic / Break Up the Concrete (Shangri-La 08) [released October 7]
T. Rex / Solid Gold Easy Action / 20th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection (Hip-O 72/02)
Eddie Cochran / Somethin' Else / Somethin' Else: The Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran (Razor & Tie 59/98)
flowers to hide / 503 / Down the Stairs [EP] (self-release 08)
Electric Six / Electric Demons in Love / Fire (XL/Beggars Group 03)
Retribution Gospel Choir / What She Turned Into / Retribution Gospel Choir (Caldo Verde 08)
Neutral Milk Hotel / Holland, 1945 / In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge 98)
Voxhaul Broadcast / Rotten Apples / Rotten Apples (Retone 08)
Colin Hay / Me and My Imaginary Friend / Are You Lookin' at Me? (Lazy Eye/Compass 07) [appearing at Dosey Doe Coffee House, The Woodlands, this Sunday]
Bridge Music: Ratatat / Falcon Jab / LP3 (XL/Beggars Group 08)

4 O'CLOCK 80s BLOCK:
Gang of Four / Call Me Up / Songs of the Free (Warner Bros. 82) [request]
Prefab Sprout / Don't Sing / Swoon (Kitchenware/Epic 84)
The B-52's / Housework / Bouncing Off the Satellites (Warner Bros. 86)
Wang Chung / Even If You Dream / Points on the Curve (Geffen 83)
Micro Chip League / Communicate / New York [12" Single] (Oak Lawn 87)
[4:20 DRUG WAR NEWS with DEAN BECKER]
China Crisis/ Arizona Sky [Full Length Mix] / Collection (Caroline 86/97)
Bridge Music: Ratatat / Shempi / LP3 (XL/Beggars Group 08)

4:30 PM:
springtide / Crucial / Just Before April (self-release 08) [physical CD now available]
Film School / Lectric / Hideout (Beggars Banquet 07)
Lush / Downer / Gala (4AD 90)
Tearwave / Ripped Apart / Different Shade of Beauty (Projekt 08)
Slowdive / Miranda / Pygmalion (Castle UK 95)
Soundpool / So Much for That / Dichotomies + Dreamland (Aloft 08)
Exit Music: Ratatat / Black Heroes / LP3 (XL/Beggars Group 08)

From the depths of my mind I'm going to try and recall as many gigs as possible that I have attended!

Here goes!
(Gigs are in Bristol unless otherwise stated)

1989

Ashton Court Festival - I can remember seeing The Herb Garden & Chaos UK

1990

Pale Saints, Bierkeller, 7th of March.
First ever "official" gig!

Lush + Th' Faith Healers, Fleece & Firkin, ? of March

The Charlatans, Bierkeller, 28th of May.
The day after Spike Island - My mate Cathead had been and had the t-shirt - git!

Northside, Bristol Poly (Redland), 9th of June
(First game of World Cup was on a telly in the Bar!)

The Moonflowers at Ashton Court - July
(Get Higher at Ashton Court)

Mudhoney + The Pixies + Faith No More + The Cramps + The Inspiral Carpets + The Wedding Present + The Buzzcocks + Stereo MC's + Jesus Jones + Gary Clail + Neds Atomic Dustbin + Ride + Bridewell Taxis + psychic TV - Reading Festival, August

Pixies, Gloucester Leisure Centre, 16th of October

Blur, Bristol Polytechnic (Main Campus, Frenchay), 2nd of November.

Carter USM + Bob, Bristol Poly (St Matthius, Fishponds), 8th of November.




Jun - Bristol, Bierkeller - King of the Slums + Rorshach
Oct - Bristol, Victoria Rooms - Ride + Bleach
Jun - Bristol, Fleece & Firkin - Moonshake + Bleach
Jun - Bristol, Fleece & Firkin - Moose
+ The Cranberries
Oct - Bristol, University - Chapterhouse + 5:30 + The Belltower
Dec - Bristol, University - My Bloody Valentine + The Boo Radleys


New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Quinton, Rorschach...Bierkeller...??!
Neds Atomic Dustbin, Bierkeller...?!
Rorschach, Tropic Club, Stokes Croft....?!
The Mock Turtles at The Thekla...date?

1991

Swervedriver The Poly of Wales, Treforest...date?!
Spiritualized at The Poly of Wales...13th November?
Daisy Chainsaw & Sheep on Drugs, Poly of Wales...?


Babes in Toyland + Blur + Carter USM + Chapterhouse + De la Soul + Dinosaur Jr + The Family Cat + Flowered Up + Ned's Atomic Dustbin + Nirvana + Pop will eat itself + Senseless Things + Silverfish + Sonic Youth + Teenage Fanclub - Reading Festival, August.

Nirvana at The Bierkeller - November the 4th 1991

1992

PJ Harvey - Bierkeller, May the 28th

The Beastie Boys - The Charlatans - EMF - L7 - Mudhoney - Nirvana - P.J. Harvey - Pavement - Public Enemy - Ride - Smashing Pumpkins - Teenage Fanclub - Therapy? - Thousand Yard Stare - The Wonderstuff - Dr. Phibes & The House Of Wax Equations - Eat - Eugenius - Lunachicks - Midway Still. - Reading Festival, August.

Sonic Youth + Pavement + Huggy Bear, Rainbow Club, December the 7th

1995

Luscious Jackson at the Thekla, Monday March the 13th

Black Grape, Trinty...June?

Erm....um...!!!

1996

The Moonflowers, Malaap Club, Date?

1997

1998

Portishead, Colston Hall - 2 consecutive nights in June...dates?

1999

Les Rythmes Digitales - Blue Mountain, May the 11th

2000

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra at The Blue Mountain....date?

Ugly Duckling at The Blue Mountain....date?


2001

Röyksopp at The Lousiana....date?!

Super Furry Animals, Colston Hall, 28th of September

The Beta Band - Anson Rooms - 10th of October

Gorillaz, Academy, Bristol 15th of December

2002

Röyksopp & FC Kahuna - Academy, December the 20th
(Review)

2003

Massive Attack: Queen's Square, 25th of August

Doves - Pilton Party, Pilton, Somerset. 5th of September.

Review: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A1171748

Zero 7 & Lambchop, Colston Hall, 14th of October

Super Furry Animals, Colston Hall, 19th of October

Bronze Age Fox & Pedro - The Tobacco Factory, 7th of November.

The Strokes & British Sea Power - Cardiff NIA - 3rd of December.

2004

Goldie Lookin' Chain - Fleece & Firkin, February the 4th
(Review)

The Bees - Fleece & Firkin, April the 1st
(Review)

Horace Andy, Academy, April the 29th
(Review)

Fingathing & RLF - Lakota, May the 14th
(Review)

The Zutons, Anson Rooms, October 6th
(Review)

Ugly Duckling at Fiddlers....date? (right year even?!)

Kings of Leon, GL1 (Gloucester Leisure Centre), Gloucester, Friday the 17th of December 2004.

2005

Doves, Colston Hall, March the 2nd

Radio 4 & Out Hud, Louisiana.....date?

Pixies & Kings of Leon, Lansdown Road, Dublin, Ireland. 23rd of August 2005.

Fat Freddy's Drop at Fiddlers, 16th of September

Bloc Party, Academy, 25th of October.

2006

Edan, The Thekla, 5th of October.

Hot Chip - Bristol University, 9th of October.

Lily Allen, Academy, 1st of November.

Horace Andy, Trinity, 4th of November.

Easy Star All-Stars, Trinity, 1st of December.

2007

Kings of Leon, Cardiff, 5th of July.

The Enemy, Academy, 17th of April.

Maximo Park, Academy, 30th of April.

Klaxons, CSS, Sunshine Underground - Academy 14th of February.

T Minus 50 & Kid Carpet - Fiddlers, 21st of April

The Coral - 9th of October, Bristol Academy.

Super Furry Animals - 29th of October, Bristol Academy.

2008

The Cribs & Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong &Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Academy, 19th of February.
Johnny Marr joined the Cribs for the last few songs...

Hot Chip, Bristol Academy, February the 24th.

Vampire Weekend, Anson Rooms, 1st of May.

McKay & Lyrics Born at The Thekla, 24th of July.

I was thinking maybe of doing something like this when I got 5000 tracks scrobbled, but it's a dull evening and I've got a long download going, so let's go. Here's my current top 50 artists, and where I first encountered them:

1. Nine Inch Nails
Heard Closer on the radio in late 1994 when it cracked the Australian top 10. Took quite a few more years to become a fan though.

2. Nirvana
They were everywhere on the radio in 1991 and 1992. Of course you've heard a Nirvana song, even if you weren't even born then. As a young kid, all I knew then was that there suddenly seemed to be a lot of good music on the radio.

3. The Clash
Knew about these guys for quite a while, but the first time I was really conscious of "hey, I'm listening to the Clash" was at my brother's 21st. There'd been a mixup with the music and all we had to listen to was a Clash greatest hits album, and Rock the Casbah got played over and over...

4. Curve
I knew nothing about these guys before 2008. But the shoegazing music blog Shoegazeralive kept pimping the band (anyone who likes shoegaze should have it bookmarked), so I checked it out and found these guys had beaten Garbage to the punch by half a decade.

5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Would have been 1995, cause that was when JJJ started broadcasting in Bendigo and we got to hear tons of unheard artists. The Let Love In album had been out for about a year but they still played plenty of Cave, particularly Red Right Hand.

6. Sonic Youth
Heard them on JJJ sporadically throughout the late 90's and early 00's. Didn't pay them any attention until I finally picked up Daydream Nation last year. I think they may be the greatest rock band still around.

7. Cruyff in the Bedroom
Also in 2007 I'd gotten into shoegaze music in a big way thanks to My Bloody Valentine, mostly because I wanted to find an album as impossibly beautiful as Loveless. This band came recommended on a music forum as high quality shoegaze, and after a listen to their album Hikarihimawari I think these guys are the best of the current shoegazers. Their guitars are a bit harder and cleaner than the shimmering tremolo of Kevin Shields, but the songs are hooky and use plenty of feedback texture.

8. Blur
I used to hear the Pet Shop Boys' remix of Girls and Boys a lot in 1994 while working out at the gym. Then came Country House...

9. Radiohead
Heard Creep plenty in 1994, it never made an impression. Few years later, all I remember hearing off their second album was My Iron Lung, which I thought at the time was wilfully difficult. It was the epic scale of Paranoid Android that finally changed my mind about the group.

10. Hüsker Dü
You can only hear an artist praised so long before you give in. I picked up New Day Rising in 2006 and heard a guitar sound I'd never heard before.

11. Killing Joke
Only knew these guys because they supplied Metallica with one of their better covers. Then I started getting into Ministry and Joy Division, and just this year finally got into them via the very radio-friendly Night Time. And then I found I remembered Love Like Blood from the 80's.

12. Depeche Mode
I knew Just Can't Get Enough, but the rest of their catalog was a mystery until I heard some of the Ultra singles. If you don't know this band much pick up the singles collections, they'll be a revelation.

13. Wire
Another band I got into because critics kept praising them and calling them things like "influential", "groundbreaking", etc. I like a lot of their stuff but Pink Flag is the only essential.

14. Red Hot Chili Peppers
Been a fan of these guys for a long time, right back to 1992 when I first heard Under the Bridge. The stats don't reflect this but I think I've listened to Blood Sugar Sex Magik more than any album I've ever owned.

15. Gogol Bordello
I saw their duet with Madonna and then picked up Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony. It is impossible to listen to this album for more than two minutes and remain still.

16. Pixies
I went after Surfer Rosa a few years ago because I knew this band was a big influence on Nirvana, and this album in particular sounded a great deal like In Utero. That turned out to be the case but the songs are a great deal poppier and upbeat. Which is good.

17. Big Black
The band may have contained Steve Albini and been a big influence on Ministry, but I didn't have to hear a single note: saw the cover for Songs About Fucking and was sold.

18. Pearl Jam
Somehow I completely missed Ten: my first contact with these guys would have been the Go single. And Vitalogy was the second album I ever bought.

19. XTC
Senses Working Overtime was always on the radio, and that was the only track of theirs I knew when I picked up the Fossil Fuel singles collection. Judging by their scrobble count this must be the most overlooked band in history.

20. Faith No More
Epic, of course. Though I wasn't really a fan until King For A Day.

21. The Cruel Sea
Flipped for these guys after hearing Black Stick and thinking it was the strangest song I'd ever heard. And The Honeymoon Is Over turned out to be the third album I ever bought (you won't be hearing the first).

22. The Verve
Only heard about these guys when they broke onto Australian radio with Bitter Sweet Symphony. I don't own any of their albums: this scrobble count is based entirely off a bootleg of their performance at Blackpool in 2007, which I unreservedly recommend to everybody.

23. DJ Shadow
I like trip-hop but didn't know about DJ Shadow until last year, when I picked up Endtroducing.....

24. Ratatat
I don't know anything about these guys other than the songs on LP3, which I got cause I heard they liked to cross genres a lot. Still don't know exactly how you'd categorize this album.

25. Massive Attack
I got into this band after hearing Protection, which had a delicacy you never heard on the radio.

26. Pet Shop Boys
Another band you'd hear all the time on the radio, and I was prepared to write them off for life after that atrocious Absolutely Fabulous song. Then a few years ago I saw Discography and it looked like a good deal. It turned out they were something more than a couple of smartarses...

27. The Smiths
Back in 2003 or so I was curious about the band, mostly through having heard How Soon Is Now? on the radio, but didn't know where to begin. Then I saw Hatful of Hollow on special and snapped it up. Was a fan within a few songs.

28. Catherine Wheel
Got interested in them in 2007 as a shoegazer band, but these guys tend to change styles quite a lot from album to album. There's really no typical Catherine Wheel song.

29. Queens of the Stone Age
I remember the first I heard of these guys was when the Monsters in the Parasol single got some airtime. I wasn't a stoner rock fan at the time but Queens of the Stone Age turned out to be my gateway drug.

30. Thumlock
Case in point. This band was based in Wollongong but I never heard them on the radio. First I heard of them was on a music forum last year. They were described as stoner rock, like dozens of bands, but with a strong element of psychedelia and heavy doses of Hawkwind. Lunar Mountain Sunrise was the album, and if you think they might be something you'd like, give the title track a listen.

31. Manic Street Preachers
Australian radio knew nothing about these guys until If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, which got tons of airplay and charted really high. Then radio entirely forgot about them again. But before that happened I'd picked up This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours on the cheap.

32. M.I.A.
Her first album missed me altogether and somehow I picked up the second without having first heard Paper Planes. Think it was a glowing review from Robert Christgau that made me check her out.

33. AC/DC
I was a little kid in short pants watching Hey Hey It's Saturday when they played the Thunderstruck video. Love at first sight.

34. Saul Williams
The only artist on this list I became a fan of for political reasons: Saul had teamed up with Trent Reznor and they'd put out his latest album as a free download, or $5 if you felt like it. Since I want to see more music put out this way, and Reznor was producer of the album, I bought it. Luckily it turned out to be really good, and in a way a companion piece to Year Zero.

35. My Bloody Valentine
I sometimes heard Only Shallow on the radio during the nineties, but that track alone won't tell you much about the band. I got Loveless a few years ago after seeing it in top ten list after top ten list. One listen alone with headphones...

36. Daft Punk
Da Funk made it onto the radio back in the nineties: maybe as a novelty track, but it made it. I borrowed a copy of Homework and thought it had a lot of filler. So in 2005 when I decided I wanted a copy of Da Funk, I made sure to pick up the greatest hits collection.

37. New Order
Everyone knows Blue Monday, but I got into these guys as a fan of Joy Division. I had the Joy Division singles collection Substance, and Substance seemed like a good way of continuing the story. It turned out to be even better, not just a greatest hits or singles collection but a unified, cohesive album that summed up their whole career.

38. Regurgitator
I heard I Like It Like That on JJJ in early 1995 and was a fan from the first point that static just randomly cuts through the song. I bought their first EP but my mum made me take it back to the store when she read the lyrics sheet. Which if anything just made me more of a fan.

39. Ethyl Meatplow
The album was posted randomly in a music forum with the sort of raves these albums usually attract, and I downloaded it just as randomly. This band gets described as industrial, but it's basically some shouting over a synthesizer rhythm track. The heavy use of slap bass always reminds me of the Doom soundtrack for some reason.

40. Joy Division
I'd known (and generally disliked) Love Will Tear Us Apart, and it wasn't until watching 24 Hour Party People that I realized they actually had a very strong body of work. Quickly picked up the three albums (Unknown Pleasures, Closer and Substance). A quick listen through Substance and I was hooked.

41. The Birthday Party
I'd become a big Nick Cave fan so I was always going to check these guys out, although for a while the only song I knew was Release the Bats, since they'd play the music video on Rage. I found a copy of Junkyard on the cheap in JB in 2005.

42. Soundgarden
First exposure was Black Hole Sun, inescapable on the radio in 1994. My favorite band to listen to while driving.

43. Moby Grape
Don't know why I sought after these guys, I think it was a rave review on All Music Guide, for some reason. Guess I must be a sucker for anything described as a lost treasure. Could not find this in stores, but while on holiday last year my cousin's husband offered to demonstrate his DC++ album downloading skillz (!), and I got him to download their self titled album.

44. Leftfield
I remember quite well a review of The Prodigy's The Fat of the Land album back in 1997, in which the reviewer said he preferred Leftfield as a techno act. They were getting played on the radio at the time, but they're the kind of band that can sit in the background very easily (like Air). I eventually bought Leftism simply because their name had stuck with me, and it turned out to be excellent chillout music. And I knew half the tracks already.

45. Kyuss
I was a fan of QOTSA, and after seeing Blues for the Red Sun described as the "stoner rock bible" picked it up in 2002.

46. Mono
This is in my top 50 but it's actually two artists: Japanese post-rockers Mono, and Portishead clone Mono. The latter I got into after hearing Life Is Mono on the radio, the former because I'd picked up an interest in Japanese rock and their names kept coming up.

47. Deerhoof
The Runners Four started getting a lot of hype, so naturally I went and bought Apple O' . Which was good really because it's much better.

48. Lush
Another shoegaze artist I had to follow up on once I fell for My Bloody Valentine. Think I have the Shoegazeralive blog to thank, again.

49. Mr. Bungle
I heard a track of theirs on the radio in 1999 - can't remember which one now, but it was utterly stuffed to the gills with genre switches, sudden loud bursts of noise, catchy poppy bits, and verbal gymnastics from Mike Patton (okay, that's every song from these guys). A few years later I started to really get into the Angel Dust, and since this was apparently the most Mr. Bungle-like FNM album, followed it up with California.

50. Beth Rowley
I was surprised to see her in the top 50, I picked her album up not long ago after hearing Nobody's Fault But Mine. It's not threatening music at all, but Beth's cute, charming and cool.

Okay. Maybe I ought to type less words per album...

So, if you have a small bit of money and tons and tons of college expenses do you save the money, or blow it on some CD's you already have MP3's of? Well, if you're an idiot like me, you get the CD's. Yes, I'm stupid. So here's what I ordered:

Michelle Branch - The Spirit Room
Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper
The Romanovs - Beggar's Alchemy (released as Morgan)
The Romanovs - ...And The Moon Was Hungry... (the old version that was released as Morgan)
Rachael Sage - Painting of a Painting
Rachael Sage - Chandelier
Lush - Lovelife
Astrid Swan - Poverina
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos - Under the Pink
Ani DiFranco - Evolve
Ani DiFranco - Puddle Dive

Presented to you as a public service announcement. Your favorite band could very well be on this list.

Artists Song Title Decade
1 AC/DC - Let There Be Rock (about 80 better ac/dc songs but hey it's ac/dc)
2 AFI - Girl's Gone Grey
3 Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
4 Alice in Chains - Man in the Box(I wish they would have had Would. That song is so much better)
5 The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man
6 Avenged Sevenfold - Almost Easy
7 Bad Company - Shooting Star
8 Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want (I hate doing the rap songs LOL! I can't rap!
9 Beck - E-Pro
10 Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl(Fucking HELL! They gonna bust out some bratmobile for RB3?)
11 Billy Idol - White Wedding Pt. I
12 Blondie - One Way or Another
13 Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
14 Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
15 Cheap Trick - Hello There
16 Devo - Uncontrollable Urge
17 Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain (Golf cart not included)
18 Disturbed - Down with the Sickness
19 Dream Theater - Panic Attack (I'm actually not a big DT fan but the chance to drum like Portnoy is pretty f'in rad.)
20 Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf (Squee!)
21 Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
22 Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way (I like the cranberries version better LOL!)
23 Foo Fighters - Everlong
24 Guns N' Roses - Shackler's Revenge (supposedly off of the chinese democracy record)
25 Interpol - PDA (the next best thing to joy division LOL)
26 Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song
27 Jethro Tull - Aqualung
28 Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
29 Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
30 Journey - Anyway You Want It (Remote controlled golf bag not included)
31 Judas Priest - Painkiller
32 Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
33 L7 - Pretend We're Dead
34 Lacuna Coil - Our Truth (Almost makes up for GH3 having Closer)
35 Linkin Park - One Suck Closer
36 Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
37 Lush - De-Luxe (I came when I heard the rumour a few days ago. Seriously. Ask around).
38 Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen
39 Megadeth - Peace Sells
40 Metallica - Battery
41 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Where'd You Go
42 Modest Mouse - Float On
43 Motörhead - Ace of Spades (they need to make a Richenbacker bass controller now!)
44 Nirvana - Drain You
45 Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
46 Panic at the Disco - Nine in the Afternoon
47 Paramore - That's What You Get
48 Pearl Jam - Alive
49 The Presidents of the United States of America - Lump
50 Rage Against the Machine - Testify
51 Ratt - Round & Round (Are they gonna give us two separate leads now? cuz that would be awesome with two people trading off like the song should be played.)
52 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away
53 Rise Against - Give it All
54 Rush - The Trees
55 Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
56 The Smashing Pumpkins - Today
57 Social Distortion - I Was Wrong (I heart the mikeness)
58 Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot (Another dream track! Yay Harmonix. Well fuck you for making me pay for Kool Thing but this song is much better anyhow)
59 Soundgarden - Spoonman
60 Squeeze - Cool for Cats
61 Steely Dan - Bodhitsattya (isn't this band really gay or shitty or something?)
62 Steve Miller Band - Rock'n Me
63 Survivor - Eye of the Tiger (Oh man I'm gonna play this song every day before I train. You're goin down Clubber Lang!)
64 System of a Down - Chop Suey
65 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (full body innerds suit not included)
66 Tenacious D - Master Exploder (I guess ESRB wouldn't let them put in Fuck her gently?)
67 Testament - Souls of Black
68 The Donnas - New Kid in School
69 The Go-Go's - We Got the Beat (LOL I covered this in my real rock band once I think)
70 Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway (fuckin all i need. more dead)
71 The Guess Who - American Woman
72 The Muffs - Kids in America (I actually would prefer the original by Kim Wylde but I love that cover!)
73 The Offspring - Come Out & Play (Keep 'em Separated)
74 The Replacements - Alex Chilton
75 The Who - Pinball Wizard

Bonus Tracks
76 Abnormality - Visions
77 Anarchy Club - Get Clean
78 Bang Camaro - Night Lies
79 Breaking Wheel - Shoulder to the Plow
80 The Libyans - Neighborhood
81 The Main Drag - A Jagged Gorgeous Winter
82 Speck - Conventional Lover
83 The Sterns - Supreme Girl
84 That Handsome Devil - Rob the Prez-O-Dent

I only have one complaint - WHERE THE FUCK IS FREEZEPOP??!!!! Did Kasson Crooker get fired or something? I would have also loved more Tribe. Of course I only know Anarchy Club and Bang Camaro from the bonus list the other bands could be perfectly fine people.