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Andrew Bird
Apostle of Hustle
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Atmosphere
Battles
Beck
Ben Folds
Black Joe Lewis
Bloc Party
The Black & White Years
City and Colour
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah x 2
The Cribs
Damien Rice
Death Cab for Cutie
The Decemberists
Deerhoof
DeVotchKa
Eagles of Death Metal
Explosions in the Sky
Final Fantasy x 2
Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand
Frightened Rabbit
Ghostland Observatory
Gogol Bordello x 3
Grizzly Bear
Heartless Bastards
Here We Go Magic
Hollywood Gossip
Icy Demons
Islands
Jaguar Love x2
Jamie Lidell
Jenny Lewis
Kaiser Chiefs
The Killers
The Kills
Larkin Grimm
Living Things
Minus the Bear
The Mountain Goats
Muse
The National
The New Pornographers
of Montreal x 2
Okkervil River x 2
Patrick Wolf x 2
Plasticines x 2
The Raconteurs
Regina Spektor
Ringo Deathstarr
sharon jones & the dap kings
Sondre Lerche
Spoon
St. Vincent
Stars
The Strokes
The Swell Season
Thomas Dybdahl
Vampire Weekend
Voxtrot
We Are Scientists
Willy Mason
Yeasayer
Yellow Fever

Artists thinking about going to when they show up in my neighbourhood:
1. Sufjan Stevens
2. Foo Fighters
3. Editors
4. The Postal Service
5. Snow Patrol
6. White Lies
7. Stone Sour
8. Mogwai
9. Kaiser Chiefs
10. Incubus
11. Nonpoint

It wouldn't feel like punishment to see these artists live again:
1. Death Cab for Cutie
2. Crystal Castles
3. Bloc Party
4. Foals
5. Arctic Monkeys
6. Chris Cornell

Any suggestions?

1.How did you get into 29? (Air)
I guess it was when Sexy Boy & Kelly Watch the Stars got a lot of airplay on MTV in the late 90's.

2. What's the first song you ever heard by 22? (The Radio Dept.)
Not entirely sure, but I vaguely remember seeing them live on a festival in Sweden in 2004, which is probably when I heard their music for the first time. (Mind you, it was at a boozy music festival after all, so it's all a bit of a blur really...)

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (José González)
Maybe these ones from Broken Arrow:
"Summerlove left this town
It was too cold to bathe and the leaves turned brown
The sun went down
And with it the love we found
That's the way things are sometimes
Most of the time"

4. How did you get into 49? (Björk)
Well, seeing that I'm Scandinavian she was a pretty big deal there with her debut album (called Debut). The first track I heard was Human Behaviour, but I didn't start listening to her stuff properly until the late 90's.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (MF DOOM)
Two (Operation Doomsday & MM Food).

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (M83)
Graveyard Girl.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (RJD2)
Not that I can think of, or maybe One Day.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (El-P)
Tasmanian Pain Coaster is pure genius.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Sage Francis)
Sea Lion.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Alias)
Not really, I wouldn't exactly say Alias is famous for his feelgood-tracks. Maybe Dr.C by Alias & Tarsier.

11. What is the worst song by 40? (Coldplay)
Violet Hill no doubt. Can't stand it. I never understood how it could be released as a first album single.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Sia)
Breathe Me, followed by Death By Chocolate.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Sole)
I remember being on a road trip with my brother and he'd brought 'Selling Live Water' which had recently been released. I had never heard of Sole, but I loved what I heard.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (CunninLynguists)
It's a tie between Seasons (Remix) and Don't Leave (When Winter Comes). The beat for the remix of seasons is amazing and fits the lyrcs perfectly.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Murs)
The Night Before is nice. Bad Man! is a good party tune.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (Feist)
Yep. Let It Die, The Park & How My Heart Behaves. To name a few.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Jean Grae)
Love Song.

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (Bat for Lashes)
From Good Love:
"In the night time we are found
Misty sorrow swoop unbound
Whisper you mean it, say you'll stay
Hold my heart till brighter days"

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Aesop Rock)
Ian Matthias Bavitz (aka Aesop Rock). Tricky one that.

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (WHY?)
Gemini (Birthday Song) and A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under both put a smile on my face.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Burial)
I listened a lot to Burial when I initially moved to London, so maybe that.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Regina Spektor)
Samson was the first song I heard by her, and I absolutely loved it. Still find it amazing. But she's done so many incredible tracks, other favourites are Ode To Divorce and Somedays.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Radiohead)
Creep, back in the day. Not really feeling their recent stuff.

24. What is your favourite album by 18? (The Clash)
London Calling - one of the greatest albums ever made imo.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Madvillain)
Accordion.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Masta Ace)
Beautiful.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (Death Cab for Cutie)
Plans. Even quality throughout, not one bad song on the entire album.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Sigur Rós)
Probably Með suð í eyrum or Saeglopur. A lot of good songs to choose from though.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Boards of Canada)
Music Is Math was featured in a Swedish movie, and that's what made me start listening to them.

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (The Album Leaf)
We Need Help.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Bon Iver)
None, but I'd love to. Hopefully within the next year.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Lykke Li)
Everybody But Me (Christoffer Remix). The lyrics are depressing as anything, but it's still that instant party anthem.

33. How did you get into 12? (Madlib)
Through Jaylib's Champion Sound.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Buck 65)
Kennedy Killed the Hat (which a lot of people seem to love)

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Groove Armada)
My friend, yet again on MTV back in High School. I still remember the video.

36. What was the first song you ever heard by 48? (Koushik)
Lying in the Sun.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (One Be Lo)
None.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (The Shins)
New Slang & Sea Legs.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Cat Power)
The Greatest

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (J Dilla)
Donuts! A classic.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (P.O.S.)
Goodbye. Great beat.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Zero 7)
Simple Things.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Azure Ray)
Rise. (In fact the song with the most plays in my entire library.)

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Dosh)
I listened a lot to Wolves and Wishes when I went to Tokyo last year, and listening to that album still reminds me of the good times I spent there.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (DJ Shadow)
Stem/Long Stem, hands down. Amazing track.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (The Streets)
I guess the easy answer here would be to mention any song off Everything Is Borrowed. But I'm not really a big fan of Mike Skinner going all happy-go-lucky, so I'd have to say Fit But You Know It and Don't Mug Yourself.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Atmosphere)
Lucy Ford, followed by God Loves Ugly.

48. Who is your favorite member of 37? (Bloc Party)
Don't have one.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Band of Horses)
The Funeral. Still reckon it's one of their best songs.

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (The Roots)
You Got Me. High school memories right there.

size=10]Jotheawesomest's top albums (overall)
1. Metric - Fantasies (151) 2. Metric - Live It Out (151) 3. Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (150) 4. Metric - Grow Up And Blow Away (145) 5. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (141) 6. Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be (117) 7. Karen O and the Kids - Where The Wild Things Are (115) 8. R.E.M. - In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (104) 9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (85) 10. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (74) 11. The Johnstones - Can't Be Trusted (69) 12. Jeffrey Lewis - It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through (56) 13. The Stills - Oceans Will Rise (54) 14. Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My... The Way the Day Goes by the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit (49) 15. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (48) 16. CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy (46) 17. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (45) 18. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (43) 19. The xx - xx (43) 20. The Kills - Midnight Boom (41)

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, not matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is cheating!

Artists: Bayside (x2), Set Your Goals, Say Anything (x2), Farewell, Charlotte Sometimes, The Forecast, Minus the Bear, Automatic Loveletter, The Maine, Snow Patrol, The Format (x2), Mayday Parade, Saosin, Death Cab for Cutie, Cartel, Ace Enders And A Million Different People, Secondhand Serenade, Fireworks, Matchbook Romance, Modest Mouse, Unwritten Law, The Ataris, Something Corporate, Straylight Run, Alkaline Trio, A Day to Remember, Patent Pending

1. Waiting here for something I know I'll never see. And I know I asked for some things I could never reach.
2. Ashes to ashes, some dust on the dash. I've got my cigarettes but I can't find the fire that's calming me down.
3. What would you say if I asked you not to go? To forget everyone, forget everything, and start over with me.
4. If you keep running your mouth I'm gonna cut you a new smile. Bring those teeth to the front so I can knock 'em out, knock 'em out.
5. The girl could move, and she did. We were captives on a casino ship, where the midwest lay out hours and burnt to crisp.
6. I backed my car into a cop car, the other day, well he just drove off, sometimes life's ok.
7. So I stayed the night hoping you and I would fix this shit, sorry, can I get it right? But the lights are off, and I had my doubts, she can't be gone.
8. These last few weeks I've been confused. Sometimes I wonder if I'm better off alone.
9. If I could open my arms and span the length of the isle of Manhattan, I'd bring it to where you are.
10. If I die and go to hell real soon, it will appear to me as this room.
11. I kissed a drunk girl, I kissed a drunk girl, yes I did.
12. Today I woke up, younger than I've been in years. Not concerned with what's outside, and peers, I don't have any.
13. From ocean to sky, summer and fall, I have been there though it all. From laughing and crying, to pain that comes easy.
14. So later that year, the bodies came home to Dover wrapped in flags and lined up in rows. With no one to see and no one to know, they had to keep morale from getting low.
15. I dream a lot, I know you say. I've got to get away. "The world is not yours for the taking" Is all you ever say.
16. Breathe kids, the mold is getting old, it'll be gone any day. The hipster empire of tomorrow will fall to the common kids of today.
17. Nothing feels right, but my fake smiles paint pictures like everything's fine.
18. Tell me something that I know, just something that I understand. I need to taste the warming glow of your medicating hands.
19. Well I made my way back down to the valley, right on past 83rd street. That's where we once belonged, but I’m gone, I swear I’m long gone.
20. Who are you to say what is real and what is fake and who here matters anyway? It's nothing that I haven't heard.
21. Life hurts so bad, don't want you sad. Just look back to good times we had.
22. I had a dream last night where I woke up too late, and everything I loved I began to hate.
23. You'd better learn that this will not blow over, and over. High above, they're taking over you.
24. So now you'll know exactly what it feels like to be an obstacle in my way. You won't remain.
25. I'm standing in the road and I don't mind your headlights. You say I've lost control but you're driving down my road with pockets full of secrets never said.
26. Baby, I sorely miss the vibrant gleam that's in your eyes. I'll write a song about it and maybe if the melody's just right, I hope tonight it will find you.
27. She said Los Angeles has never been this cold. She said we shouldnt even bother. She said the ways thing have been going, we've been showing no signs.
28. Please don't mind what I'm trying to say cause I'm, I'm being honest.
29. That was the last time I ever saw her-through a shop window, sleeves to her elbows. I walked past and kept on walking and lit a smoke with my hands shaking.
30. You can have me dye my pale skin. You can beat me, I'll love you while I bruise. You can take me, drug my chapped lips. You can hurt me, I'll love you while I trip.

i'm going to do this for the past twelve months instead of over all.


1. How did you get into 29? (Start Trouble)
haha, i only know one song by them, Let's Get Fucked Up. i obviously listened to it a lot?

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Brand New)
honestly, i couldn't tell you. i have a terrible memory. actually, it might be Mix Tape.

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains)
oh my god, i love johnny hobo lyrics <3
"And it's true that we're teenage fools, trading five days a week to work and school. Just to sneak around on weekends watching for the cops, to dance in abandoned parking lots, and call these cracks in the system a revolution. But to the Vanguard Party that's criticizing: what have you been up to the Soviet Union? When you're not starving, life is just the mechanics of eating. Talking to you is raw eternity, but what isn't these days? And if our only gift is this dark black void, to me that's okay. Because our nihilism is the terrorist wing of youthful apathy: burn everything down just to drink in the ruins of what used to be an American city. So if it's all the same, then I'll pass out tonight still hating punk rock, but in love with you and the kitchen floor that you let me sleep on. There's whiskey in my bottle! And you know there's enough for you. I'll join you in that grave you're digging if there's room enough for two. Where there's no risk of death, life is just the logistics of breath."

4. What is your favorite album by 49? (City and Colour)
hmm, Bring Me Your Love

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (The All-American Rejects)
as in bought and have a physical copy? zero. i think.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Kelly Clarkson)
hum.. i dunno really. how is she on this list? haha.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Relient K)
i guess there's a few that would make me feel depressed when i was already sad? idk i'm not sad often d:

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Four Year Strong)
ahhh i don't know! i love almost all of the songs off ofRise Or Die Trying.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (blink-182)
i can't choose just one.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (meg and dia)
eh, not really. not that they make me sad though..

11. What is your favorite album by 40? (Authority Zero)
A Passage in Time, just because i fucking love Superbitch!

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (The Format)
i love how all the questions dealing with favourite songs are for the bands that i can't pick just one song from.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Ace Enders And A Million Different People)
none really?

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (The Spill Canvas)
.. *sigh* again with the favourite song question..

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Straylight Run)
For The Best <3 <3 .. i don't even think it's really a happy song, i just love it.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? (3OH!3)
zero. wait, i think i might have seen them from the side at warped tour. yeah i totally did 'cause i was waiting for some band to come on after them.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Andrew W.K.)
my guess would be Party Hard.

18. What is your favorite album by 11? (Modest Mouse)
i don't know, they have a few albums that i looove.

19. Who is your favorite member of 1? (All Time Low)
i don't have a favourite member.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? (Patent Pending)
no, but hopefully in december :D

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (This Providence)
i can't think of any.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Death Cab for Cutie)
ahhh, i should just skip these damn questions that have to deal with favourites.. but that is like 90% of this survey....

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Cartel)
noo clue.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (The Matches)
woo i can answer this one :D Decomposer

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (New Found Glory)
yep, i have to skip this one..

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Bright Eyes)
NO idea.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (A Day to Remember)
i really enjoyed Homesick.

28. What is your favorite song by 2? (Bayside)
do you THINK i could pick this?!

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Secondhand Serenade)
probably Vulnerable?

30. What is your favorite song by 8? (Say Anything)
*sigh*

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Kanye West)
(why is he here?!) zero.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Chester French)
i didn't even know i listened to his songs fifty-one times.

33. What is your favorite album by 12? (Dashboard Confessional)
The Swiss Army Romance

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Cobra Starship)
hmm. i haven't really listened to their new album, so i'd probably think something from there.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (The Used)
no idea, i was in like seventh grade when i started listening to them.

36. What is your favorite album by 48? (The Almost)
the only one i've really listened to is Southern Weather, so yeah sure.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Emery)
zero.

38. What is your favorite song by 36? (Girl Talk)
can't pick.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Valencia)
uhm, whatever song they played first when i saw them live.. which i don't remember. i didn't start to really get into them until i saw them.

40. What is your favorite album by 7? (Alkaline Trio)
ahhhh... maybe Goddamnit.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (Eminem)
haha sure.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Bo Burnham)
uhm, whatever one he has out?

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Mayday Parade)
i dunoooooo.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Count your blessings)
i don't know, they remind me of nick though?

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (The Maine)
i give up on these favourite questions....

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (Taylor Swift)
t. swift :D yes.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Farewell)
Isn't This Supposed to be Fun?

48. Who is your favorite member of 37? (Glee Cast)
haha.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (The Dresden Dolls)
Coin-Operated Boy

50. How many albums do you own by 20? (Set Your Goals)
none.