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My 60 Favourite Records of the 2000s are:

Air – The Virgin Suicides [Original Motion Picture Score] (2000)
PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
Queens of the Stone Age – Rated (2000)
Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
Radiohead – Amnesiac (2001)
Low – Things We Lost in the Fire (2001)
Millionaire – Outside the Simian Flock (2001)
The Shins – Oh, Inverted World (2001)
The Strokes – Is This It (2001)
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World (2001)
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (2001)
Zita Swoon – Life = A Sexy Sanctuary (2001)
2 Many DJ's – As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2 (2002)
Beck – Sea Change (2002)
Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow (2002)
Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
The Chemical Brothers – Come With Us (2002)
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Hörse of the dög (2002)
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
Milwaukee Wildmen – Psychosomatic (2002)
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (2002)
Stuurbaard Bakkebaard – Chuck (2002)
Supergrass – Life on Other Planets (2002)
Tom Waits – Alice (2002)
Tom Waits – Blood Money (2002)
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
Blur – Think Tank (2003)
Calexico – Feast of Wire (2003)
Radiohead – Hail To The Thief (2003)
The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
Tindersticks – Waiting for the Moon (2003)
Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South (2004)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
Kings of Convenience – Riot On An Empty Street (2004)
Tom Waits – Real Gone (2004)
Antony & The Johnsons –I Am a Bird Now (2005)
The Arcade Fire – Funeral (2005*)
Iron & Wine and Calexico – In the Reins (2005)
dEUS – Pocket Revolution (2005)
Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (2005)
My Morning Jacket – Z (2005)
Ian Siegal – Meat & Potatoes (2005)
Sufjan Stevens – Come Feel The Illinoise! (2005)
Belle & Sebastian – The Life Persuit (2006)
The Knife – Silent Shout (2006)
Mastodon – Blood Mountain (2006)
The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2007)
LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver (2007)
M.I.A. – Kala (2007)
The National – Boxer (2007)
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
Feist – The Reminder (2007)
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008^)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008)
Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair (2008)
TV on the Radio – Dear Science (2008)
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic (2009)

*) 2004 in Canada & U.S.
^) 2007 in U.S.

I've made a lot of decadelists, like most musicnerds. Top 10 follows in december! Yeah!

Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field, Mask Omnibus Edition
Blackalicious - The Craft
cali≠gari - 9 -踏-編, 9 スクールゾーン編, 10
Crown City Rockers - The Day After Forever
Dub Trio - New Heavy
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Incubus - Light Grenades
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Living Colour - Biscuits, Leave It Alone, Dread, The Chair In The Doorway
Lyrics Born - The Lyrics Born Variety Show: Season Pho (4!)
Melvins - Stag, Chicken Switch
The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!
The Mighty Underdogs - droppin' science fiction
Prince - Musicology
Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract
Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez - xenophanes
Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quintet - The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange
Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Tomahawk - Mit Gas

1979-1985:
10. Too $hort - Don't Stop Rappin'
9. Kurtis Blow - Kurtis Blow
8. Sugarhill Gang - Sugarhill Gang
7. Whodini - Whodini
6. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
5. Run-D.M.C. - King of Rock
4. The Treacherous Three - the treacherous three
3. Whodini - Escape
2. LL Cool J - Radio
1. Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C.

1986:
10. Just-Ice - Back to the Old School
9. Schoolly D - Schoolly D
8. 2 Live Crew - 2 Live Crew Is What We Are
7. Too $hort - Born to Mack
6. Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew - Oh, My God!
5. Stetsasonic - On Fire
4. Whodini - Back in Black
3. Kool Moe Dee - Kool Moe Dee
2. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
1. Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell

1987:
10. Just-Ice - Kool & Deadly
9. MC Shan - Down By Law
8. Spoonie Gee - The Godfather Of Rap
7. N.W.A - N.W.A. & The Posse
6. Ice-T - Rhyme Pays
5. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
4. Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now
3. LL Cool J - Bigger and Deffer
2. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
1. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full

(NOTE: Since hip-hop is getting better year by year, from now I will also find some use of a "honorable mentions" list which names all left out albums that could make a top 10 spot)

1988:
10. Run-D.M.C. - Tougher Than Leather
9. Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
8. Eazy-E - Eazy-Duz-It
7. Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
6. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader
5. Slick Rick - The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick
4. EPMD - Strictly Business
3. Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane
2. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
1. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton

Honorable mentions: Goin' Off, Straight Out the Jungle, In Control, Vol. 1, In Full Gear, The World's Greatest Entertainer, Life is... Too Short, Act a Fool, He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper, Power, It Takes Two

1989:
10. Low Profile - We're In This Together
9. Biz Markie - The Biz Never Sleeps
8. Kool Moe Dee - Knowledge Is King
7. Gang Starr - No More Mr. Nice Guy
6. Ice-T - The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say
5. Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop
4. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
3. EPMD - Unfinished Business
2. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Road to the Riches
1. Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing

Honorable mentions: Grip It! On That Other Level, Done by the Forces of Nature, Big Tyme, 3 Feet High & Rising, Paul's Boutique, Walking With A Panther, Nice & Smooth

1990:
10. Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth - Funky Technician
9. X-Clan - To the East, Backwards
8. Above the Law - Livin' Like Hustlers
7. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Wanted: Dead or Alive
6. Masta Ace - Take a Look Around
5. EPMD - Business as Usual
4. LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
3. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
2. Brand Nubian - One for All
1. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Honorable mentions: It's a Compton Thang, Holy Intellect, Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Edutainment, Short Dog's in the House, Sex Packets, At Your Own Risk, Taste of Chocolate, Hispanic Causing Panic

1991:
10. Del tha Funkee Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here
9. Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster
8. Scarface - Mr. Scarface Is Back
7. DJ Quik - Quik Is the Name
6. Gang Starr - Step In The Arena
5. Main Source - Breaking Atoms
4. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
3. N.W.A - Niggaz4Life
2. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
1. Ice Cube - Death Certificate

Honorable mentions: Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black, Naughty By Nature, Bitch Betta Have My Money, A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing, Straight Checkn' Em, We Can't Be Stopped, Organized Konfusion, Ain't A Damn Thing Changed, Prince of Darkness, 2Pacalypse Now, The Ruler's Back

1992:
10. Showbiz & A.G. - Runaway Slave
9. Redman - Whut? Thee Album
8. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
7. Compton's Most Wanted - Music to Driveby
6. Brand Nubian - In God We Trust
5. EPMD - Business Never Personal
4. Ice Cube - The Predator
3. Gang Starr - Daily Operation
2. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
1. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Live and Let Die

Honorable mentions: Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop, Dead Serious, Guerillas In Tha Mist, Way 2 Fonky, Spice 1, Shorty the Pimp, Too Hard To Swallow, Don't Sweat The Technique, Reel To Reel, Psycho Active, Return of the Funky Man

1993:
10. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
9. 2Pac - Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.
8. Onyx - Bacdafucup
7. KRS-One - Return of the Boom Bap
6. Masta Ace Inc. - Slaughtahouse
5. Big Daddy Kane - Looks Like A Job For...
4. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
3. Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
2. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
1. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

Honorable mentions: No Pressure, The World Is Yours, Tha Triflin' Album, No Need For Alarm, 21 & Over, Here Comes The Lord, 93 'til Infinity, Black Mafia Life, Lethal Injection

1994:
10. Redman - Dare Iz A Darkside
9. Brotha Lynch Hung - Season of da Siccness
8. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
7. Method Man - Tical
6. MC Eiht - We Come Strapped
5. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
4. Scarface - The Diary
3. Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
2. Gang Starr - Hard To Earn
1. Nas - Illmatic

Honorable mentions: Daddy's Home, To the Death, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, Regulate... G Funk Era, The Main Ingredient, Thug Life: Volume 1, Resurrection, The Most beautifullest Thing in This World, Behind Bars, Word...Life, Shock of the Hour

1995:
10. AZ - Doe Or Die
9. Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
8. Group Home - Livin' Proof
7. DJ Quik - Safe & Sound
6. Smif-N-Wessun - Dah Shinin'
5. KRS-One - KRS-One
4. 2Pac - Me Against the World
3. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
2. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
1. Mobb Deep - The Infamous

Honorable mentions: Neva Again, 4, 5, 6, Operation Stackola, Mack 10, Curb Servin', Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, Soul Food, Dogg Food, Sittin' on Chrome, E. 1999 Eternal, Real Brothas

1996:
10. Jeru the Damaja - Wrath Of The Math
9. Fugees - The Score
8. Westside Connection - Bow Down
7. Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
6. M.O.P. - Firing Squad
5. OutKast - ATLiens
4. Ghostface Killah - Ironman
3. 2Pac - All Eyez on Me
2. Xzibit - At the Speed of Life
1. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

Honorable mentions: Nocturnal, Illadelph Halflife, The Coming, Ridin' Dirty, Stakes Is High, Death Threatz, Muddy Waters, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, Tha Doggfather, It Was Written, The Awakening, Autobiography of Mistachuck, Da Storm, Soul on Ice

1997:
10. Scarface - The Untouchable
9. Busta Rhymes - When Disaster Strikes
8. O.C. - Jewelz
7. Mack 10 - Based on a True Story
6. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The Art of War
5. EPMD - Back In Business
4. Jay-Z - In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
3. Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
2. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
1. Rakim - The 18th Letter

Honorable mentions: The War Report, I Got Next, For the People, The Art of War, The Villain in Black

1998:
10. DMX - It's Dark And Hell Is Hot
9. Brand Nubian - Foundation
8. Black Star - Blackstar
7. WC - The Shadiest One
6. Big Daddy Kane - Veteranz Day
5. Big Punisher - Capital Punishment
4. Xzibit - 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz
3. M.O.P. - First Family 4 Life
2. OutKast - Aquemini
1. Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth

Honorable mentions: Roots of Evil, Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back, Heavy Mental, Shut 'Em Down, Ruthless for Life, War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc), Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life, IV

1999:
10. Kurupt - Tha Streetz Iz A Mutha
9. Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs
8. Method Man & Redman - Blackout!
7. Nas - I Am...
6. GZA/Genius - Beneath The Surface
5. EPMD - Out Of Business
4. Slick Rick - The Art of Storytelling
3. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
2. Dr. Dre - 2001
1. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

Honorable mentions: No Mercy, No Remorse, Immobilarity, Amplified, The Master, Section 8, ...And Then There Was X, Still i Rise

2000:
10. Cypress Hill - Skull & Bones
9. Wu-Tang Clan - The W
8. Big L - The Big Picture
7. DJ Quik - Balance & Options
6. Xzibit - Restless
5. OutKast - Stankonia
4. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
2.Common - Like Water for Chocolate
1. M.O.P. - Warriorz

Honorable mentions: Tha Eastsidaz, Both Sides of the Brain, Mind Over Matter, From the Darkness Into the Light, 2000 B.C., NIA

2001:
10. DMX - The Great Depression
9. Cypress Hill - Stoned Raiders
8. RZA - Digital Bullet
7. Grand Puba - Understand This
6. Kurupt - Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey
5. KRS-One - The Sneak Attack
4. Wu-Tang Clan - Iron Flag
3. Nas - Stillmatic
2. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
1. Masta Ace - Disposable Arts

Honorable mentions: Priesthood, Word of Mouf, Genesis, Revolutionary Vol. 1, The Realness

2002:
10. Eminem - The Eminem Show
9. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
8. Cormega - The True Meaning
7. Xzibit - Man Vs. Machine
6. Royce da 5'9" - Rock City
5. Kool G Rap - The Giancana Story
4. GZA/Genius - Legend of the Liquid Sword
3. Talib Kweli - Quality
2. Nas - God's Son
1. Scarface - The Fix

Honorable mentions: Revolverlution, Power in Numbers, The Lost Tapes, Better Dayz, Aziatic, Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$, Spiritual Minded, Under Tha Influence, Trinity (Past, Present And Future), Ghetto Heisman, The Chosen Few

2003:
10. Westside Connection - Terrorist Threats
9. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2
8. OutKast - Spearboxxx/The Love Below
7. KRS-One - Kristyles
6. Craig G - This Is Now
5. DMX - Grand Champ
4. Black Moon - Total Eclipse
3. Jay-Z - The Black Album
2. Canibus - Rip The Jacker
1. Gang Starr - The Ownerz

Honorable mentions: Joe Budden, Black August, Shadows Of The Sun, Godzilla, The Listening

2004:
10. KRS-One - Keep Right
9. De La Soul - The Grind Date
8. Cypress Hill - Till Death Do Us Part
7. The Roots - The Tipping Point
6. Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album
5. Masta Killa - No Said Date
4. Murs - Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition
3. Nas - Street's Disciple
2. Royce da 5'9" - Death Is Certain
1. Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer

Honorable mentions: Tical 0: The Prequel, The Hard Way, The Beautiful Struggle, Weapons of Mass Destruction

The remaining years will be done another time. I put hard work for this list so comments and opinions are appreciated.

Here's my list of bands I've seen live. From memory and ticket stubs. There's more than what's on here, for sure. Later on I'll try to include venue and date, but it's not likely any time soon. Actually, it's probably not likely ever.

311
.38 Special
Andrew Bird
Aranka Fabian
Arcade Fire
Armin van Buuren
Asleep at the Wheel
Asobi Seksu
Atmosphere
Bassnectar
Beck
Béla Fleck
Ben Folds
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Benevento-Russo Duo
Billy Cobham
Blackalicious
Blitzen Trapper
Bloc Party
Bon Iver
Broken Social Scene (with Leslie Feist and Emily Haines)
Buffalo Killers
Built to Spill
Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues Band
Chicago
Citizen Cope
Clipse
Clutch
Common
Count Basie Orchestra
Counting Crows
Dave Matthews Band
Death Cab for Cutie
Dickey Betts
Diplo
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Drummer
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Eek-A-Mouse
Ekoostik Hookah
Emily Haines
Eric Clapton
Evangelicals
Everclear
Family of the Year
Feist
Felice Brothers
Flogging Molly
Fujiya & Miyagi
Galactic
Ghostland Observatory
Girl Talk
Gnarls Barkley
Good Charlotte
Gov't Mule
Grizzly Bear
Guster
Guta
Gym Class Heroes
Heartless Bastards
Holiday Shores
Indigenous
Jack Johnson
Jean-Luc Ponty
Joe Lovano
Joey DeFrancesco
John Mayer
Joe Scofield/artist]
John Popper
Jose Gonzalez
Juvenile
Kanye West
Keb' Mo'
Klaxons
Ladytron
Larry Coryell
LCD Soundsystem
Leatherbag
Lupe Fiasco
Lyrics Born
Matisyahu
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Mike Doughty
moe.
Mos Def
N.E.R.D.
Nappy Roots
New Found Glory
O.A.R.
of Montreal
Other Girls
Oxford Collapse
Oysterhead
Passion Pit
Patrick Sweany
Paul Van Dyke
Pearl Jam
Phoenix
Prescott Curlywolf
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Ratatat
Rebirth Brass Band
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Wanting Blue
Ron Blake
Roy Hargrove
Royal Bangs
Rufus Wainwright
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Sigur Rós
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Spoon
Stanley Clarke
Stars
Sufjan Stevens
Talib Kweli
Tapes 'n Tapes
The Avett Brothers
The B-52's
The Black Keys
The Charlie Daniels Band
The Dead Weather
The Decemberists
The Flaming Lips
The Go! Team
The New Pornographers
The Raconteurs
The Roots
The Shins
The Virgins
The Walkmen
Toubab Krewe
Thievery Corporation
Trey Anastasio
Twista
Umphrey's McGee
Wilco
Wish You Were Here
Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center Jazz
Yoko Ono

Hard Rock

[x] Nickelback
[ ] Disturbed
[ ] Shinedown
[x] Seether
[ ] Sevendust
[ ] System of a Down (though I should)
[ ] Flyleaf
[x] Staind
[ ] Drowning Pool
[ ] Taproot
[ ] Mudvayne
[ ] Audioslave (probably will eventually)
[x] Trapt
[x] KoЯn
[ ] Three Days Grace
[ ] Evans Blue
[ ] Godsmack
TOTAL = 5
Yeah, if it was on the radio in HS I add it to my library for the nostalgia factor. I feel the appropriate amount of shame for these.

COUNTRY

[ ] Rascal Flatts
[ ] Carrie Underwood
[ ] LeAnn Rimes
[ ] Garth Brooks
[ ] Dixie Chicks
[ ] Kenny Chesney
[ ] Tim McGraw
[ ] Faith Hill
[ ] Hank Williams Jr.
[ ] Shania Twain
[ ] Johnny Cash
[ ] Willie Nelson
[ ] Merle Haggard
[ ] Hank Williams III
TOTAL = 0
Not a surprise.

PSYCHOBILLY

[ ] Nekromantix (maybe one or two tracks someday)
[ ] Tiger Army (again, I should. They're hard to find)
[ ] HorrorPops
[ ] The Cramps
[ ] Mad Sin
[ ] The Meteors
[ ] Reverend Horton Heat
[ ] Demented Are Go!
[ ] Batmobile
[ ] Guana Batz
[ ] The Gun Club
[ ] Klingonz
[ ] Hellbillys
[ ] The Phenomenauts
TOTAL = 0
Not herd of mos of these.

POP

[ ] Teddy Geiger
[ ] Ashlee Simpson
[x] Kelly Clarkson
[x] Madonna
[ ] Avril Lavigne (I will one day. she's catchy)
[ ] P!nk (a cover of one of her songs)
[ ] The Veronicas
[ ] Daniel Powter
[ ] James Blunt
[ ] Natasha Bedingfield
[ ] Ryan Cabrera
TOTAL = 2
How is Britney Spears not on this list?

EMO

[ ] Hawthorne Heights
[ ] Halifax
[ ] Fightstar
[ ] Taking Back Sunday
[ ] Forgive Durden
[ ] From First To Last
[ ] Senses Fail
[ ] Something Corporate
[ ] Hit the Lights
[ ] Dashboard Confessional (I'm surprised, I guess I haven't added that famous one of theirs yet)
[ ] Dear Whoever
[ ] Funeral for a Friend
[ ] Silverstein
[ ] The Used
[ ] The Spill Canvas
TOTAL = 0
I've lost faith in this test, because I probably listen to a lost that could be considered Emo.

ORIGINAL EMO

[ ] Circle Takes the Square
[ ] Dag Nasty
[ ] Rites of Spring
[ ] Moss Icon
[ ] Orchid
[ ] Saetia
[ ] Comadre
[ ] Indian Summer
[ ] Joshua Fit For Battle
[ ] Texas Is the Reason
[ ] Sunny Day Real Estate
[ ] Hot Cross
[ ] Mineral
[ ] Yaphet Kotto
[ ] Funeral Diner
TOTAL = 0
Now you're just making up genres.

AMBIENT

[ ] Brian Eno
[ ] Labradford
[ ] Global Communication
[ ] Harold Budd
[ ] Lustmord
[ ] Solaris
[ ] Steve Roach
[ ] Vir Unis
[ ] Gas
[ ] Tangerine Dream
[ ] Delerium
[ ] Stars of the Lid
[ ] Steve Reich
[ ] Fennesz
TOTAL = 0
This is a genre dominated my little no-name artists, the odds are stacked against it.

CHILLOUT

[ ] AIR (I totally should. Great band)
[ ] Zero 7 (I totally should. Great band)
[ ] Thievery Corporation (I totally should. Great band)
[ ] Massive Attack (I totally should. Great band)
[ ] Röyksopp
[ ] Portishead (I totally should. Great band)
[ ] Boards of Canada
[x] Sneaker Pimps
[ ] Frou Frou (I totally should. Great band)
[ ] Imogen Heap (I totally should. Great band)
[ ] Mandalay
[ ] Carbon Based Lifeforms
TOTAL = 1
Clearly, this is a genre that could use some work in my library. Though adding the Garden State soundtrack seems to be an easy fix.

INDIE

[ ] The Hush Sound
[x] Death Cab for Cutie
[x] The Killers
[ ] Elliott Smith
[ ] Yeah Yeah Yeahs
[ ] Belle and Sebastian
[ ] The Postal Service (again, Garden State)
[ ] Bright Eyes
[x] Franz Ferdinand
[ ] Modest Mouse
[ ] Cursive
[ ] The Arcade Fire
[ ] The Shins (Garden State)
[ ] The Decemberists
[x] Sufjan Stevens
[ ] Neutral Milk Hotel
[ ] Iron & Wine (Garden State)
[ ] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
[ ] Bloc Party
[ ] Minus the Bear
TOTAL = 4
Yeah, check back in a few months and this will probably be all checked.

METAL

[ ] Amon Amarth
[ ] Dimmu Borgir
[ ] Carcass
[ ] Children of Bodom
[ ] Emperor
[ ] Carpathian Forest
[ ] Arcturus
[ ] Opeth
[ ] Ayreon
[ ] Cannibal Corpse
[ ] At The Gates
[ ] Burzum
[ ] Therion
[ ] Mayhem
[ ] Necrophagist
[ ] Darkthrone
[ ] Celtic Frost
[ ] Gorgoroth
[ ] Satyricon
[ ] Death
[ ] Finntroll
[ ] Anaal Nathrakh
[ ] Testament
[ ] Atheist
[ ] Bathory
[ ] Deicide
[ ] Slayer
[x] Metallica
[ ] Pantera
Total = 1
Ironically I hate all Metallica except the one song. Where's Nightwish?

METALCORE

[ ] As I Lay Dying
[ ] Atreyu
[ ] Lamb of God
[ ] Killswitch Engage
[ ] Unearth
[ ] Throwdown
[ ] Becoming the Archetype
[ ] Between the Buried and Me
[ ] Norma Jean
[ ] Zao
[ ] Converge
[ ] Botch
[ ] Bullet For My Valentine
[ ] Still Remains
[ ] Bleeding Through
[ ] Trivium
TOTAL = 0
Where the crap are the NORMAL genres?

HARDCORE

[ ] Forwardx
[ ] Sick of it All
[ ] Madball
[ ] Agnostic Front
[ ] Gorilla Biscuits
[ ] Good Clean Fun
[ ] Donnybrook!
[ ] Champion
[ ] Casey Jones
[ ] Black My Heart
[ ] Hoods
[ ] Minor Threat
[ ] Death Before Dishonor
[ ] The Warriors
[ ] xBishopx
[ ] Too Pure To Die
[ ] Sinking Ships
TOTAL = 0
If this were a test to choose a band from this list that isn't real, I'd fail.

POST HARDCORE

[ ] Thursday
[ ] At the Drive-In
[ ] The Blood Brothers
[ ] Alexisonfire
[ ] The Fall of Troy
[ ] Glassjaw
[ ] Chiodos
[ ] mewithoutYou
[ ] Drive Like Jehu
[ ] Sparta
[ ] Bear vs. Shark
[ ] These Arms Are Snakes
[ ] Coheed and Cambria
[ ] The Receiving End of Sirens
[ ] He Is Legend
[ ] Scary Kids Scaring Kids
TOTAL = 0
Again, I call "Making Up Genres" foul.

GRINDCORE

[ ] Napalm Death
[ ] Nasum
[ ] Pig Destroyer
[ ] Cattle Decapitation
[ ] Agoraphobic Nosebleed
[ ] Cephalic Carnage
[ ] Anal Cunt
[ ] Fuck...I'm Dead
[ ] Ed Gein
[ ] The Number Twelve Looks Like You
[ ] Discordance Axis
[ ] Aborted
[ ] Assück
[ ] Ion Dissonance
[ ] Genghis Tron
[ ] Cryptopsy
[ ] Dying Fetus
[ ] The Locust
TOTAL = 0
This test was not meant for me

DOOM/SLUDGE/EXPERIMENTAL

[ ] Neurosis
[ ] Sunn O
[ ] Oxbow
[ ] Red Sparowes
[ ] Swans
[ ] Pelican
[ ] Isis
[ ] Zeni Geva
[ ] Cult of Luna
[ ] Today Is The Day
[ ] Godspeed You! Black Emperor
[ ] Crash Worship
[ ] Explosions in the Sky
[ ] Grails
[ ] Culper Ring
[ ] Tribes of Neurot
TOTAL = 0
scroll, scroll, scroll

POWERPOP

[ ] Hellogoodbye
[ ] The All-American Rejects
[ ] Fountains of Wayne
[ ] Head Automatica
[x] Weezer
[ ] Panic! At the Disco
[ ] Jellyfish
[ ] Teenage Fanclub
[ ] The Lashes
[ ] The Lost Patrol Band
[ ] The Click Five
[ ] Cute Is What We Aim For
[ ] Wilco
[ ] The Exploding Hearts
Total = 1
Yay, some of these I've heard of. It's like leaving a scary forest.

PUNK

[ ] Rancid
[ ] NOFX
[ ] Bad Religion
[x] Misfits
[ ] Anti-Flag
[ ] Sex Pistols
[ ] Alkaline Trio
[ ] Dropkick Murphys
[ ] Pennywise
[ ] Millencolin
[ ] Operation Ivy
[ ] Descendents
[ ] Dead Kennedys
[x] AFI
TOTAL = 2
I flirt with the genre a little, one say I'll dive in deeper.

POP PUNK

[ ] Blink 182 (eventually, I'll get around to it)
[ ] Green Day (eventually, I'll get around to it)
[ ] New Found Glory
[ ] Good Charlotte
[ ] Relient K (eventually, I'll get around to it)
[x] Sum 41
[ ] The Ataris
[ ] The Starting Line
[ ] Simple Plan
[ ] The Offspring (eventually, I'll get around to it. Soon, actually)
[ ] Lagwagon
[ ] Box Car Racer
[ ] Motion City Soundtrack!
TOTAL = 1
Apparently, this list is just to make me feel guilty for not having everything I should in my library.

STREET PUNK

[ ] The Unseen
[ ] The Casualties
[ ] GBH
[ ] The Varukers
[ ] Cock Sparrer
[ ] The Virus
[ ] The Exploited
[ ] Sham 69
[ ] Tilly and the Wall
[ ] Lower Class Brats
[ ] Clit 45
[ ] U.S. Bombs
[ ] Leftover Crack
[ ] Subhumans
[ ] Anti-Nowhere League
TOTAL = 0
I should make up a genre and like 20 bands and no one would notice

CRUST PUNK

[ ] Amebix
[ ] Aus-Rotten
[ ] His Hero Is Gone
[ ] Nausea
[ ] Crass
[ ] From Ashes Rise
[ ] Skitsystem
[ ] Rudimentary Peni
[ ] Extreme Noise Terror
[ ] Tragedy
[ ] Wolf Parade
[ ] Anti-Product
[ ] Behind Enemy Lines
TOTAL = 0
No, I didn't make this up. Wolf Parade is in Guitar Hero

RAP

[ ] Ying Yang Twins
[ ] Bubba Sparxxx
[ ] Paul Wall
[ ] Jay-Z
[ ] Nas
[ ] DMX
[ ] Ice Cube
[ ] 2Pac
[ ] Cypress Hill
[ ] lil jon
[ ] Eminem
[ ] 50 Cent
[x] Kanye West
[ ] Bow Wow
[ ] Wu-Tang Clan
TOTAL = 1
Actually, this one will be more filled out in the coming months, too.

HIP-HOP

[ ] Dilated Peoples
[ ] Mos Def
[ ] Atmosphere
[ ] Sage Francis
[ ] Talib Kweli
[ ] Aesop Rock
[x] Blackalicious
[ ] Souls of Mischief
[ ] MF DOOM
[ ] Jurassic 5
[ ] Jedi Mind Tricks
[ ] Common
[ ] Gangstarr
[ ] A Tribe Called Quest
[ ] Ghostface
[ ] Pete Rock
[ ] De La Soul
[ ] Necro
[ ] Immortal Technique
[ ] Ill Bill
TOTAL = 1
Ditto here. This is like my "to download" list here.

SKA

[ ] Streetlight Manifesto
[ ] The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
[ ] Big D and the Kids Table
[ ] The Toasters
[ ] Goldfinger (hah, what the hell was the name of that one song I liked of theirs?)
[ ] The Aquabats
[ ] Reel Big Fish
[ ] Fortunado
[ ] Skankin' Pickle
[ ] Madness
[ ] The Skatalites
[ ] Voodoo Glowskulls
[ ] Five Iron Frenzy
[ ] Tip The Van
[ ] Stealing From Peter
[ ] The Specials
[ ] Catch 22
TOTAL = 0
I think this might rival Country for the genre that irks me the most.

CLASSIC ROCK

[ ] The Doors
[ ] The Beatles ( i know, I know. Sorry. I have a few covers)
[ ] The Rolling Stones
[ ] The Clash
[x] The Who (American Beauty soundtrack)
[ ] Aerosmith
[ ] Black Sabbath
[ ] The Kinks
[ ] KISS
[ ] Ramones
[ ] Pink Floyd
[ ] Led Zeppelin
[ ] Heart (another Guitar Hero I'll get around to)
[ ] Guns N' Roses
[ ] Jimi Hendrix
TOTAL = 1

90's ALTERNATIVE

[ ] Sublime
[ ] Cake
[ ] Spin Doctors
[x] The Smashing Pumpkins
[ ] Gin Blossoms
[ ] Alice in Chains
[ ] Soundgarden
[ ] Toad the Wet Sprocket
[ ] 311
[ ] Live
[ ] Bush
[ ] Third Eye Blind
[x] Goo Goo Dolls (right this second it's getting added)
[ ] Barenaked Ladies
[ ] Counting Crows
[ ] No Doubt
[x] Nirvana
TOTAL= 3
This should be almost full given enough time.

INDUSTRIAL

[ ] KMFDM
[ ] Ministry
[x] Nine Inch Nails
[ ] Laibach
[ ] Einstürzende Neubauten
[ ] Skinny Puppy
[ ] Front Line Assembly
[ ] VNV Nation
[ ] Crossbreed (I should)
[ ] :wumpscut: (I should)
[ ] Throbbing Gristle
[ ] Hocico
[ ] Assemblage 23
[ ] Front 242
[ ] Funker Vogt
[ ] Psyclon 9
[ ] Suicide Commando
[ ] Grendel
[ ] Nitzer Ebb
[ ] Haujobb
[ ] The Birthday Massacre
[ ] Mortiis
TOTAL = 1

ELECTROCLASH

[ ] Ladytron
[ ] Fischerspooner
[x] Peaches
[ ] ADULT
[ ] Freezepop (Guitar Hero)
[x] Daft Punk
[ ] Goldfrapp
[x] Shiny Toy Guns
[ ] Clear Static
[x] The Faint
[ ] The Knife
[ ] She Wants Revenge
[ ] Chicks on Speed
[x] LCD Soundsystem
[ ] Dirty Sanchez
[ ] Le Tigre (I should. I fail at music)
TOTAL = 4

ELECTRONICA

[x] The Chemical Brothers
[x] The Prodigy
[x] Moby
[x] The Crystal Method
[x] Aphex Twin
[ ] Basement Jaxx (I will soon)
[x] Juno Reactor
[ ] Amon Tobin
[ ] Orbital
[x] Paul Oakenfold
[ ] Unkle (soon, I promise)
[ ] Tricky
[ ] Benny Benassi (Oh, I need some)
[ ] Photek
[ ] Roni Size (Can't find his good stuff I used to like)
[ ] LTJ Bukem
[ ] Boom Bip
TOTAL = 7
Wow, I guess we found my genre.

Following his PLUG ONE Mixtape, Pete of the fine Eat Concrete label has put together a new one for you to download.

01. Meat Beat Manifesto - Happiness Supreme - Run Rec
02. mia - Pull Up The People - untitled
03. Dimlite - Ravemond's Young Problems - Rush Hour
04. The Chap - Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley - Ghostly
05. LOW LIMIT - The Club - cdr
06. Blackalicious - Kalakuta Show - MCA
07. Fulgeance - Ann Arbor - One Handed Music
08. The Normal - TVOD - Mute
09. Daedelus - Missing - Mush
10. DJ Shadow - Bring Madlib Up - Ninja Tune
11. Squarepusher - Body Builder - Warp
12. Klute - Evo Sniffer - Commercial Suicide
13. µ-Ziq - Burst Your Arm - Planet Mu
14. Mr. Scruff - Ug - Ninja Tune
15. Hearin' Aid - It's A Bwoy - Eat Concrete
16. Débruit - Sole's Sweat (instrumental) - Civil Music
17. Nosaj Thing - IOIO - Alpha Pup
18. BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Dr. Who - BBC
19. Mika Vainio - Galaxies - Sähkö
20. Funckarma - stub dane - FUNCK
21. Urban Tribe - RNA World - Rephlex
22. Aphex Twin - Inkey$ - Warp
23. Luke Vibert - Belief File - Planet Mu
24. Martyn - Vancouver - 3024
25. Black Dog - Tunnels rmx - soma
26. Meat Beat Manifesto - Guns 'n Lovers - Planet Mu
27. KenLo Craqnuques - Zoid - Rush Hour
28. The Orb - EDM - Universal
29. Twinnie - Waitin for my love - Cheap
30. Plastikman - Ping Pong - Novamute
31. !!! - Pardon My Freedom rmx - Touch And Go
32. Hexstatic - Invader - Ninja Tune
33. Balil - Parasight - Rising High

Download PLUG TWO mixed by Pete Concrete here!

Blackalicious - A to G

We're going to learn to hear words with vowel "A" sound... Listen with care

I be the analog arsonist, aimin at your arteries
All-seeing abstract, analyze everything
Adding on, absolutely abolishing
Average amateur's arsenal just astonishing

Next, we'll learn words that begin with letter "B"

I be the big, bad body rockin Bombay to boulevard bully back
Better bring a bomb to the battlefield
Bloody black beats bringing bottoms that boom
Basically build barriers bewilder buffoons

Listen now to words that begin with letter "C"

Crazy character, constantly creating concontions
Catalyst, a cannabalistic rhymes conqueror
Correctly connecting, craniums crumble down
Consistent capacity

Next we'll hear words that start with letter "D"

Done did that done did this diddle don
Domination don't dignify diction
Doin' it deep down dialect daring
Doomsday dut devastate during the duration

Listen to our song for vowel "E"

Extraterrestrial electrical, effortless
Eons of energy, everyone affected
Efficiently epitomize excellent
Extravagant elevate where the essence is

"F" is the letter with which these words begin

Blackalicious got funk for the future filling up fiends finally
Fabulous, furious, fatness, follow me
Niggers fall frequently, fact
Verbal felon fired up federally foundation fadin' all of this wack shit

You will listen carefully again to words with sounds for letter "G"

Scratches:
"I be the Gift of Gab" (De La Soul - Afro Connections At a Hi 5 (In The Eyes Of The Hoodlum))
"The man with the given gift of gab" (Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin')
"Man with the gift of gab" (Organized Konfusion - 3-2-1)
"I possess the gift of gab" (Diamond D - Best Kept Secret)
"Gift of gab, gab"
"I use my gift of gab to boast and brag in every rhyme I" (OutKast - Wailin')
"Got the gift of gab" (Busta Rhymes - Ill Vibe feat. Q-Tip)
"When I shoot the gift, I shoot..." (House of Pain - Jump Around)
"...the gift of gab like a harpoon" (JVC Force - big trax)
"On the serious tip, I'm equipped with a gift"
"Gift of gab, but don't waver" (Sadat X - The Lump Lump)
"Yo man you gotta..." (The Pharcyde - Ya Mama)
"...grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab" (Fugees - Vocab)

These are the letters B, C, D, and F, and then comes the letter G