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So I've seen a few of these and I decided to add my legacy to this. I'm sure I'm missing some small bands, but all the big ones are here, as well as a shit ton of small bands. To the best of my recollection and in no particular order. Here are the bands I've seen live in my lifetime.

I tried to do this once already and it locked up while trying to make the "connections". Let's try again.

In No Particular Order:

1. Weird Al Yankovic
2. Nazareth
3. Jakyl
4. Lynrd Skynrd
5. Less Than Jake (6 Times?)
6. Bad Religion
7. Hot Water Music
8. Teen Idols
9. Slick Shoes
10. Yellowcard
11. Lucky Boys Confusion
12. Sugarcult
13. Student Rick
14. Glassjaw
15. Dropkick Murphys
16. 3rd Wheel
17. Elysium
18. Emanuel the Florist
19. Foris Tui Animus
20. This Is The End (Sooo many times since I was there at their 2nd show)
21. Leviathan (Not the famous one)
22. Leash and Scoop
23. The Moment
24. The Felix Culpa (More times than I can count)
25. The Meteah Strike
26. The Servos
27. The Higher
28. Killing Abraham
29. Anberlin
30. Punchline
31. Fall Out Boy
32. Emanuel
33. Emery
34. Silverstein
35. Alexisonfire
36. Streetlight Manifesto
37. Egan's Rats
38. 3PR (Fuck yeah Chad)
39. Planet Smashers
40. MU330
41. Voodoo Glow Skulls
42. Mustard Plug
43. Murder by Death
44. The Toasters
45. Catch 22
46. Bob Nanna
47. The City on Film
48. Name Taken
49. Yellow Noise
50. The Butcher, The Vet
51. Big D and the Kids Table
52. Day Two
53. Atmosphere
54. Motion City Soundtrack
55. Wax On Radio
56. Blame Twilight
57. The Academy Is...
58. The Hush Sound
59. Hope's Anchor
60. Novacaine
61. Villians of Verona
62. October Fall
63. The Response
64. Tiger Army
65. Zach newman
66. My Chemical Romance
67. Taking Back Sunday
68. Deep Purple
69. Thrice
70. Bedouin Soundclash
71. Gym Class Heros
72. Cursive (I can die happy)
73. Criteria
74. Ladyfinger
75. Chiodos
76. The Braves
77. The Show Is the Rainbow
78. Gatsbys American Dream
79. The Rocket Summer
80. The Killer Apathy
81. Mountain
82. The Minor League
83. Bright Eyes
84. M. Ward
85. Jim James
86. Carlisile
87. Carly's day out
88. Manic Sewing Circle
89. Superspecs
90. OWL
91. Bikes Not Bombs
92. Mike Park
93. Collasal
94. Jenny Choi
95. Gascan Pickup
96. Dynamite Boy
97. Groovie Ghoulies
98. The Crash Moderns
99. J Church
100. Hawthorne Heights
101. The Spill Canvas
102. Bear Vs Shark
103. Stamp Collection
104. Anti Squid
105. arms akimbo
106. El Oso
107. The Cavities
108. Brolin
109. Alkaline Trio
110. Spindle
111. Spinderson
112. This Time Last Year
113. Freshwater Colins
114. Black 47
115. Flogging Molly
116. Lopez 5
117. Dwarf Kings Of Middle Earth? (Eric's band last year)
118. The Lyndsay Diaries
119. Dashboard Confessional
120. This Day and Age
121. Nick Nasty and the Screamin' Demons
122. All American Rejects
123. The Ataris
124. Whippersnapper
125. The Reunion Show
126. Count the Stars
127. The Stereo
128. Logan's Loss
129. Face First
130. Eighty*D
131. 2 Minutes Late
132. Oliver Song
133. No Big Loss
134. Suicide Machines
135. Relient K
136. The Offspring
137. Yesterday's Rising
138. Much The Same
139. Coheed and Cambria
140. The Phenomenauts
141. Mashlin
142. Thin Dark Line
143. Somerset
144. Sunspot
145. The Sound
146. Love Said Demeter
147. Cosmic Ebb
148. Time & Distance
149. Last Annual
150. Trixy's Fix
151. The Distance
152. Planes Mistaken for Stars
153. River City Rebels
154. The Knaves
155. Mike Felumlee
156. Chett
157. Punch Drunk
158. Pui
159. Burns Out Bright
160. Amazing Transparent Man
161. The Rest
162. Douglass Kings
163. Red Hot Valentines
164. Spot
165. Jamie
166. Asking Abby
167. Shindig
168. Dri
169. Lars Fredricksen And The Bastards
170. NOFX
171. Not Too Good
172. Los Vicios De Papas
173. Lord Mike's Dirty Calypsonians
174. Agent Zero
175. Illuminati
176. Minus the Bear
177. Pelican
178. Curse this Metal Body
179. Sleep Comes Down
180. The Good Life (Met Tim Kasher. I can really die happy now)
181. Euphone
182. Narrator
183. Jake Bellows
184. Vigo The Carpathian
185. Inspector Owl
187. Hirudin
188. A Modern Temper
189. Lying in States
190. Hanalei
191. Midwestern Death
192. The Marseilles Shore
193. Root shoot leaf
194. I Know My Name Is Steven
195. Enter
196. Lesser Birds of Paradise
197. Part Chimp
198. Plastic Constellations
199. Oxford Collapse
200. Pat Ford
201. Chris McCaughan
202. Dr. Manhattan
203. Those Royals
204. NoR
205. Dear Me Dear You
206. The Snake the Cross the Crown
207. Owen
208. William Elliott Whitmore
209. Kamikaze Hearts
210. Protest the Hero
211. DragonForce
212. We.re All Broken
213. mewithoutYou
214. Thursday
215. Deaf Nation Radio
216. Bombing Atlantis
217. Congratulations On Becoming A Pilot
218. The Broken Fall
219. Awesome Car Funmaker
220. Morgan and me
221. Kid, You’ll Move Mountains
222. Cue The Violins
223. Little Brazil
224. Make Believe
225. First Round Failure
226. Imaginary Heroes

This year was the year I came over all retro, and developed a clue about me musical history, so these are my personal favourite albums that I bought this year, not that many were actually released this year, they just rocked my 2005 socks, one pair all year :s

System of a Down Mezmerize and Hypnotize
Syd Barrett Madcap Laughs
TriviumAscendancy
The Pogues Live at Brixton
The Smiths Meat is Murder
Foo Fighters In your honour
Morrissey You are the Quarry
Kaiser Chiefs Employment
Joy Division Closer and Unknown Pleasures
Pink Floyd Piper at the gates of dawn and Is there anybody out there?
Kate Bush Aerial
Pulp Different Class
Dropkick Murphys Warriors code
Radiohead OK computer
HIM Dark Light

Okay so on friday about 6 me and a group of people hopped onto a minibus to go see the Pogues at newcaslte arena!
It was fantastic, i've been looking forward to seeing the Dropkick Murphys since Leeds festival, as they were good then but didn't play a lot of the songs i wanted to hear. But my did they redeem themselves - totally fantastic, and then the Pogues!!!!
To be fair a lot of beer had been involved by the time they were on but they ruled! Really enjoyed myself.
I then went home went to a club fell asleep on one of the sofas there, and my 'friends' proceeded to balance pints on my and take photos, but that's another story...

With any luck, I'll have these on christmas, or shortly thereafter.

Flogging Molly
- "Swagger"
- "Drunken Lullabies"
I've needed these for a long time, but I can't seem to find them cheap anywhere.

The Electrics
- "Old, New, Borrowed, and Green"

Dropkick Murphys
- "Boys on the Docks"
Would complete the discography.

The Pogues
- "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash"
Another impossible-to-find-dirt-cheap album. Almost to the point of paying retail for it :-P.

Anti-Flag
- "Die For Your Government"
- "Their System Doesn't Work for You"

Kinship
- "Boneshaker"
I know this can be had for around $15 US plus shipping, but that's beyond my college-student budget. *sigh*

Rancid
- "...And Out Came the Wolves"
Classic album, that for some reason, I still don't own.

Black 47
- "Fire of Freedom"
- "Green Suede Shoes"

The Tossers
- "Long Dim Road"

Real McKenzies
- "10,000 Shots"
- self-titled
The s/t is evidently mega-rare these days (amazon sellers have it for $35!?!?). If I were to get both of these, it'd complete the discography.

That'll do for a start.

Action
The Adicts
AFI
Against Me!
Anti-Nowhere League
Beerzone
Bouncing Souls
The Briggs
The Casualties
Catch 22
Choking Victim
Class Assassins
Clit 45
Conflict
Dayglo Abortions
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly
HorrorPops
Leftover Crack
Midnight Creeps
Mindless Self Indulgence
The Misfits
One Man Army
Planet Smashers
Riot 99
Roger Miret and the Disasters
Sex Pistols
Social Distortion
Subhumans
Complete Control
Tiger Army
The Unseen
The Vibrators
The Vines
The Virus
Wednesday Night Heroes
World Burns to Death
Yeah Yeah Yeahs



Not to mention all the local shows as well as all the bands I don't listen to who happened to be opening/supporting/closing these shows.

Veilsdorf, 20.05.2006:
Paris in Flames
Soulgate's Dawn
7th Siren
+ No Sedative

"Jump Arena" Sonneberg, 13.05.2006:
(Yeah, this bands are very shitty... But they were in my hometown. And no good bands come to my hometown. -.-)
EL*KE
Ohrbooten
Kain
Neuser
Pohlmann

Steinach, 08.04.2006:
7th Siren
Potential Sickness
+ Ashes Of A Lifetime

Rauenstein, 27.01.2006:
Soulgate's Dawn
7th Siren
+ Confrontation

"Highfield Festival" Hohenfelden, 19.-21.08.2005:
(Seen most of them, heard all of them.)
The Blood Brothers
Coheed and Cambria
Queens of the Stone Age
The Hives
Pixies
Social Distortion
Dropkick Murphys
Foo Fighters
Hot Hot Heat
Weezer
Alkaline Trio
Incubus
Good Charlotte
H-Blockx
Subway to Sally
Farin Urlaub
Gåte
Skindred
Tomte
Madsen
McQueen
The Birthday Massacre
Silbermond
The Subways
The Futurheads
EL*KE
Revolverheld
Fort Minor

"Jump City" Sonneberg, 29.04-01.05.2005:
(Yeah, this bands are very shitty... But they were in my hometown. And no good bands come to my hometown. -.-)
Silbermond
Söhne Mannheims
Culture Beat
Christina Stürmer
Wunder
Silbermond

Today will mark the 15,000th track logged to my audioscrobbler account, covering the last 15 months of my musical habits.

Does it truely represent my tastes?
The top 6 artists (Oasis,The Mars Volta, Mastodon, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blur and Metallica) in my list are without a doubt my favourite 6 artists, although I'm not sure about the order or that they will be this close this time next year - remeber that RHCP have a new album out in April which will undeniably give them a strong lead in my charts. Mastodon also have a new album out in the next 6 months. However, Oasis and Blur are not going to be releasing anything before 2007 at the earliest.

The Top 50 has also been skewed by who is touring. Before I go to a gig I listen to lots of the artist I am about to see, which would explain why out of the Top 20 in my list there are only 2 bands (plus Joy Division and The Beatles who don't count for obvious reasons) who I haven't seen in the last 12 months. Nightwish, The Dropkick Murphys would be unlikely to be in the Top 20 if it weren't for being skewed by a gig.

Misty's Big Adventure are another noteable anomaly. Whilst I love them, and their live performance is a sheer delight to be a part of, their recorded material doesn't warrent such a large number of plays. The reason for their extremely high number of plays is a joyfull splurge I went on after first seeing them in March having not heard of them before.

On the whole Last.FM has provided me with a pretty accurate log of my tastes. Of course, the key delight of this program is the discoveries I have made through reading the forums and seeign artist connections. Most noteable are Deathcab For Cutie, The Arcade Fire, Coheed and Cambria and Nile.

Whee, just finished installing KDE 3.5 and 'rok 1.3.6. Both of them are amazing! All the new gizmos and improvements... anyway, I've extended my collection somewhat over the last few days... still a few albums I'd like to digitise, and I have to actually bother to set up my tags on this thing properly (I started on it, but I've only a handful so far).

I think I need to look at getting myself an iPod at some point, probably once there's some money freed up after tour next year (and having my violin repaired.. it sounds much, much better now). It'd be nice to be able to listen to my music without the 'noise' that comes from my CD player...

I found a heap of Dropkick Murphys stuff laying about, and I've been listening to that.. it is really a lot like Flogging Molly, but much, much more punk. I like it... it's just a bit loud for me sometimes (you can have it down at 5% volume and still hear it clearly some of the time).

I also picked up the Les Miserables 10th anniversary recording the other day, and its been well worth having. I'm awfully fond of At The End Of The Day and a few others... great old songs.