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Post your top 15 bands/artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, and your current favorite.

1. Tokio Hotel
First: Monsoon
Loved: Ready, Set, Go!
Favorite: Jung Und Nicht Mehr Jugendfrei

2. Skrillex
First: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
Loved: Rock N' Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)
Favorite: Right In

3. Dance Gavin Dance
First: Antlion
Loved: It's Safe to Say You Dig the Backseat
Favorite: Heat Seeking Ghost Of Sex

4. A Day to Remember
First: The Downfall of Us All
Loved: If It Means a Lot to You
Favorite: Mr. Highway's Thinking About the End

5. A Skylit Drive
First: Hey Nightmare, Where Did You Get Them Teeth?
Loved: A Reason For Broken Wings
Favorite: Fuck The System

6. Get Scared
First: Mess
Loved: Whore
Favorite: Cynical Skin

7. Silverstein
First: Discovering the Waterfront
Loved: Smile In Your Sleep
Favorite: A Great Fire

8. deadmau5
First: Strobe
Loved: Ghosts N Stuff
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Welcome back to the end of 2010. I’m your host, Captain Gaylord, and… okay yeah, that was lame. Anyway, yes! On to part two of this silly 100 countdown of my favorite albums of the year. Excited? I don’t blame you, neither am I. Well, that’s enough aimless rambling for now, let’s just go ahead and get down to business. “Finally,” says the reader…


80. Robyn – Body Talk
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What with all the clamor about Robyn being the next big pop star and all that, it was quite easy to be skeptical… and after giving Body Talk a few dozen listens, I can honestly say that yeah, she just might. She harnesses that oh-so-important skill of singing about the most asinine things possible, but actually getting you into it. How many female singers go on about boy troubles, to which all you can think in response is “I don’t really give a rat’s ass what’s going on with you…

deadmau5's latest album 4x4=12 was hotly anticipated for several months, but at release of the track list, my excitement dwindled. The problem I find is that it is simply a compilation album, since I have already scrobbled half the album, and some songs even more than a year earlier (The earliest of which was deadmau5 - Everything Before first scrobbled in April of 2009).

My biggest complaint with the album, however, are the vocals. deadmau5 has had several brilliant vocal tracks, but none of these do it for me. Sofi Needs A Ladder which almost completely ruins You need a ladder and dropped all the Zelda tribute clips (albeit this could be because of copyright) is my peak concern, but I also don't know why Joel thought Raise Your Weapon would be a better use of his Dub5tepthingie project. It just doesn't fit.

Joel was quoted saying "To do an album, I'd need to take six months off. But the touring takes up all my time." We, the fans, love the touring…