There are some bands whose names I love more than their music, but that's ok, I still love them in some capacity.

- Handsome Boy Modeling School

- The Thompson Twins

MORE EVENTUALLY

SONGS I ENDED UP ENJOYING FROM COMMERCIALS

TOO LAZY TO LINK WITH SONG TAGS FOR NOW

- Nicki Minaj - "Masquerade" (Adidas)

- Alex Clare - "Too Close" (Internet Explorer)

- fun. - "We Are Young" (Chevy)

- Rogue Wave - "Lake Michigan" (Zune)

SONGS I ALREADY LIKED THAT ENDED UP BEING USED IN COMMERCIALS

- Bishop Allen - "Click Click Click" (HP I think?)

- Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette - "Hello" (Trident Gum and 93859034850435 other commercials)

SONGS I DISCOVERED THROUGH LIKING OTHER SONGS BY THE SAME ARTIST "HOLY SHIT THIS PERSON MADE THAT SONG???"

- Chilly Gonzales -…

Another idea, here are songs that I first heard on SNL and instantly fell in love with and/or introduced me to the artist's other work.

Bon Iver - Beth/Rest

Spoon - The Underdog

Aerosmith - Falling in Love (is Hard on the Knees)

Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend (I already knew this song, but I REALLY got into it after I saw her perform it on SNL)

will add more as I remember!

Okay, here's another attempt at an idea. Here are artists that I discovered so completely by chance that it must have been FATE. (yes)

- Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer: I saw one of their albums at Tower Record's closing sale, thought it looked cute and decided to check them out SOLELY from that. I ended up loving them ^__^

- Chromeo: I was reading the blog of Carl Greenblatt (the creator of Chowder ^_^) and he posted about these fellows. I loved their album cover and I thought "these fellows look like someone I should check out!" and…

I was compelled to do a search for various keywords in my itunes.

Top songs with the word _____ in them:

Love: The Rocket Summer - So Much Love

You: Barenaked Ladies - Told You So

Me: The Darkness - Is it Just Me?

This is boring. haha I always get these ideas and then they end up not working out :D

Ok, here's another list:

Bands I discovered through a cover song they did

- Max Raabe

- Walter Sobcek

- The Rocket Summer

sheesh barely anything! I stopped at page 7, I'll check more later.

OK, here is ANOTHER ANOTHER list, this one about ALBUM ART COVERS!! :D

Band I discovered through literally judging them by their cover:

- Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer

- Foxy Shazam

- Betty Who

- Dillon Francis

THAT IS ALL FOR NOW

I think I will make a list of all the wonderful musicians that has brought to my attention:

- mc chris
Thanks to: Sealab 2021

- Cheeseburger
Thanks to: Superjail

- heidecker and wood
Thanks to: T&EASGJ

- Unknown Hinson
Thanks to: Squidbillies

- Dethklok
Thanks to: Metalocalypse

- Tycho
Thanks to: AS bumps!!

WELL THAT WAS A GOOD USE OF MY TIME (I WENT THROUGH 46 PAGES OF MY LIBRARY TO BE THOROUGH :D)

I don't consider myself to be an auditory observer/learner/thinker at all, but sometimes I feel like I pick up on weird cues that no one else seems to notice. Most commonly, song part similarities.

Here are some of them! (this is boring–also probably completely inaccurate)

- the drum intro fun.'s Barlights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-yZt4AHe-I reminds me Lady GaGa's Paparazzi's drumbeat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKrzdaDQMw#t=3m07s

- the chorus in Goo Goo Doll's Everything You Are http://s0.ilike.com/play#Goo+Goo+Dolls:Dizzy:94714:s1392213.9813171.5953602.0.2.36%2Cstd_34d16a8107e84a1a92bf478bca9be316 sounds like a line in Toad the Wet Sprocket's All I Want (haha also similar lyric) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZpUUrEWnWQ#t=1m57s

- the chorus to Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0#t=1m45s…

(perhaps I will add more to this entry later)

You know, I never understood why people had/have such strong opinions for or against Dave Matthews. I really enjoy some of his songs, but I don't really see why people think he is SO SUPER AMAZING nor do I understand why people think his music is for stupid women or douchebag men?? haha I think that he is just a victim of shitty fans.

Similarly with Coldplay, I don't understand why their image is like, "DEFINING OF A GENERATION!!!" (if I recall correctly, they were the #1 played band on last.fm…

or musicspace (is that Time Life too? haha) etc.

I love that I'm reminded of all sorts of songs I used to like from those commercials :D I mean, ok yes duh that's what they're supposed to do, but yes, A WEALTH OF AWESOMELY DUMB SONGS