2. Ramones (Queens)
3. Bad Brains (Washington DC)
4. The Damned (London)
5. Black Flag (Los Angeles)
6. Minutemen (San Pedro, CA)
7. Minor Threat (Washington, DC)
8. Descendents (LA)
9. Operation Ivy (Berkeley, CA)
10. Buzzcocks (Manchester)
11. Misfits (Lodi, NJ)
12. Sex Pistols (London)
13. Dead Kennedys (San Francisco)
14. Fugazi  (Washington, DC)
15. Wire (London)
16. Sick of It All (NYC)
17. Husker Du (Minneapolis)
18. Mission of Burma (Boston)
19. Suicidal Tendencies (Venice, CA)
20. Germs (LA)
21. NOFX (Berkeley, CA)
22. Jawbox (Washington, DC)
23. Rancid (Berkeley, CA)
24. Screeching Weasel (Chicago)
25. Converge (Boston)
26. Refused (Stockholm)
27. Jawbreaker (San Francisco)
28. Bouncing Souls (Trenton, NJ)
29. X (Los Angeles)
30. Richard Hell & the Voidoids (NYC)
31. Pennywise (Hermosa Beach, CA)
32. Meat Puppets (Tucson)
33. Green Day (Berkeley, CA)
34. Bad Religion (Los Angeles)
35. Agnostic Front (NYC)
36. Government Issue (Washington, DC)
37. Crass (UK)
38. Circle Jerks (LA)
39. Reagan Youth (NYC)
40. Angry Samoans (Van Nuys, CA)
41. Dropkick Murphy’s (Boston)
42. Dinosaur Jr. (Amherst, MA)
43. 7 Seconds (Las Vegas)
44. Rites of Spring (Washington, DC)
45. Dwarves (Chicago)
46. Hot Water Music (Gainesville, FL)
47. Ataque 77 (Buenos Aires)
48. Stiff Little Fingers (Belfast)
49. Gorilla Biscuits (NYC)
50. Adolescents (LA)
51. Television Personalities (UK)
52. Cocksparrer (London)
53. Vandals (Huntington Beach, CA)
54. At the Drive-In (El Paso)
55. Social Distortion (LA)
56. Exploited (Edinburgh)
57. UK Subs (England)
58. Dead Boys (Cleveland)
59. Braid (Chicago)
60. The Business (London)

LJ Interests meme results

1. belle and sebastian:
   The paradigm of the successful "sensitive" indie rock band. Stuart Murdoch and his friends may be losing it, but they've still got one of the most impressive backlog of simply amazing pop songs of any band in the past ten years.
2. conan o´brien:
   The greatest entertainer alive today, and one of the all-time greats as well.
3. fútbol:
   A real sport, like hockey. I think Americans call it "socker" or something.
4. indie rock:
   I'M SO TOTALLY FUCKING INDIE!
5. massachusetts:
   Possibly our greatest state. City of Boston to the east, beautiful mountains to the West.
6. neutral milk hotel:
   Pretty good project for Jeff Mangum. They love this over at Pitchfork.
7. replacements:
   Paul Westerberg, as far as I'm concerned, was simply THE voice of the 80's. He spoke for every disenfranchised, disenchanted, and very, very drunk youth who ever woke up and wondered if it was all worth it. Incredible songs.
8. syracuse university:
   I had a blast.
9. ultimate frisbee:
   A great game, no doubt. This, along with that guy Ed, basically defined the summer of 2002 for me and my Madison friends.
10. zamboni revolution:
    Improv Comedy collective from SU. Hope Laura G, Jon Moses, et al are still kickin' it live. Matt Finley and I tried out for this when it first started but didn't make it. It was probably for the best- I went onto Penguins when it formed, and Matt went onto secure his legend in other ways. I miss Matt Artus, Nick G, and all the founding members.

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1. The New Pornographers- "The Laws Have Changed"
   
2. New Order- "Krafty"
   
3. Rilo Kiley- "Portions for Foxes"
   
4. Sly and the Family Stone- "Hot Fun in the Summertime"
   
5. Daft Punk- "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"
   
6. Polaris- "Summerbaby"
   
7. Built to Spill- "The Big Dipper"
   
8. Spoon- "Everything You Want"
   
9. Ultramagnetic MC's- "Ease Back"
   
10. Converge- "The Broken Vow"
    
11. The Fall- "Industrial Estate"
    
12. Big Star- "Back of a Car"
    
13. Belle & Sebastian- "String Bean Jean"
    
14. A.C. Newman- "On the Table"
    
15. Tom Waits- "I'm Still Here"
    
16. Sage Francis feat Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- "The Sea Lion"
    
17. M.I.A.- "$10"
    
18. Guided by Voices- "Game of Pricks"
    
19. Magnetic Fields- "Why I Cry"
    
20. The Zombies- "Hung Up on a Dream"
    
21. The Futureheads- "Hounds of Love"
    

• "Horror Business" by The Misfits...Man, does this band suck without Glenn Danzig and does Danzig suck without this band. They had tons of great songs with their poppy punk that was horribly recorded but gifted with the greatest gimmick in the history of rock n' roll. Plus, that Danzig hollar was nuttintafuckwit' (Sidenote: this supplied the perfect soundtrack to Pw/op's "digiorno" ad, which may be coming to the internet near you soon!)
  
• "The Town Halo" by A.C. Newman...I got this New Pornographer's solo album, and it really is excellent. This song is the highlight for me; gotta love any power pop song that substitutes a bowed cello for a bassline.
  
• "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues" by McLusky...This song just kicks ass. And, not in the colloquial sense, either. It literally kicks my ass and I love it. And how could it not be amazing with a title like that? ROCK!!!
  
• "Hope" by The Descendents...Probably the best song they ever recorded (besides 'Wienerschnitzel' of course), and Milo wrote it! A perfect Descendents song.
  
• "The Sweat Descends" by Les Savy Fav...Most of their stuff just rips, and resident fat-guy-who-breaks-everything singer Tim Harrington is awesome here.
  
• "$10" by M.I.A....I don't know why Maya made "Galang" the first single, since it's kinda crappy. If she wanted to get Tamil into the pop charts, she could have gone with this one, probably the best song on the album. Quality dance music...Damn, she's hot.
  

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• Spoon- "Girls Can Tell"
  
• Belle and Sebastian- "Push Barman to Open Old Wounds"
  
• Descendents- "Somery"
  
• Lee Morgan- "Sidewinder"
  
• Stephen Malkmus- "Face the Truth"
  
• That lovable red-headed new pornographer A.C. Newman- "The Slow Wonder"
  
• Misfits- "Collection II"
  

• THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS W/ OKGO - WATER STREET MUSIC HALL - 10.26.01
  I think of this show in a lot of respects. Maybe a bonding experience between Finley, Parsons, Levine, and I. Maybe my first road trip of college. Maybe just a fucking awesome show by a legendary band, supported by a great up-and-coming band from Chicago (who were soon thereafter watered down to shit by a major label, granted, but still rocked). The Johns with their three Dans were incredibly entertaining, and their set covered tons of territory from their storied two decades of playing together. Finley told me that John Linnell is normally a jerk, but on that night, even he saw fit to let some of the fans in the front row mash on his keyboard a little bit. Plus, OKGO opened with a cover of The Smiths' "Panic." Unforgettable.
  
  
• BEN FOLDS W/ RUFUS WAINWRIGHT AND TEGAN & SARA - STANLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, UTICA - 04.03.03
  Tegan & Sara were okay, and Rufus was pretty good, but Ben Folds put on the greatest one-man performance I've ever seen or likely will ever see. His show at SU this past January was lots of fun, but it didn't amaze me like Folds did on his own sophomore year. He told some great stories, performed a fucking incredible 5-minute drum solo, and conducted a surprisingly tuneful audience through the harmonies in "Not the Same" and "Army." Also, watching the way Levine got into this was almost as entertaining within itself.
  
  
• THE ROOTS W/ COMMON - GOLDSTEIN AUDITORIUM - 04.12.05
  After bringing a series of crappy-to-good hiphop shows to the hill (Blackalicious was pretty good), UU Concerts finally hit it with this one. Common was terrific, and the Roots absolutely blew up in everyone's faces. In almost any other case, a 45-minute encore would have seemed excessive, but here they traversed almost every genre of popular music and kicked ass at doing it. Plus, ?uestlove unleashed his massive 'fro. Nobody could have asked for anything more, really.
  
  
• BELLE & SEBASTIAN - TOWER THEATRE, PHILLY / AQUALUNG, MADRID - 05.03.02 / 03.10.04
  I'm surprised how people react when it comes up how I've seen this band, twice at that. The shows were both very good, though different from one another. The Philly show was more grandiose, and the one in Spain was poppier. Plus, they both came at pivotal times. The first was an outstanding way to end a great freshman year. The second was the night before a tragedy in Madrid would change the world. Plus, Stuart Murdoch is the man. And I got to bring my sister to the latter.
  
  
• GOLDFINGER W/ ALLISTER & STRAIGHTER THAN PETE - BRIDGE ST. MUSIC HALL - 09.14.02
  Goldfinger, considering how lame they've gotten, became one of my favorite live bands in my first couple years of college. Their live show was usually pretty redeeming. Plus, Allister was surprisingly great this night, and of course, Straighter than Pete pulled a great gig. Maybe not as big a deal for Reever, Eric and co. as opening for Fitty Cent, but this was a great time regardless.
  
  
• FLOGGING MOLLY W/ ANDREW W.K., ALLISTER, AND SOME OTHER BAND - WATER ST. MUSIC HALL - 10.29.02
  Okay, Allister completely sucked this time. Anyway, getting to this gig was probably the best story. Leif, Nikki, Chris Rosenbluth, and I took a ride in Duke's delapidated car (sadly, the nicest one they had between the three of them) that nearly overheated three times on the way to and from Rochester. Somehow, we survived, and got scissor-kicked in the face by Irish-Expatriate rock and RAAAAAAAAAWWWKKKKKKKK PARTY RAGOUGHR!! What a bill the top two bands made. Andrew W.K. is an incredibly nice guy, too. The more you know.
  
  
• HONORABLE MENTIONS I DON'T HAVE THE TIME/PATIENCE TO GO INTO DETAIL OVER: Ash at Irving Plaza in NYC 06.13.03... The Shins at Moby Dick in Madrid 04.13.04... Beck w/ the Flaming Lips at the Landmark Theatre 10.26.02 (would have made the top 5 if Beck hadn't been dying of food poisoning)... Blink-182 w/ New Found Glory at the NY State Fair 09.02.01 (don't laugh; Blink put on an awesome show, and it was a great kick-off for college)...Ted "The Man" Leo & the Pharmacists in the Schine Underground 04.23.05 (because, well, he's the man)
  

• DANIEL TOSH & ZACK GALIFIANAKIS - GOLDSTEIN AUDITORIUM - 03.25.05
  This was easily the best comedy show I saw in four years at SU. Tosh was magnificent; I couldn't remember any comedian (other than Mitch Hedberg, who we'll discuss in a minute) who made me laugh as consistently and sincerely. My stomach hurt by the end of his set, and Galifianakis hadn't even come on yet. Of course, Zach was pretty drunk, but could still play his piano gracefully and opened with the joke, "When I drink, my southern accent comes back. I start saying things like 'y'all'..and, 'nigger.'" He wasn't quite as great or consistent as Tosh, but he was still better than almost any other comedian who I saw in Goldstein in four years. A riot.
  
• DAVE ATTELL, LEWIS BLACK, AND MITCH HEDBERG - LANDMARK THEATER - 09.27.03
  Look at this bill! Only $30- that was $10 apiece to see three of my favorite comedians. Black wasn't quite as great doing standup as he is on his weekly Daily Show appearances, and Attell was on for a bit long, but I he did tell two jokes that had me cracking up for a solid two minutes apiece. And what could have been better than seeing Mitch during his prime? In March, when I found out about his death, the first thing I thought was how grateful I was that I had this opportunity to see him.
  
• DAVE CHAPPELLE - GOLDSTEIN AUDITORIUM - 11.16.02
  I think this was right before his show launched and his career shot into the stratosphere. At any rate, his standup was solid per usual, and I think he had all the white kids on campus talking like pimps for a couple of weeks.
  

• JIM BREUER AND SOME GUY WHO WAS EVEN WORSE THAN HIM - SOPHOMORE YEAR, SOMETIME IN GOLDSTEIN
  I didn't even save this ticket stub. Man, they sucked. What a pair of no-talent jackasses. The dude who opened for Breuer made a bunch of idiotic jokes about Muslims then proceeded to make fun of the people who were offended. It's called having enough substance to back up jokes like that, asshole. And I still don't understand why Jim Breuer's famous.
  
• JUICE JAM '03 - 09.07.03 - GOLDSTEIN AUDITORIUM
  Even Gym Class heroes couldn't redeem this. I also arrived too late to catch my friend Matt doing stand-up; even he didn't understand why they wanted him to perform there. Nappy Roots headlined and were pretty terrible. I was so elated they actually got real bands like De La Soul for Juice Jam the following year.
  
• WBCN RIVER RAVE - 05.25.03 - MANSFIELD, MA
  I had never gone to any of these radio-run festivals in CT, but Nikki and her friends (along with the promise of seeing Blur) convinced me to try it out, especially since WBCN had a decent reputation. After this, I realized why I never went to any of these. Granted, I had a good time with Nikki, Erin, Naim, et al, and it was very cool to see Interpol, Jane's Addiction, Beck, Jack Johnson, and Dropkick Murphy's. You think any festival with a line-up that good would surely be worth it. But having to sit through Saliva and Good Charlotte seriously made me rethink my entire existence. Saliva have to be the worst fucking band in the universe. Come on! Their biggest hit was basically a string of ononmatopoeia and their set made me want to claw my eyes out. I also couldn't get to the bathrooms without navigating through a sea of piss-ass drunk people. Did I mention that Blur cancelled?
  

• Westcott Street
  
  It's kind of hard to explain, especially since a giant confederacy of morons ended up causing Planet 505 to go out at the beginning of this year, but there's more culture crammed into that one block of Westcott than there is in most of the other parts of the city combined. The cinema has screened countless great movies in my time here, Alto Cinco has some of the best Mexicanish cuisine, and to go into the good times I had at 505 would be an entry unto itself. (STPete shows w/ the Toasters, et al and of course a couple Skaloweens).
  
  
• The Sound Garden
  
  Yeah! Motherfucker!! I spent so goddamn much money here, but I'll be damned if I won't miss it like crazy. This is my favorite music/movie store ever and it just so happens to be right in the city where I attended college. Ain't that something. Because it is. Eric Guercio, one of their managers and a good friend of mine, is indisputably the man. The amount of CLASSICS they had on sale for $10 nearly made me have to change my pants every time I went in there. I made sure that nearly every friend I had made it there and got hooked.
  
  
• University Union
  
  This is a big one. I've been in that place steadily since freshman year in one capacity or another, mostly relating to the radio. It's where the magic happens. Gorode just needs to stop throwing shit around and keep putting on great concerts like he does. I won't forget all the presidents- Matt Singer, Dennis Jacobs, and of course Pete Thomas.
  
  
• Shaw Hall
  
  I lived here for half of my undergraduate career, and one of those two years one freshman year on Shaw 5, indisputably the best floor in SU history. I don't think you could beat Matt Finley, Andrew Parsons, Lex Romeo, Jason Fox, Reever, Matt Lascelle, Beth Glas, Clay Cox, Carmen Jackson (this list goes on and on) running around causing chaos as the constellation that we were. The dining hall was even good at one point. The Hidden Hall wasn't bad senior year, either. My residents definitely didn't suck.
  
  
• Jake's House in Baldwinsville
  
  The first time I ever went there, he hosted the Penguins for a barbecue at the end of our freshman year, and strangely enough, I've never had anything but good memories of the place. From the big day there in the spring of sophomore year filming Too Many Arnolds, American Idol, and of course The Story of Marcel, to the great days out there when I got back from Spain (watching "El Chupacabra" and just fucking around with Harold, et al), it's always been a good time. And he knows how much we all love his sister.
  
  
• Happy Endings
  
  My friend Andrea told me when we were in Madrid that Happy Endings had closed down. "Well, see you later, first two and a half years of college." Honestly, there was no better Saturday night spot for my friends and I back when we were largely non-drinkers. And whenever we went there, good things would happen. I don't think anyone's forgotten about the time that Andrew, Jason, and I began talking about various ways in which to blow, catch, and use a kiss while our female friends were amazed at how much time we could burn talking about nothing and loving it.
  
  I'll probably update really soon with a list of the best shows I've seen in college. Get excited. Now. Do it or I'll punch your whole family in the face.

1. Sondre Lerche - "Faces Down" (Fall 2002)
   
2. Blur - "Think Tank" (Spring 2003)
   
3. Aesop Rock - "Bazooka Tooth" (Spring 2003)
   
4. The Arcade Fire - "Funeral" (Fall 2004)
   
5. The Coup - "Party Music" (Fall 2001)
   
6. Tom Waits - "Alice" (Fall 2002)
   
7. Converge - "Jane Doe" (Spring 2003)
   
8. Dizzee Rascal- "Boy in Da Corner" (Fall 2003)
   
9. Wilco - "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (Fall 2001)
   
10. Ash - "Free All Angels" (Spring 2002)
    
    If you want commentary on the top 3, check out 20Watts, soon to be published by University Union. It'll be somewhere, probably the Schine Atrium or something. Contact me if you want me to save you a copy.