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| Val's Top 100 Favorite Bands(And their best songs): 1.Modest Mouse(Paper Thin Walls) 2.The Violent Femmes(Johnny) 3.The Pixies(Dig For Fire)* 4.Less Than Jake(Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts) 5.Coheed and Cambria(Cuts Marked in the Marching of Men)** 6.Mad Caddies(10 West) 7.Screeching Weasel(Teenage Slumber Party) 8.Built to Spill(Car) 9.Sublime(Under My Voodoo) 10.Led Zeppelin(Black Dog) 11.Radiohead(Karma Police) 12.Jethro Tull(Cross-Eyed Mary) 13.The Mars Volta(Concertina) 14.The Smashing Pumpkins(Luna) 15.The Red Hot Chili Peppers(Purple Stain) 16.Operation Ivy(Smiling) 17.The Clash(Overpowered By Funk) 18.Flogging Molly(Saltydog)* 19.King Crimson(Epitaph) 20.Sigur Ros(Staralfur) 21.Porcupine Tree(In Formaldehyde) 22.Tool(Hooker with a Penis) 23.The Aquabats(Worms Make Dirt) 24.Nine Inch Nails(Last) 25.Mindless Self Indulgence(Cocaine and Toupees) 26.Nirvana(Been A Son) 27.Dropkick Murphys(Four Dead Cheerleaders) 28.The Vibrators(Disco in Moscow) 29.Le Tigre(My Art) 30.The Postal Service(Sleeping In) 31.The Mothers of Invention(Lets Make The Water Turn Black) 32.NoFX(Lori Meyers)* 33.Hefner(Don't Flake Out On Me) 34.Glassjaw(Cosmopolitan Blood Loss) 35.The Blood Brothers(American Vultures) 36.Voodoo Glow Skulls (Charlie Brown) 37.Pennywise(Greed) 38.Bob Marley and the Wailers(Do It Twice) 39.Jimi Hendrix(Voodoo Child) 40.The Sounds(Living In America) 41.The Beatles(Yesterday) 42.A Perfect Circle(Three Libras) 43.Weezer(The Good Life) 44.Le Tigre(My Art) 45.Propagandhi(Showdown) 46.The Dandy WArhols(Cool as Kim Deal) 47.Skankin' Pickle(Gas In My Car) 48.Millencolin(Penguins and Polar Bears) 49.Rage Against the Machine(Testify) 50.Dire Straits(Romeo and Juliet) 51.Pink Floyd(Shine On You Crazy Diamond) 52.The Police(Roxanne) 53.Motion City Soundtrack(Capital H) 54.Pelican(Portugal the Man) 55.The Doors(Peace Frog) 56.Black Flag(Six Pack) 57.Janes Addiction(My Cats Name is Maceo) 58.AFI(Fishbowl)* 59.Hellogoodbye(Homewrecker) 60.KMFDM(Megalomaniac) 61.Blind Guardian(Mirror Mirror) 62.Silverchair(Dearest Helpless) 63.Save Ferris(Goodbye) 64.Fountains of Wayne(Hackensack) 65.Straylight Run(A Slow Desent) 66.Green Day(Brain Stew) 67.Oasis(Morning Glory) 68.The Verve(Freshmen) 69.Mudhoney(Touch Me, I'm Sick) 70.Ani DiFranco(Little Plastic Castle) 71.Queen(Bicycle) 72.The Hives(Die, All Right) 73.Minor Threat(Look Back and Laugh) 74.Metric(IOU)* 75.The Suicide Machines(New Girl) 76.Mustard Plug(Go) 77.Deftones(Around The Fur) 78.Rancid(Salvation) 79.The White Stripes(Black Math)* 80.Billy Talent(Prisoners of Today) 81.The Planet Smashers(Surfin In Tofino) 82.IMArobot(Black Jettas)** 83.The Vines(Country Yard) 84.Anti-flag(Seattle was a Riot)* 85.The Unicorns(Ready To Die)* 86.Tracy Bonham(Mother Mother) 87.A Flock of Seagulls(I Ran) 88.The Fun Loving Criminals(Scooby Snacks) 89.Reel Big Fish(Valerie) 90.Sneakerpimps(6 Underground) 91.Oingo Boingo(Weird Science) 92.Jefferson Airplane(White Rabbit) 93.Rush(Limelight) 94.The Dillinger Escape Plan(Sugar Coated Sour) 95.Mogwai(Cody) 96.The Bad Plus(Velouria(Cover))* 97.Explosions In the Sky(Die) 98.Blondie(Call Me) 99.Deftones(Around the Fur) 100.The Mighty Mighty Bosstones(The Impression That I Get) (*I got to see these bands live) |
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| Current Five Top Songs: 1) Bouree by Jethro Tull 2) Willow Tree by G.Love & Special Sauce 3)Scarlet Begonias(Cover) by Sublime 4)Backdrifts by Radiohead 5) Parasites by Ugly Casanova |
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| Bands I've seen live recently: Oct 29 '04: Coheed and Cambria w/ 3 and UnderOath @ The Vogue(Vancouver) Sept 7 '04: The Pixies w/ The Bad Plus and The Marble Index @ The Plaza of Nations(Vancouver) July 13 '04: Warped Tour Featuring NoFX, Bad Religion, Coheed and Cambria, Flogging Molly, IMArobot, and others @ Thunderbird Stadium(Vancouver) Feb 2 '04: The Dillinger Escape Plan w/ The Locust and Your Enemies Friends @ The Mesa Luna(Vancouver) Nov 15 '03: Hot Hot Heat w/ Metric and The Unicorns @ Sugar(Victoria) Oct 8 '03: AFI w/ Poison the Well and Autopilot Off @ The Commodore Ballroom(Vancouver) Sept 15'03: The White Stripes w/ IMArobot @ The Plaza of Nations(Vancouver) |
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