name your favorite band/artist that starts with each letter:

a - Afghan Whigs
b - Blonde Redhead
c - Codeine
d - Death Cab For Cutie
e - EPMD
f - Fugazi
g - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
h - Helmet (apparently no band that starts with H has put anything out that I like in awhile...)
i - Isotope 217 (not really...)
j - June of 44
k - KARP
l - Lamb
m - Mogwai
n - No Safety
o - Outkast (only other O CD I have is the Ohio Players - good, but not a favorite)
p - Joel RL Phelps & The Downer Trio
q - Quicksand
r - Radiohead
s - Silkworm
t - Team Dresch
u - Unwound
v - Velvet Underground
w - Gillian Welch
x - XOOS
y - Juno (I know it starts with a J, but I can't think of a Y band, and if this were some other languages, it'd sorta have a "Yuh" sound.)
z - John Zorn (nice, because it encompasses his 142 side projects, like Naked City, which otherwise would have taken up the N slot.)

Borrowed from ateolf. Results came from perusing the CDs currently within eyeshot. Don't quote me on this.

name your favorite METAL band/artist that starts with each letter:

a - Anthrax
b - Black Sabbath
c - Cannibal Corpse
d - Dream Theater
e - Eyehategod
f - Flotsam & Jetsam
g - G'n'F'n'R
h - Helloween
i - Iron Maiden
j - Judas Priest (Rob Halford version, thanks)
k - King Diamond
l - Nevermore
m - Motorhead
n - Neurosis
o - Ozzy Osbourne
p - Pantera
q - Queensryche
r - Ratt
s - Slayer
t - Testament
u - Unsane
v - Venom
w - W.A.S.P.
x - Xentrix
y - Y&T
z - bongZilla (couln't think of one for Z)

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I am now officially on unemployment. The online application I did the day I got laid off apparently didn't work, as they had no record of me in their system. But I be gettin the gubment checks soon enough.

Must leave the house.

My Top 10, presented in Raoul-O-Vision

I'm sticking strictly to releases from 2001. (There were lots of records from 2000 and earlier that I listened to at least as much if not more than those listed here.)

In alphabetical order:

Arab Strap - The Red Thread
Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Mogwai - Rock Action
Shipping News - Very Soon, And In Pleasant Company
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band - Burn Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards
System Of A Down - Toxicity
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Shannon Wright - Dyed In The Wool

Honorable mention: Boxhead Ensemble, Juno, Fugazi, Radiohead, Tool, Tortoise, Björk, The Incredible Moses Leroy, Linus Of Hollywood, others...

Test test testy

Hey...this new LJ client is purdy cool...I dunno how buggy it is still, but so far I like it...