The Music Lovers

I'm sorry. I love music. All music. And I'm trying to listen to all of it.


My love of music began before I can remember. Some of my first memories are Michael Jackson video and dance moves. Not to mention, Madonna's "Like a Prayer". Unfortunately, my addictive love of music was not nourished. I remember have a guitar at 3...and then not being able to listen to anything but Christian music by four. Michael W. Smith is not going to make a child dream to play like Eddie Van Halen.

Sadly, since those malnourished days, I've had a problem. A band becomes my favorite, and then I move on. They never stop being a favorite, but I don't give them the time they deserve. I'm sorry, I don't have an iPod.

This list is as close to chronological as I can get.

My Favorites:

1. Michael Jackson

(The Christian only period begins.)

2. DC Talk

(The Christian period begins to be avoided.)

3. Shaq

(Thus begins the great compromise. My music is censored; my music is censored by the RIAA and my own parents. Thank god for Wal-Mart.)

4. Korn: Edited.

(Heard at the house of friends.)

5. Limp Bizkit: Edited.

6. Godsmack: Edited

(I had to lie to get this album.)

7. Blink-182: Thus begins my true love of punk.

(This was only because I was sexually assaulted. What parent says "no" to a kid that just went through a tent full of kids and a broomstick?)

8. Sublime

9. Eminem

10. Red Hot Chili Peppers

11. Spineshank

(But only if I could play it with the volume turned all the way up.)

12. Bad Religion

13. The Foo Fighters

(Fuck, yeah?)

14. Greenday

(Kerplunk, baby. Kerplunk.)

15. Daft Punk

16. Pennywise

17. Dead Kennedys

18. 98 Mute

19. The Clash

20. Motion City Soundtrack

21. Tool

22. The Beatles

23. The Shout Out Louds

24. Minus the Bear

25. Explosions in the Sky

26. The Samuel Jackson 5

27. Interpol

28. Bloc Party

29. The Fall of Troy

30. David Bowie

31. Destroyer

32. Neutral Milk Society

I've been listening to Bad Religion a lot lately, and there are a lot of bands that still deserve my time (at least their old albums do) did Bowie, The Fall of Troy, Bloc Party, The Samuel Jackson 5, Explosions in the Sky, The Shout Out Louds, Tool, The Beatles, Motion City Soundtrack, 98 Mute, Dead Kennedys, Pennywise, Daft Punk, Bad Religion, Spineshank, RHCP, Eminem, Blink-182, Korn, DC Talk, Michael Jackson.