Thursday, August 20, 2009

This List is Life...


You know those Facebook quizzes? I usually ignore them ("What crayon color are you?") but one circulated recently that I just had to partake in. It wasn't a quiz, it was "Name 50 concerts you've been to". Seeing as I've gone to a handful this summer, I thought I'd conjure up a list. The 50 I came up with doesn't even cover half of it. Later, I remembered The Clash, REM, Black Eyed Peas, 10,000 Maniacs, World Party, Sarah McLaughlin, The Waterboys, Depeshe Mode, Beastie Boys, and on and on and on.

I've always been into music, especially live music, and try to go to as many shows as possible and that my bank account will allow. As my old college roommate Jodi wrote after the Facebook list, "This list...is life, and yours is very rich." To which I emphatically agree. 

1. Grace Jones
2. Big Audio Dynamite
3. The Police
4. Paul Simon
5. Lyle Lovett
6. The Cure
7. X
8. Barry Manilow
9. Rod Stewart
10. Prince
11. Simon and Garfunkel
12. Ozomatli
13. Macy Gray
14. Ella Fitzgerald
15. Frank Sinatra
17. Sarah Vaughn
18. Tracy Chapman
19. Jane Siberry
20. Diana Krall
21. David Byrne
22. The Flaming Lips
23. Beck
24. Paul Weller
25. Alanis Morisette
26. Bonnie Raitt
27. Jackson Brown
28. Sidestepper
29. Lucinda Williams
30. Jonathan Richmond
31. Dave Frishberg
32. Indigo Girls
33. The Kinks
34. Madness
35. Peter Gabriel
36. The Four Tops
37. Joni Mitchell
38. Joe Jackson
39. Ben Harper
40. Ani DiFranco
41. Heart
43. The Who
44. Los Lobos
45. Arrested Development
46. Michelle Shocked
47. Hugh Masakela
48. Black Eyed Peas
49. Brazillian Girls
50. Leonard Cohen

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