Of Moons, Birds & Monsters..

So this is really delayed but let's finish up the music month of August.

Honorable mentions: The Teenagers, MGMT, Phoenix, At the Drive- In, Empire Of the Sun, HIM, Tori Amos, The Faint, N.E.R.D., Lo- fi Fnk, Turbonegro, Broken Social Scene, K-os,The Arcade Fire, Tegan and Sara, Blondie, and Nirvana

So to recap out of 30;

I have seen 10 of the featured artists 30 live.

lets see...

I have seen MSTRKRFT 3 times- One time with Steve Aoki

The Wailers with Damian Marley (Bob's Son) on vocals

Coldplay

Ladytron with Data Rock

Kings of Leon with the Wigs

The Mars Volta twice

The Presets

Interpol

Red Hot Chili Peppers

and The Faint

The artist/group that I have appreciated the longest is Fleetwood Mac. Mirage was the first rock music I had ever heard.

The artist/ group I most recently got turned on to is Kings of Leon or TV on the Radio.

I Don't Really Care What You Have To Say But...

#30- Eminem

Gateway Song: "The Real Slim Shady"

Love Affair: "The Way I Am", "Stan", "Without Me", "Cleanin Out My Closet" and "Kill You".

Fav. Album: The Marshall Mathers LP

I can't shake this one along with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. Classic.

All We Do Is Party!

#29- MSTRKRFT

Gateway Song: "Easy Love"

Love Affair: "Paris", "Bounce" and "Fist Of God".

Watch this! Don't you have the urge to stroke that mustache?

Dear Music, This Is The Best...

#28- TV On the Radio

Gateway Song: "DLZ"

Love Affair: "Golden Age", "Dancing Choose", "Staring At the Sun", and "Wolf Like Me"

Fav. Album: Dear Science

Certainly Not the Last...

#27- The Beatles

Gateway Song: "A Hard Day's Night"

Love Affair: "Hello Goodbye", "Paperback Writer" and "Across The Universe".

Fav album: By Personal Choice- Sgt.

Peppers

By Music Excellence- The White Album

Watch- Help! The Beatles (1965)

Who Doesn't Like This?

#26- Bob Marley and the Wailers

Gateway Song: "I Shot the Sheriff"

Love Affair: "Is This Love", "No Woman No

Cry", "Could You Be Loved", and "Jamming"

I'm Alot Like You...

#25- Neil Young

Gateway Song: "Heart Of Gold"

Love Affair: "Old Man", "Alabama", "The Needle and the Damage Done"

Fav. Album: Harvest

Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire

Today is Jimi Day: #24- Jimi Hendrix

Gateway Song: "Purple Haze" or "Foxey Lady"

Love Affair: "Fire", "Hey Joe", "All Along the Watchtower", "Crosstown Traffic", and "Little Wing".

What Ever Happened?

#23- The Strokes

Gateway Song: "Juiceboxx"

Love Affair: "I Can't Win", "Reptilia", "Electricityescape", and "Ize Of the World".

Fav. Album: First Impressions of Earth

I was a late bloomer in Strokes World, But please Strokes come out with a new album!

This Does Not Make Me Gay...

#22- Coldplay

Gateway Song: "Yellow"

Love Affair: "Clocks", "Don't Panic", "Trouble", "Fix You" and "Talk".

Fav. Album: Parachutes

"You're Watching TV, I Stay Up All Night"

I'm a little behind on this, but I must press on with this Month Of Music...

#21-Death From Above 1979

Gateway Song: "Romantic Rights"

Love Affair: "Blood On Our Hands" and "Pull Out".

And now that they are disbanded this Love Affair has led to MSTRKRFT. epic.

Fav. Album: You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

Swedish Birds

#20-The Knife

Gateway Song: "Lasagna"

Love Affair: "Silent Shout", "Pass This On", "You Take My Breath Away", and "Heartbeats".

Fav. Album-Deep cuts

Watch This

They Only Want You When You Are 17, When You're 21, You're No Fun

#19-Ladytron

Gateway Song: "Movie"

Love Affair: "Seventeen", "True Mathematics", "Cracked LCD", "Destroy Everything You Touch"

Fav. Album: Light and Magic

It's The Times Of The Season...

#18- The Zombies

Gateway Song: "Time Of the Season"

Love Affair: "She's Not There", "Tell Her No", and "The Way I Feel Inside".

Watch: Dear Wendy (2005)

Keep On Telling Me These Little Lies

#17- Fleetwood Mac

Gateway Song: "Book Of Love" and the album Mirage (1982)

Love Affair: "Hold Me", "Can't Go Back", "Go Your Own Way", "Rhiannon", "Dreams", and "Little Lies".

Fav. Album: Personal choice- Mirage

Music Excellence- Rumours

He's Not Selling Any Alibis

#16- Bob Dylan

Gateway Song: 'Blowin' In the Wind"

Love Affair: "Like a Rollin Stone", "I Want You", and "Lay Lady Lay"

Watch: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) and I'm Not There (2007)

Just like A Paper Tiger...

#15- Beck

Gateway Song: "Sea Change"

Love Affair: "Paper Tiger", the Modern Guilt album especially "Gamma Ray", "Youthless", and "Profanity Prayers".

Only By This Night...

#14- Kings of Leon

Gateway Song: "On Call"

Love Affair: "Closer", "Use Somebody", "My Party", and "Charmer".

Fav. Album: Only By the Night

It's As Soft As Your Pillow...

#13-Radiohead

Gateway Song: "High and Dry"

Love Affair: the album In Rainbows, "How to Disappear Completely", and "Creep"

Fav. Album-Personal choice-In Rainbows

Music Excellence- Hail to the Thief

Oh Seduce Me Now With Your Loafers.

#12-Patrick Wolf

Gateway Song: "The Libertine"

Love Affair: "Wind In The Wires", "Tristan", and "Overture".

Fav. Album- Wind in the Wires

This is some of the most beautiful, creative music, I have ever heard- Watch This