Live Bands

This list is more for my own record keeping purposes, but it goes along with my previous post. These are the bands that I have seen live in concert. The first list are the bands I saw willingly. These are bands I like. I've ranked them in the order I enjoyed the concert.

1. Ludo (x3)
2. Bowling for Soup
3. Mury (x2)
4. Sum 41
5. The Offspring
6. Madina Lake (x2)
7. Without a Face
8. Social Distortion
9. Single File
10. The Airborne Toxic Event
11. Unwritten Law
12. Green Day
13. Blink-182 (x2)
14. Linkin Park
15. The Higher
16. Billy Talent
17. Jimmy Eat World
18. The Starting Line (x2)
19. Say Anything
20. Madison Lights
21. The Used
22. Alkaline Trio (x2)
23. The Graduate (x2)
24. Just Surrender
25. My Chemical Romance (x3)
26. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
27. Tommy and the High Pilots (x2)
28. There for Tomorrow
29. 30 Seconds to Mars (x2)
30. Victim Effect (x2)

This second list is for the curious folks who like to know what bands opened for the bands above that I was forced to listen to in order to get to the good stuff. These bands range from mediocre to terrible. In no particular order:

Manchester Orchestra
The Architects
Stamps
Sparks the Rescue
MuteMath
Neon Trees (x2)
Amber Alert
Escape the Fate
King Niko
Drive By
Coheed and Cambria
Chiodos
Eye Alaska
Schoolyard Heroes
Street Dogs
Allred (x2)
Blackhounds
Franz Ferdinand
Taking Back Sunday
Chester French
Broke City (x2)
Billy Boy on Poison
Cursive
The Dear & Departed
Oh, Be Clever

My Favorite Bands

For a change of pace, I thought I'd let you know what kind of music I listen to, so here are my top 20 favorite bands of all time:

1. Blink-182
2. Ludo
3. Green Day
4. Mury
5. Alkaline Trio
6. SR-71
7. The Airborne Toxic Event
8. Bowling for Soup
9. American Hi-Fi
10. Single File
11. Sum 41
12. Billy Talent
13. The Offspring
14. Box Car Racer
15. Lucky Boys Confusion
16. Rise Against
17. Goldfinger
18. Weezer
19. The All-American Rejects
20. Good Charlotte

Best Musicals (Music)

Here's the other musical list. This one is based on the quality of their soundtracks:

1. Rent (2005)
2. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
3. A Goofy Movie (1995)
4. Newsies (1992)
5. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
6. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
7. Mulan (1998)
8. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
9. The Little Mermaid (1989)
10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Best Musicals (Film)

Melissa insisted that I make a list of movie musicals. I think she was mostly considering the soundtracks, whereas I tend to think of the filmmaking. So I'm going to compromise and make a list of each. Here are the movie musicals with the best filmmaking:

1. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
2. Fantasia (1940)
3. Chicago (2002)
4. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
5. The Lion King (1994)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
8. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
9. Newsies (1992)
10. Aladdin (1992)
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Best Movie Themes

This list is going to be a top twenty because, let's face it, the themes can be far superior to the film itself. I posted as many as I could find into the player at the bottom and tried to keep them in order. So you can listen to one if you're not familiar with it. I think I'm about four short. Enjoy!

1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
3. Jurassic Park (1993)
4. Jaws (1975)
5. Halloween (1978)
6. Gone With the Wind (1939)
7. Chariots of Fire (1981)
8. Dr. No (1962)
9. The Sting (1973)
10. Antz (1998)
11. The Pink Panther (1963)
12. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
13. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
14. Rocky (1976)
15. Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) (1966)
16. Mulan (1998)
17. La Vita E Bella (Life is Beautiful) (1997)
18. Superman (1978)
19. The Cider House Rules (1999)
20. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)