01. Dinosaur Jr
02. The Goddamn Flaming Lips
03. Replacements
04. Paul Westerberg
05. Son Volt
06. Uncle Tupelo
07. Pavement
08. Richmond Fontaine
09. Red House Painters
10. Butthole Surfers

It’s funny how this list dates me. I mean, this list shows just how “locked in the early ’90s” a guy can get. But, those were my formative years, and, these bands are attached to powerful, powerful things like “moving out on yer own” and “falling for a gal” and “getting run over the coals by that same dame” and “missing home” and “being in a northern state that’s a little too remote for my own good” and other heavy situations. You know how that goes. These guys won’t let you down, that’s for sure. Old standards.

Favorite Minneapolis Bands:
01. Replacements
02. Paul Westerberg
03. Hüsker Dü
04. Jayhawks
05. Cows
06. Lifter Puller
07. The Evening Rig
08. Hammerhead

Favorite Detroit Bands:
01. MC5
02. Mule
03. Dirtbombs
04. Bob Seger System, and hell, even the Silver Bullet Band.
05. Death
06. The Stooges
07. Grand Funk Railroad
08. The Spinners
09. Sonic’s Rendevous
10. The Romantics

Favorite Portland Bands:
01. Richmond Fontaine
02. Poison Idea
03. Elliot Smith
04. Red Fang
05. Anything Jicks.
06. Hazel.
07. Danava.

Favorite Chicago bands:
01. The Jesus Lizard
02. Shellac
03. Wilco
04. The Sea and Cake
05. Sam Prekop
06. Tortoise

The Outlaws:
01. Willie Nelson
02. Johnny Cash
03. Waylon Jennings
04. Kris Kristopherson
05. Merle Haggard
06. Johnny Paycheck
07. David Allan Coe
08. Charlie Pride
09. Townes Van Zandt.

01. Flaming Lips
02. Mercury Rev
03. My Bloody Valentine
04. Spiritualized
05. Swervedriver
06. Galaxie 500
07. Jesus & Mary Chain
08. Spacemen Three
09. Polyphonic Spree

01. Black Sabbath. (And none of that Dio crap.)
02. Metallica (Up to the black album.)
03. Baroness
04. Mastodon
05. High On Fire
06. Sleep
07. Red Fang
08. Lord Dying
09. Orchid
10. Danava
11. Pentagram
12. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
13. Motörhead

01. David Yow of The Jesus Lizard.
02. Wayne Coyne of the goddamned Flaming Lips.
03. Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers.
04. Craig Finn of The Hold Steady and Lifter Puller.
05. Bob Pollard of Guided by Voices.

01. Steven Drozd of the goddamned Flaming Lips.
02. John Convertino of Calexico, Giant Sand.
03. Jim White of The Dirty Three, Cat Power.
04. Patrick Keeler of The Greenhornes, Raconteurs.
05. Cody Willis of Big Business, Melivins, Murder City Devils.
06. Todd Trainer of Shellac, Rifle Sport.
07. Mac McNeilly of The Jesus Lizard.

Aerial M, Afghan Whigs, Al Green, Album Leaf, Alison Krauss, Amalgated Sons of Rest, Ana Caram, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead, Appendix Out, Archers of Loaf, Arcwelder, Ashtray Hearts, Autumn Defense, Avett Brothers, Azure Ray, Backsliders, Bad Brains, Band of Horses, Barry Black, Bash & Pop, Beatles (From England, y’know?), Belle & Sebastian, Bellwether, Bevis Frond, Black Keys, Big Business, Big Boys, Bill Callahan, Bill Fox, Bill Frisell, Black Diamond Heavies, Black Eyed Snakes, Black Flag, Black Keys, Black Lips, Blonde Redhead, Blitzen Trapper, Blue Cheer, Blue Mountain, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Bob Mould, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Boss Hog, Bottle Rockets, Bread, Breeders, Brian Eno, Broken Social Scene, Broken West, Bruce Springsteen, Buck Owens, Richard Buckner, Buffalo Killers, Buffalo Tom, Built To Spill, Butthole Surfers (pre-1995), Byrds, Calexico, Califone, Cardinal, Cash Money (bacon friers)Catfish Haven, Cat Power, Caustic Resin, Centro-Matic, Chavez, Cheap Trick, Chet Atkins, Chicago, Circle Jerks, Coachwhips, Cobra Verde, Cows, Crooked Fingers, Cro-Mags, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Cult, Dag Nasty, Damien Jurado, Danava, Danzig, Davide Bowie, David Vandervelde, Dead Moon, Dearhoof, Deerheart, Deerhunter, Decemberists, Descendents, Dexateens, Dianogah, Dinosaur Jr, Dirtbombs, Dirty Three, Don Caballero, Drive-By Truckers, Dungen, Early Day Miners, Elf Power, Elliot Smith, Eric Bachman, Evan Dando, Evening Rig, Explosions in the Sky, Faces, Feelies, Feist, fIREHOSE, Fluid, Frank Black, Fridge, Friends of Dean Martinez, Fuck, Fucking Champs, Fugazi, Further, Galaxie 500, Gang of Four, Gary Louris, Gastr Del Sol, Giant Sand, Girls Against Boys, Greenhornes, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Golden Smog, Gordon Lightfoot, Gossip, Grand Champeen, Grateful Dead’s first couple “folk” albums, Giant Sand, Guided By Voices, Gutter Twins, Guy Clark, Handsome Family, Harvey Milk, Hazel, Hazeldine, Heartless Bastards, High on Fire, Hold Steady, Hüsker Dü, Ida, Idaho, Jason Isbell, Jay Farrar, Jay Bennett, Jayhawks, Jesus Lizard, Jim O’Rourke, Johnny Cash, Josh Ritter, Josh Rouse, Junior Brown, Juno, Karp, Kathleen Edwards, Kid Dakota, Kill Creek, Kings of Convenience, Kinks, Ladyhawk, Lambchop, Lanterna, Laughing Hyenas, Lifter Puller, Loose Fur, Low, Lucinda Williams, M. Ward, Magnolia Electric Company, Maritime, Mark Kozelek, Meat Pupperts, Meices, Melvins, Mercury Rev, Mudhoney, Mule, Metallica’s first four albums, Modest Mouse’s first couple records, Muslims, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, Mike Johnson, Minutemen, Misfits, Neko Case, Neutral Milk Hotel, Night Marchers, Nick Drake, Owen, Oxes, Oxford Collapse, Palace Brothers, Paw, Pentagram, Pernice Brothers, Polvo, Poison Idea, Polyphonic Spree, Poison Arrows, Portals, Preston School of Industry, Archer Prewitt, Promise Ring, P.W. Long, Sam Prekop, R.E.M., R.L. Burnside, Red Fang, Red House Painters, Red Sovine, Richard Buckner, Rogue Wave, Scud Mountain Boys, Sea and Cake, Seam, Seawhores, Sebadoh, Screaming Trees, Scud Mountain Boys, Seven Seconds, Shellac, Shins, Silver Jews, Smog, Smithereens, Spiritualized, Springsteen, Stephen Malkmus, Stereolab, Steve Earle, Stooges, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, Swervedriver, Swell, Tad, Tanner, Texas Is The Reason, Thee Shams, Todd Rundgren, Tortoise, Townes Van Zandt, TV on the Radio, Twilight Singers, Unwound, Urge Overkill, Tom Waits, Whiskeytown, Will Johnson, Will Oldham, Willie Nelson, Witch, X, U2 (1980-1984) and a little band from New Jersey called Yo La Tengo.