NPR's 50 Band Challenge

I thought this was interesting in one of those "Facebook list making exercise" ways...NPR's Bob Boilen was challenged by a friend to list 50 bands he'd seen. In that list, he only included bands he's seen as a fan, not ones he's covered. He made it to 101 before giving up. He then asked readers of the All Songs Considered blog to write a comment and include their lists. I made it 70 before I ran out of space, so I decided to expand upon that list here, and ask readers to make their lists, as well.

My list (in no particular order)

1. Harry Connick, Jr
2. Sting
3. Concrete Blonde
4. They Might Be Giants
5. Urban Dance Squad
6. Squeeze
7. Neil Finn
8. Better than Ezra
9. Cowboy Mouth
10. Tool
11. G Love (no Special Sauce)
12. 7 Mary 3
13. Tool
14. Tricky
15. DJ Spooky
16. Plastilina Mosh
17. Third Eye Blind
18. Cracker
19. Snoop Dogg
20. Red Hot Chili Peppers
21. The Walkmen
22. The National
23. Ani DiFranco
24. Indigo Girls
25. Sarah Maclachlan
26. Natalie Merchant
27. The Cardigans
28. Liz Phair
29. The Finn Brothers
30. Shudder to Think
31. Built to Spill
32. Ra Ra Riot
33. Andrew Bird
34. St. Vincent
    
35. Bob Mould
36. Jenny Owen Youngs
37. Jenny Lewis
38. Rilo Kiley
39. Death Cab for Cutie
40. Ben Gibbard
41. David Bazan
42. Regina Spektor
43. Fountains of Wayne
44. TV on the Radio
45. Paolo Nutini
46. DJ Shadow
47. Modest Mouse
48. Asleep at the Wheel
49. Noah & the Whale
50. Musee Mecanique
51. Tilly & the Wall
52. The Black Kids
53. Mates of State
54. Depeche Mode
55. Erasure
56. Cursive
57. Telekinesis
58. Toad the West Sprocket
59. Das Ich
60. Brian Jonestown Massacre
61. Longwave
62. Bloc Party
63. Los Campesinos!
64. Stars
65. Travis
66. The Swell Season
67. Damien Rice
68. Cat Power
69. Grizzly Bear
70. The Doves
71. Ingrid Michaelson
72. Rachel Yamagata
73. The Shins
74. My Morning Jacket
75. Laura Gibson
76. Tallest Trees
77. Cheap Trick
78. Fleet Foxes
79. Iron & Wine
80. Electric 6
81. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
82. Thao Nguyen
83. Exit Clov
84. Basia Bulat
85. Ted Leo
86. The Waco Brothers
87. Matt Pond PA
88. Madeline Peyroux
89. Metric
90. M. Doughty
91. An Horse
92. The Hold Steady
93. Tokyo Police Club
94. New Pornographers
95. Destroyer
96. April Smith
97. Ari Hest
98. Ben Folds
99. Vampire Weekend
100. Billy Bragg
101. J. Roddy Walston & the Business
102. The Magnetic Fields
103. John Legend
104. Raphael Saadiq
105. The Reserves
106. Honor by August
107. The Beanstalk Library
108. Vandaveer
109. of Montreal
     

I'm sure there are more, but this is a good start