OH LORD FINALLY. The master music list. You are SO WELCOME!

Okay, here’s how it works…I listed the bands and artists that got multiple votes ONLY, because cutting it down to consensus choices is less confusing (and Lonely Listener’s iPod is going to explode otherwise). I didn’t list specific albums either; a good way to get a feel for which albums you’d like/whether you’d like them is to go on Amazon and look at 1) the comments and 2) what other people who bought that album bought.

Other, non-band-specific recs come after.

Thanks so much to everyone who wrote in. Results below.

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Ani DiFranco
Arcade Fire
Ash
Basement Jaxx
Bebel Gilberto
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Harper
Beth Orton
The Bloc Party
Blue Merle
Broken Social Scene
Cat Power
Crowded House
Damien Rice
Dandy Warhols
Dar Williams
Dashboard Confessional
The Decemberists (probably the most recommended band on the list, and I…don’t see it, based on the stuff he said he didn’t like, but maybe there’s safety in numbers)
The Eels
Elastica
Elvis Costello
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand
Frente!
Galaxie 500
The Gossip
Guster
Half-Japanese
Heatmiser
Hot Hot Heat
Interpol
Iron and Wine
Jeff Buckley
Jet
John Vanderslice
Josh Ritter
The Killers
The Kinks
The Libertines
Love
Low
Massive Attack
Modest Mouse
Neil Finn
Neutral Milk Hotel
The New Pornographers
OK Go
Pixies
Placebo
Poe
Radiohead (…don’t start with “Kid A”)
Rasputina
REM
Rilo Kiley (another one I’m not sure about; it got a lot of votes, and I like a couple of their songs, but for full-length-album listening…it can wear a little thin, but maybe that’s just me)
Roxy Music
The Runaways
Sleater-Kinney
Snow Patrol
Social Distortion
Soul Coughing
Spoon
Stereophonics
Tom Waits (…okay…might require more patience than he’s going to have for this)
Travis
U2
The Von Bondies
Warren Zevon
X
XTC
Yo La Tengo

follow up on good songs you hear on TV shows you like, like Veronica Mars
use sites like Audioscrobbler and artofthemix.org to recommend stuff similar to music you already like (see also: iTunes’s iMix feature)
try out cheap records and CDs at garage sales and flea markets

[7/17/05]

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