As I think I've mentioned once or twice before, someone once called "bullshit" on my statement that I had listened to "thousands" of bands. In order to prove him wrong, I said I would name 1,000 bands - not local bands, either, 1,000 bands you could conceivably buy in a record store or on Amazon or something - that I enjoy. Since the ratio of "bands I enjoy" to "bands I do not enjoy" is so low, it logically followed that if I could do 1,000 I like, then surely I've heard thousands of bands that I don't like.
Well, I got to 700 without blinking but slowed down, and by 800 I was struggling a bit with my memory. I saved the list for posterity, and thus, here it is. These are good bands. Check them out!
1. Sigur Ros
2. The Who
3. My Bloody Valentine
4. Ethyl Meatplow
5. Scarnella
6. Mike Watt
7. The Minutemen
8. The Rolling Stones
9. The Meat Puppets
10. Nirvana
11. Mudhoney
12. Pearl Jam
13. Slowdive
14. Jesus and Mary Chain
15. XTC
16. X
17. Mogwai
18. Jane's Addiction
19. Scruffy the Cat
20. Camper Van Beethoven
21. June of 44
22. Fugazi
23. him
24. Nineteen Forty-Five
25. Tricky
26. Acid Mothers Temple
27. Melt-Banana
28. Shonen Knife
29. Boris
30. Ghost
31. Yo La Tengo
32. Neutral Milk Hotel
33. Olivia Tremor Control
34. Elf Power
35. Beulah
36. Circulatory System
37. The Killers
38. Duran Duran
39. Michael Jackson
40. Annie
41. The Pipettes
42. The Go! Team
43. Sloan
44. Slint
45. Bad Religion
46. Social Distortion
47. Pavement
48. Pixies
49. Liars
50. Front 242
51. The Final Cut
52. Consolidated
53. Trans Am
54. Blue Cheer
55. Hawkwind
56. The Incredible String Orchestra
57. Silver Apples
58. Silver Jews
59. A Silver Mt. Zion
60. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
61. Frankie Sparo
62. The Doldrums
63. LCD Soundsystem
64. Animal Collective
65. Iron & Wine
66. Devendra Banhart
67. Unicorns
68. Islands
69. Underworld
70. Sisters of Mercy
71. Leonard Cohen
72. M83
73. Pylon
74. Polvo
75. Built To Spill
76. Red House Painters
77. Killing Joke
78. TV On the Radio
79. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
80. Android Lust
81. Nine Inch Nails
82. tAtU
83. The Smiths
84. Joy Division
85. The Buzzcocks
86. Sonic Youth
87. This Will Destroy You
88. World's End Girlfriend
89. Destroyer
90. Dinosaur Jr.
91. Sebadoh
92. Iron Maiden
93. Guitar Wolf
94. Rocket From the Crypt
95. Radiohead
96. Future Sound of London
97. Third Eye Foundation
98. Matt Elliott
99. The Sun City Girls
100.Jenny Owen Youngs
1. Loscil
2. Christmas Decorations
3. Low
4. Bob Dylan
5. Bruce Springsteen
6. Tom Waits
7. The Birthday Party
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
9. Carla Bozulich
10. Stabbing Westward
11. Nice Strong Arm
12. Butthole Surfers
13. Ween
14. The Fiery Furnaces
15. The National
16. Wolf Parade
17. Wolf Eyes
18. Deerhoof
19. The Dears
20. The Books
21. Stars
22. Kevin Drew
23. Arcade Fire
24. Public Enemy
25. Public Image Limited
26. The Sex Pistols
27. Agent Orange
28. Kraftwerk
29. Neu!
30. Amon Duul II
31. Can
32. Faust
33. Gong
34. The Boredoms
35. Isis
36. Pelican
37. The Constantines
38. Eric's Trip
39. Thrush Hermit
40. The Superfriendz
41. Plumtree
42. Cub
43. The Shop Assistants
44. The Lucksmiths
45. M.I.A.
46. Lady Sovereign
47. The Streets
48. Dizzee Rascal
49. MF Doom
50. Zoe
51. Santos Innocentes
52. Sodastereo
53. Manu Chao
54. Stereolab
55. Black Sabbath
56. Led Zeppelin
57. Cake
58. Soul Coughing
59. Veruca Salt
60. Nina Gordon
61. Blake Babies
62. Juliana Hatfield
63. The Lemonheads
64. Kittens
65. Tit Wrench
66. Rich Kids On LSD
67. Windy & Carl
68. King Missile
69. The Church
70. The Chameleons
71. Echo and the Bunnymen
72. Jefferson Airplane
73. Strawberry Alarm Clock
74. Quicksilver Messenger Service
75. Zoogz Rift
76. The The
77. Talking Heads
78. The Replacements
79. Cut Rate Box
80. Mona Lisa Overdrive
81. Skinny Puppy
82. Foetus
83. Wiseblood
84. Lydia Lunch
85. Amp
86. A.M.P. Studio
87. Labradford
88. James
89. A Certain Ratio
90. Happy Mondays
91. The Jesus Lizard
92. Rapeman
93. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
94. Okkervil River
95. Magnetic Fields
96. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
97. Lift To Experience
98. DJ Krush
99. Steel Pole Bathtub
100.Gumball
1. Geraldine Fibbers
2. Red Sparowes
3. Fields of the Nephilim
4. Tortoise
5. Do Make Say Think
6. Transvision Vamp
7. Wendy James
8. Elvis Costello
9. Fuck
10. Frog Eyes
11. Counting Crows
12. Smashing Pumpkins
13. Velocity Girl
14. Poster Children
15. Lightning Seeds
16. Charlatans UK
17. Primal Scream
18. Bullet LaVolta
19. Chavez
20. Cat Power
21. Feist
22. The New Pornographers
23. Neko Case
24. Wilco
25. Sun Volt
26. Uncle Tupelo
27. For Squirrels
28. Los Amigos Invisiblos
29. Moltov
30. Attaque 77
31. Cafe Tacuba
32. NWA
33. Geto Boyz
34. Arab Strap
35. Negativland
36. Lords of Acid
37. Soundgarden
38. Helmet
39. Wall of Voodoo
40. Tristeza
41. Jessamine
42. The Orb
43. Orbital
44. Aphex Twin
45. Boards of Canada
46. Gang of Four
47. Generation X
48. Grand Funk Railroad
49. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
50. The Vaselines
51. Tegan and Sarah
52. They Might Be Giants
53. Tones on Tail
54. The Legendary Pink Dots
55. The Tear Garden
56. Pigface
57. Swans
58. Unsane
59. Catherine Wheel
60. Hum
61. Maserati
62. Dead Meadow
63. The Black Heart Procession
64. Pinback
65. Dirty Three
66. Smog
67. Low Pop Suicide
68. Dire Straits
69. The KLF
70. Lo-Fidelity All-Stars
71. Chemical Brothers
72. The White Stripes
73. The Kills
74. Beck
75. Madonna
76. Prince
77. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
78. Nitzer Ebb
79. EMF
80. Tool
81. Ghostface Killah
82. The Hold Steady
83. Set Fire To Flames
84. Helium
85. Freezepop
86. Jawbreaker
87. NOFX
88. Green Day
89. Ministry
90. Quasi
91. Le Tigre
92. Sleater-Kinney
93. Chicks On Speed
94. Miss Kittin
95. Lesbians On Ecstasy
96. Peaches
97. Folk Implosion
98. Jason Loewenstein
99. The For Carnation
100.Massive Attack
1. King Loser
2. Autechre
3. Current 93
4. The B-52s
5. Wire
6. Concrete Blonde
7. Papa M
8. Aerial M
9. David Pajo
10. Spoon
11. Railroad Jerk
12. The Traveling Wilburys
13. The Beach Boys
14. The Ramones
15. Black Tape For a Blue Girl
16. The Muffs
17. Hole
18. The Slits
19. The Raincoats
20. Thee Headcoats
21. The Runaways
22. Joan Jett
23. Talk Talk
24. The Donnas
25. Girl Talk
26. The Twilight Sad
27. Husker Du
28. Sugar
29. Frank Black
30. Frank Black and the Catholics
31. Elevator To Hell
32. Belle and Sebastian
33. Julie Doiron
34. Xiu Xiu
35. Kenny Rogers
36. Johnny Cash
37. Willie Nelson
38. Steve Earle
39. Southern Culture On the Skids
40. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
41. Pussy Galore
42. Boss Hog
43. Elastica
44. Sappho
45. Los Alamos
46. Spiritualized
47. Spacemen 3
48. Love and Rockets
49. Bauhaus
50. Peter Murphy
51. The Real Tuesday Weld
52. Bjork
53. Nina Simone
54. Dogme 95
55. Belly
56. Throwing Muses
57. Sugarcubes
58. Midnight Oil
59. The Fucking Champs
60. The Fucking Am
61. The Trans Champs
62. Bright Eyes
63. Eagles of Death Metal
64. Queens of the Stone Age
65. Anthrax
66. Godflesh
67. Jesu
68. MC Chris
69. Mojave 3
70. Sun Kil Moon
71. Thanksgiving
72. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
73. Stephen Malkmus
74. Preston School of Industry
75. Bardo Pond
76. Hash Jar Tempo
77. Ash Ra Temple
78. Ravi Shankar
79. Roy Montgomery
80. Flying Saucer Attack
81. 2 Live Jews
82. Portishead
83. Pressurehed
84. The Kinks
85. The Fall
86. The Faint
87. Out Hud
88. !!!
89. Death From Above 1979
90. Modest Mouse
91. 90 Day Men
92. Atombombpocketknife
93. Tarentel
94. Dead Can Dance
95. Captain Beefheart
96. Japonize Elephants From Zurdok Land of the Lost
97. Legendary Shack Shakers
98. Run-DMC
99. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
100.I Am the World Trade Center
1. Mazzy Star
2. Hope Sandoval and the Warm Intentions
3. Marilyn Manson
4. Fiona Apple
5. Violent Femmes
6. Weezer
7. The Vanity Set
8. Pulp
9. Amy Winehouse
10. Blur
11. Oasis
12. The Byrds
13. Cream
14. Simon & Garfunkel
15. Neil Young
16. Crazy Horse
17. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
18. Christian Death
19. Laibach
20. Vampyros Lesbos
21. Mouse On Mars
22. UNKLE
23. Fatboy Slim
24. Dr. Dog
25. The Soft Boys
26. Disco Inferno
27. The Beta Band
28. YMCK
29. Final Fantasy
30. Spectrum
31. Nik Turner
32. Motorhead
33. AC/DC
34. Death In Vegas
35. My Morning Jacket
36. Cornershop
37. Codeine
38. Morphine
39. Bedhead
40. The New Year
41. Throbbing Gristle
42. Psychic TV
43. The Amino Acids
44. Cabaret Voltaire
45. ClockDVA
46. To Live and Shave in LA
47. Nurse With Wound
48. Leather Strip
49. Alien Sex Fiend
50. Impotent Sea Snakes
51. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
52. God Is My Co-Pilot
53. Psychedelic Furs
54. Love Spit Love
55. Soundtribe Sector 9
56. Comets On Fire
57. The Reindeer Section
58. Infinite Livez
59. Jarvis Cocker
60. Rollerskate Skinny
61. Brainiac
62. Enon
63. The Polyphonic Spree
64. Inch
65. Rust
66. Failure
67. Flickerstick
68. Kitchens of Distinction
69. Pall Mall
70. Django Rhineheart
71. Miles Davis
72. John Coltrane
73. Tricky Woo
74. Free Kitten
75. Afghan Whigs
76. Greg Dulli
77. The Art of Noise
78. God Nose
79. Tom Jones
80. Mary Timony
81. Liz Phair
82. The Telescopes
83. The Microphones
84. Beat Happening
85. Bratmobile
86. The Swell Maps
87. Fushitsusha
88. Masaki Batoh
89. Rex
90. Rodan
91. Will Oldham/Palace/Bonny "Prince" Billy (unlike with Malkmus or Frank Black, I don't think of his separate projects as separate bands)
92. Nico
93. The Velvet Underground
94. MC5
95. Suicide
96. Van Morrison
97. Jimi Hendrix
98. The Doors
99. Elefant
100.Anal Cunt
1. Gowns
2. No Age
3. Medicine
4. Panda Bear
5. Curve
6. Come
7. Guns-n-Roses
8. In Gowan Ring
9. Monster Magnet
10. The Wrens
11. Matthew Sweet
12. Teenage Fanclub
13. Cornelius
14. Air
15. Flight of the Conchords
16. David J
17. Daniel Ash
18. Bad Brains
19. Bad Religion
20. Badly Drawn Boy
21. Thelonius Monk
22. The Rachel's
23. Blonde Redhead
24. The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
25. X-Ray Spex
26. PJ Harvey
27. The Gun Club
28. FSK
29. Japancakes
30. Envy
31. Oghr
32. Pig
33. Snog
34. Whale
35. Lard
36. Chumbawamba
37. Suede
38. Lee Hazlewood
39. Nancy Sinatra
40. Patti Smith
41. John Prine
42. Captured By Robots
43. Chrome
44. Mercury Rev
45. You Say Party! We Say Die!
46. Datarock
47. Cibo Mato
48. The Misfits
49. Tori Amos
50. Afrirampo
51. Joanna Newsom
52. Bikini Kill
53. Huggy Bear
54. Four Tet
55. The Cure
56. Machines of Loving Grace
57. Depeche Mode
58. ABBA
59. Explosions in the Sky
60. Battles
61. The Verve
62. Swervedriver
63. Ride
64. Lush
65. Os Mutantes
66. Nearly God
67. Ozric Tentacles
68. Minus the Bear
69. Wu-Tang Clan
70. Guided By Voices
71. Interpol
72. She Wants Revenge
73. Lou Reed
74. Norah Jones
75. Flowchart
76. Asteroid #4
77. Bowery Electric
78. Frontier
79. Piano Magic
80. The Sea and Cake
81. Stars of the Lid
82. Movietone
83. Hood
84. Calexico
85. Tribe Called Quest
86. De La Soul
87. Biz Markie
88. Jethro Tull
89. King Crimson
90. Iron Butterfly
91. Blue Oyster Cult
92. Camera Obscura
93. The Troggs
94. The Righteous Brothers
95. Santana
96. Lesbian Bed Death
97. Jawbox
98. The Linus Pauling Quartet
99. Nick Drake
100.U2
1. British Sea Power
2. Superchunk
3. Sinead O' Connor
4. Super Furry Animals
5. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
6. Her Space Holiday
7. Grandaddy
8. Luscious Jackson
9. The Breeders
10. The Amps
11. Inspiral Carpets
12. Sublime
13. Angels of Light
14. Akron/Family
15. Orange Juice
16. Adrian Belew
17. Genesis
18. Yes
19. Rush
20. Sunny Day Real Estate
21. Rites of Spring
22. Embrace
23. Elliott Smith
24. L7
25. Damien Rice
26. Danger Mouse
27. Black Eyes
28. Babes In Toyland
29. BiGod20
30. The Notwist
31. The Green Pajamas
32. The Residents
33. The Charalambides
34. The Mission UK
35. The Damned
36. that dog.
37. The Rentals
38. Beth Orton
39. Siouxie and the Banshees
40. The Eels
41. Harvey Danger
42. The Beastie Boys
43. Cheap Trick
44. INXS
45. The Woggles
46. Alice in Chains
47. Rage Against the Machine
48. Thurston Moore
49. Lee Ranaldo
50. The Supersuckers
51. You Am I
52. Suzanne Vega
53. Laurie Anderson
54. Queen
55. Reverend Horton Heat
56. Bevis Frond
57. Rilo Kiley
58. Party of Helicopters
59. The Dead Boys
60. Richard Hell and the Voivods
61. T. Rex
62. James Brown
63. Clan of Xymox
64. Atari Teenage Riot
65. The Sundays
66. John Linnell
67. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
68. The Pursuit of Happiness
69. Ice-T
70. Body Count
71. Metallica
72. Old Time Relijun
73. Dropkick Murphys
74. The Pogues
75. The Specials
76. The Clash
77. Romeo Void
78. VNV Nation
79. Glenn Branca
80. The Cramps
81. Hayden
82. Andrew WK
83. Bongwater
84. Dogbowl
85. Damon & Naomi
86. Galaxie 500
87. Luna
88. Operation Ivy
89. Pailhead
90. Eminem
91. Aix Em Klemm
92. Pan American
93. Snoop Dogg
94. The Soup Dragons
95. UB40
96. Pet Shop Boys
97. George Michael
98. Amorphous Androgynous
99. Moby
100.The Band
1. Mojo Nixon
2. Dead Milkmen
3. The Shins
4. The Stills
5. The Hives
6. Urge Overkill
7. Dick Dale
8. mum
9. Wendy O. Williams
10. Blitzen Trapper
11. Architecture in Helsinki
12. Art Brut
13. CSS
14. John Frusciante
15. Johnathan Fire*Eater
16. The Warlocks
17. The Klaxons
18. I'm From Barcelona
19. Darker My Love
20. Below the Sea
21. Tompaulin
22. Serena Maneesh
23. Pluramon
24. Shellac
25. The Eels
26. Silkworm
27. Drive Like Jehu
28. Drive-By Truckers
29. Minor Threat
30. Aesop Rock
31. Cursive
32. Royal Trux
33. The Melvins
34. The Dandy Warhols
35. Brian Jonestown Massacre
36. Mr. Bungle
37. Lovage
38. Faith No More
39. Sun Ra
40. The RZA
41. Growing
42. Outkast
43. Seu Jorge
44. Zero 7
45. Halo of Flies
46. Handsome Boy Modeling School
47. Asian Dub Foundation
48. Dr. Octagon
49. Eric B. and Rakim
50. Wooden Wand
51. All Girl Summer Fun Band
52. Regina Spektor
53. Sparklehorse
54. Sixteen Horsepower
55. The Carpenters
56. The Cardigans
57. fIREHOSE
58. Man... or Astro-Man?
59. Redd Kross
60. The Mountain Goats
61. Muse
62. Dungen
63. Robyn Hitchcock
64. Roxy Music
65. Half Japanese
66. The Dead C
67. The dB's
68. The Cult
69. Archers of Loaf
70. The Album Leaf
71. Apples in Stereo
72. Ruby
73. Silverfish
74. Kate Bush
75. Cranes
76. The Virgin Prunes
77. 13th Floor Elevators
78. The Red Krayola
79. Alice Cooper
80. The Sonics
81. Love
82. Dead Moon
83. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
84. Question Mark and the Mysterians
85. A Minor Forest
86. Experimental Audio Research
87. Fly Pan Am
88. Jackie-O Motherfucker
89. Isotope 217
90. To Rococo Rot
91. The Dead Texan
92. Das Ich
93. Einsturzende Neubauten
94. Peace Love and Pitbulls
95. Puffy AmiYumi
96. Ash
97. Supergrass
98. Kasabian
99. Echobelly
100.Elvis Presley