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"When I'm with you, I'm trying to do the best I can" - Chrissy AmphlettPlasticsoul (She's Got) The Move Westside Cowboy Paperchains Green Circles Undecided The Pretty Flowers Ocean Swimming Kelly Jones Fire Escape The Cars Keep On Knocking Michigander Taxi Rooney Popstars Dramarama Anything, Anything (I'll Give You) Baby Scream 5 - 21st Century B******t Cheap Star Happy As The Time XTC Playground The Eyetraps every word Spygenius Horizon Shine Mark Ward Near You Johnny Marr It's Time The Figgs Wait'til Dawn Superdrag Baby Goes To Eleven Nick Piunti Every Sorrow Chrissy Amphlett Sometimes

"This indecision's getting more than I can take. Play it again so it don't look like a mistake." - The StrumbellasCheap Star Unhappy Now The Summertimes Luminous Michigander OH GOOD! Elvis Costello Less Than Zero Greg Freeman Loser's Prize Cal Everett & Zip Six I's The Strumbellas Skin Of My Teeth The Anderson Council Cable Car Vampire Weekend Cousins Life In Film Get Closer The Caesars Fun & Games The Connells Fun & Games John Doe Never Enough The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Nevermore Biltmore Never Let You Go Liz Phair Never Said Kelly LaMay & Eric Payne Tin Men Mantaray I Don't Make Promises Trashcan Sinatras The Bitter End Brian Fallon Love at the End of the World (feat. Brandon Flowers)

"I met a guy who wasn't real. His checkered past was just an act ... or just a style ...or just a lie" - The BongosThe Anderson Council Meet Me At The Melody Greg Freeman Decade The Half-Cubes When the lights are out Marcy Playground Bang Bang Bang The Jack Rubies Witch-Hunt In Lotusland Pete Yorn Murray Parthenon Huxley Beautiful The High Dials Silas, Please Come Home The Bongos The Beat Hotel The Glimmer Stars Autumn Girl Brijitte West and the Greenowskis Doin' Alright The Tisburys The Anniversaries matt pond PA Straight Into The Night Josh Rouse Things Are Looking Up Matt Hopper In It For The Music Neko Case Madonna Of The Wasps 4 Out of 5 Doctors Breaking Rocks The Romantics When I Look In Your Eyes The Producers You Make the Heat Ryan Hamilton NAME

If someone wrote a story about my life, would I even bother reading it? - Michigander13th Floor Elevators You're Gonna Miss Me Green Pajamas The Lucy Parade Todd Thibaud Three Words Steven Wright-Mark Projector Michigander Starting A Band The Strumbellas Take Me Down The Summertimes Save You Now Aztec Camera Still On Fire PJ Harvey Down by the Water Glen Phillips I Was A Riot Langhorne Slim & The Law Strangers The On and Ons Don't Miss Your Misery Spygenius But is it Powerpop? The Strokes Going To Babble On Baby Scream Parole Brigitte Calls Me Baby Truth is Stranger Than Fiction Greg Freeman Gone (Can Mean A Lot of Things) Gene Champagne I'm Disconnected The Killers When You Were Young Radiohead High and Dry

"The bell rings . . .It's a decade past my decadence." - Jim CarrollPlasticsoul J'adore The Drams Unhinged Spoon The Fitted Shirt Pete Yorn Life On A Chain Brian Fallon Nobody Likes You in NYC Gary Calamar featuring Robyn Hitchcock Who Are We Gonna Be Today? (featuring Robyn Hitchcock) The Connells Scotty's Lament Duncan Sheik On A High The Jim Carroll Band Work Not Play John Larson The Answer Tommy Keene Back To Zero Now Mike Doughty Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well The Strumbellas Skin Of My Teeth Ryan Hamilton Records and Needles Paolo Nutini New Shoes The Silver Seas Best Things In Life The Damnwells Pretty as Pittsburgh The Lemonheads Pittsburgh Donnie Iris & The Cruisers Pittsburgh Made Violent Femmes What You Really Mean

"Here we are in our summer years, living on ice cream and chocolate kisses" - Billy BraggBilly Bragg Greetings To The New Brunette R.E.M. I Believe Ramones My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg) The Go-Betweens In the Core of the Flame Joe Jackson Survival The Housemartins Happy Hour Talking Heads Wild Wild Life The Smithereens Blood And Roses BoDeans She's A Runaway Big Country Look Away Joan Armatrading Kind Words (And A Real Good Heart) The Bangles Walking Down Your Street The Call Oklahoma XTC Earn Enough For Us The Feelies The High Road Violent Femmes Hearthache Woodentops Get it On Pretenders My Baby World Party Ship Of Fools 'Til Tuesday Coming Up Close The Dandy Warhols Love Song

"He was tied to a job selling miracle drugs from his home" - A.C. NewmanThe Half-Cubes The Mighty Quinn Uncle Green That Must Be the Way Rainy Day Saints Lookout Squeeze Third Rail twisted teens Why Did You Miss It? The Eyetraps 20xOver 54•40 Little By Little Squeeze Take Me, I'm Yours Tim Curry I Do The Rock Calhoun Breathe Buzzcocks Heavy Streets Dodgy In A Room (Full Version) Translator Favorite Drug A.C. Newman Miracle Drug The Rosenbergs Drug Of Choice Liquid Mike Drug Dealer Haircut 100 Fantastic Day Adam & The Ants Antmusic Squeeze The Jaguars Nick Piunti Bruises and the Bandages

"Remake the world under yellow skies, cover your nose and open your eyes" - SuperchunckThe Chelsea Curve Rally 'Round Squeeze Why Don't You Mark Ward Caught The On and Ons Meet Me In The Morning Shazam, The The Stranded Stars Wakeland Falling Again Spygenius Cnut The Monkees Last Train To Clarksville Love and Rockets No New Tale to Tell Courtney Barnett Same The Pretty Flowers Never Felt Bitter (We Burn) The Eyetraps Nashville Gentle Hen Comfort Zone The Lovely Basement Cornstalk Girl Flight of Mavis Tonight's the Night Icecream Hands I Miss You Superchunk City of the Dead Psychotic Youth Rat Race Cheap Trick Boys & Girls & Rock N Roll Josh Rouse January Sky

"Got my hands at ten and two. Got my eyes on my peripheral view" - Trashcan SinatrasSpygenius Watch Like No One's Dancing Wolf Alice White Horses The Coathangers Perfume The Sunshine Boys Don't Keep It Inside Icecream Hands Her Swan Greg Williams Through My Hands  Librarians With Hickeys 1972 (Single Version) Josh Rouse 1972 The Wonder Stuff It's Yer Money, I'm After Baby Michael Penn Free Time The Eyetraps The Sound of It World Party Is It Like Today? The Damn Truth Only Love Joe Jackson Awkward Age Juliana Hatfield and Eric Payne Only Sister Baz Francis Don't Let Me Go On The Lyres Don't Give It Up Now Trashcan Sinatras Melodramatic The Frames Fake Look Park Shout Part 1

It's this hopeless itch.  I just wanna feel .purple yellow red and blue - Portugal, the ManThe Call Blood Red (America) (Remastered) The Replacements Red Red Wine The Bluebells Red Guitars The Honeydogs Orange 8 Romeo Void Orange R.E.M. Orange Crush Portugal. The Man Purple Yellow Red and Blue The Music Machine Double Yellow Line Icecream Hands Yellow & Blue Love Spit Love Green Phil Yates & The Affiliates Grass Is Always Greener Suburban Lawns Green Eyes Let's Active Blue Line Reno Bo Baby Blues The Sunshine Boys Blue Music Rooni Indigo The Smithereens Indigo Blues The Empty Hearts Indigo Dusk Of The Night Hole Violet Phil Angotti Shy Violet Church Violet Town

"Do the promises you couldn't keep make it hard for you to sleep" - Gigolo AuntsAndy Bopp The Taste of Her Tears Shake Some Action! The Sooner The Better Minutemen Corona The Wonder Stuff Unbearable Flight of Mavis Gotta Get New Car The Morning Line Anhedonia (Start Again) GE Smith Nuns with Guns The High Frequencies Subterranean Homesick Blues Sinéad O'Connor Mandinka Caterwaul The Sheep's a Wolf The Psychedelic Furs Alice's House Marti Jones Each Time American Mars Give Me a Sign Elliot Easton (Wearing Down) Like a Wheel Dari Bay On Your Side Tamar Berk i'm in the day after Fountains Of Wayne Sink To The Bottom Superdrag Cynicality Gin Blossoms Perfectly Still Gigolo Aunts Everyone Can Fly

"... turn the record over. Hey hey, and I'll see you on the flip side" - Gaslight AnthemThe Gaslight Anthem "45" The Godfathers This Damn Nation Greenberry Woods #37 [Feels So Strange] Green Circles Too Bright For A Monday The Go-Betweens Here Comes A City Gladhands Forget All About It The Grip Weeds Salad Days Gin Blossoms Hands Are Tied Gang Of Four I Found That Essence Rare The Germs Manimal Go Betty Go It's Too Bad Goo Goo Dolls Long Way Down Gary Myrick & The Figures She Talks In Stereo Gigolo Aunts Untitled The Go-Go's You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep) Guadalcanal Diary Watusi Rodeo The Gunboat Diplomats Crazy About You The Golden Palominos Omaha Guided By Voices Hold On Hope Gary Numan & Tubeway Army Down In The Park

"Let's take the condom off the microphone, cause there's no one to protect,and no you can't spread disease, through profanities...or your intellect. - Marcy PaygroundMichigander Spitting Image Todd Thibaud Lonesome June Strawberry Alarm Clock Blow Your Mind The Kinks Sold Me Out Icecream Hands Shakespeare Always Band Of Horses Compliments Haircut 100 Raincloud Dari Bay The Joke The Cramps Tear It Up Echo & The Bunnymen Do It Clean Madness My Girl The Smiths Cemetry Gates Peter Case Baltimore X Watch The Sun Go Down The Teardrop Explodes Passionate Friend Charlie Mars One Horse Town Pretenders Downtown (Akron) Tegan & Sara Downtown  B-52's DowntownMarcy Playground Flag And Finger

"Me and my friends, we used to fall apart and piece ourselves back together like a work of art" - The FormatTime Will Tell 54•40 The Early Days Of Love Brigitte Calls Me Baby Very Good Year The Greenberry Woods Not Bad for New Jersey Brian Fallon King Without a Crown Mark Ward Coming On Strong The On and Ons I Used to Go to This Bar Joyce Manor Hollywood Forever Jesse Malin Shot In The Dark The Format It Doesn't Matter The Legal Matters Sister Millicent Jim Trainor Undertow Afterglow KURT BAKER Invading My Space Gary Klebe Easy Velvet Daydream Days Of Blue And Grey And Green Green Circles To Be So Cool The Pretty Flowers Mary Singletary Deer Tick Higher Calling Colman Gota American Cars Noah Kahan This Time The Rallies

"It's funny how life turns out, the odds of faith in the face of doubt" - The Josh Joplin GroupJon Auer – Bottom of the Bottle Jon Brion – I Believe She’s Lying Josh Rouse – DirectionsJosh Joplin Group – Camera OneThe James Clark Institute – Phantom GirlJim Trainor – NothingJoey Sykes – Loveless CrowdJenny Lewis – Head UnderwaterJason Falkner – EloquenceJill Sobule – Karen at NightJellyfish – The King Is Half-UndressedFreedy Johnston – Waste Your TimeJen Trynin – Better Than NothingThe Jins – MetroJuliana Hatfield – SelloutJohn Doe – Love KnowsJoe Jackson – I’m the ManJunk Monkeys – EdisonThe Jam – Going UndergroundJoy Division – Love Will Tear Us