^ I've never gotten into folky singer-songwriter music....
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I'm lazy....so copy + paste from my myspace:
The Cure, Garbage, The Smiths, Morrissey, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pulp, Interpol, Cocteau Twins, New Order, Joy Division, Goldfrapp, Portishead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, old Madonna, Kylie Minogue, the Organ, My Bloody Valentine, Pretenders, Fiona Apple, The Who, Moving Units, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, Hot Hot Heat, David Bowie, Bauhaus, T-Rex, Patti Smith, The Buzzcocks, English Beat, Mazzy Star, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Cat Power, Giant Drag, the Von Bondies, Ramones, STAR, the Radio Dept, Missing Persons, Smokey Robinson, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Strokes, Elastica, Roxy Music, Echo and the Bunnymen, Dead Kennedys, Elvis Costello, the Pixies, Violent Femmes, The Jam, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, the Breeders, the Shins, the Stills, LCD Soundsystem, the Buzzcocks, Patsy Cline, the Raveonettes, Lush, Broadcast, The Knife, Ether Aura, Talking Heads, Bjork, Sugarcubes, Human League, Amy Winehouse, The Kills, Sisters of Mercy, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, VHS or Beta, CSS, The Horrors, Camera Obscura, Franz Ferdinand, Northern Portrait, Fiery Furnaces, Hot Chip, The Pains of Being Pure a Heart, PJ Harvey, Bebel Gilberto, Cut Copy, Crystal Castles, Richard Hawley, Pnau, Altered Images, etc.
And that is in no way complete :laughing: