This meme’s going around Facebook, but I wanted to post it here.

Here are the rules. Test your memory and your love of live music by listing 50 artists or bands (or as many as you can remember) you’ve seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. An act you saw at a festival and opening acts count, but only if you can’t think of 50 other artists. Oh, and list the first concert you ever saw (you can remember that, can’t you)?

1. The Tea Party (x10)
2. VAST (x6, I think)
3. Tool
4. Nine Inch Nails (x2)
5. The National (x2)
6. Andrew Bird (x4)
7. Of Montreal (x4)
8. The Decemberists (x3)
9. Neko Case (x3)
10. Bloc Party
11. Britney Spears (seriously!)
12. Jimmie’s Chicken Shack (x2)
13. Orgy
14. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (x2)
15. Metric
16. Amy Grant (x2)
17. Tori Amos
18. Arlo Guthrie (x3)
19. Yo La Tengo
20. Broken Social Scene
21. The Wallflowers
22. Morrissey
23. Sleater-Kinney
24. Phish (x2)
25. Ben Folds
26. Damien Rice (x2)
27. Blue October
28. Better Than Ezra
29. Ludo (x4)
30. Pigface (x2, I think)
31. The Frames
32. Over the Rhine (x2)
33. Tom Jones (!!!)
34. MIA
35. Chairlift
36. CSS
37. Jamie Lidell
38. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
39. David Byrne
40. Aimee Mann
41. Tegan & Sara (x2)
42. Luna
43. Iron & Wine (x2)
44. Cat Power (x3, and NEVER AGAIN)
45. Ladytron (x2)
46. Daniel Lanois (x2)
47. Alanis Morrissette
48. Garbage
49. Eric Bachmann/Crooked Fingers (x2)
50. Melissa Ferrick

I included festival shows, but only those that I specifically went to see, not people that I *happened* to see.