Here is how it works. Copy this list. Leave in the bands you've seen perform live. Delete the ones you haven't and add new ones that you have seen until you reach 25. An asterisk means the previous person had it on their list. Two asterisks means the last two people who did this before you had that band on their list.

1. Love and Rockets***
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds***
3. Sonic Youth*
4. Suzanne Vega*
5. Diamanda Galas*
6. Creatures*
7. John Cale*
8. Cocteau Twins
9. Siouxsie & The Banshees
10. The Sugarcubes
11. Liz Phair
12. Veruca Salt
13. Prince
14. Cyndi Lauper
15. Michele Shocked
16. Laurie Anderson
17. Laura Brannigan
18. The Cure
19. They Might Be Giants
20. Patti Smith
21. ani difranco
22. Luscious Jackson
23. Billy Bragg
24. The Gits
25. The Ramones

(from bishopjoey, who came to it by way of girfan)