200 Acts To Check Out Before You Go To Sleep

These are bands that you should at least attempt to listen to before you hit the dusty trail. If you don't like them then that is just fine.

1. The Decemberists
2. Psychedelic Furs
3. Sonic Youth
4. Sunset Rubdown
5. The Raveonettes
6. Bloc Party
7. Weezer
8. Head Automatica
9. La Rue Ketanou
10. The Bravery
11. Bishop Allen
12. Radiohead
13. The Veils
14. The Libertines
15. The French Kicks
16. The Walkmen
17. Dirty Pretty Things
18. The Beach Boys
19. Black Lips
20. The Jesus Lizard
21. Weird Al Yankovic
22. Beat Happening
23. Babyshambles
24. A Guy Called Gerald
25. The Modern Lovers
26. UB40
27. Aesop Rock
28. Afrika Bambaataa
29. Against Me!
30. Alice in Chains
31. Animal Collective
32. ....and you will know us by trail of dead
33. Animal Collective
34. Anti-Flag
35. Apartment
36. Arcade Fire
37. Arctic Monkeys
38. Art Brut
39. Audioslave
40. Bad Brains
41. Bauhaus
42. Be Your Own Pet
43. Beat Happening
44. Beatles
45. Big Black
46. Billy Bragg
47. Bjork
48. Black Flag
49. Black Stalin
50. Bo Burnham
51. Bob Dylan
52. Bob Marley
53. Blue Man Group
54. Blue Oyster Cult
55. Bobby Venton
56. Brett Dennen
57. Bright Eyes
58. British Sea Power
59. Buddy Holly
60. Built To Spill
61. Buzzcocks
62. Camera Obscura
63. Caribou
64. Cash, Johnny
65. Cat Power
66. Circle Jerks
67. Beethoven
68. Talking Heads
69. Clinic
70. Cold War Kids
71. Count Basie
72. Cuff the Duke
73. Current 93
74. Daft Punk
75. The Dandy Warhols
76. Daniel Johnston
77. Datarock
78. David Byrne
79. Dead Kennedys
80. Death From Above 1979
81. The Descendents
82. Devo
83. Dinosaur Jr.
84. Dirty Pretty Things
85. Dntel
86. Doc Gyneco
87. Doves
88. Drifters
89. Echo and the Bunnymen
90. Editors
91. Elvis Costello
92. EPMD
93. Eric B and Rakim
94. Everly Brothers
95. Fatlip
96. Fear
97. Figurine
98. Folk Implosion
99. Fool's Garden
100. Frankie Valli
101. Franz Ferdinand
102. Frog Eyes
103. Fugazi
104. The Shins
105. Iron and Wine
106. Geto Boys
107. Hot Hot Heat
108. The Animals
109. Husker Du
110. Iggy Pop and the Stooges
111. Immortal Technique
112. Inner Circle
113. Interpol
     
114. Terry Jacks
115. Jefferson Airplane
116. Jimi Hendrix
117. Joy Division
118. Kaiser Chiefs
119. Kasabian
120. Kings of Leon
121. Kraftwerk
122. Lali Puna
123. Led Zeppelin
124. Les Cowboys Frignants
125. Les Trois Accords
126. Louis XIV
127. Love Spit Love
128. Main Source
129. Malajube
130. Mando Diao
131. Maximo Park
132. Minutemen
133. Miracle Johan
134. Mission of Burma
135. Mobb Deep
136. Morrissey
137. Mud Honey
138. Mystery Jets
139. New Order
140. Nine Inch Nails
141. Nirvana
142. Page France
143. Patsy Kline
144. Patti Smith
145. Paul Weller
146. Pavement
147. Pete Seeger
148. Peter Bjorn and John
149. Peter Gabriel
150. Peter Tosh
151. Pharoahe Monch
152. Peter Paul and Mary
153. Pink Floyd
154. The Pixies
155. Rage Against the Machine
156. Ray Charles
157. The Replacements
158. Richard Cheese
159. Rogue Wave
160. Rolling Stones
161. Sam Roberts
162. Sam Spence
163. Sebadoh
164. Sigur Ros
165. Simon and Garfunkel
166. Soul Sonic Force
167. Stellastarr*
168. Stone Roses
169. Supergrass
170. Swan Lake
171. Swans
172. Tapes N' Tapes
173. Tech N9ne
174. The 1990s
175. The Arcade Fire
176. The Constantines
177. The Cure
178. The Fratellis
179. The Hives
180. The Kooks
181. The Lovely Feathers
182. The Moldy Peaches
183. The Nightwatchman
184. The Pharcyde
185. The Ramones
186. The Stills
187. The Strokes
188. The Vaselines
189. The Veils
190. The Velvet Underground
191. The Verve
192. The Who
193. Tokyo Police Club
194. Tool
195. Travis
196. Tupac
197. Van Morrison
198. Wesley Willis
199. Wolf Parade
200. Wu-Tang Clan