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Aww, Brett Favre retired. :(

I have a synoptic exam in two days that is worth 50% of my grade, so this is all you get today.

Insult your top 25

It's an interesting meme I found on Last.fm. You take the top 25 artists on your playlist and find something bad to say about them (but you know you love them anyway!).

1. Evanescence - Unfortunately their sound hasn't changed much at all. I like the whole spooky gothic orchestra/choir thing backing up the vocals and band, but it all starts to sound the same after awhile.

2. Snow Patrol - They're a good band, but holy hell some of their songs suck.

3. Breaking Benjamin - There are times when I really get sick of the hard rock, "nu metal" sound. They sound a lot like so many other rock bands.

4. Linkin Park - Some of their lyrics are really juvenile. They make you feel like you're back in high school (although I admit they first hit it big while I was in my angsty high school funk).

5. Aerosmith - I have to be in the right mood to like Aerosmith. Otherwise their music sounds really dated and bordering on annoying. "Dream On" is really the only exception to that.

6. Coldplay - Ok, I absolutely hated "Yellow" when they first made it big with that song. In fact I think I still hate it.

7. Dashboard Confessional - I have no idea why this is so high on the list. I don't even like them much anymore.

8. Tegan and Sara - Why are they doing those stupid commercials on MTV?

9. Nobuo Uematsu - For some reason I can't stand any of the tracks he's composed that have spoken lyrics. "Eyes on Me" is particularly annoying.

10. Damien Rice - His stuff all sounds the same, and it's so boring and depressing sometimes. Like Aerosmith, I have to be in the right mood to really like it.

11. My Chemical Romance - Yeah, they're starting to get on my nerves. I loved them when "Helena" first came out, but now they irk me.

12. Coheed and Cambria - It all sounds the same. They're probably one of the worst offenders in that respect.

13. The Killers - My sister hates them because they sound like a bad 80's new wave band. She has a point.

14. Vertical Horizon - "Everything You Want" was their best album. It's been downhill since.

15. Imogen Heap - I've never been all that impressed with her solo stuff. In fact my favorite song of hers is a Frou Frou song.

16. Third Eye Blind - The "Third Eye Blind" album is awesome from start to finish, but nothing they did after that was any good at all. It's disappointing. :(

17. Muse - I really hate about half their stuff. It's like they walk a fine line between awesome and WAY overdone synthy-techno-crap.

18. Pearl Jam - Meh. The songs I have of theirs on my playlist are really not remarkable in any way. I like "Black," but the rest of them are kinda boring.

19. Rilo Kiley - This was totally a phase. I deleted most of their stuff off my playlist a few months ago because I just couldn't stand her voice anymore.

20. Jem - I like her voice but I'm not crazy about the lyrics.

21. Natalie Imbruglia - One of her songs ("Troubled By the Way We Came Together") is really starting to annoy me. I skip it every time it comes up.

22. Sarah McLachlan - I really wonder why some of these are so high on my playlist. I only have like two of her songs.

23. Straylight Run - This was kind of a phase too. I don't listen to their stuff much anymore.

24. Trapt - WTF? This goes along with why I don't like Breaking Benjamin, but it really is a mystery to me that they're so high on the list.

25. Collective Soul - It's odd that I listen to Collective Soul so much and yet I have no U2 songs at all. They're kinda similar...

I've noticed that the top artists on my playlist are not necessarily the artists I'm really into right now. I guess it takes a really long time for them to filter down the list. I'm also sad that some bands I really love at the moment aren't even in my top 50. :(