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Been a bit of a crazy week, VMAs and all, but I’m finally catching back up in this place. After a couple brushes with fame on Sunday night, it’s back to the usual stuff.

Here’s ten songs I’ve seen live.

• Phoenix – “1901″ – I saw them on Sunday night and they were absolutely awesome. Below this list you’ll catch their performance of this show on “It’s On with Alexa Chung” from earlier this summer.
• Pearl Jam – “MFC” – I saw this song performed at this show way back in 1998.
• Al Kapone – “The Music” – I had the pleasure of working with Al on “$5 Cover: Memphis” earlier this year, and got to see him perform with his band and DJ at SXSW ‘09. Gotta love seeing a hip-hop act throw it down with a live band after always having done so.
• Kings of Leon – “Use Somebody” – I caught their rehearsal at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards in LA earlier this year, and it was amazing to watch in such a cool setting.
• NIN – “The Day The World Went Away” – downright amazing. Saw them play with A Perfect Circle at MSG on May 9, 2000, in a show when Trent was joined on stage for “Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson after a rendition of “Starfuckers, Inc.” That was the same day I found out it really wasn’t that bad of a walk to go from Wall St. up to MSG.
• Rage Against The Machine – “People Of The Sun” – August 20, 1997. RATM w/ the Wu. Wow.
• A Tribe Called Quest – “Can I Kick It” – It’s a great song… have you caught Lykke Li’s version?
• Twista – “Overnight Celebrity” – Saw him with Chingy at Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA in August of 2004. Craziness.
• Sevendust – “Bitch” – I went to see The Nixons at Tradewinds in Sea Bright, NJ in 1997, and was absolutely blown away by this band. I’m pretty sure all of us in the crew that night bought their cd.
• Jimmies Chicken Shack – “Spiderweb” – saw them at Birch Hill in December of 2008 (thanks to Google, you can see someone else’s shots of the show here