My Favorite Bands

I think it is about damn time that I wrote this down... So it is cemented in interwebz history for all time.
My two favorite bands are 1. Modest Mouse and 2. Cold War Kids.
Yeah it finally happened. Dave Matthews Band has been dropped to #3. I will talk about Dave for a minute though.
I grew up listening to Dave Matthews Band; at the height of their awesomeness (before Stand Up came out... worst album ever). When I think of my childhood it's soundtrack is Dave songs. I knew all the words to Crash before I knew anything about sex, which that song is totally about haha. But not only that, I know all the 'obscure' Dave songs and can imagine Tami blasting them through the window while we did yard work or in car rides to the lake. The first concert I went to was His annual visit to The Gorge. Their music is and will forever be a part of me.
However, people change, and so do tastes in music. In 2004 I heard Modest Mouse for the first time. I remember watching the music video for Float On on TV and thinking it was really clever and that the music was good. Then I discovered that Tami actually had the album. So I borrowed it and was sold. Modest Mouse quickly became some of the best music I had ever heard (because it is). Then Matt purchased The Moon and Antarctica (2000) and I heard Gravity Rides Everything. Favorite song. Favorite album. Favorite band.
So I slowly but surely reached out and found the rest of their music, including the EPs the latest of which is really awesome and I think it was a good comeback after We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, which sucked.
In the spring of 2009 Nathan and I went to Death Cab for Cutie when they played at Gonzaga. I was really pumped for this because Death Cab is like #4 on my list. I even got to be up front for the concert which was totally awesome. They played Grapevine Fires, which is my favorite of theirs but we're not talking about DC4C. Anyways, the bands who opened for them were Ra Ra Riot and Cold War Kids. Before it started the people around us were mostly talking about them and I even heard a few say they were really there for these two bands. I brushed it off and just waited. So Ra Ra Riot played some of their more popular songs (of the like 10 they had at the time) like Dying is Fine. Cold War Kids played their set which was awesome and I actually found myself cheering pretty loud for them. Then Death Cab, which I thought was awesome. I was front row for Grapevine Fires, which is my favorite by them. I went away from the concert thinking that of the two openers, I'd like Ra Ra Riot better. So when I downloaded Cold War Kids last summer and really listened to them, I fell in love.

To sum it up: Top Three Favorite Bands
1. Modest Mouse
2. Cold War Kids
3. Dave Matthews Band