I may or may not of handed this memo to my boss yesterday....as a legitimate piece of work.

Enjoy and give tips, Im looking for more mus-ACK

Memorandum

To: XXXX
From: Alison Kelly
Date: June 22, 2009
Subject: Muse-Ack

In response to your query regarding current musical tastes, a brief, yet knowledgeable account of the ongoing musical climate is needed for a full grasp on the subject.

Currently, the ‘Y Generation’ spans across individuals born after 1985, we are known as the Internet generation and being such our age group has the ability to span our musical tastes across a broad, infinite spectrum. The Internet, also known as the world wide web, allows individuals to search the ‘interweb’ for whatever one may be interested in. For example, if one wants to find out more about A Tribe Called Quest they could type google.com into their browser and be directed to several outlets, including Wikipedia.org, which is currently the most reliable online Encyclopedia for the ‘Y Generation.’
Another outlet that the Internet provides is the ability to download and discover different forms of music. Sites such as Pandora.com and programs like Bit Torrent are helpful in providing the general public with the types of music they are interested in and because of sites like this, the ‘Y Generation’ is considered to be knowledgeable in a wide variety of musical tastes.
The above being absolute truth in stone, below is the requested list of ‘happening-indie-college-type-forms-of-musical-tastes-but-that-don’t-necessarily-define-me’ Bands from the Alison Kelly.
· Rilo Kiley / Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
· Broken Social Scene - Cause=Time
· MGMT - Time To Pretend
· The National - Slow Show
· Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
· Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
· Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine if you like this check out Ratatat and Mogwai
· Jim James/Calexico/My Morning Jacket - Goin to Acapulco and Off the Record
· Tegan and Sara - Back in Your Head
· Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
· Girl Talk - Play Your Part pt. 1
· Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You
· Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
· Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down
· Death Cab for Cutie - Tiny Vessel's
· Modest Mouse - Fire It Up
· The Shins - Sea Legs
· Ben Folds – You Don't Know Me
· Feist - I Feel it All
· Cloud Cult - Pretty Voice
· Santogold - Lights Out
· The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
· Decemberists - Sixteen Military Wives

And here a few fan favorites . . . Just in case you forgot how good they were.

Bruce Springsteen – Im On Fire and The Wrestler and Jungleland
The Pixies - Hey
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance
Bob Seger - Night Moves
Radiohead - Reckoner / interesting cover done by Gnarls Barkley here - Reckoner
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
Tribe Called Quest - Can I kick It
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
The Killers cover Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
Beastie Boys - Sabotage