"We all think he's really weird..."

There is this band that I keep coming back to. I "discovered" them at some point during my 7th grade year of school, a little over 20 years ago. They were probably the first band that made me sit up and want to take ownership of some form of music. They were the band that made me look at punk rock and say, "That's for me! That's mine!"

Sure it could be the whole disaffected white youth thing. But I have often found punk rock to smart as well as funny. Finding this band led me on a musical journey to discover bands like Minor Threat ---> Fugazi, NOFX, Bad Brains and Black Flag. Even still when a song by this band gets played, rarely, on the radio I can't help but turn it up. Without them, I'd probably still think Van Halen "1984" was the best thing I had ever heard.

Without further ado, The Dead Kennedys.