1. AK1200 - Drowning
This is one of the first drum and bass songs I ever heard, and one of the greatest - it started my love of that genre and I've never looked back since then; aside from that it's widely considered to be the Drum and Bass Anthem.

2. NOFX - The Decline
I've always been an anti-corporate/anti-establishment/anti-big government kind of person. I'm also not happy with the state of the world - this song does a good job of putting all those feelings into a song. (Note that the actual song was too large, at 25 MB, so a different NOFX song was sent. That song doesn't have much meaning... but it's about clams, so it's funny.)

3. BT - Flaming June
One of my favorite techno/trance songs ever. It sounds good to me.

4. Reel Big Fish - She Has a Girlfriend Now
A funny song (that I like a lot).

5. Kosheen - Hungry
I really like this song - no particular special memory to attach to it. Although IRL I'm a chef, and this song was played on the Food Network for a while

6. Flogging Molly - Tobacco Island
This song is about pirates, and I really like pirates.

7. Sublime - Jailhouse
I grew up listening to a lot of punk/reggae/ska/modern rock. Of all the guitarists of the modern rock world, Bradley Nowell is my all time favorite guitarist/singer/songwriter. While this particular song isn't really special, it's a good song - and in memory of Bradley Nowell, who is deceased (of a drug overdose, but the rock world still misses him).

8. 311 - Cali Soca (live)
Since I was eleven, my favorite band has and always will be 311 - and you can't experience 311 unless you see them live. My favorite memories of my favorite people always involve going to see 311 rock the house. It was really tough picking one song from them that I like the most. In the end, I couldn't so I went through my collection of live songs, and picked an instrumental

9. RunDMC - Peter Piper
I also have a great appreciation of hip-hop, especially the older songs and groups. In the end it came down to a choice between this and a Sugarhill Gang song. There is no particular special memory, I just like this song from what I consider to be the good days of Hip-hop.

10. Deftones - Knife Party
The Deftones are another mainstay of my 'favorite bands' list. I did, however, buy the album that this song is on in Japan. And the ensuing search for a plug adapter so I could use my Discman was pretty interesting, because I really wanted to hear the album, and I couldn't speak much Japanese.

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