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Introduce yourself with ten terrible bands you've seen

If, like me, you spend too much time online, frittering away your life reading other people's half-baked nonsense, you'll have seen those music posts which say something like, "Introduce yourself with ten bands you've seen". Ffs. Yeah, they're everywhere on X. I usually just scroll past - mentally jeering at them - but, like an idiot, I sometimes get hooked. Sort of. Or at least I might halfheartedly check out a thread - again more in a spirit of derision than anything else - "What, these bands? These ten bands! You're fucking joking". To prove my point here are a few I saw the other day:  1. Charlie Daniels Band 2. U2 (War) 3. Journey 4. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 5. Hall & Oates 6. Night Ranger 7. Kiss 8. The Ramones 9. Def Leppard 10. Dire Straits 1. The Cult 2. Stereophonics 3. The Bangles (on the beach in Daytona!) 4. Sloan 5. Spirit Of The West 6. Cheap Trick 7. Platinum Blonde 8. Metric 9. Genesis 10. Arctic Monkeys  1. Rolling...

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