LETTERS

In honor of day 3 of my conference, and the attendant alphabet soup being ladled out 'til dusk, I give you the best strictly alphanumeric bands ever. No room for after-the-fact acronyms (or Electric Light Orchestra, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer so would've dominated) or interfering articles (The B-52s are grounded). I'm a reasonable man, so I will let a little stray punctuation slip by...

5.
AC/DC

4.
XTC

3.
U2

2.
R.E.M.

1.
X


See, I always preferred Sandy Koufax to Phil Niekro. I'll take five years of white-hot shit over 25 years of floating knucklers to a .537 winning percentage any day...