Modern Folk, 101:
1. Iron & Wine - Bird Stealing Bread
2. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
3. Wilco - Reservations
4. Okkervil River - A Stone
5. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Way
6. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)
7. Hayden - you were loved
8. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The High Party (solo)
9. Hayden - Street Car
10. Iron & Wine - Sea and the Rhythm
11. Ron Hawkins - Small Victories
12. Owen - Nobody's Nothing
13. Kings of Convenience - Know How
14. New Amsterdams - Forever Leaving
15. American Analog Set - punk as fuck
16. Ben Gibbard - carolina
17. Weakerthans - Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last

Okay, it's not all folk, it's not alll that modern, but compared to what the subject listens to (Bon Jovi, hair metal, 80s pop), it might as well be.

He also got this, the theme being songs that remind me of metal or synth-pop + a whole bunch of references to random conversations between me and him:

Band Aids, FUCK YEAH!
1. My Chemical Romance - You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us in Prison?
2. Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP
3. Elliott Smith - Coast to Coast
4. Postal Service - Such Great Heights
5. Against Me! - Baby I'm an Anarchist
6. team america - America, Fuck yeah!
7. My Chemical Romance - Cemetery Drive
8. Coheed and Cambria - Joesephine
9. Pixies - Hey
10. Burden Brothers - Beautiful Night
11. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Classic Art Showcase
12. hum - Stars
13. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Me and Mia
14. One Line Drawing - Smile
15. Muse - Time is Running Out
16. Space Monkeys - Smile America
17. Ben Gibbard - you remind me of home
18. Sunny Day Real Estate - Television
19. Elliott Smith - Miss Misery