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Saturday, September 30, 2023

Marc Fagel/Jittery White Guy Music: Top 1000+ Songs

Marc Fagel (Jittery White Guy Music):

Top 1000 Songs

Inspired by Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” Marc Fagel created his own list in September 2021, which ballooned to a top 1000 list by July 2023. Fagel describes himself as a “music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music.”

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  1. The Beatles “Rain” (1966)
  2. The Beatles “A Day in the Life” (1967)
  3. Big Star “The Ballad of El Goodo” (1972)
  4. Grateful Dead “Ripple” (1970)
  5. R.E.M. “So. Central Rain” (1984)
  6. The Clash “Death Or Glory” (1979)
  7. Velvet Underground “Pale Blue Eyes” (1969)
  8. The Rolling Stones “Tumbling Dice” (1972)
  9. The Beatles “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End” (1969)
  10. The Who “The Kids Are Alright” (1965)

  11. The Kinks “Days” (1968)
  12. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
  13. Brian Eno “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1975)
  14. Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” (1980)
  15. The Replacements “Bastards of Young” (1985)
  16. Neil Young “Powderfinger” (1979)
  17. Pixies “Debaser” (1989)
  18. The Clash “White Man in Hammersmith Palais” (1978)
  19. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
  20. The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” (1976)

  21. Elvis Costello “The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes” (1977)
  22. Beach Boys “God Only Knows” (1966)
  23. David Bowie “Queen Bitch” (1971)
  24. Modern Lovers “Roadrunner” (1972)
  25. The Who “Baba O’Riley” (1971)
  26. Brian Eno “Spider & I” (1977)
  27. Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” (1975)
  28. The Beatles “It’s All Too Much” (1969)
  29. Velvet Underground “Sweet Jane” (1970)
  30. David Bowie “Life on Mars?” (1971)

  31. The Byrds “Draft Morning” (1968)
  32. The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows” (1966)
  33. Peter Gabriel “Solsbury Hill” (1977)
  34. Joy Division “Decades” (1980)
  35. Elvis Costello “Beyond Belief” (1982)
  36. Neil Young “After the Gold Rush” (1970)
  37. Wire “Outdoor Miner” (1978)
  38. Miracle Legion “The Backyard” (1984)
  39. Wilco “A Shot in the Arm” (1999)
  40. Neutral Milk Hotel “Holland 1945” (1998)

  41. Sonic Youth “Teenage Riot” (1988)
  42. The New Pornographers “The Bleeding Heart Show” (2005)
  43. David Bowie “Heroes” (1977)
  44. Genesis “The Musical Box” (1971)
  45. The Feelies “Slipping Into Something” (1986)
  46. R.E.M. “Radio Free Europe” (1981)
  47. Pavement “Summer Babe” (1992)
  48. Simon & Garfunkel “The Only Living Boy in New York” (1970)
  49. Grateful Dead “Box of Rain” (1970)
  50. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)

  51. New Order “Temptation” (1982)
  52. Big Star “Thirteen” (1972)
  53. Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (1980)
  54. The Kinks “Village Green Preservation Society” (1968)
  55. Yo La Tengo “From a Motel 6” (1993)
  56. The Clash “Safe European Home” (1978)
  57. The Who “I Can See for Miles” (1967)
  58. Talking Heads “This Must Be the Place” (1984)
  59. The Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (1969)
  60. Paul McCartney “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” (1971)

  61. Roxy Music “More Than This” (1982)
  62. Elvis Costello “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding” (1978)
  63. Liz Phair “Fuck & Run” (1993)
  64. Mott the Hoople “All the Young Dudes” (1972)
  65. The Jesus & Mary Chain “Just Like Honey” (1985)
  66. Big Star “September Gurls” (1973)
  67. Jerry Garcia “The Wheel” (1971)
  68. Pink Floyd “Fearless” (1971)
  69. INXS “Don’t Change” (1982)
  70. The Band “The Weight” (1968)

  71. Hüsker Dü “Books About UFO’s” (1985)
  72. Genesis “I Know What I Like” (1973)
  73. Badfinger “Baby Blue” (1971)
  74. The Cure “In Between Days” (1985)
  75. The Kinks “This Time Tomorrow” (1970)
  76. Psychedelic Furs “Love My Way” (1983)
  77. The Beatles “Hello Goodbye” (1967)
  78. The Replacements “I Will Dare” (1984)
  79. New Order “Ceremony” (1981)
  80. The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)

  81. Grateful Dead “Dark Star” (live 1969)
  82. Cheap Trick “Surrender” (1978)
  83. Pixies “Where Is My Mind” (1988)
  84. The Shins “New Slang” (2001)
  85. The Feelies “Let’s Go” (1986)
  86. The Clash “Train in Vain” (1979)
  87. Pink Floyd “Echoes” (1971)
  88. R.E.M. “Catapult” (1983)
  89. Pavement “Trigger Cut” (1992)
  90. Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road” (1975)

  91. Guided by Voices “I Am a Scientist” (1994)
  92. Television “See No Evil” (1977)
  93. David Bowie “Sound and Vision” (1977)
  94. Sleater-Kinney “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” (1996)
  95. Squeeze “In Quintessence” (1981)
  96. Jimmy Cliff “Sitting in Limbo” (1972)
  97. King Crimson “In the Court of the Crimson King” (1969)
  98. Matthew Sweet “Sick of Myself” (1994)
  99. Throwing Muses “Hate My Way” (1986)
  100. Grateful Dead “Franklin’s Tower” (1975)
  101. Yo La Tengo “Tom Courtenay” (1995)
  102. The Kinks “Sweet Lady Genevieve” (1972)
  103. The Hold Steady “Sequestered in Memphis” (2008)
  104. George Harrison “What Is Life” (1970)
  105. Flaming Lips “Waitin’ for a Superman” (1999)
  106. The Byrds “My Back Pages” (1967)
  107. Sex Pistols “Pretty Vacant” (1977)
  108. Teenage Fanclub “Sparky’s Dream” (1995)
  109. Mountain Goats “This Year” (2005)
  110. Modern English “I Melt with You” (1982)

  111. The Rolling Stones “Rocks Off” (1972)
  112. Pete Townshend “Slit Skirts” (1982)
  113. Soul Asylum “Cartoon” (1988)
  114. Bob Dylan “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (1966)
  115. The Records “Starry Eyes” (1978)
  116. T-Rex “Metal Guru” (1972)
  117. The Jam “Ghosts” (1982)
  118. Josh Ritter “Getting Ready to Get Down” (2015)
  119. Joy Division “Atmosphere” (1980)
  120. Drive-By Truckers “Let There Be Rock” (2002)

  121. Small Faces “Lazy Sunday” (1968)
  122. Built to Spill “Distopian Dream Girl” (1994)
  123. Big Star “Jesus Christ” (1974)
  124. Neil Young “Birds” (1970)
  125. XTC “Generals & Majors” (1980)
  126. R.E.M. “Disturbance at the Heron House” (1987)
  127. Bruce Springsteen “Badlands” (1978)
  128. The Connells “Stone Cold Yesterday” (1990)
  129. The Clash “Stay Free” (1978)
  130. The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1971)

  131. My Bloody Valentine “Soon” (1990)
  132. Amy Rigby “Don’t Ever Change” (2003)
  133. The Beatles “She Said She Said” (1966)
  134. Uncle Tupelo “New Madrid” (1993)
  135. The La’s “There She Goes” (1988)
  136. Mission of Burma “Academy Fight Song” (1980)
  137. Echo & the Bunnymen “The Killing Moon” (1984)
  138. The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” (1978)
  139. The Rolling Stones “Happy” (1972)
  140. The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (1966)

  141. Wire “Map Ref. 41oN 93oW” (1979)
  142. Squeeze “Tempted” (1981)
  143. The Waterboys “The Whole of the Moon” (1985)
  144. Violent Femmes “Blister in the Sun” (1983)
  145. Harry Nilsson “Without You” (1971)
  146. Joy Division “Twenty Four Hours” (1980)
  147. Luna “California (All the Way)” (1994)
  148. The Byrds “Wasn’t Born to Follow” (1969)
  149. The Monkees “Pleasant Valley Sunday” (1967)
  150. Yo La Tengo “Barnaby Hardly Working” (1989)

  151. Pavement “Cut Your Hair” (1994)
  152. Buffalo Springfield “Expecting to Fly” (1967)
  153. Sonic Youth “I Got a Catholic Block” (1987)
  154. The Plimsouls “A Million Miles Away” (1983)
  155. Superchunk “Slack Motherfucker” (1990)
  156. Bruce Springsteen “Growin’ Up” (1973)
  157. Brian Eno “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More” (1974)
  158. The Soft Boys “Queen of Eyes” (1980)
  159. Manfred Mann “The Mighty Quinn” (1968)
  160. NRBQ “I Want You Bad” (1978)

  161. The Fall “The Classical” (1982)
  162. The Clash “Rudie Can’t Fail” (1979)
  163. Rogue Wave “Eyes” (2005)
  164. R.E.M. “Man on the Moon” (1992)
  165. Tommy Keene “Places That Are Gone” (1986)
  166. Nick Lowe “So It Goes” (1976)
  167. The Rolling Stones “Moonlight Mile” (1971)
  168. Game Theory “Erica’s Word” (1986)
  169. The Chills “Rolling Moon” (1982)
  170. The Beths “Future Me Hates Me” (2018)

  171. The Trypes “A Plan Revised” (1985)
  172. Elliott Smith “Ballad of Big Nothing” (1997)
  173. Aztec Camera with Mick Jones “Good Morning Britain” (1990)
  174. Led Zeppelin “When the Levee Breaks” (1971)
  175. Love Tractor “Beatle Boots” (1986)
  176. Mott the Hoople “All the Way from Memphis” (1973)
  177. The Jesus & Mary Chain “Taste of Cindy” (1985)
  178. Kristy MacColl “They Don’t Know” (1979)
  179. Spiritualized “Ladies and Gentlemen...” (1997)
  180. The Bats “Treason” (1987)

  181. Velvet Underground “I Found a Reason” (1970)
  182. Traffic “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” (1971)
  183. Green Pajamas “She’s Still Bewitching Me” (1999)
  184. Big Star “In the Street” (1972)
  185. Robert Pollard “Pop Zeus” (1999)
  186. Wilco “Jesus Etc.” (2002)
  187. House of Love “Christine” (1988)
  188. Mercury Rev “Opus 40” (1998)
  189. Brinsley Schwarz “Hymn to Me” (1970)
  190. Phish “You Enjoy Myself” (1988)

  191. Flaming Lips “Everyone Wants to Live Forever” (1992)
  192. World Party “Way Down Now” (1990)
  193. Squeeze “Up the Junction” (1979)
  194. Bettie Serveert “Tom Boy” (1992)
  195. The Beatles “I Am the Walrus” (1967)
  196. The Jazz Butcher “Southern Mark Smith” (1983)
  197. Nick Drake “Hazy Jane II” (1970)
  198. The Clean “Point That Thing Somewhere Else” (1981)
  199. Winter Hours “Wait Till the Morning” (1986)
  200. Grateful Dead “China Cat > Rider” (1972)
  201. Robyn Hitchcock “One Long Pair of Eyes” (1989)
  202. Captain Beyond “Sufficiently Breathless” (1973)
  203. Status Quo “Pictures of Matchstick Men” (1968)
  204. The Connells “Scotty’s Lament” (1987)
  205. Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
  206. Hüsker Dü “Divide and Conquer” (1985)
  207. Rain Parade “This Can’t Be Today” (1983)
  208. Talking Heads “Memories Can’t Wait” (1979)
  209. Paul McCartney “Dear Boy” (1971)
  210. New Order “Your Silent Face” (1983)

  211. The Who “Naked Eye” (1971/1974)
  212. Matthew Sweet “I’ve Been Waiting” (1991)
  213. The Undertones “Get Over You” (1979)
  214. The Smiths “Girlfriend in a Coma” (1987)
  215. The Kinks “Better Things” (1981)
  216. Mary Lou Lord “Some Jingle Jangle Morning” (1998)
  217. Cocteau Twins “Sugar Hiccup” (1983)
  218. Psychedelic Furs “Pretty in Pink” (1981)
  219. Neil Young “Thrasher” (1979)
  220. Public Image Ltd. “Public Image” (1978)

  221. Beach Boys “Sloop John B” (1966)
  222. R.E.M. “Shaking Through” (1983)
  223. The Pretty Things “The Good Mr. Square/She Was Tall, She Was High” (1970)
  224. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)
  225. Sleater-Kinney “Little Babies” (1997)
  226. Genesis “Supper’s Ready” (1972)
  227. Sweet “Action” (1976)
  228. Pixies “Gigantic” (1988)
  229. Brian Eno “The Big Ship” (1975)
  230. Joy Division “Interzone” (1979)

  231. Belly “Feed the Tree” (1993)
  232. Robert Fripp & Peter Gabriel “Here Comes the Flood” (1979)
  233. Game Theory “24” (1985)
  234. Yo La Tengo “Deeper Into Movies” (1997)
  235. The Byrds “Ballad of Easy Rider” (1969)
  236. The Replacements “Unsatisfied” (1984)
  237. The New Pornographers “The Laws Have Changed” (2003)
  238. Camper Van Beethoven “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (1985)
  239. Aimee Mann “Save Me” (1999)
  240. Cream “Badge” (1969)

  241. Roxy Music “Over You” (1980)
  242. Pink Floyd “Wot’s...Uh the Deal” (1972)
  243. Blake Babies “Out There” (1990)
  244. Death Cab for Cutie “The Sound of Settling” (2003)
  245. Grateful Dead “Scarlet Begonias” (1974)
  246. The Beatles “Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” (1969)
  247. Big Audio Dynamite “The Bottom Line” (1985)
  248. Elliott Smith “Waltz #2” (1998)
  249. Sebadoh “The Freed Pig” (1991)
  250. Pavement “Silence Kid” (1994)

  251. Pulp “Common People” (1995)
  252. Sinéad O’Connor “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (1990)
  253. The Reivers “Things Don’t Change” (1985)
  254. The Rolling Stones “We Love You” (1967)
  255. Minutemen “History Lesson Part II” (1984)
  256. The Feelies “The Obedient Atom” (1984)
  257. The Jam “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” (1979)
  258. Ben Folds Five “Mess” (1999)
  259. Magnetic Fields “Papa Was a Rodeo” (1999)
  260. Split Enz “I Got You” (1980) <

  261. The Sugarcubes “Birthday” (1987)
  262. The Doors “The End” (1967)
  263. Scruffy the Cat “Happiness to Go” (1986)
  264. The Kinks “God’s Children” (1971)
  265. Beulah “Emma Blowgun’s Last Stand” (1999)
  266. Guerilla Toss “Zum Herz” (2023)
  267. The Call “The Walls Came Down” (1983)
  268. Joe Walsh “Meadows” (1973)
  269. Neutral Milk Hotel “King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 1-3” (1998)
  270. Buzzcocks “Why Can’t I Touch It” (1979)

  271. Cat Stevens “On the Road to Find Out” (1970)
  272. Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark “Enola Gay” (1980)
  273. Big Star “You Get What You Deserve” (1973)
  274. Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.” (1976)
  275. Wilco “Misunderstood” (1996)
  276. David Bowie “Starman” (1972)
  277. The Connells “Hey Wow” (1989)
  278. XTC “Senses Working Overtime” (1982)
  279. Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane “Keep Me Turning” (1977)
  280. Elvis Costello “Strict Time” (1981)

  281. Yo La Tengo “Blue Line Swinger” (1995)
  282. Rainy Day with Susannah Hoffs “I’ll Keep It with Mine” (1984)
  283. Odds “Someone Who’s Cool” (1996)
  284. Bruce Springsteen “Atlantic City” (1982)
  285. The Kinks “Strangers” (1970)
  286. Matthew Sweet “We’re the Same” (1995)
  287. Blind Faith “Can’t Find My Way Home” (1969)
  288. The Primitives “Crash” (1988)
  289. The Jesus & Mary Chain with Hope Sandoval “Sometimes Always” (1994)
  290. Superchunk “Driveway to Driveway” (1994)

  291. My Morning Jacket “Off the Record” (2004)
  292. Pixies “Planet of Sound” (1991)
  293. The Dream Academy “Life in a Northern Town” (1985)
  294. Galaxie 500 “Fourth of July” (1990)
  295. Billy Bragg “Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards” (1988)
  296. The Pogues “Sally MacLennane” (1985)
  297. Eels “Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues” (2000)
  298. Joni Mitchell “Help Me” (1974)
  299. Hüsker Dü “Terms of Psychic Warfare” (1985)
  300. Brian Eno “Everything Merges with the Night” (1975)
  301. Robyn Hitchcock “Heaven” (1985)
  302. The Who “Drowned” (1973)
  303. Archers of Loaf “Web in Front” (1993)
  304. The Clash “The Card Cheat” (1979)
  305. Volcano Suns “Tree Stomp” (1985)
  306. Rilo Kiley “Portions for Foxes” (2004)
  307. Paul McCartney “Back Seat of My Car” (1971)
  308. Big Dipper “Ron Klaus Wrecked His House” (1988)
  309. Guided by Voices “Mincer Ray” (1994)
  310. R.E.M. “Electrolite” (1996)

  311. Liz Phair “Help Me Mary” (1993)
  312. Roxy Music “Virginia Plain” (1972)
  313. The Sundays “Here’s Where the Story Ends” (1990)
  314. Drive-By Truckers “Puttin’ People on the Moon” (2004)
  315. Queen “Killer Queen” (1974)
  316. Young Fresh Fellows “The Sharing Patrol Theme” (1985)
  317. Velvet Underground “Sister Ray” (1968)
  318. Mazzy Star “Fade into You” (1993)
  319. Phish “Brian and Robert” (1998)
  320. Big Audio Dynamite “Rush” (1991)

  321. The Stone Roses “Made of Stone” (1989)
  322. X “Under the Big Black Sun” (1982)
  323. The Jim Carroll Band “People Who Died” (1980)
  324. Elton John “Rocket Man” (1972)
  325. Hoodoo Gurus “Bittersweet” (1985)
  326. Weezer “El Scorcho” (1996)
  327. Ween “What Deaner Was Talking About” (1994)
  328. Teenage Fanclub “Star Sign” (1991)
  329. The Waitresses “Christmas Wrapping” (1982)
  330. Led Zeppelin “D’yer Mak’er” (1973)

  331. The Feelies “Raised Eyebrows” (1980)
  332. Mountain Goats “Woke Up New” (2006)
  333. The Undertones “More Songs About Chocolate & Girls” (1980)
  334. Epic Soundtracks “Fallen Down” (1992)
  335. Sonic Youth “Stereo Sanctity” (1987)
  336. The Moody Blues “The Voice” (1981)
  337. The Jayhawks “Smile” (2000)
  338. The Faces “Glad & Sorry” (1973)
  339. The Shazam “Chipper Cherry Daylily” (1999)
  340. Badly Drawn Boy “Something to Talk About” (2002)

  341. Guided by Voices “Game of Pricks” (1995)
  342. Pere Ubu “Non-Alignment Pact” (1978)
  343. The High “Box Set Go” (1990)
  344. Luna “I Can’t Wait” (1992)
  345. The Fall “Living Too Late” (1986)
  346. Chris Bell “I Am the Cosmos” (1978)
  347. Too Much Joy “Crush Story” (1991)
  348. Nick Drake “One of These Things First” (1971)
  349. Buzzcocks “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” (1979)
  350. Sweet “Ballroom Blitz” (1974)

  351. Fountains of Wayne “Radiation Vibe” (1996)
  352. Pink Floyd “Lucifer Sam” (1967)
  353. A Flock of Seagulls “Space Age Love Song” (1982)
  354. Pavement “Frontwards” (1992)
  355. Nirvana “All Apologies” (1993)
  356. James Gang “Funk #49” (1970)
  357. Apples in Stereo “Ruby” (1999)
  358. Wilco “Box Full of Letters” (1995)
  359. Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” (1979)
  360. Adam & the Ants “Stand & Deliver” (1981)

  361. Buffalo Springfield “On the Way Home” (1968)
  362. The Rentals “Friends of P” (1995)
  363. The Mekons “Chivalry” (1985)
  364. Tom Tom Club “Genius of Love” (1981)
  365. The Raveonettes “That Great Love Sound” (2003)
  366. J.K. & Co. “Fly” (1968)
  367. Bob Mould “See a Little Light” (1989)
  368. Grant Hart “Twenty-Five Forty-One” (1989)
  369. Devo “Uncontrollable Urge” (1978)
  370. King Crimson “Elephant Talk” (1981)

  371. The Long Ryders “Looking for Lewis & Clark” (1985)
  372. Michael Penn “No Myth” (1989)
  373. Velvet Underground “Oh Sweet Nuthin’” (1970)
  374. The dB’s “Amplifier” (1982)
  375. Yo La Tengo “I Heard You Looking” (1993)
  376. The Libertines “Up the Bracket” (2002)
  377. Posies “Golden Blunders” (1990)
  378. The Jam “Smithers-Jones” (1980)
  379. Spiritualized “I Think I’m in Love” (1997)
  380. Throwing Muses “Not Too Soon” (1991)

  381. David Bowie “Hang on to Yourself” (1972)
  382. Cocteau Twins “Lorelei” (1984)
  383. Matthew Sweet “Divine Intervention” (1991)
  384. Todd Rundgren “I Saw the Light” (1972)
  385. Veruca Salt “Seether” (1994)
  386. The Pretenders “Cuban Slide” (1981)
  387. Ride “Taste” (1990)
  388. The Doors “Peace Frog” (1970)
  389. My Morning Jacket “I’m Amazed” (2008)
  390. Lou Reed “Dirty Blvd.” (1989)

  391. Talking Heads “Listening Wind” (1980)
  392. Ben Folds Five “Battle of Who Could Care Less” (1997)
  393. The Rolling Stones “2000 Light Years from Home” (1967)
  394. Luna “23 Minutes in Brussels” (1995)
  395. The Jam “To Be Someone” (1978)
  396. Guided by Voices “Don’t Stop Now” (1996)
  397. The Replacements “Achin’ to Be” (1989)
  398. Prince “When You Were Mine” (1980)
  399. Gomez “See the World” (2006)
  400. Donovan “Atlantis” (1968)
  401. Japandroids “The House That Heaven Built” (2012)
  402. Grateful Dead “He’s Gone” (1972)
  403. My Bloody Valentine “When You Sleep” (1991)
  404. Tommy James & the Shondells “Crimson & Clover” (1968)
  405. Amy Rigby “Balls” (2000)
  406. Flamin’ Groovies “You Tore Me Down” (1976)
  407. Joan Jett “Bad Reputation” (1980)
  408. Superchunk “Precision Auto” (1993)
  409. The Monkees “Porpoise Song” (1968)
  410. Neil Young “Revolution Blues” (1974)

  411. Fountains of Wayne “No Better Place” (2003)
  412. The Minders “Build” (1999)
  413. Genesis “Stagnation” (1970)
  414. Sleater-Kinney “One More Hour” (1997)
  415. The Stooges “TV Eye” (1970)
  416. Josh Ritter “Girl in the War” (2006)
  417. Television “Marquee Moon” (1977)
  418. Charlatans UK “The Only One I Know” (1990)
  419. Judee Sill “Crayon Angels” (1971)
  420. Icicle Works “Whisper to a Scream” (1983)

  421. Happy Mondays “Step On” (1990)
  422. Butthole Surfers “Hey” (1983)
  423. The Who “Too Much of Anything” (1971/1974)
  424. Rain Parade “Talking in My Sleep” (1983)
  425. Beulah “If We Can Land a Man on the Moon” (1999)
  426. XTC “Earn Enough for Us” (1986)
  427. Wilco “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” (2002)
  428. Grateful Dead “Eyes of the World” (1973)
  429. Drive-By Truckers “Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife” (2008)
  430. The Rolling Stones “Before They Make Me Run” (1978)

  431. Yo La Tengo “A Shy Dog” (1987)
  432. New Order “Weirdo” (1986)
  433. The Beatles “Dear Prudence” (1968)
  434. Lush “Sweetness & Light” (1990)
  435. Lovers “People in Cars Don’t Face Each Other” (2002)
  436. Buffalo Springfield “Broken Arrow” (1967)
  437. The Soft Boys “I Wanna Destroy You” (1980)
  438. The Connells “’74-’75” (1993)
  439. Rilo Kiley “Spectacular Views” (2002)
  440. R.E.M. “7 Chinese Bros.” (1984)

  441. Ben Folds “Landed” (2005)
  442. The Replacements “Little Mascara” (1985)
  443. The Kinks “Sitting in My Hotel” (1972)
  444. Pavement “Gold Soundz” (1994)
  445. Oranger “Eggtooth” (1998)
  446. Minutemen “Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing” (1984)
  447. Bob Dylan “Queen Jane Approximately” (1965)
  448. My Morning Jacket “Circuital” (2011)
  449. Interpol “Evil” (2004)
  450. The Romantics “What I Like About You” (1980)

  451. Young Marble Giants “Eating Noddemix” (1980)
  452. Warren Zevon “Lawyers Guns & Money” (1978)
  453. Mountain Goats “Half Dead” (2006)
  454. Bram Tchaikovsky “Girl of My Dreams” (1979)
  455. Pink Floyd “When the Tigers Broke Free” (1982)
  456. Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (1965)
  457. Let’s Active “Every Word Means No” (1983)
  458. Belly “Gepetto” (1993)
  459. Cosmic Rough Riders “Revolution in the Summertime” (2000)
  460. The Replacements “Can’t Hardly Wait” (1987

  461. Spacemen 3 “Why Couldn’t I See” (1991)
  462. Television “Venus” (1977)
  463. Creeper Lagoon “Empty Ships” (1998)
  464. Ringo Starr “Photograph” (1973)
  465. Drive-By Truckers “Sink Hole” (2003)
  466. The Smiths “How Soon Is Now?” (1984)
  467. The 6ths “San Diego Zoo” (1995)
  468. Madness “Michael Caine” (1984)
  469. The Raspberries “Go All the Way” (1972)
  470. The Flaming Lips “Do You Realize?” (2002)

  471. Sinéad O’Connor “Mandinka” (1987)
  472. The Glands “When I Laugh” (2000)
  473. Genesis “Carpet Crawlers” (1974)
  474. The Jayhawks “Blue” (1995)
  475. Derek & the Dominos “Bell Bottom Blues” (1970)
  476. Belle & Sebastian “Boy with the Arab Strap” (1998)
  477. Led Zeppelin “Carouselambra” (1979)
  478. Luna “IHOP” (1996)
  479. Katrina & the Waves “Spiderman” (1983)
  480. Paul McCartney & Wings “Magneto & Titanium Man” (1975)

  481. Pernice Brothers “Working Girls” (2001)
  482. The Jags “Back of My Hand” (1979)
  483. English Beat “Save It for Later” (1982)
  484. Phoebe Bridgers “That Funny Feeling” (2021)
  485. Neutral Milk Hotel “Song Against Sex” (1996)
  486. Frank Zappa “Joe’s Garage” (1979)
  487. Ben Vaughn Combo “My First Band” (1987)
  488. Pavement “Elevate Me Later” (1994)
  489. Paul Simon “My Little Town” (1975)
  490. Firehose “Herded Into Pools” (1993)

  491. Grateful Dead “Spanish Jam” (live, 1974)
  492. Badfinger “No Matter What” (1970)
  493. The Postal Service “Such Great Heights” (2003)
  494. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band “The Smell of Incense” (1967)
  495. Guided by Voices “Gold Heart Mountain Top” (1994)
  496. The Primitives “Way Behind Me” (1989)
  497. Wilco “When You Wake Up Feeling Old” (1999)
  498. Mercury Rev “Bronx Cheer” (1993)
  499. Built to Spill “Goin’ Against Your Mind” (2006)
  500. The Small Faces “The Autumn Stone” (1969)
  501. Elton Motello “Jet Boy Jet Girl” (1978)
  502. Olivia Tremor Control “Define a Transparent Dream” (1996)
  503. Flash & the Pan “Hey St. Peter” (1979)
  504. The Who “Go to the Mirror” (1969)
  505. The Bats “Smoking Her Wings” (1990)
  506. Uncle Tupelo “Sandusky” (1992)
  507. The Jesus & Mary Chain “Between Planets” (1989)
  508. X “Los Angeles” (1980)
  509. Apples in Stereo “Go” (2000)
  510. Shriekback “Nemesis” (1985)

  511. America “Sister Golden Hair” (1975)
  512. Velvet Underground “Heroin” (1967)
  513. Joe Jackson “One More Time” (1979)
  514. Big Audio Dynamite “Medicine Show” (1985)
  515. Echo & the Bunnymen “The Cutter” (1983)
  516. Julee Cruise “Falling” (1989)
  517. Phish “Bouncing Around the Room” (1990)
  518. Wilco “Impossible Germany” (2007)
  519. Jonathan Richman “That Summer Feeling” (1983)
  520. The Raveonettes “Dead Sound” (2008)

  521. The Shazam “Sunshine Tonight” (2000)
  522. Simple Minds “The American” (1981)
  523. Television “1880 Or So” (1992)
  524. Meat Puppets “Split Myself in Two” (1983)
  525. The Nazz “Open My Eyes” (1968)
  526. The Hold Steady “Chillout Tent” (2006)
  527. AC/DC “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” (1976)
  528. Eels “Novocaine for the Soul” (1996)
  529. The Long Ryders “I Had a Dream” (1984)
  530. The Faces “Ooh La La” (1973)

  531. Dandy Warhols “Not If You Were the Last Junkie” (1997)
  532. The Fall “Cruiser’s Creek” (1985)
  533. The Who “However Much I Booze” (1975)
  534. Love & Rockets “Kundalini Express” (1986)
  535. That Dog “Old LP” (2019)
  536. Flying Burrito Brothers “Tried So Hard” (1971)
  537. Matt Pond PA “So Much Trouble” (2005)
  538. Romeo Void “Never Say Never” (1982)
  539. Dire Straits “Skateaway” (1980)
  540. Pavement “Box Elder” (1989)

  541. Fleetwood Mac “Second Hand News” (1976)
  542. Squeeze “Goodbye Girl” (1979)
  543. The Soft Boys “Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole” (1980)
  544. Klaatu “Sub-Rosa Subway” (1976)
  545. Elvis Costello “Shabby Doll” (1982)
  546. Sugar “A Good Idea” (1992)
  547. Modest Mouse “Float On” (2004)
  548. The Stone Roses “Waterfall” (1989)
  549. The Bangles “James” (1984)
  550. Tom Petty “The Waiting” (1981)

  551. The New Pornographers “All the Old Showstoppers” (2007)
  552. The Action “Strange Roads” (1968)
  553. Lou Reed “Kill Your Sons” (1974)
  554. Supertramp “It’s a Long Road” (1970)
  555. Vampire Weekend “A-Punk” (2008)
  556. Mary Lou Lord “I Figured You Out” (1997)
  557. The Zombies “Hung Up on a Dream” (1968)
  558. Amy Rigby “20 Questions” (1996)
  559. Weezer “Don’t Let Go” (2001)
  560. The Breeders “Divine Hammer” (1993)

  561. Bruce Cockburn “Wondering Where the Lions Are” (1979)
  562. Eleventh Dream Day “After This Time Is Gone” (1993)
  563. Modern Lovers “Pablo Picasso” (1976)
  564. Ben Folds “Not the Same” (2001)
  565. Butthole Surfers “Pepper” (1996)
  566. The Carpenters “Superstar” (1971)
  567. Ultravox “Reap the Wild Wind” (1982)
  568. Steely Dan “Dirty Work” (1972)
  569. Alvvays “Lollipop” (2017)
  570. Neil Young “Cortez the Killer” (1975)

  571. Pere Ubu “Waiting for Mary” (1989)
  572. Young Fresh Fellows “This Little Mystery” (1984)
  573. Moby Grape “Omaha” (1967)
  574. The Lemonheads “It’s a Shame About Ray” (1992)
  575. Pylon “Crazy” (1983)
  576. Sebadoh “Soul & Fire” (1993)
  577. Courtney Barnett “Depreston” (2015)
  578. Peter “Paul & Mary “Too Much of Nothing” (1967)
  579. Peter Gabriel “Lead a Normal Life” (1980)
  580. The Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are Sealed” (1981)

  581. Charly Bliss “Percolator” (2017)
  582. Radio Birdman “I-94” (1981)
  583. Beastie Boys “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party” (1986)
  584. Status Quo “Mr. Mind Detector” (1969)
  585. Exploding Hearts “Modern Kicks” (2003)
  586. The Kings “Switchin’ to Glide” (1980)
  587. Shriekback “The Shining Path” (1986)
  588. The Connells “Slackjawed” (1993)
  589. Superchunk “My Gap Feels Weird” (2010)
  590. Sweet “Fox on the Run” (1975)

  591. The Trashcan Sinatras “Obscurity Knocks” (1990)
  592. The Glands “Pleaser” (2018)
  593. Harry Nilsson “Think About Your Troubles” (1970)
  594. The Vaccines “If You Wanna” (2011)
  595. Bob Marley “Three Little Birds” (1977)
  596. Uncle Tupelo “Graveyard Shift” (1990)
  597. Wonder Stuff “Unbearable” (1988)
  598. Rilo Kiley “The Frug” (1999)
  599. R.E.M. “Green Grow the Rushes” (1985)
  600. Pixies “Wave of Mutilation” (1989)
  601. Grateful Dead “Shakedown Street” (1978)
  602. Look Blue Go Purple “Cactus Cat” (1986)
  603. Hole “Celebrity Skin” (1998)
  604. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark “Talking Loud and Clear” (1984)
  605. Better Oblivion Community Center “Dylan Thomas” (2019)
  606. Mercury Rev “Holes” (1998)
  607. Aquarian Age “10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box” (1968)
  608. Pernice Brothers “The Weakest Shade of Blue” (2003)
  609. Guided by Voices “Jane of the Waking Universe” (1997)
  610. The Verlaines “Death & the Maiden” (1983)

  611. Alice Cooper “Clones” (1980)
  612. Pink Floyd “Brain Damage/Eclipse” (1973)
  613. Waxahatchee “Silver” (2017)
  614. Barbara Manning & SF Seals “Back Again” (1994)
  615. Wire “Mannequin” (1977)
  616. Lemon Pipers “Green Tambourine” (1967)
  617. Animal Collective “Summertime Clothes” (2009)
  618. The Cure “Just Like Heaven” (1987)
  619. Certain Distant Suns “Bitter” (1995)
  620. Genesis “Behind the Lines/Duchess” (1980)

  621. Beastie Boys “Hey Ladies” (1989)
  622. David Gilmour “There’s No Way Out of Here” (1978)
  623. The Chills “Look for the Good in Others” (1987)
  624. Jason Falkner “Author Unknown” (1999)
  625. The Mamas & the Papas “I Saw Her Again” (1966)
  626. Wilco “I’m the Man Who Loves You” (2002)
  627. The Left Banke “Walk Away Renee” (1966)
  628. Shoes “Your Imagination” (1981)
  629. Paul McCartney & Wings “London Town” (1978)
  630. The Paranoid Style “Dominoes in Drag” (2017)

  631. The Rolling Stones “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” (1971)
  632. Dinosaur Jr. “The Wagon” (1991)
  633. Badfinger “Carry on Till Tomorrow” (1970)
  634. Nick Lowe “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass” (1978)
  635. Television Personalities “Salvador Dali’s Garden Party
  636. Depeche Mode “Just Can’t Get Enough” (1981)
  637. The Chills “Pink Frost” (1984)
  638. The Monkees “Randy Scouse Git” (1967)
  639. Weezer “Dope Nose” (2002)
  640. Missing Persons “Words” (1982)

  641. Big Audio Dynamite “Beyond the Pale” (1986)
  642. The Reivers “Electra” (1987)
  643. Undertones “I Know a Girl” (1979)
  644. Winter Hours “Hyacinth Girl” (1986)
  645. Peter Gabriel “Wallflower” (1982)
  646. Dandy Warhols “Mis Amigos” (2008)
  647. Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer” (1970)
  648. Ambulance LTD “Stay Tuned” (2004)
  649. Tenpole Tudor “Swords of a Thousand Men” (1981)
  650. Stephen Malkmus “The Hook” (2001)

  651. Golden Smog “Looking Forward to Seeing You” (1998)
  652. The Fall “Paintwork” (1985)
  653. U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (1987)
  654. The Smiths “Ask” (1987)
  655. Nimrod “The Bird” (1969)
  656. XTC “Mayor of Simpleton” (1989)
  657. The Clean “Anything Could Happen” (1981)
  658. Cocteau Twins “Sigh’s Smell of Farewell” (1986)
  659. Darling Buds “Burst” (1988)
  660. Firehose “Brave Captain” (1986)

  661. Pink Floyd “Summer ’68” (1970)
  662. Stereolab “Wow and Flutter” (1994)
  663. Taylor Swift “We Are Never Getting Back Together” (2012)
  664. Marshall Crenshaw “Whenever You’re on My Mind” (1983)
  665. The Breeders “Cannonball” (1993)
  666. James Gang “Walk Away” (1971)
  667. Camper Van Beethoven “Eye of Fatima” (1988)
  668. Yo La Tengo “Upside-Down” (1992)
  669. Case Lang Veirs “Atomic Number” (2016)
  670. Jethro Tull “Thick As a Brick Pt. 1” (1972)

  671. Volcano Suns “White Elephant” (1986)
  672. Soundtrack of Our Lives “Believe I’ve Found” (2005)
  673. The Who “Glow Girl” (1967)
  674. Old 97’s “Can’t Get a Line” (2001)
  675. The Orb “Little Fluffy Clouds” (1991)
  676. The Noise Petals “The Happy Song” (1988)
  677. Paul McCartney & Wings “Mrs. Vanderbilt” (1974)
  678. Chris Knox “The Split” (1993)
  679. Yes “I’ve Seen All Good People” (1971)
  680. Grandaddy “Stray Dog & the Chocolate Shake” (2003)

  681. De La Soul “The Magic Number” (1989)
  682. Dukes of Stratosphear “Vanishing Girl” (1987)
  683. Jefferson Airplane “Good Shepherd” (1969)
  684. Regina Spektor “Better” (2006)
  685. Pavement “Date w/ Ikea” (1997)
  686. Wire “Ambitious” (1987)
  687. That Dog “Long Island” (1997)
  688. The Moody Blues “Peak Hour” (1967)
  689. Television “Ain’t That Nothin’” (1978)
  690. LCD Soundsystem “Losing My Edge” (2002)

  691. Bruce Springsteen “Candy’s Room” (1978)
  692. Sonic Youth “Tunic” (1990)
  693. Tom Petty “Here Comes My Girl” (1979)
  694. Jason & the Scorchers “White Lies” (1985)
  695. Dressy Bessy “Lipstick” (2003)
  696. Imperial Teen “Lipstick” (1998)
  697. Sebadoh “Skull” (1994)
  698. Brian Protheroe “Pinball” (1974)
  699. Best Coast “Feeling OK” (2015)
  700. Brian Eno “By This River” (1977)
  701. Amy Rigby “Dancin’ with Joey Ramone” (2005)
  702. The Gerbils “Sunshine Soul” (1998)
  703. Flamin’ Groovies “Shake Some Action” (1976)
  704. Mazzy Star “Halah” (1990)
  705. Jazz Butcher “The Devil Is My Friend” (1985)
  706. Isaac Hayes “Shaft” (1971)
  707. Dave Edmunds “Girls Talk” (1979)
  708. Stump “Charlton Heston” (1988)
  709. The Small Faces “Afterglow” (1968)
  710. Tobin Sprout “Courage the Tack” (2003)

  711. Japandroids “Near to the Wild Heart of Life” (2017)
  712. Beach Boys “You Still Believe in Me” (1966)
  713. The Runaways “Cherry Bomb” (1976)
  714. Wondermints “Proto-Pretty” (1996)
  715. Phil Manzanera/Brian Eno “Big Day” (1975)
  716. Yuck “Georgia” (2011)
  717. The Pretty Things “Trust” (1968)
  718. The Fall “U.S. 80’s-90’s” (1986)
  719. Dandy Warhols “We Used to Be Friends” (2003)
  720. Material Issue “International Pop Overthrow” (1991)

  721. Dylan in the Movies “Girl with the Black Tights” (2014)
  722. Rollerskate Skinny “Bow Hitchhiker” (1993)
  723. Jennifer Trynin “Better Than Nothing” (1994)
  724. Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich “Hold Tight” (1966)
  725. The Things “You Can’t Deliver” (1986)
  726. Teenage Fanclub “I Need Direction” (2000)
  727. Galaxie 500 “Blue Thunder” (1989)
  728. Death Cab for Cutie “Your New Twin Sized Bed” (2008)
  729. Kaleidoscope “Jenny Artichoke” (1968)
  730. The Paranoid Style “Turpitude” (2019)

  731. Stevie Wonder “Higher Ground” (1973)
  732. Eleventh Dream Day “Makin’ Like a Rug” (1993)
  733. The Band “Stage Fright” (1970)
  734. Jimmy Eat World “The Middle” (2001)
  735. Marshall Crenshaw “Cynical Girl” (1982)
  736. Talking Heads “And She Was” (1985)
  737. Dead Milkmen “Bitchin’ Camaro” (1985)
  738. Jesus & Mary Chain “Far Gone & Out” (1992)
  739. Devo “Jocko Homo” (1978)
  740. Nick Lowe “Cruel to Be Kind” (1979)

  741. Sugar “If I Can’t Change Your Mind” (1992)
  742. P. Hux “Bazooka Joe” (1994)
  743. Tom Petty “Free Fallin’” (1989)
  744. Black Flag “Wasted” (1979)
  745. The Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing” (1966)
  746. King Crimson “Epitaph” (1969)
  747. Rhett Miller “I Need to Know Where I Stand” (2009)
  748. Book of Love “Boy” (1986)
  749. Uncle Tupelo “True to Life” (1991)
  750. Apples in Stereo “Please” (2002)

  751. Nick Cave “The Mercy Seat” (1988)
  752. Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
  753. The Libertines “Skag & Bone Man” (2003)
  754. The New Pornographers “Brill Bruisers” (2014)
  755. Spacemen 3 “Big City” (1991)
  756. Plasticland (?)
  757. The Minders “Right As Rain” (2001)
  758. Paul Simon “Kodachrome” (1973)
  759. The Pretty Things “In the Square” (1970)
  760. Talking Heads “Crosseyed and Painless” (1980)

  761. Game Theory “Here It Is Tomorrow” (1986)
  762. Vampire Weekend “This Life” (2019)
  763. Golden Smog “To Call My Own” (1998)
  764. Certain Distant Suns “Snowfall
  765. Shoes “Tomorrow Night” (1978)
  766. Unlikely Friends “Fifteen Rounds” (2018)
  767. T. Rex “Twentieth Century Boy” (1973)
  768. Anna Burch “2 Cool 2 Care” (2018)
  769. The Turtles “The Walking Song” (1967)
  770. Metric “Help I’m Alive” (2009)

  771. Grateful Dead “St. Stephen” (1969)
  772. Young Marble Giants “Credit in the Straight World” (1980)
  773. Elf Power “The Naughty Villain” (2000)
  774. Salad Boys “Dream Date” (2015)
  775. The Shins “Mildenhall” (2017)
  776. Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
  777. Arcade Fire “Creature Comfort” (2017)
  778. Peter Bjorn & John “Young Folks” (2007)
  779. Dream Syndicate “That’s What You Always Say” (1982)
  780. Bishop Allen “Start Again” (2014)

  781. Shoes “Turnaround” (1984)
  782. Tegan & Sara “Hop a Plane” (2007)
  783. Fountains of Wayne “The Girl I Can’t Forget” (2005)
  784. Dreaming Spires “Strange Glue” (2015)
  785. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever “Time in Common” (2018)
  786. Dream Syndicate “80 West” (2017)
  787. Vampire Weekend “Diane Young” (2013)
  788. Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue” (1975)
  789. Crosby, Stills & Nash “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (1969)
  790. Devo “Gates of Steel” (1980)

  791. Golden Smog “Ill Fated” (1995)
  792. MGMT “Kids” (2008)
  793. Lisa Smokes Pot (?)
  794. Best Coast “Crazy for You” (2010)
  795. Connections “Cindy” (2013)
  796. Gomez “Whippin’ Piccadilly” (1998)
  797. Sleigh Bells “Rill Rill” (2010)
  798. Belle & Sebastian “Sukie in the Graveyard” (2006)
  799. Blink-182 “All the Small Things” (1999)
  800. Guided by Voices “Best of Jill Hives” (2003)
  801. Firehose “Sometimes” (1987)
  802. Tegan & Sara “I Hear Noises” (2002)
  803. David Crosby “Laughing” (1971)
  804. Matt Pond PA “Last Light” (2007)
  805. Girls “Lust for Life” (2009)
  806. R.E.M. “The Flowers of Guatemala” (1986)
  807. Snow Patrol “Ask Me How I Am” (2001)
  808. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
  809. Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone” (2004)
  810. The Green Pajamas “Deep Blue Afternoon” (1999)

  811. Jason Falkner “My Lucky Day” (1999)
  812. Regina Spektor “The Calculation” (2009)
  813. Death Cab for Cutie “Your Heart Is an Empty Room” (2005)
  814. Dressy Bessy “This May Hurt” (2003)
  815. Essex Green “Don’t Know Why” (2006)
  816. Guided by Voices “Build a Better Iceberg
  817. Stars “Ageless Beauty” (2005)
  818. Wilco “Outtasite” (Outta Mind)” (1996)
  819. Dukes of Stratosphear “Bike Ride to the Moon” (1985)
  820. Bright Eyes “From a Balance Beam” (2002)

  821. The Hold Steady “Chips Ahoy” (2006)
  822. Mates of State “Get Better” (2008)
  823. Bright Eyes “Another Travelin’ Song” (2005)
  824. Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out” (2004)
  825. Kingsbury Manx “And What Fallout” (2005)
  826. Only Ones “Another Girl Another Planet” (1978)
  827. Elf Power “Walking with the Beggar Boys” (2004)
  828. Mazzy Star “Mary of Silence” (1993)
  829. Brian Eno “The True Wheel” (1974)
  830. Television Personalities “I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives” (1981) <>
  831. Sonny Curtis “Love Is All Around” (1970)
  832. Dandy Warhols “Bohemian Like You” (2000)
  833. Kevin Tihista “Family Curse” (2004)
  834. The Minus 5 “I’m Not Bitter” (2003)
  835. Dressy Bessy “Live to Tell All” (2003)
  836. Teenage Fanclub “Radio” (1993)
  837. Traveling Wilburys “Handle with Care” (1988)
  838. Camper Van Beethoven “Sweethearts
  839. The Lemonheads “The Great Big No” (1993)
  840. Beulah “I Love John She Loves Paul” (1997)

  841. Rilo Kiley “Pictures of Success” (2001)
  842. Todd Rundgren “Couldn’t I Just Tell You” (1972)
  843. Funkadelic “You Hit the Nail on the Head” (1972)
  844. Green Day “Warning” (2000)
  845. Spiritualized “Good Dope/Good Fun” (1993)
  846. The Churchills “Sugar Daddy” (2002)
  847. Mountain Goats “Against Pollution” (2004)
  848. Lucinda Williams “Changed the Locks” (1988)
  849. Chris Bell “Speed of Sound” (1992)
  850. The Clean “Flowers” (1982)

  851. Halo Benders “Virginia Reel Around the Fountain” (1998)
  852. Liz Phair “Divorce Song” (1993)
  853. My Bloody Valentine “Drive It All Over Me” (1988)
  854. The Connells “Burial Art” (2021)
  855. Genesis “Cinema Show” (1973)
  856. Neutral Milk Hotel “Everything Is” (1995)
  857. Talking Heads “Psycho Killer” (1977)
  858. Tori Amos “God” (1994)
  859. Ryan Adams “New York New York” (2001)
  860. Suzanne Vega “Marlene on the Wall” (1985)

  861. Guided by Voices “Glad Girls” (2001)
  862. Elliott Smith “Son of Sam” (2000)
  863. Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” (1979)
  864. The Bongos “The Bulrushes” (1982)
  865. Laura Nyro “Stoned Soul Picnic” (1968)
  866. Oranger “Texas Snow” (2000)
  867. Everclear “Santa Monica” (1995)
  868. Len “Steal My Sunshine” (1999)
  869. Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” (1994)
  870. The Moody Blues “Story in Your Eyes” (1971)

  871. Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen in Love” (1978)
  872. Tall Dwarfs “Fatal Flaw of the New” (1998)
  873. Eels “Last Stop This Town” (1998)
  874. Folk Implosion “Natural One” (1995)
  875. Ben Folds Five “Brick” (1995)
  876. Magnetic Fields “Busby Berkeley Dreams” (1999)
  877. The Muffs “I Need a Face” (1995)
  878. The Replacements “When It Began” (1990)
  879. Myracle Brah “Love Is” (1998)
  880. Sleeper “Inbetweener” (1995)

  881. Lambchop “Up with People” (2000)
  882. The Turtles “The Last Thing I Remember” (1968)
  883. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
  884. The Decemberists “Yankee Bayonet” (2006)
  885. Dire Straits “Wild West End” (1978)
  886. Yo La Tengo “Ohm” (2013)
  887. The Connells “Fun & Games” (1989)
  888. Thunderclap Newman “Something in the Air” (1969)
  889. Chris Knox “Half Man/Half Mole” (1995)
  890. Moby Grape “8:05” (1967)

  891. Bettie Serveert “Ray Ray Rain” (1995)
  892. Beck “Loser” (1993) <
  893. Magnapop “Open the Door” (1996)
  894. Phish “Wolfman’s Brother” (1994)
  895. Tobin Sprout “All Used Up” (1997)
  896. Ride “From Time to Time” (1994)
  897. Loud Family “Sword Swallower” (1993)
  898. Wire “Kidney Bingoes” (1988)
  899. Gin Blossoms “Til I Hear It from You” (1995)
  900. Supergrass “Alright” (1995)
  901. Sonic Youth “Sugar Kane” (1992)
  902. Creedence Clearwater Revival “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” (1970)
  903. Young Fresh Fellows “How Much About Last Night” (1985)
  904. Wet Leg “Chaise Lounge” (2021)
  905. Julian Cope “World Shut Your Mouth” (1987)
  906. Gilbert O’Sullivan “Get Down” (1973)
  907. Blur “Parklife” (1994)
  908. Public Image Ltd. “Rise” (1987)
  909. Nick Drake “Pink Moon” (1972)
  910. Nick Heyward “Kite” (1993)

  911. His Name Is Alive “Baby Fish Mouth” (1993)
  912. XTC “Dear Madam Barnum” (1992)
  913. Peter Gabriel “Biko” (1980)
  914. Rain Parade: Don’t Feel Bad” (1985)
  915. Jason Falkner “Hectified” (1996)
  916. Ramones “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” (1977)
  917. Wall of Voodoo “Mexican Radio” (1982)
  918. Kingsbury Manx “Piss Diary” (2000)
  919. The Cure “Never Enough” (1990)
  920. John Lennon “Instant Karma” (1970)

  921. Olivia Tremor Control “Green Typewriters Suite” (1996)
  922. The Fastbacks “Under the Old Lightbulb” (1993)
  923. The Breeders “Opened” (1990)
  924. Jefferson Airplane “Lather” (1968)
  925. Gomez “Shot Shot” (2002)
  926. Emerson Lake & Palmer “From the Beginning” (1972)
  927. Ultra Vivid Scene “Special One” (1990)
  928. Lou Reed “Charley’s Girl” (1976)
  929. Generation X “Ready Steady Go” (1978)
  930. John Cale “Big White Cloud” (1970)

  931. Olivia Tremor Control “California Demise 3” (1999)
  932. The Aerovons “World of You” (1969)
  933. Young Fresh Fellows “Miss Lonelyhearts” (1989)
  934. Colin Newman “I’ve Waited Ages” (1980)
  935. Long Ryders “Run Dusty Run” (1984)
  936. Big Dipper “Wrong in the Charts” (1987)
  937. The Beatles “I’ve Got a Feeling” (1971)
  938. Peter Gabriel “Moribund the Burgermeister” (1977)
  939. Los Lobos “Will the Wolf Survive” (1984)
  940. Nik Kershaw “Wouldn’t It Be Good” (1983)

  941. Jackson Brown “Running on Empty” (1977)
  942. Big Audio Dynamite “Other 99” (1988)
  943. Three Colors “One Big Tree” (1985)
  944. Spirit “My Friend” (1981)
  945. Verlaines “Lying in State” (1985)
  946. The Go-Go’s “Head Over Heels” (1984)
  947. Yaz “Walk Away from Love” (1983)
  948. Electric Light Orchestra “Telephone Line” (1976)
  949. Dumptruck “Back Where I Belong” (1985)
  950. Hello “New York Groove” (1975)

  951. Pink Floyd “Green Is the Colour” (1969)
  952. Kirsty MacColl “Patrick” (1984)
  953. Billy Bragg “A New England” (1983)
  954. The End “Dreamworld” (1969)
  955. The Nails “88 Lines About 44 Women” (1982)
  956. The Knack “My Sharona” (1979)
  957. Ian Hunter “All the Good Ones Are Taken” (1983)
  958. X-Ray Spex “Oh Bondage Up Yours” (1978)
  959. Fleetwood Mac “That’s All for Everyone” (1979)
  960. Blondie “Rip Her to Shreds” (1976)

  961. Millennium “Prelude/To Claudia on Thursday” (1968)
  962. Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” (1969)
  963. John Lennon “Oh Yoko” (1971)
  964. Shuggie Otis “Strawberry Letter 23” (1971)
  965. New York Dolls “Personality Crisis” (1973)
  966. The Faces “Stay with Me” (1971)
  967. Traffic “Empty Pages” (1970)
  968. 2nd Grade “When You Were My Sharona” (2020)
  969. Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot “Bonnie & Clyde” (1968)
  970. Fleetwood Mac “Hypnotized” (1973)

  971. Young Fresh Fellows “Still There’s Hope” (1989)
  972. Roky Erikson “Starry Eyes” (1975)
  973. Judy Sill “Enchanted Sky Machines” (1971)
  974. Beach Boys “Never Learn Not to Love” (1969)
  975. Jane Siberry “One More Colour” (1985)
  976. The Submarines “Maybe” (2008)
  977. Sagittarius “The Truth Is Not Real” (1968)
  978. Mott the Hoople “Backsliding Fearlessly” (1969)
  979. Led Zeppelin “Misty Mountain Hop” (1971)
  980. Bay City Rollers “Rock ‘N Roll Love Letter” (1976)

  981. The Clean “Oddity” (1983)
  982. The Strawbs “Down by the Sea” (1973)
  983. Squeeze “Pulling Mussels from a Shell” (1980)
  984. Dinosaur Jr. “Raisans” (1987)
  985. Ministry “So What” (1989)
  986. Hinds “Riding Solo” (2020)
  987. Spirit “Animal Zoo” (1970)
  988. Moby Grape “Seeing” (1969)
  989. The Nice “Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack” (1967)
  990. The Feelies “Away” (1988)

  991. Prince “Raspberry Beret” (1985)
  992. Real Estate “Talking Backwards” (2014)
  993. Superchunk “Crossed Wires” (2010)
  994. The Cucumbers “My Boyfriend” (1987)
  995. Drive-By Truckers “Thoughts and Prayers” (2020)
  996. Waxahatchee “Can’t Do Much” (2020)
  997. The Strokes “Hard to Explain” (2001)
  998. Fiona Apple “Under the Table” (2020)
  999. The Jazz Butcher “Mr. Odd” (1990)
  1000. Josh Ritter “New Lover” (2003)
  1001. Buffalo Springfield “Mr. Soul” (1967)
  1002. Helium “Pat’s Trick” (1995)
  1003. Cocteau Twins “Wax & Wane” (1982)
  1004. The Rolling Stones “Bitch” (1971)
  1005. Genesis “Dancing with the Moonlit Knight” (1973)
  1006. Hole “Rock Star” (1994)
  1007. The Cranberries “Dreams” (1992)
  1008. Swell Maps “Read About Seymour” (1981)
  1009. Foo Fighters “Big Me” (1995)
  1010. Against Me! “Transgender Dysphoria Blues” (2014)

  1011. Dinosaur Jr. “Start Choppin’” (1993)
  1012. Look Blue Go Purple “I Don’t Want You Anyway” (1991)
  1013. Transvision Vamp “Baby I Don’t Care” (1989)
  1014. Sonic Youth “Purr” (1992)
  1015. Green Pajamas “Kim the Waitress” (1986)
  1016. Cocteau Twins “Carolyn’s Fingers” (1988)
  1017. Gomez “Options” (2011)
  1018. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band “I Won’t Hurt You” (1966)
  1019. The Strokes “Under Cover of Darkness” (2011)
  1020. Dumptruck “Faithless” (2001)

  1021. Beach Boys “I’m Waiting for the Day” (1966)
  1022. Grateful Dead “The Eleven” (live, 1969)
  1023. Phoenix “1901” (2009)
  1024. Oasis “Whatever” (1994)
  1025. Suicidal Tendencies “Institutionalized” (1983)

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Some of the Longest Waits Between Albums

Albums:

Some of the Longest Waits

This list was originally posted on my Dave’s Music Database Facebook page (Some of the Longest Waits Between Albums) on 2/5/2012 and has been updated several times since.

Here’s a little history about this list. In March 2012, I penned an article for PopMatters.com (“I Heard You Missed Us – We’re Back!”) on bands who’d had long breaks between albums. At the time, I’d waited five years for a new album from Fish, one of my favorite acts. That month Van Halen ended a 14-year silence and in recent years Guns N’ Roses received a lot of press for its 15-year delay between albums. I ended up with an extensive list of acts who have tried the patience of their fans to the max.

Note: I’m only looking at album’s worth of new studio material. That includes “specialty” releases of new material for that act such as covers collections or Christmas recordings, but does not include live albums, compilations, remixes, or other reissues of previously released material. Thanks to DMDB fans who contributed to this list!

I also recommend checking out the list by camara_azteca at Rate Your Music: “Longest Gaps Between Albums: Artists Who Waited Over 35 Years to Release a Follow-Up” since I have not integrated that list here. There’s a lot of artists there with whom I’m unfamiliar.

Some of the Longest Waits:
  • 38 years: Chuck Berry Rock It (1979), Chuck (2017)
  • 38 years: John Lodge Natural Avenue (1977), 10,000 Light Years Ago (2015)
  • 36 years: The Yardbirds Little Games (1967), Birdland (2003)
  • 35 years: Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day (1970), Lookingafter (2005)
  • 35 years: The Sonics Sinderella (1980), This Is the Sonics (2015)
  • 34 years: The Stooges Raw Power (1973), The Weirdness (2007)
  • 32 years: New York Dolls Too Much Too Soon (1974), One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (2006)
  • 30 years: Magazine Magic, Murder and the Weather (1981), No Thyself (2011)
  • 28 years: Eagles The Long Run (1979), Long Road Out of Eden (2007)
  • 28 years: The Slits Return of the Giant Slits (1981), Trapped Animal (2009)
  • 28 years: Cat Stevens Back to Earth (1978), An Other Cup (2006)
  • 27 years: Big Star Third/Sister Lovers (1978), In Space (2005)
  • 27 years: Dexy’s Midnight Runners Don’t Stand Me Down (1985), One Day I’m Going to Soar (2012)
  • 25 years: Bauhaus Burning from the Inside (1983), Go Away White (2008)
  • 25 years: Levon Helm Levon Helm (1982), Dirt Farmer (2007)
  • 25 years: Throbbing Gristle Journey Through a Body (1982), Part Two: The Endless Not (2007)
  • 25 years: Roger Waters Amused to Death (1992), Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017)

  • 24 years: The Cars Door to Door (1987), Move Like This (2011)
  • 24 years: Steve Perry For the Love of Strange Medicine (1994), Traces (2018)
  • 24 years: The Who It’s Hard (1982), Endless Wire (2006)
  • 23 years: The Zombies Odessey and Oracle (1968), New World (1991)
  • 22 years: Jeff Lynne Armchair Theatre (1990), Long Wave (2012)
  • 22 years: Mission of Burma Vs. (1982), ONoffON (2004)
  • 22 years: My Bloody Valentine Loveless (1991), MBV (2013)
  • 22 years: The Soft Boys Underwater Moonlight (1980), Nextdoorland (2002)
  • 21 years: The Vaselines Dum-Dum (1989), Sex with an X (2010)

20 Years

  • The Del-Lords Lovers Who Wander (1990), Under Construction (EP, 2010)
  • Devo Smooth Noodle Maps (1990), Something for Everybody (2010)
  • The Feelies Time for a Witness (1991), Here Before (2011)
  • Pink Floyd The Division Bell (1994), Endless River (2014)
  • Steely Dan Gaucho (1980), Two Against Nature (2000)

19 Years

  • Del Amitri Can You Do Me Good? (2002), Fatal Mistakes (2021)
  • Grace Jones Bulletproof Heart (1989), Hurricane (2008)

18 Years

  • Black Sabbath Forbidden (1995), 13 (2013)
  • Faith No More Album of the Year (1997), Sol Invictus (2015)
  • Was (Not Was) Are You Okay? (1990), Boo! (2008)

17 Years

  • Blondie The Hunter (1982), No Exit (1999)
  • The Go-Go’s Talk Show (1984), God Bless the Go-Go’s (2001)
  • Kraftwerk Electric Café (1986), Tour de Force Soundtracks (2003)
  • Steve Miller Band Wide River (1993), Bingo (2010)
  • Squeeze Domino (1998), From the Cradle to the Grave (2015)

16 Years

  • The Beach Boys Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 (1996), That’s Why God Made the Radio (2012)
  • The B-52’s Good Stuff (1992), Funplex (2008)
  • Dr. Dre 2001 (1999), Compton (2015)
  • Gang of Four Shrinkwrapped (1995), Content (2011)
  • Gil Scott-Heron Spirits (1994), I’m New Here (2010)
  • Kansas Somewhere to Elsewhere (2000), The Prelude Implicit (2016)

15 Years

  • Camper Van Beethoven Key Lime Pie (1989), New Roman Times (2004)
  • Electric Light Orchestra Balance of Power (1986), Zoom (2001)
  • Roky Erickson All That May Do My Rhyme (1995), True Love Cast Out All Evil (2010)
  • Foreigner Mr. Moonlight (1994), Can’t Slow Down (2009)
  • Guns N’ Roses The Spaghetti Incident? (1993), Chinese Democracy (2008)
  • Don Henley Inside Job (2000), Cass County (2015)
  • Nitzer Ebb Big Hit (1995), Industrial Complex (2010)
  • Alan Parsons A Valid Path (2004), The Secret (2019)
  • The Rainmakers Skin (1996), 25 On (2011)
  • Shania Twain Up! (2002), Now (2017)

14 Years

  • Accept Predator (1996), Blood of the Nations (2010)
  • Alice in Chains Alice in Chains (1995), Black Gives Way to Blue (2009)
  • David Baerwald Here Comes the New Folk Underground (2002), Hellbound Train (2016)
  • Big Country Driving to Damascus (1999), The Journey (2013)
  • Lindsey Buckingham Out of the Cradle (1992), Under the Skin (2006)
  • Crowded House Together Alone (1993), Time on Earth (2007)
  • D’Angelo Voodoo (2000), Black Messiah (2014)
  • Electric Light Orchestra Zoom (2001), Alone in the Universe (2015)
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer Love Beach (1978), Black Moon (1992)
  • Hooters Out of Body (1993), Time Stand Still (2007)
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors (1977), Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991 (1991)
  • New Kids on the Block Face the Music (1994), The Block (2008)
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Universal (1996), History of Modern (2010)
  • The Swans Soundtrack for the Blind (1996), My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (2010)
  • Television Adventure (1978), Television (1992)
  • Van Halen Van Halen III (1998), A Different Kind of Truth (2012)

13 Years

  • Garth Brooks Scarecrow (2001), Man Against Machine (2014)
  • Dennis DeYoung One Hundred Years from Now (2007), 26 East Vol. 1 (2020)
  • Jane’s Addiction Ritual de lo Habitual (1990), Strays (2003)
  • Tool 10,000 Days (2006), Fear Inoculum (2019)
  • The Who Endless Wire (2006), Who (2019)
  • The Zombies New World (1991), As Far As I Can See… (2004)

12 Years

  • Kate Bush The Red Shoes (1993), Aerial (2005)
  • The Go-Betweens 16 Lovers Lane (1988), The Friends of Rachel Worth (2000)
  • Wire The First Letter (1991), Send (2003)
  • Hole Celebrity Skin (1998), Nobody’s Daughter (2010)
  • The House of Love Audience with the Mind (1993), Days Run Away (2005)
  • Billy Idol Cyberpunk (1993), Devil’s Playground (2005)
  • Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose (2004), Full Circle (2016)
  • Polvo Shapes (1997), In Prism (2009)
  • Styx Big Bang Theory (2005), The Mission (2017)

11 Years

  • Boston Life, Love & Hope (2013), Corporate America (2002)
  • Crowded House Intriguer (2010), Dreamers Are Waiting (2021)
  • ESG ESG (1991), Step Off (2002)
  • Grandmaster Flash Flash Is Back (1998), The Bridge: Concept of a Culture (2009)
  • Heart Desire Walks On (1993), Jupiter’s Darling (2004)
  • Kiss Psycho Circus (1998) Sonic Boom (2009)
  • The Libertines The Libertines (2004), Anthems for Doomed Youth (2015)

  • No Doubt Rock Steady (2001), Push and Shove (2012)
  • Portishead Portishead (1997), Third (2008)
  • The Power Station The Power Station (1985), Living in Fear (1996)
  • The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang (2005), Blue and Lonesome (2016)
  • Bob Seger It’s a Mystery (1995), Face the Promise (2006)
  • The Verve Urban Hymns (1997), Forth (2008)
  • Scott Walker Climate of Hunter (1984), Tilt (1995)
  • Scott Walker Tilt (1995), The Drift (2006)

10 Years

  • American Music Club San Francisco (1994), Love Songs for Patriots (2004)
  • David Bowie Reality (2003), The Next Day (2013)
  • Bush Golden State (2001), The Sea of Memories (2011)
  • Dinosaur Jr. Hand It Over (1997), Beyond (2007)
  • Eurythmics We Too Are One (1989), Peace (1999)
  • Peter Gabriel Us (1992); Up (2002)
  • Gin Blossoms Congratulations I’m Sorry (1996), Major Lodge Victory (2006)
  • The Human League Secrets (2001), Credo (2011)
  • Journey Raised on Radio (1986), Trial by Fire (1996)
  • The Knack Round Trip (1981), Serious Fun (1991)
  • The Lemonheads Car Button Cloth (1996), The Lemonheads (2006)
  • Matchbox 20 More Than You Think You Are (2002), North (2012)
  • Steve Perry Street Talk (1984), For the Love of Strange Medicine (1994)
  • Sade Lovers Rock (2000), Soldier of Love (2010)
  • Suicide Why Be Blue (1992), American Supreme (2002)
  • Supertramp Free As a Bird (1987), Some Things Never Change (1997)
  • Scott Walker We Had It All (1974), Climate of Hunter (1984)
  • Stevie Wonder Conversation Peace (1995), A Time to Love (2005)
  • Yes Magnification (2001), Fly from Here (2011)

9 Years

  • The Allman Brothers Band Brothers of the Road (1981), Seven Turns (1990)
  • The Allman Brothers Band Where It All Begins (1994), Hittin’ the Note (2003)
  • Leonard Cohen The Future (1992), Ten New Songs (2001)
  • Deep Purple Come Taste the Band (1975), Perfect Strangers (1984)
  • Styx Edge of the Century (1990), Brave New World (1999)

8 Years

  • AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip (2000), Black Ice (2008)
  • Aerosmith Honkin’ on Bobo (2004), Music from Another Dimension! (2012)
  • Berlin 4Play (2005), Animal (2013)
  • Blondie The Curse of Blondie (2003), Panic of Girls (2011)
  • Boston Don’t Look Back (1978), Third Stage (1986)
  • Boston Third Stage (1986), Walk On (1994)
  • Boston Walk On (1994), Corporate America (2002)
  • Camper Van Beethoven New Roman Times (2004), virus_installer.exe (2012)
  • Chicago Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album (1998), XXX (2006)
  • Leonard Cohen Dear Heather (2004), Old Ideas (2012)
  • Fleetwood Mac Time (1995), Say You Will (2003)
  • Michael Jackson Invincible (2001); Michael (2010 – released posthumously; Jackson died in 2009)
  • Mick Jagger Wandering Spirit (1993), Goddess in the Doorway (2001)
  • Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007), Strangers to Ourselves (2015)
  • The Rolling Stones Bridges to Babylon (1997), A Bigger Bang (2005)
  • Rush Test for Echo (1996) Vapor Trails (2002)
  • Sade Love Deluxe (1992), Lovers Rock (2000)
  • Bob Seger Face the Promise (2006), Ride Out (2014)
  • The Smithereens God Save the Smithereens (1999), Christmas with the Smithereens (2007)
  • Stevie Wonder Characters (1987), Conversation Peace (1995)

Still Waiting…
  • 42 years: Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door (8/15/79) (1979)
  • 28 years: Billy Joel River of Dreams (1993)
  • 24 years: Genesis Calling All Stations (1997)
  • 23 years: Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
  • 20 years: Mick Jagger Goddess in the Doorway (2001)
  • 19 years: Supertramp Slow Motion (2002)
  • 18 years: The Allman Brothers Band Hittin’ the Note (2003)
  • 18 years: Fleetwood Mac Say You Will (2003)
  • 18 years: Kraftwerk Tour de France Soundtracks (2003)
  • 18 years: Steely Dan Everything Must Go (2003)
  • 17 years: Tears for Fears Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (2004)
  • 16 years: Stevie Wonder A Time to Love (2005)
  • 14 years: Hooters Time Stand Still (2007)

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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

And This Year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Should Be...

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September 27, 2011: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its nominees for the 2012 class. See the DMDB blog entry And This Year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Are… for details on who was nominated and who looks to be the best bets to get in. Of course, the new roster of nominees stirs a long-standing frustration over who keeps getting passed over. Heck, this subject served as the first DMDB blog entry, How to Get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in January 2009.

So who has been unfairly overlooked? If the DMDB was in charge of the 2012 inductees, these would be the five to get in. Note: click on acts’ names to see their entries in the DMDB music makers’ encyclopedia.

Kiss

In February, I wrote a blog entry entitled Why Kiss Belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I’m actually not a Kiss fan, but my argument is that it is impossible to overlook a band that is the embodiment of rock and roll. The popular criticism is that the band uses elaborate stage shows to mask an absence of substance. They may appeal to the crotch, but not the head. Any self-respecting adult would have long ago purged their collections of any traces of the group. Uh, note to the Rock Hall – apparently you’ve forgotten how much of rock and roll is about music which appeals to young adults because it is all about sex and over-the-top showmanship. By the way, once Kiss gets in, make way for the New York Dolls, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden. That also opens the door to hair bands. Most worthy of induction are Bon Jovi and Def Leppard.

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Gram Parsons

Earlier this month, I wrote a blog entry about Parsons (Country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons died: September 19, 1973). That offers a brief overview of Parsons’ contributions. To sum it up here, writer Radley Balko argues that “Parsons may be the most influential artist yet to be inducted in either the Rock and Roll or Country Music Hall(s) of Fame”. The man who has been called “The Father of Country Rock” has four DMDB top 1000 albums – his own G.P. and Grievous Angel as well as The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo and The Flying Burrito Brothers’ Gilded Palace of Sin. Groups like the Eagles and Poco owe their very existence to the foundation he helped build.

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Rush

Rufus over Rush? The Hall has rightly acknowledged many R&B acts who have significantly shaped rock and roll. In its first two years, the Hall inducted Ray Charles, James Brown, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, and Louis Jordan. However, years after the R&B base has been more than acknowledged, the Hall continues to hail R&B acts (the 2012 nominees include Rufus, The Spinners, War, and Donna Summer) at the expense of acts which have been rock first and foremost. This is glaringly apparent when it comes to progressive rock. The Hall has an obvious bias against it, having only inducted Genesis from the genre. Still failing to receive acknowledgement are Rush; Yes; King Crimson; Jethro Tull; The Moody Blues; and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. All of these acts are worthy, but if I could only pick one, I’d go with Rush as the act who best transcended the genre to appeal to hard rock and heavy metal audiences as well.

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Joy Division

The Cure gets a nod this year and I think they are worthy of Hall induction – but not before Joy Division. These two groups most define the genre of goth rock, but Joy Division got there first. In a previous blog entry, I called them “one of the most important post-punk bands for creating the template for goth music” (Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart charts: June 28, 1980). They only released two studio albums and gained a much wider audience in their re-incarnated-as-New Order form, but in launching goth rock, Joy Division also laid the platform on which much of ‘80s alternative rock – including The Cure – was formed. While we’re focused on groups who laid the foundation for the alt scene, The Smiths and Sonic Youth belong on the short list of acts which should be ushered in right after Joy Division.

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Deep Purple

There’s still plenty of others worthy of Hall attention. I seriously considered giving this fifth spot to an artier, influential band like Kraftwerk, Roxy Music, Big Star, or Captain Beefheart. There’s also a serious case to be made for Stevie Ray Vaughan, that rare artist who moved an entire genre (the blues) forward while paying homage to its roots. However, the biggest and baddest act left deserving of enshrinement is Deep Purple. This would give the 2012 class a real dose of something the Hall has too long neglected – ROCK AND ROLL. What rock fan wouldn’t salivate at the idea that Deep Purple, Kiss, and Rush could all share a stage that night? The idea of a post-jam celebration including “Hush”, “Rock and Roll All Nite”, and “Tom Sawyer” just boggles the mind.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Marc Fagel/Pop Kulcher “Greatest Rock & Roll Albums of All Time”

Marc Fagel/Pop Kulcher:

Greatest Rock & Roll Albums of All Time

Pop Kulcher is a blog created by Marc Fagel. He drafted a list of 75 of the “Greatest Rock & Roll Albums of All Time” complete with commentary on each album. The original post no longer appears to be online, but I have cited Fagel’s commentary on albums throughout the DMDB. There’s also no indication of when this list was created, but the latest entry is Death Cab for Cutie’s Transatlanticism from 2003.

Check out other best-of album lists by individuals/critics here.

1. The Clash London Calling (1979)
2. R.E.M. Murmur (1983)
3. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969)
4. Big Star #1 Record (1972) / Radio City (1974)
5. The Who Quadrophenia (1973)
6. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (1979)
7. The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground (1969)
8. Pavement Slanted and Enchanted
9. Brian Eno Another Green World (1975)
10. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (1972)

11. The Feelies The Good Earth (1986)
12. The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
13. Sonic Youth Sister (1987)
14. The Replacements Let It Be (1984)
15. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
16. The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers (recorded 1973, released 1976)
17. Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating (1997)
18. The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)
19. Genesis Selling England by the Pound (1973)
20. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966)

21. The Connells Boylan Heights (1987)
22. Talking Heads Remain in Light (1980)
23. Elvis Costello Get Happy!! (1980)
24. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses (1989)
25. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
26. Grateful Dead American Beauty (1970)
27. Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
28. Matthew Sweet Girlfriend (1991)
29. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
30. Teenage Fanclub Bandwagonesque (charted 1991)

31. The Bats Daddy’s Highway (1988)
32. Neil Young On the Beach (1974)
33. Liz Phair Exile in Guyville (1993)
34. The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin (1999)
35. The Jam All Mod Cons (1978)
36. Squeeze East Side Story (1981)
37. King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
38. Wilco Summer Teeth (1999)
39. New Order Brotherhood (1986)
40. The Pixies Doolittle (1989)

41. The Soft Boys Underwater Moonlight (1980)
42. Guided by Voices Bee Thousand (1994)
43. Bettie Serveert Palomine (1992)
44. The Clean Anthology (1986)
45. Nick Lowe Pure Pop for Now People (1978)
46. The Reivers Translate Slowly (1985)
47. The Small Faces Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake (1968)
48. Wire Pink Flag (1977)
49. The Zombies Odessey & Oracle (1968)
50. Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)

51. Ramones Ramones (1976)
52. Olivia Tremor Control Dusk at Cubist Castle (1996)
53. Rain Parade Emergency 3rd Rail Power Trip (1983)
54. The Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow (1968)
55. Television Marquee Moon (1977)
56. Long Ryders Native Sons (1984)
57. Derek and the Dominos Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
58. The Rutles The Rutles (1978)
59. Luna Penthouse (1995)
60. The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs (1999)

61. The Jesus & Mary Chain Stoned & Dethroned (1994)
62. Fountains of Wayne Fountains of Wayne (1997)
63. Amy Rigby Diary of a Mod Housewife (1996)
64. The Shazam Godspeed the Shazam (1999)
65. My Bloody Valentine Loveless (1991)
66. Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism (2003)
67. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975)
68. Young Fresh Fellows Topsy Turvy (1985)
69. The Chills Kaleidoscope World (1986)
70. Hüsker Dü New Day Rising (1985)

71. Moby Grape Moby Grape (1967)
72. Dukes of Stratosphear Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (1987)
73. Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)
74. Sebadoh Bubble and Scrape (1993)
75. The Fall Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall (1984)

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Saturday, March 18, 1978

Big Star Third/Sister Lovers released

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

Released: March 18, 1978

Recorded: Fall 1974

Peak: --

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: rock

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to charts.

  1. Kizza Me (1978, --)
  2. Thank You Friends
  3. Big Black Car
  4. Jesus Christ (1978, --)
  5. Femme Fatale
  6. O, Dana
  7. Holocaust
  8. Kangaroo
  9. Stroke It Noel
  10. For You
  11. You Can’t Have Me
  12. Nightime
  13. Blue Moon
  14. Take Care

Total Running Time: 41:42

The Players:

  • Alex Chilton (vocals, guitar, keyboards)
  • Jody Stephens (drums, vocals)

Rating:

4.117 out of 5.00 (average of 21 ratings)

Quotable:

“Perhaps the most innovative album the group ever recorded, and influenced many subsequent bands.” – Wikipedia

Awards:

(Click on award to learn more).

About the Album:

“Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers ranks among the most harrowing experiences in pop music; impassioned, erratic, and stark, it’s the slow, sinking sound of” JA “a band ready to implode any second.” PK “After the first two Big Star albums, 1972’s #1 Record and 1974’s Radio City, failed to achieve commercial success, Alex Chilton went back into Ardent Studios in late 1974 to make a series of recordings.” WK

“Recorded with their label, Stax, poised on the verge of bankruptcy” JA the result was “a shambling wreck of an album.” JA This is “essentially a solo album from the messed up and somewhat deranged Chilton.” PK He’s “at the end of his rope, sabotaging his own music long before it can ever reach the wrecking crew of poor distribution, indifferent marketing, and disinterested pop radio.” JA

It makes for “one of the most vividly emotional experiences in pop music or a completely wasted opportunity.” JA “His songs are haphazardly brilliant, a head-on collision between inspiration and frustration.” JA “Most of the pop hooks were traded in for a brooding, chaotic sound…Raw emotional stuff, but unforgettable.” PK The album is a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, each song smacking of utter defeat and desperation.” JA Indeed, it“was deemed too uncommercial for release at the time, and only saw the light of day in 1978.” WK

“There’s no denying Third’s magnetic pull – it’s like an undertow.” JA The album “takes the original Big Star sound and abstracts it, with synthesizers, strings and saxophones emerging from the mix.” WK It “included guitar work by Steve Cropper (on a cover of The Velvet Underground’s Femme Fatale).” WK

While it “deals with bitterness, loneliness and emotional devastation, but does so in a way that retains some elements of pop music, as on Thank You Friends, which features female backing vocals reminiscent of those found on Elvis Presley recordings of the late ‘60s. Kangaroo and Holocaust have often been compared to some of the raw recordings of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. You Can’t Have Me is akin to a deconstructed song by the Who, and the halting ballad Dream Lover contains the famous line about ‘Beale Street green.’” WK

“Although many critics regard Radio City as the definitive Big Star album, Third is perhaps the most innovative album the group ever recorded, and influenced many subsequent bands, including Primal Scream and His Name Is Alive. In addition, the album contains what are arguably Alex Chilton’s finest vocal performances.” WK

“Although previously issued on a variety of different labels, Rykodisc’s 1992 release is the initially definitive edition of this unfinished masterpiece, its 19 tracks most closely approximating the original planned running order while restoring the music’s intended impact; in addition to unearthing a blistering cover of the Kinks’ Till the End of the Day and a haunting rendition of Nat King Cole’s Nature Boy, it also appends the disturbing Dream Lover, which distills the album’s messiest themes into less than four minutes of psychic torment.” JA

Notes:

The 1992 Rykodisc reissue adds five bonus tracks: “Nature Boy,” “Till the End of the Day,” “Dream Lover,” “Downs,” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.”

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Wednesday, February 20, 1974

Big Star Radio City released

Radio City

Big Star

Released: February 20, 1974

Peak: --

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: rock

Tracks:

Song Title (Writers) [time] (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to charts.

  1. O My Soul (4/74, --)
  2. Life Is White
  3. Way Out West
  4. What’s Going Ahn
  5. You Get What You Deserve
  6. Mod Lang
  7. Back of a Car
  8. Daisy Glaze
  9. She’s a Mover
  10. September Gurls (5/74, --)
  11. Morpha Too
  12. I’m in Love with a Girl

Total Running Time: 36:14

The Players:

  • Alex Chilton (vocals, guitar)
  • Andy Hummel (bass)
  • Jody Stephens (drums, vocals)

Rating:

4.226 out of 5.00 (average of 22 ratings)

Awards:

(Click on award to learn more).

About the Album:

“In late 1972, following the release of the debut album, #1 Record, founding member Chris Bell left the group and the band became inactive for four months.” WK “Bell had already contributed to the music and lyrics of O My Soul and Back of a Car – songs which Alex Chilton recalls were written ‘by committee’ – but receives no official credit. Chilton, aided by drummer Richard Rosebrough and at times by bassist Danny Jones, completed the recording of Mod Lang, She’s a Mover, and What’s Going Ahn without Jody Stephens or Andy Hummell.” WK

With Bell largely absent from Radio City, the album “lacked something of the pop sweetness (especially the harmonies) of #1 Record.” WR It was “a more cohesive album but also allowed Chilton to become a bit more self-indulgent. “ PK His “urgency (sometimes desperation) on songs that made his case as a genuine rock & roll eccentric. If #1 Record had a certain pop perfection that brought everything together, Radio City was the sound of everything falling apart, which proved at least as compelling.” WR “The album is no less stirring, with a handful of pop classics.” PK

“Radio City is notable for its unique, chewy guitar sound and live-sounding yet meticulous textures, and for its somewhat tortuous recording history. The album shows the influence of British Invasion bands such as The Beatles and The Kinks.” WK “The album included September Gurls and Back of a Car, which remain among the most famous Big Star songs; both the Searchers and the Bangles have covered ‘September Gurls.’” WK

“Critically acclaimed upon its release, the record sold poorly, partly due to a lack of promotion and the distribution problems of the band’s struggling record label, Ardent Records.” WK “Stax Records, primary distributor for the band’s Ardent Records label, had recently placed distribution of its catalog in the hands of the much larger Columbia Records; Radio City’s release coincided with a disagreement between Stax and Columbia, which left Columbia refusing to distribute the catalog. As a result, the album achieved only minimal sales of around 20,000 copies at the time.” WK “It is now recognized as a milestone album in the history of power pop music.” WK

“Some of the outtakes from the album include ‘I Got Kinda Lost,’ ‘Gone with the Light,’ ‘Motel Blues’ and ‘There Was a Life’ (an early version of "There Was a Light" from Chris Bell’s I Am the Cosmos CD).

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