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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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The Beatles “Rain” (1966)
The Beatles “A Day in the Life” (1967)
Big Star “The Ballad of El Goodo” (1972)
Grateful Dead “Ripple” (1970)
R.E.M. “So. Central Rain” (1984)
The Clash “Death Or Glory” (1979)
Velvet Underground “Pale Blue Eyes” (1969)
The Rolling Stones “Tumbling Dice” (1972)
The Beatles “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End” (1969)
The Who “The Kids Are Alright” (1965)
The Kinks “Days” (1968)
The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
Brian Eno “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1975)
Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” (1980)
The Replacements “Bastards of Young” (1985)
Neil Young “Powderfinger” (1979)
Pixies “Debaser” (1989)
The Clash “White Man in Hammersmith Palais” (1978)
Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” (1976)
Elvis Costello “The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes” (1977)
Beach Boys “God Only Knows” (1966)
David Bowie “Queen Bitch” (1971)
Modern Lovers “Roadrunner” (1972)
The Who “Baba O’Riley” (1971)
Brian Eno “Spider & I” (1977)
Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” (1975)
The Beatles “It’s All Too Much” (1969)
Velvet Underground “Sweet Jane” (1970)
David Bowie “Life on Mars?” (1971)
The Byrds “Draft Morning” (1968)
The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows” (1966)
Peter Gabriel “Solsbury Hill” (1977)
Joy Division “Decades” (1980)
Elvis Costello “Beyond Belief” (1982)
Neil Young “After the Gold Rush” (1970)
Wire “Outdoor Miner” (1978)
Miracle Legion “The Backyard” (1984)
Wilco “A Shot in the Arm” (1999)
Neutral Milk Hotel “Holland 1945” (1998)
Sonic Youth “Teenage Riot” (1988)
The New Pornographers “The Bleeding Heart Show” (2005)
David Bowie “Heroes” (1977)
Genesis “The Musical Box” (1971)
The Feelies “Slipping Into Something” (1986)
R.E.M. “Radio Free Europe” (1981)
Pavement “Summer Babe” (1992)
Simon & Garfunkel “The Only Living Boy in New York” (1970)
Grateful Dead “Box of Rain” (1970)
The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
New Order “Temptation” (1982)
Big Star “Thirteen” (1972)
Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (1980)
The Kinks “Village Green Preservation Society” (1968)
Yo La Tengo “From a Motel 6” (1993)
The Clash “Safe European Home” (1978)
The Who “I Can See for Miles” (1967)
Talking Heads “This Must Be the Place” (1984)
The Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (1969)
Paul McCartney “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” (1971)
Roxy Music “More Than This” (1982)
Elvis Costello “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding” (1978)
Liz Phair “Fuck & Run” (1993)
Mott the Hoople “All the Young Dudes” (1972)
The Jesus & Mary Chain “Just Like Honey” (1985)
Big Star “September Gurls” (1973)
Jerry Garcia “The Wheel” (1971)
Pink Floyd “Fearless” (1971)
INXS “Don’t Change” (1982)
The Band “The Weight” (1968)
Hüsker Dü “Books About UFO’s” (1985)
Genesis “I Know What I Like” (1973)
Badfinger “Baby Blue” (1971)
The Cure “In Between Days” (1985)
The Kinks “This Time Tomorrow” (1970)
Psychedelic Furs “Love My Way” (1983)
The Beatles “Hello Goodbye” (1967)
The Replacements “I Will Dare” (1984)
New Order “Ceremony” (1981)
The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)
Grateful Dead “Dark Star” (live 1969)
Cheap Trick “Surrender” (1978)
Pixies “Where Is My Mind” (1988)
The Shins “New Slang” (2001)
The Feelies “Let’s Go” (1986)
The Clash “Train in Vain” (1979)
Pink Floyd “Echoes” (1971)
R.E.M. “Catapult” (1983)
Pavement “Trigger Cut” (1992)
Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road” (1975)
Guided by Voices “I Am a Scientist” (1994)
Television “See No Evil” (1977)
David Bowie “Sound and Vision” (1977)
Sleater-Kinney “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” (1996)
Squeeze “In Quintessence” (1981)
Jimmy Cliff “Sitting in Limbo” (1972)
King Crimson “In the Court of the Crimson King” (1969)
Matthew Sweet “Sick of Myself” (1994)
Throwing Muses “Hate My Way” (1986)
Grateful Dead “Franklin’s Tower” (1975)
Yo La Tengo “Tom Courtenay” (1995)
The Kinks “Sweet Lady Genevieve” (1972)
The Hold Steady “Sequestered in Memphis” (2008)
George Harrison “What Is Life” (1970)
Flaming Lips “Waitin’ for a Superman” (1999)
The Byrds “My Back Pages” (1967)
Sex Pistols “Pretty Vacant” (1977)
Teenage Fanclub “Sparky’s Dream” (1995)
Mountain Goats “This Year” (2005)
Modern English “I Melt with You” (1982)
The Rolling Stones “Rocks Off” (1972)
Pete Townshend “Slit Skirts” (1982)
Soul Asylum “Cartoon” (1988)
Bob Dylan “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (1966)
The Records “Starry Eyes” (1978)
T-Rex “Metal Guru” (1972)
The Jam “Ghosts” (1982)
Josh Ritter “Getting Ready to Get Down” (2015)
Joy Division “Atmosphere” (1980)
Drive-By Truckers “Let There Be Rock” (2002)
Small Faces “Lazy Sunday” (1968)
Built to Spill “Distopian Dream Girl” (1994)
Big Star “Jesus Christ” (1974)
Neil Young “Birds” (1970)
XTC “Generals & Majors” (1980)
R.E.M. “Disturbance at the Heron House” (1987)
Bruce Springsteen “Badlands” (1978)
The Connells “Stone Cold Yesterday” (1990)
The Clash “Stay Free” (1978)
The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1971)
My Bloody Valentine “Soon” (1990)
Amy Rigby “Don’t Ever Change” (2003)
The Beatles “She Said She Said” (1966)
Uncle Tupelo “New Madrid” (1993)
The La’s “There She Goes” (1988)
Mission of Burma “Academy Fight Song” (1980)
Echo & the Bunnymen “The Killing Moon” (1984)
The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” (1978)
The Rolling Stones “Happy” (1972)
The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (1966)
Wire “Map Ref. 41oN 93oW” (1979)
Squeeze “Tempted” (1981)
The Waterboys “The Whole of the Moon” (1985)
Violent Femmes “Blister in the Sun” (1983)
Harry Nilsson “Without You” (1971)
Joy Division “Twenty Four Hours” (1980)
Luna “California (All the Way)” (1994)
The Byrds “Wasn’t Born to Follow” (1969)
The Monkees “Pleasant Valley Sunday” (1967)
Yo La Tengo “Barnaby Hardly Working” (1989)
Pavement “Cut Your Hair” (1994)
Buffalo Springfield “Expecting to Fly” (1967)
Sonic Youth “I Got a Catholic Block” (1987)
The Plimsouls “A Million Miles Away” (1983)
Superchunk “Slack Motherfucker” (1990)
Bruce Springsteen “Growin’ Up” (1973)
Brian Eno “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More” (1974)
The Soft Boys “Queen of Eyes” (1980)
Manfred Mann “The Mighty Quinn” (1968)
NRBQ “I Want You Bad” (1978)
The Fall “The Classical” (1982)
The Clash “Rudie Can’t Fail” (1979)
Rogue Wave “Eyes” (2005)
R.E.M. “Man on the Moon” (1992)
Tommy Keene “Places That Are Gone” (1986)
Nick Lowe “So It Goes” (1976)
The Rolling Stones “Moonlight Mile” (1971)
Game Theory “Erica’s Word” (1986)
The Chills “Rolling Moon” (1982)
The Beths “Future Me Hates Me” (2018)
The Trypes “A Plan Revised” (1985)
Elliott Smith “Ballad of Big Nothing” (1997)
Aztec Camera with Mick Jones “Good Morning Britain” (1990)
Led Zeppelin “When the Levee Breaks” (1971)
Love Tractor “Beatle Boots” (1986)
Mott the Hoople “All the Way from Memphis” (1973)
The Jesus & Mary Chain “Taste of Cindy” (1985)
Kristy MacColl “They Don’t Know” (1979)
Spiritualized “Ladies and Gentlemen...” (1997)
The Bats “Treason” (1987)
Velvet Underground “I Found a Reason” (1970)
Traffic “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” (1971)
Green Pajamas “She’s Still Bewitching Me” (1999)
Big Star “In the Street” (1972)
Robert Pollard “Pop Zeus” (1999)
Wilco “Jesus Etc.” (2002)
House of Love “Christine” (1988)
Mercury Rev “Opus 40” (1998)
Brinsley Schwarz “Hymn to Me” (1970)
Phish “You Enjoy Myself” (1988)
Flaming Lips “Everyone Wants to Live Forever” (1992)
World Party “Way Down Now” (1990)
Squeeze “Up the Junction” (1979)
Bettie Serveert “Tom Boy” (1992)
The Beatles “I Am the Walrus” (1967)
The Jazz Butcher “Southern Mark Smith” (1983)
Nick Drake “Hazy Jane II” (1970)
The Clean “Point That Thing Somewhere Else” (1981)
Winter Hours “Wait Till the Morning” (1986)
Grateful Dead “China Cat > Rider” (1972)
Robyn Hitchcock “One Long Pair of Eyes” (1989)
Captain Beyond “Sufficiently Breathless” (1973)
Status Quo “Pictures of Matchstick Men” (1968)
The Connells “Scotty’s Lament” (1987)
Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
Hüsker Dü “Divide and Conquer” (1985)
Rain Parade “This Can’t Be Today” (1983)
Talking Heads “Memories Can’t Wait” (1979)
Paul McCartney “Dear Boy” (1971)
New Order “Your Silent Face” (1983)
The Who “Naked Eye” (1971/1974)
Matthew Sweet “I’ve Been Waiting” (1991)
The Undertones “Get Over You” (1979)
The Smiths “Girlfriend in a Coma” (1987)
The Kinks “Better Things” (1981)
Mary Lou Lord “Some Jingle Jangle Morning” (1998)
Cocteau Twins “Sugar Hiccup” (1983)
Psychedelic Furs “Pretty in Pink” (1981)
Neil Young “Thrasher” (1979)
Public Image Ltd. “Public Image” (1978)
Beach Boys “Sloop John B” (1966)
R.E.M. “Shaking Through” (1983)
The Pretty Things “The Good Mr. Square/She Was Tall, She Was High” (1970)
Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)
Sleater-Kinney “Little Babies” (1997)
Genesis “Supper’s Ready” (1972)
Sweet “Action” (1976)
Pixies “Gigantic” (1988)
Brian Eno “The Big Ship” (1975)
Joy Division “Interzone” (1979)
Belly “Feed the Tree” (1993)
Robert Fripp & Peter Gabriel “Here Comes the Flood” (1979)
Game Theory “24” (1985)
Yo La Tengo “Deeper Into Movies” (1997)
The Byrds “Ballad of Easy Rider” (1969)
The Replacements “Unsatisfied” (1984)
The New Pornographers “The Laws Have Changed” (2003)
Camper Van Beethoven “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (1985)
Aimee Mann “Save Me” (1999)
Cream “Badge” (1969)
Roxy Music “Over You” (1980)
Pink Floyd “Wot’s...Uh the Deal” (1972)
Blake Babies “Out There” (1990)
Death Cab for Cutie “The Sound of Settling” (2003)
Grateful Dead “Scarlet Begonias” (1974)
The Beatles “Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” (1969)
Big Audio Dynamite “The Bottom Line” (1985)
Elliott Smith “Waltz #2” (1998)
Sebadoh “The Freed Pig” (1991)
Pavement “Silence Kid” (1994)
Pulp “Common People” (1995)
Sinéad O’Connor “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (1990)
The Reivers “Things Don’t Change” (1985)
The Rolling Stones “We Love You” (1967)
Minutemen “History Lesson Part II” (1984)
The Feelies “The Obedient Atom” (1984)
The Jam “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” (1979)
Ben Folds Five “Mess” (1999)
Magnetic Fields “Papa Was a Rodeo” (1999)
Split Enz “I Got You” (1980) <
The Sugarcubes “Birthday” (1987)
The Doors “The End” (1967)
Scruffy the Cat “Happiness to Go” (1986)
The Kinks “God’s Children” (1971)
Beulah “Emma Blowgun’s Last Stand” (1999)
Guerilla Toss “Zum Herz” (2023)
The Call “The Walls Came Down” (1983)
Joe Walsh “Meadows” (1973)
Neutral Milk Hotel “King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 1-3” (1998)
Buzzcocks “Why Can’t I Touch It” (1979)
Cat Stevens “On the Road to Find Out” (1970)
Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark “Enola Gay” (1980)
Big Star “You Get What You Deserve” (1973)
Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.” (1976)
Wilco “Misunderstood” (1996)
David Bowie “Starman” (1972)
The Connells “Hey Wow” (1989)
XTC “Senses Working Overtime” (1982)
Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane “Keep Me Turning” (1977)
Elvis Costello “Strict Time” (1981)
Yo La Tengo “Blue Line Swinger” (1995)
Rainy Day with Susannah Hoffs “I’ll Keep It with Mine” (1984)
Odds “Someone Who’s Cool” (1996)
Bruce Springsteen “Atlantic City” (1982)
The Kinks “Strangers” (1970)
Matthew Sweet “We’re the Same” (1995)
Blind Faith “Can’t Find My Way Home” (1969)
The Primitives “Crash” (1988)
The Jesus & Mary Chain with Hope Sandoval “Sometimes Always” (1994)
Superchunk “Driveway to Driveway” (1994)
My Morning Jacket “Off the Record” (2004)
Pixies “Planet of Sound” (1991)
The Dream Academy “Life in a Northern Town” (1985)
Galaxie 500 “Fourth of July” (1990)
Billy Bragg “Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards” (1988)
The Pogues “Sally MacLennane” (1985)
Eels “Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues” (2000)
Joni Mitchell “Help Me” (1974)
Hüsker Dü “Terms of Psychic Warfare” (1985)
Brian Eno “Everything Merges with the Night” (1975)
Robyn Hitchcock “Heaven” (1985)
The Who “Drowned” (1973)
Archers of Loaf “Web in Front” (1993)
The Clash “The Card Cheat” (1979)
Volcano Suns “Tree Stomp” (1985)
Rilo Kiley “Portions for Foxes” (2004)
Paul McCartney “Back Seat of My Car” (1971)
Big Dipper “Ron Klaus Wrecked His House” (1988)
Guided by Voices “Mincer Ray” (1994)
R.E.M. “Electrolite” (1996)
Liz Phair “Help Me Mary” (1993)
Roxy Music “Virginia Plain” (1972)
The Sundays “Here’s Where the Story Ends” (1990)
Drive-By Truckers “Puttin’ People on the Moon” (2004)
Queen “Killer Queen” (1974)
Young Fresh Fellows “The Sharing Patrol Theme” (1985)
Velvet Underground “Sister Ray” (1968)
Mazzy Star “Fade into You” (1993)
Phish “Brian and Robert” (1998)
Big Audio Dynamite “Rush” (1991)
The Stone Roses “Made of Stone” (1989)
X “Under the Big Black Sun” (1982)
The Jim Carroll Band “People Who Died” (1980)
Elton John “Rocket Man” (1972)
Hoodoo Gurus “Bittersweet” (1985)
Weezer “El Scorcho” (1996)
Ween “What Deaner Was Talking About” (1994)
Teenage Fanclub “Star Sign” (1991)
The Waitresses “Christmas Wrapping” (1982)
Led Zeppelin “D’yer Mak’er” (1973)
The Feelies “Raised Eyebrows” (1980)
Mountain Goats “Woke Up New” (2006)
The Undertones “More Songs About Chocolate & Girls” (1980)
Epic Soundtracks “Fallen Down” (1992)
Sonic Youth “Stereo Sanctity” (1987)
The Moody Blues “The Voice” (1981)
The Jayhawks “Smile” (2000)
The Faces “Glad & Sorry” (1973)
The Shazam “Chipper Cherry Daylily” (1999)
Badly Drawn Boy “Something to Talk About” (2002)
Guided by Voices “Game of Pricks” (1995)
Pere Ubu “Non-Alignment Pact” (1978)
The High “Box Set Go” (1990)
Luna “I Can’t Wait” (1992)
The Fall “Living Too Late” (1986)
Chris Bell “I Am the Cosmos” (1978)
Too Much Joy “Crush Story” (1991)
Nick Drake “One of These Things First” (1971)
Buzzcocks “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” (1979)
Sweet “Ballroom Blitz” (1974)
Fountains of Wayne “Radiation Vibe” (1996)
Pink Floyd “Lucifer Sam” (1967)
A Flock of Seagulls “Space Age Love Song” (1982)
Pavement “Frontwards” (1992)
Nirvana “All Apologies” (1993)
James Gang “Funk #49” (1970)
Apples in Stereo “Ruby” (1999)
Wilco “Box Full of Letters” (1995)
Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” (1979)
Adam & the Ants “Stand & Deliver” (1981)
Buffalo Springfield “On the Way Home” (1968)
The Rentals “Friends of P” (1995)
The Mekons “Chivalry” (1985)
Tom Tom Club “Genius of Love” (1981)
The Raveonettes “That Great Love Sound” (2003)
J.K. & Co. “Fly” (1968)
Bob Mould “See a Little Light” (1989)
Grant Hart “Twenty-Five Forty-One” (1989)
Devo “Uncontrollable Urge” (1978)
King Crimson “Elephant Talk” (1981)
The Long Ryders “Looking for Lewis & Clark” (1985)
Michael Penn “No Myth” (1989)
Velvet Underground “Oh Sweet Nuthin’” (1970)
The dB’s “Amplifier” (1982)
Yo La Tengo “I Heard You Looking” (1993)
The Libertines “Up the Bracket” (2002)
Posies “Golden Blunders” (1990)
The Jam “Smithers-Jones” (1980)
Spiritualized “I Think I’m in Love” (1997)
Throwing Muses “Not Too Soon” (1991)
David Bowie “Hang on to Yourself” (1972)
Cocteau Twins “Lorelei” (1984)
Matthew Sweet “Divine Intervention” (1991)
Todd Rundgren “I Saw the Light” (1972)
Veruca Salt “Seether” (1994)
The Pretenders “Cuban Slide” (1981)
Ride “Taste” (1990)
The Doors “Peace Frog” (1970)
My Morning Jacket “I’m Amazed” (2008)
Lou Reed “Dirty Blvd.” (1989)
Talking Heads “Listening Wind” (1980)
Ben Folds Five “Battle of Who Could Care Less” (1997)
The Rolling Stones “2000 Light Years from Home” (1967)
Luna “23 Minutes in Brussels” (1995)
The Jam “To Be Someone” (1978)
Guided by Voices “Don’t Stop Now” (1996)
The Replacements “Achin’ to Be” (1989)
Prince “When You Were Mine” (1980)
Gomez “See the World” (2006)
Donovan “Atlantis” (1968)
Japandroids “The House That Heaven Built” (2012)
Grateful Dead “He’s Gone” (1972)
My Bloody Valentine “When You Sleep” (1991)
Tommy James & the Shondells “Crimson & Clover” (1968)
Amy Rigby “Balls” (2000)
Flamin’ Groovies “You Tore Me Down” (1976)
Joan Jett “Bad Reputation” (1980)
Superchunk “Precision Auto” (1993)
The Monkees “Porpoise Song” (1968)
Neil Young “Revolution Blues” (1974)
Fountains of Wayne “No Better Place” (2003)
The Minders “Build” (1999)
Genesis “Stagnation” (1970)
Sleater-Kinney “One More Hour” (1997)
The Stooges “TV Eye” (1970)
Josh Ritter “Girl in the War” (2006)
Television “Marquee Moon” (1977)
Charlatans UK “The Only One I Know” (1990)
Judee Sill “Crayon Angels” (1971)
Icicle Works “Whisper to a Scream” (1983)
Happy Mondays “Step On” (1990)
Butthole Surfers “Hey” (1983)
The Who “Too Much of Anything” (1971/1974)
Rain Parade “Talking in My Sleep” (1983)
Beulah “If We Can Land a Man on the Moon” (1999)
XTC “Earn Enough for Us” (1986)
Wilco “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” (2002)
Grateful Dead “Eyes of the World” (1973)
Drive-By Truckers “Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife” (2008)
The Rolling Stones “Before They Make Me Run” (1978)
Yo La Tengo “A Shy Dog” (1987)
New Order “Weirdo” (1986)
The Beatles “Dear Prudence” (1968)
Lush “Sweetness & Light” (1990)
Lovers “People in Cars Don’t Face Each Other” (2002)
Buffalo Springfield “Broken Arrow” (1967)
The Soft Boys “I Wanna Destroy You” (1980)
The Connells “’74-’75” (1993)
Rilo Kiley “Spectacular Views” (2002)
R.E.M. “7 Chinese Bros.” (1984)
Ben Folds “Landed” (2005)
The Replacements “Little Mascara” (1985)
The Kinks “Sitting in My Hotel” (1972)
Pavement “Gold Soundz” (1994)
Oranger “Eggtooth” (1998)
Minutemen “Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing” (1984)
Bob Dylan “Queen Jane Approximately” (1965)
My Morning Jacket “Circuital” (2011)
Interpol “Evil” (2004)
The Romantics “What I Like About You” (1980)
Young Marble Giants “Eating Noddemix” (1980)
Warren Zevon “Lawyers Guns & Money” (1978)
Mountain Goats “Half Dead” (2006)
Bram Tchaikovsky “Girl of My Dreams” (1979)
Pink Floyd “When the Tigers Broke Free” (1982)
Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (1965)
Let’s Active “Every Word Means No” (1983)
Belly “Gepetto” (1993)
Cosmic Rough Riders “Revolution in the Summertime” (2000)
The Replacements “Can’t Hardly Wait” (1987
Spacemen 3 “Why Couldn’t I See” (1991)
Television “Venus” (1977)
Creeper Lagoon “Empty Ships” (1998)
Ringo Starr “Photograph” (1973)
Drive-By Truckers “Sink Hole” (2003)
The Smiths “How Soon Is Now?” (1984)
The 6ths “San Diego Zoo” (1995)
Madness “Michael Caine” (1984)
The Raspberries “Go All the Way” (1972)
The Flaming Lips “Do You Realize?” (2002)
Sinéad O’Connor “Mandinka” (1987)
The Glands “When I Laugh” (2000)
Genesis “Carpet Crawlers” (1974)
The Jayhawks “Blue” (1995)
Derek & the Dominos “Bell Bottom Blues” (1970)
Belle & Sebastian “Boy with the Arab Strap” (1998)
Led Zeppelin “Carouselambra” (1979)
Luna “IHOP” (1996)
Katrina & the Waves “Spiderman” (1983)
Paul McCartney & Wings “Magneto & Titanium Man” (1975)
Pernice Brothers “Working Girls” (2001)
The Jags “Back of My Hand” (1979)
English Beat “Save It for Later” (1982)
Phoebe Bridgers “That Funny Feeling” (2021)
Neutral Milk Hotel “Song Against Sex” (1996)
Frank Zappa “Joe’s Garage” (1979)
Ben Vaughn Combo “My First Band” (1987)
Pavement “Elevate Me Later” (1994)
Paul Simon “My Little Town” (1975)
Firehose “Herded Into Pools” (1993)
Grateful Dead “Spanish Jam” (live, 1974)
Badfinger “No Matter What” (1970)
The Postal Service “Such Great Heights” (2003)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band “The Smell of Incense” (1967)
Guided by Voices “Gold Heart Mountain Top” (1994)
The Primitives “Way Behind Me” (1989)
Wilco “When You Wake Up Feeling Old” (1999)
Mercury Rev “Bronx Cheer” (1993)
Built to Spill “Goin’ Against Your Mind” (2006)
The Small Faces “The Autumn Stone” (1969)
Elton Motello “Jet Boy Jet Girl” (1978)
Olivia Tremor Control “Define a Transparent Dream” (1996)
Flash & the Pan “Hey St. Peter” (1979)
The Who “Go to the Mirror” (1969)
The Bats “Smoking Her Wings” (1990)
Uncle Tupelo “Sandusky” (1992)
The Jesus & Mary Chain “Between Planets” (1989)
X “Los Angeles” (1980)
Apples in Stereo “Go” (2000)
Shriekback “Nemesis” (1985)
America “Sister Golden Hair” (1975)
Velvet Underground “Heroin” (1967)
Joe Jackson “One More Time” (1979)
Big Audio Dynamite “Medicine Show” (1985)
Echo & the Bunnymen “The Cutter” (1983)
Julee Cruise “Falling” (1989)
Phish “Bouncing Around the Room” (1990)
Wilco “Impossible Germany” (2007)
Jonathan Richman “That Summer Feeling” (1983)
The Raveonettes “Dead Sound” (2008)
The Shazam “Sunshine Tonight” (2000)
Simple Minds “The American” (1981)
Television “1880 Or So” (1992)
Meat Puppets “Split Myself in Two” (1983)
The Nazz “Open My Eyes” (1968)
The Hold Steady “Chillout Tent” (2006)
AC/DC “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” (1976)
Eels “Novocaine for the Soul” (1996)
The Long Ryders “I Had a Dream” (1984)
The Faces “Ooh La La” (1973)
Dandy Warhols “Not If You Were the Last Junkie” (1997)
The Fall “Cruiser’s Creek” (1985)
The Who “However Much I Booze” (1975)
Love & Rockets “Kundalini Express” (1986)
That Dog “Old LP” (2019)
Flying Burrito Brothers “Tried So Hard” (1971)
Matt Pond PA “So Much Trouble” (2005)
Romeo Void “Never Say Never” (1982)
Dire Straits “Skateaway” (1980)
Pavement “Box Elder” (1989)
Fleetwood Mac “Second Hand News” (1976)
Squeeze “Goodbye Girl” (1979)
The Soft Boys “Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole” (1980)
Klaatu “Sub-Rosa Subway” (1976)
Elvis Costello “Shabby Doll” (1982)
Sugar “A Good Idea” (1992)
Modest Mouse “Float On” (2004)
The Stone Roses “Waterfall” (1989)
The Bangles “James” (1984)
Tom Petty “The Waiting” (1981)
The New Pornographers “All the Old Showstoppers” (2007)
The Action “Strange Roads” (1968)
Lou Reed “Kill Your Sons” (1974)
Supertramp “It’s a Long Road” (1970)
Vampire Weekend “A-Punk” (2008)
Mary Lou Lord “I Figured You Out” (1997)
The Zombies “Hung Up on a Dream” (1968)
Amy Rigby “20 Questions” (1996)
Weezer “Don’t Let Go” (2001)
The Breeders “Divine Hammer” (1993)
Bruce Cockburn “Wondering Where the Lions Are” (1979)
Eleventh Dream Day “After This Time Is Gone” (1993)
Modern Lovers “Pablo Picasso” (1976)
Ben Folds “Not the Same” (2001)
Butthole Surfers “Pepper” (1996)
The Carpenters “Superstar” (1971)
Ultravox “Reap the Wild Wind” (1982)
Steely Dan “Dirty Work” (1972)
Alvvays “Lollipop” (2017)
Neil Young “Cortez the Killer” (1975)
Pere Ubu “Waiting for Mary” (1989)
Young Fresh Fellows “This Little Mystery” (1984)
Moby Grape “Omaha” (1967)
The Lemonheads “It’s a Shame About Ray” (1992)
Pylon “Crazy” (1983)
Sebadoh “Soul & Fire” (1993)
Courtney Barnett “Depreston” (2015)
Peter “Paul & Mary “Too Much of Nothing” (1967)
Peter Gabriel “Lead a Normal Life” (1980)
The Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are Sealed” (1981)
Charly Bliss “Percolator” (2017)
Radio Birdman “I-94” (1981)
Beastie Boys “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party” (1986)
Status Quo “Mr. Mind Detector” (1969)
Exploding Hearts “Modern Kicks” (2003)
The Kings “Switchin’ to Glide” (1980)
Shriekback “The Shining Path” (1986)
The Connells “Slackjawed” (1993)
Superchunk “My Gap Feels Weird” (2010)
Sweet “Fox on the Run” (1975)
The Trashcan Sinatras “Obscurity Knocks” (1990)
The Glands “Pleaser” (2018)
Harry Nilsson “Think About Your Troubles” (1970)
The Vaccines “If You Wanna” (2011)
Bob Marley “Three Little Birds” (1977)
Uncle Tupelo “Graveyard Shift” (1990)
Wonder Stuff “Unbearable” (1988)
Rilo Kiley “The Frug” (1999)
R.E.M. “Green Grow the Rushes” (1985)
Pixies “Wave of Mutilation” (1989)
Grateful Dead “Shakedown Street” (1978)
Look Blue Go Purple “Cactus Cat” (1986)
Hole “Celebrity Skin” (1998)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark “Talking Loud and Clear” (1984)
Better Oblivion Community Center “Dylan Thomas” (2019)
Mercury Rev “Holes” (1998)
Aquarian Age “10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box” (1968)
Pernice Brothers “The Weakest Shade of Blue” (2003)
Guided by Voices “Jane of the Waking Universe” (1997)
The Verlaines “Death & the Maiden” (1983)
Alice Cooper “Clones” (1980)
Pink Floyd “Brain Damage/Eclipse” (1973)
Waxahatchee “Silver” (2017)
Barbara Manning & SF Seals “Back Again” (1994)
Wire “Mannequin” (1977)
Lemon Pipers “Green Tambourine” (1967)
Animal Collective “Summertime Clothes” (2009)
The Cure “Just Like Heaven” (1987)
Certain Distant Suns “Bitter” (1995)
Genesis “Behind the Lines/Duchess” (1980)
Beastie Boys “Hey Ladies” (1989)
David Gilmour “There’s No Way Out of Here” (1978)
The Chills “Look for the Good in Others” (1987)
Jason Falkner “Author Unknown” (1999)
The Mamas & the Papas “I Saw Her Again” (1966)
Wilco “I’m the Man Who Loves You” (2002)
The Left Banke “Walk Away Renee” (1966)
Shoes “Your Imagination” (1981)
Paul McCartney & Wings “London Town” (1978)
The Paranoid Style “Dominoes in Drag” (2017)
The Rolling Stones “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” (1971)
Dinosaur Jr. “The Wagon” (1991)
Badfinger “Carry on Till Tomorrow” (1970)
Nick Lowe “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass” (1978)
Television Personalities “Salvador Dali’s Garden Party
Depeche Mode “Just Can’t Get Enough” (1981)
The Chills “Pink Frost” (1984)
The Monkees “Randy Scouse Git” (1967)
Weezer “Dope Nose” (2002)
Missing Persons “Words” (1982)
Big Audio Dynamite “Beyond the Pale” (1986)
The Reivers “Electra” (1987)
Undertones “I Know a Girl” (1979)
Winter Hours “Hyacinth Girl” (1986)
Peter Gabriel “Wallflower” (1982)
Dandy Warhols “Mis Amigos” (2008)
Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer” (1970)
Ambulance LTD “Stay Tuned” (2004)
Tenpole Tudor “Swords of a Thousand Men” (1981)
Stephen Malkmus “The Hook” (2001)
Golden Smog “Looking Forward to Seeing You” (1998)
The Fall “Paintwork” (1985)
U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (1987)
The Smiths “Ask” (1987)
Nimrod “The Bird” (1969)
XTC “Mayor of Simpleton” (1989)
The Clean “Anything Could Happen” (1981)
Cocteau Twins “Sigh’s Smell of Farewell” (1986)
Darling Buds “Burst” (1988)
Firehose “Brave Captain” (1986)
Pink Floyd “Summer ’68” (1970)
Stereolab “Wow and Flutter” (1994)
Taylor Swift “We Are Never Getting Back Together” (2012)
Marshall Crenshaw “Whenever You’re on My Mind” (1983)
The Breeders “Cannonball” (1993)
James Gang “Walk Away” (1971)
Camper Van Beethoven “Eye of Fatima” (1988)
Yo La Tengo “Upside-Down” (1992)
Case Lang Veirs “Atomic Number” (2016)
Jethro Tull “Thick As a Brick Pt. 1” (1972)
Volcano Suns “White Elephant” (1986)
Soundtrack of Our Lives “Believe I’ve Found” (2005)
The Who “Glow Girl” (1967)
Old 97’s “Can’t Get a Line” (2001)
The Orb “Little Fluffy Clouds” (1991)
The Noise Petals “The Happy Song” (1988)
Paul McCartney & Wings “Mrs. Vanderbilt” (1974)
Chris Knox “The Split” (1993)
Yes “I’ve Seen All Good People” (1971)
Grandaddy “Stray Dog & the Chocolate Shake” (2003)
De La Soul “The Magic Number” (1989)
Dukes of Stratosphear “Vanishing Girl” (1987)
Jefferson Airplane “Good Shepherd” (1969)
Regina Spektor “Better” (2006)
Pavement “Date w/ Ikea” (1997)
Wire “Ambitious” (1987)
That Dog “Long Island” (1997)
The Moody Blues “Peak Hour” (1967)
Television “Ain’t That Nothin’” (1978)
LCD Soundsystem “Losing My Edge” (2002)
Bruce Springsteen “Candy’s Room” (1978)
Sonic Youth “Tunic” (1990)
Tom Petty “Here Comes My Girl” (1979)
Jason & the Scorchers “White Lies” (1985)
Dressy Bessy “Lipstick” (2003)
Imperial Teen “Lipstick” (1998)
Sebadoh “Skull” (1994)
Brian Protheroe “Pinball” (1974)
Best Coast “Feeling OK” (2015)
Brian Eno “By This River” (1977)
Amy Rigby “Dancin’ with Joey Ramone” (2005)
The Gerbils “Sunshine Soul” (1998)
Flamin’ Groovies “Shake Some Action” (1976)
Mazzy Star “Halah” (1990)
Jazz Butcher “The Devil Is My Friend” (1985)
Isaac Hayes “Shaft” (1971)
Dave Edmunds “Girls Talk” (1979)
Stump “Charlton Heston” (1988)
The Small Faces “Afterglow” (1968)
Tobin Sprout “Courage the Tack” (2003)
Japandroids “Near to the Wild Heart of Life” (2017)
Beach Boys “You Still Believe in Me” (1966)
The Runaways “Cherry Bomb” (1976)
Wondermints “Proto-Pretty” (1996)
Phil Manzanera/Brian Eno “Big Day” (1975)
Yuck “Georgia” (2011)
The Pretty Things “Trust” (1968)
The Fall “U.S. 80’s-90’s” (1986)
Dandy Warhols “We Used to Be Friends” (2003)
Material Issue “International Pop Overthrow” (1991)
Dylan in the Movies “Girl with the Black Tights” (2014)
Rollerskate Skinny “Bow Hitchhiker” (1993)
Jennifer Trynin “Better Than Nothing” (1994)
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich “Hold Tight” (1966)
The Things “You Can’t Deliver” (1986)
Teenage Fanclub “I Need Direction” (2000)
Galaxie 500 “Blue Thunder” (1989)
Death Cab for Cutie “Your New Twin Sized Bed” (2008)
Kaleidoscope “Jenny Artichoke” (1968)
The Paranoid Style “Turpitude” (2019)
Stevie Wonder “Higher Ground” (1973)
Eleventh Dream Day “Makin’ Like a Rug” (1993)
The Band “Stage Fright” (1970)
Jimmy Eat World “The Middle” (2001)
Marshall Crenshaw “Cynical Girl” (1982)
Talking Heads “And She Was” (1985)
Dead Milkmen “Bitchin’ Camaro” (1985)
Jesus & Mary Chain “Far Gone & Out” (1992)
Devo “Jocko Homo” (1978)
Nick Lowe “Cruel to Be Kind” (1979)
Sugar “If I Can’t Change Your Mind” (1992)
P. Hux “Bazooka Joe” (1994)
Tom Petty “Free Fallin’” (1989)
Black Flag “Wasted” (1979)
The Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing” (1966)
King Crimson “Epitaph” (1969)
Rhett Miller “I Need to Know Where I Stand” (2009)
Book of Love “Boy” (1986)
Uncle Tupelo “True to Life” (1991)
Apples in Stereo “Please” (2002)
Nick Cave “The Mercy Seat” (1988)
Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
The Libertines “Skag & Bone Man” (2003)
The New Pornographers “Brill Bruisers” (2014)
Spacemen 3 “Big City” (1991)
Plasticland (?)
The Minders “Right As Rain” (2001)
Paul Simon “Kodachrome” (1973)
The Pretty Things “In the Square” (1970)
Talking Heads “Crosseyed and Painless” (1980)
Game Theory “Here It Is Tomorrow” (1986)
Vampire Weekend “This Life” (2019)
Golden Smog “To Call My Own” (1998)
Certain Distant Suns “Snowfall
Shoes “Tomorrow Night” (1978)
Unlikely Friends “Fifteen Rounds” (2018)
T. Rex “Twentieth Century Boy” (1973)
Anna Burch “2 Cool 2 Care” (2018)
The Turtles “The Walking Song” (1967)
Metric “Help I’m Alive” (2009)
Grateful Dead “St. Stephen” (1969)
Young Marble Giants “Credit in the Straight World” (1980)
Elf Power “The Naughty Villain” (2000)
Salad Boys “Dream Date” (2015)
The Shins “Mildenhall” (2017)
Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
Arcade Fire “Creature Comfort” (2017)
Peter Bjorn & John “Young Folks” (2007)
Dream Syndicate “That’s What You Always Say” (1982)
Bishop Allen “Start Again” (2014)
Shoes “Turnaround” (1984)
Tegan & Sara “Hop a Plane” (2007)
Fountains of Wayne “The Girl I Can’t Forget” (2005)
Dreaming Spires “Strange Glue” (2015)
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever “Time in Common” (2018)
Dream Syndicate “80 West” (2017)
Vampire Weekend “Diane Young” (2013)
Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue” (1975)
Crosby, Stills & Nash “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (1969)
Devo “Gates of Steel” (1980)
Golden Smog “Ill Fated” (1995)
MGMT “Kids” (2008)
Lisa Smokes Pot (?)
Best Coast “Crazy for You” (2010)
Connections “Cindy” (2013)
Gomez “Whippin’ Piccadilly” (1998)
Sleigh Bells “Rill Rill” (2010)
Belle & Sebastian “Sukie in the Graveyard” (2006)
Blink-182 “All the Small Things” (1999)
Guided by Voices “Best of Jill Hives” (2003)
Firehose “Sometimes” (1987)
Tegan & Sara “I Hear Noises” (2002)
David Crosby “Laughing” (1971)
Matt Pond PA “Last Light” (2007)
Girls “Lust for Life” (2009)
R.E.M. “The Flowers of Guatemala” (1986)
Snow Patrol “Ask Me How I Am” (2001)
Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone” (2004)
The Green Pajamas “Deep Blue Afternoon” (1999)
Jason Falkner “My Lucky Day” (1999)
Regina Spektor “The Calculation” (2009)
Death Cab for Cutie “Your Heart Is an Empty Room” (2005)
Dressy Bessy “This May Hurt” (2003)
Essex Green “Don’t Know Why” (2006)
Guided by Voices “Build a Better Iceberg
Stars “Ageless Beauty” (2005)
Wilco “Outtasite” (Outta Mind)” (1996)
Dukes of Stratosphear “Bike Ride to the Moon” (1985)
Bright Eyes “From a Balance Beam” (2002)
The Hold Steady “Chips Ahoy” (2006)
Mates of State “Get Better” (2008)
Bright Eyes “Another Travelin’ Song” (2005)
Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out” (2004)
Kingsbury Manx “And What Fallout” (2005)
Only Ones “Another Girl Another Planet” (1978)
Elf Power “Walking with the Beggar Boys” (2004)
Mazzy Star “Mary of Silence” (1993)
Brian Eno “The True Wheel” (1974)
Television Personalities “I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives” (1981) <>
Sonny Curtis “Love Is All Around” (1970)
Dandy Warhols “Bohemian Like You” (2000)
Kevin Tihista “Family Curse” (2004)
The Minus 5 “I’m Not Bitter” (2003)
Dressy Bessy “Live to Tell All” (2003)
Teenage Fanclub “Radio” (1993)
Traveling Wilburys “Handle with Care” (1988)
Camper Van Beethoven “Sweethearts
The Lemonheads “The Great Big No” (1993)
Beulah “I Love John She Loves Paul” (1997)
Rilo Kiley “Pictures of Success” (2001)
Todd Rundgren “Couldn’t I Just Tell You” (1972)
Funkadelic “You Hit the Nail on the Head” (1972)
Green Day “Warning” (2000)
Spiritualized “Good Dope/Good Fun” (1993)
The Churchills “Sugar Daddy” (2002)
Mountain Goats “Against Pollution” (2004)
Lucinda Williams “Changed the Locks” (1988)
Chris Bell “Speed of Sound” (1992)
The Clean “Flowers” (1982)
Halo Benders “Virginia Reel Around the Fountain” (1998)
Liz Phair “Divorce Song” (1993)
My Bloody Valentine “Drive It All Over Me” (1988)
The Connells “Burial Art” (2021)
Genesis “Cinema Show” (1973)
Neutral Milk Hotel “Everything Is” (1995)
Talking Heads “Psycho Killer” (1977)
Tori Amos “God” (1994)
Ryan Adams “New York New York” (2001)
Suzanne Vega “Marlene on the Wall” (1985)
Guided by Voices “Glad Girls” (2001)
Elliott Smith “Son of Sam” (2000)
Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” (1979)
The Bongos “The Bulrushes” (1982)
Laura Nyro “Stoned Soul Picnic” (1968)
Oranger “Texas Snow” (2000)
Everclear “Santa Monica” (1995)
Len “Steal My Sunshine” (1999)
Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” (1994)
The Moody Blues “Story in Your Eyes” (1971)
Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen in Love” (1978)
Tall Dwarfs “Fatal Flaw of the New” (1998)
Eels “Last Stop This Town” (1998)
Folk Implosion “Natural One” (1995)
Ben Folds Five “Brick” (1995)
Magnetic Fields “Busby Berkeley Dreams” (1999)
The Muffs “I Need a Face” (1995)
The Replacements “When It Began” (1990)
Myracle Brah “Love Is” (1998)
Sleeper “Inbetweener” (1995)
Lambchop “Up with People” (2000)
The Turtles “The Last Thing I Remember” (1968)
John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
The Decemberists “Yankee Bayonet” (2006)
Dire Straits “Wild West End” (1978)
Yo La Tengo “Ohm” (2013)
The Connells “Fun & Games” (1989)
Thunderclap Newman “Something in the Air” (1969)
Chris Knox “Half Man/Half Mole” (1995)
Moby Grape “8:05” (1967)
Bettie Serveert “Ray Ray Rain” (1995)
Beck “Loser” (1993) <
Magnapop “Open the Door” (1996)
Phish “Wolfman’s Brother” (1994)
Tobin Sprout “All Used Up” (1997)
Ride “From Time to Time” (1994)
Loud Family “Sword Swallower” (1993)
Wire “Kidney Bingoes” (1988)
Gin Blossoms “Til I Hear It from You” (1995)
Supergrass “Alright” (1995)
Sonic Youth “Sugar Kane” (1992)
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” (1970)
Young Fresh Fellows “How Much About Last Night” (1985)
Wet Leg “Chaise Lounge” (2021)
Julian Cope “World Shut Your Mouth” (1987)
Gilbert O’Sullivan “Get Down” (1973)
Blur “Parklife” (1994)
Public Image Ltd. “Rise” (1987)
Nick Drake “Pink Moon” (1972)
Nick Heyward “Kite” (1993)
His Name Is Alive “Baby Fish Mouth” (1993)
XTC “Dear Madam Barnum” (1992)
Peter Gabriel “Biko” (1980)
Rain Parade: Don’t Feel Bad” (1985)
Jason Falkner “Hectified” (1996)
Ramones “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” (1977)
Wall of Voodoo “Mexican Radio” (1982)
Kingsbury Manx “Piss Diary” (2000)
The Cure “Never Enough” (1990)
John Lennon “Instant Karma” (1970)
Olivia Tremor Control “Green Typewriters Suite” (1996)
The Fastbacks “Under the Old Lightbulb” (1993)
The Breeders “Opened” (1990)
Jefferson Airplane “Lather” (1968)
Gomez “Shot Shot” (2002)
Emerson Lake & Palmer “From the Beginning” (1972)
Ultra Vivid Scene “Special One” (1990)
Lou Reed “Charley’s Girl” (1976)
Generation X “Ready Steady Go” (1978)
John Cale “Big White Cloud” (1970)
Olivia Tremor Control “California Demise 3” (1999)
The Aerovons “World of You” (1969)
Young Fresh Fellows “Miss Lonelyhearts” (1989)
Colin Newman “I’ve Waited Ages” (1980)
Long Ryders “Run Dusty Run” (1984)
Big Dipper “Wrong in the Charts” (1987)
The Beatles “I’ve Got a Feeling” (1971)
Peter Gabriel “Moribund the Burgermeister” (1977)
Los Lobos “Will the Wolf Survive” (1984)
Nik Kershaw “Wouldn’t It Be Good” (1983)
Jackson Brown “Running on Empty” (1977)
Big Audio Dynamite “Other 99” (1988)
Three Colors “One Big Tree” (1985)
Spirit “My Friend” (1981)
Verlaines “Lying in State” (1985)
The Go-Go’s “Head Over Heels” (1984)
Yaz “Walk Away from Love” (1983)
Electric Light Orchestra “Telephone Line” (1976)
Dumptruck “Back Where I Belong” (1985)
Hello “New York Groove” (1975)
Pink Floyd “Green Is the Colour” (1969)
Kirsty MacColl “Patrick” (1984)
Billy Bragg “A New England” (1983)
The End “Dreamworld” (1969)
The Nails “88 Lines About 44 Women” (1982)
The Knack “My Sharona” (1979)
Ian Hunter “All the Good Ones Are Taken” (1983)
X-Ray Spex “Oh Bondage Up Yours” (1978)
Fleetwood Mac “That’s All for Everyone” (1979)
Blondie “Rip Her to Shreds” (1976)
Millennium “Prelude/To Claudia on Thursday” (1968)
Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” (1969)
John Lennon “Oh Yoko” (1971)
Shuggie Otis “Strawberry Letter 23” (1971)
New York Dolls “Personality Crisis” (1973)
The Faces “Stay with Me” (1971)
Traffic “Empty Pages” (1970)
2nd Grade “When You Were My Sharona” (2020)
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot “Bonnie & Clyde” (1968)
Fleetwood Mac “Hypnotized” (1973)
Young Fresh Fellows “Still There’s Hope” (1989)
Roky Erikson “Starry Eyes” (1975)
Judy Sill “Enchanted Sky Machines” (1971)
Beach Boys “Never Learn Not to Love” (1969)
Jane Siberry “One More Colour” (1985)
The Submarines “Maybe” (2008)
Sagittarius “The Truth Is Not Real” (1968)
Mott the Hoople “Backsliding Fearlessly” (1969)
Led Zeppelin “Misty Mountain Hop” (1971)
Bay City Rollers “Rock ‘N Roll Love Letter” (1976)
The Clean “Oddity” (1983)
The Strawbs “Down by the Sea” (1973)
Squeeze “Pulling Mussels from a Shell” (1980)
Dinosaur Jr. “Raisans” (1987)
Ministry “So What” (1989)
Hinds “Riding Solo” (2020)
Spirit “Animal Zoo” (1970)
Moby Grape “Seeing” (1969)
The Nice “Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack” (1967)
The Feelies “Away” (1988)
Prince “Raspberry Beret” (1985)
Real Estate “Talking Backwards” (2014)
Superchunk “Crossed Wires” (2010)
The Cucumbers “My Boyfriend” (1987)
Drive-By Truckers “Thoughts and Prayers” (2020)
Waxahatchee “Can’t Do Much” (2020)
The Strokes “Hard to Explain” (2001)
Fiona Apple “Under the Table” (2020)
The Jazz Butcher “Mr. Odd” (1990)
Josh Ritter “New Lover” (2003)
Buffalo Springfield “Mr. Soul” (1967)
Helium “Pat’s Trick” (1995)
Cocteau Twins “Wax & Wane” (1982)
The Rolling Stones “Bitch” (1971)
Genesis “Dancing with the Moonlit Knight” (1973)
Hole “Rock Star” (1994)
The Cranberries “Dreams” (1992)
Swell Maps “Read About Seymour” (1981)
Foo Fighters “Big Me” (1995)
Against Me! “Transgender Dysphoria Blues” (2014)
Dinosaur Jr. “Start Choppin’” (1993)
Look Blue Go Purple “I Don’t Want You Anyway” (1991)
Transvision Vamp “Baby I Don’t Care” (1989)
Sonic Youth “Purr” (1992)
Green Pajamas “Kim the Waitress” (1986)
Cocteau Twins “Carolyn’s Fingers” (1988)
Gomez “Options” (2011)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band “I Won’t Hurt You” (1966)
The Strokes “Under Cover of Darkness” (2011)
Dumptruck “Faithless” (2001)
Beach Boys “I’m Waiting for the Day” (1966)
Grateful Dead “The Eleven” (live, 1969)
Phoenix “1901” (2009)
Oasis “Whatever” (1994)
Suicidal Tendencies “Institutionalized” (1983)

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: lists from critics and individuals
Dave’s Music Database: lists from publications and/or organizations
Marc Fagel “My Public Playlists” (ten Spotify playlists covering Fagel’s top 1000 songs)
JitteryWhiteGuyMusic.com (Sept. 2024). “The 500…No, Make It 900…No, 1000 Greatest Songs of All Time” by Marc Fagel

First posted 12/13/2024.

Monday, March 8, 2004

Modest Mouse “Float On” released

Float On

Modest Mouse

Writer(s): Isaac Brock, Dann Gallucci, Eric Judy, Benjamin Weikel (see lyrics here)

Released: March 8, 2004

First Charted: April 3, 2004

Peak: 68 BB, 29 RR, 4 AA, 1¹ MR, 46 UK, 94 UK, 12 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 5.0 US, 0.2 UK, 5.44 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 0.1 radio, 97.0 video, 495.94 streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

Singer/guitarist Isaac Brock, bassist Eric Judy, and drummer Jeremiah Green formed the rock band Modest Mouse in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington. They released their first album in 1996, but didn’t crack the Billboard album chart until 2000 with their third album. Their big commercial breakthrough, however, came with fourth album Good News for People Who Love Bad News. The double-platinum release reached #18 in the United States.

The album owed much of its success to the first single, “Float On.” As the group’s first chart entry, it proved a massive success, topping the alternative rock chart and eventually reaching five million in sales. It also garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Song. In 2014, New Musical Express ranked it one of the top 500 songs of all time. ^WK In 2009, Rolling Stone named it one of the top 100 songs of the 2000s. ^WK

Brock sings about “backing his car into a cop’s cruiser, being scammed, and him and his partner losing their jobs on the exact same day.” ^FO However, it becomes what Far Out magazine’s Tim Coffman called “one of the greatest perseverance anthems of all time.” ^FO Songfacts.com said it “was written to reassure that everything will be all right with life.” ^SF Brock recognized that “all he can do is just sit back and watch as the world floats on.” ^FO

Brock was already dealing with the loss of two close friends ^SF and facing the possibility of his band imploding. They questioned if they had anything of value to say. They aborted their original album effort and stated fresh. Brock made a conscious effort to write something more positive. He said he was fed up with “how dark everything was, with bad news coming from everywhere...I just want to feel good for a day.” ^WK It became “a statement…that it’s possible to make great art out of creative tragedy.” ^FO

Resources:

^FO Far Out (4/13/2024). “The Story Behind the Song: Modest Mouse’s survival anthem ‘Float On’” by Tim Coffman
^SF Songfacts
^WK Wikipedia

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)

Resources and Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: Best-of Album Lists by Individuals/Critics
Pop Kulcher (current site)
Marc Fagel (personal website)
Greatest Rock & Roll Albums of All Time (original list, no longer online)

First posted 6/7/2024

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

Wilco “Jesus, Etc.” released