Awesome list! "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" is my fave and ditto Rocket to Russia, but I basically think all the songs on the first four albums qualify as "the top".

Ah, Rocket to Russia, now I know which cd to play next.

Ok, e, I bumped "Blitzkreig Bop" to make it an odd 15 so-


1. Teenage Lobotomy
2. Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
3. I Wanna Be Sedated
4. Rock 'N' Roll High School
5. The KKK Took My Baby Away
6. Rockaway Beach
7. She's the One
8. Don't Come Close
9. Oh Oh I Love Her So
10. Too Tough to Die
11. Cretin Hop
12. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
13. Ramona
14. Beat on the Brat
15. We're a Happy Family
16. Blitzkreig Bop

Thanks

With the Ramones, most people (including myself) love the early stuff. However, I'd champion "I Believe In Miracles" as a very cool late-period Ramones track. I remember loving that song when it was released in the late 80s. Pearl Jam has made their cover of it a staple in their live shows.

Also for your consideration: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)". Best Christmas song. Ever.

Agreed Blossom. You quoted my favorite line (out of about 20 brilliant ones) from Mississippi, by the way! I have a bad habit of adding this song to my itunes playlist when I go running, then almost having to stop every damn time after the tears start welling up.

I've shed tears over those lines too, sunset . . . maybe enough to overflow the Mississippi. Thanks for "sail[ing] with me."

Pavement yo

1.Spit on a stranger (terror twilight)
2.Summer Babe(S&E)
3.Zurich is stained (s&e)
4.Starlings of the stripstream(brighten the corner)
5.Fin(brighten the corner)
6.Filmore jive(crooked rain)
7.Pueblo(wowee zowee)
8.Silence Kit(crooked rain)
9.AT&T(wowee zowee)
10.Here (s &e)
11.Major Leagues (terror twilight)
12.Shady Lane (brighten the corner)
13.Carrot rope (terror twilight)
14.Rattled by the rush(wowee zowee)
15.In the mouth a desert (S&E)

so many good songs...

Modest Mouse
1. 3rd Planet(M&A)
2. Convenient Parking(LCW)
3. Never-Ending Math Equation(Building Noting)
4. Teeth Like God's Shoeshine(LCW)
5. Ocean Breathes Salty(Good News)
6. Doin' the Cockroach(LCW)
7. A Different City(M&A)
8. I Came As a Rat(M&A)
9. Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset(Long Drive)
10. Dramamine(Long Drive)
11. Bury Me With It(Good News)
12. Dark Center of the Universe(M&A)
13. Polar Opposites(LCW)
14. Bukowski(Good News)
15. Heart Cooks Brain(LCW)

The Microphones (excluding Mount Eerie songs)
1. The Moon/Moon Sequel(Glow/Live shows)
2. Universe(Eerie)
3. The Glow, pt. 2(Glow)
4. I Want to be Cold(Glow)
5. The Pull(IWHWSITW)
6. I Can't Believe You Actually Died(Song Islands)
7. Mount Eerie(Eerie)
8. I Want Wind to Blow(Glow)
9. Headless Horseman(Glow)
10. I Felt Your Shape(Glow)
11. Ice(IWHWSITW)
12. I Felt My Size(Glow)
13. "I Love You So Much"(Live in Japan)
14. I Have Been Told That My Skin Is Exceptionally Smooth(Live in Japan)
15. The Glow(IWHWSITW)
16. I Listen Close(Song Islands)
17. Map(Glow)
18. Phil Elvrum's Will(Song Islands)
19. Florida Beach(DWMU)
20. Where It's Hotter pts 1, 2, & 3(Song Islands)

More later. This is tiring.

We've had 3 Modest Mouse lists now, and no one's mentioned one of my favorite songs from TM&A, "Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes".

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That looping bass line is killer!!

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Originally posted by ericg75:
We've have 3 Modest Mouse lists now, and no one's mentioned one of my favorite songs from TM&A, "Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes".

I forgot! That would have been inbetween 10 and 11 but it's too much work to change it now.

Van Morrison. The hardest list to pick yet, instantly regretting what I've left off to choose only ten songs. Ack!

1. Into the Mystic
2. Moondance
3. Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)
4. Linden Arden Stole the Highlights
5. Brown Eyed Girl
6. Rolling Hills
7. Cleaning Windows
8. I Wanna Roo You
9. The Way Young Lovers Do
10. Wavelength

Top 20 Sonic Youth Songs

1. "Dirty Boots" (Goo) - T. Moore
2. "Theresa's Sound-World" (Dirty) - T. Moore
3. "Kool Thing" (Goo) - K. Gordon
4. "Teenage Riot" (Daydream Nation) - T. Moore
5. "Tunic (Song For Karen)" (Goo) - T. Moore
6. "Diamond Sea" (Washing Machine) - T. Moore
7. "Disappearer" (Goo) - T. Moore
8. "Bull In The Heather" (Experimental, Jet Set, Trash, and No Star) - K. Gordon
9. "Expressway To Yr Skull" (Evol) - T. Moore
10. "Becuz" (Washing Machine) - K. Gordon
11. "Swimsuit Issue" (Dirty) - K. Gordon
12. "Sunday" (A Thousand Leaves) - T. Moore
13. “Schizophrenia" (Sister) - T. Moore
14. "Sugar Kane" (Dirty) - T. Moore
15. "Shadow Of Doubt" (Evol) - K. Gordon
16. "Youth Against Fascism" (Dirty) - T. Moore
17. "Mote" (Goo) - L. Ranaldo
18. "Silver Rocket" (Daydream Nation) - T. Moore
19. "Angrogynous Mind" (Experimental, Jet Set, Trash and No Star) - T. Moore)
20. "100%" (Dirty)- T. Moore

I'll try to do Liars just because I want to see all of the ridiculous names in one place:

1. "To Hold You, Drum" - Drum's Not Dead
2. "Grown Men Don't Fall in the River, Just Like That" - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
3. "Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack" - Drum's Not Dead
4. "Mr You're On Fire Mr" - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
5. "Broken Witch" - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
6. "It Fit When I Was A Kid" - Drum's Not Dead
7. "There's Always Room on the Broom" - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
8. "Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris With ESG" - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
9. "Drum And The Uncomfortable Can" - Drum's Not Dead
10. "We Fenced Other Houses With the Bones of Our Own" - They Were Wrong So We Drowned

OK, now I'm tired of typing.

BOB DYLAN!

1. Like A Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited)
2. Simple Twist of Fate (Blood On The Tracks)
3. I Shall Be Released (The Band, Music from Big Pink and others)
4. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Blonde On Blonde)
5. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
6. All Along The Watchtower (John Wesley Harding)
7. Things Have Changed (Wonder Boys OST)
8. Forever Young (Self Portrait)
9. One More Cup of Coffee (Desire)
10. Not Dark Yet (Time Out of Mind)

Since his oeuvre is relatively small, I'm doing just a top five for Nick Drake:

Magic

Things Behind the Sun

Northern Sky

At the Chime of a City Clock

Day Is Done

(P.S.: It is actually painful to make a short list for Nick, such is my love for every song he recorded.)

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Velvet Underground

1. Black Angel's Death Song (VU & Nico)
2. Heroin (VU & Nico)
3. Pale Blue Eyes (VU)
4. I'll Be Your Mirror (VU & Nico)
5. Sister Ray (White Light/White Heat)
6. I'm Waiting For the Man (VU & Nico)
7. Some Kinda Love (VU)
8. White Light/White Heat (White Light/White Heat)
9. The Gift (White Light/White Heat)
10. All Tomorrow's Parties (VU & Nico)

Velvet Underground:

I’ll Be Your Mirror

Heroin

Here She Comes Now

Venus In Furs

Candy Says

Jesus

I’m Set Free

Sister Ray

Stephanie Says

The Murder Mystery

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Velvet Underground

1. Black Angel's Death Song (VU & Nico)
2. Heroin (VU & Nico)
3. Pale Blue Eyes (VU)
4. I'll Be Your Mirror (VU & Nico)
5. Sister Ray (White Light/White Heat)
6. I'm Waiting For the Man (VU & Nico)
7. Some Kinda Love (VU)
8. White Light/White Heat (White Light/White Heat)
9. The Gift (White Light/White Heat)
10. All Tomorrow's Parties (VU & Nico)

quote:

Velvet Underground:

# I’ll Be Your Mirror
# Heroin
# Here She Comes Now
# Venus In Furs
# Candy Says
# Jesus
# I’m Set Free
# Sister Ray
# Stephanie Says
# The Murder Mystery

Sorry, but are both of you high? How can "Sweet Jane", easily one of the finest songs in rock, not even make your VU top tens?

1. Sweet Jane
2. Sunday Morning
3. Pale Blue Eyes
4. I'm Waiting For The Man
5. Venus in Furs
6. Heroin
7. Femme Fatale
8. What Goes On
9. White Light/White Heat
10. After Hours
11. Stephanie Says
12. Candy Says
13. Who Loves The Sun
14. New Age
15. All Tomorrow's Parties
16. Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
17. Beginning to See the Light
18. Guess I'm Falling in Love
19. I'll Be Your Mirror
20. Here She Comes Now

MICHEL POLNAREFF:

1. Riverman
2. Y'a que pas pouvoir qu'on peut
3. LNAHO
4. Elle rit
5. Love Me, Please Love Me
6. Prince en ôtage
7. Histoire du coeur
8. L'oiseau de nuit
9. Sous quelle étoile suis-je né?
10. Dame, Dame

Radiohead

1.Spinning plates
2.Everything in its right place
3.Idioteque
4.Paranoid android
5.How to disapear completely
6.Pyramid song
7.Let down
8.Climbing up the walls
9.The gloaming
10.2+2=5


(Although havn't heard Pablo Honey or Hail to the Thief in full)

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