This is going to be a running list of songs I LOVE. Each one has been extremely influential in thier own unique way. I have a boring life story about them all, individually. Seriously. But screw that; no one wants to hear my innane ravings about what was happening to me at the time that these ditties were shaping me as a person. I've got lots of time as an old fogey to annoy everyone with my "stories".
Here I fucking go! In no particular order without end, Amen:
1. Elliot Smith - I didn't understand
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers, Part 1
3. The Melvins - Honeybucket
4. The Misfits - Last Caress
5. Led Zepplin - Tangerine
6. Peaches - Operate
7. Duran Duran - The Chauffeur
8. Sly and the Family Stone - Que Sera Sera
9. The Doors - Peace Frog
10. Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
11. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
12. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacherman
13. Dolly Parton - Jolene
14. Tammy Wynette and Earnest Tubb - Who's Gonna Take Your Garbage out
15. The Who - Pictures of Lily
16. The Kinks - Lola
17. The Stooges - Search and Destroy
18. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
19. Stevie Wonder - Stay Gold
20. The Hollies - We're Through
21. The Beatles - Blackbird
22. The Clash - Train in Vain
23. The Faces - Ooh La La
24. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
25. The Rolling Stones - Poison Ivy (version 1)
26. The Rolling Stones - Monkey man
27. Desomond Decker - The Israelites
28. The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
29. The Monks - Nice Legs Shame About Her Face
30. Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop
31. Ziggy Stardust/David Bowie - Life on Mars
32. Cass McCoombs - I Went to the Hospital
33. Major Lance - Um,Um, Um, Um, Um, Um
32. Queen -Under Pressure
34. CCR - Fortunate Son
35. Bill Withers - Lovely Day
36. Bill Withers - Ain't no Sunshine
37. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved you
38. Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me
39. Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
40. Peggy Lee - Fever
41. Singing Nun - Dominique
42. CCR - Run Through The Jungle
43. Etta james - At Last
44. Spinal Tap - Big Bottom
45. Al Green - Love and Happiness
46. Cat Power - Sea of Love
47. Leslie and the Lys - How We Go Out
48. Alison Krauss - I'll Fly Away
49. Cypress Hill - Hits from the Bong
50. Beastie Boys - Eggman
52. Mark Mothersbaugh - Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue
53. Ratatat - Montanita
54. Yves Montand - Rue St. Vincent
55. Cat Stevens - The Wind
56. James Taylor - Mexico
57. Uilab - St. Elmo's Fire
58. Supersystem - Revolution Summer
59. B52's - 52 Girls
60. ELO - Xanadu
61. ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me
62. Eric B. and Rakim - Juice
63. Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
64. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
65. Television - Marquee Moon
66. The Vapors - Turning Japanese
67. KISS - She
68. David Bowie - Look Back In Anger
69. Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
70. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
71. Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City
72. Joy Divison - Love Will Tear Us Apart
73. Modern English - Melt With You
74. Goldfrapp - Hairy Trees
75. Blondie - Sunday Girl
76. Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song
77. Roxy Music - Over You
78. Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson and Clover
79. David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
80. Nazareth - Love Hurts
81. Queen - Radio Ga Ga
82. Ramones - Shes the One
83. The Cure - Pictures of You
84. Elvis Costello - Alison
85. Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
86. N.W.A. - Fuck the Police
87. Thin Lizzy - Jail Break
88. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
89. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
90. Journey - Dont Stop Believing
91. The Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
92. The Jam - Pretty Green
93. The English Beat - Cant Get Used to Losing You
94. Swayzak - State of Grace
95. The Pixies - Velouria
96. Neko Case - I wish I Was the Moon
97. PJ Harvey - You Said Something
98. Radiohead - Talk Show Host
99. Outkast - Bombs Over Baghdad
100. Blackalicious- Alphabet Aerobics
101. Hot Chip - Colors
102. Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl To Do?
103. Amon Tobin - Sordid
104. The Cranes - Beautiful Friend
105. Tom Waits - Russian Dance
106. Beck - Black Tambourine
107. Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
108. Gus Gus - Believe
109. The Postal Service - Brand New Colony
110. Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
111. Weezer - Only in Dreams
112. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
113. Otis & Carla - Tramp
114. The Byrds - I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
115. The Rolling Stones - Angie
116. Them - Gloria
117. Moog Cookbook - Cat Scratch Fever (cover)
118. Soul Asylum - Sexual Healing (cover)
119. Coco Rosie - Noah's Ark
120. Luna - Bonnie and Clyde (cover)
121. Andrew W.K. - She is Beautiful
122. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
123. Cobras - Restless
124. Amy Winehouse - He Can Only Hold Her
125. Bjork - Army of Me
126. Fever Ray - When I grow Up
127. Dj Rolando/Aztec Mystic - Knights of the Jaguar
128. Damero - Passage to Silence
129. Isolee - Beau Mot Plage
130. Jeff Mills - Theme from 2000
131. Outkast - Hey ya!
132. K-OS - Man I Used To Be
133. AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
134. Public Enemy - Fight the Power
135. Nirvana - In Bloom
136. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
137. Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
138. Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind
139. Beach Boys - God Only Knows
140. Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
141. Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
142. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
143. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
144. The Kinks - Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worrin' Bout That Girl
145. My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
146. Ravonettes - Breaking into Cars
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