Top 200 Songs of All Time
On the heels of the detailed look at my top 40 records of all-time, I wanted to give honorable mentions to the songs that came close but didn't quite make the list. Instead, I just kept adding songs until the honorable mention list got longer than the original list and this post is the ridiculously lengthy result. So below is my entire top 200 songs of all-time. Click on the links for details and mp3s of the Top 40. And for the next 160, simply enjoy.
Top 200 Artist Count:
- The Smiths (11 songs)
- Pavement (10)
Modest Mouse (10) - Bright Eyes (9)
- Mogwai (6)
Superchunk (6)
Sufjan Stevens (6)
New Order (6) - The Arcade Fire (5)
Sunset Rubdown (5)
Grandaddy (5)
Okkervil River (5)
Neutral Milk Hotel (5) - Built to Spill (4)
The Cure (4)
Explosions in the Sky (4)
Sebadoh (4)
Sigur Ros (4)
Pedro the Lion (4)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (4) - Yo La Tengo (3)
Death Cab for Cutie (3)
Wolf Parade (3)
Dinosaur Jr. (3)
Radiohead (3)
Belle and Sebastian (3)
The Microphones (3)
- "Trailer Trash" Modest Mouse
- "Two Headed Boy" Neutral Milk Hotel
- "Here" Pavement
- "The Queen is Dead" The Smiths
- "Teen Age Riot" Sonic Youth
- "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to the Heavens" Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- "Love Will Tear Us Apart" Joy Division
- "AT&T" Pavement
- "Whenever You See Fit" Modest Mouse & 764-Hero
- "Mogwai Fear Satan" Mogwai
- "Summer Babe (Winter Version)" Pavement
- "The Wagon" Dinosaur Jr.
- "How Soon is Now?" The Smiths
- "The Official Ironmen Rally Song" Guided by Voices
- "Anything, Anything" DramaRama
- "Edit the Sad Parts" Modest Mouse
- "The Headmaster Ritual" The Smiths
- "The Plan" Built to Spill
- "Driveway to Driveway" Superchunk
- "Web in Front" Archers of Loaf
- "A Perfect Sonnet" Bright Eyes
- "I'll Believe in Anything" Wolf Parade
- "Seven" Sunny Day Real Estate
- "San Andreas" Portastatic
- "Age of Consent" New Order
- "Summer Here Kids" Grandaddy
- "There is a Light that Never Goes Out" The Smiths
- "Bankrupt on Selling" Modest Mouse
- "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" Arcade Fire
- "The Moon" The Microphones
- "Bad Blood" Bright Eyes & Album Leaf
- "Gardenhead - Leave Me Alone" Neutral Milk Hotel
- "Hyper Enough" Superchunk
- "For Real" Okkervil River
- "Samskeyti" Sigur Ros
- "Gold Soundz" Pavement
- "The Shy Retirer" Arab Strap
- "Ceremony" New Order
- "Cody" Mogwai
- "Carry the Zero" Built to Spill
- "Two-Headed Boy Part 2" Neutral Milk Hotel
- In the Aeroplane over the Sea, 1998
- "And when we break, we will wait for our miracle, God is a place where some holy spectacle lies. And when we break, we will wait for our miracle, God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life."
- "True Love Waits" Radiohead
- I Might Be Wrong (Live Recordings), 2001
- "I'm not living, I'm just killing time."
- "The Mending of the Gown" Sunset Rubdown
- Random Spirit Lover, 2007
- "It's an act, I think she's just pretending. It's an act, I think she's just pretending. If you burn the virgin flags, then I will shake (shake!) as the heat waves in the sand. This one's for Maggie (this one's for Maggie), this one's for Sam (this one's for Sam)."
- "Friend of the Night" Mogwai
- Mr. Beast, 2006
- Mr. Beast, 2006
- "Night on the Sun" Modest Mouse
- Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks (EP), 2001
- "Well there's one thing to know about this town, not a person doesn't want me underground."
- "Sweet and Tender Hooligan" The Smiths
- Louder Than Bombs, 1987
- "Poor woman, strangled in her very own bed as she read, but that's ok, because she was old and she would have died anyway."
- "Lullabye for Christie" Dirty Three
- Whatever You Love, You Are, 2000
- Whatever You Love, You Are, 2000
- "Take Me Somewhere Nice" Mogwai
- Rock Action, 2001
- "What would you do if you saw spaceships over Glasgow? Would you fear them?"
- "The Only Moment We Were Alone" Explosions in the Sky
- The Earth is Not a Cold Dark Place, 2001
- The Earth is Not a Cold Dark Place, 2001
- "The Story of Yo La Tango" Yo La Tengo
- I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, 2006
- "We lied to ourselves for a while, in our usual style. Now I wish we could lie, we wish we could lie to ourselves again."
- "Chicago" Sufjan Stevens
- Illinoise, 2005
- "I made a lot of mistakes, I made a lot of mistakes, I made a lot of mistakes, I made a lot of mistakes."
- "Holland, 1945" Neutral Milk Hotel
- In the Aeroplane over the Sea, 1998
- "The only girl I ever loved was born with roses in her eyes. But then they buried her alive, one evening 1945, with just her sister at her side, and only weeks before the guns all came and rained on everyone."
- "Frontwards" Pavement
- Watery, Domestic (EP), 1992
- "And the stories you hear, you know they never add up."
- "Leave Me Alone" New Order
- Power, Corruption & Lies, 1983
- "But for these last few days leave me alone."
- "Vidrar vel til Loftarasa" Sigur Ros
- Agaetis Byrjun, 1999
- (lyrics sung in Icelandic, but the song title is loosely translated to mean "Good Weather for Airstrikes")
- "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot" Grandaddy
- The Sophtware Slump, 2000
- "I believe they want you to give in."
- "Bastards of Young" The Replacements
- Tim, 1985
- "Income tax deduction, what a hell of a function."
- "July, July!" The Decemberists
- Castaways and Cutouts, 2002
- "And I say your uncle was a crooked French Canadian, and he was gut-shut running gin. And how his guts were all suspended in his fingers, and how he held them in."
- "Another Radio Song" Okkervil River
- Black Sheep Boy, 2005
- "All this is window dressing, all you are is flimsy curtains, watch you flame up with a word from us, you won't know that you're burning."
- "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" The Smiths
- Meat is Murder, 1985
- "I've seen this happen in other people's lives, and now it's happening in mine."
- "Apistat Commander (Xiu Xiu)" Sunset Rubdown
- Remixed and Covered (Xiu Xiu), 2007
- "All that you left, you left for someone. All of this hurt that's wilted off. And all this relief, it's the oddest thing. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!"
- "The Kidnapper Bell" Mono
- Under the Pipal Tree, 2001
- Under the Pipal Tree, 2001
- "It's All Gonna Break" Broken Social Scene
- S/T, 2005
- "When I was a kid, you fucked me in the ass, so I took my pen to paper and I passed."
- "Yasmin the Light" Explosions in the Sky
- Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever, 2001
- Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever, 2001
- "The Freed Pig" Sebadoh
- III, 1991
- "Right, I was obsessed to bring you down, watching your every move, playing a little-boy game, always with something to prove. Waiting to cut you down, making it hard to live, with only one thing to do, cut me first, make it easy.
Now you will be free, now that nothing depends on me, tapping 'til I drive you insane
Now you will be free, with no sick people tugging on your sleeve
Your big head has that "more room to grow"
A glory I will never know
A glory I will never know." - (Note: song written about J. Mascis, by his former bandmate Lou Barlow, originally of Dinosaur Jr... a band that appears at #12 and other places on this list... Nice. They've made up now, 20 years later, still a great fucking song).
- "Gouge Away" Pixies
- Doolittle, 1989
- "You can stay all day, if you want to."
- "Kiss Off" Violent Femmes
- Violent Femmes, 1982
- "You can all just kiss off into the air, behind my back I can hear them stare, they'll hurt me bad, but I won't mind. They'll hurt me bad, they do it all the time."
- "I'm a Believer" The Sheila Divine
- New Parade, 1999
- "To my surprise, I'm hypnotized, by the sight of flesh and the scent of skin. Give me a chance, due to circumstance, I know I can act, you should see me lie!"
- "Photobooth" Death Cab for Cutie
- The Forbidden Love EP, 2000
- "Cup you mouth to compress the sound, skinny-dipping with the kids from a nearby town. And everything that I said was true, as the flashes blinded us in the photobooth."
- "Njsnavlin (Untitled 4)" Sigur Ros
- (), 2002
- (Lyrics in a made-up language called "Hopelandish". I won't attempt to interpret).
- "Let Down" Radiohead
- OK Computer, 1997
- "Floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back, and one day, I am gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction, hysterical and useless, hysterical and... let down and hanging around. Crushed like a bug in the ground. Let down and hanging around."
- "Zurich is Stained" Pavement
- Slanted and Enchanted, 1992
- "You think it's easy, but you're wrong. I am not one-half of the problem."
- "If Winter Ends" Bright Eyes
- Letting Off the Happiness, 1998
- "And I fell for the promise of a life with a purpose, but I know that that's impossible now."
- "He Woke Me Up Again" Sufjan Stevens
- Seven Swans, 2004
- "Hold on, hold on to your old ways, or put off, put off every old face."
- "The Stars of Track and Field" Belle and Sebastian
- If You're Feeling Sinister, 1996
- "Make a new cult every day to suit your affairs."
- "No Surprises" Radiohead
- OK Computer, 1997
- "Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden. No alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises please."
- "Rebellion (Lies)" The Arcade Fire
- Funeral, 2004
- "Sleeping is giving in, no matter what the time is. Sleeping is giving in, so lift those heavy eyelids. People say that you'll die faster than without water. But we know it's just a lie, scare your son, scare your daughter."
- "A King and Queen" Okkervil River
- Black Sheep Boy, 2005
- "If you want to see and be seen, then be seen. Your dress is dark red and your opening eyes are bright green. Make a scene, but don't lie on the bed, laid out like you're dead, because honey, you're murdering me."
- "I Felt Your Shape" The Microphones
- The Glow, Part 2, 2001
- "I thought I felt your shape but I was wrong. Really all I felt was falsely strong. I held on tight and closed my eyes. It was dumb, I had no sense of your size. It was dumb to hold so tight, but last night..."
- "Head On" The Jesus & Mary Chain
- Automatic, 1989
- "And the way I feel tonight, oh I could die and I wouldn't mind."
- "That's Entertainment (The Jam)" Morrissey
- Suedehead: The Best of Morrissey, 1997
- "Smash a glass and a rumble of boots, electric train and a ripped up phone booth, a hot day and a sticky black tarmac, a hot day and I'm wishing I was far away. That's entertainment."
- "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us" Sufjan Stevens
- Illinoise, 2005
- "Deep in the tower, the prairies below, I can tell you, but the telling gets old. Terrible sting and terrible storm, I can tell you the day we were born."
- "New #1" Bob Mould
- The Last Dog and Pony Show, 1998
- "Sometimes I try too hard to separate the good times from sadness that we had together. Embarrassing, I need to keep it all in some perspective. Hold me down, I need you more than you will ever comprehend."
- "Just Like Honey" The Jesus & Mary Chain
- Psychocandy, 1985
- "Walking back to you is the hardest thing that I could do."
- "Let Down (Radiohead)" Pedro the Lion
- Summer Tour '04, 2004
- "The emptiest of feelings, disappointed people, clinging onto bottles, when it comes it's oh so disappointing."
- "Atmosphere" Joy Division
- Atmosphere/She's Lost Control, 1980
- "People like you find it easy. Naked to see, walking on air. Hunting by the rivers, through the streets, every corner abandoned too soon, set down with due care. Don't walk away, in silence. Don't walk away."
- "Up On Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days" Sunset Rubdown
- Random Spirit Lover, 2007
- "I'm the one who sat at your capture and let the snow fall on this whispering rapture. You're the one who's kissing your captor's hands. WELL SHIT, I know, we're all growing old, but where there's a will, that is the way, so way to go. Say goodbye to your feral days. Say goodbye to your feral days."
- "Glosoli" Sigur Ros
- Takk..., 2005
- "Black (Live)" Okkervil River
- Black Sheep Boy, 1995
- "I'd call, some black midnight, fuck up his new life where they don't know what he did. Tell his brand-new wife and second kid. Though I tell you like before, you should wreck his life the way that he wrecked yours, if you want no part of his life anymore."
- "Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings" Sunset Rubdown
- Shut Up I Am Dreaming, 2006
- "You're on a distant shore. I stamp my feet, down down, do you hear knuckles on your door? Do you understand what I'm pining for??? Oh, oceans never listen to us anyway."
- "Fillmore Jive" Pavement
- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, 1994
- "Passed out on your couch, you left me there, thank you. Let me sleep it off. I need to sleep it off. Why don't you let me? I need to sleep. I need to sleep. I need to sleep. Why won't you let me sleep?"
- "Jumping Someone Else's Train" The Cure
- Boys Don't Cry, 1980
- "It's the latest wave that you've been craving for. The old ideal was getting such a bore. Now you're back in line, going not quite as far, but in half the time. Everyone's happy, they're finally all the same. 'Cause everyone's jumping everyone else's train."
- "Procession" New Order
- Procession/Everything's Gone Green, 1981
- "There is no end to this. I have seen your face. But I don't recognize all these things you must have left behind. It's a problem I know. And it's been there all your life."
- "Criticism as Inspiration" Pedro the Lion
- The Only Reason I Feel Secure, 1999
- "It makes me feel so good to always tell you when you're wrong. The big man that I am, to always have to put you down."
- "Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before" The Smiths
- Strangeways, Here We Come, 1987
- "I was delayed, I was way-laid. An emergency stop, I smelled the last ten seconds of life. I crashed down on the cross-bar, and the pain was enough to make a shy, bald Buddhist reflect and plan a mass murder. Who said I'd lied to her?"
- "Cadmium" Superchunk
- Incidental Music (1991-95), 1995
- "Hit self-destruct, it's marked especially. It's easy to read."
- "Mr. November" The National
- Alligator, 2005
- "I wish that I believed in fate. I wish I didn't sleep so late."
- "Breakthrough" Modest Mouse
- This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, 1996
- "Open the curtain and let in the sky. It's almost half past 2 a.m., you can tell by the light. Open your window, and let in the atmosphere! Let it breakthrough, oh let it breakthrough."
- "If We Can Land a Man on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart" Beulah
- When Your Heartstrings Break, 1999
- "If you want to sing, tell me what you want to sing and I'll play, yeah, I'll play."
- "For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti"
Sufjan Stevens
- Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State, 2003
- "I have called you preacher; I have called you son. If you have a father, or if you haven't one. I'll do anything for you. I did everything for you."
- "Burn Girl Prom Queen" Mogwai
- "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean" Explosions in the Sky
- "If You're Feeling Sinister" Belle and Sebastian
- "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie" Joanna Newsom
- "Grace Cathedral Hill" The Decemberists
- "Shallow End" Superchunk
- "Reel Around the Fountain" The Smiths
- "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" Stars
- "Between Planets" The Jesus & Mary Chain
- "Homeboy" Adorable
- "Sometimes" James
- "Kim, You Bore Me to Death" Grandaddy
- "All My Little Words" The Magnetic Fields
- "Like a Friend" Pulp
- "All the People Who Died" Jim Carroll Band
- "Head On (The Jesus & Mary Chain)" Pixies
- "Secret of the Easy Yoke" Pedro the Lion
- "I See a Darkness" Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
- "We Dance" Pavement
- "Paper Thin Walls" Modest Mouse
- "This Heart's on Fire" Wolf Parade
- "Still Flat" Built to Spill
- "Raining in Darling" Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
- "Company Calls Epilogue" Death Cab for Cutie
- "Obstacle 1" Interpol
- "Slack Motherfucker" Superchunk
- "The Trees Get Wheeled Away" Bright Eyes
- "No Cars Go" The Arcade Fire
- "Only Skin" Joanna Newsom
- "House" Psychedelic Furs
- "Alone Down There" Modest Mouse
- "Date with IKEA" Pavement
- "A Sort of Homecoming" U2
- "Hardly Getting Over It" Husker Du
- "Never Leave a Job Half Done" Pedro the Lion
- "Live Forever" Oasis
- "Regret" New Order
- "Charlotte Sometimes (Live)" The Cure
- "Light Pollution" Bright Eyes
- "Heavy Lifting" Ambulance LTD
- "Headache" Frank Black
- "All is Full of Love (Bjork)" Death Cab for Cutie
- "Your Hand in Mine" Explosions in the Sky
- "Us Ones in Between" Sunset Rubdown
- "Perfect Circle" R.E.M.
- "Silence Kit" Pavement
- "Willing to Wait" Sebadoh
- "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine" Modest Mouse
- "What Jail is Like" Afghan Whigs
- "Purr" Sonic Youth
- "Freak Scene" Dinosaur Jr.
- "Why Would I Want to Die" Grandaddy
- "No Children" The Mountain Goats
- "Face Up" New Order
- "The Ledge" The Replacememts
- "I'm Waking Up to Us" Belle and Sebastian
- "Broke" Modest Mouse
- "Rode My Bike to My Stepsister's Wedding" Grandaddy
- "Can't Fight It" Bob Mould
- "Lover I Don't Have to Love" Bright Eyes
- "Hand in Glove" The Smiths
- "Like a Forest" Low
- "Romulus" Sufjan Stevens
- "Autumn Sweater" Yo La Tengo
- "Lucky You" The National
- "Half a Person" The Smiths
- "April Skies" The Jesus & Mary Chain
- "Season of the Shark" Yo La Tengo
- "Great Ghosts" The Microphones
- "The Center of the World" Bright Eyes
- "Detroit Has a Skyline" Superchunk
- "I Believe" R.E.M.
- "The Unforgettable Fire" U2
- "Boys Don't Cry" The Cure
- "The Mistress Witch from McClure" Sufjan Stevens
- "Stop Coming to My House" Mogwai
- "Op Beach" Mono
- "Wake Up" The Arcade Fire
- "Little Fury Things" Dinosaur Jr.
- "Pretty in Pink" Psychedelic Furs
- "Common People" Pulp
- "Velvet Waltz" Built to Spill
- "Too Pure" Sebadoh
- "Farewell Transmission" Songs: Ohia
- "Fucked Up Kid" Kevin Drew
- "Happy Birthday to Me" Bright Eyes
- "Independence Day" Ani DiFranco
- "Unless It's Kicks" Okkervil River
- "All My Friends" LCD Soundsystem
- "Up the Junction" Squeeze
- "Exploding Boy" The Cure
- "Oh, You Are the Roots that Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place" Bright Eyes
- "Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts" Wolf Parade
- "Intervention" The Arcade Fire
- "The Outer Banks" The Album Leaf
- "Cemetry Gates" The Smiths
- "The National Front Disco" Morrissey
- "Ghost" Neutral Milk Hotel
- "Soul and Fire" Sebadoh
- "Honey, Watch Your Ass" Jason Molina
The smoke tastes like gray lead
It’s killing her head
She finally let him have it
Here practice yelling at yourself instead
She nearly burned the town again
With the look that she gave him
She covers her heart with her hands and says
A little useless praying never hurts anything
It’s like nothing’s got a pulse (x2)
In this whole damn place
Right down to the clocks
Nothing’s got a pulse
Remember darling how quiet it got
Leave her alone, let her go home (x2)
So she don’t have to see you
How pathetic you can be
So she won’t hate herself to death
Know what i mean
She’s covering her heart with her hands and says
A little useless praying never hurts anything
That must be her up there
Perfume and cigarette smoke in her wild hair
She smells a little like a train
Hauling lilacs through the rain
I can’t tell that she’s crying
I’ll pretend again
But she sees them total destruction
As she goes running to them
I’m finally showing her the switch
How i learned to hold it
In my teeth
How she’s got to keep
One razor sharp bloody piece
Of her old broken heart
How she’s got to use that edge to carve
Across her new heart
Something deep enough to hurt
So it always reminds her
Deep enough to last
Darlin’ honey, watch your ass
I don't know what you were drinking when you made this list. Clearly "Like a Forest" should easily be #160.
Posted by: LegFuJohnson | February 06, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Black, like a forest, and still like a lion. My knees are bended. We used to speak a different language. I wasted my breath on words soon forgotten. Left unattended, they're moving their feet, but nobody's dancing.
Posted by: Bill | February 06, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Only the T-1000 can save you.
Posted by: LegFuJohnson | February 07, 2008 at 08:04 AM
Dude, where's Tool?
Simply ridiculous
Posted by: bubba joe | February 07, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Are you going to have mp3s for 101-200?
Posted by: Emily | February 07, 2008 at 07:27 PM
Sadly, no, I wasn't planning on mp3s for the rest. It took me way too long to upload the rest of them.
Posted by: Bill | February 07, 2008 at 10:40 PM
That's not right man. Build us up with this hope of some good mp3s, give us a great list and then don't provide the goods??? That's just not right.
Posted by: Sid | February 08, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Fantastic effort. Some great tunes. Must have taken you ages, but thanks for a bunch of decent tunes picked up.
Posted by: Brad | February 08, 2008 at 04:37 PM
Go to a legitimate site and buy the music you cheap little punks. I've got 7 kids to feed. I'll bring this site down before I'm finished.
Posted by: Record Executive | February 08, 2008 at 05:06 PM
7 kids? I never knew there are record executives that are Hasidic
Posted by: Jewey Jew | February 08, 2008 at 08:57 PM
Where are all the R&B tunes?
Posted by: Barack | February 09, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Excellent list! I have been following Vague Space for a while now and I find that we have very similar tastes, so I will surely pay attention to the songs that I am unfamiliar with. Thanks for your great work!
Posted by: Kelly | February 09, 2008 at 07:14 PM
haha i only have 3 of these songs:
Romulus - Sufjan Stevens
All My frineds - LCD Soundsystem
For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti - Sufjan Stevens
Posted by: LAk | February 09, 2008 at 09:36 PM
I love your taste, man. You've got me hooked on Pavement.
Posted by: itachi | February 10, 2008 at 03:07 PM
Very hard to believe in your top-200 favorite songs of all-time there is not one single song by a successful, commercial popular artist. Not one song by Billy Joel, The Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, Springsteen, Madonna, David Bowie, Sinatra, Green Day, Stevie Wonder, Sting, etc...? Is this really your 200 favorite songs or your 200 favorite Indie Songs? I hope it's the latter or I don't believe this list.
Posted by: Wii Javelin | February 11, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Stevie Wonder, now that's funny.
Radiohead is a very successful, commercial, popular artist. As are U2 and R.E.M., who both appear in the second 100. The Smiths, New Order, and The Cure were huge international stars in the '80s, and even bigger in their native Britain. Try going beyond the mainstream, Mr. Javelin, and you might find some good music out there that you don't know about.
Posted by: Bill | February 11, 2008 at 01:27 PM
Where's the Bee Gees and Barry Manilow?
Posted by: Jan | February 11, 2008 at 07:49 PM
I love your list! My only criticism is that you need some Beirut on there. I couldn't make a top 200 with out at least half of beirut's songs haha
Posted by: Jade | February 21, 2008 at 12:19 AM
Just for your own enjoyment, you might want to delve into a few other genres. And as hard as it is to imagine, there really was some great music recorded before 1982. You might like this band called the Clash.
Posted by: Jake | March 27, 2008 at 07:52 AM
Bill,
here's a list I can absolutely agree with. Thanks for the all hard work you've done...
manual trackback, because otherwise it's not working for me: http://itstoolong.com/wp/2008/03/28/mal-ganz-subjektiv-die-200-besten-lieder-aller-zeiten/
Posted by: Oliver | March 28, 2008 at 02:08 PM
This list is awful. First of all, it is compiled of one genre and one genre only.
Posted by: Jay | April 06, 2008 at 05:45 PM
Pretty nice list, original at least. Not sure about putting a modest mouse song at number one, but i may have to listen to it then judge. Awesome to see The National appearing in the list too. But no "I know it's over"? Perhaps the greatest Smiths song. With the nature of alot of these bands I'm assuming that you've heard Jeff Buckley and just don't like his work that much? Otherwise that would be a major oversight.
Posted by: Ben | April 07, 2008 at 07:15 AM
Not at all a fan of the Clash, Jake. Sorry. And I've heard other genres, Jay. This is a personal list, you don't have to agree. Please do not think you know more about music than me. It doesn't make you look good.
Ben, I certainly do like "I Know It's Over" (and just about every song by the Smiths). It just didn't make the cut. I'm sort of indifferent about Jeff Buckley. I don't dislike him but he didn't come close to making the cut. Tragic death though.
Posted by: Bill | April 09, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Wow, this is a very extensive list. You have good music taste. Thanks for providing a sampling of these lovely bands...I've heard a lot of them. I just haven't gotten around to listening them. But maybe now I will.
I must comment, though, it's not very diverse genre-wise (rock, indie, alternative). But it's still cool.
Posted by: Kid A | May 25, 2008 at 08:01 PM
This was good work, plenty of great tracks for people to choose from. Lots of these would make my list too.
Posted by: tom | August 24, 2008 at 07:41 PM