Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Part 3 here. Part 4 here.
#151.
Song: "Photobooth"
Artist: Death Cab for Cutie
Album: Forbidden Love EP
Year: 2000
Length: 3:46
#152.
Song: "Stop Me if You Think You've Heard this One Before"
Artist: The Smiths
Album: Strangeways, Here We Come
Year: 1987
Length: 3:34
#153.
Song: "Cave-o-sapien"
Artist: Wolf Parade
Album: Expo 86
Year: 2010
Length: 6:19
#154.
Song: "I Felt Your Shape"
Artist: The Microphones
Album: The Glow, Part 2
Year: 2000
Length: 1:55
#155.
Song: "True Love Waits"
Artist: Radiohead
Album: I Might Be Wrong
Year: 2001
Length: 5:03
#156.
Song: "Stop Coming to My House"
Artist: Mogwai
Album: Happy Songs for Happy People
Year: 2003
Length: 4:53
#157.
Song: "Halcyon (Beautiful Days)"
Artist: Mono
Album: Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
Year: 2004
Length: 8:10
#158.
Song: "Empty Room"
Artist: Arcade Fire
Album: The Suburbs
Year: 2010
Length: 2:52
#159.
Song: "Lovely Allen"
Artist: Holy Fuck
Album: LP
Year: 2007
Length: 4:31
#160.
Song: "Too Pure"
Artist: Sebadoh
Album: Harmacy
Year: 1996
Length: 3:47
Is something missing in my touch, a tension tugging at my smile?
If there's a right thing to say, I'm sure I missed it by a mile
Swallowed in some detail, heavy in my blood
I wanna hold you close, but I can't lift my arms up
Is there a reason for this distance?
More than the drug that floats my days
A nervous bug in my system, it keeps me edgy and ashamed
I've got a saint, never ever will forgive
That never understood me but still tells me how to live
It fits when I stretch and I stretch because I can
I stretch until I'm sore and then I open up for more
I do it out of habit, not addiction
And if I give it up, clean out my blood
Will I still feel bored and disconnected?
If I do it all for love, will I ever give enough?
Cuz you can never be too pure or too connected
You can never be too pure or too connected
You can never be too pure
#161.
Song: "Like a Forest"
Artist: Low
Album: Things We Lost in the Fire
Year: 2001
Length: 2:28
#162.
Song: "Movie (Never Made)"
Artist: A Silver Mt. Zion
Album: He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms
Year: 2000
Length: 3:23
And it sounds even better - stunning actually - in this live recording.
...It's nobler to never get paid than to bank on shit and dismay...
#163.
Song: "Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings"
Artist: Sunset Rubdown
Album: Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Year: 2006
Length: 3:23
#164.
Song: "Grace Cathedral Hill"
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Castaways and Cutouts
Year: 2002
Length: 4:29
#165.
Song: "The Weather"
Artist: Built to Spill
Album: Ancient Melodies of the Future
Year: 2001
Length: 4:32
#166.
Song: "Paper Thin Walls"
Artist: Modest Mouse
Album: The Moon and Antarctica
Year: 2000
Length: 3:01
#167.
Song: "Head On"
Artist: Pixies
Album: Trumpe le Monde
Year: 1991
Length: 2:14
#168.
Song: "Cemetry Gates"
Artist: The Smiths
Album: The Queen is Dead
Year: 1986
Length: 2:41
#169.
Song: "People Who Died"
Artist: Jim Carroll Band
Album: Catholic Boy
Year: 1980
Length: 5:00
#170.
Song: "Kim You Bore Me To Death"
Artist: Grandaddy
Album: Concrete Dunes
Year: 2002
Length: 4:39
#171.
Song: "All My Little Words"
Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Year: 1999
Length: 2:46
#172.
Song: "Like a Friend"
Artist: Pulp
Album: This is Hardcore
Year: 1998
Length: 4:32
#173.
Song: "Terrible Love"
Artist: The National
Album: High Violet
Year: 2010
Length: 4:40
The fifth of five songs from the recently completed 2010 to make my chart of top 200 favorites of all-time. In the coming years, these songs are likely to fall or rise, depending on how they hold up but it was an impressive display nonetheless.
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#174.
Song: "In Metal"
Artist: Low
Album: Things We Lost in the Fire
Year: 2001
Length: 4:20
Filling holes with tiny sounds
Shining from the inside out
Picture of you where it began
In metal
In metal
Partly hate to see you grow
And just like your baby shoes
Wish I could keep your little body
In metal
In metal
#175.
Song: "Awful Bliss"
Artist: Guided by Voices
Album: Bee Thousand
Year: 1994
Length: 1:12
#176.
Song: "Season of the Shark"
Artist: Yo La Tengo
Album: Summer Sun
Year: 2003
Length: 4:30
#177.
Song: "The Ledge"
Artist: The Replacements
Album: Pleased to Meet Me
Year: 1987
Length: 4:06
#178.
Song: "Untitled 4 (Njsnavlin)"
Artist: Sigur Ros
Album: ( )
Year: 2002
Length: 7:33
#179.
Song: "The Crystal Lake"
Artist: Grandaddy
Album: The Sophtware Slump
Year: 2000
Length: 5:00
#180.
Song: "Reel Around the Fountain"
Artist: The Smiths
Album: The Smiths
Year: 1984
Length: 5:56
#181.
Song: "Farewell Transmission"
Artist: Songs: Ohia
Album: The Magnolia Electric Co.
Year: 2003
Length: 7:21
#182.
Song: "I'll Be You"
Artist: The Replacements
Album: Don't Tell a Soul
Year: 1989
Length: 3:29
In the summer of 1989, I remember falling in love with this song when it was played on MTV -- I never heard of The Replacements before, I just assumed they were another up-and-coming band in this genre MTV had labeled "Post Modern Rock", I didn't know their history, I didn't know anything back then about music and I was actually only a couple months removed from purchasing The Cure's Disintegration, the first "alternative" album I'd ever owned. Don't Tell a Soul became the 2nd I owned and I loved it, every second of that album back then. I listened all the time that summer, I even remember writing a line from "I'll Be You" on the board at the restaurant I was working that represented how bored I was, how bored we all were, waiting for our lives to happen. I went away to college that fall and my evolving music tastes shifted completely into the "alternative" genre which I didn't realize had been going strong for a decade or more, and I discovered how great The Replacements were, how influential, on my way to turning away from all the songs I used to love as a child (I never again bought a non-alternative album after the purchase of Disintegration). So for that reason, this song, this turning moment in the history of my love of music, still brings me back to 1989, the summer before I moved from my hometown, working in that restaurant and scrawling the greatest words to the greatest song of that moment, waiting for my life to happen.
Oh if it's just a lull, why am I bored right out of my skull?
Oh yeah, just keep me from feeling so dull
And if it's just a game, then we'll break down just in case
Then again, I'll tell you what we can do.
You be me for a whileAnd I'll be you.
#183.
Song: "The Stars of Track and Field"
Artist: Belle and Sebastian
Album: If You're Feeling Sinister
Year: 1996
Length: 4:48
#184.
Song: "Obstacle 1"
Artist: Interpol
Album: Turn on the Bright Lights
Year: 2002
Length: 4:11
#185.
Song: "Face Up"
Artist: New Order
Album: Low-life
Year: 1985
Length: 5:04
#186.
Song: "Everyday is Like Sunday"
Artist: Morrissey
Album: Viva Hate
Year: 1988
Length: 3:36
#187.
Song: "BlindBlindBlind"
Artist: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
Album: 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Year: 2008
Length: 13:18
#188.
Song: "The Secret of the Easy Yoke"
Artist: Pedro the Lion
Album: It's Hard to Find a Friend
Year: 1998
Length: 6:48
David Bazan spent his career with Pedro the Lion as a devout Christian writing largely on themes of religious significance, or with Christian allusions present, although often -- or mostly -- containing significant questions on the nature of faith and the darker side of human frailty. His first solo album since retiring the moniker Pedro the Lion was a devastatingly personal collection of songs about his loss of faith and the tremendous turmoil that revelation put upon his life and his marriage. This song, from one of his earliest collections, perfectly shows the difficulty of basing one's life on the belief in an imaginary being, a choice Bazan could no longer make some ten years after it was written. Pretty heavy stuff.
i could hear the church bells ringing
they pealed aloud your praise
the member's faces were smiling
with their hands outstretched to shake.
it's true they did not move me
my heart was hard and tired
their perfect fire annoyed me
i could not find you anywhere.
could someone please tell me the story
of sinners ransomed from the fall
i still have never seen you, and somedays
i don't love you at all
the devoted were wearing bracelets
to remind them why they came
some concrete motivation
when the abstract could not do the same
but if all that's left is duty, i'm falling on my sword
at least then, i would not serve an unseen distant lord
could someone please tell me the story
of sinners ransomed from the fall
i still have never seen you, and somedays
i don't love you at all
if this only a test
i hope that i'm passing, 'cause i'm losing steam
but i still want to trust youpeace be still
#189.
Song: "Freak Scene"
Artist: Dinosaur Jr.
Album: Bug
Year: 1988
Length: 3:39
#190.
Song: "Lover I Don't Have to Love"
Artist: Bright Eyes
Album: Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Year: 2002
Length: 4:00
I want a lover I don't have to love.
I want a girl who's too sad to give a fuck.
Where is the kid with the chemicals?
I thought he said to meet him here, but I'm not sure
I got the money if you've got the time
You said, "It feels good."
I said, "I'll give it a try."
Then my mind went dark-
we both forgot where your car was parked
Let's just take the train
I'll meet up with the band in the morning
Bad actors with bad habits
Some sad singers they just play tragic
and the phone's ringing and the van's leaving
Let's just keep touching let's just keep, keep singing...
#191.
Song: "Company Calls Epilogue"
Artist: Death Cab for Cutie
Album: We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Year: 2000
Length: 5:16
#192.
Song: "Inni mer syngur vitleysingur"
Artist: Sigur Ros
Album: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Year: 2008
Length: 4:03
#193.
Song: "About Today"
Artist: The National
Album: Cherry Tree
Year: 2004
Length: 4:11
#194.
Song: "Willing to Wait"
Artist: Sebadoh
Album: Harmacy
Year: 1996
Length: 3:32
#195.
Song: "Boys Don't Cry"
Artist: The Cure
Album: Boys Don't Cry
Year: 1980
Length: 2:35
#196.
Song: "Half a Person"
Artist: The Smiths
Album: Louder than Bombs
Year: 1987
Length: 3:37
#197.
Song: "Some Are White Light"
Artist: Caspian
Album: The Four Trees
Year: 2007
Length: 5:26
#198.
Song: "Date with IKEA"
Artist: Pavement
Album: Brighten the Corners
Year: 1997
Length: 2:39
#199.
Song: "This Heart's on Fire"
Artist: Wolf Parade
Album: Apologies to the Queen Mary
Year: 2005
Length: 3:59
#200.
Song: "Honey, Watch Your Ass"
Artist: Jason Molina
Album: Pyramid Electric Co.
Year: 2003
Length: 7:26
Thank you so much for reading this lengthy and exhausting list. I would be remiss if I didn't point out a few songs that just missed out. Here are the honorable mentions, in alpha order:
- "What Jail is Like" Afghan Whigs
- "Heavy Lifting" Ambulance LTD
- "Independence Day" Ani DiFranco
- "The Trees Get Wheeled Away" Bright Eyes
- "Oh You are the Roots that Sleep Beneath My Feet" Bright Eyes
- "Planting Seeds" Built to Spill
- "Death is the Road to Awe" Clint Mansell
- "The Exploding Boy" The Cure
- "Jumping Someone Else's Train" The Cure
- "The Happiest Place on Earth" Desaparecidos
- "Your Hand in Mine" Explosions in the Sky
- "Why Would I Want to Die" Grandaddy
- "Hardly Getting Over It" Husker Du
- "Between Planets" Jesus & Mary Chain
- "Killing All the Flies" Mogwai
- "May Nothing But Happiness..." Mogwai
- "That's Entertainment" Morrissey
- "The National Front Disco" Morrissey
- "Let Down" Pedro the Lion
- "Up the Junction" Squeeze
- "Pancho Villa" Sun Kil Moon
- "A Sort of Homecoming" U2
Artist-wise, here are the most represented individual artists within the top 200:
11 songs
The Smiths
10 songs
Modest Mouse
Pavement
9 songs
Sunset Rubdown
7 songs
Superchunk
Built to Spill
6 songs
Arcade Fire
Mogwai
Sigur Ros
5 songs
Wolf Parade
A Silver Mt. Zion
Grandaddy
Sufjan Stevens
Neutral Milk Hotel
New Order
4 songs
Bright Eyes
Explosions in the Sky
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Okkervil River
3 songs
Guided by Voices
Mono
The National
Plants and Animals
Radiohead
The Replacements
Sebadoh
Yo La Tengo
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