My Top 100 Songs (at the moment)

For no reason whatsoever, I decided to put a list of my 100 favorite songs on here.  There were several problems, however.

Every time I sat down to make the list, scrolling through my music library, I would inevitably come up with a list of about 4 or 500 songs.  In addition, new music would come out all the time, with potential adds to the list.

Finally, I had to sit down and say enough is enough.  What are the songs that I would listen to every time they were played?  Even then, this list isn’t perfect.  It’s tainted by the biases of the present: what am I into now?  Sometimes everything must rock, other times everything must be introspective, and so on and so forth.  Everything on this list is subject to change, probably as soon as five minutes after I post it.

This list is also personally biased toward indie/hipster rock.  That’s just most of what I like.  Regardless, feel free to leave comments: praise inclusions, act bewildered over exclusions, be boggled over inclusions, suggest your own.

Here we go.  Evan’s top 100 songs at this very moment:

Andrew Bird – Heretics
Animal Collective – Fireworks
Arcade Fire – Rebellion(Lies)
Beastie Boys – Sabotage
Bebel Gilberto – Samba e Amor
Beck – Lost Cause
Beck – Tropicalia
Belle and Sebastien – Piazza, New York Catcher
Black Sabbath – War Pigs
Blackalicious – Brain Washers
Bob Dylan – Simple Twist of Fate
Bob Marley – Buffalo Soldier
Brazilian Girls – Sweatshop
Brian Wilson – Heroes and Villains
Broadcast – Corporeal
Broken Social Scene – Lover’s Spit
Built to Spill – Untrustable, Pt. 2
Caetano Veloso – You Don’t Know Me
Cat Power – I Don’t Blame You
Constantines – On to You
David Bowie – Queen Bitch
Death Cab for Cutie – Company Calls
Decemberists – Of Angels and Angles
Dick Dale – Miserlou
Dinosaur, Jr. – Freak Scene
Dismemberment Plan – That’s When the Party Started
Dismemberment Plan – The Face of the Earth
Do Make Say Think – The Universe!
Ella Fitzgerald – Prelude to a Kiss
Elliot Smith – Ballad of Big Nothing
Flaming Lips – Do You Realize??
Foo Fighters – Times Like These
Fugazi – Give Me the Cure
Gal Costa – Vou Recomecar
Guided By Voices – Game of Pricks
Jamie Lidell – Another Day
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child
Joanna Newsom – Emily
LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
Joy Division – She’s Lost Control
M. Ward – Chinese Translation
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Believe You
Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing
Modest Mouse – Third Planet
Modest Mouse – Wild Packs of Family Dogs
My Bloody Valentine – Sometimes
Neil Young – Hey Hey, My My
Neko Case – The Needle Has Landed
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nirvana – All Apologies
Os Mutantes – Baby
Otis Redding – (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay
Pavement – Cut Your Hair
Pearl Jam – Elderly Woman Behind the Counter In A Small Town
Pearl Jam – Who You Are
Pearl Jam – Wishlist
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Pixies – Mr. Grieves
Portastatic – Song for a Clock
Portishead – The Rip
Prince – Darling Nikki
Q and not U – Book of Flags
Queens of the Stone Age – God is in the Radio
Radiohead – Idioteque
Radiohead – Karma Police
Radiohead – Morning Bell
Radiohead – Reckoner
R.E.M. – It’s the End of the World As We Know It
Sleater-Kinney – You’re No Rock and Roll Fun
Sonic Youth – Dirty Boots
Sonic Youth – Teenage Riot
Sonic Youth – Dripping Dream
Spoon – You Got Yr Cherry Bomb
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – 1% of One
Sublime – We’re Only Gonna Die For Our Own Arrogance
Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day
Superchunk – 1000 Pounds
Superchunk – Driveway to Driveway
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Ballad of the Sin Eater
The Beatles – A Day in the Life
The Beatles – Helter Skelter
The Beatles – Revolution
The Clash – The Guns of Brixton
The Go! Team – Junior Kickstart
The New Pornographers – Execution Day
The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
The Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
The Who – My Generation
Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak
TV on the Radio – Lover’s Day
TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Weezer – Surf Wax America
Wilco – I’m Always in Love
Wilco – Poor Places
Wilco – The Late Greats

Tell me what you think.