Lol @ the UK/US chart postions so far.

Pissed Banditos is so low.

Disturbed Monkey Wrench is so high. There are plenty of better Foo singles than this (that I'm guessing won't make it?) and I don't even like them that much.

gotta say I'm liking this list better than the 85 -94

Are there are any shit Paul Simon songs from this period we need to be prepared for?

Why is this a problem?

agreed...i'd say the two periods are more or less equal creatively, but for some reason, this list is light years beyond 85-94. maybe because the duff tracks still hold sentimental value, even if i don't really listen to them much anymore.

No, but we did just get that godawful "Banditos" song.

awful?

well they were a one hit wonder, so lucky for u, it's the last you'll see of them on this countdown

Wonder if this'll be the only song from my list that makes it.

That settles it--theremin is my filter for this thread. So far so good. Thanks man.

are you serious? Why on earth would you expect it to be higher?

You guys are gonna kill my enjoyment of this thread if you keep complaining about these critically/commercially forgotten & dismissed tracks being "so low".

I think so far this list has been great. Another stellar effort, GDB.

I wrote a song for you


#225.



Coldplay - "Yellow"

Year: 2000

US Chart Position: #48 / #22 Top 40 / #11 AC / #6 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #4

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #4 (year), #23 (decade), #361 (all-time)

Ranked Highest By: Hero (#17)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Parachutes

Lower than I expected.

yeah, that one is pretty low.

Fun Fact: Of the 11 (!!!) people that voted for "Yellow," seven people had the song in the bottom quarter of their top 100 (and one of the other four had it at #75).

That was Select magazine's single of the year for 2000.

I hit the second deck and I spend my paycheck
And my wife that I just met, she's looking like a wreck


#224.



Wilco - "Casino Queen"

Year: 1995

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Citizen (#18)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: A.M.

PFFH! No-one's *making* you do *anything* ..

Although apart from the covers, it's the single I like the least by them. Only 'The Show' made my Top 100 but I don't think anyone else voted. Fingers crossed for SOTU coming up at some point.

At this point I will probably place their 'Something Kinda Oooh' at Number One in the next poll IT'S ADDICTIVE!

But Bill, I thought it was all, like, subjective, man.

perspective is all I ask for, Welsh.

Casino Queen should be higher, imo.

I hate that Yellow song.

Good to see such a well renowned singles band like Wilco have two songs in the chart already.

condescend much?

Big Wilco fan here..and not from Chicago...but obviously the hometown advatage comes into play

The breakout artist of 2003


#223.



Fountains of Wayne - "Stacy's Mom"

Year: 2003

US Chart Position: #21 / #20 AC / #3 Top 40

UK Chart Position: #11

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #29 (year), #181 (decade), #2100 (all-time)

Ranked Highest By: Tracy Jacks (#17)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Welcome Interstate Managers

love it!

We are going RADIOACTIVE


#222.



Super Furry Animals - "(Drawing) Rings Around the World"

Year: 2001

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #28

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Saskadelphia (#12)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Rings Around the World

Are you havin' a laugh?




Are you havin' a laugh?

This probably doesn't matter in the big picture but my #5 vote for "Fell On Black Days" was from the `85-`94 poll. One of the online sources stated the single came out in 94.

Anyway, nice list so far although "In The Blood" is waay too low.

Good work Dr. Bill.

Again, again, again, again, again...


#221.



Fiona Apple - "Fast As You Can"

Year: 1999

US Chart Position: #20 / Modern Rock #29 Adult Top 40

UK Chart Position: #33

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #411

AMG Says: "Led by a blinding, jazz/ rock/ fusion rhythm, "Fast As You Can" is appropriately titled, and it sweeps by the listener in a musical blur. A quick series of jazzy chordings somehow keep the song together, despite the blinding tempo. Broken up by a brilliant and well-executed bridge in a slow, almost blues-pop motif, the song acts as a near mini-suite before returning to the fusion fury of the verses. Admonishing the subject in the song to break free of the relationship with her, this surely autobiographical song has a great sense of recrimination, with Apple's usual strong feeling of defiance and individuality."

Ranked Highest By: Norton (#34)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: When the Pawn Hits the Conflict He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight And He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind is Your Might So When You Go Solo You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth is the Greatest of Heights And if You Know Where to Stand Then You'll Know Where to Land and If You Fall it Won't Matter 'Coz You'll Know That You're Right

You grew up way too fast, now there's nothing to believe
And re-runs all become our history


#220.

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Goo Goo Dolls - "Name"

Year: 1995

US Chart Position: #5 / #2 Top 40 / #1 Modern Rock / #1 Mainstream Rock

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: Would've been #986

Ranked Highest By: The Good Dr. Bill (#4)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: A Boy Named Goo

good song right there. Should have gotten more votes; if it was Paul Westerberg everybody would love it.

I feel similarly. Glad to see it place at all, though.

I never believe them and I never assume


#219.



Queens of the Stone Age - "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret"

Year: 2000

US Chart Position: #21 Mainstream Rock / #36 Modern Rock

UK Chart Postiion: #31

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #25 (year), #163 (decade), #1955 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: Would've Been #508

Ranked Highest By: Costanza (#15)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Rated R

so far i own two of the "Ranked Highest By"

not sure if that is a good or bad thing this early in the poll....

forgetting songs is one thing, but i can't believe i forgot a song that would have ended up in my top ten. er, not that it mattered.

#1 in MAINSTREAM ROCK is hilarious.

I'm glad this made it. I had "Name" and "Iris" in my list. I should've included "Here is Now" or "Big Machine"

You know, you know
No, you don't, you don't


#218.



The Killers - "All These Things That I've Done"

Year: 2004

US Chart Position: #74 / #58 Pop / #49 Digital / #10 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #18

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Northern Voice (#6)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Hot Fuss

Hey, hey, constanza, please. There's a subtle difference with the original. I have more hair on chest and ass.

And stuff


#217.



Interpol - "Obstacle 1"

Year: 2002

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #72 / #41 in '03

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #31 (year), #152 (decade), #1862 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Interpol has been saddled with the daunting designation as the band most likely to revive the gothic days of the early ‘80’s, with frequent references to many English acts of the period, such as Chameleons U.K., The Cure, Echo and The Bunnymen and Joy Division. While some of these references may be more valid than others, it is certainly due in part to Interpol’s lead singers strikingly similar vocal delivery to that of the legendary and tragic figure of Ian Curtis of the brooding Joy Division that is most responsible. Perhaps more than on any other track from Interpol’s impressive debut, Turn on The Bright Lights, ”Obstacle 1” demonstrates this uncanny likeness. As the music twists and turns, Banks bellows with a deep passion that remains somehow emotionally distant, as if howling against the inevitable pain of isolation that so permeated the music of Joy Division as he rails, “We can find new ways of living / Make playing only logical harm / We can top the old times / Clay-making that nothing else will change / She can read, she can read, she can read / She’s bad, oh she’s bad” Musically, the song assimilates a variety of styles in a tight forceful arrangement, moving from bits of Sonic Youth into a halting, Gang of Four- like funk into a driving, nervous energy groove that has a whiff of the Pixies where Banks rants with dark determination, “It’s different now that I’m poor and aging / I’ll never see this face again / You go stabbing yourself in the neck”. Perhaps the biggest Joy Division moment comes in the second half, where the band descend into a drum heavy break, bassist Carlos Dengler digging into the low groove while Banks leans into the vocals with the same mannered intensity of Ian Curtis, releasing a breathless torrent, “It’s in the way that she posed / It’s in the things that she put in my hair / Her stories are boring and stuff / She’s always calling my bluff / She put the weights into my little heart / And she gets in my room and she takes it apart / I said she puts the weights into my little heart.” From here the song softens somewhat, falling into a straight, driving vamp, where chiming guitars play off of light falsetto backing vocals before ending abruptly."

Ranked Highest By: Plate (#7)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Turn on the Bright Lights

Wow, I was actually going to post the exact same sentence.

I miss Artie the One Man Party.

Thank You

Even when the sun is shining
I can't avoid the lightning


#216.



Travis - "Why Does it Always Rain on Me?"

Year: 1999

US Chart Position: #36 Adult Top 40 / #35 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #10

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #42 (year), #434 (decade), #2485 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: Would've been #935

Ranked Highest By: Rob Gordon (#29)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Man Who

I like that Travis beat "Yellow." I don't go in for the 'guilty pleasure' concept but Travis are something like it; virulent and transparently manipulative bullshit like "Driftwood" and "Flowers in the Window" (MAD SAD GLAD) have me on the hook.

Great fucking song.

I was just a bit joyous that people were voting for it at all there for a while, and then didn't notice that the later voters weren't jumping on the bandwagon when lists were due. Once I more or less finish my own list I have a hard time paying attention until the results post.

In other news, I used to think I liked Travis but then after a few months realized I like exactly 4 Travis songs which really doesn't qualify it.

And we'll be flying hiiiiiiiiiigh


#215.



Basement Jaxx - "Jus 1 Kiss"

Year: 2002

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #23

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Cantstopwontstop (#7)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Rooty

I think that "Monkey Wrench" may be my 2nd favortie song of theirs, next to "Everlong". Just a good 3:30 of straight-up hard rock. That Dave Grohl scream 3rd chorus is fantastic.

A Chunnel ride away from being a French Duo

We'll run away, keep everything simple
Night will come down, our guardian angel


#214.

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t.A.t.U. - "Not Gonna Get Us"

Year: 2003

US Chart Position: #1 Dance

UK Chart Position: #7

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: stphone (#17)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: 200 km/h in the Wrong Direction