time to get started with this. Thanks to everyone who voted and wrote blurbs--looked like it was gonna be a poor show for a while, but I've gotten all but five or so of the blurbs in, and I consider that a pretty good strike rate for three days notice.

The one further thing I ask of you guys is that you just post in this thread--post early, post often, etc. I can't tell you how annoying it is to have to wait ten minutes in between each post just so it won't double up. Whatever.

SPOILER ALERT: FINAL LIST

100 Cobra Starship Snakes on a Plane (Bring It!) 609 10
99 Oxford Collapse Please Visit Your National Parks 616 9
98 Futureheads Worry About It Later 622 10
97 Killer Mike That's Life 625 9
96 El Parro del Mar God Knows (You Got to Give) 630 9
95 Asobi Seksu Thursday 631 9
94 Madonna Sorry / Man With Guitar Remix 636 10
93 Goldfrapp Ride a White Horse / Serge Santiago Re-Edit 637 9
92 Strokes Heart in a Cage 639 12
91 Rogue Wave Publish My Love 650 9
90 Sally Shapiro I'll Be By Your Side / Club REMIX 658 10
89 Ratatat Wildcat 660 11
88 CSS Alala 666 10
87 Klaxons Gravity's Rainbow / The Bouncer 671 8
86 Beyonce Check On It (f/ Bun B and Slim Thug) 675 10
85 Jarvis Cocker Running the World 675 8 1
84 Voxtrot Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Wives / Rise Up in the Dirt / Four Long Days / Soft & Warm 692 8 1
83 Gil Mantera's Party Dream Elmo's Wish 696 8 1
82 Love is All Busy Doing Nothing 699 9
81 Fiona Apple Not About Love 712 9
80 Sigur Ros Hippopola 727 10
79 Flaming Lips The W.A.N.D. 734 10
78 Teddybears Punkrocker (f/ Iggy Pop) 742 11
77 Tapes n Tapes Insistor 749 11
76 Belle & Sebastian The Blues are Still Blue 762 13
75 Thermals A Pillar of Salt 766 12
74 Ghostface Back Like That (f/ Ne-Yo) 779 11
73 Clipse Mr. Me Too 781 14 1
72 Regina Spektor Fidelity 792 12
71 Jose Gonzales Heartbeats 796 11
70 CSS Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above 797 11 1
69 Wolfmother Woman 812 12
68 Nelly Furtado Say it Right 812 10
67 Kanye West Drive Slow (f/ Paul Wall & GLC) 816 14
66 Delays Valentine 817 11
65 Streets When You Wasn't Famous 820 15
64 Snow Patrol Chasing Cars / Hey Team Remix 823 12
63 Beyonce Irreplacable 825 12
62 Kelis Bossy (f/ Too Short) / Braxe/Falke Remix 826 12 1
61 Cassie Me & U 826 12
60 Decemberists O Valencia 843 12
59 Arctic Monkeys When the Sun Goes Down 845 16
58 Secret Machines Alone, Jealous and Stoned 869 12
57 Pearl Jam World Wide Suicide / Unemployable 872 14
56 Midlake Roscoe 872 12
55 Flaming Lips The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song 884 12
54 Christina Aguilera Ain't No Other Man 902 13
53 M. Ward Chinese Translation 914 13
52 Weird "Al" Yankovic White & Nerdy 915 15 1
51 Belle & Sebastian White Collar Boy 969 13
50 Taking Back Sunday MakeDamnSure 970 11
49 Knife Silent Shout 981 14
48 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Gold Lion / Diplo's Optimo Remix 993 14
47 Neko Case Hold On, Hold On 994 13
46 Liars The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack 1006 14
45 Belle & Sebastian Funny Little Frog 1023 16
44 OK Go Here It Goes Again 1036 14
43 Rapture Get Myself Into It 1045 19
42 Thom Yorke Harrowdown Hill 1052 15
41 Chamillionaire Ridin' (f/ Krayzie Bone) 1053 15
40 Basement Jaxx Take Me Back to Your House 1127 14 1
39 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cheated Hearts 1134 17
38 Franz Ferdinand The Fallen / Ruined By Justice / L. Wells 1141 15
37 All-American Rejects Move Along 1155 14
36 My Chemical Romance Welcome to the Black Parade 1181 19 1
35 Pipettes Your Kisses are Wasted on Me 1195 16
34 Hold Steady Chips Ahoy! 1201 17
33 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth 1204 16
32 Phoenix Long Distance Call 1257 16
31 Rihanna S.O.S. 1265 17
30 Christian Falk Dream On (f/ Robyn & Ola Salo) 1292 15
29 Raconteurs Steady As She Goes / Store Brought Bones 1296 17
28 Knife We Share Our Mother's Health / Trentemoller Remix / Radio Slave Remix 1311 18
27 Gnarls Barkley Smiley Faces 1315 19
26 Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins Rise Up With Fists 1338 19
25 Wolf Parade I'll Believe in Anything 1345 15 2
24 Broken Social Scene 7/4 Shoreline 1351 18
23 Lily Allen Smile 1363 20
22 Camera Obscura Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken 1378 18
21 Futureheads Skip to the End 1388 18 1
20 New Pornographers Sing Me Spanish Techno 1551 22 1
19 Junior Boys In the Morning / The Equalizer 1557 22 1
18 Peter Bjorn and John Young Folks 1711 24 1
17 Hot Chip Boy From School / Erol Alkan Rework / A Glue Too Thick 1714 24
16 Lupe Fiasco Kick Push 1824 26
15 Strokes You Only Live Once 1866 24 1
14 Scissor Sisters I Don't Feel Like Dancin' 1872 25 1
13 Guillemots Trains to Brazil 1919 24 2
12 Band of Horses The Funeral 1978 23 1
11 Lily Allen LDN / Knock 'Em Out 2053 28
10 Nelly Furtado Promiscuous (f/ Timbaland) 2211 30
9 Justin Timberlake SexyBack 2318 30
8 TV on the Radio Wofl Like Me 2352 28 2
7 T.I. What You Know 2666 31 2
6 Justin Timberlake My Love (f/ T.I.) 2809 34 3
5 Hot Chip Over & Over / Solid Groove Remix 2911 35 2
4 Killers When You Were Young / Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Remix 2912 34 5
3 Nelly Furtado Maneater 2987 35 3
2 Pipettes Pull Shapes 3069 37 4
1 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 3878 46 6

you mean a post like this?

OMGOMGOMGOMG.

Let's get a pool going to see who will complain the most.

you will make my work day go by that much faster.


huzah for this shit!

le's go!

You're winning so far.

Bill, I hope you have enough food this year. Annoyingly I can't stay up all night and follow this thing as it plays out (still no Net at home and I'll be leaving work soonish) But I'll catch up with you in about 13 hours if you are still going.

That wasn't a complaint!

That is though. ZING!

i hate how i have 20/20 vision once the thread starts.
so many singles i forgot

I honestly can't think of any better way to start our list than this


#100.




Cobra Starship - "Snaeks on a Plane (Bring It!)"

US Chart Position: #32 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: n/a

Purpology Music Video Review: ""I didn't want the song to be literal. The snakes are a metaphor for shysters, the kind of dudes you'd imagine riding in first class sipping champagne." - Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta on his band's hit song "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)."

Now, I'm all about having fun, playing in hot-water puddles in midtown and licking sweat off metal street lamps when it's 98 degrees out, but Klosterman is totally right about Snakes on a Plane (the movie). I'm not going to see it because I could spend that time doing sit-ups or watching a screensaver on a toaster. Plus, I'm scared of snakes (who in their right mind isn't?!). The big bluh will come when people sit down expecting a comedy and get a mediocre action movie that's serious with its blood, fangs and dead, dead eyes. Remember, the movie didn't know it was a comedy until after it was filmed. Shoot, Kel even thought it would be his legit breakthrough. This video knows it's a comedy. Still sucks though.

The tall guy gets it (a little too much), the blond girl gets it (but still wants to look sexy), the dude with the lobe discs thinks he's smart (and sexy) and the other guy thinks he's in a Fall Out Boy-directed remake of Pulp Fiction. I like how the tall guy likes to mention how the song "isn't that literal" in interviews about the video. Is he haunted by the fact that he is indeed a slithering whore for the fame and has to combat that nagging truth with laughable press rationalizations? The irony is, what they really need to do is get the snakes to get the planes to stop doing this shit, and it's over. ©"

Ranked Highest By: Mad Clown (#12)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Snakes on a Plane OST

You've complained about me twice now. (I'm not complaining, though.)

seriously. my work agenda today is reliant on something that was supposedly overnighted, but i haven't received it yet. so i'm bordering on bored.

I interviewed that dude from Cobra Starship. Talk about a guy who sticks to his press release made up bio. Guy had nothing to say about anything at all.

interesting about that. A band i talked to recently hated their press release info and just bashed them to death and were completely honest w/ me. One guy even told me how old everyone in the band is and said labels are strict about people not revealing their real age if you dont have to

this is probably my favorite song that I heard for the first time as a result of this poll


#99.


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Oxford Collapse - "Please Visit Your National Parks"

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Filter Magazine Blurb: "Brooklyn rockers Oxford Collapse are a band whose music demands your attention. "Please Visit Your National Parks", the 1st single off the band's Sub Pop debut From Remember the Night Parties, is a restless, urgent rock nuggets with shout-along vocals.

The song is further evidence that what started off as a joke party band is now a finely tuned punk-rock machine. As they tour in support of this, their 3rd alum, they show no signs of letting up with their angular and immediate songs."

Ranked Highest By: Radio Hitchcock (#4)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Remember the Night Parties

Word.

#98.




The Futureheads - "Worry About it Later"

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #52

Drowned in Sound Review: " As far as I'm concerned, News And Tributes was a disappointment – the Sunderland-based quartet left me with mixed feelings about an album that took a more laid back approach, and for the most part seemed unintentionally boring. Regardless, The Futureheads still have the a for writing a good pop song, something the comeback single 'Skip To The End' showcased in abundance.

'Worry About It Later' is the second single to be lifted from News And Tributes and ultimately one of a lesser-quality. Whilst 'Skip To The End' charms with its Clash-esque riffery and stop-start rhythmic prowess, 'Worry About It Later' meanders, never really hitting the spot. Yes, there is the nicely placed chorus complete with jingly-jangly tambourines and alternating vocal harmonies, but it just feels distinctly average – something that much of The Futureheads’ somophore effort suffers from throughout. Unlike previous singles, 'Worry About It Later' isn’t catchy enough to remember and doesn’t have enough substance to have you coming back for repeated listens.

Sorry lads, but this single fails to hit the mark. " (5/10)

Artist's Previous Appearances on SOMB Singles Lists: "Hounds of Love" (#3 of 2005)

Ranked Highest By: Tracy Jacks (#4)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: News & Tributes

Yeah, this is great. Did I miss people talking about how good this song was when it came out? And, more importantly, is the album this good?

awesome, big pimpin'

Could have predicted they'd be parting ways with 679 after that.



Fixed.

you will make my work day that much less productive, and i have to get shit done today, i shouldn't be on here

I agree.

i can't wait to leave work so i can get home and d-load these!

Sendspace isn't firewalled here. Y$I is.

Ditto


Ditto

I'm not sure if there was a ton of noise about the song.

The album -- yes -- it's really, really good.

yeah the album is good, but i don't think the rest of it reaches the greatness of this song, a couple songs come close though, check out "Lady Lawyers" if you like "National Parks."

so, uh, hey bill...how about making this into a podcast so i can listen to it while i'm stuck at midway tomorrow? yes, good, you're working on it now?

excellent. i'll download in the morning. you're the best.

#97.




Killer Mike - "That's Life!"

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Pitchfork Track Review: "Crackers, backpackers, whatever-- relentless fire-breathing transcends such sub-genre squabbles. To wit, all else quickly becomes moot once this monster begins his head-boiling barrage-- but instead of going on about purple tops or double barreled bang-bangetry, Mike is chopping it up with Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson and "servicing the motherfuckin' children." You can practically see the steam spouting from his brain.

Channeling Ice Cube's vintage 1991 flow, Mike manages to chew out Bush (I, II, and Barb), Oprah, Cosby, doctors, Bill O'Reilly, preachers, Martha Stewart, and "rich motherfuckers black and white." He even clears up the brotherhood of the baggy pants myth in one of the track's searing between-verse screaming-word diatribes that contain as much-- if not more-- venom as its rhymes. So, yeah, he's angry. But, somehow, still optimistic; he's not about to roll himself up in a big ball and die. Instead, even after checking off his infinite shit list, he reverses the titular self-defeating shoulder shrug: "If you don't like what I'm sayin'…that's life!" You're either with him or you're a greedy multi-millionaire pedophile crackhead slut with no regard for the human race, fuckface." (5/5)

Ranked Highest By: Man is Matter (#5)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Looks like nowhere yet

Futureheads were such a nothing hype. Good riddance.

Man, I really wish I would've heard that song before. It definitely would've been high on my list.

That Killer Mike song is awesome. I've listened to it a bunch more times since I did my list and if I was making it again right now, it would have been a lot higher.

#96.




El Perro del Mar - "God Knows (You Got to Give to Get)"

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Pitchfork Track Review: "This song's come along at the perfect time of year. An anthem for late winter, it's well-suited for these few weeks when you'd rather freeze in a light jacket than wear that heavy coat one more time. Sarah Assbring, who goes by the stage name El Perro del Mar, uses girl-group elements to try to reconnect with the world, but "God Knows (You Gotta Give to Get)" is small instead of enormous, minimal instead of maximal, intensely personal instead of glowingly public. Her wall of sound is no towering monument, but a crumbling fieldstone property boundary: ancient (if the 1960s can be considered that), sturdy, picturesque, and built stone by stone using bells, ruminative bassline, barely-there piano, swooning guitar, shivering reeds, and gentle backing vocals-- all on a soft bed of strings nursing a sad, bouncy chorus that's as catchy as an early-spring cold." [4.5/5]

Ranked Highest By: Saskadelphia (#4)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: El Parro Del Mar

You guys wanna bang Some Girl, we get it.

Yeah, that pretty much demands a stage name.

#95.




Asobi Seksu - "Thursday"

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Underrated Blog's Song of the Week Review: "I've been listening to Citrus by Asobi Seksu a lot lately. It calms me just a bit from the daily storm known as life. (Just writing things like that make me question my mental status.) Regardless, it's a beautifully executed album from this New York band, teetering between noise and melodies with a Japanese edge. Check out a recent interview the band did with Pitchfork and then go purchase Citrus over at Insound.

I first heard "Thursday" during a trailer. As soon as I heard the song again I tried to remember what trailer it was from. My first thought was Marie Antoinette but that was wrong. It was from Flannel Pajamas, a new indie flick that will be out in New York next month. I love movie trailers; sometimes more than the film themselves and this one may take the cake. Always a sucker for a good romance, and combined with the gorgeous song "Thursday", I'm already sold."

Ranked Highest By: Midnite Vulture (#10)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Citrus

Wow. I mean WOW--I thought this was a lock for the top 40.

Oh, come on, people. Everyone voted for that adorable Pipettes single (it's 5 or 6 on my own list), but this song does pretty much the same thing (Spector, girl groups, 60s pop) so much better, so much more convincingly, with genuine emotion.

count me in for the "just heard oxford collapse for the first time while reading this poll and it's awesome" camp.


edit: acutally GDB, this sounds a bit like a more drunken and raucous version of "even rats" to me. the guitar parts at least.

This one doesn't talk about liking to hip-hop.

tha variety of quotes makes me proud to have someone like Doctor B in my life.

DiS review of "Worry About It Later" all kinds of OTM up until the last sentence. I wouldn't quite call it forgettable. It's worth voting for, and placed exactly where it should on our list... a couple notches above obscurity.

boo mediocre second singles from albums that came out last year


#94.




Madonna - "Sorry" / Man With Guitar Vocal Edit

US Chart Position: #58 / #1 Dance

UK Chart Position: #1

Virgin.net Review: "If there's one thing that Madonna needs to know, it's that spoken word interludes (and varieties thereof eg. ropey rap attempts and Kabballah chants), unless they have something funny to say, or at least an interesting way of saying it, are completely, totally uncool. Hearing her enunciating "I'm sorry" in a variety of languages on this second Confessions On A Dancefloor single, therefore, is a deeply cringe-inducing experience. Presumably she wanted to make this euro-dance number even more, well, euro, but producer Stuart Price should have told her to can it and stick to the script. Anyway, with that off our chests, we're happy to say that Sorry is otherwise a solid and fairly infectious combo of pumping, filtered synths and disco beats which is destined to top the charts with ease." (3/5)

Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Singles Lists: "Hung Up" / Jacques Lu Cont Remix (#14 of 2005)

Ranked Highest By: Artem (#3)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Confessions on a Dance Floor

Really sounds more like stripped-down early Kate Bush than the Pipettes splendor.

Yeah, kinda surprised on El Perro Del Mar's low ranking. Such a beautiful song.

get that out of your system now, because i don't want to see this kind of sniping later on.

I didn't know that Asobi Seksu song was elligible. It would have been pretty high on my list, too. Oh well.

Actually it reminds me most of Julee Cruise/Angelo Badalamenti, but far less gimmicky.