FYI:
Over the labor day weekend on XM Radio, the station FRED (Channel 44), played a count down of the 2,044 most essential alternative songs ever. (They play a lot of Morrissey and The Smiths) Here is top 30:
#1- "How Soon Is Now" - The Smiths
#2- "London Calling" - The Clash
#3- "Just Like Heaven" - The Cure
#4- "I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones
#5- "Lips Like Sugar" - Echo & The Bunnymen
#6- "Rock The Casbah" - The Clash
#7- "Blasphemous Rumours" - Depeche Mode
#8- "Burning Down The House" - Talking Heads
#9- "Bigmouth Strikes Again" - The Smiths
#10- "Blue Monday '88" - New Order
#11- "With Or Without You" - U2
#12- "I Melt With You" - Modern English
#13- "Mirror In The Bathroom" - English Beat
#14- "Pictures Of You" - The Cure
#15- "Whip It" - Devo
#16- "Alison" - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
#17- "King Of Pain" - The Police
#18- "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go" - Soft Cell
#19- "Here Comes Your Man" - The Pixies
#20- "Don't You Forget About Me" - Simple Minds
#21- "My City Was Gone" - The Pretenders
#22- "Rock Lobster" - B-52's
#23- "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" - Eurythmics
#24- "Modern Love" - David Bowie
#25- "Pretty In Pink" - Psychedelic Furs
#26- "Blister In The Sun" - Violent Femmes
#27- "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division
#28- "Lust For Life" - Iggy Pop
#29- "Town Called Malice" - The Jam
#30- "Cars" - Gary Numan
others in top 100:
60 ouija board, ouija board - morrissey
77 what difference does it make? - the smiths
I couldn't find a complete list.
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"My City Was Gone" at #21?
hell no!
and how is "Love Will Tear Us Apart" way down at #27?
Bowie? (Score:0)
whooaa (Score:0)
U2 ffs? (Score:0)
stoopid (Score:0)
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#2 -They had to b in there,better then 'casbah'.
#7 -Fine choice.
#9 -Suprised it rated so high,but glad to see it.
#13-All time classic song -period.
#28-Another all time standard.
#29-Always like this one- but not many other by them.
#60- well, we all agree that many other songs could have gone there instead.
#77-has always been a favorite but also,another choice could have been made.
As for all the cure
And that fucking 'blister in the sun' have always hated it
the rest are pretty basic stuff but
could u have pick one of 20 other ramones songs???
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Re:One good thing about this list (Score:0)
But if you're referring to the absence of black artists on the list, you obviously don't know much about The English Beat
Now fuck off, you racist coward.
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