- Elvis Costello: “I Want You”
- Fugazi “Smallpox Champion”
Okay, still no Ramones, and that’s just not right. This one should slip in under the 25 year wire…
31)I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
- “Talk Talk” by Talk Talk
- Blister in the Sun -the Violent Femmes
- “Nothing Natural” - Lush
- Peekaboo Souxie and the Banshees
- The Jags - “Back Of My Hand”
- Crooked Fingers-- “New drink for the old Drunk”.
- The Smiths “Last night I dreamt somebody loved me.”
- Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”
- New Order - Crystal
- Edge of Sanity - Crimson
basically to make VH1 eat up a full show with one 40-minute song.
I’ll edge into the top 20 with my pick:
- The Toadies – Possum Kingdom
- Nirvana, “All Apologies”
- Teenage Fanclub – “Don’t Look Back”
Everything you need to know about modern power pop, in three handy minutes.
- Oasis - Don’t look back in anger
19.) Interpol - “PDA”
Ooops, meant for that to be
17.) Interpol - “PDA”…can’t count!!
- Madness - “One Step Beyond”