Dopers--Let's Create an Alternate "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years" list

  1. Elvis Costello: “I Want You”
  1. 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

  1. “Talk Talk” by Talk Talk
  1. Blister in the Sun -the Violent Femmes
  1. “Nothing Natural” - Lush
  1. Peekaboo Souxie and the Banshees
  1. The Jags - “Back Of My Hand”
  1. Crooked Fingers-- “New drink for the old Drunk”.
  1. The Smiths “Last night I dreamt somebody loved me.”
  1. Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”
  1. New Order - Crystal
  1. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

basically to make VH1 eat up a full show with one 40-minute song. :smiley: :cool:

I’ll edge into the top 20 with my pick:

  1. The Toadies – Possum Kingdom
  1. Nirvana, “All Apologies”
  1. Teenage Fanclub – “Don’t Look Back”

Everything you need to know about modern power pop, in three handy minutes.

  1. Oasis - Don’t look back in anger

19.) Interpol - “PDA”

Ooops, meant for that to be

17.) Interpol - “PDA”…can’t count!!

  1. Madness - “One Step Beyond”