The A-List (iTunes)

Submitted by Kza on Mon, 10/18/2004 - 03:04
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  • 2 Many Djs, “No Fun/Push It (The Stooges vs. Salt N’ Pepa)”
  • 45 Grave, “Party Time” [This song is most famous as the "zombies rise" song from Return of the Living Dead ("Do you wanna par-tay?/It's party time!"), but it's a dark & twisted little number in its own right, with an interesting punk/goth feel. The lead singer's name is Dinah Cancer.]
  • 50 Cent, “In da Club”
  • A Flock of Seagulls, “Space Age Love Song”
  • A Flock of Seagulls, “The More You Live, The More You Love”
  • A Flock of Seagulls, “I Ran (So Far Away)”
  • A Tribe Called Quest, “Award Tour”
  • A Tribe Called Quest, “If The Papes Come”
  • A-House, “Call Me Blue”
  • A.C. Newman, "Miracle Drug"
  • A.C. Newman, “The Battle For Straight Time”
  • A.C. Newman, “Secretarial”
  • ABBA, “S.O.S.”
  • ABBA, “Super Trouper”
  • AC/DC, “Who Made Who”
  • Al Jarreau, "Moonlighting"
  • Alabama, “The Closer You Get”
  • Alan Parsons Project, “Prime Time”
  • Alan Parsons Project, “Eye in the Sky”
  • Alien Ant Farm, “Smooth Criminal”
  • Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire, “Two Way Action”
  • Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire, “11:11”
  • Andrew W.K., “Party Hard”
  • Anthrax, “Got The Time”
  • Asia, “Only Time Will Tell”
  • Asia, “Heat of the Moment”
  • Asia, "Don't Cry"
  • Aztec Camera, “Deep and Wide and Tall”
  • Aztec Camera, “Oblivious”
  • Bee Gees, “How Deep is Your Love”
  • Bee Gees, “Stayin’ Alive”
  • Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man, “Tom the Model”
  • Beth Orton, “She Cries Your Name”
  • Billy Squier, “Rock Me Tonite”
  • Black Sabbath, “Supernaut”
  • Black Sabbath, "A National Acrobat"
  • Black Sabbath, "Snowblind"
  • Blackhawk, "Goodbye Says It All"
  • Blackalicious, “Make You Feel That Way”
  • Blink-182, “I Miss You”
  • Blue Öyster Cult, “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)”
  • Blue Öyster Cult, “The Red & the Black”
  • Blue Öyster Cult, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
  • Blue Öyster Cult, “Hot Rails to Hell”
  • Blue Öyster Cult, “Black Blade”
  • Blue Öyster Cult, “Career of Evil”
  • Blue Öyster Cult, "Veteran of the Psychic Wars"
  • Blue Öyster Cult, "Astronomy"
  • Bob Mould, “See A Little Light”
  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, “The Way”
  • Broken Social Scene, "Cause=Time"
  • Bruce Hornsby & the Range, “The Valley Road”
  • Camper Van Beethoven, "Eye of Fatima"
  • Cappadonna, “Everything is Everything”
  • Cat Power, “He War”
  • Charlatans, "Codine"
  • Charlatans U.K., "The Only One I Know"
  • Cheap Trick, “Tonight It’s You”
  • Chemical Brothers, “Let Forever Be”
  • Chicago, “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day”
  • Chimp, “500 Hawaiian Guitars”
  • Chris Darrow, “Phoney Baloney”
  • Civ, “Can’t Wait One Minute More”
  • The Clash, “Inoculated City”
  • The Clash, “Death or Glory”
  • The Clash, “Hitsville U.K.”
  • The Clash, “Ivan Meets G.I. Joe”
  • Clinic, “The Second Line”
  • Clinic, “Distortions”
  • Clinic, “Walking With Thee”
  • Coheed & Cambria, “A Favor House Atlantic”
  • The Coral, “Dreaming of You”
  • Cowboy Junkies, "Sweet Jane"
  • The Cramps, “Surfin’ Dead”
  • Culture Club, “Time (Clock of the Heart)”
  • The Cure, “In-Between Days”
  • The Darkness, “How Dare You Call This Love?”
  • The Darkness, “The Best of Me”
  • The Darkness, “Black Shuck”
  • The Darkness, “Get Your Hands Off My Woman”
  • The Darkness, “Growing On Me”
  • The Darkness, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”
  • The Darkness, “Love is Only A Feeling”
  • The Darkness, “Givin’ Up”
  • The Darkness, “Stuck in a Rut”
  • The Darkness, “Love On The Rocks With No Ice”
  • The Darkness, “Holding My Own”
  • Daryl Hall & John Oates, “Kiss On My List”
  • The Datsuns, “Lady”
  • David J., “I’ll Be Your Chauffeur”
  • Death Cab For Cutie, “Bend To Squares”
  • Death Cab For Cutie, “Pictures in an Exhibition”
  • Death Cab For Cutie, “A Movie Script Ending”
  • Death Cab For Cutie, “The New Year”
  • Death Cab For Cutie, “Expo ‘86”
  • Death Cab For Cutie, “The Sound of Settling”
  • Death Cab For Cutie, “Tiny Vessels”
  • Death Cab For Cutie, “Transatlanticism”
  • Death Cab For Cutie, “Death of an Interior Decorator”
  • Death Cab For Cutie, “A Lack of Color”
  • Death in Vegas, “Dirt”
  • Difford & Tillbrook, “Love’s Crashing Waves”
  • The Dirtbombs, “Earthquake Heart”
  • Dizzee Rascal, “Fix Up, Look Sharp”
  • DMX, “Party Up (Up In Here)”
  • Dntel, “(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan”
  • The Donnas, “Living After Midnight”
  • Dope, “Die Motherfucker Die”
  • Earlimart, "We Drink On The Job"
  • Earth, Wind & Fire, “September”
  • Echo & the Bunnymen, “Seven Seas”
  • Elastica, “Annie”
  • Elastica, “Smile”
  • Elastica, “Blue”
  • Elbow, “Ribcage”
  • E.L.O., “Mr. Blue Sky”
  • Electric Six, “Danger! High Voltage”
  • Electric Six, “I’m The Bomb”
  • EPMD, “You Gots To Chill”
  • Fables, “Sam Hall”
  • Fabolous, “Young’n”
  • The Fall, “No Bulbs 3”
  • The Fall, “Cab It Up!”
  • The Fall, “The Steak Place”
  • The Fixx, “Sunshine in the Shade”
  • The Fixx, “Saved By Zero”
  • The Fixx, "Less Cities, More Moving People"
  • Fleetwood Mac, “Hold Me”
  • Fleetwood Mac, “You Make Loving Fun”
  • Flesh For Lulu, “I Go Crazy”
  • The Flying Burrito Brothers, “Hot Burrito #2”
  • Fountains of Wayne, “Bright Future in Sales”
  • Fountains of Wayne, “Stacy’s Mom”
  • Freelance Hairdresser, “Marshall’s Been Snookered (Eminem vs. Winifred Atwell)”
  • Friends of Distinction, “Grazin’ in the Grass”
  • Fuzzbox, "Love is the Slug"
  • George Strait, “Amarillo by Morning”
  • Ghost Town Djs, “My Boo”
  • Go Home Productions, “Ray of Gob (Madonna vs. the Sex Pistols)”
  • Goldfrapp, “Crystalline Green”
  • Goldfrapp, “Train”
  • Goldfrapp, “Twist”
  • Gomez, “These 3 Sins”
  • Gomez, “Silence”
  • Gomez, "Do One"
  • Gordon Lightfoot, “Sundown”
  • Gram Parsons, "Medley Live From Northern Quebec: A) Cash on the Barrelhead B) Hickory Wind"
  • The Greg Kihn Band, “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)”
  • Guns 'N Roses, "It's So Easy"
  • Happy Stars, “Stop Sign”
  • HarryHeadBanger, “Whoomp (Tag Team vs. Marilyn Manson)”
  • Hipsway, “The Honeythief”
  • The Hives, “Hate To Say I Told You So”
  • Hominy, “Bottom of the Lake”
  • Hominy, “Al Capone”
  • Hominy, “My Love For You Is Not Contemporary”
  • Hominy, "Dinner Bucket Town"
  • Hugh Masekela, “Grazing in the Grass”
  • Human League, “Mirror Man”
  • Hüsker Dü, "Makes No Sense At All"
  • I Am Kloot, “To You”
  • I Am Kloot, “Morning Rain”
  • I Am Kloot, “Dark Star”
  • I Am Kloot, “Twist”
  • I Am Kloot, “86 Tvs”
  • Icicle Works, “Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)”
  • Interpol, “Untitled”
  • Interpol, “Obstacle 1”
  • Interpol, “PDA”
  • Iron Maiden, “Can I Play With Madness”
  • Iron Maiden, “Aces High”
  • Iron Maiden, “2 Minutes to Midnight”
  • Iron Maiden, “Wasted Years”
  • Jackson Browne, “Lawyers in Love”
  • Jackson Browne, “Running on Empty”
  • Jackson Browne, “Somebody’s Baby”
  • Jackson Browne, “Tender is the Night”
  • The Jesus & Mary Chain, “Half Way to Crazy”
  • The Jesus & Mary Chain, “Happy When It Rains”
  • The Jesus & Mary Chain, “Cherry Came Too”
  • Jethro Tull, “Inside”
  • Jethro Tull, “Alive and Well and Living In”
  • Jethro Tull, “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day”
  • Jethro Tull, "Bungle in the Jungle"
  • Johnny Cash, “The Rebel—Johnny Yuma”
  • Journey, “Don’t Stop Believin’”
  • Journey, “Wheel in the Sky”
  • Journey, “Open Arms”
  • Julian Cope, “World Shut Your Mouth”
  • Junior Senior, “Move Your Feet”
  • Kate Bush, “Blow Away (For Bill)”
  • Kate Bush, “All We Ever Look For”
  • Kate Bush, “Oh To Be In Love”
  • Kenny Loggins, “Whenever I Call You ‘Friend’”
  • Kenny Loggins, “Heart to Heart”
  • Killer Mike, “A.D.I.D.A.S.”
  • Kings of Leon, “Red Morning Light”
  • Kings of Leon, “Happy Alone”
  • Kings of Leon, “Molly’s Chambers”
  • Kings of Leon, “Genius”
  • Lene Lovich, “New Toy”
  • Les Rita Mitsouko, “Andy”
  • Les Rita Mitsouko, “C’est Comme Ça”
  • Let’s Active, “Every Word Means No”
  • Life Without Buildings, “The Leanover”
  • Life Without Buildings, “14 Days”
  • Life Without Buildings, “New Town”
  • Life Without Buildings, "PS Exclusive"
  • Lindsey Buckingham, “Trouble”
  • LL Cool J, “Jingling Baby (Remixed But Still Jingling)”
  • Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, “My Bag”
  • The Long Winters, “Blue Diamonds”
  • The Long Winters, “Scared Straight”
  • The Long Winters, “Cinnamon”
  • The Long Winters, “Blanket Hog”
  • The Long Winters, “New Girl”
  • Los Umbrellos, “Sweep”
  • Los Umbrellos, “No Tengo Dinero”
  • Love and Money, “Candybar Express”
  • Ludacris, “Southern Hospitality”
  • Marcy Playground, “Sex and Candy”
  • Marcy Playground, “Saint Joe on the School Bus”
  • Mary’s Danish, “Ashes”
  • Matthew Sweet, “I’ve Been Waiting”
  • mc chris, “Evergreen”
  • mc chris, “Ten Year Old”
  • mc chris, “Hijack”
  • mc chris, “DQ Blizzard”
  • mc chris, “Fuckin’ Up My Christmas”
  • mc chris, “Fett’s Vette” [If you watch Sealab 2021, you may already know mc chris as the voice of Hesh, and you may have already heard this paean to that most enduring icon of the Star Wars series. If not, you owe it yourself to check it out. I imagine some people think of him a as joke rapper, but I think he's got mad skillz.]
  • mc chris, "Ratz"
  • mc chris, "Cookie Breath"
  • mc chris, "Bad (dd) Runner"
  • Melt-Banana, “A Dreamer who is too weak to face up to”
  • Melt-Banana, “If it is the deep sea, I can see you there”
  • Men at Work, “Overkill”
  • Men at Work, “Who Can It Be Now?”
  • Metallica, “Helpless”
  • Metallica, “The Small Hours”
  • Metallica, "The Wait"
  • Metric, “Combat Baby”
  • Missing Persons, “Destination Unknown”
  • Modest Mouse, “Never Ending Math Equation”
  • Modest Mouse, “Interstate 8”
  • Modest Mouse, “Broke”
  • Modest Mouse, “Trailer Trash”
  • Modest Mouse, “Polar Opposites”
  • Modest Mouse, “3rd Planet”
  • Modest Mouse, “Gravity Rides Everything”
  • Modest Mouse, “Paper Thin Walls”
  • Modey Lemon, “Crows”
  • The Monkees, “You Told Me”
  • The Monkees, “The Kind of Girl I Could Love”
  • Monster Magnet, “Space Lord”
  • The Motels, “Suddenly Last Summer”
  • The Motels, “Only The Lonely”
  • The Mountain Goats, “Going to Port Washington”
  • The Music Machine, “Talk Talk”
  • Nappy Roots, “Set It Out”
  • Nappy Roots, “Country Boyz”
  • Nappy Roots, “Awnaw”
  • Nappy Roots, “Headz Up”
  • Nazz, “Open My Eyes”
  • Neil Young, “Cinnamon Girl”
  • Neil Young, “Wondering”
  • Nelly, “Country Grammar (Hot Shit)”
  • Nelly, “Ride Wit Me”
  • New Order, “All The Way”
  • New Order, “Love Less”
  • New Order, “Round & Round”
  • New Order, “Run”
  • The New Pornographers, “The Electric Version”
  • The New Pornographers, “From Blown Speakers”
  • The New Pornographers, “The Laws Have Changed”
  • The New Pornographers, “The End of Medicine”
  • The New Pornographers, “Loose Translation”
  • The New Pornographers, “Chump Change”
  • The New Pornographers, “All For Swinging You Around”
  • The New Pornographers, “The New Face of Zero and One”
  • The New Pornographers, “Testament to Youth in Verse”
  • The New Pornographers, “July Jones”
  • The New Pornographers, “Miss Teen Wordpower”
  • The New Pornographers, “Mass Romantic”
  • The New Pornographers, “The Slow Descent into Alcoholism”
  • The New Pornographers, “Jackie” [The one N.P. song I hated for the longest time; I just couldn't get past the awful first line, "Jackie, you yourself said it best when you said: there's been a break in the continuum". It comes across as unbelievably arch. But I learned to live with it, and the rest of the song is gorgeous, especially near the end, when Carl Newman's voice sounds like the ringing of church bells.]
  • The Nightcrawlers, "Little Black Egg"
  • The Notwist, “Pilot”
  • The Old 97s, “W-I-F-E”
  • The Old 97s, “Crash on the Barrelhead”
  • The Orb, “Toxygene (7” Edit Version)”
  • The Other Ones, “We Are What We Are”
  • Outkast, “The Way You Move”
  • Outkast, “Knowing”
  • Overlorde, “Snow Giant”
  • The Pale, “All You Needed To Say”
  • The Pale, “Good Enough”
  • The Pale, “Space to Move”
  • The Pale, “The Crash”
  • The Pale, “Wake-Up Call”
  • The Pale, “Relativity”
  • The Pale, “Trash”
  • Patty Griffin, “Blue Sky”
  • Pavement, “Summer Babe (Winter Version)”
  • The Pernice Brothers, “Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)”
  • The Pernice Brothers, “7:30”
  • The Pernice Brothers, “Our Time Has Passed”
  • The Pernice Brothers, “Let That Show”
  • The Pernice Brothers, “Endless Supply”
  • The Pernice Brothers, “The Weakest Shade of Blue”
  • The Pernice Brothers, “One Foot in the Grave”
  • The Pernice Brothers, “Baby in Two”
  • The Pillows, “Happy Bivouac”
  • The Pillows, “Back Seat Dog”
  • The Pillows, “Flame”
  • The Pillows, “Little Busters”
  • The Pillows, “Ride On Shooting Star” [The Pillows are a Japanese band -- obscure even in Japan -- that got some some attention when their music was used in the great anime FLCL. This is the FLCL signature song, played during the ending credits. Imagine a Japanese Weezer and you're on the right track.]
  • Poi Dog Pondering, “I Had To Tell You”
  • Portishead, “All Mine”
  • The Postal Service, “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight”
  • The Postal Service, “Such Great Heights”
  • The Postal Service, “Sleeping In”
  • The Postal Service, “Nothing Better”
  • The Postal Service, “Clark Gable”
  • The Postal Service, “We Will Become Silhouettes”
  • The Postal Service, “Brand New Colony”
  • The Presidents of the United States of America, “Some Postman”
  • The Pretenders, “Brass in Pocket”
  • Probot, “Centuries of Sin (w/ Cronos)”
  • Probot, “Silent Spring (w/ Kurt Brecht)”
  • Probot, “Ice Cold Man (w/ Lee Dorrian)”
  • Probot, “My Tortured Soul (w/ Eric Wagner)”
  • The Psychedelic Furs, “Heaven”
  • The Psychedelic Furs, “The Ghost in You”
  • The Psychedelic Furs, “Heartbreak Beat”
  • Quasimoto, “Real Eyes”
  • Queen, “One Vision”
  • Queen, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
  • R. Kelly, “Ignition (Remix)”
  • Rancid, “Salvation”
  • Rancid, “Black & Blue”
  • The Raveonettes, “Attack of the Ghost Riders”
  • The Raveonettes, “Do You Believe Her”
  • Rebbie Jackson, “Centipede”
  • Richard & the Young Lions, “Open Up Your Door”
  • Rick Springfield, “Jessie’s Girl”
  • Rickie Lee Jones, “The Real End”
  • Robert Plant, "In The Mood"
  • The Roches, “Hammond Song”
  • Roky Erickson, “Don’t Slander Me”
  • Roky Erickson, “The Interpreter”
  • Roky Erickson, "I Think of Demons"
  • Romeo Void, “A Girl In Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)”
  • Roseanne Cash, “Seven Year Ache”
  • The Rumors, "Hold Me Now"
  • Ryan Adams, “New York, New York”
  • Ryan Adams, “When The Stars Go Blue”
  • Ryan Adams, “Enemy Fire”
  • Schoolyard Heroes, “Dawn of the Dead”
  • Screaming Blue Messiahs, “I Wanna Be A Flintstone”
  • Screaming Blue Messiahs, “Wild Blue Yonder”
  • Scud Mountain Boys, “Penthouse in the Woods”
  • Scud Mountain Boys, “Cigarette Sandwich”
  • Semisonic, “Closing Time”
  • The Shins, “Kissing the Lipless”
  • The Shins, “So Says I”
  • The Shins, “Young Pilgrims”
  • The Shins, “Saint Simon”
  • The Shins, “Fighting in a Sack”
  • The Shins, “Turn A Square”
  • The Shins, “Gone For Good”
  • The Shins, “Caring is Creepy”
  • The Shins, “Know Your Onion!”
  • The Shins, “Girl Inform Me”
  • The Shins, “New Slang”
  • The Shins, “Girl on the Wing”
  • The Shins, “Pressed in a Book”
  • The Shins, "Mine's Not A High Horse"
  • Simple Minds, “Up On The Catwalk”
  • Simple Minds, “All The Things She Said”
  • Siouxsie & the Banshees, “Cities in Dust”
  • Siouxsie & the Banshees, “Christine”
  • Slade, “Run Runaway”
  • Slick Rick, “Children’s Story”
  • Soul Asylum, “Runaway Train”
  • Soul Coughing, “Moon Sammy”
  • Spoon, “Everything Hits At Once”
  • Spoon, “The Fitted Shirt”
  • Spoon, “Anything You Want”
  • Spoon, “Back to the Life”
  • Steely Dan, “My Old School”
  • Steely Dan, “Any Major Dude Will Tell You”
  • Stellastarr*, “My Coco”
  • Steve Perry, “Foolish Heart”
  • Stevie Nicks, "If Anyone Falls"
  • The Strokes, “Barely Legal”
  • The Strokes, “Someday”
  • The Strokes, “Hard to Explain”
  • The Strokes, “What Ever Happened?”
  • The Strokes, “Reptilia”
  • The Strokes, “Automatic Stop”
  • The Strokes, “12:51”
  • The Strokes, “Between Love & Hate”
  • Style Council, “My Ever Changing Moods”
  • System of a Down, “Chop Suey!”
  • System of a Down, “Psycho”
  • Television, “See No Evil”
  • Throwing Muses, “Fish”
  • Tim Buckley, “Once I Was”
  • Tony Carey, “Fine Fine Day”
  • Transplants, “Sad But True”
  • Transplants, “California Babylon”
  • Trashcan Sinatras, “Only Tongue Can Tell”
  • TV on the Radio, “Satellite”
  • Type O Negative, “Cinnamon Girl”
  • Type O Negative, “Summer Breeze”
  • Versus, “My Adidas”
  • Visqueen, “Vaxxine”
  • Visqueen, “My House”
  • The Weakerthans, “Plea From A Cat Named Virtue”
  • Ween, “Freedom of ‘76”
  • Ween, “Ocean Man”
  • Ween, “Where’d The Cheese Go?” [This was a never used 30 second jingle intended for Pizza Hut, of all people. It, and its beautifully profane second version, are available for free on Ween's website.]
  • Ween, “Where’d The Cheese Go? (second version)”
  • The White Stripes, “Black Jack Davey”
  • The White Stripes, “The Hardest Button to Button”
  • The White Stripes, “Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine”
  • The White Stripes, “Astro”
  • The White Stripes, “Do”
  • White Zombie, “More Human Than Human”
  • White Zombie, “Blur the Technicolor (Poker From Stud to Strip Mix)”
  • Wire, “Blessed State”
  • Wire, “Kidney Bingos”
  • Wire, "The Offer"
  • Wire, "Come Back in Two Halves (Rerecorded)"
  • The Wonder Stuff, “Ruby Horse”
  • The Wonder Stuff, “Don’t Let Me Down, Gently”
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Maps”
  • Zurdok, “Una Vez Mas” [If XTC sang in Spanish, they'd sound like this. From the Amores Perros soundtrack.]
Author Comments: 

This is an off-shoot/replacement list for my now-archived "Kent's Super Playlist" list. Songs are kept on the Super Playlist until they reach 26 plays; then, if I like them, they graduate here, to the The A-List, a sort of "best of the best" list. It's not an accurate depiction of my favorite songs, however; a lot of stuff I like (Wire, White Stripes, The Clash) have a whole bunch of songs in the 15-25 playcount range.

I hope to add a few commentaries to the songs each week, as well.