The Top 100 list if Cheesecrop's list had been included

1 The Beatles 1219 13
2 Led Zeppelin 1135 14
3 Pink Floyd 1055 12
4 The Rolling Stones 947 12
5 The Who 939 12
6 The Beach Boys 902 12
7 David Bowie 839 12
8 Queen 835 12
9 Bob Dylan 800 11
10 The Clash 789 12
11 The Doors 763 11
12 Johnny Cash 730 9
13 Nirvana 722 11
14 The Jimi Hendrix Experience 656 9
15 The Velvet Underground 608 9
16 Elvis Presley 570 7
17 The Ramones 567 8
18 U2 555 7
19 Michael Jackson 532 9
20 AC/DC 513 7
21 Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band 512 8
22 John Lennon 505 7
23 Radiohead 500 8
24 The Eagles 495 7
25 Black Sabbath 492 9
26 Rush 488 10
27 Metallica 482 6
28 Creedence Clearwater Revival 482 6
29 Bob Marley & The Wailers 464 7
30 Aerosmith 464 7
31 R.E.M 453 9
32 Pearl Jam 449 7
33 Prince 436 9
34 The Red Hot Chili Peppers 427 9
35 Stevie Wonder 418 7
36 Alice In Chains 413 6
37 Deep Purple 410 6
38 Yes 404 6
39 Alice Cooper 402 8
40 Neil Young 402 8
41 Public Enemy 395 9
42 Joy Division 386 6
43 Elton John 384 7
44 Simon And Garfunkel 374 7
45 Van Halen 371 7
46 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 365 5
47 Depeche Mode 360 8
48 The Police 357 7
49 Peter Gabriel 351 6
50 Chuck Berry 347 6
51 Eminem 344 7
52 The Talking Heads 343 7
53 Fleetwood Mac 335 7
54 New Order 333 6
55 Soundgarden 325 7
56 Weird Al Yankovic 315 4
57 Ray Charles 314 5
58 Little Richard 310 5
59 Sonic Youth 300 4
60 The Byrds 294 5
61 James Brown 292 5
62 Guns N Roses 292 8
63 The Cure 291 6
64 Tool 284 5
65 Leonard Cohen 284 3
66 The Pixies 282 7
67 Green Day 275 7
68 Lynyrd Skynyrd 274 7
69 Marvin Gaye 271 7
70 Can 271 6
71 Buddy Holly and the Crickets 261 6
72 The Kinks 259 4
73 The Temptations 256 6
74 Crosby, Stills, Nash And Sometimes Young 255 4
75 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 252 4
76 The Stooges 251 4
77 Emerson, Lake And Palmer 250 6
78 Cream 250 4
79 Tom Waits 246 4
80 ABBA 237 4
81 Iron Maiden 236 3
82 Paul McCartney 234 3
83 The Sex Pistols 233 4
84 Muse 229 5
85 Elvis Costello 229 3
86 Coldplay 226 5
87 The White Stripes 225 5
88 The Grateful Dead 224 4
89 George Harrison 224 3
90 Sly & The Family Stone 224 6
91 Judas Priest 222 4
92 Oasis 221 6
93 My Bloody Valentine 220 5
94 Neu! 218 3
95 Tupac Shakur 217 5
96 Def Leppard 215 3
97 Electric Light Orchestra 214 6
98 Eric Clapton 214 4
99 James Taylor 213 3
100 T. Rex 211 4
101 Run-D.M.C. 207 6
102 KISS 206 3
103 Journey 205 4
104 The Smiths 203 4
105 Chicago 202 3
106 Nine Inch Nails 201 4
107 Kraftwerk 199 3
108 The Arcade Fire 198 5
109 The Beastie Boys 198 5
110 The Smashing Pumpkins 198 5
111 Van Morrison 198 4
112 Joni Mitchell 198 3
113 The Foo Fighters 197 5
114 The Cars 196 5
115 Ozzy Osbourne 194 5
116 Madonna 193 4
117 Stone Temple Pilots 190 4
118 Aretha Franklin 189 3
119 Devo 183 5
120 Steely Dan 183 3
121 XTC 182 2
122 Weezer 178 3
123 Willie Nelson 176 4
124 John Coltrane 175 3
125 Genesis 173 3
126 Jethro Tull 172 4
127 Miles Davis 172 4
128 Sparks 170 3
129 Roxy Music 167 4
130 The Band 162 6
131 Tina Turner 160 4
132 Uriah Heep 159 2
133 The Zombies 157 3
134 The B-52’s 155 3
135 The Moody Blues 155 3
136 Dream Theater 151 4
137 Cheap Trick 150 6
138 The Jackson Five 148 2
139 ZZ Top 148 3
140 John Mellencamp 146 2
141 The Silver Apples 146 4
142 Elliott Smith 141 2
143 Nick Drake 141 3
144 Thin Lizzy 141 2
145 The Buzzcocks 139 2
146 Billy Joel 138 3
147 Gang of Four 135 2
148 Blur 135 3
149 OutKast 134 3
150 Duran Duran 133 3
151 Rage Against The Machine 133 2
152 Brian Eno 131 2
153 King Crimson 131 3
154 The Allman Brothers Band 129 4
155 The Steve Miller Band 125 4
156 Motley Crue 124 2
157 Beck 122 3
158 Gary Numan 120 2
159 Hall & Oates 116 4
160 The Screaming Trees 116 2
161 Daft Punk 115 3
162 MGMT 115 4
163 Frank Black 113 2
164 Neutral Milk Hotel 112 2
165 Donovan 111 2
166 The Jam 111 4
167 The Stone Roses 111 2
168 Kanye West 110 4
169 N.W.A. 110 2
170 Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 108 3
171 Rod Stewart 106 3
172 The Pogues 106 2
173 INXS 105 2
174 Siouxsie And The Banshees 105 2
175 Heart 104 2
176 Bad Company 103 2
177 The Eurythmics 103 2
178 Ultravox 102 2
179 Aimee Mann 100 2
180 Randy Newman 100 1
181 The Killers 100 5
182 Within Temptation 100 1
183 Nightwish 99 1
184 The Mamas & The Papas 99 2
185 Kamelot 98 1
186 Bauhaus 97 1
187 Death Cab For Cutie 97 2
188 The Animals 97 1
189 The MGM Studio Orchestra 97 1
190 Einsturzende Neubauten 96 1
191 Porcupine Tree 96 1
192 Television 96 3
193 The Human League 96 1
194 Phoenix 95 2
195 Talk Talk 95 1
196 Tindersticks 94 1
197 Blind Guardian 93 1
198 Suicide 92 1
199 Derek and the Dominoes 91 2
200 Epica 91 1
201 Styx 91 2
202 The Offspring 91 2
203 Bo Diddley 90 2
204 Megadeth 90 2
205 Throbbing Gristle 90 1
206 Collective Soul 90 2
207 Blu 89 1
208 Dire Straits 89 1
209 Relient K 89 1
210 The Flaming Lips 89 1
211 Janet Jackson 88 2
212 Mike Oldfield 88 1
213 Pavement 88 2
214 The Notorious B.I.G. 88 2
215 King Diamond 88 1
216 The Everly Brothers 87 2
217 Wire 87 1
218 Jerry Lee Lewis 87 3
219 LL Cool J 86 2
220 Paul Simon 86 4
221 maNga 85 1
222 The Monkees 85 3
223 The 13th Floor Elevators 85 2
224 Love 84 1
225 Pulp 84 1
226 Seventh Wonder 84 1
227 Abbott & Costello - "Who's on First" 84 1
228 Nina Simone 83 1
229 Poets of the Fall 83 1
230 Scott Walker 83 1
231 Soft Cell 83 1
232 Link Wray 83 1
233 The Doobie Brothers 82 2
234 LCD Soundsystem 81 2
235 Queens Of The Stone Age 81 2
236 Sufjan Stevens 81 1
237 The Carpenters 81 2
238 Brian Wilson 80 1
239 Svartsinn 80 1
240 The Swans 80 1
241 Frank Sinatra 80 3
242 Amstel Light Beer Commercial - mid-1980's 80 1
243 Bon Jovi 79 1
244 Sam Cooke 79 2
245 Carole King 78 1
246 Jefferson Airplane / Jefferson Starship 77 3
247 Serge Gainsbourg 77 1
248 Slowdive 77 1
249 Frank Zappa 76 1
250 Meat Loaf 76 1
251 Big Audio Dynamite 75 1
252 Curtis Mayfield 75 2
253 Franz Ferdinand 75 2
254 Public Image Ltd. 75 2
255 Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) 75 2
256 Solomon Burke 74 1
257 The Birthday Party 74 1
258 Toto 74 1
259 Bill Haley And The Comets 74 1
260 After Forever 73 1
261 Blondie 73 3
262 Blue Oyster Cult 73 1
263 Steve Roach 73 1
264 Willie Nile 73 1
265 Tears For Fears 73 2
266 The 3 Stooges - My Life, My Love, My All (1934) 73 1
267 Dion (& The Belmonts) 72 1
268 The Cruxshadows 72 1
269 Vince Guaraldi 72 1
270 Cloud Cult 71 1
271 Dr. John 70 1
272 Foreigner 70 1
273 Sirenia 70 1
274 Stevie Ray Vaughan 70 2
275 Jay-Z 69 3
276 Pantera 69 1
277 The Verve 69 2
278 UFO 69 1
279 Cabaret Voltaire 68 1
280 Gil Scott-Heron 68 2
281 Sabaton 68 1
282 Sweet 68 2
283 HammerFall 67 1
284 Heaven 17 67 1
285 Jeff Buckley 67 1
286 Kate Bush 67 1
287 Gordon Lightfoot 67 1
288 Apocalyptica 66 1
289 Muddy Waters 66 1
290 Otis Redding 66 2
291 The Postal Service 66 1
292 The Replacements 66 2
293 Glen Campbell 66 1
294 Delain 65 1
295 Massive Attack 65 2
296 The Dead Kennedys 65 2
297 Amorphis 64 1
298 Modest Mouse 64 1
299 Suede 64 1
300 The Hollies 64 2
301 The Used 64 1
302 Peter, Paul & Mary 63 1
303 The Silversun Pickups 63 1
304 The Chemical Brothers 63 2
305 Dionne Warwick 62 1
306 Eddie Cochran 62 1
307 Grant Lee Buffalo 62 1
308 Bjork 61 1
309 Dinosaur Jr. 60 2
310 Dolly Parton 60 1
311 Gary Moore 60 1
312 Howlin' Wolf 59 1
313 Mastodon 59 1
314 Todd Rundgren 59 1
315 The MC5 59 2
316 Phila. Phillies Comm. Music - late 80's/early 90's 59 1
317 Hank Williams 58 1
318 Lil' Wayne 58 1
319 Diet Coke Comm. - (1990?) - E. John - L. Armstrong - H. Bogart - J. Cagney 58 1
320 Jacques Brel 57 1
321 Keane 57 1
322 The (Young) Rascals 57 1
323 The Manic Street Preachers 57 2
324 Skinny Puppy 56 1
325 Johnny Winter 55 1
326 Stratovarius 55 1
327 George Carlin 55 1
328 Indigo Girls 54 1
329 Sonata Arctica 54 1
330 The Marx Bros. - Why Am I So Romantic (1930) 54 1
331 Animal Collective 53 1
332 Janis Joplin 53 1
333 Coheed & Cambria 52 1
334 Mountain 52 1
335 Richard and Linda Thompson 52 1
336 The Kingston Trio 52 2
337 The New York Dolls 52 1
338 America 52 2
339 Bright Eyes 51 1
340 Queensryche 51 1
341 The Spinners 51 1
342 Bush 50 2
343 Fats Domino 50 2
344 Ladytron 50 1
345 System Of A Down 50 2
346 Danzig 50 1
347 Fleet Foxes 49 1
348 Killdozer 49 1
349 Steve Earle 49 1
350 B.B. King 48 1
351 Hawkwind 48 1
352 Billie Holiday 47 1
353 Jimmy Eat World 47 1
354 The Jesus And Mary Chain 47 3
355 The John Butler Trio 47 1
356 Newcleus 47 1
357 Donna Summer 46 1
358 Phutureprimitive 46 1
359 Richard Thompson 46 2
360 Level 42 46 1
361 Al Green 45 1
362 Savage Garden 45 1
363 10cc 44 1
364 Chic 44 1
365 Of Montreal 44 2
366 Spirit 44 1
367 The Muffs 44 1
368 The Transformers Soundtrack - 1986 44 1
369 a-ha 43 1
370 Big Star 43 1
371 Moby 43 2
372 The Turtles 43 1
373 Thousand Foot Krutch 43 1
374 Dead Can Dance 42 1
375 Rise Against 42 1
376 Santana 42 2
377 Billy Bragg 41 1
378 The Ronettes 41 1
379 Boston 41 1
380 Falco 40 1
381 The Four Seasons 40 1
382 Alter Bridge 39 1
383 Procol Harum 39 1
384 The Dave Matthews Band 39 1
385 The Shirelles 39 1
386 The Sisters of Mercy 39 1
387 Phil Ochs 38 1
388 The Impressions 38 1
389 The Myriad 38 1
390 The Black Crowes 38 2
391 The Gin Blossoms 38 1
392 Powderfinger 37 1
393 Warren Zevon 37 1
394 Wishbone Ash 37 1
395 Baltimora 37 1
396 Sun Ra & His Arkestra 36 1
397 Tangerine Dream 36 1
398 Crime & the City Solution 35 1
399 Evanescence 35 1
400 The Platters 35 1
401 Yo La Tengo 35 1
402 Dick Powell - Pop Goes Your Heart (1934) 35 1
403 Buffalo Springfield 34 1
404 The Hives 34 2
405 Thrice 34 1
406 Steppenwolf 34 1
407 Kasabian 33 1
408 The Fall 33 1
409 The Stranglers 33 1
410 Fred Astaire 33 1
411 Belle And Sebastian 32 1
412 Johnny Rivers 32 1
413 Lou Reed 32 1
414 Marilyn Manson 32 1
415 Squeeze 32 1
416 Theocracy 32 1
417 OMD 31 1
418 Roger Miller 31 1
419 The Crystals 31 1
420 Budka Suflera 30 1
421 Lustmord 30 1
422 The Alan Parsons Project 30 1
423 Dave Brubeck 29 1
424 John Cooper Clarke 29 1
425 Madness 29 2
426 Silverstein 29 1
427 The Specials 29 1
428 The Psychedelic Furs 29 1
429 Blink 182 28 1
430 Herbie Hancock 28 1
431 Timbaland 28 1
432 Death in June 27 1
433 Jars of Clay 27 1
434 Judy Collins 27 1
435 Burl Ives 26 1
436 Incubus 26 1
437 Jimmy Cliff 26 1
438 The Four Tops 26 2
439 The Posies 26 1
440 Dinah Washington 25 1
441 Medicine 25 1
442 The Arctic Monkeys 24 1
443 Kings Of Leon 24 3
444 John Williams 24 1
445 Dusty Springfield 23 1
446 Lupe Fiasco 23 1
447 PJ Harvey 23 1
448 Norman Luboff Choir 23 1
449 Albert King 22 1
450 Billy Swan 22 1
451 Jackson Browne 22 1
452 Whitesnake 22 1
453 Toad the Wet Sprocket 22 1
454 Joe Satriani 21 1
455 Neil Diamond 21 1
456 The Roots 21 1
457 The Slits 21 1
458 Usher 21 1
459 Faith No More 20 1
460 Husker Du 20 1
461 Kammarheit 20 1
462 The Gathering 20 1
463 The Isley Brothers 20 1
464 The Spencer Davis Group 20 1
465 Bloc Party 19 1
466 Elmore James 19 1
467 Nitzer Ebb 19 1
468 Sigur Ros 19 1
469 They Might Be Giants 19 1
470 Earth, Wind & Fire 18 1
471 Keith West 18 1
472 Korn 18 1
473 Ricky Nelson 18 1
474 Ahmad Jamal 18 1
475 Billy Idol 17 1
476 Etta James 17 1
477 Florence and the Machine 16 2
478 Gladys Knight 16 1
479 Jimmy Reed 16 1
480 Skyclad 16 1
481 T.V. On The Radio 16 1
482 The National 16 1
483 Eluveitie 15 1
484 Slipknot 15 1
485 The Flying Burrito Brothers 15 1
486 Whitney Houston 15 1
487 Night Ranger 15 1
488 Mutiny Within 14 1
489 Richard Hell & the Voidoids 14 1
490 The Goo Goo Dolls 14 1
491 Christian Death 13 1
492 Disturbed 13 1
493 Ice Cube 13 1
494 The Mills Brothers 13 1
495 Thursday 13 1
496 Wang Chung 13 1
497 311 12 1
498 Kashtin 12 1
499 Rainbow 12 1
500 The Damned 12 1
501 The Drifters 12 1
502 Black Flag 11 1
503 Clyde McPhatter 11 1
504 Missy Elliott 11 1
505 The Scorpions 11 1
506 T.I. 11 1
507 The Grass Roots 11 1
508 Herman's Hermits 11 1
509 The Dave Clark Five 10 1
510 War 10 2
511 Wolfmother 10 1
512 The Black Keys 10 1
513 Bad Brains 9 1
514 Barry White 9 1
515 Bert Jansch 9 1
516 UB40 9 1
517 Waylon Jennings 9 1
518 Aphex Twin 8 1
519 Shonen Knife 8 1
520 Smiley Lewis 8 1
521 Tim Hardin 8 1
522 Gnarls Barkley 7 1
523 Godspeed You! Black Emperor 7 1
524 Johnnie Allan 7 1
525 The Cranes 7 1
526 The Strokes 7 1
527 Henry Mancini 7 1
528 Christina Aguilera 6 1
529 Morphine 6 1
530 Portishead 6 1
531 Slash 6 1
532 Snoop Dogg 6 1
533 Tee Set 6 1
534 Tracy Chapman 6 1
535 Amon Duul II 5 1
536 Echo & the Bunnymen 5 1
537 Matchbox 20 5 1
538 Them 5 1
539 The Fat Boys 5 1
540 Alanis Morissette 4 1
541 Arlo Guthrie 4 1
542 Ash Ra Tempel 4 1
543 Jane’s Addiction 4 1
544 Sevendust 4 1
545 The Hassles 4 1
546 The Hold Steady 4 1
547 The Wu-Tang Clan 4 1
548 La Roux 3 1
549 Martha & The Vandellas 3 1
550 Parliament/Funkadelic 3 1
551 Sublime 3 1
552 The Electric Prunes 3 1
553 The Waterboys 3 1
554 Joan Crawford & Franchot Tone - Everything I Have Is Yours - Dancing Lady - 1933 3 1
555 A Tribe Called Quest 2 1
556 Adam Ant 2 1
557 At The Drive-In 2 1
558 Ornette Coleman 2 1
559 Test Dept. 2 1
560 Broken Social Scene 1 1
561 Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band 1 1
562 Norman Greenbaum 1 1
563 Poison 1 1
564 Tenacious D 1 1
565 The Avett Brothers 1 1
566 The Bee Gees 1 1
567 The Pretenders 1 1
568 The Vogues 1 1
569 vidnaObmana 1 1
570 The Flatlanders 1 1

Future Rock Legends - Rock Hall Projected Top 100 Artists - Honorable Mention

103 Madonna 193 4
104 Aretha Franklin 189 3
105 Devo 183 5
106 Steely Dan 183 3
107 The Stooges 183 3
108 XTC 182 2
109 My Bloody Valentine 180 4
110 Weezer 178 3
111 Willie Nelson 176 4
112 John Coltrane 175 3
113 Cream 173 3
114 Genesis 173 3
115 Jethro Tull 172 4
116 Miles Davis 172 4
117 Run-D.M.C. 171 5
118 Sparks 170 3
119 Oasis 169 5
120 The White Stripes 169 4
121 Roxy Music 167 4
122 The Foo Fighters 166 4
123 Buddy Holly and the Crickets 163 5
124 Judas Priest 162 3
125 The Band 162 6
126 Tina Turner 160 4
127 Sly & The Family Stone 159 5
128 Uriah Heep 159 2
129 The Zombies 157 3
130 The B-52’s 155 3
131 The Moody Blues 155 3
132 Dream Theater 151 4
133 Cheap Trick 150 6
134 The Jackson Five 148 2
135 John Mellencamp 146 2
136 The Silver Apples 146 4
137 The Cars 143 4
138 Elliott Smith 141 2
139 Nick Drake 141 3
140 Thin Lizzy 141 2
141 The Buzzcocks 139 2
142 Billy Joel 138 3
143 Def Leppard 136 2
144 Gang of Four 135 2
145 OutKast 134 3
146 Duran Duran 133 3
147 Rage Against The Machine 133 2
148 Brian Eno 131 2
149 King Crimson 131 3
150 The Allman Brothers Band 129 4
151 ZZ Top 128 2
152 Motley Crue 124 2
153 Beck 122 3
154 Gary Numan 120 2
155 Ozzy Osbourne 118 4
156 Daft Punk 115 3
157 MGMT 115 4
158 Frank Black 113 2
159 Neutral Milk Hotel 112 2
160 Donovan 111 2
161 The Jam 111 4
162 The Stone Roses 111 2
163 Hall & Oates 110 3
164 Kanye West 110 4
165 N.W.A. 110 2
166 Rod Stewart 106 3
167 The Pogues 106 2
168 INXS 105 2
169 Siouxsie And The Banshees 105 2
170 Heart 104 2
171 Bad Company 103 2
172 The Eurythmics 103 2
173 Ultravox 102 2
174 Aimee Mann 100 2
175 Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 100 2
176 Randy Newman 100 1
177 The Killers 100 5
178 Within Temptation 100 1
179 Nightwish 99 1
180 The Mamas & The Papas 99 2
181 Kamelot 98 1
182 The Steve Miller Band 98 3
183 Bauhaus 97 1
184 Death Cab For Cutie 97 2
185 Stone Temple Pilots 97 3
186 The Animals 97 1
187 Einsturzende Neubauten 96 1
188 Porcupine Tree 96 1
189 Television 96 3
190 The Human League 96 1
191 Phoenix 95 2
192 Talk Talk 95 1
193 Tindersticks 94 1
194 Blind Guardian 93 1
195 Suicide 92 1
196 Derek and the Dominoes 91 2
197 Epica 91 1
198 Styx 91 2
199 Bo Diddley 90 2
200 Megadeth 90 2
201 Throbbing Gristle 90 1
202 Blu 89 1
203 Dire Straits 89 1
204 Relient K 89 1
205 The Flaming Lips 89 1
206 Janet Jackson 88 2
207 Mike Oldfield 88 1
208 Pavement 88 2
209 The Notorious B.I.G. 88 2
210 The Everly Brothers 87 2
211 Wire 87 1
212 LL Cool J 86 2
213 Paul Simon 86 4
214 maNga 85 1
215 Love 84 1
216 Pulp 84 1
217 Seventh Wonder 84 1
218 Nina Simone 83 1
219 Poets of the Fall 83 1
220 Scott Walker 83 1
221 Soft Cell 83 1
222 The Doobie Brothers 82 2
223 LCD Soundsystem 81 2
224 Queens Of The Stone Age 81 2
225 Sufjan Stevens 81 1
226 The Carpenters 81 2
227 Brian Wilson 80 1
228 Svartsinn 80 1
229 The Swans 80 1
230 Bon Jovi 79 1
231 Sam Cooke 79 2
232 Carole King 78 1
233 Jefferson Airplane / Jefferson Starship 77 3
234 Serge Gainsbourg 77 1
235 Slowdive 77 1
236 The Offspring 77 1
237 Frank Zappa 76 1
238 Meat Loaf 76 1
239 Big Audio Dynamite 75 1
240 Curtis Mayfield 75 2
241 Franz Ferdinand 75 2
242 Jerry Lee Lewis 75 2
243 Public Image Ltd. 75 2
244 Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) 75 2
245 Solomon Burke 74 1
246 The Birthday Party 74 1
247 Toto 74 1
248 After Forever 73 1
249 Blondie 73 3
250 Blue Oyster Cult 73 1
251 Steve Roach 73 1
252 Willie Nile 73 1
253 Dion (& The Belmonts) 72 1
254 The Cruxshadows 72 1
255 Cloud Cult 71 1
256 Dr. John 70 1
257 Foreigner 70 1
258 Sirenia 70 1
259 Stevie Ray Vaughan 70 2
260 Jay-Z 69 3
261 Pantera 69 1
262 The Verve 69 2
263 UFO 69 1
264 Cabaret Voltaire 68 1
265 Gil Scott-Heron 68 2
266 Sabaton 68 1
267 HammerFall 67 1
268 Heaven 17 67 1
269 Jeff Buckley 67 1
270 Kate Bush 67 1
271 Apocalyptica 66 1
272 Blur 66 2
273 Muddy Waters 66 1
274 Otis Redding 66 2
275 The Postal Service 66 1
276 The Replacements 66 2
277 Delain 65 1
278 Massive Attack 65 2
279 The Dead Kennedys 65 2
280 Amorphis 64 1
281 Modest Mouse 64 1
282 Suede 64 1
283 The Hollies 64 2
284 The Used 64 1
285 Peter, Paul & Mary 63 1
286 The Silversun Pickups 63 1
287 Dionne Warwick 62 1
288 Eddie Cochran 62 1
289 Bjork 61 1
290 Dinosaur Jr. 60 2
291 Dolly Parton 60 1
292 Gary Moore 60 1
293 Howlin' Wolf 59 1
294 Mastodon 59 1
295 Todd Rundgren 59 1
296 Hank Williams 58 1
297 Lil' Wayne 58 1
298 Jacques Brel 57 1
299 Keane 57 1
300 The (Young) Rascals 57 1
301 The Manic Street Preachers 57 2
302 Skinny Puppy 56 1
303 Johnny Winter 55 1
304 Stratovarius 55 1
305 Indigo Girls 54 1
306 Sonata Arctica 54 1
307 Animal Collective 53 1
308 Janis Joplin 53 1
309 Coheed & Cambria 52 1
310 Frank Sinatra 52 2
311 Mountain 52 1
312 Richard and Linda Thompson 52 1
313 The Kingston Trio 52 2
314 The New York Dolls 52 1
315 Bright Eyes 51 1
316 Queensryche 51 1
317 The Spinners 51 1
318 Bush 50 2
319 Fats Domino 50 2
320 Ladytron 50 1
321 System Of A Down 50 2
322 Fleet Foxes 49 1
323 Killdozer 49 1
324 Steve Earle 49 1
325 America 48 1
326 B.B. King 48 1
327 Hawkwind 48 1
328 Billie Holiday 47 1
329 Jimmy Eat World 47 1
330 The Chemical Brothers 47 1
331 The Jesus And Mary Chain 47 3
332 The John Butler Trio 47 1
333 Donna Summer 46 1
334 Phutureprimitive 46 1
335 Richard Thompson 46 2
336 Al Green 45 1
337 Savage Garden 45 1
338 10cc 44 1
339 Chic 44 1
340 Of Montreal 44 2
341 Spirit 44 1
342 The Muffs 44 1
343 a-ha 43 1
344 Big Star 43 1
345 Moby 43 2
346 The Turtles 43 1
347 Thousand Foot Krutch 43 1
348 Collective Soul 42 1
349 Dead Can Dance 42 1
350 Rise Against 42 1
351 Santana 42 2
352 Billy Bragg 41 1
353 The Ronettes 41 1
354 Falco 40 1
355 The Four Seasons 40 1
356 The Monkees 40 2
357 Alter Bridge 39 1
358 Procol Harum 39 1
359 The Dave Matthews Band 39 1
360 The Shirelles 39 1
361 The Sisters of Mercy 39 1
362 Phil Ochs 38 1
363 The Impressions 38 1
364 The Myriad 38 1
365 Powderfinger 37 1
366 Warren Zevon 37 1
367 Wishbone Ash 37 1
368 Sun Ra & His Arkestra 36 1
369 Tangerine Dream 36 1
370 Crime & the City Solution 35 1
371 Evanescence 35 1
372 The Platters 35 1
373 Yo La Tengo 35 1
374 Buffalo Springfield 34 1
375 The Hives 34 2
376 Thrice 34 1
377 Kasabian 33 1
378 The Fall 33 1
379 The Stranglers 33 1
380 Belle And Sebastian 32 1
381 Johnny Rivers 32 1
382 Lou Reed 32 1
383 Marilyn Manson 32 1
384 Squeeze 32 1
385 Theocracy 32 1
386 OMD 31 1
387 Roger Miller 31 1
388 The Crystals 31 1
389 Budka Suflera 30 1
390 Lustmord 30 1
391 The Alan Parsons Project 30 1
392 Dave Brubeck 29 1
393 John Cooper Clarke 29 1
394 Madness 29 2
395 Silverstein 29 1
396 The Specials 29 1
397 Blink 182 28 1
398 Herbie Hancock 28 1
399 Timbaland 28 1
400 Death in June 27 1
401 Jars of Clay 27 1
402 Judy Collins 27 1
403 The Screaming Trees 27 1
404 Burl Ives 26 1
405 Incubus 26 1
406 Jimmy Cliff 26 1
407 The Four Tops 26 2
408 Dinah Washington 25 1
409 The Arctic Monkeys 24 1
410 Dusty Springfield 23 1
411 Lupe Fiasco 23 1
412 PJ Harvey 23 1
413 Albert King 22 1
414 Billy Swan 22 1
415 Jackson Browne 22 1
416 Whitesnake 22 1
417 Joe Satriani 21 1
418 Neil Diamond 21 1
419 The Roots 21 1
420 The Slits 21 1
421 Usher 21 1
422 Faith No More 20 1
423 Husker Du 20 1
424 Kammarheit 20 1
425 The Gathering 20 1
426 The Isley Brothers 20 1
427 The Spencer Davis Group 20 1
428 Bloc Party 19 1
429 Elmore James 19 1
430 Nitzer Ebb 19 1
431 Sigur Ros 19 1
432 The Black Crowes 19 1
433 They Might Be Giants 19 1
434 Earth, Wind & Fire 18 1
435 Keith West 18 1
436 Korn 18 1
437 Ricky Nelson 18 1
438 Billy Idol 17 1
439 Etta James 17 1
440 Florence and the Machine 16 2
441 Gladys Knight 16 1
442 Jimmy Reed 16 1
443 Skyclad 16 1
444 T.V. On The Radio 16 1
445 The National 16 1
446 Eluveitie 15 1
447 Kings Of Leon 15 2
448 Slipknot 15 1
449 The Flying Burrito Brothers 15 1
450 Whitney Houston 15 1
451 Mutiny Within 14 1
452 Richard Hell & the Voidoids 14 1
453 The Goo Goo Dolls 14 1
454 Christian Death 13 1
455 Disturbed 13 1
456 Ice Cube 13 1
457 The Mills Brothers 13 1
458 Thursday 13 1
459 311 12 1
460 Kashtin 12 1
461 Rainbow 12 1
462 The Damned 12 1
463 The Drifters 12 1
464 Black Flag 11 1
465 Clyde McPhatter 11 1
466 Missy Elliott 11 1
467 The Scorpions 11 1
468 T.I. 11 1
469 The Grass Roots 11 1
470 Tears For Fears 10 1
471 The Dave Clark Five 10 1
472 The MC5 10 1
473 War 10 2
474 Wolfmother 10 1
475 Bad Brains 9 1
476 Barry White 9 1
477 Bert Jansch 9 1
478 UB40 9 1
479 Waylon Jennings 9 1
480 Aphex Twin 8 1
481 Shonen Knife 8 1
482 Smiley Lewis 8 1
483 Tim Hardin 8 1
484 Gnarls Barkley 7 1
485 Godspeed You! Black Emperor 7 1
486 Johnnie Allan 7 1
487 Sweet 7 1
488 The Cranes 7 1
489 The Strokes 7 1
490 Christina Aguilera 6 1
491 Morphine 6 1
492 Portishead 6 1
493 Slash 6 1
494 Snoop Dogg 6 1
495 Tee Set 6 1
496 Tracy Chapman 6 1
497 Amon Duul II 5 1
498 Echo & the Bunnymen 5 1
499 Matchbox 20 5 1
500 Them 5 1
501 Alanis Morissette 4 1
502 Arlo Guthrie 4 1
503 Ash Ra Tempel 4 1
504 Jane’s Addiction 4 1
505 Sevendust 4 1
506 The Hassles 4 1
507 The Hold Steady 4 1
508 The Wu-Tang Clan 4 1
509 La Roux 3 1
510 Martha & The Vandellas 3 1
511 Parliament/Funkadelic 3 1
512 Sublime 3 1
513 The 13th Floor Elevators 3 1
514 The Electric Prunes 3 1
515 The Waterboys 3 1
516 A Tribe Called Quest 2 1
517 Adam Ant 2 1
518 At The Drive-In 2 1
519 Ornette Coleman 2 1
520 Test Dept. 2 1
521 Broken Social Scene 1 1
522 Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band 1 1
523 Norman Greenbaum 1 1
524 Poison 1 1
525 Tenacious D 1 1
526 The Avett Brothers 1 1
527 The Bee Gees 1 1
528 The Pretenders 1 1
529 The Vogues 1 1
530 vidnaObmana 1 1

Future Rock Legends - Rock Hall Projected Top 100 Artists

Rank Artist Total Points Total Votes

1 The Beatles 1132 12
2 Pink Floyd 1055 12
3 Led Zeppelin 1044 13
4 The Who 888 11
5 The Rolling Stones 862 11
6 The Beach Boys 831 11
7 Bob Dylan 800 11
8 Queen 793 11
9 The Clash 789 12
10 David Bowie 782 11
11 Johnny Cash 730 9
12 The Doors 664 10
13 The Jimi Hendrix Experience 656 9
14 Nirvana 636 10
15 The Ramones 567 8
16 U2 555 7
17 Michael Jackson 532 9
18 The Velvet Underground 514 8
19 Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band 512 8
20 John Lennon 505 7
21 Radiohead 500 8
22 The Eagles 495 7
23 Black Sabbath 492 9
24 AC/DC 483 6
25 Elvis Presley 474 6
26 Rush 467 9
27 Bob Marley & The Wailers 464 7
28 R.E.M 453 9
29 Prince 436 9
30 Aerosmith 421 6
31 Stevie Wonder 418 7
32 Metallica 418 5
33 The Red Hot Chili Peppers 410 8
34 Yes 404 6
35 Alice Cooper 402 8
36 Neil Young 402 8
37 Public Enemy 395 9
38 Creedence Clearwater Revival 392 5
39 Joy Division 386 6
40 Elton John 384 7
41 Simon And Garfunkel 374 7
42 Van Halen 371 7
43 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 365 5
44 Depeche Mode 360 8
45 The Police 357 7
46 Peter Gabriel 351 6
47 Pearl Jam 349 6
48 Eminem 344 7
49 The Talking Heads 343 7
50 Deep Purple 340 5
51 Fleetwood Mac 335 7
52 New Order 333 6
53 Alice In Chains 321 5
54 Chuck Berry 315 5
55 Ray Charles 314 5
56 Sonic Youth 300 4
57 James Brown 292 5
58 The Cure 291 6
59 Guns N Roses 290 7
60 Tool 284 5
61 Leonard Cohen 284 3
62 The Pixies 282 7
63 Lynyrd Skynyrd 274 7
64 Marvin Gaye 271 7
65 Can 271 6
66 The Kinks 259 4
67 The Temptations 256 6
68 Crosby, Stills, Nash And Sometimes Young 255 4
69 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 252 4
70 Emerson, Lake And Palmer 250 6
71 Soundgarden 250 6
72 Tom Waits 246 4
73 ABBA 237 4
74 Green Day 236 6
75 Iron Maiden 236 3
76 Paul McCartney 234 3
77 The Sex Pistols 233 4
78 Little Richard 232 4
79 Muse 229 5
80 Elvis Costello 229 3
81 Coldplay 226 5
82 The Grateful Dead 224 4
83 George Harrison 224 3
84 Weird Al Yankovic 220 3
85 Neu! 218 3
86 Tupac Shakur 217 5
87 Electric Light Orchestra 214 6
88 Eric Clapton 214 4
89 James Taylor 213 3
90 The Byrds 213 4
91 T. Rex 211 4
92 KISS 206 3
93 Journey 205 4
94 The Smiths 203 4
95 Chicago 202 3
96 Nine Inch Nails 201 4
97 Kraftwerk 199 3
98 The Arcade Fire 198 5
99 The Beastie Boys 198 5
100 The Smashing Pumpkins 198 5
101 Van Morrison 198 4
102 Joni Mitchell 198 3

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #20-#11

#10 Throw Me The Statue - "Hi-Fi Goon" from "Creaturesque" - Throw Me The Statue had a song on last year's countdown, but it didn't chart nearly as high as this catchy indie pop classic did.

#9 Regina Spektor - "Laughing With" from "Far" - "Laughing With" is this decade's "One Of Us", a sincere song about the nature of God.

#8 The Arctic Monkeys - "Crying Lightning" from "Humbug" - Combine one of the hippest indie rock bands of the day with excellent production from Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme and you have one of the coolest songs of the year.

#7 Pearl Jam - "Got Some" from "Backspacer" - It wasn't released as a single, but "Got Some" is the best and most intense song off of "Backspacer", one of Pearl Jam's best.

#6 The Thermals - "Now We Can See" from "Now We Can See" - The band isn't nearly as political as they were on their last album, but they've really taken great strides with their hooks. The chorus and hook on this song is the best in the band's catalog.

#5 Florence And The Machine - "Kiss With A Fist" from "Lungs" - The top returning song from the 2008 list, "Kiss With A Fist" is a classic and actually improved it's chart standing this year.

#4 The White Rabbits - "Percussion Gun" from "It's Frightening" - There are great lyrics throughout, but it's the way the lyrics work together with the bass and drum beat that makes this song great.

#3 Dinosaur Jr. - "I Want You To Know" from "Farm" - The veterans of the 90's alternative scene make a triumphant comeback with their brilliant "Farm" album, which is highlighted by this blues alt rock song.

#2 Band Of Skulls - "I Know What I Am" from "Baby Darling Doll Face Honey" - There wasn't a White Stripes album this year, but this song would have been one of their best if it was one of theirs.

#1 Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - "Roosevelt Room" from "Outer South" - An outstanding protest album from one of the best songwriters of his generation with excellent, politically infused lyrics and one hell of a hook.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #20-#11

#20 Wilco - "Wilco (The Song)" from "Wilco (The Album)"

#19 The BPA - "Toe Jam" from "I Think We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat" - At long last, the duet that everyone's been begging for: David Byrne and Dizzie Rascal!

#18 Wolfmother - "New Moon Rising" from "Cosmic Egg" - It's great to see that even the break-up of the original line-up couldn't keep Andrew Stockdale and the remaining members of Wolfmother from making some of the best metal of their generation.

#17 Them Crooked Vultures - "New Fang" from "Them Crooked Vultures"

#16 The Silversun Pickups - "Panic Switch" from "Swoon"

#15 The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero" from "It's Blitz!"

#14 The Temper Trap - "Sweet Disposition" from "Conditions" - aka "that song from (500) Days Of Summer".

#13 Dan Black - "Symphonies" from "Un" - There's an extensive back-story behind the creation of this song, but all I care about is that it's brilliant.

#12 The Dirty Projectors - "Stillness Is The Move" from "Bitte Orca" - The vocals are a little difficult to adjust to, but after you do, it's easy to acknowledge that this is one of the best indie pop songs of the year.

#11 Them Crooked Vultures - "Caligulove" from "Them Crooked Vultures" - Josh Homme provides the Queens-esque vocals while Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones provide the bombast.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #30-#21

#30 The Grouch And Eligh - "All In" from "SAY G&E!" - 2009's highest-charting hip hop song is a pop-friendly Outkast-ish song "All In", a song with a fantastic chorus and great verses.

#29 Them Crooked Vultures - "Spinning In Daffodils" from "Them Crooked Vultures" - Them Crooked Vultures retained many of the musical qualities of the super group's component parts and no song on the album is more Queens Of The Stone Age than this one.

#28 Phoenix - "Lisztomania" from "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix"

#27 Alice In Chains - "Check My Brain" from "Black Gives Way To Blue"

#26 Animal Collective - "My Girls" from "Merriweather Post Pavilion"

#25 Wilco - "You Never Know" from "Wilco (The Album)" - The opening line of the song: "Come on children, you're acting like children. Every generation thinks it's the end of the world." may be my favorite song lyric of 2009. At the very least, it's the best opening line.

#24 Pearl Jam - "Just Breathe" from "Backspacer" - Every Pearl Jam album has at least one great slow song to go along with all the great rock songs. This is the best slow song off of "Backspacer" and one of the album's biggest hits as well.

#23 Death Cab For Cutie - "Meet Me At The Equinox" from "Twilight: New Moon Soundtrack"

#22 Puscifer - "The Mission" from "C Is For" - The obligatory Maynard James Keenan song on the countdown, "The Mission" is a grinding metal song with fantastic vocals traded between MJK and a female vocalist.

#21 Passion Pit - "Moth's Wings" from "Manners" - A brilliant and sweeping indie pop song with an Arcade Fire worthy crescendo chorus.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #40-#31

#40 The Sounds - "No One Sleeps When I'm Awake" from "Crossing The Rubicon"

#39 Green Day - "21st Century Breakdown" from "21st Century Breakdown"

#38 And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - "Bells Of Creation" from "The Century Of Self"

#37 Bell X1 - "The Great Defector" from "Blue Lights On The Runway" - Bell X1 bites the David Byrne sound as hard as anyone can without plainly ripping it off, but hey, anyone who can do Byrne this well has earned the poetic license.

#36 La Roux - "Bulletproof" from "La Roux" - I never dreamed a song this cool could become a hit on the pop charts, but it certainly did.

#35 Brand New - "Sink" from "Daisy" - Brand New has never impressed me with their music before "Daisy" came out, but now I think I need to give them a second look, because "Sink" (along with the two other Brand New songs on the countdown) is just about the best grunge music I've heard since Soundgarden broke up 13 years ago. They don't just dabble with the quiet-loud dynamic, they go from whisper to scream and back repeatedly on this awesome track.

#34 Phoenix - "1901" from "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" - This indie dance pop song was absolutely everywhere in 2009 and justifiably so, as it's one of the catchiest hooks since the first Franz Ferdinand album.

#33 Julian Casablancas - "11th Dimension" from "Phrazes For The Young" - As much as I'd like to see a new Strokes album pronto, when the members of the band are releasing music this good, I realize I can wait a little longer.

#32 Cage The Elephant - "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" from "Cage The Elephant" - There's sort of a dirty western sound to this song that sort of reinvents the concept of Everlast's "What It's Like" that works brilliantly with the song's story.

#31 Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - "Slowly (Oh So Slowly)" from "Outer South"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #50-#41

#50 Alice In Chains - "Lesson Learned" from "Black Gives Way To Blue"

#49 The Avett Brothers - "Head Full Of Doubt / Road Full Of Promise" from "I And Love And You"

#48 The Manchester Orchestra - "I've Got Friends" from "Mean Everything To Nothing"

#47 The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll" from "It's Blitz!"

#46 Jay-Z - "Run This Town" from "The Blueprint 3" - Jay-Z and Kanye West trade lyrics while Rihanna sings the chorus. It doesn't get much better than this.

#45 Death Cab For Cutie - "Little Bribes" from "The Open Door"

#44 Alice In Chains - "Your Decision" from "Black Gives Way To Blue"

#43 Tegan And Sara - "Hell" from "Sainthood" - A big step forward creatively for Tegan and Sara, whose music was always good, but now seems more mature and less twee.

#42 Metric - "Help I'm Alive" from "Fantasies" - One of the best "new" bands of 2009, Metric released a sensational album and it was propelled to the forefront by this hit single with a tremendous hook.

#41 And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - "Halcyon Days" from "The Century Of Self"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #60-#51

#60 Jay-Z - "D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)" from "The Blueprint 3" - Couple amazing lyrics with a brilliant backbeat and you have one of the best rap songs of 2009.

#59 My Chemical Romance - "Desolation Row" from "Watchmen Soundtrack" - A weird choice for a MCR cover, but they absolutely nailed it.

#58 Cage The Elephant - "Back Against The Wall" from "Cage The Elephant"

#57 Rain Machine - "Give Blood" from "Rain Machine" - Rain Machine is a T.V. On The Radio side project and this song would have fit in nicely on one of their brilliant albums from recent years.

#56 Pearl Jam - "Gonna See My Friend" from "Backspacer"

#55 Joshua James - "Coal War" from Paste Magazine Sampler - The best song from the Paste Magazine Sampler discs, "Coal War" sounds like it could have been released during the mid 19th century.

#54 Alice In Chains - "A Looking In View" from "Black Gives Way To Blue"

#53 Jeff Bridges - "Fallin' And Flyin'" from "Crazy Heart Soundtrack"

#52 Royce Da 5'9 - "Dinner Time" from "Street Hop" - Royce tears up this track with help from Busta Rhymes as they both race towards the words per minute land-speed record.

#51 Sonic Youth - "Sacred Trickster" from "The Eternal"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #70-#61

#70 Regina Spektor - "Eet" from "Far"

#69 Band Of Skulls - "Death By Diamonds And Pearls" from "Baby Darling Doll Face Honey"

#68 Drake - "Forever" from "So Far Gone"

#67 The Editors - "Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool" from "In This Light And On This Evening" - Probably the darkest title for a great song that I can think of. The Editors' 2009 album was difficult to find and it wasn't that great, but this song is absolutely brilliant.

#66 Lily Allen - "Fuck You" from "It's Not Me, It's You" - This song was in my Top 100 last year under the title "Guess Who, Batman" for some reason.

#65 The National - "So Far Around The Bend" from "Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation)" - The best song on the "Dark Was The Night" compilation and a great preview for The National's sensational 2010 album.

#64 The Bravery - "Hatefuck" from "Stir The Blood"

#63 K'naan - "ABC's" from "Troubador"

#62 Drake - "Successful" from "So Far Gone"

#61 A.F.I. - "It Was Mine" from "Crash Love"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #80-#71

#80 Them Crooked Vultures - "Dead End Friends" from "Them Crooked Vultures"

#79 Band Of Skulls - "Light Of The Morning" from "Baby Darling Doll Face Honey" - Yes, it's the song from the car commercials and no, it's not a cover as far as I know.

#78 Cage The Elephant - "In One Ear" from "Cage The Elephant" - I saw these guys open for Stone Temple Pilots and they put on one hell of a show. This song hit #1 on the Modern Rock charts in 2010 and they're definitely a band on the rise.

#77 The Avett Brothers - "I And Love And You" from "I And Love And You"

#76 Mos Def - "Quiet Dog Bite Hard" from "The Ecstatic" - The best rap vocal of 2009, "Quiet Dog Bite Hard" is one of the best hip hop songs in recent history.

#75 Kid Cudi - "Pursuit Of Happiness" from "Man On The Moon" - Kid Cudi gets some help from MGMT on his best song.

#74 The Thermals - "I Called Out Your Name" from "Now We Can See"

#73 Muse - "Uprising" from "The Resistance" - One of the most popular songs of 2009 (who would think we could say that about Muse?), this song has been everywhere for the past 18 months, from soundtracks to television commercials.

#72 The Thermals - "When We Were Alive" from "Now We Can See"

#71 The Handsome Furs - "Talking Hotel Arbat Blues" from "Face Control" - It seems like every couple years there's an awesome song that sort of bites that John Cafferty song "Darkside". This year it's "Arbat", which is obscure, but still brilliant.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #90-#81

#90 Wolfmother - "Far Away" from "Cosmic Egg"

#89 Pearl Jam - "Amongst The Waves" from "Backspacer"

#88 The Big Pink - "Dominos" from "A Brief History Of Love"

#87 Green Day - "See The Light" from "21st Century Breakdown" -

#86 Metric - "Gold Guns Girls" from "Fantasies"

#85 Ryan Bingham And The Dead Horses - "Hey Hey Hurray" from "Roadhouse Sun" - Bingham is technically considered a country or alt country performer, but "Hey Hey Hurray" is a stomper of a song that reminds me of some early Bob Dylan protest songs.

#84 Brandi Carlile - "Dreams" from "Give Up The Ghost"

#83 Stellastarr - "Graffiti Eyes" from "Civilized" - The song has a slow build to the chorus, but once it gets there it really packs a wallop.

#82 Jamie T. - "Sticks N Stones" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#81 Death Cab For Cutie - "A Diamond And A Tether" from "The Open Door"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #100-#91

Instead of twenty-five songs a day, I'll be switching to ten per day in honor of the Top 100 songs on the countdown.

#100 Miike Snow - "Animal" from "Miike Snow" - Love the song, hate the video. It's a good thing MTV doesn't play videos any more. "Animal" is a quirky electronic pop song with a really good chorus.

#99 Sonic Youth - "Anti-Orgasm" from "The Eternal" - "Anti-Orgasm" is a departure from Sonic Youth's recent style of longer, denser songs, calling back to some of their more mainstream albums from the late 80's.

#98 The Very Best - "Warm Heart Of Africa" from "Warm Heart Of Africa" - Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend provides vocal support on the very best song by The Very Best.

#97 The Soft Pack - "Answer To Yourself" from Paste Magazine Sampler - An obscure song from a Paste Sampler CD, but what an amazing song with a great beat and an outstanding chorus.

#96 The Thermals - "When I Was Afraid" from "Now We Can See" - Another great song from the Thermals, who put five songs on this year's countdown.

#95 Franz Ferdinand - "Ulysses" from "Tonight" - "Tonight" wasn't Franz Ferdinand's strongest album, but "Ulysses" is a great indie pop song that calls back to their landmark debut album.

#94 Muse - "United States Of Eurasia" from "The Resistance" - At some point in the middle of this song it becomes very obvious that Muse is trying to be Queen on their latest album, not that there's anything wrong with that because they pulled it off.

#93 U2 - "Breathe" from "No Line On The Horizon" - The best song off of "No Line On The Horizon", despite what every music magazine and web site wants you to think.

#92 Weezer - "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" from "Raditude" - A cool poppy indie rock song with a great hook in the chorus. This is commonly referred to as a "Weezer song".

#91 Modest Mouse - "Satellite Skin" from "No One's First And You're Next" - Many of the best Modest Mouse songs have intense choruses complimenting mellow verses and "Satellite Skin" is a fine example of this type of song.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #125-#101

#125 Choir Of Young Believers - "Action - Reaction" from "This Is For The White In Your Eyes"

#124 Alice In Chains - "Take Her Out" from "Black Gives Way To Blue"

#123 The Avett Brothers - "Kick Drum Heart" from "I And Love And You" - An uncharacteristic Avett Brothers song as this one is much more up-tempo than the rest of their brilliant album.

#122 Mika - "We Are Golden" from "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" - You're never going to find a better Queen-style song that wasn't actually written by Queen.

#121 The Very Best - "Kamphopo" from "Warm Heart Of Africa" - Another repeat appearance on my countdown, I actually preferred the version of this song that appeared on last year's mixtape, but this version is also excellent.

#120 Sleigh Bells - "Ring Ring" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - Sleigh Bells actually released a solid album with this song on it in 2010, so there's a good chance this song will appear on next year's list.

#119 Rusted Root - "Garbage Man" from "Stereo Rodeo"

#118 Muse - "Resistance" from "The Resistance"

#117 Phantogram - "When I'm Small" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#116 St. Vincent - "The Strangers" from "Actor"

#115 Andrew Bird - "Oh No" from "Noble Beast"

#114 Dinosaur Jr. - "Over It" from "Farm"

#113 Heartless Bastards - "Out At Sea" from "The Mountain"

#112 Jay-Z - "On To The Next One" from "The Blueprint 3"

#111 Mos Def - "Life In Marvelous Times" from "The Ecstatic" - Mos Def is a lyrical genius and his latest album produced two of the best hip hop songs I've heard all year.

#110 Wolfmother - "Phoenix" from "Cosmic Egg"

#109 Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - "The Sound" from "Summer Of Fear"

#108 The Generationals - "Bobby Beale" from "Con Law"

#107 White Lies - "To Lose My Life" from "To Lose My Life"

#106 Elvis Costello - "Complicated Shadows" from "Secret, Profane And Sugarcane"

#105 The Flaming Lips - "The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine" from "Embryonic"

#104 Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros - "40 Day Dream" from "Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros" - This song seems like it was written during the 50's or 60's, but it's an original recording.

#103 Brother Ali - "Breakin' Dawn" from "Us"

#102 Atlas Sound - "Walkabout" from "Logos"

#101 Girls - "Hellhole Ratrace" from "Album" - Another repeat offender from 2009, the gloomy "Hellhole Ratrace" got much more appreciation this year than last.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #150-#126

#150 William Elliott Whitmore - "There's Hope For You" from Paste Magazine Sampler

#149 Ryan Bingham - "The Weary Kind" from "Crazy Heart Soundtrack" - The Oscar winner for Best Song, but not quite the best song on the "Crazy Heart Soundtrack".

#148 Radiohead - "These Are My Twisted Words" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - It's weird that I need to listen to an Internet playlist in order to hear the new Radiohead song, but whatever.

#147 The Decemberists - "The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid" from "Hazards Of Love" - "Hazards Of Love" is an awesome concept album and this is one of the best songs on it.

#146 Discovery - "Can You Discover?" from "LP"

#145 Pearl Jam - "The Fixer" from "Backspacer" - The biggest hit off of "Backspacer", but not quite the best song.

#144 Yo La Tengo - "Here To Fall" from "Popular Songs"

#143 Kid Cudi - "Day N Nite" from "Man On The Moon"

#142 The BPA - "He's Frank (Slight Return)" from "I Think We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat" - Iggy Pop sings on The BPA's cover of the obscure 70's proto-punk hit.

#141 Matt And Kim - "Daylight" from "Grand"

#140 U2 - "Moment Of Surrender" from "No Line On The Horizon" - Rolling Stone's Best Song of 2009 and it's a great song, but it just missed out on my Top 100.

#139 The Avett Brothers - "The Perfect Space" from "I And Love And You"

#138 Them Crooked Vultures - "Mind Eraser, No Chaser" from "Them Crooked Vultures"

#137 Bruce Springsteen - "My Lucky Day" from "Working On A Dream"

#136 Why - "This Blackest Purse" from "Eskimo Snow"

#135 Death On Two Wheels - "Calling Us Back Home" from Paste Magazine Sampler

#134 Foreign Born - "Vacationing People" from "Person To Person"

#133 Dinosaur Jr. - "Pieces" from "Farm"

#132 The Limousines - "Very Busy People" from "Very Busy People" - This is a song that I probably never would have heard if it wasn't a part of the Alt Nation Alt 18 Best Of 2009 Countdown.

#131 Hockey - "Too Fake" from "Mind Chaos"

#130 A.F.I. - "Beautiful Thieves" from "Crash Love"

#129 And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - "Fields Of Coal" from "The Century Of Self"

#128 Vienna Teng - "Grandmother Song" from "Inland Territory"

#127 St. Vincent - "Actor Out Of Work" from "Actor"

#126 Bluejuice - "Head Of The Hawk" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #175-#151

#175 Wolfmother - "California Queen" from "Cosmic Egg"

#174 Spoon - "Well-Alright" from "Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation)"

#173 The Decemberists - "The Rake's Song" from "Hazards Of Love"

#172 Floating Action - "50 Lashes" from "Floating Action"

#171 Harlem Shakes - "Sunlight" from "Technicolor Health" - Would you believe that they finally hit the big time and then broke up almost immediately afterwards?

#170 Sea Of Bees - "Willis" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#169 Shirock - "I Have Been Redeemed" from "Everything Burns" - U2 wishes that they wrote this song. Either that or Shirock has a time machine and stole it from future Bono.

#168 Dinosaur Jr. - "I Don't Wanna Go There" from "Farm"

#167 The Flaming Lips - "Silver Trembling Hands" from "Embryonic"

#166 The Arctic Monkeys - "Cornerstone" from "Humbug"

#165 Franz Ferdinand - "No You Girls" from "Tonight"

#164 U2 - "No Line On The Horizon" from "No Line On The Horizon"

#163 DJ Quik And Kurupt - "9x's Outta 10" from "BlaQKout" - This rap song is the rare example of a beat dominating the course of the song's lyrics. It's an amazing base pulse that drives this song to greatness.

#162 The Boy Least Likely To - "Every Goliath Has Its David" from "The Law Of The Playground" - A goofy little song with a great hook, but seriously, it's hard to defend a lyric that includes the phrase "I've got puppy powers". We don't invoke the Dark One, Boy Least. We don't.

#161 Brother Ali - "The Preacher" from "Us"

#160 Jeff Bridges - "I Don't Know" from "Crazy Heart Soundtrack"

#159 Serena Ryder And The Beauties - "The Funeral" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - I don't include very many cover songs in my top 500, but the ones that I do include are usually on the list because they add something original to the song. In this case, Serena Ryder's take on the Band Of Horses classic is downright haunting in it's sorrow and intensity.

#158 Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks" from "Veckatimest"

#157 Lily Allen - "The Fear" from "It's Not Me, It's You" - Lily Allen is one of the most gifted songwriters of her generation and this song about materialism and pop culture is a fine example of her skills.

#156 Metric - "Sick Muse" from "Fantasies"

#155 Tech N9ne - "Show Me A God" from "K.O.D."

#154 The XX - "Crystalised" from "XX"

#153 Grant Lee Phillips - "One Morning" from "Little Moon"

#152 Frank Turner - "Try This At Home" from "Poetry Of The Dead" - The most DIY song on the countdown, this song reminds me of all those underground punk concerts I used to attend back when Pierre had a punk scene.

#151 Wild Light - "California On My Mind" from "Adult Nights" - I heard this song before it was on the XM Alt Nation Year End Countdown, but hearing it repeatedly was what really made this sarcastic shot across the bow sink in.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #200-#176

#200 White Lies - "E.S.T." from "To Lose My Life" - White Lies is the darkest of the Joy Division influenced indie rock bands that have claimed a huge chunk of the market. "To Lose My Life" is the first I've heard from them, but they seem to have a promising future.

#199 Rain Machine - "Smiling Black Faces" from "Rain Machine" - This isn't the highest charting Rain Machine song, but I thought this would be a good time to point out that Rain Machine is a TV on the Radio side project. The band itself had a cover of Bowie's "Heroes" on the "Dark Was The Night" compilation, but that song didn't make my countdown.

#198 Green Day - "East Jesus Nowhere" from "21st Century Breakdown"

#197 Lou Barlow - "Gravitate" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#196 Robyn Hitchcock - "Up To Our Necks" from "Goodnight Oslo" - Robyn's only song on this year's countdown, "Up" seems like it must be some sort of lost relic from the British Invasion.

#195 Grizzly Bear - "Slow Life" from "Twilight: New Moon Soundtrack" - Seriously, "New Moon" might be the worst blockbuster since Bad Boys 2, but I struggle to think of anything that's promoted indie rock to the masses more in recent years than the "Twilight" series.

#194 K'naan - "15 Minutes Away" from "Troubador"

#193 Bob Mould - "Argos" from "Life And Times"

#192 Dinosaur Jr. - "Friends" from "Farm"

#191 Green Day - "Know Your Enemy" from "21st Century Breakdown"

#190 Brand New - "At The Bottom" from "Daisy"

#189 Street Sweeper Social Club - "Clap For The Killers" from "Street Sweeper Social Club" - Rage-ish lyrics combine with a fantastic Morello hook for the best non-Rage song of Tom's career.

#188 Camera Obscura - "French Navy" from "My Maudlin Career" - The best female vocal in a pop song not released by Neko Case this year.

#187 Frank Turner - "Sons Of Liberty" from "Poetry Of The Dead"

#186 The Temper Trap - "Down River" from "Conditions"

#185 Dolores O'Riordan - "Be Careful" from "No Baggage"

#184 The Swell Season - "In These Arms" from "Strict Joy" - Do you remember that Irish duo that won an Oscar for their song from the movie "Once"? This is the best song off of their new album. It's not quite as good as the song from "Once", but it's still excellent.

#183 Fleet Foxes - "False Knight On The Road" from "Mykonos"

#182 Them Crooked Vultures - "Elephants" from "Them Crooked Vultures" - This song essentially has every Zeppelin hook condensed into one long song.

#181 The Derek Trucks Band - "I Know" from "Already Free"

#180 The Avett Brothers - "Slight Figure Of Speech" from "I And Love And You"

#179 Jay-Z - "Empire State Of Mind" from "The Blueprint 3" - Alicia Keys' version of this song is also on my countdown, but I prefer the rap focus on this song to the R&B focus on Keys'.

#178 Jeff Bridges - "Somebody Else" from "Crazy Heart Soundtrack"

#177 The Dirty Projectors - "Cannibal Resource" from "Bitte Orca"

#176 Miranda Lambert - "Heart Like Mine" from "Revolution" - The best country song of 2009.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #225-#201

#225 Green Day - "Peacemaker" from "21st Century Breakdown"

#224 Gov't Mule - "Broke Down On The Brazos" from "By A Thread"

#223 The Bravery - "Song For Jacob" from "Stir The Blood"

#222 Kid Cudi - "Cudi Zone" from "Man On The Moon"

#221 Pearl Jam - "Johnny Guitar" from "Backspacer" - Eddie Vedder sounds like the Tasmanian Devil at times on this song, but he makes it work.

#220 The Derek Trucks Band - "Get What You Deserve" from "Already Free"

#219 Neko Case - "This Tornado Loves You" from "Middle Cyclone" - Neko Case (also of the New Pornographers) has a beautiful voice and has enjoyed a long and successful career as a solo artist. This is the best song off of her new album.

#218 Bob Mould - "I'm Sorry, Baby, But You Can't Stand In My Light Any More" from "Life And Times" - It's saying a lot, but this might be the most catchy song hook of Bob Mould's career.

#217 The Avett Brothers - "Ill With Want" from "I And Love And You"

#216 Them Crooked Vultures - "Gunman" from "Them Crooked Vultures"

#215 The Fiery Furnaces - "The End Is Near" from "The End Is Near"

#214 Sonic Youth - "Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn" from "The Eternal"

#213 The Sounds - "Midnight Sun" from "Crossing The Rubicon"

#212 Them Crooked Vultures - "Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up" from "Them Crooked Vultures"

#211 The Northwestern - "Telephones" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#210 The Flaming Lips - "Watching The Planets" from "Embryonic" - The Flaming Lips' "Embryonic" represents a career high point for the band and if not for Muse, it would have been the year's best prog rock album.

#209 The Soulsavers - "Unbalanced Pieces" from "Broken" - Again, take a moment and appreciate Mark Lanegan's amazing vocal abilities.

#208 The Bravery - "Slow Poison" from "Stir The Blood"

#207 Call The Doctor - "For Your Leisure" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - It's surprising I can't find any more of their music considering how great this first song is.

#206 The Temper Trap - "Fools" from "Conditions"

#205 A.C. Newman - "The Changeling (Get Guilty)" from "Get Guilty"

#204 Placebo - "For What It's Worth" from "Battle For The Sun"

#203 A.C. Newman - "The Collected Works" from "Get Guilty" - Another New Pornographers side project, Newman's album put a few songs on my countdown.

#202 Muse - "Undisclosed Desires" from "The Resistance"

#201 Heartless Bastards - "Early In The Morning" from "The Mountain" - "Early In The Morning" is one monster head-banger of a song.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #250-#226

#250 The Temper Trap - "Fader" from "Conditions" - The Temper Trap is best known for their hit song on the "(500) Days Of Summer" Soundtrack, but their entire album is excellent.

#249 Japandroids - "Young Hearts Spark Fire" from "Post-Nothing"

#248 The Avett Brothers - "Incomplete And Insecure" from "I And Love And You" - Take a talented band and let Rick Rubin produce their album and what do you get? One of the best albums of the year and easily the highlight of the Avett Brothers' career.

#247 Rainbow Arabia - "Six Different Ways" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#246 Pomplamoose - "Beat The House" from "Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#245 The Decemberists - "The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing" from "Hazards Of Love"

#244 Dan Black - "U And Me" from "Un"

#243 Green Day - "The Static Age" from "21st Century Breakdown"

#242 Shirock - "Drag You Down" from "Everything Burns" - Listen to Shirock's latest album and tell me it doesn't sound like a lost U2 album.

#241 Clinical Trials - "Polly Got Away" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - A response song to Nirvana's "Polly", though the style of music is much closer to The Breeders or Hole.

#240 The Mars Volta - "Since We've Been Wrong" from "Octahedron" - The Mars Volta releases their most radio-friendly CD yet, though this was the only hit.

#239 Kid Cudi - "Up Up And Away" from "Man On The Moon"

#238 White Lies - "A Place To Hide" from "To Lose My Life"

#237 Tegan And Sara - "The Cure" from "Sainthood"

#236 Maximo Park - "I Haven't Seen Her In Ages" from "Quicken The Heart"

#235 Lykke Li - "Possibility" from "Twilight: New Moon Soundtrack"

#234 Modest Mouse - "Guilty Cocker Spaniels" from "No One's First And You're Next"

#233 The Cribs - "We Share The Same Skies" from "Ignore The Ignorant"

#232 Built To Spill - "Things Fall Apart" from "There Is No Enemy"

#231 The Drums - "Saddest Summer" from "Summertime!"

#230 The Mars Volta - "Cotopaxi" from "Octahedron"

#229 Echo And The Bunnymen - "Life Of 1000 Crimes" from "The Fountain" - They've still got it after all these years.

#228 Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - "Nikorette" from "Outer South"

#227 Ryan Bingham And The Dead Horses - "Country Roads" from "Roadhouse Sun" - 2009 was a big year for Bingham as "Roadhouse Sun" represents his breakthrough album in the same year that "Crazy Heart" made him the biggest name in alt-country.

#226 Regina Spektor - "The Calculation" from "Far"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #275-#251

#275 Southeast Engine - "Black Gold" from Paste Magazine Sampler

#274 Rhett Miller - "If It's Not Love" from "Rhett Miller"

#273 Pintandwefall - "Bird Of The Birds" from "Hong Kong, Baby" - A very weird track, but a lot of fun and featuring a great hook.

#272 Jay Reatard - "Before I Was Caught" from "Watch Me Fall"

#271 The Antlers - "Epilogue" from "Hospice"

#270 A Place To Bury Strangers - "Deadbeat" from "Exploding Head"

#269 Jeff Bridges - "Brand New Angel" from "Crazy Heart Soundtrack"

#268 Morrissey - "Something Is Squeezing My Skull" from "Years Of Refusal"

#267 The Dirty Projectors And David Byrne - "Knotty Pine" from "Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation)" - The Dirty Projectors had a great year with the success of their breakthrough album, but they also hit a home run with this collaboration with David Byrne from the brilliant "Dark Was The Night" compilation.

#266 Bruce Springsteen - "Outlaw Pete" from "Working On A Dream"

#265 Pearl Jam - "Supersonic" from "Backspacer"

#264 Nine Inch Nails - "Non-Entity" from "NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler" - This song may never appear on a Nine Inch Nails album, so it was very fortunate that they released it as a free download on their website.

#263 Jamie T. - "The Man's Machine" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - I was unable to find Jamie T's 2009 album, but he managed to get two songs onto my list thank's to Blalock's playlists.

#262 Spinnerette - "A Prescripton For Mankind" from "Spinnerette"

#261 Throw Me The Statue - "Waving At The Shore" from "Creaturesque"

#260 Tegan And Sara - "Northshore" from "Sainthood" - "Sainthood" was a big change of style for Tegan and Sara and I think their new sound is a big step forward.

#259 Jemina Pearl - "Undesirable" from "Break It Up"

#258 The Bravery - "Jack-O-Lantern Man" from "Stir The Blood"

#257 Iggy Pop - "Nice To Be Dead" from "Preliminaries" - "Preliminaries" was a weird album for Iggy Pop. While the album was almost entirely jazz music, the best song is the type of song we expect from Iggy, if still slowed down a bit.

#256 Datarock - "True Stories" from "RED"

#255 Green Day - "American Eulogy: A. Mass Hysteria / B. Modern World" from "21st Century Breakdown"

#254 Rhett Miller - "Happy Birthday Don't Die" from "Rhett Miller"

#253 God Help The Girl - "Musician, Please Take Heed" from "God Help The Girl" - Belle And Sebastian's side project produced a lot of great songs that were really remake of old B&S hits, but "Musician, Please Take Heed" is the best of the originals.

#252 Bill Callahan - "Faith / Void" from "Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle" - A deep, dark and depressing ballad, but also one of the most introspective songs I've ever heard.

#251 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - "Young Adult Friction" from "The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #300-#276

#300 Muse - "Guiding Light" from "The Resistance"

#299 The Silversun Pickups - "Substitution" from "Swoon"

#298 Franz Ferdinand - "Bite Hard" from "Tonight"

#297 Fool's Gold - "Surprise Hotel" from "Fool's Gold"

#296 Heartless Bastards - "The Mountain" from "The Mountain"

#295 Passion Pit - "The Reeling" from "Manners"

#294 Ugly Casanova - "Cat Faces" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - The reason this song sounds so much like Modest Mouse... is because it is Modest Mouse, performing under another name.

#293 BrakesBrakesBrakes - "Crush On You" from "Touchdown"

#292 The Dave Matthews Band - "Squirm" from "Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King" - A great song from DMB's best album in a long time.

#291 K'naan - "If Rap Gets Jealous" from "Troubador" - A particularly heavy song from one of rap's rookies of the year, bordering on rap metal.

#290 Japandroids - "Sovereignty" from "Post-Nothing"

#289 Metric - "Stadium Love" from "Fantasies"

#288 Jarvis Cocker - "Further Complications" from "Further Complications" - The former lead singer of Pulp continues to crank out angry and sarcastic singer-songwriter albums.

#287 Music Go Music - "Light Of Love" from "Expressions"

#286 Jay Farrar And Benjamin Gibbard - "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone" from "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone"

#285 Wheels On Fire - "I'm Turning Into You" from "Get Famous!"

#284 Art Brut - "Demons Out!" from "Art Brut Vs. Satan" - Art Brut's angry rant about how stupid the public's taste in music is.

#283 Neko Case - "People Got A Lotta Nerve" from "Middle Cyclone"

#282 Owl City - "Fireflies" from "Ocean Eyes" - Cheesy, but a good hook and a few clever lyrics.

#281 The Eels - "Lilac Breeze" from "Hombre Lobo"

#280 Wilco - "You And I" from "Wilco (The Album)"

#279 U2 - "Magnificent" from "No Line On The Horizon" - Bono once again dips into the well of sarcastic jabs at his public profile.

#278 The Like - "You Belong To Me" from "War Child - Heroes Vol. 1" - The best cover song on the "War Child" album. Supposedly, it's an old Elvis Costello song, but I'm pretty sure it dates back further than that.

#277 Rhett Miller - "I Need To Know Where I Stand" from "Rhett Miller" - It will always remain a mystery why Rhett Miller and the Old 97's never enjoyed crossover success. It would be one thing if they wrote radio-unfriendly songs, but Miller's always been extremely skilled at hooks and choruses.

#276 The Raveonettes - "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)" from "In And Out Of Control"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #325-#301

#325 Neko Case - "Don't Forget Me" from "Middle Cyclone"

#324 Young Money - "She Is Gone" from "We Are Young Money"

#323 Green Day - "Murder City" from "21st Century Breakdown"

#322 Spinnerette - "Baptized By Fire" from "Spinnerette"

#321 The Boy Least Likely To - "When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade" from "The Law Of The Playground" - The goofiest artist on the countdown, but good lyrics are good lyrics.

#320 Marie Digby - "Overboard" from "Breathing Underwater" - Marie Digby released possibly the best pop album of 2009 and "Overboard" is one of the best songs on it.

#319 Monsters Of Folk - "Losin' Yo Head" from "Monsters Of Folk"

#318 Jemina Pearl - "After Hours" from "Break It Up"

#317 Passion Pit - "Little Secrets" from "Manners" - This one probably should have been higher, but that's how it works out sometimes.

#316 The Sounds - "Lost In Love" from "Crossing The Rubicon"

#315 Wilco - "I'll Fight" from "Wilco (The Album)"

#314 The Bravery - "Adored" from "Stir The Blood" - If you told me five years ago that The Bravery would become one of the best indie rock bands I would have told you that you were crazy, but it's true.

#313 Portugal The Man - "People Say" from "The Satanic Satanist"

#312 Odawas - "Secrets Of The Fall" from "The Blue Depths" - The closest to Pink Floyd I've heard any contemporary act get in recent years. Eat your heart out, Porcupine Tree.

#311 The Derek Trucks Band - "Down In The Flood" from "Already Free"

#310 Ryan Bingham And The Dead Horses - "Day Is Done" from "Roadhouse Sun"

#309 The Manchester Orchestra - "Shake It Out" from "Mean Everything To Nothing"

#308 James Yuill - "No Surprise" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#307 The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Shame And Fortune" from "It's Blitz!"

#306 The Rifles - "Sometimes" from "The Great Escape"

#305 Samantha Crain And The Midnight Shivers - "Rising Sun" from "Songs In The Night"

#304 N.A.S.A. - "Gifted" from "The Spirit Of Apollo" - The song that finally brings together the duo that everyone's been waiting for: Kanye West and Lykke Li!

#303 The Gossip - "Heavy Cross" from "Music For Men"

#302 Monsters Of Folk - "Man Named Truth" from "Monsters Of Folk"

#301 John Rich - "Shuttin' Down Detroit" from "Son Of A Preacher Man" - I'm not a big fan of Big And Rich, but this is one hell of a brilliant song, and also the perfect song for the current economic situation.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #350-#326

#350 30 Seconds To Mars - "This Is War" from "This Is War"

#349 Jeff Bridges - "Hold On You" from "Crazy Heart Soundtrack" - The "Crazy Heart" Soundtrack is the best soundtrack from a fake artist since "Walk Hard" and Jeff Bridges is a great outlaw country singer.

#348 Phish - "Joy" from "Joy" - I hate obsessive Phish fans, but a great song is a great song.

#347 The Drums - "Don't Be A Jerk, Jonny" from "Summertime!" - Cross The Smiths with The Ramones and you get the Drums. You'll probably be hearing more from them in the future.

#346 The Flaming Lips - "Powerless" from "Embryonic"

#345 Matisyahu - "One Day" from "Light"

#344 Brendan Benson - "A Whole Lot Better" from "My Old, Familiar Friend"

#343 Death Cab For Cutie - "I Was Once A Loyal Lover" from "The Open Door"

#342 Brand New - "In A Jar" from "Daisy" - I've never heard emo sound so Nirvana-ish as the most recent Brand New album.

#341 The Arctic Monkeys - "Pretty Visitors" from "Humbug"

#340 Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - "To All The Lights In The Windows" from "Outer South"

#339 Wolfmother - "Caroline" from "Cosmic Egg"

#338 The Raveonettes - "Bang!" from "In And Out Of Control"

#337 The Generationals - "When They Fight, They Fight" from "Con Law"

#336 Street Sweeper Social Club - "The Squeeze" from "Street Sweeper Social Club" - Guitar legend Tom Morello teams up with his latest Zach substitute, Boots Riley (of the Coup) to form Street Sweeper Social Club. It's doubtful that they'll last long as each artist has their own bands to focus on, but so far, so good.

#335 Them Crooked Vultures - "Bandoliers" from "Them Crooked Vultures"

#334 Beck - "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" from "War Child - Heroes Vol. 1" - Beck's funky cover of the Bob Dylan classic is one of the best covers of the year and a highlight of "War Child".

#333 Jemina Pearl - "Selfish Heart" from "Break It Up"

#332 BrakesBrakesBrakes - "Don't Take Me To Space (Man)" from "Touchdown"

#331 Wheat - "El Sincero" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#330 The New York Dolls - "Lonely So Long" from "Cause I Sez So"

#329 The Drums - "Let's Go Surfing" from "Summertime!"

#328 K'naan - "I Come Prepared" from "Troubador"

#327 Team William - "You Look Familiar" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#326 The High Strung - "Standing At The Door Of Self-Discovery" from "Ode To The Inverse Of The Dude"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #375-#351

#375 Mary J. Blige - "The One" from "Stronger With Each Tear"

#374 Clipse - "Kinda Like A Big Deal" from "Till The Casket Drops"

#373 Grand Duchy - "Come On Over To My House" from "Petits Fours" - Frank Black's annual contribution to my list.

#372 Juliette Lewis - "All Is For God" from "Terra Incognito"

#371 Slayer - "Playing With Dolls" from "World Painted Blood"

#370 Conor Oberst - "NYC - Gone, Gone" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#369 Jarvis Cocker - "Caucasian Blues" from "Further Complications"

#368 Slaughterhouse - "The One" from "Slaughterhouse" - Slaughterhouse is a rap supergroup that flew under the radar in 2009.

#367 Metric - "Gimme Sympathy" from "Fantasies"

#366 Sonic Youth - "Poison Arrow" from "The Eternal"

#365 Megadeth - "Dialectic Chaos" from "Endgame" - The second of two instrumental songs on the countdown.

#364 Allison Iraheta - "Trouble Is" from "Just Like You" - The highest ranking song on the countdown from an American Idol veteran.

#363 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - "A Teenager In Love" from "The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart"

#362 Fastball - "The Malcontent (The Modern World)" from "Little White Lies"

#361 The New Pornographers - "Hey, Snow White" from "Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation)"

#360 Thom Yorke - "All For The Best" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - If it wasn't for Blalock's playlist, I might never have found this song because it hasn't been on any album to my knowledge.

#359 The Doves - "The Outsiders" from "Kingdom Of Rust"

#358 Sonic Youth - "Leaky Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso)" from "The Eternal"

#357 Rhett Miller - "Like Love" from "Rhett Miller"

#356 Spinnerette - "All Babes Are Wolves" from "Spinnerette"

#355 La Roux - "Quicksand" from "La Roux"

#354 Modest Mouse - "History Sticks To Your Feet" from "No One's First And You're Next"

#353 Orianthi - "Highly Strung" from "Believe" - The highest ranking of the two instrumental songs on the countdown.

#352 Spinnerette - "A Spectral Suspension" from "Spinnerette"

#351 The Von Bondies - "Earthquake" from "Love Hate And Then There's You"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #400-#376

#400 Nine Inch Nails - "Not So Pretty Now" from NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler - With the band's recent "break-up" the singles released on the Ninja Tour CD might be the last we hear from Nine Inch Nails. You know, until they re-unite in a couple of years.

#399 Cancel The Astronauts - "I Am The President Of Your Fanclub (And Last Night I Followed You Home)" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#398 Music Go Music - "Reach Out" from "Expressions"

#397 The Thermals - "How We Fade" from "Now We Can See"

#396 Dolores O'Riordan - "Apple Of My Eye" from "No Baggage"

#395 The Dave Matthews Band - "Funny The Way It Is" from "Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King" - "GrooGrux" is the best DMB album in a decade and this is one of the best songs on that album.

#394 Bear In Heaven - "Lovesick Teenagers" from "Beast Rest Forth Mouth"

#393 Marie Digby - "Feel" from "Breathing Underwater"

#392 Animal Collective - "Summertime Clothes" from "Merriweather Post Pavilion"

#391 White Lies - "The Price Of Love" from "To Lose My Life"

#390 Thao With The Get Down Stay Down - "Know Better Learn Faster" from "Know Better Learn Faster"

#389 Jay-Z - "Off That" from "The Blueprint 3"

#388 Alicia Keys - "Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down" from "The Element Of Freedom" - The rap version of the song charts much higher on this list, but the soul version is outstanding as well.

#387 Green Day - "Horseshoes And Handgrenades" from "21st Century Breakdown"

#386 Kid Cudi - "Heart Of A Lion" from "Man On The Moon"

#385 Great Northern - "Houses" from "Remind Me Where The Light Is"

#384 Wintersleep - "Oblivion" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#383 Regina Spektor - "Human Of The Year" from "Far"

#382 Crystal Stilts - "Love Is A Wave" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#381 Mika - "Blame It On The Girls" from "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"

#380 La Roux - "As If By Magic" from "La Roux" - 2009 was a big year for the Blondie-esque band that not only released a great album, but put a song on the pop charts, the much higher-ranking "Bulletproof".

#379 The Roots - "How I Got Over" from "How I Got Over" - Technically, the album this song is on came out in 2010, but it's been frequently delayed and I first came across this song in 2009. It may show up on both lists at the end of the day, but it's a great tune.

#378 King Khan And The Shrines - "Welfare Bread" from "What Is"

#377 Lisa Mitchell - "Coin Laundry" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - It's surprising to say this in a year that featured a Belle And Sebastian project (God Help The Girl), but this is definitely the best twee song of the year.

#376 30 Seconds To Mars - "Kings And Queens" from "This Is War"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #425-#401

#425 - Monsters Of Folk - "Baby Boomer" from "Monsters Of Folk"

#424 - Dear And The Headlights - "Cal Solomon Blues" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#423 - Drake - "Best I Ever Had" from "So Far Gone" - I haven't listened to his debut album yet, but his mixtape is sensational (of course Wale's was too, and his album let me down). Hard to believe this is the kid from Degrassi.

#422 - BrakesBrakesBrakes - "Oh! Forever" from "Touchdown"

#421 - Sunset Rubdown - "Silver Moons" from "Dragonslayer"

#420 - My Morning Jacket - "El Caporal" from "Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation)" - "Dark Was The Night" was an outstanding compilation album featuring original songs from many of the biggest bands in indie rock. There are several more songs on the countdown from this album.

#419 - White Lies - "From The Stars" from "To Lose My Life"

#418 - The Noisettes - "Never Forget You" from "Wild Young Hearts"

#417 - Japandroids - "Heart Sweats" from "Post-Nothing"

#416 - Jay Reatard - "Faking It" from "Watch Me Fall"

#415 - Metric - "Front Row" from "Fantasies"

#414 - Royce Da 5'9 - "Gun Harmonizing" from "Street Hop"

#413 - The Arcade Fire - "Lenin" from "Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation)"

#412 - Wale - "90210" from "Attention Deficit"

#411 - Hurt - "Pandora" from "Goodbye To The Machine"

#410 - Sean Paul - "Running Out Of Time" from "Imperial Blaze"

#409 - Ben Harper And The Relentless 7 - "The Word Suicide" from "White Lies For Dark Times"

#408 - Datarock - "Not Me" from "RED"

#407 - Fastball - "Little White Lies" from "Little White Lies"

#406 - Miike Snow - "Burial" from "Miike Snow"

#405 - Lady Sovereign - "Student Union" from "Jigsaw" - Easily the best female British rapper. Not that there's any competition or anything.

#404 - Lily Allen - "Not Fair" from "It's Not Me, It's You"

#403 - Throw Me The Statue - "Ancestors" from "Creaturesque"

#402 - The Black Hollies - "Gloomy Monday Morning" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist - A garage rock throwback, but I haven't found any more of their music yet.

#401 - Green Day - "Viva La Gloria" from "21st Century Breakdown"

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #450-#426

#450 - M. Ward - "Never Had Nobody Like You" from "Hold Time" - M. Ward's only song as a solo artist (he has a few with his folk super-group Monsters Of Folk), though this song was the latest in his on-going collaboration with actress/singer Zoey Deschanel.

#449 - Echo And The Bunnymen - "Think I Need It Too" from "The Fountain"

#448 - Brandi Carlile - "Pride And Joy" from "Give Up The Ghost"

#447 - Adam Lambert - "Sure Fire Winners" from "For Your Entertainment" - It's weird to have songs by American Idol albums on my list, but while the viewership for the show has gone way down over the past few years, the quality has gone way up.

#446 - A.F.I. - "Okay, I Feel Better Now" from "Crash Love"

#445 - Miike Snow - "A Horse Is Not A Home" from "Miike Snow"

#444 - Phoenix - "Lasso" from "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix"

#443 - Grizzly Bear - "While You Wait For The Others" from "Veckatimest"

#442 - Asher Roth - "Lark On A Go-Kart" from "Asleep In The Bread Aisle" - Roth had a huge hit with "I Love College", but I couldn't stand that song. In fact, it may be the worst song on an otherwise great album. "Lark" is a much better tune, propelled by a fantastic beat.

#441 - Chuck Prophet - "Barely Exist" from "Let Freedom Ring!"

#440 - Bruce Springsteen - "Life Itself" from "Working On A Dream"

#439 - Pearl Jam - "Unthought Known" from "Backspacer"

#438 - The Vivian Girls - "Where Do You Run To" from "The Vivian Girls"

#437 - Miranda Lambert - "White Liar" from "Revolution"

#436 - Rancid - "Last One To Die" from "Let The Dominoes Fall" - Rancid released yet another great album this year, even if only one song made it into the top 500.

#435 - Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros - "Home" from "Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros - It's not surprising that this song sounds nothing like their other song on the countdown ("40 Day Dream"), considering the band has something like 25 members in it.

#434 - Kasabian - "Underdog" from "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum"

#433 - Billy Talent - "Rusted From The Rain" from "Billy Talent III"

#432 - Graham Coxon - "Dead Bees" from "The Spinning Top"

#431 - Muse - "Unnatural Selection" from "The Resistance" - The first of six songs from "The Resistance", Muse's breakthrough album.

#430 - Roman Candle - "Why Modern Radio Is A-Ok" from "Oh Tall Tree In The Ear" - One of 2009's most interesting songs, "Modern Radio" is a song that focuses on the point that certain songs can break your heart and really make you feel something... and that bands like Fall Out Boy and blink 182 will never make that kind of song.

#429 - Lily Allen - "Him" from "It's Not Me, It's You"

#428 - Wolfmother - "Cosmonaut" from "Cosmic Egg"

#427 - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Dull Life" from "It's Blitz!"

#426 - Perry Farrell - "Nasty Little Perv" from "NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack" - I don't actually watch NCIS and the Perry Farrell song wasn't the reason I listened to this CD. There was a song by the Airborne Toxic Event I wanted to hear and while that song didn't make the countdown, Farrell's did.

Thoughts On VH1's new 100 Greatest Artists List

It is ridiculous to remove the following artists from the 1998 list:

Eric Clapton
The Eagles
Buddy Holly
Crosby, Stills And Nash
The Sex Pistols
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Roy Orbison
The Grateful Dead
Smokey Robinson
Frank Zappa
The Allman Brothers
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Rod Stewart
Simon And Garfunkel
Devo
T. Rex
Santana
Tom Waits
Diana Ross And The Supremes

The following artists are welcome new additions to the top 100:

AC/DC
Radiohead
Black Sabbath
Guns N Roses
Metallica
Jay-Z
Rage Against The Machine
Public Enemy
Genesis
Tupac Shakur
The Cure
Rush
Run DMC
NWA
Beastie Boys
Green Day
Pearl Jam
Outkast


Random thoughts:

Ray Charles and The Police drop more than 30 spots. Granted, it's crazy The Police were #10 on the original list, but what did Brother Ray do to fall out of favor?

Prince jumps to #7, ahead of James Brown and Elvis Presley. I doubt Prince would agree that he's more important to rock n roll than James Brown.

The Doors drop from #20 to #65. What, they should have kept releasing albums after Jim died? I don't get it.

Absence has been great for Freddie Mercury, as Queen jumps 20 spots with no output other than letting Paul Rodgers crap on Freddie's legacy.

Early rock artists sank like a stone this time around while R&B, Motown and Blues artists disappeared from the list entirely. I guess creating rock n roll isn't as important as it used to be.

Elvis Costello has released several great albums since 1998 and drops from #38 to #90. Why?

Nirvana shoots up from #42 to #14. Must be all that new content since '98.

Sorry, SRV. You're dead, but you're not Michael Jackson dead.

Current events have way too much influence on the people voting in this poll. In 1998, Michael Jackson came in #40, which was way too low, as voters probably felt icky about his legal problems at the time. This year he's somewhere in the top 5, which is a little bit too high. Had this poll taken place before Jackson's death, he'd be somewhere between 10 and 20, in all likelihood.

Madonna jumps from #86 to #16. Remarkable considering how little she's actually done creatively since 1998. She was recently voted into the Hall Of Fame though, so I'm guessing that is what's really behind her jump in the polls. This also could explain The Stooges 28 slot jump and the new inclusion of Genesis and ABBA.

Hard rock has a much larger presence in this list than in the previous one as horribly snubbed artists like AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Rush, Metallica and Guns N Roses finally get their due.

Several great 90's artists make their debut as well. In 98 it would have been way too soon for Pearl Jam, Radiohead or Rage Against The Machine, but now we have some perspective and can see how great they were and still are.

Hip Hop and Rap also make their first appearances on this list. I don't know if I would have picked Jay-Z as the top artist of the genre or included LL Cool J, but who can argue with Public Enemy, N.W.A., Tupac, Biggie or Outkast?

Sade at #50? Well, that came out of nowhere.

Beyonce at #52 ahead of Little Richard? Nope. No artist whose career is that fresh belongs in a retrospective list of this nature. That goes the same for Coldplay, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys as well.

Cheap Trick ahead of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers? Absolutely not.

Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey? I'll buy that. Both are great singers with long track records. I do wish they had better written songs to sing, but I think the deserve the honor.

Justin Timberlake at #66 is the worst thing about this list by a mile. Two albums and less than ten years as a solo artist. Complete nonsense.

Coldplay doesn't deserve to be at #67, either, but they're probably worthy of the tail-end of the list.

Def Leppard at #70? Why? Are they supposed to be the token hair band or something?

Hall And Oates wouldn't be on this list if it weren't for "(500) Days Of Summer".

Overall, I think this list reflects the decline of VH1 as a rock n roll network. In the late 90's, VH1 was a network dedicated to the history of rock n roll and ever since has become more and more focused on reality television and pop culture, basically becoming a cheap MTV knockoff instead of a decent alternative. I'm still going to watch the presentation of the new list, but it's going to be hard to avoid throwing the remote at the TV when some of the more nonsensical rankings come up.

Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #475-#451

#475 - Bruce Springsteen - "Working On A Dream" from "Working On A Dream"

#474 - Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - "Worldwide" from "Outer South"

#473 - Wilco - "Bull Black Nova" from "Wilco (The Album)"

#472 - Favours For Sailors - "I Dreamt That You Loved Me In Your Dreams" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#471 - Death Cab For Cutie - "My Mirror Speaks" from "The Open Door"

#470 - Jay Reatard - "Wounded" from "Watch Me Fall" - One of the saddest stories in rock history, Reatard built up a reputation over a number of years, releasing several singles and EPs, put together an excellent debut album... and then died shortly after it's release. R.I.P. Jay.

#469 - And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - "Insatiable (Two)" from "The Century Of Self"

#468 - Neil Young - "Just Singing A Song" from "Fork In The Road"

#467 - The Handsome Furs - "Radio Kalininbrad" from "Face Control"

#466 - Mika - "Touches You" from "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" - If you think Muse is over the top and bites frequently from the Queen apple on their last album, you clearly haven't heard of Mika before.

#465 - Basement Jaxx - "Raindrops" from "Scars"

#464 - Them Crooked Vultures - "Scumbag Blues" from "Them Crooked Vultures"

#463 - Shirock - "New Solution" from "Everything Burns" - Do you like U2 but hate Bono? Shirock is the band for you. You know how sometimes generic cereal tastes exactly like the name brand product? That's Shirock. So if you love the taste of U2...

#462 - Ben Harper And The Relentless 7 - "Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart)" from "White Lies For Dark Times"

#461 - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - "Contender" from "The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart" - Mmmmm.... that's good shoegaze!

#460 - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - "Lady Jesus" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#459 - Discovery - "Swing Tree" from "LP"

#458 - Fastball - "She's Got The Rain" from "Little White Lies" - Fastball is one of the most under-rated pop rock bands of the past twenty years and their latest album is no exception, putting three songs on the countdown.

#457 - The Yes Pleases - "70%" from Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist

#456 - Asher Roth - "La Di Da" from "Asleep In The Bread Aisle"

#455 - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - "103" from "The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart"

#454 - Animal Collective - "Brother Sport" from "Merriweather Post Pavilion"

#453 - A.F.I. - "End Transmission" from "Crash Love"

#452 - Billy Talent - "White Sparrows" from "Billy Talent III"

#451 - The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - "Flipside" from "Communion"