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Pedestrian at Best Redux: 125 Favorite Songs
🕑 Added 2022-01-28 06:21:58 +0000 UTC
UPDATE: 120 struck me as a dumb number. So it will be 125.
It's been a few years, so I decided to revisit and revise the favorite song list. There are numerous deletions, and an additional twenty-five slots, because why not?
Asterisk in front of entry = new artist addition.
Asterisk at end of entry = change of song by previously included artist
1. ADAM ANT - "Goody Two Shoes"
*2. AIMEE MANN - "How Am I Different"
3. ALANIS MORRISETTE - "Hands Clean"
4. ANDREW BIRD - "A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head To the Left"
5. BATTLES - "Atlas"
6. THE BEATLES - "She Said She Said"*
*7. BECK - "Sunday Sun"
*8. BELLE & SEBASTIAN - "I'm a Cuckoo"
9. BERLIN - "The Metro"
10. BLACK SHEEP - "The Choice is Yours"
11. BLUMFELD - "2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von Dir weiss"
*12. BOSTON - "Don't Look Back"
13. BRIAN ENO - "Needle in the Camel's Eye"
*14. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - "Hug of Thunder"
15. CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - "Sweethearts"
16. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND - "Tropical Hot Dog Night"
17. CHINA CRISIS - "Christian"
*18. THE CLASH - "Lost in the Supermarket"
19. CORNELIUS - "Gum"
20. THE CURE - "The Caterpillar"
21. DAVE CLARK FIVE - "Glad All Over"
22. DAVID BOWIE - "The Bewlay Brothers"*
23. DEVO - "Beautiful World"
*24. THE DIVINE COMEDY - "Come Home Billy Bird"
*25. THE DRESDEN DOLLS - "Girl Anachronism"
26. ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS - "Accidents Will Happen"*
27. FALCO - "Der Kommissar"
28. THE FALL - "Cruisers Creek"
*29 FIONA APPLE - "Shameika"
30. FLEETWOOD MAC - "You Make Loving Fun"
31. FOO FIGHTERS - "Everlong"
32. FOUR TOPS - "Reach Out I'll Be There"
*33. FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - "Two Tribes"
34. GARBAGE - "Vow"
35. GARY NUMAN / TUBEWAY ARMY - "Are "Friends' Electric?"
*36. GIL SCOTT-HERON - "We Almost Lost Detroit"
37. GLEN CAMPBELL - "Wichita Lineman"
*38. GZA feat. RZA - "Liquid Swords"
39. HOLE - "Violet"
*40. IMOGEN HEAP - "Come Here Boy"
41. INTERPOL - "Untitled"
42. INXS - "Don't Change”
*43. THE JAM - "That's Entertainment"
44. JOANNA NEWSOM - "Anecdotes"
*45. JOHNNY HALLYDAY - "Noir c'est noir"
46. JONI MITCHELL - "God Must Be a Boogie Man"
47. KANYE WEST - "Love Lockdown"
48. KATE BUSH - "Wow"
*49. THE KINKS - "Waterloo Sunset"
50. THE KNACK - "My Sharona"
*51. KRAFTWERK - "Pocket Calculator"
52. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - "Losing My Edge"
*53. LANA DEL REY - "Born To Die"
*54. LEE DORSEY - "Workin' in a Coal Mine"
55. LEONARD COHEN - "The Stranger Song"
56. LIZ PHAIR - "Friend of Mine"*
57. LL COOL J - "Going Back to Cali"
*58. LORDE - "Tennis Court"
59. LOU REED & JOHN CALE - "Forever Changed"
60. M83 - "Midnight City"
*61. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure"
62. MANIC STREET PREACHERS - "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"*
*63. MARC BOLAN & T. REX - "Children of the Revolution"
64. THE MODERN LOVERS - "Modern World"
*65. MOM - "Joyfulthought"
*66. NEGATIVLAND - "Christianity is Stupid"
*67. NEIL YOUNG - "Helpless"
68. NEKO CASE - "Where Did I Leave That Fire?"*
*69. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - "Centre For Holy Wars"
70. NICK LOWE - "Cruel to Be Kind"
71. NIRVANA - "Sappy (aka Verse Chorus Verse)"
*72. ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK - "Genetic Engineering"
73. PANIC! AT THE DISCO - "LA Devotee"
*74. PARAMORE - "Still Into You"
75. PATTI SMITH - "Break It Up"
76. PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS - "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five"
*77. PAUL WELLER - "The Changingman"
78. PAVEMENT - "In the Mouth a Desert"*
79. PENGUIN VILLA - "Acrophobia"
80. PERE UBU - "30 Seconds Over Tokyo"
81. PETER GABRIEL - "Moribund the Burgermeister"*
*82. PHIL OCHS - "Rehearsals For Retirement"
83. PJ HARVEY - "The Sky Lit Up"
84. PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION - "Money Don't Matter 2 Night"*
*85. PROPAGANDA - "Duel"
86. PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. - "Pop Tones"
*87. PUSHA T - "What Would Meek Do?"
88. R.E.M. - "E-Bow the Letter"*
89. RADIOHEAD - "There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)"*
90. RIHANNA - "Diamonds"
91. RILO KILEY - "Love and War (11/11/46)"
92. ROBYN HITCHCOCK - "Sounds Great When You're Dead"
*93. THE ROLLING STONES - "Mother's Little Helper"
94. ROXY MUSIC - "Same Old Scene"
95. RUN-DMC - "It's Tricky"
96. SCOTT WALKER - "Tilt"
97. SCRITTI POLITTI - "Absolute"
98. SERGE GAINSBOURG - "Bonnie and Clyde"
99. SHARON VAN ETTEN - "Give Out"
*100. SHERYL CROW - "My Favorite Mistake"
101. SLEATER-KINNEY - "Things You Say"
102. THE SONICS - "Have Love Will Travel"
*103. SOPHIE - "Faceshopping"
104. SPARKS - "When I'm With You"*
*105. ST. VINCENT - "Digital Witness"
*106. STATUS QUO - "Down Down"
*107. STEELY DAN - "The Royal Scam"
*108. THE STRANGLERS - "Always the Sun"
*109. TALK TALK - "Desire"
110. TALKING HEADS - "Animals"
111. TAYLOR SWIFT - "All You Had to Do Was Stay"
112. TEARS FOR FEARS - "The Working Hour"
113. TEGAN AND SARA - "I Bet It Stung"
114. TELEVISION - "Marquee Moon"
115. TORI AMOS - "Your Cloud"*
116. THE TRAGICALLY HIP - "Thompson Girl"
*117. THE TURTLES - "Happy Together"
118. TV ON THE RADIO - "Wolf Like Me"
*119. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - "Run Run Run"
120. VIC CHESNUTT - "Thailand"*
121. THE WHITE STRIPES - "The Big 3 Killed My Baby"*
122. WIRE - "12XU"
123. XTC - "Easter Theatre"
*124. YAZ(OO) - "Nobody's Diary"
125. THE ZOMBIES - "Care of Cell 33"
Final note -- You may have noticed the absence of Nobel laureate Bob Dylan. This is not an oversight. I have always greatly admired Dylan, but I never really choose to listen to him. He is like Tarkovsky in this respect: an aesthetic blind spot, and definitely a Me Problem.
Comments
Michael Sicinski
I hope that by this point, the greatness of Marco Pirroni is beyond question.
Adam Ant's actual music was a victim of his image - hardly anyone takes him seriously now because they just remember goofy videos of him dressed as a pirate.
