Everything. Hits at Once.

For those of you out there who with limited attention spans or who found my charming song based anecdotes too onerous or banal to read through, here is my 100 favorite song list, all in one place, with no elaboration or annotation. Print it out and carry it in your wallet.

1. This Must be the Place (Naive Melody)- The Talking Heads
2. Duk Koo Kim- Sun Kil Moon
3. Motorcycle Driveby- Third Eye Blind
4. I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams- weezer w/ That Dog
5. Tonight, Tonight- the Smashing Pumpkins
6. Ooh La La- the Faces
7. Only in Dreams- weezer
8. I Didn't Understand- Elliott Smith
9. The City- the Dismemberment Plan
10. Lady Liberty- Okkervil River
11. For No One- the Beatles
12. Busby Berkeley Dreams- the Magnetic Fields
13. Jesus, Etc.- Wilco
14. I'll Catch You- the Get Up Kids
15. A Stone- Okkervil River
16. Leif Erickson- Interpol
17. The Fairest of the Seasons- Nico
18. Everlong- Foo Fighters
19. Wooly Muffler- Harvey Danger
20. New Slang- the Shins
21. On the Bus Mall- the Decemberists
22. For Meg- On the Might of Princes
23. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight- the Postal Service
24. Lemmings- Blink182
25. Idiot Wind- Bob Dylan
26. Catamaran- Bear vs. Shark
27. The High Party- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
28. Jack-Ass- Beck
29. Brace and Break- the Thermals
30. I Spy- Guster
31. Twilight- Elliott Smith
32. 2Wicky- Hooverphonic
33. Always New Depths- Bloc Party
34. Pictures of Success- Rilo Kiley
35. Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods)- Desaparecidos
36. Smash- the Offspring
37. No Cars Go- Arcade Fire
38. Ashes to Ashes- David Bowie
39. Light Up my Room- Barenaked Ladies
40. Lullaby for the Sleeping Elephant- Mayday
41. If Winter Ends- Bright Eyes
42. Sparks- Coldplay
43. Promise- Pedro the Lion
44. Neverending Math Equation- Sun Kil Moon
45. Trying Your Luck- the Strokes
46. X-Static- Foo Fighters
47. Guess I'm Doing Fine- Beck
48. Epitaph- Badly Drawn Boy
49. I Want to Conquer the World- Bad Religion
50. Diamond Sea- Sonic Youth
51. Simple Things- Belle and Sebastian
52. Poison Oak- Bright Eyes
53. Dead of Winter- Eels
54. D.E.A.D.R.A.M.O.N.E.S- Modern Life is War
55. Waltz #2 (Xo)- Elliott Smith
56. The New Denail- The Good Life
57. End of the Line- Murder by Death
58. Icebox- Nada Surf
59. Rock Lobster- B-52's
60. A Picture Postcard- The Promise Ring
61. So Long- Rilo Kiley
62. Sweet Jane- Velvet Underground
63. Galapagos- The Smashing Pumpkins
64. Pool Shark- Sublime
65. Born of a Broken Man- Rage Against the Machnine
66. Via Chicago- Wilco
67. Bloodgiver- Bear vs. Shark
68. Mayonaise- the Smashing Pumpkins
69. Chapter 8- Seashore and Horizon- Cornelius
70. Sea Anemone- Jets to Brazil
71. Ben Folds Five- Missing the War
72. Only a Northern Song- the Beatles
73. Table for Glasses- Jimmy Eat World
74. Hey- Pixies
75. 80 Windows- Nada Surf
76. Idioteque- Radiohead
77. A Skeleton on Display- Now Its Overhead
78. Buses/No Buses- Bear vs. Shark
79. Don't Hate Me- the Get Up Kids
80. For the Enemy- Okkervil River
81. American Music- Violent Femmes
82. Alone Again Or- Love
83. Time and Time Again- Counting Crows
84. Anthems for a 17-Year-Old Girl- Broken Social Scene
85. La Cienaga Just Smiled- Ryan Adams
86. Excerpts From Various Notes Strewn Around the Bedroom of April Connolly- Cursive
87. Don't Think Twice It's Alright- Bob Dyaln
88. Scared Straight- The Long Winters
89. From the Trapeze- Mayday
90. Happiness is a Warm Gun- the Beatles
91. Problems and Bigger Ones- Harvey Danger
92. China Girl- David Bowie
93. Half a Person- the Smiths
94. Between the Bars- Elliott Smith
95. The Crystal ship- The Doors
96. Chinatown- Jets to Brazil
97. St. John the Divine- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
98. B-13- Jump, Little Children
99. Plans- Bloc Party
100. Inmates- the Good Life
101. A Certain Cemetery- Pretty Girls Make Graves