WOXY Top 500 Songs of All-Time (2005)

1. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

2. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

3. The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

4. Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK

5. The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

6. Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven

7. Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing

8. U2 - New Year's Day

9. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe

10. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

11. The Clash - London Calling

12. Pearl Jam - Alive

13. Radiohead - Creep

14. Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

15. Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole

16. New Order - Blue Monday

17. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

18. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

19. The Police - Roxanne

20. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge

21. Jane's Addiction - Jane Says

22. Pearl Jam - Jeremy

23. Green Day - Longview

24. Beck - Loser

25. Faith No More - Epic

26. Nirvana - In Bloom

27. Blondie - Heart of Glass

28. The B-52's - Rock Lobster

29. Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right

30. Fugazi - Waiting Room

31. U2 - With or Without You

32. David Bowie - Space Oddity

33. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus

34. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

35. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?

36. Weezer - Undone - The Sweater Song

37. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life

38. The Smashing Pumpkins - Today

39. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

40. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Radio Radio

41. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away

42. Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

43. Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All

44. Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

45. Radiohead - Paranoid Android

46. Television - Marquee Moon

47. Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot

48. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

49. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

50. Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot

51. Talking Heads - Burning Down The House

52. The Clash - Train In Vain

53. The Replacements - Alex Chilton

54. The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

55. Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro

56. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding

57. Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink

58. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

59. R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

60. Beastie Boys - Sabotage

61. Pearl Jam - Even Flow

62. Public Enemy - Bring The Noise

63. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

64. Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up

65. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

66. XTC - Dear God

67. Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

68. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

69. Lo Fidelity All Stars - Battle Flag

70. David Bowie - Changes

71. Blondie - Rapture

72. U2 - Pride (In The Name of Love)

73. Gary Numan - Cars

74. Nirvana - Come As You Are

75. Pavement - Cut Your Hair

76. Modern English - I Melt With You

77. Blur - Song 2

78. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

79. Oasis - Wonderwall

80. The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane

81. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

82. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way

83. Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling

84. Modest Mouse - Float On

85. Talking Heads - Take Me To The River

86. The Cure - Just Like Heaven

87. Folk Implosion - Natural One

88. Nirvana - All Apologies

89. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Are Made of This)

90. Weezer - Say It Ain't So

91. David Bowie - Suffragette City

92. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

93. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

94. Beck - Where It's At

95. The Cure - Love Song

96. Elvis Costello - Alison

97. The Clash - Rock The Casbah

98. Primus - Tommy The Cat

99. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

100. Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

101. Green Day - Welcome To Paradise

102. The Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

103. Depeche Mode - People Are People

104. Bob Marley - Jamming

105. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

106. The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

107. The Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll

108. Weezer - Hash Pipe

109. Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box

110. Devo - Whip It

111. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

112. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust

113. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Pump It Up

114. U2 - One

115. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?

116. The Breeders - Cannonball

117. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

118. Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want

119. Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

120. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Head On

121. R.E.M. - The One I Love

122. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

123. Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia

124. Afghan Whigs - Rebirth of the Cool

125. Cake - The Distance

126. The Jam - Town Called Malice

127. The Cure - In Between Days

128. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

129. Radiohead - Karma Police

130. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

131. The Police - Message In A Bottle

132. Coldplay - Clocks

133. James - Laid

134. Squeeze - Tempted

135. Cracker - Low

136. Social Distortion - Ball and Chain

137. R.E.M. - Orange Crush

138. Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died

139. The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

140. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?

141. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

142. Pulp - Common People

143. Public Image Ltd. - Rise

144. Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You

145. Faith No More - We Care A Lot

146. Pixies - Gigantic

147. Oasis - Live Forever

148. Radiohead - Just

149. Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty

150. Killing Joke - Eighties

151. The Charlatans - The Only One I Know

152. New Order - True Faith

153. Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar

154. Violent Femmes - Kiss Off

155. The La's - There She Goes

156. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again

157. Soundgarden - Spoonman

158. Nirvana - Lithium

159. Soul Coughing - Screenwriter's Blues

160. Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

161. Interpol - PDA

162. The Replacements - The Ledge

163. Ministry - Stigmata

164. The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl

165. The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

166. Spoon - Everything Hits At Once

167. Gang of Four - I Love A Man In A Uniform

168. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

169. Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI

170. Cracker - Teen Angst

171. Living Colour - Cult of Personality

172. Weezer - Buddy Holly

173. Joy Division - She's Lost Control

174. The Church - Under The Milky Way

175. Green Day - When I Come Around

176. Tears for Fears - Shout

177. The Killers - Mr. Brightside

178. Public Enemy - 911 Is A Joke

179. Talking Heads - And She Was

180. Patti Smith - Gloria

181. XTC - Senses Working Overtime

182. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

183. Happy Mondays - Step On

184. The Police - Every Breath You Take

185. Muse - Time Is Running Out

186. Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

187. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime

188. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

189. Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way

190. The Smiths - Panic

191. The Shins - New Slang

192. The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death

193. Coldplay - Yellow

194. The Sugarcubes - Birthday

195. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up

196. Veruca Salt - Seether

197. Prodigy - Firestarter

198. U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky

199. U2 - I Will Follow

200. R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion

201. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground

202. The Jam - Going Underground

203. Afghan Whigs - Debonair

204. The Vapors - Turning Japanese

205. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

206. Pixies - Debaser

207. Cake - Never There

208. The Alarm - Strength

209. Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver

210. The B-52's - Private Idaho

211. Interpol - Obstacle 1

212. The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats

213. The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly

214. The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio

215. Rancid - Ruby Soho

216. Bob Marley - I Shot The Sheriff

217. Blondie - One Way Or Another

218. Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug

219. Talking Heads - Crosseyed And Painless

220. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

221. Social Distortion - Bad Luck

222. The English Beat - Save It For Later

223. Love and Rockets - So Alive

224. Urge Overkill - Sister Havana

225. The Shins - So Says I

226. Primal Scream - Movin' On Up

227. Outkast - Hey Ya!

228. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

229. The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes

230. Belly - Feed The Tree

231. INXS - The One Thing

232. XTC - Mayor of Simpleton

233. Modest Mouse - Tiny Cities Made of Ashes

234. Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love

235. Oasis - Supersonic

236. Tori Amos - God

237. Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain

238. Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

239. Nine Inch Nails - Down In It

240. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank

241. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

242. The Specials - A Message To You Rudy

243. Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone

244. Jane's Addiction - No One's Leaving

245. The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl

246. Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television The Drug of A Nation

247. L7 - Pretend We're Dead

248. Bob Mould - Sunspots / Wishing Well

249. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

250. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love

251. Billy Idol - White Wedding

252. The Replacements - I Will Dare

253. Pavement - Shady Lane

254. The English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom

255. The Stone Roses - Fools Gold

256. Sunny Day Real Estate - Pillars

257. Massive Attack - Safe From Harm

258. Elliott Smith - Miss Misery

259. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)

260. Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween

261. Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

262. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows

263. The Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker

264. Romeo Void - Never Say Never

265. The Police - Can't Stand Losing You

266. Sinéad O'Connor - Mandinka

267. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

268. R.E.M. - Stand

269. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives

270. Suede - Metal Mickey

271. Marcy Playground - Sex And Candy

272. Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey

273. The Smiths - Girlfriend In A Coma

274. The Jam - In The City

275. They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul

276. The Killers - Somebody Told Me

277. The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

278. Portishead - Sour Times

279. U2 - Bad (Live)

280. Meat Puppets - Backwater

281. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver

282. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

283. The Cure - Pictures of You

284. Cake - Rock & Roll Lifestyle

285. Björk - Joga

286. Tricky - Black Steel

287. Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer

288. R.E.M. - So. Central Rain

289. Dramarama - Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)

290. The Smithereens - Blood And Roses

291. The Replacements - Bastards of Young

292. The Pretenders - My City Was Gone

293. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

294. Sonic Youth - 100%

295. Modest Mouse - Polar Opposites

296. The The - Uncertain Smile

297. Tones On Tail - Go!

298. Juliana Hatfield - My Sister

299. The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon

300. Paul Westerberg - Dyslexic Heart

301. Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child

302. dada - Dizz Knee Land

303. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

304. The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button

305. Moby - Southside

306. U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

307. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

308. Urban Dance Squad - Deeper Shade of Soul

309. Belle & Sebastian - Your Cover's Blown

310. G. Love & Special Sauce - Rodeo Clowns

311. Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon

312. U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One

313. Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved?

314. Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days

315. Radiohead - Optimistic

316. The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat

317. Blur - Girls And Boys

318. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

319. The Cure - Close To Me

320. Royal Crescent Mob - Get On The Bus

321. The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So

322. XTC - Making Plans For Nigel

323. Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

324. Nirvana - About A Girl

325. Elastica - Connection

326. Pavement - Stereo

327. The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight

328. The Strokes - Last Nite

329. Soul Asylum - Somebody To Shove

330. Concrete Blonde - God is a Bullet

331. PJ Harvey - Down by the Water

332. Social Distortion - Ring of Fire

333. Pixies - Bone Machine

334. The Smithereens - A Girl Like You

335. Lush - Ladykillers

336. Shriekback - Nemesis

337. The Walkmen - The Rat

338. Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl

339. Beastie Boys - Sure Shot

340. New Order - Love Vigilantes

341. Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero

342. The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket

343. Dinosaur Jr. - Start Choppin'

344. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

345. Eels - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

346. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

347. The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends

348. New York Dolls - Personality Crisis

349. The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

350. The Stone Roses - Waterfall

351. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - The Message

352. Guided By Voices - Glad Girls

353. Liz Phair - Never Said

354. The Call - The Walls Came Down

355. Gomez - Get Myself Arrested

356. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)

357. The Jam - Start!

358. DNA / Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner

359. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

360. Enigma - Sadeness

361. The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women

362. Bob Marley - Redemption Song

363. The Velvet Underground - What Goes On

364. The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth

365. Soundgarden - My Wave

366. The Pretenders - Middle of the Road

367. Air - Sexy Boy

368. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

369. The The - Infected

370. Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

371. Jonathan Richman - Dodge Vedge-O-Matic

372. Ben Harper - Burn To Shine

373. Porno For Pyros - Pets

374. Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers

375. The Clash - This Is Radio Clash

376. The Presidents of the United States of America - Lump

377. Public Image Ltd. - Public Image

378. Talk Talk - It's My Life

379. Butthole Surfers - Pepper

380. Fatboy Slim - Praise You

381. Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now

382. Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong

383. Lou Reed - Dirty Boulevard

384. INXS - Don't Change

385. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

386. Suzanne Vega - Luka

387. Superdrag - Sucked Out

388. R.E.M. - What's The Frequency, Kenneth?

389. The Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic

390. Arrested Development - Tennessee

391. They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start

392. Yaz - Situation

393. World Party - Ship of Fools

394. Split Enz - I Got You

395. Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise

396. Black Flag - TV Party

397. Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me

398. Pixies - Alec Eiffel

399. Interpol - Slow Hands

400. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

401. Blur - There's No Other Way

402. Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

403. Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama

404. Sugar - Helpless

405. The Housemartins - Happy Hour

406. The Roots - The Seed (2.0)

407. The Shins - Caring Is Creepy

408. Robyn Hitchcock - My Wife And My Dead Wife

409. Papas Fritas - Way You Walk

410. Mclusky - To Hell With Good Intentions

411. Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)

412. Stereo MC's - Connected

413. Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumors

414. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves & the Dirty Ground

415. Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock

416. PJ Harvey - Good Fortune

417. Cornershop -Brimful of Asha

418. The B-52's - Love Shack

419. Big Country - In A Big Country

420. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

421. Pixies - Velouria

422. R.E.M. - Driver 8

423. The Verve - Lucky Man

424. Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself

425. The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers

426. The Stone Roses - Elephant Stone

427. Sinéad O'Connor - I Want Your Hands On Me

428. Snow Patrol - Run

429. Echo & the Bunnymen - Bedbugs and Ballyhoo

430. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Relative Ways

431. Doves - Catch The Sun

432. Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains

433. The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed

434. The Jam - That's Entertainment

435. Massive Attack - Angel

436. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

437. The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward

438. Ultravox - Vienna

439. Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop

440. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

441. Cake - Sheep Go To Heaven

442. Firehose - Flyin' The Flannel

443. The Sugarcubes - Hit

444. TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun

445. Björk - Human Behaviour

446. Wire - Strange

447. Ride - Vapour Trail

448. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap

449. Joe Jackson - I'm The Man

450. Bob Mould - See A Little Light

451. Berlin - Sex (I'm A ...)

452. Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade

453. The Arcade Fire - Wake Up

454. Concrete Blonde - Joey

455. The The - This Is The Day

456. The Special AKA - Free Nelson Mandela

457. LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House

458. Talking Heads - Stay Up Late

459. Sleater-Kinney - You're No Rock & Roll Fun

460. They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng

461. Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back

462. Secret Machines - Nowhere Again

463. Blur - Coffee & TV

464. A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

465. Pulp - Disco 2000

466. Crash Test Dummies - Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm

467. U2 - Mysterious Ways

468. Ted Leo / Pharmacists - Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?

469. Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere

470. Love and Rockets - No New Tale To Tell

471. Bloc Party - Banquet

472. The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing

473. The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums

474. Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake

475. The Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband

476. Doves - There Goes The Fear

477. Garbage - Stupid Girl

478. The Clash - I Fought The Law

479. The Velvet Underground - Heroin

480. Spiritualized - Come Together

481. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Elvis Is Everywhere

482. X - 4th of July

483. Eels - Novocaine For The Soul

484. Hot Hot Heat - Bandages

485. Guided By Voices - My Valuable Hunting Knife

486. The Art of Noise - Close (To The Edit)

487. Placebo - Pure Morning

488. R.E.M. - Superman

489. XTC - The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead

490. The Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon

491. Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes

492. Pixies - Bam Thwok

493. X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours!

494. Meryn Cadell - The Sweater

495. The B-52's - Planet Claire

496. Fountans of Wayne - Radiation Vibe

497. Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses

498. Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Hiway

499. Blur - Beetlebum

500. Delays - Long Time Coming