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WOXY Top 500 Songs of All-Time (2003)

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

2. Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK

3. The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

4. Pearl Jam - Alive

5. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

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

7. U2 - New Year's Day

8. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

9. Jane's Addiction - Jane Says

10. Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right

11. Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

12. Green Day - Longview

13. Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven

14. New Order - Blue Monday

15. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

16. Pearl Jam - Jeremy

17. Radiohead - Creep

18. The Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll

19. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

20. U2 - With or Without You

21. The Smashing Pumpkins - Today

22. Bob Marley - Jamming

23. Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole

24. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge

25. The Police - Roxanne

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

27. Elvis Costello - Alison

28. The Replacements - Alex Chilton

29. Faith No More - Epic

30. David Bowie - Space Oddity

31. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

32. Blondie - Heart of Glass

33. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

34. Fugazi - Waiting Room

35. The B-52's - Rock Lobster

36. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away

37. Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All

38. Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

39. Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing

40. Beck - Loser

41. Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro

42. The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

43. The Offspring - Come Out And Play

44. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

45. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus

46. The Clash - London Calling

47. Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink

48. The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

49. The Clash - Rock The Casbah

50. Pearl Jam - Even Flow

51. XTC - Dear God

52. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?

53. The Breeders - Cannonball

54. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life

55. Modern English - I Melt With You

56. Talking Heads - Burning Down The House

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

58. Blur - Song 2

59. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

60. Nirvana - Come As You Are

61. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way

62. Afghan Whigs - Rebirth of the Cool

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

64. Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling

65. The Cure - Just Like Heaven

66. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Pump It Up

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

68. Green Day - Welcome To Paradise

69. Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

70. Lo Fidelity All Stars - Battle Flag

71. The Jam - That's Entertainment

72. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

73. Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song

74. Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot

75. Dave Matthews Band - What Would You Say?

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

77. Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot

78. Tool - Sober

79. Television - Marquee Moon

80. Gary Numan - Cars

81. Depeche Mode - People Are People

82. Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

83. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

84. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

85. David Bowie - Changes

86. Weezer - Hash Pipe

87. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

88. Beastie Boys - Sabotage

89. Anthrax / Public Enemy - Bring The Noise

90. Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box

91. The Clash - Train In Vain

92. Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

93. The Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

94. Blondie - Rapture

95. Alice In Chains - Rooster

96. Pavement - Cut Your Hair

97. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

98. James - Laid

99. Beck - Where It's At

100. Sublime - What I Got

101. Primus - Tommy The Cat

102. Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died

103. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

104. Cracker - Teen Angst

105. Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me

106. Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

107. U2 - One

108. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

109. Cake - The Distance

110. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust

111. Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween

112. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

113. Squeeze - Tempted

114. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Head On

115. Rage Against The Machine - Guerilla Radio

116. R.E.M. - Orange Crush

117. The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes

118. Folk Implosion - Natural One

119. The Police - Message In A Bottle

120. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

121. The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket

122. The Prodigy - Firestarter

123. The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

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

125. Everclear - Santa Monica

126. Live - I Alone

127. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

128. Cracker - Low

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

130. Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

131. Alice In Chains - Would?

132. Soul Coughing - Screenwriter's Blues

133. Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike

134. Coldplay - Yellow

135. The Cure - Love Song

136. Oasis - Wonderwall

137. Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

138. Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI

139. The Vapors - Turning Japanese

140. Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

141. The Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia

142. Royal Crescent Mob - Get On The Bus

143. Public Image Ltd. - Rise

144. Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You

145. Faith No More - We Care A Lot

146. The Offspring - Self Esteem

147. Radiohead - Paranoid Android

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

149. The Replacements - I Will Dare

150. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank

151. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

152. Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way

153. Social Distortion - Ball and Chain

154. Living Colour - Cult of Personality

155. Devo - Whip It

156. Killing Joke - Eighties

157. David Bowie - Suffragette City

158. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Radio Radio

159. Talking Heads - Take Me To The River

160. The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight

161. Foo Fighters - This Is A Call

162. Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

163. Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon

164. Tears for Fears - Shout

165. Lou Reed - Sweet Jane

166. New Order - True Faith

167. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

168. Romeo Void - Never Say Never

169. Blind Melon - No Rain

170. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

171. dada - Dizz Knee Land

172. The Charlatans - The Only One I Know

173. The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

174. The La's - There She Goes

175. Green Day - When I Come Around

176. Talking Heads - And She Was

177. The Sugarcubes - Birthday

178. The Church - Under The Milky Way

179. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside

180. Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up

181. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle

182. Weezer - Undone - The Sweater Song

183. Depeche Mode - Route 66

184. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

185. The B-52's - Private Idaho

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

187. Alice In Chains - No Excuses

188. Tool - Schism

189. Pearl Jam - Daughter

190. The Cure - In Between Days

191. Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl

192. U2 - Beautiful Day

193. Patti Smith - Gloria

194. Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want

195. Afghan Whigs - Debonair

196. Cake - Never There

197. Nirvana - In Bloom

198. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

199. XTC - Senses Working Overtime

200. The Alarm - Strength

201. The Smiths - Big Mouth Strikes Again

202. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime

203. U2 - I Will Follow

204. Veruca Salt - Seether

205. Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver

206. U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky

207. R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion

208. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up

209. Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar

210. Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey

211. BT / Mike Doughty - Never Gonna Come Back Down

212. Belly - Feed The Tree

213. Jack Johnson - Flake

214. Rancid - Ruby Soho

215. U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

216. Social Distortion - Bad Luck

217. Foo Fighters - Everlong

218. Violent Femmes - Kiss Off

219. The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats

220. Butthole Surfers - Pepper

221. Love and Rockets - So Alive

222. Oasis - Supersonic

223. Guided By Voices - My Valuable Hunting Knife

224. Urge Overkill - Sister Havana

225. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?

226. Eels - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

227. Rage Against The Machine - Renegades of Funk

228. Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl

229. Happy Mondays - Step On

230. Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

231. English Beat - Save It For Later

232. L7 - Pretend We're Dead

233. G. Love & Special Sauce - Rodeo Clowns

234. Weezer - Say It Ain't So

235. Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline

236. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?

237. Bob Mould - Sunspots / Wishing Well

238. Nirvana - Lithium

239. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

240. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

241. Moby feat. Gwen Stefani - South Side

242. XTC - Mayor of Simpleton

243. R.E.M. - Stand

244. The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women

245. Deftones - Change (In The House of Flies)

246. The Offspring - Gotta Get Away

247. Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love

248. Cibo Matto - Sci-Fi Wasabi

249. Radiohead - Karma Police

250. INXS - The One Thing

251. Soundgarden - Spoonman

252. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

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

254. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows

255. The Pretenders - My City Was Gone

256. The Bears - Fear Is Never Boring

257. 311 - Down

258. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

259. Sublime - Wrong Way

260. The Cure - Close To Me

261. The Police - Can't Stand Losing You

262. Weezer - Buddy Holly

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

264. Porno For Pyros - Pets

265. Sinéad O'Connor - Mandinka

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

267. Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs

268. The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon

269. The Pretenders - Message of Love

270. Nirvana - All Apologies

271. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

272. Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug

273. Depeche Mode - Strangelove

274. The The - Uncertain Smile

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

276. Massive Attack - Safe From Harm

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

278. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

279. The Jam - A Town Called Malice

280. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

281. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue

282. Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade

283. Talking Heads - Crosseyed And Painless

284. Björk - Joga

285. Tricky - Black Steel

286. Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days

287. U2 - Bad (Live)

288. Toad The Wet Sprocket - All I Want

289. Cake - Short Skirt / Long Jacket

290. Oasis - Live Forever

291. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

292. Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

293. The Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker

294. The English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom

295. Tori Amos - God

296. The Strokes - Last Nite

297. Sunny Day Real Estate - Pillars

298. Portishead - Sour Times

299. The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

300. Soul Asylum - Somebody To Shove

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

302. Meat Puppets - Backwater

303. XTC - Making Plans For Nigel

304. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love

305. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

306. Semisonic - Closing Time

307. Radiohead - Optimistic

308. The The - Infected

309. Paul Westerberg - Dyslexic Heart

310. Pearl Jam - Better Man

311. R.E.M. - Can't Get There From Here

312. Blondie - One Way Or Another

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

314. Nine Inch Nails - Down In It

315. Elliott Smith - Miss Misery

315. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

317. Superdrag - Sucked Out

318. Beastie Boys - No Sleep Til Brooklyn

319. U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One

320. Hole - Doll Parts

321. Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away

322. Urban Dance Squad - Deeper Shade of Soul

323. Better Than Ezra - Good

324. Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain

325. Lush - Ladykillers

326. Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

327. Suede - Metal Mickey

328. The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat

329. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

330. The Smiths - Girlfriend In A Coma

331. PJ Harvey - Down by the Water

332. Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me

333. Elastica - Connection

334. Jonathan Richman - Dodge Vedge-O-Matic

335. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?

336. Concrete Blonde - God is a Bullet

337. Smithereens - A Girl Like You

338. Joy Division - She's Lost Control

339. They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul

340. Cake - Rock & Roll Lifestyle

341. Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching

342. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives

343. R.E.M. - Driver 8

344. Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer

345. The The - This Is The Day

346. Ben Harper - Burn To Shine

347. Juliana Hatfield - My Sister

348. Robyn Hitchcock - My Wife And My Dead Wife

349. Fatboy Slim - Praise You

350. The Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic

351. Soundgarden - Outshined

352. Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumors

353. The Wallflowers - One Headlight

354. U2 - Mysterious Ways

355. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

356. Ben Folds Five - Underground

357. The Ass Ponys - Little Bastard

358. Tones On Tail - Go!

359. Live - Pain Lies On The Riverside

360. The Call - The Walls Came Down

361. Guided By Voices - Chasing Heather Crazy

362. Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine

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

364. fIREHOSE - Flyin' The Flannel

365. Foo Fighters - All My Life

366. Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero

367. New Order - Love Vigilantes

368. Papas Fritas - Way You Walk

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

370. Tori Amos - Crucify

371. Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

372. Blur - Girls And Boys

373. Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey

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

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

376. Split Enz - I Got You

377. Pavement - Shady Lane

378. Pedro The Lion - Rapture

379. Pixies - Gigantic

380. Radiohead - Just

381. Marcy Playground - Sex And Candy

382. The Smithereens - Blood And Roses

383. Trio - Da Da Da

384. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get

385. Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden

386. Coldplay - Clocks

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

388. The Replacements - The Ledge

389. The Velvet Underground - What Goes On

390. Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

391. Barenaked Ladies - Be My Yoko Ono

392. Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers

393. Cornershop - Brimful of Asha

394. Liz Phair - Supernova

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

396. Love and Rockets - Ball of Confusion

397. Concrete Blonde - Joey

398. R.E.M. - Superman

399. Indigo Girls - Closer To Fine

400. Soul Coughing - Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago

401. PJ Harvey - Good Fortune

402. Bob Mould - See A Little Light

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

404. The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket

405. Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child

406. Interpol - PDA

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

408. U2 - Walk On

409. INXS - Don't Change

410. Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

411. Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself

412. Dinosaur Jr. - Start Choppin'

413. Ass Ponys - Swallow You Down

414. R.E.M. - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville

415. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek-A-Boo

416. Nirvana - About A Girl

417. Afghan Whigs - Creep

418. Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

419. Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains

420. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way

421. The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another

422. Beastie Boys - Sure Shot

423. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sex On Wheelz

424. The Pretenders - Middle of the Road

425. They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng

426. The Prodigy - Breathe

427. Talking Heads - Stay Up Late

428. Audioslave - Like A Stone

429. Sonic Youth - 1

430. Meryn Cadell - The Sweater

431. Doves - Catch The Sun

432. Pixies - Debaser

433. Green Day - Basket Case

434. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

435. blink-182 - What's My Age Again?

436. Soundgarden - My Wave

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

438. Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade

439. Tripping Daisy - I Got A Girl

440. Supergrass - Moving

441. Soul Coughing - Circles

442. Love and Rockets - No New Tale To Tell

443. Poe - Hey Pretty

444. Guided By Voices - Glad Girls

445. John Mayer - No Such Thing

446. Spacehog - In The Meantime

447. The Housemartins - Happy Hour

448. Guided By Voices - Everywhere With Helicopter

449. Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song

450. Björk - Human Behaviour

451. World Party - Ship of Fools

452. Grant Lee Buffalo - Mockingbirds

453. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

454. Lou Reed - Dirty Boulevard

455. They Eat Their Own - Like A Drug

456. Machines of Loving Grace - Butterfly Wings

457. Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake

458. Ultravox - Vienna

459. Garbage - Stupid Girl

460. Timbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

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

462. Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong

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

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

465. Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu

466. Ben Folds Five - Brick

467. Guadalcanal Diary - Litany (Life Goes On)

468. Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

469. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Elvis Is Everywhere

470. Weezer - Island In The Sun

471. Smoking Popes - Need You Around

472. A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

473. Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men

474. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them for Me

475. Ben Kweller - Wasted & Ready

476. Blur - There's No Other Way

477. Talk Talk - It's My Life

478. Cake - Sheep Go To Heaven

479. Sea Ray - Revelry

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

481. Judybats - Being Simple

482. U2 - Gloria

483. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist

484. Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes

485. The Sugarcubes - Hit

486. The Smithereens - Behind The Wall of Sleep

487. Fountains of Wayne - Radiation Vibe

488. Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money

489. The All-American Rejects - Swing Swing

490. Guided By Voices - Surgical Focus

491. Afghan Whigs - Honky's Ladder

492. The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward

493. Clinic - Walking With Thee

494. Sugar - Helpless

495. Hot Hot Heat - Bandages

496. Ben Folds Five - Battle of Who Could Care Less

497. Over The Rhine - Give Me Strength

498. Wilco - Monday

499. Placebo - Pure Morning

500. The Vines - Get Free