My friend Gary Chun reminded me he'd made a spotify playlist of this original list of songs, my votes for the best of the century thus far. The year was 2018 and now in 2025 Gary has asked me to update it.
1. "Bang Theory" - World Leader Pretend
2. "Sky Starts Falling" - Doves
3. "Pace is the Trick" - Interpol
4. "Sick Talk" - Wye Oak
5. "I'll Believe in Anything" - Wolf Parade
6. "Eyesore" - Women"
7. "The Hammer" - Thou
8. "Love Play" - School of Seven Bells
9. "Simple" - Gauntlet Hair
10. "Bluebird" - The Rapture
11. "Middle Cyclone" - Neko Case
12. "Bitches in Tokyo" - Stars
13. "Song of the Lake" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
14. "Musicology" - Prince
15. "Gravel Pit" - Wu-Tang Clan
16. "Skin Game" - Diiv
17. "1000 Deaths" - D'Angelo
18. "A Lot's Gonna Change" - Weyes Blood
19. "We the people..." - Tribe Called Quest
20. "Not Like Us" - Kendrick Lamar
21. "El Rito" - Destroyer
22. "You are the Blood" - Sufjan Stevens
23. "Piano Fire" - Sparklehorse
24. "A New Disaster" - Secret Machines
25. "Sweetness" - Jimmy Eat World
26. "Bastards" - Preoccupations
27. "Rodent" - Pharaoh Overlord
28. "Color me Badd" - Land of Talk
29. "The Most Beautiful Fear" - Laura Jorgensen
30. "I Like That" - Janelle Monae
31. "Somebody That I Used To Know" - Elliott Smith
32. "Trains to Brazil" - Guillemots
33. "Maps" - Julie Fader
34. "A Few Words for the Firing Squad" - Run The Jewels
35. "Tough Luck" - Eagulls
36. "Nothin' Left" - Death From Above
37. "Mission Creep" - Cheatahs
38. "On the Bus Mall" - The Decemberists
39. "Young Urban" - Ambulance LTD.
40. "One Armed Scissor" - At The Drive-In
41. "One of Us" - Wire
42. "Breakaway" - MSTRKRFT & Jahmal
43. "Pond Rot" by California X
44. "My Babe" - Spoon
45. "The Waves Have Come" - Chelsea Wolfe
46. "Angel Mom" - Jesca Hoop
47. "Kiss Me More" - Doja Cat & SZA
48. "14th Street" - Rufus Wainwright
49. "Human of the Year" - Regina Spektor
50. "Stadiums and Shrines II" - Sunset Rubdown
51. "Also Frightened" - Animal Collective
52. "Spook" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
53. "All These Things I’ve Done" - The Killers
54. "Dance in the Water" - Danny Brown
55. "Silence" - Portishead
56. "Fast Lane" - King Geedorah
57. "Hallelujah" - The Helio Sequence
58. "I'm With You" - The Stills
59. "Yeah Is What We Had" - Grandaddy
60. "Burnt" - The Futureheads
61. "England Will Just Not Let You Recover" - French Kicks
62. "Fix Up, Look Sharp" - Dizzee Rascal
63. "Changes (James Blake Harmonimix)" - Mala
64. "All Caps" - Madvillain
65. "The Ministry of Defence" - PJ Harvey
66. "1 Thing" - Amerie
67. "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt" - Final Fantasy
68. "Bows + Arrows" - The Walkmen
69. "Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men" - The Strokes & Regina Spektor
70. "Epizootics!" - Scott Walker
71. "Undiscovered First" - Feist
72. "People of the Sticks" - The Besnard Lakes
73. "Megalodon" - Mastodon
74. "Heart of an Animal" - The Dears
75. "She Found Now" - My Bloody Valentine
76. "Blackstar" - David Bowie
77. "Prayer for the Dying" - Lisa Hannigan
78. "Dead & Gone" - Zola Jesus
79. "Helena" - My Chemical Romance
80. "Because I'm Me" - The Avalanches
81. "Lotus Eater" - The Horrors
82. "Bird on a Wire" - Rogue Wave
83. "Spitting off the Edge of the World" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Perfume Genius
84. "Salvador Sanchez" - Sun Kil Moon
85. "Drowning" - Mick Jenkins
86. "Cosmic Bounce" - Madlib
87. "Scapegoat" - Kylesa
88. "While Oceana Sleeps" - Sparta
89. "Brill Bruisers" - The New Pornographers
90. Annihilation Affair" - Torche
91. "Freetime" - Kenna
92. "Emotion Sickness" - Queens of the Stone Age
93. "Ocean Planet" - Gojirra
94. "I Was A Lover" - TV On The Radio
95. "Doomscroller" - Metric
96. "Roxy" - Supergrass
97. "A Stone Would Cry Out" - Sam Roberts Band
98. "Motherfucker" - Faith No More
99. "This is Your Life" - Devin Townsend
100. "The Good, The Bad, And The Queen" - The Good, The Bad, And The Queen
