In the soapbox newsletter this week while celebrating Beck’s Guero we talked about list making and rules for enjoying music, and the subject of top track one side ones came up. I promised my list and chiseled it down from these songs (using some rules of course!) to make my top five:
* "Straight Outta Compton" - NWA
* "London Calling" - The Clash
* "Bixby Canyon Bridge" - Death Cab for Cutie
* "Great Expectations" - The Gaslight Anthem
* "Changes" - David Bowie
* "At The Bottom of Everything" - Bright Eyes
* "Intro" - The xx
* "Blind" - Korn
* "Beautiful Day" - U2
* "Die Die Die" - The Avett Brothers
* "Floating Vibes" - Surfer Blood
* "Everything in the Right Place" - Radiohead
* "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes
* "Let's Go Crazy" - Prince
* "We Used to Vacation" - Cold War Kids
* "A More Perfect Union" - Titus Andronicus
* "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" - The Postal Service
* "Stuck between Stations" - The Hold Steady
* "Hangover Game" - MJ Lenderman
* "Prologue/The Dark Sentencer" - Coheed & Cambria
* "Steady, As She Goes" - The Raconteurs
* "60 Feet Tall" - The Dead Weather
* "Blitzkrieg Bop" - The Ramones
