The 2009 Modern Rock 500
Artist Song
1 Pixies Where Is My Mind?
2 The Smiths How Soon Is Now?
3 The Clash London Calling
4 Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart
5 Depeche Mode Personal Jesus
6 Radiohead Paranoid Android
7 Violent Femmes Blister In The Sun
8 U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday
9 R.E.M. Radio Free Europe
10 Elvis Costello Radio, Radio
11 David Bowie Space Oddity
12 Radiohead Creep
13 Talking Heads Burning Down The House
14 Fugazi Waiting Room
15 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit
16 Television Marquee Moon
17 The Replacements Alex Chilton
18 Sex Pistols God Save The Queen
19 The Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated
20 The Cure Just Like Heaven
21 Pixies Monkey Gone To Heaven
22 Sonic Youth Teen Age Riot
23 My Bloody Valentine Only Shallow
24 New Order Blue Monday (12" mix)
25 The Clash Rock The Casbah
26 Talking Heads Psycho Killer
27 Radiohead Fake Plastic Trees
28 The Jesus And Mary Chain Just Like Honey
29 Sex Pistols Anarchy In The U.K.
30 The Breeders Cannonball
31 David Bowie Changes
32 Beck Loser
33 Jane's Addiction Jane Says
34 R.E.M. It's The End Of The World...
35 Husker Du Makes No Sense At All
36 The Cure Boys Don't Cry
37 New Order Bizarre Love Triangle
38 Patti Smith Gloria
39 The Clash Should I Stay Or Should I Go
40 Nirvana Come As You Are
41 James Laid
42 Lou Reed Walk On The Wild Side
43 Kate Bush Running Up That Hill
44 Jeff Buckley Last Goodbye
45 Radiohead Karma Police
46 Echo & The Bunnymen Lips Like Sugar
47 R.E.M. Losing My Religion
48 Pixies Gigantic
49 Pavement Cut Your Hair
50 Beastie Boys Sabotage
51 U2 New Year's Day
52 Violent Femmes Kiss Off
53 Bjork Human Behaviour
54 Jane's Addiction Been Caught Stealing
55 Elvis Costello (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding
56 The Police Roxanne
57 Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead
58 Nirvana All Apologies
59 The Stone Roses I Wanna Be Adored
60 Iggy Pop Lust For Life
61 The Velvet Underground Pale Blue Eyes
62 Pixies Here Comes Your Man
63 U2 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
64 The White Stripes Seven Nation Army
65 The Replacements Bastards Of Young
66 Joy Division She's Lost Control
67 The Cure Love Song
68 Radiohead Just
69 Beck Where It's At
70 XTC Dear God
71 The Jam Town Called Malice
72 The Stooges I Wanna Be Your Dog
73 Blur Song 2
74 The Police Message In A Bottle
75 Pearl Jam Jeremy
76 Modest Mouse Float On
77 The Postal Service Such Great Heights
78 Camper Van Beethoven Take The Skinheads Bowling
79 The Clash Train In Vain
80 The B-52’s Rock Lobster
81 Blondie Rapture
82 The Flaming Lips Do You Realize??
83 Buzzcocks Ever Fallen In Love?
84 The Replacements The Ledge
85 Beastie Boys Fight For Your Right
86 The White Stripes Fell In Love With A Girl
87 Pearl Jam Alive
88 R.E.M. Pretty Persuasion
89 The Dead Milkmen Bitchin' Camaro
90 Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out
91 Gang Of Four I Love A Man In A Uniform
92 Depeche Mode People Are People
93 The Smiths Panic
94 The Shins New Slang
95 The Verve Bittersweet Symphony
96 Elvis Costello Pump It Up
97 Portishead Sour Times
98 Wilco Heavy Metal Drummer
99 David Bowie Suffragette City
100 The Afghan Whigs Rebirth Of The Cool
101 Arcade Fire Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
102 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Maps
103 Siouxsie & The Banshees Cities In Dust
104 Patti Smith Group Dancing Barefoot
105 The Clash The Magnificent Seven
106 The Church Under The Milky Way
107 Modest Mouse Polar Opposites
108 Weezer Undone - The Sweater Song
109 Nirvana In Bloom
110 Interpol PDA
111 Blondie Heart Of Glass
112 Pulp Common People
113 U2 I Will Follow
114 Devo Whip It
115 Oasis Wonderwall
116 The Police Every Breath You Take
117 Bob Marley Get Up, Stand Up
118 New Order True Faith
119 Matthew Sweet Girlfriend
120 The Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop
121 The Velvet Underground Rock & Roll
122 Sonic Youth Kool Thing
123 Dead Kennedys Holiday In Cambodia
124 David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
125 Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime
126 The Jesus And Mary Chain Head On
127 Depeche Mode Enjoy The Silence
128 XTC Making Plans For Nigel
129 Squeeze Tempted
130 The Shins Caring Is Creepy
131 Cracker Low
132 Pavement Stereo
133 The Clash This Is Radio Clash
134 The Boomtown Rats I Don't Like Mondays
135 The Smiths There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
136 DJ Shadow Midnight In A Perfect World
137 The Dandy Warhols Bohemian Like You
138 The Psychedelic Furs Love My Way
139 The Cure Close To Me
140 Red Hot Chili Peppers Under The Bridge
141 U2 With Or Without You
142 Elvis Costello Alison
143 Roxy Music Love Is The Drug
144 PJ Harvey Down By The Water
145 The Flaming Lips She Don't Use Jelly
146 Smashing Pumpkins Today
147 Nine Inch Nails Head Like A Hole
148 The Dead Milkmen Punk Rock Girl
149 The Ramones Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?
150 Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
151 Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
152 Mazzy Star Fade Into You
153 Massive Attack Safe From Harm
154 The Replacements I Will Dare
155 Devo Girl U Want
156 Talking Heads Take Me To The River
157 The English Beat Mirror In The Bathroom
158 The Stone Roses Fools Gold
159 Gary Numan Cars
160 Nirvana Heart Shaped Box
161 XTC Senses Working Overtime
162 Public Image Limited Rise
163 The Afghan Whigs Debonair
164 Siouxsie & The Banshees Peek-A-Boo
165 Gorillaz Clint Eastwood
166 The Cure Pictures Of You
167 Red Hot Chili Peppers Give It Away
168 Interpol Obstacle 1
169 The Sugarcubes Birthday
170 Talk Talk It's My Life
171 The La's There She Goes
172 Pixies Debaser
173 Violent Femmes Gone Daddy Gone
174 The Smiths Bigmouth Strikes Again
175 The Shins So Says I
176 Elliott Smith Miss Misery
177 Peter Murphy Cuts You Up
178 R.E.M. Orange Crush
179 Elvis Costello Watching The Detectives
180 Talking Heads Life During Wartime
181 Sonic Youth 100%
182 The Ramones Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
183 Oasis Live Forever
184 The White Stripes The Hardest Button To Button
185 Arctic Monkeys I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
186 Radiohead Optimistic
187 Peter Gabriel In Your Eyes
188 Love & Rockets So Alive
189 Cracker Teen Angst
190 Spoon Everything Hits At Once
191 Built To Spill Big Dipper
192 Jeff Buckley So Real
193 Folk Implosion Natural One
194 Dinosaur Jr. Feel The Pain
195 Social Distortion Ball And Chain
196 The English Beat Save It For Later
197 Daft Punk Da Funk
198 Guided By Voices I Am A Scientist
199 Liz Phair Supernova
200 The Jam Going Underground
201 Dramarama Anything, Anything
202 Blur Girls and Boys
203 The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen
204 Belle & Sebastian Your Cover's Blown
205 The Smiths Girlfriend In A Coma
206 Wilco Monday
207 Living Colour Cult Of Personality
208 Beastie Boys So What'cha Want
209 Bob Marley Jamming
210 The Psychedelic Furs Pretty In Pink
211 Nirvana About A Girl
212 The Replacements I’ll Be You
213 Mission Of Burma That's When I Reach For My Revolver
214 Wall Of Voodoo Mexican Radio
215 Blondie One Way Or Another
216 Oasis Supersonic
217 Modest Mouse Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
218 Public Enemy Fight The Power
219 Faith No More Epic
220 Guided By Voices Teenage FBI
221 The Smiths Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
222 Veruca Salt Seether
223 Romeo Void Never Say Never
224 The Strokes Last Nite
225 Bob Mould Sunspots / Wishing Well
226 The Clash Lost In The Supermarket
227 The Jam In The City
228 Talking Heads Crosseyed And Painless
229 Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer
230 Modern English I Melt With You
231 The Cult She Sells Sanctuary
232 Silversun Pickups Kissing Families
233 Screaming Trees Nearly Lost You
234 Arcade Fire Wake Up
235 Yo La Tengo Autumn Sweater
236 Happy Mondays Step On
237 The Pretenders My City Was Gone
238 Beastie Boys Intergalactic
239 Concrete Blonde God Is A Bullet
240 Frank Black Headache
241 The Police Can't Stand Losing You
242 Peter Bjorn & John Young Folks
243 Depeche Mode Policy Of Truth
244 The Chemical Brothers Block Rockin' Beats
245 Devo (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
246 Blur There's No Other Way
247 The Rapture House Of Jealous Lovers
248 Tricky Black Steel
249 Tori Amos Silent All These Years
250 U2 One
251 R.E.M. Stand
252 Built To Spill Goin' Against Your Mind
253 Guided By Voices Glad Girls
254 Suede Metal Mickey
255 Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax
256 The Pogues Fairytale Of New York
257 David Bowie Rebel Rebel
258 Pavement Shady Lane
259 Urge Overkill Sister Havana
260 The Walkmen The Rat
261 Joe Jackson Is She Really Going Out With Him?
262 My Morning Jacket Off The Record
263 The Charlatans UK The Only One I Know
264 Elastica Connection
265 Sebadoh Skull
266 Red Hot Chili Peppers Higher Ground
267 Pearl Jam Even Flow
268 Smashing Pumpkins Disarm
269 Radiohead Street Spirit (Fade Out)
270 The Catherine Wheel Black Metallic
271 Robyn Hitchcock My Wife And My Dead Wife
272 Big Star When My Baby's Beside Me
273 Wilco I'm The Man Who Loves You
274 Soul Coughing Screenwriter's Blues
275 Beck The New Pollution
276 The B-52s Private Idaho
277 Depeche Mode Route 66 (Beatmasters mix)
278 Hot Chip Over And Over
279 TV On The Radio Staring At The Sun
280 R.E.M. Driver 8
281 Blur Coffee and TV
282 The Decemberists The Bachelor And The Bride
283 U2 Where The Streets Have No Name
284 Doves Catch The Sun
285 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Talk About The Blues
286 Bjork Big Time Sensuality
287 Nine Inch Nails Closer
288 MC 900 FT Jesus The City Sleeps
289 The Orb Little Fluffy Clouds
290 Tones On Tail Go (Club Mix)
291 Grandmaster Flash The Message
292 LCD Soundsystem Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
293 The Jam That's Entertainment
294 Interpol Slow Hands
295 Elliott Smith Waltz #2
296 The Velvet Underground What Goes On
297 Silversun Pickups Lazy Eye
298 Mclusky To Hell With Good Intentions
299 The National Secret Meeting
300 Grandaddy The Crystal Lake
301 Superdrag Sucked Out
302 Juliana Hatfield My Sister
303 The New Pornographers The Laws Have Changed
304 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
305 Hum Stars
306 Nirvana Lithium
307 Simple Minds Don't You (Forget About Me)
308 Tegan & Sara Walking With A Ghost
309 Midnight Oil Beds Are Burning
310 The Jam Start!
311 The Chemical Brothers Let Forever Be
312 Ministry Stigmata
313 Suicidal Tendencies Institutionalized
314 Supergrass Caught By The Fuzz
315 Weezer Buddy Holly
316 New Order Regret
317 They Might Be Giants Don't Let's Start
318 Vampire Weekend A-Punk
319 Eels Mr. E's Beautiful Blues
320 The Black Keys 10 A.M. Automatic
321 The Undertones Teenage Kicks
322 Muse Time Is Running Out
323 Morphine Cure For Pain
324 The Sundays Here's Where The Story Ends
325 Massive Attack Protection
326 Bright Eyes Lover I Don’t Have To Love
327 Pavement Rattled By The Rush
328 Ryan Adams To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
329 The Dandy Warhols Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
330 Depeche Mode Never Let Me Down Again
331 The Specials A Message To You Rudy
332 R.E.M. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
333 The Breeders Divine Hammer
334 Pixies Velouria
335 Killing Joke Eighties
336 Front 242 Welcome To Paradise
337 Peter Gabriel Shock The Monkey
338 The Cardigans My Favourite Game
339 Dinosaur Jr. Start Choppin'
340 PJ Harvey Good Fortune
341 They Might Be Giants Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
342 Royal Crescent Mob Get On The Bus
343 Public Enemy Bring The Noise
344 Tom Tom Club Genius Of Love
345 Ministry Everyday Is Halloween
346 The Stone Roses Waterfall
347 Air Sexy Boy
348 XTC The Mayor Of Simpleton
349 The Waterboys The Whole Of The Moon
350 Doves There Goes The Fear
351 Lemonheads Into Your Arms
352 Social Distortion Ring Of Fire
353 Nine Inch Nails Down In It
354 !!! (Chk Chk Chk) Me And Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard
355 Yaz Situation
356 M.I.A. Paper Planes
357 Pulp Disco 2000
358 Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party
359 Wire Strange
360 Squeeze Pulling Mussels From The Shell
361 Modest Mouse Ocean Breathes Salty
362 Belle & Sebastian The Boy With The Arab Strap
363 The Pretenders Middle Of The Road
364 Belly Feed The Tree
365 Weezer Say It Ain't So
366 The Cure Fascination Street
367 Art Of Noise Close (To The Edit)
368 Massive Attack Angel
369 The Postal Service The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
370 Broken Social Scene 7/4 (Shoreline)
371 Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
372 Band Of Horses The Funeral
373 Manic Street Preachers If You Tolerate This ....
374 Tears For Fears Everybody Wants To Rule The World
375 Radiohead High And Dry
376 Bettie Serveert Tom Boy
377 The Jesus And Mary Chain Sometimes Always
378 Bloc Party Banquet
379 Sleater-Kinney You're No Rock N' Roll Fun
380 Shriekback Nemesis
381 The Charlatans UK Weirdo
382 TV On The Radio Wolf Like Me
383 Liz Phair Stratford-On-Guy
384 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Red Right Hand
385 Stereo MC's Connected
386 The B-52s Love Shack
387 Sinead O'Connor The Emperor's New Clothes
388 Peter Gabriel Games Without Frontiers
389 R.E.M. Finest Worksong
390 Arcade Fire Rebellion (Lies)
391 Eels Novocaine For The Soul
392 The Buggles Video Killed The Radio Star
393 Rilo Kiley Portions For Foxes
394 Bob Marley Redemption Song
395 My Morning Jacket I'm Amazed
396 Ted Leo / Pharmacists Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?
397 Forget Cassettes Instruments Of Action
398 The National Mistaken For Strangers
399 Spoon I Turn My Camera On
400 MGMT Time To Pretend
401 The The This Is The Day
402 LCD Soundsystem Someone Great
403 Smashing Pumpkins 1979
404 The Decemberists 16 Military Wives
405 The Bears Fear Is Never Boring
406 Tori Amos God
407 Guided By Voices My Valuable Hunting Knife
408 Sleater-Kinney Entertain
409 L7 Pretend We're Dead
410 Black Flag T.V. Party
411 TV On The Radio Golden Age
412 Dada Dizz Knee Land
413 X 4th Of July
414 Iggy Pop The Passenger
415 Talking Heads Stay Up Late
416 Junior Boys In The Morning
417 Primal Scream Movin' On Up
418 Thomas Dolby She Blinded Me With Science
419 Split Enz I Got You
420 Doves Black And White Town
421 Radiohead There There
422 Stereolab Miss Modular
423 Brian Eno Baby's On Fire
424 Ned's Atomic Dustbin Grey Cell Green
425 The Jim Carroll Band People Who Died
426 The White Stripes My Doorbell
427 Beck Devil’s Haircut
428 Fleet Foxes Ragged Wood
429 Firehose Flyin' The Flannel
430 Smashing Pumpkins Cherub Rock
431 Julian Cope World Shut Your Mouth
432 Bjork Joga
433 Soul Coughing Super Bon Bon
434 Fatboy Slim The Rockafeller Skank
435 Suzanne Vega Tom's Diner (DNA mix)
436 Bloc Party Helicopter
437 Papas Fritas Way You Walk
438 Meat Puppets Backwater
439 The Vapors Turning Japanese
440 Lou Reed Dirty Blvd.
441 The Wrens Hopeless
442 Deerhunter Nothing Ever Happened
443 Echo & The Bunnymen Bring On The Dancing Horses
444 Roxy Music More Than This
445 Modest Mouse Dashboard
446 The Sugarcubes Hit
447 Gnarls Barkley Crazy
448 X-Ray Spex Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
449 Placebo Pure Morning
450 Elbow Forget Myself
451 Cake The Distance
452 Afrika Bambaataa Don't Stop...Planet Rock
453 Santogold L.E.S. Artistes
454 Ted Leo / Pharmacists Me And Mia
455 Social Distortion Bad Luck
456 The Nails 88 Lines About 44 Women
457 Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers Dodge Veg-O-Matic
458 Elvis Costello Less Than Zero
459 The Verve Lucky Man
460 Ride Vapour Trail
461 Arcade Fire No Cars Go
462 INXS Don't Change
463 Portishead All Mine
464 XTC The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead
465 Franz Ferdinand Do You Want To
466 Morrissey Suedehead
467 Coldplay Yellow
468 Suzanne Vega Luka
469 Kate Bush Hounds Of Love
470 Ra Ra Riot Dying Is Fine
471 Bob Marley Could You Be Loved
472 Cat Power Cross Bones Style
473 Pinback Fortress
474 Smoking Popes Need You Around
475 Rogue Wave Endless Shovel
476 Harvey Danger Flagpole Sitta
477 Sonic Youth Incinerate
478 New York Dolls Personality Crisis
479 Paul Westerberg Dyslexic Heart
480 Joe Jackson I'm The Man
481 Feist My Moon, My Man
482 The Specials Ghost Town
483 Death Cab For Cutie The New Year
484 World Party Ship Of Fools
485 Muse New Born
486 Buffalo Tom Taillights Fade
487 The Cure The Lovecats
488 Garbage Only Happy When It Rains
489 Lo-Fidelity Allstars Battle Flag
490 Luna IHOP
491 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Dig! Lazarus! Dig!!!
492 Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way?
493 The Twilight Singers Teenage Wristband
494 Big Country In A Big Country
495 Tears For Fears Mad World
496 Spiritualized Come Together
497 The Cloud Room Hey Now Now
498 They Might Be Giants Ana Ng
499 Fishbone Party At Ground Zero
500 Cut Copy Hearts On Fire


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