Here is my list of top songs from each year that I have been alive. This is definitely the hardest list for me to make personally, as there are so many choices from each year.
(I'm also going to give myself the alternative option because this list is so difficult to make)
1989- Love Song - The Cure
Alternative- Debaser - Pixies
1990- Soon - My Bloody Valentine
Alternative- Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
1991- R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Alternative- Give it Away - RHCP
1992- Friday, I'm in Love - The Cure
Alternative- Creep - Radiohead
1993- She Don't Use Jelly - Flaming Lips
Alternative- Mr. Jones - The Counting Crows
1994- Say It Ain't So - Weezer
Alternative- Closer - NIN
1995- Wonderwall - Oasis
Alternative- 1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
1996- Where It's At - Beck
Alternative- Dramamine - Modest Mouse
1997- Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Alternative- Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
1998- King of Carrot Flowers Parts 1, 2, & 3 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Alternative- Praise You - Fatboy Slim
1999- A Shot in the Arm - Wilco
Alternative - Sexx Laws - Beck
2000- Idioteque- Radiohead
Alternative- Mass Romantic- The New Pornographers
2001- Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Alternative- Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
2002- Oh God Sweet Jesuses this is hard
Jesus, Etc. - Wilco
Alternative - Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down - Interpol
2003- Apologies to Insect Life - British Sea Power
Alternative- Son Et Lumiere/Inertiatic ESP - The Mars Volta
2004- Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - The Arcade Fire
Alternative- Jacqueline - Franz Ferdinand
2005- Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
Alternative- A Nervous tic Motion of the Head to the Left- Andrew Bird
2006- Made Up Love Song #43 - Guillemots
Alternative- We Used to Vacation- Cold War Kids
2007- Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
2008- So Haunted - Cut Copy
Alternative- Ara Batur - Sigur Ros
This is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I never want to do one of these again. There are easily 100 songs that could have been on this list if it had been a different day.
What do you guys think?
