Intermission: Missed/Overlooked/Outtakes/et al.
In some cases I cut because I realized I was just listing every song from a great album (Against Me!, DOOM, Spoon), or in a case like the Format I just do not listen to those enough to justify four or five slots on the list. By contrast, with my favorite band of the 2000s, Be Your Own Pet, I could've listed a dozen more songs if I didn't stop myself - during their brief existence they didn't release a single tune I disliked and most of them I loved. What became the deciding factor for what was included was whether or not I treated something as a great standalone single or part of a great album. Still, four or five of these should've been in the upper reaches and I could've easily switched 20 of these in for almost anything in the bottom hundred.
Here's the cutting-room floor, in alphabetical order for the author's sake, with no links:
(#1-10 on Friday, I promise)
Christina Aguilera, Mya, Pink and Lil' Kim - Lady Marmalade
Against Me! - Piss and Vinegar
Against Me! - Stop!
The Apples in Stereo - Go
The Apples in Stereo - Look Away
The Apples in Stereo - She's Telling Lies
Art Brut - Modern Art
Ass Ponys - Love Tractor
Badly Drawn Boy – Disillusion
Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around the Block
Be Your Own Pet - Bitches Leave
Be Your Own Pet - Creepy Crawl
Be Your Own Pet - Damn Damn Leash
Be Your Own Pet - Fire Department
Be Your Own Pet - Love Your Shotgun
Be Your Own Pet - Super Soaked
Be Your Own Pet - You're a Waste
Beck - I Think I'm in Love
Beck - Lost Cause
Frank Black - Strange Goodbye
Blitzen Trapper - Devil-a-Go-Go
Brand New - Jude Law and a Semester Abroad
The Breeders - We're Gonna Rise
Bright Eyes - Four Winds
Bright Eyes - I Must Belong Somewhere
Bright Eyes - Road to Joy
Bright Eyes feat. Emmylou Harris - Landlocked Blues
Chicks on Speed - Give Me Back My Man
The Coathangers - Don't Touch My Shit
The Coathangers - Dreamboat
The Coathangers - Gettin' Mad and Pumpin' Iron
Elvis Costello - Button My Lip
Elvis Costello - Daddy Can I Turn This?
Del the Funky Homosapien feat. Casual - Jaw Gymnastics
DOOM - Batty-Boys
Eminem - Big Weenie
Encre - Trouves-En Un Autre
The Format - If Work Permits
The Format - The First Single
The Format - Oceans
The Format - Time Bomb
Goldfrapp - A&E
Gorillaz - Dare
Hot Hot Heat - Running Out of Time
Hot Hot Heat - You Owe Me an IOU
Jay-Z - Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)
Jay-Z - Lucifer
Jay-Z feat. Eminem - Renegade
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Kelis - Milkshake
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
Lil Wayne - La La
Lil Wayne - You Ain't Got Nothin'
Ludacris - Get Back
M.I.A. - Pull Up the People
MC Paul Barman - Cock Mobster
Modest Mouse - Dance Hall
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything
Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
Modest Mouse - People as Places as People
Travis Morrison - Snacktime
The Mountain Goats - First Few Desperate Hours
Mr. Lif - Brothaz
Nada Surf - Inside of Love
No Doubt - Underneath It All
Old 97s - Book of Poems
Pernice Brothers - Automaton
Pernice Brothers - Saddest Quo
Pernice Brothers - Subject Drop
Katy Perry - Waking Up in Vegas
Phantom Planet - Raise the Dead
The Polyphonic Spree - Light and Day
Rilo Kiley - Breakin' Up
Rilo Kiley - Paint's Peeling
The Shins - Fighting in a Sack
Silkworm - Slave Wages
Ashlee Simpson - La La
Ashlee Simpson - Little Miss Obsessive
Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed
Regina Spektor - Fidelity
Elliott Smith – Memory Lane
Spoon - I Summon You
Spoon - All the Pretty Girls Go to the City
Spoon - Paper Tiger
Sufjan Stevens - The Dress Looks Nice on You
Sunny Day Real Estate - Killed by an Angel
System of a Down - Old School Hollywood
System of a Down - Streamline
Teenagers - Homecoming
Turbo Fruits - Lotta Lotta Ladies
Usher - Trading Places
Rufus Wainwright - California
Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy
Wavves - No Hope Kids
A Wilhelm Scream - Me vs. Morrissey in the Pretentiousness Contest (The Ladder Match)
The XX - Basic Space
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control