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Ok Mrs. Chili corrected me and said that she got the idea of the 100 songs page from Gerry’s blog, it’s all good! Write about 100 songs that you love!

100 songs that I love (in no particular order except that I listened to all of them recently!).

1: Your number is One – Rollins Band (I find it supremely satisfying when my old punk rock world meshes perfectly with my new spiritual one and this song totally makes me think I was right all along!)

2: Love is the Answer – The Showcase Showdown (I know it was intended to be a good old sarcastic punk rock song but the innate goodness of humanity shines through, love IS the answer no matter how you say it!)

3: Long Hot Summer – Tom Robinson Band (Tom was cool before it was cool to be cool – and still is!)

4: Self Portrait – Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow (“Paint me a picture of eyes that never see With flashes of lightning that burn for only me”)

5: Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright – Bob Dylan (I love the version by Mike Ness too, but Mike doesn’t quite capture the good natured sarcasm, babe, and wisdom that Dylan seemed to be born with)

6: Glendora/Going all the way – Slickee Boys (from the best album I ever bought at random, The Battle of the Psychedelic Garages)

7: Are You Gonna Be There At The Love In – Chesterfield Kings (another killer jam of the The Battle of the Psychedelic Garages album)

8: Stokin’ The Neighbors – Lagwagon (god, what a hilariously perfect punk song with a killer perfect 5 second punk rock solo)

9: Over the Hills and Far Away – Led Zeppelin (of course all Zep songs are good and at least a dozen could have made this list but this one especially makes me happy!)

10: Smalltown – Lou Reed (Lou totally nails this gem, “If art is the tip of the iceberg Im the part sinking below”

11: My Favorite Show is 90210 – Jon Cougar Concentration Camp (you know, watching tv isn’t the greatest thing you can do but it’s just tv, what sucks more than tv is when people think they are too cool to watch tv which makes this song even more punk rock, because there’s nothing more pathetic than liking 90210 except thinking you’re too good to watch mindless tv shows)

12:Everybodys Girl – Dwarves (another killer punk jam that references 90210 haha! such a great song! “We’ll lie in bed watching re-runs of Another World, just like a drunk ballerina stuck on a tilt-a-whirl” – classic! hear it on Youtube )

13: Suckers Intl. has gone public – Dillinger Four (their shit IS genius (to paraphrase their words!), as soon as I heard them I knew they were too good to be famous, great lyrics, great punk sound, damn great bass)

14: My Right – Screeching Weasel (“My right my life my soul my mind – My body my existence means – That I don’t have to listen to you – It’s my right cause I’m a human being”)

14 and a half: Lay It On The Line – Triumph (Me and Jim Holeman, my best friend in high school went up to Chicago to see Bad Company who sucked beyond measure which was disappointing, but Triumph, who was actually headlining, was the slickest most rocking perfect concert I ever had the unexpected pleasure to see, I’ve been a die hard fan ever since!)

15: Spiderman Theme – Ramones (if ever a band was born to do a theme song for a superhero it was the Ramones, Joey Ramone is my hero, there might not be real superheros but we don’t need them with people like him in this world)

16: Monsters – Pink Lincolns (Chris Barrows has the best punk style vocals ever – pefect punk song, if we had to explain punk rock to aliens this song would do it I think)

17: 1-2-3 Slam – Guttermouth (such a great song ’nuff said!)

18: Black Girls – Violent Femmes (like Led Zep all the Femmes songs are good, but this one is the most punk, it’s also the most weird and brilliant! hear it on Youtube )

19:News of the World -The Jam (great tune, great melody, great guitar solo – perfect!)

20: Gotta Pull Myself Together – Hi-Standard (cover of a cheeeeesy Nolans pop song from god knows when hehe the only band who ever did a cover of a Black Sabbath song I like better than the original, which is damn near impossible! but it’s Hi-Standard and they rule!)

21: Fighting Man – Ian Gillan Band (man, this song rocks hard and it’s a ballad! hear it on Youtube)

22:Fucking The Dog – GG Allin and The Scumfucs (man, that guitar sound is so perfect, not even Greg Ginn made his guitar sound so tortured – brilliant)

23:Depression (Dez Cadena version) – Black Flag (Dez Cadena might very well be the coolest guy in the world.)

24: Heaven and Hell – Black Sabbath (“the closer you get to the meaning, the sooner you know you’re dreaming” man what an excellent song!)

25: Till Then – Classics (ok so if you didn’t puke at GG Allin you’ll probably puke at this sickeningly sweet sentimental song choice,but I liked it the first time I heard it and it’s remained a favorite)

26: Whispering Bells – Del Vikings (I hope this is the last song I get to hear before I die I love it so much! i’m the guy doing hand claps along with this song in my car hehe!)

27: Bells in my Heart – The Spiders (New Orleans has a lot to proud of, and this 1950′s doo wop group is one of those things, I love love fucking love love (did i say love yet?) this song!!)

28: Dreams Come true – Sha Na Na (yes they wrote some originals too, and this cheesy 70′s over-orchestrated sappy ballad is so perfect “They laughed at my dreams and scorned all my schemes – but what will they say on that happy day when these dreams come true?” brilliant! and they are the reason why I can’t hate tv)

and speaking of dreams coming true i finally found the video i wanted to see for over 30 years now..
The Ramones on the Sha Na Na tv show yea!!!! I can die now!

29: The Vote Song – Sha Na Na (another original and brilliant perfection! hell, here it is, just remember that this is taken from my vinyl album so I own this mp3! and you are allowed to listen but not download or share it!

30: International Cover up – Rancid (it’s just so satisfying to sing along with Lint here “Back down no back down comin’ up – Rise up no rise up showin up – Lock down no lock down comin’ up – International cover-up” perfection!)

31: Freeze Up – Operation Ivy (Op Ivy were like Umpty candy, just too good to be allowed to stay on this planet *sigh*)

32: We Are The Road Crew (live) – Motörhead (Lemmy is the elected king of the universe in my sci-fi storys, humanity decided that he was the most fit to represent the best qualities of humanity and made him the king, which sounds huge but there are a billion humanoid races out there and most of them have left us in the dust in terms of technology, saving lives and souls and generally making us look like Johnny come latelys, but Lemmy makes us look good, when you’re cool enough to write a song that kicks ass about your roadies you should be the king of the universe, hell, Lemmy was a roadie for Jimi Hendrix which is cooler than actually being in Jimi’s band hehe!)

33: Love You To – Beatles (Wow, how could a Beatles without John and Paul on it be so damn good? Revolver is my fave Beatles album by far!)

34: Nobody To Love – The Nips (Shane MacGowan is another hero of mine, I’ll cry when he dies, I think I’d rather die first actually, he needs to be a really old cool guy)

35: Ride the Wild – Descendents (I know, Milo’s not even in the band when this early song was recorded but it’s so good and that solo is so excellent!)

36: #1 Hit Song – Minutemen (twinkle twinkle blah blah blah E T C hehe man, ol’ D. Boon has been dead like 22 years now and he still influences me and Biff Brown too…)

37:In The Ranks (of the totally cool) – Biff Brown (Biff rules ’nuff said!)

38:Charlie Mack/As we go/ Parents – Fresh prince and Jazzy Jeff (man, I had such high expectations for ‘I am legend” but it was just a another zombie movie, oh well zombie movies are cool, this block of tunes I ripped from the cassette as one long mp3, however, always makes me happy!)

39: Radio Station – Run Dmc (you wondered where Run was? damn be patient! God i love the Tougher than Leather album and seeing RunDmc in concert was literally an unexpected dream come true)

40: Running Free – Iron Maiden (it’s the most punk rock song that Maiden ever did – trust me, seeing Iron Maiden in 1983 was the greatest moment in my life (up until then anyway!)

41: Freewheel Burnin’ – Your Mother (who are you here to see tonight? Your Mother, man this Judas Priest cover totally rules)

42: Living At Home – Pornstore Janitor (a band that was suggested by a punk dude at the music store, maybe he remembered me from the porn store I worked at)

43: Forever In My Dreams – Teen Idols (god i love this song – “one place I know you’ll never die – forever in my dreams”)

44: Mannequin – Wire (I discovered Wire at random some years after they changed from old school punk to experimental new wave stuff, come to find out i liked their punk stuff better, but I still sing ‘drill drill drill” at random and lalalalalala from this song too hehe!)

45: Wham Rap – Wham (luckily I’m too old and punk rock to give a shit what you think hehe, god i love this song!)

46: Play That Country Tuba, Cowboy – Vandals (the vandals have such a variety of great songs from punk to this brilliant country song, I listen to this one all the time it seems!)

47: Diss / S.W.A.T (get down) – UTFO (hell, the odds of you ever hearing these songs are about zero but there was a brief moment when the Lethal album was the shit!)

48: Greg’s love Song – Swingin’ Utters (another punk lalalala song – kick ass!!!!!)

49: Trip at the Brain – Suicidal Tendencies (it’s ancient now, but i remember when it was brand new and being blown away, it’s still a kick ass tune with blistering solo’s)

50: Stay Positive – The Streets (there’s probably a million bands like this but somehow this is the one I found and listen to often!)

51: Chant A Psalm – Steel Pulse (they always makes me happy and feel connected with God – if Jesus actually did came back he’d be a Rasta, heck maybe he’s in Steel Pulse already…)

52: I Was Wrong – Social Distortion (man, who would have thought that Mike Ness would turn into such a kick ass poet? I mean we loved him in the old days but hell, he just gets cooler and cooler, he might be cooler than Lemmy and Bob Dylan one day, well, maybe!)

53: Jeane – Smiths (“we tried and we failed and I don’t believe in magic any more” – ha ha Jesus, if you only knew how hilariously poignant this song is to me, Morrissey is a genius)

54: I Wanna Be Me – Sex Pistols (I think this is the first song I ever heard that wasn’t merely pandering to my pleasure cravings “And now is the time to realize to have real eyes” I’m so glad I heard it when I did!)

55: This Town rocks – Saxon (it’s cock rock at it’s finest, it’s the musical equivalent of the movie Bloodsport and They Live hehe! – solo!!!!!!!!!)

56: Working Man – Rush (they have so many brilliant songs but this one has always been a favorite!)

57: Love is the Drug – Roxy Music (such a great jam!)

58: Lovers Live A little Longer/ kisses of Fire – Abba (the first band I was consciously a fan of. These two songs I ripped from my vinyl as one mp3 are the finest examples of disco in my opinion)

59:Riff Raff - AC/DC (there’s a picture of me in my senior yearbook (1984) wearing an AC/DC t-shirt next to my friend Jim Holeman who is wearing an Ozzy shirt, we are in the computer club, (according to the picture) but I can’t remember a single moment of that school activity, I remember that concert though!)

60:Heart to Heart – Aldo Nova (this makes me think of Dr. Danno and WMUW 88 plus where we were dj’s, I still have my lifetime FCC broadcasters licence yea! man, such a kick ass solo on this song, I’ve air guitared to it about 980,675 times by now!)

61: I Lost (my mind) – Angry Samoans (I totally love that whole album, and pretty much everything the Angry Samoans ever did, i hope someone spray paints their name all over the rock and roll hall of fame!)

62:Pig Iron – Anti Nowhere League (I think they are brilliant and this song in particular, it’s not really clever but it rocks and it’s punk as fuck yea! swweeet the video is here!)

63: Alice’s Restaurant Massacree – Arlo Guthrie (we used to play this song on the radio when we wanted a cigarette break, I don’t think I actually heard it in it’s entirety until years later ha! it’s really a classic and really makes a great point! It’s on my ipod and I’ve listened to it half a dozen times recently, it doesn’t get boring!)

64: Tie My Pecker To My Leg – Mojo Nixon (Mojo rules, I think the best concert I ever saw was him and Skid Roper at WC Dons in the late 1980′s – “everybody solo!!!”)

65: Secret Agent S.K.I.N. – Murphy’s Law (I saw them in a small club and to my amazement they were utterly tight musically, man that was probably the most unexpectedly perfect gig I ever saw, thank you!!!)

66: Jukebox Lean – New Bomb Turks (one of those instant favorites I play all the time!)

67: The Mess – Newtown Neurotics (I love this song, it’s a precious treasure to me, I feel like angels are taking me up to heaven for a quick visit while listening to the chorus and refrain of this song! ooooohooohoooh don’t be so slow, be like the Ramones GO man GO!!!!!

68: Lake of Fire – Nirvana (I was a Meat Puppets fan too but Kurt added an extra twisted element to this song that is already about as twisted as it could be – pure genius)

69: Don’t Give Up On Me – Badtown Boys (one of those instant favorite bands and one of those bands that never got famous luckily i have most of their tunes but still, they are legends)

70: We Ain’t Shit – NOFX (if there was ever a band that was destined to vanish without a trace it was NOFX, but goddamit if they didn’t go on to write about a hundred brilliant punk songs and become one of my favorite bands!)

71: Big Mess – Devo (I always do the robot dance when listening to this one – I love DEVO! and like NOFX I could fill a large amount of this list with their songs but, with the exception of Sha Na Na, because my first band was a Sha Na Na cover band hehe, I’ll not repeat any more bands!)

72: Another Girl, Another Planet – Only Ones (“you get under my skin but i don’t find it irritating” – sweet! I love this song!)

73: Donut Shop Rock – Doggy Style (first time I heard NOFX was on the Mystic 7 inch sampler with this song on it, I thought NOFX was the shittiest band on the whole sampler and this one the best!)

74: Stupid Maryann – Dead Milkmen ( they were the coolest band ever *sigh* )

75: Too Much Get Up And Go – The Bottletones (punks turned rockabilly geniuses, man, they were good)

76: Matchstick Men And Matchstick Cats And Dogs – Brian & Michael (L. S. Lowry was an awesome and utterly unpretentious artist and eventually beloved enough to have a cool song written about him – I hope I’m so lucky)

77: Zippedy Zum – The Chords (better than Sh-boom even!!!)

78: High Price on our heads – Circle Jerks (another classic punk tune with a kick ass 5 second solo!)

79: I’m Not Down – The Clash (such great song writers…how do you pick just one of their songs??)

80: 333 – Clyde McPhatter (nice, a banned uptempo 50′s R&B tune about a whore house haha! it’s such a happy fun tune too, Clyde rules!!)

81: I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag – Country Joe & The Fish (these guys, Arlo, Lennon etc were the reason my generation had punk rock, this song is so damn great!!)

82: Life Sentence – Dead Kennedys (all you care about is your career! brilliant! my life has been so much richer thanks to Jello Biafra! Youtube vid )

83: Belly Jean – McRackins (my fave by them and the perfect yin-yang companion piece to the Smith’s Jeane (see above), as this song is all about that feeling of love when you just fall in love and the world is perfect, you bowl a strike and you get two thumbs up from Siskel and Ebert, actually this might be one of my favorite songs ever, i can listen to it a hundred times in a row, and have!) You can hear a sample on amazon

84: Just Like Heaven – The Cure (it’s a great song and always reminds me of a bunch of great girls I know, and knew youtube vid here )

85: Endless Blockades For The Pussyfooter – G.I.S.M (man, gotta say I was surprised as hell to find this song even mentioned on the net let alone on Youtube. Randy Uchida was such a kick ass guitarist and Sakevi the best punk vocalist and artist ever! I actually played this song, uncensored, on fm radio in the 80′s hehe!)

86: Straight Jacket – Adicts (off the Punk and disorderly vinyl of course! brilliant! Youtube vid you know, three of my fave bands so far have people with black and white grease paint on their faces and none of them are Kiss haha! )

87: Punk Rock Song – Bad Religion (it rocks and they have their hearts in the right place – gotta love BR! vid here)

88: Kill The Ramones – Boris The Sprinkler (they rule…see a vid of them live here!)

89: Love Song – Damned (massively kicks ass watch below!)

90: Sonic Reducer – Dead Boys (such a classic punk song and always will be! watch it here)

91: Through The Fire And Flames – DragonForce (this is the song every metal head secretly wishes he wrote and the best metal video ever, this song is reason why there will never be an alien invasion, the cool aliens are so impressed with human guitar skills that they are protecting us from the evil ones)

92: What’s My Scene - Hoodoo Gurus (“am I crazy to believe in ideals?” makes me think of my friend Pamster, someone who was proudly her own scene back when this song was new)

93: Athena – The Who (one of those songs I end up randomly singing and then changing the lyrics to make myself laugh, great tune!!!)

94: G.I.Joe theme/Taking a shit/Sesame Street theme - Rigid Digits (from the Holy Catfish it’s Mississippi Hardcore cassette from mid 1980′s, these live tunes (from W.C Dons!!!!) are some of the funniest coolest and best examples of punk rock ever. Looks like the band is long gone or not yet on the net (there’s a different band with the same name out there) but I just want them to know that I’ve been a fan since that tape was released (in Maximum Rock’N'Roll of course! )

95:Banana Split Republic – False Prophets (“they’re running towards the river, escaping genocide, dodging the bullets of people on their own side, some of them could swim, others just drowned, when they reached the other side, Hondurans gunned them down” a powerful and melodic song I love)

96:Poop In A Jar – Hayseed Dixie (“in case I ever forgit, you’re just a piece of poop..” bluegrass never sounded so good! )

97:Buy Me A Condo – Weird Al Yankovik (“gonna sell me Bob Marley records, get me some Jackson Brown” it’s a toss up between this one or Dare To Be Stupid as my fave Weird Al song! I love Bob Marley too btw)

98:Something I learned Today - Hüsker Dü (that bass just kicks major ass and the wall o’ sound is brilliant, such power and passion)

99:99 Red Balloons – Goldfinger (this song is one of the reasons this site is 99daz.com, I love the original version by Nena and the 80′s punk cover by 7-Seconds but this version is perfect, in fact this might be my favorite song of all time.

99.9:99.9% Sure – Simon Webb (I know it’s a cover of a country song but I haven’t heard the original, I really like this song and listen it often!)

100:Kangaroo Juice – Raunch Hands (this was psychobilly before the word was coined hehe,  I sure wish I could see them in concert as I bet they’d be so much fun!)

101:I’m Super – South Park (tv show) (hilarious!)

102:Catch My Fall – Billy Idol (the original verson NOT the remake!)

103:Toady The Kid – Red Squares (he’s not a cold blooded man, he’s a cold blooded amphibian!)