Songs which, at one time, I believed to be the best work of popular music ever recorded.

• 1980: "Hello, Goodbye," the Beatles.
• 1981: "Revolution," the Beatles.
• 1982: "Point of Know Return," Kansas.
• 1982: "Come Sail Away," Styx.
• 1983: "C'mon Eileen," Dexys Midnight Runners.
• 1983: "She's a Beauty," The Tubes.
• 1984: "Do it Again," The Kinks.
• 1985: "Once in a Lifetime," Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense version.)
• 1987: "World Shut Your Mouth," Julian Cope.
• 1987: "Pilgrimage," R.E.M.
• 1987: "It's the End of the World As We Know It," R.E.M.
• 1988: "Happy When It Rains," The Jesus and Mary Chain.
• 1989: "I Bleed," Pixies.
• 1991: "I'm Waiting for the Man," Velvet Underground.
• 1994: "Odditty," the Clean.
• 1995: "Sinaloan Milk Snake Song," The Mountain Goats.
• 1996: "Judy and the Dream of Horses," Belle and Sebastian.
• 1996: "God Save the Queen," The Sex Pistols.
• 2000: "The Slow Descent into Alcoholism," The New Pornographers.
• 2007: "The True Wheel," Brian Eno.