some of this stuff may look kind of obvious, but they're all classic, really important songs to me.

1. shellac - shoe song
2. neil young - down by the river
3. the birthday party - mutiny in heaven
4. bob dylan - idiot wind
5. richard hell - blank generation
6. the rolling stones - sway
7. the fall - hip priest
8. fugazi - 23 beats off
9. television - marquee moon
10. rapeman - monobrow

1. radar bros - on the line
2. minutemen - little man with a gun in his hand
3. neil young - cortez the killer
4.magnolia electric - farewell transmission
5. lungfish - the words
6. smog -rock bottom riser
7. roscoe holcomb - roll on buddy
8. leonard cohen - there is a war
9. neurosis - sun that never sets
10. talking heads - not in love


that's this week talking.

These are the first ten totally wicked songs that popped into my head.

1. "X Marks The Spot: Something Dull Happened Here" The Monorchid, Let Them Eat...
2. "Body Bomb" Unsane, Total Destruction
3. "Working Full Time" Constantines, Tournament Of Hearts
4. "Mechanical Man" CPC Gangbangs, Mutilation Nation
5. "Crusades" Fucked Up, Hidden World
6. "The Robots" Kraftwerk, The Man Machine
7. "Jock Gestapo" Born Against, Patriotic Battle Hymns
8. "Eric Sanford Powerslide" White Slaves, Demo
9. "Do You Like Me?" Fugazi, Red Medicine
10. "The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise" Devo, Duty Now For The Future

This was a lot harder than I thought.

1. flipper - get away - sex bomb baby
2. captain beefheart - pachucho cadaver - troutmask replica
3. public image ltd - poptones - metal box
4. suicide - frankie teardrop - suicide
5. lizzy mercier descloux - lady o k'pele - mambo nassau
6. les rallizes denudes - night of the assassins - heavier than a death in the family/live 77
7. nobukazu takemura - icefall - scope
8. big daddy kane - aint no half steppin - long live the kane
9. velvet underground - candy says - velvet underground
10. slint - good morning captain - spiderland

1) "...And We Thought Nation States Were a Bad Idea" - Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock

2) "You and You" - DNA - DNA on DNA

3) "Drastic Classicism" - Rhys Chatham - An Angel Moves Too Fast to See

4) "Trem Two" - Mission of Burma - Vs.

5) "Cut" - The Minutemen - Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat

6) "Fists of Love" - Big Black - Atomizer

7) "Prole Art Threat" - The Fall - Slates

8.) "Lick My Decals Off Baby" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby

9) "Live Wire" - Naked Raygun - Jettison

10) "Ever" - Flipper - Generic

Here's my list, though it's hard to define what's my top 10, since it always changes, like with everyone's top 10. But here are ten songs which I like for a long time now:

Silkworm - Caricature of A Joke
Silkworm - The Ram
Sonic Youth - Karen Revisited
Neil Young - Cowgirl in The Sand
The Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick
Shellac - Shoe Song
Man or Astro-Man..? - Planet Collision
Fugazi - Epic Problem
Fugazi - Caustic Acrostic
Slint - Washer

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone - Dopethrone
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night - Tonight's The Night
Crass - Shaved Women - Penis Envy
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - A Love Supreme
The Minutemen - History Lesson Part. 1 - Double Nickels On The Dime
Fugazi - Latin Roots - Steady Diet Of Nothing
Shellac - Billiard Player Song - The Rude Gesture a Pictorial History 7"
Bad Religion - Anisthasia - Against The Grain
The Pogues - Dark Streets of London - red Roses For Me
RAPEMAN - Trouser Minnow - Two Nuns, and a Pack Mule

1. Turbonegro-Age of Pamparius-Apocalypse Dudes
2. Bad Brains-I Against I
3. Riverboat Gamblers-Don’t Bury Me…I’m Still Not Dead-To the Confusion of Our Enemies
4. The Stooges-Down in the Street-Funhouse (it would be #1 if it had a better ending)
5. Dillinger Four-Let Them Eat Thomas Paine-Vs. God
6. Social Distortion-Telling Them-Mommy's Little Monster
7. The Bronx-The Will Kill Us All (Without Mercy)-self titled debut album
8. The Supersuckers-Goin’ Back to Tuscon-The Evil Powers of Rock and Roll
9. Fu Manchu-King of the Road-King of the Road
10. Sepultura-Ratamahatta-Roots

1. Neil Young - "powderfinger" - Rust Never Sleeps
2. Shellac - "billiard Players Song" - Rude gesture 7"
3. Jets to Brazil - "Sea Anemone" - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
4. The Broadways - "we'll have a party" - broken star
5. Dillinger four - "New Punk Fashions for the Spring Formal" - Situationalist comedy
6. The Band - "The Weight" - Music from the big pink
7. The Dismemberment Plan - "The Ice of Boston" - Is Terrified
8. American Steel - "Parting Glass" - Rogues March
9. Gravity Index - "the part that searches" - s/t
10. i-spy - "tell 'em big baby sent ya" - perversity is spreading...

narrowing this to ten meant leaving out a lot of songs that mean something too me including silkworm, propagandi, sean na na, five day messiah, television, pinhead circus and others, but that's ten

1. Sussudio
2. Only You Know And I Know
3. Long Long Way To Go
4. Don't Want To Know
5. One More Night
6. Don't Lose My Number
7. Who Said I Would
8. Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore
9. Inside Out
10. Take Me Home
11. We Said Hello Goodbye