#97 The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

I like it when the beat drops and it makes me cry.

Also, This song reminds me of closing the coffee shop every night with my friend Hannah. We would lock the doors and play this song twice as loud as any other song. It's amazing how quick you can clean an espresso machine to this song.

Bohemian Like You - The Dandy ...

#97 - Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World

This song is the soundtrack to my high school friends and I piling into a Chevy Suburban filled to the brim with cases of Busch Light, cruising down the interstate with the windows down, our fists in the air, yelling out the lyrics (or what we thought were the lyrics), except for my friend Alec who always seemed to be screaming out 'YES!' like Marv Albert during the Jordan era. How this song always ended up being the staple song on our way up to a weekend of heavy drinking and debauchery at my friend's lake house I can honestly not recall. But it was, and though I haven't been up to the house in a good while now, and therefore have not really listened to Sweetness either, I can't put together this list without it.

Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World

#97 Kalvin, Elliott Smith - "Everything Reminds Me Of Her"

sometimes being in love is so stupid that you cant even explain how stupid it is.

luckily, Elliott Smith can.

Everything Reminds Me Of Her -...

Late #98 From Kalvin, Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles

The dudes voice. Can we just talk about the dudes voice?

I mean, is an old prophet and a basement dwelling, computer nerd singing to me out of the same mouth?

and in this song... he's mad.
it's like this character in a nightmare that starts out as a gentle squirrel with big, blue eyes
and then suddenly changes into this snarling, sharp-toothed monster, standing ten feet tall and judging you.

and thats what hooked me and keeps me loving this song.

In Circles - Sunny Day Real Es...

#98 - Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

This was one of the some 150 albums I pulled off the shared server of my dorm freshman year. So of course it sat on my computer untouched while I devoted my energies toward getting into The Shins. Fast forward six years later to the premiere of HBO's John From Cincinnati. I think I tried just as hard to get into this show, wading through all of its cryptic and mysterious bullshit, until I arrived at the final episode in which ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IS EXPLAINED. The show was canceled and I am left regretting each of the 10 hours I devoted to it... except for the opening credits of each episode where Johnny Appleseed plays over super 8 footage of California surfing.

This show brought me back to Strummer's album Global A Go-Go, which turned out to be pretty solid. R.I.P Joe.

Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strumme...

#98 Yeah Yeah Yeah's- Black Tongue

God damn you Karen O! Somehow you manage to be the cutest fucking thing in the world and tough as nails all at the same time. This was the song that first turned me on to the Yeah Yeah Yeah's and Fever to Tell continues to be one of my favorite albums of the past decade. Karen O's shrills, hand claps and good beats make this an all around great song. If I were to get a brand new cherry red 67' mustang, this would be the song I would play when I took the car for it's first joy ride.

Black Tongue - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

#99 Jens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina

Phone rings....

Hello? Nina? Wow, I thought you would never call. What's that? Thanksgiving with your family? Umm.. Uhh... What a surprise... of course I'll come with you. Yeah, I've gotta run too. I can't wait to see you.

Three Days Pass.....

Nina! Wow! You look amazing! I've been thinking about you a lot recently and I'm just glad you changed your mind about meeting up. Listen, I know we haven't hung out before or really ever talked besides that one time at the bar where I forced my number on you and then the other time when you called me to come to Thanksgiving with your family, but, listen... are you listening? I think I love y....wait... what? You have a girlfriend? like... a friend that's a girl? no? not like that at all? so let me get this straight... you have a girlfriend but your dad is super religious and would never understand so instead of breaking dad's heart you invited me to dinner to get them off your back about who you're dating? Will I do this for you? I mean, I am kind of hungry and you promised there would be dressing. Fuck It! I'm in!

A Postcard to Nina - Jens Lekm...