48 Trips around the Sun: Cruising the summer of 2019 into the Torii Hunter Birthday

NOTE: For those who don't know... I name my birthdays after baseball players. I'm like that.

In 2002, the best part of the MLB All Star Game tie fiasco was Torii Hunter robbing Barry Bonds of a home run at the wall. As he's the best player to ever wear #48 and for his cool in that moment of everything that was wrong with baseball's midsummer spectacular (team's not allowing their players to go all out and players refusing to try since it was an "exhibition game"), this is my Torii Hunter Birthday.

I'm not saying we should play like Pete Rose on Ray Fosse, but c'mon (like Ke$ha says), try.

Whether you have Parkinson's or life is giving you the business, trying and having swagger goes a long way. Really.

"And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people

And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people

I never thought I'd need so many people."

NOTE: Past birthdays included the Jackie Robinson, Reggie Jackson, Pedro Martinez, Lee Smith, and Jack Morris Birthdays. Personally, I find it important to have a specific birthday since it makes getting older more fun than my depressive late 30s into middle age. After all, 50 is 2 years away.

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So what does 48 feel like? It feels a lot like 47 transitioned to be. My UPDS Parkinson's number dropped from 20 to 15 (60s are the numbers where disability issues really kick in). My roughest number was 34 after the pneumonia days. Now, being social and trying to be more active sees me at a really good managed number for 8 years since symptoms and all but 3 since diagnosis. I still button buttons and move around well enough in comfy boots and flow well enough in conversation. It's not perfect, but it's a start. Yeah, there's dealing with riding with others driving panic (I don't feel it when I drive), but medicine for management is helping with that, too.

I'm currently blogging and moderating HERE, as well, which I'm jazzed about.

I'm going to Puerto Rico next month.

I'm officially married to Heather for 10 years as of August 15th (why we're going to PR).

Work is going well. I feel like I'm helping people and making a difference.

I'm reading more. I'm learning more. I'm listening more I'm enjoying life.

Yeah... I'm trying and having swag... I think.

Yes, PD sucks, but it's made me more empathetic and hopeful for helping to create a better world. I'm not getting out of this one, but life is for living. We all end up in the same place, so we might as well live life full on while we can, as well as we can. In the meantime, give 'em hell!

So yeah... right now, 48 feels pretty good even if I'm going through diagnosis for asthma (more on that when the official diagnosis comes in September ; Though the tests say it's there, the doc has to say exactly how much). Another medication, another "so it goes." Keep living well. It's the best revenge.

I hope your lives are going well. Thanks for reading. See below for music and how it relates to my summer - with photos!

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So yeah... the summer of 2009 has been a crazy busy summer of doings that express what 48 feels like. Here's what's been going on since the last time I wrote for me as expressed in the soundtrack of 48.

1. Certain for Miles (Audiotree Session) by Cayetana

"When the world bears down on me, I laugh at its audacity."

2. Where is My Mind by Placebo

Something about being chased by fish while swimming in the Caribbean, which is where I'll be next month when my wife and I go to Puerto Rico for a long weekend to celebrate our 10th anniversary, which happened this month on August 15th.

3. Virgin by Manchester Orchestra

My friend Pete turned me on to them. This songs just builds and erupts. Love it! There's something that explodes with the lyrics about building "this house with our hands and our time and our blood... to fall downward and rust." It just seems atmospheric to all the world around the peripheral views.

4. End of Summer (Now I Know) by Front Bottoms

August rolls in, and I always find myself waiting for the end of the month to roll in. Since 1997, this has been school as a student, teacher, or adviser. As an adviser, it means that the volume of last minute enrollments subsides and I get back to having more time to make a difference for each appointment instead of "no classes left / limited class times left / next." Oh, and my birthday and the 1.5 hour massage I'm going for! Lomi Lomi!!

5. Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones

This summer, I finished up the first draft of Becoming a Monster (my New Orleans witchcraft / zombie story) and then I abandoned it for the time being when I knew I wasn't going to have a solid story in the time I had left to get it ready for Pennhurst's Paracon event. Additionally, it got way too dark, and I didn't know how hard R rating I wanted. Anyway, at the end, there is a giant wake / jazz funeral for characters that culminates in a live jam of this song, which is just fantastic. No matter what happens with that book, I'll be keeping this.

 6. Mermaid's Avenue by the Klezmatics

My wife and I went to the Mermaid Parade on Coney Island. It was a lot of fun, even if it was hot, standing there watching the endless parade of people comfortable in their own skins, being themselves. Part seaside celebration, part arts, part politics, and part pride event, it was a complete expression of the joy that is America, which in these times is so necessary.

7. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You by Bob Dylan

If you haven't heard the Rolling Thunder live tracks by Bob Dylan (and you're into classic rock), you should check out the Martin Scorsese movie about this tour on Netflix... fantastic! Many of the songs, like this one, are completely re-imagined.

8. Friend Like Me by Will Smith

The new Aladdin movie was actually pretty good since Will Smith went back to being Will Smith again, even if he had to channel Robin Williams to do it.

9. OO POO PAH DOO by James and Troy Andrews from Treme Soundtrack

Summer and wild jazz... 2 good things... like going to the pool to keep cool. My wife and I got pool memberships and hung out in the pool with her family July 4th. Life is good.

10. Feel Like Funkin' It Up from Treme Soundtrack

More summer and jazz... try not to be happy. If you need help, I'll get my nephew Dylan to build Legos with you and take a break to catch butterflies.

11. God and Country by The Thermals

Desperate times call for angry lo-fi punk energy. This whole disc is just so good if lo-fi punk energy is your thing. Granted, it's not productive, but it sure is cathartic when every day is one more thing that seems so ridiculously absurd. November 3, 2020.

12. Old Man Blank by The Lemonheads

I saw Evan Dando still trying to be the Lemonheads in June. For being 50+ years old, he was still pretty good, even if the last 27 years since It's a Shame about Ray have been rough. This was his best new song - a cover of Bevis Frond. Seeing as I saw them at the Chameleon in Lancaster, they broke out with "Dawn Can't Decide" and its reference to "makin' out" "just to pass the time" in said town. Yeah, it felt like being 21-23 all over again. He had quite the band back then (my 7th time seeing him or the band, not including the London show that went on too late, so I had to catch the train back before they came on).

13. Miami 1981 by Neutral Bling Hotel

This is what you get when you mix Neutral Milk Hotel (who finally released their digital downloads of unreleased material) with Pitbull (who we saw in July, and yes, he was that entertaining). Mixing "Mr. Worldwide's" booty shaking "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" with Jeff Mangum's Anne Frank tribute "Holland 1945"... all that. "1,2,3,4,undo, dos, tres, quatro... 2,1,2,3,4."

14. Mic Check (Remixes) by Max Tannone

From the guy who brought us Jaydiohead (Jay Z mixed with Radiohead), here's classic punk bands mixed with hip hop rappers. All 10 songs jam, but my favorite is the 2nd song, which is the Ramones mixed with Black Star ("Definition of Blitzkreig").

15. Which leads us to Jaydiohead's "Dirt off Your Android"

16. The Clansman by Iron Maiden

I could have made a 20 song list based just on their songs. Maiden is my go to listen right now. They played this song live when I saw them. Incredible. I like the newer long songs as much as the glory years when I was in 8th grade. The last disc (Book of Souls) is my right now favorite stuff. As for this song, it's about Scottish clans, not the American Klan. "Freedom!!"

17. The Crush by Magnapop

The Bob Mould produced Hotboxing album still holds up as good, if not better than, most discs since it came out in 1994. This song is great.

18. Good Day by Greg Street with the Nappy Roots

Whether hiking to the top of the Pinnacle (on the Appalachian Trail in PA), exploring abandoned tunnels in western Maryland, doing the all you can eat chicken thing, chillin' with Dylan, going to Longwood Gardens for the fountain show, or trying to find another Rumble Rumble Bear slot machine to win big at the casino, it's always a good day if you want it to be ("Ain't nobody gotta die today..." "save that trouble for another day!")

19. Birthday Song by 2 Chainz with Kanye West

This is NSFW. You're warned.

20. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Parody by Tituss Burgess

If 2 Chainz and Kanye being serious in the last song needs a super camp version as a remedy, it's Tituss. Too funny. One of the best shows ever... easily.

Parkinson's Month is Every Month around Here (AKA Longwood Gardens Tulips)

The month of April is officially known as Parkinson's Awareness Month. April 11th, this year, was officially World Parkinson's Day. Unlike for birthdays and Christmas, it would seem, we don't get presents for our day. If we do, mine are still waiting to be delivered on a 1980's style 6-8 weeks for delivery deal for the turn around in shipping and handling.

Nevertheless, we do get tulips as our official flower. More specifically, we get red tulips with a fringe of white, but since I have a month where nobody baked me a cake, much less gave me a gift card, I'm taking all colors for all of us who have Parkinson's or know someone that does.

That means that you win, too!

That said, it's not like I didn't get anything "extra" with PD. Comorbid conditions abound as Parkinson's is the gift that keeps giving. Since I've had it (symptoms 2011 - preliminary diagnosis September 27, 2016 - actual diagnosis November 1, 2016), I got way more than the standard tremors.

1) A whole lot of learning (25 of those things are HERE).
2) Hyperhidrosis
3) Lyme disease, though they just found that while looking for Parkinson's - it's the Great Imitator. This was my "biggest, bestest" free toaster for playing.
4) REM sleep behavior disorder
5) A 2-part battle with pneumonia HERE and HERE and concerns of aspiration pneumonia like swallow studies and shuffling off this mortal coil.
6) Bradykinesia concerns
7) Dystonia starting to take hold
8) Anxiety and mental overload concerns

And my family and friends got them, too! Bonanza!

So yeah... I've learned other things, too, but I'd rather not focus on that. I'd rather give you all tulips of empathy, support, and good vibes to brighten your day as you do mine when you read my writings or offer me support.

You're awesome!
If you like this article, please like my Facebook page to be updated with more essays as they post. I write about Parkinson's and the things that keep me happy, thus extending my quality of life, somewhere in stage 2.

These photos are from Longwood Gardens, which is outside Philadelphia. I took them 2 weeks ago, when my wife and I went to visit, as we do regularly (we get the year passes). Enjoy them and remember that Parkinson's is more than 30 days a year. Never stop educating and advocating!

Top 2000 50+ Years of Alternative Rock Mega-mix 1001-1500

For the better part of the last 5 months, I've been putting a 2,000 song mix together for my mp3 player. Adding, subtracting, organizing, and compiling into a flowing work, I'm officially done with it, but I still have to go through and type out the last 500, so here's the 3rd 500. Yes, I had to put this on 4 playlists (as my mp3 player will only do 999 song lists - who knew?). I've chosen this length for that and since each of the playlists begins with a version of The Pixies' "Where Is My Mind."

In compiling the rules for this, I've decided that an artist can only be in 1% of the songs, though if said artist appears solo instead of with a band or said person is featured on another person's song, that's different. For instance Ben Folds and Ben Folds Five and Ben Folds with Nick Hornby are 3 different entities. 

Yes, there are artists here that won't be alternative / indie / college / punk / new wave / grunge / industrial / hardcore / riot grrl / brit pop / emo / alt. country / whatever variation / genre that truly fits, but I've included those artists, too, since they feel representative here. Beside is Nirvana really alternative when they sold 30 million copies of Nevermind? That said, how could they not be on this list? What about Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against the Machine, and the Rollins Band?

Some, but not all.

Nevertheless, I have tried to keep bands that would be more metal to a different list, though it's hard to tell with some grunge. For instance, Motley Crue's first CD and a lot of the old Iron Maiden stuff is on independent labels, and they both rock like some of these bands, but their general sound isn't really "this."

For that reason, when it comes to 1960s / 70s music, I have used some glam type groups and cover songs of bands like The Beatles by groups that wouldn't be played on mainstream radio. If it weren't for the weirder Beatles and singers like Donovan, there wouldn't be music to the left of the dial. Thus, I've used this sparingly. 

I am adding new wave songs here since before 1980s music became hip, The Cure were not a radio band. For this reason, early Duran Duran, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Billy Idol type stuff does fit here.

Finally, I also tend not to put 2 songs by the same artist together unless they flow or I've always associated 1 with the other. 

So I'm left with about 640 songs, of which I will be digging them out of folders over the next month or so while compiling them into lists I'll be sharing as I listen to lots of stuff I haven't heard in years. 

Now, the question is whether to add an additional 500 for the end of the year...

1st 500 Song List (1-500)
2nd 500 Song List (501-1000)

1.       “Where Is My Mind” Trampled by Turtles

2.       “Parental Advisory” John Wesley Harding and Steve Wynn

3.       “See a Little Light” Bob Mould

4.       “Light and Day” Polyphonic Spree

5.       “Europe” Allo Darlin

6.       “Going Places (Acoustic)” Teenage Fanclub

7.       “2 Headed Boy 1” Neutral Milk Hotel

8.       “2 Headed Boy 2” Neutral Milk Hotel

9.        “Might Be Stars” Wannadies

10.   “Planet Love” Dylans

11.   “In Between Days” The Cure

12.   “Love for Sale” Talking Heads

13.   “Pretty in Pink” The Psychedelic Furs

14.   “Green Mind” Dinosaur Jr.

15.   “Debaser” Pixies

16.   “Sparky’s Dream” Teenage Fanclub

17.   “Last Train to Deathville” Deathray Davies

18.   “All of the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth” New Pornographers

19.   “She Thinks She’s Edith Head” They Might Be Giants”

20.   “Wynonah’s Big Brown Beaver” Primus

21.   “Learning to Fly” Foo Fighters

22.   “Going Away to College” Blink 182

23.   “Holiday” Green Day

24.   “Merchandise” Fugazi

25.   “Styrofoam” Fugazi

26.   “Not Superstitious” Leatherface

27.   “Easterman” Compulsion

28.   “Little Marks” Compulsion

29.   “Armenia City in the Sky” Sugar

30.   “Never Been Wrong” Waxahatchee

31.   “Silver” Waxahatchee

32.   “All Hands on the Bad One” Sleater Kinney

33.   “Rockaway Beach” Ramones

34.   “Movie Star” Cracker

35.    “The Feud” Front Bottoms

36.   “The Waterboy Returns” Modern Baseball

37.   “Sink” Brand New

38.   “Any Way” Moose Blood

39.   “China Girl” Pete Yorn

40.   “The National Anthem” Radiohead

41.   “Devil’s Haircut” Beck

42.   “You Were Lying When You Said You Love Me” New Fast Automatic Daffodils

43.   “West End Girls” Pet Shop Boys

44.   “24 Hour Party People” Happy Mondays

45.   “Getting Away with It” Electronic

46.   “Run” New Order

47.    “Disco 2000” “Pulp

48.   “Something Good” Utah Saints

49.   “Unbelievable” EMF

50.   “Dizzy” Wonderstuff

51.   “It’s On” Flowered Up

52.   “Don’t Look Back in Anger” Oasis

53.   “Wonderwall” Mike Flowers Pops

54.   “Right Here, Right Now” Jesus Jones

55.   “Leave Them All Behind” Ride

56.   “It’s a Fine Day” Opus 3

57.   “Strawberry Fields Forever” Candyflip

58.   “Stay up Late” Talking Heads

59.   “Genius of Love” Tom Tom Club

60.   “Groovy Train” Farma

61.   “The Only One I Know” Charlatans

62.   “Mr. Blue Sky” Electric Light Orchestra

63.    “Voice of Harold” R.E.M.

64.   “Breakfast” Eugenius

65.   “Indefinitely” Old 97s

66.   “Gone Daddy Gone” Violent Femmes

67.   “Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)” Icicle Works

68.   “Gene Autry” Beulah

69.   “James K. Polk” They Might Be Giants

70.   “New Lord” Elf Power

71.   “Sun Is Out” Apples in Stereo

72.   “Sunken Treasure” Wilco

73.   “Two Lovers” Rural Alberta Advantage

74.   “King of Birds” R.E.M.

75.   “Smile” Jayhawks

76.   “Losering” Whiskeytown

77.   “Texas” Magnapop

78.   “8 Ball” Waxahatchee

79.   “Walt Whitman’s Niece” Billy Bragg and Wilco

80.   “Airline to Heaven” Wilco and Billy Bragg

81.   “Leaving on a Jet Plane” Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

82.   “What You Do to Me” Teenage Fanclub

83.   “Witchdoctor” Sidewinders

84.   “If You Can’t Give Me Everything” Reigning Sound

85.   “Lost in the Woods” Pete and the Pirates

86.   “Bottled in Cork” Ted Leo and Pharmacists

87.   “Everywhere with Helicopter” Guided by Voices

88.   “Nice Nice” Lifter Puller

89.   “Sweet Payne” Hold Steady

90.   “Exit Does Not Exist” Modest Mouse

91.   “Find Time” Compulsion

92.   “Blueprint” Fugazi

93.   “Misty Mountain Blowtorch” Steel Pole Bathtub

94.   “Shit List” L7

95.   “Handsome and Gretel (Indie Top 20 Version) ” Babes in Toyland

96.   “Kerosene” Big Black

97.   “Jimi “ Butthole Surfers

98.   “Corona” Minutemen

99.   “Jesus at McDonald’s” Mojo Nixon

100.                        “Here Come the Bastards” Primus

101.                        “Staring at the Rude Boys” Dag Nasty

102.                        “Songs from an American Movie 2” Everclear

103.                        “No Reservations” Husker Du

104.                        “Everlong” Foo Fighters

105.                        “Not a Day Goes By” Leatherface

106.                        “Hate the Police” Mudhoney

107.                        “He’s a Whore” Big Black

108.                        “Break My Body” Pixies

109.                        “Don Henley Must Die” Mojo Nixon

110.                        “Hostile Mass” Hold Steady

111.                        “Don’t Swallow the Cap” The National

112.                        “I Don’t Care” A House

113.                        “Channel Z” B-52s

114.                        “Sex on Wheelz” My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

115.                        “God OD (Part 1)” Meat Beat Manifesto

116.                        “Geburt Einer Nation” Laibach

117.                        “Judy Is a Punk” (Demo)” Ramones

118.                        “Alec Eiffel” Pixies

119.                        “Walking on Sunshine” Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

120.                        “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver” Mission of Burma

121.                        “Academy Fight Song” Mission of Burma

122.                        “Strange Condition” Pete Yorn

123.                        “A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene” Okkervil River

124.                        “Goodbye Sweet Dreams” Roky Erikson and Okkervil River

125.                        “Land of Milk and Honey” Killing Joke

126.                        “Circling Overland” Front 242

127.                        “Stigmata” Ministry

128.                        “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” Revolting Cocks

129.                        “What’s the Frequency Kenneth” R.E.M.

130.                        “Fake Plastic Trees” Radiohead

131.                        “Casimie Pulaskie Day” Sufjan Stevens

132.                        “Carefully Try (Little People Version)” Polyphonic Spree

133.                        “I’ll Come Running to Tie Your Shoe” Brian Eno

134.                        “23^rd Dream” Elf Power

135.                        “Naomi” Neutral Milk Hotel

136.                        “My Own Private Idaho” B-52’s

137.                        “Peaches” Presidents of the USA

138.                        “Blister in the Sun” Violent Femmes

139.                        “Light to Follow” Polyphonic Spree

140.                        “Spacehead” Primitives

141.                        “Laid” James

142.                        “Rainbow Connection” Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

143.                        “The Ballad of Tom Jones” Space and Cerys Matthews

144.                        “Dead from the Waist Down” Catatonia

145.                        “You and Me Song” Wannadies

146.                        “For Love” Lush

147.                        “Life on Mars” David Bowie

148.                        “Times Like These (acoustic)” Foo Fighters

149.                        “Everlong (acoustic)” Foo Fighters

150.                        “Baby Blue Sedan” Modest Mouse

151.                        “Someday” Cracker

152.                        “Hands Together” The I Don’t Cares

153.                        “Try Not to Breathe” R.E.M.

154.                        “Green Gloves” The National

155.                        “Hold Me Now” Polyphonic Spree

156.                        “Birdhouse in Your Soul” They Might Be Giants

157.                        “Opus 40” Mercury Rev

158.                        “Tallulah” Allo Darlin’

159.                        “Bleeding Heart Show” The New Pornographers

160.                        “Over and Over” Blake Babies

161.                        “Super-Electric” Stereolab

162.                        “On Blue Mountain” Foxygen

163.                        “World Leader Pretend” R.E.M.

164.                        “The President’s Dead” Okkervil River

165.                        “Brain Tag” Bettie Serveert

166.                        “Mysteries of the Unexplained” Tanya Donnelly

167.                        “Mallo Cup” Lemonheads

168.                        “Like Dylan in the Movies” Belle and Sebastian

169.                        “Plateau” Meat Puppets

170.                        “Jesus Don’t Want Me for a Sunbeam” The Vaselines

171.                         “Lithium” Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer

172.                        “The Man Who Sold the World” Nirvana

173.                        “John Wayne Gacy Jr.” Sufjan Stevens

174.                        “Space Travel Is Boring” Sun Kil Moon

175.                        “Love Love Love” Mountain Goats

176.                        “I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar” Fleet Foxes

177.                        “Carry Me Ohio” Sun Kil Moon

178.                        “Fake Empire” The National

179.                        “Starman” David Bowie

180.                        “Clean Steve” Robyn Hitchcock

181.                        “I Wanna Destroy You” Soft Boys

182.                        “Add It Up” Violent Femmes

183.                        “Take the Skinheads Bowling” Camper Van Beethoven

184.                        “Tom’s Diner” Bingo Handjob

185.                        “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” They Might Be Giants

186.                         “I’m in Love with Your Girlfriend” Mojo Nixon

187.                        “Eurotrash Girl” Cracker

188.                        “Decatur” Sufjan Stevens

189.                        “Wuss” King Missile

190.                        “Pressman” Primus

191.                        “Something Soon” Car Seat Headrest

192.                        “Bored to Death” Blink 182

193.                        “These Important Years” Husker Du

194.                        “Whenever Your Breathe out, I Breathe in” Modest Mouse

195.                        “Lost” Meat Puppets

196.                        “I Fought in a War” Belle and Sebastian

197.                        “My Sister” Juliana Hatfield

198.                        “I’ll Do It Anyway” Lemonheads and Juliana Hatfield

199.                        “Some People Say” Allo Darlin’

200.                        “Changes” David Bowie

201.                        “Diamonds / Mild Devotion to Majesty” Polyphonic Spree

202.                        “Out the Window” Violent Femmes

203.                        “Neil Armstrong” Allo Darlin’

204.                        “I Love You, Honeybear” Father John Misty

205.                        “A King and a Queen” Okkervil River

206.                        “MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack” Joel Jerome

207.                        “Our Riotous Defects” Of Montreal

208.                        “The KKK Took My Baby Away” The Ramones

209.                        “Go” Apples in Stereo

210.                        “Inside a Room Full of Treasures a Black Pygmy Horse Head Pops up Like a Periscope” Of Montreal

211.                        “Where You’ll Find Me Now” The Viking Moses

212.                        “A Baby for Pree / Grow Into You” Neutral Milk Hotel

213.                         “Introducing Cosmic Space” Elf Power

214.                        “If You Were a Priest” Robyn Hitchcock

215.                        “Welcome to the Cheap Seats” The Wonder Stuff

216.                        “Sherriff Fatman” Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

217.                        “Kill Your Television” Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

218.                        “Mistakes Were Made” The Mendoza Line

219.                        “A Stone” Okkervil River

220.                        “Try Not to Breathe” Dashboard Confessional

221.                        “I Know It’s Over” The Smiths

222.                        “Time (Electric)” The Minutemen

223.                        “Caryatid Easy” Son Volt

224.                         “A Favor” Okkervil River

225.                        “Horseleg Swastikas” Silver Jews

226.                        “Heart Cooks Brain” Modest Mouse

227.                        “Burning Down the House” Talking Heads

228.                        “Holland 1945” The Viking Moses

229.                        “Higgs Boson Blues” Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

230.                        “Iris” The Breeders

231.                        “Dead Promises” Jay Farrar

232.                        “The Violence of Truth” The The

233.                        “Pink Turns to Blue” Husker Du

234.                        “We All Fall Down” Egg Hunt

235.                        “Give Me Back” Embrace

236.                        “Margin Walker” Fugazi

237.                        “Little Friend” Minor Threat 

238.                        “Nervous Breakdown” Black Flag

239.                        “American Waste” Black Flag

240.                        “Passing Complexions” Big Black

241.                        “I Don’t Need Society” Dirty Rotten Imbeciles

242.                        “Fortunate Son” Circle Jerks

243.                        “Dead Industrial Atmosphere” Leatherface

244.                        “Feed Kill Chain (live)” Jay Farrar and Canyon

245.                        “Stevie Nix” Hold Steady

246.                        “Blackness that Could be Blue” Electric Love Muffin

247.                        “Stuart” Dead Milkmen

248.                        “Precision Auto” Superchunk

249.                        “Under Your Influence” Dag Nasty

250.                        “Gray Cell Green” Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

251.                        “Say It with Flowers” Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

252.                         “If I Should Fall from Grace with God” Pogues

253.                         “Drunk Divorced Floozie” Mojo Nixon

254.                        “Orenthal James Was a Mighty Bad Man” Mojo Nixon

255.                        “Sri Lanka Sex Hotel” Dead Milkmen

256.                        “Dysentery Gary” Blink 182

257.                        “Ed Is Dead” The Pixies

258.                        “Why Does the Sun Shine (live)” They Might Be Giants

259.                        “Please Do Not Go” Violent Femmes

260.                        “Something You Ain’t Got” Cracker

261.                        “John Allyn Smith Sails” Okkervil River

262.                        “Taillights Fade” Buffalo Tom

263.                        “No Rolling Back” Jay Farrar

264.                        “One Fast Move or I’m Gone” Jay Farrar with Ben Gibbard

265.                        “On the Road” Jack Kerouac

266.                        “Girl in a Box” Blake Babies

267.                        “Tom Traubert’s Blues (Waltzing Matilda)” Tom Waits

268.                        “Tennessee” Silver Jews

269.                        “Bad Light” Built to Spill

270.                        “The Man of Metropolis Steals All of Our Hearts” Sufjan Stevens

271.                        “Temptation” New Order

272.                        “Tempted” Squeeze

273.                        “Bright Eyes” Allo Darlin’

274.                        “Kings and Queens” Allo Darlin’

275.                        “Do You Love Me Now” Breeders

276.                        “The Big Letdown” Mendoza Line

277.                        “Eulogy for My Next Lover” Brenda Kahn

278.                        “She’s in Love” Brenda Kahn

279.                        “Turning Japanese” Liz Phair

280.                        “Hey Mr. Gray” Bob Mould

281.                        “Life on a Chain” Pete Yorn

282.                        “Into the White” Pixies

283.                        “Holy Holy” Wye Ok

284.                        “Never Ending Math Equation” Modest Mouse

285.                        “The Golden Boy Swallowed by the Sea” Swans

286.                        “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Nirvana

287.                        “Eighties” Killing Joke

288.                        “Hellfudge” Lard

289.                        “Columbian Necktie” Big Black

290.                        “I Am Sam I Am” Steel Pole Bathtub

291.                        “Then Comes Dudley” Jesus Lizard

292.                        “Wire Mother” Alice Donut

293.                        “Cats Sex and Nazis” Nomeansno

294.                        “We Care a Lot” Faith No More

295.                        “I Should Have” Electric Love Muffin

296.                        “Nothing Like” Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

297.                        “Jesus of Suburbia / City of the Damned / I Don’t Care” Green Day

298.                        “Rambler Song” Shellac

299.                        “Everlasting Scream” Elf Power

300.                        “Here Comes the War” New Model Army

301.                        “Low” Jawbox

302.                        “I Don’t Sleep I Dream” R.E.M.

303.                        “Steady Diet” Fugazi

304.                        “If Marcus Garvey Dies, Marcus Garvey Lives” Piebald

305.                        “Ice of Boston” Dismemberment Plan

306.                        “Pink Chimneys” Promise Ring

307.                        “Caring is Creepy” The Shins

308.                        “I Lost My Taste” Mendoza Line

309.                        “Hard to Find” Cloud Nothings and Wavves

310.                        “Loose” The Stooges

311.                        “A Life of Arctic Sounds” Modest Mouse

312.                        “On with the Show” Get Up Kids

313.                        “No Children” Mountain Goats

314.                        “Sam Stone” Evan Dando

315.                        “The War Criminal Rises and Speaks”

316.                        “Hallelujah” Jeff Buckley

317.                        “Shoot Out the Lights” Richard and Linda Thompson

318.                        “Shitloads of Money” Liz Phair

319.                        “Bohemian Rhapsody” The Flaming Lips

320.                        “Jesus Was Way Cool” King Missile

321.                        “Nostalgia” Cracker

322.                        “Doesn’t Have to Be This Way” Jay Farrar

323.                        “Windfall” Son Volt

324.                        “Looking for Space” Evan Dando

325.                        “Summer Wine” Evan Dando and Sabrina Brooke

326.                        “Curse of the I5 Corridor” Neko Case with Mark Lanegan

327.                        “Summer of Drugs” Victoria Williams

328.                        “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” Victoria Williams and the Williams Brothers

329.                        “Hello in There (live)” Bingo Hand Job

330.                        “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (live)” Bingo Hand Job

331.                        “Hazey Jane Part 2” Nick Drake

332.                        “Tomorrow Never Knows” The Beatles

333.                        “Interstellar Overdrive” Pink Floyd

334.                        “White Light / White Heat” Velvet Underground

335.                        “Something Must Break” Joy Division

336.                        “Nosferatu Man” Slint

337.                        “Popular” Nada Surf

338.                        “River Euphrates” The Pixies

339.                        “Coal Surge” Smudge

340.                        “Flashlight” Fuzzy

341.                        “New Slang” The Shins

342.                        “One By One All Day” The Shins

343.                        “Half a World Away (live)” Bingo Hand Job

344.                        “Pour Some Sugar on Me” Emm Gryner

345.                        “Guarded by Monkeys” Cracker

346.                        “King” Belly

347.                        “In Betweener” Sleeper

348.                        “Swallow” Sleeper

349.                        “Hospital” The Lemonheads

350.                        “A Girl Like You” Edwyn Collins

351.                        “Shut Up and Kiss Me” Angel Olsen

352.                        “Here’s Where the Story Ends” The Sundays

353.                        “Be My Angel”  Mazzy Star

354.                        “Sometimes Always” Jesus and Mary Chain and Hope Sandoval

355.                        “She’s My Baby” Mazzy Star

356.                        “Does This Hurt” Boo Radleys

357.                        “After All the Roads Have Led to Nowhere (live)” Sugar

358.                        “Beercan” Beck

359.                        “Standing outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand” Primitive Love Gods

360.                        “Go” Tones on Tail

361.                        “Yin and Yang the Flowerpot Man” Love and Rockets

362.                        “Afraid of Anyone” The National

363.                        “Headhunter V 1.0” Front 242

364.                        “Sympathy for the Devil (Who Killed the Kennedys)” Laibach

365.                        “Smear Body” Nitzer Ebb

366.                        “Armenia” Einsturzende Neubauten

367.                        “Wish” Nine Inch Nails

368.                        “Supernaut” 1000 Homo DJs

369.                        “Mate, Spawn, and Die” Lard

370.                        “Clean As a Thistle” Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo Bay School of Medicine

371.                        “I Got the Fear Part 1” Meat Beat Manifesto

372.                        “No Name No Slogan” Acid Horse

373.                        “Rubber Glove Seduction” PTP

374.                        “15 Minutes of Fame” Sheep on Drugs

375.                        “Public Image” Public Image Limited

376.                        “The House That Heaven Built” Japandroids

377.                        “Love Removal Machine” The Cult

378.                        “More Human Than Human” White Zombie

379.                        “Just One Fix” Ministry

380.                        “More and Faster” KMFDM

381.                        “Move Seoul” Dessau

382.                        “Smothered Hope” Skinny Puppy

383.                        “Isolation” Joy Division

384.                        “The Colosseum Crash” A Split Second

385.                        “Join in the Chant” Nitzer Ebb

386.                        “UAIOE” KMFDM

387.                        “Thumb Thumb” KMFDM

388.                        “No No Man Part 1” Steven Jesse Bernstein

389.                        “No No Man Part 2” Steven Jesse Bernstein

390.                        “Disconnect” Rollins Band

391.                        “Countless Backs of Sad Sad Losers” Jesus Lizard

392.                        “Doris” Shellac

393.                        “Heavy Like a Witch” All Them Witches

394.                        “She’s in Parties” Bauhaus

395.                        “Haunted When the Minutes Drag” Love and Rockets

396.                        “Over Everything” Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile

397.                        “Time to Pretend (live)” Jonsi

398.                        “I Think You Were in My Profile Picture Once” Modern Baseball

399.                        “Dream Song” Ben Gibbard

400.                        “Stratford on Guy” Liz Phair

401.                        “Strange Loop” Liz Phair

402.                        “Voices Carry” Til Tuesday

403.                        “Rory Rides Me Raw” The Vaselines

404.                        “Ugly Just Like Me” Smudge

405.                        “Candyfloss (Alternate)” Wilco

406.                        “Eye of Fatima Part 1” Camper Van Beethoven

407.                        “All You Need Is Drums to Start a Dance Party” Piebald

408.                        “Heartspark Dollar Sign” Everclear

409.                        “Heroin Girl” Everclear

410.                        “Violet” Hole

411.                        “Float On” Modest Mouse

412.                        “Wolfman” The Front Bottoms

413.                        “Beer Ain’t Drinkin’” Mojo Nixon

414.                         “Wear Me Out Loud” The I Don’t Cares

415.                         “Sex (I’m a)“ Berlin

416.                        “I Touch Myself” Genitorturers

417.                        “What’s inside a Girl” The Cramps

418.                        “Bikini Girls with Machine Guns” The Cramps

419.                        “Rebel Girl” Bikini Girl

420.                        “Big Bad Baby Pig Squeal” Silverfish

421.                        “Drug Raid at 4AM” Lard

422.                        “Chard” Sheep on Drugs

423.                        “Hurricane Fighter Plane” Alien Sex Fiend

424.                        “Godlike” KMFDM

425.                        “Tin Omen” Skinny Puppy

426.                        “Faster Than Light” Lead into Gold

427.                        “No Bunny” Pailhead

428.                        “Fool” Rollins Band

429.                        “Mildred Pierce” Sonic Youth

430.                        “Bodies” Sex Pistols

431.                         “The Sport Part 1”Steven Jesse Bernstein

432.                        “The Sport Part 2”Steven Jesse Bernstein

433.                         “Love Like Blood” Killing Joke

434.                        “Talking Shit about a Pretty Sunset” Modest Mouse

435.                        “Whenever You See Fit” Modest Mouse with 764-HERO

436.                        “I Remember California” R.E.M.

437.                        “Bel Air” Old 97s

438.                        “Big Star” The Jayhawks

439.                        “Waiting to Derail” Whiskeytown

440.                        “November Rain (live)” Amos Lee

441.                        “Seven Sisters” Rainer Maria

442.                        “Dead Weight” Mimicking Birds

443.                        “Space Oddity” David Bowie

444.                        “Sick of Goodbyes” Sparklehorse

445.                        “Tania” Camper Van Beethoven

446.                        “Frankly Mr. Shenkley” The Smiths

447.                        “In Praise of Sha Na Na” Dead Milkmen

448.                        “Howling at the Moon (Sha La La)” Ramones

449.                        “It’ll Be The Same Without You” Mendoza Line

450.                        “Looking Like You Just Woke Up” The Front Bottoms

451.                        “Glorious” Everclear

452.                        “Start a War” The National

453.                        “I Know There’s A Answer” Sonic Youth

454.                        “Take Stuff from Work” King Missile

455.                        “I Am the Greatest” A House

456.                        “Once in a Lifetime” Talking Heads

457.                        “California Zephyr” Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard

458.                        “The Ballad of El Goodo” Big Star

459.                        “13” Big Star

460.                        “Haywire” The Jayhawks

461.                        “Plain View” Amos Lee

462.                        “The Passenger” Iggy Pop

463.                        “Sidewalk” Built to Spill

464.                        “Carver’s” Poster Children

465.                        “Little Babies” Sleater Kinney

466.                        “Dollars to Donuts” Mendoza Line

467.                        “Generational Spokesmodel” Mudhoney

468.                        “Paranoid Android” Radiohead

469.                        “Civillian” Wye Oak

470.                        “Say Goodbye” Throwing Muses

471.                        “Sad Dress” Belly

472.                        “Deathly” Aimee Mann

473.                        “The Metro” Berlin

474.                        “Safety Dance” Men Without Hats

475.                        “99 Red Balloons” Nena

476.                        “I Ran” A Flock of Seagulls

477.                        “Girls on Film” Duran Duran

478.                        “Suburbia” Pet Shop Boys

479.                        “Ever Falling in Love” Times New Viking

480.                        “Skipping Ropes of Daisies” Ours to Destroy

481.                        “In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul” The Clean

482.                        “Dead Man’s Party” Oingo Boingo

483.                        “Hazey Jane 2” Nick Drake

484.                        “No” The Wedding Present

485.                        “The Weekend” Modern Baseball

486.                        “September Girls” Big Star

487.                        “Bigger Than Love” Ben Gibbard

488.                        “Soul Meets Body” Death Cab for Cutie

489.                        “Glide” Alec Bathgate

490.                        “Something Changed” Pulp

491.                        “Blue Moon” Big Star

492.                        “The World’ll Be OK” Teenage Fanclub

493.                        “Slow Fade” Teenage Fanclub

494.                        “Lone Star” The Front Bottoms

495.                        “Summer Babe Winter Version” Pavement

496.                         “Very Loud” The Shout Out Louds

497.                        “It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning” We Were Promised Jetpacks

498.                        “If My Heart Was a Car” The Old 97s

499.                        “House That Used to Be” The Old 97s

500.                        “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” R.E.M.