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In putting together a CD mix recently I compiled a list of songs that at some point in time I was obsessed with, listened to on repeat, and inevitably got a little sick of. Only rule was that I couldn’t repeat bands. I didn’t go too far back (probably ~1996) so you wont see any PM Dawn, Bon Jovi, or Mr. Mister. Songs are in no particular order.

1. The Deadly Snakes - Gore Veil
2. Editors - An End Has A Start
3. Fugazi – I’m So Tired
4. Tindersticks - Cherry Blossoms
5. Yo la Tengo – You Can Have it All
6. Pulp - TV Movie
7. Gothic Archies - Dead Only Quickly Decay
8. Bright Eyes - Kathy With a K’s Song
9. Feist - Mushaboom
10. Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place
11. Sifl & Olly - Weird Day
12. Sigur Ros - Svefn-G-Englar
13. Tobin Sprout - Digging Up Wooden Teeth
14. Vitesse - The Human Element
15. Flaming Lips - Do You Realize
16. Azure Ray – Don’t Make a Sound
17. Unboyfriendable - Sunny Moog
18. Emiliana Torrini - If You Go Away
19. Barbara Manning - End of the Rainbow
20. Vincent Gallo - When
21. Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain
22. Cat Stevens - Here Comes My Baby
23. Beta Band - Dry the Rain
24. José Gonzáles - Heartbeats
25. Yann Tiersen - La Noyée
26. Say Hi to Your Mom - The Death of Girl Number Two
27. Iron & Wine - Muddy Hymnal
28. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
29. Shebrews - Leave All Your Old Loves in the Past
30. Radiohead - Let Down
31. Ladytron - fire
32. Kath Bloom - Come Here
33. Fischer Spooner - Emerge
34. Okkervil River - A Girl in Port
35. Peter Bjorn And John - Amsterdam
36. Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
37. Nick Drake - Northern Sky
38. The Notwist - Consequence
39. Múm - Green Grass Of Tunnel
40. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Where The Wild Roses Grow
41. The Delgados - No Danger
42. Neutral Milk Hotel - King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1
43. Nico - The Fairest Of The Seasons
44. Jesus and Mary Chain - Sometimes Always
45. The Shins - When You Notice the Stripes
46. Kahimi Karie - What are you Wearing
47. Kind of Like Spitting - Young Fiction Writer
48. Luna - Bonnie And Clyde (Gainsbourg Cover)
49. Momus - The Penis Song
50. Paul McCarthy - Ram On
51. Paul Simon - The Vampires
52. Placebo - Every You Every M
53. Rufus Wainwright - Instant Pleasure
54. Seam – Inching Towards Juarez
55. The Velvet Teen - The Prize Fighter
56. Steve Margin and Bernadette Peters- You Belong to Me
57. Tullycraft - the lives of Cleopatria
58. Velvet Underground - Ocean
59. Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should Have Come Over
60. Aimee Mann - It’s Not
61. Leonard Cohen - The Stranger Song
62. Coldplay - Beautiful World
63. Low - Sunflower
64. Sonic Youth - Bull In The Heather
65. Death In June - Rose Clouds Of Holocaust
66. Lambchop - Up With People
67. Grandaddy - Summer Here Kids
68. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee
69. King Crimson - Moonchild
70. Mirah - Recommendation
71. The Magnetic Fields - Strange Powers
72. Interpol - Untitled
73. Built to Spill - Car
74. The Good Life - Don’t Make Love So Hard
75. Counting Crows - Anna Begins
76. Sunny Day Real Estate - How it Feels to Be Something On
77. Badly Drawn Boy - A Minor Incident
78. Explosions In The Sky - Magic Hours
79. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)
80. At the Drive In - One Armed Scissor
81. Eels - Electro-shock Blues
82. Doves - There Goes The Fear
83. Air - Sexy Boy
84. The Decemberists - The Legionnaire’s Lament
85. The Divine Comedy - Something For The Weekend
86. The New Pornographers - Use It
87. Death Cab For Cutie - What Sarah Said
88. Wolf Parade - I’ll Believe In Anything
89. Cursive - Some Red Handed Slight of Hand
90. Belle & Sebastian - Sleep The Clock Around
91. Beirut - Postcards From Italy
92. Andrew Bird - Plasticities
93. The Statler Brothers - Flowers on the Wall
94. 28 Days Later Soundtrack - In The House - In A Heartbeat
95. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
96. Joanna Newsom - Emily
97. Stars - Romantic Comedy
98. Regina Spektor - On The Radio
99. Aden - I Knew You Would Go
100. The 6ths - Aging Spinsters