John Allison once posted a chart like this with
his favorite hundred songs, only not
really, because he allowed himself no more than one song for any
given artist.
I can see why—my top one hundred currently includes
only forty-five artists, and it would be nice to have more
diversity.
Often I will find myself listening to a song over and over
that’s not by one of the usual suspects and I’ll want to
put it in the chart, but then I have to admit that, no, I don’t
actually like it more than any song that’s already on the
list.
Sometimes when a new batch of Poppy songs knocks another artist off
the chart entirely I can still feature a pop-up box for the three or
five songs that once qualified, but if there’s only one, what
to do?
Well, that’s what this box is for.
Here are some songs that were pushed off past editions of the chart,
or never did quite make it on—but no more than one per
artist.
I’ll go chronologically:
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| “Mighty Quinn” (Manfred Mann, 1968) |
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| “Love Is Like Oxygen” (Sweet, 1978) |
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| “Moving in Stereo” (the Cars, 1978) |
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| “Can’t Stand Losing You” (the Police, 1978) |
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| “Genius of Love” (Tom Tom Club, 1981) |
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| “Chihuahua” (Bow Wow Wow, 1981) |
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| “Lies” (Thompson Twins, 1982) |
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| “What Is Love?” (Howard Jones, 1983) |
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| “I Can’t Wait” (Nu Shooz, 1986) |
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| “Big Time” (Peter Gabriel, 1986) |
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| “Roam” (the B-52’s, 1989) |
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| “Praying for Time” (George Michael, 1990) |
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| “Angry Chair” (Alice in Chains, 1992) |
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| “Kind of Game” (Fastbacks, 1993) |
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| “You and Me Song” (the Wannadies, 1994) |
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| “Teenage Angst” (Placebo, 1996) |
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| “Bachelorette” (Björk, 1997) |
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| “Are You Bad” (Glitter Mini 9, 2000) |
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| “Hey Pretty” (Poe, 2000) |
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| “Something Wrong” (the Hissyfits, 2001) |
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| “Toxicity” (System of a Down, 2001) |
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| “Better Day” (Dover, 2001) |
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| “Sixth of July” (the High Water Marks, 2004) |
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| “Bad Day” (Lisa Maxwell, 2005) | |
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| “High Friends in Places” (Giant Drag, 2005) |
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| “October, First Account” (Be Your Own Pet, 2006) |
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| “Wine Red” (the Hush Sound, 2006) |