XFM’s “greatest” 100 songs ever

I used to love XFM. It once played great alternative music that you couldn’t hear anywhere else.

Sadly that doesn’t make anyone any money and those days are long gone, as can be reflected in XFM’s Greatest Songs Ever listeners’ poll which took place at the end of 2009.

The Killers at no 1? 9 from Oasis? 4 from Kasabian? Are there really only four songs in the world better than Sex On Fire? Did XFM twin itself with Nuts or Zoo or something and I didn’t even notice? Oh why oh why am I even typing this?

(Spoiler: I’ve spoken to enough radio people in my lifetime to know that these “top 100 of all time” charts are made up. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM)

1. Killers – Mr Brightside
2. Arctic Monkeys – I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor
3. Oasis – Live Forever
4. Muse – Knights Of Cydonia
5. Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
6. Elbow – One Day Like This
7. Oasis – Wonderwall
8. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
9. Muse – Plug In Baby
10. Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger
11. Ian Brown – F.E.A.R.
12. Libertines – Don’t Look Back Into The Sun
13. White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
14. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
15. Coldplay – Yellow
16. Muse – Hysteria
17. Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
18. Killers – All These Things I’ve Done
19. Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars
20. Libertines – Can’t Stand Me Now
21. Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
22. Oasis – Champagne Supernova
23. Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
24. Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
25. Strokes – Last Nite
26. Kasabian – Club Foot
27. Libertines – Time For Heroes
28. Clash – London Calling
29. Smiths – How Soon Is Now
30. Muse – Time Is Running Out
31. Smiths – This Charming Man
32. Radiohead – Paranoid Android
33. Stereophonics – Dakota
34. Who – My Generation
35. Blur – Song 2
36. Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold
37. Kasabian – L.S.F.
38. Queens Of The Stone Age – No One Knows
39. Pulp – Common People
40. Radiohead – Creep
41. Muse – Starlight
42. Beatles – Hey Jude
43. Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
44. Arctic Monkeys – Mardy Bum
45. Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
46. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
47. David Bowie – Life On Mars
48. Arctic Monkeys – When The Sun Goes Down
49. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
50. Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
51. Killers – When You Were Young
52. Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
53. Doves – There Goes The Fear
54. Snow Patrol – Run
55. Jam – A Town Called Malice
56. Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent
57. Coldplay – Fix You
58. Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness
59. New Order – Blue Monday
60. Kasabian – Fire
61. Killers – Somebody Told Me
62. Beatles – A Day In The Life
63. Oasis – Slide Away
64. Foo Fighters – The Pretender
65. Oasis – Supersonic
66. Elbow – Grounds For Divorce
67. Jam – Going Underground
68. Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black
69. Kooks – She Moves In Her Own Way
70. Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict A Riot
71. Arctic Monkeys – A Certain Romance
72. Foo Fighters – Everlong
73. Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
74. Undertones – Teenage Kicks
75. Coldplay – Clocks
76. Bloc Party – Helicopter
77. Oasis – The Masterplan
78. Who – Baba O’Riley
79. Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody
80. Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life
81. Kasabian – Empire
82. David Bowie – Heroes
83. Stone Roses – She Bangs The Drums
84. Green Day – American Idiot
85. Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
86. Oasis – Cigarettes And Alcohol
87. Stone Roses – Waterfall
88. Jam – That’s Entertainment
89. Feeder – Just A Day
90. Maximo Park – Apply Some Pressure
91. Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
92. Coldplay – The Scientist
93. Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
94. Keane – Somewhere Only We Know
95. Oasis – Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
96. Bloc Party – Banquet
97. Doves – Pounding
98. MGMT – Time To Pretend
99. Athlete – Wires
100. Kings Of Leon – The Bucket

Monday 4 January 2010, 1072 views