Artist	Song
sonic youth	dirty boots
the ex	sukaina
king tubby	a better version
the fall	psykick dancehall
talking heads	crosseyed + painless
the clash	ghetto defendant
david bowie	ashes to ashes
afrika bambaataa	looking for the perfect beat
erase errata	marathon
nirvana	serve the servants
le tigre (kathleen hanna)	my art
sex pistols (john lydon)	problems
the stooges	no fun
tom waits	please wake me up
elvis costello	watching the detectives
beat happening (calvin johnson)	hot chocolate boy
the make-up (svenonius/gamboa/canty/mae)	blue is beautiful
crass	shaved women (live)
thee mighty caesars (billy childish)	you make me die
captain beefheart	bat chain puller

Comment:

although it's hard to tell, this is basically a stab at the "favorite 20 songs by favorite 20 artists" thing. i saw a few of these posted a while ago, and decided to give it a try DESPITE the fact that i have never been able to rank anything in order of preference ever to any satisfactory degree. this whole project underlines that problem; it was originally intended to be a rock/pop list only, but i just couldn't keep it that narrowly defined. likewise, i couldn't even begin to pick a favorite song from these bands; i love too many of everybody's songs to choose just one. so instead i picked a song that represented what i liked most about the band in question. often the bands picked were really just place holders for people in the band that i actually like (who have probably been in several bands and projects, giving me several options to choose from). the ranking of the top seven is pretty accurate, while the rest is too close to call and thus mixflow determined the order more than anything else. title references the oldest mix of this type i ran across, done by rob conroy, which confounded me to no end.

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