I Dj an "indie" night every week in Maryland, and every year I compile my top 100 songs of the year and play them all in one night. Here's this year's list:

1. The Fall – Sparta 2
2. The Walkmen – The Rat
3. Modest Mouse – Float On
4. Ambulance, Ltd. – Primitive (The Way I Treat You)
5. Elliott Smith – Fond Farewell
6. A.C. Newman – On The Table
7. Eagles Of Death Metal – Speaking In Tongues
8. Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)
9. Neko Case – The Tigers Have Spoken
10. Radiohead – Gagging Order
11. Ponys – Let’s Kill Ourselves
12. Bjork – Triumph Of The Heart
13. Bloc Party – Banquet (remix)
14. Mclusky – She Will Only Bring You Happiness
15. French Kicks – One More Time
16. Tom Waits – Hoist That Rag
17. Interpol – Evil
18. Streets – Could Well Be In
19. David Byrne – Tiny Apocalypse
20. Concretes – You Can’t Hurry Love
21. Morrissey – Irish Blood, English Heart
22. Loretta Lynn – Portland, Oregon
23. Luna – Speedbumps
24. Snow Patrol – Chocolate
25. Kings Of Convenience – Know-How
26. Dogs Die In Hot Cars – Celebrity Sanctum
27. Ben Kweller – I Need You Back
28. Magnetic Fields – If There’s Such A Thing As Love
29. Secret Machines – Nowhere Again
30. Sufjan Stevens – The Dress Looks Nice On You
31. Pinback – Fortress
32. Legends – When The Day Is Done
33. Delays – On
34. Guided By Voices – Gonna Never Say Die
35. Magnet – Where Happiness Lives
36. Human Television – I Forgot
37. Futureheads – Robot
38. Dirty On Purpose – All New Friends
39. Rogers Sisters – Freight Elevator
40. Libertines – Can’t Stand Me Now
41. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
42. Ted Leo + The Pharmacists – The Angel’s Share
43. Bumblebeez 81 – Pony Ride
44. Calexico – Alone Again Or
45. Iron & Wine – Free Until They Cut Me Down
46. West Indian Girl – Still Lost
47. Preston School Of Industry – Caught In The Rain
48. Electrelane – On Parade
49. Hives – Walk Idiot Walk
50. Unicorns – I Was Born A Unicorn
51. Ryan Adams – This House Is Not For Sale
52. TV On The Radio – Staring At The Sun
53. Elbow – Not A Job
54. The Crystal Method – Born Too Slow
55. Von Bondies – C’Mon, C’Mon
56. Prince – Musicology
57. Jem – 24
58. Beck – Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime
59. The Fever – Ladyfingers
60. Keane – Everybody’s Changing
61. Finn Brothers – Won’t Give In
62. Veils – The Tide That Left And Never Came Back
63. Citizen Cope – Bullet And A Target
64. Aveo – Dust That Dreams Of Brooms
65. Sleep Station – Caroline, London 1940
66. Wilco – I’m A Wheel
67. Robbers On High Street – Night At Star Castle
68. !!! – Hello, Is This Thing On?
69. Public Enemy with Moby – Make Love Fuck War
70. Rilo Kiley – It’s A Hit
71. U2 – Vertigo
72. Radio 4 – Absolute Affirmation
73. R.E.M – Leaving New York
74. Flunk – Blind My Mind
75. Styrofoam – Anything
76. Paul Westerberg – As Far As I Know
77. Elbow – Not A Job
78. Beta Band – Assessment
79. Bobby Bare, Jr. – Valentine
80. Blues Explosion – Burn It Off
81. Sonic Youth – Unmade Bed
82. Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts …
83. Old 97’s – Friends Forever
84. Q And Not U – Wonderful People
85. Gomez – There It Was
86. Rogue Wave – Be Kind + Remind
87. Pedro The Lion – Foregone Conclusions
88. Badly Drawn Boy – Four Leaf Clover
89. Cure – End Of The World
90. PJ Harvey – The Letter
91. William Shatner feat. Joe Jackson – Common People
92. Hidden Cameras – The Fear Is On
93. Graham Coxon – Freakin’ Out
94. Stars – Reunion
95. Clinic – Falstaff
96. Joseph Arthur – Even Tho
97. Destroyer – It’s Gonna Take An Airplane
98. Air – Surfing On A Rocket
99. Of Montreal – My British Tour Diary
100. Black Keys – 10 A.M. Automatic

Elbow's Not a job is on there twice me believes. If I read correctly.

Yup. 77 and 53

Good list. If I lived in Maryland, I'd definitely come to your top 100 night.

Where in Maryland? I live in Maryland...

But if you're talkin' Western Maryland, forget it...

That list is horribly uninventive.

But where's the Lil Jon?

Annapolis

Great feedback.

When/where is the shindig? I'm interested. No promises, but I'm interested.

PS: Please don't say Acme.

Oh, it's Acme alright.

No shit?

What's the date?

The main problem I have with that place is that it's a giant H.S. reunion, but mostly the fucktards rather than the people I hung out with. And I'm not even one of those bitter high school folks.

I DJ there every Wednesday night. It's actually fun. Believe me, no one hates the Acme on the weekends more than me, but it's a much different scene Sunday through Wednesday.

I'll buy that. So is it the 15th or 22nd?

YEEEAHH!

It will actually either be 12/29 or 1/5. I'm leaning toward 1/5. I'm doing my annual "Underground Christmas" show at Heroes on 12/20 if you're interested in that.

See, Heroes I like, though I haven't been there in forever and don't go out much at all these days anyway. I'll see what kind of crowd I can stir, maybe handful. I think I'm gonna try to make both shows, since work is fucking dead.

Keep me posted.

Take that Chicago. Annapolis motherfuckers can do shit too.

I'll never understand the love for this:

14. Mclusky – She Will Only Bring You Happiness

It's easily my least favorite song on that album.

Eat a cock, that's more feedback than "OMG NICE LIST"

Who is this Jem person? I, for some reason, thought she was another disposeable pop artist.

You're starting to sound like Bill Walton.


Let's see your list.

I could just copy any playlist from that college radio show featuring the guy a few years too old to still be on college radio and I'd have the same list. Yawn.

No, seriously. No more witty retorts---let's see your list.

Though some of us don't give jackshit about being "inventive." We care whether we like the songs or not. But you already know that.