The Actual 250 Greatest Songs of the Century So Far

Rolling Stone needs to stop doing lists like this because they're always bad and wrong and then I have to correct everything and hastily throw together a list that is better and more accurate. Stop making more work for me. This blog is supposed to be over and done.

1. Rihanna & Calvin Harris - We Found Love
2. TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
4. T.I. - What You Know
5. D'Angelo - 1000 Deaths
6. Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)
7. No Age - Teen Creeps
8. Maren Morris - 80s Mercedes
9. Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
10. Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
11. Miguel - Adorn
12. Turnstile - Blackout
12. Wilco - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
14. Carly Rae Jepsen - Boy Problems
15. Rihanna - Needed Me
16. Lil Wayne ft Babyface - Comfortable
17. Frank Ocean - Swim Good
18. Kacey Musgraves - High Horse
19. Gucci Mane - Lemonade
20. Radiohead - 15 Step
21. Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On
22. At the Drive-in - Pattern Against User
23. Amerie - 1 Thing
24. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
25. Sabrina Carpenter - Taste
26. Power Trip - Armageddon Blues
27. Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
28. Midlake - Young Bride
29. The Strokes - Reptilia
30. Playboi Carti - Magnolia
31. And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Relative Ways
32. Mindforce - Excalibur
33. Guided By Voices - Overloaded
34. Ovlov - Where's My Dini
35. UNK ft Outkast & Jim Jones - Walk It Out (Remix)
36. Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly
37. *NSYNC - Bye Bye Bye
38. Deftones - Change (In The House Of Flies)
39. Rihanna ft Drake - Work
40. Unwound - Demons Sing Love Songs
41. Charli XCX - Party 4 U
42. D'Angelo - The Charade
43. Wayne Wonder - No Letting Go
44. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
45. Caribou - Melody Day
46. The Used - Blue and Yellow
47. Robyn - Hang With Me
48. Chappell Roan - Casual
49. Madvillain - Great Day
50. Florida Georgia Line - Countryside
51. Ne-Yo - Because Of You
52. Kylie Minogue - Love at First Sight
53. Clipse - Ride Around Shining
54. Ovlov - The Well
55. Diiv - Brown Paper Bag
56. Tony Molina - Don't Come Back
57. Queens of the Stone Age - The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret
58. Tyler The Creator - New Magic Wand
59. Viper - Hey Maybe One Day You'll See Me Again
60. Rihanna - Kiss It Better
61. Kevin Krauter - Pretty Boy
62. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Ritual Knife
63. At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor
64. Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing
65. A$AP Rocky ft Drake, 2 Chainz, Kendrick Lamar - Fuckin' Problems
66. The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
67. Maren Morris - My Church
68. Jimmy Eat World - Work
69. Alex G - Proud
70. Pill - Trap Goin' Ham
71. Caribou - Sun
72. Deerhunter - Strange Lights
73. Valee ft Jeremih - Womp Womp
74. Radiohead - Morning Bell
75. Good Morning - Warned You
76. El Guincho - Bombay
77. Ashlee Simpson - Pieces Of Me
78. The Shins - Kissing The Lipless
79. Radiohead - Optimistic
80. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
81. Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
82. Beach Fossils - Don't Fade Away
83. Anz ft George Riley - You Could Be
84. Deftones - Digital Bath
85. Ovlov - Strokes
86. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
87. Boris & Michio Kurihara - You Laughed Like A Water Mark
88. Radiohead - Backdrifts
89. Outkast - Ms. Jackson
90. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
91. Big Thief - Not
92. The Rubs - Wrong Right Girl
93. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over Everything
94. Trinidad James - All Gold Everything
95. Yuck - Get Away
96. Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso
97. Annie - Heartbeat
98. Charli XCX - Apple
99. DMX - Who We Be
100. The Chats - Smoko
101. Nicki Minaj - Did It On Em
102. Real Estate - Crime
103. Muse - Hysteria
104. Steve Lacy - Playground
105. Aaliyah - Try Again
106. Deftones - Rx Queen
107. Fury - Angels Over Berlin
108. No Age - Genie
109. Windhand - Grey Garden
110. Elliott Smith - Son Of Sam
111. Ringo Deathstarr - Slack
112. The Killers - When You Were Young
113. No Age - Sleeper Hold
114. Ovens - Running In Place
115. Wiz Khalifa - Black and Yellow
116. D'Angelo - Prayer
117. The-Dream - Yamaha
118. Uffie - Pop The Glock
119. Crystal Castles ft Robert Smith - Not In Love
120. La Roux - Bulletproof
121. Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
122. Lady Gaga - Poker Face
123. *NSYNC - Girlfriend
124. CSS - Alala
125. The Shins - So Says I
126. Stacie Orrico - Stuck
127. Modest Mouse - Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
128. Addison Rae - Fame Is A Gun
129. Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis
130. Taylor Swift - Style
131. Mason Ramsey - Twang
132. Playboi Carti - Sky
133. Kanye West ft Kendrick Lamar - No More Parties In LA
134. Prince - Call My Name
135. Deftones - Feiticeira
136. PinkPantheress ft Ice Spice - Boy's A Liar Part 2
137. Rihanna - Same Ol' Mistakes
138. Earl Sweatshirt ft RZA - Molasses
139. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - How Near How Far
140. Radiohead - In Limbo
141. Pinback - From Nothing To Nowhere
142. The Click Five - Just The Girl
143. Ryan Leslie - Diamond Girl
144. Ween - Gabrielle
145. Kanye West - Flashing Lights
146. Mike Jones - Back Then
147. Dismemberment Plan - Superpowers
148. SZA - Kill Bill
149. Sedona - Sharkbite
150. Lorde - What Was That
151. Jai Paul - Jasmine Demo
152. The Rubs - Wrap My Life
153. DNCE - Cake By The Ocean
154. Weezer - King of The World
155. Silversun Pickups - Melatonin
156. Wilco - Handshake Drugs
157. Slipknot - Duality
158. Troye Sivan - Got Me Started
159. T.I. - Why You Wanna
160. Radiohead - Pyramid Song
161. UGK ft Outkast - Int'l Players Anthem
162. Lil B - Hipster Girls
163. PJ Harvey ft Thom Yorke - This Mess We're In
164. Turnstile - Holiday
165. Beak> - Eggdog
166. Surface To Air Missive - Life Is So Sad
167. Flasher - Who's Got Time
168. Built To Spill - Goin' Against Your Mind
169. The Darkness - Growing On Me
170. Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild
171. Kim Petras - I Don't Want It At All
172. Lil Yachty - Bring It Back
173. Ty Dolla Sign ft Babyface - Solid
174. Hatchie - Obsessed
175. Turnstile - I Don't Wanna Be Blind
176. The Tubs - Illusion Pt 2
177. PinkPantheress - Illegal
178. Lil Nas X - Sun Goes Down
179. Nicki Minaj - Come On A Cone
180. Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky
181. Ted Leo/Rx - The Ballad Of The Sin Eather
182. Against Me! - Borne On The FM Waves Of The Heart
183. D'Angelo - Another Life
184. Santana ft Michelle Branch - The Game Of Love
185. Nicki Minaj - Stupid Hoe
186. Lil B - No Black Person Is Ugly
187. Two Inch Astronaut - Foulbrood
188. Mike Jones ft Paul Wall - Still Tippin'
189. Phoenix - Napoleon Says
190. Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
191. Cam'ron ft Juelz Santana - Hey Ma
192. System Of A Down - Chop Suey!
193. Ying Yang Twins - Wait (The Whisper Song)
194. Jagged Edge ft Nelly - Where The Party At
195. Surface To Air Missive - Get In The Truck
196. D'Angelo - Really Love
197. Justin Timberlake - Nothin' Else
198. The Darkness - Love Is Only A Feeling
199. Rihanna ft SZA - Consideration
200. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
201. Wilco - Jesus, etc.
202. TV On The Radio - Province
203. Dua Lipa - Break My Heart
204. Charli XCX - Boys
205. Kitty Pryde - Okay Cupid
206. Alex G - Bobby
207. Power Trip - Executioner's Tax
208. Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
209. Nicki Minaj ft Drake & Lil Wayne - Truffle Butter
210. Mac Demarco - Ode To Viceroy
211. Tinashe ft Schoolboy Q - 2 On
212. MGMT - The Youth
213. Ariana Grande ft The Weeknd - Love Me Harder
214. Jennifer Lopez ft French Montana - I Luh Ya Papi
215. Jay-Z - Girls Girls Girls
216. Frank Ocean - Thinkin About You
217. Kesha - Tik Tok
218. Deftones - Sextape
219. Shellac - A Prayer To God
220. A Tribe Called Quest ft Kendrick Lamar - Conrad Tokyo
221. Alex G - Kicker
222. Pearl Jam - Unemployable
223. Interpol - Evil
224. Deftones - Minerva
225. The Anniversary - All Things Ordinary
226. Daft Punk - One More Time
227. Grass Is Green - Panera
228. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
229. Homeshake - Heat
230. Three 6 Mafia - From Da Back
231. The Strokes - New York City Cops
232. Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover
233. Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby
234. Mahmundi - Imagem
235. Charli XCX - Talk Talk
236. Loona / Odd Eye Circle - Girl Front
237. Magdalena Bay - Image
238. Troye Sivan - Rush
239. Beak> - Brean Down
240. Phoenix - Sometimes In The Fall
241. CKY - Flesh Into Gear
242. Queens Of The Stone Age - Monsters In The Parasol
243. Palehound - Healthier Folk
244. Solange - Losing You
245. Pill - Dimes Of Hard
246. Beyonce ft Andre 3000 - Party
247. Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
248. The Rubs - Impossible Dream
249. Gridiron - Mascot
250. A Tribe Called Quest ft Andre 3000 - Kids


Stuff that almost made it:
Tkay Maidza - U-Huh
Neon Indian - Hex Girlfriend
Mariah Carey & Miguel - Beautiful
Warpaint - Love Is to Die
Danny Brown - Combat
Mz Sassy - Take Me To The Liquor Store
Rihanna - James Joint
Dornik - Something About You
Travis Scott - Sicko Mode
Ovlov - The Great Ohmu
Hospitality - It's Not Serious
Pusha T - Numbers On The Boards
Joanna Gruesome - Wussy Void
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Stick Figures In Love
Lil Wayne & Rick Ross - John
Deerhoof - Chandelier Searchlight
Merchandise - I Locked The Door
Justin Bieber - Runaway Love Remix
Yo La Tengo - Pass The Hatchet I Think I'm Goodkind
The Mars Volva - L'Via L'Viaquez
T.A.T.U. - All The Things She Said
Yo Majesty - Club Action
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Candy - Distorted Dreams
Lily Konigsberg - Sweat Forever
Hum - Step Into You
DaBaby ft Offset - Babysitter
Denzel Curry ft Rick Ross - Birdz

SLOPPY STEAKS 2021 (ALL 100 ENTRIES) (THE BIG LIST)

We were about to be like "fuck we're so late posting the big list this year fuck" but then we just happened to notice that Money Plane 2020 (The Big List) was posted on June 17, 2021 -- exactly one day shy of a year ago. So the moral of the story is that we're actually earlier than last year. So you can go fuck right off.

In that post, we also said "This is definitely among the final TMK posts. ... If it returns, we'll probably do it a lot differently with a different name and a narrower focus. Not sure when or if that will ever happen tho."

No one noticed or cared, but this has pretty much been the case. The momentum our blog had once achieved in the early-mid 2010s has entirely dried up. Opportunities to capitalize or monitize via a "pivot to newsletter" or Patreon would inevitably attract zero subscribers. A.K.A. No one gives a shit about what we have to say due to lack of brand recognition.

But the Sloppy Steaks list did happen. Much like its predecessor Money Plane 2020, there were "no words" to describe the music of 2021. Unless you count the 1000 words that each picture speaks, referring to the images that accompanied all 100 entries.

ICYMI: Dig into that tasty steakiness.

As far as we can tell, Qobuz (an allegedly ethical streaming option) does not currently supply embed codes or else it would be here.

You hate Spotify but their playlists actually embed so that's why the Spotify version is embeded and the Qobuz version is not:


100. Bongzilla "Mother Flower's Little Helper"
99. Jazmine Sullivan f/ Anderson .Paak "Price Tags"
98. Magdalena Bay "Secrets (Your Life)"
97. Larry June f/ Money Man "Intercepted"
96. Shirese "Trenody for the Victims of 99.1 PLR"
95. Spinabenz f/ Yungeen Ace & FastMoney Goon "Who I Smoke"
94. Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm "The Danube Dwellers"
93. The Mountain Movers "Way Back to the World"
92. Cardi B “Up” (tie)
92. Saweetie f/ Doja Cat "Best Friend" (tie)
91. Snooper "Dog"
90. Angel Du$t f/ Tim Armstrong "Dancing On The Radio"
89. Redman "80 Barz"
88. Reymour "De ma Tour"
87. Solemn Brigham "Bigger World"
86. Theoreme "Radionucleides"
85. Mope City "Covered In Might"
84. Wavves "Help is On The Way"
83. True Sons of Thunder "Drugs in Space"
82. Gulch "Bolt Swallower"
81. The Glow "Heavy Glow" (tie)
80. Six Organs of Admittance "J'ai Mal aux Dents" (tie)
80. Thee Oh Sees "J'ai Mal aux Dents"
79. Mister Goblin "Left Before Your Set"
78. Chris Brokaw "I Can't Sleep"
77. Glitterer "Didn't Want It"
76. Deuce Ellis f/ Che Noir "Spit Acid"
75. Editrix "The Sound"
74. Etran de L'Air "Toubouk Ine Chihoussay"
73. Angel Du$t "Fear Some"
72. Travis Porter "Like Dat"
71. Genesis Owusu "The Other Black Dog" (tie)
71. Genesis Owusu f/ Kirin J Callinan "Drown" (tie)

70. Paperboy Prince "Eric Adams Get Out Of My Room" (tie)
70. Ame Bibabi "Chin Up High" (tie)
70. Sarah Brand "Red Dress" (tie)
70. DJ Boing "Boing Beat" (tie)
70. Limp Bizkit "Dad Vibes" (tie)
69. Section H8 "100 Seconds" (tie)
69. C4 "Health Freak Head Stomp" (tie)
68. Ty Segall "Erased"
67. EXEK "Palazzo di Propaganda Fide"
66. Lil Nas X "Sun Goes Down"
65. Turnstile "Underwater Boi"
64. Rosali "Waited All Day"
63. Ovlov "Land of Steve-O"
62. Pale Waves "Easy"
61. Sanguisugabogg "Dead as Shit"
60. Parannoul, Asian Glow & Sonhos Tomam Conta "One May Be Harming"
59. Taylor Swift “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)”
58. Silicone Prairie "America" (tie)
58. Silicone Prairie "Dance to the Beat" (tie)
57. Supermilk "Mouth"
56. Dinosaur Jr "Garden"
55. Turnstile "Endless"
54. Chris Brokaw "Puritan"
53. Outta Pocket "Purest Pain" (tie)
53. Militarie Gun "Disposable Plastic Trash" (tie)
52. Blawan “Under Belly”
51. Aldous Harding "Old Peel"
50. Guardian Singles "Heartland"
49. Damarion Matchem "Ride111"
48. Turnstile "Fly Again"
47. Hypnotizing Chickens "I'm On Time"
46. Blackwater Holylight "Around You"
45. Dazy "Invisible Thing"
44. Momma "Medicine"
43. Sedona "Sharkbite"
42. Big Thief "Certainty"
41. John Dwyer (and others) "Terra Incognito"

40. Dridge "Drip"
39. New Last Name "Horse Girl" (tie)
39. New Last Name "Shaka It Off" (tie)
38. Nunslaughter "Casket Lid Creaks"
37. Megan Thee Stallion "Thot Shit"
36. Glitterer "Try Harder Still"
35. Silicone Prairie "Song for the Eagles to Sing"
34. Malignant Altar "Ceremonial Decapitator"
33. Tkay Maidza "Syrup"
32. UNIIQU3 "Microdosing"
31. Altin Gun "Ordunun Dereleri"
30. Sedona "Drifting Days"
29. Beach House "Once Twice Melody"
28. Turnstile "Mystery"
27. Kacey Musgraves "Breadwinner"
26. Freak Genes "Ford Fairlane" (tie)
26. Freak Genes "Followed It Down" (tie)
25. Colleen Green "I Wanna Be A Dog"
24. Mdou Moctar "Afrique Victime"
23. Bashford "Gateway to the Underworld" (tie)
23. Bashford "Bitter Masses" (tie)
22. CHVRCHES ft. Robert Smith “How Not To Drown”
21. 2nd Grade "Favorite Song"

20. Parannoul "Analog Sentimentalism" (tie)
20. Ovlov "Cheer Up Chihiro" (tie)
19. Phife Dawg f/ Redman & Busta Rhymes "Nutshell Pt 2"
18. Quicksand "Inversion"
17. Chris Brokaw "The Heart of Human Trafficking"
16. Nilufer Yanya "Stabilise"
15. Lily Konigsberg "Sweat Forever"
14. Tyler The Creator f/ Daisy World "Rise" (tie)
14. Tyler The Creator f/ YoungBoy NBA & Ty Dolla $ign "Wusyaname" (tie)
13. Melissa "Breonna"
12. RXKNephew "American tterroristt"
11. Guardian Singles "Being Alone"
10. Beak> "Oh Know" (tie)
10. Beak> "Ah Yeh" (tie)
9. Turnstile "Don't Play" (tie)
9. Turnstile "Blackout" (tie)
8. Rosali "Pour Over Ice"
7. Big Thief "Little Things"
6. Anz f/ George Riley “You Could Be”
5. Sedona "Missing In Paradise" (tie)
5. Sedona "Cupid's Victim" (tie)
4. Playboi Carti "Sky"
3. Lily Konigsberg "Proud Home" (tie)
3. Lily Konigsberg "That's the Way I Like It" (tie)
2. Wu-Lu "Times"
1. Turnstile "Holiday"

Update: Decade Canon Playlist, Spotify Rant, and November's MTVZ

We purposely kept the decade list as the top post for over 100 days in hopes that anyone would see it. We think a few people did, so that's good. Please share if you can!

We also made a playlist with all the streamable songs. Please follow!


Everyone hates Spotify now which is good. Despite its inherent evil, we will continue using Spotify because we use it the right way, which is sadly uncommon in 2020. We're pretty sure that 99% of current Spotify users do not use it in tandem with paid Bandcamp purchases, radio programming support, blogging support, vinyl and merch purchases, and (when it's not considered dangerous) paid show attendance.

We can proudly say that we assist some artists and labels through a multitude of support methods. We hope any of it has been helpful for the fans or artists. And so we still get to sleep at night, even though we use Spotify a lot, whereas the ugly asshole CEO of Spotify should be ashamed of himself for allowing such a horrendously flawed method of artist payout.

We weren't aware of this until 2 days ago, but Spotify's artist payout is allocated directly out of a fraction of their overall profit. A total dollar amount for all streams combined is determined by Spotify before they even begin looking at how many streams they accumulated. Payout actually has nothing to do with "per stream." It's determined by whatever amount Spotify is willing to hand out from their quarterly profits.

More info on this and other fun facts about Spotify were discussed on The Interdependence's recent Q&A with Joey and Mary from Downtown Boys.

So let's just say hypothetically, if one song on Spotify generated 50 billion streams, and if every other song on Spotify generated another 50 billion streams combined, then 50% of all of the artist payout would go towards one song, and all of the other songs on Spotify would split 50% based on the percentage they generated. In this hypothetical scenario, a very popular song or songs essentially wreck the payout curve. It's kinda similar to a teacher grading on a curve -- if the highest grade in the class was 75%, then anyone who got that 75% would get an A. But if a couple kids got 100%, it ruins the curve for everyone else.

And the best part: Meanwhile, the tech overlords get to continue building upon their empire, expanding their thinktank, pocketing the majority of their earnings, and keeping payouts far away from artists and actual content creators -- except for the 3 major labels, of course, who are totally on board with all of this.

Remember the Grammy Awards throughout the 2000s? Once a year, the asshole president of the recording academy would take up at least 5 minutes of air-time mid-way through the Grammy Awards to warn about the "dangers" of "stealing music" through file sharing, citing a lack of support for artists. As it turns out, this guy was 100% full of shit. Spotify seemed initially intended to remedy the inconvenience of file storage, but it actually solved the problem of how to ensure that billionaires continue getting rich from artististic works that they did not create themselves.

Yes, it's fucked. But there's good news. The good news is: if you're a music fan who regularly supports artists through a multitude of support methods, then you are not part of the problem!

We wish we could claim that MTVZ supports artists in any way. Perhaps one day, some influencer will discover and share MTVZ, helping it to flourish into the new standard for the modern era of TV programming and music exposure.

Apparently there are a handful of cool people on Youtube who fuck with MTVZ, and we thank every one of you for justifying our meager existance.

There's a newer one of these floating around somewhere, but in the meantime here is November's MTVZ: