2007 Modern Rock 500

WOXY

The most important songs in Modern Rock, as determined by WOXY staff in 2007.

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1 Clash - London Calling
2 Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
3 Smiths - How Soon is Now
4 Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
5 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
6 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
7 Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
8 U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
9 Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
10 Radiohead - Creep
11 Beck - Loser
12 REM - Radio Free Europe
13 David Bowie - Space Oddity
14 Television - Marquee Moon
15 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
16 Cure - Boys Dont Cry
17 Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
18 Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
19 Replacements - Alex Chilton
20 Elvis Costello - Radio Radio
21 Stone Roses - I Wanna be Adored
22 New Order - Blue Monday
23 Clash - Train in Vain
24 Breeders - Cannonball
25 Fugazi - Waiting Room
26 Radiohead - Paranoid Android
27 Pixies - Where Is My Mind
28 Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
29 Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
30 Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
31 Police - Roxanne
32 U2 - New Years Day
33 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosis Dead
34 Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole
35 REM - Its the End of the World
36 Nirvana - All Apologies
37 My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
38 Janes Addiction - Jane Says
39 B52s - Rock Lobster
40 Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
41 Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
42 Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right
43 Hüsker Dü - Makes No Sense At All
44 U2 - Pride In the Name of Love
45 Patti Smith - Gloria
46 Nirvana - Come As You Are
47 Blondie - Heart of Glass
48 Clash - Rock the Casbah
49 Pearl Jam - Jeremy
50 Bjork - Human Behaviour
51 Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
52 XTC - Dear God
53 New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
54 Beck - Where Its At
55 Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
56 Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
57 Weezer - Undone the Sweater Song
58 Pavement - Cut Your Hair
59 Cure - Just Like Heaven
60 Echo and The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar
61 Dead Milkmen - Bitchin Camaro
62 Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
63 Afghan Whigs - Rebirth of the Cool
64 Beastie Boys - Sabotage
65 Blur - Song 2
66 Faith No More - Epic
67 James - Laid
68 Smashing Pumpkins - Today
69 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
70 David Bowie - Changes
71 Blondie - Rapture
72 Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
73 Bob Marley - Get Up Stand Up
74 Elvis Costello - Whats So Funny Bout
75 Modest Mouse - Float On
76 Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
77 Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
78 Nirvana - In Bloom
79 Pearl Jam - Alive
80 REM - Losing My Religion
81 Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
82 Elvis Costello - Alison
83 Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
84 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust
85 White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
86 Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
87 Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
88 Smiths - Panic
89 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
90 Pixies - Gigantic
91 Cure - Love Song
92 Depeche Mode - People are People
93 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
94 Oasis - Wonderwall
95 Boomtown Rats - I Dont Like Mondays
96 Radiohead - Just
97 Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
98 Jam - Town Called Malice
99 Pulp - Common People
100 Postal Service - Such Great Heights
101 Devo - Whip It
102 Gary Numan - Cars
103 David Bowie - Suffragette City
104 Police - Message in a Bottle
105 Radiohead - Karma Police
106 Nine Inch Nails - Closer
107 Talking Heads - Take Me to the River
108 Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
109 Cracker - Low
110 Patti Smith Group - Dancing Barefoot
111 Jesus and Mary Chain - Head On
112 U2 - I Will Follow
113 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away
114 Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
115 Flaming Lips - Do You Realize
116 REM - Pretty Persuasion
117 Violent Femmes - Kiss Off
118 Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
119 Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
120 Replacements - Ledge
121 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
122 Squeeze - Tempted
123 Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
124 U2 - With or Without You
125 Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
126 Folk Implosion - Natural One
127 Gang of Four - I Love a Man in a Uniform
128 White Stripes - Fell in Love With a Girl
129 Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll
130 XTC - Senses Working Overtime
131 Joy Division - Shes Lost Control
132 Interpol - PDA
133 Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
134 Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
135 Devo - I Cant Get No Satisfaction
136 Stone Roses - Fools Goldedit
137 New Order - True Faith
138 Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
139 Police - Every Breath You Take
140 Church - Under the Milky Way
141 Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer
142 Ramones - Do You Remember Rock N Roll
143 REM - Orange Crush
144 Clash - Magnificent Seven
145 Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
146 Public Image Limited - Rise
147 Sugarcubes - Birthday
148 Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
149 Cracker - Teen Angst
150 Shins - New Slang
151 Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
152 DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World
153 Cure - Close to Me
154 Portishead - Sour Times
155 Modest Mouse - Polar Opposites
156 Living Colour - Cult of Personality
157 Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
158 Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning
159 Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
160 Tori Amos - Silent All These Years
161 Massive Attack - Safe from Harm
162 Flaming Lips - She Dont Use Jelly
163 Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want
164 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
165 Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
166 Afghan Whigs - Debonair
167 Oasis - Live Forever
168 U2 - One
169 Bob Marley - Jamming
170 English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
171 Blur - Girlsand Boys
172 XTC - Making Plans for Nigel
173 Interpol - Obstacle 1
174 Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
175 Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI
176 Jam - Going Underground
177 Shins - Caring Is Creepy
178 Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin Beats
179 Smiths - There Is a Light That Never
180 Love and Rockets - So Alive
181 Cure - Pictures of You
182 Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
183 Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
184 Pavement - Stereo
185 PJ Harvey - Down By the Water
186 Social Distortion - Ball and Chain
187 REM - Stand
188 Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You
189 Veruca Salt - Seether
190 Arcade Fire - Neighborhood 3 Power Out
191 Happy Mondays - Step On
192 Replacements - Bastards of Young
193 Pixies - Debaser
194 Soul Coughing - Screenwriters Blues
195 Las - There She Goes
196 Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With
197 Charlatans UK - Only One I Know
198 Shins - So Says I
199 Oasis - Supersonic
200 Urge Overkill - Sister Havana
201 Modern English - I Melt With You
202 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
203 Bob Mould - Sunspots Wishing Well
204 Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
205 Spoon - Everything Hits At Once
206 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good
207 Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
208 Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
209 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
210 Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
211 Dramarama - Anything Anything
212 Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
213 Jam - In the City
214 Nirvana - About a Girl
215 New Order - Love Vigilantes
216 Oingo Boingo - Dead Mans Party
217 Sonic Youth - 100
218 Wire - Strange
219 Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma
220 Cure - In Between Days
221 Concrete Blonde - God is a Bullet
222 Replacements - I Will Dare
223 B52s - Private Idaho
224 Clash - This is Radio Clash
225 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
226 Morphine - Cure for Pain
227 English Beat - Save it for Later
228 MC900FT Jesus - City Sleeps
229 Modest Mouse - Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
230 Romeo Void - Never Say Never
231 Juliana Hatfield - My Sister
232 Roxy Music - Love is the Drug
233 Belle and Sebastian - Your Covers Blown
234 Beck - New Pollution
235 Dinosaur Jr - Feel the Pain
236 Clash - Lost in the Supermarket
237 Elliott Smith - Miss Misery
238 Pavement - Shady Lane
239 Liz Phair - Supernova
240 Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless
241 Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
242 Jeff Buckley - So Real
243 Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
244 White Stripes - Hardest Button to Button
245 Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
246 Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
247 Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved
248 Bjork - Big Time Sensuality
249 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek a Boo
250 Public Enemy - Fight the Power
251 Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
252 Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
253 Tricky - Black Steel
254 Muse - Time Is Running Out
255 Silversun Pickups - Kissing Families
256 Smiths - Stop Me If You Think Youve
257 Simple Minds - Dont You Forget About Me
258 Bears - Fear is Never Boring
259 Mission of Burma - Thats When I Reach For My Revolver
260 Pretenders - My City Was Gone
261 Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
262 Depeche Mode - Route 66 Beatmastersmix
263 Blondie - One Way or Another
264 Suede - Metal Mickey
265 Social Distortion - Bad Luck
266 Bettie Serveert - Tom Boy
267 G Love and Special Sauce - Cold Beverage
268 Eels - Mr Es Beautiful Blues
269 Guided By Voices - I Am a Scientistsinglemix
270 Strokes - Last Nite
271 Frank Black - Headache
272 Nine Inch Nails - Down in It
273 Faith No More - We Care a Lot
274 XTC - Mayor of Simpleton
275 Police - Cant Stand Losing You
276 Velvet Underground - What Goes On in the Heart
277 Belly - Feed the Tree
278 Wilco - Monday
279 Elastica - Connection
280 Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
281 Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin
282 Fishbone - Party at Ground Zero
283 Radiohead - Optimistic
284 Waterboys - Whole of the Moon
285 Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
286 Supergrass - Caught By the Fuzz
287 Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
288 Pearl Jam - Even Flow
289 Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
290 Meat Puppets - Backwater
291 Specials - A Message to You Rudy
292 Lemonheads - Into Your Arms
293 They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul
294 U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
295 Bob Marley and The Wailers - I Shot the Sheriff
296 Jam - Start
297 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Talk About the Blues
298 Disposable Heroes Hiphoprisy - Television Drug of a Nation
299 Primal Scream - Movin On Up
300 Ministry - Everyday is Halloween
301 Nirvana - Lithium
302 Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
303 Social Distortion - Ring of Fire
304 Tones on Tail - Go Club Mix
305 Talk Talk - Its My Life
306 Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
307 !!! - Me and Giuliani Down By The
308 Royal Crescent Mob - Get on the Bus
309 Janes Addiction - No Ones Leaving
310 Walkmen - Rat
311 New Pornographers - Laws Have Changed
312 Paul Westerberg - Dyslexic Heart
313 U2 - Bad Live
314 Stone Roses - Waterfall
315 Built to Spill - Goin Against Your Mind
316 Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
317 Sundays - Heres Where the Story Ends
318 The - Uncertain Smile
319 Shriekback - Nemesis
320 Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This
321 Public Enemy - Bring the Noise
322 Blind Melon - No Rain
323 Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
324 Sebadoh - Skull
325 Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
326 Killing Joke - Eighties
327 Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
328 David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
329 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground
330 Neds Atomic Dustbin - Grey Cell Green
331 Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So
332 Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
333 Alarm - Strength
334 Cardigans - My Favourite Game
335 Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat
336 Robyn Hitchcock - My Wife and My Dead Wife
337 Coldplay - Yellow
338 Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
339 Weezer - Buddy Holly
340 Breeders - Divine Hammer
341 REM - So Central Rain
342 Arcade Fire - Wake Up
343 Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic
344 Air - Sexy Boy
345 Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight
346 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Skin of My Yellow Country
347 Vapors - Turning Japanese
348 Hot Chip - Over and Over
349 Cake - Distance
350 Sinead OConnor - Mandinka
351 Tori Amos - God
352 Smoking Popes - Need You Around
353 L7 - Pretend Were Dead
354 Ministry - Stigmata
355 Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
356 White Stripes - My Doorbell
357 Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
358 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
359 Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
360 Interpol - Slow Hands
361 Cloud Room - Hey Now Now
362 Mclusky - To Hell With Good Intentions
363 Elliott Smith - Waltz 2
364 Bob Marley - Redemption Song
365 Doves - Catch the Sun
366 Wilco - Im the Man Who Loves You
367 New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
368 PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
369 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule The
370 Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes
371 Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were the Last
372 REM - Whats the Frequency Kenneth
373 Blur - Theres No Other Way
374 Cake - Never There
375 They Might Be Giants - Dont Lets Start
376 Smithereens - Blood and Roses
377 B52s - Love Shack
378 Pretenders - Middle of the Road
379 Forget Cassettes - Instruments of Action
380 Black Flag - TV Party
381 TV On The Radio - Staring At the Sun
382 Radiohead - Street Spirit Fade Out
383 Pogues - Fairytale of New York
384 Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd
385 Tegan and Sara - Walking With a Ghost
386 Echo and The Bunnymen - Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
387 Prodigy - Fire Starter
388 Superdrag - Sucked Out
389 Call - Walls Came Down
390 Dada - Dizz Knee Land
391 Butthole Surfers - Pepper
392 Pixies - Alec Eiffel
393 Public Image Limited - Public Image
394 The - Infected
395 Undertones - Teenage Kicks
396 Decemberists - Bachelor and the Bride
397 Charlatans UK - Weirdo
398 Porno For Pyros - Pets
399 Grandaddy - Crystal Lake
400 Massive Attack - Angel
401 Yaz - Situation
402 Stereo MCs - Connected
403 Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women
404 Black Keys - 10AM Automatic
405 Jam - Thats Entertainment
406 Weezer - Say it Aint So
407 Spiritualized - Come Together
408 LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing
409 Fatboy Slim - Praise You
410 Urban Dance Squad - Deeper Shade of Soul
411 Streets - Lets Push Things Forward
412 Blur - Coffeeand TV
413 Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink
414 They Might Be Giants - Istanbul Not Constantinople
415 Pulp - Disco 2000
416 Grandmaster Flash - Message
417 Art of Noise - Close to the Edit
418 Pixies - Velouria
419 Sunny Day Real Estate - Pillars
420 Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child Wild One
421 Jonathan Richman Modern Lovers - Dodge Veg O Matic
422 Split Enz - I Got You
423 World Party - Ship of Fools
424 Ted Leo Pharmacists - Where Have Rude Boys Gone
425 Belle and Sebastian - Boy With the Arab Strap
426 Suzanne Vega - Luka
427 Squeeze - Pulling Mussels from the Shell
428 Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me
429 REM - Driver 8
430 Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
431 Papas Fritas - Way You Walk
432 Tears For Fears - Shout
433 Guided By Voices - Glad Girls
434 Cake - Rock N Roll Lifestyle
435 Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers
436 Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
437 Lo Fidelity Allstars - Battle Flag
438 Front 242 - Welcome to Paradise
439 Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours
440 Verve - Lucky Man
441 Massive Attack - Protection
442 Postal Service - District Sleeps Alone Toni
443 Eels - Novocaine For the Soul
444 Doves - There Goes the Fear
445 Bjork - Joga
446 National - Secret Meeting
447 Firehose - Flyin the Flannel
448 White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty
449 Bloc Party - Banquet
450 TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
451 Talking Heads - Stay Up Late
452 REM - Superman
453 Broken Social Scene - 74 Shoreline
454 Echo and The Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
455 Sleater Kinney - Youre No Rock N Roll Fun
456 Sugarcubes - Hit
457 XRay Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours
458 Ride - Vapour Trail
459 Bob Mould - See a Little Light
460 Low - Dinosaur Act
461 Muse - New Born
462 Elvis Costello - I Dont Want to Go to Chelsea
463 Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
464 Arrested Development - Tennessee
465 Afrika Bambaataa - Dont StopPlanet Rock
466 Sugar - Helpless
467 They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
468 Stereolab - Miss Modular
469 Ted Leo Pharmacists - Me and Mia
470 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
471 Suzanne Vega - Toms Diner DNA mix
472 X - 4th of July
473 Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband
474 Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now
475 Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
476 Guided By Voices - My Valuable Hunting Knife
477 Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To
478 Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
479 Junior Boys - In the Morning
480 Housemartins - Happy Hour
481 Concrete Blonde - Joey
482 Placebo - Pure Morning
483 Love and Rockets - No New Tale to Tell
484 Wrens - Hopeless
485 Doves - Black and White Town
486 Morrissey - Suedehead
487 The - This is the Day
488 Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
489 Berlin - Sex Im a
490 Meryn Cadell - Sweater
491 Garbage - Only Happy When it Rains
492 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
493 Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - Elvis is Everywhere
494 Arcade Fire - Rebellion Lies
495 Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself
496 XTC - Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
497 Big Country - In a Big Country
498 Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade
499 Joe Jackson - Im the Man
500 Band of Horses - Funeral
Other Modern Rock 500 countdowns by year

Note the station did not broadcast a Modern Rock 500 in 2004.

Credit to WOXY listener Craig Froehle for providing the underlying source materials for these yearly lists.

Combinations

Here is one massive combined countdown with all songs from every year of the countdown, ranked by average position (1394 songs in all).