The 100 Greatest Ever Artrock Tracks: 100-81

We celebrated our 100th Issue by compiling The Top 100 Greatest Ever Artrock Tracks for you, our lovely readers. Chosen by our wonderful writers, advisers and readers, you won’t find a more complete snapshot of artrock than this. 




100. 1969 (1969) - The Stooges The lead track from the self-titled debut album by Detroit’s finest, and the MC5’s ‘little brothers’.





99. Space and the Woods (2007) - Late of the Pier
 From the band’s debut ‘Zarcorp Demo EP’.





98. He’s The Devil (But I Love Him So) (2003) - The Hells
 The lead track on the band’s self-titled EP, released by Artrocker Records, the track caught the attention of John Peel.





97. Stickin It To The Man (2006) - Tiny Masters of Today
 From ‘Big Noise EP’. Proclaimed as “Genius” by David Bowie and loved by us from their inception, you can’t get much higher praise than that!





96. Iggy (2005) - Acoustic Ladyland
 This track has opened and closed every single Artrocker Radio Show… and if we’re not bored of hearing it twice a week then neither should you.





95. Less Than Zero (1977) - Elvis Costello
 Another track from a debut record, this time Costello’s ‘My Aim Is True’. 1977 gave us the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, Star Wars and this gem of a track.





94. Shipbuilding (1982) - Robert Wyatt
 A mid-career high from Soft Machine founding member and an all-round well loved artrock icon.





93. Needles in The Camel's Eye (1974) – Brian Eno
 Artock goes glam on this cracker from Eno’s debut album ‘Here Come The Warm Jets’.





92. Outdoor Miner (1978) – Wire
 The first of three appearances by one of the UK’s, if not the world’s, most important and influential post-punk artrock bands of the 1970s.





91. Crocodiles (2009) - Hatcham Social
 An Artrocker Single of the Month, need we say more! Dig out those jumpers and join the club.




90. Contort Yourself (1979) - James White and the Blacks
 New-wave gave way to no-wave for a brief period in 1970s New York, and this is the pick of the funky end of the bunch.





89. I Ain't Saying My Goodbyes (2005) - Tom Vek
 More or less a one-year career, comprising of one album, an EP and a handful of singles, this is a gem of a track.




88. It Came From Japan (2001) - Von Bondies
 They may claim it came from Japan, but we know if definitely came from Detroit and this raucous garage tune led the early noughties garage rock revival invasion from the US.





87. I am Oozing Emotion (2005) - The Chap
 Feel the ooze.





86. Shady Lane (1997) – Pavement
 So good it got released three separate times – once on the ‘Brighten The Corners’ album, secondly as a two-part single release and finally as an EP, which features a slightly varied version of the track with an extended instrumental part near the end of the track.





85. Wooley Bridge (2006) - Bromheads Jacket
 From album ‘Dits From The Commuter Belt’.





84. Celebrate Your Mother (2002) - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Would The Horrors and the Dark Rock scene have been the same today had it not been for these psychotic motherfuckers from Brighton?





83. Death Disco (1979) - Public Image Ltd 
Also known as ‘Swan Lake’ from the band’s second album, ‘Metal Box’.





82. Joko Homo (1976) - Devo
 B-Side to the band’s debut single ‘Mongoloid’.





81. I Heard Her Call My Name (1968) - Velvet Underground 
From the classic ‘White Light/White Heat’, what an album!


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