34. "Fake" – The Frames

35. “Phantom Limb” – The Shins

36. “Bottomliners” – Brian Eno

37. “Neh Yelginete (My First Love)” – Dub Colossus

38. “Get Even” – The Evens
Who would’ve guessed that after Fugazi, Ian McKaye would form a duo -- with Amy Farina (Warmers) -- that's closer to folk and pop than to post-punk (or Minor Threat’s hardcore, for that matter)? But with his bitingly astute lyrics as political as ever, the results were still intense and uncompromising.

39. “New Wave Folk Austerity” – Jason Forrest
More technically dazzling yet also more subtle than Girl Talk, Jason Forrest (previously AKA Donna Summer) is the master of sample-tronica, a more intricate and frenetically shifting collage of styles than the more popular, crowd-pleasing mash-up genre.

40. “Broken Arrows” – José González
I went for a fan video using the album track, because the trumpet part is such a crucial flavor in the song.

41. “Mistaken for Strangers” – The National

42. “Irish Blood, English Heart” – Morrissey

43. “Formed a Band” – Art Brut

44. “Welcome To:” – Ani DiFranco

45. “Lovesick Teenagers” – Bear in Heaven

46. “This Is All I Came To Do” – Dinosaur Jr.

47. “Goin' to Acapulco” – Jim James & Calexico

48. “Aerial” – The Sea and Cake

49. “For the Future” – Do As Infinity

50. “Sufficiently Breakfast” – Je Suis France

51. “Untitled 1” – Sigur Rós

52. “Golden Age” – TV on the Radio

53. “Dark as Days” – Army Navy

54. “Time the Conqueror” – Jackson Browne

55. “So Long, Lonesome” – Explosions in the Sky

56. “Lost Verses” – Sun Kil Moon

57. “Dreamsucker” – Grooms

58. “Sugar, We're Going Down” – Fall Out Boy

59. “Intervention” – Arcade Fire

60. “Tin Birds” – Blank Dogs

61. "Pussy and Money" – The Dictators

62. “Bete Noir” – The Gutter Twins

63. “Shelter” – The XX

64. “At the Dept. of Forgotten Songs” – Jens Lekman

65. "My Friends Over You" – New Found Glory

66. “Underground Sun” – Robyn Hitchcock

- Steve Holtje

Mr. Holtje is a Brooklyn-based poet and composer who splits his time between editing Culturecatch.com, working at the Williamsburg record store Sound Fix, and editing cognitive neuroscience books for Oxford University Press. No prizes for guessing which pays best.