Had to compile my 'favourite 100 songs ever' for a student newspaper thing and thought that I would first lay myself open to the wisdom/snobbery/brutality of the DiS forum (which I have read for several months but never before contributed to). Just how closed-minded a list is this? What does it say about me as a person? How far can 'childhood memories' be used to justify desperately embarrassing selections (Blink, Semisonic, the Prodigy etc)? Can one really have too many tracks off 'Funeral'? And is this the most grossly self-obsessed thing anyone has ever done on the boards?

(Bio: 20 years old, south London, permanently single. Other interests include Sofia Coppola films, Lucky Jim, Peep Show, lower league football, Stewart Lee, the Back To The Future trilogy, Dr Zhivago, Never Mind The Buzzcocks Series 19-21, and Cherry Bakewells).

Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #2 (Laika)
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Arctic Monkeys - From The Ritz To The Rubble
Arctic Monkeys - Do Me A Favour
Arthur Beatrice - The Duel
Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining
The Beatles - Eight Days A Week
The Beatles - I'm Looking Through You
The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
Belle & Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo
Big Country - In A Big Country
Blink-182 - What's My Age Again?
Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass
Bloc Party - This Modern Love
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street
The Chemical Brothers - Hold Tight London
Chuck Berry - Johnny B.Goode
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over And Over (Lost & Found)
The Clash - Hateful
The Cure - Close To Me
Cut Copy - Feel The Love
Deadmau5 - Strobe
Doves - Satellites
Eels - Fresh Feeling
Eels - Railroad Man
Eels - Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
Elbow - Grounds For Divorce
Elbow - Friend Of Ours
Errors - Supertribe
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs Bad Arms
Frightened Rabbit - Old Old Fashioned
The Futureheads - Decent Days & Nights
The Futureheads - Area
The Go! Team - Titanic Vandalism
The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sweet Gene Vincent
Interpol - Narc
Jamie T - Sticks n' Stones
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Joseph Arthur - Can't Exist
Karine Polwart - What Are You Waiting For?
Kate Bush - Experiment 4
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Larrikin Love - On Sussex Downs
LCD Soundsystem - Home
The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
The Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover
M83 - We Own The Sky
Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Memory Tapes - Bicycle
MGMT - Kids
The Middle East - Blood
Modest Mouse - Float On
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Muse - Map Of The Problematique
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
The National - Mr November
The National - Fake Empire
New Order - Blue Monday
New Order- Crystal
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Papa Won't Leave You Henry
Paul Simon - Graceland
Phoenix - Lisztomania
Pink Floyd - Money
Pixies - Debaser
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Prefab Sprout - Cowboy Dreams
The Prodigy - Voodoo People
Radiohead - Idioteque
Radiohead - There There
Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Lovely Man
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Roxy Music - More Than This
Semisonic - Closing Time
Simon & Garfunkel - Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
Stars - Elevator Love Letter
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
The Streets - Weak Become Heroes
The Strokes - The Modern Age
Talking Heads - Clean Break (Let's Work) (live)
Those Dancing Days - Hitten
Travis - Writing To Reach You
U2 - New Year's Day
The Waterboys - Glastonbury Song
The Waterboys - Natural Bridge Blues
We Are Scientists - The Great Escape
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Wild Beasts - This Is Our Lot
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Yeasayer - 2080