lackluster, synth-dependent, 80s-wannabe, faux-hipster bullshit. It sounds like elevator music on MDMA. Without the hook. No gracias.

• Baba O’Reilly - The Who
• I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
• Rebel, Rebel - David Bowie
• Benny and the Jets - Elton John
• At Seventeen - Janis Ian

…among others.

Too bad I wasn’t even born when any of these were written.

• Moonlight Mile - The Rolling Stones
• Marquee Moon - Television
• Life on Mars? - David Bowie
• Horses - Patti Smith
• I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
• Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground
• Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground
• Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett
• She’s Not There - The Zombies
• Time of the Season - The Zombies
• You Still Want Me - The Kinks
• Shangri La - The Kinks

…any more suggestions?

• Angles - The Strokes
• Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
• 21 - Adele
• Wounded Rhymes - Lykke Li
• Blood Pressures - The Kills
• Torches - Foster the People
• Zonoscope - Cut Copy
• Mine Is Yours - Cold War Kids
• Passive Me, Aggressive You - The Naked and Famous (okay it’s 2010, but still awesome)

More?

• Lykke Li
• Radiohead
• Ellie Goulding
• Cage the Elephant

Tomorrow’s commute is gonna be jam-tastic.

• Television
• Patti Smith
• Iggy Pop & The Stooges
• MC5
• Dead Boys
• The Ramones
• The Velvet Underground
• The Runaways

And people think punk didn’t exist til 1977…

• Wolf Parade
• Arcade Fire
• Fanfarlo
• Band of Horses (big time. I listen every morning on my way to school)
• Broken Bells
• Interpol

And of course: Joan Jett. All day, e’ry day.

Titled: I’m The Wild One

Featuring:

• The entire Runaways soundtrack
• Sex Pistols
• The Runaways
• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, incl. a fantastic cover of the Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
• David Bowie, Live in Santa Monica ‘72
• Bikini Kill

So much rock and roll authority. I have been listening/adding to this playlist for over a month. I literally listen to nothing else.