Queerics' Top 75 Songs
As voted by some people on the internet
On November 8th, 2009, I got tired of everyone
else on the internet having a (totally lame) Top 100 Songs list when Queerics didn't have (a totally awesome) one. So I painstakingly pasted the title of every song on the site--at the time, there were around 550--into a poll, and made the members of
the Queerics community fill it out.
The initial results weren't as definitive as I'd hoped; we ended up with a vague list of 75 songs that most people agreed were pretty good. So I polled them again, and again, and again, until I felt that we'd established a pretty good order for things. And so the Queerics Top 75 was born!
One of the reasons I really wanted to do this is because I know that Queerics kids are of a slightly different demographic than the people who usually get polled for this kind of list: they're very young, rarely male-identified, and more likely to define themselves as queer than gay, lesbian, bisexual, or trans. I can see how some of that is reflected in the list--a ton of these songs deal explicitly with gender-bending. No freaking idea why there are so few women represented, though.
The artist/title of each song links to a youtube video where you can hear it, which you should totally do! It ought to be a great introduction to what Queerics is all about. If you want to hear that I think about the tracks, I did an analysis as the polls were running. You can find all my commentary
here.
The List:
1.
Franz Ferdinand, "Michael" [lyrics]
2.
David Bowie, "Rebel Rebel" [lyrics]
3.
The Smiths, "This Charming Man" [lyrics]
4.
Bloc Party, "I Still Remember" [lyrics]
5.
Garbage, "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)" [lyrics]
6.
Blur, "Girls & Boys" [lyrics]
7.
Placebo, "Burger Queen" [lyrics]
8.
The Kinks, "Lola" [lyrics]
9.
Placebo, "Nancy Boy" [lyrics]
10.
IAMX, "Sailor" [lyrics]
11.
Death Cab For Cutie, "Brothers On A Hotel Bed" [lyrics]
12.
Placebo, "My Sweet Prince" [lyrics]
13.
Green Day, "Coming Clean" [lyrics]
14.
Placebo, "Lady Of The Flowers" [lyrics]
15.
TATU, "All The Things She Said" [lyrics]
16.
Lou Reed, "Walk on the Wild Side" [lyrics]
17.
Suede, "The Drowners" [lyrics]
18.
Depeche Mode, "Never Let Me Down Again" [lyrics]
19.
Scissor Sisters, "Take Your Mama" [lyrics]
20.
The Decemberists, "On The Bus Mall" [lyrics]
21.
Dresden Dolls, "Sex Changes" [lyrics]
22.
Mika, "Billy Brown" [lyrics]
23.
Manic Street Preachers, "Nobody Loved You" [lyrics]
24.
Scissor Sisters, "Filthy/Gorgeous" [lyrics]
25.
Tori Amos, "Raspberry Swirl" [lyrics]
26.
Garbage, "Androgyny" [lyrics]
27.
Queen, "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" [lyrics]
28.
The Killers, "Andy, You're A Star" [lyrics]
29.
Patrick Wolf, "Augustine" [lyrics]
30.
Placebo, "Then The Clouds Will Open For Me" [lyrics]
31.
Garbage, "Bleed Like Me" [lyrics]
32.
Scissor Sisters, "She's My Man" [lyrics]
33.
TATU, "Malchik Gay" [lyrics]
34.
IAMX, "The Negative Sex" [lyrics]
35.
Placebo, "Battle For The Sun" [lyrics]
36.
The Magnetic Fields, "When My Boy Walks Down The Street" [lyrics]
37.
The Smiths, "Sheila Take A Bow" [lyrics]
38.
The Libertines, "Can't Stand Me Now" [lyrics]
39.
Gavin Friday, "Dolls" [lyrics]
40.
David Bowie, "John, I'm Only Dancing" [lyrics]
41.
Patrick Wolf, "Lycanthropy" [lyrics]
42.
Dresden Dolls, "Half Jack" [lyrics]
43.
The Used, "Pretty Handsome Awkward" [lyrics]
44.
Placebo, "Spite & Malice" [lyrics]
45.
Green Day, "King For A Day" [lyrics]
46.
My Chemical Romance, "Give 'Em Hell, Kid" [lyrics]
47.
OK Go, "It's Tough To Have A Crush" [lyrics]
48.
Patrick Wolf, "The Bachelor" [lyrics]
49.
Placebo, "Bruise Pristine" [lyrics]
50.
The Velvet Underground, "Candy Says" [lyrics]
51.
David Bowie, "Lady Stardust" [lyrics]
52.
Suede, "The Asphalt World" [lyrics]
53.
Underworld, "Born Slippy .NUXX" [lyrics]
54.
Indochine, "Marilyn" [lyrics]
55.
Suede, "The Living Dead" [lyrics]
56.
Fall Out Boy, "GINASFS" [lyrics]
57.
Belle & Sebastian, "Jonathan David" [lyrics]
58.
Suede, "Animal Nitrate" [lyrics]
59.
Team Smile and Nod, "Scrooge" [lyrics]
60.
Bright Eyes, "Lover I Don't Have To Love" [lyrics]
61.
The Used, "Blue and Yellow" [lyrics]
62.
The Decemberists, "The Soldiering Life" [lyrics]
63.
Of Montreal, "When A Man Is In Love With A Man" [lyrics]
64.
The Smiths, "William It Was Really Nothing" [lyrics]
65.
Bikini Kill, "Rebel Girl" [lyrics]
66.
Mindless Self Indulgence, "Faggot" [lyrics]
67.
My Chemical Romance, "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison" [lyrics]
68.
The Magnetic Fields, "Underwear" [lyrics]
69.
AFI, "Love Like Winter" [lyrics]
70.
Placebo, "2468" [lyrics]
71.
Franz Ferdinand, "Do You Want To" [lyrics]
72.
The Gossip, "Standing In The Way Of Control" [lyrics]
73.
Missy Higgins, "Scar" [lyrics]
74.
TATU, "Loves Me Not" [lyrics]
75.
Green Day, "Basket Case" [lyrics]