Only one song per band? This is going to be crazy. I’m guessing the top fifteen will be something like:

15. Liz Phair- “Divorce Song”
14. DJ Shadow- “Building Steam with a Grain of Salt”
13. Bonnie “Prince” Billy- “I See a Darkness”
12. Beck- “Where It’s At”
11. Wu-Tang Clan- “Protect Ya Neck”
10. Nine Inch Nails- “Closer”
9. Notorious B.I.G.- “Juicy”
8. Aphex Twin- “Windowlicker”
7. Neutral Milk Hotel- “Holland, 1945”
6. Daft Punk- “Da Funk”
5. Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg- “Nuthin’ but a G Thang”
4. Elliott Smith- “Between the Bars”
3. Pavement- “Cut Your Hair”
2. Nirvana- [begrudgingly] “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
1. Radiohead- “Paranoid Android”

Those artists will all be near the top, but what’s so maddening about predicting these is that I could be completely wrong about the song Pitchfork chose. “Juicy”/”Hypnotize” is a toss-up. They could easily pick “Heart-Shaped Box,” though it would be ballsy to not include “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at all, and they could choose two or three other Pavement songs if “Cut Your Hair” is too outre. And the Pixies have to be somewhere. This is what I’m sticking with though. We’ll see how it shapes up.

Still, we’re only at 151, and Green Day’s already gone, not to mention En Vogue! This is madness!

(No. This is Pitchfork.)