TOP 107 OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Suprisingly, we survived Y2K.  And the new millennium brought a whole new batch of bands - White Stripes, Killers, Coldplay – and the resurgence of a few bands that we thought had already had their day – Green Day, U2, Nine Inch Nails – but returned with some of their best music yet.  It also brought The End an unfortunate, misguided detour into “New Rock First” for most of 2003. Putting together this list, harms and I chose to ignore that dark period of “alternative” music, because we just couldn’t bear to hear Puddle Of Mudd or POD or Slipknot or Saliva soil our precious public airwaves again. Feel free to download them and insert them into your own list. What I like looking at this list is the feeling that alternative music has gotten back to being a broad, hard-to-define genre: from the two-piece blues of White Stripes to the dance beats of Gorillaz to synth-pop of Postal Service, Queens of the Stone Age’s straight-ahead rock, the heaviness of Tool and the new, smart Seattle sounds of Modest Mouse and Death Cab. I tried to convince harms to put Sift & Olly higher, but in the end considered myself lucky to get a song by two sock puppets on the countdown at all.
-Jim Keller, Assistant Program Director, 1077 The End. Got a problem with this list? Something missing?  Or maybe you just wanna say “thanks” and “nice job”? E-mail me: jim@1077theend.com.

1 WHITE STRIPES SEVEN NATION ARMY
2 MODEST MOUSE FLOAT ON
3 KILLERS MR. BRIGHTSIDE
4 GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT
5 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS OTHERSIDE
6 GORILLAZ FEEL GOOD INC
7 COLDPLAY YELLOW
8 AUDIOSLAVE LIKE A STONE
9 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE NO ONE KNOWS
10 NIRVANA YOU KNOW YOU'RE RIGHT
11 GREEN DAY BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
12 JIMMY EAT WORLD THE MIDDLE
13 NINE INCH NAILS THE HAND THAT FEEDS
14 SYSTEM OF A DOWN CHOP SUEY
15 WEEZER BEVERLY HILLS
16 BLINK 182 ADAM'S SONG
17 JET ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL
18 FOO FIGHTERS ALL MY LIFE
19 STROKES LAST NITE
20 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS BY THE WAY
21 COLDPLAY CLOCKS
22 INCUBUS DRIVE
23 KILLERS SOMEBODY TOLD ME
24 GORILLAZ CLINT EASTWOOD
25 TOOL SCHISM
26 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE LITTLE SISTER
27 POSTAL SERVICE SUCH GREAT HEGHTS
28 WEEZER HASHPIPE
29 U2 VERTIGO
30 OUTKAST HEY YA
31 SHINS NEW SLANG
32 STROKES 12:51
33 MOBY SOUTHSIDE
34 PRESIDENTS OF USA SOME POSTMAN
35 HIVES HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO
36 BECK E-PRO
37 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE SOUL MEETS BODY
38 NINE INCH NAILS ONLY
39 FOO FIGHTERS TIMES LIKE THESE
40 COLDPLAY THE SCIENTIST
41 GREEN DAY HOLIDAY
42 WHITE STRIPES FELL IN LOVE WITH A GIRL
43 311 AMBER
44 FOO FIGHTERS BEST OF YOU
45 JOHNNY CASH HURT
46 AUDIOSLAVE SHOW ME HOW TO LIVE
47 MOBY NATURAL BLUES
48 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS CAN'T STOP
49 U2 BEAUTIFUL DAY
50 STROKES JUICEBOX
51 311 LOVE SONG
52 YEAH YEAH YEAH'S  MAPS
53 A PERFECT CIRCLE WEAK AND POWERLESS
54 MATISYAHU KING WITHOUT A CROWN
55 COLDPLAY IN MY PLACE
56 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE THE NEW YEAR
57 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE RENEGADES OF FUNK
58 SNOW PATROL RUN
59 TENACIOUS D TRIBUTE
60 INTERPOL SLOW HANDS
61 ALIEN ANT FARM SMOOTH CRIMINAL
62 BRAVERY AN HONEST MISTAKE
63 CAKE SHORT SKIRT/LONG JACKET
64 FLOGGING MOLLY DRUNKEN LULLABIES
65 FRANZ FERDINAND TAKE ME OUT
66 HOT HOT HEAT BANDAGES
67 COLDPLAY SPEED OF SOUND
68 LINKIN PARK NUMB
69 KILLERS ALL THESE THINGS THAT I'VE DONE
70 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE GO WITH THE FLOW
71 RADIOHEAD THERE THERE
72 SYSTEM OF A DOWN B.Y.O.B.
73 WHITE STRIPES BLUE ORCHID
74 AUDIOSLAVE BE YOURSELF
75 CYPRESS HILL ROCK SUPERSTAR
76 GREEN DAY WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS
77 MODEST MOUSE OCEAN BREATHES SALTY
78 MUSE TIME IS RUNNING OUT
79 JET COLD HARD BITCH
80 BLINK 182 STAY TOGETHER FOR THE KIDS
81 FUEL HEMORRHAGE
82 NIRVANA JESUS DON'T WANT ME FOR A SUNBEAM
83 CAESARS JERK IT OUT
84 STROKES REPTILIA
85 WHITE STRIPES THE HARDEST BUTTON TO BUTTON
86 GREEN DAY MINORITY
87 KORN MAKE ME BAD
88 PEARL JAM I AM MINE
89 WHITE STRIPES DEAD LEAVES AND THE DIRTY GROUND
90 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ZEPHYR SONG
91 ARCADE FIRE REBELLION (LIES)
92 BLOODHOUND GANG THE BAD TOUCH
93 DYNAMITE HACK BOYZ N THE HOOD
94 GARY JULES MAD WORLD
95 PEARL JAM DAUGHTER (LIVE AT BENAROYA)
96 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE
97 SNOW PATROL CHOCOLATE
98 TEGAN & SARA WALKING WITH A GHOST
99 SYSTEM OF A DOWN TOXICITY
100 AFI THE LEAVING SONG PT. II
101 BECK LOST CAUSE
102 RADIOHEAD OPTIMISTIC
103 GREEN DAY WARNING
104 WHEATUS TEENAGE DIRTBAG
105 DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL SCREAMING INFIDELITIES
106 FOO FIGHTERS DARLING NIKKI
107 SIFL & OLLY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER