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885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century – WXPN Host List

For two decades WXPN has crowd-sourced its most popular on-air countdowns. With themes like the 885 Greatest Songs of All-Time, 885 All-Time Greatest Albums, 885 Greatest Desert Island Songs, and more. This year we’re creating the soundtrack of the century!

Here’s how our WXPN hosts voted:

Robert Drake

Land Of The Lost / Your First Cup / OUTsounds

  • LCD Soundsystem – Home
  • Stars – Calendar Girl
  • Spoon – Don’t You Evah
  • Robyn – Hang With Me
  • The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
  • Missy Elliott – WTF (Where They From)
  • Britney Spears – Toxic
  • Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
  • Tame Impala – Let It Happen
  • The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist

Kristen Kurtis

Morning Show Host & Assistant Music Director

  • Janelle Monae – Tightrope
  • Hozier – Take Me To Church
  • Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
  • Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place
  • Death Cab For Cutie – I Will Follow You Into The Dark
  • Phoebe Bridgers – Smoke Signals
  • Fiona Apple – Under The Table
  • Alabama Shakes – Gimme All Your Love
  • Lady Gaga – Poker Face
  • Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl

Bob Bumbera

Morning Show Co-Host And News Director

  • Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
  • Tedeschi Trucks Band – Anyhow
  • Green Day – American Idiot
  • Johnny Cash – Hurt
  • Eddie Vedder – Hard Sun
  • The Flaming Kips – Do You Realize?
  • Coldplay – Yelllow
  • The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
  • U2 – Beautiful Day
  • MIA – Bad Girls

Mike Vasilikos

Midday Host / Operations Manager

  • The Killers – Mr. Brightside
  • Jay Z – 99 Problems
  • White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
  • MIA – Paper Planes
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
  • Kanye West – Jesus Walks
  • Brandi Carlile – The Story
  • Lana Del Rey – Video Games
  • LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
  • Phosphorescent – Song For Zula

Raina Douris

World Cafe Host

  • Father John Misty – Holy Shit
  • LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
  • Azaelia Banks – 212
  • The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues
  • Arcade Fire – Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)
  • Outkast – Hey Ya!
  • The Weather Station – Thirty
  • Eminem – Without Me
  • The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?

Stephen Kallao

Contributing Host, World Cafe

  • The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
  • Eminem – Stan
  • Bon Iver – Holocene
  • Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone
  • Brittany Spears – Toxic
  • System Of A Down – Chop Suey!
  • Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
  • The Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done
  • Yeah! – Usher
  • Liam Lynch – United States Of Whatever

Dan Reed

Music Director / Afternoon Host

  • The Strokes – Last Nite
  • The War On Drugs – Under The Pressure
  • Wunderhorse – Midas
  • Alex G – Runner
  • Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian At Best
  • Fontaines DC – Jackie Down The Line
  • Tame Impala – It Might Be Time
  • D’Angelo – The Charade
  • Spoon – Trouble Comes Running
  • Ian Hunter – Ripoff

Kathy O’Connell

Kids Corner Host

  • Janelle Monae – Tightrope
  • David Wax Museum – Guesthouse
  • Josh Ritter – Getting Ready To Get Down
  • Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights
  • Pharrell Williams – Happy
  • The Hold Steady – Sequestered In Memphis
  • JD McPherson – North Side Gal
  • Cake – Short Skirt, Long Jacket
  • KT Tunstall – Black Horse And The Cherry Tree
  • Say She She – Questions

Bruce Warren

Program Director

  • Outkast – Hey Ya
  • Adele – Rolling In The Deep
  • The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
  • Beyonce – Crazy In Love
  • Kendrick Lamar – Alright
  • The Killers – Mr. Brightside
  • Drake – Headlines
  • WIlco – Impossible Germany
  • Brandi Carlile – The Joke
  • LCD Soundsystem – Disco Infiltrator

Jim McGuinn

Assistant Program Director / On-Air Host

  • The Killers – Mr. Brightside
  • The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
  • The Strokes – Last Nite
  • Amy Winehouse – Rehab
  • U2 – Beautiful Day
  • Adele – Chasing Pavements
  • Brandi Carlile – The Joke
  • Frank Ocean – Thinkin Bout You
  • Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place
  • Missy Elliot – Work It

John Vettese

WXPN Local Host / Music News Editor

  • Robyn – Dancing On My Own
  • OutKast – Ms. Jackson
  • Broken Social Scene – Anthems For A Seventeen-Year-Old Girl
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
  • Kendrick Lamar – Alright
  • Hop Along – Tibetan Pop Stars
  • LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
  • Carly Rae Jepsen – Run Away With Me
  • Mannequin Pussy – Drunk II
  • Wilco – Impossible Germany

Eric Schuman

Indie Rock Hit Parade Host

  • DeVotchKa – How It Ends
  • The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
  • Father John Misty – Bored In The USA
  • Shilpa Ray – Johnny Thunders Fantasy Space Camp
  • Peter Bjorn And John – Young Folks
  • Sparks – Suburban Homeboy
  • Sharon Van Etten And Angel Olsen – Like I Used To
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
  • TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me
  • Wet Leg – Chaise Longue

Keith Kelleher

Host/Programmer Sleepy Hollow

  • Adele – Rumour Has It
  • Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
  • Pharrell Williams – Happy
  • Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
  • Morrissey – I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
  • Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian At Best
  • Sigur Ros – Svefn-g-englar
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Distant Sky
  • Johnny Cash – Hurt
  • Brian Eno – I’m Set Free

Julian Booker

Sleepy Hollow Host

  • Radiohead – Everything In Its RIght Place
  • Outkast – Ms. Jackson
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
  • Flaming Lips – Do You Realize??
  • Wilco – I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
  • Fiona Apple – Under The Table
  • M.I.A. – Paper Planes
  • Father John Misty – Hollywood Forever Cemetary Sings
  • Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
  • Britney Spears – Toxic

Ian Zolitor

Host Of “The Folk Show”

  • The Wood Brothers – Luckiest Man
  • Outkast – Ms. Jackson
  • Dr. Dog – Shadow People
  • Dawes – When My Time Comes
  • The Claypool Lennon Delirium – Cricket And The Genie (Movement I & II)
  • Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird – Poor Lost Souls
  • Hezekiah Jones – Cupcakes For The Army
  • Dan Reeder – Work Song
  • John Prine – Summer’s End
  • Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel

Wendy Rollins

Weekends On Air

  • Florence + The Machine – Dog Days Are Over
  • Hozier – Take Me To Church
  • Radiohead – Everything In It’s Right Place
  • Them Crooked Vultures – New Fang
  • Bruno Mars And Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk
  • Foo Fighters – Something From Nothing
  • Hans Zimmer – Stay (Main Theme From Interstellar)
  • The White Stripes – Icky Thump
  • My Chemical Romance – I’m Not Okay (I Promise)
  • M83 – Midnight City

Jonny Meister

The Blues Show

  • Laurie Morvan Band – Family Line
  • Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Another Life Goes By
  • Shemekia Copeland – The Talk
  • Buddy Guy With Jason Isbell – Gunsmoke Blues
  • Vaneese Thomas – Same Blood Same Bone
  • Cash Box Kings – Nobody Called It The Blues
  • Kat Riggins – Cross The Line
  • James Taylor – You And I Again
  • Anni Piper – Little Redhead
  • Maria Muldaur – Vaccinated And I’m Ready For Love

Amber Miller

Host

  • Wilco – I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
  • Radiohead – Idioteque
  • LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
  • The Strokes – Take It Or Leave It
  • The National – Fake Empire
  • The Walkmen – The Rat
  • Hozier – Work Song
  • Foals – Sunday
  • The White Stripes – Fell In Love With A Girl
  • Sylvan Esso – Coffee