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885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century – WXPN Staff 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 staff voted:

Roger LaMay

GM

  • Sufian Stevens – Chicago
  • Gillian Welch – Time The Revelator
  • Amy Winehouse – Rehab
  • Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel
  • Jason Isbell – If We Were Vampires
  • Allison Russell – Midnight Flyer
  • The Hold Steady – Sequestered In Memphis
  • Courtney Barnett – Avant Gardener
  • Drive By Truckers – I Used To Be A Cop
  • Kathleen Edwards – Asking For Flowers

Abby Nixon

Assistant To The General Manager

  • M83 – Midnight City
  • Bat For Lashes – Pearl’s Dream
  • Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left
  • Naked And Famous – Young Blood
  • Alvvays – Marry Me Archie
  • Lucius – Turn It Around
  • Sufan Stevens – John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
  • Tame Impala – Let It Happen
  • Death Cab For Cutie – Marching Bands Of Manhattan
  • The Long Winters – The Commander Thinks Aloud

Brian Divver

I.T. Communications Analyst

  • Slayer – Disciple
  • Tedeschi Trucks Band – Midnight In Harlem
  • Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Let It Fall
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – Can\’t Stop
  • The Black Crowes – Waiting And Wanting
  • North Mississippi Allstars – Hurry Up Sunrise
  • Derek Trucks Band – Sweet Inspiration
  • Blackberry Smoke – Leave A Scar
  • Behemoth – O Father, O Satan O Sun!
  • Charles Bradley – Changes

Callum Leemkuil-Schuerman

Development Associate

  • Default Genders – Black Pill Skyline
  • Lil Wayne – A Milli
  • SOPHIE – Lemonade
  • Ghostface Killah – The Champ
  • Mariem Hassan – La Tumchu Anni
  • Owen Pallett – Lewis Takes Off His Shirt (Live)
  • Azealia Banks – 212
  • Sufjan Stevens – The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
  • 100 Gecs – Stupid Horse
  • The Mountain Goats – Midland

Emily Costello

Digital Marketing Content Producer

  • Robyn – Dancing On My Own
  • Mannequin Pussy – Drunk II
  • Fontaines D.C. – Boys In The Better Land
  • Chappell Roan – Pink Pony Club
  • Beyoncé  – TEXAS HOLD ‘EM
  • Lady Gaga – Poker Face
  • Missy Elliott – Work It
  • Frank Ocean – Pink Matter
  • Norah Jones – Don’t Know Why
  • OutKast – Ms Jackson

Emily Pavie

Membership Manager

  • Limp Bizkit – Rollin
  • Grand Buffet – Benjamin Franklin
  • Head Automatica – Beating Heart Baby
  • The Black Keys – 10 A.M. Automatic
  • LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
  • N.E.R.D. – Lapdance
  • Grimes – Oblivion
  • Drake – Hotline Bling
  • Solange – Cranes In The Sky
  • Charli XCX – Super Love

Erica Zito

Traffic Manager

  • Moby – In This World
  • Brandi Carlile – The Joke
  • TV On The Radio – Love Dog
  • Alicia Keys – Empire State Og Mind Part II- Breakdown
  • Sleater Kinney – Modern Girl
  • PJ Harvey – You Said Something
  • Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place
  • Idioteque – Radiohead
  • House Of Cards – Radiohead
  • Ani DiFranco – Marrow

Heather Hurlock

Digital Content Manager

  • Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
  • Bright Eyes – First Day Of My Life
  • Decemberists – 16 Military Wives
  • Gillian Welch – Everything Is Free
  • Brandi Carlile – The Eye
  • Taylor Swift – The 1
  • The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
  • Janelle Monae – Make Me Feel
  • Waxahatchee – Right Back To It
  • Carsie Blanton – After The Revolution

Heidi Franz

Accounts Payable Manager

  • Eminem – Lose Yourself
  • David Bowie – Blackstar
  • Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
  • Outkast – Hey Ya
  • White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
  • Phish – Everything’s Right
  • Adele – Someone Like You
  • Tedeschi Trucks Band – Midnight In Harlem
  • The Red Clay Strays – Wanna Be Loved
  • CeeLo Green – F*ck You/Forget You

Katie Retherford

Development Coordinator

  • Nine Inch Nails – And All That Could Have Been
  • Deftones Ft. Maynard James Keenan – Passenger
  • Outkast – Ms. Jackson
  • Nine Inch Nails – The Hand That Feeds
  • TOOL – Jambi
  • Deftones – Change (In The House Of Flies)
  • Kendrick Lamar – DNA.
  • A Perfect Circle – Judith
  • Missy Elliott – Work It
  • Tame Impala – New Person, Same Old Mistakes

Larry Rayborn

Senior Business Support

  • Destroyer – Savage Night At The Opera
  • Christine And The Queens – People, I’ve Been Sad
  • Kendrick Lamar – Alright
  • Valerie June – You And I
  • SZA – Snooze
  • Kanye West – Runaway (feat. Pusha T)
  • King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – John Taylor’s Month Away
  • Beck – The Golden Age
  • Nilufer Yanya – Another Life
  • Lil Wayne – A Milli

Lucy Briggs

Marketing Manager

  • The Bad Plus – Physical Cities
  • My Morning Jacket – Dontante
  • Willi Carlisle – What The Rocks Don’t Know
  • Tune-Yards – Powa
  • Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
  • Bo Burnham – Welcome To The Internet
  • La Dispute – Such Small Hands
  • Good Clean Fun – The MySpace Song
  • Bimes, Gifted Gab – Come Correct
  • Toxic – Britney Spears

Miguel Perez

World Cafe Producer

  • Charli XCX – Track 10
  • Kanye West – Ultralight Beam
  • Joanna Newsom – Sapokanikan
  • SOPHIE – Immaterial
  • Lil Wayne – A Milli
  • Alice Deejay – Better Off Alone
  • SZA – Garden (Say It Like Dat)
  • Bob Iver – Holocene
  • Britney Spears – Piece Of Me
  • Kacey Musgraves – Oh, What A World

Nick Bisaccia

Business Support Rep

  • LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
  • The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
  • Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
  • The Strokes – Last Nite
  • Alabama Shakes – Hold On
  • Spoon – Rent I Pay
  • Low Cut Connie – Revolution Rock And Roll
  • Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
  • Bill Callahan – Drover
  • Wilco – I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Suzy Swartz

Senior Business Support Representative

  • Mumford And Sons – The Cave
  • The Killers – Human
  • Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
  • U2 – Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
  • Avett Brothers – Live And Die
  • Amy Winehouse – Valerie
  • Michael Kiwanuka – Cold Little Heart
  • The Strokes – Last Night
  • Mary J Blige – Be Without You
  • Alicia Keys – If I Ain’t Got You

Tom Interrante

Underwriting Director

  • Adele – Make You Feel My Love
  • Broken Bells – The High Road
  • The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometimes Around Midnight
  • Kanye – Stronger
  • Haim – The Wire
  • Sia – Chandelier
  • Baby Bash – Suga Suga
  • Band Of Horses – No One’s Gonna Love You
  • Blur – The Narcissist
  • Cigarettes After Sex – Apocalypse

Wes Bower

Corporate Underwriting

  • Drive By Truckers – What It Means
  • Jason Isbell – Relatively Easy
  • Todd Snider – Play A Train Song
  • Mountain Goats – This Year
  • Rilo Kiley – Portions For Foxes
  • Low Cut Connie – Revolution Rock N Roll
  • Gillian Welch – Wrecking Ball
  • Courtney Barnett – Elevator Operator
  • Dawes – When My Time Comes
  • Pretenders – Didn’t Want To Be This Lonely

Carol Lerner

Director Of Finance And Accounting

  • White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
  • Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
  • Adele – Rolling In The Deep
  • LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
  • Tame Impala – The Less I Know The Better
  • Phish – Sand
  • Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place
  • Missy Elliott – Work It
  • Ween – Even If You Don’t
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