Top Jangle Pop Songs
Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
39
 R.E.M. Losing My Religion 1991
2
55
 The Smiths There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Indie Pop 1986
3
110
 The Smiths This Charming Man Indie Pop 1983
4
188
 The La's There She Goes 1990
5
312
 R.E.M. Radio Free Europe Post-Punk 1983
6
328
 The Cure Just Like Heaven New Wave 1987
7
360
 R.E.M. It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) Power Pop 1987
8
559
 R.E.M. The One I Love 1987
9
1196
 The Cure Friday I'm in Love 1992
10
1239
 The Smiths Bigmouth Strikes Again Indie Pop 1986
11
1268
 The Smiths Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now Indie Pop 1984
12
1288
 R.E.M. Fall on Me 1986
13
1314
 The Smiths Panic Indie Pop 1986
14
1368
 The Stone Roses She Bangs the Drums Baggy / Madchester, Indie Pop 1989
15
1416
 The Cure In Between Days New Wave 1985
16
1429
 Pretenders Back on the Chain Gang New Wave 1982
17
1437
 The Church Under the Milky Way 1988
18
1491
 The Smiths What Difference Does It Make? Indie Pop 1984
19
1641
 The Go-Betweens Cattle and Cane 1983
20
1678
 Morrissey Suedehead Indie Pop 1988
21
1858
 The Smiths The Boy with the Thorn in His Side Indie Pop 1985
22
2220
 XTC Senses Working Overtime New Wave 1982
23
2246
 R.E.M. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) 1984
24
2279
 The Smiths Girlfriend in a Coma Indie Pop 1987
25
2287
 Real Estate It's Real Indie Pop 2011
26
2419
 The Primitives Crash Power Pop 1988
27
2447
 The Smiths Hand in Glove Indie Pop 1983
28
2514
 The Stone Roses Made of Stone Baggy / Madchester 1989
29
2587
 The Smiths Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want Indie Pop 1984
30
2631
 R.E.M. Orange Crush 1988
31
2686
 The Beat Save It for Later New Wave 1982
32
3003
 Lucinda Williams Passionate Kisses Alt-Country 1988
33
3008
 Ariel Pink Put Your Number in My Phone Indie Pop 2014
34
3107
 Mac DeMarco Ode to Viceroy Indie Pop 2012
35
3156
 The House of Love Shine On Indie Pop, Post-Punk 1990
36
3239
 The Sundays Here's Where the Story Ends Indie Pop 1990
37
3325
 Lloyd Cole and The Commotions Perfect Skin Indie Pop 1984
38
3326
 Real Estate Talking Backwards Indie Pop 2014
39
3342
 R.E.M. Shiny Happy People 1991
40
3469
 The Triffids Wide Open Road 1986
41
3923
 Hunters & Collectors Throw Your Arms Around Me 1984
42
3930
 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Talking Straight Indie Rock 2018
43
3948
 The Go-Betweens Streets of Your Town Indie Pop 1988
44
3968
 The Smiths William, It Was Really Nothing Indie Pop 1984
45
4079
 Lloyd Cole and The Commotions Rattlesnakes 1984
46
4094
 The Smiths Reel Around the Fountain Indie Pop 1984
47
4167
 The Go-Betweens Bachelor Kisses Indie Pop 1984
48
4478
 The Wedding Present My Favourite Dress C86, Indie Rock 1987
49
4497
 Orange Juice Blue Boy Indie Pop 1980
50
4503
 R.E.M. Don't Go Back to Rockville Country Rock 1984
51
4521
 R.E.M. World Leader Pretend 1988
52
4524
 Billy Bragg Sexuality Singer/Songwriter 1991
53
4655
 The Sundays Can't Be Sure Dream Pop, Indie Pop 1989
54
4753
 Belle and Sebastian I'm a Cuckoo Twee Pop 2003
55
4893
 XTC The Mayor of Simpleton Power Pop 1989
56
4897
 The Smiths I Know It's Over Indie Pop 1986
57
4903
 Orange Juice Falling and Laughing Indie Pop, Post-Punk 1980
58
4948
 The Smiths The Headmaster Ritual Indie Pop 1985
59
5055
 Gin Blossoms Hey Jealousy Power Pop 1992
60
5109
 Sugar If I Can't Change Your Mind Power Pop 1992
61
5199
 The Lotus Eaters The First Picture of You New Romantic, Sophisti-Pop 1983
62
5525
 Michael Penn No Myth 1989
63
5627
 El Último de la Fila Insurrección 1986
64
5636
 Primal Scream Velocity Girl C86 1986
65
5836
 Duncan Dhu En algún lugar 1987
66
5920
 The Smiths Cemetry Gates Indie Pop 1986
67
5945
 The The The Beat(en) Generation Folk Pop, Indie Pop 1989
68
5988
 Stella Donnelly Old Man Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter 2019
69
6066
 The Stone Roses Waterfall Baggy / Madchester, Neo-Psychedelia 1989
70
6287
 The Smiths Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me Indie Pop 1987
71
6366
 Lloyd Cole and The Commotions Forest Fire 1984
72
6408
 Aztec Camera Oblivious New Wave 1983
73
6421
 The Chills Heavenly Pop Hit Dunedin Sound 1990
74
6526
 The Cranberries Dreams Dream Pop 1992
75
6611
 The Coral In the Morning Indie Pop 2005
76
6799
 The Smiths Still Ill Indie Pop 1984
77
6845
 Crowded House Distant Sun Soft Rock 1993
78
6939
 Mac DeMarco Passing Out Pieces Indie Pop, Psychedelic Pop 2014
79
6950
 The Smithereens Behind the Wall of Sleep Power Pop 1986
80
7028
 The Smiths Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before Indie Pop 1987
81
7130
 Pretenders 2000 Miles Christmas Music, New Wave 1983
82
7164
 The Stone Roses Elephant Stone Baggy / Madchester 1988
83
7243
 The Wedding Present Kennedy C86, Indie Rock 1989
84
7328
 The Connells 74-'75 Folk Pop 1993
85
7349
 Felt Primitive Painters Post-Punk 1985
86
7393
 The Bluetones Slight Return Britpop 1995
87
7557
 The House of Love Destroy the Heart Indie Pop 1988
88
7676
 The dB's Black and White Power Pop 1980
89
7699
 The Smiths Ask 1986
90
7776
 Bob Mould See a Little Light 1989
91
7964
 The Smiths Shoplifters of the World Unite Indie Pop 1987
92
7972
 Kirsty MacColl A New England New Wave 1984
93
7991
 Real Estate Darling Indie Pop 2017
94
8059
 The Soft Boys Queen of Eyes Neo-Psychedelia, Post-Punk 1980
95
8286
 The Grapes of Wrath All the Things I Wasn't Folk Rock 1989
96
8324
 Håkan Hellström Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg Indie Pop 2000
97
8414
 The Housemartins Happy Hour Indie Pop 1986
98
8508
 Teenage Fanclub Ain't That Enough Power Pop 1997
99
8612
 Another Sunny Day You Should All Be Murdered Twee Pop 1989
100
8631
 Bangles Going Down to Liverpool 1984
101
8705
 The Go-Betweens Right Here Indie Pop 1987
102
8970
 Belle and Sebastian Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie Indie Pop 1997
103
9207
 R.E.M. Can't Get There from Here 1985
104
9278
 Sunnyboys Alone With You Power Pop 1981
105
9281
 Lloyd Cole and The Commotions My Bag Indie Pop 1987
106
9395
 Prefab Sprout The Best Jewel Thief in the World Sophisti-Pop 2013
107
9490
 The Bodines Therese C86 1986
108
9590
 R.E.M. Driver 8 1985
109
9743
 10,000 Maniacs Hey Jack Kerouac 1987
110
9866
 Paraíso Para ti New Wave 1980

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
The Northern Pikes Teenland 1987
The Go-Betweens Love Goes On! Indie Pop 1988
Orange Juice What Presence? Indie Pop 1984
Los Planetas Un buen día 2000
The Wedding Present Nobody's Twisting Your Arm C86, Indie Rock 1988
The Feelies Away Post-Punk 1988
Real Estate Green Aisles Dream Pop, Indie Pop 2011
Barenaked Ladies Brian Wilson Acoustic Rock 1997
R.E.M. Bad Day 2003
R.E.M. Talk About the Passion 1983
The Lemonheads If I Could Talk I'd Tell You Power Pop 1996
Shop Assistants Safety Net C86, Noise Pop 1986
Roger McGuinn King of the Hill 1991
Felt Ballad of the Band Indie Pop 1986
10,000 Maniacs Trouble Me 1989
Teenage Fanclub Mellow Doubt Folk Pop 1995
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Heart in Your Heartbreak Twee Pop 2010
World Party Is It Like Today? 1993
The Verlaines Death and The Maiden Dunedin Sound 1983
Aztec Camera Walk Out to Winter New Wave 1983
The Smiths Asleep Indie Pop 1985
The La's Way Out 1987
James Sometimes Indie Pop 1993
Gabinete Caligari Cuatro rosas New Wave 1984
Teenage Fanclub I Need Direction Power Pop 2000
Cleaners From Venus Only a Shadow Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock, New Wave, Post-Punk 1982
Orange Juice Simply Thrilled Honey Indie Pop 1980
10,000 Maniacs These Are Days 1992
The Smiths Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Indie Pop 1986
The Smiths Sheila Take a Bow Indie Pop 1987
Disco Inferno The Last Dance Post-Punk 1993
Mac DeMarco My Kind of Woman Indie Pop 2012
Prefab Sprout Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone) Indie Pop 1982
Jill Sobule I Kissed a Girl Alt-Country, Folk Pop 1995
The Weather Prophets Almost Prayed 1986
The Smiths That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Indie Pop 1985
54-40 I Go Blind 1985
10,000 Maniacs My Mother the War 1983
R.E.M. Pretty Persuasion 1984
The Smiths Half a Person Indie Pop 1987
Bangles Hero Takes a Fall Power Pop 1984
R.E.M. Near Wild Heaven 1991
R.E.M. Sitting Still 1983
The Go-Betweens Spring Rain Indie Pop 1986
Gin Blossoms Til I Hear It From You Power Pop 1995
The Pale Fountains Jean's Not Happening 1985
Girls Carolina Indie Pop 2010
The Smiths Shakespeare's Sister Indie Rock 1985
Primal Scream All Fall Down C86 1985
Paul Kelly [Australia] From St. Kilda to Kings Cross Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter 1985
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions Lost Weekend Indie Pop 1985
Mac DeMarco Salad Days Psychedelic Pop 2014
The Clientele Since K Got Over Me Indie Pop 2005
54-40 One Gun 1987
The Cure High 1992
Pulp Something Changed Britpop 1995
Straitjacket Fits Down in Splendour 1990
Morrissey I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris Indie Pop 2009
Icicle Works Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) Neo-Psychedelia, New Wave 1983
The Wedding Present Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now C86 1988
Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians My Wife and My Dead Wife Psychedelic Pop 1985
Teenage Fanclub Alcoholiday Power Pop 1991
The Dream Syndicate Tell Me When It's Over Paisley Underground 1982
Hoodoo Gurus Be My Guru Power Pop 1983
The Church The Unguarded Moment Power Pop 1981
Wire Kidney Bingos Indie Pop 1988
Morrissey Boxers Indie Pop 1995
The Housemartins Bow Down Indie Pop 1987
The Dream Syndicate The Days of Wine and Roses Paisley Underground 1982
The Whitest Boy Alive Burning Indie Pop, Post-Punk Revival 2006
The Drums Down by the Water Indie Pop, Post-Punk Revival 2009
The Woodentops Move Me Indie Pop, Post-Punk 1985
The House of Love Beatles and the Stones Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia 1990
Veronica Falls Teenage Twee Pop 2013
The Replacements Left of the Dial 1985
The Housemartins Five Get Over Excited Indie Pop 1987
R.E.M. Cuyahoga 1986
Girls Heartbreaker Indie Pop 2010
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions Brand New Friend 1985
Teenage Fanclub Neil Jung Power Pop 1995
10,000 Maniacs Like the Weather Indie Pop 1987
The The Slow Emotion Replay 1993
Morrissey You're the One for Me, Fatty Indie Pop 1992
The Stone Roses Sally Cinnamon Baggy / Madchester, Indie Pop 1987
Veronica Falls Found Love in a Graveyard Twee Pop 2010
The Loft Up the Hill Down the Slope Indie Pop 1985
Morrissey Interesting Drug Indie Pop 1989