I originally posted my all-time top 25 songs a decade or so ago. It's changed a bit, but most of them still give me the kick that I need. Would love to hear what does it for the rest of us!

Peter T.

The Clash White Man In Hammersmith Palais The Hold Steady Constructive Summer The Housemartins Get Up Off Your Knees Bob Dylan Tangled Up In Blue The Kinks Waterloo Sunset The Velvet Underground Heroin Paul Kelly Careless Weddings Parties Anything Knockbacks In Halifax Springsteen Rosalita Sam Cooke A Change Is Gonna Come Buddy Holly Rave On Frank Turner I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers Roadrunner The Beatles In My Life The Jam Going Underground The Four Tops Reach Out I'll Be There Elvis Costello Radio, Radio Junior Gone Wild I Don't Know About All That Bob Hillman Anywhere Tom Robinson Band Up Against The Wall Beach Boys God Only Knows Billy Bragg Sexuality Van Morrison Caravan Derek and the Dominos Layla Graham Parker Hold Back The Night (he didn't write it but he owns it) The Pogues If I Should Fall From Grace Cole Porter Anything Goes

Honorable Mention

Bill Morrissey Birches The Go Betweens Streets of Your Town Sugar If I Can't Change Your Mind The Move Do Ya Stiff Little Fingers Alternative Ulster The Beautiful South Song For Whoever The Bottle Rockets Indianapolis Howard Tate Ain't Nobody Home