While we've noted that all such attempts at definitive 'best of' lists are doomed, the misguided, nature of NME's top 20 songs of the past 15 years elevates the word, 'arbitrary' to a whole new level.

Can anybody who crafted that list say with a straight face that they ever listen to "Hey Ya"? Or Missy Elliot? Anybody who isn't currently living in early 2004? Is "Rebellion (Lies)" really The Arcade Fire song that you'd pick?

At any rate, if you have the time (and I don't really so I don't know why I'm urging you to do so), you can check out the entire 150 song list, which is a little bit better but still laughably, myopically British, in that it includes anything post-1995 by Oasis and is heavily stocked with the likes of the Manic Street Preachers and the Arctic Monkeys.