The negotiations were a little stickier than usual, but at the end of the day the committee agrees that these songs make the cut. Without further delay, I present to you, with great honour and pride, the SLS13 twenty.

1. The Mars Volta - The Widow
2. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
3. System of a Down - B.Y.O.B.
4. The White Stripes - Blue Orchid
5. Foo Fighters - Best Of You
6. Audioslave - Your Time Has Come
7. Queens of the Stone Age - Little Sister
8. Custom - USA
9. Hot Hot Heat - Goodnight, Goodnight
10. Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
11. Beck - E-Pro
12. Doctor - What Makes You Think He's Lucky?
13. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark Of The Matinee
14. Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love Is Blind
15. Metric - Dead Disco
16. Modest Mouse - World At Large
17. Weezer - Beverly Hills
18. Billy Talent - Nothing To Lose
19. The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
20. Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds

Mark insisted that Nine Inch Nails make the cut, despite my insistence that it wasn't worthy. During the negotiation process I gave up my NIN resistance in order to preserve the Weezer and Billy Talent tracks. Audioslave's "Be Yourself" ended up on the bubble but "Your Time Has Come" rose to the challenge and made it a moot point as there can only be one track per artist on each edition of SLS. Another late comer to make the cut was Kaiser Cheifs' "I Predict A Riot", leaving Jakalope, Garbage and The Marble Index on the cutting room floor.

What do you think of SLS13? Share your thoughts!

Mike