Last Thursday, FOX’s The O.C. aired its final episode.  You may not have known the once-hot teen drama was still on the air, having stopped watching long ago (like most viewers), or having never watched at all.  And you might blame The O.C. for inspiring its reality counterpart, Laguna Beach: "The Real" Orange County, or making the slightly-talented Mischa Barton famous.  But while it was on the air, The O.C. was the best place on network television to hear indie music (this side of Late Night with Conan O’Brien), as creator Josh Schwartz packed more indie-rock into one hour than MTV did in a whole week.

Ten Top Songs featured on The O.C.:

1.   "California", Rogue Wave

2.  "A Movie Script Ending", Death Cab For Cutie

3.   "Scarecrow", Beck

The O.C. must also be given props for introducing young America to Peter Gallagher's eyebrows.

4.  "We Used To Be Friends", The Dandy Warhols

5.  "Pretty Vacant", Lady Sovereign

6.   "Little House of Savages", The Walkmen

7.  "Debaser", The Pixies

8.  "Circles", Bob Mould

9.   "Forever Young", Youth Group

The O.C. featured other eighties classics, covered by today’s bands: Wham!’s "Last Christmas" (Jimmy Eat World), Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark’s "If You Leave" (Nada Surf), the aforementioned "Debaser" (the aforementioned Rogue Wave), and even Black Flag’s drunk-punk "Wasted" (Pinback, of all people).

10.  "The End’s Not Near", Band of Horses

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