A New All-Time Top 100 Songs List

Adam Elliott

A New All-Time Top 100 Songs List by Adam Elliott , posted Nov 2 2011 7:30PM
Let the debate begin. Time Magazine is out with a new Top 100 songs list. How do you pick a favorite? Here's the rules for their list: They are only English-Language pop tracks They are from 1923-present They are not ranked Artists only get one song 2000s Janelle Monae – “Tightrope” Missy Elliott – “Get Ur Freak On” Outkast – “Hey Ya!” Arcade Fire – “Wake Up” Kanye West – “Gold Digger” Lil Wayne – “Georgia… Bush” LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends” Beyonce – “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance” 1990s Sinead O’Connor – “Nothing Compares 2 U” Pet Shop Boys – “Being Boring” Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Richard Thompson – “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” Wu-Tang Clan – “C.R.E.A.M.” A Tribe Called Quest – “Scenario” The Notorious B.I.G. – “Juicy” Tupac Shakur – “California Love (Remix)” Pulp – “Common People” Radiohead – “Paranoid Android” 1980s Joy Division – “Love Will Tear Us Apart” George Jones – “He Stopped Loving Her Today” Michael Jackson – “Billie Jean” New Order – “Blue Monday” Prince – “Kiss” Metallica – “Master of Puppets” R.E.M. – “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” Lucinda Williams – “Pineola” Public Enemy – “Fight the Power” Madonna – “Borderline” 1970s The Melodians – “Rivers of Babylon” James Brown – “Get Up (I Feel like Being a) Sex Machine” Led Zeppelin – “Immigrant Song” Black Sabbath – “Iron Man” Joni Mitchell – “A Case of You” The Who – “Baba O’Riley” Stevie Wonder – “Superstition” Dolly Parton – “Jolene” Big Star – “September Gurls” Bonnie Raitt – “Angel from Montgomery” Fela Kuti – “Zombie” Bruce Springsteen – “Thunder Road” Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody” Donna Summer – “I Feel Love” Bee Gees – “Stayin’ Alive” David Bowie – “Heroes” Ramones – “I Wanna Be Sedated” Fleetwood Mac – “Dreams” Peter Tosh – “Equal Rights” Parliament – “One Nation Under a Groove” Velvet Underground – “Rock & Roll” Loretta Lynn – “Coal Miner’s Daughter” 1960s Bob Dylan – “Subterranean Homesick Blues” Patsy Cline – “Crazy” Roy Orbison – “Crying” The Ronettes – “Be My Baby” The Beatles – “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” Astrud Gilberto – “The Girl from Ipanema” The Supremes – “Where Did Our Love Go?” The Beach Boys – “God Only Knows” Aretha Franklin – “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)” Marvin Gaye – “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” The Band – “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” Big Mama Thornton – “Ball ‘n’ Chain” Jackson 5 – “I Want You Back” The Rolling Stones – “Gimme Shelter” Crosby, Stills and Nash – “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” Otis Redding – “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)” Johnny Cash – “Folsom Prison Blues” 1950s Les Paul – “How High the Moon” Kitty Wells – “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” Elvis Presley – “Jailhouse Rock” Odetta – “Take This Hammer” Frank Sinatra – “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” Chuck Berry – “Johnny B. Goode” Ray Charles – “What’d I Say” 1940s Woody Guthrie – “This Land Is Your Land” Lena Horne – “Stormy Weather” The Andrews Sisters – “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” Spike Jones – “Der Fuehrer’s Face” Bing Crosby – “White Christmas” Betty Hutton – “It Had to Be You” Mahalia Jackson – “Move On Up a Little Higher” Hank Williams – “Cold, Cold Heart” Ella Fitzgerald – “Baby It’s Cold Outside” Doris Day – “Sentimental Journey” 1930s Ethel Merman – “I Got Rhythm” Cab Calloway – “Minnie the Moocher” Duke Ellington – “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” Louie Armstrong – “Star Dust” Fred Astaire – “Cheek to Cheek” Ray Heatherton – “Where or When” Judy Garland – “Over the Rainbow” 1920s Al Jolson – “My Mammy” Bessie Smith – “St. Louis Blues” Paul Robeson – “Ol’ Man River” The Carter Family – “Wildwood Flower” Tags : Social : Top 100 Songs Back To Blog
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