Time Magazine 100 Best Songs

[michelej1]

Time Announces Top 100 Songs List, 2:51 pm, October 24th, 2011

[Dreams Listed for the Seventies]
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The editors at Time magazine have selected what they consider the 100 best songs ever… with a few caveats.

No artist was allowed to appear more than once (hence, titans like The Beatles and Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson have a single entry apiece), the list is restricted to English-language pop tracks, and “all time” goes back only as far as Time‘s founding in 1923.

Also: Time doesn’t rank the 100 songs

Check out the (chronological) selections – which online radio platform Pandora is streaming – below!

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”

[WildHearted]

This is a pretty good list, actually.

[elle]

right. not one U2 song for the 80s or 90s? i'm sorry but...

[TrueFaith77]

^^^^Thank, God! U2 is awful. But, to that point, no "Lips Like Sugar" for the 80s!?!? Blue Monday for New Order (arguably their worst song) instead of "True Faith" (the greatest single of ALL TIME. period. the end.). NO SMITHS???!!!!!!! -- that automatically makes the list null and void.

"Being Boring" is not the best Pet Shop Boys track, but it is the height of their sophisticated pop--my aunt and uncle would pick it as their best, I'd wager. It's a great song.

[WildHearted]

I also don't necessarily agree with their choice for the one beatles song..... but it's still a great song.

[Villavic]

as we say in Peru.. that list is cualquier cosa

[MacShadowsBall]

I'm glad Fleetwood Mac made this list. It makes sense that Dreams was the song chosen since it was their only #1 hit song.

Some of the song choices for the other artists are interesting.

[WildHearted]

I also don't necessarily agree with their choice for the one beatles song..... but it's still a great song.

[TerraRhiannon]

Surprised there's no Elton John for the 70's.. he ruled the 70's, Tiny Dancer is a melody unmatched! And no U2?!? What the hey? They are the greatest anthemic rock band ever and you cannot argue that point... The Edge put an ethereal feel to their music that I have never experienced with any other band on earth. No Stevie song, no FMac song, no any song can give me the chills at least 10 U2 songs give me.

Enough of that... I'm SO GLAD Joni Mitchell's ''A Case Of You'' is up there... she is an insanely awesome & underrated artist. Love it!

And in Fleetwood Mac's case, I think Dreams was a good choice. If not Dreams than Rhiannon!

[Artemis]

There's a few choices on there that make me think "...really?" like Single Ladies for Beyoncé instead of Crazy In Love.

Dreams is a great song and all, but I would have chosen The Chain, Rhiannon, Little Lies or Go Your Own Way, from Fleetwood Mac, I think. But still, I guess Dreams got chosen because it was their only #1.

[vivfox]

I'm glad you posted this list because I am now interested in knowing songs from 1960 and before. These selections are a good place to start.

[PolishStevieFan]

To be honest I hate this kind of "all time best" lists When I don't know exact criterions of selection I have doubts of the general quality of these lists. Of course it's great to see "Dreams" but on the other hand why not "Rhiannon"? Why they chose these artists while excluding others? For example: Madonna's "Borderline" was far less memorable and important than Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" (which served as a women anthem back in the day) or even Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" (which started a new phase in female rock). And U2 was criminally overlooked It's not an all time best list it's just somebody's playlist, that's all.

[beccamorrisfift]

Overall, I really like this list, some pretty decent choices.

[WildHearted]

I am kind of surprised that there isn't an Eagles song in there, not because of any personal preference but just because of the typical nature f these sort of lists.

[wild-heart]

I'm suprised by that list to be honest not really liking it.