Saturday, February 28, 2009

Mojo: Top 100 Songs

Mojo:

Top 100 Songs

Mojo is a monthly UK magazine first published in October 1993. They have published multiple best-of lists over the years. Below is an exclusive Dave’s Music Database list in which 15 song-based lists (see links at bottom of page) from Mojo hae been aggregated into one best-of list.

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1. Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen” (1977)
2. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
3. The Ronettes “Be My Baby” (1963)
4. Oasis “Live Forever” (1994)
5. Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
6. Ike & Tina Turner “River Deep, Mountain High” (1966)
7. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
8. Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
9. The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears” (1965)
10. Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)

11. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message” (1982)
12. The Beach Boys “God Only Knows” (1966)
13. The La’s “There She Goes” (1990)
14. Pulp “Common People” (1995)
15. The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
16. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
17. The Beatles “Revolution” (1968)
18. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
19. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
20. The Beatles “Penny Lane” (1967)

21. The Rolling Stones “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1968)
22. The Beatles “Paperback Writer” (1966)
23. The Beatles “Rain” (1966)
24. The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1965)
25. Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (1939)
26. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
27. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
28. Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
29. The Smiths “This Charming Man” (1983)
30. The Who “My Generation” (1966)

31. Ray Charles “What’d I Say” (1959)
32. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967)
33. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967)
34. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
35. The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” (1969)
36. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
37. Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (1966)
38. Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.” (1976)
39. The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)
40. Kate Bush “Wuthering Heights” (1978)

41. Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968)
42. Blue Oyster Cult “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” (1976)
43. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)
44. ? and the Mysterians “96 Tears” (1966)
45. The Specials “Ghost Town” (1981)
46. Squeeze “Up the Junction” (1979)
47. The Small Faces “Itchycoo Park” (1967)
48. Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
49. The Dils “I Hate the Rich” (1978)
50. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” (1971)

51. Sex Pistols “Holidays in the Sun” (1977)
52. Martha & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street” (1964)
53. Edwin Starr “War” (1970)
54. The Undertones “Teenage Kicks” (1978)
55. The Clash “White Riot” (1977)
56. The Poni Tails “Born Too Late” (1958)
57. The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
58. Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come” (1965)
59. Marvin Gaye “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” (1971)
60. Derek and the Dominos “Layla” (1971)

61. Stevie Wonder “Living for the City” (1973)
62. Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
63. The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
64. Link Wray and His Men “Rumble” (1958)
65. R.E.M “.Losing My Religion” (1991)
66. James Brown “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” (1965)
67. Booker T. & the MG’s “Green Onions” (1962)
68. The Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil” (1968)
69. Del Shannon “Runaway” (1961)
70. Manic Street Preachers “A Design for Life” (1996)

71. David Bowie “Space Oddity” (1969)
72. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
73. This Mortal Coil “Song to the Siren” (1984)
74. The Small Faces “Tin Soldier” (1967)
75. The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (1967)
76. Massive Attack “Unfinished Sympathy” (1991)
77. Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (1957)
78. Eddie Cochran “Summertime Blues” (1958)
79. Mott the Hoople “All the Young Dudes” (1972)
80. Jimmy Ruffin “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” (1966)

81. Primal Scream “Higher Than the Sun” (1991)
82. Frankie Goes to Hollywood “Two Tribes” (1984)
83. Oasis “Wonderwall” (1995)
84. Oasis “Champagne Supernova” (1996)
85. Chic “Good Times” (1979)
86. McAlmont & Butler “Yes” (1995)
87. Radiohead “Creep” (1993)
88. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Hey Joe” (1966)
89. The Temptations “My Girl” (1964)
90. Martha & the Vandellas “Heat Wave” (1963)

91. The Smiths “How Soon Is Now?” (1984)
92. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps “Be-Bop-A-Lula” (1956)
93. Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” (1976)
94. Television Personalities “Part-Time Punks” (1978)
95. Pete Seeger “We Shall Overcome” (1963)
96. Kraftwerk “Autobahn” (1974)
97. Subway Sect “Ambition” (1978)
98. Ultravox “Vienna” (1981)
99. Fairport Convention “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” (1969)
100. R.E.M. “Everybody Hurts”” (1993)


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