Friday, September 16, 2022

Top 100 Modern Folk Songs: 1980-2022

Modern Folk Songs, 1980-2022:

Top 100 Songs

Songs on this list fall under various banners including folk, folk-rock, modern folk, alt-country, and Americana. Most genre lists at Dave’s Music Database are created by aggregating best-of lists from multiple sources. In this case, it was difficult to find lists focused on modern folk. As such, this list was compiled by pulling together any acts from 1980 forward who appeared on any best-of folk or folk rock song lists and folk/Americana album lists. Those applicable songs were then listed in order of overall ranking on Dave’s Music Database.

Click here to see other genre-specific song lists.

1. Tracy Chapman “Fast Car” (1988)
2. Johnny Cash “Hurt” (2003)
3. The Lumineers “Ho Hey” (2012)
4. Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” (1994)
5. Passenger “Let Her Go” (2012)
6. Suzanne Vega “Luka” (1987)
7. Tracy Chapman “Give Me One Reason” (1995)
8. Shawn Colvin “Sunny Came Home” (1996)
9. Mumford & Sons “I Will Wait” (2012)
10. k.d. lang “Constant Craving” (1992)

11. Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow” (2013)
12. Grateful Dead “Touch of Grey” (1987)
13. Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah” (1984)
14. Indigo Girls “Closer to Fine” (1989)
15. Neil Young “Harvest Moon” (1992)
16. Jeff Buckley “Last Goodbye” (1994)
17. Tracy Chapman “Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution” (1988)
18. Mumford & Sons “Little Lion Man” (2009)
19. Ray LaMontagne “You Are the Best Thing” (2008)
20. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as The Swell Season “Falling Slowly” (2007)

21. Brandi Carlile “The Joke” (2017)
22. The Soggy Bottom Boys “Man of Constant Sorrow” (2001)
23. Bruce Springsteen “Atlantic City” (1982)
24. The Lumineers “Ophelia” (2016)
25. Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard “Pancho and Lefty” (1983)
26. Leonard Cohen “You Want It Darker” (2016)
27. Shawn Colvin “I Don’t Know Why” (1992)
28. The Lumineers “Stubborn Love” (2012)
29. Mumford & Sons “Believe” (2015)
30. Chris Stapleton “Tennessee Whiskey” (2015)

31. Bob Dylan “Things Have Changed” (2000)
32. Mumford & Sons “Guiding Light” (2018)
33. Bruce Cockburn “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” (1984)
34. Mumford & Sons “The Cave” (2009)
35. Beck “Lost Cause” (2002)
36. Tracy Chapman “Crossroads” (1989)
37. Indigo Girls “Galileo” (1992)
38. Tracy Chapman “Baby Can I Hold You” (1988)
39. Brandi Carlile “The Story (I Was Made for You)” (2007)
40. Loreena McKennitt “The Mummer’s Dance” (1997)

41. Kacey Musgraves “Justified” (2021)
42. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit “If We Were Vampires” (2017)
43. The Lumineers “Gloria” (2019)
44. Chris Stapleton “Broken Halos” (2017)
45. Bon Iver “Holocene” (2011)
46. Bruce Cockburn “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” (1984)
47. The Head and the Heart “All We Ever Knew” (2016)
48. Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson “Left of Center” (1986)
49. Kacey Musgraves “Rainbow” (2018)
50. Indigo Girls “Power of Two” (1994)

51. Fleet Foxes “White Winter Hymnal” (2008)
52. Bright Eyes “First Day of My Life” (2005)
53. Bruce Springsteen “The Ghost of Tom Joad” (1995)
54. The Highwomen “Crowded Table” (2019)
55. Kacey Musgraves “Space Cowboy” (2018)
56. Lucinda Williams “Righteously” (2003)
57. Bon Iver “Skinny Love” (2007)
58. Indigo Girls “Hammer and a Nail” (1990)
59. Tracy Chapman “Telling Stories (There Is Friction in the Space Between)” (2000)
60. Bruce Springsteen “Devils & Dust” (2005)

61. The Avett Brothers “Ain’t No Man” (2016)
62. Chris Stapleton “Starting Over” (2020)
63. The Head and the Heart “Missed Connection” (2019)
64. The Lumineers “Life in the City” (2019)
65. Sharon Van Etten “Seventeen” (2019)
66. Mumford & Sons “The Wolf” (2015)
67. Neko Case, k.d. lang, & Laura Veirs “Atomic Number” (2016)
68. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Please Read the Letter” (2007)
69. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” (2007)
70. Sufjan Stevens “Chicago” (2005)

71. Bob Dylan “Everything Is Broken” (1989)
72. Leonard Cohen “Everybody Knows” (1988)
73. Bruce Springsteen “We Shall Overcome” (1998)
74. Suzanne Vega “Solitude Standing” (1987)
75. Bob Dylan “Mississippi” (2001)
76. Suzanne Vega “Tom’s Diner” (1987)
77. Sturgill Simpson “In Bloom” (2016)
78. Neko Case “Hold on Hold On” (2006)
79. The Head and the Heart “Lost in My Mind” (2011)
80. Neil Young “Philadelphia” (1994)

81. Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs “Beg, Steal or Borrow” (2010)
82. Shawn Colvin “Steady On” (1989)
83. Brandi Carlile “Right on Time” (2021)
84. Tracy Chapman “All That You Have Is Your Soul” (1989)
85. Indigo Girls “Get Together” (1987)
86. Bob Dylan “Dignity” (1994)
87. Shawn Colvin “Round of Blues” (1992)
88. Shawn Colvin “Diamond in the Rough” (1989)
89. The Avett Brothers “Kick Drum Heart” (2009)
90. Fleet Foxes “Helplessness Blues” (2011)

91. The Lumineers “Cleopatra” (2016)
92. Mumford & Sons “Lover of the Light” (2012)
93. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen “Like I Used To” (2021)
94. The Head and the Heart “Rhythm & Blues” (2016)
95. Willie Nelson “City of New Orleans” (1984)
96. Ray LaMontagne “Strong Enough” (2020)
97. Neko Case “Last Lion of Albion” (2018)
98. Jason Isbell “24 Frames’ (2015)
99. Josh Ritter “Getting Ready to Get Down” (2015)
100. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Can’t Let Go” (2021)

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “Other Genre/Category Song Lists”
Dave’s Music Database: “The Top 100 Folk/Folk Rock Songs (up through 1979)”
Dave’s Music Database: “The Top 100 Folk/Americana Albums of All Time”

First posted 9/11/2022; last updated 9/16/2022.

Monday, September 12, 2022

Consequence of Sound: The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time

Consequence of Sound:

The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time

The first version of this list was published in 2010. At the time, the website described it as “a definitive ranking voted and debated by our editors, staff writers, and contributors.” Then Michael Roffman, the President/Editor-in-Chief, offered up a long essay on the pros and cons of lists pretty much hitting on points which the reader already knows.

In celebration of its 15th anniversary, Consequence of Sound updated the list, noting that only two staff members were part of compiling the 2010 and 2022 versions. The introduction notes, “Tastes have been reshaped, genres have been born and died away...Records that weren’t considered – or even released – the last time we undertook this challenge now have prominent placement.” Unlike the egotism that allowed the 2010 version to be referred to as “definitive,” the introduction to the 2002 acknowledges, “You’re going to disagree about as much as you agree with what we’ve done here. You’re going to wonder how album X didn’t warrant mention, or why album Y is higher than album Z. Or where the heck is artist W?” It concludes saying, “maybe you, dear reader, believe there is a definitive, eternal, unimpeachable ranking of records…Who knows, maybe you’re right. This isn’t that list.”

I have included both lists below. There are 56 albums which appear on both lists. They are noted with asterisks (*).

Check out other publications and organizations’ best-of album lists here.

9/12/2022 List:

1. Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (soundtrack, 1984) *
2. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977) *
3. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969) *
4. The Clash London Calling (1979) *
5. Joni Mitchell Blue (1971) *
6. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966) *
7. Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
8. Radiohead OK Computer (1997) *
9. Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971) *
10. Nirvana Nevermind (1991) *

11. Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
12. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966) *
13. The Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) *
14. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) *
15. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) *
16. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975) *
17. Patti Smith Horses (1975) *
18. Beyoncé Lemonade (2016)
19. Talking Heads Remain in Light (1980) *
20. Kate Bush Hounds of Love (1985) *

21. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) *
22. Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
23. The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (1969) *
24. Black Sabbath Paranoid (1970) *
25. Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) *
26. Ramones Ramones (1976)
27. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982) *
28. Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott Supa Dupa Fly (1997)
29. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973) *
30. Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

31. Metallica Master of Puppets (1986)
32. The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) (1968) *
33. Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine (1992)
34. Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers) (1993) *
35. Neil Young After the Gold Rush (1970) *
36. Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012)
37. OutKast Stankonia (2000)
38. Paul Simon Graceland (1986) *
39. Taylor Swift 1989 (2014)
40. Pixies Doolittle (1989) *

41. Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt (1996)
42. AC/DC Back in Black (1980) *
43. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1975) *
44. Miles Davis Kind of Blue (1959)
45. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (2009)
46. Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral (1994) *
47. Van Morrison Astral Weeks (1968) *
48. A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory (1991)
49. Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987) *
50. The Stooges Raw Power (1973) *

51. Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (1968) *
52. The Strokes Is This It (2001) *
53. Dr. Dre 2001 (1999)
54. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (1979) *
55. Sly & the Family Stone There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971) *
56. David Bowie Hunky Dory (1971) *
57. The Band Music from Big Pink (1968) *
58. Nina Simone I Put a Spell on You (1965)
59. Nas Illmatic (1994)
60. Amy Winehouse Back to Black (2006)

61. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (1972) *
62. Madvillain Madvillainy (2004)
63. Tom Waits Rain Dogs (1985) *
64. The Cure Disintegration (1989)
65. Leonard Cohen The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) *
66. Madonna Like a Prayer (1989)
67. Radiohead In Rainbows (2007)
68. Frank Ocean Channel Orange (2012)
69. Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique (1989) *
70. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (1988) *

71. U2 The Joshua Tree (1987) *
72. My Bloody Valentine Loveless (1991) *
73. Parliament Mothership Connection (1975) *
74. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965) *
75. Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer (2018)
76. The Smiths The Queen Is Dead (1986)
77. Jay-Z The Black Album (2003)
78. Billy Joel The Stranger (1977)
79. The Police Synchronicity (1983) *
80. Erykah Badu Baduizm (1997)

81. Adele 21 (2011)
82. Peter Gabriel So (1986) *
83. Pretenders Pretenders (1979)
84. Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
85. Tupac Shakur (2pac) All Eyez on Me (1996)
86. Pearl Jam Ten (1991)
87. Slayer Reign in Blood (1986)
88. Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda (1971)
89. Green Day Dookie (1994) *
90. Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill (1995)

91. The Who Who’s Next (1971) *
92. The Replacements Let It Be (1984) *
93. TLC Crazy Sexy Cool (1994)
94. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)
95. System of a Down Toxicity (2001)
96. N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton (1989) *
97. Fugazi Repeater (1990)
98. Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)
99. Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth (2018)
100. Jane’s Addiction Nothing’s Shocking (1988)

9/15/2010 List:

1. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969) *
2. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966) *
3. The Clash London Calling (1979) *
4. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982) *
5. The Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) *
6. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975) *
7. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973) *
8. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) *
9. Talking Heads Remain in Light (1980) *
10. Radiohead OK Computer (1997) *

11. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966) *
12. The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (1969) *
13. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) *
14. Pixies Doolittle (1989) *
15. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (1979) *
16. The Who Who’s Next (1971) *
17. Kate Bush Hounds of Love (1985) *
18. David Bowie Hunky Dory (1971) *
19. Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971) *
20. Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)

21. Van Morrison Astral Weeks (1968) *
22. The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) (1968) *
23. Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) *
24. Neil Young After the Gold Rush (1970) *
25. Peter Gabriel So (1986) *
26. Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (1968) *
27. Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? (1967)
28. Joni Mitchell Blue (1971) *
29. AC/DC Back in Black (1980) *
30. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965) *

31. Ramones Rocket to Russia (1977)
32. Nirvana Nevermind (1991) *
33. Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
34. U2 The Joshua Tree (1987) *
35. Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987) *
36. Stevie Wonder Talking Book (1972)
37. The Police Synchronicity (1983) *
38. Pink Floyd The Wall (1979)
39. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (1977)
40. The Beatles Revolver (1966)

41. Patti Smith Horses (1975) *
42. Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
43. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) *
44. Miles Davis Bitches Brew (1970)
45. Nick Drake Pink Moon (1972)
46. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (1972) *
47. Dr. Dre The Chronic (1992)
48. The Stooges Raw Power (1973) *
49. Black Sabbath Paranoid (1970) *
50. Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (soundtrack, 1984) *

51. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (1988) *
52. The Replacements Let It Be (1984) *
53. Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus (1977)
54. The Strokes Is This It (2001) *
55. Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen (aka “Two Wheels Good”) (1985)
56. The Who Quadrophenia (1973)
57. Genesis Genesis (1983)
58. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977) *
59. My Bloody Valentine Loveless (1991) *
60. The Band Music from Big Pink (1968) *

61. Green Day Dookie (1994) *
62. Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers) (1993) *
63. R.E.M. Document (1987)
64. The Doors The Doors (1967)
65. Arcade Fire Funeral (2004)
66. Devo Duty Now for the Future (1979)
67. Leonard Cohen The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) *
68. Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
69. The Smiths The Smiths (1984)
70. The Beatles Rubber Soul (1965)

71. Tom Waits Rain Dogs (1985) *
72. Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)
73. Radiohead Kid A (2000)
74. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1975) *
75. Jay-Z The Blueprint (2001)
76. Sigur Rós Ágaetis Byrjun (1999)
77. Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
78. Sly & the Family Stone There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971) *
79. Björk Post (1995)
80. Paul Simon Graceland (1986) *

81. Neil Young Harvest (1972)
82. Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream (1993)
83. John Lennon Imagine (1971)
84. The Who Tommy (1969)
85. Michael Jackson Off the Wall (1979)
86. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
87. N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton (1989) *
88. Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral (1994) *
89. Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique (1989) *
90. Refused The Shape of Punk to Come (1998)

91. The Clash The Clash (1977)
92. Pavement Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
93. Parliament Mothership Connection (1975) *
94. Metallica Kill ‘Em All (1983)
95. Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here (1975)
96. Beck Midnite Vultures (1999)
97. Elliott Smith Either/Or (1997)
98. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (1975)
99. Talking Heads Fear of Music (1979)
100. Kanye West The College Dropout (2004)

Resources and Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: Best-of Album Lists by Publications/Organizations
Consequence of Sound (9/12/2022). “The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time”
This link was originally for the 9/15/2010, but now goes to the 9/12/2022 list, which includes commentary on each album.

First posted 9/15/2010; last updated 9/13/2022.

Saturday, September 3, 2022

Harry Styles “As It Was” makes record return to #1

As It Was

Harry Styles

Writer(s): Harry Styles, Thomas Hull, Tyler Johnson (see lyrics here)

Released: March 31, 2022

First Charted: April 14, 2022

Peak: 1¹⁵ US, 1¹² BA, 1¹ DG, 1² ST, 1¹¹ AC, 1⁸ A40, 14 AA, 34 AR, 1¹⁰ UK, 1¹⁸ CN, 1⁸ AU, 3 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 6.0 US, 2.4 UK, 13.8 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 843.30 video, 3576.73 streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

“As It Was” was released as the lead single for Harry Styles’ third album, Harry’s House. It debuted atop the UK charts and the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. In its first 24 hours of release, “As It Was” became the most-streamed song in a single day in the United States with 8.3 million streams. ^SF

It was knocked from the top the next week on Billboard, but then returned to #1. Then it did it again. And again. And again. On September 3, 2022, “As It Was” became the first song in the history of the charts to ascend to the top five different times. ^BB During all that time, it never dipped lower than #3. It became one of the longest running #1 songs in the history of the U.S. pop charts – and the UK charts, and the Canadian charts, and the Australian charts. It topped the charts in more than 30 countries overall. ^WK

Styles said the song is “about metamorphosis and embracing change…and former self and perspective shift.” ^SF However, “the jaunty instrumentation is distinctly more cheerful than the introspective lyrics.” ^SF The song has been described as “a guitar-driven synth-pop track” ^WK which, as Variety’s Chris Willman said it takes heavy inspiration from Depeche Mode and a-ha. ^WK He said it also adopted a style similar to the Weeknd’s 2019 blockbuster single “Blinding Lights.” ^WK

The Guardian’s Beau Beaumont-Thomas said it is a “song for everyone; an effervescent, high-tempo hit to have you clicking your heels.” ^WK Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield called it “a straight-from-the-heart cry that’s also an irrestible dance-floor challenge.” ^WK

Resources:

DMDB encyclopedia entry for Harry Styles
^BB Billboard (8/29/2022). Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ Makes Record Return to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100” by Gary Trust
^SF Songfacts
^WK Wikipedia

First posted 9/4/2022; last updated 10/12/2024.

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Top 50 TV Theme Songs

TV Theme Songs:

Top 50

More than 30 lists were aggregated to create this master list of the best TV theme songs of all time. Entrants are listed by the name of the TV show in parentheses followed by the artist who recorded the theme song, the name of the song, and the year the song was released.

The release of the song does not necessarily correspond with the beginning of the show. For example, in the case of The Wonder Years, which debuted in 1988, the theme song was Joe Cocker’s recording of “With a Little Help from My Friends” from 1968. In other cases, such as Happy Days, the show premiered in 1974 but the theme song which became so popular debuted in 1976.

Click here to see other genre-specific song lists and here for media lists, which includes print media, movies, television, and music videos.

1. Cheers: Gary Portnoy “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” (1983)
2. Friends: The Rembrandts “I’ll Be There for You” (1995)
3. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
4. M*A*S*H: Johnny Mandel “Suicide Is Painless” (1970)
5. Gilligan’s Island: The Wellingtons “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle” (1965)
6. Happy Days: Pratt & McLain “Happy Days” (1976)
7. Addams’ Family: Vic Mizzy “The Addams’ Family Theme” (1964)
8. The Jeffersons: Janet DuBoise “Movin’ on Up” (1975)
9. The Brady Bunch: Peppermint Trolley Company “The Brady Bunch Theme” (1969)
10. The Golden Girls: Andrew Gold “Thank You for Being a Friend” (1978)

11. The Andy Griffith Show: Earle Hagen “The Fishin’ Hole” (1961)
12. The Flintstones: Randy Van Horne Singers “Meet the Flintstones” (1960)
13. Mission: Impossible: Lalo Schifrin “Mission: Impossible Theme” (1968)
14. The Monkees: The Monkees “Monkees’ Theme” (1966)
15. All in the Family: Carroll O’Connor & Jean Stapleton “Those Were the Days” (1971)
16. The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Sonny Curtis “Love Is All Round” (1970)
17. The Beverly Hillbillies: Flatt & Scruggs “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” (1962)
18. The Greatest American Hero: Joey Scarbury “Believe It Or Not” (1981)
19. Sesame Street: Jean “Toots” Thielmans “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?” (1969)
20. Sanford and Son: Quincy Jones “The Streetbeater” (1972)

21. Batman: The Marketts “Batman Theme” (1966)
22. The Simpsons: Danny Elfman “The Simpsons Theme” (1989)
23. Welcome Back, Kotter: John Sebastian “Welcome Back” (1976)
24. Miami Vice: Jan Hammer “Miami Vice Theme” (1985)
25. WKRP in Cincinnati: Steve Carlisle “WKRP in Cincinnati” (1981)
26. Laverne and Shirley: Cyndi Grecco “Making Our Dreams Come True” (1976)
27. The Love Boat: Jack Jones “Love Boat Theme” (1980)
28. The Twilight Zone: Marius Constant “The Twilight Zone Theme (Dramatic Twilight)” (1959)
29. The Mickey Mouse Club: The Mouseketeers “Mickey Mouse Club March” (1955)
30. Full House: Jesse Frederick “Everywhere You Go” (1987)

31. The Muppet Show: Jim Henson & Sam Pottle “The Muppet Show Theme” (1976)
32. The Dukes of Hazzard: Waylon Jennings “Just the Good Ol’ Boys” (1980)
33. Malcolm in the Middle: They Might Be Giants “Boss of Me” (2001)
34. Moonlighting: Al Jarreau “Moonlighting Theme” (1987)
35. The Pink Panther Theme: Henry Mancini “The Pink Panther Theme” (1964)
36. The Big Bang Theory: Barenaked Ladies “The Big Bang Theory Theme” (2007)
37. Good Times: Jim Gilstrap & Blinky Williams “Good Times Theme” (1974)
38. Scooby-Doo: Larry Marks “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?” (1969)
39. Rockford Files: Mike Post “The Rockford Files Theme” (1975)
40. The X Files: Mark Snow “The X Files Theme” (1993)

41. Game of Thrones: Film Symphony Orchestra “The Game of Thrones Main Theme” (2011)
42. Green Acres: Eva Gabor & Eddie Albert “Green Acres Opening Theme” (1965)
43. Diff’rent Strokes: Alan Thicke with Gloria Loring & Al Burton “It Takes Diff’rent Strokes” (1978)
44. The Facts of Life: Gloria Loring “The Facts of Life (Theme)” (1979)
45. The Wonder Years: Joe Cocker “With a Little Help from My Friends” (1968)
46. Davy Crockett: Bill Hayes “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” (1955)
47. Star Trek: Alexander Courage “Theme from Star Trek” (1966)
48. Peter Gunn: Ray Anthony “Peter Gunn Theme” (1958)
49. Three’s Company: Ray Charles & Julia Rinker “Come and Knock on Our Door” (1977)
50. I Love Lucy: Eliot Danie “I Love Lucy Theme” (1951)