Saturday, September 30, 2023

Marc Fagel/Jittery White Guy Music: Top 1000+ Songs

Marc Fagel (Jittery White Guy Music):

Top 1000 Songs

Inspired by Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” Marc Fagel created his own list in September 2021, which ballooned to a top 1000 list by July 2023. Fagel describes himself as a “music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music.”

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  1. The Beatles “Rain” (1966)
  2. The Beatles “A Day in the Life” (1967)
  3. Big Star “The Ballad of El Goodo” (1972)
  4. Grateful Dead “Ripple” (1970)
  5. R.E.M. “So. Central Rain” (1984)
  6. The Clash “Death Or Glory” (1979)
  7. Velvet Underground “Pale Blue Eyes” (1969)
  8. The Rolling Stones “Tumbling Dice” (1972)
  9. The Beatles “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End” (1969)
  10. The Who “The Kids Are Alright” (1965)

  11. The Kinks “Days” (1968)
  12. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
  13. Brian Eno “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1975)
  14. Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” (1980)
  15. The Replacements “Bastards of Young” (1985)
  16. Neil Young “Powderfinger” (1979)
  17. Pixies “Debaser” (1989)
  18. The Clash “White Man in Hammersmith Palais” (1978)
  19. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
  20. The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” (1976)

  21. Elvis Costello “The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes” (1977)
  22. Beach Boys “God Only Knows” (1966)
  23. David Bowie “Queen Bitch” (1971)
  24. Modern Lovers “Roadrunner” (1972)
  25. The Who “Baba O’Riley” (1971)
  26. Brian Eno “Spider & I” (1977)
  27. Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” (1975)
  28. The Beatles “It’s All Too Much” (1969)
  29. Velvet Underground “Sweet Jane” (1970)
  30. David Bowie “Life on Mars?” (1971)

  31. The Byrds “Draft Morning” (1968)
  32. The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows” (1966)
  33. Peter Gabriel “Solsbury Hill” (1977)
  34. Joy Division “Decades” (1980)
  35. Elvis Costello “Beyond Belief” (1982)
  36. Neil Young “After the Gold Rush” (1970)
  37. Wire “Outdoor Miner” (1978)
  38. Miracle Legion “The Backyard” (1984)
  39. Wilco “A Shot in the Arm” (1999)
  40. Neutral Milk Hotel “Holland 1945” (1998)

  41. Sonic Youth “Teenage Riot” (1988)
  42. The New Pornographers “The Bleeding Heart Show” (2005)
  43. David Bowie “Heroes” (1977)
  44. Genesis “The Musical Box” (1971)
  45. The Feelies “Slipping Into Something” (1986)
  46. R.E.M. “Radio Free Europe” (1981)
  47. Pavement “Summer Babe” (1992)
  48. Simon & Garfunkel “The Only Living Boy in New York” (1970)
  49. Grateful Dead “Box of Rain” (1970)
  50. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)

  51. New Order “Temptation” (1982)
  52. Big Star “Thirteen” (1972)
  53. Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (1980)
  54. The Kinks “Village Green Preservation Society” (1968)
  55. Yo La Tengo “From a Motel 6” (1993)
  56. The Clash “Safe European Home” (1978)
  57. The Who “I Can See for Miles” (1967)
  58. Talking Heads “This Must Be the Place” (1984)
  59. The Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (1969)
  60. Paul McCartney “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” (1971)

  61. Roxy Music “More Than This” (1982)
  62. Elvis Costello “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding” (1978)
  63. Liz Phair “Fuck & Run” (1993)
  64. Mott the Hoople “All the Young Dudes” (1972)
  65. The Jesus & Mary Chain “Just Like Honey” (1985)
  66. Big Star “September Gurls” (1973)
  67. Jerry Garcia “The Wheel” (1971)
  68. Pink Floyd “Fearless” (1971)
  69. INXS “Don’t Change” (1982)
  70. The Band “The Weight” (1968)

  71. Hüsker Dü “Books About UFO’s” (1985)
  72. Genesis “I Know What I Like” (1973)
  73. Badfinger “Baby Blue” (1971)
  74. The Cure “In Between Days” (1985)
  75. The Kinks “This Time Tomorrow” (1970)
  76. Psychedelic Furs “Love My Way” (1983)
  77. The Beatles “Hello Goodbye” (1967)
  78. The Replacements “I Will Dare” (1984)
  79. New Order “Ceremony” (1981)
  80. The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)

  81. Grateful Dead “Dark Star” (live 1969)
  82. Cheap Trick “Surrender” (1978)
  83. Pixies “Where Is My Mind” (1988)
  84. The Shins “New Slang” (2001)
  85. The Feelies “Let’s Go” (1986)
  86. The Clash “Train in Vain” (1979)
  87. Pink Floyd “Echoes” (1971)
  88. R.E.M. “Catapult” (1983)
  89. Pavement “Trigger Cut” (1992)
  90. Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road” (1975)

  91. Guided by Voices “I Am a Scientist” (1994)
  92. Television “See No Evil” (1977)
  93. David Bowie “Sound and Vision” (1977)
  94. Sleater-Kinney “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” (1996)
  95. Squeeze “In Quintessence” (1981)
  96. Jimmy Cliff “Sitting in Limbo” (1972)
  97. King Crimson “In the Court of the Crimson King” (1969)
  98. Matthew Sweet “Sick of Myself” (1994)
  99. Throwing Muses “Hate My Way” (1986)
  100. Grateful Dead “Franklin’s Tower” (1975)
  101. Yo La Tengo “Tom Courtenay” (1995)
  102. The Kinks “Sweet Lady Genevieve” (1972)
  103. The Hold Steady “Sequestered in Memphis” (2008)
  104. George Harrison “What Is Life” (1970)
  105. Flaming Lips “Waitin’ for a Superman” (1999)
  106. The Byrds “My Back Pages” (1967)
  107. Sex Pistols “Pretty Vacant” (1977)
  108. Teenage Fanclub “Sparky’s Dream” (1995)
  109. Mountain Goats “This Year” (2005)
  110. Modern English “I Melt with You” (1982)

  111. The Rolling Stones “Rocks Off” (1972)
  112. Pete Townshend “Slit Skirts” (1982)
  113. Soul Asylum “Cartoon” (1988)
  114. Bob Dylan “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (1966)
  115. The Records “Starry Eyes” (1978)
  116. T-Rex “Metal Guru” (1972)
  117. The Jam “Ghosts” (1982)
  118. Josh Ritter “Getting Ready to Get Down” (2015)
  119. Joy Division “Atmosphere” (1980)
  120. Drive-By Truckers “Let There Be Rock” (2002)

  121. Small Faces “Lazy Sunday” (1968)
  122. Built to Spill “Distopian Dream Girl” (1994)
  123. Big Star “Jesus Christ” (1974)
  124. Neil Young “Birds” (1970)
  125. XTC “Generals & Majors” (1980)
  126. R.E.M. “Disturbance at the Heron House” (1987)
  127. Bruce Springsteen “Badlands” (1978)
  128. The Connells “Stone Cold Yesterday” (1990)
  129. The Clash “Stay Free” (1978)
  130. The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1971)

  131. My Bloody Valentine “Soon” (1990)
  132. Amy Rigby “Don’t Ever Change” (2003)
  133. The Beatles “She Said She Said” (1966)
  134. Uncle Tupelo “New Madrid” (1993)
  135. The La’s “There She Goes” (1988)
  136. Mission of Burma “Academy Fight Song” (1980)
  137. Echo & the Bunnymen “The Killing Moon” (1984)
  138. The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” (1978)
  139. The Rolling Stones “Happy” (1972)
  140. The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (1966)

  141. Wire “Map Ref. 41oN 93oW” (1979)
  142. Squeeze “Tempted” (1981)
  143. The Waterboys “The Whole of the Moon” (1985)
  144. Violent Femmes “Blister in the Sun” (1983)
  145. Harry Nilsson “Without You” (1971)
  146. Joy Division “Twenty Four Hours” (1980)
  147. Luna “California (All the Way)” (1994)
  148. The Byrds “Wasn’t Born to Follow” (1969)
  149. The Monkees “Pleasant Valley Sunday” (1967)
  150. Yo La Tengo “Barnaby Hardly Working” (1989)

  151. Pavement “Cut Your Hair” (1994)
  152. Buffalo Springfield “Expecting to Fly” (1967)
  153. Sonic Youth “I Got a Catholic Block” (1987)
  154. The Plimsouls “A Million Miles Away” (1983)
  155. Superchunk “Slack Motherfucker” (1990)
  156. Bruce Springsteen “Growin’ Up” (1973)
  157. Brian Eno “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More” (1974)
  158. The Soft Boys “Queen of Eyes” (1980)
  159. Manfred Mann “The Mighty Quinn” (1968)
  160. NRBQ “I Want You Bad” (1978)

  161. The Fall “The Classical” (1982)
  162. The Clash “Rudie Can’t Fail” (1979)
  163. Rogue Wave “Eyes” (2005)
  164. R.E.M. “Man on the Moon” (1992)
  165. Tommy Keene “Places That Are Gone” (1986)
  166. Nick Lowe “So It Goes” (1976)
  167. The Rolling Stones “Moonlight Mile” (1971)
  168. Game Theory “Erica’s Word” (1986)
  169. The Chills “Rolling Moon” (1982)
  170. The Beths “Future Me Hates Me” (2018)

  171. The Trypes “A Plan Revised” (1985)
  172. Elliott Smith “Ballad of Big Nothing” (1997)
  173. Aztec Camera with Mick Jones “Good Morning Britain” (1990)
  174. Led Zeppelin “When the Levee Breaks” (1971)
  175. Love Tractor “Beatle Boots” (1986)
  176. Mott the Hoople “All the Way from Memphis” (1973)
  177. The Jesus & Mary Chain “Taste of Cindy” (1985)
  178. Kristy MacColl “They Don’t Know” (1979)
  179. Spiritualized “Ladies and Gentlemen...” (1997)
  180. The Bats “Treason” (1987)

  181. Velvet Underground “I Found a Reason” (1970)
  182. Traffic “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” (1971)
  183. Green Pajamas “She’s Still Bewitching Me” (1999)
  184. Big Star “In the Street” (1972)
  185. Robert Pollard “Pop Zeus” (1999)
  186. Wilco “Jesus Etc.” (2002)
  187. House of Love “Christine” (1988)
  188. Mercury Rev “Opus 40” (1998)
  189. Brinsley Schwarz “Hymn to Me” (1970)
  190. Phish “You Enjoy Myself” (1988)

  191. Flaming Lips “Everyone Wants to Live Forever” (1992)
  192. World Party “Way Down Now” (1990)
  193. Squeeze “Up the Junction” (1979)
  194. Bettie Serveert “Tom Boy” (1992)
  195. The Beatles “I Am the Walrus” (1967)
  196. The Jazz Butcher “Southern Mark Smith” (1983)
  197. Nick Drake “Hazy Jane II” (1970)
  198. The Clean “Point That Thing Somewhere Else” (1981)
  199. Winter Hours “Wait Till the Morning” (1986)
  200. Grateful Dead “China Cat > Rider” (1972)
  201. Robyn Hitchcock “One Long Pair of Eyes” (1989)
  202. Captain Beyond “Sufficiently Breathless” (1973)
  203. Status Quo “Pictures of Matchstick Men” (1968)
  204. The Connells “Scotty’s Lament” (1987)
  205. Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
  206. Hüsker Dü “Divide and Conquer” (1985)
  207. Rain Parade “This Can’t Be Today” (1983)
  208. Talking Heads “Memories Can’t Wait” (1979)
  209. Paul McCartney “Dear Boy” (1971)
  210. New Order “Your Silent Face” (1983)

  211. The Who “Naked Eye” (1971/1974)
  212. Matthew Sweet “I’ve Been Waiting” (1991)
  213. The Undertones “Get Over You” (1979)
  214. The Smiths “Girlfriend in a Coma” (1987)
  215. The Kinks “Better Things” (1981)
  216. Mary Lou Lord “Some Jingle Jangle Morning” (1998)
  217. Cocteau Twins “Sugar Hiccup” (1983)
  218. Psychedelic Furs “Pretty in Pink” (1981)
  219. Neil Young “Thrasher” (1979)
  220. Public Image Ltd. “Public Image” (1978)

  221. Beach Boys “Sloop John B” (1966)
  222. R.E.M. “Shaking Through” (1983)
  223. The Pretty Things “The Good Mr. Square/She Was Tall, She Was High” (1970)
  224. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)
  225. Sleater-Kinney “Little Babies” (1997)
  226. Genesis “Supper’s Ready” (1972)
  227. Sweet “Action” (1976)
  228. Pixies “Gigantic” (1988)
  229. Brian Eno “The Big Ship” (1975)
  230. Joy Division “Interzone” (1979)

  231. Belly “Feed the Tree” (1993)
  232. Robert Fripp & Peter Gabriel “Here Comes the Flood” (1979)
  233. Game Theory “24” (1985)
  234. Yo La Tengo “Deeper Into Movies” (1997)
  235. The Byrds “Ballad of Easy Rider” (1969)
  236. The Replacements “Unsatisfied” (1984)
  237. The New Pornographers “The Laws Have Changed” (2003)
  238. Camper Van Beethoven “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (1985)
  239. Aimee Mann “Save Me” (1999)
  240. Cream “Badge” (1969)

  241. Roxy Music “Over You” (1980)
  242. Pink Floyd “Wot’s...Uh the Deal” (1972)
  243. Blake Babies “Out There” (1990)
  244. Death Cab for Cutie “The Sound of Settling” (2003)
  245. Grateful Dead “Scarlet Begonias” (1974)
  246. The Beatles “Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” (1969)
  247. Big Audio Dynamite “The Bottom Line” (1985)
  248. Elliott Smith “Waltz #2” (1998)
  249. Sebadoh “The Freed Pig” (1991)
  250. Pavement “Silence Kid” (1994)

  251. Pulp “Common People” (1995)
  252. Sinéad O’Connor “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (1990)
  253. The Reivers “Things Don’t Change” (1985)
  254. The Rolling Stones “We Love You” (1967)
  255. Minutemen “History Lesson Part II” (1984)
  256. The Feelies “The Obedient Atom” (1984)
  257. The Jam “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” (1979)
  258. Ben Folds Five “Mess” (1999)
  259. Magnetic Fields “Papa Was a Rodeo” (1999)
  260. Split Enz “I Got You” (1980) <

  261. The Sugarcubes “Birthday” (1987)
  262. The Doors “The End” (1967)
  263. Scruffy the Cat “Happiness to Go” (1986)
  264. The Kinks “God’s Children” (1971)
  265. Beulah “Emma Blowgun’s Last Stand” (1999)
  266. Guerilla Toss “Zum Herz” (2023)
  267. The Call “The Walls Came Down” (1983)
  268. Joe Walsh “Meadows” (1973)
  269. Neutral Milk Hotel “King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 1-3” (1998)
  270. Buzzcocks “Why Can’t I Touch It” (1979)

  271. Cat Stevens “On the Road to Find Out” (1970)
  272. Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark “Enola Gay” (1980)
  273. Big Star “You Get What You Deserve” (1973)
  274. Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.” (1976)
  275. Wilco “Misunderstood” (1996)
  276. David Bowie “Starman” (1972)
  277. The Connells “Hey Wow” (1989)
  278. XTC “Senses Working Overtime” (1982)
  279. Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane “Keep Me Turning” (1977)
  280. Elvis Costello “Strict Time” (1981)

  281. Yo La Tengo “Blue Line Swinger” (1995)
  282. Rainy Day with Susannah Hoffs “I’ll Keep It with Mine” (1984)
  283. Odds “Someone Who’s Cool” (1996)
  284. Bruce Springsteen “Atlantic City” (1982)
  285. The Kinks “Strangers” (1970)
  286. Matthew Sweet “We’re the Same” (1995)
  287. Blind Faith “Can’t Find My Way Home” (1969)
  288. The Primitives “Crash” (1988)
  289. The Jesus & Mary Chain with Hope Sandoval “Sometimes Always” (1994)
  290. Superchunk “Driveway to Driveway” (1994)

  291. My Morning Jacket “Off the Record” (2004)
  292. Pixies “Planet of Sound” (1991)
  293. The Dream Academy “Life in a Northern Town” (1985)
  294. Galaxie 500 “Fourth of July” (1990)
  295. Billy Bragg “Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards” (1988)
  296. The Pogues “Sally MacLennane” (1985)
  297. Eels “Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues” (2000)
  298. Joni Mitchell “Help Me” (1974)
  299. Hüsker Dü “Terms of Psychic Warfare” (1985)
  300. Brian Eno “Everything Merges with the Night” (1975)
  301. Robyn Hitchcock “Heaven” (1985)
  302. The Who “Drowned” (1973)
  303. Archers of Loaf “Web in Front” (1993)
  304. The Clash “The Card Cheat” (1979)
  305. Volcano Suns “Tree Stomp” (1985)
  306. Rilo Kiley “Portions for Foxes” (2004)
  307. Paul McCartney “Back Seat of My Car” (1971)
  308. Big Dipper “Ron Klaus Wrecked His House” (1988)
  309. Guided by Voices “Mincer Ray” (1994)
  310. R.E.M. “Electrolite” (1996)

  311. Liz Phair “Help Me Mary” (1993)
  312. Roxy Music “Virginia Plain” (1972)
  313. The Sundays “Here’s Where the Story Ends” (1990)
  314. Drive-By Truckers “Puttin’ People on the Moon” (2004)
  315. Queen “Killer Queen” (1974)
  316. Young Fresh Fellows “The Sharing Patrol Theme” (1985)
  317. Velvet Underground “Sister Ray” (1968)
  318. Mazzy Star “Fade into You” (1993)
  319. Phish “Brian and Robert” (1998)
  320. Big Audio Dynamite “Rush” (1991)

  321. The Stone Roses “Made of Stone” (1989)
  322. X “Under the Big Black Sun” (1982)
  323. The Jim Carroll Band “People Who Died” (1980)
  324. Elton John “Rocket Man” (1972)
  325. Hoodoo Gurus “Bittersweet” (1985)
  326. Weezer “El Scorcho” (1996)
  327. Ween “What Deaner Was Talking About” (1994)
  328. Teenage Fanclub “Star Sign” (1991)
  329. The Waitresses “Christmas Wrapping” (1982)
  330. Led Zeppelin “D’yer Mak’er” (1973)

  331. The Feelies “Raised Eyebrows” (1980)
  332. Mountain Goats “Woke Up New” (2006)
  333. The Undertones “More Songs About Chocolate & Girls” (1980)
  334. Epic Soundtracks “Fallen Down” (1992)
  335. Sonic Youth “Stereo Sanctity” (1987)
  336. The Moody Blues “The Voice” (1981)
  337. The Jayhawks “Smile” (2000)
  338. The Faces “Glad & Sorry” (1973)
  339. The Shazam “Chipper Cherry Daylily” (1999)
  340. Badly Drawn Boy “Something to Talk About” (2002)

  341. Guided by Voices “Game of Pricks” (1995)
  342. Pere Ubu “Non-Alignment Pact” (1978)
  343. The High “Box Set Go” (1990)
  344. Luna “I Can’t Wait” (1992)
  345. The Fall “Living Too Late” (1986)
  346. Chris Bell “I Am the Cosmos” (1978)
  347. Too Much Joy “Crush Story” (1991)
  348. Nick Drake “One of These Things First” (1971)
  349. Buzzcocks “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” (1979)
  350. Sweet “Ballroom Blitz” (1974)

  351. Fountains of Wayne “Radiation Vibe” (1996)
  352. Pink Floyd “Lucifer Sam” (1967)
  353. A Flock of Seagulls “Space Age Love Song” (1982)
  354. Pavement “Frontwards” (1992)
  355. Nirvana “All Apologies” (1993)
  356. James Gang “Funk #49” (1970)
  357. Apples in Stereo “Ruby” (1999)
  358. Wilco “Box Full of Letters” (1995)
  359. Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” (1979)
  360. Adam & the Ants “Stand & Deliver” (1981)

  361. Buffalo Springfield “On the Way Home” (1968)
  362. The Rentals “Friends of P” (1995)
  363. The Mekons “Chivalry” (1985)
  364. Tom Tom Club “Genius of Love” (1981)
  365. The Raveonettes “That Great Love Sound” (2003)
  366. J.K. & Co. “Fly” (1968)
  367. Bob Mould “See a Little Light” (1989)
  368. Grant Hart “Twenty-Five Forty-One” (1989)
  369. Devo “Uncontrollable Urge” (1978)
  370. King Crimson “Elephant Talk” (1981)

  371. The Long Ryders “Looking for Lewis & Clark” (1985)
  372. Michael Penn “No Myth” (1989)
  373. Velvet Underground “Oh Sweet Nuthin’” (1970)
  374. The dB’s “Amplifier” (1982)
  375. Yo La Tengo “I Heard You Looking” (1993)
  376. The Libertines “Up the Bracket” (2002)
  377. Posies “Golden Blunders” (1990)
  378. The Jam “Smithers-Jones” (1980)
  379. Spiritualized “I Think I’m in Love” (1997)
  380. Throwing Muses “Not Too Soon” (1991)

  381. David Bowie “Hang on to Yourself” (1972)
  382. Cocteau Twins “Lorelei” (1984)
  383. Matthew Sweet “Divine Intervention” (1991)
  384. Todd Rundgren “I Saw the Light” (1972)
  385. Veruca Salt “Seether” (1994)
  386. The Pretenders “Cuban Slide” (1981)
  387. Ride “Taste” (1990)
  388. The Doors “Peace Frog” (1970)
  389. My Morning Jacket “I’m Amazed” (2008)
  390. Lou Reed “Dirty Blvd.” (1989)

  391. Talking Heads “Listening Wind” (1980)
  392. Ben Folds Five “Battle of Who Could Care Less” (1997)
  393. The Rolling Stones “2000 Light Years from Home” (1967)
  394. Luna “23 Minutes in Brussels” (1995)
  395. The Jam “To Be Someone” (1978)
  396. Guided by Voices “Don’t Stop Now” (1996)
  397. The Replacements “Achin’ to Be” (1989)
  398. Prince “When You Were Mine” (1980)
  399. Gomez “See the World” (2006)
  400. Donovan “Atlantis” (1968)
  401. Japandroids “The House That Heaven Built” (2012)
  402. Grateful Dead “He’s Gone” (1972)
  403. My Bloody Valentine “When You Sleep” (1991)
  404. Tommy James & the Shondells “Crimson & Clover” (1968)
  405. Amy Rigby “Balls” (2000)
  406. Flamin’ Groovies “You Tore Me Down” (1976)
  407. Joan Jett “Bad Reputation” (1980)
  408. Superchunk “Precision Auto” (1993)
  409. The Monkees “Porpoise Song” (1968)
  410. Neil Young “Revolution Blues” (1974)

  411. Fountains of Wayne “No Better Place” (2003)
  412. The Minders “Build” (1999)
  413. Genesis “Stagnation” (1970)
  414. Sleater-Kinney “One More Hour” (1997)
  415. The Stooges “TV Eye” (1970)
  416. Josh Ritter “Girl in the War” (2006)
  417. Television “Marquee Moon” (1977)
  418. Charlatans UK “The Only One I Know” (1990)
  419. Judee Sill “Crayon Angels” (1971)
  420. Icicle Works “Whisper to a Scream” (1983)

  421. Happy Mondays “Step On” (1990)
  422. Butthole Surfers “Hey” (1983)
  423. The Who “Too Much of Anything” (1971/1974)
  424. Rain Parade “Talking in My Sleep” (1983)
  425. Beulah “If We Can Land a Man on the Moon” (1999)
  426. XTC “Earn Enough for Us” (1986)
  427. Wilco “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” (2002)
  428. Grateful Dead “Eyes of the World” (1973)
  429. Drive-By Truckers “Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife” (2008)
  430. The Rolling Stones “Before They Make Me Run” (1978)

  431. Yo La Tengo “A Shy Dog” (1987)
  432. New Order “Weirdo” (1986)
  433. The Beatles “Dear Prudence” (1968)
  434. Lush “Sweetness & Light” (1990)
  435. Lovers “People in Cars Don’t Face Each Other” (2002)
  436. Buffalo Springfield “Broken Arrow” (1967)
  437. The Soft Boys “I Wanna Destroy You” (1980)
  438. The Connells “’74-’75” (1993)
  439. Rilo Kiley “Spectacular Views” (2002)
  440. R.E.M. “7 Chinese Bros.” (1984)

  441. Ben Folds “Landed” (2005)
  442. The Replacements “Little Mascara” (1985)
  443. The Kinks “Sitting in My Hotel” (1972)
  444. Pavement “Gold Soundz” (1994)
  445. Oranger “Eggtooth” (1998)
  446. Minutemen “Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing” (1984)
  447. Bob Dylan “Queen Jane Approximately” (1965)
  448. My Morning Jacket “Circuital” (2011)
  449. Interpol “Evil” (2004)
  450. The Romantics “What I Like About You” (1980)

  451. Young Marble Giants “Eating Noddemix” (1980)
  452. Warren Zevon “Lawyers Guns & Money” (1978)
  453. Mountain Goats “Half Dead” (2006)
  454. Bram Tchaikovsky “Girl of My Dreams” (1979)
  455. Pink Floyd “When the Tigers Broke Free” (1982)
  456. Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (1965)
  457. Let’s Active “Every Word Means No” (1983)
  458. Belly “Gepetto” (1993)
  459. Cosmic Rough Riders “Revolution in the Summertime” (2000)
  460. The Replacements “Can’t Hardly Wait” (1987

  461. Spacemen 3 “Why Couldn’t I See” (1991)
  462. Television “Venus” (1977)
  463. Creeper Lagoon “Empty Ships” (1998)
  464. Ringo Starr “Photograph” (1973)
  465. Drive-By Truckers “Sink Hole” (2003)
  466. The Smiths “How Soon Is Now?” (1984)
  467. The 6ths “San Diego Zoo” (1995)
  468. Madness “Michael Caine” (1984)
  469. The Raspberries “Go All the Way” (1972)
  470. The Flaming Lips “Do You Realize?” (2002)

  471. Sinéad O’Connor “Mandinka” (1987)
  472. The Glands “When I Laugh” (2000)
  473. Genesis “Carpet Crawlers” (1974)
  474. The Jayhawks “Blue” (1995)
  475. Derek & the Dominos “Bell Bottom Blues” (1970)
  476. Belle & Sebastian “Boy with the Arab Strap” (1998)
  477. Led Zeppelin “Carouselambra” (1979)
  478. Luna “IHOP” (1996)
  479. Katrina & the Waves “Spiderman” (1983)
  480. Paul McCartney & Wings “Magneto & Titanium Man” (1975)

  481. Pernice Brothers “Working Girls” (2001)
  482. The Jags “Back of My Hand” (1979)
  483. English Beat “Save It for Later” (1982)
  484. Phoebe Bridgers “That Funny Feeling” (2021)
  485. Neutral Milk Hotel “Song Against Sex” (1996)
  486. Frank Zappa “Joe’s Garage” (1979)
  487. Ben Vaughn Combo “My First Band” (1987)
  488. Pavement “Elevate Me Later” (1994)
  489. Paul Simon “My Little Town” (1975)
  490. Firehose “Herded Into Pools” (1993)

  491. Grateful Dead “Spanish Jam” (live, 1974)
  492. Badfinger “No Matter What” (1970)
  493. The Postal Service “Such Great Heights” (2003)
  494. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band “The Smell of Incense” (1967)
  495. Guided by Voices “Gold Heart Mountain Top” (1994)
  496. The Primitives “Way Behind Me” (1989)
  497. Wilco “When You Wake Up Feeling Old” (1999)
  498. Mercury Rev “Bronx Cheer” (1993)
  499. Built to Spill “Goin’ Against Your Mind” (2006)
  500. The Small Faces “The Autumn Stone” (1969)
  501. Elton Motello “Jet Boy Jet Girl” (1978)
  502. Olivia Tremor Control “Define a Transparent Dream” (1996)
  503. Flash & the Pan “Hey St. Peter” (1979)
  504. The Who “Go to the Mirror” (1969)
  505. The Bats “Smoking Her Wings” (1990)
  506. Uncle Tupelo “Sandusky” (1992)
  507. The Jesus & Mary Chain “Between Planets” (1989)
  508. X “Los Angeles” (1980)
  509. Apples in Stereo “Go” (2000)
  510. Shriekback “Nemesis” (1985)

  511. America “Sister Golden Hair” (1975)
  512. Velvet Underground “Heroin” (1967)
  513. Joe Jackson “One More Time” (1979)
  514. Big Audio Dynamite “Medicine Show” (1985)
  515. Echo & the Bunnymen “The Cutter” (1983)
  516. Julee Cruise “Falling” (1989)
  517. Phish “Bouncing Around the Room” (1990)
  518. Wilco “Impossible Germany” (2007)
  519. Jonathan Richman “That Summer Feeling” (1983)
  520. The Raveonettes “Dead Sound” (2008)

  521. The Shazam “Sunshine Tonight” (2000)
  522. Simple Minds “The American” (1981)
  523. Television “1880 Or So” (1992)
  524. Meat Puppets “Split Myself in Two” (1983)
  525. The Nazz “Open My Eyes” (1968)
  526. The Hold Steady “Chillout Tent” (2006)
  527. AC/DC “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” (1976)
  528. Eels “Novocaine for the Soul” (1996)
  529. The Long Ryders “I Had a Dream” (1984)
  530. The Faces “Ooh La La” (1973)

  531. Dandy Warhols “Not If You Were the Last Junkie” (1997)
  532. The Fall “Cruiser’s Creek” (1985)
  533. The Who “However Much I Booze” (1975)
  534. Love & Rockets “Kundalini Express” (1986)
  535. That Dog “Old LP” (2019)
  536. Flying Burrito Brothers “Tried So Hard” (1971)
  537. Matt Pond PA “So Much Trouble” (2005)
  538. Romeo Void “Never Say Never” (1982)
  539. Dire Straits “Skateaway” (1980)
  540. Pavement “Box Elder” (1989)

  541. Fleetwood Mac “Second Hand News” (1976)
  542. Squeeze “Goodbye Girl” (1979)
  543. The Soft Boys “Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole” (1980)
  544. Klaatu “Sub-Rosa Subway” (1976)
  545. Elvis Costello “Shabby Doll” (1982)
  546. Sugar “A Good Idea” (1992)
  547. Modest Mouse “Float On” (2004)
  548. The Stone Roses “Waterfall” (1989)
  549. The Bangles “James” (1984)
  550. Tom Petty “The Waiting” (1981)

  551. The New Pornographers “All the Old Showstoppers” (2007)
  552. The Action “Strange Roads” (1968)
  553. Lou Reed “Kill Your Sons” (1974)
  554. Supertramp “It’s a Long Road” (1970)
  555. Vampire Weekend “A-Punk” (2008)
  556. Mary Lou Lord “I Figured You Out” (1997)
  557. The Zombies “Hung Up on a Dream” (1968)
  558. Amy Rigby “20 Questions” (1996)
  559. Weezer “Don’t Let Go” (2001)
  560. The Breeders “Divine Hammer” (1993)

  561. Bruce Cockburn “Wondering Where the Lions Are” (1979)
  562. Eleventh Dream Day “After This Time Is Gone” (1993)
  563. Modern Lovers “Pablo Picasso” (1976)
  564. Ben Folds “Not the Same” (2001)
  565. Butthole Surfers “Pepper” (1996)
  566. The Carpenters “Superstar” (1971)
  567. Ultravox “Reap the Wild Wind” (1982)
  568. Steely Dan “Dirty Work” (1972)
  569. Alvvays “Lollipop” (2017)
  570. Neil Young “Cortez the Killer” (1975)

  571. Pere Ubu “Waiting for Mary” (1989)
  572. Young Fresh Fellows “This Little Mystery” (1984)
  573. Moby Grape “Omaha” (1967)
  574. The Lemonheads “It’s a Shame About Ray” (1992)
  575. Pylon “Crazy” (1983)
  576. Sebadoh “Soul & Fire” (1993)
  577. Courtney Barnett “Depreston” (2015)
  578. Peter “Paul & Mary “Too Much of Nothing” (1967)
  579. Peter Gabriel “Lead a Normal Life” (1980)
  580. The Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are Sealed” (1981)

  581. Charly Bliss “Percolator” (2017)
  582. Radio Birdman “I-94” (1981)
  583. Beastie Boys “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party” (1986)
  584. Status Quo “Mr. Mind Detector” (1969)
  585. Exploding Hearts “Modern Kicks” (2003)
  586. The Kings “Switchin’ to Glide” (1980)
  587. Shriekback “The Shining Path” (1986)
  588. The Connells “Slackjawed” (1993)
  589. Superchunk “My Gap Feels Weird” (2010)
  590. Sweet “Fox on the Run” (1975)

  591. The Trashcan Sinatras “Obscurity Knocks” (1990)
  592. The Glands “Pleaser” (2018)
  593. Harry Nilsson “Think About Your Troubles” (1970)
  594. The Vaccines “If You Wanna” (2011)
  595. Bob Marley “Three Little Birds” (1977)
  596. Uncle Tupelo “Graveyard Shift” (1990)
  597. Wonder Stuff “Unbearable” (1988)
  598. Rilo Kiley “The Frug” (1999)
  599. R.E.M. “Green Grow the Rushes” (1985)
  600. Pixies “Wave of Mutilation” (1989)
  601. Grateful Dead “Shakedown Street” (1978)
  602. Look Blue Go Purple “Cactus Cat” (1986)
  603. Hole “Celebrity Skin” (1998)
  604. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark “Talking Loud and Clear” (1984)
  605. Better Oblivion Community Center “Dylan Thomas” (2019)
  606. Mercury Rev “Holes” (1998)
  607. Aquarian Age “10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box” (1968)
  608. Pernice Brothers “The Weakest Shade of Blue” (2003)
  609. Guided by Voices “Jane of the Waking Universe” (1997)
  610. The Verlaines “Death & the Maiden” (1983)

  611. Alice Cooper “Clones” (1980)
  612. Pink Floyd “Brain Damage/Eclipse” (1973)
  613. Waxahatchee “Silver” (2017)
  614. Barbara Manning & SF Seals “Back Again” (1994)
  615. Wire “Mannequin” (1977)
  616. Lemon Pipers “Green Tambourine” (1967)
  617. Animal Collective “Summertime Clothes” (2009)
  618. The Cure “Just Like Heaven” (1987)
  619. Certain Distant Suns “Bitter” (1995)
  620. Genesis “Behind the Lines/Duchess” (1980)

  621. Beastie Boys “Hey Ladies” (1989)
  622. David Gilmour “There’s No Way Out of Here” (1978)
  623. The Chills “Look for the Good in Others” (1987)
  624. Jason Falkner “Author Unknown” (1999)
  625. The Mamas & the Papas “I Saw Her Again” (1966)
  626. Wilco “I’m the Man Who Loves You” (2002)
  627. The Left Banke “Walk Away Renee” (1966)
  628. Shoes “Your Imagination” (1981)
  629. Paul McCartney & Wings “London Town” (1978)
  630. The Paranoid Style “Dominoes in Drag” (2017)

  631. The Rolling Stones “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” (1971)
  632. Dinosaur Jr. “The Wagon” (1991)
  633. Badfinger “Carry on Till Tomorrow” (1970)
  634. Nick Lowe “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass” (1978)
  635. Television Personalities “Salvador Dali’s Garden Party
  636. Depeche Mode “Just Can’t Get Enough” (1981)
  637. The Chills “Pink Frost” (1984)
  638. The Monkees “Randy Scouse Git” (1967)
  639. Weezer “Dope Nose” (2002)
  640. Missing Persons “Words” (1982)

  641. Big Audio Dynamite “Beyond the Pale” (1986)
  642. The Reivers “Electra” (1987)
  643. Undertones “I Know a Girl” (1979)
  644. Winter Hours “Hyacinth Girl” (1986)
  645. Peter Gabriel “Wallflower” (1982)
  646. Dandy Warhols “Mis Amigos” (2008)
  647. Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer” (1970)
  648. Ambulance LTD “Stay Tuned” (2004)
  649. Tenpole Tudor “Swords of a Thousand Men” (1981)
  650. Stephen Malkmus “The Hook” (2001)

  651. Golden Smog “Looking Forward to Seeing You” (1998)
  652. The Fall “Paintwork” (1985)
  653. U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (1987)
  654. The Smiths “Ask” (1987)
  655. Nimrod “The Bird” (1969)
  656. XTC “Mayor of Simpleton” (1989)
  657. The Clean “Anything Could Happen” (1981)
  658. Cocteau Twins “Sigh’s Smell of Farewell” (1986)
  659. Darling Buds “Burst” (1988)
  660. Firehose “Brave Captain” (1986)

  661. Pink Floyd “Summer ’68” (1970)
  662. Stereolab “Wow and Flutter” (1994)
  663. Taylor Swift “We Are Never Getting Back Together” (2012)
  664. Marshall Crenshaw “Whenever You’re on My Mind” (1983)
  665. The Breeders “Cannonball” (1993)
  666. James Gang “Walk Away” (1971)
  667. Camper Van Beethoven “Eye of Fatima” (1988)
  668. Yo La Tengo “Upside-Down” (1992)
  669. Case Lang Veirs “Atomic Number” (2016)
  670. Jethro Tull “Thick As a Brick Pt. 1” (1972)

  671. Volcano Suns “White Elephant” (1986)
  672. Soundtrack of Our Lives “Believe I’ve Found” (2005)
  673. The Who “Glow Girl” (1967)
  674. Old 97’s “Can’t Get a Line” (2001)
  675. The Orb “Little Fluffy Clouds” (1991)
  676. The Noise Petals “The Happy Song” (1988)
  677. Paul McCartney & Wings “Mrs. Vanderbilt” (1974)
  678. Chris Knox “The Split” (1993)
  679. Yes “I’ve Seen All Good People” (1971)
  680. Grandaddy “Stray Dog & the Chocolate Shake” (2003)

  681. De La Soul “The Magic Number” (1989)
  682. Dukes of Stratosphear “Vanishing Girl” (1987)
  683. Jefferson Airplane “Good Shepherd” (1969)
  684. Regina Spektor “Better” (2006)
  685. Pavement “Date w/ Ikea” (1997)
  686. Wire “Ambitious” (1987)
  687. That Dog “Long Island” (1997)
  688. The Moody Blues “Peak Hour” (1967)
  689. Television “Ain’t That Nothin’” (1978)
  690. LCD Soundsystem “Losing My Edge” (2002)

  691. Bruce Springsteen “Candy’s Room” (1978)
  692. Sonic Youth “Tunic” (1990)
  693. Tom Petty “Here Comes My Girl” (1979)
  694. Jason & the Scorchers “White Lies” (1985)
  695. Dressy Bessy “Lipstick” (2003)
  696. Imperial Teen “Lipstick” (1998)
  697. Sebadoh “Skull” (1994)
  698. Brian Protheroe “Pinball” (1974)
  699. Best Coast “Feeling OK” (2015)
  700. Brian Eno “By This River” (1977)
  701. Amy Rigby “Dancin’ with Joey Ramone” (2005)
  702. The Gerbils “Sunshine Soul” (1998)
  703. Flamin’ Groovies “Shake Some Action” (1976)
  704. Mazzy Star “Halah” (1990)
  705. Jazz Butcher “The Devil Is My Friend” (1985)
  706. Isaac Hayes “Shaft” (1971)
  707. Dave Edmunds “Girls Talk” (1979)
  708. Stump “Charlton Heston” (1988)
  709. The Small Faces “Afterglow” (1968)
  710. Tobin Sprout “Courage the Tack” (2003)

  711. Japandroids “Near to the Wild Heart of Life” (2017)
  712. Beach Boys “You Still Believe in Me” (1966)
  713. The Runaways “Cherry Bomb” (1976)
  714. Wondermints “Proto-Pretty” (1996)
  715. Phil Manzanera/Brian Eno “Big Day” (1975)
  716. Yuck “Georgia” (2011)
  717. The Pretty Things “Trust” (1968)
  718. The Fall “U.S. 80’s-90’s” (1986)
  719. Dandy Warhols “We Used to Be Friends” (2003)
  720. Material Issue “International Pop Overthrow” (1991)

  721. Dylan in the Movies “Girl with the Black Tights” (2014)
  722. Rollerskate Skinny “Bow Hitchhiker” (1993)
  723. Jennifer Trynin “Better Than Nothing” (1994)
  724. Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich “Hold Tight” (1966)
  725. The Things “You Can’t Deliver” (1986)
  726. Teenage Fanclub “I Need Direction” (2000)
  727. Galaxie 500 “Blue Thunder” (1989)
  728. Death Cab for Cutie “Your New Twin Sized Bed” (2008)
  729. Kaleidoscope “Jenny Artichoke” (1968)
  730. The Paranoid Style “Turpitude” (2019)

  731. Stevie Wonder “Higher Ground” (1973)
  732. Eleventh Dream Day “Makin’ Like a Rug” (1993)
  733. The Band “Stage Fright” (1970)
  734. Jimmy Eat World “The Middle” (2001)
  735. Marshall Crenshaw “Cynical Girl” (1982)
  736. Talking Heads “And She Was” (1985)
  737. Dead Milkmen “Bitchin’ Camaro” (1985)
  738. Jesus & Mary Chain “Far Gone & Out” (1992)
  739. Devo “Jocko Homo” (1978)
  740. Nick Lowe “Cruel to Be Kind” (1979)

  741. Sugar “If I Can’t Change Your Mind” (1992)
  742. P. Hux “Bazooka Joe” (1994)
  743. Tom Petty “Free Fallin’” (1989)
  744. Black Flag “Wasted” (1979)
  745. The Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing” (1966)
  746. King Crimson “Epitaph” (1969)
  747. Rhett Miller “I Need to Know Where I Stand” (2009)
  748. Book of Love “Boy” (1986)
  749. Uncle Tupelo “True to Life” (1991)
  750. Apples in Stereo “Please” (2002)

  751. Nick Cave “The Mercy Seat” (1988)
  752. Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
  753. The Libertines “Skag & Bone Man” (2003)
  754. The New Pornographers “Brill Bruisers” (2014)
  755. Spacemen 3 “Big City” (1991)
  756. Plasticland (?)
  757. The Minders “Right As Rain” (2001)
  758. Paul Simon “Kodachrome” (1973)
  759. The Pretty Things “In the Square” (1970)
  760. Talking Heads “Crosseyed and Painless” (1980)

  761. Game Theory “Here It Is Tomorrow” (1986)
  762. Vampire Weekend “This Life” (2019)
  763. Golden Smog “To Call My Own” (1998)
  764. Certain Distant Suns “Snowfall
  765. Shoes “Tomorrow Night” (1978)
  766. Unlikely Friends “Fifteen Rounds” (2018)
  767. T. Rex “Twentieth Century Boy” (1973)
  768. Anna Burch “2 Cool 2 Care” (2018)
  769. The Turtles “The Walking Song” (1967)
  770. Metric “Help I’m Alive” (2009)

  771. Grateful Dead “St. Stephen” (1969)
  772. Young Marble Giants “Credit in the Straight World” (1980)
  773. Elf Power “The Naughty Villain” (2000)
  774. Salad Boys “Dream Date” (2015)
  775. The Shins “Mildenhall” (2017)
  776. Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
  777. Arcade Fire “Creature Comfort” (2017)
  778. Peter Bjorn & John “Young Folks” (2007)
  779. Dream Syndicate “That’s What You Always Say” (1982)
  780. Bishop Allen “Start Again” (2014)

  781. Shoes “Turnaround” (1984)
  782. Tegan & Sara “Hop a Plane” (2007)
  783. Fountains of Wayne “The Girl I Can’t Forget” (2005)
  784. Dreaming Spires “Strange Glue” (2015)
  785. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever “Time in Common” (2018)
  786. Dream Syndicate “80 West” (2017)
  787. Vampire Weekend “Diane Young” (2013)
  788. Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue” (1975)
  789. Crosby, Stills & Nash “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (1969)
  790. Devo “Gates of Steel” (1980)

  791. Golden Smog “Ill Fated” (1995)
  792. MGMT “Kids” (2008)
  793. Lisa Smokes Pot (?)
  794. Best Coast “Crazy for You” (2010)
  795. Connections “Cindy” (2013)
  796. Gomez “Whippin’ Piccadilly” (1998)
  797. Sleigh Bells “Rill Rill” (2010)
  798. Belle & Sebastian “Sukie in the Graveyard” (2006)
  799. Blink-182 “All the Small Things” (1999)
  800. Guided by Voices “Best of Jill Hives” (2003)
  801. Firehose “Sometimes” (1987)
  802. Tegan & Sara “I Hear Noises” (2002)
  803. David Crosby “Laughing” (1971)
  804. Matt Pond PA “Last Light” (2007)
  805. Girls “Lust for Life” (2009)
  806. R.E.M. “The Flowers of Guatemala” (1986)
  807. Snow Patrol “Ask Me How I Am” (2001)
  808. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
  809. Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone” (2004)
  810. The Green Pajamas “Deep Blue Afternoon” (1999)

  811. Jason Falkner “My Lucky Day” (1999)
  812. Regina Spektor “The Calculation” (2009)
  813. Death Cab for Cutie “Your Heart Is an Empty Room” (2005)
  814. Dressy Bessy “This May Hurt” (2003)
  815. Essex Green “Don’t Know Why” (2006)
  816. Guided by Voices “Build a Better Iceberg
  817. Stars “Ageless Beauty” (2005)
  818. Wilco “Outtasite” (Outta Mind)” (1996)
  819. Dukes of Stratosphear “Bike Ride to the Moon” (1985)
  820. Bright Eyes “From a Balance Beam” (2002)

  821. The Hold Steady “Chips Ahoy” (2006)
  822. Mates of State “Get Better” (2008)
  823. Bright Eyes “Another Travelin’ Song” (2005)
  824. Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out” (2004)
  825. Kingsbury Manx “And What Fallout” (2005)
  826. Only Ones “Another Girl Another Planet” (1978)
  827. Elf Power “Walking with the Beggar Boys” (2004)
  828. Mazzy Star “Mary of Silence” (1993)
  829. Brian Eno “The True Wheel” (1974)
  830. Television Personalities “I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives” (1981) <>
  831. Sonny Curtis “Love Is All Around” (1970)
  832. Dandy Warhols “Bohemian Like You” (2000)
  833. Kevin Tihista “Family Curse” (2004)
  834. The Minus 5 “I’m Not Bitter” (2003)
  835. Dressy Bessy “Live to Tell All” (2003)
  836. Teenage Fanclub “Radio” (1993)
  837. Traveling Wilburys “Handle with Care” (1988)
  838. Camper Van Beethoven “Sweethearts
  839. The Lemonheads “The Great Big No” (1993)
  840. Beulah “I Love John She Loves Paul” (1997)

  841. Rilo Kiley “Pictures of Success” (2001)
  842. Todd Rundgren “Couldn’t I Just Tell You” (1972)
  843. Funkadelic “You Hit the Nail on the Head” (1972)
  844. Green Day “Warning” (2000)
  845. Spiritualized “Good Dope/Good Fun” (1993)
  846. The Churchills “Sugar Daddy” (2002)
  847. Mountain Goats “Against Pollution” (2004)
  848. Lucinda Williams “Changed the Locks” (1988)
  849. Chris Bell “Speed of Sound” (1992)
  850. The Clean “Flowers” (1982)

  851. Halo Benders “Virginia Reel Around the Fountain” (1998)
  852. Liz Phair “Divorce Song” (1993)
  853. My Bloody Valentine “Drive It All Over Me” (1988)
  854. The Connells “Burial Art” (2021)
  855. Genesis “Cinema Show” (1973)
  856. Neutral Milk Hotel “Everything Is” (1995)
  857. Talking Heads “Psycho Killer” (1977)
  858. Tori Amos “God” (1994)
  859. Ryan Adams “New York New York” (2001)
  860. Suzanne Vega “Marlene on the Wall” (1985)

  861. Guided by Voices “Glad Girls” (2001)
  862. Elliott Smith “Son of Sam” (2000)
  863. Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” (1979)
  864. The Bongos “The Bulrushes” (1982)
  865. Laura Nyro “Stoned Soul Picnic” (1968)
  866. Oranger “Texas Snow” (2000)
  867. Everclear “Santa Monica” (1995)
  868. Len “Steal My Sunshine” (1999)
  869. Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” (1994)
  870. The Moody Blues “Story in Your Eyes” (1971)

  871. Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen in Love” (1978)
  872. Tall Dwarfs “Fatal Flaw of the New” (1998)
  873. Eels “Last Stop This Town” (1998)
  874. Folk Implosion “Natural One” (1995)
  875. Ben Folds Five “Brick” (1995)
  876. Magnetic Fields “Busby Berkeley Dreams” (1999)
  877. The Muffs “I Need a Face” (1995)
  878. The Replacements “When It Began” (1990)
  879. Myracle Brah “Love Is” (1998)
  880. Sleeper “Inbetweener” (1995)

  881. Lambchop “Up with People” (2000)
  882. The Turtles “The Last Thing I Remember” (1968)
  883. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
  884. The Decemberists “Yankee Bayonet” (2006)
  885. Dire Straits “Wild West End” (1978)
  886. Yo La Tengo “Ohm” (2013)
  887. The Connells “Fun & Games” (1989)
  888. Thunderclap Newman “Something in the Air” (1969)
  889. Chris Knox “Half Man/Half Mole” (1995)
  890. Moby Grape “8:05” (1967)

  891. Bettie Serveert “Ray Ray Rain” (1995)
  892. Beck “Loser” (1993) <
  893. Magnapop “Open the Door” (1996)
  894. Phish “Wolfman’s Brother” (1994)
  895. Tobin Sprout “All Used Up” (1997)
  896. Ride “From Time to Time” (1994)
  897. Loud Family “Sword Swallower” (1993)
  898. Wire “Kidney Bingoes” (1988)
  899. Gin Blossoms “Til I Hear It from You” (1995)
  900. Supergrass “Alright” (1995)
  901. Sonic Youth “Sugar Kane” (1992)
  902. Creedence Clearwater Revival “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” (1970)
  903. Young Fresh Fellows “How Much About Last Night” (1985)
  904. Wet Leg “Chaise Lounge” (2021)
  905. Julian Cope “World Shut Your Mouth” (1987)
  906. Gilbert O’Sullivan “Get Down” (1973)
  907. Blur “Parklife” (1994)
  908. Public Image Ltd. “Rise” (1987)
  909. Nick Drake “Pink Moon” (1972)
  910. Nick Heyward “Kite” (1993)

  911. His Name Is Alive “Baby Fish Mouth” (1993)
  912. XTC “Dear Madam Barnum” (1992)
  913. Peter Gabriel “Biko” (1980)
  914. Rain Parade: Don’t Feel Bad” (1985)
  915. Jason Falkner “Hectified” (1996)
  916. Ramones “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” (1977)
  917. Wall of Voodoo “Mexican Radio” (1982)
  918. Kingsbury Manx “Piss Diary” (2000)
  919. The Cure “Never Enough” (1990)
  920. John Lennon “Instant Karma” (1970)

  921. Olivia Tremor Control “Green Typewriters Suite” (1996)
  922. The Fastbacks “Under the Old Lightbulb” (1993)
  923. The Breeders “Opened” (1990)
  924. Jefferson Airplane “Lather” (1968)
  925. Gomez “Shot Shot” (2002)
  926. Emerson Lake & Palmer “From the Beginning” (1972)
  927. Ultra Vivid Scene “Special One” (1990)
  928. Lou Reed “Charley’s Girl” (1976)
  929. Generation X “Ready Steady Go” (1978)
  930. John Cale “Big White Cloud” (1970)

  931. Olivia Tremor Control “California Demise 3” (1999)
  932. The Aerovons “World of You” (1969)
  933. Young Fresh Fellows “Miss Lonelyhearts” (1989)
  934. Colin Newman “I’ve Waited Ages” (1980)
  935. Long Ryders “Run Dusty Run” (1984)
  936. Big Dipper “Wrong in the Charts” (1987)
  937. The Beatles “I’ve Got a Feeling” (1971)
  938. Peter Gabriel “Moribund the Burgermeister” (1977)
  939. Los Lobos “Will the Wolf Survive” (1984)
  940. Nik Kershaw “Wouldn’t It Be Good” (1983)

  941. Jackson Brown “Running on Empty” (1977)
  942. Big Audio Dynamite “Other 99” (1988)
  943. Three Colors “One Big Tree” (1985)
  944. Spirit “My Friend” (1981)
  945. Verlaines “Lying in State” (1985)
  946. The Go-Go’s “Head Over Heels” (1984)
  947. Yaz “Walk Away from Love” (1983)
  948. Electric Light Orchestra “Telephone Line” (1976)
  949. Dumptruck “Back Where I Belong” (1985)
  950. Hello “New York Groove” (1975)

  951. Pink Floyd “Green Is the Colour” (1969)
  952. Kirsty MacColl “Patrick” (1984)
  953. Billy Bragg “A New England” (1983)
  954. The End “Dreamworld” (1969)
  955. The Nails “88 Lines About 44 Women” (1982)
  956. The Knack “My Sharona” (1979)
  957. Ian Hunter “All the Good Ones Are Taken” (1983)
  958. X-Ray Spex “Oh Bondage Up Yours” (1978)
  959. Fleetwood Mac “That’s All for Everyone” (1979)
  960. Blondie “Rip Her to Shreds” (1976)

  961. Millennium “Prelude/To Claudia on Thursday” (1968)
  962. Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” (1969)
  963. John Lennon “Oh Yoko” (1971)
  964. Shuggie Otis “Strawberry Letter 23” (1971)
  965. New York Dolls “Personality Crisis” (1973)
  966. The Faces “Stay with Me” (1971)
  967. Traffic “Empty Pages” (1970)
  968. 2nd Grade “When You Were My Sharona” (2020)
  969. Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot “Bonnie & Clyde” (1968)
  970. Fleetwood Mac “Hypnotized” (1973)

  971. Young Fresh Fellows “Still There’s Hope” (1989)
  972. Roky Erikson “Starry Eyes” (1975)
  973. Judy Sill “Enchanted Sky Machines” (1971)
  974. Beach Boys “Never Learn Not to Love” (1969)
  975. Jane Siberry “One More Colour” (1985)
  976. The Submarines “Maybe” (2008)
  977. Sagittarius “The Truth Is Not Real” (1968)
  978. Mott the Hoople “Backsliding Fearlessly” (1969)
  979. Led Zeppelin “Misty Mountain Hop” (1971)
  980. Bay City Rollers “Rock ‘N Roll Love Letter” (1976)

  981. The Clean “Oddity” (1983)
  982. The Strawbs “Down by the Sea” (1973)
  983. Squeeze “Pulling Mussels from a Shell” (1980)
  984. Dinosaur Jr. “Raisans” (1987)
  985. Ministry “So What” (1989)
  986. Hinds “Riding Solo” (2020)
  987. Spirit “Animal Zoo” (1970)
  988. Moby Grape “Seeing” (1969)
  989. The Nice “Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack” (1967)
  990. The Feelies “Away” (1988)

  991. Prince “Raspberry Beret” (1985)
  992. Real Estate “Talking Backwards” (2014)
  993. Superchunk “Crossed Wires” (2010)
  994. The Cucumbers “My Boyfriend” (1987)
  995. Drive-By Truckers “Thoughts and Prayers” (2020)
  996. Waxahatchee “Can’t Do Much” (2020)
  997. The Strokes “Hard to Explain” (2001)
  998. Fiona Apple “Under the Table” (2020)
  999. The Jazz Butcher “Mr. Odd” (1990)
  1000. Josh Ritter “New Lover” (2003)
  1001. Buffalo Springfield “Mr. Soul” (1967)
  1002. Helium “Pat’s Trick” (1995)
  1003. Cocteau Twins “Wax & Wane” (1982)
  1004. The Rolling Stones “Bitch” (1971)
  1005. Genesis “Dancing with the Moonlit Knight” (1973)
  1006. Hole “Rock Star” (1994)
  1007. The Cranberries “Dreams” (1992)
  1008. Swell Maps “Read About Seymour” (1981)
  1009. Foo Fighters “Big Me” (1995)
  1010. Against Me! “Transgender Dysphoria Blues” (2014)

  1011. Dinosaur Jr. “Start Choppin’” (1993)
  1012. Look Blue Go Purple “I Don’t Want You Anyway” (1991)
  1013. Transvision Vamp “Baby I Don’t Care” (1989)
  1014. Sonic Youth “Purr” (1992)
  1015. Green Pajamas “Kim the Waitress” (1986)
  1016. Cocteau Twins “Carolyn’s Fingers” (1988)
  1017. Gomez “Options” (2011)
  1018. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band “I Won’t Hurt You” (1966)
  1019. The Strokes “Under Cover of Darkness” (2011)
  1020. Dumptruck “Faithless” (2001)

  1021. Beach Boys “I’m Waiting for the Day” (1966)
  1022. Grateful Dead “The Eleven” (live, 1969)
  1023. Phoenix “1901” (2009)
  1024. Oasis “Whatever” (1994)
  1025. Suicidal Tendencies “Institutionalized” (1983)

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Friday, September 29, 2023

Psychedelic Rock: Top 100 Songs

Psychedelic Rock:

Top 100 Songs

Psychedelic rock emerged in the mid-‘60s as music inspired, influenced, or representative of the experience of taking hallucinogenic drugs, most notably LSD. The Summer of Love in 1967 and the Woodstock Festival in 1969 were major cultural events which have been tied to the psychedelic rock movement. This list was created by aggregating 24 lists focused on psychedelic rock songs.

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1. Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit” (1967)
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967)
3. The Beatles “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (1967)
4. The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
5. Strawberry Alarm Clock “Incense and Peppermints” (1967)
6. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967)
7. The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)
8. The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows” (1966)
9. Pink Floyd “Interstellar Overdrive” (1967)
10. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)

11. Jefferson Airplane “Somebody to Love” (1967)
12. Iron Butterfly “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” (1968)
13. Grateful Dead “Dark Star” (1968)
14. The Amboy Dukes “Journey to the Center of the Mind” (1968)
15. The Electric Prunes “I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night” (1966)
16. The Beatles “I Am the Walrus” (1967)
17. Cream “Sunshine of Your Love” (1967)
18. Scott McKenzie “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)” (1967)
19. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Are You Experienced?” (1967)
20. Steppenwolf “Magic Carpet Ride” (1968)

21. The Small Faces “Itchycoo Park” (1967)
22. The Chambers Brothers “Time Has Come Today” (1967)
23. The Doors “The End” (1967)
24. The Beatles “A Day in the Life” (1967)
25. Status Quo “Pictures of Matchstick Men” (1967)
26. The Animals “Sky Pilot” (1968)
27. Pink Floyd “Astronomy Domine” (1967)
28. Cream “White Room” (1968)
29. The Beatles “All You Need Is Love” (1967)
30. The Velvet Underground & Nico “Venus in Furs” (1967)

31. The United States of America “The American Metaphysical Circus” (1968)
32. Pink Floyd “See Emily Play” (1967)
33. The Rolling Stones “2000 Light Years from Home” (1967)
34. Tommy James & the Shondells “Crimson and Clover” (1968)
35. The Who “I Can See for Miles” (1967)
36. The Count Five “Psychotic Reaction” (1966)
37. The Doors “Strange Days” (1967)
38. Tomorrow “My White Bicycle” (1967)
39. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
40. The Turtles “Happy Together” (1967)

41. Kenny Rogers & the First Edition “Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Condition Was In” (1967)
42. Big Brother & the Holding Company “Piece of My Heart” (1968)
43. Pink Floyd “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” (1968)
44. Donovan “Hurdy Gurdy Man” (1968)
45. The Rolling Stones “She’s a Rainbow” (1967)
46. The Balloon Farm “A Question of Temperature” (1968)
47. The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
48. The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (1967)
49. The Yardbirds “The Shapes of Things” (1966)
50. The Animals “San Franciscan Nights” (1967)

51. Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (1966)
52. The Grass Roots “Let’s Live for Today” (1967)
53. The Bubble Puppy “Hot Smoke & Sassafras” (1969)
54. The Young Rascals “Groovin’” (1967)
55. The Beatles “Within You Without You” (1967)
56. Pink Floyd “Echoes” (1971)
57. The Box Tops “The Letter” (1967)
58. Vanilla Fudge “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” (1967)
59. Donovan “Sunshine Superman” (1966)
60. Country Joe & the Fish “Grace” (1967)

61. Traffic “Dear Mr. Fantasy” (1967)
62. The Doors “People Are Strange” (1967)
63. Love “The Red Telephone” (1967)
64. Kaleidoscope “Beacon from Mars” (1968)
65. The 13th Floor Elevators “You’re Gonna Miss Me” (1966)
66. The Lemon Pipers “Green Tambourine” (1967)
67. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Third Stone from the Sun” (1967)
68. Traffic “Paper Sun” (1967)
69. Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967)
70. The Rolling Stones “Ruby Tuesday” (1967)

71. The Monkees “Pleasant Valley Sunday” (1967)
72. Pink Floyd “Comfortably Numb” (1979)
73. The Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin” (1967)
74. Pink Floyd “Arnold Layne” (1967)
75. H.P. Lovecraft “At the Mountains of Madness” (1968)
76. The Blues Magoos “We Ain’t Got Nothin’ Yet” (1966)
77. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown “Fire” (1968)
78. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)
79. Donovan “Mellow Yellow” (1966)
80. The Yardbirds “Happenings Ten Years Time Ago” (1966)

81. Blue Cheer “Summertime Blues” (1968)
82. Cream “Strange Brew” (1967)
83. The Youngbloods “Get Together” (1967)
84. The 13th Floor Elevators “Roller Coaster” (1966)
85. Country Joe & the Fish “Bass Strings” (1967)
86. The United States of America “Cloud Song” (1968)
87. Donovan “Season of the Witch” (1966)
88. The Beatles “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” (1965)
89. Black Sabbath “Planet Caravan” (1970)
90. Country Joe & the Fish “Section 43” (1967)

91. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band “Shifting Sands” (1967)
92. The Byrds “Mind Gardens” (1967)
93. The Rolling Stones “We Love You” (1967)
94. Steve Miller Band “In My First Mind” (1968)
95. Tim Buckley “Hallucinations” (1967)
96. The Doors “Break on Through” (1967)
97. Funkadelic “Maggot Brain” (1971)
98. It’s a Beautiful Day “White Bird” (1969)
99. The Doors “When the Music’s Over” (1967)
100. Cream “I Feel Free” (1966)

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Thursday, September 28, 2023

Garage Rock: Top 100 Songs

Garage Rock:

Top 100 Songs

Rock and roll wasn’t even a decade old when garage rock started in the mid-1960s as a sort of back-to-basics movement. The name evoked the primitive sound, equipment, and recording techniques of high school buddies jamming in the garage.

Genres are often tied to a specific era, often only about five years, but garage rock has the unique trait of being associated with two distinct time periods. The original wave in the 1960s was helmed by well-known acts such as the Who and the Kinks and set up proto-punk with acts like Velvet Underground and the Stooges.

In the early 2000s, the garage sound experienced a revival via bands like the White Stripes, the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines committed to the low-fi recording techniques.

This list reflects both eras and a smattering of songs that fall between them. It was created by aggregating 11 lists focused on the best of garage rock. Those songs appearing on 2 or more lists were then ranked based on their overall status in Dave’s Music Database.

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DMDB Top 1%:

1. The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
2. The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
3. The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” (2003)
4. The Troggs “Wild Thing” (1966)
5. The Strokes “Last Nite” (2001)
6. Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor” (2005)

DMDB Top 2%:

7. Them “Gloria” (1964)
8. The White Stripes “Fell in Love with a Girl” (2001)
9. The Who “I Can’t Explain” (1965)
10. ? & the Mysterians “96 Tears” (1966)

11. Iggy Pop “Lust for Life” (1977)
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps” (2003)
13. Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl?” (2003)
14. The Kinks “All Day and All of the Night” (1964)
15. Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs “Wooly Bully” (1965)
16. Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (1966)
17. The Stooges “Search and Destroy” (1973)
18. The Stooges “I Wanna Be Your Dog” (1969)
19. The Black Keys “Lonely Boy” (2011)
20. Strawberry Alarm Clock “Incense and Peppermints” (1967)

21. The Count Five “Psychotic Reaction” (1966)
22. The MC5 “Kick Out the Jams” (1969)
23. Velvet Underground & Nico “I’m Waiting for the Man” (1967)

DMDB Top 5%:

24. The Hives “Hate to Say I Told You So” (2000)
25. Patti Smith “Gloria (In Excelsis Deo)” (1975)
26. The Modern Lovers “Roadrunner” (1976)
27. The Raconteurs “Steady As She Goes” (2006)
28. Alice Cooper “I’m Eighteen” (1971)
29. The McCoys “Hang on Sloopy” (1965)
30. The Vines “Get Free” (2002)

31. The White Stripes “Icky Thump” (2007)
32. The Lemon Pipers “Green Tambourine” (1967)
33. Tommy James & the Shondells “Hanky Panky” (1966)
34. The Electric Prunes “I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night” (1966)
35. The Strokes “Hard to Explain” (2001)
36. The White Stripes “Hotel Yorba” (2001)
37. The Libertines “Time for Heroes” (2002)
38. The White Stripes “Blue Orchid” (2005)
39. Them “Here Comes the Night” (1965)
40. The Amboy Dukes “Journey to the Center of the Mind” (1968)

41. Mudhoney “Touch Me I’m Sick” (1988)
42. The White Stripes “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” (2001)
43. Jet “Look What You’ve Done” (2003)
44. The Seeds “Pushin’ Too Hard” (1965)
45. The White Stripes “The Hardest Button to Button” (2003)
46. The 13th Floor Elevators “You’re Gonna Miss Me” (1966)
47. The Libertines “Can’t Stand Me Now” (2004)
48. The Velvet Underground “White Light/White Heat” (1968)
49. The Standells “Dirty Water” (1966)
50. The Knickerbockers “Lies” (1965)

DMDB Top 10%:

51. The Trashmen “Surfin’ Bird” (1963)
52. Paul Revere & the Raiders “Kicks” (1966)
53. Jack White “Sixteen Saltines” (2012)
54. The American Breed “Bend Me, Shape Me” 1967)
55. The Human Beinz “Nobody But Me” (1967)
56. The Blues Magoos “We Ain’t Got Nothin’ Yet” (1966)
57. Iggy Pop “The Passenger” (1977)
58. The Strokes “Reptilia” (2003)
59. The Castaways “Liar Liar” (1965)
60. Sir Douglas Quintet “She’s About a Mover” (1965)

61. The Who “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” (1965)
62. The Strokes “Someday” (2001)
63. The Music Explosion “Little Bit O’ Soul” (1967)
64. The Seeds “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine” (1965)
65. The Strangeloves “I Want Candy” (1965)
66. The Von Bondies “C’mon C’mon” (2004)
67. The Raconteurs “Salute Your Solution” (2008)
68. The White Stripes “We’re Going to Be Friends” (2001)
69. The Strokes “12:51” (2003)
70. Love “7 and 7 Is” (1966)

71. The Strokes “The Modern Age” (2001)
72. The Music Machine “Talk Talk” (1966)
73. The Beau Brummels “Laugh Laugh” (1964)
74. The Libertines “What a Waster” (20020
75. The Outsiders “Time Won’t Let Me” (1966)
76. The Nashville Teens “Tobacco Road’ (1964)
77. The Hives “Walk Idiot Walk” (2004)
78. Love “My Little Red Book” (1966)
79. The Balloon Farm “A Question of Temperature” (1968)
80. The Godfathers “Birth, School, Work, Death” (1988)

81. Wolfmother “The Joker and the Thief” (2005)
82. The Velvet Underground “What Goes On” (1969)
83. Wolfmother “Woman” (2005)
84. Arctic Monkeys “Brianstorm” (2007)
85. The Strokes “Juicebox” (2005)
86. The Libertines “Don’t Look Back into the Sun” (2003)
87. Paul Revere & the Raiders “Just Like Me” (1965)
88. The Stooges “1969” (1969)
89. Arctic Monkeys “Fluorescent Adolescent” (2007)
90. Them “Baby Please Don’t Go” (1965)
91. The Sonics “The Witch” (1964)

DMDB Top 20%:

92. Nazz “Open My Eyes’ (1968)
93. The Strangeloves “Night Time” (1965)
94. The Strokes “New York City Cops” (2001)
95. The Raconteurs “Level” (2006)
96. The Kingsmen “Money (That’s What I Want)” (1964)
97. Arctic Monkeys “When the Sun Goes Down” (2006)
98. The Stooges “No Fun” (1969)
99. Kings of Leon “Molly’s Chamber” (2003)
100. The Leaves “Hey Joe” (1965)

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Saturday, September 23, 2023

The Top 100 Adult Contemporary Songs of All Time


No, this isn’t what “soft rock” means.

Adult Contemporary, 1961-2023:

Top 100 Songs

It’s been called “soft rock,” “light rock,” “middle of the road,” and “adult contemporary.” By any name, this genre celebrates songwriters and balladry and music that skews toward a generally older audience.

This post originated in 2011 when Billboard magazine celebrated the 50th anniversary of their adult contemporary charts with a list of “The Top 100 Adult Contemporary Songs Ever.” They weighted the list so that the last decade’s trend toward longer stays at #1 (and longer stays on the chart) didn’t completely dominate the list. I posted a new ranking on my Facebook page that showed the biggest AC hits based solely on weeks at #1.

Still not satisfied, I went to my music database and sorted all songs to hit #1 on the adult contemporary charts. Then I sorted those songs based on total points in Dave’s Music Database. The results made for what I consider the most balanced of the three lists and acknowledging some bonafide classics which may not have had longevity at #1 or on the charts, but have had long-lasting impact.

One last thing – the pics are for the top-ten ranked AC acts according to Billboard. Click on the photos for the acts DMDB music makers encyclopedia entries.

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1. Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
2. Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
3. Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” (1991)
4. Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
5. The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)
6. The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody” (1965)
7. Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (2017)
8. Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On” (1997)
9. Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
10. Pharrell Williams “Happy” (2013)


Elton John

11. Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” (2011)
12. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love” (1981)
13. Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1962)
14. U.S.A. for Africa “We Are the World” (1985)
15. Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me” (1987)
16. Adele “Hello” (2015)
17. Coldplay “Viva La Vida” (2008)
18. The Weeknd “Blinding Lights” (2019)
19. Boyz II Men “I’ll Make Love to You” (1994)
20. Lionel Richie “All Night Long (All Night)” (1983)


Neil Diamond

21. Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud” (2014)
22. Jason Mraz “I’m Yours” (2008)
23. Debby Boone “You Light Up My Life” (1977)
24. Adele “Someone Like You (2011)
25. Bee Gees “How Deep Is Your Love” (1977)
26. Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect” (2017)
27. Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are (Amazing)” (2010)
28. John Legend “All of Me” (2013)
29. George Michael “Careless Whisper” (1984)
30. Elvis Presley “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (1961)


Barbra Streisand

31. Taylor Swift “Shake It Off” (2014)
32. Kenny Rogers “Lady” (1980)
33. Stevie Wonder “I Just Called to Say I Love You” (1984)
34. Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” (2007)
35. Roberta Flack “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (1969)
36. Mariah Carey with Boyz II Men “One Sweet Day” (1995)
37. Shania Twain “You’re Still the One” 1998)
38. Tony Orlando & Dawn “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” (1973)
39. Barbra Streisand “The Way We Were” (1973)
40. Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (2016)


Barry Manilow

41. Eric Clapton “Tears in Heaven” (1992)
42. Cyndi Lauper “Time After Time” (1983)
43. Katy Perry “Roar” (2013)
44. Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn “Moon River” (1961)
45. Justin Bieber “Love Yourself” (2015)
46. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now” (2009)
47. Katy Perry “Firework” (2010)
48. Harry Nilsson “Without You” (1971)
49. The Fifth Dimension “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” (1969)
50. Commodores “Three Times a Lady” (1978)


Kenny Rogers

51. James Blunt “You’re Beautiful” (2005)
52. Carly Simon “You’re So Vain” (1972)
53. Celine Dion “Because You Loved Me” (1996)
54. Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You” (2017)
55. Taylor Swift “Love Story” (2008)
56. Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (2014)
57. Terry Jacks “Seasons in the Sun” (1974)
58. Seal “Kiss from a Rose” (1994)
59. Carole King “It’s Too Late” (1971)
60. Toni Braxton “Un-Break My Heart” (1996)


Chicago

61. Phil Collins “Another Day in Paradise” (1989)
62. One Republic “Counting Stars” (2013)
63. Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes “I’ve Had the Time of My Life” (1987)
64. Dionne Warwick & Friends “That's What Friends Are For” (1985)
65. Sam Smith “Stay with Me” (2014)
66. Daniel Powter “Bad Day” (2005)
67. Captain & Tennille “Love Will Keep Us Together” (1975)
68. Fergie “Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)”
69. Harry Styles “As It Was” (2022)
70. Dolly Parton “9 to 5” (1980)


Billy Joel

71. Rick Astley “Never Gonna Give You Up” (1987)
72. Olivia Newton-John “I Honestly Love You” (1974)
73. Stevie Wonder “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (1973)
74. Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy” (1975)
75. Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream” (1983)
76. Billy Joel “Just the Way You Are” (1977)
77. Train “Hey, Soul Sister” (2009)
78. Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance” (2000)
79. Gilbert O’Sullivan “Alone Again (Naturally)” (1972)
80. Sheryl Crow “All I Wanna Do” (1994)


Carpenters

81. B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” (1969)
82. Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars” (2006)
83. Magic! “Rude” (2013)
84. Frank Sinatra “Strangers in the Night” (1966)
85. The Lumineers “Ho Hey” (2012)
86. Lionel Richie “Say You Say Me” (1985)
87. Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman” (1968)
88. Passenger “Let Her Go” (2012)
89. Mariah Carey “Vision of Love” (1990)
90. Louis Armstrong “Hello, Dolly!” (1964)


Lionel Richie

91. Backstreet Boys “I Want It That Way” (1999)
92. Taylor Swift “You Belong with Me” (2008)
93. Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder “Ebony and Ivory” (1982)
94. Stan Getz with Joao & Astrud Gilberto “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964)
95. Jimmy Dean “Big Bad John” (1961)
96. Roger Miller “King of the Road” (1965)
97. Post Malone “Circles” (2019)
98. Savage Garden “Truly Madly Deeply” (1997)
99. Carpenters “They Long to Be Close to You” (1970)
100. Chicago “If You Leave Me Now” (1976)


Anne Murray

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Saturday, September 16, 2023

Doja Cat “Paint the Town Red” hit #1

Paint the Town Red

Doja Cat

Writer(s): Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Isaac Earl Bynum, Jean-Baptiste Kouame, Karl Rubin, Ryan Buendia (see lyrics here)

Released: August 4, 2023

First Charted: August 19, 2023

Peak: 13 BB, 11 BA, 12 DG, 11 ST, 31 A40, 18 RB, 15 UK, 16 CN, 110 AU (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.6 UK, 2.68 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 360.10 video, 1202.18 streaming

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About the Song:

Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, better known as Doja Cat, is a rapper and singer born in Los Angeles in 1995. Her 2018 debut, Amala, stalled at #138 on the album chart, but her next two albums were top-ten, double-platinum releases. She also landed a #1 hit in with “Say So” from her Hot Pink album and three more top tens from 2021’s Planet Her.

Her fourth album, 2023’s Scarlet, gave Doja Cat her second #1 song with “Paint the Town Red.” In addition to topping the charts in the United States, the song soared to the top of the charts in 18 other charts. It became the fastest song by a solo female rapper to reach 100 million streams on Spotify. WK The song also received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance.

The “pop-rap track with a jazz-influenced beat” WK samples Dionne Warwick’s 1964 top-ten hit “Walk on By.” The phrase “paint the town red” means “to go out and celebrate without inhibition by having a noisy and disorderly spree.” SF It was first used in the 1870s as a reference to red-light districts. SF The song has been interpreted as a message to haters – both critics and fans – that she will go out and enjoy herself, living her life the way she wants to.

The song may be a specific response to reaction to Doja Cat shaving her head and eyebrows in August 2022. The move spurred negative comments from fans on social media who thought it made her look demonic. In the video, Doja Cat appears to be playing up the image, dressed in red and keeping company with the devil. There’s also a scene in which she peels out her eyeball and it falls into hell. The message is potentially that messing with Doja Cat could get bloody. SF

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First posted 1/7/2024; last updated 10/17/2024.

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

MTV Video of the Year Awards, 1984-2023

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Videos of the Year, 1984-2023

Three years after the birth of music television with MTV, the network introduced its annual video awards. While multiple categories were established, this page recognizes just those songs which won for Video of the Year. Originally winners were determined by a panel of music video directors, producers, and record company executives, but viewers have voted on the winners since 2006.

Check out other “songs of the year” lists here.

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First posted 1/28/2021; last updated 9/13/2023.

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