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Monday, October 11, 2021

Acclaimed Music: Top 100 Songs

Acclaimed Music:

Top 100 Songs

AcclaimedMusic.net was created by Henrik Franzon from Stockholm, Sweden. On the website, he explains his interest in critics’ lists started in 1994 with Swedish magazine Pop’s 100 best albums in the world. He then discovered Julian’s Rock Lists, eventually writing a computer program to determine ultimate lists of albums and songs. He launched the website in September 2001.

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1. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
2. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
3. The Beatles “A Day in the Life” (1967)
4. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
5. Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
6. Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
7. The Ronettes “Be My Baby” (1963)
8. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” (1971)
9. Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
10. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)

11. Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1982)
12. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
13. Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” (1975)
14. The Who “My Generation” (1965)
15. Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (1980)
16. The Beach Boys “God Only Knows” (1966)
17. Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968)
18. OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003)
19. Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.” (1976)
20. M.I.A. “Paper Planes” (2007)

21. The Clash “London Calling” (1979)
22. The Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil” (1968)
23. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967)
24. Little Richard “Tutti Frutti” (1955)
25. Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
26. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message” (1982)
27. Ray Charles “What’d I Say” (1959)
28. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
29. Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come” (1964)
30. David Bowie “Heroes” (1977)

31. Prince “When Doves Cry” (1984)
32. Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)
33. Pulp “Common People” (1995)
34. The Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter” (1969)
35. Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (1939) (1939)
36. The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
37. Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z “Crazy in Love” (2003)
38. The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” (2003)
39. R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)
40. Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen” (1977)

41. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
42. New Order “Blue Monday” (1983)
43. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967)
44. The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
45. The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” (1969)
46. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
47. The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1964)
48. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
49. The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (1967)
50. Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out” (2004)

51. Missy Elliott “Get Ur Freak On” (2001)
52. Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (1957)
53. The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
54. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (1977)
55. The Smiths “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” (1986)
56. David Bowie “Space Oddity” (1969)
57. Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)
58. The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
59. The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony” (1997)
60. Bill Haley & the Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)

61. Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1971)
62. Ike & Tina Turner “River Deep, Mountain High” (1966)
63. Massive Attack “Unfinished Sympathy” (1991)
64. Beck “Loser” (1993)
65. Public Enemy “Fight the Power” (1989)
66. Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” (1980)
67. Radiohead “Paranoid Android” (1997)
68. Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (1969)
69. Kendrick Lamar “Alright” (2015)
70. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)

71. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)
72. Eagles “Hotel California” (1976)
73. Jay-Z “99 Problems” (2003)
74. Robyn “Dancing on My Own” (2010)
75. Beyoncé “Formation” (2016)
76. Al Green “Let’s Stay Together” (1971)
77. The Rolling Stones “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1968)
78. LCD Soundsystem “All My Friends” (2007)
79. The Mamas & Papas “California Dreamin’” (1965)
80. Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” (1976)

81. Martha & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street” (1964)
82. Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956)
83. Grimes “Oblivion” (2012)
84. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
85. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)
86. Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” (1990)
87. The Smiths “How Soon Is Now? ” (1984)
88. Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (1987)
89. Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (1967)
90. The Band “The Weight” (1968)

91. Kanye West feat. Pusha T “Runaway” (2010)
92. The Specials “Ghost Town” (1981)
93. Lorde “Royals” (2013)
94. Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky” (2013)
95. Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” (1969)
96. David Bowie “Life on Mars?” (1971)
97. Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (1966)
98. Elvis Presley “That’s All Right” (1954)
99. James Brown “Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine” (1970)
100. Oasis “Wonderwall” (1995)

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “Lists from other publications and/or organizations”
AcclaimedMusic.net (10/11/2021). “Top Songs of All Time”

First posted 10/11/2021.

Saturday, October 9, 2021

Digital Dream Door: Top 500 Songs

Digital Dream Door:

Top 500 Songs (1891-2019)

Digital Dream Door is one of the best sites out there for best-of music lists. Lists cover different eras, genres, and themes. The temptation was to simply duplicate their “1000 Greatest Popular Songs of All Time” list here, but that didn’t seem the best option because there are so many other song lists on the site that it seemed imperative to integrate them in as well.

Therefore this list is created by aggregating the more than 40 lists indicated at the bottom of this page. However, to still give the original 500 songs list appropriate impact, it was then averaged with the overall ranking of the aggregate. Here are the end results:

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1. Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
2. Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
3. The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
4. Bill Haley & the Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
5. The Beatles “Yesterday” (1965)
6. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
7. Kool & the Gang “Celebration” (1980)
8. The Temptations “My Girl” (1964)
9. Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
10. Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)

11. Billie Holiday “God Bless the Child” (1941)
12. Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978)
13. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
14. Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959)
15. Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1982)
16. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
17. Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956)
18. Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)
19. The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (1979)
20. James Brown “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” (1965)

21. The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
22. Bo Diddley “Bo Diddley” (1955)
23. Chubby Checker “The Twist” (1960)
24. Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” (1975)
25. The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964)
26. Ray Charles “What’d I Say” (1959)
27. Chuck Berry “Maybellene” (1955)
28. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” (1971)
29. The Beatles “A Day in the Life” (1967)
30. Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind” (1960)

31. Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (1957)
32. Percy Sledge “When a Man Loves a Woman” (1966)
33. The Beatles “She Loves You” (1963)
34. Nat “King” Cole “The Christmas Song” (1946)
35. Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
36. The Isley Brothers “Shout” (1959)
37. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
38. The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” (1969)
39. Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968)
40. Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (1954)

41. Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (1957)
42. Rick James “Super Freak” (1981)
43. Artie Shaw “Stardust” (1941)
44. Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train” (1941)
45. Wynonie Harris “Good Rockin’ Tonight” (1948)
46. Village People “Y.M.C.A.” (1978)
47. Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956)
48. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
49. Queen “We Will Rock You” / “We Are the Champions” (1977)
50. Fats Domino “Blueberry Hill” (1956)

51. Martha & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street” (1964)
52. The Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man” (1951)
53. The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1965)
54. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)
55. Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
56. Martha & the Vandellas “Heat Wave” (1963)
57. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
58. The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (1960)
59. Little Richard “Tutti Frutti” (1955)
60. The Ronettes “Be My Baby” (1963)

61. Booker T. & the MG’s “Green Onions” (1962)
62. The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
63. Wilson Pickett “In the Midnight Hour” (1965)
64. Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
65. The Who “My Generation” (1966)
66. Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (1977)
67. The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears” (1965)
68. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
69. The Supremes “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” (1966)
70. Eagles “Hotel California” (1977)

71. The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1971)
72. Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On” (1973)
73. Elvis Presley “That’s All Right, Mama” (1954)
74. Crosby, Stills and Nash “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (1969)
75. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
76. Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (1956)
77. Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” (1956)
78. The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody” (1965)
79. The Miracles “You've Really Got a Hold on Me” (1962)
80. Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)

81. Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974)
82. “I Only Have Eyes for You” The Flamingos (1959)
83. “In the Mood” Glenn Miller Orchestra (1939)
84. Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (1967)
85. Bing Crosby “White Christmas” (1942)
86. The Staple Singers “I’ll Take You There” (1972)
87. James Brown “I Got You (I Feel Good)” (1965)
88. James Brown “Please Please Please” (1956)
89. Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water” (1973)
90. Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)

91. Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (1966)
92. Bob Marley & the Wailers “No Woman, No Cry” (1974)
93. The Platters “The Great Pretender” (1955)
94. Creedence Clearwater Revival “Proud Mary” (1969)
95. The Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil” (1968)
96. Sam Cooke “You Send Me” (1957)
97. Cream “Sunshine of Your Love” (1967)
98. Benny Goodman Orchestra “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” (1938)
99. Etta James “At Last” (1960)
100. Little Richard “Long Tall Sally” (1956)

101. Elvis Presley “All Shook Up“ (1957)
102. The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964)
103. Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1953)
104. Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (1957)
105. The Beatles “Something” (1969)
106. The Drifters “White Christmas” (1954)
107. The Midnighters “Work with Me, Annie” (1954)
108. The Temptations “Ain't Too Proud to Beg” (1966)
109. The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
110. Little Eva “The Loco-Motion” (1962)

111. Simon and Garfunkel “The Sounds of Silence” (1965)
112. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats “Rocket 88” (1951)
113. The Drifters “Money Honey” (1953)
114. The Five Satins “In the Still of the Nite (I’ll Remember)” (1956)
115. Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1971)
116. Lloyd Price “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” (1952)
117. Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (1939)
118. The Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin” (1967)
119. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967)
120. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)

121. Isaac Hayes “Theme from ‘Shaft’” (1971)
122. AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long” (1980)
123. Chuck Berry “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956)
124. Frank Sinatra “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” (1956)
125. Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
126. Janis Joplin “Me and Bobby McGee” (1971)
127. Hank Williams “Jambalaya on the Bayou” (1952)
128. Sam & Dave “Soul Man” (1967)
129. Jefferson Starship “Somebody to Love” (1967)
130. James Brown “Get Up, I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine” (1970)

131. Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable” (1951)
132. Eddie Cochran “Summertime Blues” (1958)
133. Lynyrd Skynyrd “Free Bird” (1973)
134. Roberta Flack “Killing Me Softly with His Song” (1973)
135. The Spencer Davis Group “Gimme Some Lovin’” (1966)
136. Al Green “Let’s Stay Together” (1971)
137. Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” (1940)
138. Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra & Williams Brothers Quartet “Swinging on a Star” (1944)
139. Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues (aka ‘Crossroads’)” (1936)
140. Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)

141. The Beatles “In My Life” (1965)
142. Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949)
143. The Clash “London Calling” (1979)
144. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message” (1982)
145. Patsy Cline “Crazy” (1961)
146. The Rolling Stones “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1968)
147. Elvis Presley “Mystery Train” (1955)
148. Johnny Ace “Pledging My Love” (1955)
149. Afrika Bambaataa “Planet Rock” (1982)
150. The Beach Boys “God Only Knows” (1966)

151. Buddy Holly “Peggy Sue” (1957)
152. The Beatles “Twist and Shout” (1963)
153. The Impressions “For Your Precious Love” (1958)
154. Sly & The Family Stone “Everyday People” (1968)
155. Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)” (1928)
156. Count Basie Orchestra “One O’Clock Jump” (1937)
157. Little Willie John “Fever” (1956)
158. The Andrews Sisters “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy’ (1941)
159. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (1947)
160. Roy Acuff “Wabash Cannonball” (1938)

161. The Orioles “Crying in the Chapel” (1953)
162. Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (1969)
163. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps “Be-Bop-A-Lula” (1956)
164. Prince “When Doves Cry” (1984)
165. Dion “The Wanderer” (1961)
166. Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire” (1957)
167. Gary Glitter “Rock and Roll Part 2” (1972)
168. The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (1954)
169. New Order “Blue Monday” (1983)
170. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)

171. Junior Walker & the All-Stars “Shotgun” (1965)
172. The Mamas & the Papas “California Dreamin’” (1966)
173. Sister Sledge “We Are Family” (1979)
174. Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938)
175. Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” (1976)
176. Soft Cell “Tainted Love” (1981)
177. The Temptations “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” (1972)
178. The Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love” (1957)
179. Sam Cooke “Bring It on Home to Me” (1962)
180. Jimmie Rodgers “In the Jailhouse Now” (1928)

181. Nat “King” Cole “Straighten Up and Fly Right” (1944)
182. Bob Dylan “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963)
183. Blondie “Heart of Glass” (1978)
184. Elvis Presley “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (1961)
185. The Chords “Sh-Boom” (1954)
186. Billie Holiday “Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)” (1945)
187. The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)” (1935)
188. Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (1951)
189. The Human League “Don’t You Want Me?” (1981)
190. U2 “One” (1992)

191. Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” (1990)
192. Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” (1967)
193. Little Richard “Good Golly Miss Molly” (1958)
194. Chic “Le Freak” (1978)
195. Michael Jackson “Beat It” (1982)
196. Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964)
197. Fats Domino “Ain’t That a Shame (aka ‘Ain’t It a Shame’)” (1955)
198. Les Brown’s Orchestra with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
199. The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (1942)
200. Carole King “It’s Too Late” (1971)

201. The Beach Boys “Surfin’ U.S.A.” (1963)
202. Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” (1955)
203. Elton John “Your Song” (1970)
204. Kate Smith “God Bless America” (1939)
205. Lionel Hampton “Flying Home” (1940)
206. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band “Old Time Rock and Roll” (1978)
207. The Temptations “Just My Imagination Running Away with Me” (1971)
208. Aretha Franklin “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” (1967)
209. Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You” (1941)
210. Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come” (1965)

211. Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” (1924)
212. Roy Orbison “Only the Lonely” (1960)
213. Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” (1983)
214. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (1981)
215. Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
216. Frank Sinatra “My Way” (1969)
217. Kurtis Blow “The Breaks” (1980)
218. The Beach Boys “I Get Around” (1964)
219. Black Sabbath “Paranoid” (1970)
220. Dizzy Gillespie “A Night in Tunisia” (1946)

221. Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” (1979)
222. Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (1941)
223. Donna Summer “Hot Stuff” (1979)
224. The Police “Every Breath You Take” (1983)
225. Guns N’ Roses “November Rain” (1991)
226. Jackie Wilson “Lonely Teardrops” (1958)
227. The Who “Baba O’Riley” (1971)
228. Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920)
229. Aerosmith “Dream On” (1973)
230. Aerosmith “Walk This Way” (1976)

231. Louis Jordan “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie” (1946)
232. Louis Armstrong “West End Blues” (1928)
233. The Impressions “People Get Ready” (1965)
234. Artie Shaw Orchestra “Begin the Beguine” (1938)
235. The Drifters “Under the Boardwalk” (1964)
236. Madonna “Into the Groove” (1985)
237. Radiohead “Paranoid Android” (1997)
238. Mamie Smith “Crazy Blues” (1920)
239. Guns N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle” (1987)
240. Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (1988)

241. Bruce Springsteen “Born in the U.S.A.” (1984)
242. Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1962)
243. U2 “With or Without You” (1987)
244. Bing Crosby “Silent Night” (1935)
245. Tina Turner “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” (1984)
246. Bill Withers “Lean on Me” (1972)
247. John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen” (1949)
248. Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher” (1931)
249. Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know” (1995)
250. The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)

251. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “New San Antonio Rose” (1944)
252. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967)
253. Rod Stewart “Maggie May” (1971)
254. Pearl Jam “Jeremy” (1991)
255. The Platters “Only You (And You Alone)” (1955)
256. Ruth Brown “Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean” (1953)
257. T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday” (1947)
258. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love” (1981)
259. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge” (1992)
260. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)

261. Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (1952)
262. Meat Loaf “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” (1978)
263. Technotronic “Pump Up the Jam” (1990)
264. Bob Dylan “The Times They Are A-Changin’” (1964)
265. The Kinks “All Day and All of the Night” (1964)
266. The Spaniels “Goodnite Sweetheart, Goodnite” (1954)
267. Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra “I Can’t Get Started” (1938)
268. The Impressions “It’s All Right” (1963)
269. Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way” (1986)
270. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)

271. The Contours “Do You Love Me?” (1962)
272. Cyndi Lauper “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (1983)
273. Madonna “Like a Virgin” (1984)
274. Queen “Another One Bites the Dust” (1980)
275. Eric Clapton “Tears in Heaven” (1992)
276. Johnny Burnette & the Rock ‘N’ Roll Trio “Train Kept-a-Rollin’” (1956)
277. Madonna “Vogue” (1990)
278. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock “It Takes Two” (1988)
279. Devo “Whip It” (1980)
280. Harry James with Frank Sinatra “All or Nothing at All” (1939)

281. Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” (1980)
282. Benny Goodman “Don’t Be That Way” (1938)
283. Barrett Strong “Money (That’s What I Want)” (1960)
284. Frankie Goes to Hollywood “Relax” (1983)
285. The Romantics “What I Like About You” (1980)
286. Mary Wells “My Guy” (1964)
287. Steppenwolf “Born to Be Wild” (1968)
288. David Bowie “Space Oddity” (1969)
289. The Supremes “Baby Love” (1964)
290. Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (1962)

291. Salt-N-Pepa “Push It” (1987)
292. Blondie “Rapture” (1980)
293. Dionne Warwick “Walk on By” (1964)
294. Dion “Runaround Sue” (1961)
295. The Troggs “Wild Thing” (1966)
296. Wilbert Harrison “Kansas City” (1959)
297. The Notorious B.I.G. “Juicy” (1994)
298. Barry White “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” (1974)
299. Prince “1999” (1982)
300. Stevie Wonder “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (1972)

301. Duran Duran “Hungry Like the Wolf” (1982)
302. Stevie Wonder “Living for the City” (1973)
303. Eminem with Dido “Stan” (2000)
304. Michael Jackson “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” (1979)
305. The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman” (1961)
306. Funkadelic “One Nation Under a Groove” (1978)
307. Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me” (1987)
308. Fatss Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929)
309. Chic “Good Times” (1979)
310. Edwin Starr “War” (1970)

311. Glenn Miller “Moonlight Serenade” (1939)
312. Public Enemy “Figh the Power” (1989)
313. The Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are Sealed” (1981)
314. Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” (1985)
315. De La Soul “Me, Myself, and I” (1989)
316. Pink Floyd “Comfortably Numb” (1979)
317. Sly & the Family Stone “Family Affair” (1971)
318. Pretenders “Brass in Pocket (I’m Special)” (1979)
319. Free “All Right Now” (1970)
320. George McCrae “Rock Your Baby” (1974)

321. Bill Doggett “Honky Tonk” (1956)
322. Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue” (1975)
323. Led Zeppelin “Kashmir” (1975)
324. Dr. Dre & Snoop Doggy Dogg “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” (1992)
325. The Orioles “It’s Too Soon to Know” (1948)
326. AC/DC “Back in Black” (1980)
327. The Beach Boys “Don’t Worry Baby” (1964)
328. Janet Jackson “Nasty” (1986)
329. The Drifters “There Goes My Baby” (1959)
330. Prince & the Revolution “Purple Rain” (1984)

331. The Yardbirds “Heart Full of Soul” (1965)
332. Tupac Shakur (2pac) with Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman “California Love” (1996)
333. The O’Jays “Love Train” (1973)
334. Chuck Willis “CC Rider” (1967)
335. Gladys Knight & the Pips “Midnight Train to Georgia” (1973)
336. Van Halen “Jump” (1983)
337. R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)
338. Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (1940)
339. The Lovin’ Spoonful “Do You Believe in Magic?” (1965)
340. Metallica “One” (1988)

341. Abba “Dancing Queen” (1976)
342. Lipps Inc. “Funkytown” (1979)
343. Big Brother & the Holding Company “Piece of My Heart” (1968)
344. Billy Joel “Piano Man’ (1973)
345. The Ink Spots “If I Didn’t Care” (1939)
346. Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (1980)
347. Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine” (1940)
348. The Mills Brothers “You Always Hurt the One You Love” (1944)
349. Lauryn Hill “Doo Wop (That Thing)” (1998)
350. The Dominoes “Have Mercy Baby” (1952)

351. Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo” (1931)
352. Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott “Get Ur Freak On” (2001)
353. Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
354. Ritchie Valens “La Bamba” (1958)
355. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)
356. Sonny & Cher “I Got You Babe” (1965)
357. Ray Charles “I Gotta Woman” (1955)
358. OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003)
359. Oasis “Wonderwall” (1995)
360. Nat “King” Cole “Nature Boy” (1948)

361. Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Deep Purple” (1939)
362. Los Del Rio “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” (1995)
363. Jay-Z “Hard-Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” (1998)
364. Marcia Griffiths “Electric Slide (Electric Boogie)” (1989)
365. Natalie Cole with Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable” (1991)
366. Gene Autry & Pinafores “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949)
367. Mariah Carey “Dreamlover” (1993)
368. Louis Jordan “Caldonia Boogie” (1945)
369. Irene Cara “Flashdance...What a Feelin’” (1983)
370. Olivia Newton-John “Physical” (1981)

371. Run-D.M.C. “It’s Like That” (1983)
372. Billie Holiday “Summertime” (1939)
373. Sidney Bechet “Summertime” (1939)
374. Lionel Richie “All Night Long (All Night)” (1983)
375. Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” (1991)
376. Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes)” (1941)
377. The Rolling Stones “Honky Tonk Women” (1969)
378. The Ink Spots “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” (1941)
379. Woody Herman “At the Woodchopper’s Ball” (1939)
380. Aerosmith “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” (1998)

381. The Searchers “Needles and Pins” (1964)
382. No Doubt “Don’t Speak” (1996)
383. Rick James “Give It to Me Baby” (1981)
384. The Monkees “I’m a Believer” (1966)
385. Cyndi Lauper “Time After Time” (1983)
386. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1948)
387. Foreigner “I Want to Know What Love Is” (1984)
388. John Michael Montgomery “I Swear” (1994)
389. Petula Clark “Downtown” (1964)
390. Fleetwood Mac “Dreams” (1977)

391. The Bangles “Walk Like an Egyptian” (1986)
392. Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (1940)
393. Berlin “Take My Breath Away” (1986)
394. Johnny Mathis “Misty” (1959)
395. Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
396. Otis Redding “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” (1965)
397. C + C Music Factory “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” (1990)
398. Four Tops “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” (1965)
399. Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads “Cry” (1951)
400. Aretha Franklin “Think” (1968)

401. Bob Dylan “Subterrean Homesick Blues” (1965)
402. The Yardbirds “For Your Love” (1965)
403. The Del-Vikings “Come Go with Me” (1957)
404. The Trammps “Disco Inferno” (1977)
405. TLC “Waterfalls” (1994)
406. Kanye West “Jesus Walks” (2004)
407. Blondie “Call Me” (1980)
408. Beck “Loser” (1993)
409. Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender” (1956)
410. Radiohead “Creep” (1992)

411. Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.” (1976)
412. Donovan “Sunshine Superman” (1966)
413. Frank Sinatra “That’s Life” (1966)
414. Nirvana “Come As You Are” (1991)
415. The Pointer Sisters “I’m So Excited” (1984)
416. Jimmy Forrest “Night Train” (1952)
417. Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun” (1994)
418. Blur “Song 2” (1997)
419. The Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (1965)
420. M.C. Hammer “U Can’t Touch This” (1990)

421. The Rolling Stones “Brown Sugar” (1971)
422. Stevie Wonder “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” (1965)
423. Sir Mix-a-Lot “Baby Got Back” (1992)
424. Smashing Pumpkins “1979” (1995)
425. Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson” (1968)
426. Alicia Keys “Fallin’” (2001)
427. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (1977)
428. Talking Heads “Burning Down the House” (1983)
429. Pearl Jam “Alive” (1991)
430. Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer” (1986)

431. OutKast “Ms. Jackson” (2000)
432. DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince “Summertime” (1991)
433. The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” (2003)
434. Elvis Presley “Baby Let’s Play House” (1955)
435. Tracy Chapman “Fast Car” (1988)
436. The Supremes “You Can’t Hurry Love” (1966)
437. Yes “Roundabout” (1972)
438. Madonna “Holiday” (1983)
439. Ice Cube “It Was a Good Day” (1993)
440. Nine Inch Nails “Closer” (1994)

441. Snoop Doggy Dogg “Gin & Juice” (1994)
442. The Miracles “The Tears of a Clown” (1967)
443. Dave Clark Five “Glad All Over” (1964)
444. Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” (1978)
445. Beastie Boys “Sabotage” (1994)
446. The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (1967)
447. Chuck Berry “Rock and Roll Music” (1957)
448. Santana “Black Magic Woman” (1970)
449. The Zombies “She’s Not There” (1964)
450. Chaka Khan “I Feel for You” (1984)

451. Led Zeppelin “Rock and Roll” (1972)
452. The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black” (1966)
453. Led Zeppelin “Dazed and Confused” (1969)
454. The Four Seasons “Sherry” (1962)
455. Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns “Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie-Woogie Flu” (1957)
456. Tears for Fears “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” (1985)
457. Whitney Houston “How Will I Know” (1985)
458. Prince “Kiss” (1986)
459. The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony” (1997)
460. The Band “The Weight” (1968)

461. King Crimson “21st Century Schizoid Man” (1969)
462. Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way” (1977)
463. Danny & the Juniors “At the Hop” (1957)
464. Stray Cats “Rock This Town” (1982)
465. Boston “More Than a Feeling” (1976)
466. Roy Orbison “Crying” (1961)
467. The Dirfters “Save the Last Dance for Me” (1960)
468. The Everly Brothers “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (1958)
469. The Four Tops “Baby I Need Your Loving” (1964)
470. The B-52’s “Love Shack” (1989)

471. The Smiths “How Soon Is Now?” (1984)
472. Depeche Mode “Personal Jesus” (1989)
473. Tupac Shakur (2pac) “Dear Mama” (1995)
474. Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen” (1977)
475. Pink Floyd “Time” (1973)
476. Them “Gloria” (1964)
477. The Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There” (1970)
478. N.W.A. “Fuck tha Police” (1989)
479. Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” (1972)
480. The Supremes “Stop! In the Name of Love” (1965)

481. Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (1925)
482. The MC5 “Kick Out the Jams” (1969)
483. Wu-Tang Clan “C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)” (1994)
484. Cameo “Word Up” (1986)
485. Martha & the Vandellas “Nowhere to Run” (1965)
486. The Coasters “Yakety Yak” (1958)
487. Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925)
488. The Crystals “Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)” (1963)
489. Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (1968)
490. Prince & the Revolution “Let’s Go Crazy” (1984)

491. Naughty by Nature “O.P.P.” (1991)
492. INXS “Need You Tonight” (1987)
493. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
494. Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing” (1978)
495. Bobby Brown “My Prerogative” (1988)
496. The Notorious B.I.G. “Big Poppa” (1994)
497. Chuck Berry “School Days” (1957)
498. Paul McCartney “Maybe I’m Amazed” (1970)
499. The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat” (1982)
500. Faye Adams “Shake a Hand” (1953)

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First posted 4/4/2020; last updated 1/12/2024.

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Dave's Music Database Hall of Fame: Song Inductees (July 2020)

Originally posted 7/22/2020.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the DMDB blog on January 22, 2019, Dave’s Music Database launched its own Hall of Fame. This is the seventh set of song inductees. These are songs from the DMDB “rock and roll origin” list, which was created by aggregating more than 35 lists of songs instrumental to the onset of rock and roll. The top 20 songs on that list have been ranked based on overall points in Dave’s Music Database and the top ten (excluding previous inductee Bill Haley & the Comets’ “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock”) are being inducted here.

Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)