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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.

Click here to see other genre-specific song lists.

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, 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:

Click here to see other lists from publications and/or organizations.

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.

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Today in Music (1963): The Kingsmen released “Louie Louie”

Louie Louie

The Kingsmen

Writer(s): Richard Berry (see lyrics here)

Released: August 8, 1963

First Charted: November 9, 1963

Peak: 2 US, 12 CB, 11 GR, 11 HR, 1 CL, 26 UK, 13 CN, 1 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, 8.0 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 2.0 radio, 11.69 video, 131.95 streaming

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About the Song:

Covered over 1500 times, TC this “bar band/ garage band/frat house staple” AMG is “a monument” AMG to rock and roll’s D.I.Y. spirit “and crappy recording techniques.” AMG Its “simplistic riff played over the standard three-chord rock & roll format” AMG made it a favorite for beginning guitarists. DJ It became a symbol of rock & roll’s subversiveness TC and “provided a blueprint for every garage-rock band that followed.” TB It is hailed by some as “the definitive rock ‘n’ roll song.” SJ

R&B singer Richard Berry wrote the song, adapting “the dominant rhythmic figure from a Mexican song,” PW “El Loco Cha Cha Cha” by Los Angeles-based bandleader Rene Touzet. SS The lyrics and basic melody draw heavily from Chuck Berry’s (no relation) “Havana Moon.” SS Berry’s modified cha-cha was released on Flip Records in 1956. DM It was “a calypso ditty sung by a sailor at sea yearning for his girl back in Jamaica.” SS About five years later, Rockin’ Robin Roberts & the Wailers had a regional hit with it in the Northwest. During a break at a local dance in Portland, Oregon, the Kingsmen noticed their audience gathered around a juke box, dancing to the record and decided to include the song in their act. SJ

Using just three microphones, TB they recorded it in less than an hour at a session that cost $36.00. TC Singer Jack Ely had to stand on tiptoe to reach the one mike from the studio’s fifteen-foot ceiling that also had to pick up the rest of the band. TB The primitive recording techniques made the lyrics, about a homesick and lovesick sailor regaling his woes to a bartender, unintentionally unintelligible. This led to rumors about what the song was about and Indiana even banned the song TC when Governor Matthew Welsh decided it was “pornographic.” SF The FBI even investigated, TC but could not decipher the song. DJ Ely told Rolling Stone, “I always though the controversy was record-company hype.” RS500 Dwight Rounds, author of The Year the Music Died, 1964-1972, called it “the most ingenious marketing scheme ever.” SF

Nothing happened with the record until about six months after its release when it was picked up by a Boston DJ and became a national hit. PW It has gone on to become “the international anthem of local bands…surely the rock song that has been performed the most, at the grass roots level.” PW

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First posted 8/8/2012; updated 9/28/2023.

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