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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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First posted 9/28/2023.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

New Musical Express (NME) Top 100 Songs

New Musical Express:

Top 100 Songs

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music magazine first published in 1952. The magazine was responsible for the first UK singles chart that same year and has gone on to publish multiple best-of lists (links at bottom of page) throughout its history. This is an aggregate of 18 of those lists, resulting in an interesting meshing of classic rock alongside alternative rock with the occasional pop or R&B song thrown in for good measure.

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

  1. The Strokes “Last Nite” (2001)
  2. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
  3. Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor” (2005)
  4. Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (1980)
  5. The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony” (1997)
  6. The Smiths “How Soon Is Now?” (1984)
  7. The Rolling Stones “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1968)
  8. The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
  9. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
  10. The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” (2003)

  11. The Libertines “Time for Heroes” (2003)
  12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps” (2003)
  13. The Who “My Generation” (1965)
  14. The Killers “Mr. Brightside” (2004)
  15. The Streets “Dry Your Eyes” (2004)
  16. Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott “Get Ur Freak On” (2001)
  17. The Beatles “Paperback Writer” (1966)
  18. Futureheads “Hounds of Love” (2005)
  19. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
  20. The Smiths “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” (1986)

  21. Pulp “Common People” (1995)
  22. OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003)
  23. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967)
  24. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
  25. Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out” (2004)
  26. Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Crazy in Love” (2003)
  27. Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
  28. Jay-Z “99 Problems” (2004)
  29. The Ronettes “Be My Baby” (1963)
  30. The Smiths “This Charming Man” (1983)

  31. Stone Roses “Fools Gold” (1989)
  32. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1973)
  33. Manic Street Preachers “A Design for Life” (1996)
  34. The Beach Boys “God Only Knows” (1966)
  35. Dizzee Rascal “Fix Up Look Sharp” (2003)
  36. The Rapture “House of Jealous Lovers” (2002)
  37. Johnny Cash “Hurt” (2003)
  38. The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black” (1966)
  39. Hot Chip “Over and Over” (2006)
  40. Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)

  41. The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears” (1965)
  42. Arcade Fire “Rebellion (Lies)” (2005)
  43. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
  44. David Bowie “Space Oddity” (1969)
  45. The Undertones “Teenage Kicks” (1978)
  46. The Beatles “She Loves You” (1963)
  47. Eminem “The Real Slim Shady” (2000)
  48. David Bowie “Heroes” (1977)
  49. Oasis “Live Forever” (1994)
  50. Oasis “Wonderwall” (1995)

  51. Radiohead “Paranoid Android” (1997)
  52. Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” (1990)
  53. Ike & Tina Turner “River Deep, Mountain High” (1966)
  54. The Clash “London Calling” (1979)
  55. Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen” (1977)
  56. M.I.A. “Paper Planes” (2008)
  57. LCD Soundsystem “Losing My Edge” (2002)
  58. The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry” (1979)
  59. Arcade Fire “Wake Up” (2005)
  60. The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (1967)

  61. The Walkmen “The Rat” (2004)
  62. New Order “Blue Monday” (1983)
  63. Queens of the Stone Age “No One Knows” (2002)
  64. The La’s “There She Goes” (1988)
  65. Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.” (1976)
  66. MGMT “Time to Pretend” (2008)
  67. The Gossip “Standing in the Way of Control” (2007)
  68. The Libertines “Can’t Stand Me Now” (2004)
  69. Joy Division “Transmission” (1979)
  70. Kylie Minogue “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” (2001)

  71. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” (1971)
  72. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
  73. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Hey Joe” (1966)
  74. The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” (1969)
  75. Blur “Song 2” (1997)
  76. This Mortal Coil “Song to the Siren” (1982)
  77. The Pixies “Gigantic” (1988)
  78. Roxy Music “Virginia Plain” (1972)
  79. Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968)
  80. Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)

  81. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967)
  82. Klaxons “Golden Skans” (2007)
  83. The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
  84. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)
  85. Wolfman with Pete Doherty “For Lovers” (2004)
  86. Amy Winehouse “Rehab” (2006)
  87. Bob Marley & the Wailers “No Woman, No Cry” (1974)
  88. Robert Wyatt “Shipbuilding” (1982)
  89. Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)“ (1966)
  90. The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)

  91. Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella” (2007)
  92. My Bloody Valentine “You Made Me Realise” (1988)
  93. Bloc Party “Banquet” (2005)
  94. The Specials “Ghost Town” (1981)
  95. The Beatles “Penny Lane” (1967)
  96. Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1982)
  97. The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
  98. The White Stripes “Fell in Love with a Girl” (2001)
  99. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (1977)
  100. The Stone Roses “I Am the Resurrection” (1989)

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First posted 5/29/2012; last updated 9/28/2023.

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Top 100 Albums of the 2000s

2000-2009:

The Top 100 Albums

These are the top albums from 2000-2009 according to Dave’s Music Database, which factors in sales, chart data, awards, album ratings, and appearances on best-of lists. Compilations, archival recordings, and reissues are not factored into this list.

You can check out the top albums of all time or for other decades by clicking here.

1. The Strokes Is This It (2001)
2. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
3. Amy Winehouse Back to Black (2006)
4. Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
5. The White Stripes Elephant (2003)
6. Green Day American Idiot (2004)
7. Radiohead Kid A (2000)
8. Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)
9. Norah Jones Come Away with Me (2002)
10. Arcade Fire Funeral (2004)

11. Eminem The Eminem Show (2002)
12. OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
13. Usher Confessions (2004)
14. Taylor Swift Fearless (2008)
15. Radiohead In Rainbows (2007)
16. Lady Gaga The Fame (2008)
17. The White Stripes White Blood Cells (2001)
18. U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)
19. Kanye West The College Dropout (2004)
20. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)

21. Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (2000)
22. OutKast Stankonia (2000)
23. Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor (2001)
24. Coldplay Parachutes (2000)
25. Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand (2004)
26. O Brother Where Art Thou (soundtrack, 2000)
27. Jay-Z The Blueprint (2001)
28. Sufjan Stevens Illinois (2005)
29. 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2003)
30. Coldplay X & Y (2005)

31. Beyoncé Dangerously in Love (2003)
32. The Killers Hot Fuss (2004)
33. Brian Wilson Smile (2004)
34. Kings of Leon Only by the Night (2008)
35. Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)
36. Justin Timberlake Justified (2002)
37. Bruce Springsteen The Rising (2002)
38. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver (2007)
39. Nickelback All the Right Reasons (2005)
40. Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008)

41. Kanye West Late Registration (2005)
42. Beck Sea Change (2002)
43. Mumford & Sons Sigh No More (2009)
44. The Libertines Up the Bracket (2002)
45. U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
46. Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi (2005)
47. D’Angelo Voodoo (2000)
48. Evanescence Fallen (2003)
49. PJ Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
50. Bob Dylan Love and Theft (2001)

51. Avril Lavigne Let Go (2002)
52. James Blunt Back to Bedlam (2004)
53. Keane Hopes and Fears (2004)
54. Kanye West Graduation (2007)
55. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand (2007)
56. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (2008)
57. Dixie Chicks Home (2002)
58. Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf (2002)
59. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
60. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)

61. Carrie Underwood Some Hearts (2005)
62. High School Musical (TV soundtrack, 2006)
63. Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
64. N Sync No Strings Attached (2000)
65. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (2009) 66. Kelly Clarkson Breakaway (2004)
67. Shania Twain Up! (2002)
68. Bob Dylan Modern Times (2006)
69. Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
70. Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose (2004)

71. Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium (2006)
72. Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) (2009)
73. Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way (2002)
74. Eminem Encore (2004)
75. Streets Original Pirate Material (2002)
76. System of a Down Toxicity (2001)
77. Various Artists (Eminem et al) 8 Mile (soundtrack, 2002)
78. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell (2003)
79. Joanna Newsom Ys (2006)
80. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

81. Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
82. Maroon 5 Songs About Jane (2002)
83. Pink M!ssundaztood (2001)
84. Norah Jones Feels Like Home (2004)
85. TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
86. Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way (2006)
87. Daft Punk Discovery (2001)
88. U2 No Line on the Horizon (2009)
89. Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
90. Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)

91. David Gray White Ladder (2000)
92. Streets A Grand Don’t Come for Free (2004)
93. Lil Wayne Tha Carter III (2008)
94. Linkin Park Meteora (2003)
95. Jay-Z The Black Album (2003)
96. Destiny’s Child Survivor (2001)
97. Radiohead Hail to the Thief (2003)
98. Gorillaz Demon Days (2005)
99. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (2008)
100. Bloc Party Silent Alarm (2005)

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First posted 11/6/2011; last updated 2/5/2026.

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