The Rolling Stone list reminded me of a list I put together in the late 1990s. I looked at it, laughed (not just a little bit embarrassed), and decided to re-do it. Sure, there's a lot of pop-schlock and some sentimental faves, and not all of them are rock songs, but they are 100 songs I could live with forever (if I only got 100).
- David Bowie - "Heroes"
- Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
- Lulu - To Sir With Love
- Barbara Lewis - Baby I’m Yours
- Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
- Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
- Diana Ross & The Supremes - Love Child
- Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child
- Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
- Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
- Velvet Underground - Heroin
- James Brown - I Got The Feeling
- T.Rex - Jeepster
- Diana Ross & The Supremes - Someday We'll Be Together
- Four Tops - Bernadette
- John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band - Power To The People
- New York Dolls - Lonely Planet Boy
- David Bowie - Rebel, Rebel
- Iggy Pop - China Girl
- John Lennon - Imagine
- David Bowie - Changes
- Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
- The Temptations - (It's Just My) Imagination
- Blondie - X-Offender
- The Ronettes - Be My Baby
- Sly & The Family Stone - I Wanna Take You Higher
- Aretha Franklin - Respect
- Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
- The Kinks - Lola
- Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
- Johnny Cash - Jackson
- Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
- Patti Smith Group - Gloria (in excelsis deo)
- The Jackson Five - The Love You Save
- Diana Ross & The Supremes - Back In Your Arms Again
- Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
- Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose
- The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
- Johnny Cash - Hurt
- Lou Reed - Street Hassle
- Roxy Music - Do The Strand
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Human Sexual Response - (I Want To Be) Jackie Onassis
- Rolling Stones - Memo From Turner
- The Dictators - (I Live For) Cars And Girls
- David Bowie - Panic In Detroit
- David Johannsen Group - Flamingo Road
- Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
- Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
- Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Wind Cries Mary
- Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight
- Marianne Faithful - The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan
- Traffic - Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys
- Frank Sinatra - My Way
- Rolling Stones - Shattered
- Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
- Todd Rundgren - Real Man
- James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good)
- The Cure - Let's Go To Bed
- Black Sabbath – Fairies Wear Boots
- Carly Simon - You're So Vain
- Devo - Jocko Homo
- Tin Machine - Amazing
- Rancid - Time Bomb
- Van Morrison - Jackie Wilson Said
- Rolling Stones - Symapthy For The Devil
- Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By
- Roberta Flack - Reverend Lee
- Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind
- New Order - Blue Monday
- Television - See No Evil
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - White Lines
- ? and The Mysterians - 96 Tears
- Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Accidents Will Happen
- The Beatles - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
- Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No Cry
- Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem
- Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
- Squeeze - Vanity Fair
- David Bowie - Sweet Thing/Candidate
- Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
- Tom Jones - Kiss
- The Who - My Generation
- Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
- Friends Of Distinction - Grazing In The Grass
- Carl Douglas - Kung-Fu Fighting
- Them - Gloria
- Big Brother & The Holding Company - Piece Of My Heart
- Lou Rawls - On Broadway
- Prince - Little Red Corvette
- Bauhaus - Bella Lagosi's Dead
- Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
- Shelby Lynne - Your Lies
- Derek & The Dominoes - Layla
- Vickie Sue Robinson - Turn The Beat Around
- Bruce Springsteen - Incident On 57th Street
- Jeanne C. Reilly - Harper Valley P.T.A.
- Lou Miami & The Kozmetix – To Sir With Love
Of course, it's hard to find just a hundred, because I could easily do 1,000! I wrote this list last night, and already it's different this morning. Still, I have to press the Publish button and call it done for today.
What are your fave songs? Send me an email with your top ten (not eleven, not nine) and I will publish some sort of complilation of your lists. I promise to be kind.
Click here to see my original list from the nineties (it's not very different).
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