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The 100 greatest song of all Time
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Time magazine compiled the following list of their idea of the top 100 songs from the life of the magazine.

http://entertainment.time.com/2011/10/24/the-all-time-100-songs/#tightrope-janelle-monae-featuring-big-boi

2010s

Janelle Monae: Tightrope

2000s

Missy Elliott: Get Ur Freak On
Outkast: Hey Ya!
Jay-Z: 99 Problems
Arcade Fire: Wake Up
Kanye West: Gold Digger
Lil Wayne: Georgia...Bush
LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends
Beyonce: Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
Lady Gaga: Bad Romance

1990s

Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2 U
Pet Shop Boys: Being Boring
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Richard Thompson: 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Wu-Tang Clan: C.R.E.A.M.
A Tribe Called Quest: Scenario
The Notorious B.I.G.: Juicy
2Pac: California Love
Pulp: Common People
Radiohead: Paranoid Android
Lucinda Williams: Pineola

1980s

Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart
George Jones: He Stopped Loving Her Today
Michael Jackson: Billie Jean
New Order: Blue Monday
Prince: Kiss
Metallica: Master of Puppets
R.E.M.: It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Public Enemy: Fight the Power
Madonna: Borderline

1970s

The Melodians: Rivers of Babylon
James Brown: Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
Led Zeppelin: Immigrant Song
Black Sabbath: Iron Man
Joni Mitchell: A Case of You
The Who: Baba O'Riley
Stevie Wonder: Superstition
Dolly Parton: Jolene
Big Star: September Gurls
Bonnie Raitt: Angel from Montgomery
Fela Kuti: Zombie
Bruce Springsteen: Thunder Road
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
Donna Summer: I Feel Love
The Bee Gees: Stayin' Alive
David Bowie: Heroes
The Ramones: I Wanna Be Sedated
Fleetwood Mac: Dreams
Peter Tosh: Equal Rights
Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
The Velvet Underground: Rock & Roll
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

1960s

Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
Patsy Cline: Crazy
Roy Orbison: Crying
The Ronettes: Be My Baby
The Beatles: I Want to Hold Your Hand
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto: The Girl from Ipanema
The Supremes: Where Did Our Love Go?
The Beach Boys: God Only Knows
Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
Marvin Gaye: I Heard It Through the Grapevine
The Band: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Big Mama Thornton: Ball N' Chain
The Jackson Five: I Want You Back
The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
Crosby, Stills and Nash: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Otis Redding: I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)

1950s

Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues
Les Paul: How High the Moon
Kitty Wells: It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Elvis Presley: Jailhouse Rock
Odetta Holmes: Take This Hammer
Little Richard: Tutti Frutti
Frank Sinatra: I've Got You Under My Skin
Buddy Holly: That'll Be the Day
Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode
Ray Charles: What'd I Say

1940s

Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your Land
Lena Horne: Stormy Weather
The Andrews Sisters: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Spike Jones: Der Fuehrer's Face
Bing Crosby: White Christmas
Betty Hutton: It Had to Be You
Mahalia Jackson: Move On Up a Little Higher
Hank Williams: Cold, Cold Heart
Ella Fitzgerald: Baby It's Cold Outside
Doris Day: Sentimental Journey

1930s

Ethel Merman: I Got Rhythm
Cab Calloway: Minnie the Moocher
Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Louis Armstrong: Star Dust
Fred Astaire: Cheek to Cheek
Ray Heatherton: Where or When
Judy Garland: Over the Rainbow
Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit

1920s

Al Jolson: My Mammy
Bessie Smith: St. Louis Blues
Paul Robeson: Ol' Man River
The Carter Family: Wildwood Flower
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