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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-1...

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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  -The 100 greatest song of all Time Stinky The Clown  Oct-26-11 09:16 PM   #0 
  - someone has poor taste in music  Motown_Johnny   Oct-26-11 09:25 PM   #1 
  - You're right  EC   Oct-26-11 09:46 PM   #7 
  - I agree but Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody is the best of the best. nt  live love laugh   Oct-26-11 09:57 PM   #10 
  - I wouldn't argue with that  Motown_Johnny   Oct-26-11 10:17 PM   #21 
  - have you seen BoHeman Rhapsody?  Enrique   Oct-27-11 08:53 AM   #42 
  - Yes, I never thought of "Borderline" as Madonna's best song  Nye Bevan   Oct-26-11 10:04 PM   #13 
  - The one I...  dajoki   Oct-27-11 12:02 PM   #56 
     - .  Motown_Johnny   Oct-27-11 12:41 PM   #63 
        - I ageee...  dajoki   Oct-27-11 02:18 PM   #70 
  - Damn…no Beetles, no Chuck Berry???  donco   Oct-26-11 09:25 PM   #2 
  - Beatles are there, but the song is not even close to one of their best  Motown_Johnny   Oct-26-11 09:26 PM   #3 
  - No Hendrix either  tridim   Oct-26-11 09:45 PM   #6 
  - Well, they can't get everything wrong  Abin Sur   Oct-27-11 01:21 AM   #37 
  - agreed on the beatles pick -- perfectly uninspired choice n/t  fishwax   Oct-26-11 10:06 PM   #16 
  - My favorite Beatles song is Eleanor Rigby. n/t  Abin Sur   Oct-27-11 01:00 AM   #32 
     - good song :)  fishwax   Oct-27-11 01:07 AM   #35 
        - If I were going to pick their best early song it would be "Help!"  Abin Sur   Oct-27-11 01:20 AM   #36 
           - I like You've Got to Hide Your Love Away from the same time frame  fishwax   Oct-27-11 01:43 AM   #39 
           - The problem with a list like this is it often confuses "historically significant" with "best".  Abin Sur   Oct-27-11 08:46 AM   #40 
  - I Wanna Hold Your Hand was the Beatles' first American 45 release  Art_from_Ark   Oct-28-11 01:30 AM   #73 
  - Beatles and Chuck Berry are there.  Greybnk48   Oct-27-11 09:16 AM   #50 
  - I disagree with a lot of these choices.  NCarolinawoman   Oct-26-11 09:32 PM   #4 
  - You're asking for trouble posting a list like this--ain'tcha?  Peace Patriot   Oct-26-11 09:37 PM   #5 
  - Layla  Peregrine   Oct-26-11 09:50 PM   #8 
  - A list without Layla is a fraud.  Jakes Progress   Oct-26-11 10:05 PM   #14 
     - dupe  Jakes Progress   Oct-26-11 10:05 PM   #15 
     - Gotta Agree  ProfessorGAC   Oct-27-11 12:34 PM   #61 
  - Well, from the 2000's, I am familiar with "Hey Ya". Must not have been a decade  TwilightGardener   Oct-26-11 09:54 PM   #9 
  - I had to go to the '80s before I knew any, the 70s before I liked any and....  Hassin Bin Sober   Oct-26-11 09:59 PM   #11 
     - Yep--some in the 90's I knew, like Nirvana and Sinead O'Connor, but I recognized most  TwilightGardener   Oct-26-11 10:03 PM   #12 
     - I probably know some to hear them ...  Hassin Bin Sober   Oct-26-11 10:06 PM   #18 
        - Well, I'm 41, the 90's were still my heyday--how is it I don't know the "best" of that decade?  TwilightGardener   Oct-26-11 10:14 PM   #20 
     - While I do like some '80s songs, the vast majority of pop song that I like  Abin Sur   Oct-27-11 01:02 AM   #33 
  - They got about 10 right.  Jakes Progress   Oct-26-11 10:06 PM   #17 
  - 70's--no Eagles? Can't have 70's without the Eagles, sorry. Also, where is James Taylor?  TwilightGardener   Oct-26-11 10:10 PM   #19 
  - Have you seen/heard the stuff with James Taylor and Carol King?  Motown_Johnny   Oct-26-11 10:49 PM   #27 
     - That was nice, thanks--he still sounds great!  TwilightGardener   Oct-26-11 11:09 PM   #28 
  - No Jackie Wilson in the 60's = fail /nt  workinclasszero   Oct-26-11 10:25 PM   #22 
  - I LOVE Janelle Monae. I wear old tuxedo shirts and cuff links so  demgrrrll   Oct-26-11 10:29 PM   #23 
  - From "Strange Fruit" to "Get Ur Freak On"...what a world.  WorseBeforeBetter   Oct-26-11 10:32 PM   #24 
  - Greatest seems to mean something different after 1960.  jtuck004   Oct-26-11 10:34 PM   #25 
  - No U2? No Pink Floyd? No Bob Marley? No Talking Heads? No Genesis? No Peter Gabriel?  lumberjack_jeff   Oct-26-11 10:36 PM   #26 
  - Someone wasn't paying a whole fucklot of attention in the 80s, I'd say.  Warren DeMontague   Oct-27-11 01:33 AM   #38 
  - Jeux Sans Frontieres?  jayfish   Oct-27-11 12:24 PM   #59 
  - Yuck!  begin_within   Oct-26-11 11:14 PM   #29 
  - These lists always suck.  MrSlayer   Oct-27-11 12:02 AM   #30 
  - Sinatra could have been named in several decades  lpbk2713   Oct-27-11 12:21 AM   #31 
  - Apparently so, I guess the list is misnamed  Motown_Johnny   Oct-27-11 09:04 AM   #46 
  - To late to edit my other response, so....  Motown_Johnny   Oct-27-11 12:50 PM   #64 
  - 1930s...where's "Sing Sing Sing" by Benny Goodman?  Abin Sur   Oct-27-11 01:04 AM   #34 
  - Agreed . I t should be at the top. Very meaty and "long" song.  Chipper Chat   Oct-27-11 11:43 AM   #53 
     - Um..."MacArthur Park"?  Abin Sur   Oct-27-11 12:34 PM   #62 
        - THe lyrics were certainly the weak spot of the song.  Chipper Chat   Oct-28-11 01:03 AM   #72 
        - MacArthur Park was a GREAT song  Art_from_Ark   Oct-28-11 01:44 AM   #74 
  - Christ. What an awful list. nt  Codeine   Oct-27-11 08:48 AM   #41 
  - i agree with every single song on this list!  Enrique   Oct-27-11 08:57 AM   #43 
  - Top Ten Best Selling Songs of all time...artist, song, year, millions sold..  Evasporque   Oct-27-11 08:57 AM   #44 
  - Good Lord, and people criticize Rolling Stone's lists?  NoGOPZone   Oct-27-11 09:03 AM   #45 
  - this list is a gigantical WTF.  Spider Jerusalem   Oct-27-11 09:06 AM   #47 
  - Ugh. Who picked this stuff? n/t  Avalux   Oct-27-11 09:12 AM   #48 
  - From this list  edhopper   Oct-27-11 09:16 AM   #49 
  - Big Star! But no T-Rex. WTF.  Erose999   Oct-27-11 09:20 AM   #51 
  - One Beatles tune. One Presley tune.  hifiguy   Oct-27-11 09:25 AM   #52 
  - This is a terrible list.  distantearlywarning   Oct-27-11 11:53 AM   #54 
  - I stopped reading at Kanye West: Golddigger, which is where the list lost all  hughee99   Oct-27-11 12:01 PM   #55 
  - Oh, MAN! That list BOGUS.  bvar22   Oct-27-11 12:15 PM   #57 
  - I thought Love Is Blue was by Paul Mauriat?  Art_from_Ark   Oct-28-11 02:28 AM   #75 
  - memo to self:  Warren DeMontague   Oct-27-11 12:19 PM   #58 
  - terrible list n/t  ceile   Oct-27-11 12:33 PM   #60 
  - They should have called that list....  -..__...   Oct-27-11 12:50 PM   #65 
  - Sorry but...  AsahinaKimi   Oct-27-11 12:54 PM   #66 
  - Dave Brubeck: Take Five!  immoderate   Oct-27-11 12:57 PM   #67 
  - Good gawd, that's worse than Rolling Stone's list. (n/t)  Iggo   Oct-27-11 01:22 PM   #68 
  - Worst list ever  Ghost of Tom Joad   Oct-27-11 02:12 PM   #69 
  - Bunch of Press Darlings on that list, at least from the 70's on  n2doc   Oct-27-11 03:06 PM   #71 
  - No Herb Alpert, either  Art_from_Ark   Oct-28-11 02:43 AM   #76 
  - For that matter, no Jackie deShannon (Put a Little Love in Your Heart)  Art_from_Ark   Oct-28-11 05:04 AM   #78 
  - Eeeew. Compiled by a tone deaf moran with horrid taste in music.  Zorra   Oct-28-11 03:00 AM   #77 
  - Next up: Ten best paintings of all time  PCIntern   Oct-28-11 05:22 AM   #79 
  - Pet Shop Boys?  sendero   Oct-28-11 05:25 AM   #80 
 

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