Let the debate begin. Time Magazine is out with a new Top 100 songs list. How do you pick a favorite?
Here’s the rules for their list:
They are only English-Language pop tracks
They are from 1923-present
They are not ranked
Artists only get one song
2000s
Janelle Monae – “Tightrope”
Missy Elliott – “Get Ur Freak On”
Outkast – “Hey Ya!”
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”
Tupac Shakur – “California Love (Remix)”
Pulp – “Common People”
Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”
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”
Lucinda Williams – “Pineola”
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”
Bee Gees – “Stayin’ Alive”
David Bowie – “Heroes”
Ramones – “I Wanna Be Sedated”
Fleetwood Mac – “Dreams”
Peter Tosh – “Equal Rights”
Parliament – “One Nation Under a Groove”
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 Wanna Hold Your Hand”
Astrud 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”
Jackson 5 – “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)”
Johnny Cash – “Folsom Prison Blues”
1950s
Les Paul – “How High the Moon”
Kitty Wells – “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”
Elvis Presley – “Jailhouse Rock”
Odetta – “Take This Hammer”
Frank Sinatra – “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”
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)”
Louie Armstrong – “Star Dust”
Fred Astaire – “Cheek to Cheek”
Ray Heatherton – “Where or When”
Judy Garland – “Over the Rainbow”
1920s
Al Jolson – “My Mammy”
Bessie Smith – “St. Louis Blues”
Paul Robeson – “Ol’ Man River”
The Carter Family – “Wildwood Flower”
Winona Ryder may be the greatest alternative actress of the 1980’s. She just rolled over 40 years this past week and is still alive.
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