Greatest Songs of the 1960s

Rank Song Artist Year
#759
Surfin' USA The Beach Boys 1963
#760
Heroes and Villains The Beach Boys 1967
#776
Somebody to Love Jefferson Airplane 1967
#779
The Letter The Box Tops 1967
#780
You Really Got a Hold on Me The Miracles 1963
#806
Tracks of My Tears The Miracles 1965
#807
I Can See for Miles The Who 1967
#811
People Are Strange The Doors 1967
#831
Under My Thumb The Rolling Stones 1966
#836
I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You) Aretha Franklin 1967
#838
Ain't No Mountain High Enough Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell 1967
#841
Here, There and Everywhere The Beatles 1966
#847
Waiting for the Man The Velvet Underground 1967
#848
I'm a Man The Spencer Davis Group 1967
#850
Pictures of Lily The Who 1967
#851
Bedazzled Peter Cook, Dudley Moore 1968
#860
People Get Ready Aretha Franklin 1968
#865
I Say a Little Prayer Dionne Warwick 1967
#873
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Loved You) Aretha Franklin 1967
#880
Moon River Andy Williams 1962
#885
In My Room The Beach Boys 1963
#886
Sin City The Flying Burrito Brothers 1969
#887
Wipe Out The Surfaris 1963
#889
Tighten Up Archie Bell & the Drells 1968
#891
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love Solomon Burke 1964
#894
Sunshine Superman Donovan 1966
#895
Spanish Harlem Ben E. King 1968
#897
Do You Love Me The Contours 1962
#898
Madame George Van Morrison 1968
#899
Eve of Destruction Barry McGuire 1965
#909
I Think It's Going to Rain Today Randy Newman 1968
#912
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Roberta Flack 1969
#913
Cissy Strut The Meters 1969
#915
In Dreams Roy Orbison 1963
#916
Mr. Tambourine Man Bob Dylan 1965
#921
Mississippi Goddam Nina Simone 1964
#933
River Man Nick Drake 1969
#934
The Long and Winding Road The Beatles 1969
#936
Both Sides, Now Joni Mitchell 1969
#939
Everybody's Talkin' Fred Neil 1967
#946
Walk Away Renée The Left Banke 1966
#950
Windmills of Your Mind Noel Harrison 1968
#951
Walk on By Isaac Hayes 1969
#952
The Tears of a Clown The Miracles 1967
#953
A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement John Coltrane 1965
#958
Please Mr. Postman The Marvelettes 1961
#961
Promised Land Chuck Berry 1964
#964
To Love Somebody Bee Gees 1967
#969
Mama Tried Merle Haggard 1968
#972
Makin' Whoopee Ray Charles 1965
#973
By Time I Get to Phoenix Glen Campbell 1967
#979
Boom Boom John Lee Hooker 1962
#986
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) Sly & the Family Stone 1969
#1074
Phantasmagoria in Two Tim Buckley 1967
#1075
Andmoreagain Love 1967
#1076
So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star The Byrds 1967
#1077
You're Gonna Miss Me 13th Floor Elevators 1966
#1085
Lather Jefferson Airplane 1968
#1086
Matilda Mother Pink Floyd 1967
#1087
Once I Was Tim Buckley 1967
#1088
Femme Fatale The Velvet Underground 1966
#1089
The Dolphins Fred Neil 1967
#1090
The Dark End of the Street James Carr 1967
#1091
Voodoo Chile The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1968
#1092
Saturday Sun Nick Drake 1969
#1093
Time Has Told Me Nick Drake 1969
#1094
Buzzin' Fly Tim Buckley 1969
#1105
MacArthur Park Richard Harris 1968
#1107
Pale Blue Eyes The Velvet Underground 1969
#1114
Helter Skelter The Beatles 1968
#1116
Walk on By Burt Bacharach 1965
#1120
The Wind Cries Mary The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967
#1121
Living in the Past Jethro Tull 1969
#1124
Back Door Man Howlin' Wolf 1961
#1128
Peaches en Regalia Frank Zappa 1969
#1130
Spanish Caravan The Doors 1968
#1132
Hot Burrito #1 (I'm Your Toy) The Flying Burrito Brothers 1969
#1133
Farewell, Farewell Fairport Convention 1969
#1134
Just a Little Lovin' Dusty Springfield 1968
#1136
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) The Electric Prunes 1966
#1137
Alegria, alegria Caetano Veloso 1968
#1138
Don't Think Twice, It's Allright Bob Dylan 1963
#1141
For No One The Beatles 1966
#1142
Dear Prudence The Beatles 1968
#1143
Think Aretha Franklin 1968
#1144
A Change Is Gonna Come Aretha Franklin 1967
#1148
I'll Be Your Mirror The Velvet Underground 1966
#1149
Astral Weeks Van Morrison 1968
#1151
Hallucinations Tim Buckley 1967
#1153
Michael From Mountains Joni Mitchell 1968
#1154
The Girl With No Name The Byrds 1967
#1155
Blue Moon Billie Holiday 1962
#1157
Suzie Q Creedence Clearwater Revival 1968
#1158
(We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet Blues Magoos 1966
#1163
Amore che vieni, amore che vai Fabrizio De André 1966
#1167
Sandy Grey John Martyn 1967
#1168
When the Music's Over The Doors 1967
#1170
It'll Never Happen Again Tim Hardin 1966
#1173
The Red Telephone Love 1967
#1175
Darlin' If Spirit 1968