17 Critics and Their Top 50 Songs

Source: Mucchio Selvaggio

Year: 2002

705 songs

17 voters

Weight: 80%

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Voters: are mostly from a single country/location: 10%

List: contains over 500 items(Quantity over Quality): 10%

In 2002 Italian Rock Magazine "Il Mucchio Selvaggio" (The Wild Bunch) asked each critic of the magazine's staff to make a list of the top 50 songs of all time. Published on Mucchio Selvaggio n. 498 (2nd September 2002)

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Rank	Song	Artists	Year
#99	Sound and Vision	David Bowie	1977
#99	Laughing	David Crosby	1971
#99	Death to Everyone	Bonnie "Prince" Billy	1999
#99	Smoke on the Water	Deep Purple	1972
#99	Rain	The Cult	1985
#99	Come On Eileen	Dexys Midnight Runners	1982
#99	Carpet Crawlers	Genesis	1974
#99	Easy	CUD	1992
#99	Totally Confused	Beck	1993
#99	Carolyn's Fingers	Cocteau Twins	1988
#99	Street Fighting Man	The Rolling Stones	1968
#99	The Medicine Show	The Dream Syndicate	1984
#99	Kisarazu	Duncan Browne	1978
#99	Selective Memory	EELS	1999
#99	C'mon Everybody	Eddie Cochran	1958
#99	Jane	Elf Power	1999
#99	El portava i scarp del tennis	Enzo Jannacci	1964
#99	What a Wonderful World	Eva Cassidy	1996
#99	Your Song	Elton John	1970
#99	Jailhouse Rock	Elvis Presley	1957
#99	Rimini	Fabrizio De André	1978
#99	Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti	Fabrizio De André	1981
#99	Crazy Man Michael	Fairport Convention	1969
#99	Genesis Hall	Fairport Convention	1969
#99	Epic	Faith No More	1989
#99	Bullet With My Name on It	The Dream Syndicate	1984
#99	Blueberry Hill	Fats Domino	1956
#99	Criminal	Fiona Apple	1996
#99	Rattlesnake Shake	Fleetwood Mac	1969
#99	Eskimo	Francesco Guccini	1978
#99	Reach Out I'll Be There	Four Tops	1967
#99	The Seasons Reverse	Gastr del Sol	1998
#99	Willie the Pimp	Frank Zappa	1969
#99	Waiting Room	Fugazi	1988
#99	How Much I've Lied	Gram Parsons	1973
#99	Carry Home	The Gun Club	1982
#99	She	Gram Parsons	1973
#99	He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot	Grandaddy	2000
#99	Jed the Humanoid	Grandaddy	2000
#99	St. Stephen	Grateful Dead	1969
#99	Halloween on the Barbary Coast	The Flaming Lips	1992
#99	4 Door Maverick	Howe Gelb	1998
#99	The Load Out/Stay	Jackson Browne	1982
#99	These Important Years	Hüsker Dü	1987
#99	Phantom of the Opera	Iron Maiden	1980
#99	Orly	Jacques Brel	1977
#99	Cordoba	Brian Eno, John Cale	1990
#99	With You There to Help Me	Jethro Tull	1970
#99	Cold Sweat	James Brown	1967
#99	I Got You (I Feel Good)	James Brown	1967
#99	Little Girl Blue	Janis Joplin	1969
#99	Last Goodbye	Jeff Buckley	1994
#99	Lover, You Should've Come Over	Jeff Buckley	1994
#99	Never Understand	The Jesus and Mary Chain	1985
#99	Aqualung	Jethro Tull	1971
#99	Purple Haze	Jimi Hendrix	1971
#99	Be My Guru	Hoodoo Gurus	1983
#99	Michael From Mountains	Joni Mitchell	1968
#99	Speed of Light	Joseph Arthur	2000
#99	Head Hang Low	Julian Cope	1984
#99	Of Information And Belief	June of 44	1998
#99	Come ogni volta	La Crus	1997
#99	The Lady Rachel	Kevin Ayers	1969
#99	I Talk to the Wind	King Crimson	1969
#99	The Night Watch	King Crimson	1974
#99	Days	The Kinks	1968
#99	You Really Got Me	The Kinks	1964
#99	Le donne	Le Masque	2011
#99	Eroi nel vento	Litfiba	1985
#99	Whole Lotta Love	Led Zeppelin	1969
#99	Bird on the Wire	Leonard Cohen	1969
#99	Famous Blue Raincoat	Leonard Cohen	1971
#99	Seems So Long Ago, Nancy	Leonard Cohen	1969
#99	The Red Telephone	Love	1967
#99	Spreading the Evening Sky With Crows	Lullaby for the Working Class	1996
#99	I'll Regret It All in the Morning	Richard & Linda Thompson	1975
#99	Mother Fist	Marc Almond	1987
#99	Kingdoms of Rain	Mark Lanegan	1993
#99	The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure	The Magnetic Fields	1999
#99	Pill Hill Serenade	Mark Lanegan	2001
#99	Qualcosa sulla vita	Massimo Volume	1997
#99	O Caroline	Matching Mole	1972
#99	Dancing in the Street	Martha Reeves and the Vandellas	1964
#99	She Broke You So Softly	Mojave 3	2000
#99	Goddess on a Hiway	Mercury Rev	1998
#99	The Unforgiven	Metallica	1990
#99	Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?	Moby	1999
#99	Mogwai Fear Satan	Mogwai	1997
#99	I giardini di marzo	Lucio Battisti	1972
#99	The Cry of Mankind	My Dying Bride	1995
#99	I Only Said	My Bloody Valentine	1991
#99	Alcoholiday	Teenage Fanclub	1991
#99	Bloodstreamruns	Nature and Organisation	1994
#99	No Next Time	The New Christs	1987
#99	Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)	Neil Young, Crazy Horse	1979
#99	Suicide Child	The Nuns	1980
#99	From Her to Eternity	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	1984
#99	John Finn's Wife	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	1992
#99	Northern Sky	Nick Drake	1971
#99	Hard to Handle	Otis Redding	1964