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	Male di miele	Afterhours	1997
#99	Voglio una pelle splendida	Afterhours	1997
#99	Thirteen Years	Alejandro Escovedo	1993
#99	The House of the Rising Sun	The Animals	1964
#99	I Can't Stand the Rain	Ann Peebles	1973
#99	A Change Is Gonna Come	Aretha Franklin	1967
#99	Think	Aretha Franklin	1968
#99	Once Around the Block	Badly Drawn Boy	1999
#99	The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down	The Band	1969
#99	The Passion of Lovers	Bauhaus	1981
#99	Dear Prudence	The Beatles	1968
#99	For No One	The Beatles	1966
#99	Hey Jude	The Beatles	1968
#99	Strawberry Fields Forever	The Beatles	1967
#99	Needle of Death	Bert Jansch	1965
#99	L'Aigle noir	Barbara	1987
#99	String Bean Jean	Belle and Sebastian	1997
#99	The Wild Things	Ben & Jason	2001
#99	The Smile Has Left Your Eyes	Asia	1983
#99	Levi Stubbs' Tears	Billy Bragg	1986
#99	Venus as a Boy	Björk	1993
#99	Children of the Grave	Black Sabbath	1971
#99	Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands	Bob Dylan	1966
#99	Exodus	Bob Marley & The Wailers	1977
#99	Atlantic City	Bruce Springsteen	1982
#99	Eight Miles High	The Byrds	1966
#99	It Happens Each Day	The Byrds	1987
#99	Come to the Sabbat	Black Widow	1970
#99	Don't Think Twice, It's Allright	Bob Dylan	1963
#99	Jokerman	Bob Dylan	1983
#99	Anymore Time Between	Bob Mould	1996
#99	Sad Eyes	Bruce Springsteen	1998
#99	When We Reach the Hill	The Black Heart Procession	1999
#99	Maria Bethânia	Caetano Veloso	1971
#99	All the Young Dudes	Mott the Hoople	1972
#99	Beat's So Lonely	Charlie Sexton	1985
#99	Pretty Girls Don't Cry	Chris Isaak	1985
#99	Profondo rosso (main title)	Goblin	1995
#99	Lost in Space	OP8	1997
#99	Good Guys & Bad Guys	Camper Van Beethoven	1987
#99	Nuntereggae più	Rino Gaetano	1978
#99	Take It Home	Thin White Rope	1987
#99	When the Music's Over	The Doors	1967
#99	How to Disappear Completely	Radiohead	2000
#99	Bonnie and Clyde	Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot	1968
#99	Gimme Danger	Iggy and The Stooges	1973
#99	Something	The Beatles	1969
#99	Same Band	Ultrasound	1997
#99	Hey! Luciani	The Fall	1986
#99	Sandy Grey	John Martyn	1967
#99	Style It Takes	Lou Reed, John Cale	1990
#99	Nothing to Say	Motorpsycho	1993
#99	Happy Nightmare Baby	Opal	1987
#99	Song Dance	Pavlov's Dog	1975
#99	Child of Vision	Supertramp	1979
#99	Rock Bottom	UFO	1974
#99	I See a Darkness	Bonnie "Prince" Billy	1999
#99	Step On	Happy Mondays	1990
#99	This Is Just A Modern Rock Song	Belle and Sebastian	1998
#99	Service and Repair	Calexico	2000
#99	Sad Eyes	Come	1992
#99	Sister Dew	dEUS	1999
#99	Solitude	Billie Holiday	1952
#99	Red Mask	Cabaret Voltaire	1981
#99	My Way	Frank Sinatra	1969
#99	L'equilibrio	Scisma	1997
#99	Celluloide	Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti	1994
#99	Il suonatore Jones	Fabrizio De André	1971
#99	La cura	Franco Battiato	1996
#99	Tragedy	Hayden	1995
#99	When Harpo Played His Harp	Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers	1987
#99	Gorecki	Lamb	1996
#99	One Way Street	Mark Lanegan	2001
#99	Have You Ever Seen the Rain?	Creedence Clearwater Revival	1970
#99	A Song for Douglas After He's Dead	Current 93	1991
#99	The Jeweller	Pearls Before Swine	1970
#99	Soul to Squeeze	Red Hot Chili Peppers	1991
#99	Like an Old Fashioned Waltz	Sandy Denny	1974
#99	Camouflage	Stan Ridgway	1985
#99	I pianoforti di Lubecca	Vinicio Capossela	2000
#99	Racing in the Streets	Bruce Springsteen	1978
#99	Marisa Allasio	Diaframma	1986
#99	Ma che sarà	Edoardo Bennato	1980
#99	Amore che vieni, amore che vai	Fabrizio De André	1966
#99	La fabbrica di plastica	Gianluca Grignani	1996
#99	What the World Needs Now Is Love	Jackie DeShannon	1981
#99	You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory	Johnny Thunders	1978
#99	Gioco di bimba	Le Orme	1972
#99	La canzone del sole	Lucio Battisti	1971
#99	Un giorno di pioggia	Modena City Ramblers	2003
#99	India	The Psychedelic Furs	1980
#99	I Surrender	Rainbow	1981
#99	Gasoline Horseys	Sparklehorse	1995
#99	16 Shells	Tom Waits	-
#99	Hiroshima Mon Amour	Ultravox	1977
#99	Una giornata senza pretese	Vinicio Capossela	1990
#99	750.000 anni fa... l'amore	Banco del Mutuo Soccorso	1972
#99	(We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet	Blues Magoos	1966
#99	Video Killed the Radio Star	Buggles	1979
#99	Contessa miseria	Carmen Consoli	1998