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The 700 Best Songs of All Time

Source: Musikexpress
Year: 2014
700 songs
214 voters

Weight: 80%

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

Musikexpress (Germany) compiled “The 700 Best Songs of All Time” for its 700th anniversary issue (on sale March 13, 2014). The ranking was assembled from an expert jury of 214 contributors—including Musikexpress editors and writers, critics from other media outlets, music-industry professionals, and a large number of musicians. The results were published as a major print special with commentary for each song; Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” was ranked #1. Alongside the jury list, Musikexpress also ran an online reader poll that produced a separate Top 100 readers’ favorites.

Rank Song Artists Year
#1 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 1980
#2 Strawberry Fields Forever The Beatles 1967
#3 A Day in the Life The Beatles 1967
#4 What's Going On Marvin Gaye 1971
#5 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 1986
#6 God Only Knows The Beach Boys 1966
#7 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 1991
#8 "Heroes" David Bowie 1977
#9 Hallelujah Leonard Cohen 1984
#10 London Calling The Clash 1979
#11 Waterloo Sunset The Kinks 1967
#12 Wuthering Heights Kate Bush 1978
#13 Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan 1965
#14 Wichita Lineman Glen Campbell 1968
#15 Purple Rain Prince, The Revolution 1984
#16 Blue Monday New Order 1983
#17 I Believe in You Talk Talk 1988
#18 Paranoid Android Radiohead 1997
#19 When Doves Cry Prince, The Revolution 1984
#20 I Want You Bob Dylan 1966
#21 Being Boring Pet Shop Boys 1990
#22 Autobahn Kraftwerk 1974
#23 Good Vibrations The Beach Boys 1966
#24 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 1975
#25 Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack 1991
#26 Sea Song Robert Wyatt 1974
#27 Perfect Day Lou Reed 1972
#28 I Would Die 4 U Prince, The Revolution 1984
#29 Gimme Shelter The Rolling Stones 1969
#30 Imagine John Lennon 1971
#31 Rock the Casbah The Clash 1982
#32 Under Pressure Queen, David Bowie 1981
#33 Sabotage Beastie Boys 1994
#34 Roadrunner The Modern Lovers 1976
#35 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 1971
#36 Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan 1965
#37 Cloudbusting Kate Bush 1985
#38 Rumble Link Wray 1969
#39 Verstärker Blumfeld -
#40 God Save the Queen Sex Pistols 1977
#41 Move On Up Curtis Mayfield 1970
#42 Marquee Moon Television 1977
#43 Life on Mars? David Bowie 1971
#44 Thunder Road Bruce Springsteen 1975
#45 Hotel California Eagles 1976
#46 Be My Baby The Ronettes 1963
#47 This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us Sparks 1974
#48 Idioteque Radiohead 2000
#49 A Change Is Gonna Come Sam Cooke 1964
#50 Billie Jean Michael Jackson 1982
#51 Space Oddity David Bowie 1969
#52 Running Up That Hill Kate Bush 1985
#53 Into My Arms Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 1997
#54 Surf's Up The Beach Boys 1971
#55 Venus in Furs The Velvet Underground 1967
#56 The Passenger Iggy Pop 1977
#57 Computerliebe Kraftwerk 1991
#58 Losing My Edge LCD Soundsystem 2002
#59 Where Is My Mind? Pixies 1988
#60 Little Wing The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967
#61 The Message Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five 1982
#62 Station to Station David Bowie 1976
#63 Just Like Heaven The Cure 1987
#64 Visions of Johanna Bob Dylan 1966
#65 Angel of Death Slayer 1986
#66 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 1980
#67 Family Affair Sly & the Family Stone 1971
#68 Pink Moon Nick Drake 1972
#69 MacArthur Park Richard Harris 1968
#70 Girl From The North Country Bob Dylan 1963
#71 Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode 1990
#72 Hurt Nine Inch Nails 1994
#73 Blackbird The Beatles 1968
#74 Like a Hurricane Neil Young, Crazy Horse 1977
#75 This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Talking Heads 1983
#76 Louie Louie The Kingsmen 1963
#77 Bonny Prefab Sprout 1985
#78 Famous Blue Raincoat Leonard Cohen 1971
#79 Heart of Gold Neil Young 1972
#80 Paul ist tot Fehlfarben 1980
#81 Pale Blue Eyes The Velvet Underground 1969
#82 Under the Milky Way The Church 2008
#83 America Simon & Garfunkel 1968
#84 Penny Lane The Beatles 1967
#85 Walk on the Wild Side Lou Reed 1972
#86 Out of Time Blur 2003
#87 Only Shallow My Bloody Valentine 1991
#88 Tangled Up In Blue Bob Dylan 1975
#89 Le vent nous portera Noir Désir 2002
#90 Don't Give Up Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush 1986
#91 Fight the Power Public Enemy 1989
#92 This Charming Man The Smiths 1983
#93 Cheree Suicide 1977
#94 Alone Again Or Love 1967
#95 Teenage Riot Sonic Youth 1988
#96 The Sound of Silence Simon & Garfunkel 1964
#97 You Can't Hurry Love The Supremes 1966
#98 Helter Skelter The Beatles 1968
#99 Eight Miles High The Byrds 1966
#100 Over and Over Hot Chip 2005

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