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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
#201 Peggy Sue Buddy Holly 1957
#202 In the Ghetto Elvis Presley 1969
#203 Controversy Prince 1981
#204 The Rat The Walkmen 2003
#205 Polly Dillard & Clark 1969
#206 I Put a Spell on You Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1956
#207 Der Kommissar Falco 2004
#208 Holocaust Big Star 1978
#209 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) Neil Young, Crazy Horse 1979
#210 Archangel Burial 2007
#211 Touch Too Much AC/DC 1979
#212 I Heard It Through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye 1968
#213 Drain You Nirvana 1991
#214 Golden Brown The Stranglers 1981
#215 Say It Ain't So Weezer 1994
#216 Homecoming Queen Sparklehorse 1995
#217 Blue Joni Mitchell 1971
#218 Sex Machine (Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine) James Brown 1972
#219 Fearless Pink Floyd 1971
#220 Warm Leatherette The Normal 1978
#221 Lay Lady Lay Bob Dylan 1969
#222 The Rain Song Led Zeppelin 1973
#223 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor 1990
#224 Six Feet Deep Geto Boys 1993
#225 Soon My Bloody Valentine 1990
#226 The Way Young Lovers Do Van Morrison 1968
#227 No One Knows Queens of the Stone Age 2002
#228 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hank Williams, Drifting Cowboys 1949
#229 I'm Waiting for the Man The Velvet Underground 1967
#230 Hard to Explain The Strokes 2001
#231 Surfin' Bird The Trashmen -
#232 Rock & Roll The Velvet Underground 1970
#233 Another Girl, Another Planet The Only Ones 1978
#234 Das Model Kraftwerk 1978
#235 For What It's Worth Buffalo Springfield 1966
#236 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Black Sabbath 1973
#237 Ashes to Ashes David Bowie 1976
#238 Taschenrechner Kraftwerk 1981
#239 Masters Of War Bob Dylan 1963
#240 Heroin The Velvet Underground 1967
#241 The Rip Portishead 2008
#242 Crimson & Clover Tommy James & the Shondells 1967
#243 Teenage Kicks The Undertones 1978
#244 Sunday Morning The Velvet Underground 1966
#245 Jolene Dolly Parton 1973
#246 Missing (Todd Terry club mix) Everything but the Girl 1994
#247 Last Nite The Strokes 2001
#248 Race for the Price The Flaming Lips -
#249 Big Yellow Taxi Joni Mitchell 1970
#250 Consequence The Notwist 2002
#251 Sign o' the Times Prince 1986
#252 Lovesong The Cure 1989
#253 L.A. Woman The Doors 1971
#254 Bakerman Laid Back 1990
#255 2000 Light Years From Home The Rolling Stones 1967
#256 Everything Counts Depeche Mode 1989
#257 Andromeda Heights Prefab Sprout 1997
#258 Highway to Hell AC/DC 1979
#259 Let's Stay Together Al Green 1971
#260 Cherry‐Coloured Funk Cocteau Twins 1990
#261 Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) The Rolling Stones 1973
#262 Gloria Them 1964
#263 With a Little Help From My Friends The Beatles 1967
#264 Smack My Bitch Up The Prodigy 1997
#265 Tanzmusik Kraftwerk 2017
#266 Wicked Game Chris Isaak 1989
#267 Seven Nation Army The White Stripes 2003
#268 Turn to Stone Electric Light Orchestra 1977
#269 Can't Stand Me Now The Libertines 2004
#270 The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen 1967
#271 Riders on the Storm The Doors 1971
#272 White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane 1967
#273 Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey 1988
#274 Glory Box Portishead 1994
#275 A Love Supreme, Pt. I: Acknowledgement John Coltrane 2021
#276 Sympathy for the Devil The Rolling Stones 1968
#277 Crucify Your Mind Rodriguez 2005
#278 Stan Eminem 2000
#279 I'm on Fire Bruce Springsteen 1984
#280 For Your Pleasure Roxy Music 1973
#281 Runaway Ye 2010
#282 Rebel Rebel David Bowie 1974
#283 Motorcycle Emptiness Manic Street Preachers 1992
#284 O Superman (for Massenet) Laurie Anderson 1981
#285 Sweet Child o' Mine Guns N' Roses 1987
#286 Common People Pulp 1995
#287 Downtown Petula Clark 1964
#288 Vitamin C Can 1972
#289 She's Lost Control Joy Division 1979
#290 Chicago Sufjan Stevens 2005
#291 True Love Will Find You in the End Daniel Johnston 1987
#292 C.R.E.A.M. Wu‐Tang Clan 1993
#293 Where Do the Children Play? Cat Stevens 1970
#294 The Times They Are A‐Changin' Bob Dylan 1964
#295 Live Forever Oasis 1994
#296 Thriller Michael Jackson 1982
#297 Personal Jesus Depeche Mode 1989
#298 Wir müssen hier raus Ton Steine Scherben 2003
#299 True Faith New Order 1987
#300 Strange Fruit Billie Holiday 1939

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