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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
#501 Windowlicker Aphex Twin 1999
#502 Run Run Run The Velvet Underground 1967
#503 Sisters of Mercy Leonard Cohen 1967
#504 You Still Believe in Me The Beach Boys 1966
#505 The Ballad of El Goodo Big Star 1972
#506 Call Any Vegetable Frank Zappa 2011
#507 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down The Band 1969
#508 The Other Woman Nina Simone 1965
#509 Slip Inside This House 13th Floor Elevators 2009
#510 Time Tom Waits 1985
#511 Wasteland The Jam 1979
#512 Do You Finally Need a Friend Terry Callier 1972
#513 Roll Over Beethoven Chuck Berry 1956
#514 I Shall Be Released The Band 1968
#515 Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth The Dandy Warhols 1997
#516 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John 1973
#517 As Tears Go By The Rolling Stones 1965
#518 Groove Is in the Heart Deee‐Lite 1990
#519 Poker Face Lady Gaga 2008
#520 Antmusic Adam and the Ants 1980
#521 Hey Boy Hey Girl The Chemical Brothers 1999
#522 Ms. Jackson OutKast 2000
#523 To Hell With Good Intentions mclusky 2002
#524 Connection Elastica 1994
#525 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) Sylvester 1978
#526 Standing in the Way of Control Gossip 2005
#527 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now The Smiths 1984
#528 Alison Elvis Costello 1977
#529 Everlong Foo Fighters 1997
#530 Out on the Weekend Neil Young 1972
#531 Gold in Them Hills Ron Sexsmith 2003
#532 Love and Happiness Al Green 1972
#533 California Love 2Pac, Dr. Dre 1996
#534 Pancho and Lefty Townes Van Zandt 1972
#535 No Milk Today Herman's Hermits 1991
#536 The Kiss Judee Sill 1973
#537 Here's Where the Story Ends The Sundays 1990
#538 Oh Yeah Can 1971
#539 Erotic City Prince 2020
#540 Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again Bob Dylan 1966
#541 New Dawn Fades Joy Division 1979
#542 Friday on My Mind The Easybeats -
#543 Blue Skies Irving Berlin 2005
#544 Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands Bob Dylan 1966
#545 Walk On Neil Young 1973
#546 A House Is Not a Home Burt Bacharach 1965
#547 Nuclear War The Sun Ra Arkestra 2014
#548 Share Your Love With Me Aretha Franklin 1969
#549 She's Like Heroin to Me The Gun Club 1981
#550 Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 1986
#551 Progress Tony Allen 1999
#552 Sure Shot Beastie Boys 1994
#553 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger 1970
#554 Electric Guitars Prefab Sprout 1997
#555 Suicidal Thoughts The Notorious B.I.G. 1994
#556 Bela Lugosi's Dead Bauhaus 1979
#557 Me Myself and I De La Soul 1989
#558 We Can Work It Out The Beatles 1966
#559 The Words That Maketh Murder PJ Harvey 2011
#560 Norwegian Wood The Beatles 1977
#561 All I Have to Do Is Dream The Everly Brothers 1965
#562 Jumpin' Jack Flash The Rolling Stones 1968
#563 Respect Aretha Franklin 1967
#564 Sundown, Sundown Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood 1968
#565 Shake Some Action Flamin' Groovies 1976
#566 Baby Please Don't Go Lightnin' Hopkins 1993
#567 Time After Time Cyndi Lauper 1983
#568 (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me Small Faces 1996
#569 Has It Come to This? The Streets 2002
#570 Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey The Beatles 1968
#571 Chain Gang Sam Cooke 1960
#572 Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want The Smiths 1984
#573 Jeepster T. Rex 1971
#574 (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman Carole King 1971
#575 Manchild Neneh Cherry 1989
#576 What Diff'rence a Day Makes Dinah Washington 1994
#577 Gin & Juice Snoop Dogg 1993
#578 Sexyback Justin Timberlake 2007
#579 What a Lonely Way to Start the Summertime The Bitter Sweets 2005
#580 All Cats Are Grey The Cure 2006
#581 Of All the Things We've Made Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 1982
#582 Slow Kylie Minogue 2003
#583 Can We Still Be Friends? Todd Rundgren 1978
#584 We Will Rock You Queen 1977
#585 Closer Nine Inch Nails 1994
#586 Going to a Town Rufus Wainwright 2007
#587 The House of the Rising Sun Nina Simone 1967
#588 Die Moritat von Mackie Messer Bertolt Brecht 2010
#589 Things Behind the Sun Nick Drake 1972
#590 Spoon Can 1972
#591 Nightswimming R.E.M. 1992
#592 Careless Whisper George Michael 1989
#593 Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe Albert Ayler 2006
#594 You Really Got a Hold on Me The Miracles 1963
#595 Doll Parts Hole 1993
#596 French Disco Stereolab -
#597 Love Story (You and Me) Randy Newman 1968
#598 Lovely Day Bill Withers 1977
#599 All Apologies Nirvana 1993
#600 Lust for Life Iggy Pop 1977

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