Top 500 Songs Ever Recorded

In response to Matt Patterson’s Top 500 songs, here’s mine (a work in progress):

1. Fergie — “Fergalicious”
2. Daler Mehndi — “Tunak Tunak Tun”
3. Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories — “Stay”
4. They Might Be Giants — “She’s An Angel” (greatest love song ever)
5. Cake — “Building a Religion”
6. Toto — “Africa” (but the Pyrogenesis cover is better)
7. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts — “I Hate Myself For Loving You”
8. New Order — “Bizarre Love Triangle”
9. No Use For A Name — “Chasing Rainbows”
10. Elvis Presley — “Suspicious Minds” (also like the Michelle Branch cover)
11. Cake — “Sheep Go To Heaven”
12. Young MC — “Bust a Move”
13. Nerf Herder — “Siegfried and Roy” (2nd greatest love song ever)
14. Genesis — “Land of Confusion”
15. Bee Gees — “Tragedy”
16. Rick Springfield — “Jessie’s Girl”
17. Butthole Surfers — “Dracula From Houston”
18. Crazy Town — “Butterfly”
19. Dropkick Murphys — “Shipping Up To Boston”
20. Bright Eyes — “Falling Out of Love at This Volume”
21. Finger Eleven — “One Thing”
22. Daft Punk — “Better, Harder, Faster, Stronger”
23. The Gourds — “Gin and Juice”
24. Mandy Moore — “Turn The Clock Around”
25. Nerf Herder — “Nose Ring Girl”
26. The Muffs — “You Suck”
27. Human League — “Don’t You Want Me Baby”
28. A Perfect Circle — “Pet”
29. Bad Religion — “Punk Rock Song (German)”
30. Styx — “Lorelei”
31. Abba — “S.O.S.”
32. Def Leppard — “Two Steps Behind”
33. Abba — “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)”
34. Chicago — “Look Away”
35. Abba — “Waterloo”
36. Murray Head — “One Night in Bangkok”
37. Air Supply — “Every Woman in the World”
38. They Might Be Giants — “Another First Kiss”
39. Andy Dick — “The Jews Are Out Today”
40. The Trammps — “Disco Inferno”
41. Apollo 440 — “Stop the Rock”
42. Crystal Method — “Name of the Game”
43. The B-52s — “52 Girls”
44. Chicago — “You’re the Inspiration”
45. Babble — “Chale Jao”
46. Oingo Boingo — “Dead Man’s Party”
47. Bad Religion — “Infected”
48. Chicago — “You’re the Inspiration”
49. Green Day — “Paper Lanterns”
50. Bangles — “Hazy Shade of Winter”
51. Ted Nugent — “Fred Bear”
52. Bangles — “Walk Like an Egyptian”
53. The Donnas — “Take It Off”
54. Beatles — “Octopus Garden” (Ringo Starr rules)
55. DVDA — “Trapper Song”
56. Beck — “Devil’s Haircut”
57. Vandals — “My Girlfriend’s Dead”
58. KMFDM — “Anarchy (Skold Mix)”
59. Big Dumb Face — “Mighty Penis Laser”
60. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult — “A Girl Doesn’t Get Killed By a Make-Believe Lover”
61. Blink 182 — “Fuck a Dog”
62. Vandals — “Idea For a Movie”
63. Samantha Fox — “Touch Me”
64. Blue Oyster Cult — “Godzilla”
65. KMFDM — “Megalomaniac”
66. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult — “Sexy Sucker”
67. Crystal Method — “Trip Like I Do” (also the Filter remix)
68. Bodies Without Organs — “Sunshine in the Rain”
69. Wilson Phillips — “Hold On”
70. Home Grown — “She’s Anti”
71. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult — “International Sin Set”
72. Body Count — “Body Count’s In the House”
73. KMFDM — “Glory”
74. Bon Jovi — “Runaway”
75. Smashing Pumpkins — “X.Y.U.”
76. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult — “I Live For Drugs”
77. C. W. McCall — “Convoy”
78. MxPx — “Party, My House, Be There”
79. The Cure — “Lovesong”
80. Dead Milkmen — “Big Time Operator”
81. The Darkness — “Get Your Hands Off My Woman (Motherfucker)”
82. Michelle Branch — “Love Me Like That (ft. Sheryl Crow)”
83. Millencolin — “The Ballad”
84. Deftones — “7 Words”
85. Presidents of the United States of America — “Back Porch”
86. Den Gale Pose — “Spaendt Op Til Lir”
87. Skold — “Neverland”
88. Depeche Mode — “Somebody”
89. Mike and the Mechanics — “All I Need Is A Miracle”
90. Dr Hook and the Medicine Show — “Cover of the Rolling Stone”
91. Oingo Boingo — “Weird Science”
92. Duran Duran — “Notorious”
93. Juvenile — “Back That Ass Up”
94. E-40 — “U and Dat Booty”
95. Enrique Iglesias — “One Night Stand”
96. Rammstein — “Feuer Frei”
97. Echo and the Bunnymen — “The Killing Moon”
98. The Outfield — “Your Love
99. Electric Hellfire Club — “Very Groovy Boots”
100. Bryan Adams — “All For Love (with Sting and Rod Stewart)”
101. Enrique Iglesias — “Escape” and “Don’t Turn Out the Lights”
102. Rasputina — “The Mayor”
103. Erasure — “Little Respect”
104. PJ Harvey — “Naked Cousin”
105. Europe — “The Final Countdown” (also the techno version and the instrumental version)
106. Beastie Boys — “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”
107. Evanescence — “Going Under”
108. Fiona Apple — “Fast As You Can”
109. Chumbawamba — “Amnesia”
110. Faith No More — “We Care A Lot”
111. Bloodhound Gang — “Mope”
112. Fenix TX — “Fortunate Son”
113. Rasputina — “Wicked Dickie”
114. Fiona Apple — “Criminal”
115. Cypress Hill — “Rock Superstar”
116. Flaming Lips — “Yoshimi vs. the Pink Robots”
117. Skinny Puppy — “Rodent”
118. Genesis — “No Son of Mine”
119. Ludacris — “Area Codes” (John Mayer cover is better)
120. Gogol Bordello — “Not a Crime”
121. Gwen Stefani — “Hollaback Girl” (this song is bananas)
122. Hall and Oates — “I Can’t Go For That”
123. Lords of Acid — “Rover Take Over”
124. Green Day — “American Idiot”
125. David Hasselhoff — “Looking For Freedom”
126. Guttermouth — “Lipstick”
127. Wham! — “Wake Me Up Before You Go”
128. Hall and Oates — “Kiss on my List”
129. Gwen Stefani — “Rich Girl”
130. Tenacious D — “Dio”
131. Joe Jackson — “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”
132. Happy Campers — “I Finally Wrote A Love Song”
133. Gogol Bordello — “Go Revolutions”
134. Herbie Hancock — “Rock It”
135. Atom and His Package — “Punk Rock Academy”
136. Tenacious D — “Rock Your Socks”
137. Hog — “You and Me”
138. They Might Be Giants — “Hall of Heads”
139. Home Grown — “All That You Have”
140. Hall and Oates — “Out of Touch”
141. The Hush Sound — “Wine Red (Tommie Sunshine’s Brooklyn Fire Retouch)”
142. Tenacious D — “Tribute”
143. Less Than Jake — “Jen Doesn’t Like Me Anymore”
144. Jamiroquai — “Canned Heat”
145. Sugar Ray — “10 Seconds Down”
146. Jimmie’s Chicken Shack — “High”
147. Me First and the Gimme Gimmies — “Crazy”
148. Lollipop Lust Kill — “Everything, I”
149. Johnny Cash — “One Piece at a Time”
150. Nine Inch Nails — “The Becoming”
151. Journey — “Separate Ways”
152. Kelly Clarkson — “Because of You”
153. Me First and the Gimme Gimmies — “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”
154. Wheatus — “Lemonade”
155. Juno Reactor — “Pistolero (Radio Edit)”
156. Bryan Adams — “The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You”
157. Lordi — “Chainsaw Buffet”
158. Kelis — “Milkshake”
159. The Proclaimers — “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”
160. Kelly Clarkson — “Since U Been Gone”
161. Violent Femmes — many songs (“Gone Daddy Gone”, “Dance MF Dance”, “Kiss Off”, “Add It Up” and even “Blister in the Sun”)
162. L7 — “Shit List”
163. Lordi — “Blood Red Sandman”
164. Snog — “Hey, Christian God”
165. Lindsay Lohan — “Over”
166. Falco — “Rock Me Amadeus”
167. Live — “I Alone”
168. Mindless Self-Indulgence — “Kill the Rock”
169. No Use For a Name — “Coming Too Close”
170. Lordi — “Would You Love a Monsterman?”
171. Rammstein — “Stripped”
172. MC Hawking — “What We Need More of is Science”
173. Ministry — “N.W.O.”
174. Michael Jackson — “Man in the Mirror”
175. Mindless Self-Indulgence — “Harry Truman”
176. Jewel — “Standing Still”
177. Meco — “Star Wars Theme”
178. Lollipop Lust Kill — “Knee Deep in the Dead”
179. Ministry — “Thieves”
180. Men Without Hats — “The Safety Dance”
181. The Four Tops — “Bernadette”
182. Mindless Self-Indulgence — “I Hate Jimmy Page”
183. Michael Jackson — “Smooth Criminal”
184. Huey Lewis — “Walking on a Thin Line
185. Ministry — “Revenge”
186. Snog — “Real Estate Man”
187. Missing Persons — “Destination Unknown”
188. Frank Zappa — “Broken Hearts Are For Assholes”
189. Monifah — “Touch It”
190. Nirvana — “D7”
191. Morris Day and the Time — “Jungle Love”
192. Oakenfold — “Switch On”
193. Mindless Self Indulgence — “Straight to Video”
194. Mr. Big — “To Be With You”
195. Nine Inch Nails — “Only”
196. Rob Zombie — “Demon Speeding”
197. Nerina Pallot — “Everybody’s Gone to War”
198. Oakenfold — “Set It Off”
199. Huey Lewis — “Hip to Be Square”
200. New Order — “Blue Monday”
201. Orgy — “Opticon”
202. The B-52s — “Mesopotamia”
203. Nine Inch Nails — “Into the Void”
204. Wheatus — “Freak On”
205. Oakenfold — “Sex N Money”
206. Bad Religion — “Struck a Nerve”
207. Orgy — “Dissention”
208. The Clash — “Rock the Casbah”
209. Outhere Brothers — “I Want to #### You”
210. Huey Lewis and the News — “I Want a New Drug”
211. Outkast — “The Way You Move”
212. The Gap Band — “You Dropped a Bomb on Me”
213. Parry Gripp — “Mucho Cafeino, Pico Dinero”
214. Primus — “Mr. Knowitall”
215. Peter Gabriel — “In Your Eyes”
216. The B-52s — “Private Idaho”
217. Pat McCurdy — “Screw You”
218. MC5 — “Kick Out the Jams”
219. Pet Shop Boys — “West End Girls”
220. Primus — “Tommy the Cat (ft. Tom Waits)”
221. Protein — “Slightly Bitchy Philosopher Dream Chick Meets The Insecure Martian Prophet”
222. Everclear — “El Distorto de Melodica”
223. Peter Gabriel — “Salisbury Hill”
224. Prodigy — “Their Law”
225. The Network — “Hungry Hungry”
226. Phil Collins — “Something Happened on the Way to Heaven”
227. Protein — “Maybe the World Isn’t Round”
228. Less Than Jake — “Where The Hell Is Mike Sinkovich?”
229. Primus — “Professor Nutbutter”
230. Atom and His Package — “Possession (Not the One By Danzig)”
231. Prodigy — “Breathe”
232. Wheatus — “Teenage Dirtbag”
233. Protein — “Lemonade”
234. Gerardo — “Rico Suave”
235. Pseudo Echo — “His Eyes”
236. Phil Collins — “Sussudio”
237. Rage Against the Machine — “Take the Power Back”
238. Everclear — “Volvo Driving Soccer Mom”
239. Rammstein — “Mein Herz Brent”
240. Less Than Jake — “The Ghosts of Me and You”
241. Screeching Weasel — “Cool Kids”
242. Local H — “PJ Soles”
243. Seal — “Crazy”
244. Paula Abdul — “Straight Up”
245. Sheamus Fitzpatrick and the McNally Boys — “Mr. Jig”
246. The Dead Milkmen — “Punk Rock Girl”
247. Simon and Garfunkel — “Sound of Silence”
248. Frank Zappa — “Joe’s Garage”
249. Stabbing Westward — “Violent Mood Swings”
250. Men at Work — “Down Under” (especially acoustic)
251. Sugarhill Gang — “Apache”
252. Everclear — “Normal Like You”
253. Supertramp — “Bloody Well Right”
254. Local H — “Back in the Day”
255. Suzanne Vega — “Tom’s Diner”
256. The Toadies — “Possum Kingdom”
257. System of a Down — “Violent Pornography”
258. Tool — “Eulogy”
259. Skinny Puppy — “Sleeping Beast”
260. They Might Be Giants — “Ondine”
261. Mylo — “Destroy Rock and Roll”
262. Tommy James — “Crimson and Clover”
263. Type O Negative — “Everyone I Love is Dead”
264. Frank Zappa — “Dancin’ Fool”
265. Tool — “Aenima”
266. Winger — “Seventeen”
267. Traveling Wilburys — “Tweeter and the Monkey Man”
268. Local H — “President Forever”
269. Wesley Willis — “They Threw Me Out of Church”
270. Type O Negative — “Everything Dies”
271. Apollo 440 — “Tears of the Gods”
272. Vandals — “Girls Turn 18 Every Day”
273. Mylo — “Paris Four Hundred”
274. Weather Girls — “It’s Raining Men”
275. Wesley Willis — “I Whupped Mighty Thor’s Ass” (and many more)

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