Top 500 Songs Ever Recorded
In response to Matt Patterson’s Top 500 songs, here’s mine (a work in progress):
- Fergie — “Fergalicious”
- Daler Mehndi — “Tunak Tunak Tun”
- Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories — “Stay”
- They Might Be Giants — “She’s An Angel” (greatest love song ever)
- Cake — “Building a Religion”
- Toto — “Africa” (but the Pyrogenesis cover is better)
- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts — “I Hate Myself For Loving You”
- New Order — “Bizarre Love Triangle”
- No Use For A Name — “Chasing Rainbows”
- Elvis Presley — “Suspicious Minds” (also like the Michelle Branch cover)
- Cake — “Sheep Go To Heaven”
- Young MC — “Bust a Move”
- Nerf Herder — “Siegfried and Roy” (2nd greatest love song ever)
- Genesis — “Land of Confusion”
- Bee Gees — “Tragedy”
- Rick Springfield — “Jessie’s Girl”
- Butthole Surfers — “Dracula From Houston”
- Crazy Town — “Butterfly”
- Dropkick Murphys — “Shipping Up To Boston”
- Bright Eyes — “Falling Out of Love at This Volume”
- Finger Eleven — “One Thing”
- Daft Punk — “Better, Harder, Faster, Stronger”
- The Gourds — “Gin and Juice”
- Mandy Moore — “Turn The Clock Around”
- Nerf Herder — “Nose Ring Girl”
- The Muffs — “You Suck”
- Human League — “Don’t You Want Me Baby”
- A Perfect Circle — “Pet”
- Bad Religion — “Punk Rock Song (German)”
- Styx — “Lorelei”
- Abba — “S.O.S.”
- Def Leppard — “Two Steps Behind”
- Abba — “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)”
- Chicago — “Look Away”
- Abba — “Waterloo”
- Murray Head — “One Night in Bangkok”
- Air Supply — “Every Woman in the World”
- They Might Be Giants — “Another First Kiss”
- Andy Dick — “The Jews Are Out Today”
- The Trammps — “Disco Inferno”
- Apollo 440 — “Stop the Rock”
- Crystal Method — “Name of the Game”
- The B-52s — “52 Girls”
- Chicago — “You’re the Inspiration”
- Babble — “Chale Jao”
- Oingo Boingo — “Dead Man’s Party”
- Bad Religion — “Infected”
- Chicago — “You’re the Inspiration”
- Green Day — “Paper Lanterns”
- Bangles — “Hazy Shade of Winter”
- Ted Nugent — “Fred Bear”
- Bangles — “Walk Like an Egyptian”
- The Donnas — “Take It Off”
- Beatles — “Octopus Garden” (Ringo Starr rules)
- DVDA — “Trapper Song”
- Beck — “Devil’s Haircut”
- Vandals — “My Girlfriend’s Dead”
- KMFDM — “Anarchy (Skold Mix)”
- Big Dumb Face — “Mighty Penis Laser”
- My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult — “A Girl Doesn’t Get Killed By a Make-Believe Lover”
- Blink 182 — “Fuck a Dog”
- Vandals — “Idea For a Movie”
- Samantha Fox — “Touch Me”
- Blue Oyster Cult — “Godzilla”
- KMFDM — “Megalomaniac”
- My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult — “Sexy Sucker”
- Crystal Method — “Trip Like I Do” (also the Filter remix)
- Bodies Without Organs — “Sunshine in the Rain”
- Wilson Phillips — “Hold On”
- Home Grown — “She’s Anti”
- My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult — “International Sin Set”
- Body Count — “Body Count’s In the House”
- KMFDM — “Glory”
- Bon Jovi — “Runaway”
- Smashing Pumpkins — “X.Y.U.”
- My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult — “I Live For Drugs”
- C. W. McCall — “Convoy”
- MxPx — “Party, My House, Be There”
- The Cure — “Lovesong”
- Dead Milkmen — “Big Time Operator”
- The Darkness — “Get Your Hands Off My Woman (Motherfucker)”
- Michelle Branch — “Love Me Like That (ft. Sheryl Crow)”
- Millencolin — “The Ballad”
- Deftones — “7 Words”
- Presidents of the United States of America — “Back Porch”
- Den Gale Pose — “Spaendt Op Til Lir”
- Skold — “Neverland”
- Depeche Mode — “Somebody”
- Mike and the Mechanics — “All I Need Is A Miracle”
- Dr Hook and the Medicine Show — “Cover of the Rolling Stone”
- Oingo Boingo — “Weird Science”
- Duran Duran — “Notorious”
- Juvenile — “Back That Ass Up”
- E-40 — “U and Dat Booty”
- Enrique Iglesias — “One Night Stand”
- Rammstein — “Feuer Frei”
- Echo and the Bunnymen — “The Killing Moon”
- The Outfield — “Your Love
- Electric Hellfire Club — “Very Groovy Boots”
- Bryan Adams — “All For Love (with Sting and Rod Stewart)”
- Enrique Iglesias — “Escape” and “Don’t Turn Out the Lights”
- Rasputina — “The Mayor”
- Erasure — “Little Respect”
- PJ Harvey — “Naked Cousin”
- Europe — “The Final Countdown” (also the techno version and the instrumental version)
- Beastie Boys — “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”
- Evanescence — “Going Under”
- Fiona Apple — “Fast As You Can”
- Chumbawamba — “Amnesia”
- Faith No More — “We Care A Lot”
- Bloodhound Gang — “Mope”
- Fenix TX — “Fortunate Son”
- Rasputina — “Wicked Dickie”
- Fiona Apple — “Criminal”
- Cypress Hill — “Rock Superstar”
- Flaming Lips — “Yoshimi vs. the Pink Robots”
- Skinny Puppy — “Rodent”
- Genesis — “No Son of Mine”
- Ludacris — “Area Codes” (John Mayer cover is better)
- Gogol Bordello — “Not a Crime”
- Gwen Stefani — “Hollaback Girl” (this song is bananas)
- Hall and Oates — “I Can’t Go For That”
- Lords of Acid — “Rover Take Over”
- Green Day — “American Idiot”
- David Hasselhoff — “Looking For Freedom”
- Guttermouth — “Lipstick”
- Wham! — “Wake Me Up Before You Go”
- Hall and Oates — “Kiss on my List”
- Gwen Stefani — “Rich Girl”
- Tenacious D — “Dio”
- Joe Jackson — “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”
- Happy Campers — “I Finally Wrote A Love Song”
- Gogol Bordello — “Go Revolutions”
- Herbie Hancock — “Rock It”
- Atom and His Package — “Punk Rock Academy”
- Tenacious D — “Rock Your Socks”
- Hog — “You and Me”
- They Might Be Giants — “Hall of Heads”
- Home Grown — “All That You Have”
- Hall and Oates — “Out of Touch”
- The Hush Sound — “Wine Red (Tommie Sunshine’s Brooklyn Fire Retouch)”
- Tenacious D — “Tribute”
- Less Than Jake — “Jen Doesn’t Like Me Anymore”
- Jamiroquai — “Canned Heat”
- Sugar Ray — “10 Seconds Down”
- Jimmie’s Chicken Shack — “High”
- Me First and the Gimme Gimmies — “Crazy”
- Lollipop Lust Kill — “Everything, I”
- Johnny Cash — “One Piece at a Time”
- Nine Inch Nails — “The Becoming”
- Journey — “Separate Ways”
- Kelly Clarkson — “Because of You”
- Me First and the Gimme Gimmies — “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”
- Wheatus — “Lemonade”
- Juno Reactor — “Pistolero (Radio Edit)”
- Bryan Adams — “The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You”
- Lordi — “Chainsaw Buffet”
- Kelis — “Milkshake”
- The Proclaimers — “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”
- Kelly Clarkson — “Since U Been Gone”
- Violent Femmes — many songs (“Gone Daddy Gone”, “Dance MF Dance”, “Kiss Off”, “Add It Up” and even “Blister in the Sun”)
- L7 — “Shit List”
- Lordi — “Blood Red Sandman”
- Snog — “Hey, Christian God”
- Lindsay Lohan — “Over”
- Falco — “Rock Me Amadeus”
- Live — “I Alone”
- Mindless Self-Indulgence — “Kill the Rock”
- No Use For a Name — “Coming Too Close”
- Lordi — “Would You Love a Monsterman?”
- Rammstein — “Stripped”
- MC Hawking — “What We Need More of is Science”
- Ministry — “N.W.O.”
- Michael Jackson — “Man in the Mirror”
- Mindless Self-Indulgence — “Harry Truman”
- Jewel — “Standing Still”
- Meco — “Star Wars Theme”
- Lollipop Lust Kill — “Knee Deep in the Dead”
- Ministry — “Thieves”
- Men Without Hats — “The Safety Dance”
- The Four Tops — “Bernadette”
- Mindless Self-Indulgence — “I Hate Jimmy Page”
- Michael Jackson — “Smooth Criminal”
- Huey Lewis — “Walking on a Thin Line
- Ministry — “Revenge”
- Snog — “Real Estate Man”
- Missing Persons — “Destination Unknown”
- Frank Zappa — “Broken Hearts Are For Assholes”
- Monifah — “Touch It”
- Nirvana — “D7”
- Morris Day and the Time — “Jungle Love”
- Oakenfold — “Switch On”
- Mindless Self Indulgence — “Straight to Video”
- Mr. Big — “To Be With You”
- Nine Inch Nails — “Only”
- Rob Zombie — “Demon Speeding”
- Nerina Pallot — “Everybody’s Gone to War”
- Oakenfold — “Set It Off”
- Huey Lewis — “Hip to Be Square”
- New Order — “Blue Monday”
- Orgy — “Opticon”
- The B-52s — “Mesopotamia”
- Nine Inch Nails — “Into the Void”
- Wheatus — “Freak On”
- Oakenfold — “Sex N Money”
- Bad Religion — “Struck a Nerve”
- Orgy — “Dissention”
- The Clash — “Rock the Casbah”
- Outhere Brothers — “I Want to #### You”
- Huey Lewis and the News — “I Want a New Drug”
- Outkast — “The Way You Move”
- The Gap Band — “You Dropped a Bomb on Me”
- Parry Gripp — “Mucho Cafeino, Pico Dinero”
- Primus — “Mr. Knowitall”
- Peter Gabriel — “In Your Eyes”
- The B-52s — “Private Idaho”
- Pat McCurdy — “Screw You”
- MC5 — “Kick Out the Jams”
- Pet Shop Boys — “West End Girls”
- Primus — “Tommy the Cat (ft. Tom Waits)”
- Protein — “Slightly Bitchy Philosopher Dream Chick Meets The Insecure Martian Prophet”
- Everclear — “El Distorto de Melodica”
- Peter Gabriel — “Salisbury Hill”
- Prodigy — “Their Law”
- The Network — “Hungry Hungry”
- Phil Collins — “Something Happened on the Way to Heaven”
- Protein — “Maybe the World Isn’t Round”
- Less Than Jake — “Where The Hell Is Mike Sinkovich?”
- Primus — “Professor Nutbutter”
- Atom and His Package — “Possession (Not the One By Danzig)”
- Prodigy — “Breathe”
- Wheatus — “Teenage Dirtbag”
- Protein — “Lemonade”
- Gerardo — “Rico Suave”
- Pseudo Echo — “His Eyes”
- Phil Collins — “Sussudio”
- Rage Against the Machine — “Take the Power Back”
- Everclear — “Volvo Driving Soccer Mom”
- Rammstein — “Mein Herz Brent”
- Less Than Jake — “The Ghosts of Me and You”
- Screeching Weasel — “Cool Kids”
- Local H — “PJ Soles”
- Seal — “Crazy”
- Paula Abdul — “Straight Up”
- Sheamus Fitzpatrick and the McNally Boys — “Mr. Jig”
- The Dead Milkmen — “Punk Rock Girl”
- Simon and Garfunkel — “Sound of Silence”
- Frank Zappa — “Joe’s Garage”
- Stabbing Westward — “Violent Mood Swings”
- Men at Work — “Down Under” (especially acoustic)
- Sugarhill Gang — “Apache”
- Everclear — “Normal Like You”
- Supertramp — “Bloody Well Right”
- Local H — “Back in the Day”
- Suzanne Vega — “Tom’s Diner”
- The Toadies — “Possum Kingdom”
- System of a Down — “Violent Pornography”
- Tool — “Eulogy”
- Skinny Puppy — “Sleeping Beast”
- They Might Be Giants — “Ondine”
- Mylo — “Destroy Rock and Roll”
- Tommy James — “Crimson and Clover”
- Type O Negative — “Everyone I Love is Dead”
- Frank Zappa — “Dancin’ Fool”
- Tool — “Aenima”
- Winger — “Seventeen”
- Traveling Wilburys — “Tweeter and the Monkey Man”
- Local H — “President Forever”
- Wesley Willis — “They Threw Me Out of Church”
- Type O Negative — “Everything Dies”
- Apollo 440 — “Tears of the Gods”
- Vandals — “Girls Turn 18 Every Day”
- Mylo — “Paris Four Hundred”
- Weather Girls — “It’s Raining Men”
- Wesley Willis — “I Whupped Mighty Thor’s Ass” (and many more)
May 8th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Very nice. . .especially number 3. . .it makes me want to go listen to it now. . .
[Gavin notes: by “number 3”, Katie is referring to They Might Be Giants’ “She’s An Angel”, which may not be in third by the time this list is completed.]
July 30th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
i gave you the benefit of the doubt for about 2 minutes, giving your posts some thought. then i saw your music list with fergie at No. 1 and all credibility was revoked.
i would shut down your site if i could.