Top 100 songs nominated by Time magazine editors

[JerseyGirl]

Top 100 songs nominated by Time magazine editors

TRACKS by Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Nirvana and Michael Jackson have been named among the All-Time 100 Songs by Time magazine editors.

Although the magazine did not rank the songs in any order, it nominated songs from each decade from 1920 onwards.

The Beatles are represented by 1963's I Want To Hold Your Hand, a song Time says changed pop music and was "the best example of how John Lennon and Paul McCartney's voices and songwriting gifts could intertwine ... to be inseparable".

Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is bypassed for Immigrant Song, while Thunder Road is singled out for Bruce Springsteen.

Time has chosen Borderline as Madonna's finest work, Kiss as Prince's best single and Billie Jean as Jackson's masterpiece.

The list stretches as far back as Duke Ellington's It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), Judy Garland's Over the Rainbow, Al Jolson's My Mammy, The Andrews Sisters' Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and Bing Crosby's White Christmas.

Time's All-Time 100 Songs

2000s

Janelle Monae...Tightrope
Missy Elliott...Get Ur Freak On
Outkast...Hey Ya!
Arcade Fire...Wake Up
Kanye West...Gold Digger
Lil Wayne...Georgia Bush
LCD Soundsystem...All My Friends
Beyonce...Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Lady Gaga...Bad Romance

1990s

Sinead OConnor...Nothing Compares 2 U
Pet Shop Boys...Being Boring
Nirvana...Smells Like Teen Spirit
Richard Thompson...1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Wu-Tang Clan...C.R.E.A.M.
A Tribe Called Quest...Scenario
The Notorious B.I.G....Juicy
Tupac Shakur...California Love (Remix)
Pulp...Common People
Radiohead...Paranoid Android


1980s

Joy Division...Love Will Tear Us Apart
George Jones...He Stopped Loving Her Today
Michael Jackson...Billie Jean
New Order...Blue Monday
Prince...Kiss
Metallica...Master of Puppets
R.E.M....Its the End of the World as We Know It
Lucinda Williams...Pineola
Public Enemy...Fight the Power
Madonna...Borderline

1970s

The Melodians...Rivers of Babylon
James Brown...Get Up (I Feel like Being a) Sex Machine
Led Zeppelin...Immigrant Song
Black Sabbath...Iron Man
Joni Mitchell...A Case of You
The Who...Baba ORiley
Stevie Wonder...Superstition
Dolly Parton...Jolene
Big Star...September Gurls
Bonnie Raitt...Angel from Montgomery
Fela Kuti...Zombie
Bruce Springsteen...Thunder Road
Queen...Bohemian Rhapsody
Donna Summer...I Feel Love
Bee Gees...Stayin' Alive
David Bowie...Heroes
Ramones...I Wanna Be Sedated
Fleetwood Mac...Dreams
Peter Tosh...Equal Rights
Parliament...One Nation Under a Groove
Velvet Underground...Rock & Roll
Loretta Lynn...Coal Miners Daughter

1960s

Bob Dylan...Subterranean Homesick Blues
Patsy Cline...Crazy
Roy Orbison...Crying
The Ronettes...Be My Baby
The Beatles...I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Astrud Gilberto...The Girl from Ipanema
The Supremes...Where Did Our Love Go?
The Beach Boys...God Only Knows
Aretha Franklin...I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
Marvin Gaye...I Heard It Through the Grapevine
The Band...The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Big Mama Thornton...Ball n Chain
Jackson 5...I Want You Back
The Rolling Stones...Gimme Shelter
Crosby, Stills and Nash...Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Otis Redding...I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
Johnny Cash...Folsom Prison Blues

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[Lynch]

Interesting. Let me be the first to say that of the ones from the 2000's, if any of them were on fire, I wouldn't piss on them to put them out.


Edit: Let me add the 1990's to that as well, other than Nothing Compares 2 U, but the rest ... yeah, throw them on the same firepit.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Interesting. Let me be the first to say that of the ones from the 2000's, if any of them were on fire, I wouldn't piss on them to put them out.

I thought something similar, but not quite that.

 

[Lynch]

 

[TheWhalerfan]

Ugh..were the 2000's really that bad? I guess so

 

[Lynch]

Ugh..were the 2000's really that bad? I guess so

There was some really good music in the 2000's, but compared to previous decades, it's far and few in between (IMHO). However, expecting any of the dimwits who voted on these songs to know and/or recognize those bands is obviously pretty fruitless.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Queens of the stone age should be on that list, but no. worthless list from a bunch of idiots.

 

[That 70s Guy]

THAT is one hurting list!!

 

[Slip'nn2Darkness]

Interesting. Let me be the first to say that of the ones from the 2000's, if any of them were on fire, I wouldn't piss on them to put them out.


Edit: Let me add the 1990's to that as well, other than Nothing Compares 2 U, but the rest ... yeah, throw them on the same firepit.

:snicker: 2000 is mostly Rap and R&B.. nothing like rubbing it in to all us rockers!!

 

[ILoveJimmyPage]

Get Ur Freak On is a club song at best. They really add to the mindset that all hip-hop or R&B is shallow crap. You can actually find some deep, soulful stuff if you try.

Seems to me they tried to incorporate a wide variety of genres into this list, whereas you'd usually see a whole lotta rock music and timeless iconic pop tunes on most lists. I think they overcompensated. I mean, California Love? Give me a break!

Oh, and Borderline? I'd have chosen Like a Prayer or Holiday over Borderline as far as Madge goes.