NME's 500 Greatest Songs
Source:
NME’s 500 Greatest Songs
top 500
1
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana
2
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division
3
I Feel Love
Donna Summer
4
How Soon Is Now?
The Smiths
5
Last Nite
The Strokes
6
Common People
Pulp
7
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
Arctic Monkeys
8
Blue Monday
New Order
9
Be My Baby
The Ronettes
10
Good Vibrations
The Beach Boys
11
Eleanor Rigby
The Beatles
12
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths
13
Live Forever
Oasis
14
God Only Knows
The Beach Boys
15
Heroes
David Bowie
16
Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes
17
A Day in the Life
The Beatles
18
Hey Ya!
Outkast
19
Heart of Glass
Blondie
20
Girls and Boys
Blur
21
Ghost Town
The Specials
22
There She Goes
The La's
23
Waterloo Sunset
The Kinks
24
Hurricane
Bob Dylan
25
Wake Up
Arcade Fire
26
Losing My Edge
LCD Soundsystem
27
God Save the Queen
Sex Pistols
28
Time for Heroes
The Libertines
29
Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones
30
Once in a Lifetime
Talking Heads
31
Fools Gold
The Stone Roses
32
London Calling
The Clash
33
Animal Nitrate
Suede
34
Life on Mars?
David Bowie
35
Strawberry Fields Forever
The Beatles
36
Wonderwall
Oasis
37
River Deep, Mountain High
Ike and Tina Turner
38
Nothing Compares 2 U
Sinead O'Connor
39
Maps
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
40
99 Problems
Jay-Z
41
Back to Black
Amy Winehouse
42
The Universal
Blur
43
A Design for Life
Manic Street Preachers
44
Debaser
Pixies
45
Paranoid Android
Radiohead
46
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye
47
Like a Prayer
Madonna
48
Boys Don't Cry
The Cure
49
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan
50
Walk on the Wild Side
Lou Reed
51
Ashes to Ashes
David Bowie
52
One More Time
Daft Punk
53
Paper Planes
M.I.A.
54
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
55
The Model
Kraftwerk
56
Sabotage
Beastie Boys
57
Billie Jean
Michael Jackson
58
Suspicious Minds
Elvis Presley
59
Loaded
Primal Scream
60
Babies
Pulp
61
True Faith
New Order
62
Young Americans
David Bowie
63
Unfinished Sympathy
Massive Attack
64
This Charming Man
The Smiths
65
Stand by Me
Ben E. King
66
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A
67
Cigarettes & Alcohol
Oasis
68
Blackbird
The Beatles
69
(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
The Clash
70
My Generation
The Who
71
Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
Buzzcocks
72
Venus in Furs
The Velvet Underground
73
Sheela-Na-Gig
PJ Harvey
74
Take Me Out
Franz Ferdinand
75
Dry Your Eyes
The Streets
76
Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush
77
Hey Jude
The Beatles
78
Into My Arms
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
79
Fell in Love with a Girl
The White Stripes
80
Taxman
The Beatles
81
Niggas in Paris
Jay-Z and Kanye West
82
Crazy in Love
Beyoncé
83
Complete Control
The Clash
84
Anarchy in the U.K.
Sex Pistols
85
Everyday Is Like Sunday
Morrissey
86
Get Ur Freak On
Missy Elliott
87
Video Games
Lana Del Rey
88
Lose Yourself
Eminem
89
Hallelujah
Jeff Buckley
90
Time to Pretend
MGMT
91
All My Friends
LCD Soundsystem
92
Toxic
Britney Spears
93
Gold Digger
Kanye West
94
Do You Realize??
The Flaming Lips
95
Fight the Power
Public Enemy
96
What a Waster
The Libertines
97
The Message
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
98
Killing in the Name
Rage Against the Machine
99
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age
100
I Am the Resurrection
The Stone Roses
101
Losing My Religion
R.E.M.
102
Motorcycle Emptiness
Manic Street Preachers
103
Superstition
Stevie Wonder
104
The Drowners
Suede
105
Song 2
Blur
106
Don't Look Back in Anger
Oasis
107
House of Jealous Lovers
The Rapture
108
Running Up That Hill
Kate Bush
109
Standing in the Way of Control
The Gossip
110
Ice Hockey Hair
Super Furry Animals
111
Rescue Me
Fontella Bass
112
Supersonic
Oasis
113
When Doves Cry
Prince
114
Step On
Happy Mondays
115
Bitter Sweet Symphony
The Verve
116
Mr Brightside
The Killers
117
Geno
Dexys Midnight Runners
118
Someday
The Strokes
119
Waterfall
The Stone Roses
120
Virginia Plain
Roxy Music
121
Celebrity Skin
Hole
122
Hotel Yorba
The White Stripes
123
Purple Rain
Prince
124
Teenage Kicks
The Undertones
125
Disco 2000
Pulp
126
Just Like Honey
The Jesus and Mary Chain
127
Regulate
Warren G and Nate Dogg
128
Eton Rifles
The Jam
129
A Change Is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke
130
Wichita Lineman
Glen Campbell
131
Jumpin' Jack Flash
The Rolling Stones
132
Pretty Vacant
The Sex Pistols
133
Gigantic
Pixies
134
Over and Over
Hot Chip
135
The Only One I Know
The Charlatans
136
Paint It Black
The Rolling Stones
137
Men's Needs
The Cribs
138
Monster
Kanye West
139
No Woman, No Cry
Bob Marley
140
Windowlicker
Aphex Twin
141
Alone Again Or
Love
142
Creep
Radiohead
143
Hello Goodbye
The Beatles
144
Atomic
Blondie
145
Some Velvet Morning
Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra
146
Soon
My Bloody Valentine
147
Number 9 Dream
John Lennon
148
West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys
149
All the Young Dudes
Mott the Hoople
150
(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding
151
Follow the Leader
Eric B and Rakim
152
Dancing in the Street
Martha Reeves
153
Freak Scene
Dinosaur Jr
154
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
James Brown
155
Ace of Spades
Motörhead
156
I Want to Hold Your Hand
The Beatles
157
Louie, Louie
The Kingsmen
158
Tiny Dancer
Elton John
159
Purple Haze
Jimi Hendrix
160
Transmission
Joy Division
161
The Son of a Preacher Man
Dusty Springfield
162
Changes
David Bowie
163
I Want You Back
The Jackson Five
164
Fix Up, Look Sharp
Dizzee Rascal
165
Cannonball
The Breeders
166
Fight for Your Right to Party
Beastie Boys
167
Temporary Secretary
Paul McCartney
168
Daniel
Bat for Lashes
169
Green Onions
Booker T and the MGs
170
Higher Than the Sun
Primal Scream
171
A-Punk
Vampire Weekend
172
Someone Great
LCD Soundsystem
173
Rebel Without a Pause
Public Enemy
174
Yes
McAlmont & Butler
175
Won't Get Fooled Again
The Who
176
Can't Stand Me Now
The Libertines
177
Roll Over Beethoven
Chuck Berry
178
The Tracks of My Tears
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
179
Never Understand
The Jesus and Mary Chain
180
Shake Some Action
The Flamin' Groovies
181
Protect Ya Neck
Wu-Tang Clan
182
I Can See for Miles
The Who
183
No Good (Start the Dance)
The Prodigy
184
Under Pressure
Queen and David Bowie
185
There Goes the Fear
Doves
186
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan
187
The Concept
Teenage Fanclub
188
Mardy Bum
Arctic Monkeys
189
Don't Look Back Into the Sun
The Libertines
190
Shoot Speed/Kill Light
Primal Scream
191
Nowhere to Run
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
192
Sign O' the Times
Prince
193
Tender
Blur
194
Alright
Supergrass
195
Atmosphere
Joy Division
196
Made of Stone
The Stone Roses
197
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Pixies
198
This Is a Low
Blur
199
Light My Fire
The Doors
200
Where Is My Mind?
Pixies
201
I'm Waiting for the Man
The Velvet Underground
202
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
203
Crazy
Patsy Cline
204
Fairytale of New York
The Pogues and Kirsty McColl
205
Reptilia
The Strokes
206
Rise
PIL
207
Levi Stubbs' Tears
Billy Bragg
208
Da Funk
Daft Punk
209
Jealous Guy
John Lennon
210
Hit the North
The Fall
211
You Keep Me Hangin' On
The Supremes
212
Radio Free Europe
R.E.M.
213
Here Comes Your Man
Pixies
214
Solsbury Hill
Peter Gabriel
215
Lithium
Nirvana
216
Rip It Up
Orange Juice
217
Faster
Manic Street Preachers
218
Straight to You
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
219
You Really Got Me
The Kinks
220
End of a Century
Blur
221
Mrs Robinson
Simon and Garfunkel
222
Golden Skans
Klaxons
223
Electricity
Spiritualized
224
Birthday
The Sugarcubes
225
Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
James Brown
226
Respect
Aretha Franklin
227
Sympathy for the Devil
The Rolling Stones
228
Temptation
New Order
229
Oblivion
Grimes
230
Ms Jackson
Outkast
231
Do I Wanna Know?
Arctic Monkeys
232
(Don't Fear) the Reaper
Blue Öyster Cult
233
Get It On
T. Rex
234
Psycho Killer
Talking Heads
235
Jailhouse Rock
Elvis Presley
236
In Between Days
The Cure
237
Blitzkrieg Bop
The Ramones
238
Tupelo
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
239
Whatever
Oasis
240
Rent
Pet Shop Boys
241
Sour Times
Portishead
242
Public Image
PIL
243
Dry the Rain
The Beta Band
244
Motown Junk
Manic Street Preachers
245
Fuck Forever
Babyshambles
246
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Jimi Hendrix
247
Intergalactic
Beastie Boys
248
My Girls
Animal Collective
249
Sexy Boy
Air
250
Space Oddity
David Bowie
251
Oliver's Army
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
252
Still D.R.E.
Dr Dre
253
Come On Eileen
Dexys Midnight Runners
254
This Is Hardcore
Pulp
255
Got Your Money
Ol' Dirty Bastard
256
Sea Within a Sea
The Horrors
257
Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Queens of the Stone Age
258
Walk This Way
Run-DMC feat. Aerosmith
259
Waterfalls
TLC
260
Sexx Laws
Beck
261
Born Slippy .NUXX
Underworld
262
Music Sounds Better with You
Stardust
263
Hound Dog
Elvis Presley
264
Paperback Writer
The Beatles
265
Empire State of Mind
Jay-Z
266
Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)
The Jacksons
267
Trash
Suede
268
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Saint Etienne
269
Perfect Day
Lou Reed
270
My Sweet Lord
George Harrison
271
You Love Us
Manic Street Preachers
272
Hallelujah
Happy Mondays
273
Leave Them All Behind
Ride
274
Reach Out I'll Be There
The Four Tops
275
Little Fluffy Clouds
The Orb
276
My Name Is
Eminem
277
Tangled Up in Blue
Bob Dylan
278
Hounds of Love
Kate Bush
279
Velouria
Pixies
280
She Loves You
The Beatles
281
One Day Like This
Elbow
282
Connection
Elastica
283
Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Smiths
284
Caught by the Fuzz
Supergrass
285
Crimewave
Crystal Castles
286
Band on the Run
Wings
287
Get Lucky
Daft Punk
288
It's a Man's Man's Man's World
James Brown
289
Rebellion (Lies)
Arcade Fire
290
Daddy's Gone
Glasvegas
291
Shipbuilding
Robert Wyatt
292
Mr Blue Sky
Electric Light Orchestra
293
For Lovers
Wolfman feat. Pete Doherty
294
Family Affair
Sly and the Family Stone
295
Fashion
David Bowie
296
Words That Maketh Murder
PJ Harvey
297
You Can't Always Get What You Want
The Rolling Stones
298
Jump Around
House of Pain
299
Crash
The Primitives
300
20th Century Boy
T. Rex
301
Enjoy the Silence
Depeche Mode
302
Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead
303
Suzanne
Leonard Cohen
304
Something
The Beatles
305
Tainted Love
Soft Cell
306
Beetlebum
Blur
307
Going Underground
The Jam
308
Spanish Sahara
Foals
309
Outdoor Miner
Wire
310
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
The Temptations
311
Ticket to Ride
The Beatles
312
History
The Verve
313
1999
Prince
314
Kick Out the Jams
MC5
315
All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix
316
Here
Pavement
317
Zero
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
318
Ring of Fire
Johnny Cash
319
One Nation Under a Groove
Funkadelic
320
Brimful of Asha
Cornershop
321
Itchycoo Park
Small Faces
322
Big Time Sensuality
Björk
323
Personal Jesus
Depeche Mode
324
Destroy the Heart
House of Love
325
Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday
326
Sexual Healing
Marvin Gaye
327
Man in the Mirror
Michael Jackson
328
My Favourite Dress
The Wedding Present
329
Two Steps, Twice
Foals
330
Novocaine for the Soul
Eels
331
Karmacoma
Massive Attack
332
Rave On!
Buddy Holly
333
Go West
Pet Shop Boys
334
She Bangs the Drums
The Stone Roses
335
The Man Don't Give a Fuck
Super Furry Animals
336
Come Together
The Beatles
337
All Day and All of the Night
The Kinks
338
DARE
Gorillaz
339
Because the Night
Patti Smith
340
Stan
Eminem
341
Caught Out There
Kelis
342
Club Foot
Kasabian
343
California Dreamin'
The Mamas and the Papas
344
Runaway
Kanye West
345
Fluorescent Adolescent
Arctic Monkeys
346
Only You
Yazoo
347
Clint Eastwood
Gorillaz
348
Eight Miles High
The Byrds
349
Just Can't Get Enough
Depeche Mode
350
Rehab
Amy Winehouse
351
Float On
Modest Mouse
352
The Boxer
Simon and Garfunkel
353
Hey Boy Hey Girl
The Chemical Brothers
354
Loser
Beck
355
Millionaire
Kelis
356
Close to Me
The Cure
357
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
The Walker Brothers
358
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
359
For Tomorrow
Blur
360
Pictures of You
The Cure
361
Paid in Full
Eric B and Rakim
362
Enter Sandman
Metallica
363
Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival
364
Killing of a Flash Boy
Suede
365
Teen Age Riot
Sonic Youth
366
Friday I'm in Love
The Cure
367
Voodoo Ray
A Guy Called Gerald
368
You Made Me Realise
My Bloody Valentine
369
Half the World Away
Oasis
370
The Wild Ones
Suede
371
Hyperballad
Björk
372
Don't Believe the Hype
Public Enemy
373
Brianstorm
Arctic Monkeys
374
Love Action (I Believe in Love)
The Human League
375
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Michael Jackson
376
Roadrunner
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
377
Bennie and the Jets
Elton John
378
Where the Wild Roses Grow
Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue
379
I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
The Byrds
380
Piledriver Waltz
Arctic Monkeys
381
Kids
MGMT
382
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Beatles
383
Lapdance
N*E*R*D
384
Typical Girls
The Slits
385
Champagne Supernova
Oasis
386
Cut Your Hair
Pavement
387
Oh, Pretty Woman
Roy Orbison
388
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
The Smiths
389
There's No Other Way
Blur
390
Me and Julio Down by the School Yard
Paul Simon
391
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
392
I Feel for You
Chaka Khan
393
To the End
Blur
394
No More Heroes
The Stranglers
395
Sheila
Jamie T
396
The Real Slim Shady
Eminem
397
The Mercy Seat
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
398
Us
Regina Spektor
399
Slide Away
Oasis
400
Learn to Fly
Foo Fighters
401
Television, the Drug of the Nation
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
402
The Boys Are Back in Town
Thin Lizzy
403
Reverend Black Grape
Black Grape
404
Where the Streets Have No Name
U2
405
Bad Girls
M.I.A.
406
Breezeblocks
Alt-J
407
Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
The Ramones
408
Fake Tales of San Francisco
Arctic Monkeys
409
Baby, I Love You
The Ronettes
410
Hurt
Nine Inch Nails
411
Waiting Room
Fugazi
412
Paris
Friendly Fires
413
Watching the Detectives
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
414
Another Girl, Another Planet
The Only Ones
415
You're So Vain
Carly Simon
416
Chemical World
Blur
417
Marbles
Tindersticks
418
Come As You Are
Nirvana
419
Start!
The Jam
420
Yellow
Coldplay
421
Holland, 1945
Neutral Milk Hotel
422
The Book of Love
The Magnetic Fields
423
Paradise City
Guns N' Roses
424
Down by the Water
PJ Harvey
425
Plug in Baby
Muse
426
Elephant
Tame Impala
427
Hate to Say I Told You So
The Hives
428
Golden Years
David Bowie
429
Uptown Top Ranking
Althea and Donna
430
Shame, Shame, Shame
Shirley & Co.
431
Shame, Shame, Shame
Shirley and Company
432
The Drugs Don't Work
The Verve
433
One Armed Scissor
At the Drive-In
434
Sunny Afternoon
The Kinks
435
R U Mine?
Arctic Monkeys
436
The Bucket
Kings of Leon
437
Nelson Mandela
Special AKA
438
Material Girl
Madonna
439
Pills and Soap
The Imposter
440
Where It's At
Beck
441
I Fought the Law
Bobby Fuller Four
442
Witness (1 Hope)
Roots Manuva
443
Sorted for E's and Wizz
Pulp
444
Open Up
Leftfield
445
Popscene
Blur
446
Tumbling Dice
The Rolling Stones
447
Do You Remember the First Time?
Pulp
448
The Scientist
Coldplay
449
A New England
Billy Bragg
450
I Am the Walrus
The Beatles
451
Setting Sun
The Chemical Brothers
452
Whole Lotta Love
Led Zeppelin
453
A Town Called Malice
The Jam
454
Race for the Prize
The Flaming Lips
455
One Way or Another
Blondie
456
What's My Name?
Snoop Doggy Dogg
457
Firestarter
Prodigy
458
Umbrella
Rihanna feat. Jay-Z
459
Lust for Life
Iggy Pop
460
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
R.E.M.
461
Live and Let Die
Wings
462
If You Wanna
The Vaccines
463
I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor
464
About a Girl
Nirvana
465
Goddess on a Hiway
Mercury Rev
466
Push It
Salt-N-Pepa
467
Star Sign
Teenage Fanclub
468
Dreaming of You
The Coral
469
Bloodbuzz Ohio
The National
470
Movin' on Up
Primal Scream
471
Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns N' Roses
472
Best of Friends
Palma Violets
473
Lola
The Kinks
474
Disarm
Smashing Pumpkins
475
Crazy
Gnarls Barkley
476
Imagine
John Lennon
477
Nuthin' But a G Thang
Dr Dre
478
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
479
Wouldn't It Be Nice
The Beach Boys
480
Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie
481
The Killing Moon
Echo and the Bunnymen
482
Darts of Pleasure
Franz Ferdinand
483
Come to Daddy
Aphex Twin
484
Some Might Say
Oasis
485
Starman
David Bowie
486
Across 110th Street
Bobby Womack
487
Suedehead
Morrissey
488
Golden Brown
The Stranglers
489
Red Right Hand
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
490
Riders on the Storm
The Doors
491
One
Johnny Cash
492
New York City Cops
The Strokes
493
Overload
Sugababes
494
Everybody Hurts
R.E.M.
495
Patio Song
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
496
Hey Joe
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
497
Kill All Hippies
Primal Scream
498
Girl From Mars
Ash
499
Out of Time
Blur
500
Five Years
David Bowie
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