Time's All-Time 100 — nevertwenty

1
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan
2
Jailhouse Rock
Elvis Presley
3
Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash
4
My Mammy
Al Jolson
5
St. Louis Blues
Bessie Smith
6
Ol' Man River
Paul Robeson
7
I Got Rhythm
Ethel Merman
8
This Land Is Your Land
Woody Guthrie
9
Rivers of Babylon
The Melodians
10
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division
11
Nothing Compares 2 U
Sinéad O'Connor
12
Get Ur Freak On
Missy Elliott
13
Tightrope
Janelle Monáe
14
Wildwood Flower
The Carter Family
15
Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday
16
How High the Moon
Les Paul & Mary Ford
17
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Kitty Wells
18
Take This Hammer
Odetta
19
Tutti Frutti
Little Richard
20
That'll Be the Day
Buddy Holly
21
Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry
22
What'd I Say
Ray Charles
23
God Only Knows
The Beach Boys
24
Thunder Road
Bruce Springsteen
25
I've Got You Under My Skin
Frank Sinatra
26
Heroes
David Bowie
27
Blue Monday
New Order
28
Being Boring
Pet Shop Boys
29
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Richard Thompson
30
C.R.E.A.M.
Wu-Tang Clan
31
Scenario
A Tribe Called Quest
32
Paranoid Android
Radiohead
33
Georgia… Bush
Lil Wayne
34
White Christmas
Bing Crosby
35
Move On Up a Little Higher
Mahalia Jackson
36
Cold, Cold Heart
Hank Williams
37
Angel from Montgomery
Bonnie Raitt
38
Zombie
Fela Kuti
39
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
40
I Feel Love
Donna Summer
41
Stayin' Alive
Bee Gees
42
I Wanna Be Sedated
Ramones
43
Dreams
Fleetwood Mac
44
Equal Rights
Peter Tosh
45
One Nation Under a Groove
Funkadelic
46
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones
47
Billie Jean
Michael Jackson
48
Kiss
Prince
49
Master of Puppets
Metallica
50
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
R.E.M.
51
Fight the Power
Public Enemy
52
Pineola
Lucinda Williams
53
Sentimental Journey
Doris Day
54
Minnie the Moocher
Cab Calloway
55
Cheek to Cheek
Fred Astaire
56
Star Dust
Louis Armstrong
57
Where or When
Ray Heatherton
58
Over the Rainbow
Judy Garland
59
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan
60
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Duke Ellington
61
Immigrant Song
Led Zeppelin
62
Superstition
Stevie Wonder
63
September Gurls
Big Star
64
Juicy
The Notorious B.I.G.
65
California Love [Remix]
2Pac
66
Common People
Pulp
67
Hey Ya!
Outkast
68
99 Problems
Jay-Z
69
Gold Digger
Kanye West (featuring Jamie Foxx)
70
All My Friends
LCD Soundsystem
71
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Beyoncé
72
Bad Romance
Lady Gaga
73
Stormy Weather
Lena Horne
74
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
The Andrews Sisters
75
It Had to Be You
Betty Hutton
76
Der Fuehrer's Face
Spike Jones
77
Where Did Our Love Go?
The Supremes
78
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
Aretha Franklin
79
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye
80
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Band
81
Ball 'n' Chain
Big Mama Thornton
82
I Want You Back
Jackson 5
83
Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones
84
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Crosby, Stills & Nash
85
Rock & Roll
The Velvet Underground
86
Get Up (I Feel like Being a) Sex Machine
James Brown
87
Iron Man
Black Sabbath
88
A Case of You
Joni Mitchell
89
Baba O'Riley
The Who
90
Jolene
Dolly Parton
91
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana
92
Wake Up
Arcade Fire
93
Crazy
Patsy Cline
94
Crying
Roy Orbison
95
Be My Baby
The Ronettes
96
I Want to Hold Your Hand
The Beatles
97
The Girl from Ipanema
Astrud Gilberto
98
Borderline
Madonna
99
Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn
100
I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
Otis Redding

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