Time Magazine's 100 Greatest Songs from the 1920's to the present

[Woops]

Unlike most lists, it's not in any specific order, though still disagree with the choices.

All-TIME 100 Songs
Our critics pick the most extraordinary English-language pop recordings since the beginning of TIME magazine in 1923. Here are 100 (unranked) songs of enduring beauty, power and inventiveness

Or popular songs placed with personal favorites from the journalists, the editor, or whoever...

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2000s 10
Tightrope’ - Janelle Monae
‘Get Ur Freak On’ - Missy Elliot
‘Hey Ya!’ - Outkast
’99 Problems’ - Jay-Z
‘Wake Up’ - Arcade Fire
‘Gold Digger’ (featuring Jamie Foxx) - Kanye West
‘Georgia… Bush’ - Lil Wayne
‘All My Friends’ - LCD Soundsystem
‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’ - Beyonce
‘Bad Romance’ - Lady Gaga

1990s 10

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

1980s 10
‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ - Joy Division
‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’ - George Jones
‘Billie Jean’ - Michael Jackson
‘Blue Monday’ - New Order
‘Kiss’ - Prince
‘Master of Puppets’ - Metallica
‘It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’ - REM
‘Pineola’ - Lucinda Williams
‘Fight the Power’ - Public Enemy
‘Borderline’ - Madonna

1970s 22
‘Rivers of Babylon’ - The Melodians
‘Get Up (I Feel like Being a) Sex Machine’ - James Brown
‘Immigrant Song’ - Led Zeppelin
‘Iron Man’ - Black Sabbath
‘A Case of You’ - Joni Mitchell
‘Baba O’Riley’ - The Who
‘Superstition’ - Stevie Wonder
‘Jolene’ - Dolly Parton
‘September Gurls’ - Big Star
‘Angel from Montgomery’ - Bonnie Raitt
‘Zombie’ - Fela Kuti
‘Thunder Road’ - Bruce Springsteen
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ - Queen
‘I Feel Love’ - Donna Summer
‘Stayin’ Alive’ - Bee Gees
‘Heroes’ - David Bowie
‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ - The Ramones
‘Dreams’ - Fleetwood Mac
‘Equal Rights’ - Peter Tosh
‘One Nation Under a Groove’ - Parliament/Funkadelic
‘Rock & Roll’ - Velvet Underground
‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ - Loretta Lynn

1960s 16
'Subterranean Homesick Blues' - Bob Dylan
‘Crazy’ - Patsy Cline
‘Crying’ - Roy Orbison
‘Be My Baby’ - The Ronettes
‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ - The Beatles
‘The Girl from Ipanema’ - Astrud Gilberto
‘Where Did Our Love Go?’ - The Supremes
‘God Only Knows’ - The Beach Boys
‘I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)’ - Aretha Franklin
‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’ - Marvin Gaye
‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ - The Band
‘Ball ‘n’ Chain’ - Big Mama Thornton
‘I Want You Back’ - Jackson 5
‘Gimme Shelter’ - Rolling Stones
‘Suite: Judy Blue Eyes’ - Crosby, Stills and Nash
‘I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)’ - Otis Redding

1950s 10
‘Folsom Prison Blues’ - Johnny Cash
‘How High the Moon’ - Les Paul and Mary Ford
‘It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels’ - Kitty Wells
‘Jailhouse Rock’ - Elvis Presley
‘Take This Hammer’ - Odetta
‘Tutti Frutti’ - Little Richard
‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’ - Frank Sinatra
‘That’ll Be the Day’ - Buddy Holly
‘Johnny B. Goode’ - Chuck Berry
‘What’d I Say’ - Ray Charles

1940s 10
‘This Land Is Your Land’ - Woody Guthrie
‘Stormy Weather’ - Lena Horne
‘Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy’ - The Andrews Sisters
‘Der Fuehrer’s Face’ - Spike Jones
‘White Christmas’ - Bing Crosby
‘It Had to Be You’ - Betty Hutton
‘Move On Up a Little Higher’ - Mahalia Jackson
‘Cold, Cold Heart’ - Hank Williams
‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ - Ella Fitzgerald
‘Sentimental Journey’ - Doris Day

1930s 8
‘I Got Rhythm’ - Ethel Merman
‘Minnie the Moocher’ - Cab Calloway
‘It Dont Mean A Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing)’ - Duke Ellington
‘Star Dust’ - Louie Armstrong
‘Cheek to Cheek’ - Fred Astaire
‘Where or When’ - Ray Heatherton
‘Over the Rainbow’ - Judy Garland
‘Strange Fruit’ - Billie Holiday

1920s 4
‘My Mammy’ - Al Jolson
‘St. Louis Blues’ - Bessie Smith
‘Ol’ Man River’ - Paul Robeson
‘Wildwood Flower’ - The Carter Family

[Woops]

Sooo many omissions from Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Salt N' Pepa, Janet Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Debbie Gibson, Taylor Dayne, Duran Duran, INXS, U2, Depeche Mode, The Go-Go's, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, The Clash, Billy Joel, Elton John, Temptations, Petula Clark, The Doors, The Turtles, etc.

Too much songs from the 2000's were listed...


 Liked that the article for Spike Jones' "Der Fuehrers Face" mentioned the Oscar winning Donald Duck cartoon that featured the song.

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is probably one of the most infectious songs ever recorded. Betty Hutton's "It Had To Be You" is just stunning.

The '90's...

Honestly, don't think few were even hits or even well known. Pulp or Richard Thompson, anybody?

Lack of R&B, from En Vogue, TLC, Boyz II Men, and Mariah Carey that dominated the decade along side rap and alternative.

As for rap, Naughty by Nature "OPP", LL Cool J "Mama Said Knock You Out", or Sir Mix-a-Lot "Baby Got Back" should be listed.

As for alternative, how about Faith No More "Epic", Red Hot Chili Peppers "Give It Away", or  U2 "One".

 The '80's...
 
"Blue Monday" from New Order is among the definitive new wave classic. "Billie Jean" (MJ) and "Borderline" (Madonna) are good songs. A better song from Prince should've been added.


The 70's...

No Kiss? Not even the true party rock anthem "Rock & Roll All Night"?

Where's War "Low Rider"?


No new wave such as The Knack "My Sharona", Blondie "One Way Or Another", or The Cars "Just What I Needed". Though Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is listed, perhaps another punk classic could've been added from Sex Pistols "Arnarchy in the UK or The Clash "London Calling".

The 60's...

No "Turn, Turn, Turn" (The Byrds), "Brown Eyed Girl" (Van Morrison), "My Girl" (Temptations) or "Downtown" (Petula Clark)...

The '50's...

Everly Brothers "All You Have To Do Is Dream"?

[Out of the Blue]

There are songs that I can't figure out how they were left out and others that I can't figure out how they were included.  Some songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" are just obsessively loved by hipster music critics but aren't good songs.  I always take that into account when I read a critic's reviews.