I said in my last blog that my various lists would go back and forth between subjective, my favourite of whatever, and objective, which I termed as such: "my third eye looking upon a situation and doing the best I can to judge it based on its own merit and completely separate from my own tastes."

Well that's what I am going to do here. To the best of my ability, I have ranked what I believe simply are the best 100 songs of all-time (in the rock and roll era). I did not play favourites here, there are songs I love to pieces that didn't even sniff this list. This is a scholastic ranking of what I PERCEIVE to be the one hundred greatest songs ever.

So long as one disagrees with me on the merits of a song, not based on personal opinion, then it can be discussed and it will be considered valid. Believe me, there are songs on this list I do not like, but they belong.

Unlike my subjective lists this will not be in countdown order, rather in normal list order. So, without further adieu.


The Top 100 Songs of All-Time

1. Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
2. A Day in the Life - The Beatles
3. My Generation - The Who
4. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
5. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
6. Imagine - John Lennon
7. American Pie - Don McLean
8. Light My Fire - The Doors
9. Layla - Derek and the Dominos
10. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
11. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
12. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
13. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
14. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
15. Yesterday - The Beatles
16. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
17. Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and His Comets
18. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
19. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
20. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly and His Crickets
21. Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley
22. Hey Jude - The Beatles
23. I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
24. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
25. London Calling - The Clash
26. Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
27. Hotel California - The Eagles
28. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
29. Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
30. What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
31. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
32. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
33. Let it Be - The Beatles
34. Dream On - Aerosmith
35. Wild Thing - The Troggs
36. Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
37. Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
38. No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley and the Wailers
39. Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan
40. The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
41. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
42. Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
43. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
44. When I Fall in Love - Nat King Cole
45. Proud Mary - Credence Clearwater Revival
46. I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown
47. My Girl - The Temptations
48. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
49. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
50. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
51. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
52. Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
53. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
54. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) - The Byrds
55. Crazy - Patsy Cline
56. The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan
57. Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
58. Something - The Beatles
59. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
60. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
61. Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
62. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
63. America the Beautiful - Ray Charles
64. Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
65. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills, and Nash
66. Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
67. Jungleland- Bruce Springsteen
68. Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
69. Your Song - Elton John
70. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Carole King
71. For What it's Worth - The Buffalo Springfield
72. Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
73. Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen
74. When Doves Cry - Prince and the New Power Generation
75. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
76. Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
77. Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
78. I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family
79. Fire and Rain - James Taylor
80. Baba O'Reilly - The Who
81. Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
82. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
83. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
84. Every Breath You Take - The Police
85. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
86. California Dreamin' - The Mamas and the Papas
87. Let's Spend the Night Together - The Rolling Stones
88. One - U2
89. Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
90. White Room - Cream
91. Space Oddity - David Bowie
92. Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin
93. Respect - Aretha Franklin
94. The Longest Time - Billy Joel
95. Stand By Me - Ben E. King
96. I Love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
97. Taxman - The Beatles
98. Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison
99. What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
100. Mrs. Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel