My Favourite 50 Songs Of All Time

I was supposed to post this list on the same day that Dan did his, but I screwed up.

So, in addition to my top songs of the year post last week, here’s my list of my favourite 50 songs ever (in alphabetical order).

1. The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
2. The Beatles – A Day in the Life
3. Big Sugar – Wild Ox Moan
4. Beastie Boys – Sabotage
5. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
6. Bob Dylan – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
7. Bob Dylan – The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
8. Bob Dylan – Masters of War
9. The Clash – London Calling
10. Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Heard it Through the Grapevine
11. Curtis Mayfield – (Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below We’re All Going To Go
12. The Doors – Break on Through
13. The Doors – Roadhouse Blues
14. The Guess Who – American Woman
15. Guns ‘n’ Roses – Paradise City
16. Hank Williams – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
17. The Hooters – All You Zombies
18. James Brown – The Payback
19. Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze
20. Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
21. Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
22. John Lee Hooker – I’m Bad Like Jesse James
23. Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line
24. Lard – Forkboy
25. Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
26. Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks
27. Leonard Cohen – First We Take Manhattan
28. The Mamas and the Papas – California Dreamin’
29. Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
30. Ministry – Burning Inside
31. Monster Magnet – Space Lord
32. Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs
33. Nine Inch Nails – Head Like a Hole
34. Patsy Cline – Crazy
35. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
36. Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond
37. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
38. Prince – Kiss
39. Rage Against the Machine – Maggie’s Farm
40. Robert Johnson – 32-20 Blues
41. The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For the Devil
42. The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
43. Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
44. Sinead O’Connor – Fire on Babylon
45. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles – The Tracks of My Tears
46. Soundgarden – Superunknown
47. Spiritualized – Cop Shoot Cop
48. Stevie Wonder – Higher Ground
49. Tom Waits – Earth Died Screaming
50. The Who – The Seeker

I could have done an entire list of 50 with Dylan alone. I could also probably do a list of 50 with Zeppelin, Hendrix and Floyd. What can I say: most songs need time to achieve greatness, even in the space of a single person’s opinion.