Thank you so much everyone! Here you go – top 100.
- John Lennon – Imagine
- The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Aretha Franklin – Respect
- Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
- Simon and Garfunkel – The Sounds of Silence
- Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower
- Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
- Van Morrison – Into the Mystic
- Woody Guthrie – This Land is Your Land
- Otis Redding – Dock of the Bay
- Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World
- Patsy Cline – Crazy
- Bob Marley and the Wailers – No Woman No Cry
- Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side
- The Band – The Weight
- Rolling Stones – Can’t Get No Satisfaction
- Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
- Lou Reed – Sweet Jane Live
- Elvis Costello – What’s So Funny about Peace
- Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
- Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line
- Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue
- Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze
- Crosby Stills Nash and Young – Ohio
- The Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated
- The Doors – Light My Fire
- Little Feat – Willin’
- Bob Marley – Redemption Song
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
- Etta James – At Last
- Van Morrison – Moondance
- Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
- Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
- The Kinks – You Really Got Me
- Procol Harum – Whiter Shade of Pale
- Blind Faith – Can’t Find My Home
- Talking Heads – Once In a Lifetime
- The Beatles – In My Life
- Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
- Big Brothers w/ Janis – Piece of My Heart
- Richard Thompson – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
- The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
- Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
- Marvin Gaye – Heard it Through The Grapevine
- Derek and the Dominoes – Layla
- Stevie Wonder – Superstition
- Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
- Bob Marley and the Wailers – Get Up Stand
- Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A Changi
- Allman Brothers – Blue Sky
- Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
- Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Won’t Be Televised
- Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
- The Beatles – Hey Jude
- Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing
- Percy Sledge – When a Man Loves a Woman
- Mamas and Papas – California Dreamin’
- The Clash – London Calling
- The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
- Ben E. King – Stand By Me
- The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man
- Sam Cooke – A Change is Gonna Come
- David Bowie – Suffragette City
- Radiohead – Creep
- Temptations – Papa Was a Rolling Stones
- Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
- Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit
- Smokey Robinson – Tracks of My Tears
- REM – Losing My Religion
- Dave Brubeck – Take Five
- Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love
- The Who – My Generation
- Roy Orbison – Oh Pretty Woman
- Aretha Franklin – Natural Woman
- Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
- Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
- Wilson Pickett – In The Midnight Hour
- Elvis Costello – Alison
- Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band
- Lyle Lovett – If I Had A Boat
- Stan Getz and Astrid Gilberto – Girl From Ipanema
- Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
- John Prine – Angel From Montgomery
- Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack
- The Who – Baba O’Riley
- Temptations – My Girl
- Led Zeppelin – Dazed and Confused
- REM – It’s The End of The World
- Simon and Garfunkel – America
- Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
- John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
- Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
- Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun
- The Byrds – Eight Miles High
- The Clash – Rocking The Casbah
- David Bowie – Space Oddity
- Hank Williams – I’m So Lonesome I Can Cry
- Beach Boys – God Only Knows
- Duke Ellington Take The A Train
- Tracy Chapman – Fast Car
4 Responses to “WMNF’s Top 100 by You, the Wonderful WMNF Listeners”
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Yep. Imagine would have been my first pick, too. Good job, WMNF folks. And I would have included a Monk cut in there somewhere….a big one, like ‘Round Midnight, which, I venture to say, has been covered by about every jazz artist since the piece was written. Aha, I just looked it up: Wikipedia says, “It is the most recorded jazz standard composed by a jazz musician.”
Might you make a downloadable play list of these top 100’s that we members could access? I would be happy to up my contribution in exchange for that play list!
I think a Top one hundred is really a ridiculous thing. This list does not even pick some of the best songs by artists with songs on the list case in point Buffalo Springfield. Mr Soul, Rock n Roll Woman are both way better than for what its worth. And Lou Reed? There are hundreds of songs better than walk on the wild side. Maybe next time break it down into categories like Rock, Folk Rock, Blues, Jazz, Fusion. Contemporary and classic. Then you might get a meaningful list. And one more thought… not a single Zappa song? Possibly the most amazing songwriter/composer of 20th century.
I just realized there is not one Steely Dan song on the list Ya gotta be kidding!!! Johnny B Goode beats AJA? Deacon Blues? Rikki don’t lose that number, Reeling in the years? How many people voted to make this list? Most of the songs on the list I have heard but never actually play in my car or at home.