WMNF’s Top 100 by You, the Wonderful WMNF Listeners

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Thank you so much everyone! Here you go – top 100.

  1. John Lennon  – Imagine
  2. The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  3. Aretha Franklin  – Respect
  4. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
  5. Simon and Garfunkel  – The Sounds of Silence
  6. Jimi Hendrix  Experience – All Along the Watchtower
  7. Rolling Stones  – Gimme Shelter
  8. Van Morrison – Into the Mystic
  9. Woody Guthrie  – This Land is Your Land
  10. Otis Redding  – Dock of the Bay
  11. Louis Armstrong  – What a Wonderful World
  12. Patsy Cline – Crazy
  13. Bob Marley and the Wailers – No Woman No Cry
  14. Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side
  15. The Band  – The Weight
  16. Rolling Stones – Can’t Get No Satisfaction
  17. Marvin Gaye  – What’s Going On
  18. Lou Reed – Sweet Jane Live
  19. Elvis Costello – What’s So Funny about Peace
  20. Queen  – Bohemian Rhapsody
  21. Johnny Cash  – I Walk the Line
  22. Bob Dylan  – Tangled Up in Blue
  23.  Jimi Hendrix Experience  – Purple Haze
  24. Crosby Stills Nash and Young  – Ohio
  25. The Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated
  26. The Doors – Light My Fire
  27. Little Feat  – Willin’
  28. Bob Marley  – Redemption Song
  29. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
  30. Etta James – At Last
  31. Van Morrison – Moondance
  32. Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
  33. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
  34. The Kinks – You Really Got Me
  35. Procol Harum – Whiter Shade of Pale
  36. Blind Faith – Can’t Find My Home
  37. Talking Heads – Once In a Lifetime
  38. The Beatles – In My Life
  39. Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
  40. Big Brothers w/ Janis – Piece of My Heart
  41. Richard Thompson – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
  42. The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
  43. Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
  44. Marvin Gaye – Heard it Through The Grapevine
  45. Derek and the Dominoes – Layla
  46. Stevie Wonder – Superstition
  47. Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
  48. Bob Marley and the Wailers – Get Up Stand
  49. Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A Changi
  50. Allman Brothers – Blue Sky
  51. Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
  52. Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Won’t Be Televised
  53. Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
  54. The Beatles – Hey Jude
  55. Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing
  56. Percy Sledge – When a Man Loves a Woman
  57. Mamas and Papas – California Dreamin’
  58. The Clash – London Calling
  59. The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
  60. Ben E. King – Stand By Me
  61. The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man
  62. Sam Cooke – A Change is Gonna Come
  63. David Bowie – Suffragette City
  64. Radiohead – Creep
  65. Temptations – Papa Was a Rolling Stones
  66. Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
  67. Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit
  68. Smokey Robinson – Tracks of My Tears
  69. REM – Losing My Religion
  70. Dave Brubeck – Take Five
  71. Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love
  72. The Who – My Generation
  73. Roy Orbison – Oh Pretty Woman
  74. Aretha Franklin – Natural Woman
  75. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
  76. Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
  77. Wilson Pickett – In The Midnight Hour
  78. Elvis Costello – Alison
  79. Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band
  80. Lyle Lovett – If I Had A Boat
  81. Stan Getz and Astrid Gilberto – Girl From Ipanema
  82. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
  83. John Prine – Angel From Montgomery
  84. Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack
  85. The Who – Baba O’Riley
  86. Temptations – My Girl
  87. Led Zeppelin – Dazed and Confused
  88. REM – It’s The End of The World
  89. Simon and Garfunkel – America
  90. Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
  91. John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
  92. Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
  93. Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun
  94. The Byrds – Eight Miles High
  95. The Clash – Rocking The Casbah
  96. David Bowie – Space Oddity
  97. Hank Williams – I’m So Lonesome I Can Cry
  98. Beach Boys – God Only Knows
  99. Duke Ellington Take The A Train
  100. Tracy Chapman – Fast Car

4 Responses to “WMNF’s Top 100 by You, the Wonderful WMNF Listeners”

  1. yakidding

    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.”

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  2. Terry Spencer

    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!

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  3. Ted Rice

    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.

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  4. Ted Rice

    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.

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