Time Magazine Picks Top 100 Pop Recordings
The Who, Stones, Bowie, Springsteen feature in list of most \"extraordinary\" pop recordings since 1923
The list is complied by Time Magazine, who have listed the top 100 "most extraordinary English-language pop recordings since the beginning of TIME magazine in 1923."
Here's the list:
1920's
My Mammy - Al Jolson
St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith
Ol' Man River - Paul Robeson
Wildwood Flower - Carter Family
1930's
I Got Rhythm - Ethel Merman
Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington
Star Dust - Louis Armstrong
Cheek to Cheek - Fred Astaire
Where or When - Ray Heatherton
Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
1940's
This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
Stormy Weather - Lena Horne
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - 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
1950's
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
How High the Moon - Les Paul & 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
1960's
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Crying - Roy Orbison
Be My Baby - Ronettes
I Want to Hold Your Hand - Beatles
The Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto
Where Did Our Love Go? - Supremes
God Only Knows - 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 - 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
1970's
Rivers of Babylon - Melodians
Get Up (I Fell Like Being a) Sex Machine - James Brown
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
Baba O'Riley - 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 - 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
1980's
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) - R.E.M.
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Borderline - Madonna
1990's
Nothing Compares to 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
Pineola - Lucinda Williams
2000's
Get Ur Freak On - Missy Elliott
Hey Ya! - Outkast
99 Problems - Jay-Z
Wake Up - Arcade Fire
Gold Digger - Kanye West (Featuring Jamie Foxx)
Georgia...Bush - Lil Wayne
All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem
Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) - Beyonce
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
2010's
Tightrope - Janelle Monae