Time Magazine Picks Top 100 Pop Recordings

The Who, Stones, Bowie, Springsteen feature in list of most \"extraordinary\" pop recordings since 1923

Published 28th Oct 2011

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

(Music-News)