Top Fifty Songs of the Last Fifty Years

Submitted by keg173 on Wed, 04/19/2006 - 03:00
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  • 1950s-60s (14)
  • Rock Around the Clock—Bill Haley and his Comets (1954)
  • Jailhouse Rock—Elvis Presley (1957)
  • Great Balls of Fire—Jerry Lee Lewis (1957)
  • Rave On—Buddy Holly (1958) Buddy Holly
  • Johnny B Goode—Chuck Berry (1958)
  • Like a Rolling Stone—Bob Dylan (1965) Highway 61 Revisited
  • Devil With a Blue Dress—Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels (1966) Breakout!!!
  • For What It’s Worth—Buffalo Springfield (1967) Buffalo Springfield
  • Light My Fire—Doors (1967) The Doors
  • Piece of my Heart—Big Brother and the Holding Company (1968) Cheap Thrills
  • Time (Has Come Today)—Chambers Brothers (1968) Time Has Come Today
  • Revolution—Beatles (1968) The Beatles
  • Proud Mary—Ike and Tina Turner (1969) River Deep Mountain High
  • Fortunate Son—Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969) Willy and the Poor Boys
  • 1970s (14)
  • Bridge Over Troubled Water—Simon and Garfunkel (1970) Bridge Over Troubled Water
  • Won’t Get Fooled Again—Who (1971) Who’s Next
  • American Pie—Don McLean (1971) American Pie
  • Drift Away—Dobie Gray (1972) Drift Away
  • Jessica—Allman Brothers (1973) Brothers and Sisters
  • Sweet Home Alabama—Lynyrd Skynyrd (1974) Second Helping
  • Born to Run—Bruce Springsteen (1975) Born to Run
  • Take it to the Limit—Eagles (1975) One of These Nights
  • Never Been Any Reason—Head East (1975) Flat as a Pancake
  • More Than a Feeling—Boston (1976) Boston
  • American Girl—Tom Petty (1976) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Old Time Rock ’n Roll—Bob Seger (1978) Stranger in Town
  • Time for me to Fly—REO Speedwagon (1978) You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish
  • Sultans of Swing—Dire Straits (1978) Dire Straits
  • 1980s (9)
  • Limelight—Rush (1981) Moving Pictures
  • Boys of Summer—Don Henley (1984) Building the Perfect Beast
  • Land of Confusion—Genesis (1986) Invisible Touch
  • Where the Streets have No Name—U2 (1987) The Joshua Tree
  • Sweet Child O’ Mine—Guns N Roses (1987) Appetite for Destruction
  • Cult of Personality—Living Colour (1988) Vivid
  • Sweet Jane—Cowboy Junkies (1988) The Trinity Session
  • Closer to Fine—Indigo Girls (1989) Indigo Girls
  • Royal Station 4/16—Melissa Etheridge (1989) Brave and Crazy
  • 1990s-2000s (13)
  • Golden Blunders—Posies (1990) Dear 23
  • She Talks to Angels—Black Crowes (1990) Shake Your Money Maker
  • When You Were Young—Del Amitri (1992) Change Everything
  • Hey Jealousy—Gin Blossoms (1993) Hey Jealousy
  • Mr. Jones—Counting Crows (1993) August and Everything After
  • Daughter—Pearl Jam (1993) Vs.
  • Not Even the Trees—Hootie and the Blowfish (1994) Cracked Rear View
  • The Old Apartment—Barenaked Ladies (1995) Born on a Pirate Ship
  • Wonder—Freddy Jones Band (1997) Lucid
  • Run—Collective Soul (1999) Dosage
  • Nothing to Prove—Caroline’s Spine (1999) Attention Please
  • My Immortal—Evanescence (2003) Fallen
  • 100 Years—Five for Fighting (2004) The Battle for Everything
  • The Best of Me—Olea (2004) Tomorrow’s Come
  • The Next 25
  • Mule Skinner Blues—The Fendermen (1959)
  • Alice’s Restaurant—Arlo Guthrie (1967) Alice’s Restaurant
  • Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)—Hollies (1971) Distant Light
  • Cover of the Rolling Stone—Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show (1972) Sloppy Seconds
  • Candle in the Wind—Elton John (1973) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  • Bohemian Rhapsody—Queen (1975) A Night at the Opera
  • Wish You Were Here—Pink Floyd (1975) Wish You Were Here
  • Carry on Wayward Son—Kansas (1976) Leftoverture
  • Walk This Way—Aerosmith (1976) Toys in the Attic
  • The Load Out/Stay—Jackson Browne (1977) Running On Empty
  • Cool Change—Little River Band (1979) First Under the Wire
  • Too Much Time on my Hands—Styx (1980) Paradise Theater
  • Southern Cross—Crosby, Stills, and Nash (1982) American Dream
  • Nothing Compares 2 U—Sinead O’Connor (1990) I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
  • But Anyway—Blues Traveler (1990) Blues Traveler
  • Walk on the Ocean—Toad the Wet Sprocket (1991) Fear
  • Nightswimming—REM (1992) Automatic for the People
  • Walking in Memphis—Marc Cohn (1993) Walking in Memphis
  • Afternoons and Coffeespoons—Crash Test Dummies (1993) God Shuffled His Feet
  • Ants Marching—Dave Matthews Band (1994) Under the Table and Dreaming
  • Basket Case—Green Day (1994) Dookie
  • Cry in the Sun—Better than Ezra (1995) Deluxe
  • Name—Goo Goo Dolls (1995) A Boy Named Goo
  • Back 2 Good—Matchbox 20 (1996) Yourself or Someone Like You
  • Prince’s Favorite Son—Dog’s Eye View (1996) Happy Nowhere
Wezzo04/19/2006

I love to see Born to Run on any list, so I'm glad to see it here!

An excellent idea for a list, and great choices too.