Top 50 Songs of the Last 50 Years

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