100 Greatest Songs

These are the 100 Greatest Songs according to VH1. While I don't necessarily agree with all of the selections (much less the order) I do agree that every song here is great...in one way or another. I'm going to analyze each of these songs for overall 'greatness' and perhaps generate my own order. Yes, I do realize the high subjectivity of such an endeavor; but, as was immortalized in High Fidelity "I have decided that what's important about someone is not what they're like, but what they like." Perhaps now I'll know who to look for in life...

1. The Rolling Stones / (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
2. Aretha Franklin / Respect
3. Led Zeppelin / Stairway To Heaven
4. Bob Dylan / Like a Rolling Stone
5. Bruce Springsteen / Born To Run
6. Eagles / Hotel California
7. The Doors / Light My Fire
8. The Beach Boys / Good Vibrations
9. The Beatles / Hey Jude
10. John Lennon / Imagine
11. The Kingsmen / Louie Louie
12. The Beatles / Yesterday
13. The Who / My Generation
14. Marvin Gaye / What's Going On
15. Chuck Berry / Johnny B. Goode
16. Derek And The Dominos / Layla
17. The Who / Won't Get Fooled Again
18. Elvis Presley / Jailhouse Rock
19. Don McLean / American Pie
20. The Beatles / A Day In The Life
21. James Brown / I Got You (I Feel Good)
22. Stevie Wonder / Superstition
23. The Beatles / I Want to Hold Your Hand
24. The Rolling Stones / Brown Sugar
25. Jimi Hendrix / Purple Haze
26. The Rolling Stones / Sympathy for the Devil
27. Queen / Bohemian Rhapsody
28. The Kinks / You Really Got Me
29. Roy Orbison / Oh, Pretty Woman
30. Simon and Garfunkel / Bridge Over Troubled Water
31. Elvis Presley / Hound Dog
32. The Beatles / Let It Be
33. Otis Redding / (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
34. The Jimi Hendrix Experience / All Along The Watchtower
35. Aerosmith / Walk This Way
36. The Temptations / My Girl
37. Bill Haley And His Comets / Rock Around The Clock
38. Marvin Gaye / I Heard It Through The Grapevine
39. Creedence Clearwater Revival / Proud Mary
40. Steppenwolf / Born To Be Wild
41. Nirvana / Smells Like Teen Spirit
42. The Police / Every Breath You Take
43. Ray Charles / What'd I Say
44. Lynyrd Skynyrd / Free Bird
45. Buddy Holly and The Crickets / That'll Be The Day
46. Led Zeppelin / Whole Lotta Love
47. Aerosmith / Dream On
48. The Mamas & The Papas / California Dreamin
49. Van Morrison / Brown Eyed Girl
50. The Troggs / Wild Thing
51. Crosby, Stills and Nash / Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
52. Michael Jackson / Beat It
53. Jerry Lee Lewis / Great Balls Of Fire
54. Bee Gees / Stayin' Alive
55. The Buffalo Springfield / For What It's Worth
56. Bob Dylan / Blowin' In The Wind
57. The Beatles / Twist And Shout
58. Billy Joel / Piano Man
59. The Beatles / She Loves You
60. David Bowie / Space Oddity
61. The Beatles / Strawberry Fields Forever
62. Led Zeppelin / Kashmir
63. Patsy Cline / Crazy
64. The Clash / London Calling
65. The Rolling Stones / Jumpin' Jack Flash
66. Led Zeppelin / Rock & Roll
67. Al Green / Let's Stay Together
68. Elvis Presley / All Shook Up
69. Rod Stewart / Maggie May
70. Elton John / Your Song
71. Elvis Presley / Heartbreak Hotel
72. The Beach Boys / God Only Knows
73. Chubby Checker / The Twist
74. Little Richard / Good Golly, Miss Molly
75. Cream / Sunshine Of Your Love
76. The Beach Boys / California Girls
77. Eddie Cochran / Summertime Blues
78. Carl Perkins / Blue Suede Shoes
79. The Beatles / A Hard Day's Night
80. James Taylor / Fire and Rain
81. Them / Gloria
82. Marvin Gaye / Sexual Healing
83. The Rolling Stones / Start Me Up
84. Boston / More Than A Feeling
85. The Police / Roxanne
86. Queen / We Are The Champions
87. Bob Dylan / Tangled Up In Blue
88. Jefferson Airplane / Somebody To Love
89. Ben E. King / Stand By Me
90. Jerry Lee Lewis / Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On
91. AC/DC / You Shook Me All Night Long
92. Prince and the Revolution / When Doves Cry
93. Wilson Pickett / In The Midnight Hour
94. Spencer Davis Group / Gimme Some Lovin'
95. Van Halen / Jump
96. Bruce Springsteen / Thunder Road
97. Bob Marley and the Wailers / No Woman No Cry
98. Ritchie Valens / La Bamba
99. The Carpenters / We've Only Just Begun
100. The Temptations / Papa Was a Rolling Stone