Just saw and totally dug “Baba O’Riley” on The Tube, and went looking for a good list like this. This one will work.
Favorite:
- Beatles song: “Hey Jude”
- Solo song by a former Beatle: “All Those Years Ago” by George Harrison
- Bob Dylan song: “Tangled Up In Blue,” far and away
- Prince song: “Raspberry Beret”
- Michael Jackson song: “Billie Jean” or I’m not being honest
- Metallica song: “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
- Depeche Mode song: “Enjoy the Silence”
- Cure song: “Love Song”
- Song that most of your friends haven’t heard: “To the Open Spaces,” Maria McKee
- Beastie Boys song: “No Sleep Til Brooklyn”
- Police song: “Invisible Sun”
- Song from a movie: “We All Die Young,” by the fictional band Steel Dragon, from Rock Star
- Genesis song: “Abacab”
- Led Zeppelin song: “Hey Hey What Can I Do”
- INXS song: “The One Thing”
- Weird Al song: “UHF”
- Pink Floyd song: “Goodbye Blue Sky”
- Cover song: “Born to Be Wild,” Lizzy Borden
- Dance song: “Never Trust a Stranger,” Kim Wilde
- U2 song: “Pride (In the Name of Love)”
- Disco song: “Fly Robin Fly,” Silver Convention
- The Who song: “Baba O’Riley” by half a hair over “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
- Elton John song: “Philadelphia Freedom”
- Clash song: “Train in Vain”
- Talking Heads song: “And She Was”
- David Bowie song: “Fashion”
- Nirvana song: “All Apologies”
- Johnny Cash song: “Ring of Fire”
- R.E.M. song: “Automatic for the People”
- Elvis song: “All Shook Up”
- Cheesy-ass country song: I don’t know how “cheesy-ass” it is, but I’ll have to go with “Night Time Magic” by the Gatlin Brothers
- Billy Joel song: “She’s Got a Way”
- Bruce Springsteen song: “Born to Run,” which I think is one of the only truly great songs he’s ever recorded
- Neil Diamond song: “Holly Holy,” particularly from Hot August Night
- Squeeze song: “Tempted”
- Beach Boys song: “Let’s Go Away for Awhile”
- Guns ‘N Roses song: “Rocket Queen”
- Jimi Hendrix song: “Foxey Lady”
- John Mellencamp song: “Small Paradise”
- Living Colour song: “Open Letter (To a Landlord)”
- Neil Young song: “Cinnamon Girl”; absolutely no contest
- Paul Simon song: “Kodachrome”
- Simon & Garfunkel song: “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and I do so hate to be typical, but this is an incredibly beautiful song and may be the finest male vocal ever recorded
- Queen song: “I Want It All”
- Kiss song: “Got to Choose”
- Sting song: “Fortress Around Your Heart”
- Alice Cooper song: “Generation Landslide”
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