893 Essential Songs

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1. Purple Rain Prince Purple Rain 2. Bohemian Rhapsody Queen A Night at the Opera 3. Heroes David Bowie Heroes 4. Imagine John Lennon Imagine 5. A Day In The Life The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 6. Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana Nevermind 7. Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited 8. Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here 9. Tangled up in Blue Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks 10. Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV 11. Under Pressure David Bowie & Queen 12. When Doves Cry Prince Purple Rain 13. God Only Knows The Beach Boys Pet Sounds 14. Gimme Shelter The Rolling Stones Let it Bleed 15. Everlong Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape 16. Hallelujah Jeff Buckley Grace 17. Born to Run Bruce Springsteen Born to Run 18. Respect Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 19. Hey Jude The Beatles 20. Let's Go Crazy Prince Purple Rain 21. What's Goin' On? Marvin Gaye What's Goin' On? 22. London Calling The Clash London Calling 23. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues 24. Thunder Road Bruce Springsteen Born to Run 25. The Weight The Band Music from Big Pink 26. Here Comes the Sun The Beatles Abbey Road 27. Space Oddity David Bowie David Bowie 28. Sympathy for the Devil The Rolling Stones Beggar's Banquet 29. Billie Jean Michael Jackson Thriller 30. Let It Be The Beatles Let it Be 31. Paranoid Android Radiohead OK Computer 32. In My Life The Beatles Rubber Soul 33. A Change is Going to Come Sam Cooke Ain't that Good News 34. Life On Mars? David Bowie Hunky Dory 35. September Earth, Wind and Fire Best of Earth Wind and Fire, Vol I 36. Into the Mystic Van Morrison Moondance 37. One U2 Achtung Baby 38. At Last Etta James At Last! 39. Sabotage Beastie Boys Ill Communication 40. (Sittin' on) The Dock Of The Bay Otis Redding Dock of the Bay 41. Hurt Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around 42. The Sounds of Silence Simon & Garfunkel Wednesday Morning, 3 a.m. 43. Kiss Prince Parade 44. Kashmir Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti 45. Superstition Stevie Wonder Talking Book 46. Somebody to Love Queen A Day at the Races 47. What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong 48. Where The Streets Have No Name U2 The Joshua Tree 49. Where is My Mind Pixies Surfer Rosa 50. Landslide Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac 51. Can't Hardly Wait The Replacements Pleased to Meet Me 52. Ramble On Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II 53. A Case Of You Joni Mitchell Blue 54. Black Pearl Jam Ten 55. Creep Radiohead Pablo Honey 56. How Soon Is Now? The Smiths Hatful of Hollow 57. Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison 58. The Chain Fleetwood Mac Rumors 59. While My Guitar Gently Weeps The Beatles The Beatles (The White Album) 60. Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads Remain in Light 61. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 The Joshua Tree 62. 1999 Prince 1999 63. The Story Brandi Carlile The Story 64. Tiny Dancer Elton John Madman Across the Water 65. Just Like Heaven The Cure Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 66. Seven Nation Army The White Stripes Elephant 67. Wake Up Arcade Fire Funeral 68. 7 Prince The Love Symbol Album 69. American Girl Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 70. All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland 71. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 72. Nightswimming R.E.M. Automatic for the People 73. America Simon & Garfunkel Bookends 74. Skinny Love Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago 75. Jolene Dolly Parton Jolene 76. Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Various Positions 77. With or Without You U2 The Joshua Tree 78. Starman David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 79. Blackbird The Beatles The Beatles (The White Album) 80. Take Five Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out 81. Thriller Michael Jackson Thriller 82. Me & Bobby McGee Janis Joplin Pearl 83. I Will Dare The Replacements Let it Be 84. Ring of Fire Johnny Cash Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash 85. Blue The Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass 86. Little Red Corvette Prince 1999 87. Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd The Wall 88. Sir Duke Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life 89. Wonderwall Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 90. Bad U2 The Unforgettable Fire 91. Baba O'Riley The Who Who's Next 92. Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 93. Hey Ya! Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 94. When The Levee Breaks Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV 95. Something The Beatles Abbey Road 96. Do You Realize?? The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 97. Dreams Fleetwood Mac Rumors 98. Alive Pearl Jam Ten 99. Fight the Power Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet

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