All-Time 99

Compiled March 2008. See also favourite songs by decade: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

1. The Beatles – She Loves You
2. New Order – Temptation (Substance)
3. Funky 4 + 1 – That's the Joint
4. The Ronettes – Be My Baby
5. Sisters Underground – In the Neighbourhood
6. Louis Armstrong – Star Dust
7. Television – Marquee Moon
8. Robyn – With Every Heartbeat
9. Fats Domino – Blueberry Hill
10. New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
11. Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
12. Franco – Attention No SIDA
13. Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring
14. Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue
15. Frank Sinatra – I've Got You Under My Skin
16. Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through the Grapevine
17. Amy Rigby – Don't Ever Change
18. Straitjacket Fits – She Speeds
19. Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero/No Limit
20. Sleater-Kinney – Get Up
21. Duke Ellington – East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (Victor)
22. Franco – Tres Impoli
23. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Who'll Stop the Rain
24. Billie Holiday – Fine and Mellow
25. Spice Girls – Wannabe
26. Eminem – The Real Slim Shady
27. Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
28. Public Enemy – Bring the Noise
29. The Clash – Janie Jones
30. James Brown – Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
31. The Five Satins – In the Still of the Night
32. DeBarge – Time Will Reveal
33. Lucinda Williams – Right in Time
34. Louis Armstrong – West End Blues
35. Eminem – Stan
36. Van Halen – Jump
37. The Temptations – My Girl
38. Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners
39. Bob Marley – No Woman No Cry (live)
40. Liz Phair – Big Tall Man
41. Orchestra Super Mazembe – Shauri Yako
42. The Beatles – Ticket to Ride
43. Augustus Pablo – King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
44. [M.I.A.] – Bird Flu
45. Lucinda Williams – Passionate Kisses
46. Pet Shop Boys – Go West
47. Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
48. Coleman Hawkins – Body and Soul
49. Ray Charles – What'd I Say
50. The Go-Betweens – Right Here
51. Otis Redding – The Dock of the Bay
52. New York Dolls – Personality Crisis
53. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
54. Aimee Mann – Ghost World
55. Mahlathini – Fair Fight
56. The Flamingos – I Only Have Eyes for You
57. Pulp – Common People
58. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
59. George Jones – He Stopped Loving Her Today
60. Billie Holiday – Solitude
61. Sex Pistols – Anarchy in the UK
62. Amerie – 1 Thing
63. The Four Tops – Reach Out I'll Be There
64. Prince – I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
65. Ash – Petrol
66. Joni Mitchell – River
67. Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
68. Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna
69. Public Enemy – Welcome to the Terrordome
70. Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone
71. Bailterspace – X
72. The Orioles – It's Too Soon to Know
73. Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
74. Frank Sinatra – Night and Day
75. The Beatles – In My Life
76. The Modern Lovers – Roadrunner
77. Prince – Little Red Corvette
78. Acen – Trip II the Moon
79. Rolling Stones – Satisfaction
80. Freelance Hellraiser – A Stroke of Genius
81. John Coltrane – Giant Steps
82. Sonic Youth – Teen Age Riot
83. Marvin Gaye – What's Going On
84. The Who – I Can See for Miles
85. The Replacements – I Will Dare
86. OutKast – Ms. Jackson
87. Fugees – Ready or Not
88. The Shirelles – Will You Love Me Tomorrow
89. The Drifters – There Goes My Baby
90. Derek and the Dominoes – Layla
91. Afrika Bambaataa – Looking for the Perfect Beat
92. James Brown – Cold Sweat
93. The Swingers – Counting the Beat
94. Hank Williams – I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
95. Drive-By Truckers – Outfit
96. Frank Sinatra – I Get a Kick Out of You
97. The Dismemberment Plan – The Ice of Boston
98. Taana Gardner – Heartbeat
99. John Lennon – Imagine