The 100 Greatest Singles Of All Time

The following is a list of the 100 greatest singles of all time, voted for by the readers of Kerrang!, the UK's weekly rock magazine. The readers are British, in their early teens, and watch MTV a lot! I think there are about 5 that would appear in my list of 100.

1. NIRVANA Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. KORN Freak On A Leash
3. SYSTEM OF A DOWN Chop Suey!
4. METALLICA Enter Sandman
5. MARILYN MANSON The Beautiful People
6. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Under The Bridge
7. GREEN DAY Basket Case
8. BLINK 182 All The Small Things
9. BLACK SABBATH Paranoid
10. KORN Blind
11. SLIPKNOT Wait And Bleed
12. METALLICA One
13. GUNS N’ROSES Sweet Child O’ Mine
14. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Californication
15. SEX PISTOLS Anarchy In The UK
16. THE OFFSPRING Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
17. LINKIN PARK In The End
18. GREEN DAY Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)
19. IRON MAIDEN Run To The Hills
20. PAPA ROACH Last Resort
21. MOTORHEAD Ace Of Spades
22. QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody
23. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Killing In The Name
24. DEFTONES Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)
25. PUDDLE OF MUDD Blurry
26. FOO FIGHTERS Monkeywrench
27. MUSE Plug-In Baby
28. NIRVANA Come As You Are
29. BOWLING FOR SOUP Girl All The Bad Guys Want
30. SEX PISTOLS God Save The Queen
31. KORN Got The Life
32. NIRVANA Heart-Shaped Box
33. SUM 41 Fat Lip
34. STAIND Outside
35. METALLICA Nothing Else Matters
36. THE OFFSPRING Self Esteem
37. FEEDER Buck Rogers
38. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS By The Way
39. FOO FIGHTERS Everlong
40. MARILYN MANSON Tainted Love
41. SYSTEM OF A DOWN Toxicity
42. NIRVANA Lithium
43. LINKIN PARK Crawling
44. DROWNING POOL Bodies
45. NICKELBACK How You Remind Me
46. SLIPKNOT My Plague
47. FAITH NO MORE Epic
48. GUNS N’ROSES Paradise City
49. SOUNDGARDEN Black Hole Sun
50. BLINK 182 What’s My Age Again?
51. PEARL JAM Alive
52. WEEZER Buddy Holly
53. MUSE New Born
54. IRON MAIDEN Number Of The Beast
55. PRODIGY Firestarter
56. AC/DC Whole Lotta Rosie
57. DEFTONES My Own Summer (Shove It)
58. NINE INCH NAILS Perfect Drug
59. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Tonight Tonight
60. RAMMSTEIN Sonne
61. GUNS N’ROSES Welcome To The Jungle
62. AMEN The Price Of Reality
63. SYSTEM OF A DOWN Sugar
64. GREEN DAY Minority
65. PANTERA Walk
66. THE HIVES Hate To Say I Told You So
67. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Give It Away
68. SEPULTURA Roots Bloody Roots
69. AEROSMITH/RUN DMC Walk This Way
70. HOLE Celebrity Skin
71. BON JOVI Livin’ On A Prayer
72. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Bullet With Butterfly Wings
73. MARILYN MANSON Disposable Teens
74. LOSTPROPHETS Shinoba Vs Dragon Ninja
75. LIMP BIZKIT Rollin’
76. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
77. MARILYN MANSON Fight Song
78. AC/DC Highway To Hell
79. JIMMY EAT WORLD The Middle
80. THERAPY? Shortsharpshock EP
81. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Bullet In The Head
82. NEW FOUND GLORY My Friends Over You
83. GARBAGE Stupid Girl
84. DEFTONES Back To School (Mini Maggit)
85. PEARL JAM Jeremy
86. PLACEBO Nancy Boy
87. KORN Here To Stay
88. THE OFFSPRING All I Want
89. STAIND It’s Been Awhile
90. JANE’S ADDICTION Been Caught Steeling
91. NINE INCH NAILS Head Like A Hole
92. THE DAMNED Smash It Up
93. INME Firefly
94. THE WILDHEARTS Suckerpunch
95. SOUNDGARDEN Jesus Christ Pose
96. IRON MAIDEN The Trooper
97. ALICE COOPER School’s Out
98. MANIC STREET PREACHERS Motorcycle Emptiness
99. AFI The Days Of The Phoenix
100. LIT My Own Worst Enemy

 

Which five?

I like most of the songs on this list.

These would be the five I would choose:

96. IRON MAIDEN The Trooper
91. NINE INCH NAILS Head Like A Hole
90. JANE’S ADDICTION Been Caught Stealing
21. MOTORHEAD Ace Of Spades
12. METALLICA One

 

Well, you know 16 year olds have the best taste in music. I like a lot of the songs on the list but they hardly make the top 100.

 

71. BON JOVI Livin’ On A Prayer

WTF ever.

 

yikes!!!

i am old and i see several i like...particulary under the bridge, chili peppers. cool song, but i cant relate to it. i can almost picture him under the bridge doing that...

oooh, there's another that sticks out...staind...it's been a while.

ok, here are my picks:

1. korn - blind

2. metallica - nothing else matters

3. metallica - one

4. drowning pool - bodies (hey twig!)

5. chili peppers - under the bridge

6. staind - it's been a while

 

Cats in the cradle

 

Ok... I like a good number of these songs, but the top 100? *couch*bullshit*cough* 'scuse me.. Almost none of the songs listed are before the 90's, they are leaving singles out that did major things on the charts. I don't really like Elvis, but a lot of people did, you would think at least one of his songs would be there? how about a Beatles song? With as much rock is on there you would expect to see something by Tool, or A Perfect Circle, their latest albums had some of the biggest sales in their genre ever.

Seeing that Linkin Park, and Blink 182 are up there almost makes me sick, and Papa Roach?? You can definately tell what asswipes made this piece of shit list.

 

dude...

pre teens from the UK!!!! it is one magazine in the UK, nyt. OY!

 

welcome, paparoy!

feel free to post anywhere here, ax a question or start a thread. lemme know if i can be of assistance.

 

Re: dude...

Bah! even pre-teens should have some sense good music from before 1990. I'm only 20 myself but I listen to music at least from back to the 60's regularly, hell my favorite musical is Tommy.