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OASIS ARE THE BEST THING, EVER EVER EVER
We're not sure which "music fans" Q magazine asked to come up with its list of the top 100 singles ever, but we suspect they might be self-hating. Live Forever? Admittedly, it's the best Oasis single, but the best single ever?
And a poll which reckons Oasis have written the first and second best songs in recorded history?
At least it's not Bohemian Rhapsody. That's at number six.
The 100 in full:
1 Live Forever – Oasis
2 Wonderwall – Oasis
3 Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
4 A Day In The Life – The Beatles
5 One – U2
6 Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
7 Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
8 Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
9 Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
10 Paranoid Android – Radiohead
11 Angels – Robbie Williams
12 Like A Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan
13 There Is A light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
14 London Calling – The Clash
15 Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley
16 Billie Jean – Michael Jackson
17 With Or Without You – U2
18 God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols
19 Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
20 Don’t Look Back in Anger – Oasis
21 Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys
22 Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns n’ Roses
23 Hey Jude – The Beatles
24 Kiss – Prince
25 Imagine – John Lennon
26 Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
27 Like A Prayer – Madonna
28 Everybody Hurts – REM
29 Hey Ya – Outkast
30 Creep – Radiohead
31 Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles
32 I Wanna Be Adored – The Stone Roses
33 Karma Police – Radiohead
34 Walk This Way – Run DMC featuring Aerosmith
35 Champagne Supernova – Oasis
36 God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
37 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys
38 Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
39 Hurt – Johnny Cash
40 Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack
41 All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix Experience
42 Street Spirit (Fade Away) – Radiohead
43 Where The Streets Have No Name – U2
44 Common People – Pulp
45 Life On Mars – David Bowie
46 Anarchy In The UK – The Sex Pistols
47 Mr Brightside – The Killers
48 What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
49 Teenage Kicks – The Undertones
50 Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters
51 Fight For Your Right To Party - Beastie Boys
52 Yesterday - The Beatles
53 Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
54 Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
55 Can’t Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue
56 How Soon Is Now - The Smiths
57 In My Life - The Beatles
58 Losing My Religion - REM
59 Stan - Eminem
60 Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve
61 Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
62 Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
63 My Generation - The Who
64 Yellow - Coldplay
65 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
66 I Can’t Get No Satisfacton - The Rolling Stones
67 Fools Gold - The Stone Roses
68 Heroes - David Bowie
69 Blue Monday - New Order
70 Hotel California - Eagles
71 Song 2 - Blur
72 Winner Takes It All - ABBA
73 Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
74 Kashmir - Led Zepplin
75 Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
76 Babylon - David Gray
77 Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
78 Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana
79 Everybody’s Changing - Keane
80 A Town Called Malice - The Jam
81 The Scientist - Coldplay
82 Superstition - Stevie Wonder
83 Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
84 7 Nation Army - The White Stripes
85 Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
86 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
87 Golden Touch - Razorlight
88 Motor Cycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
89 Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
90 There She Goes - The Las
91 No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley
92 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
93 I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
94 Rocket Man - Elton John
95 Debaser - Pixies
96 Fairy Tale Of New York - The Pogues
97 Last Nite - The Strokes
98 Going Underground - The Jam
99 Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine
100 Paranoid - Black Sabbath
There are some surprises - Killing In The Name might be a low entry, but if you'd had to guess, we bet you wouldn't have expected that; nor would you have got money on Razorlight being in there at all. And would you have thought it would be Motorcycle Emptiness which represented the Manics? Or Monkey Wrench for the Foo Fighters?
The other thing that the list screams is bloke - Madonna is the first woman to appear, at 27 (and with Like A Prayer, of all things); then the next female input is Candida Doyle's keyboards on Common People at 44; Ana Matronic's Take Your Mama bits at 50; Kylie pops up at 55 and Kate Bush at 61. Obviously, Kim Deal was on Debaser (95) and Gillian Morris is at 69. You could stretch a point and include Dido's work on Stan (59) and, of course, the vocals on Winner Takes It All (best Abba? Really?) are female. Oh, and Meg White's drumming makes the grade at 84. But even so: of the 100 best songs ever, apparently only four have lead female vocals. If anything tells you that this list is more about songs that get honked over pub jukeboxes than actual best songs, it's that fact alone.
4 comments:
I'm guessing it must be 'songs' as opposed to singles, as I can see a good half dozen that were never singles in the UK.
It is a sad and depressing list of course, but what did we expect from Q these days?
what really gets to you is the fact that some q readers took the time to be unimaginative and predictable for this poll? then again who else has the time? i mean it's not like they're spending their time listening to music!
The queen's a woman. Doesn't she count?
Actually, we did miss that Kirsty MacColl has made it onto the list right at the end.
But isn't the Queen officially a man?
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