Acclaimed Music - The Top 200 Songs from the 1970s

The Top 200 Songs from the 1970s
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Year	Sample
1	9	Led Zeppelin	Stairway to Heaven	1971	Listen
2	11	Sex Pistols	Anarchy in the U.K.	1976	Listen
3	19	Marvin Gaye	What's Going On	1971	Listen
4	21	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run	1975	Listen
5	23	Sex Pistols	God Save the Queen	1977	Listen
6	24	John Lennon	Imagine	1971
7	33	Stevie Wonder	Superstition	1972	Listen
8	38	The Clash	London Calling	1979	Listen
9	40	The Eagles	Hotel California	1976
10	43	Derek and The Dominos	Layla	1970	Listen
11	57	Al Green	Let's Stay Together	1971	Listen
12	61	Queen	Bohemian Rhapsody	1975	Listen
13	62	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water	1970	Listen
14	64	Lou Reed	Walk on the Wild Side	1972
15	65	David Bowie	Heroes	1977	Listen
16	78	Bob Marley and The Wailers	No Woman No Cry	1974	Listen
17	94	The Bee Gees	Stayin' Alive	1977	Listen
18	96	Rod Stewart	Maggie May	1971	Listen
19	97	Chic	Good Times	1979	Listen
20	115	The Temptations	Papa Was a Rolling Stone	1972
21	117	The Who	Won't Get Fooled Again	1971	Listen
22	118	T. Rex	Get It On (Bang a Gong)	1971	Listen
23	125	ABBA	Dancing Queen	1976	Listen
24	131	Sly and the Family Stone	Family Affair	1971	Listen
25	132	James Brown	Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine	1970	Listen
26	137	The Clash	(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais	1978
27	141	The Rolling Stones	Brown Sugar	1971	Listen
28	143	David Bowie	Ziggy Stardust	1972	Listen
29	153	Roxy Music	Virginia Plain	1972
30	155	David Bowie	Changes	1971
31	157	The Sugarhill Gang	Rapper's Delight	1979
32	165	Ramones	Blitzkrieg Bop	1976	Listen
33	169	Black Sabbath	Paranoid	1970	Listen
34	171	Donna Summer	I Feel Love	1977
35	193	Bruce Springsteen	Thunder Road	1975	Listen
36	196	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Free Bird	1973	Listen
37	200	Kraftwerk	Autobahn	1974	Listen
38	203	Gladys Knight and The Pips	Midnight Train to Georgia	1973
39	216	James Taylor	Fire and Rain	1970	Listen
40	218	Blondie	Heart of Glass	1978	Listen
41	221	Fleetwood Mac	Go Your Own Way	1977	Listen
42	227	Mott the Hoople	All the Young Dudes	1972	Listen
43	234	Don McLean	American Pie	1971	Listen
44	237	The Buzzcocks	Ever Fallen in Love?	1978	Listen
45	242	Isaac Hayes	Theme from Shaft	1971	Listen
46	249	The Undertones	Teenage Kicks	1978	Listen
47	250	Ramones	Sheena Is a Punkrocker	1977
48	252	Pretenders	Brass in Pocket	1979	Listen
49	258	Talking Heads	Psycho Killer	1977	Listen
50	263	Boston	More Than a Feeling	1976	Listen
51	269	Blue Oyster Cult	(Don't Fear) The Reaper	1976	Listen
52	270	Aerosmith	Walk This Way	1975	Listen
53	271	The Police	Roxanne	1978	Listen
54	278	Sex Pistols	Pretty Vacant	1977	Listen
55	279	Elton John	Your Song	1970	Listen
56	280	Marvin Gaye	Let's Get It On	1973	Listen
57	284	Bob Dylan	Tangled Up in Blue	1975	Listen
58	286	Ann Peebles	I Can't Stand the Rain	1973	Listen
59	293	John Lennon	Instant Karma (We All Shine On)	1970
60	296	Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers	Roadrunner	1975	Listen
61	298	Elvis Costello	Alison	1977	Listen
62	304	Smokey Robinson and The Miracles	The Tears of a Clown	1970
63	305	The Wailers	Get Up, Stand Up	1973	Listen
64	317	Carole King	It's Too Late	1971	Listen
65	318	Michael Jackson	Don't Stop Till You Get Enough	1979	Listen
66	322	Edwin Starr	War	1970
67	329	Led Zeppelin	Kashmir	1975	Listen
68	335	The Temptations	Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)	1971
69	337	Janis Joplin	Me and Bobby McGee	1971	Listen
70	345	Big Star	September Gurls	1974	Listen
71	350	The Beatles	Let It Be	1970
72	351	The B-52's	Rock Lobster	1978	Listen
73	352	Stevie Wonder	Living for the City	1973	Listen
74	354	Gloria Gaynor	I Will Survive	1979
75	355	Led Zeppelin	Rock and Roll	1971	Listen
76	364	Television	Marquee Moon	1977	Listen
77	366	Chic	Le Freak	1978
78	367	Al Green	Tired of Being Alone	1971	Listen
79	370	Iggy Pop	Lust for Life	1977	Listen
80	372	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Sweet Home Alabama	1974	Listen
81	374	The Clash	Complete Control	1977	Listen
82	382	Aerosmith	Dream On	1973
83	386	Freda Payne	Band of Gold	1970
84	388	Steely Dan	Reeling in the Years	1972	Listen
85	389	David Bowie	Life on Mars	1971
86	391	Patti Smith	Gloria	1975	Listen
87	394	Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes	If You Don't Know Me by Now	1972
88	400	Patti Smith Group	Because the Night	1978	Listen
89	405	Gary Numan	Cars	1979
90	408	Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated	1978
91	412	Neil Young	Heart of Gold	1972	Listen
92	413	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Who'll Stop the Rain	1970	Listen
93	415	Funkadelic	One Nation Under a Groove	1978	Listen
94	416	Public Image Ltd.	Public Image	1978	Listen
95	420	Bob Seger	Night Moves	1976	Listen
96	423	The Jam	Down in the Tubestation at Midnight	1978
97	424	Pink Floyd	Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2	1979	Listen
98	426	Iggy and The Stooges	Search and Destroy	1973	Listen
99	432	Dire Straits	Sultans of Swing	1978	Listen
100	434	Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel	Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)	1975
101	436	The Clash	Train in Vain (Stand by Me)	1979	Listen
102	438	The Kinks	Lola	1970	Listen
103	446	The Velvet Underground	Sweet Jane	1970	Listen
104	448	Toots and The Maytals	Pressure Drop	1970	Listen
105	449	AC/DC	Highway to Hell	1979
106	451	Magazine	Shot by Both Sides	1978	Listen
107	453	Elvis Costello	Watching the Detectives	1977	Listen
108	458	Carly Simon	You're So Vain	1972	Listen
109	459	Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	1973	Listen
110	463	The Rolling Stones	Tumbling Dice	1972	Listen
111	465	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Ohio	1970
112	466	The O'Jays	Back Stabbers	1972	Listen
113	469	10 CC	I'm Not in Love	1975	Listen
114	471	The Doors	Riders on the Storm	1971	Listen
115	474	Thin Lizzy	The Boys Are Back in Town	1976	Listen
116	477	The Rolling Stones	Wild Horses	1971	Listen
117	481	The Cure	Boys Don't Cry	1979	Listen
118	484	Alice Cooper	School's Out	1972	Listen
119	485	The O'Jays	Love Train	1972	Listen
120	490	David Bowie	Young Americans	1975	Listen
121	504	Sex Pistols	Holidays in the Sun	1977	Listen
122	514	The Specials	Gangsters	1979	Listen
123	515	Deep Purple	Smoke on the Water	1972	Listen
124	519	Free	All Right Now	1970	Listen
125	522	Augustus Pablo	King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown	1975	Listen
126	529	The Clash	White Riot	1977	Listen
127	530	The Wailers	I Shot the Sheriff	1973	Listen
128	538	Junior Murvin	Police and Thieves	1976
129	540	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here	1975	Listen
130	544	Loretta Lynn	Coal Miner's Daughter	1970
131	548	Cheap Trick	Surrender	1978	Listen
132	562	Roxy Music	Love Is the Drug	1975	Listen
133	563	David Bowie	Starman	1972	Listen
134	567	Dolly Parton	Jolene	1973
135	569	T. Rex	Telegram Sam	1972	Listen
136	572	Kraftwerk	Das Model	1978	Listen
137	576	Stevie Wonder	You Are the Sunshine of My Life	1972	Listen
138	588	George Harrison	My Sweet Lord	1970	Listen
139	594	Roberta Flack	Killing Me Softly with His Song	1973
140	600	The Damned	New Rose	1976	Listen
141	609	Joy Division	Transmission	1979
142	611	Sister Sledge	We Are Family	1979
143	628	Al Green	Take Me to the River	1974	Listen
144	634	Jimmy Cliff	The Harder They Come	1972	Listen
145	636	Santana	Black Magic Woman	1970
146	638	New York Dolls	Personality Crisis	1973	Listen
147	639	George McRae	Rock Your Baby	1974
148	645	Van Morrison	Moondance	1970	Listen
149	656	Kate Bush	Wuthering Heights	1978	Listen
150	661	Elvis Costello	Radio Radio	1978	Listen
151	663	The Jam	Eton Rifles	1979
152	664	Donna Summer	Hot Stuff	1979	Listen
153	671	T. Rex	20th Century Boy	1973
154	672	The Rolling Stones	Miss You	1978	Listen
155	674	T. Rex	Children of the Revolution	1972
156	678	The Velvet Underground	Rock and Roll	1970	Listen
157	687	Patti Labelle	Lady Marmalade	1974	Listen
158	694	Joni Mitchell	Help Me	1974	Listen
159	695	Joe Jackson	Is She Really Going Out with Him?	1978	Listen
160	699	The Staple Singers	Respect Yourself	1971	Listen
161	703	Randy Newman	Sail Away	1972	Listen
162	710	Elvis Costello	Oliver's Army	1979
163	716	Elvis Costello	(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea	1978	Listen
164	722	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)	1979	Listen
165	731	David Bowie	Fame	1975	Listen
166	734	The Police	Message in a Bottle	1979	Listen
167	737	AC/DC	Whole Lotta Rosie	1977	Listen
168	739	Black Sabbath	Iron Man	1970	Listen
169	742	The Sparks	This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us	1974	Listen
170	744	Slade	Cum on Feel the Noize	1973
171	751	Wings	Maybe I'm Amazed	1970
172	757	Richard Hell & The Voidoids	Blank Generation	1977	Listen
173	760	Joy Division	She's Lost Control	1979	Listen
174	765	Billy Joel	Just the Way You Are	1977	Listen
175	767	Siouxsie and The Banshees	Hongkong Garden	1978
176	768	Bauhaus	Bela Lugosi's Dead	1979
177	774	Bill Withers	Ain't No Sunshine	1971	Listen
178	784	Todd Rundgren	I Saw the Light	1972	Listen
179	785	Van Morrison	Into the Mystic	1970	Listen
180	786	Nilsson	Without You	1971	Listen
181	787	Marvin Gaye	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)	1971	Listen
182	794	Devo	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	1978	Listen
183	808	Curtis Mayfield	Move On Up	1970	Listen
184	818	Stevie Wonder	Higher Ground	1973	Listen
185	820	The Who	Baba O'Riley	1971	Listen
186	831	Queen	We Will Rock You	1977
187	832	The Only Ones	Another Girl, Another Planet	1978
188	833	Marvin Gaye	Mercy Mercy Me	1971	Listen
189	841	ABBA	Waterloo	1974
190	842	Bob Dylan	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	1973
191	843	Billy Joel	Piano Man	1973
192	854	Shirley and Co.	Shame Shame Shame	1975
193	858	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Jamming	1977	Listen
194	860	John Lennon	God	1970
195	869	Elvis Costello	Pump It Up	1978	Listen
196	871	The Knack	My Sharona	1979
197	873	Paul McCartney and Wings	Jet	1973
198	881	Kiss	Rock'n'roll All Nite	1975
199	891	Gang of Four	Damaged Goods	1978
200	898	Ian Dury and The Blockheads	Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3	1979