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)