The Top 200 Songs from the 1960s 

Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Song	Year	Sample
1	1	Bob Dylan	Like a Rolling Stone	1965	Listen
2	2	The Rolling Stones	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	1965
3	4	The Beach Boys	Good Vibrations	1966	Listen
4	5	Aretha Franklin	Respect	1967	Listen
5	8	Marvin Gaye	I Heard It Through the Grapevine	1968
6	9	Otis Redding	(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay	1968	Listen
7	10	The Ronettes	Be My Baby	1963	Listen
8	11	The Who	My Generation	1965	Listen
9	12	The Beatles	Strawberry Fields Forever	1967
10	16	The Beatles	A Day in the Life	1967
11	18	The Kingsmen	Louie Louie	1963
12	21	The Kinks	You Really Got Me	1964	Listen
13	22	Ike and Tina Turner	River Deep - Mountain High	1966
14	25	The Righteous Brothers	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'	1964
15	26	The Beatles	I Want to Hold Your Hand	1963
16	29	The Jackson 5	I Want You Back	1969
17	31	The Rolling Stones	Sympathy for the Devil	1968	Listen
18	36	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Purple Haze	1967	Listen
19	37	The Byrds	Mr. Tambourine Man	1965	Listen
20	42	The Beatles	Hey Jude	1968
21	43	The Beach Boys	God Only Knows	1966	Listen
22	44	Smokey Robinson and The Miracles	The Tracks of My Tears	1965
23	45	Four Tops	Reach Out I'll Be There	1966
24	46	The Rolling Stones	Jumpin' Jack Flash	1968
25	49	The Doors	Light My Fire	1967	Listen
26	53	The Kinks	Waterloo Sunset	1967	Listen
27	54	Martha and The Vandellas	Dancing in the Street	1964
28	56	Elvis Presley	Suspicious Minds	1969
29	68	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Proud Mary	1969	Listen
30	72	Ben E. King	Stand by Me	1961
31	74	Sam Cooke	A Change Is Gonna Come	1964
32	75	The Animals	House of the Rising Sun	1964
33	80	Led Zeppelin	Whole Lotta Love	1969	Listen
34	83	Percy Sledge	When a Man Loves a Woman	1966
35	84	David Bowie	Space Oddity	1969
36	86	James Brown	Papa's Got a Brand New Bag	1965
37	87	The Beatles	Yesterday	1965
38	91	Roy Orbison	Oh, Pretty Woman	1964
39	93	The Rolling Stones	Honky Tonk Women	1969
40	96	The Temptations	My Girl	1964	Listen
41	98	Van Morrison	Brown Eyed Girl	1967
42	100	Wilson Pickett	In the Midnight Hour	1965
43	101	Booker T. & The MG's	Green Onions	1962	Listen
44	102	Del Shannon	Runaway	1961
45	103	Dionne Warwick	Walk On By	1964
46	105	The Mamas and the Papas	California Dreamin'	1965	Listen
47	107	The Byrds	Eight Miles High	1966	Listen
48	110	The Shirelles	Will You Love Me Tomorrow	1960
49	111	Buffalo Springfield	For What It's Worth	1966	Listen
50	113	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	All Along the Watchtower	1968	Listen
51	114	The Beatles	She Loves You	1963
52	117	Them	Gloria	1964	Listen
53	118	The Rolling Stones	Gimme Shelter	1969	Listen
54	123	The Beatles	In My Life	1965
55	124	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Fortunate Son	1969	Listen
56	127	Procol Harum	A Whiter Shade of Pale	1967	Listen
57	132	Patsy Cline	Crazy	1961
58	138	The Beach Boys	Don't Worry Baby	1964
59	140	Jimmy Cliff	Many Rivers to Cross	1969	Listen
60	142	Roy Orbison	Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)	1960
61	151	The Impressions	People Get Ready	1965	Listen
62	154	Bob Dylan	Subterranean Homesick Blues	1965	Listen
63	156	The Crystals	Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)	1963
64	162	The Beatles	Help!	1965
65	165	The Supremes	Stop! In the Name of Love	1965
66	169	The Velvet Underground	Heroin	1967	Listen
67	170	The Beatles	Penny Lane	1967
68	176	Glen Campbell	Wichita Lineman	1968
69	180	The Velvet Underground	I'm Waiting for the Man	1967	Listen
70	183	The Troggs	Wild Thing	1966
71	188	Desmond Dekker	Israelites	1968
72	194	Aretha Franklin	I Say a Little Prayer	1968	Listen
73	197	The Rolling Stones	Paint It, Black	1966
74	199	The Band	The Weight	1968	Listen
75	204	Steppenwolf	Born to Be Wild	1968	Listen
76	205	The Supremes	Where Did Our Love Go	1964
77	209	The Lovin' Spoonful	Summer in the City	1966
78	213	Jimi Hendrix	Hey Joe	1966	Listen
79	215	Love	Alone Again Or	1967	Listen
80	218	Spencer Davis Group	Gimme Some Lovin'	1966
81	220	Dusty Springfield	Son-of-a Preacher Man	1968	Listen
82	221	Question Mark and the Mysterians	96 Tears	1966
83	222	James Brown	It's a Man's Man's Man's World	1966
84	223	The Who	I Can't Explain	1965
85	225	Sly and the Family Stone	Dance to the Music	1968
86	229	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)	1968	Listen
87	248	Roy Orbison	Crying	1961
88	249	Johnny Cash	Ring of Fire	1963
89	250	The Beatles	Tomorrow Never Knows	1966
90	251	James Brown	I Got You (I Feel Good)	1965
91	254	Jefferson Airplane	White Rabbit	1967	Listen
92	260	Chubby Checker	The Twist	1960
93	262	The Everly Brothers	Cathy's Clown	1960	Listen
94	263	The Beach Boys	I Get Around	1964
95	272	Simon and Garfunkel	The Sound of Silence	1965	Listen
96	278	The Box Tops	The Letter	1967
97	279	Bob Dylan	Blowin' in the Wind	1963	Listen
98	285	Pink Floyd	See Emily Play	1967
99	287	Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin	Je t'aime moi non plus	1969
100	288	Sly and the Family Stone	Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)	1969
101	293	The Stooges	I Wanna Be Your Dog	1969	Listen
102	295	Jackie Wilson	(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher	1967
103	299	Otis Redding	Try a Little Tenderness	1966	Listen
104	301	The Beatles	Paperback Writer	1966
105	303	The Beatles	Revolution	1968
106	304	The Shangri-La's	Leader of the Pack	1964
107	307	The Beatles	Ticket to Ride	1965
108	318	Ray Charles	Georgia on My Mind	1960
109	324	The Crystals	He's a Rebel	1962
110	331	The Who	I Can See for Miles	1967	Listen
111	333	Aretha Franklin	Chain of Fools	1967	Listen
112	340	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)	1967	Listen
113	341	The Beatles	Eleanor Rigby	1966
114	347	Sly and the Family Stone	Everyday People	1968	Listen
115	348	The Beatles	While My Guitar Gently Weeps	1968
116	349	Dion	Runaround Sue	1961
117	351	The Supremes	You Can't Hurry Love	1966
118	352	The Beatles	Something	1969
119	353	The Beatles	I Am the Walrus	1967
120	355	Little Eva	The Loco-Motion	1962
121	360	Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs	Wooly Bully	1965
122	361	Otis Redding	I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)	1965	Listen
123	364	Tammy Wynette	Stand by Your Man	1968
124	366	B.B. King	The Thrill Is Gone	1969	Listen
125	375	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Bad Moon Rising	1969	Listen
126	383	MC5	Kick Out the Jams	1969	Listen
127	400	The Beatles	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	1965
128	403	The Beatles	Happiness Is a Warm Gun	1968
129	407	Sam & Dave	Soul Man	1967
130	428	Van Morrison	Madame George	1968	Listen
131	435	Bob Dylan	Positively 4th Street	1965
132	448	Etta James	At Last	1960	Listen
133	451	Smokey Robinson and The Miracles	The Tears of a Clown	1967
134	453	Bob Dylan	The Times They Are A-Changin'	1964	Listen
135	455	Fairport Convention	Who Knows Where the Time Goes	1969	Listen
136	461	Bob Dylan	Visions of Johanna	1966	Listen
137	464	The Easybeats	Friday on My Mind	1966
138	465	The Shadows	Apache	1960
139	472	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement	1965	Listen
140	474	Led Zeppelin	Dazed and Confused	1969	Listen
141	475	The Beatles	A Hard Day's Night	1964
142	484	Bobby Fuller Four	I Fought the Law	1966
143	485	Bob Dylan	Just Like a Woman	1966	Listen
144	488	Cream	Sunshine of Your Love	1967	Listen
145	490	The Beach Boys	California Girls	1965	Listen
146	492	The Beatles	Come Together	1969
147	500	Patsy Cline	I Fall to Pieces	1961
148	503	Ben E. King	Spanish Harlem	1961
149	507	The Monkees	I'm a Believer	1966
150	510	The Miracles	You've Really Got a Hold on Me	1962
151	514	The Marvelettes	Please Mr. Postman	1961
152	520	Bobbie Gentry	Ode to Billie Joe	1967
153	522	The Righteous Brothers	Unchained Melody	1965
154	532	Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto	The Girl from Ipanema	1964	Listen
155	541	Mary Wells	My Guy	1964
156	548	Gene Chandler	Duke of Earl	1962
157	549	Sam Cooke	Shake	1965
158	558	The Left Banke	Walk Away Renée	1966
159	565	Jefferson Airplane	Somebody to Love	1967	Listen
160	568	Louis Armstrong	What a Wonderful World	1967
161	570	The Doors	The End	1967	Listen
162	581	Roy Orbison	In Dreams	1963
163	583	James Carr	The Dark End of the Street	1966	Listen
164	587	The Band	The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down	1969	Listen
165	590	Elvis Presley	In the Ghetto	1969	Listen
166	594	The Rolling Stones	Street Fighting Man	1968	Listen
167	595	Stevie Wonder	Uptight (Everything's Alright)	1965
168	606	The Chiffons	He's So Fine	1963
169	610	Tommy James and The Shondells	Crimson and Clover	1968
170	615	The Walker Brothers	The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore	1966
171	624	The Zombies	She's Not There	1964
172	631	Ray Charles	I Can't Stop Loving You	1962	Listen
173	634	The Searchers	Needles and Pins	1964
174	641	Bob Dylan	Desolation Row	1965	Listen
175	642	The Rolling Stones	You Can't Always Get What You Want	1969	Listen
176	654	The Young Rascals	Groovin'	1967
177	655	Sam & Dave	Hold On! I'm a Comin'	1966	Listen
178	660	The Supremes	Baby Love	1964
179	661	The Beach Boys	In My Room	1963
180	663	Big Brother and The Holding Company	Piece of My Heart	1968	Listen
181	665	The Beach Boys	Surfin' U.S.A.	1963	Listen
182	669	Martha and The Vandellas	Heat Wave	1963
183	671	Aretha Franklin	(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman	1967	Listen
184	673	Aretha Franklin	Think	1968	Listen
185	683	Bob Dylan	Mr. Tambourine Man	1965	Listen
186	689	The Drifters	Save the Last Dance for Me	1960
187	690	The Lovin' Spoonful	Do You Believe in Magic	1965	Listen
188	692	Simon and Garfunkel	The Boxer	1969	Listen
189	695	Nilsson	Everybody's Talkin'	1968
190	696	The Young Rascals	Good Lovin'	1966
191	707	The Rolling Stones	Let's Spend the Night Together	1967
192	712	The Drifters	On Broadway	1963
193	717	Henry Mancini	Moon River	1961	Listen
194	723	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Crosstown Traffic	1968	Listen
195	727	The Beatles	Rain	1966
196	737	Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra	Some Velvet Morning	1967
197	738	James Brown	Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud	1968
198	740	Grateful Dead	Dark Star	1968	Listen
199	754	13th Floor Elevators	You're Gonna Miss Me	1966
200	757	The Animals	We Gotta Get Out of This Place	1965

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