Acclaimed Music - The Top 200 Songs from the 1970s

The Top 200 Songs from the 1970s
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Song	Year	Sample
1	7	Sex Pistols	Anarchy in the U.K.	1976	Listen
2	13	Marvin Gaye	What's Going On	1971	Listen
3	14	Led Zeppelin	Stairway to Heaven	1971	Listen
4	23	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run	1975	Listen
5	28	Sex Pistols	God Save the Queen	1977	Listen
6	33	John Lennon	Imagine	1971
7	34	The Clash	London Calling	1979	Listen
8	41	Stevie Wonder	Superstition	1972	Listen
9	48	David Bowie	"Heroes"	1977	Listen
10	50	Derek and The Dominos	Layla	1970	Listen
11	51	Queen	Bohemian Rhapsody	1975	Listen
12	60	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water	1970	Listen
13	62	Eagles	Hotel California	1976
14	64	Lou Reed	Walk on the Wild Side	1972
15	66	Bob Marley and The Wailers	No Woman No Cry	1974	Listen
16	67	Al Green	Let's Stay Together	1971	Listen
17	78	Chic	Good Times	1979	Listen
18	97	Donna Summer	I Feel Love	1977
19	108	ABBA	Dancing Queen	1976	Listen
20	109	Rod Stewart	Maggie May	1971	Listen
21	112	James Brown	Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine	1970	Listen
22	120	Bee Gees	Stayin' Alive	1977	Listen
23	121	T. Rex	Get It On (Bang a Gong)	1971	Listen
24	126	The Who	Won't Get Fooled Again	1971	Listen
25	130	Sly and the Family Stone	Family Affair	1971	Listen
26	136	The Temptations	Papa Was a Rolling Stone	1972
27	146	Bruce Springsteen	Thunder Road	1975	Listen
28	148	David Bowie	Ziggy Stardust	1972	Listen
29	152	Ramones	Blitzkrieg Bop	1976	Listen
30	153	The Clash	(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais	1978
31	159	Roxy Music	Virginia Plain	1972
32	163	The Sugarhill Gang	Rapper's Delight	1979
33	167	David Bowie	Changes	1971
34	173	Buzzcocks	Ever Fallen in Love?	1978	Listen
35	177	The Rolling Stones	Brown Sugar	1971	Listen
36	195	Black Sabbath	Paranoid	1970	Listen
37	201	Talking Heads	Psycho Killer	1977	Listen
38	207	Kraftwerk	Autobahn	1974	Listen
39	216	Mott the Hoople	All the Young Dudes	1972	Listen
40	217	Blondie	Heart of Glass	1978	Listen
41	230	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Free Bird	1973	Listen
42	231	Marvin Gaye	Let's Get It On	1973	Listen
43	235	John Lennon	Instant Karma (We All Shine On)	1970
44	239	Bob Dylan	Tangled Up in Blue	1975	Listen
45	241	Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers	Roadrunner	1975	Listen
46	242	Pretenders	Brass in Pocket	1979	Listen
47	245	The Undertones	Teenage Kicks	1978	Listen
48	246	Blue �yster Cult	(Don't Fear) The Reaper	1976	Listen
49	247	Gladys Knight and The Pips	Midnight Train to Georgia	1973
50	261	Ann Peebles	I Can't Stand the Rain	1973	Listen
51	268	Chic	Le Freak	1978
52	269	Elton John	Your Song	1970	Listen
53	273	Isaac Hayes	Theme from Shaft	1971	Listen
54	275	Fleetwood Mac	Go Your Own Way	1977	Listen
55	286	Stevie Wonder	Living for the City	1973	Listen
56	290	Michael Jackson	Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough	1979	Listen
57	296	The Wailers	Get Up, Stand Up	1973	Listen
58	302	Led Zeppelin	Kashmir	1975	Listen
59	305	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Sweet Home Alabama	1974	Listen
60	309	Ramones	Sheena Is a Punk Rocker	1977
61	310	Al Green	Tired of Being Alone	1971	Listen
62	313	Television	Marquee Moon	1977	Listen
63	314	David Bowie	Life on Mars?	1971
64	319	The Police	Roxanne	1978	Listen
65	323	Sex Pistols	Pretty Vacant	1977	Listen
66	325	Alice Cooper	School's Out	1972	Listen
67	334	James Taylor	Fire and Rain	1970	Listen
68	337	Edwin Starr	War	1970
69	338	The Velvet Underground	Sweet Jane	1970	Listen
70	345	Funkadelic	One Nation Under a Groove	1978	Listen
71	356	Magazine	Shot by Both Sides	1978	Listen
72	359	Carole King	It's Too Late	1971	Listen
73	363	Freda Payne	Band of Gold	1970
74	368	Boston	More Than a Feeling	1976	Listen
75	371	The Beatles	Let It Be	1970
76	377	Don McLean	American Pie	1971	Listen
77	378	Iggy Pop	Lust for Life	1977	Listen
78	382	Big Star	September Gurls	1974	Listen
79	386	Aerosmith	Walk This Way	1975	Listen
80	387	Aerosmith	Dream On	1973
81	389	The Temptations	Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)	1971
82	392	Janis Joplin	Me and Bobby McGee	1971	Listen
83	393	The B-52's	Rock Lobster	1978	Listen
84	395	Patti Smith	Gloria	1975	Listen
85	399	The Jam	Down in the Tube Station at Midnight	1978
86	404	Thin Lizzy	The Boys Are Back in Town	1976	Listen
87	406	Gloria Gaynor	I Will Survive	1978
88	408	Toots and The Maytals	Pressure Drop	1970	Listen
89	409	Deep Purple	Smoke on the Water	1972	Listen
90	410	The Kinks	Lola	1970	Listen
91	411	Jimmy Cliff	The Harder They Come	1972	Listen
92	413	Public Image Ltd.	Public Image	1978	Listen
93	416	The Rolling Stones	Wild Horses	1971	Listen
94	425	The Doors	Riders on the Storm	1971	Listen
95	426	The Clash	Complete Control	1977	Listen
96	429	Iggy and The Stooges	Search and Destroy	1973	Listen
97	431	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Who'll Stop the Rain	1970	Listen
98	437	Elvis Costello	Alison	1977	Listen
99	440	The Wailers	I Shot the Sheriff	1973	Listen
100	441	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Ohio	1970
101	443	The Velvet Underground	Rock and Roll	1970	Listen
102	445	Roxy Music	Love Is the Drug	1975	Listen
103	458	Patti Smith Group	Because the Night	1978	Listen
104	467	Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated	1978
105	469	Al Green	Take Me to the River	1974	Listen
106	473	Gary Numan	Cars	1979
107	477	Neil Young	Heart of Gold	1972	Listen
108	478	David Bowie	Young Americans	1975	Listen
109	480	Led Zeppelin	Rock and Roll	1971	Listen
110	482	10cc	I'm Not in Love	1975	Listen
111	483	Augustus Pablo	King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown	1975	Listen
112	493	The Cure	Boys Don't Cry	1979	Listen
113	495	The Who	Baba O'Riley	1971	Listen
114	497	Junior Murvin	Police and Thieves	1976
115	509	Sparks	This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us	1974	Listen
116	515	Loretta Lynn	Coal Miner's Daughter	1970
117	518	Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes	If You Don't Know Me by Now	1972
118	519	AC/DC	Highway to Hell	1979
119	524	Black Sabbath	Iron Man	1970	Listen
120	526	Curtis Mayfield	Move On Up	1970	Listen
121	527	Dire Straits	Sultans of Swing	1978	Listen
122	528	Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel	Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)	1975
123	531	Dolly Parton	Jolene	1973
124	547	The O'Jays	Back Stabbers	1972	Listen
125	552	Kate Bush	Wuthering Heights	1978	Listen
126	556	Steely Dan	Reeling in the Years	1972	Listen
127	559	The Damned	New Rose	1976	Listen
128	563	Elvis Costello	Watching the Detectives	1977	Listen
129	564	The Rolling Stones	Tumbling Dice	1972	Listen
130	582	George McCrae	Rock Your Baby	1974
131	584	New York Dolls	Personality Crisis	1973	Listen
132	591	Pink Floyd	Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2	1979	Listen
133	596	Kraftwerk	Trans-Europa Express	1977	Listen
134	597	Robert Wyatt	Sea Song	1974	Listen
135	600	Bob Seger	Night Moves	1976	Listen
136	603	Kraftwerk	Das Model	1978	Listen
137	609	Labelle	Lady Marmalade	1974	Listen
138	612	Richard Hell & The Voidoids	Blank Generation	1977	Listen
139	614	John Lennon	God	1970
140	617	The Clash	White Riot	1977	Listen
141	618	T. Rex	Telegram Sam	1972	Listen
142	626	Joni Mitchell	Help Me	1974	Listen
143	629	Free	All Right Now	1970	Listen
144	630	The Clash	Train in Vain (Stand by Me)	1979	Listen
145	632	Carly Simon	You're So Vain	1972	Listen
146	638	Joy Division	Transmission	1979
147	650	Sister Sledge	We Are Family	1979
148	657	Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	1973	Listen
149	658	The O'Jays	Love Train	1972	Listen
150	662	The Specials	Gangsters	1979	Listen
151	666	Roberta Flack	Killing Me Softly with His Song	1973
152	667	The Only Ones	Another Girl, Another Planet	1978
153	670	Bauhaus	Bela Lugosi's Dead	1979
154	676	The Jam	The Eton Rifles	1979
155	680	Elvis Costello	Radio Radio	1978	Listen
156	698	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)	1979	Listen
157	700	T. Rex	20th Century Boy	1973
158	705	Leonard Cohen	Famous Blue Raincoat	1971	Listen
159	706	Sex Pistols	Holidays in the Sun	1977	Listen
160	708	Donna Summer	Love to Love You Baby	1975
161	710	Lou Reed	Perfect Day	1972
162	718	George Harrison	My Sweet Lord	1970	Listen
163	734	Stevie Wonder	Higher Ground	1973	Listen
164	741	John Lennon	Jealous Guy	1971
165	743	Ian Dury	Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll	1977
166	749	X-Ray Spex	Oh Bondage Up Yours!	1977	Listen
167	750	David Bowie	Starman	1972	Listen
168	760	Randy Newman	Sail Away	1972	Listen
169	764	Cheap Trick	Surrender	1978	Listen
170	766	Grateful Dead	Box of Rain	1970	Listen
171	768	Parliament	Flash Light	1977	Listen
172	773	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Oliver's Army	1979
173	789	The Rolling Stones	Miss You	1978	Listen
174	793	T. Rex	Children of the Revolution	1972
175	797	The Buggles	Video Killed the Radio Star	1979
176	801	Bob Dylan	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	1973
177	805	Althea and Donna	Uptown Top Ranking	1977
178	812	ABBA	Waterloo	1974
179	813	Queen	We Will Rock You	1977
180	818	Bill Withers	Ain't No Sunshine	1971	Listen
181	822	Gang of Four	Damaged Goods	1978
182	823	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here	1975	Listen
183	825	The Police	Message in a Bottle	1979	Listen
184	830	Todd Rundgren	I Saw the Light	1972	Listen
185	833	Marvin Gaye	Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)	1971	Listen
186	845	David Bowie	Fame	1975	Listen
187	848	The Staple Singers	Respect Yourself	1971	Listen
188	849	Kiss	Rock and Roll All Nite	1975
189	853	The Trammps	Disco Inferno	1977
190	857	XTC	Making Plans for Nigel	1979	Listen
191	864	Marvin Gaye	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)	1971	Listen
192	870	Tim Buckley	Song to the Siren	1970
193	871	Van Morrison	Moondance	1970	Listen
194	882	The Chi-Lites	Have You Seen Her	1971	Listen
195	892	Elvis Costello	(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding	1978
196	896	Jethro Tull	Aqualung	1971
197	898	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Jamming	1977	Listen
198	907	Donna Summer	Hot Stuff	1979	Listen
199	908	The Cars	Just What I Needed	1978	Listen
200	914	Siouxsie and The Banshees	Hong Kong Garden	1978