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	10	Sex Pistols	Anarchy in the U.K.	1976	Listen
3	20	Marvin Gaye	What's Going On	1971	Listen
4	23	Sex Pistols	God Save the Queen	1977	Listen
5	25	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run	1975	Listen
6	26	John Lennon	Imagine	1971
7	35	The Clash	London Calling	1979	Listen
8	38	Stevie Wonder	Superstition	1972	Listen
9	47	The Eagles	Hotel California	1976
10	48	Derek and The Dominos	Layla	1970	Listen
11	58	Lou Reed	Walk on the Wild Side	1972
12	61	David Bowie	Heroes	1977	Listen
13	63	Al Green	Let's Stay Together	1971	Listen
14	68	Queen	Bohemian Rhapsody	1975	Listen
15	69	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water	1970	Listen
16	74	Bob Marley and The Wailers	No Woman No Cry	1974	Listen
17	80	Chic	Good Times	1979	Listen
18	96	The Bee Gees	Stayin' Alive	1977	Listen
19	103	Rod Stewart	Maggie May	1971	Listen
20	110	T. Rex	Get It On (Bang a Gong)	1971	Listen
21	117	ABBA	Dancing Queen	1976	Listen
22	121	The Who	Won't Get Fooled Again	1971	Listen
23	126	Sly and the Family Stone	Family Affair	1971	Listen
24	128	The Temptations	Papa Was a Rolling Stone	1972
25	141	James Brown	Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine	1970	Listen
26	145	Donna Summer	I Feel Love	1977
27	147	The Clash	(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais	1978
28	150	Ramones	Blitzkrieg Bop	1976	Listen
29	153	David Bowie	Changes	1971
30	154	Roxy Music	Virginia Plain	1972
31	158	The Rolling Stones	Brown Sugar	1971	Listen
32	162	The Sugarhill Gang	Rapper's Delight	1979
33	165	David Bowie	Ziggy Stardust	1972	Listen
34	174	Bruce Springsteen	Thunder Road	1975	Listen
35	183	Black Sabbath	Paranoid	1970	Listen
36	195	Kraftwerk	Autobahn	1974	Listen
37	198	Blondie	Heart of Glass	1978	Listen
38	200	Mott the Hoople	All the Young Dudes	1972	Listen
39	207	The Buzzcocks	Ever Fallen in Love?	1978	Listen
40	214	Gladys Knight and The Pips	Midnight Train to Georgia	1973
41	227	Pretenders	Brass in Pocket	1979	Listen
42	235	Fleetwood Mac	Go Your Own Way	1977	Listen
43	237	Talking Heads	Psycho Killer	1977	Listen
44	242	Isaac Hayes	Theme from Shaft	1971	Listen
45	247	Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers	Roadrunner	1975	Listen
46	255	Blue Oyster Cult	(Don't Fear) The Reaper	1976	Listen
47	258	The Undertones	Teenage Kicks	1978	Listen
48	259	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Free Bird	1973	Listen
49	261	James Taylor	Fire and Rain	1970	Listen
50	263	Ann Peebles	I Can't Stand the Rain	1973	Listen
51	265	Marvin Gaye	Let's Get It On	1973	Listen
52	271	John Lennon	Instant Karma (We All Shine On)	1970
53	272	Bob Dylan	Tangled Up in Blue	1975	Listen
54	273	Ramones	Sheena Is a Punkrocker	1977
55	274	Sex Pistols	Pretty Vacant	1977	Listen
56	278	Don McLean	American Pie	1971	Listen
57	285	The Wailers	Get Up, Stand Up	1973	Listen
58	291	The B-52's	Rock Lobster	1978	Listen
59	294	Elton John	Your Song	1970	Listen
60	298	Edwin Starr	War	1970
61	313	Stevie Wonder	Living for the City	1973	Listen
62	314	Smokey Robinson and The Miracles	The Tears of a Clown	1970
63	315	Boston	More Than a Feeling	1976	Listen
64	320	Television	Marquee Moon	1977	Listen
65	325	Aerosmith	Walk This Way	1975	Listen
66	326	Michael Jackson	Don't Stop Till You Get Enough	1979	Listen
67	330	The Police	Roxanne	1978	Listen
68	334	Carole King	It's Too Late	1971	Listen
69	335	Chic	Le Freak	1978
70	338	The Temptations	Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)	1971
71	344	Elvis Costello	Alison	1977	Listen
72	347	Iggy Pop	Lust for Life	1977	Listen
73	350	Al Green	Tired of Being Alone	1971	Listen
74	353	Patti Smith	Gloria	1975	Listen
75	362	Magazine	Shot by Both Sides	1978	Listen
76	365	Janis Joplin	Me and Bobby McGee	1971	Listen
77	369	Gloria Gaynor	I Will Survive	1979
78	376	Big Star	September Gurls	1974	Listen
79	382	Public Image Ltd.	Public Image	1978	Listen
80	384	Alice Cooper	School's Out	1972	Listen
81	385	Led Zeppelin	Kashmir	1975	Listen
82	387	Patti Smith Group	Because the Night	1978	Listen
83	389	David Bowie	Life on Mars	1971
84	392	Led Zeppelin	Rock and Roll	1971	Listen
85	395	The Clash	Complete Control	1977	Listen
86	398	Neil Young	Heart of Gold	1972	Listen
87	400	Toots and The Maytals	Pressure Drop	1970	Listen
88	401	Funkadelic	One Nation Under a Groove	1978	Listen
89	403	The Beatles	Let It Be	1970
90	406	The Jam	Down in the Tubestation at Midnight	1978
91	413	Iggy and The Stooges	Search and Destroy	1973	Listen
92	418	Freda Payne	Band of Gold	1970
93	419	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Sweet Home Alabama	1974	Listen
94	422	Gary Numan	Cars	1979
95	427	Jimmy Cliff	The Harder They Come	1972	Listen
96	428	The Velvet Underground	Sweet Jane	1970	Listen
97	429	The Rolling Stones	Wild Horses	1971	Listen
98	436	Dire Straits	Sultans of Swing	1978	Listen
99	438	Steely Dan	Reeling in the Years	1972	Listen
100	440	Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes	If You Don't Know Me by Now	1972<