The NME's Favourite 100 Songs from Its 60 Years of Existence
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 9:51AM
New Musical Express--the NME--Britain's sole surviving weekly music paper turns 60 this year. Part of the celebrations include the magazine's picks for the best 100 songs of its lifetime.
Here's the top 20. If we want to see the rest, we have to buy the current issue of the magazine.
Wow. No Beatles song higher than #15?
1. Joy Division – 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
2. Pulp – 'Common People'
3. David Bowie – '"Heroes"'
4. The Beach Boys – 'Good Vibratons'
5. New Order – 'Blue Monday'
6. The Stone Roses – 'She Bangs The Drums'
7. The Smiths – 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'
8. The Specials – 'Ghost Town'
9. Dizzee Rascal – 'Fix Up, Look Sharp'
10. Oasis – 'Wonderwall'
11. The Rolling Stones – 'Sympathy For The Devil'
12. The Ronettes – 'Be My Baby'
13. Michael Jackson – 'Billie Jean'
14. Sex Pistols – 'God Save The Queen'
15. The Beatles – 'A Day In The Life'
16. The Cure – 'Boys Don't Cry'
17. Bob Dylan – 'Like A Rolling Stone'
18. The Beach Boys – 'God Only Knows'
19. Madonna – 'Like A Prayer'
20. The Stone Roses – 'I Am The Resurrection'
Reader Comments (1)
Most of the list is quite sound, but if "Like A Prayer" is a better, more enduring song than "Revolution" or "Lucy In The Sky...", I think NME's lost touch with reality over their 60 years...