20 Greatest Hits

Index of artists, ordered by quality of their 20th best song

2011-06-30T23:59:00.000-07:00

The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Rolling Stones
Prince
Aretha Franklin
Van Morrison
Marvin Gaye
The Beach Boys
Elvis Presley
Madonna
Miles Davis
Neil Young
The Clash
Public Enemy
Stevie Wonder
Jimi Hendrix
R.E.M.
Elvis Costello
Talking Heads
Bob Marley
The Velvet Underground
The Who
Joni Mitchell
PJ Harvey
Bruce Springsteen
Nirvana
Radiohead
David Bowie
Drive-By Truckers
Björk
The Kinks
Pink Floyd
Michael Jackson
Led Zeppelin
U2
The Byrds
The Doors
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Smiths

Siouxsie and the Banshees

2011-06-27T02:57:00.000-07:00

Including solo Siouxsie but not "Cish Cash", plus I never listened to The Creatures. Tumblr notes.

Happy House (Kaleidoscope)
Hong Kong Garden
Melt! (A Kiss in the Dreamhouse)
Into the Light (Juju)
Spellbound (Juju)
Jigsaw Feeling (The Scream)
Mirage (The Scream)
Cannons (Tinderbox)
Dazzle (Hyaena)
Arabian Knights (Juju)
Heaven and Alchemy (solo, Mantaray)
Party’s Fall (Tinderbox)
Cascade (A Kiss in the Dreamhouse)
Cities in Dust (Tinderbox)
Voodoo Dolly (Juju)
Green Fingers (A Kiss in the Dreamhouse)
Dear Prudence (Hyaena)
Christine (Kaleidoscope)
Carcass (The Scream)
About to Happen (solo, Mantaray)

Drive-By Truckers

2010-11-23T00:39:00.000-08:00

Isbell was good company to keep

Outfit
My Sweet Annette
The Company I Keep
Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
Hell No, I Ain't Happy
Birthday Boy
Three Great Alabama Icons
A Ghost to Most
The Day John Henry Died
The Man I Shot
Ronnie and Neil
A World of Hurt
Decoration Day
Marry Me
Puttin' People on the Moon
Bulldozers and Dirt
The Purgatory Line
TVA
Wallace

Michael Jackson

2010-05-05T00:45:00.000-07:00

(Jackson 5 stuff excluded)

Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough
Billie Jean
Wanna Be Startin' Something
Beat It
Rock with You
Off the Wall
Black or White
The Way You Make Me Feel
I Wanna Be Where You Are
Got to Be There
Rockin' Robin
She's Out of My Life
Unbreakable
Can't Let Her Get Away
In the Closet
5000 Watts
Smile
Thriller
Girlfriend
Shake a Body

Björk

2010-05-04T23:13:00.000-07:00

Venus as a Boy
Pagan Poetry
Bachelorette
Human Behaviour
Hyper-Ballad
Joga
Earth Intruders
The Hidden Place
All Is Full of Love (Greatest Hits version)
It's Oh So Quiet
Army of Me
Big Time Sensuality
Undo
Hunter
Declare Independence
Cocoon
Triumph of a Heart
Unison
Violently Happy
Cover Me

The Kinks

2010-05-03T23:11:00.000-07:00

Waterloo Sunset
Sunny Afternoon
Arthur
All Day and All of the Night
Lola
You Really Got Me
Victoria
Tired of Waiting for You
Fancy
A Well Respected Man
Plastic Man
Rosie Won't You Please Come Home
Complicated Life
Last of the Steam Powered Trains
David Watts
The Way Love Used to Be
A House in the Country
Shangri-La
Set Me Free
Alcohol

PJ Harvey

2009-08-15T00:00:00.000-07:00

not much for either whoring or hustling these days

Good Fortune
You Said Something
Sheela-Na-Gig
50 Ft Queenie
Down by the Water
A Place Called Home
Rid of Me
Big Exit
Long Snake Moan
C'mon Billy
The Sky Lit Up
Dress
The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
Angelene
Is This Desire?
This Is Love
To Bring You My Love
Rub 'til It Bleeds
O Stella
Meet Ze Monsta

Miles Davis

2008-08-18T00:53:00.000-07:00

there's a 20 minute time limit, so no "Right Off", "Yesternow", "Pharoah's Dance", "He Loved Him Madly", "Lonely Fire", "Funky Tonk"...

So What [Kind of Blue]
Shhh/Peaceful [In a Silent Way]
Move [Birth of the Cool]
Walkin' [The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel, first disc]
'Round Midnight ['Round About Midnight]
Moon Dreams [Birth of the Cool]
Moja Part 1 [Dark Magus]
All Blues [Kind of Blue]
If I Were a Bell [Relaxin']
Bye Bye Blackbird ['Round About Midnight]
Concierto de Aranjuez [Sketches of Spain]
In a Silent Way/It's About That Time [In a Silent Way]
Rated X/Billy Preston [Panthalassa]
Tune Up/When Lights Are Low [Cookin']
Stella by Starlight [The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel, last disc]
My Funny Valentine [My Funny Valentine]
Nne Part 2 [Dark Magus]
Oleo [Relaxin']
Freddie Freeloader [Kind of Blue]
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down [Bitches Brew]

The Doors

2008-08-18T00:49:00.000-07:00

poor Freud

Riders on the Storm
Light My Fire
People Are Strange
Break on Through (To the Other Side)
Hyacinth House
Roadhouse Blues
The End
Hello, I Love You
L.A. Woman
Love Me Two Times
Who Do You Love (live)
Peace Frog
Little Red Rooster (live)
The WASP (Texas Radio & the Big Beat)
Wild Child
Moonlight Drive
Soul Kitchen
Waiting for the Sun
Universal Mind
Touch Me

Public Enemy

2008-08-14T01:05:00.000-07:00

I only recently realised that "Pollywanacraka" has a DOUBLE MEANING

Bring the Noise
Welcome to the Terrordome
Rebel Without a Pause
Fight the Power
Night of the Living Baseheads
Can't Truss It
Game Face
Don't Believe the Hype
Hard Rhymin'
I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Nigga
You're Gonna Get Yours
911 Is a Joke
So Whatcha Gone Do Now?
Go Cat Go
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Son of a Bush
By the Time I Get to Arizona
MKLVFKWR
Pollywanacraka
Raw Shit

The Byrds

2008-08-11T19:29:00.000-07:00

30% Dylan-written

Mr. Tambourine Man
Eight Miles High
Hickory Wind
Turn! Turn! Turn!
All I Really Want to Do
Nothing Was Delivered
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Draft Morning
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
Old Blue
I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
My Back Pages
Old John Robertson
The Christian Life
I See You
I Knew I'd Want You
Ballad of Easy Rider
5D (Fifth Dimension)
Goin' Back
Tribal Gathering

Joni Mitchell

2008-08-08T01:27:00.000-07:00

after she got over her pretensions, she made a few incredible albums; after that she decided she'd rather be pretentious

River
Help Me
You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio
Blue
Both Sides Now
Big Yellow Taxi
A Case of You
I Wish I Were in Love Again [Both Sides Now]
Free Man in Paris
Blonde in the Bleachers
Come in from the Cold
My Old Man
Comes Love [Both Sides Now]
Raised on Robbery
Urge for Going
For the Roses
Impossible Dreamer
Woodstock
All I Want
Chelsea Morning

The Smiths

2008-08-06T01:21:00.000-07:00

someone else can love them

How Soon Is Now?
Panic
Hand in Glove
This Charming Man
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
What Difference Does It Make?
Girlfriend in a Coma
Sweet and Tender Hooligan
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty)
Shakespeare's Sister
Death of a Disco Dancer
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
William, It Was Really Nothing
Paint a Vulgar Picture
Cemetry Gates
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
The Headmaster Ritual
Shoplifters of the World Unite

Madonna

2008-08-04T01:48:00.000-07:00

True Blue is the ultimate Eighties "singles-only but most of the songs are singles" album, even more than Thriller

Borderline
Open Your Heart
Crazy for You
Like a Prayer
Holiday
Live to Tell
Papa Don't Preach
Into the Groove
Hanky Panky
Deeper and Deeper
What It Feels Like for a Girl
Justify My Love
Like a Virgin
Vogue
Where's the Party
Ray of Light
Rain
La Isla Bonita
Music
Human Nature

Talking Heads

2008-08-02T12:52:00.000-07:00

subgenius sounds about right

Once in a Lifetime
Crosseyed and Painless
Take Me to the River
Life During Wartime
The Great Curve
Wild Wild Life
Listening Wind
And She Was
Stay Up Late
Thank You for Sending Me and Angel
(Nothing But) Flowers
Road to Nowhere
Born Under Punches
Burning Down the House
Psycho Killer
Memories Can't Wait
The Big Country
Swamp
Totally Nude
Walk It Down

Van Morrison

2008-07-30T01:27:00.000-07:00

a album of Ray Charles covers plz

And It Stoned Me
Wild Night
Domino
Astral Weeks
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)
Moondance
It's All in the Game
Wavelength
Madame George
Here Comes the Night [It's Too Late to Stop Now]
Brown Eyed Girl
Georgia on My Mind
Bright Side of the Road
Cleaning Windows
Into the Mystic
Sweet Thing
I Believe to My Soul [It's Too Late to Stop Now]
Gloria [Too Long in Exile]
Full Force Gale
Blue Money

Elvis Costello

2008-07-28T01:01:00.000-07:00

d. 1986

(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
Man Out of Time
Watching the Detectives
Beyond Belief
Pills & Soap
Less Than Zero
Watch Your Step
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
From a Whisper to a Scream
Tokyo Storm Warning
Oliver's Army
I Want You
Brilliant Mistake
Radio, Radio
Alison
Every Day I Write the Book
New Amsterdam
New Lace Sleeves
The Big Light
Pump It Up

Bob Marley

2008-07-25T00:08:00.000-07:00

"Zimbabwe" is hard to listen to (and as necessary as ever) these days, thanks to that other Bob M.

No Woman, No Cry [Live!]
Simmer Down
I Shot the Sheriff
Duppy Conqueror
Stir It Up
Lively Up Yourself
Get Up, Stand Up
Kinky Reggae
Redemption Song
Buffalo Soldier
Is This Love
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
Trenchtown Rock [Live!]
Burnin' and Lootin'
Concrete Jungle
Jamming
Satisfy My Soul
Zimbabwe
Could You Be Loved
Who Feels It Knows It

Pink Floyd

2008-07-23T01:18:00.000-07:00

baby, it's cold outside

Wish You Were Here
Apples and Oranges
Money
Bike
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts 1-5
See Emily Play
Us & Them
Interstellar Overdrive
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
Time
Arnold Layne
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts 6-9
Jugband Blues
Sheep
Astronomy Domine
The Great Gig in the Sky
Welcome to the Machine
Echoes
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Eclipse

Stevie Wonder

2008-07-21T00:40:00.000-07:00

mushy like Catullus or Chaplin

Living for the City
Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Superstition
Boogie On Reggae Woman
Skeletons
Fingertips, Part 2
Cold Chill
I Just Called to Say I Love You
You Haven't Done Nothin'
Sir Duke
You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Heaven Help Us All
Master Blaster (Jammin')
Don't You Worry About a Thing
My Love Is With You
Dark 'n' Lovely
Village Ghetto Land
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)
Blame It on the Sun
Happy Birthday

Radiohead

2008-07-18T23:49:00.001-07:00

Let Down
The National Anthem
Creep
Everything in Its Right Place
Karma Police
Sail to the Moon
High and Dry
Treefingers
Paranoid Android
2+2=5
Black Star
Bodysnatchers
There There
Idiotheque
Pyramid Song
Fake Plastic Trees
No Surprises
Jigsaw Falling into Place
Bones
Airbag

Nirvana

2008-07-16T15:40:00.000-07:00

Smells Like Teen Spirit
Lithium
All Apologies [Unplugged]
In Bloom
Heart-Shaped Box
Where Did You Sleep Last Night [Unplugged]
Sliver
Rape Me
Something in the Way
Aneurism [From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah]
The Man Who Sold the World [Unplugged]
Come As You Are
About a Girl
You Know You're Right
On a Plain
Pennyroyal Tea
Molly's Lips
Drain You
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
Been a Son

Neil Young

2008-07-14T11:46:00.000-07:00

Rockin' in the Free World
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
Like a Hurricane [Live Rust]
After the Gold Rush
Wrecking Ball
Sugar Mountain
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Four Strong Winds
Tonight's the Night
Long May You Run
On Broadway
Powderfinger
Tired Eyes
This Old Guitar
Ohio
Old King
Piece of Crap
Cowgirl in the Sand
Don't Cry
My Heart

The Clash

2008-07-10T15:53:00.001-07:00

Janie Jones
Police & Thieves
Remote Control
London Calling
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
Stay Free
Train in Vain
Complete Control
Garageland
Bankrobber
This Is England
Spanish Bombs
1-2 Crush on You
Rock the Casbah
White Riot
Safe European Home
Lost in the Supermarket
English Civil War
The Sound of the Sinners
Deny

U2

2008-07-07T14:33:00.000-07:00

One
The Fly
Pride (In the Name of Love)
New Year's Day
Sunday Bloody Sunday
With or Without You
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
I Will Follow
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Where the Streets Have No Name
Beautiful Day
Vertigo
Silver and Gold (live, Rattle & Hum)
Seconds
Lemon
Miracle Drug
Elevation
A Sort of Homecoming
Desire
Bad (live, Wide Awake in America)

Marvin Gaye

2008-07-04T15:17:00.000-07:00

I Heard It Through the Grapevine
What's Going On
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Ain't No Mountain High Enough (w/ Tammi Terrell)
Let's Get It On
Got to Give It Up
Sexual Healing
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You (w/ Tammi Terrell)
It Takes Two (w/ Kim Weston)
Your Precious Love (w/ Tammi Terrell)
One More Heartache
Ain't That Peculiar
Can I Get a Witness
You're a Wonderful One
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
A Funky Space Reincarnation
Hitch Hike
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
I'll Be Doggone
Anna's Song

Aretha Franklin

2008-07-02T00:56:00.000-07:00

Respect
Ain't No Way
Angel
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
Chain of Fools
Who's Zoomin' Who
Think
A Rose Is Still a Rose
Rock Steady
Freeway of Love
Since You've Been Gone
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
Don't Play That Song
Baby I Love You
Another Night
The House That Jack Built
I Say a Little Prayer
Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)
Jimmy Lee

R.E.M.

2008-06-30T00:51:00.000-07:00

Losing My Religion
Fall on Me
Man on the Moon
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Radio Free Europe
Near Wild Heaven
(Don't Go Back to) Rockville
The One I Love
So. Central Rain
Shaking Through
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Leave
Nightswimming
Shiny Happy People
Talk About the Passion
Gardening at Night (live)
Superman
Everybody Hurts
Can't Get There from Here
Tongue

Elvis Presley

2008-06-27T17:41:00.000-07:00

Suspicious Minds
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Mystery Train
Don't Be Cruel
Jailhouse Rock
Kentucky Rain
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Good Rockin' Tonight
Hound Dog
Blue Moon
Can't Help Falling in Love
One Night ("Somebody pulled the plug, man")
When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
Little Sister
My Baby Left Me
I Need Somebody to Lean On
It's Now or Never
Wear My Ring Around Your Neck
Tomorrow Is a Long Time
(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I

The Velvet Underground

2008-06-27T15:57:00.000-07:00

All Tomorrow's Parties
Pale Blue Eyes
Sunday Morning
Sweet Jane
Beginning to See the Light
Rock & Roll
Foggy Notion [VU]
Heroin
Candy Says
I Heard Her Call My Name
Sister Ray/Foggy Notion [Quine Tapes]
What Goes On [1969 Live]
Head Held High
I Can't Stand It Anymore [VU]
I'm Waiting for the Man
White Light/White Heat
It's All Right (The Way That You Live) [Peel Slowly and See]
Ocean [1969 Live]
I'm Set Free
New Age

The Beach Boys

2008-06-23T22:20:00.000-07:00

Don't Worry Baby
I Get Around
Surfer Girl
Good Vibrations
Fun Fun Fun
I Was Made to Love her
God Only Knows
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Darlin'
You Still Believe in Me
Help Me, Rhonda
Kiss Me Baby
Sloop John B
Wild Honey
California Girls
In My Room
Surfin' U.S.A.
I Can Hear Music
Heroes and Villains
Wendy

Jimi Hendrix

2008-06-20T13:01:00.000-07:00

Voodoo Child (Slight Return) [Electric Ladyland]
Purple Haze [Are You Experienced?]
Hey Joe [Are You Experienced?]
Wild Thing [Voodoo Child/Live at Monterey]
All Along the Watchtower [Electric Ladyland]
Foxey Lady [Are You Experienced?]
Red House [Live at Winterland]
Johnny B. Goode [Voodoo Child]
Crosstown Traffic [Electric Ladyland]
Driving South [BBC Sessions, 4:50]
Little Wing [Axis: Bold as Love]
Hear My Train A-Comin' [Voodoo Child/Blues]
Killing Floor [Live at Winterland]
Manic Depression [Are You Experienced?]
Voodoo Child/Steppin' Stone [Live at Woodstock]
Ezy Rider [First Rays of the New Rising Sun]
Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) [Live at Berkeley]
Machine Gun [Band of Gypsys]
Stop [Live at the Fillmore East]
Born Under a Bad Sign [Blues]

The Who

2008-06-18T01:38:00.001-07:00

I Can See for Miles
Won't Get Fooled Again
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
My Generation
Substitute
Tattoo
A Quick One, While He's Away
Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand
I Can't Explain
Baba O'Riley
Happy Jack
Pinball Wizard
Behind Blue Eyes
Pictures of Lily
Armenia City in the Sky
The Kids Are Alright
5:15
I'm Free
Run Run Run
Who Are You

Prince

2008-06-16T00:34:00.000-07:00

I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Little Red Corvette
Kiss
When You Were Mine
Raspberry Beret
When Doves Cry
U Got the Look
Controversy
1999
If I Was Your Girlfriend
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Let's Go Crazy
Erotic City
Lolita
Face Down
Adore
Head
Sign 'O' the Times
Delirious
It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night

Bruce Springsteen

2008-06-13T00:38:00.000-07:00

Born to Run
Born in the U.S.A.
Brilliant Disguise
Dancing in the Dark
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Glory Days
Tunnel of Love
Hungry Heart
Pink Cadillac
Devils and Dust
Streets of Philadelphia
Thunder Road
I'm on Fire
Nebraska
Tougher Than the Rest
War
American Skin (41 Shots)
Prove It All Night
The Rising
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)

Led Zeppelin

2008-06-11T16:56:00.000-07:00

Rock & Roll
When the Levee Breaks
Dancing Days
Stairway to Heaven
Whole Lotta Love
Kashmir
Fool in the Rain
Heartbreaker
Black Dog
Immigrant Song
Since I've Been Loving You
No Quarter
Dazed and Confused
Gallows Pole
I Can't Quit You Baby (Coda)
Bring It on Home (How the West Was Won)
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
D'Yer Maker
Hots on for Nowhere
Carouselambra

David Bowie

2008-06-09T00:14:00.000-07:00

Kooks
TVC 15
Ziggy Stardust
Heroes
Golden Years
Sound and Vision
Changes
Starman
Station to Station
Young Americans
Ashes to Ashes
Let's Spend the Night Together
Boys Keep Swinging
Beauty and the Beast
Life on Mars
Suffragette City
Space Oddity
Under Pressure
Rebel Rebel
Fame

Bob Dylan

2008-06-06T15:17:00.001-07:00

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Tangled Up in Blue
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Like a Rolling Stone
Visions of Johanna
Hurricane
Mr Tamourine Man
I Want You
Idiot Wind
Shelter from the Storm
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Positively 4th Street
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
If You See Her, Say Hello
Po' Boy
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
(Stuck Inside of Mobile with the) Memphis Blues Again
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
This Wheel's on Fire
Blowin' in the Wind

Rolling Stones

2008-06-04T14:58:00.000-07:00

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Let's Spend the Night Together
Paint It, Black
Tumblin' Dice
Happy
Miss You
Honky Tonk Women
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Gimme Shelter
Little Red Rooster
19th Nervous Breakdown
Street Fighting Man
Sweet Virginia
Get Off of My Cloud
Moonlight Mile
Brown Sugar
Under My Thumb
Heart of Stone
Start Me Up
Time Is on Our Side

The Beatles

2008-06-02T19:11:00.000-07:00

She Loves You
Ticket to Ride
In My Life
Long Tall Sally
Help
It Won't Be Long
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Nowhere Man
All You Need Is Love
There's a Place
Eleanor Rigby
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Roll Over Beethoven
Yellow Submarine
A Day in the Life
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
A Hard Day's Night
It's Only Love
Strawberry Fields Forever
I Should Have Known Better