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Top 100 Pop songs since 1963
Posted on Sunday, November 19 @ 13:32:33 CET by Macphisto
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U2 came in at #8 with With Or Without You on the MTV /Rolling Stone list of Top 100 Pop Songs since 1963...
(RollingStone.com) -- When we sat down to plan this special issue with MTV last June, we took the arrival of the Beatles in America as the starting point of the modern pop era. Everything else was up for grabs. Five Rolling Stone editors and a crew of MTV programmers, producers and researchers traded lists, opinions, barbs and everything but blows in trying to narrow down a wide range of popular music to the final 100. MTV was sorry to see video pioneers Duran Duran get cut; Rolling Stone was pulling for more soul, particularly Gladys Knight and the Pips' "Midnight Train to Georgia." And, believe it or not, both sides were a little sorry to see Kajagoogoo's one and only hit, 1983's "Too Shy," bite the dust early on.
That's because pop honors the ephemeral just as much as the lasting. Pop songs can be trivial and they can be awesome - often at the same time. They can change the world, or they can make you change the radio dial. They make rules and they break them, they play with our emotions, they trigger memories and arguments, and just when you're sure they'll never go away, they disappear. Love them or hate them, they are instantly recognizable, which may be the only thing that Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue" (No. 49) and Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" (No. 73) have in common.
The Pop 100 is a true collaboration. In it, you will find songs that never appeared on MTV because they were made nearly twenty years before the age of video, songs like the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" and the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go." And you'll also find songs from bands that never appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone, like Depeche Mode and Hanson. You'll also find the inside stories on the making of these songs. And in the spirit of pop radio, if you get to a song you don't like, stick with it - another one's coming up in a couple of minutes.
Contributors: Anthony Bozza, Anthony DeCurtis, Matt Diehl, Jenny Eliscu, David Fricke, Matt Hendrickson, Greg Kot, Tom Moon, Ann Powers, Parke Puterbaugh, Austin Scaggs, Rob Sheffield, Richard Skanse, David Thigpen, Mim Udovitch, Barry Walters, David Wild
1 The Beatles Yesterday
2 The Rolling Stones (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
3 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit
4 Madonna Like a Virgin
5 Michael Jackson Billie Jean
6 The Beatles I Want To Hold Your Hand
7 Aretha Franklin Respect
8 U2 With or Without You
9 The Jackson 5 I Want You Back
10 The Backstreet Boys I Want It That Way
11 The Eagles Hotel California
12 The Supremes Where Did Our Love Go
13 Guns n' Roses Sweet Child O'Mine
14 The Rolling Stones Brown Sugar
15 John Lennon Imagine
16 Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U
17 Stevie Wonder Superstition
18 R.E.M. Losing My Religion
19 Madonna Vogue
20 Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone
21 Van Morrison Brown Eyed Girl
22 Michael Jackson Beat It
23 Roy Orbison Oh, Pretty Woman
24 Marvin Gaye What's Going On
25 Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time
26 Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way
27 Prince When Doves Cry
28 Hanson MMMBop
29 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
30 Elton John Your Song
31 Santana (featuring Rob Thomas) Smooth
32 Otis Redding (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
33 The Who My Generation
34 Alanis Morissette Ironic
35 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
36 TLC Waterfalls
37 Naughty by Nature O.P.P.
38 David Bowie Changes
39 Goo Goo Dolls Iris
40 Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You
41 Creedence Clearwater Revival Proud Mary
42 The Police Every Breath You Take
43 The Rolling Stones Miss You
44 Abba Dancing Queen
45 Eric Clapton Tears in Heaven
46 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Tracks of My Tears
47 Van Halen Jump
48 Pearl Jam Jeremy
49 Bob Dylan Tangled Up in Blue
50 Prince Little Red Corvette
51 The Temptations Just My Imagination
52 Paul McCartney Maybe I'm Amazed
53 George Michael Faith
54 Red Hot Chili Peppers Under the Bridge
55 'N Sync Bye Bye Bye
56 Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive
57 The Go-Go's Our Lips Are Sealed
58 The Wallflowers One Headlight
59 Stevie Wonder You Are the Sunshine of My Life
60 Billy Joel Just the Way You Are
61 R.E.M. The One I Love
62 Madonna Papa Don't Preach
63 The Beatles In My Life
64 Elton John Bennie and the Jets
65 The Cars Just What I Needed
66 Cyndi Lauper Time After Time
67 Eminem My Name Is
68 Garbage Only Happy When It Rains
69 Depeche Mode Just Can't Get Enough
70 Beach Boys Good Vibrations
71 The Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated
72 Tom Petty Free Fallin'
73 Culture Club Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
74 Elton John Tiny Dancer
75 Sly and the Family Stone Hot Fun in the Summertime
76 Radiohead Creep
77 Al Green Let's Stay Together
78 Green Day Longview
79 Janet Jackson Nasty
80 LL Cool J I Need Love
81 No Doubt Don't Speak
82 Michael Jackson Rock With You
83 Foreigner I Want to Know What Love Is
84 Oasis Wonderwall
85 Cheap Trick Surrender
86 The Human League Don't You Want Me
87 The Pretenders Brass in Pocket (I'm Special)
88 Wyclef Jean Gone Till November
89 Wham! Careless Whisper
90 Brandy and Monica The Boy Is Mine
91 Blackstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre) No Diggity
92 AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long
93 The Bee Gees Stayin' Alive
94 Blink-182 All the Small Things
95 Chic Good Times
96 Def Leppard Photograph
97 The B-52's Love Shack
98 Fine Young Cannibals She Drives Me Crazy
99 Biz Markie Just a Friend
100 Soft Cell Tainted Love
U2 / With Or Witout You
With or without you' had a really strong melody, and any time we tried to do something traditional with it, it sounded too sweet and sentimental," says the band's bassist, Adam Clayton, remembering the song's birth during the Joshua Tree sessions. "Bono kept saying, 'Leave it,' but it didn't sound like a song we wanted on the album. So we went the opposite way and tried to fuck it up."
Under the guidance of producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, Clayton turned up his bass, Edge explored a new, ambient approach to guitar solos and Larry Mullen Jr. experimented with an electronically enhanced drum kit. "We thought, 'We're never going to get that on the radio,'" says Clayton.
In fact, Bono viewed the song as part of a trilogy, with two tracks, "Luminous Times (Hold On to Love)" and "Walk to the Water," that sound more like outtakes from a Patti Smith-Sam Shepard jam session than million-selling anthems. Those tracks never made it onto The Joshua Tree, and Bono was soon telling interviewers that "With or Without You" could never be understood without them.
It's fitting that the song that made the Irish troubadours the biggest rock act of the 1980s is a musical tangle with lyrics that could mean anything. Those words, which might be about Jesus, marriage, U2's audience or the group itself, contained enough catchphrases - "You give yourself away," "I can't live with or without you" - to become putty in listeners' minds. That melody blazed through, though, like a neon sign pointing toward heaven. Radio instantly flipped over the song and shot it to the top.
"With or Without You" propelled The Joshua Tree to the same spot and contributed to making U2's tour the top grosser of the year. "It was very unexpected," Clayton says with a chuckle. "Suddenly our complexions got better. People didn't want tips anymore. We didn't have to buy jeans anymore."
As for those puzzling lyrics, Clayton confesses he could never pin them down, either. "The truth is, it's all those things - God, romance, the fans, the band," he says. "But when you've got the title, 'With or Without You,' that says everything, actually. You don't need much more."
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