# SDMB top 100 all-time fave pop/rock songs **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2001, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508 "2001-04-27T07:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![exchicagoan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@exchicagoan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exchicagoan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/61 "2001-05-11T03:44:51Z")
RUMBLE----------------------LINK WRAY AND THE RAY MEN BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY-----------QUEEN WE WILL ROCK YOU------------QUEEN WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS--------QUEEN BRAVE STRANGERS-------------BOB SEGER OLD TIME ROCK AND ROLL------BOB SEGER IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT—THE 5 SATINS A LITTLE BIT MORE-----------DR. HOOK TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS-----OTIS REDDING UNCHAINED MELODY------------RIGHTOUS BROS. This was next to impossible. The above are some of the songs I’ve currently been playing to death. ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/62 "2001-05-11T05:33:05Z")
In no particular order (and with a wish that the list could be three times as long): Taillights Fade…Buffalo Tom Somethin’Hot…Afghan Whigs St Swithin’s Day…Billy Bragg My Old School…Steely Dan Love My Way…Psychedelic Furs Rock N’ Roll… Led Zeppelin For a Dancer…Jackson Browne Ambulance Blues…Neil Young Thunder Road…Bruce Springsteen Every Me and Every You…Placebo ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/63 "2001-05-11T09:38:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by G. Nome \* > **Taillights Fade…Buffalo Tom** You DO continue to amaze me, G. Nome. That would have been my number 11. Me and my friends always play it on December 31, 23:55. And one of my best friends wants it as his funeral song. I agree with him. Good choice. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/64 "2001-05-11T10:37:41Z")
Great thread **Dragon**. I have to echo those who said 10 picks aren’t enough, but these would be in my top 100. Johnny Clegg and Savuka"Dela" Talking Heads “Take Me to the River” Peter Gabrial “In Your Eyes” The Who “Who Are You?” Kate Bush “Hounds of Love” Paul Simon “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” Harry Chapin “A Better Place to Be” Stevie Nicks “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” Fleetwood Mac “Rhiannon” Stevie Ray Vaughn “Love Struck Baby” ---
**Author:** ![Xerxes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d2c977/32.png) [@Xerxes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xerxes)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/65 "2001-05-11T11:03:20Z")
1. Freebird : Lynyrd Skynrd 2. Satisfaction : Rolling Stones 3. The Wall : Pink Floyd 4. Bohemian Rhapsody : Queen 5. Higher Love : Steve Winwood 6. Statesboro’ Blues : The Allman Bros 7. That Smell : Lynyrd Skynrd 8. All along the watchtower : Jimi Hendrix 9. Layla : Derek and the Dominoes 10. Do you feel : The ever unpopular Peter Frampton ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/66 "2001-05-11T12:35:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by G. Nome \* > > **Taillights Fade…Buffalo Tom** > > You DO continue to amaze me, G. Nome. That would have been my number 11. Me and my friends always play it on December 31, 23:55. And one of my best friends wants it as his funeral song. I agree with him. > > Good choice. \*\* Why, thank you. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t be able to find a place for any of your top ten choices if my list was 100 songs long. Taillights Fade, though, has an almost mystical quality about it. It always stays new no matter how many times you play it. I’m fascinated by what makes music appeal to people. Is it a match of brain waves and sound waves for instance? Maybe it’s better to leave that kind of analysis alone though. It’s just too reductionist. The thought that someone could manufacture hits based on brain scans is too future noir for me. P.S. Led Zeppelin will win. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/67 "2001-05-11T14:21:36Z")
1. Estranged by Guns N Roses 2. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd 3. Living Type by Powderfinger 4. A Small Victory by Faith No More 5. Everlong by Foo Fighters 6. You Sound Like Louis Burdett - The Whitlams 7. If You Could Only See - Tonic 8. Corduroy - Pearl Jam 9. Karma Police - Radiohead 10. Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots 10? This sucks! I could go on… and on… and on! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/68 "2001-05-12T08:04:54Z")
Why not go on? Who’s it going to hurt? It’s not like this thread will become never-ending - posting seems just about to have slowed to a stop. I must say that I enjoyed reading everybody’s selections. This is my alternative top ten: Gloria…U2 Around Here…Counting Crowes 57th Street Serenade…Bruce Springsteen I’m Still Alive…Pearl Jam Venus…The Feelers Could It Be Magic…Barry Manilow Oh My Sweet Carolina…Ryan Adams Rock the Casbah…The Clash Tunnel of Love…Dire Straits Let Down…RadioHead ---
**Author:** ![headchecked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/258eb7/32.png) [@headchecked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headchecked)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/69 "2001-05-12T18:24:00Z")
1. Purple Haze- Jimi Hendrix 2. Kingsmith- Louie, Louie 3. Queen Bohemian Rhapsody 4. Kansas- Carry On 5. Led Zepplin- Stairway to Heaven 6. Radiohead- Paranoid Android 7. Jamiroquai- Virtual Insanity 8. Ben Folds Five- Song for the Dumped 9. Third Eye Blind- Slow motion- instrumental version (I know nobody’s heard of it, but I whole heartedly recommend it) 10. Mighty Mighty Bosstones- The Impression that I Get (Just for good measure: 11. Incubus Drive 11. Eric Clapton- Layla (not the unplugged version)) I know I am probably forgetting something. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/70 "2001-05-12T19:46:49Z")
**Xerxes** said: > [@](#): > > Givin’ away my age here… Man! I didn’t know we had the real Xerxes in our midst. This is a classy MB… ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508/71 "2001-05-12T19:51:41Z")
I think you were thinking of the **Kingsmen**. Yep. A classic in its own right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-top-100-all-time-fave-pop-rock-songs/63508.md?page=3)