VH1's newest list features it's top 100 songs of the last quarter century...in reverse order they are: 100) Madonna - Ray Of Light 99) Norah Jones - Don’t Know Why 98) Hanson - MMMBop 97) Devo - Whip It 96) Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!) 95) Oasis - Wonderwall 94) Cheap Trick - Surrender 93) Nine Inch Nails - Closer 92) Salt 'N Pepa - Push It 91) Melissa Etheridge - Come To My Window 90) The Police - Roxanne 89) Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot 88) Metallica - Enter Sandman 87) The Who - Who Are You 86) Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 85) Eminem - My Name Is 84) Radiohead - Creep 83) Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas 82) Soft Cell - Tainted Love 81) OutKast - Ms. Jackson 80) Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf 79) Destiny’s Child - Say My Name 78) Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) 77) Missy Elliott - Work It 76) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) 75) The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated 74) Hall & Oates - I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) 73) L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out 72) John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over 71) Dave Matthews Band- Crash Into Me 70) Culture Club - Do You Really Want to Hurt Me 69) Mary J. Blige - Real Love 68) Chic - Good Times 67) John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack And Diane 66) Squeeze - Tempted 65) Nelly - Hot In Herre 64) The Knack - My Sharona 63) Beck - Loser 62) Pretenders - Brass In Pocket 61) Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way 60) Santana feat Rob Thomas - Smooth 59) Meat Loaf-Paradise By The Dashboard Light 58) The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy & Mase- Mo Money Mo Problems 57) Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven 56) Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do 55) Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime 54) Goo Goo Dolls - Iris 53) Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing 52) The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up 51) George Michael - Faith 50) Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way? 49) Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’ 48) Naughty By Nature - O.P.P. 47) Shania Twain - You’re Still The One 46) Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure 45) Aerosmith -I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing 44) Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive 43) The Go-Go’s - Our Lips Are Sealed 42) Blondie - Heart Of Glass 41) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 40) Michael Jackson - Beat It 39) Tom Petty - Free Fallin’ 38) The Clash - London Calling 37) Alicia Keys - Fallin’ 36) Joan Jett - I Love Rock ‘N Roll 35) The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight 34) Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes 33) Tina Turner - What’s Love Got To Do With It 32) Pearl Jam - Jeremy 31) Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg - Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang 30) Janet Jackson - Nasty 29) Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A. 28) Britney Spears - …Baby One More Time 27) Grandmaster Flash - The Message 26) Bon Jovi - Livin’ On A Prayer 25) Rick James - Super Freak 24) Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On 23) Prince - Little Red Corvette 22) Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 21) U2 - With Or Without You 20) AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long 19) Public Enemy - Fight The Power 18) R.E.M. - Losing My Religion 17) Def Leppard - Photograph 16) No Doubt - Don’t Speak 15) Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) 14) Sinead O’Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U 13) TLC - Waterfalls 12) Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know 11) Van Halen - Jump 10) Madonna - Like A Virgin 09) The Police - Every Breath You Take 08) Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 07) Prince & The Revolution - When Doves Cry 06) Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way 05) U2 - One 04) Eminem - Lose Yourself 03) Guns N’ Roses - Sweet Child O’ Mine 02) Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 01) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Surprisingly, Cinderella's "Shake Me" did not make the cut... Like most VH1 lists, this one has some glaring omissions, but aside from the ridiculously high placing of Eminem's "Lose Yourself", it's pretty reasonable I guess. Perhaps the list should have been called "Top Radio Songs...".
some of this, i just have to sit back and laugh...britney spears better than Duran Duran...bitch please.
Top 100 pop songs. I hate it when lists like these come out, everything is so screwed up. So Madonna has more quality songs then Nirvana, Radiohead, and the Clash? And MMMBop, what the ************ is that piece of ************ doing up there? Sorry, I fall into the category of people who take the things they care about much to seriously. I don't even listen to the radio anymore because of the crap that is on it.
It seems like this should be called the "Top 100 BEST-SELLING SINGLES Of The Last 25 Years" This list has absolutely nothing to do with quality, but simply marketability of the tune. Footix, what is it that you do that makes you such a respected authority about music around here? Just asking, not being a smartass.
I really would like to know, just for amusement, how anyone could argue that Waterfalls is a better or more important song than London Calling.
They should change the title of this list to 100 most overplayed songs of last 25 years. Obviously catered to pop radio/VH1 fans I'm not a big rap fan, but I recognize Eminem shouldn't even be on a list of the 1,000 best rap songs, let alone this here list, and nothing by Tupac? He is at least as legendary as Kurt Cobain, same goes for Bob Marley. But that's okay, because we have Destiny's Child.
I was the older kid in Hanson. The beauty of these lists is that they are so arbitrary, and since it's VH1, they are obviously choosing songs to suit their viewing demo (which if you had to be exact, right now would be a 32 yr old woman). I challenge someone with freetime to take a poll here and accumulate BigSoccer's top 50 songs, or something like that. I'm sure the profile of that list would be a bit different.
No, but I think we can all agree that it should have. Bon Jovi beat out Radiohead though - obviously someone on that panel of VH1 executives is a glam metal fan!
Where's "Jesus Built My Hotrod" by Ministry? Or any Minor Threat / Black Flag / Fugazi? Man, VH1 is slipping badly from their early days.
The scary thing about these VH1 lists is that they're usually based on artist polls. Makes you wonder which "artists" they're polling. Anyone want to bet that Hanson is one of them?
personally I think "mmmbop" is a damn good pop song and should be much higher on this list, certainly higher than duran duran or melissa etheridge. but i'm in the minority here for certain.
I have to laugh because if you really think about the music tastes of the majority of the people in this world it's frightening. I almost don't want to live in it anymore. I'm only 23 but I'm scared when my generation takes over the world. I can see us 20 years from now electing Justin Timberlake president. Don't laugh, it could happen And where the ************ is Comfortably Numb?
The first thing i did after reading this was ordering this album. "see you in hell my friend, see you in hell my friend..."
Pretty much every single one of you folk that has rung in so far has gone on record on these boards as being anti-radio, anti-pop, and anti-anything that is geared to the masses. It's a list of the 100 greatest songs of the last 20 years. Obviously it's going to be a list of popular music. Face reality for once, no matter how much you complain about what the general public listens to crap, the fact will remain that your music just isn't popular to most due to a hundred thousand different reasons. Pop music is, has been, and always be music you can't stand and you will always be ragging on whatever is popular at the moment. Get over yourselves for once and accept that the masses steer what is considered great. No matter how whorg it may be, the masses are what put Hanson on this list. Sure, they suck, but that doesn't make them get any less airtime. There are some major omissions, however, to this pop list. And my biggest problem with Eminem being on there is not just that he's listed so high, but that they didn't put the Slimshady song on there instead. That's what made him huge. Also, how Wham! can be omitted is beyond me.
Hanson had a special on Directv a couple of years ago that showed that they were head and shoulders above the teen scream manufactured pop that followed them. The show started with "Gimme Some Loving" by Spencer Davis -- and it was really, really good. They wrote their own songs, they played their own instruments, and they didn't use dancers or light shows or wires to fly over the audience. They were just a young band who knew a bunch of really decent hooks, doomed by the fact that their fans were all 14-year-old squealers.