Top 100 Rock Songs
(Determined by a panel of 700 music industry voters. Broadcast by music television station VH-1 during week of January 17, 2000)
1. Satisfaction – Rolling Stones 2. Respect – Aretha Franklin 3. Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin 4. Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan 5. Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen 6. Hotel California – Eagles 7. Light My Fire – Doors 8. Good Vibrations – Beach Boys 9. Hey Jude – Beatles 10. Imagine – John Lennon 11. Louie Louie – Kingsmen 12. Yesterday – Beatles 13. My Generation – the Who 14. What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye 15. Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry 16. Layla – Derek and the Dominos 17. Won’t Get Fooled Again – the Who 18. Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley 19. American Pie – Don McLean 20. A Day in the Life – Beatles 21. I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown 22. Superstition – Stevie Wonder 23. I Want to Hold Your Hand – Beatles 24. Brown Suger – Rolling Stones 25. Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix 26. Sympathy for the Devil – Rolling Stones 27. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen 28. You Really Got Me – the Kinks 29. Oh Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison 30. Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel 31. Hound Dog – Elvis Presley 32. Let It Be – Beatles 33. (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding 34. All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix Experience 35. Walk This Way – Aerosmith 36. My Girl – Temptations 37. Rock Around the Clock – Bill Haley & His Comets 38. I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
39. Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival 40. Born to Be Wild – Steppenwolf 41. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana 42. Every Breath You Take – Police 43. What’d I Say – Ray Charles 44. Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd 45. That’ll Be the Day – Buddy Holly and the Crickets 46. Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin 47. Dream On – Aerosmith 48. California Dreamin’ – Mamas and the Papas 49. Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison 50. Wild Thing – Troggs 51. Suite:Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby, Stills, & Nash 52. Beat It – Michael Jackson 53. Great Balls of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis 54. Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees 55. For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield 56. Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan 57. Twist & Shout – Beatles 58. Piano Man – Billy Joel 59. She Loves You – Beatles 60. Space Oddity – David Bowie 61. Strawberry Fields Forever – Beatles 62. Kashmir – Led Zeppelin 63. Crazy – Patsy Cline 64. London Calling – Clash 65. Jumpin’ Jack Flash – Rolling Stones 66. Rock & Roll – Led Zeppelin 67. Let’s Stay Together – Al Green 68. All Shook Up – Elvis Presley 69. Maggie May – Rod Stewart 70. Your Song – Elton John 71. Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis Presley 72. God Only Knows – Beach Boys 73. The Twist – Chubby Checker 74. Good Golly, Miss Molly – Little Richard 75. Sunshine of Your Love – Cream 76. California Girls – Beach Boys 77. Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran 78. Blue Suede Shoes – Carl Perkins 79. A Hard Day’s Night – Beatles 80. Fire & Rain – James Taylor 81. Gloria – Them 82. Sexual Healing – Marvin Gaye 83. Start Me Up – Rolling Stones
84. More Than a Feeling – Boston 85. Roxanne – Police 86. We Are the Champions – Queen 87. Tangled Up in Blue – Bob Dylan 88. Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane 89. Stand By Me – Ben E. King 90. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On – Jerry Lee Lewis 91. You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC 92. When Doves Cry – Prince & the Revolution 93. In the Midnight Hour – Wilson Pickett 94. Gimme Some Lovin’ - Spencer Davis Group 95. Jump – Van Halen 96. Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen 97. No Woman No Cry – Bob Marley & the Wailers 98. La Bamba – Ritchie Valens 99. We’ve Only Just Begun – Carpenters 100. Papa Was a Rolling Stone – Temptations