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NME writers hot 100 - Top Singles of all-time |
First published sometime in 1976?
1. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
2. Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane - The Beatles
3. River Deep Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner
4. I Get Around/Don't Worry Baby - Beach Boys
5. My Generation - The Who
6. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
7. Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
8. Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
9. Tracks Of My Tears - Miracles
10. Dancing In The Street - Martha & The Vandellas
11. Layla - Derek & The Dominos
12. Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
13. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin - Righteous Brothers
14. Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones
15. Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
16. Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
17. Going To A Go Go - Miracles
18. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
19. Substitute - The Who
20. Gimme Some Loving - Spencer Davis Group
21. Jumping Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
22. Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
23. I Can't Explain - The Who
24. Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops
25. Daytripper/We Can Work It Out - Beatles
26. With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker
27. I Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
28. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
29. In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
30. California Girls - Beach Boys
31. Green Onions - Booker T
32. You Really Got Me - Kinks
33. Be My Baby - Ronettes
34. Cold Turkey - Plastic Ono Band
35. Come Together/Something - Beatles
36. Pinball Wizard - The Who
37. I Can See For Miles - The Who
38. Hey Jude - Beatles
39. Maggie May - Rod Stewart
40. Roadrunner - Jnr Walker
41. Not Fade Away - Rolling Stones
42. Mr Tambourine Man - Byrds
43. Louie Louie - Kingsmen
44. My Girl - Otis Redding
45. Do You Believe In Magic - Lovin' Spoonful
46. Lola - Kinks
47. Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procul Harum
48. Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes
49. Light My Fire - Doors
50. All I Have To Do Is Dream/Claudette - Everly Brothers
51. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
52. See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
53. Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley
54. Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
55. He's So Fine - Chiffons
56. All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
57.= Under The Boardwalk - Drifters
57.= Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
59. Respect - Aretha Franklin
60.= Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed
60.= She Loves You - Beatles
62.= That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly
62.= You Keep Me Hanging On - Vanilla Fudge
62.= Summer In The City - Lovin' Spoonful
65. Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd And The Pirates
66.= Eight Miles High - Byrds
66.= Pictures Of Lily - The Who
68. Paperback Writer - Beatles
69. He's A Rebel - Crystals
70. Uptight - Stevie Wonder
71. It's All Over Now - Rolling Stones
72.= Dead End Street - Kinks
72.= I Never Loved A Man - Aretha Franklin
74. Baby I Love You - Ronettes
75. Mystery Train - Elvis Presley
76. House Of The Rising Sun - Animals
77. Get Off My Cloud - Rolling Stones
78. Papa Was A Rolling Stone - Temptation
79.= Ain't That Peculiar - Marvin Gaye
79.= Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons
81. Hello Goodbye/I Am The Walrus
82.= Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
82.= Go Now - Moody Blues
84. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
85. Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
86. The Israelites - Desmond Dekker
87. Clean Up Woman - Betty Wright
88. Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers
89. Have You Seen Her - Chi-Lites
90. See My Friend - Kinks
91.= Out Of Sight - James Brown
91.= All Or Nothing - Small Faces
93.= Wipe Out - Surfaris
93.= Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles
95. Memphis - Chuck Berry
96. No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley And Wailers
97.= The Last Time - Rolling Stones
97.= God Only Knows - Beach Boys
99. Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham
100. The Weight - The Band
Once again THANKYOU to Gordon Stephen of Melbourne, Australia for compiling and supplying this lists.
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NME Writers 100 Best Indie Singles Ever
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Published 25 th July 1992
In alphabetical order
- The Adverts - One chord wonders (1976)
- A certain ratio - Shack up (1980)
- Age of chance - Kiss (1986)
- Alternative television - Love lies limp (1977)
- And the native hipsters - Oh look there goes Concorde again (1980)
- Au pairs - Diet/It’s obvious (1980)
- Aztec camera - Just like gold/We could send letters (1981)
- Bauhaus - Bela lugosi’s dead (1980)
- The birthday party - Release the bats (1981)
- Billy Bragg - Between the wars (1985)
- Nick Cave and the bad seeds - The mercy seat (1988)
- John Cooper Clarke - Innocents EP (1977)
- Ciccone Youth - Into the groove(y) (1986)
- Cocteau twins - Pearly Dewdrops drops (1984)
- Clock DVA - Four hours (1981)
- Elvis Costello - Less than zero (1977)
- Crass - How does it fee to be the mother of 1000 dead (1982)
- The Cure - Killing an Arab (1978)
- Colourbox - The official world cup theme (1986)
- Carter USM - Sheriff fatman (1990)
- The Damned - New rose (1976)
- Dead Kennedy’s - Holidays in Cambodia (1980)
- Depeche mode - Everything counts (1983)
- Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Sex & drugs & rock & roll
(1977)
- Discharge - Why? (1981)
- The Diagram brothers - We are all animals (1981)
- Dinosaur jr. - Freak scene (1988)
- Echo and the bunnymen - The pictures on my wall (1979)
- Electronic - Getting away with it (1989)
- The fall - Kicker conspiracy (1983)
- The fire engines - Candy skin (1981)
- Flux of pink Indians - Neu smell (1981)
- Gang of four - Armalite rifle (1978)
- Go-Betweens - Cattle and cane (1983)
- Happy Mondays - Wrote for luck (1989)
- The housemartins - Sheep (1986)
- The house of love - Destroy the heart (1988)
- Hurrah! - Who’d have thought (1984)
- Human league - Being boiled/Circus of death (1978)
- Half man half biscuit - Trumpton riots (1986)
- PJ Harvey - Dress (1991)
- Inspiral carpets - Plane crash EP (1988)
- Jesus & Mary Chain - Upside down (1984)
- Joy Division - Love will tear us apart (1980)
- June brides - Every conversation (1985)
- Justified ancients of mu mu - All you need is love (1987)
- James - Hymn from a village (1985)
- Josef K - Radio drill time (1980)
- Kitchens of distinction - The third time we opened the capsule (1989)
- LFO - LFO (1989)
- The loft - Up the hill down the slope (1985)
- Madness - Our house (1984)
- Mighty lemon drops - Like an angel (1986)
- The mekons - Where were you (1977)
- My bloody valentine - You made me realise (1988)
- MARRS - Pump up the volume (1987)
- Mega city four - Miles apart (1988)
- Kylie Minogue - I should be so lucky (1990)
- Manic street preachers - You love us (1991)
- New order - Ceremony (1981)
- New order - Blue Monday (1983)
- The Normal - Warm leatherette (1978)
- The only ones - Lovers of today (1977)
- Orange juice - Simply thrilled honey (1981)
- Pigbag - Papa’s got a brand new pigbag (1981)
- The pogues - Dark streets of London (1984)
- The pop group - We are all prostitutes (1980)
- Primal scream - Velocity girl (1986)
- Primal scream - Higher than the sun (1991)
- The primitives - Stop killing me (1986)
- Prefab sprout - Lions in my own garden (1983)
- Pixies - Gigantic (1987)
- Scritti politti - Skank block bologna (1978)
- The shamen - Christopher mayhew says (1987)
- Shop assistants - Safety net (1986)
- Silicon teens - Memphis, Tennessee (1979)
- The smiths - This charming man (1983)
- The smiths - How soon is now (1985)
- Spacemen 3 - Revolution (1988)
- The specials - Gangsters (1979)
- Spizz energi - Where’s captain Kirk (1979)
- Stiff little fingers - Alternative Ulster (1978)
- The stone roses - Fools gold (1989)
- Suicide - Cheree (1978)
- Subway sect - Ambition (1978)
- The sugercubes - Birthday (1987)
- Suede - The drowners (1992)
- Teenage fanclub - Everything flows (1990)
- The three johns - Death of the European (1985)
- Tackhead - What’s my mission now? (1985)
- This mortal coil - Song to the siren (1982)
- The teardrop explodes - Bouncing babies (1979)
- UK subs - Live in a car (1978)
- The undertones - Teenage kicks (1978)
- UB40 - Food for thought/King (1978)
- The weather prophets - Almost prayed (1986)
- The wedding present - Once more (1986)
- Wha! - Better scream (1978)
- Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding (1982)
- Young marble giants - Final day (1980)
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NME Writers all
time top 150 singles |
First published on 28th February
1987
- I say a little prayer - Aretha Franklin
- Tired of being alone - Al Green
- Walk on by - Dionne Warwick
- Kiss - Prince
- This old heart of mine - The Isley Brothers
- (Get up I feel like being a) Sex machine - James Brown
- King Tubby meets the rockers uptown - Augustus Pablo
- Young hearts run free - Candi Staton
- Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
- Move on up - Curtis Mayfield
- Midnight train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the pips
- Shame - Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King
- Running up that hill - Kate Bush
- Like a rolling stone - Bob Dylan
- Rock your baby - George McCrae
- My baby just cares for me - Nina Simone
- The message - Grandmaster flash and the furious five
- God save the queen - Sex pistols
- Whats going on - Marvin Gaye
- Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
- I herd it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye
- This charming man - The smiths
- Tears of a clown - Smoky Bacon and the miracles
- Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
- Just my imagination - The Temptations
- Atmosphere - Joy Division
- I can’t stand the rain - Ann Peebles
- Good vibrations - The beach boys
- Waterloo sunset - The kinks
- Papa was a rolling stone - The temptations
- Adventures on the wheels of steel - Grandmaster flash and the furious five
- River deep mountain high - Ike & Tina Turner
- People get ready - The Impressions
- Have you seen her - The Chi-lites
- Good times - Chic
- Get up offa that thing - James Brown
- Tracks of my tears - The Miracles
- I want you back - The Jackson five
- Light my fire - The doors
- Respect - Aretha Franklin
- Penny lane/Strawberry fields forever - The Beatles
- When a man loves a woman - Percy Sledge
- Paperback writer - The Beatles
- Let’s stay together - Al Green
- Reach out - The four tops
- I wish it would rain - The Temptations
- Don’t be cruel/Hound dog - Elvis Presley
- Stand by me - Ben E. King
- 1999 - Prince
- Complete control - Clash
- Police and thieves - Junior Marvin
- Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
- Dancing in the street - Martha and the Vandellas
- Band of gold - Freda Payne
- Family Affair - Sly and the family stone
- Transmission - Joy Division
- Public image - Public Image Ltd
- One nation under a groove - Funkadelic
- Superstition - Stevie Wonder
- Don’t stop till you get enough - Michael Jackson
- Bad moon rising - Creedence Clearwater revival
- That’ll be the day - The Crickets
- Free Nelson Mandela - The Special AKA
- Rock Lobster - The B-52s
- Anarchy in the UK - Sex pistols
- How soon is now - The smiths
- Space oddity - David Bowie
- It’s a man’s man’s world - James Brown
- Me and Mrs Jones - Billy Paul
- Eight miles high - The Byrds
- She is beyond good and evil - The pop group
- Turn turn turn - The Byrds
- I’m a believer - The Monkees
- If you want me to stay - Sly and the family stone
- You really got me - The kinks
- Cant I change my mind - Tyrone Davis
- You don’t have to say you love me - Dusty Springfield
- Promised land - Johnny Allan
- Rip it up - Little Richard
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
- Crazy - Patsy Cline
- Satisfaction - The rolling stones
- Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
- Wedding bell blues - The fifth dimension
- I wanna hold your hand - The Beatles
- Backstabbers - The O’Jays
- Higher and Higher - Jockey Wilson
- A hard days night - The Beatles
- I second that emotion - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
- Buffalo Girls - Malcolm McLaren F1
- Rapper’s delight - Sugarhill gang
- The bottle - Gil Scott-Heron
- What do I get - The Buzzcocks
- On Broadway - The Drifters
- You’ve lost that lovin’ reelin’ - Righteous Brothers
- Dance stance - Dexys midnight runners
- Love letters - Ketty Lester
- Let’s start II dance again - Hamilton Bohannon
- Do it again - Steely Dan
- Ain’t that peculiar - Marvin Gaye
- Love don’t live here anymore - Rose Royce
- No woman no cry - Bob Marley and the Wailers
- Purple haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience
- In the midnight hour - Wilson Pickett
- Why can’t we live together - Timmy Thomas
- Past present and future - The Shangri-La’s
- Teenage kicks - The undertones
- I feel free - Cream
- Two sevens clash - Culture
- 007 - Desmond Dekker
- The sun ain’t gonna shine anymore - The Walker brothers
- Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix Experience
- (Sittin’ on) The dock of the bay - Otis Lifts Redding
- Be my baby - The Ronettes
- Song to the siren - This mortal coil
- Because the night - The Patti Smith group
- Hold on I’m coming - Sam and Dave
- Keep on running - The Spencer Davis group
- Alison - Elvis Costello
- Our house - Madness
- Be bop a lula - Gene Vincent
- Jeepster - T Rex
- Relax - Frankie goes to Hollywood
- Uncertain smile - The the
- Tour de France - Kraftwerk
- When will I be Loved - The Everly brothers
- Jump to the beat - Stacy Lattisaw
- Time(Clock of the heart) - Culture Club
- Ticket to ride - The Beatles
- Sweet little sixteen - Chuck Berry
- Dancing in the dark - Bruce Springsteen
- Virgina plain - Roxy music
- Release the bats - The birthday party
- Heart of glass - Blondie
- Autobahn - Kraftwerk
- Is this love - Bob Marley and the Wailers
- Brown eyed girl - Van Morrison
- Walk this way - Run DMC
- The day the world turned day-glo - X-Ray spex
- Ain’t no mountain high enough - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
- Lovesick blues - Hank Williams
- Come around here(Im the one that you need) - The miracles
- Green onions - Booker T and the MG’s
- (White man) in Hammersmith palais - The Clash
- Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
- I only have eyes for you - The Flamingos
- Running away - Roy Ayers
- The last time - The rolling stones
- Hey Jude - The Beatles
- Gypsy woman - The impressions
November
2002
- Joy
Division Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Sprit
- Sex
Pistols Anarchy In The Uk
- The
Rolling Stones Paint It Black
- David
Bowie Heroes
- The
Stone Roses Fools Gold
- The
Smiths This Charming Man
- Oasis
Live Forever
- The
Clash London Calling
- Massive
Attack Unfinished Sympathy
- The
Jam Going Underground
- The
Beatles Paperback Writer
- The
Beach Boys Good Vibrations
- The
Verve Bittersweet Symphony
- Lou
Reed Walk On The Wild Side
- Underworld
Born Slippy
- Buzzcocks
Ever Fallen In Love..
- Stevie
Wonder Superstition
- Kinks
Waterloo Sunset
- New
Order Blue Monday
- Dexys
Midnight Runners Geno
- Blondie
Heart Of Glass
- The
Rolling Stones Satisfaction
- Aretha
Franklin Respect
- T.Rex
Get It On
- Coldplay
Yellow
- Motorhead
Ace Of Spades
- Eminem
Stan
- The
Byrds Eight Miles High
- The
Strokes Last Night
- Bob
Dylan Like A Rolling Stone
- Abba
Dancing Queen
- The
Ronettes Be My Baby
- Oasis
Supersonic
- The
Byrds Mr Tambourine Man
- The
Las There She Goes
- The
Who My Generation
- The
Vines Get Free
- Beastie
Boys Sabotage
- Steve
Harley Make Me Smile
- The
Jackson 5 I Want You Back
- The
Smiths How Soon Is Now
- Dusty
Springfield Son Of A Preacher Man
- The
Beatles Pennylane/Strawberry Fields Forever
- The
Undertones Teenage Kicks
- Glen
Campbell Wichita Lineman
- Elvis
Presley In The Ghetto
- Prince
When Doves Cry
- Primal
Scream Loaded
- Grandmaster
Flash White Lines
- Marvin
Gaye I Herd It Through The Grapevine
- Sex
Pistols God Save The Queen
- The
Specials Ghost Town
- Pixies
Gigantic
- Pulp
Common People
- David
Bowie Starman
- Smokey
Robinson The Tracks Of My Tears
- Happy
Mondays Step On
- The
Beach Boys God Only Knows
- The
Who I Cant Explain
- The
Kinks You Really Got Me
- The
Faces Stay With Me
- Roxy
Music Virginia Plain
- Madonna
Into The Groove
- Guns
N Roses Sweet Child O Mine
- Nelly
Hot In Here
- Mc5
Kick Out The Jams
- Big
Star September Gurls
- Soft
Cell Tainted Love
- Radiohead
Creep
- The
Pogues Fairytail Of New York
- Missy
Elliott Get Yr Freak On
- Kylie
Cant Get You Out Of My Mind
- Queens
Of The Stoneage Feelgood Hit Of The Summer
- This
Mortal Coil Song To The Siren
- NWA
Straight Outta Compton
- The
Strokes The Modern Age EP
- Primal
Scream Higher Than The Sun
- Aphex
Twin Windowlicker
- Jimi
Hendrix Voodoo Chile
- Bob
Marley Get Up Stand Up
- Manic
Street Preachers A Design For Life
- My
Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise
- Outkast
Ms Jackson
- Frankie
Goes To Hollywood Two Tribes
- Blur
Girls And Boys
- Stardust
Music Sound Better With You
- The
Rolling Stones Jumpin Jack Flash
- Sugarcubes
Birthday
- The
Doves There Goes The Fear
- The
Jam The Eaton Rifles
- Public
Enemy Bring The Noise
- Aaliyah
Try Again
- Blur
Song 2
- The
Lovin Spoonful Do You Believe In Magic?
- The
Beatles I Wanna Hold Your Hand
- Jimmy
Hendrix Cross Town Traffic
- The
Cult Love Removal Machine
- Mudhoney
Touch Me Im Sick
- Sly
And The Family Stone Family Affair
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