So last month I took my Favorite Songs Per Year list and expanded it into a Top 5 Favorite Songs Per Year list. So I figured now it would only make sense to expand it even further, into a Top 10 Songs Per Year list… I don’t go out much these days…
DISCLAIMER: Yes, I know some of these artists (The Orwells, Eric Clapton, etc.) are shitty people, but I still like their music. Can’t help it…
I’m only listing #6-10 for each year here. Same rules as last time apply. With that, let’s just get into it:
2022
6.The Smashing Pumpkins - “Steps in Time”
7.Vended - “Ded to Me”
8.Taylor Swift - “Lavender Haze”
9.Slash - “April Fool”
10.Jack White - “Fear of the Dawn”
2021
6.Greta Van Fleet - “Age of Machine”
7.Adele - “Easy on Me”
8.Elton John - “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)”
9.John Mayer - “Last Train Home”
10.Weezer - “All My Favorite Songs”
2020
6.ACDC - “Shot in the Dark”
7.Billie Eilish - “Therefore I Am”
8.Billie Eilish - “No Time to Die”
9.Linkin Park - “She Couldn’t”
10.The Rolling Stones - “Living in a Ghost Town”
2019
6.The Orwells - “The Boxer”
7.Silversun Pickups - “It Doesn’t Matter Why”
8.Billie Eilish - “Bad Guy”
9.Weezer - “Paranoid”
10.Lizzo - “Juice”
2018
6.Stone Temple Pilots - “Meadow”
7.Guns N’ Roses - “Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Acoustic)”
8.Slash - “Mind Your Manners”
9.Arctic Monkeys - “Four Out of Five”
10.Lady Gaga - “Shallow”
2017
6.The Orwells - “What’s So Entertaining?”
7.The Orwells - “Double Feature”
8.MGMT - “Little Dark Age”
9.Parcels - “Overnight”
10.Foo Fighters - “The Sky is a Neighborhood”
2016
6.Metallica - “Lords of Summer”
7.Radiohead - “Burn the Witch”
8.The Pretty Reckless - “Take Me Down”
9.Prophets of Rage - “Prophets of Rage”
10.Justin Timberlake - “Can’t Stop the Feeling”
2015
6.The Roots - “Who Tells Your Story”
7.Tame Impala - “The Less I Know the Better”
8.Coldplay - “Adventure of a Lifetime”
9.The Game - “Just Another Day”
10.Bumblefoot - “Argentina”
2014
6.The Smashing Pumpkins - “Anti-Hero”
7.The Smashing Pumpkins - “Perfect (Acoustic)”
8.The Orwells - “The Righteous One”
9.The Black Keys - “Fever”
10.ACDC - “Rock or Bust”
2013
6.Harts - “Leavn It All Behind”
7.Nine Inch Nails - “Copy of a”
8.Queens of the Stone Age - “I Sat By the Ocean”
9.The Orwells - “Who Needs You”
10.Lorde - “Royals”
2012
6.Stone Sour - “Absolute Zero”
7.Soundgarden - “Live to Rise”
8.Taylor Swift - “I Knew You Were Trouble”
9.The Orwells - “In My Bed”
10.Soundgarden - “Taree”
2011
6.The Strokes - “Under Cover of Darkness”
7.Childish Gambino - “Heartbeat”
8.The Black Keys - “Lonely Boy”
9.Coldplay - “Paradise”
10.Dr. Dre - “I Need a Doctor”
2010
6.Cage the Elephant - “Shake Me Down”
7.Jimi Hendrix - “Valleys of Neptune”
8.Kanye West - “Power”
9.Eminem - “Not Afraid”
10.Adele - “Rolling in the Deep”
2009
6.Black Eyed Peas - “Boom Boom Pow”
7.U2 - “Stand Up Comedy”
8.Florence + the Machine - “Dog Days Are Over”
9.Depeche Mode - “Wrong”
10.The Dead Weather - “60 Feet Tall”
2008
6.Nine Inch Nails - “1,000,000”
7.Coldplay - “Violet Hill”
8.The Ting Tings - “That’s Not My Name”
9.Jason Mraz - “I’m Yours”
10.Metallica - “All Nightmare Long”
2007
6.Paramore - “crushcrushcrush”
7.MGMT - “Electric Feel”
8.Ozzy Osbourne - “I Don’t Wanna Stop”
9.Rhianna - “Umbrella”
10.Sixx AM - “Life is Beautiful”
2006
6.The Raconteurs - “Steady as She Goes”
7.Silversun Pickups - “Lazy Eye”
8.John Mayer - “Waiting On the World to Change”
9.The Black Keys - “Your Touch”
10.Justin Timberlake - “FutureSex/LoveSound”
2005
6.Shakira - “Hips Don’t Lie”
7.OK Go - “Here It Goes Again”
8.Moby - “Lift Me Up”
9.Bloc Party - “Banquet”
10.Buckethead - “Botnus”
2004
6.Black Eyed Peas - “Let’s Get It Started”
7.Gwen Stefani - “Rich Girl”
8.Bloc Party - “Helicopter”
9.John Frusciante - “Every Person”
10.Snoop Dogg - “Drop It Like It’s Hot”
2003
6.The Strokes - “Reptilia”
7.Baby Bash - “Suga Suga”
8.Beyonce - “Crazy in Love”
9.Britney Spears - “Toxic”
10.The Black Keys - “Set You Free”
2002
6.Maroon 5 - “Harder to Breathe”
7.Matchbox 20 - “Bright Lights”
8.Eminem - “Without Me”
9.Moby - “Extreme Ways”
10.Sheryl Crow - “Soak Up the Sun”
2001
6.Michelle Branch - “Everywhere”
7.Shakira - “Whenever, Wherever”
8.The Strokes - “The Modern Age”
9.Puddle of Mudd - “Control”
10.Mary J. Blige - “Family Affair”
2000
6.Pantera - “Death Rattle”
7.Eminem - “Stan”
8.The Corrs - “Breathless”
9.NSYNC - “Bye Bye Bye”
10.A Perfect Circle - “Judith”
1999
6.Slipknot - “(sic)”
7.Tal Bachman - “She’s So High”
8.Santana - “Smooth”
9.The White Stripes - “Jimmy the Exploder”
10.Christina Aguilera - “Genie in a Bottle”
1998
6.System of a Down - “Sugar”
7.Kiss - “Psycho Circus”
8.Hole - “Celebrity Skin”
9.The Smashing Pumpkins - “Ava Adore”
10.Metallica - “Die, Die My Darling”
1997
6.Sixpence - “There She Goes”
7.Natalie Imbruglia -“Torn”
8.Marcy Playground - “Sex & Candy”
9.Radiohead - “Paranoid Android”
10.The Notorious B.I.G. - “Hypnotize”
1996
6.Stone Temple Pilots - “Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart”
7.Van Halen - “Humans Being”
8.Fugees - “Fu-Gee-La”
9.Weezer - “The Good Life”
10.White Zombie - “The One”
1995
6.White Zombie - “More Human Than Human”
7.Radiohead - “High & Dry”
8.Foo Fighters - “I’ll Stick Around”
9.Goo Goo Dolls - “Name”
10.Michael Jackson - “Scream”
1994
6.Bush - “Machinehead”
7.Beastie Boys - “Sabotage”
8.Outkast - “Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik”
9.Stone Temple Pilots - “Interstate Love Song”
10.Alice in Chains - “Rotten Apple”
1993
6.Collective Soul - “Shine”
7.Kris Kross - “Alright”
8.The Connells - “’74-’75”
9.Beck - “Loser”
10.Queen Latifah - “Just Another Day…”
1992
6.White Zombie - “Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag”
7.Megadeth - “Symphony of Destruction”
8.Kiss - “Unholy”
9.Stone Temple Pilots - “Crackerman”
10.No Doubt - “Trapped in a Box”
1991
6.U2 - “The Fly”
7.Pearl Jam - “Black”
8.Spin Doctors - “Two Princes”
9.REM - “Losing My Religion”
10.Queen - “The Show Must Go On”
1990
6.Megadeth - “Tornado of Souls”
7.ZZ Top - “Doubleback”
8.ACDC - “Thunderstruck”
9.Extreme - “More Than Words”
10.My Bloody Valentine - “Soon”
1989
6.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Stone Cold Bush”
7.Skid Row - “Youth Gone Wild”
8.Motley Crue - “Kickstart My Heart”
9.Tom Petty - “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
10.The Cure - “Fascination Street”
1988
6.Metallica - “One”
7.The Pixies - “Where is My Mind?”
8.NWA - “Straight Outta Compton”
9.The Proclaimers - “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”
10.Jane’s Addiction - “Mountain Song”
1987
6.Faith No More - “Blood”
7.Metallica - “The Wait”
8.Michael Jackson - “Dirty Diana”
9.Motley Crue - “Wild Side”
10.Def Leppard - “Love Bites”
1986
6.Cutting Crew - “(I Just) Died in Your Arms”
7.Crowded House - “Don’t Dream It’s Over”
8.Bananarama - “Venus”
9.Cameo - “Word Up”
10.Van Halen - “5150”
1985
6.Cyndi Lauper - “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough”
7.Huey Lewis - “The Power of Love”
8.Simple Minds - “Don’t You Forget About Me”
9.A-ha - “Take On Me”
10.Faith No More - “The Jungle”
1984
6.Prince - “Purple Rain”
7.Scorpions - “Still Loving You”
8.U2 - “Pride (In the Name of Love)”
9.George Michael - “Careless Whisper (Single Version)”
10.Echo & the Bunnymen - “The Killing Moon”
1983
6.Journey - “Edge of the Blade”
7.ZZ Top - “Sharp Dressed Man”
8.Elton John - “I’m Still Standing”
9.Eurythmics - “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”
10.Genesis - “Mama”
1982
6.Billy Idol - “White Wedding (Part 1)”
7.Judas Priest - “Another Thing Coming”
8.Yazoo / Yaz - “Don’t Go”
9.A Flock of Seagulls - “I Ran”
10.Missing Persons - “Destination Unknown”
1981
6.Tommy Tutone - “Jenny”
7.Phil Collins - “In the Air Tonight”
8.The Rolling Stones - “Start Me Up”
9.Blue Oyster Cult - “Burnin’ for You”
10.Journey - “Stone in Love”
1980
6.The B-52’s - “Private Idaho”
7.Van Halen - “Everybody Wants Some”
8.Judas Priest - “Breaking the Law”
9.Kiss - “Shandi”
10.Grover Washington Jr. - “Just the Two of Us”
1979
6.Pink Floyd - “Comfortably Numb”
7.Led Zeppelin - “All My Love”
8.Van Halen - “DOA”
9.The Knack - “My Sharona”
10.ACDC - “Highway to Hell”
1978
6.Billy Joel - “My Life”
7.Ace Frehley - “Rip It Out”
8.Paul Stanley - “Tonight You Belong to Me”
9.Peter Criss - “I Can’t Stop the Rain”
10.Gene Simmons - “See You Tonite”
1977
6.ACDC - “Let There Be Rock”
7.Queen - “We Will Rock You”
8.Foreigner - “Cold as Ice”
9.Supertramp - “Give a Little Bit”
10.The Commodores - “Easy”
1976
6.Tom Petty - “Breakdown”
7.Bee Gees - “You Should Be Dancing”
8.Blue Oyster Cult - “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
9.ABBA - “Dancing Queen”
10.The Eagles - “Hotel California”
1975
6.Kiss - “Love Her All I Can”
7.Queen - “Bohemian Rhapsody”
8.Aerosmith - “Sweet Emotion”
9.ABBA - “SOS”
10.Nazareth - “Hair of the Dog”
1974
6.Kiss - “Parasite”
7.Aerosmith - “Lord of the Thighs”
8.Terry Jacks - “Seasons in the Sun”
9.Sweet - “Fox on the Run”
10.Rush - “Working Man”
1973
6.Sly & the Family Stone - “If You Want Me to Stay”
7.ZZ Top - “La Grange”
8.Aerosmith - “Dream On”
9.Marvin Gaye - “Let’s Get It On”
10.Pink Floyd - “Money”
1972
6.Deep Purple - “Highway Star”
7.T Rex - “Buick Mackane”
8.The Eagles - “Take It Easy”
9.The Sutherland Brothers - “Sailing”
10.Lou Reed - “Walk on the Wild Side”
1971
6.Jimi Hendrix - “Ezy Ryder”
7.Badfinger - “Baby Blue”
8.The Doors - “Riders on the Storm”
9.T Rex - “Get It On”
10.Marvin Gaye - “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)”
1970
6.Clearance Clearwater Revival - “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?”
7.Jimi Hendrix - “Machine Gun”
8.The Guess Who - “American Woman”
9.The Kinks - “Lola”
10.Badfinger - “Without You”
1969
6.Simon & Garfunkel - “The Boxer”
7.The Stooges - “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
8.Clearance Clearwater Revival - “Fortunate Son”
9.B.J. Thomas - “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”
10.John Lennon - “Give Peace a Chance”
1968
6.Simon & Garfunkel - “Mrs. Robinson”
7.The Doors - “Hello, I Love You”
8.The Rolling Stones - “Sympathy for the Devil”
9.The Rolling Stones - “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
10.Steppenwolf - “Born to Be Wild”
1967
6.Strawberry Alarm Clock - “Incense & Peppermints”
7.Cream - “Sunshine of Your Love”
8.The Turtles - “Happy Together”
9.Cat Stevens - “The First Cut is the Deepest”
10.The Rolling Stones - “Ruby Tuesday”
…Well that was fun! I wonder what pointless list I’ll make next…
Peace!
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