Saturday, February 11, 2023

My Top 10 Songs Per Year: 1967-2022

 DISCLAIMER: The following is subject to change as my opinions continue to evolve. 

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 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.System of a Down - “Protect the Land”


2019

6.The Orwells - “The Boxer”

7.Green Day - “Father of All…”

8.Silversun Pickups - “It Doesn’t Matter Why”

9.Billie Eilish - “Bad Guy”

10.Weezer - “Paranoid”


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.Rob Zombie - “Blur the Technicolor (Live)”


2017

6.The Orwells - “What’s So Entertaining?”

7.The Orwells - “Double Feature”

8.MGMT - “Little Dark Age”

9.Parcels - “Overnight”

10.Foo Fighters - “Arrows”


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.Michael Jackson - “Slave to the Rhythm”

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.Adele - “Rolling in the Deep”

7.Cage the Elephant - “Shake Me Down”

8.Jimi Hendrix - “Valleys of Neptune”

9.Kanye West - “Power”

10.Rob Zombie - “What?”


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.Third Eye Blind - “How’s It Going to Be”


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.Rob Halford - “Light Comes Out of Black”


1991

6.U2 - “The Fly”

7.Pearl Jam - “Black”

8.Spin Doctors - “Two Princes”

9.REM - “Losing My Religion”

10.EMF - “Lies”


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.Dead or Alive - “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)”

7.Prince - “Purple Rain”

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.Bill Withers - “Lovely Day”

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!


Related Article: 2023 Pop Culture Review

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