MOST INFLUENCIAL SONGS OF ALL TIME

Songs in no particular order

1. You Set the Scene Love  1967
2. 7 & 7 is, and Alone Again, Or? ove 1966
3. Hello & Goodbye Tim Buckley 1967
4. Tomorrow Never Knows The Beatles  1966
5. Dark Star The Grateful Dead  1968
6. House at Pooniel Corners Jefferson Airplane  1968
7. Crown of Creation and White Rabbit and Somebody to Love Jefferson Airplane  1967
8. Red Army Blues The Waterboys
9. The Fool Quicksilver Messenger Service  1968
10. The Crucifixion and many many others Phil Ochs  1965-1968
11. 5 Denials on Merlin’s Grave Robin Williamson and his Merry Band 1977
12. The Creation Incredible String Band 1968
13. The Ostrich and The Pusher and Born to Be Wild Steppenwolf 1966
14. Universal Soldier and Codeine Buffy Saint-Marie  1965
15. Runn’in Down A Dream Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  1982
16. Tam Lin Fairport Convention  1969
17. Who Knows Where the Time Goes Sandy Denny  1968
18. Marat-Sade Judy Collins 1967
19. Dress Rehearsal Rag Leonard Cohen  1972
20. I am the Walrus The Beatles  1968
21. The Green Manalishi Fleetwood Mac  1969
22. Oh Well Fleetwood Mac 1969
23. Man of the World Fleetwood Mac
24. Masters of War, Ballad of a Thin Man, What Was it You Wanted Bob Dylan
25. John Henry Joe Bonamassa
26. Mother Russia, Scheharazade, Ocean Gypsy Renaissance
27. Sounds that Can’t be Made Marillion  2011
28. Nights in White Satin Moody Blues  1967
29. Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967
30. You Showed Me The Turtles 1967
31. Eight Miles High and 5D The Byrds 1966
32. Needles and Pins and Don’t Throw Your Love Away The Searchers   1965
33. How Can I Be Sure? The Rascals 1966
34. Dar’lin Be Home Soon Lovin’ Spoonfull 1966
35. Mister, You’re a Better Man Than I The Yardbirds 1965
36. Expecting to Fly Buffalo Springfield 1967
37. Deserted Cities of the Heart (and others) Cream 1967-1968
38. Mr. Fantasy & many others in early Traffic 1967-1968
39. I Know She Will Find Me Dougie Maclean
40. Shapes of Things and Happenings 10 Years Time Ago  The Yardbirds  1967
41. Come all ye Fair France Steeleye Span
42. Waterloo Sunset, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, All day and All of the Night, You Really Got Me, Tired of Waiting For You, Sunny Afternoon, Days, and many others. The Kinks 1964-1968
43. House of the Rising Sun, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, It’s My Life, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Monterey, When I Was Young, and many others. The Animals  1964-1968
44. She’s Not There and Tell her no The Zombies  1966
45. Satisfaction, The Last Time, Paint it Black and many others The Rolling Stones 1965-1969
46. Like a Hurricane, The Loner, The Needle and the Damage Done, Cortez the Killer, Pocahontas, “Mr.” Soul, and many others Neil Young 1967-…..
47. Painted Silver Light Gov’t Mule
48. Under the Milky Way, Lay Out, Columbus, Mistress, Fly Home, Two Places at Once, Eastern, and so many others. The Church 1978 to  now
49. 21’st Century Schizoid Man, In the Court of the Crimson King, Red, Lark’s Tongue in Aspic Part 1, 2, 3, 4, Thrak, Starless, Epitaph, Exiles, The Night Watch, and so many more. 1969—now.
50. My Generation, Can’t Explain, Substitute and many others by the Who 1965-1968
51. Sultans of Swing Dire Straits 1978
52. Rhiannon and Dreams Fleetwood Mac 1975
53. Light My Fire and Break on Through The Doors  1967
54. White Rabbit, Somebody to Love, Today, and Comin’ Back to Me   Jefferson Airplane  1967
55. The Long Golden Road and November Song and Still a Freak The Waterboys 2015
56. Whiter Shade of Pale, A Salty Dog, and Conquistador  Procol Harum 1968
57. White Bird It’s a Beautiful Day 1968
58. The Great Mandala Peter, Paul and Mary
59. The Circle Game, Both Sides Now, Woodstock and many others Joni Mitchell
60. Feel’in Good Nina Simone, Traffic, and others
61. Nature Boy Nat King Cole and many others
62. You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push the River Van Morrison
63. Gloria and Mystic Eyes Them
64. Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana
65. Almost Cut My Hair, Déjà vu, Long Time Comin’, and Carry on by Crosby, Stills and Nash
66. I’m Alive, and Look Through Any Window The Hollies
67. Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying and Ferry Across the Mersey Gerry and the Pacemakers
68. I’m Tired and Hellbound Train Savoy Brown
69. New Year’s Day and Sunday, Bloody Sunday U2
70. Get Together Youngbloods  1968
71. That’s the Way I Always Heard it Should Be Carly Simon
72. Bridge of Sighs Robin Trower
73. Get Up-Stand Up Bob Marley
74. Season of the Witch Donovan
75. Soul, For What It’s Worth, Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing and Rock and Roll Woman Buffalo Springfield
76. Whipping Post and many others Allman Brothers Band
77. Waiting for a Girl Like You Foreigner
78. Gypsy Rider Gene Clark
79. Everybody’s Been Burned The Byrds/David Crosby  1967
80. Triad Jefferson Airplane and David Crosby
81. Wooden Ships Crosby,Stills and Nash and also Jefferson Airplane
82. Zodiac and The Well Richie Havens
83. Sunny Goodge Street, Mellow Yellow, and Sunshine Superman Donovan 1966-1967
84. Father and Son, Peace Train, and Wild World  Cat Stevens  1970-1971
85. Mechanical World Spirit  1968
86. Laugh Laugh and Just a Little Beau Brummels 1965
87. Dazed and Confused and Kashmir and Stairway to Heaven   Led Zeppelin
88. Talk,Talk Music Machine
89. Roundabout and Time and a Word  Yes
90. Lyin’ Eyes, Hotel California, Desperado, I Can’t Tell You Why The Eagles
91. Different Drum Linda Ronstadt
92. I Got A Name Jim Croce
93. Take it Easy Eagles and Jackson Brown
94. You Don’t Own Me Leslie Gore
95. Cathedral Crosby, Stills and Nash
96. Good Vibrations and many others by the Beach Boys
97. McArthur Park Richard Harris
98. Solitaire Neil Sedaka and the Carpenters  1974
99. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, King Harvest, Stage Fright, and many others by The Band
100. Walk Don’t Run The Ventures
101. Apache The Shadows
102. When You Wish Upon A Star Jiminy Crickett
103. Sounds of Silence and Richard Corey Simon and Garfunckle
104. California Dream’in The Mama’s and Papa’s
105. Ghost of Tom Joad and others by Bruce Springsteen
106. Abraham, Martin, and John Dion  1968
107. Night Moves Bob Seger
108. Fortress Around Your Heart, Message in a Bottle, and Wrapped around Your Finger Sting
109. Reach Out 4 Tops
110. Knock on Wood Eddie Floyd
111. What’s Goin’ On, Mercy Me, and I Heard it through the Grapevine   Marvin Gaye
112. Kicks Paul Revere and the Raiders
113. Louie Louie The Kingsmen
114. Superstar Leon Russell and Karen Carpenter
115. Jeremy, Alive, Black Pearl Jam
116. That’s Life Frank Sinatra
117. No Time and American Woman Guess Who
118. Solitary Man Neil Diamond
119. Joanne by Mike Nesmith
120. Your Song by Elton John
121. Time has come Today by Chambers Brothers
122. Ball of Confusion by Temptations
123. Magic Man and Crazy on You by Heart
124. I’m Alive by the Hollies
125. A Summer Song by Chad and Jeremy
126. Pretty Ballerina and Walk Away Renee, by the Left Banke

BONUS SECTION

Somewhat unrecognized, undervalued or generally not well known songs and albums

1. 2 plus 2 Bob Seger System first single
2. I Aint Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore Young Rascals first single
3. The People in Me/Come on In The Music Machine second single
4. Orange Rooftop of My Mind Bluethings single
5. You Ain’t Got Nothin’ Yet Blues Magoos single
6. I had Too Much To Dream Last Night Electric Prunes single
7. Frozen Love Buckingham/Nicks single
8. Friday on my Mind Easybeats single
9. Push’in Too Hard The Seeds
10. You Keep Me Hangin’ On Vanilla Fudge Single
11. Your Gonna Miss Me 13^th Floor Elevators
12. Guadalcanal Diary Jamboree album side one
13. Box of Frogs 2 albums
14. Clear Light album
15. West Coast Pop Art and Experimental Band album
16. The Blue Things album from 1966
17. Hang on Sloopy The McCoys This was, of course, a big hit, and a good one, but the McCoys B sides are really worth checking out, very much ahead of their times.
18. The Paupers first album, a somewhat unknown Canadian group from 1967 worth checking out

ANCIENT SONGS OF INFLUENCE and often guilty pleasures

1. Many songs of Gene Pitney, particularly: Mecca, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, 24 Hours to Tulsa, Town Without Pity, Last Chance to Turn Around.
2. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Bobby Vee  1962
3. Venus Frankie Avalon  1959
4. Johnny Angel Shelley Fabares  1962
5. Many songs of the Four Seasons, particularly: Dawn, Walk Like a Man, Sherry, and others.
6. Travellin’ Man Ricky Nelson
7. Roy Orbison especially: It’s Over, Crying, Blue Angel, and Pretty Woman
8. Handy Man and Good Timin Jimmy Jones 1959-1960
9. Many songs of Dion, especially the Wanderer