Top 250 Rock Songs of All Time

1	Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Iron Maiden	Powerslave	1984
2	Two Minutes to Midnight	Iron Maiden	Powerslave	1984
3	You Set the Scene	Love	Forever Changes	1967
4	... And Justice for All	Metallica	... And Justice for All	1988
5	For You	Bruce Springsteen	Greetings From Asbury Park N.J.	1973
6	Warakurna	Midnight Oil	Diesel and Dust	1988
7	Nantucket Sleighride	Mountain	Nantucket Sleighride	1971
8	Never Stops	Lagwagon	Blaze	2003
9	Verdi Cries	10000 Manics	In My Tribe	1987
10	Dyers Eve	Metallica	... And Justice for All	1988
11	No Control	Bad Religion	No Control	1989
12	Matty Groves	Fairport Convention	Leige and Lief	1969
13	Hurricane	Bob Dylan	Desire	1976
14	Green Grass and High Tides	The Outlaws	The Outlaws	1975
15	The Dog the Dog He's at it Again	Caravan	For Girls Who Go Plump in the Night	1973
16	Paradise/The Spell	Uriah Heep	Demons and Wizards	1972
17	The Last Resort	The Eagles	Hotel California	1976
18	Tam Lin	Fairport Convention	Leige and Lief	1967
19	Wond'ring Aloud	Jethro Tull	Aqualung	1971
20	Phantom Bride	Erasure	The Innocents	1988
21	What a Good Boy	Barenaked Ladies	Gordon	1992
22	Goddess on a Hiway	Mercury Rev	Deserters Songs	1998
23	Let Her Cry	Hootie and the Blowfish	Cracked Rear View	1994
24	Story of My Life	Social Distortion	Social Distortion	1990
25	Natural Science	Rush	Permanent Waves	1980

26	The River	Bruce Springsteen	The River	1980
27	Dear God	XTC	[single B side]	1986
28	The Handshake	Bad Religion	Stranger than Fiction	1994
29	Nowhere Fast	Fire Inc.	Streets of Fire	1984
30	From the Greenhouse	Crack the Sky	From the Greenhouse	1989
31	The Caterpillar	The Cure	The Top	1984
32	Someday Never Comes	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Mardi Gras	1972
33	Never Die	Dogwood	More Than Conquerers	1999
34	Imagination	Erasure	The Innocents	1988
35	At the Mercy of Imbeciles	Bad Religion	No Substance	1998
36	Sullivan	Caroline's Spine	Monsoon	1997
37	Weather Report Suite	Grateful Dead	Wake of the Flood	1973
38	Boys Don't Cry	The Cure	(single)	1979
39	In So Many Ways	Bad Religion	No Substance	1998
40	Up the Junction	Squeeze	Cool For Cats	1979
41	Compositions for the Young and Old	Bob Mould	Workbook	1989
42	Last Chance	Shooting Star	Shooting Star	1979
43	The Bad Times	Dogwood	Building a Better Me	2000
44	Just Like Heaven	The Cure	Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me	1987
45	The Trees	Rush	Hemispheres	1978
46	Something to Believe	Offspring	Smash	1994
47	Against the Wind	Bob Seger	Against the Wind	1980
48	Walk Away	Dropkick Murphys	Blackout	2003
49	Electric Flowers	Red Temple Spirits	Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon	1988
50	Time Has Come Today	The Chambers Bros	The Time Has Come	1967

51	I Want to Conquer the World	Bad Religion	No Control	1989
52	War Pigs	Black Sabbath	Paranoid	1971
53	Dogs	Pink Floyd	Animals	1977
54	Fade to Black	Metallica	Ride the Lightning	1984
55	Genocide	Offspring	Smash	1994
56	Can I Play for You (Ian's Song)	Crack the Sky	From the Greenhouse	1989
57	Paradise by the Dashboard Light	Meat Loaf	Bat out of Hell	1977
58	Brown Eyed Girl	Van Morrison	Blowin' Your Mind	1967
59	You Might Recall	Genesis	Three Sides Live	1982
60	The Victory	Steeleye Span	Storm Force Ten	1977
61	Dance Across the Centuries	Johnny Clegg & Savuka	Shadow Man	1988
62	Objects in the Rear View Mirror …	Meat Loaf	Bat out of Hell II	1993
63	Every You Every Me	Placebo	Without You I'm Nothing	1998
64	Heartspark Dollarsign	Everclear	Sparkle and Fade	1995
65	The Kids Aren't Alright	Offspring	Americana	1998
66	Getting Away With It	James	Pleased to Meet You	2001
67	Spiders	System of a Down	System of a Down	1998
68	Slit Skirts	Pete Townsend	All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes	1982
69	American Pie	Don McLean	American Pie	1971
70	School	Supertramp	Crime of the Century	1974
71	Tell Me	The Alarm	Declaration	1984
72	Both Sides Now	Judy Collins	Wildflowers	1967
73	Five Years	David Bowie	Ziggy Stardust	1972
74	Question of Heaven	Iced Earth	Dark Saga	1996
75	Jubilee	10000 Manics	Blind Man's Zoo	1989

76	The Logical Song	Supertramp	Breakfast in America	1979
77	Box of Rain	Grateful Dead	American Beauty	1970
78	Heroes	David Bowie	Heroes	1977
79	Box Set	Barenaked Ladies	Gordon	1992
80	Don't Talk	10000 Manics	In My Tribe	1987
81	It'll Be a Long Time	Offspring	Smash	1994
82	Johnny Don't Do It	Johnny Clegg & Savuka	Shadow Man	1988
83	We 3	Soul Asylum	And the Horse They Rode In On	1990
84	Black Eyed	Placebo	Black Market Music	2001
85	Blue Angel	Dave Cousins	Two Weeks Last Summer	1972
86	Touched	VAST	Visual Audio Sensory Theater	1998
87	Once in a Lifetime	Talking Heads	Remain in Light	1980
88	Aenima	Tool	Aenima	1996
89	Simple Man	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-nerd	1973
90	Peace Love and Understanding	Elvis Costello	Armed Forces	1979
91	Slave to the Wage	Placebo	Black Market Music	2001
92	Synchronicity II	The Police	Synchronicity	1983
93	Eyes of the World	Grateful Dead	Wake of the Flood	1973
94	Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall	Brian Ferry	These Foolish Things	1973
95	And a Bang on the Ear	The Waterboys	Fisherman's Blues	1988
96	Leave Mine to Me	Bad Religion	Stranger than Fiction	1994
97	Pictures of You	The Cure	Disintegration	1989
98	Working Class Hero	Green Day	Instant Karma [...]	2007
99	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	Black Sabbath	Sabbath Bloody Sa	1973
100	Aqualung	Jethro Tull	Aqualung	1971

101	Closet Chronicles	Kansas	Point of Know Return	1977
102	You	Bad Religion	No Control	1989
103	Wind-Up	Jethro Tull	Aqualung	1971
104	Communion	Sanctuary	Into the Mirror Black	1990
105	Halloween	Helloween	Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt 1	1987
106	Smash	Offspring	Smash	1994
107	Like a Hurricane	Neil Young and Crazy Horse	American Stars and Bars	1977
108	Am I Wrong?	Love Spit Love	Love Spit Love	1994
109	Everybody Knows	Concrete Blonde	Still In Hollywood	1994
110	Blaze of Glory	The Alarm	Declaration	1984
111	The River	The Tea Party	Spendor Solis	1993
112	Wish You Were Here	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here	1975
113	Bullroarer	Midnight Oil	Diesel and Dust	1988
114	Echoes	Pink Floyd	Meddle	1971
115	Keep Yourself Alive	Queen	Queen II	1973
116	Twenty Four Hours	Joy Division	Closer	1980
117	The Sound of Silence	Simon and Garfunkel	Sounds of Silence	1966
118	Song for America	Kansas	Song for Amercia	1974
119	Come Dancing	Kinks	State of Confusion	1983
120	The Boxer	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge of Troubled Water	1970
121	Low Spark of High Heeled Boys	Traffic	Low Spark [...]	1971
122	Pictures of Matchstick Men	Camper van Beethoven	Key Lime Pie	1989
123	Deacon Blues	Steely Dan	Aja	1977
124	One in a Million	The Mighty Lemon Drops	Laugher	1989
125	Henchman	Bad Religion	No Control	1989

126	Girls Talk	Dave Edmunds	Repeat When Necessary	1979
127	Half-Penny Two-Penny	Styx	Paradise Theater	1980
128	Telegraph Road	Dire Straits	Love Over Gold	1982
129	Oh Very Young	Cat Stevens	Buddha and the Chocolate Box	1974
130	Never Been Any Reason	Head East	Flat as a Pancake	1975
131	It’s a Sin	Pet Shop Boys	Actually	1987
132	Witches Promise	Jethro Tull	(single)	1970
133	Come Sail Away	Styx	The Grand Illusion	1977
134	Far Post	Robert Plant	White Nights	1985
135	Litany (Life Goes On)	Guadalcanal Diary	2x4	1987
136	Kids in America	Kim Wilde	Kim Wilde	1981
137	Gullible's Travels	Soul Asylum	And the Horse They Rode In On	1990
138	Who's Behind the Door	Zebra	Zebra	1983
139	Year of the Wolf Spider	Junior Revolution	[band's website]	2005
140	Solsbury Hill	Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel	1977
141	I Don't Like Mondays	Boomtown Rats	The Fine Art of Surfacing	1977
142	Games Without Frontiers	Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel	1980
143	The Turn of a Friendly Card	Alan Parsons Project	The Turn of a Friendly Card	1980
144	Isn't Life Strange	Moody Blues	Seventh Sojourn	1972
145	Sign of the Times	Brian Ferry	Brian Stripped Bare	1978
146	Subdivisions	Rush	Signals	1982
147	Everlong	Foo Fighers	Colour and the Shape	1997
148	Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll	Ian Dury and the Blockheads	[single]	1977
149	Fight the Good Fight	Triumph	Allied Forces	1981
150	Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day	Jethro Tull	War Child	1974

151	She's a Rainbow	Rolling Stones	Their Satanic Majesties Request	1967
152	Catch	The Cure	Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me	1987
153	Paint it Black	Rolling Stones	Aftermath	1966
154	Red Barchetta	Rush	Moving Pictures	1981
155	Red	Treble Charger	Maybe It's Me	1997
156	2112	Rush	2112	1976
157	Two Out of Three Ain't Bad	Meat Loaf	Bat out of Hell	1977
158	Breakfast in America	Supertramp	Breakfast in America	1979
159	Magic Power	Triumph	Allied Forces	1981
160	Positively 4th Street	Bob Dylan	[single]	1965
161	Jude the Obscene	Therapy?	Infernal Love	1995
162	I Remember You	Skid Row	Skid Row	1989
163	Roads to Moscow	Al Stewart	Past Present and Future	1974
164	Let Her go Down	Steeleye Span	Sails of Silver	1980
165	Coma Girl	Joe Strummer	Streetcore	2003
166	All the Diamonds in the World	Bruce Cockburn	Salt Sun and Time	1974
167	Dear Eloise	The Hollies	Dear Eloise/King Midas in Reverse	1967
168	There's No Way Out of Here	David Gilmour	David Gilmour	1978
169	Yesterdays	Pennywise	From the Ashes	2003
170	Is It Like Today?	World Party	Bang!	1993
171	Worker's Song	Dropkick Murphies	Blackout	2003
172	Crazy Train	Ozzy Osbourne	Blizzard of Ozz	1980
173	Life for Rent	Dido	Life for Rent	2003
174	Eleanor	The Gathering	Mandylion	1995
175	How Will I Laugh Tomorrow	Suicidal Tendencies	How Will I Laugh Tomorrow [...]	1988

176	The Analog Kid	Rush	Signals	1982
177	Nostradamus (live)	Al Stewart	Live Indian Summer	1981
178	The Applicant	Blue Aeroplanes	Swagger	1990
179	Masquerade	Berlin	Pleasure Victim	1982
180	Throwing Stones	Grateful Dead	In the Dark	1987
181	Child of Vision	Supertramp	Breakfast in America	1979
182	Presence of the Lord	Blind Faith	Blind Faith	1969
183	After the Gold Rush	Neil Young	After the Gold Rush	1970
184	Look What Happened (the Last Time)	Less Than Jake	Borders and Boundaries	2000
185	Keep the Devil Outside	Strawbs	[single B side]	1971
186	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	Bruce Cockburn	Stealing Fire	1984
187	Golden Salamander	Strawbs	Nomadness	1975
188	Mexican Wine	Fountains of Wayne	Welcome Interstate Managers	2003
189	Me and Bobby McGee	Janis Joplin	Pearl	1971
190	Perpetual Change	Yes	The Yes Album	1971
191	Paperlate	Genesis	Three Sides Live	1982
192	I Believe in Father Christmas	Emerson Lake and Palmer	I Believe in Father Christmas	1995
193	Oddfellows Local 151	R.E.M.	Document	1987
194	Summer Sun	Shooting Star	Silent Scream	1985
195	Highway Star	Deep Purple	Machine Head	1972
196	Run	Snow Patrol	Final Straw	2004
197	Easily	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Californication	1999
198	Still in the Game	Steve Winwood	Talking Back to the Night	1982
199	Mother Father	Journey	Escape	1981
200	I Still Believe	The Call	Reconciled	1986

201	Headmasters of Mine	Jeffrey Gaines	Jeffrey Gaines	1992
202	Did She Jump	Richard and Linda Thompson	Shoot Out the Lights	1982
203	Without a Trace	Soul Asylum	Grave Dancer's Union	1992
204	Save Me	The Tea Party	Spendor Solis	1993
205	Until the End of the World	U2	Achtung Baby	1991
206	Great Ocean Road	The Gathering	How To Measure a Planet	1999
207	If We Never Meet Again	Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers	Rumble	1988
208	Bitch	Rolling Stones	Sticky Fingers	1971
209	Born to Run	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run	1975
210	(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence Dear	Blondie	Plastic Letters	1977
211	Someone Saved My Life Tonite	Elton John	Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy	1975
212	Everywhere	Billy Bragg	Don't Try This at Home	1991
213	The Beauty of Gray	Live	Mental Jewelery	1991
214	Portions for Foxes	Rilo Kiley	More Adventurous	2004
215	Lazy Eye	Silversun Pickups	Carnavas	2006
216	Two Worlds Collide	Inspiral Carpets	Revenge of the Goldfish	1992
217	Cemetery Gates	Pantera	Cowboys From Hell	1990
218	Requiem for the Masses	The Association	Insight Out	1967
219	Nuclear Apathy	Crack the Sky	Safety in Numbers	1978
220	Celluloid Heroes	Kinks	Everybody's in Show-Biz	1972
221	A Saucerful of Secrets (live)	Pink Floyd	Ummagumma	1969
222	Wild Horses	Rolling Stones	Sticky Fingers	1971
223	Beeswing	Richard Thompson	Mirror Blue	1994
224	The Voice	Moody Blues	Long Distance Voyager	1981
225	Tangled Up In Blue	Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks	1975

226	Planet Claire	B-52's	B-52's	1979
227	Making Love out of Nothing at all	Air Supply	Making Love [...]	1983
228	Amen	The Damned	Grave Disorder	2001
229	More than a Feeling	Boston	Boston	1976
230	Let the Good Times Roll	The Cars	The Cars	1978
231	One Headlight	Wallflowers	Bringing Down the Horse	1996
232	When Your Heart Was Young	Adventures	Sea of Love	1988
233	Sex (I'm a ...)	Berlin	Pleasure Victim	1982
234	Scares Me More	Jeffrey Gaines	Jeffrey Gaines	1992
235	Bicycle Song	Orbit	Libito Speedway	2003
236	Remember a Day	Pink Floyd	A Saucerful of Secrets	1968
237	He Went to Paris	Jimmy Buffett	A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean	1973
238	Burn Down the Mission	Elton John	Tumbleweed Connection	1971
239	In a Delorean	Game Theory	2 Steps From the Middle ages	1988
240	Shatterday	Vendetta Red	Between the Never and the Now	2003
241	Copperhead Road	Steve Earle	Copperhead Road	1988
242	Bad (live)	U2	Wide Awake in America	1985
243	Sultans of Swing	Dire Straits	Dire Straits	1978
244	Intervention	The Arcade Fire	Neon Bible	2007
245	Sister	The Nixons	Foma	1995
246	Willin'	Little Feat	Little Feat	1971
247	Don't Pay the Ferryman	Chris de Burgh	The Getaway	1982
248	Hey Man Nice Shot	Filter	Short Bus	1995
249	Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)	Melanie	Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)	1970
250	Like a Stone	Audioslave	Audioslave	2002