THE FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 100 SONGS OF ALL TIME A Note on Methodology
100: Sultans Of Ping FC - “Where’s Me Jumper” (1992)
99: Madonna - “Papa Don’t Preach”
98: Deee-Lite - “Groove Is In The Heart”
97: The Beat - “Save It For Later”
96: Belle And Sebastian - “Sleep The Clock Around”
95: Gladys Knight - “License To Kill”
94: Al Green - “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?”
93: Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - “Why Do Fools Fall In Love?”
92: Girls Aloud - “Love Machine”
91: Ike And Tina Turner - “River Deep, Mountain High”
90: The Only Ones - “Another Girl Another Planet”
89.5: Skeletal Family - “Promised Land”
89: REEL 2 REEL feat THE MAD STUNTMAN - “I Like To Move It”
88: Subway Sect - “Ambition”
87: Roxy Music - “Virginia Plain”
86: Janet Kay - “Silly Games”
85: Teddybears STHLM ft Mad Cobra - “Cobrastyle”
84: Pulp - “Babies”
83: Orange Juice - “Rip It Up”
82: Jimmy Cliff - “Many Rivers To Cross”
81: The JAMMS - “It’s Grim Up North”
80: Public Enemy - “Fight The Power”
79: Kim Wilde - “Cambodia”
78: Culture Beat - “Mr. Vain”
77: Depeche Mode - “Just Can’t Get Enough”
76: Shystie - “Woman’s World”
75: Art Garfunkel - “Bright Eyes”
74: Urban Cookie Collective - “The Key, The Secret”
73: Smiley Culture - “Police Officer”
72: Wee Papa Girl Rappers - “Wee Rule”
71: Jay-Z - “The Takeover”
70: Aqua - “Lollipop (Candyman)”
69: Anthrax and Public Enemy - “Bring The Noise”
68: The Shirelles - “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”
67. The Velvelettes - “Needle In A Haystack”
66. Dexy’s Midnight Runners - “Come On Eileen”
65. Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter
64. Christina Aguilera - Dirrrty
63. Take That – Back for Good
62. Glenn Campbell – Witchita Lineman
61. Carl Douglas – Kung-Fu Fighting
60. Diana Ross - Upside Down
59. C+C Music Factory - Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm
58. The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack
57. Elvis Costello - Oliver’s Army
56. MARVIN GAYE - I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
55. David Bowie - Suffragette City
54. WILL YOUNG - LEAVE RIGHT NOW
53. Wham - Wham! Rap
52. Joe Jackson - It’s Different For Girls
51. Whigfield - Think Of You
50. Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For
49. SPICE GIRLS - WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
48. Glenn Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy
47. DOOP - DOOP
46. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
45. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
44. The Selecter - On My Radio
43. Stina Nordenstam - Little Star
42. ABBA - THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL
41. TATU - Not Gonna Get Us
But what is in the top 40? STAY TUNED…
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lollypop on September 14th, 2006
nice
FT's Alan on November 3rd, 2006
we got stuck :-(
fivelongdays on November 11th, 2006
Ach, I’m really enjoying reading this.
Awaiting the next entry with bated breath -
FLD
rob on January 10th, 2007
so 100 thru 62… where’s the rest???
Amy on January 18th, 2007
hey love the songs the next list better have guns n’ roses in it and spice girls lol
Naomi on January 30th, 2007
wow these are awsome songs, im lovin it!!
tyler on April 4th, 2007
theres only 65 song it should be top 65 songs of all time then.
FT's Admin on April 4th, 2007
We’re a little behind schedule. 66 was posted September 2006. 65 November 2006. So yes we are due a couple more soon. hem hem. come back real soon now
John on April 14th, 2007
WTF, Jay-Z is not a real artist
What about all the good bands like Pink Floyd, or The Beatles.
Led Zepplin
This is the worst list ever!
FT's Admin on April 14th, 2007
“I tried finding a top 100 songs list on the internet that contains the Beatles but all I found was FreakyTrigger.”
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on April 14th, 2007
salad of all the tylers!
lee on May 11th, 2007
girls aloud in top 100 songs??? are you having a giraffe??? the only thing they have ever written is lines in detention.
sam on May 22nd, 2007
nice
caolan doran on May 24th, 2007
- SEX!!!!! NOW I have your attention… Why is it so hard to find “stairway to heaven” or “led zeppelin” on a top 100 songs/bands list? they are the best band ever and the song is the greatest thing ever written!including shakespeare!it is not simply a song but a poem blessed with a guitar melody written by probably the best guitarist ever “jimmy page”. I beleive god is proud of man for producing it!
caolan doran on May 24th, 2007
I FEEL SORRY FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY BELEIVE THAT THE ABOVE SONGS ARE AMONG THE BEST EVER! THEY WERE WRITTEN BY PEOPLE THAT ARE PAYED TO WRITE SONGS AND PERFORMED BY TALENTLESS “ARTISTS” AS IT WERE.HOW VERY DARE THEY! BY THE WAY IT’S MY BIRTHDAY IN 2 DAYS SO HOW BOUT A FEW AIR KISSES FROM ALL THE LADIES.XOXO. AND THE NEXT 50 SONGS BETTER CONTAIN ZEPPELIN, GUN’S ‘N ROSES AND THE SCISSOR SISTERS :)
FT's CarsmileSteve on May 24th, 2007
why did we switch comments on on this again?
also who’s doing C&C?
Tom on May 24th, 2007
This comments thread is shaping up nicely I ph33l.
“ZEPPELIN GUN’S N ROSES AND THE SCISSOR SISTERS“
FT's Alan on May 24th, 2007
“WRITTEN BY PEOPLE THAT ARE PAYED TO WRITE SONGS”
what, you mean professionals? that would be people who are good at it then?
FT's katstevens on May 25th, 2007
Plus, bands that write their own songs get paid as well! Just less.
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Mr Bush on June 18th, 2007
ZEPPELINNNN RULES !!!!!!!!
Dean on June 25th, 2007
I cant believe this list, no Oasis, Weller, Smiths, Stones, Stone Roses, Specials. but we do have REEL 2 REEL AND THE MAD STUNTMAN!!!!!! Leave it out please.
Marcello Carlin on June 25th, 2007
Results 1 - 10 of about 9,320 for “write your own list”. (0.36 seconds)
Tom on June 25th, 2007
Stick around Dean it’s wall to wall Weller once we hit the top 50!
Patience Tomblin on June 25th, 2007
Dear Sir Trigger,
With your forthcoming “wall to wall Weller” Top 50, I wish to register a formal protest over the criminally overlooked omission of Bruce Foxton’s criminally overlooked seminal 1983 number 23 smash “Freak.” With his plaintive yet passionate “Elephants Man” persona, he opened our eyes to the suffering of millions. Could unruly Robert Geldof say a fraction as much?
Yours,
Patience Tomblin
oms on July 6th, 2007
oh my god! u guys actually like shit by christina and madonna and u somehow have the balls to make fun of good bands like the beatles and pink floyd? how fucked up can u get seriously? what next? the top 100 songs by american idol contestants??
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on July 6th, 2007
we have more balls than you
Al Ewing on July 7th, 2007
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/top100/top100_1.shtml
oms on July 7th, 2007
im sorry lord sukrat…if u ACTUALLY enjoy listening to girls aloud and take that…u have no right to abuse ACTUAL musicians..not wannabe teens whose puberty runs on for too long..
http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/definitive-200
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on July 7th, 2007
poor little oms — the safe trudge of his world is all coming to pieces
FT's Alan on July 7th, 2007
what a wonderful list! i can see christina aguilera and jay z in there. but 127 and 128! madonna at 164. but WAIT Jewel even higher at 64 - THE WHOLE THING IS A SHAM AND MUST BE DESTROYED. start again from scratch plz. with sultans of ping.
“National Association of Recording Merchandisers” - NARM, surely that should read “THE MAN”. let’s go stick it to THE MAN/NARM.
i say we head over to NARM/THE MAN’s site and repeatedly post about the sand in recording merchandisers’s vaginas (i am crying with laughter as i write this) until they change the list to something WE like.
Al Ewing on July 7th, 2007
Sidestepping the inevitable sandy-vagina explosion: if that’s your 100 Albums, what are your 100 Singles? I’m genuinely curious as to whether your Number 1 is Bohemian Rhapsody or Imagine by John Lennon.
uknown on July 16th, 2007
sorry but this list is so so so bad think about it
Gary on July 19th, 2007
You all suck so much dong that you all think good dong tastes like bad dong
Gary on July 19th, 2007
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE N.W.A AND THE EAZY E, AND THE KINGS OF LEON, YOU ALL SUCK SOO MUCH DONG
Gary on July 19th, 2007
CHIPPA PUTS OUT
FT's Drucius on July 22nd, 2007
Peculiar taste you lot have. Bit limited, innit?
FT's Alan on July 22nd, 2007
It’s limited to 100 tracks, popular music, the ones we really like… how else? Obviously not limited to a particular canon of artists or songs
Tom on July 22nd, 2007
FEED BABIES NOT TROLLS!
FT's Drucius on July 23rd, 2007
Limited by the number of songs you’ve heard, I presume.
mmmbop on July 23rd, 2007
oh my god i love this wheres the rest
FT's Drucius on July 24th, 2007
Would certainly make for an excellent student disco, absolutely.
Tom on July 24th, 2007
Actually Dru’s RIGHT in that the methodology (see “A note on methodology”) means that the list privileges shared experience among the listmakers rather than obscure tidbits - assuming people might veto tracks they don’t know, which isn’t always the case. I have heard lots of songs I like, not as many as Drucius I’m sure but enough to get by - but I’m only going to nominate a certain proportion of those.
But this is a good thing! Shared experience is an important part of pop.
Marcello Carlin on July 24th, 2007
Beware the avalanche of random angry trolls you’re going to get when they discover that Angles by Robbie William has not come top.
Tom on July 24th, 2007
Or the avalanche of non-random angry regulars when they discover that it HAS!
aimz on July 24th, 2007
AQUA???LOLLIPOP??? Need i say more.
Who compiled this list? 8 years olds?
Marcello Carlin on July 24th, 2007
scathing
Lena on July 24th, 2007
I may cry.
FT's Drucius on July 24th, 2007
Actually, as a “Bunch of Mates Down the Pub Top 100″ it’s excellent, so long as it’s not meant to be anything close to definitive.
Some of the “look at meeeee!!” post-ironic iconoclasm is pretty ghastly, mind.
Al Ewing on July 24th, 2007
And this is still only the bottom 50!
Al Ewing on July 24th, 2007
The trouble with ‘look at meeeeee’ as criticism is that everyone on the interweb is usually guilty of it - there’s no real difference between “Look at meeee, I’m so ironic” and “No look at meeeee I’m so NOT ironic UNLIKE YOU”, apart from a gradual climbing of the ladder of superiority. (I’m as guilty of this as anyone else obv.)
The other thing I’d disagree with is that a ‘Top 100′ list can be definitive at all - I’d say this is as ‘definitive’ as any other list you’d find anywhere.
Marcello Carlin on July 24th, 2007
I would say that it is as definitive a list as you would find in the field of lists compiled by the compilers who compiled this list.
FT's Drucius on July 24th, 2007
Well, quite.
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on July 24th, 2007
oh no! iconoclasm! no wonder you felt so uncomfy
FT's Drucius on July 24th, 2007
Oh lordy, here comes Captain Iconoclast with his cloak of irony and his trusty staff of self-regard.
Marcello Carlin on July 24th, 2007
In this morning’s edition of hip n’ happening free newspaper METRO top music commentator Dermot O’Leary says that he’d rather listen to good pop than bad indie any day.
Had I contributed to this list there would certainly have been some welcome improv input - AMM’s Live At The Roundhouse Parts 1 & 2 would have been there for a start (and possibly a finish).
FT's Tim on July 24th, 2007
I believe that this is, or at least was, the single definitive list of the best 100 songs of all time.
Tom on July 24th, 2007
Sadly I think the veto system might have accounted for these noble warriors of improv Marcello.
Tom on July 24th, 2007
Iconoclasm is a great word (though I just typed ICONOCLAMS!! - surely a better one!) but I don’t think it’s apt here - this isn’t a list of the Top 100 Worst Songs after all. Which icons are p^nk s and crew trying to clasm?
FT's Drucius on July 24th, 2007
Which ones have you got?
Marcello Carlin on July 24th, 2007
Iconoclams? Sounds like an Elvis movie title!
daavid on July 24th, 2007
People, this is a great list precisely BECAUSE it includes Aqua and Whigfield unlike 99.99% of all the other boring lists out there with only Led Zep, Bob Dylan. For once a list that fortunately doesn’t give a shit about the artist’s “integrity”, whether the people who sing/perform write their own songs and all the other decrepit rockist prejudices. Haters go and read Rolling Stone’s list, or any other that features the songs/artists that “deserve” to be there.
Marcello Carlin on July 25th, 2007
Sadly you have not yet seen the upper half of this list which consists only of tracks by Led Zep and Bob Dylan.
FT's Drucius on July 25th, 2007
Daavid listing the icons, there.
Tom on July 25th, 2007
I think if someone had nominated “Immigrant Song” it would have made the list easily (maybe it did! I have forgotten what’s in the top 50).
Pete on July 25th, 2007
This was before my triumphant Immigrant Song Karaoke Debacle in New York, so I may not have brought it up. But then this was only the definitive list as per 2004 or so…
Tom on July 25th, 2007
Anyway the point is that we all love us our icons. Do we (collectively) love them more than the stuff on the list? Not always.
Marcello Carlin on July 25th, 2007
Truthfully it’s a choice between the schoolteacher and the cheese sandwich.
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on July 25th, 2007
yes it only takes one to veto — ONE GUTLESS CHUMP
(to be fair my most aggravating veto wz bcz i was six months ahead of the world for once, and no one else yet had a view pro or con)
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on July 25th, 2007
[edit to remove double post]
Tom on July 25th, 2007
A pedant writes: it actually takes 2/3 to veto.
What was your aggravating veto? I ph0rget.
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on July 25th, 2007
NO SPOILERS
mike3 on July 27th, 2007
you suck
u do
New world order on September 11th, 2007
What absolute bullshit that it the worst list I’ve seen yet.
Gee I’ve wonder if you know who the beatles are?
Dont forget the rolling stones, U2, the doors, the police, nirvana, Hendrix, Springsteen I could go on forever i hadnt heard of half those people
you do really suck
oh and what’ll number one be … probably operator please - just a song about ping pong
Tom on September 11th, 2007
We’ll take it under consideration!!
Marcello Carlin on September 11th, 2007
“Ping Pong” by Stereolab? Hmm, I wouldn’t mind seeing that at the number one spot! “It was a bit unusual…but we all loved it!”
FT's Lena on September 11th, 2007
It’s the best upbeat song about the military-capitalistic cycle of wars and depressions ever!
“Operator (That’s Not The Way It Feels)” on the other hand, is a touching song and directly inspired Pavement’s “Trigger Cut,” which may be the only song with “fruit-covered nails” in it which has to count for something!
FT's Alan on September 11th, 2007
“the beatles”?? what a corny name. is there a “dis-chord-ants” band too???!?!11eleven
Marcello Carlin on September 11th, 2007
There was discordant Adam and the Ants.
FT's CarsmileSteve on September 20th, 2007
for those of you on the comments feed, HI DERE, 50-41 now added to the Top 100 songs (not the articles, obv, that’ll take til xmas at this rate (NB no guarantee of which xmas))
jeff w on September 21st, 2007
Out of curiousity, why are some songs listed in shouty text and some not?
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on September 21st, 2007
cz THE MAD STUNTMAN d00d! he’s like TOTALLY MAD
and will young is TOTALLY YOUNG and marvin gaye is TOTALLY etc
FT's CarsmileSteve on September 21st, 2007
there is a certain characteristic that the songs ALL IN CAPS share (although, at the moment, some of the ones not all in caps share it too!).
AJ on November 9th, 2007
spice girls 49 says it all utter crap
Pete on November 9th, 2007
I bet Ally wouldn’t agree AJ.
Tom on November 9th, 2007
ISTR I am meant to write #50 so will get to work on that.
Ronny on November 11th, 2007
You need more hip hop in there, too many cheesy pop songs, you need stuff like 2pac, Wu Tang Clan, Dr Dre, Biggy Smalls, NWA ect.
FT's CarsmileSteve on November 12th, 2007
without wishing to SPOILER the whole thing, there is rapping rly quite high up the chart…
Steve on November 13th, 2007
yeah, Rat-Rapping
Marcello Carlin on November 13th, 2007
Good job I remembered to ring a rang a dong for my holiday, really.
dd on December 12th, 2007
soljha boy tellem is conseable
BLEEP on January 4th, 2008
omg . CRAP list muchh!
Geir H on January 6th, 2008
Obviously way too much kid pop from the past 20 years. The kids have been wrong since the late 80s.
Al Ewing on January 6th, 2008
Did you yourself stop being a kid in the late 80s and if so, was that the exact moment when the kids started to be wrong?
Geir H on January 7th, 2008
I would say several things at the same time: hip-hop, house, hair metal getting really huge. But most of all Stock/Aitken/Waterman and New Kids On The Block creating the boy/girl band thing led to a lot of really bad things.
Al Ewing on January 7th, 2008
I’d pretty much disagree on everything except (much of) the hair metal, assuming those three ‘h’s are signs of decay rather than signs of being really great.
coolaery on January 8th, 2008
i made a link to ur page…. plz inform me if u guys have any problem.
BTW … howz my list:
http://coolaery.blogspot.com/2008/01/100-songs-maa-favorite.html
the bestest of all….
- catch ya….http://coolaery.blogspot.com
dad on January 9th, 2008
shit shit and shit, hang yourself gor this list
FT's Alan on January 9th, 2008
grandad more like, amirite?
Marcello Carlin on January 9th, 2008
If Grandad is at number one questions will be asked in someone’s house.
thom on January 15th, 2008
you actually have tatu in your top 100 songs ever? this might just be the worst list of its type ever compiled, now i dont think that selling lots of CDs= good but where is the beatles, rolling stones, stone roses, Marvin Gaye, Primal Scream, and thats just to name a few of the top of my head. But its ok the spice girls and take that make it…….appalling
a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit on January 15th, 2008
i’d visit perhaps for old time’s sake, but the top of yr head is probbly not somewhere i’d like to live
Liz on January 19th, 2008
Where’s Michael Jackson on this list? He revolutunized the music industry.
Jaymiee-lee on January 27th, 2008
this site is boring :|
add me on jaimee_93@hotmail.com xx
Marcello Carlin on January 28th, 2008
We’d rather add Robert Mugabe.
FT's admin on February 5th, 2008
doop bump
FT's CarsmileSteve on February 7th, 2008
when (??!?!??!), when we finally finish this we should totally play all 100 tracks, in order, at poptimism.
a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit on February 7th, 2008
100 times each
Marcello Carlin on February 8th, 2008
Or all 100 tracks at once
the hunkster on April 17th, 2008
lmao dude those songs r just the worst ever.g n r and some nirvana mixed with some clapton n queen n where getting sum where
patric van blerk on May 1st, 2008
Gary Glitter - it’s like he never happened? Notwithstanding his personal behaviour, Gary Glitter & producer Mike Leander made a string of the finest British pop singles ever made.
It was a ’sound’ as much as Spector’s ‘Wall of Sound’.
If I had to pick just one : the title, the groove, the glorious arrogance …’I Didn’t Know I Loved you (till I Saw You Rock ‘n Roll). Masterpiece pop!
Simon on May 10th, 2008
whoever put this list together has no idea about music
Miniman on May 14th, 2008
Dumb shit