http://entertainment.time.com/2011/1...turing-big-boi
Our critics pick the most extraordinary English-language pop recordings since the beginning of TIME magazine in 1923. Here are 100 (unranked) songs of enduring beauty, power and inventiveness
2010s
Janelle Monae - "Tightrope"
2000s
Missy Elliott - "Get Ur Freak On"
Outkast - "Hey Ya!"
Jay Z - "99 Problems"
Arcade Fire - "Wake Up"
Kanye West (featuring Jamie Foxx) - "Gold Digger"
Lil Wayne - "Georgia... Bush"
LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends"
Beyonce - "Single Ladies"
Lady Gaga - "Bad Romance"
1990s
Sinead O'Connor- "Nothing Compares 2 U"
Pet Shop Boys - "Being Boring"
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Richard Thompason - "1952 Vincent Blank Lightning"
Wu-Tang Clan - "C.R.E.A.M."
A Tribue Called Quest - "Scenario"
The Notorious B.I.G. - "Juicy"
2Pac- "California Love [Remix]"
Pulp - "Common People"
Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
1980s
Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
George Jones - "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"
New Order - "Blue Monday"
Prince - "Kiss"
Metallica - "Master of Puppets"
REM - "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
Lucinda Williams - "Pineola"
Public Enemy - "Fight the Power"
Madonna - "Borderline"
1970s
The Melodians - "Rivers of Babylon"
James Brown - "Sex Machine"
Led Zeppelin - "Immigrant Song"
Black Sabbath - "Iron Man"
Joni Mitchell - "A Case of You"
The Who - "Baba O'Riley"
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
Dolly Parton - "Jolene"
Big Star - "September Gurls"
Bonnie Raitt - "Angel from Montgomery"
Fela Kuti - "Zombie"
Bruce Springsteen - "Thunder Road"
Queen - "Boehemian Rhapsody"
Donna Summer - "I Feel Love"
Bee Gees - "Stayin' Alive"
David Bowie - "Heroes"
The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams"
Peter Tosh - "Equal Rights"
Parliament/Funkadelic - "One Nation Under a Groove"
Velvet Underground - "Rock & Roll"
Loretta Lynn - "Coal Miner's Daughter"
1960s
Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Patsy Cline - "Crazy"
Roy Orbison - "Crying"
The Ronettes - "Be My Baby"
The Beatles - "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
Astrud Gilberto - "The Girl from Ipanema"
The Supremes - "Where Did Our Love Go?"
The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
Aretha Franklin - "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)"
Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
The Band - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
Big Mama Thornton - "Ball 'n' Chain"
Jackson 5 - "I Want You Back"
The Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"
Crosby, Stills, and Nash - "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
Otis Redding - "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)"
1950s
Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"
Les Paul and Mary Ford - "How High the Moon"
Kitty Wells - "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"
Elvis Presley - "Jailhouse Rock"
Odetta - "Take This Hammer"
Little Richard - "Tutti Frutti"
Frank Sinatra - "I've Got You Under My Skin"
Buddy Holly - "That'll Be the Day"
Chuck Berry - "Johnny B. Goode"
Ray Charles - "What'd I Say"
1940s
Woody Guthrie - "This Land Is Your Land"
Lena Horne - "Stormy Weather"
The Andrews Sisters - "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"
Spike Jones - "Der Fuehrer's Face"
Bing Crosby - "White Christmas"
Betty Hutton - "It Had to Be You"
Mahalia Jackson - "Move On Up a Little Higher"
Hank Williams - "Cold, Cold Heart"
Ella Fitzgerald - "Baby It's Cold Outside"
Doris Day - "Sentimental Journey"
1930s
Ethel Merman - "I Got Rhythm"
Cab Calloway - "Minnie the Moocher"
Duke Ellington - "It Dont Mean A Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing)"
Louis Armstrong - "Star Dust"
Fred Astaire - "Check to Cheek"
Ray Heatherton - "Where or When"
Judy Garland - "Over the Rainbow"
Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit"
1920s
Al Jolson - "My Mammy"
Bessie Smith - "St. Louis Blues"
Paul Robeson - "Ol' Man River"
The Carter Family - "Wildwood Flower"
