BMI's top 100 songs of all time!

[CheekyShepherd]

What do you guys think??

1) You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Mann/Spector/Weil
2) Never My Love - Addrisi/Addrisi
3) Yesterday - Lennon/McCartney
4) Stand By Me - King/Leiber/Stoller
5) Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You - Crewe/Gaudio
6) Sitting On The Dock of the Bay - Cropper/Redding
7) Mrs. Robinson - Simon
8) Baby, I Need Your Loving - Dozier/Holland/Holland
9) Rhythm Of The Rain - Gummoe
10) Georgia On My Mind - Carmichael/Gorrell
11) Killing Me Softly With His Song - Fox/Gimbel
12) More - Ciorciolini/Newell/Oliviero/Ortolani
13) Will Always Love You - Parton
14) When A Man Loves A Woman - Lewis/Wright
15) Every Breath You Take - Sting
16) Gentle On My Mind - Hartford
17) Something - Harrison
18) Sounds Of Silence - Simon
19) Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon
20) By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Webb
21) Angel Of The Morning - Taylor
22) Cherish - Kirkman
23) You Can't Hurry Love - Dozier/Holland/Holland
24) Proud Mary - Fogerty
25) Sunny - Hebb
26) Oh Pretty Woman - Dees/Orbison
27) Everybody's Talkin' - Neil
28) I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Strong/Whitfield
29) Goin' Out Of My Head - Randazzo/Weinstein
30) Suspicious Minds - James
31) Scarborough Fair - Garfunkel/Simon
32) Traces - Buie/Cobb/Gordy, Jr.
33) All I Have To Do Is Dream - Bryant
34) Only You - Rand/Ram
35) Canadian Sunset - Gimbel/Heywood
36) Oh Girl - Record
37) Your Song - John/Taupin
38) How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) - Dozier/Holland/Holland
39) (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher & Higher - Jackson/Miner/Smith
40) I Can't Stop Loving You - Gibson
41) Wind Beneath My Wings - Henley/Silbar
42) Michelle - Lennon/McCartney
43) Up, Up and Away - Webb
44) Happy Together - Bonner/Gordon
45) On Broadway - Leiber/Mann/Stoller/Weil
46) Twilight Time - Nevins/Nevins/Ram
47) Strangers in the Night - Kaempfert/Singleton/Snyder
48) Breaking Up Is Hard to Do - Greenfield/Sedaka
49) Save the Last Dance for Me - Pomus/Shuman
50) For the Good Times - Kristofferson
51) We've Only Just Begun - Nichols/Williams
52) What a Wonderful World - Adler/Alpert/Cooke
53) Snowbird - MacLellan
54) Everlasting Love - Cason/Gayden
55) My Special Angel - Duncan
56) The Most Beautiful Girl - Bourke/Sherrill/Wilson
57) Brown Eyed Girl - Morrison
58) Girl From Ipanema - DeMoraes/Gimbel/Jobim
59) My Cherie Amour - Moy/Cosby/ Wonder
60) Always on My Mind - Carson/Christopher/James
61) Windy - Friedman
62) If You Don't Know Me By Now - Gamble/Huff
63) Margaritaville - Buffett
64) Spanish Eyes - Kaempfert/Singleton/Snyder
65) Daydream Believer - Stewart
66) Daniel - John/Taupin
67) Take It Easy - Frey/Browne
68) Let Your Love Flow - Williams
69) The Rose - McBroom
70) The Heart of the Matter - Henley/Souther/Campbell
71) Don't Be Cruel - Blackwell/Presley
72) Listen to the Music - Johnston
73) A Groovy Kind of Love - Bayer-Sager/Wine
74) Crying - Melson/Orbison
75) Put A Little Love In Your Heart - DeShannon/Holiday/Myers
76) Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me - John/Taupin
77) Help Me Make It Through the Night - Kristofferson
78) Best of My Love - Frey/Henley/Souther
79) The Letter - Carson
80) Dreams - Nicks
81) Mr. Bojangles - Walker
82) Fire and Rain - Taylor
83) Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Loudermilk
84) Hooked on a Feeling - James
85) Blue Bayou - Melson/Orbison
86) Born Free - Barry/Black
87) Release Me - Miller/Williams/Yount
88) It's Just a Matter of Time - Benton/Hendricks/Otis
89) Let It Be - Lennon/McCartney
90) I'd Really Love to See You Tonight - McGee
91) (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Jagger/Richards
92) Up on the Roof - Goffin/King
93) Layla - Clapton/Gordon
94) I Honestly Love You - Allen/Barry
95) California Girls - Love/Wilson
96) Imagine - Lennon
97) You Send Me - Cooke
98) How Deep Is Your Love - Gibb/Gibb/Gibb
99) I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - South
100) Sometimes When We Touch - Hill

[Grebdron]

Nothing that would offend anybody. Sure, they're good songs (most of them) but they could have little variety. Easy listening is not the only music.

[BubbaStrangelove]

oh that list fucking sucks. no offense to BMI, but I'm damn sure expecting them to put out an oldies compilation CD, and using this as a platform.


1st off - there are nearly no songs listed after 1976

2nd - Are my eyes decieving me a fucking Monkees song out ranking John Lennon's Imagine?


3rd - what are they going by? Best? Says who? Obviously not Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees, U2, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Sarah McLaughlin, Peter Gabriel, Roy Rogers, Lionel Ritchie, or Tina Turner.


4th - "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"? Huh? Why? Because a bunch of guys in uniform sang it in a Tony Scott movie. Fuck that!

5th - Have these dipshits at BMI ever heard of rap, funk, hard rock, country, or any other genre that doesn't involve fucking movies that have flashbacks to a time where you buy a candy bar for a nickle?


6th - Hey, Paul Simon, James Taylor, and The Beatles weren't the only great song writtters out there


7th - No AMERICAN PIE?

8th - No WE ARE THE WORLD?

9th - BMI sucks!

[asyouwish530]

What kind of list...? An obvious unfair and biased list this is. Too of-the-era oriented. I hate how they always seem to base these figures off averages of votes. Some good songs, but failing to recognize many more great or even better ones. And how can this be the top 100 of all time ? Last I checked time was not yet over with...:D come on BMI!

[Morgana]

A lot of great songs on that list, but about the only song that has any edge to it is the Rolling Stones one. If these songs were all on one album, I'd quickly fall asleep listening to it.

[BubbaStrangelove]

Originally posted by Morgana
the only song that has any edge to it is the Rolling Stones one.


and even that one ranks under the Monkees song




And sorry folks to keep hogging this topic, but I cannot express to you the sincere rage which this list has instilled in me. I can only hope that I am being the victim of some crazy hidden camera joke. That would be great right now, because that list is awful!



Anyway - asyouwish really brought forth another level of suckiness to this whole thing


Greatest Songs Of All Time....

No Bach, Mozart, or Bethoven. Not even any traditional folk, or inspirational gosspel.


This list is a fu... It's a wedding album, nothing more!

[Morgana]

For your sake and health Bubba, I won't start a thread on the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame, and all the great bands that were never inducted. ;)

[Grebdron]

I basically agree with you Bubba. But I just laugh at them. There really is no way to come up with a good list. It's presumptuous of them to even try. And they failed miserably.

Like you said, where's American Pie? And as much as I dislike him now, Cat Stevens should have something on there. Jim Croce, Buddy Holly, James Taylor, classical artists...too many to even think of.

[charliebobo]

7) Mrs. Robinson - Simon
18) Sounds Of Silence - Simon
19) Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon
31) Scarborough Fair - Garfunkel/Simon

The list pretty much sucks BUT seeing 4 Simon & Garfunkel songs in the top 40 is really cool, although Mrs.Robinson is hardly their best one. The Boxer is much better

[CheekyShepherd]

I agree with everyone:

BMI'S LIST SUCKS NUTS!!!!!

[docholiday_13]

That song list gives me menstraul cramps..............and I'm a guy.

[POLYDISTORTION]

CheekyShepherd...do u guys only recive AM radio in the uk?

bmi are the same copyright im think of it? mmmmm