Wednesday, July 25, 2012

NME's 100 Greatest Tracks Of Its Lifetime

'Boys Don't Cry' is #16 on NME's 100 Greatest Tracks Of Its Lifetime. Does anyone have the full list? Any other songs make it? (Thanks )

You can also vote for 'Boys Don't Cry' in the readers' poll.
Update (July 25th, 2012): 'Boys Don't Cry' finished 6th in the reader's poll.

4 comments:

  1. I've get 50
    1. Joy Division – 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
    2. Pulp – 'Common People'
    3. David Bowie – 'Heroes'
    4. The Beach Boys – 'Good Vibratons'
    5. New Order – 'Blue Monday'
    6. The Stone Roses – 'She Bangs The Drums'
    7. The Smiths – 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'
    8. The Specials – 'Ghost Town'
    9. Dizzee Rascal – 'Fix Up, Look Sharp'
    10. Oasis – 'Wonderwall'
    11. The Rolling Stones – 'Sympathy For The Devil'
    12. The Ronettes – 'Be My Baby'
    13. Michael Jackson – 'Billie Jean'
    14. Sex Pistols – 'God Save The Queen'
    15. The Beatles – 'A Day In The Life'
    16. The Cure – 'Boys Don't Cry'
    17. Bob Dylan – 'Like A Rolling Stone'
    18. The Beach Boys – 'God Only Knows'
    19. Madonna – 'Like A Prayer'
    20. The Stone Roses – 'I Am The Resurrection’
    21. Crazy in Love - Beyonce
    22. London Calling - The Clash
    23. Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
    24. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
    25. When Doves Cry - Prince
    26. She Loves You - The Beatles
    27. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
    28. Time for Heroes - The Libertines
    29. You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes
    30. All Along the Watchtower - Hendrix 31. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
    32. Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
    33. 99 Problems - Jay-z
    34. I Want You Back - Jackson 5
    35. Video Games - Lana Del Ray
    36. Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
    37. Live Forever - Oasis
    38. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
    39. Space Oddity - David Bowie
    40. How Soon Is Now - The Smiths
    41. Stand by Me - Ben E. King
    42 . Girls & Boys - Blur
    43. Paper Planes - MIA
    44. Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las
    45. Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
    46. Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones
    47. Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
    48. Rehab - Amy Winehouse
    49. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
    50. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

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  2. I remember Robert Smiths comment about the NME after Wild Mood Swings release - "Where were you when I needed you"?

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  3. about 50% of this is actually ok, not a bad ratio really!

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  4. Funny, NME didn't crack the top 100 music magazines of my lifetime.

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