Top 500 Classic Rock Songs of All Time
This Memorial Day Weekend, the Home of Rock and Roll conducted its annual countdown of the top 500 songs of all time. The countdown also coincided with the 45th anniversary of the first time WPDH signed on the air as a rock station in the Hudson Valley. This year's #1 pick caused quite a stir. Here's the full list for anyone who wants to see where their favorite song wound up on the ultimate list.
1. JOAN JETT - I Love Rock 'N Roll
2. QUEEN - Bohemian Rhapsody
3. PINK FLOYD - Another Brick In The Wall(Pt II)
4. LED ZEPPELIN - Black Dog
5. BON JOVI - Livin' On A Prayer
6. GUNS N' ROSES - Sweet Child O' Mine
7. LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Sweet Home Alabama
8. AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
9. BOSTON - More Than A Feeling
10. AEROSMITH - Sweet Emotion
11. SCORPIONS - Rock You Like A Hurricane
12. KANSAS - Carry On Wayward Son
13. VAN HALEN - Panama
14. WHITESNAKE - Here I Go Again
15. DEF LEPPARD - Pour Some Sugar On Me
16. JOURNEY - Don't Stop Believin'
17. RUSH - Tom Sawyer
18. BILLY IDOL - Rebel Yell
19. AEROSMITH - Dream On
20. QUEEN - We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions
21.. ZZ TOP - Sharp Dressed Man
22. HEART - Barracuda
23. TOM PETTY - I Won't Back Down
24. GUNS N' ROSES - Welcome To The Jungle
25. BLACK CROWES - Hard To Handle
26. AC/DC - Back In Black
27. PHIL COLLINS - In The Air Tonight
28. EAGLES - Hotel California
29. PINK FLOYD - Comfortably Numb
30. LED ZEPPELIN - Rock And Roll
31. OZZY OSBOURNE - "Mama, I'm Coming Home"
32. DEF LEPPARD - Photograph
33. LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Free Bird
34. SCORPIONS - No One Like You
35. BOSTON - Peace Of Mind
36. BLUE OYSTER CULT - Don't Fear The Reaper
37. VAN HALEN Jump
38. BON JOVI You Give Love A Bad Name
39. BILLY IDOL White Wedding
40 AEROSMITH Walk This Way
41. ROLLING STONES Start Me Up
42. QUEEN Another One Bites The Dust
43. AC/DC Highway To Hell
44. STEVE MILLER The Joker
45. TOM PETTY Free Fallin'
46. RUSH Limelight
47. JOURNEY Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
48. BON JOVI Wanted Dead Or Alive
49. LED ZEPPELIN Immigrant Song
50. ZZ TOP Gimme All Your Lovin
51. GUNS N' ROSES Paradise City
52. BRYAN ADAMS Summer Of '69
53. BOB SEGER Turn The Page (Live Bullet)
54. BLACK SABBATH Paranoid
55. PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here
56. CARS Just What I Needed
57. BILLY SQUIER The Stroke
58. HEART Crazy On You
59. PAT BENATAR Heartbreaker
60. AEROSMITH Rag Doll
61. JOHN C MELLENCAMP Jack & Diane
62. OZZY OSBOURNE Crazy Train
63. VAN HALEN Runnin' With The Devil
64. KISS Rock And Roll All Nite (Live)
65. JIMI HENDRIX All Along The Watchtower
66. LED ZEPPELIN Over The Hills And Far Away
67. CHEAP TRICK I Want You To Want Me (Live)
68. AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
69. TOM PETTY Runnin' Down A Dream
70. BLUE OYSTER CULT Burnin' For You
71. QUEEN/DAVID BOWIE Under Pressure
72. EDDIE MONEY Take Me Home Tonight
73 ROLLING STONES Beast Of Burden
74. JOURNEY Any Way You Want It
75. FOGHAT Slow Ride
76. POLICE Roxanne
77. STEVE MILLER Rock'N Me
78. EAGLES Life in the Fast Lane
79. DEF LEPPARD Animal
80. WHO Who Are You
81. ZZ TOP Legs
82. GEORGE THOROGOOD Bad To The Bone
83. HEART Magic Man
84. PINK FLOYD Hey You
85. MOTLEY CRUE "Girls, Girls, Girls"
86. AEROSMITH Come Together
87. VAN HALEN Eruption/You Really Got Me
88. BAD COMPANY Feel Like Makin' Love
89. LED ZEPPELIN Ramble On
90. STYX Renegade
91 YES Owner Of A Lonely Heart
92. THIN LIZZY The Boys Are Back In Town
93 DIRE STRAITS Money For Nothing
94 JOURNEY Wheel In The Sky
95 AC/DC T.N.T.
96 FOREIGNER Juke Box Hero
97 TOM PETTY Refugee
98 PAT BENATAR Hit Me With Your Best Shot
99 ROLLING STONES "Paint It, Black"
100 QUEEN Fat Bottomed Girls
101 STEVIE NICKS Edge Of Seventeen
102 J. GEILS BAND Centerfold
103 38 SPECIAL Hold On Loosely
104 PINK FLOYD Young Lust
105 DEF LEPPARD Rock Of Ages
106 WHO Baba O'Riley
107 MOTLEY CRUE Kickstart My Heart
108 BILLY SQUIER Lonely Is The Night
109 FLEETWOOD MAC Go Your Own Way
110 VAN HALEN Intruder/Pretty Woman
111 GUNS N' ROSES Live And Let Die
112 LED ZEPPELIN Kashmir
113 DOORS Break On Through
114 JOHN C MELLENCAMP Small Town
115 ZZ TOP La Grange
116 FOREIGNER Cold As Ice
117 AC/DC Hells Bells
118 CLASH Should I Stay Or Should I Go
119 U2 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
120 BAD COMPANY Bad Company
121 ROLLING STONES Miss You
122 STEVE MILLER Take The Money And Run
123 PINK FLOYD Money
124 DON HENLEY Boys Of Summer
125 JOAN JETT I Hate Myself For Loving You
126 TOM PETTY Mary Jane's Last Dance
127 LYNYRD SKYNYRD Simple Man
128 AEROSMITH Dude (Looks Like A Lady)
129 DEF LEPPARD Foolin'
130 EDDIE MONEY Two Tickets To Paradise
131 LED ZEPPELIN Whole Lotta Love
132 ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Don't Bring Me Down
133 DEEP PURPLE Smoke On The Water
134 DIRE STRAITS Sultans Of Swing
135 GOLDEN EARRING Twilight Zone
136 FOREIGNER Hot Blooded
137 QUEEN Killer Queen
138 VAN HALEN Jamie's Cryin'
139 BAD COMPANY Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy
140 ZZ TOP Tush
141 JIMI HENDRIX Purple Haze
142 BON JOVI Bad Medicine
143 AC/DC Thunderstruck
144 BLACK SABBATH Iron Man
145 POISON Nothin' But A Good Time
146 ROLLING STONES (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
147 WHO Behind Blue Eyes
148 LYNYRD SKYNYRD What's Your Name
149 PINK FLOYD Brain Damage/Eclipse
150 BOB SEGER Old Time Rock & Roll
151 STEVE MILLER Threshold/Jet Airliner
152 EAGLES Take It Easy
153 AEROSMITH Janie's Got A Gun
154 LED ZEPPELIN Stairway To Heaven
155 TOM PETTY American Girl
156 POLICE Message In A Bottle
157 GUNS N' ROSES Knockin' On Heaven's Door
158 MOTLEY CRUE Home Sweet Home
159 RUSH Freewill
160 38 SPECIAL Caught Up In You
161 TOTO Hold The Line
162 CARS Good Times Roll
163 DEF LEPPARD Love Bites
164 MANFRED MANN Blinded By The Light
165 FREE All Right Now
166 U2 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
167 JOHN C MELLENCAMP Hurts So Good
168 AEROSMITH What It Takes
169 ERIC CLAPTON Cocaine
170 STYX Come Sail Away
171 VAN HALEN Hot For Teacher
172 LED ZEPPELIN The Ocean
173 ROLLING STONES Sympathy For The Devil
174 PAT BENATAR Love Is A Battlefield
175 TOM PETTY Don't Do Me Like That
176 AC/DC Moneytalks
177 BON JOVI Runaway
178 FOREIGNER Double Vision
179 PINK FLOYD Time
180 CLASH Rock The Casbah
181 EAGLES Already Gone
182 BILLY SQUIER Everybody Wants You
183 STEVE MILLER Fly Like An Eagle
184 CARS Let's Go
185 LYNYRD SKYNYRD Gimme Three Steps
186 BOSTON Rock & Roll Band
187 OZZY OSBOURNE Flying High Again
188 QUEEN Somebody To Love
189 DEF LEPPARD Bringin' On The Heartbreak
190 DOORS People Are Strange
191 FLEETWOOD MAC The Chain
192 JIMI HENDRIX Foxey Lady
193 JOURNEY Lights
194 LED ZEPPELIN D'Yer Mak'er
195 RUSH The Spirit Of Radio
196 RATT Round And Round
197 AC/DC For Those About To Rock
198 AEROSMITH Love In An Elevator
199 BLACK CROWES She Talks To Angels
200 MOTLEY CRUE Dr. Feelgood
201 POISON Every Rose Has Its Thorn
202 POLICE Don't Stand So Close To Me
203 PAUL MCCARTNEY Live And Let Die
204 VAN HALEN Dance The Night Away
205 BOB SEGER Night Moves
206 GUESS WHO American Woman
207 GUNS N' ROSES Patience
208 TOM PETTY You Got Lucky
209 ROLLING STONES Gimme Shelter
210 QUEEN Crazy Little Thing Called Love
211 STEPPENWOLF Magic Carpet Ride
212 BILLY IDOL Dancing With Myself
213 QUIET RIOT Cum On Feel The Noize
214 SUPERTRAMP Give A Little Bit
215 LOVERBOY Working For The Weekend
216 ZZ TOP Cheap Sunglasses
217 BOSTON Foreplay/Long Time
218 FLEETWOOD MAC Dreams
219 CARS My Best Friend's Girl
220 PINK FLOYD Run Like Hell
221 ROMANTICS What I Like About You
222 DEF LEPPARD Armageddon It
223 KANSAS Dust In The Wind
224 JOE WALSH Life's Been Good
225 CHEAP TRICK Surrender (Live)
226 BRYAN ADAMS Run To You
227 REO SPEEDWAGON Take It On The Run
228 LED ZEPPELIN Fool In The Rain
229 U2 With Or Without You
230 TOM PETTY Don't Come Around Here No More
231 VAN HALEN Ain't Talkin 'Bout Love
232 AEROSMITH The Other Side
233 GEORGIA SATELLITES Keep Your Hands To Yourself
234 OZZY OSBOURNE No More Tears
235 AC/DC Shoot To Thrill
236 FOREIGNER Feels Like The First Time
237 JIMI HENDRIX Fire
238 DEREK & THE DOMINOS Layla
239 DOORS Roadhouse Blues
240 RED RIDER Lunatic Fringe
241 JOHN C MELLENCAMP Pink Houses
242 POLICE Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
243 NAZARETH Hair Of The Dog
244 JUDAS PRIEST You've Got Another Thing Comin
245 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born In The U.S.A.
246 ROLLING STONES You Can't Always Get What You Want
247 BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
248 LED ZEPPELIN Hey Hey What Can I Do
249 PINK FLOYD Learning To Fly
250 TESLA Signs
251 GOLDEN EARRING Radar Love
252 BLACK SABBATH War Pigs
253 TOM PETTY Breakdown
254 AEROSMITH Livin' On The Edge
255 FOO FIGHTERS Learn to Fly
256 BOSTON Don't Look Back
257 DEF LEPPARD Rocket
258 FOREIGNER Urgent
259 SCORPIONS Wind Of Change
260 VAN HALEN I'll Wait
261 JOURNEY "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'"
262 WHO Won't Get Fooled Again
263 CARS You Might Think
264 REO SPEEDWAGON Keep On Loving You
265 JOE WALSH Rocky Mountain Way
266 TALKING HEADS Burning Down The House
267 EDDIE MONEY Baby Hold On
268 BAD COMPANY Shooting Star
269 DOORS "Hello, I Love You"
270 BEATLES Come Together
271 OZZY OSBOURNE Shot In The Dark
272 NIRVANA Come As You Are
273 TWISTED SISTER We're Not Gonna Take It
274 LED ZEPPELIN All My Love
275 AC/DC Have A Drink On Me
276 ROLLING STONES It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)
277 AEROSMITH Back In The Saddle
278 EAGLES Heartache Tonight
279 CREAM White Room
280 GEORGE THOROGOOD I Drink Alone
281 ASIA Heat Of The Moment
282 U2 New Year's Day
283 CARS Shake It Up
284 STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Pride And Joy
285 SIMPLE MINDS Don't You Forget About Me
286 TOM PETTY The Waiting
287 BOB SEGER Hollywood Nights
288 LYNYRD SKYNYRD Call Me The Breeze
289 SKID ROW 18 And Life
290 NIGHT RANGER Sister Christian
291 QUEEN You're My Best Friend
292 AC/DC It's A Long Way To The Top...
293 STYX Too Much Time On My Hands
294 VAN HALEN Right Now
295 BOSTON Smokin'
296 BAD COMPANY Can't Get Enough
297 ELTON JOHN Bennie And The Jets
298 DON HENLEY Dirty Laundry
299 NEIL YOUNG Rockin' In The Free World
300 DEF LEPPARD Hysteria
301 SAMMY HAGAR I Can't Drive 55
302 AEROSMITH Angel
303 JIMI HENDRIX Hey Joe
304 ROLLING STONES Jumpin' Jack Flash
305 OZZY OSBOURNE Bark At The Moon
306 LED ZEPPELIN Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid
307 WHO Pinball Wizard
308 DOOBIE BROTHERS Black Water
309 DOORS Riders On The Storm
310 STEPPENWOLF Born To Be Wild
311 GEORGE THOROGOOD Who Do You Love
312 TOM PETTY You Don't Know How It Feels
313 JUDAS PRIEST Living After Midnight
314 EDDIE MONEY Shakin'
315 PAUL MCCARTNEY Maybe I'm Amazed (Live)
316 MARSHALL TUCKER BAND Can't You See
317 U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday
318 BILLY IDOL Mony Mony
319 RUSH Closer To The Heart
320 RAM JAM Black Betty
321 EDGAR WINTER Free Ride
322 GREAT WHITE Once Bitten Twice Shy
323 JOURNEY Stone In Love
324 FLEETWOOD MAC Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)
325 STEVE MILLER Jungle Love
326 VAN HALEN Why Can't This Be Love
327 SUPERTRAMP The Logical Song
328 BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE Takin' Care Of Business
329 ROBERT PALMER Addicted To Love
330 BILLY SQUIER My Kinda Lover
331 GRAND FUNK We're An American Band
332 LED ZEPPELIN What Is And What Should Never Be
333 NAZARETH Love Hurts
334 KISS Detroit Rock City
335 STYX Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
336 EAGLES The Long Run
337 DOORS Touch Me
338 PETER FRAMPTON Show Me The Way (Live)
339 REO SPEEDWAGON Roll With The Changes
340 ROLLING STONES Honky Tonk Women
341 PETE TOWNSHEND Let My Love Open The Door
342 TOM PETTY Learning To Fly
343 AEROSMITH Same Old Song And Dance
344 FOREIGNER Head Games
345 ELTON JOHN Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
346 AC/DC Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution
347 JOHN C MELLENCAMP Authority Song
348 WHITESNAKE Still Of The Night
349 MOUNTAIN Mississippi Queen
350 PINK FLOYD Have A Cigar
351 DOOBIE BROTHERS Listen To The Music
352 DEF LEPPARD Too Late For Love
353 DAVID BOWIE Fame
354 ALICE COOPER School's Out
355 SANTANA Black Magic Woman
356 LED ZEPPELIN Going To California
357 PHIL COLLINS I Don't Care Anymore
358 RUSH Fly By Night
359 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born To Run
360 VAN HALEN And The Cradle Will Rock...
361 METALLICA Nothing Else Matters
362 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Have You Ever Seen The Rain
363 MOTLEY CRUE Smokin' In The Boys Room
364 ROLLING STONES Brown Sugar
365 STEVE MILLER Swingtown
366 R.E.M. The One I Love
367 TOM PETTY You Wreck Me
368 U2 Mysterious Ways
369 CARS Bye Bye Love
370 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Under the Bridge
371 RICK DERRINGER "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo"
372 OZZY OSBOURNE Over The Mountain
373 EAGLES One Of These Nights
374 BOB SEGER Rock And Roll Never Forgets
375 GUNS N' ROSES November Rain
376 LED ZEPPELIN Misty Mountain Hop
377 WARREN ZEVON Werewolves Of London
378 BEATLES Revolution
379 PETER GABRIEL Sledgehammer
380 METALLICA The Unforgiven
381 DIO Rainbow In The Dark
382 ZZ TOP Got Me Under Pressure
383 ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Ramblin' Man
384 T REX Bang A Gong (Get It On)
385 VAN HALEN Dreams
386 DAVID BOWIE Changes
387 DOOBIE BROTHERS Long Train Runnin'
388 DOORS Love Her Madly
389 ROLLING STONES Shattered
390 WHO My Generation
391 MOLLY HATCHET Flirtin' With Disaster
392 PINK FLOYD Speak To Me/Breathe
393 ROBERT PALMER Bad Case Of Loving You
394 STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Interstate Love Song
395 JOHN C MELLENCAMP I Need A Lover
396 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Glory Days
397 KINKS Lola
398 JOAN JETT Bad Reputation
399 HEART Straight On
400 STEVE MILLER Abracadabra
401 OUTFIELD Your Love
402 ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Evil Woman
403 TWISTED SISTER I Wanna Rock
404 BOSTON Feelin' Satisfied
405 GENESIS That's All
406 TOM PETTY Into The Great Wide Open
407 WHITESNAKE Is This Love
408 BOB SEGER Her Strut
409 LED ZEPPELIN Houses Of The Holy
410 STYX Fooling Yourself (The Angry Man)
411 PETER FRAMPTON "Baby, I Love Your Way (Live)"
412 POLICE Every Breath You Take
413 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Fortunate Son
414 CARS You're All I've Got Tonight
415 REO SPEEDWAGON Time For Me To Fly
416 VAN HALEN Finish What Ya Started
417 SKID ROW I Remember You
418 DOOBIE BROTHERS China Grove
419 JOE WALSH All Night Long
420 ERIC CLAPTON I Shot The Sheriff
421 FOO FIGHTERS My Hero
422 PAUL MCCARTNEY Band On The Run
423 DAVID BOWIE Space Oddity
424 ROLLING STONES She's So Cold
425 DIRE STRAITS Walk Of Life
426 AC/DC Who Made Who
427 KANSAS Point Of Know Return
428 U2 Where The Streets Have No Name
429 SUPERTRAMP Goodbye Stranger
430 WHO You Better You Bet
431 LED ZEPPELIN Good Times Bad Times
432 LYNYRD SKYNYRD Saturday Night Special
433 STEVIE NICKS Stand Back
434 TOM PETTY Here Comes My Girl
435 BOSTON Something About You
436 ALICE COOPER No More Mr Nice Guy
437 TESLA Love Song
438 DAVID ESSEX Rock On
439 DOORS Light My Fire
440 GUNS N' ROSES Mr. Brownstone
441 JOURNEY Who's Crying Now
442 POLICE Synchronicity II
443 BOB SEGER Fire Down Below
444 DOORS L.A. Woman
445 VAN HALEN Unchained
446 JOHN C MELLENCAMP Crumblin' Down
447 PEARL JAM Alive
448 ROLLING STONES Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo...
449 GREG KIHN Breakup Song
450 ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Do Ya
451 PINK FLOYD Us & Them
452 DAVID BOWIE Let's Dance
453 FOREIGNER "Long, Long Way From Home"
454 TALKING HEADS Once In A Lifetime
455 FLEETWOOD MAC You Make Loving Fun
456 LED ZEPPELIN Dancing Days
457 TED NUGENT Cat Scratch Fever
458 BLACK CROWES Twice As Hard
459 ROD STEWART Maggie May
460 SAMMY HAGAR There's Only One Way To Rock
461 VAN HALEN Dancing In The Street
462 RUSH Subdivisions
463 AC/DC Girls Got Rhythm
464 STEELY DAN Do It Again
465 OZZY OSBOURNE I Don't Know
466 BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE Let It Ride
467 R.E.M. Losing My Religion
468 EDGAR WINTER Frankenstein
469 GEORGE THOROGOOD "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"
470 LYNYRD SKYNYRD That Smell
471 JOHN CAFFERTY On The Dark Side
472 EDDIE MONEY Think I'm In Love
473 BOB SEGER Mainstreet
474 SUPERTRAMP Take The Long Way Home
475 GENESIS Land Of Confusion
476 GRAND FUNK Some Kind Of Wonderful
477 ELTON JOHN Rocket Man
478 GUNS N' ROSES Civil War
479 SANTANA Evil Ways
480 BILLY IDOL Cradle Of Love
481 WHO Eminence Front
482 BAD COMPANY Ready For Love
483 FOREIGNER "Blue Morning, Blue Day"
484 BILLY SQUIER In The Dark
485 LOVERBOY Turn Me Loose
486 AEROSMITH Train Kept A-Rollin'
487 NIRVANA Smells Like Teen Spirit
488 LED ZEPPELIN Trampled Under Foot
489 REO SPEEDWAGON Ridin' The Storm Out (Live)
490 STEVIE NICKS/TOM PETTY Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
491 GRATEFUL DEAD Touch Of Grey
492 U2 Desire
493 STYX The Grand Illusion
494 38 SPECIAL Rockin' Into The Night
495 LYNYRD SKYNYRD Tuesday's Gone
496 POLICE Wrapped Around Your Finger
497 DAVID BOWIE Modern Love
498 AC/DC Shot Down In Flames
499 J. GEILS BAND Freeze-Frame
500 JAMES GANG Funk #49