Hi. I'd like to use these forums to compile a list of the 100 greatest songs of all time, spanning genres. You guys propose songs with arguments as to why they're so great (influence, sales, musical complexity etc.) and I'll create the master list. Below will be the current draft, which i'll try to update frequently. Try to edit this list by suggesting new songs, or trying to kick other songs out of their spot.

Rules:
1. Any song can be added to the list (this includes rap, etc.).
2. Covers of Songs can be included (i.e. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix [A cover of the Bob Dylan song])
3. Don't dispute a song's credibility without listening to it a few times, even if you hate that particular band/artist.
4. By the same token, don't suggest a song without being familiar.
5. When suggesting a song, provide a link. Links will be added to the list.

THE LIST (Always subject to change)

1. A Day In the Life - The Beatles
2. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
3. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
4. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
5. Time - Pink Floyd
6. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
7. With Or Without You - U2
8. Heroin - The Velvet Underground
9. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
10. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkle
11. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
12. One - U2
13. Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
14. London Calling - The Clash
15. Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
16. Baba O'Riley - The Who
17. Life on Mars? - David Bowie
18. Sympathy For the Devil - The Rolling Stones
19. Every Breath You Take - The Police
20. You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
21. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
22. My Generation - The Who
23. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
24. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
25. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
26. Somebody To Love - Queen
27. Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
28. Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie
29. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
30. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
31. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
32. Redemption Song - Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer
33. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
34. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
35. That's Entertainment - The Jam
36. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
37. Stan - Eminem
38. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
39. There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths
40. Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
41. Nightswimming - R.E.M.
42. Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
43. Pride (In The Name of Love) - U2
44. And It Stoned Me - Van Morrison
45. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
46. Echoes - Pink Floyd
47. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
48. My Way - Frank Sinatra
49. I Feel Good - James Brown
50. 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
51. Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
52. Hello Goodbye - The Beatles
53. For What It's Worth - The Buffalo Springfield
54. Shine A Light - The Rolling Stones
55. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
56. The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
57. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
58. Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
59. Hotel California - The Eagles
60. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
61. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
62. Space Oddity - David Bowie
63. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
64. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
65. American Pie - Don McLean
66. Have You Ever Seen the Rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revival
67. Respect - Aretha Franklin
68. Jeremy - Pearl Jam
69. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
70. The River - Bruce Springsteen
71. Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
72. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
73. Hurt - Nine In Nails
75. Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
76. Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
77. Light My Fire - The Doors
78. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
79. Washington Bullets - The Clash
80. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
81. Nuthin' But a 'G Thang - Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg
82. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
83. Rapper's Delight - The Sugarhill Gang
84. Just the Way You Are - Billy Joel
85. Hit the Road, Jack - Ray Charles
86. Man In The Box - Alice in Chains
87. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughn
88. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
89. Do You Feel Like We Do (Live) - Peter Frampton
90. Today - Smashing Pumpkins
91. Under The Bridge - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
92. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
93. Search and Destroy - Iggy Pop and the Stooges
94. Walk This Way - Run-DMC Feat. Aerosmith
95. Misirlou - Dick Dale & The Del-Tones
96. Holiday in Cambodia - The Dead Kennedy's.
97. Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
98. When Doves Cry - Prince
99. Fight The Power - Public Enemy
100. No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley

nice list,I havent heard the first song but if its first then it must be good ill hear it sometime.Patience and November rain guns and roses:I would like it to be added to the list,its an influental song for me,and it rocks hear it and I hope you will put it on the list

little wing is sooo much better than that - in musical complexity and sheer beauty.

much as i love metallica, one isn't even nearly top 100 material. bob marley did Redemption song better, and i'm gonna complain abrasively until muse's hysteria, voodoo chile (hendrix), and "cocaine" (clapton) get a mention.

some good stuff in there, though ;)

Thanks a lot for the input guys.

@William: Definitely check out A Day in the Life. Fantastic song. As for your suggestions, i have to say no. Yes, November Rain's a good song (i own it, and have heard it). Unfortunately, it is often subject to ridicule for being a "Stairway Wannabe". Those people are... kinda right. Sorry.

@Harl: Good points all around. I disagree about Redemption Song, however. Johnny and Joe's cover is perhaps the second greatest cover of all time. Being at the very near end of both their lives and careers, they sing with such emotion that it's hard not to give them credit. Props to Marley though. I'm gonna remove One, but keep Master of Puppets where it is. As for Little Wing, I really wish I could place it higher but it is simply too short. It almost seems unfinished, actually. Musical complexity aside, if Hendrix had just added a little more laterally rather than piling up guitars over the one track, etc. (or in addition to that) it would be near perfect. Unfortunately he didn't ._.

Cocaine: Good song, and often overshadowed by Layla, Sunshine of Your Love, White Room, etc. I'll think about it.

Hysteria: I have to listen to a little more Muse. It's just that I doubt how profoundly important this one song is. They seem like more of an album band (see Radiohead). However, Paranoid Android was a good enough song that it made the list. Again, I'll think about it.

And too much Hendrix. If I was to put another Hendrix song in, it would be Castles Made of Sand or If Six Was Nine

little wing is very nice,but november rain is just genius,beats little wing in every thing and especially vocals.

That's where you're totally wrong. In fact, with better vocals, November rain *might* deserve a spot here. Axl Rose is THE worst vocalist I have heard. Jimi Hendrix, on the other hand, has a beautiful voice.

well everybody ha his opinion and I respect it peace

Too much U2 and R.E.M

I suggest:
OMD - Enola Gay
Replace Eminem's - Stan (WTF EMINEM!??!?) with Public Enemy - Bring the noise OR N.W.A - Straight outta Compton
The Smiths deserves atleast one spot
You have 2 songs by Metallica and none by Black Sabbath = FAIL
Atleast one country song please. I suggest something by Lefty Frizzell

you messed up
i think 82 and 98 should be Through with you and Wont go home without you by Maroon 5
respectively.
heres the links to their videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gskuP-8dtSU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siZCsUFpva4
the through with you one doesnt have a video but audio is still there!

yellow submarine by the beatles Pwns all these songs anyway
add Yesterday by Paul McCartney also