The greatest music acts of all time

Magical mystery tour (3, US version); Rubber soul (50); Revolver (92)

Songs: A day in the life; I am the walrus; Hey Jude; Across the universe; Real love; You've got to hide your love away; Magical mystery tour; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Birthday; It won't be long

Back in black (1); T.N.T. (18); Razors edge (36); Highway to Hell (76); Dirty deeds done dirt cheap (88)

Songs: Hells bells; High voltage; Back in black; T.N.T.; Who made who; Dirty deeds done dirt cheap; Highway to Hell; Money talks; D.T.; War machine; Big balls

Arrival (5); ABBA (20)

Songs: S.O.S.; Chiquitita; Name of the game; Mamma mia; Honey honey; When I kissed the teacher; Knowing me knowing you; Tropical loveland; Rock me; Dum dum diddle

Frida (solo): I know there's something going on Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus: One night in Bangkok

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 (2); Diesel and dust (4); Red sails in the sunset (56); Blue Sky Mining/Bird noises (EP)

Songs: Dreamworld; Power and the passion; U.S. forces; Short memory; Read about it; Beds are burning; Blue Sky Mine; Best of both worlds; Put down that weapon; Sleep; Wedding Cake Island

Listen like thieves (19); Kick (21)

Songs: Never tear us apart; Kiss the dirt (falling down the mountain); Good times; What you need; Guns in the sky; Taste it; The one thing; Disappear; Listen like thieves; Shine like it does; Afterglow

Max Q (Michael Hutchence side project) - Way of the world

Songs: Spicks and specks; Grease; You win again; Stayin' alive; Lonely days; Night fever; More than a woman; Guilty; Love you inside out; Emotion; How deep is your love

Robin Gibb (solo): Juliet

Songs: Mysterious ways; Numb; Gloria; New Year's Day; One; Hold me. thrill me, kiss me, kill me; Beautiful day; Vertigo; City of blinding lights; Elevation

Songs: Gimme shelter; Jumpin' Jack Flash; The last time; Let's spend the night together; Out of time; It's only rock'n'roll (but I like it); Start me up; Harlem shuffle; Stupid girl; She's like a rainbow

The Nylon Curtain (16); Glass houses (26); An innocent man; 52nd Street

Songs: Allentown; Pressure; Goodnight Saigon; She's always a woman; Big shot; It's still rock and roll to me; Say goodbye to Hollywood; Uptown girl; We didn't start the fire; All for Leyna

Californication (7)/Blood sugar sex magik; One hot minute

Songs: Around the world; My friends; Under the bridge; Breaking the girl; Give it away; Californication; Suck my kiss; Aeroplane; Can't stop; Emit remmus

Pet sounds (39)

Songs: Do it again; Sloop John B; Good vibrations; I get around; Help me Rhonda; Surfin' safari; Fun, fun, fun; Barbara Ann; California girls; Surfin' USA

ReLoad (28); Master of puppets (29); Metallica (53)/Kill 'em all

Songs: Fade to black; The memory remains; Enter sandman; The unforgiven; Welcome home (sanitarium); Unforgiven II; So what?; Orion; Where the wild things are; Better than you; Low man's lyric

Surfer Rosa + Come on pilgrim (EP)(43); Doolittle (81)

Songs: Monkey gone to Heaven; River Euphrates; The happening; Where is my mind?; Tame; Down to the well (Pixies at the BBC version); I bleed; I've been tired; Broken face; Gigantic

Goodbye yellow brick road (40); Too low for zero

Songs: Benny and The Jets; Saturday night's (alright for fighting); Goodbye yellow brick road; Don't go breaking my heart; Lucy in the sky with diamonds; I'm still standing; I don't wanna go on with you like that; Crystal; Spiteful child; Blue eyes; Tinderbox

Synchronicity (maybe this should be on my list of great albums)

Songs: Kings of pain; Synchronicity II; Wrapped around your finger; Roxanne; Spirits in the material world; De do do do de da da da; Can't stand losing you; Walking on the moon; Synchronicity; Invisible sun

Sting (solo): Russians; Desert rose; If you love somebody set them free

(Debut album released under the name Flowers) Icehouse (10)

Songs: Sister; We can get together; Can't help myself; Love in motion; Great Southern land; Hey little girl; No promises; Don't believe anymore; My obsession; Cross the border; Man of colours

Songs: Some people; A little in love; Suddenly (with Olivia Newton-John); Dreamin'; We don't talk anymore; Devil woman; Carrie; She means nothing to me; Wired for sound; I could easily fall in love with you

Songs: Cracklin' Rosie; Girl, you'll be a woman soon; Solitary man; Crunchy Granola suite; America; Play me; Song sung blue; I'm a believer; Hello again; Shilo

IV (9)/III; II; Houses of the Holy

Songs: Kashmir; All my love; Immigrant song; Rock and roll; D'yer mak'er; The battle of Evermore; Stairway to Heaven; Black dog; Your time is gonna come; Nobody's fault but mine

Songs (including with The Heartbreakers): Don't come around here no more; Free fallin'; I won't back down; Runnin' down a dream; The waiting; Learning to fly; You got lucky; Refugee; Stop draggin' my heart around; Breakdown

Big bam boom

Songs: Dance on your knees; Out of touch; Private eyes; Rich girl; Kiss on my list; Say it isn't so; I can't go for that (no can do); One on one; Some things are better left unsaid; Adult education

Tusk (25); Rumours (27); Fleetwood Mac (41)

Songs: Tusk; Sara (radio edit); Hold me; Go your own way; Say you love me; Dreams; You make loving fun; Gypsy; As long as you follow; Landslide

Songs: Woman; Nobody told me; Real love; Happy Xmas (war is over); Beautiful boy; Give peace a chance; Mind games; Just like starting over; #9 dream; Watching the wheels

Songs: Dirty creature; poor boy; Message to my girl; One step ahead; I got you; I hope I never; My mistake; History never repeats; Six months in a leaky boat; I see red

Tim Finn (solo songs): Made my day; Fraction too much friction; Staring at the embers

Crowded House songs: Weather with you; Don't dream it's over; World where you live; Four seasons in one day

Chemistry (17)/Primal Park (95)

Songs: Chemistry; Cool world; No time; State of the heart; Summer of '81; Baby wants to rock; The modern bop; Boom baby boom; Good advice; Winds light to variable

Ross Wilson with Daddy Cool: Bom bom; Eagle rock

Ross wrote and did the backing vocals for his then wife Pat Wilson on her debut single: Bop girl

Songs: Grease; December 1963 (oh what a night); Rag doll; Walk like a man; Working my way back to you; Can't take my eyes off you; My eyes adored you; Big girls don't cry; Let's hang on; The sun ain't gonna shine (anymore)

Songs: Science fiction; Sleeping beauty; Only lonely; Good die young; Boys in town; Pleasure and pain; I touch myself; Back to the wall; I'm jealous; If love was a gun; I'm on your side

The wall (54); The dark side of the moon (63); The piper at the gates of dawn (100); More; Meddle / Wish you were here

Songs: The happiest days of our lives; Another brick in the wall (part 2); Comfortably numb; Wish you were here; Learning to fly; Run like Hell; Flaming; Remember a day; Us and them; Money

Eat to the beat (6)

Songs: Call me; Atomic; Rapture; In the flesh; Union City Blue; The hardest part; Denis; Dreaming; Maria; Heart of glass

Songs (including ones written by band members Harry Vanda and George Young for their own band, Flash and The Pan, as well as for other acts, like John Paul Young.):

Sorry; Friday on my mind; Down among the dead men (Flash and The Pan); Good times (Jimmy Barnes and INXS cover); Hey, St. Peter (Flash and The Pan); Come and see her; St. Louis; I'll make you happy; Yesterday's hero (John Paul Young); She's so fine; Evie (part I) (Stevie Wright)

Acts including Daryl Braithwaite:

Sherbet songs: Summer love; Howzat; Magazine Madonna; Child's play

Company Of Strangers (with James Reyne) songs: Motor City (I get lost)

Solo: One summer; As the days go by; The horses (cover version); All I do; Rise; Love songs

Songs: Get into the groove; Open your heart; Ray of light; Frozen; Material girl; Beautiful stranger; 4 minutes; Like a virgin; Dress you up; Live to tell

Songs (including material by various band members): Saturday night; You got nothing I want; Driving wheels (Jimmy Barnes); Lay down your guns (JB); Forever now; Cheap wine; Choir girl; No sense; Standing on the outside; Telephone booth (Ian Moss); No second prize (Jimmy Barnes)

Songs: Touch me; Love her madly; Spanish caravan; L.A. woman; Break on through, Five to one; Waiting for the sun; The end; The unknown soldier; Light my fire (single version)

Songs: Don't bring me down; Livin' thing; Shine a little love; All over the world; I'm alive; The diary of Horace Wimp; Strange magic; Telephone line; Rockaria; Do ya

Deep Purple in rock; Machine head

Songs: Black night; Smoke on the water; Woman from Tokyo; Strange kind of woman; Child in time; Speed king; Fireball; When a blind man cries; Hush; Space truckin'

Songs: Starman; Blue Jean; Life on Mars; Ziggy Stardust; Space oddity; Ashes to ashes; DJ; Heroes; Fashion; Boys keep swinging

Songs (including with The Jackson 5 or The Jacksons): Can you feel it; State of shock; Rock with you; Billie Jean; Earth song; Don't stop 'til you get enough; Smooth criminal; One day in your life; Human nature; Man in the mirror

Songs: Summer nights (with John Travolta and the cast of the film "Grease"); Suddenly (with Cliff Richard); Magic; A little more love; We go together (with John Travolta and the cast of the film "Grease"); Physical; Have you never been mellow; Hopelessly devoted to you; Xanadu; Make a move on me

(This is another new entry for me. When I added her, she was in the Not Quite Legends section below, but once I added another song from the film Grease - We go together - she had reached 10 songs I like, so I added to the Legends sections of this list.)

Elvis sings Flaming Star (maybe should be on my list of great albums but it's very short)

Songs: Edge of reality; Can't help falling in love; Flaming star; Suspicious minds; Wonderful world; Kentucky rain; Burning love; Jailhouse rock; Hound dog; It's now or never

Songs: Flash; I want to break free; Another one bites the dust; We will rock you; Under pressure; Bohemian rhapsody; Somebody to love; You're my best friend; Hammer to fall; Radio ga ga

The freewheelin' Bob Dylan (82); The times they are a changin' (84)/Blood on the tracks; Blonde on blonde

Songs: Masters of war; The times they are a changin'; Subterranean homesick blues; Positively 4th Street; I shall be free; Like a rolling stone; Only a pawn in their game; With God on our side; The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll; Tangled up in blue

Superior cover versions:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All along the watchtower; The Byrds - Mr. tambourine man; Manfred Mann - The mighty Quinn; Graeme Bonnet - It's all over now, baby blue; The Seekers - Blowin' in the wind

End of the century (49); Ramones (91)/Leave home (the version with includes bonus live performances of songs from their debut album, due to their rawer guitar sound); Too tough to die

Songs: Rock'n'roll High School; Chinese rock; Danny says; 53rd and 3rd; Endless vacation; I wanna be your boyfriend; Slug (demo); Planet Earth 1988; Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?; Pet sematary

Electric Ladyland (47); Are you experienced (73, The US version differs from the UK release, having some good singles which weren't on the UK version)

Songs: Are you experienced?; All along the watchtower; Voodoo child (slight return); Hey Joe; Purple haze; Foxey lady; 1983...(a merman I should turn out to be); You got me floatin; May this be love; Third stone from the Sun

Eternally yours (24); (I'm) Stranded (74)/Prehistoric sounds

Songs: Know your product; Untitled; Just like fire would; Orstralia; Messin' with the kid; Erotic neurotic; Private affair; Brisbane (security city); (I'm) Stranded; The chameleon; Looking for the sun

*** Not quite legends below ***

The acts below, especially, might have great albums or great songs but coming up with a list of 10 songs that I like for them is not possible. These acts may not even have songs that I rate as highly as in the list above this point. Maybe they're more album orientated acts, rather than single or hit song type acts, which is what appeals to me most.

To make this list, an act needs at least 5 songs which I like, if not love.

Acts above and below this line can improve their positions as I hear more music by them.

Songs: Orange crush; Shiny happy people; Imitation of life; What's the frequency, Kenneth?; The great beyond; Man on the moon; Stand; Feeling gravity's pull

Songs: Head over heels; Mad world; Change; Sowing the seeds of love; Shout

Songs: Orchard Road; More than I can say (cover version); You make me feel like dancing; How much love; When I need you; Thunder in my heart

Songs: Pressure down; A touch of paradise (cover version); That's freedom; Two strong hearts; Age of reason; Don't you know it's magic; You're the voice

This list is for the Joe Camilleri bands Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons as well as The Black Sorrows.

Songs: Taxi Mary (JJZ & TF); Hold on to me (TBS); Chained to the wheel (TBS); Hit and run (JJZ & TF); Shape I'm in (JJZ & TF)

Songs: Ding dong, ding dong; Blow away; My sweet Lord; All those years ago; Here comes the sun (The Beatles); While my guitar gently weeps (The Beatles); Taxman (The Beatles); When we was Fab

Nevermind (12)/In utero

Songs: Smells like teen spirit; Lithium; Heart shaped box; On a plain; In bloom; Come as you are; Dumb; Polly

Songs: You really got me (cover version); Panama; Why can't this be love; When it's love; Dreams; Jump

David Lee Roth (solo): Coconut Grove; California girls

Paranoid (11); Sabotage (57); Master of reality (77)/ Never say die! (93); Mob rules

Songs: Iron Man; Planet Caravan; Paranoid; A hard road; Sweet leaf; Changes; Fluff

Songs: Eyes without a face; Flesh for fantasy; Hot in the city; White wedding; Rebel yell; Mony Mony; Don't need a gun

Songs: Peace train; Matthew and son; (Remember the days of the) Old school yard; Where do the children play?; Morning has broken; Moonshadow; Father and son

Songs: I am a rock; Scarborough Fair/Canticle; The sound of silence; Mrs. Robinson; The boxer

Paul Simon: The boy in the bubble; You can cal me Al

Art Garfunkel: Bright eyes

Songs: Department of Youth; Poison; How you gonna see me now; You and me; School's out; Clones (we're all); Muscle of love

Dynasty (35)

Songs: Shout it out loud; I was made for lovin' you; Sure know something; Rock and roll all nite; Heaven's on fire; Shandi; Is that you?; Hard times

Songs: We care a lot; Epic; Falling to pieces; Ashes to ashes; Midlife crisis; Last cup of sorrow; [A small victory; Strip search; The world is yours]

From Genesis to Revelation (30); The lamb lies down on Broadway (80)

Songs: Land of confusion; The carpet crawlers; Follow you follow me; That's all; I can't dance; Abacab; Invisible touch; Am I very wrong; In the wilderness

Songs:

Sonny & Cher: I got you babe; The beat goes on;

Solo: Gypsies, tramps & thieves; Just like Jesse James; The shoop shoop song (it's in his kiss)

Songs: Moonraker; Diamonds are forever; Goldfinger; History repeating; Hey big spender.

(If I had a greatest hits album I'd probably include some of her cover songs too.)

Early songs released under the name Johnny Cougar and John Cougar.

Songs: Small town; Miami; Jack & Diane; I need a lover; Crumblin' down; Rain on the scarecrow

Songs: Summer of '69; Run to you; Heaven; Thought I'd died and gone to Heaven; When you're gone

Songs: Love and other bruises; Lost in love; Every woman in the world; Even the nights are better; Two less lonely people in the world

Songs: I hear motion; Hold on; Big on love; Barbados; No shoulders, no head

Johnny O'Keefe - The birth of Australian rock and roll

Songs: She's my baby; Wild one; Hey girl; Mockingbird; So tough; Move baby move

Risk (58, 2004 remastered version, which is the version that I heard) / Peace sells...but who's buying?

Songs: Prince of Darkness; Crush 'em; Enter the arena; Peace sells; Wanderlust; Angry again; A tout le Monde; Kill the king;

/ Raw power; The Stooges

Songs: We will fall; Open up and bleed; I wanna be your dog; I need somebody; Death trip; Joanna

Iggy Pop: Lust for life; Real wild child (a cover version of the Johny O'Keefe song "Wild one", above)

Includes various Nick Cave bands like The Boys Next Door, The Bad Seeds, Grinderman.

The Boys Next Door - Door, door (31)

Songs: Shivers; Friends of my world; Dive position; Brave exhibitions; Hard on for love (The Bad Seeds); Fifteen feet of pure white snow (The Bad Seeds); Where the wild roses grow (The Bad Seeds); No pussy blues (Grinderman); Saint Huck (The Bad Seeds)

The Velvet Underground (15); The Velvet Underground & Nico (45)

Songs: The murder mystery; Venus in furs; White light/White heat; Head held high; All tomorrow's parties; What goes on; Pale blue eyes; Sunday morning; Jesus

30/10/2023 Just found out that this man had a hand in writing some of my favourite songs, so I'll open up a can of worms by listing him here, as in I'm sure there are plenty of people I could add to my list for that. From his Wikipedia entry, I'll list some of my (once or still) favourite songs he co-wrote:

Aerosmith - Dude (looks like a lady) Alice Cooper - Poison KISS - I was made for lovin' you Cher - Just like Jesse James Michael Bolton - How can we be lovers? Bon Jovi - Livin' on a prayer Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Child#Discography