With The List, American Songwriter details the best, the brightest, the most enduring, the worst, the most hated, and the most surprising songs ever–among many other qualifiers. If you’re looking for our definitive rankings on music, you’ll find them below.
Paul Mccartney Pictured Here With A Beard Getting Into A Car He Is Rumoured To Be Marrying American Linda Eastman. 1969 (Photo by Daily Mail/Shutterstock)
LOS ANGELES – DECEMBER 1974: (L-R) Mike Campbell, Tom Petty, Randall Marsh and Tom Leadon of the rock and roll band "Mudcrutch" pose for a portrait session in December 1974 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jim McCrary/Redferns)
American singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson pointing to his temple, as he sits at a desk in the offices of Monument Records in Hendersonville, a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, 9th April 1970. (Photo by Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
