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.
American rock group The Doors L-R Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Jim Morrison pose for an Electra Records publicity still circa 1967. (Photo by Electra Records/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
British new wave group Ultravox, UK, August 1980. Left to right: drummer Warren Cann, singer and guitarist Midge Ure, bassist Chris Cross and keyboard player Billy Currie. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
English rock band Def Leppard at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, USA on 9th September 1992. They are Rick Savage, Joe Elliott, Rick Allen and Phil Collen. (Photo by Kypros/Getty Images)
