Justin Cox

The Greatest Songs Ever Recorded

I’m about to let you in on a little secret, so brace yourselves: I have over 8,500 songs in my iTunes library. Ok, it’s not really a secret. Is that a lot of songs though? To me 8,500 songs seems like a lot but you never know. Anyway, on with the point. I’ve got over 8,500 songs and have spent a lot of time to meticulously rate every single song. Why? Well it makes creating playlists a lot easier. And I’m pretty ridiculous when it comes to thinks like that.

The rating system I devised in my head that translates into iTunes is as follows:

Rating: A song that should be deleted from the database.
Rating: A pretty bad song but worth listening to once a year or so.
Rating: A decent song, worth listening to from time to time.
Rating: A great song that almost never gets skipped.
Rating: One of the greatest songs ever recorded.

It’s highly subjective and extremely weighted to the center; I guess it’d create a pretty sweet looking bell curve — then again I have a lot of stuff that should just be deleted so maybe not. Anyway, of the 8,500 songs I’ve only given the coveted five star rating to thirty tracks. Just 30. Less than 1%. I take the “greatest song ever recorded” moniker very seriously.

All of this jibber jabber is basically to say that I’m sharing with you, fine reader, my list of the greatest songs ever recorded. Behold the greatness, alphabetical by artist:

I thought about going through and explaining why each song made the cut, like I did with my celebrity playlist, but I’d rather let the greatness stand for stand for itself.

There you have it. So much awesome you can’t even contain it all. What’s your greatest song of all time? Is it on my list?

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