Beer In Mexico
2005
Chesney wrote it alone in Cabo San Lucas at Sammy Hagar's birthday party, and it topped the country chart.
★ 1.3
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Free Fallin' (John Mayer)
2008
Two days was all Petty and Lynne needed; Mayer's acoustic version, taped at the Nokia Theatre, became a single itself.
★ 2.3
Kokomo
1988 · From Cocktail (Original Soundtrack)
Mike Love's chorus of island names over Ry Cooder's guitar, and the Beach Boys' first number one in twenty-two years.
★ 2.6
Pocketful of Sunshine
2008
Cut at Starstruck in Nashville with John Shanks playing most of it, sunshine offered as an escape hatch.
★ 3.0
Pardon Me
2000
Scott Litt produced it at NRG, and Boyd wrote the lyric amid two deaths and a collapsing relationship.
★ 3.2
Walk on the Ocean
1991
Phillips wrote it after a trip to Orcas Island, keeping the placeholder lyrics because nothing he tried afterward worked better.
★ 3.6
Hero (Family of the Year)
2012
Richard Linklater put it in Boyhood and its trailer, and the Keefe brothers' harmony now sounds like growing up.
★ 3.7
Grapevine Fires
2009 · From Narrow Stairs
Jason McGerr shaped the drums after the Purdie Shuffle, and Gibbard turned the 2007 California wildfires into something almost calm.
★ 3.7
Hold On (Wilson Phillips)
1990
Chynna Phillips drew the words from AA's one-day-at-a-time, Glen Ballard produced, and it topped Billboard's 1990 year-end chart.
★ 3.8
Angel (Sarah McLachlan)
1998
Piano, upright bass, a drum machine, and McLachlan writing about a Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist's overdose with startling tenderness.
★ 3.9
The WayFastball
The Way
1998
Scalzo read about an elderly Texas couple who drove off and never came back, then wrote them a happier ending.
★ 4.0
These Dreams
1985
Taupin and Martin Page wrote it, Nancy Wilson sang lead through a cold, and Heart got their first number one.
★ 4.2
Fantastic VoyageCoolio
Fantastic Voyage
1994
Bryan Dobbs looped Lakeside's 1980 hit, and Coolio rode it to number three dreaming of somewhere trouble-free.
★ 4.7
Fly Away
1998
Kravitz stumbled on the riff testing an amplifier, nearly buried it as a B-side, and won a Grammy instead.
★ 4.7
One Headlight
1997
Jakob Dylan wrote it at a Los Angeles kitchen table, then watched it top all three Billboard rock airplay charts.
★ 4.8
Sleeping InThe Postal Service
Sleeping In
2003
Tamborello mailed beats from Los Angeles; Gibbard answered with a dream he would rather not wake from.
★ 4.9
FunkytownLipps Inc.
Funkytown
1980
A ten-note synth riff cut at Sound 80 in Minneapolis, Cynthia Johnson vocoded then unleashed at full wail.
★ 4.9
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
1975 · From Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Baldry talked Elton out of a wedding in 1968, and Taupin wrote him into the chorus as Sugar Bear.
★ 5.0
KicksPaul Revere & the Raiders
Kicks
1966
Mann and Weil wrote it about Gerry Goffin's drug problems, by Mann's account; the Raiders took it to number four.
★ 5.2
Cowboy Take Me Away
1999 · From Fly
Martie Seidel lifted the title from a Calgon commercial, then wrote the rest about her sister's new romance.
★ 5.3