Heart and Soul
1987
Decker's rap began as syncopated nonsense syllables, and she overdubbed herself into a duet nobody could play live.
★ 2.1
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
She's Like The Wind
1987
Swayze and Stacy Widelitz wrote it in 1984; rejected for Youngblood, it found Dirty Dancing and Wendy Fraser's backing vocals.
★ 2.3
To Be With YouMr. Big
To Be With You
1991
Gilbert traded shred for acoustic guitar behind Martin's teenage lyric, and hand claps carried it to number one.
★ 2.5
Everything You Want
1999
Scannell wrote it about a friendship he wanted to be more, and it became Billboard's most-played single of 2000.
★ 2.7
It Feels So Good
1998
A 1998 flop that stalled at twenty-four, reissued after America caught on, then three weeks at number one.
★ 3.2
Can't Fight This Feeling
1984
Cronin sat on the verses for years before finishing them in Hawaii, and three weeks at number one followed.
★ 3.5
What About Love
1985
Recorded first by the band Toronto in 1982 and shelved, it became Heart's first Capitol single, with Grace Slick harmonizing.
★ 3.5
Foolish Games
1997
Ben Keith produced Pieces of You partly at Neil Young's ranch, and radio flipped this B-side into the hit.
★ 3.5
Save the Best for Last
1992
Waldman heard the demo's bitter premise and steered the lyric hopeful; five weeks at number one followed.
★ 3.6
Shiver
2000 · From Parachutes
Martin called it a blatant Jeff Buckley attempt, cut at Rockfield with Ken Nelson, and the chorus soars anyway.
★ 3.7
Run-Around
1994
Popper wrote it about an unrequited crush, then watched it sit on the Hot 100 for forty-nine weeks.
★ 4.1
Ho Hey
2012
Schultz wrote those shouts to snap indifferent Brooklyn crowds to attention; the record sat sixty-two weeks on the Hot 100.
★ 4.2
It's Gonna Be Me
2000
Max Martin coached Timberlake into pronouncing the last word "may", and 'N Sync got their only Hot 100 number one.
★ 4.4
I Can't Make You Love Me (Bon Iver)
2011
Vernon strips Reid and Shamblin's Nashville ballad to falsetto, then slips into Raitt's "Nick of Time" at the end.
★ 4.5
Grenade
2010
Rebuilt two days before the album was due, its surf-pop guitars gone, and Mars sings it like a wound.
★ 4.7
I Will Possess Your Heart
2007 · From Narrow Stairs
Five minutes of Harmer's bass riff before a word arrives, a krautrock crawl radio edits had to hack apart.
★ 4.7
Cold, Cold Heart
1951
Mitch Miller took a Hank Williams country ballad, wrapped it in Percy Faith's strings, and country crossed over.
★ 5.0
Teardrops On My Guitar
2007 · From Taylor Swift
Nathan Chapman's production stays hushed while Swift and Liz Rose leave the real classmate's name, Drew, in the lyric.
★ 5.1
Your Woman
1997
Mishra cut it in his bedroom on an Atari ST, sampling a 1932 muted trumpet, and topped the UK chart.
★ 5.5