Bohemian Rhapsody
1975 · From A Night at the Opera
Six minutes with no chorus and so many vocal overdubs the tape wore transparent. Still nothing else like it.
★ 9.1
The Songs canon
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Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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Pressure DropToots and the Maytals
Pressure Drop
1970
Leslie Kong cut it in 1969, Hibbert called the subject karma, and The Harder They Come carried it worldwide.
★ 7.3
Turn! Turn! Turn!
1965 · From Turn! Turn! Turn!
Seeger set Ecclesiastes to a tune in 1959; McGuinn's twelve-string turned it into the number one with the oldest lyrics.
★ 7.0
The Breaks
1980
Eighty-four uses of one word, a live band instead of samples, and the first rap single certified gold.
★ 6.8
Pink Moon
1972 · From Pink Moon
Voice, guitar, and a single overdubbed piano line, taped after eleven at night with only an engineer present.
★ 6.7
That's Life
1966 · From That's Life
Ernie Freeman's arrangement, and a second take Sinatra resented making; the annoyance is why the vocal snarls.
★ 6.6
Whenever, Wherever
2001
Panpipes, a charango, and Gloria Estefan rewriting Shakira's Spanish lyric in English; it hit number one in twenty-two countries.
★ 6.0
Ironic
1995
Ballard produced it, number four on the Hot 100 stands as her highest, and everyone still debates the title.
★ 5.8
Luck Be a LadyFrank Sinatra
Luck Be a Lady
1965 · From Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre: Guys and Dolls
Brando sang it in the film while Sinatra played Nathan Detroit; eight years later Sinatra cut it himself.
★ 5.6
Bless the Broken Road
2005
A decade after the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band cut it first, Rascal Flatts rode it to five weeks at number one.
★ 2.9
Can't Help Falling in Love (UB40)
1993
Peretti, Creatore and Weiss built the melody on a 1784 French air, and UB40 held number one for seven weeks.
★ 2.8