Lose Yourself
2002 · From 8 Mile (soundtrack)
Written between takes on a film set, delivered like a man with exactly one shot at everything.
★ 9.1
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Losing My ReligionR.E.M.
Losing My Religion
1991 · From Out of Time
Buck wrote the riff while teaching himself mandolin in front of the television, and R.E.M. got their biggest American hit.
★ 8.2
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)Fleetwood Mac
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
1975 · From Fleetwood Mac
Aspen in 1974, Nicks weighing whether to quit music, and Buckingham Travis-picking a Martin D-18 underneath.
★ 7.8
Help!
1965 · From Help!
Twelve takes in April 1965, McCartney's counter-melody chasing the lead, and Lennon insisting years later the plea was real.
★ 7.7
Creep (Radiohead)
1992 · From Pablo Honey
Greenwood meant those three dead notes before the chorus to wreck the song, and they are what makes it work.
★ 7.7
Basket Case
1994 · From Dookie
Armstrong rewrote it around his undiagnosed panic attacks, cut it at Fantasy Studios, and sold punk to the suburbs.
★ 7.7
All Apologies
1993 · From MTV Unplugged in New York
Lori Goldston's cello beside Cobain at the November 1993 Unplugged taping, months before his death, apology turned farewell.
★ 7.3
All Falls Down
2004 · From The College Dropout
Denied the Lauryn Hill sample, West had Syleena Johnson sing the part, and got his first solo top ten.
★ 7.3
Clocks
2002 · From A Rush of Blood to the Head
A piano riff Martin nearly saved for the next album, rescued by their manager, then Record of the Year.
★ 7.2
The Middle
2001
Capitol dropped the band, Trombino produced on credit, and the drum pattern came straight off Tom Petty's You Wreck Me.
★ 6.2
Undone (The Sweater Song)
1994 · From Weezer (The Blue Album)
Ocasek produced it, Cuomo aimed for the Velvet Underground, and the party-chatter intro made a sad song sound hilarious.
★ 6.1
Help I'm Alive
2008
Haines wrote it on piano in Buenos Aires as a ballad; the tempo went up and panic became a hook.
★ 5.6
Amazing (Kanye West)
2009 · From 808s & Heartbreak
Recorded in Honolulu for 808s & Heartbreak with Jeff Bhasker co-producing, Auto-Tune propping up bravado that keeps slipping.
★ 5.2
The Sound of Settling
2003 · From Transatlanticism
Walla had to talk the band into keeping it, and Gibbard's throwaway became their singalong.
★ 4.9
Everybody's Changing
2004
Rice-Oxley wrote it after the guitarist quit, which is why a rock band's biggest hook is played on piano.
★ 4.5
Creep (Stone Temple Pilots)Stone Temple Pilots
Creep (Stone Temple Pilots)
1992
Weiland called it the gap between kid and young man, and Brendan O'Brien's production leaves the voice bare.
★ 4.4
Perfect Situation
2005 · From Make Believe
Cuomo re-recorded it after crowds sang his original melody back at him, and it topped alternative radio for four weeks.
★ 4.3
I Wish
1995
Skee-Lo wanted to be taller, a Bernard Wright loop did the rest, and the Grammys nominated it against Coolio.
★ 3.6
Out of My HeadFastball
Out of My Head
1998
Scalzo sang lead from behind the bass, Hammond organ carrying it, and Machine Gun Kelly later borrowed the chorus.
★ 3.0
Place In This World
1990
Wayne Kirkpatrick co-wrote it, Dann Huff played the guitar, and Christian radio's searching ballad reached number six pop.
★ 1.3