NME Writers all time top 100 singles

1. I say a little prayer - Aretha Franklin
2. Tired of being alone - Al Green
3. Walk on by - Dionne Warwick
4. Kiss - Prince
5. This old heart of mine - The Isley Brothers
6. (Get up I feel like being a) Sex machine - James Brown
7. King Tubby meets the rockers uptown - Augustus Pablo
8. Young hearts run free - Candi Staton
9. Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
10. Move on up - Curtis Mayfield
11. Midnight train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the pips
12. Shame - Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King
13. Running up that hill - Kate Bush
14. Like a rolling stone - Bob Dylan
15. Rock your baby - George McCrae
16. My baby just cares for me - Nina Simone
17. The message - Grandmaster flash and the furious five
18. God save the queen - Sex pistols
19. Whats going on - Marvin Gaye
20. Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
21. I herd it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye
22. This charming man - The smiths
23. Tears of a clown - Smoky Bacon and the miracles
24. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
25. Just my imagination - The Temptations
26. Atmosphere - Joy Division
27. I can’t stand the rain - Ann Peebles
28. Good vibrations - The beach boys
29. Waterloo sunset - The kinks
30. Papa was a rolling stone - The temptations
31. Adventures on the wheels of steel - Grandmaster flash and the furious five
32. River deep mountain high - Ike & Tina Turner
33. People get ready - The Impressions
34. Have you seen her - The Chi-lites
35. Good times - Chic
36. Get up offa that thing - James Brown
37. Tracks of my tears - The Miracles
38. I want you back - The Jackson five
39. Light my fire - The doors
40. Respect - Aretha Franklin
41. Penny lane/Strawberry fields forever - The Beatles
42. When a man loves a woman - Percy Sledge
43. Paperback writer - The Beatles
44. Let’s stay together - Al Green
45. Reach out - The four tops
46. I wish it would rain - The Temptations
47. Don’t be cruel/Hound dog - Elvis Presley
48. Stand by me - Ben E. King
49. 1999 - Prince
50. Complete control - Clash
51. Police and thieves - Junior Marvin
52. Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
53. Dancing in the street - Martha and the Vandellas
54. Band of gold - Freda Payne
55. Family Affair - Sly and the family stone
56. Transmission - Joy Division
57. Public image - Public Image Ltd
58. One nation under a groove - Funkadelic
59. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
60. Don’t stop till you get enough - Michael Jackson
61. Bad moon rising - Creedence Clearwater revival
62. That’ll be the day - The Crickets
63. Free Nelson Mandela - The Special AKA
64. Rock Lobster - The B-52s
65. Anarchy in the UK - Sex pistols
66. How soon is now - The smiths
67. Space oddity - David Bowie
68. It’s a man’s man’s world - James Brown
69. Me and Mrs Jones - Billy Paul
70. Eight miles high - The Byrds
71. She is beyond good and evil - The pop group
72. Turn turn turn - The Byrds
73. I’m a believer - The Monkees
74. If you want me to stay - Sly and the family stone
75. You really got me - The kinks
76. Cant I change my mind - Tyrone Davis
77. You don’t have to say you love me - Dusty Springfield
78. Promised land - Johnny Allan
79. Rip it up - Little Richard
80. Jumpin’ Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
81. Crazy - Patsy Cline
82. Satisfaction - The rolling stones
83. Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
84. Wedding bell blues - The fifth dimension
85. I wanna hold your hand - The Beatles
86. Backstabbers - The O’Jays
87. Higher and Higher - Jockey Wilson
88. A hard days night - The Beatles
89. I second that emotion - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
90. Buffalo Girls - Malcolm McLaren F1
91. Rapper’s delight - Sugarhill gang
92. The bottle - Gil Scott-Heron
93. What do I get - The Buzzcocks
94. On Broadway - The Drifters
95. You’ve lost that lovin’ reelin’ - Righteous Brothers
96. Dance stance - Dexys midnight runners
97. Love letters - Ketty Lester
98. Let’s start II dance again - Hamilton Bohannon
99. Do it again - Steely Dan
100. Ain’t that peculiar - Marvin Gaye