The 212 Best Songs Ever! - Well, The Most Complete List So Far

So, I made the list of the 116 best songs ever, then updated it and made the list over the 167 best songs ever and now the list of the 212 best songs ever. So am I happy with it this time? Yes and no. Yes, because I managed to put together 212 of my very favorite songs and remotely in the order I prefer them. No, because it is always like "Oh, this song would be perfect up here between these two songs! But then, this other song way down here is even better than these songs, how does that make any sense?" I can tell you how it makes sense... Well, it sorta doesn't. The thing is, you might think a is better than b and b is better than c and c is better than d, but somehow, d is still better than b. It's a mathematical impossibility! Well. All you can do is spend some time adding more and more good songs and trying to sort the songs in the right order, but it will never be perfect, so you can't like spend all your time on one list - I'll have to just update it once in a while, instead!

Here is what I got so far!

1. Diamanda Galás - Scream Of Love

2. Diamanda Galás - Eyes Without Blood

3. Corvus Corax - Mille Anni Passi Sunt

4. Diamanda Galás and Jane's Addiction - Sex Is Violent

5. Diamanda Galás - Insane Asylum

6. Diamanda Galás - Let My People Go

7. Diamanda Galás - At The Dark End Of The Street

8. Hocico - Spit As An Offense

9. Hocico - Nightmare

10. Corvus Corax - Tanzwut

11. Diamanda Galás - I Put A Spell On You

12. Diamanda Galás - Gloomy Sunday

13. Diamanda Galás - My World Is Empty Without You

14. Rezsõ Seress - Szomorú Vasárnap

15. Rita Lynch - Baby I Wonder

16. Corvus Corax - Zauberlehrling

17. Corvus Corax - Rausch

18. Corvus Corax - Ore Dragonis

19. Corvus Corax - Celtic Roots

20. Luther Allison - Reaching Out

21. The Danse Society - Somewhere

22. Luther Allison - Serious

23. Townes Van Zandt and Willie Nelson - Marie

24. Bruce DeBoer - Autumn

25. The Blue Nile - From A Late Night Train

26. Dave Bainbridge and Joanne Hogg - Until The Tide Turns

27. Diamanda Galás - Do You Take This Man

28. Joy Division - I Remember Nothing

29. Joy Division - In A Lonely Place

30. Joy Division - Decades

31. John Cale - I Keep A Close Watch

32. The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You

33. Roger Dead Young and The Tin Cup - Little Wind

34. Clannad - I Will Find You

35. Diamanda Galás - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

36. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

37. Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday

38. The Blue Nile - Soul Boy

39. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades

40. Runrig - Abhainn an t-Sluaigh

41. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

42. Neil Young - Like A Hurricane

43. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

44. Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust

45. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

46. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

47. Cage and Darryl Palumbo - Shoot Frank

48. Mance Lipscomb - Baby Please Don't Go

49. Loreena McKennitt - Skellig

50. Diamanda Galás and Recoil - Strange Hours

51. Enya - I Want Tomorrow

52. Danzig - Sistinas

53. Danzig - How The Gods Kill

54. Joy Division - Sound Of Music

55. Mance Lipscomb - Mama Don't Allow

56. Screams For Tina - Kristen

57. Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream

58. Iona - Divine Presence

59. Dolly Parton - Jolene

60. Corvus Corax - Dulcissima

61. Mance Lipscomb - Ain't It Hard

62. All About Eve - Martha's Harbour

63. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

64. Usherhouse - November Dream

65. Gene Loves Jezebel - Kiss Of Life

66. Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye - You Are Everything

67. Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence

68. Luther Allison - Life Is A Bitch

69. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

70. Apoptygma Berzerk - Unicorn

71. Jimmy Witherspoon - Everything But You

72. The Mission - Tower Of Strength

73. Chris Botti and The Blue Nile - Midnight Without You

74. The Police - Every Breath You Take

75. Robert Johnson - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

76. Bill Withers - You Just Can't Smile It Away

77. Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

78. Mary J. Blige and Method Man - You're All I Need

79. Leftöver Crack - Heroin Or Suicide?

80. Clannad - Blackstairs

81. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

82. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

83. David Honeyboy Edwards - Gamblin' Man

84. Skip James - Worried Blues

85. Mance Lipscomb - God Moves On The Water

86. Mance Lipscomb - So Different Blues

87. Sonny Terry - Lost John

88. Capercaillie - Servant To The Slave

89. John Lee Hooker - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman

90. Hocico - Sucios Pensamientos

91. Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.

92. Mamie Smith - Sweet Man O'Mine

93. Fields of the Nephilim - From The Fire

94. Leonard Cohen - Waiting For The Miracle

95. The Mission - Daddy's Going To Heaven Now

96. Skip James - 4 O'Clock Blues

97. Skip James - Shake 'Em On Down

98. Lead Belly - Black Betty

99. Ma Rainey - C. C. Rider

100. Mamie Smith - Harlem Blues

101. Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe

102. Mississippi John Hurt - Stagger Lee

103. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

104. Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self-Destruct

105. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl

106. The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain

107. Nina Simone - Feeling Good

108. Coolio - I'll C U When U Get There

109. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

110. Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave - Some Velvet Morning

111. Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan

112. Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister

113. B. B. King - How Blue Can You Get

114. Bruce DeBoer - Praying For Bree

115. Trolltider - Solsången

116. Odetta - God's Gonna Cut You Down

117. Leonard Cohen - The Future

118. Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning

119. Chicago - I'm A Man

120. Pamela Morgan - True Or False

121. Fiona Joyce - Letting Go

122. Palash - Blue Sky

123. Trolltider - Bergatrollets Vaggvisa

124. Electric Banana Band - Electric Banana

125. Garmarna - Herr Mannelig

126. Ice T and Insane Clown Posse - Dead End

127. Cage - Suicidal Failure

128. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

129. Alice Cooper - Poison

130. Color Theory - Snowing

131. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

132. Skip James - I'm So Glad

133. Skip James - How Long Blues

134. Brownie McGhee, Lead Belly and Sonny Terry - How Long Blues

135. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

136. Two Gallants - Steady Rollin'

137. Screaming Dead - Night Creatures

138. Frank Stokes - Stomp That Thing

139. Bone Orchard - Kicking' Up The Sawdust

140. Ray Charles - Hit The Road, Jack!

141. Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

142. Ebba Grön - Die Mauer

143. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message

144. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove

145. Funkadelic - Who Says A Funk Band Can't Play Rock?

146. Rasputina - Bad Moon Rising

147. Funkadelic - Groovalegience

148. Supertramp - The Logical Song

149. Rita Lynch - Call Me Your Girlfriend

150. Mame Smith - No Good Man

151. Junior Wells - Sweet Sixteen

152. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

153. Mario Winans, Q-Tip and Stevie Wonder - Shame On Us: What's The Fuzz?

154. Adiemus - Adiemus

155. Weird Al Yankovic - Don't Download This Song

156. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

157. Venetian Snares - A Lot Of Drugs

158. The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City

159. Mats Ronander - Elisabeth

160. The Locust - The Unwilling... Led By The Unqualified... Doing The Unnecessary... For The Ungrateful

161. The Locust - Psst! Is That A Halfie In Your Pants?

162. The Locust - We Have Reached An Official Verdict: Nobody Gives A Shit

163. The Locust - AOTKPTA

164. The Locust - One Manometer Away From Mutually Assured Relocation

165. The Locust - Slum Service: Served On The Sly

166. The Locust - Book Of Bot

167. John Lee Hooker - Think Twice Before You Go

168. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Somliga Går Med Trasiga Skor

169. Mamie Smith - So What Papa?

170. Sunglasses After Dark - Morbid Silence

171. Máire Brennan - Against The Wind

172. Pippi Långstrump - Här Kommer Pippi Långstrump!

173. Folk och Rackare - Vänner och Fränder

174. In Extremo - Vänner och Fränder

175. Garmarna  Vänner och Fränder

176. Clannad - Newgrange

177. The Chieftains - Here's A Health To The Company

178. Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown

179. Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face

180. Pink Floyd - Keep Talking

181. Jimmy Reed - Big Legged Woman

182. Jimmy Reed - You Got Me Dizzy

183. Bo Diddley - Bring It To Jerome

184. Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City

185. Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business

186. Jimmy Reed - I Wanna Be Loved

187. Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do

188. John Lee Hooker - Devil's Jump

189. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

190. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'

191. John Lee Hooker - The Numbers

192. Skip James - Crow Jane

193. Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

194. Little Walter - Too Late

195. Fiona Kennedy - Riverdance

196. Clannad - Northern Skyline

197. O'Jays - Now That We Found Love

198. Color Theory - Forget His Voice

199. Mance Lipscomb - Going Up North To See My Pony Run

200. Ebba Grön - Tyna Bort

201. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

202. Mance Lipscomb - Angel Child

203. Imperiet - Du Ska Va President

204. Kool Rock Steady - You Ain't Nobody

205. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues

206. Ebba Grön - Häng Gud

207. Ebba Grön - Mamma Pappa Barn

208. Michael Sembello - Maniac

209. Ebba Grön - 800 Grader Celcius

210. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry

211. Miachel Jackson - Billie Jean

212. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

167 Songs - New And Improved List Of The Best Songs Ever

Of course, it is difficult to make a list of your favorite songs, you might change your mind all the time and come up with new things to put on the list. I tried making a list once and came up with the list of the 116 best songs ever, here is a new and improved version, I added a few more songs and changed my mind a few more times about which order the songs should be in.

1. Diamanda Galás - Scream of Love

2. Diamanda Galás - Eyes Without Blood

3. Corvus Corax - Millie Anni Passi Sunt

4. Diamanda Galás and Jane's Addiction - Sex Is Violent

5. Rezsõ Seress - Szomorú Vasárnap

6. Diamanda Galás - I Put A Spell On You

7. Diamanda Galás - Gloomy Sunday

8. Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday

9. Joy Division - I Remember Nothing

10. Joy Division - In A Lonely Place

11. John Division - Decades

12. John Cale - I Keep A Close Watch

13. The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You

14. Clannad - I Will Find You

15. Roger Dean Young and The Tin Cup - Little Wind

16. Bill Withers - You Just Can't Smile It Away

17. Neil Young - Like A Hurricane

18. Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

19. Corvus Corax - Tanzwut

20. Hocico - Spit As An Offense

21. Diamanda Galás - My World Is Empty Without You

22. Townes Van Zandt and Willie Nelson - Marie

23. Bruce DeBoer - Autumn

24. Dave Bainbridge and Joanne Hogg - Until The Tide Turns

25. Luther Allison - Reaching Out

26. Iona - Divine Presence

27. The Blue Nile - Soul Boy

28. All About Eve - Martha's Harbour

29. The Blue Nile - From A Late Night Train

30. The Danse Society - Somewhere

31. Diamanda Galás - Insane Asylum

32. Diamanda Galás - At The Dark End Of The Street

33. Screams For Tina - Kristen

34. Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust

35. Diamanda Galás - Let My People Go

36. Mance Lipscomb - Ain't It Hard

37. Joy Division - Love With Tear Us Apart

38. Usherhouse - November Rain

39. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

40. Corvus Corax - Zauberlehrling

41. Corvus Corax - Rausch

42. Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye - You Are Everything

43. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades

44. Danzig - Sistinas

45. Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream

46. Hocico - Nightmare

47. Bruce DeBoer - Praying For Bree

48. Mary J. Blige and Method Man - You're All I Need

49. Luther Allison - Serious

50. Jimmy Witherspoon - Everything But You

51. Pink Floyd - Keep Talking

52. Apoptygma Berzerk - Unicorn

53. Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence

54. The Police - Every Breath You Take

55. Gene Loves Gezebel - Kiss Of Life

56. Runrig - Abhainn an t-Sluaigh

57. Enya - I Want Tomorrow

58. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

59. Diamanda Galás and Recoil - Strange Hours

60. Loreena McKennitt - Skellig

61. Cage and Darryl Palumbo - Shoot Frank

62. Fiona Kennedy - Riverdance

63. Mance Lipscomb - Baby Please Don't Go

64. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

65. Clannad - Northern Skyline

66. Leftöver Crack - Heroin or Suicide?

67. Jimmy Reed - Big Legged Woman

68. Jimmy Reed - You Got Me Dizzy

69. Jommy Reed - Honest I Do

70. Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City

71. Jimmy Reed - I Wanna Be Loved

72. Corvus Corax - Ore Dragonis

73. Corvus Corax - Celtic Roots

74. O'Jays - Now That We Found Love

75. The Mission - Tower of Strength

76. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

77. Color Theory - Snowing

78. Luther Allison - Life Is A Bitch

79. Chris Botti and The Blue Nile - Midnight Without You

80. Joy Division - Sound of Music

81. Rita Lynch - Baby I Wonder

82. Clannad - Blackstairs

83. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

84. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

85. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

86. Leonard Cohen - Waiting For The Miracle

87. David Honeyboy Edwards - Gamblin' Man

88. Color Theory - Forget His Voice

89. Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business

90. Skip James - Worried Blues

91. Mance Lipscomb - So Different Blues

92. Skip James - 4 O'Clock Blues

93. Bo Diddley - Bring it to Jerome

94. Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self-Destruct

95. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl

96. John Lee Hooker - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman

97. Odetta - God's Gonna Cut You Down

98. John Lee Hooker - Think Twice Before You Go

99. Danzig - How The God's Kill

100. Skip James - Shake 'Em On Down

101. Ma Rainey - C. C. Rider

102. Mamie Smith - Harlem Blues

103. Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe

104. Mississippi John Hurt - Stagger Lee

105. The Mission - Daddy's Going To Heaven Now

106. Lead Belly - Black Betty

107. Ebba Grön - Tyna Bort

108. The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain

109. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

110. John Lee Hooker - Devil's Jump

111. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'

112. Skip James - Crow Jane

113. Mance Lipscomb - Angel Child

114. Mance Lipscomb - Going Up North To See My Pony Run

115. John Lee Hooker - The Numbers

116. Coolio - I'll C U When U Get There

117. Nina Simone - Feeling Good

118. Sunglasses After Dark - Morbid Silence

119. Hocico - Sucios Pensamientos

120. Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave - Some Velvet Morning

121. Ebba Grön - Die Mauer

122. Supertramp - The Logical Song

123. Alice Cooper - Poison

124. Ray Charles - Hit The Road, Jack!

125. Fields of The Nephilim - From The Fire

126. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

127. Two Gallants - Steady Rollin'

128. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

129. Bone Orchard - Kickin' Up The Sawdust

130. Ebba Grön - Häng Gud

131. Rita Lynch - Call Me Your Girlfriend

132. Screaming Dead - Night Creatures

133. Frank Stokes - Stomp That Thing

134. Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

135. Mance Lipscomb - God Moves On The Water

136. Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.

137. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

138. Capercaille - Servant to the Slave

139. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

140. Mamie Smith - No Good Man

141. Junior Wells - Sweet Sixteen

142. Mario Winans, Q-Tip and Stevie Wonder - Shame On Us: What The Fuss

143. Folk och Rackare - Vänner och Fränder

144. The Locust - The Unwilling... Led By The Unqualified... Doing The Unnecessary... For The Ungrateful

145. Adiemus - Adiemus

146. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

147. Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan

148. Skip James - I'm So Glad

149. Clannad - Newgrange

150. Venetian Snares - A Lot Of Drugs

151. Mamie Smith - Sweet Man O'Mine

152. Sonny Terry - Lost John

153. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Somliga Går Med Trasiga Skor

154. Brownie McGhee, Lead Belly and Sonny Terry - How Long Blues

155. Máire Brennan - Against The Wind

156. Imperiet - Du Ska Va President

157. Kool Rock Steady - You Ain't Nobody

158. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues

159. Mamie Smith - So What Papa?

160. Skip James - How Long Blues

161. Michael Sembello - Maniac

162. Mance Lipscomb - Mama Don't Allow

163. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

164. Ebba Grön - 800 Grader Celcius

165. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry

166. Ebba Grön - Mamma Pappa Barn

167. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit