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Can you name the best 40 songs ever (according to UK polls)?

Enter a song title in the box below
Correctly named song titles will show up in the table below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
This game was contributed by Sporcle user: ben_hammer
Source:everyhit.co.uk
* Never released as a single, but is still considered the 22nd best song of all time in the UK.

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Artist	Song Title	Year
Queen		1975
John Lennon		1980
Robbie Williams		1997
The Beatles		1968
Nirvana		1991
Oasis		1994
Oasis		1995
U2		1992
The Verve		1997
U2		1987
The Beatles		1967
The Beach Boys		1966
R.E.M.		1991
Bob Dylan		1965
The Beach Boys		1966
R.E.M.		1993
The Kinks		1967
Oasis		1996
Procol Harum		1967
Led Zeppelin		1971

Artist	Song Title	Year
The Beatles		1976
The Beatles*		1967
Eagles		1977
Massive Attack		1991
ABBA		1976
Madonna		1989
The Jimi Hendrix Experience		1968
Radiohead		1993
Michael Jackson		1983
The Who		1965
Kate Bush		1978
Radiohead		1997
The Undertones		1978
Joy Division		1980
Simon and Garfunkel		1970
Bruce Springsteen		1987
Bob Marley & The Wailers		1975
Guns N Roses		1988
Elvis Presley		1969
The Beatles		1970

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(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

	bsd987:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 08:29 GMT	2 points
	band is named eagles, not the eagles.

	rondo723:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 08:32 GMT	0 points
	garfunkAl?

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	Tice:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 08:46 GMT	0 points
	yeah, garfunkel is spelled wrong

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	LinuxLinus:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 09:01 GMT	8 points
	"Born to Run" is 1975, not 1987, and the Beatles had been broken up for five years by 1976, so I'm pretty sure "Yesterday" didn't come out then. Also, I don't know who this Garfunkal character is.

	JohnJF:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 09:18 GMT	20 points
	IWANTMY2DOLLARS: I enjoy that of the three artists you cite as reasons the British are deaf about music, one is British and another essentially had his career made by a British following.

	Breaker1:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 09:40 GMT	7 points
	Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush actually made its way onto a top 40 songs of all time list? For those who haven't heard it before -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv0azq9GF_g

	SowCrates:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 09:47 GMT	15 points
	@moviedynamic and iwantmy2dollars Can you imagine how bad a U.S list might look? We'll be praising this list once a boy band cracks a US top list. I can't imagine any U.S list willing to commit to so many songs from the 1960's and 1970's, and only 2 songs in the last 15 years.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 09:47 GMT	-3 points
	@Breaker1: Must be that hot video that makes 'em like it so much.

	SowCrates:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 09:50 GMT	1 point
	So little love for Bob Marley? Only 21.2% have gotten it so far. I can appreciate if somebody only knows a handful of Marley songs (I personally only own a best of), but I thought this song was more popular than that.

	jaspa:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 09:52 GMT	9 points
	Like a Rolling Stone, but nothing by the Rolling Stones... interesting.

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	elbcw:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 10:35 GMT	22 points
	'Too UK-centric' Err...what about all the US-centric ones? There are plenty of 'centric' ones for everyone!

	Jono_:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 11:01 GMT	7 points
	I am proud to be part of the 1.9% that got the Massive Attack song. Too bad it's overshadowed by the songs from Mezzanine these days.

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	Nathan Jones:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 12:27 GMT	14 points
	The years included here are when the song was a hit in the UK, which seems appropriate. "Yesterday" was released in the UK in 1966 as part of an EP but wasn't a hit on its on until a 1976 re-release. "Born to Run" wasn't a hit in the UK on its first release -- the live version from 1987 was. So 1987 was the correct date for that song within the context of this poll.

	davidr:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 12:28 GMT	6 points
	I love the way the source goes on about their amazing methodology for combining multiple polls into a single list and how this eliminates `fad voting' for recent hits. Actually, the reason that the list includes nothing later than the 1990s three of the six polls they include are from 2002 or earlier. So a song that's less than six years old has no chance of getting onto the list because it scores a big fat zero on half their source polls.

	Statto:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 13:08 GMT	1 point
	The date for Imagine is wrong. It got to no.6 in the UK in 1975 (probably would have been in the same chart as Bohemian Rhapsody!). 1980 was the posthumous re-release. My score on this quiz proves I have listened to/read too many all-time greatest song polls over the years!

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	milkmeister:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 15:02 GMT	13 points
	I think all these comments about should have had so and so, shouldn't have had so and so, are very amusing, being as it's simply the results of surveys, not the personal opinion of the person writing the quiz.

	GeordieGuitarist:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 15:12 GMT	10 points
	All great music, no rap = HEAVEN!

	psycho_stu:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 15:29 GMT	28 points
	Great to have a music quiz that doesn't require knowledge of US rap and RnB.

	wischr:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 15:33 GMT	8 points
	There is simply not enough time allocated to this one. I type quickly but I couldn't finish the quiz on time.

	Lucy:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 15:43 GMT	7 points
	Did OK on this one got Massive Attack but missed Led Zeppelin!?! Out of interest what are the songs not known to people from the US?

	Speedbird007:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 16:10 GMT	2 points
	@mungar... U2 and Oasis are two of the biggest selling artists from the post beatles era. And you're saying it's rubbish. What do you think that says about your taste in music?

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	mattycakes345:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 16:20 GMT	-4 points
	Arrrgghh it is my fav song, but i just can never spell that Queen song. PS Yesterday is 1965 from their Help! album, not 1976.

	bmo1616:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 16:33 GMT	2 points
	Pretty good list, some weird choices, but without a doubt, the #1 song is completely right. Bohemian Rhapsody is not a song, it's a piece of art.

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	ted:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 17:13 GMT	5 points
	@Lucy: AFAIK, Massive Attack has never been popular here in the US. "Teenage Kicks" and "Wuthering Heights" are not very well-known. "Angels" had some mild success here, but Robbie Williams is only a minor celeb here--not even close to his success in the UK. All the other songs are very well-known in the US.

	ted:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 17:15 GMT	1 point
	Oops, forgot "Waterloo Sunset." That's not a popular song in the US.

	LaStic:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 17:21 GMT	4 points
	We enjoyed completing this as a family, so it was a really great quiz. Not that we got them all...

	alexy:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 17:25 GMT	6 points
	As an Englishman, I loved this quiz, quite disappointed i only got 39/40 though (damn Yesterday, the year threw me)! I suppose it's quite easy if you have an average knowledge of British music, pretty much all of these songs are the songs for which the artists are most famous. Great quiz more like this!

	jim:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 17:46 GMT	9 points
	Good quiz. About time there was a music one, not primarily for Americans. Makes up for all those crap country music quizzes. And to the complaining Americans....as bad as some of those choices are, I still think we produce better music. You stick to your Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus.

	Massagraf:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 18:09 GMT	12 points
	@ MovieDinamic: Not everything you don't like is automaticly overrated...