Making this top list is one of the hardest challenges I have had to overcome yet. Picking 100 songs in a list of thousands was certainly not easy but I have tried my best to pick them. My favorite songs change on a regular basis and if you ask me next month the list might look different. However, the way I did this was to make a top 150 list three times and then use the 100 songs that appeared on the most for the actual top 100 list to get some consistency.
Next year though, everything could change, which is why I named this list "2025 Edition", although most of these songs were picked in 2024 already. If possible, I will try to update this list every year or at least every other year, but in all honesty, more than half of these songs are permanently there to stay and will probably never be replaced as long as I live.
For this list, anything goes, there are not many rules. All songs in the world qualify, regardless of style and genre or subgenre. The only rule I have applied for this list is to only include a maximum of five songs per band or artist, in order to make the list a bit more fun. If I didn't have that rule, as an example, there would be over ten Roxy Music songs on the list, which would not be that helpful for you to find some variety of songs and hopefully some new favorites yourself. Songs by the same band/artist might also appear in a different order than in their own Top 10/25 list, as I made this list the most recent. The other lists will be updated eventually.
If you want to listen to more songs from any of these bands or artists, check out my MV Playlists, where you can find the rest of my saved songs for each band/artist. For this Top List, unlike the other Top 10/Top 25 top lists, I will not have a short description of why I like each song as it would be too hard to compare 100 songs to each other due to many having different subgenres of rock etc. I will simply list them in order and the reason why I love each could be anything this time around!
I hope you enjoy my top 100 favorite songs of all time (as of 2025)!
/Danny
#100 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
#99 The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down!
#98 The Offspring - The Kids ARen't Alright
#97 Rod Stewart - Tora, Tora, Tora
#96 Cradle Of FIlth - Nymphetamine Fix
#95 Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son
#94 Nekrogoblikon - No One Survives
#93 John Fogerty - Rambunctious Boy
#92 Cat Stevens - Can't Keep It In
#91 Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
#90 Van Halen - AIn't Talkin' 'Bout Love
#89 AC/DC - Highway To Hell
#88 Shakin' Stevens - This Ole House
#87 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
#86 The Sisters Of Mercy - Temple Of Love
#85 Rob Zombie - Dragula
#84 The Police - Message In A Bottle
#83 Ry Cooder - Get Rhythm
#82 Thin Lizzy - Do Anything You Want To
#81 Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
#80 Alice Cooper - He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)
#79 Ghost - Spillways
#78 Sabaton - Devil Dogs
#77 Hulkoff - Martialisk
#76 The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
#75 Girlschool - Yeah Right
#74 The Struts - Could Have Been Me
#73 John Fogerty - Hot Rod Heart
#72 Michael Jackson - You Rock MY World
#71 Ozzy Osbourne - Dreamer
#70 Sabaton - Stormtroopers
#69 The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
#68 Roy ORbison - We'll Take The Night
#67 The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
#66 Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight
#65 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
#64 System Of A Down - Chop Suey!
#63 Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
#62 Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire
#61 Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone
#60 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
#59 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
#58 The Beach Boys - Sloop John B
#57 ELO - Julie Don't Live Here
#56 Eurythmics - Would I Lie To You?
#55 Wham! - Freedom
#54 Ted Gärdestad - Come Give Me Love
#53 Ramones - Pet Semetary
#52 Greta Van Fleet - Highway Tune
#51 Michael Jackson - Black Or White
#50 Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light
#49 Don Henley - They're Not Here, They're Not Coming
#48 Green Day - American Idiot
#47 Bruce Springsteen - The River
#46 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
#45 Traveling Wilburys - Wilbury Twist
#44 The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
#43 Racey - Some Girls
#42 Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
#41 Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
#40 Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
#39 Guns N' Roses - paradise CIty
#38 Iron Maiden - The Number Of THe BEast
#37 ELO - The Way Life's Meant to Be
#36 The Monkees - Daydream Believer
#35 Prince - Let's Go Crazy
#34 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
#33 Ghost - Griftwood
#32 Status Quo - Jam Side Down
#31 T.Rex - Metal Guru
#30 Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
#29 Billy Idol - To Be A Lover
#28 T.Rex - Hot Love
#27 Queen - Hammer To Fall
#26 Roxy Music - All I Want Is You
#25 Metallica - Enter Sandman
#24 AC/DC - Rock 'N' Roll Damnation
#23 Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart
#22 Status Quo - Rockin All Over The World
#21 Def Leppard - Lets Get Rocked
#20 Meat Loaf - Dead Ringer For Love
#19 T.Rex - Children Of The Revolution
#18 Uriah Heep - Easy Livin'
#17 Sabaton - The Red Baron
#16 AC/DC - Let THere Be Rock
#15 KISS - Turn On The Night
#14 Def Leppard - When Love & Hate Collide
#13 Status QUo - Rollin' Home
#12 Mötley Crüe - Same Ol' Situation
#11 Roxy Music - Dance Away
#10 Sabaton - Livgardet
#9 David Bowie - Absolute Beginners
#8 Misfits - Dig Up Her Bones
#7 Ramones - Bonzo Goes To Bitburg
#6 Greta Van Fleet - Meeting The Master
#5 Mötley Crüe - Live Wire
#4 Cinderella - SHelter Me
#3 Queen - Breakthru
#2 Bon Jovi - Runaway
#1 Roxy Music - Oh Yeah
