Luft's Favorite 100 Non-Classical Songs
(A list I made in the early 2000s, limited to two songs per artist, but with the understanding that the following artists would have more songs on the list without the limitation: ACDC, The Animals, The Beatles, Beru Revue, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, The Byrds, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Mott the Hoople, The Rolling Stones, The Who.)
- Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
- Ball and Chain - Janis Joplin
- The Ballad of Dwight Fry - Alice Cooper
- The Ballad of the U.S.S. Titanic - Jaime Brockett
- The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil - Jefferson Airplane
- Be Careful Tonight - Beru Revue
- Beat-Up Guitar - The Hooters
- Beautiful Loser - Bob Seger
- Box of Rain - The Grateful Dead
- Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
- Bwaah - Beru Revue
- Candy's Room - Bruce Springsteen
- Celeste - Donovan
- A Day in the Life - The Beatles
- Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin
- Dear Mr. Fantasy - Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper (on Live Adventures)
- Death Don't Have No Mercy - Hot Tuna
- Delta Lady - Mad Dogs and Englishmen
- Devil With a Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly - Mitch Ryder and the
Detroit Wheels
- Down by the River - Neil Young
- Education - The Kinks
- Eight Miles High - The Byrds
- Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
- Five to One - The Doors
- Five Years - David Bowie
- Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Free Money - Patti Smith
- Fresh Garbage - Spirit
- Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
- Get Together - The Youngbloods
- Gloria - Patti Smith
- Gloria - Them
- Go Where You Wanna Go - The Mamas and the Papas
- God - John Lennon
- I Can See For Miles - The Who
- I Saw it on TV - John Fogerty
- I'll Never Find Another You - The Seekers
- I'm Eighteen - Alice Cooper
- I'm Going Home (Woodstock version) - Ten Years After
- I'm the Only One - Melissa Etheridge
- If 6 Was 9 - Jimi Hendrix
- If We Never Meet Again - Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers
- In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
- Istanbul - They Might Be Giants
- It's My Life - The Animals
- Let It Grow - Eric Clapton
- Long Long Time - Linda Ronstadt
- Long Time Gone - Crosby, Stills, and Nash
- Love Has No Pride - Linda Ronstadt
- Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar
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- Love Like a Man - Ten Years After
- Love, Sweat, Passion - The Daves
- Lover of the Bayou - The Byrds
- The Man's Too Strong - Dire Straits
- Medley: Dance to the Music, Music Lover, I Want to Take You Higher - Sly
and the Family Stone
- Money Changes Everything - Cyndi Lauper
- My Generation (Live at Leeds version) - The Who
- My Girl - The Temptations
- No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley and the Wailers
- Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing - Buffalo Springfield
- O Lucky Man - Alan Price
- Oh Atlanta - Little Feat
- Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac
- One of the Boys - Mott the Hoople
- Pirate Jenny - Judy Collins
- Playing in the Band - The Grateful Dead
- Powderfinger - Neil Young
- Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring
- Pure and Easy - Pete Townshend
- The Pusher - Steppenwolf
- Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
- Rejoyce - Jefferson Airplane
- Rock and Roll Fantasy - The Kinks
- The Saga Begins - Weird Al Yankovic
- Satellite - The Hooters
- Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
- Sky Pilot - Eric Burdon and the Animals
- So Lonely - The Police
- The Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix
- Sugaree - Jerry Garcia
- Sweet Child of Mine - Guns and Roses
- Sweet Jane (Rock-n-Roll Animal version) - Lou Reed
- Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
- Tall Cool One - Robert Plant
- Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
- Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
- To Love Somebody - Bee Gees
- Toad - Cream
- Valleri - The Monkees
- Violence - Mott the Hoople
- Walk of Life - Dire Straits
- War Pigs - Black Sabbath
- We'll All Go Together When We Go - Tom Lehrer
- What is Life? - George Harrison
- (What's So Funny About) Peace, Love, and Understanding? - Elvis Costello
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
- Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
- Wind Up - Jethro Tull
- Workout - Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers
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Honorable mention: Highway to Hell - ACDC; Wherever I May Roam - Metallica; The Unforgiven - Metallica
Eric v.d. Luft
Owner, Gegensatz Press
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