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I don't suppose there's much point in trying to rank these songs; after the first several, even, it's all good. The thing is that I love these songs best, but could pick another thousand. See if some of these match your own favorites.

1.     "Dust in the Wind" - Kansas
2.     "Eleanor Rigby" - The Beatles
3.     "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" - Simon & Garfunkel
4.     "No Quarter" - Led Zeppelin
5.     "Brokedown Palace" - The Grateful Dead
6.     "This Train" - Bob Marley & the Wailers (I don't really care for the up-tempo version of this song, but there's another version that begins with a little acoustic guitar melody that I am very fond of. I can't seem to find a reference to it online. Anyone want to help a brother out?)
7.     "Behind Blue Eyes" - The Who
8.     "Play Me" - Neil Diamond
9.     "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?" - The Rolling Stones
10.   "Voodoo Child" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
11.   "You're So Vain" - Carly Simon
12.   "Come Together" - The Beatles
13.   "Fortunate Son" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
14.   "Hard-Headed Woman" - Cat Stevens
15.   "Take Five" - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
16.   "Wichita Lineman" - Glen Campbell
17.   "Cars" - Gary Numan
18.   "I'd Love to Change the World" - Ten Years After 
19.   "Where Is My Mind?" - The Pixies
20.   "Chapter 24" - The Pink Floyd
21.   "New York Mining Disaster, 1941" - The Bee Gees
22.   "Season of the Witch" - Donovan
23.   "Dancing Queen" - ABBA
24.   "Still...You Turn Me On" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
25.   "Paint It Black" - The Rolling Stones
26.   "Guinnevere" - Crosby, Stills & Nash
27.   "Don't Change" - INXS
28.   "Old Brown Shoe" - The Beatles
29.   "Paranoid" - Black Sabbath
30.   "Hotel California" - The Eagles
31.   "John Barleycorn Must Die" - Traffic
32.   "Young Love" - Sonny James
33.   "Back in the Saddle" - Aerosmith
34.   "N.I.B." - Black Sabbath
35.   "The Needle and the Damage Done" - Neil Young
36.   "White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane
35.   "Gimme Shelter" - The Rolling Stones
36.   "Cuyahoga" - R.E.M.
37.   "Cross-Bones Style" - Cat Power
38.   "Hurt" - Johnny Cash (his incredible cover of the NIN song)
39.   "Scentless Apprentice" - Nirvana
40.   "Holding Back the Years" - Simply Red 
41.   "Lover's Cross" - Jim Croce
42.   "Blown Away" - Tripping Daisy
43.   "Gimme Your Money Please" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
44.   "Landslide" - Fleetwood Mac
45.   "Ghost Riders in the Sky" - Vaughn Monroe & the Sons of the Pioneers
46.   "Shambala" - Three Dog Night
47.   "Mannequin" - Wire
48.   "I Think I'm Paranoid" - Garbage
49.   "I Melt with You" - Modern English
50.   "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" - The Platters
51.   "In My Time of Dying" - Led Zeppelin
52.   "No Love Lost" - Joy Division
53.   "Pictures of Lily" - The Who
54.   "In the Flat Field" - Bauhaus
55.   "Fire and Rain" - James Taylor
56.   "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" - Judas Priest
57.   "Dance the Night Away" - Cream
58.   "Plateau" - Nirvana (a Meat Puppets cover from their famous Unplugged performance)
58.   "Pontiac" - Lyle Lovett
59.   "Cypress Avenue" - Van Morrison
60.   "Under Pressure" - Queen (with David Bowie)
61.   "Pretty Vacant" - The Sex Pistols
62.   "Out in the Street" - UFO
63.   "Remedy" - The Black Crowes
64.   "Limehouse" - The Breeders
65.   "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen
66.   "Junior's Farm" - Paul McCartney and Wings
67.   "Turn to Stone" - Electric Light Orchestra
67.   "No Reply" - The Beatles
68.   "More Than a Feeling" - Boston
69.   "Possession" - Sarah MacLachlan
70.   "Save It for Later" - English Beat
71.   "Winter" - Tori Amos
72.   "Time of the Season" - The Zombies
73.   "Angel Mine" - Cowboy Junkies
74.   "Man on the Corner" - Genesis
75.   "Saturday Night Special" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
78.   "Use Me Up" - Bill Withers

As for which songs I think suck, that's usually an easy one: anything happy or kitschy or Ray Stevens-like. That shit makes me want to butcher something in broad daylight.