The 5 Best Songs Of All Time, Part 1

by Alexandra Molotkow

5. Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU
Imagine if one day at rush hour they piped this into the subway system

4. The Smiths, “There Is a Light that Never Goes Out”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-cD4oLk_D0
I don’t really like this song, but it means a lot to people and this is an objective ranking

3. Bobbie Gentry, “Fancy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfoK5Ap0FA
Literally better than 95% of novels

2. Brandy and Monica, “The Boy Is Mine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va1Y6uAgNJY
I’ll always feel like I heard this for the first time last summer

1. Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTIB10eQnA0
In my dreams I go back to 1988 and delete all the songs that aren’t this song