Which English songs are the must to have in one's playlist?

According to me, the answer for this question would vary with each person, as everyone has a different musical taste. But I will try to compile a list which has good songs from almost all genres of music. So, here it goes -
  • Rock -
  1. Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine, November Rain, Patience, Paradise City, Welcome To The Jungle, Civil War
  2. The Beatles - Across the Universe, Hey Jude, And I Love Her, Let it Be, All You Need Is Love, Yesterday, Elanor Rigby, Love Me Do, Strawberry Fields Forever, Get Back, The Long and Winding Road
  3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have you ever seen the rain?, Fortunate Son
  4. The Beach Boys - Kokomo, God Only Knows, Good Vibrations
  5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh), Under the Bridge, Dani California, Californication, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Brendan’s Death Song, By The Way, The Zephyr Song, Monarchy of Roses
  6. Grateful Dead - Ripple, Uncle John's Band, Box of Rain, Touch of Grey, Whiskey In the Jar
  7. Inxs - Afterglow
  8. The Killers - Human, Mr.Brightside, Miss Atomic Bomb, Spaceman, Read my Mind, When you were young, Just Another Girl, A Dustland Fairytale, Somebody told me, Smile like you mean it
  9. Fleetwood Mac - Landslide, The Chain, As Long as you follow
  10. Simple Plan - Astronaut, Untitled
  11. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees, No Surprises, Paranoid Android, High and Dry, Creep, House Of Cards, All I Need, 4 Minute Warning, Let Down, How to Disappear Completely, True Love Waits, Exit Music (For a Film), Street Spirit (Fade Out), Lotus Flowers, Codex, Nude, The National Anthem, Kid A, Everything in it’s right place, Daydreaming, Decks Dark, There There, Climbing Up The Walls, How Can You Be Sure, Nice Dream, Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong, Man of War, Videotape
  12. The Who - Baba O' Riley, Behind Blue Eyes, My Generation
  13. U2 - With or Without you, Where the streets have no name, Sometimes you can't make it on your own, Beautiful Day, One, Running to stand still, I Still Haven't Found What I'm looking for, Sweetest thing, Walk On
  14. Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop, I Wanna Be Sedated, Sheena Is a Punk Rocker, The KKK took my Baby Away, Pet Sematary
  15. AC/DC - Highway to hell, Back In Black, You Shook me all night long, Thunderstruck, Ride On, It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock N’ Roll), Big Gun
  16. The Rolling Stones - Angie, Paint It Black, (I can't get no) Satisfaction, Streets Of Love, You can't always get what you want, Gimme Shelter
  17. Hoobastank - The Reason
  18. Daughtry - Crawling back to you
  19. Poets of the Fall - Cradled in love, Carnival of Rust, Given and Denied
  20. Foster the People - Pumped up Kicks, Houdini, Call it what you want
  21. The Doors - People Are Strange, Riders on the Storm, Five to One, Not to Touch the Earth, Touch Me, The End
  22. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars, Run, Open Your Eyes, In the End, Crack the Shutters, You Could be Happy, You’re All I Have
  23. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts, Nightswimming, Losing My Religion
  24. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart, New Dawn Fades
  25. The Police - Every Breath You Take, Roxanne
  26. Santana - Black Magic Woman
  27. Dire Straits - Money for Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Brothers in Arms, Sultans of Swing, Telegraph Road, Walk of Life, Private Investigations
  28. Muse - Madness, Neutron Star Collision
  29. Oasis - Wonderwall, Stop Crying your heart out, The Shock Of the Lightning, Little by Little, Stand By Me, Champagne Supernova, Don’t Look Back In Anger, Slide Away
  30. 30 Seconds to Mars - Kings And Queens, This Is War, City of Angels, A Beautiful Lie
  31. Aerosmith - Dream On, Angle, Janie's got a gun, I don’t wanna Miss a Thing, Pink
  32. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come as you are, Lithium, Territorial Pissings, Rape Me, The Man who sold the world
  33. Bon Jovi - It's My Life, Livin' On A Prayer
  34. Scorpions - Winds Of Change, Rock You Like a Hurricane, Still Loving You, Send me an Angel
  35. Whitesnake - Here I go again, Is This Love
  36. The Maine - Into your Arms
  37. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow you into the Dark, Transatlanticism, A Lack of Color, What Sarah Said, The Ice Is Getting Thinner
  38. The Fray - You found me, How to save a life
  39. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah, 1,2,3,4, Rhytm of Love
  40. We The Kings - Check Yes Juliet
  41. The Black Keys - Gold on the ceiling, Tighten Up
  42. Artic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent, 505, Do I Wanna Know?, Don’t Sit Down (Cause I Have Moved Your Chair)
  43. Take That - The Flood
  44. Coldplay - The Scientist, Fix You, Us against the World, Strawberry Swing, God Put a smile upon your face, Yellow, Trouble, Charlie Brown, Death and All his friends, Viva la Vida
  45. Poison - Every Rose Has it's Thorn
  46. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
  47. One Republic - Apologize, Good Life, Secrets
  48. Foo Fighters - Walk, Rope, Learning to Fly
  49. Extreme - More Than Words
  50. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody, We Are the champions, We Will Rock you, The Show Must Go On
  51. Starship - We Built This City
  52. Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody, Sex On Fire, Closer
  53. Led Zepplin - Stairway To Heaven, Kashmir
  54. My Chemical Romance - Cancer, Welcome to the Black Parade
  55. Green Day - 21 Guns, Wake me up when September Ends, 21st Century Breakdown, Boulevard of Broken dreams, Know Your Enemy, American Idiot, Basket Case
  56. Bee Gees - Stayin Alive, Night Fever, How Deep Is your Love, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Massachusetts, I Started a Joke, Words, Too Much Heaven, More than a Woman, New York Mining Disaster 1941, To Love Somebody, Tragedy, First Of May
  57. The Eagles - Hotel California, Desperado
  58. Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven, Cocaine
  59. Bruce Springsteen - We Take Care of our own, Dancing in the dark, Born in the USA
  60. The Velvet Underground - Heroin
  61. Linkin Park - In The End, Numb, Iridescent, Robot Boy, Waiting for the end, Burning In the skies, Papercut, Leave out all the rest, Valentine’s Day
  62. Alice In Chains - Would?, Man in the Box, Nutshell, Love Hate Love, Down in a Hole
  63. Cream - Sunshine of your love
  64. Stone Sour - Through Glass, Bother
  65. The Clash - London Calling, Rock The Casbah
  66. Rod Stewart - Infatuation, Passion
  67. Iggy Pop - Lust for life, The Passenger
  68. Lou Reed - Perfect Day, Walk On The Wild Side
  69. Menwhopause - Easy, Circles
  70. Them Clones - Zephreytta
  71. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
  72. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset, Lola, You Really Got Me, Days, Sunny Afternoon
  73. 4 Non Blondes - What’s Up
  74. Kansas - Dust In The Wind, Carry On my Wayward Son
  75. The Cranberries - Zombie, Tomorrow, Linger
  76. Anathema - Untouchable Pt.2, The Lost Song Pt.2, One Last Goodbye, Dreaming Light, Ariel, Anyone Anywhere, Forgotten Hopes, Fragile Dreams, Lost Control
  77. Buckethead - Soothsayer, Jordan, Padmasana, Baptism Of Solitude, Aunt Suzie, Earth Heals Itself, Dawn Appears, Lotus Island, Crack In The Sky
  78. Indus Creed - Fireflies, Pretty Child
  79. The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
  80. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
  81. Bombay Bicycle Club - You Already Know, Lights Out Words Gone
  82. The Calling - Wherever You Will Go
  83. American Authors - The Best Day of my Life
  84. Nickelback - Gotta be Somebody, Rockstar, When We Stand Together
  85. Goddess Gagged - Dreamer, Sink or Swim
  86. Elvis Presley - Can’t Help Falling In Love, Jailhouse Rock
  87. Motherjane - Mindstreet
  88. Deep Purple - Soldier Of Fortune, Smoke on the Water
  89. Three Days Grace - Never too Late
  90. The Moody Blues - Melancholy Man
  91. Incubus - Echo, Drive
  92. Stoned Jesus - I’m the Mountain, Bright Like The Morning
  93. Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
  94. Trent Reznor - Hurt
  95. Cheap Trick - The Flame
  96. God is an Astronaut - Forever Lost, Frozen Twilight
  97. Beady Eye - The Roller
  98. Kings of Convenience - Misread, I’d Rather Dance with You, Cayman Islands, Me in You, Boat Behind
  99. The Cure - Pictures of You
  100. Sing Street - Up, Drive it Like You Stole it
  101. Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
  • Electronic pop and Dance Music -
  1. Owl City - Fireflies, Vanilla Twilight
  2. Your Chin - Your Chin, Run Along Little One, Another Turn
  3. Infected Mushroom - Saeed, Becoming Insane, Deeply Disturbed
  4. Shpongle - Brain in a Fishtank, Divine Moments of Truth, No Turn Un-stoned, Juggling Molecules, Shpongle Spores, Dorset Perception
  5. Example - Stay Awake, Changed The Way You Kiss Me
  6. LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem, Sexy and I know it
  7. Swedish House Mafia - Don't you worry child
  8. Sky Rabbit - Anti-Coke Ganpati, Hilltop
  9. Dualist Enquiry - One More Thing, Exile, 6 AM
  10. In Love With a Ghost - We've never met but, can we have a coffee or something?, Sorry for not answering the phone, I'm too busy trying to fly away
  • Progressive Rock/Metal and Psychedelic Rock -
  1. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb, Hey You, Time, Us and Them, Brain Damage, Breathe in the air, Money, Mother, Coming Back to Life, High Hopes, Echoes, On the Turning away, Have A Cigar, Wish you were here, Fat Old Sun, Poles Apart, The Great Gig in the Sky, Julia Dreams
  2. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Somebody to Love
  3. Genesis - Supper's Ready, Firth Of Fifth
  4. King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind, Starless, The Court of the Crimson King, Epitaph, Moonchild, Cadence and Cascade, 21st Century Schizoid Man, Frame by Frame
  5. Porcupine Tree - Lazarus, Fear of a Blank Planet, Arriving somewhere but not here, Deform to form a Star
  6. Dream Theatre - A Change of seasons, The Count of Tuscany, Through Her Eyes, The Spirit Carries On, The Answer Lies Within, Wait For Sleep, Disappear, Another Day, Wither, This is the Life, Another Day, Pull Me Under, Hollow Years, Endless Sacrifice, Stream of Consciousness, In the name of God
  7. Camel - Ice, Sahara, Rajaz, Stationary Traveller, Lawrence, Fingertips, Vopos
  8. Steven Wilson - Routine, The Raven that refused to sing, Drive Home, Please Come Home, Luminol, The Holy Drinker, Raider II
  9. Gentle Giant - Knots, Nothing at all, Think of me with Kindness
  10. Blackfield - My Gift of Silence, Miss U, Far Away
  11. Animals as Leaders - CAFO, Song of Solomon, Physical Education
  12. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick, Aqualung, Budapest, Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day, Life's a Long Song, Look into the sun, We Used to Know, Locomotive Breathing, Living in the Past
  13. Opeth - Burden, Hope Leaves, Black Rose Immortal, Benighted, Soldier of Fortune, Nepenthe, To Bid You Farewell, In My Time of Need, Hours Of Wealth, Harvest, Will O The Wisp
  14. Plini - Electric Sunrise, Selenium Forest, Heart, Here We Are Again
  15. Crimson Glory - Lost Reflection, Painted Skies, Lady of Winter
  16. Haken - Shapeshifter
  17. Aphrodite’s Child - Aegian Sea, The Four Horsemen
  18. The Pineapple Thief - The Final Thing On My Mind, Nothing at Best, Clapham, Someone Pull Me Out of Here, All the Wars, In Exile, Show a Little Love, The One You Left To Die, Coming Home, Snowdrops, All I Need To Know
  19. The Aristocats - Waves
  20. This Town Needs Guns - 26 Is Dancier Than 4, If I Sit Still Maybe I’ll get out of Here, Wanna Come Back to My Room and Listen to Some Belle And Sebastian
  21. Mostly Autumn - The Night Sky, Sight of Day, Silver Glass, Carpe Diem
  22. Storm Corrosion - Drag Ropes
  23. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Canario
  24. Rush - 2112, Tom Sawyer
  • Folk Rock -
  1. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr., No Shade in the shadow of the cross, Blue Bucket of Gold, John My Beloved, All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands, Should Have Known Better, All Of Me Wants All Of You, The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us
  2. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer, America, Kathy's Song, Leaves That Are Green, The Sound of Silence, The Sun is Burning, Rose Of Aberdeen, Flowers never bend with the rainfall, Bleecker Street, I Am a Rock, The Dangling Conversation, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Scarborough Fair, Mrs. Robinson, April Come she will, Barbriallen, Benedictus, Roving Gambler, April Come She Will, My Little Town, El Condor Pasa (If I Could), So Long Frank Llyod Wright
  3. Elton John - Candle in the Wind, Can you feel the Love Tonight, Rocket Man
  4. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone, Blowin in the wind, To Fall in Love With You
  5. Paul Simon - Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War, Hearts and Bones
  6. Johnny Cash - Hurt
  7. Iron & Wine - Cinder and Smoke, Such Great Heights, Upward Over The Mountain, Boy With A Coin, Each Coming Night, Flightless Bird American Mouth, The Trapeze Swinger, Passing Afternoon
  8. Bon Iver - Holocene, I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick of Time, Skinny Love, Calgary, Towers, A Song For a Lover Of Long Ago
  9. City And Colour - The Girl, Sleeping Sickness
  • Country rock -
  1. Carpenters - Yesterday Once More, We've only just begun, Only Yesterday, (They long to be) Close to you, Top of the world, Superstar, This Masquerade
  2. John Denver - Annie's Song, Take me home, Country Roads
  3. Taylor Swift - Back to December, Love Story, Fifteen, Mean
  4. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now, Just a Kiss
  5. Mirana Lambert - The House That Built me
  6. Kasey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
  • Pop -
  1. ABBA - Winner takes it all, Fernando, Dancing Queen, Mama Mia
  2. Katy Perry - Firework, California Gurls
  3. Icona Pop - I Love It
  4. The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
  5. Blue - One Love, I Can
  6. A Great Big World - Say Something
  7. John Lennon - Imagine, Working Class Hero, Mother
  8. The Vamps - Oh Cecilia (Breaking my heart)
  9. Mariah Carey - Hero
  10. Fun - We are Young, Some Nights
  11. Christina Perri - Human, A Thousand Years
  12. Adele - Someone Like You, Rolling In the deep
  13. Dido & A.R. Rahman - If I Rise
  14. Celine Dion - My Heart Will go on
  15. Michael Jackson - Beat It, Billie Jean, Heal the world
  16. Weird Al Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana, Foil, Eat It, Fat
  17. Avril Lavigne - What The Hell
  18. Enrique Iglesias - Tired of being Sorry, Hero, Tonight (I am loving you)
  19. Gotye - Somebody that I used to know
  20. David Bowie - Space Oddity, Life in Mars
  21. Ed Sheeran - The A-Team, All of the Stars
  22. Aqua - Barbie Girl
  23. Cigarettes After Sex - Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby, Affection, Keep On Loving You, Please Don’t Cry, Each Time You Fall in Love, K.
  24. Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply
  25. Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
  26. Mike Posner - Bow Chicka Wow Wow
  27. George Ezra - Hotel Budapest
  28. Charlie XCX - Boom Clap
  29. Jason Mraz - I Won’t Give Up
  30. Big Time Rush - Boyfriend
  31. Heaven 17 - Temptation
  32. Parekh & Singh - I Love You Baby I Love You Doll, Ghost, Philosophize
  33. Norah Jones - Summertime, Don’t Know Why, Come Away with me, What Am I To You?
  • Metal -
  1. Amon Amarth - Pursuit of the Vikings, Twilight of the Thunder God, Guardians Of Asgaard
  2. Cradle Of Filth - Bathory Aria, Nymphetamine Fix
  3. Avenged Sevenfold - Dear God, I Won't see you tonight Pt.1, Warmness On The Soul
  4. In Flames - Only for the Weak
  5. Lamb Of God - Walk with me in Hell, Laid To Rest, Blacken the Cursed Sun
  6. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death, Run to the Hills, Hallowed be thy Name, Alexander the Great, Fear Of The Dark, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  7. Megadeth - Holy Wars (The Punishment Due), A Tout Le Monde, Hangar 18
  8. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell, Walk, Cemetary Gates
  9. Metallica - Master Of Puppets, Nothing Else Matters, Unforgiven, Enter Sandman, Holier Than Thou, Fade to black, St.Anger
  10. Powerwolf - We Drink your Blood, Sanctified with Dynamite
  11. Slayer - Jihad, Dead Skin Mask, Angel Of Death, Raining Blood, World Painted Blood, Disciple, Playing with Dolls
  12. Wolfmother - Joker and the thief, New Moon Rising, 10,000 feet, Where Eagles Have been, Woman
  13. Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take it
  14. Slipknot - Psychosocial, Snuff, Vermillion Pt.2, Disasterpiece, People = Shit, Scissors, Dead Memories, The Heretic Anthem
  15. System Of A Down - Question, Chop Suey, Lost In Hollywood, Hypnotize, Violent Pornography, Sad Statue, B.Y.O.B., Soldier Side, Lonely Day, Radio/Video, I-E-A-I-A-I-O
  16. Cannibal Corpse - Stripped, Raped and Strangled, Followed Home then Killed, Hammer Smashed Face, As Deep as the Knife goes, I Cum Blood
  17. Death - Lack Of Comprehension, Crystal Mountain, Zombie Ritual, The Flesh And The Power It Holds, Voice of the Soul
  18. Lost Soul - If The Dead Can Speak
  19. Mournful Congregation - The June Frost, When the Weeping Dawn Beheld it’s Mortal Thirst
  20. Arch Enemy - We Will Rise, Nemesis
  21. Black Sabbath - War Pigs, Paranoid, Iron Man
  22. Carcass - Heartwork
  23. Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - The River flows frozen
  24. Rage Against The Machine - People Of the sun, Bulls on Parade, Know Your Enemy
  25. Children Of Bodom - Bed Of Razors, Lake Bodom, Are You Dead Yet?, Everytime I Die
  26. Rammstein - Ich Will, Du Hast, Sonne, Amerika
  27. The Black Dahlia Murder - Funeral Thirst
  28. Motorhead - Ace of Spades, The Game, King of Kings
  29. Tool - Lateralus, Right in Two, Prison Sex, Stinkfist, Wings of Marie Pt.2, The Pot
  30. Cattle Decapitation - A Living, Breathing Defecating Piece of Meat
  31. Tiamat - A Different Kind of Slumber, Do you dream of me
  32. Saturnus - All Alone, I Long
  33. Nightwish - The Poet and the Pendulum, While Your Lips Are Still Red, The Islander, Elan, Amaranth, Nemo, The Phantom Of The Opera
  34. Novembers Doom - Twilight Innocence, What Could Have Been
  35. Lake Of Tears - To Blossom Blue
  36. Theatre of Tragedy - Venus, When He Falleth, A Distance There Is
  37. Moonspell - Magdalene
  38. Korn - Freak on a Leash
  39. Deicide - How Can You Call Yourself God?, Dead by Dawn
  40. Eluveitie - The Call Of The Mountains, A Rose For Epona, Inis Mona
  41. Napalm Death - Suffer The Children
  42. Sepultura - Refuse/Resist, Roots Bloody Roots, Dead Embryonic Cells, Territory
  43. Dying Fetus - Kill your Mother Rape your Dog, Your Treachery Will Die With You
  44. A Pale Horse Named Death - Die Alone
  45. Book of Black Earth - I See Demons
  46. Daylight Dies - Cathedral
  47. Katatonia - My Twin, Pale Flag
  48. Born of Osiris - Bow Down, Open Arms To Damnation
  49. Bathory - Blood and Iron, Nordland
  • Rap and Hip-Hop -
  1. Eminem - Spacebound, Stronger Than I Was, Love the way you lie, Lose Yourself, Rap God, The Real Slim Shady
  2. Bad Meets Evil - Fast Lane, Lighters
  3. Macklemore - Thrift Shop
  4. Chris Brown - Look At Me Now, Kiss Kiss, Crawl
  5. Lil Wayne - How to love, 6 Foot 7 Foot
  6. Dr. Dre - I Need a Doctor
  7. Wiz Khalifa - Black & Yellow
  8. Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles
  9. Lil Dicky - Professional Rapper, Freaky Friday, Lemme Freak
  • Jazz/Jazz Rock/Jazz Fusion -
  1. David Gilmour - The Girl in the Yellow Dress, In Any Tongue
  2. Buddy Guy - What Kind of Woman is this?, Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed
  3. Kenny G - The Moment, Sentimental
  4. Steely Dan - Fire in the Hole, Aja
  5. Thank You Scientist - Mr. Invisible, Need More Input, Blue Automatic, The Somnambulist, Caverns, The Amateur Arsonist's Handbook, Leave Your Light On, My Famed Disappearing Act, Feed The horses, Gemini
  6. Mahavishnu Orchestra - One Word, Lila’s Dance, Lotus Feet, Meeting of the Spirits/You Know You Know, Miles Beyond
  7. Shakti - Face to Face, Shringar, Joy, Peace Of Mind, Lady L, India, Isis, Lotus Feet, La danse du bonheur
  8. Snarky Puppy - Lingus, Shofukan, What About Me?, Outlier, Young Stuff, Skate U, Kite
  9. B.B. King - Lucille
  10. Bob James & David Sandborn - Maputo
  11. Grover Washington Jr. - Mister Magic

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