893 Essential Songs

The results are in and we're counting down your 893 favorite songs from May 10 - May 17. Tune in from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays; Saturday 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to hear who made the list. We'll finish at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 17.

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If you want to relive the countdown, we've made a Spotify playlist — and if you want to nerd out, we've got a spreadsheet to crunch some numbers.

600
Rocks Off
Exile on Main Street
601
Crazy
St. Elsewhere
Gnarls Barkley
602
Just
The Bends
Radiohead
603
I Want You
Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan
604
Web In Front
Archers of Loaf
605
House of the Rising Sun
The Animals
606
Don't Worry Baby
The Beach Boys
607
The Funeral
Everything All the Time
Band of Horses
608
Closer
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
609
Ants Marching
Remember Two Things
Dave Matthews Band
610
Femme Fatale
The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground
611
Night Moves
Night Moves
Bob Seger
612
No Hell
The Seeker
Cloud Cult
613
Paisley Park
Around the World In a Day
Prince
614
Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2
The Wall
Pink Floyd
615
Lazy Eye
Carnavas
Silversun Pickups
616
True Dreams of Wichita
Ruby Vroom
Soul Coughing
617
Disorder
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
618
Protect Ya Neck
Enter the Wu-Tang
The Wu-Tang Clan
619
Dust In The Wind
Point of Know Return
Kansas
620
She Sells Sanctuary
Love
The Cult
621
Here Comes My Girl
Damn the Torpedoes
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
622
Buddy Holly
Weezer (The Blue Album)
Weezer
623
Don't Give Up
So
Peter Gabriel
624
Rocky Raccoon
The Beatles (The White Album)
The Beatles
625
Check the Rhime
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
626
No Rain
Blind Melon
Blind Melon
627
Rock with You
Off the Wall
Michael Jackson
628
Cherub Rock
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
629
Fisherman's Blues
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
630
Rhythm Nation
Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson
631
Santeria
Sublime
Sublime
632
So What'cha Want
Check Your Head
Beastie Boys
633
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Summertime Dream
Gordon Lightfoot
634
Fascination Street
Disintegration
The Cure
635
A Little Bit of Everything
Nothing is Wrong
Dawes
636
The Luckiest
Rocking the Suburbs
Ben Folds
637
Station to Station
Station to Station
David Bowie
638
Helplessness Blues
Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes
639
Rockin' in the Free World
Freedom
Neil Young
640
Move On Up
Curtis
Curtis Mayfield
641
I and Love and You
I and Love and You
The Avett Brothers
642
End of the Line
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
The Traveling Wilburys
643
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
In the Groove
Marvin Gaye
644
Always on My Mind
Always On My Mind
Willie Nelson
645
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
The Clash
The Clash
646
Everybody Knows
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
647
Revolution
The Beatles (The White Album)
The Beatles
648
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Bob Dylan
649
There's so Much Energy in Us
Light Chasers
Cloud Cult
650
Waltz #2 (XO)
XO
Elliott Smith
651
Tusk
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
652
Ruby Tuesday
Between the Buttons
The Rolling Stones
653
Think
Aretha Now
Aretha Franklin
654
The Underdog
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Spoon
655
I've Just Seen A Face
Help!
The Beatles
656
32 Flavors
Not a Pretty Girl
Ani Difranco
657
Live Forever
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
658
Friday I'm In Love
Wish
The Cure
659
Gentle On My Mind
Gentle On My Mind
Glen Campbell
660
Cold War
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monae
661
Lonely Boy
El Camino
The Black Keys
662
Dog Days are Over
Lungs
Florence + The Machine
663
Blue
Blue
Joni Mitchell
664
All I Need
In Rainbows
Radiohead
665
Learn to Fly
There is Nothing Left to Lose
Foo Fighters
666
ABC
Jackson 5
667
Wave of Mutilation
Doolittle
Pixies
668
Rocket Man
Honky Chateau
Elton John
669
Today
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
670
Divorce Song
Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair
671
West End Girls
Please
Pet Shop Boys
672
The Magnificent Seven
Sandinista
The Clash
673
Watching The Detectives
My Aim is True
Elvis Costello
674
A Sort Of Homecoming
The Unforgettable Fire
U2
675
Androgynous
Let it Be
The Replacements
676
Deacon Blues
Aja
Steely Dan
677
Heavy Metal Drummer
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
678
Flume
For Emma, Forever Ago
Bon Iver
679
True Colors
True Colors
Cyndi Lauper
680
Can't Help Falling in Love
Blue Hawaii
Elvis Presley
681
One Love/People Get Ready
One Love
Bob Marley & The Wailers
682
Sloop John B
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
683
The Pretender
The Pretender
Jackson Browne
684
Ball and Biscuit
Elephant
The White Stripes
685
Paradise City
Appetite for Destruction
Guns N' Roses
686
Rapture
Autoamerican
Blondie
687
Mercedes Benz
Pearl
Janis Joplin
688
Sign 'O' The Times
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
689
You're my best friend
A Night at the Opera
Queen
690
Hey Ladies
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
691
Five Years
Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie
692
Someone Great
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
693
Georgia On My Mind
Ray Charles
694
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles
695
There She Goes
The La's
696
Lay Lady Lay
Nashville Skyline
Bob Dylan
697
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
Ghost in the Machine
The Police
698
That Wasn't Me
Bear Creek
Brandi Carlile
699
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
Boys Don't Cry
The Cure