Where (I think) you should start with Taylor Swift
my top one hundred songs
People sometimes ask me which songs they should listen to in order to understand Taylor Swift. The answer is “all of them” but since you can’t listen to all of them at once, I have made this list of my top hundred(ish) Swift songs. Obviously this is completely based on my personal preferences and whims and I had to omit some incredible songs! You can find my discussion of how I picked my top ten Swift songs here.
1. All Too Well (10 Minute Version)
2. Dear John
3. You Belong With Me
4. Red
5. All Too Well
6. Mine
7. Clean
8. You’re on Your Own, Kid
9. Long Live
10. Shake it Off
11. Blank Space
12. Cruel Summer
13. august
14. Cornelia Street
15. Out of the Woods
16. Paper Rings
17. Maroon
18. King of My Heart
19. loml
mirrorball
21. State of Grace
22. Fearless
23. The Archer
24. New Year’s Day
25. Back to December
26. Come in With the Rain
27. Style
28. Our Song
29. But Daddy I Love Him
You All Over Me
31. cowboy like me
32. Midnight Rain
33. the 1
34. Begin Again
35. Last Kiss
36. Lover
37. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
38. my tears ricochet
39. Labyrinth
40. Gorgeous
41. Tim McGraw
42. I Knew You Were Trouble
43. cardigan
44. Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince
45. The Tortured Poets Department
Mean
47. Better than Revenge
48. Anti-Hero
The Black Dog
The Man
51. Welcome to New York
52. I Bet You Think About Me
53. Forever & Always
54. Mr Perfectly Fine
55. Love Story
56. Dress
57. betty
58. Getaway Car
59. Picture to Burn
60. illicit affairs
61. Delicate
epiphany
63. The Great War
64. this is me trying
65. long story short
66. White Horse
67. Sparks Fly
68. Snow on the Beach
69. Come Back… Be Here
70. Bigger than the Whole Sky / All You Had to Do Was Stay (tie)
71. The Alchemy
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73. Hey Stephen
74. Wildest Dreams
75. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
Don’t Blame Me
77. gold rush
Look What You Made Me Do
79. Mastermind
I Can Do it With a Broken Heart
81. Holy Ground
82. Dear Reader
83. Soon You’ll Get Better
84. seven
85. right where you left me
86. peace / False God (tie)
87. Fresh Out the Slammer
Better Man
89. So It Goes
90. …Ready for It?
91. Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve
92. marjorie
93. Guilty as Sin? / Haunted (tie)
94. New Romantics
95. Death by a Thousand Cuts / Daylight (tie)
96. hoax
97. Hits Different
98. Nothing New
champagne problems
Message in a Bottle
Honorable Mentions:
happiness
All Of the Girls You Loved Before / invisible string (tie)
tolerate it
Question…?
Fortnight
Do you agree with my choices? Let me know in the comments!