99.1 PLR

99.1 PLR has been broadcasting for 50 years and that is a ton of music! This Memorial Day weekend, we counted down the 500 biggest songs ever. It’s the 99.1 PLR Stevens Auto Group of Milford Big 500. Here’s the full list.

500) Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
499) Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein
498) Creed – Higher
497) T. Rex – Bang a Gong (Get It On)
496) Seether – Remedy
495) Ted Nugent – Stranglehold
494) Velvet Revolver – Slither
493) Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London
492) White Stripes – Icky Thump
491) Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
490) AC/DC – Moneytalks
489) Shinedown – Second Chance
488) Sammy Hagar – I Can’t Drive 55
487) Finger Eleven – Paralyzer
486) Emerson Lake and Palmer – Karn Evil 9
485) Outfield – Your Love
484) Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Blue on Black
483) Wallflowers – One Headlight
482) Buckcherry – Crazy Bitch
481) Van Halen – I’ll Wait
480) Three Days Grace – Never Too Late
479) Stevie Ray Vaughan – Cold Shot
478) Police – Synchronicity 2
477) Salvia – Ladies and Gentlemen
476) Scorpions – Wind of Change
475) Soundgarden – Outshined
474) Electric Light Orchestra – Don’t Bring Me Down
473) Limp Bizkit – Nookie
472) Loverboy – Working for the Weekend
471) U2 – Bad
470) Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
469) Ratt – Round and Round
468) Tom Petty – Learning to Fly
467) P.O.D. – Youth of the Nation
466) Stealers Wheel – Stuck in the Middle with You
465) Georgia Satellites – Keep Your Hands to Yourself
464) Bush – Everything Zen
463) Kid Rock – Cowboy
462) Queensryche – Silent Lucidity
461) Europe – The Final Countdown
460) Muse – Uprising
459) Cars – You Might Think
458) Days of the New – Touch, Peel and Stand
457) Don Henley – All She Wants to Do Is Dance
456) Offspring – Gone Away
455) Warrant – Heaven
454) Supertramp – Goodbye Stranger
453) Seether – Fake It
452) Steve Miller Band – Jungle Love
451) Slaughter – Fly to the Angels
450) Ramones – Blitzkreig Bop
449) Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
448) Robert Plant – Tall Cool One
447) INXS – Need You Tonight/Mediate
446) Local H – Bound for the Floor
445) Cult – Fire Woman
444) Cinderella – Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gonez0
443) Live – All Over You
442) Genesis – Land of Confusion
441) Saving Abel – Addicted
440) Who – Love, Reign O’er Me
439) Toadies – Possum Kingdom
438) Kid Rock – Badwitdaba
437) Paul McCartney and Wings – Live and Let Die
436) Extreme – More Than Words
435) Everlast – What It’s Like
434) Seven Mary Three – Cumbersome
433) Poison – Unskinny Bop
432) Cage the Elephant – Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked
431) Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
430) Nickelback – How You Remind Me
429) Tom Petty – Into the Great Wide Open
428) Fuel – Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
427) David Bowie – Young Americans
426) Eve 6 – Inside Out
425) David Lee Roth – California Girls
424) Rob Zombie – Living Dead Girl
423) Lit – My Own Worst Enemy
422) Styx – Too Much Time On My Hands
421) Soul Asylum – Runaway Train
420) Rolling Stones – Wild Horses
419) Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
418) Great White – Once Bitten, Twice Shy
417) Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
416) Eddie Money – Two Tickets to Paradise
415) Journey – Wheel in the Sky
414) Rush – Fly By Night
413) Bon Jovi – It’s My Life
412) Doobie Brothers – China Grove
411) Incubus – Pardon Me
410) J. Geils Band – Centerfold
409) Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock
408) Kiss – Detroit Rock City
407) Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon
406) Evanescence – Bring Me to Life
405) R.E.M. – It’s the End of the World As We Know It
404) Bush – Comedown
403) U2 – With or Without You
402) Grand Funk Railroad – We’re An American Band
401) Cars – My Best Friend’s Girl
400) Journey – Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’
399) Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
398) John Mellencamp – Pink Houses
397) Everclear – I Will Buy You a New Life
396) Supertramp – Give a Little Bit
395) Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way?
394) Tom Petty – Breakdown
393) Godsmack – Whatever
392) Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
391) Pearl Jam – Elderly Woman Behind the Counter…
390) Cars – Shake It Up
389) Offspring – You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid
388) Kansas – Carry on Wayward Son
387) Cracker – Low
386) Grateful Dead – Touch of Grey
385) Yes – Roundabout
384) Van Halen – Dance the Night Away
383) Stone Temple Pilots – Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart
382) Steve Miller Band – Threshold/Jet Airliner
381) Skid Row – I Remember You
380) Linkin Park – What I’ve Done
379) Judas Priest – Living After Midnight
378) Tom Petty – You Got Lucky
377) Charlie Daniels Band – Devil Went Down to Georgia
376) Rage Against the Machine – Guerilla Radio
375) Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
374) Dio – Rainbow in the Dark
373) Pete Townshend – Let My Love Open the Door
372) Boston – Don’t Look Back
371) Guns N Roses – Mr. Brownstone
370) Van Halen – Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
369) U2 – Beautiful Day
368) Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See
367) Tool – Forty Six & 2
366) Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight
365) Danzig – Mother
364) Pat Benatar – Hit Me With Your Best Shot
363) Collective Soul – Shine
362) John Mellencamp – Small Town
361) David Bowie – Modern Love
360) Steve Miller Band – Swingtown
359) Motley Crue – Shout at the Devil
358) Tom Petty – The Waiting
357) Joe Walsh – Life’s Been Good
356) Journey – Any Way You Want It
355) Bon Jovi – Bad Medicine
354) Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
353) Van Halen – Unchained
352) Styx – Come Sail Away
351) Pearl Jam – Better Man
350) Guns N Roses – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
349) Stone Temple Pilots – Sex Type Thing
348) Bruce Springsteen – I’m On Fire
347) Cinderella – Nobody’s Fool
346) Blue Oyster Cult – Burnin’ for You
345) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Suck My Kiss
344) Billy Squier – Everybody Wants You
343) Bachman Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
342) Foo Fighters – Monkey Wrench
341) Bad Company – Bad Company
340) Black Sabbath – Sweet Leaf
339) Stevie Ray Vaughan – Crossfire
338) Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It
337) Tom Petty – Refugee
336) Stone Temple Pilots – Big Empty
335) Van Halen – Why Can’t This Be Love
334) Metallica – Turn the Page
333) Foreigner – I Want to Know What Love Is
332) David Bowie – Fame
331) Nirvana – About a Girl
330) Asia – Heat of the Moment
329) Green Day – Longview
328) Aerosmith – Come Together
327) Foreigner – Waiting for a Girl Like You
326) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Snow (Hey Oh)
325) Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
324) Aerosmith – Other Side
323) U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
322) Ozzy Osbourne – Shot in the Dark
321) Metallica – Fuel
320) Red Hot Chili Peppers – By The Way
319) Aerosmith – Livin’ on the Edge
318) Foo Fighters – Learn to Fly
317) Eric Clapton – I Shot the Sheriff
316) Def Leppard – Foolin’
315) Cars – Good Times Roll
314) Tesla – Signs
313) White Zombie – More Human than Human
312) ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin’
311) Steely Dan – Do It Again
310) Staind – Outside
309) Van Halen – Beautiful Girls
308) Heart – Magic Man
307) Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says
306) Steve Miller Band – Space Intro/Fly Like an Eagle
305) Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
304) Tom Petty – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
303) David Bowie – Changes
302) Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart
301) Doobie Brothers – Listen to the Music
300) Green Day – American Idiot
299) Metallica – Master of Puppets
298) 38 Special – Caught Up In You
297) Led Zeppelin – All My Love
296) Clash – Rock the Casbah
295) Foreigner – Double Vision
294) Boston – Peace of Mind
293) Candlebox – Far Behind
292) Ted Nugent – Cat Scratch Fever
291) Who – You Better You Bet
290) Van Halen – Right Now
289) Aerosmith – What It Takes
288) Bad Company – Feel Like Makin Love
287) Ozzy Osbourne – No More Tears
286) Nirvana – All Apologies
285) AC/DC – Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution
284) Bob Seger – Night Moves
283) Foo Fighters – All My Life
282) Tom Petty – You Wreck Me
281) Soundgarden – Spoonman
280) Motley Crue – Girls, Girls, Girls
279) R.E.M. – The One I Love
278) Temple of the Dog – Hunger Strike
277) Foreigner – Juke Box Hero
276) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Soul to Squeeze
275) Judas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Coming
274) Golden Earring – Twilight Zone
273) Queen – Somebody to Love
272) Metallica – Fade To Black
271) Don Henley – Boys of Summer
270) Led Zeppelin – D’yer Mak’er
269) Billy Squier – The Stroke
268) Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly
267) Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
266) Bob Marley – Jamming
265) Godsmack – Voodoo
264) Def Leppard – Armageddon It
263) Black Crowes – She Talks to Angels
262) Aerosmith – Love in an Elevator
261) Elton John – Tiny Dancer
260) AC/DC – For Those About To Rock
259) Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear the Reaper
258) Blondie – One Way or Another
257) Faith No More – Epic
256) Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen the Rain
255) Journey – Separate Ways
254) Korn – Freak on a Leash
253) Eddie Money – Take Me Home Tonight
252) Tesla – Love Song
251) U2 – Mysterious Ways
250) Stevie Nicks – Edge of Seventeen
249) Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
248) Papa Roach – Last Resort
247) Neil Young – Rockin’ in the Free World
246) Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart
245) Foreigner – Urgent
244) Beastie Boys – No Sleep Till Brooklyn
243) Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends
242) ZZ Top – Sharp Dressed Man
241) Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
240) Van Halen – Dreams
239) Metallica – Wherever I May Roam
238) Motley Crue – Smokin’ in the Boys Room
237) Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
236) Def Leppard – Rock of Ages
235) Joan Jett – I Love Rock and Roll
234) Pink Floyd – Have a Cigar
233) 3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
232) Jethro Tull – Aqualung
231) Foo Fighters – Times Like These
230) John Mellencamp – Hurts So Good
229) Aerosmith – Janie’s Got a Gun
228) Deep Purple – Smoke on the Water
227) AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
226) Bon Jovi – Runaway
225) Cars – Drive
224) Audioslave – Like a Stone
223) Foreigner – Hot Blooded
222) Sublime – Wrong Way
221) 38 Special – Hold On Loosely
220) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
219) Lita Ford w/ Ozzy Osbourne – Close My Eyes Forever
218) Rob Zombie – Dragula
217) Rush – The Spirit of Radio
216) Ram Jam – Black Betty
215) Scorpions – No One Like You
214) Puddle of Mudd – Blurry
213) Living Colour – Cult of Personality
212) Led Zeppelin – Fool in the Rain
211) Rage Against the Machine – Bulls on Parade
210) Bachman Turner Overdrive – Takin’ Care of Business
209) Iron Maiden – Run to the Hills
208) Eric Clapton – Cocaine
207) Blind Melon – No Rain
206) Tom Petty – Runnin’ Down a Dream
205) Blur – Song 2
204) Billy Idol – Rebel Yell
203) Styx – Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
202) Weezer – Say It Ain’t So
201) Steve Miller Band – Take the Money and Run
200) Stone Temple Pilots – Vasoline
199) Def Leppard – Love Bites
198) Manfred Mann – Blinded By the Light
197) Linkin Park – One Step Closer
196) Guns N Roses – Patience
195) Fleetwood Mac – Don’t Stop
194) Green Day – Holiday
193) Boston – Foreplay/Longtime
192) Pink Floyd – Run like Hell
191) Police – Every Breath You Take
190) Live – I Alone
189) Bryan Adams – Summer of ‘69
188) Kid Rock – All Summer Long
187) Bad Company – Shooting Star
186) Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
185) Metallica – Sad But True
184) Alice Cooper – School’s Out
183) U2 – New Year’s Day
182) Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
181) Van Halen – Jamie’s Cryin’
180) Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back in Town
179) Foo Fighters – The Pretender
178) Quiet Riot – Cum on Feel the Noize
177) Aerosmith – Rag Doll
176) Lenny Kravitz- Fly Away
175) George Thorogood – Bad to the Bone
174) Pearl Jam – Jeremy
173) AC/DC – Hells Bells
172) Bruce Springsteen – Glory Days
171) Bush – Machinehead
170) ZZ Top – Tush
169) Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
168) System of a Down – Aerials
167) Def Leppard – Hysteria
166) Sublime – Santeria
165) Talking Heads – Burning Down the House
164) Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
163) Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock N Roll (But I Like It)
162) Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box
161) Ozzy Osbourne – Flying High Again
160) Live – Lightning Crashes
159) Foreigner – Cold As Ice
158) Janes Addiction – Been Caught Stealing
157) Guns N Roses – Live and Let Die
156) Eagles – Take It Easy
155) Green Day – Basket Case
154) Aerosmith – Crazy
153) Dire Straits – Money for Nothing
152) Doors – Riders on the Storm
151) Alice in Chains – Would?
150) Poison – Nothin’ But a Good Time
149) Beastie Boys – Sabotage
148) Pink Floyd – Brain Damage / Eclipse
147) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside
146) Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side
145) Offspring – Come Out and Play
144) Steve Miller Band – Rock’n Me
143) Tom Petty – You Don’t Know How It Feels
142) Metallica – For Whom the Bell Tolls
141) U2 – One
140) Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride and Joy
139) Foo Fighters – Best Of You
138) Led Zeppelin – Over the Hills and Far Away
137) Dio – Holy Diver
136) Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
135) Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings
134) AC/DC – Thunderstruck
133) Cars- Just What I Needed
132) Nine Inch Nails – Closer
131) Van Halen – Runnin’ With the Devil
130) Staind – It’s Been Awhile
129) Rolling Stones – Beast of Burden
128) Pearl Jam – Daughter
127) Heart – Crazy on You
126) Bush – Glycerine
125) Aerosmith – Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
124) Tom Petty – I Won’t Back Down
123) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
122) Queen – Fat Bottomed Girls
121) Nirvana – In Bloom
120) Night Ranger – Sister Christian
119) Disturbed – Down with the Sickness
118) Bon Jovi – You Give Love a Bad Name
117) Beck – Loser
116) Styx – Renegade
115) Tool – Sober
114) Pink Floyd – Money
113) Incubus – Drive
112) Led Zeppelin – Rock and Roll
111) Skid Row – 18 and Life
110) R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
109) Peter Frampton – Baby, I Love Your Way
108) Radiohead – Creep
107) Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark
106) Guns N Roses – November Rain
105) Linkin Park – Numb
104) U2 – Pride (In the Name of Love)
103) Cheap Trick – I Want You To Want Me
102) Stone Temple Pilots – Interstate Love Song
101) Steely Dan – Peg
100)Rush – Limelight
99) Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
98) Police – Roxanne
97) Motley Crue – Dr. Feelgood
96) Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
95) Allman Brothers Band – Ramblin’ Man
94) Alice in Chains – Rooster
93) Billy Idol – White Wedding (Part 1)
92) Sublime – What I Got
91) John Mellencamp – Jack and Diane
90) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Can’t Stop
89) Doors – Love Her Madly
88) David Bowie – Let’s Dance
87) Black Crowes – Hard to Handle
86) Bob Seger – Old Time Rock and Roll
85) Aerosmith – Cryin’
84) Queen – Another One Bites the Dust
83) Metallica – One
82) Pearl Jam – Even Flow
81) Van Halen – Eruption/You Really Got Me
80) Steve Miller Band – The Joker
79) Foo Fighters – My Hero
78) Eagles – Life in the Fast Lane
77) Smashing Pumpkins – Today
76) Queen – We Will Rock You / We Are the Champions
75) Offspring – Self Esteem
74) Motley Crue – Home Sweet Home
73) Clash – Should I Stay or Should I Go
72) Heart – Barracuda
71) Beastie Boys – (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
70) Scorpions – Rock You Like a Hurricane
69) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dani California
68) Ozzy Osbourne – Mama, I’m Coming Home
67) Nirvana – Lithium
66) Foreigner – Feels Like the First Time
65) Green Day – When I Come Around
64) Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A.
63) KISS – Rock and Roll All Nite
62) Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
61) Derek and the Dominos – Layla
60) AC/DC – Highway to Hell
59) Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the Name
58) Aerosmith – Walk This Way
57) Van Halen – Hot for Teacher
56) Who – Who Are You
55) ZZ Top – Legs
54) Tom Petty – American Girl
53) Pearl Jam – Black
52) Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
51) Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
50) White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
49) Guns N Roses – Paradise City
48) Boston – More Than A Feeling
47) Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
46) U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
45) Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
44) Rolling Stones – Start Me Up
43) Queen w/ David Bowie – Under Pressure
42) Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
41) Nirvana – Come As You Are
40) Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
39) Metallica – The Unforgiven
38) Rush – Tom Sawyer
37) Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
36) Green Day – Brain Stew/Jaded
35) Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion
34) Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead or Alive
33) Linkin Park – In The End
32) AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
31) Alice in Chains – Man in the Box
30) Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
29) Tom Petty – Free Fallin’
28) Pink Floyd – Happiest Days of Our Lives/ Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)
27) Eagles – Hotel California
26) U2 – Where the Streets Have No Name
25) ZZ Top – La Grange
24) Van Halen – Jump
23) Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
22) Foo Fighters – Everlong
21) Guns N Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
20) Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train
19) Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird
18) Def Leppard – Photograph
17) Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated
16) Motley Crue – Kickstart My Heart
15) Rolling Stones – Miss You
14) Bon Jovi – Livin’ on a Prayer
13) Aerosmith – Dream On
12) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge
11) Who – Baba O’Riley
10) John Lennon – Imagine
9) Pearl Jam – Alive
8) Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
7) AC/DC – Back in Black
6) Metallica – Enter Sandman
5) Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
4) Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
3) Guns N Roses – Welcome to the Jungle
2) Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
1) Van Halen – Panama

5:30. Mitch Hallock’s Top 10 Carnival Rides:

1. Rollercoaster
2. Ferris wheel
3. Bumper cars
4. Fun/haunted house
5. Carousel
6. Floon (water coaster)
7. Tilt a whirl
8. Flying planes
9. Swing boat
10. Drop zone / Parachute drop

Mitch Hallock is creator of Terrificon and CT GamerCon.

6:00. We have sports betting. And…

Party time weekend but let’s not forget what it’s about. Dan with the Traveling Military Memorabilia Museum. If you have some memorabilia to donate, please call Dan at 203-833-3142

6:13. The finest example of people not being able to do what they are paid to do. The week in Flubbles.

7:00. The amazing story of a Navy guy who risked his life to save another.

7:13. Dumb Ass News. A guy wakes up in the wrong house. Audio of the awkward conversation.

7:20. Dr Fauci Song.

7:30. Scot Haney. Cat noises. Cats that sound like people.

8:00. Comedian and world famous metal head Jim Florentine takes the song lyrics challenge. The category: 80’s metal. Jim is filming his new Comedy Special in Fairfield on July 24! You can buy tickets HERE!

8:13 – 9:00. Fun Fact Friday.

9:00. We go live from the site of the biggest Summer kick off party in Connecticut…Captain’s Cove in Bridgeport

9:13. Dumb Ass News. The finest example of people not being able to do what they are paid to do. The week in Flubbles.

9:20. Boss Keith’s Top 5. The top 5 greatest summer items.

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