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Rolling Stone 500 Greatest

Journal Entry: Fri Jun 26, 2009, 5:53 PM

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Finally got through to listening to the whole Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time...

I gotta say, it has to be one of the worst "best of all time" lists I've heard, more than half of the songs I can't for the life of me figure out why they're in it, not based on song quality, popularity, historical relevance or any other reason I could think of. Still, I felt like making "1NNU3NDO's 25 best songs of the Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" to rectify this hahah.

Just for the record, these are NOT my personal 25 best songs of all time, just the ones that were featured in the 500 Rolling Stones selected. Enjoy! (or not...)

1 The Who - Baba O'riley
2 Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
3 The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
4 Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
5 The Velvet Underground - Heroin
6 The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
7 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
8 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
9 Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
10 Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
11 Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
12 Cream - White Room
13 Prince - Purple Rain
14 Queen - We Will Rock You
15 John Lennon - Imagine
16 The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
17 Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends
18 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
19 Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
20 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodo Child (Slight Return)
21 The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
22 Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
23 The Kinks - Lola
24 Paul Simon - Graceland
25 Nirvana - Come As You Are

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~AllTheSame Jun 26, 2009, 6:35:14 PM

I recall The Band being on that list. I always liked them.

*SlyDante Jun 26, 2009, 6:50:24 PM

Yeah, I remember picking up the issue with that list as well. I found it to be really boring as well, largely because Rolling Stone's tendency to stay stuck in the past led to a bias towards more older & obvious choices. In fact, I think only about one fifth of the list covered any songs from the '80s forwards.

On the flipside, I might suggest checking out Blender's The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, all about ones from 1980 forward. It's not perfect either (& it doesn't exactly come from a more reputable rag), but I found it to be more interesting: [link]

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*friki-dayz Jun 26, 2009, 11:09:11 PM

Magazines will always put some sort of "All Time Greatest" list and they're always subjective (and this is always a good way to generate interest/scrutiny/sales to said magazine). That's why it's always more fun to create your own list regardless of how others think.

In short, it's merely the opinion of some and not to be taken too literally.

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=pica-ae Jun 27, 2009, 1:24:37 AM

well 500... there's supposed to be a lot of crap in it...

just cos i am curious, what was the worst best position?

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~JPU Jun 27, 2009, 2:02:07 AM

nice collection!! you dubbled louie louie though... I'd say changing one of those into "Come Together" - The Beatles!

*1NNU3NDO Jun 27, 2009, 5:35:07 AM

True

The worst best position?

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*1NNU3NDO Jun 27, 2009, 5:38:57 AM

Thanks

I'll check it out!

I do appreciate the oldies, there are a lot of songs from the 50s, 60s, 70s and also 80s that shaped today's music. But from the top of my head I think almost 50% of the list was 50s songs.

Nothing wrong with tunes from that decade, and it's the start of rock & roll and all, but there can't be 250 important songs from just that decade...

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*1NNU3NDO Jun 27, 2009, 5:40:49 AM

True, I do get a very big feeling that this in particular is a list that stemmed from elitism and "inbreeding" haha. There are quite a few criteria that you can set to make it more objective. It'll always be subjective in essence though, but still... I don't think they executed this list very well.

I might work on my personal best 25 or 50 songs of all time sometime, maybe pull in some friends to help out, 500 is a bit out of my reach I think haha.

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*1NNU3NDO Jun 27, 2009, 5:41:38 AM

Ah damn. Come Together was in the top 50 actually. Only 1 Beatles song made the top 25, but there are 10 Beatles songs in the top 50 haha.

I'll move one of the lower ones up

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