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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs

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Originally posted by: MDE
Originally posted by: cobalt
I learned to not trust RS anymore after they put Hammet at #11 in greatest guitarists of all time when he should be way way down. And Jimmy Page at 9. That made me angry, now to put Stairway at #31. I say OMGWTFBS
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Your true gripe is where they put Kurt Cobain (near the top) and Eddie Van Halen (near the bottom) on that list.
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I didn't even remember if they put Cobain near the top. And if they did I'd like to hang every one of them. Cobain was not a good guitarist at all and shouldn't even be on the list, let also as high as you say.
 
#1 is a song with the name 'rolling stone' in it? (it is a good dylan song, but not the best)
#2 is a 'rolling stones' song? (favoritism anyone? this list has already proved itself as biased by the first couple of entries)
 
What a total clusterf[]ck. I can't even imagine how they came up with this list. "All you editors name your 20 favorite songs, we'll put them in a hat and then rank them." F[]ck the police?? COME ON.
 
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Wow. Just. Wow.

Usually lists like this are pretty terrible but this is hands down the most fvcked up one I've ever seen.
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aye.

No way in hell satisfaction is better than imagine.......and that is jsut the first too songs...it gets hellishly confounding as you go down the list, as everyone has duly noted.
 
Top 10:
OK, Dylan at #1 is fine.

2 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Rolling Stones
1965

This should be in the top 100, but not #2

3 Imagine
John Lennon
1971

Um, who was smoking what? I want some, but keep me away from any music collection while I'm high. It's not bad, but hardly important compared to what's in the 200-400 range.

4 What?s Going On by Marvin Gaye
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
1971

I don't like it, but OK...

5 Preview Respect by Aretha Franklin
Respect
Aretha Franklin
1967

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, and FSCKING NO.
That's "Respect" by Otis Redding, you *********.

OK, forget the rest. As of #5, I know I'm only going to get pissed off more.

In addition, Steppenwolf gets ONE spot? Zep only gets a single in the top 100? Christ, they should have ten right in the top 100!
Pink Floyd only gets two, and not in the top 100?

Rolling Stone needs to just quit.
 
Originally posted by: BDawg
A Day In The Life
The Beatles
1966
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Awesome! You never get to hear this song, which is my favorite Beatles song after "My Guitar Gently Weeps."
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I think they figured out how to put crack into a waveform in My Guitar Gently Weeps 🙂
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Dude chill out. Stairway is overrated.
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Stairway to Heaven isn't underrated. A lot of other good ones are just underrated (Ten Years Gone, In the Evening, The Rain Song, Achilles Last Stand, In My Time of Dying, That's The Way, Four Sticks, etc.).
 
You'll never have a decent list. This was compiled from a small group, with each person naming their 50 favorite songs. Of course it's just going to be a popularity contest. There is always going to be favoritism, so I'm going to add mine. There was not even 1 Red Hot Chili Peppers(Under the Bridge?), Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Steve Miller Band track.

12 Rolling Stones songs, with at least 2 songs(that I saw) titled: Rolling Stone. 😕
 
Originally posted by: ricochet
Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6596661

The most recent songs on the list are "Smells like Teen Spirit" (#9) and "London Calling" (#15).

Any glaring omissions? Songs you think are misplaced?

-geoff
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How the hell did "Smells Like Teen Spirit" get up so high. I have nothing against Nirvana, but this is just a travesty.
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:disgust:

:brokenheart:

😕

Another example of the black hole of music. Nirvana comes out with a reasonably fun song and a marginal album - amidst the worst period in popular music history - and it continues to be hailed. Doesn't anybody have the nerve (in the music hierarchy) to step up and admit that this stuff is suxors and let it die.

😀
 
Originally posted by: anxi80
#1 is a song with the name 'rolling stone' in it? (it is a good dylan song, but not the best)
#2 is a 'rolling stones' song? (favoritism anyone? this list has already proved itself as biased by the first couple of entries)
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Seriously. Do you know anything about rock music? Those two songs are considered the greatest records ever recorded. The fact that the magazine is named "Rolling Stone" is inconsequential. Look at VH1's list of the 100 greatest rock songs.
 
any list like that is so subjective, its only good use is emergency toilet paper. much like the mag this one is printed in.
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: ggnl
Highest ranked Zeppelin song is Stairway to Heaven at #31. WTF?! :Q
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I agree...way overrated. Shouldn't even be in the Top 100.
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I heard many Zep songs and none of them are great IMO and the guitar solos are really fast, but unmelodic string bashing.
 
the editors of ROLLING STONE called on rock stars and leading authorities to list their fifty favorite songs, in order of preference. The 172 voters, who included Brian Wilson, Joni Mitchell and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, were asked to select songs from the rock & roll era. They nominated 2,103 songs in virtually every pop-music genre of the past half-century and beyond, from Hank Williams to OutKast. The results were tabulated according to a weighted point system.
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That's why. Not only does their polling method suck, but they used a weighted point system.
 
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