godthedog 0 Report post Posted November 21, 2004 da list 1 Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan 2 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones 3 Imagine, John Lennon 4 What's Going On, Marvin Gaye 5 Respect, Aretha Franklin 6 Good Vibrations, Beach Boys 7 Johnny B. Goode, Chuck Berry 8 Hey Jude, The Beatles 9 Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana 10 What'd I Say, Ray Charles 11 My Generation, The Who 12, A Change Is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke 13 Yesterday, The Beatles 14 Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan 15 London Calling, The Clash 16 I Want to Hold Your Hand, The Beatles 17 Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix 18 Maybellene, Chuck Berry 19 Hound Dog, Elvis Presley 20 Let It Be, The Beatles 21 Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen 22 Be My Baby, The Ronettes 23 In My Life, The Beatles 24 People Get Ready, The Impressions 25 God Only Knows, The Beach Boys 26 A Day in the Life, The Beatles 27 Layla, Derek and the Dominos 28 (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding 29 Help!, The Beatles 30 I Walk the Line, Johnny Cash 31 Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin 32 Sympathy for the Devil, The Rolling Stones 33 River Deep, Mountain High, Tina Turner 34 You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, The Righteous Brothers 35 Light My Fire, The Doors 36 One, U2 37 No Woman, No Cry, Bob Marley 38 Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones 39 That'll Be the Day, Buddy Holly 40 Dancin' in the Streets, Martha and the Vandellas 41 The Weight, The Band 42 Waterloo Sunset, The Kinks 43 Tutti Frutti, Little Richard 44 Georgia on My Mind, Ray Charles 45 Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis Presley 46 Heroes, David Bowie 47 Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel 48 All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix 49 Hotel California, The Eagles 50 The Tracks of My Tears, Smokey Robinson i'm not posting the rest. typical kind of blah list, but some interesting choices. may the bitching commence. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Gecko Report post Posted November 21, 2004 I just love how the top 2 songs deal with some sort of "Rolling Stone"... coincidence...? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Shutterspeed Report post Posted November 21, 2004 I'd say that it is. The kind of material you'd expect. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Cerebus Report post Posted November 21, 2004 I like how two of the three songs from 2000 on are Eminem songs. Quality. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mystery Eskimo 0 Report post Posted November 21, 2004 "Imagine" has to be the most overrated song in the history of...er...history. It's a truly vile song. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henry Spencer 0 Report post Posted November 21, 2004 How in the hell did Hey Jude become the de facto best Beatles song on all of these lists? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted November 21, 2004 "Imagine" has to be the most overrated song in the history of...er...history. A little hyperbolic, that statement, but yeah, it's not a good song. Overproduced tripe. The best thing to come out of it? The Delgados, some 30 years later, nicked a bit of the melody for their fine song, "Child Killers." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dogbert 0 Report post Posted November 21, 2004 Get the Nirvana song out of the top 50 and I agree wholefartedly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2004 I'm surprised that Heroes is in the top 50. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2004 wow, #133 Is Wont Get Fooled Again. I think some people need to get their head straight, on why this song, mind you album, is one of the best rock albums ever produced. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord of The Curry 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2004 Love the Gerry Boyle quote dude. No Woman No Cry got robbed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted November 22, 2004 10 What'd I Say, Ray Charles Total death pandering. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henry Spencer 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2004 Although that's a great song, you're probably right. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nl5xsk1 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2004 10 What'd I Say, Ray Charles Total death pandering. As much as I'm a fan of Cash's, having I Walk the Line at 30 might be considered recent-death pandering, too. And I realized that this list was a joke when I saw Nirvana at #9. It makes those VH1 metal lists seem intelligent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2004 I don't think I'll ever understand Dylan/Lennon love at all Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Cerebus Report post Posted November 22, 2004 I Walk The Line isn't even Cash's best song by a longshot. Man in Black, Ghost Riders, and Ring of Fire alone are far superior. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest P!NK. Report post Posted November 22, 2004 Pfft. I'm surprised people even care about lists like these anymore, since they exist only to give mid-lifers an excuse to reminisce about how music was so pristine in their era. Like you're really going to compare the musical virtues of Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, and Nirvana within the same context. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
B. Brian Brunzell 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2004 "Imagine" has to be the most overrated song in the history of...er...history. It's a truly vile song. Even Maynard James Keenan's voice can't make that song listenable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2004 Pfft. I'm surprised people even care about lists like these anymore, since they exist only to give mid-lifers an excuse to reminisce about how music was so pristine in their era. Like you're really going to compare the musical virtues of Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, and Nirvana within the same context. You can make the case with Led Zeppelin and Nirvana being compairable, but not with Elvis. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JMA Report post Posted November 23, 2004 Stairway To Heaven and Sympathy For The Devil should both be much higher on the list. Bohemian Rhapsody not being in the top fifty is a crime. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2004 I'm glad Stairway isn't number one, it nearly is on any list (and if its not then its Smells Like Teen Spirit) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Shutterspeed Report post Posted November 23, 2004 I've only seen Smells Like Teen Spirit as #1 on a list of the "100 greatest songs of the 90s" or something. Actually, it's pretty much always #1 on those sorts of list, as Nevermind is when dealing with albums. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vern Gagne 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2004 One thing I noticed that psycho Phil Specter was everywhere in the 60's. Also alot of songs from the 60's Girl Groups made the list. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big McLargeHuge 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2004 TSM should do a list like this... if only to hear other boards call us idiots and piss and moan about how a 10 year old song is ranked so high, or how there aren't any Swedish death metal bands on there. In fact, we should make a list for every forum on here: movies, songs, matches and deem them to be official. Just to piss people off. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Murmuring Beast 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2004 It's only right that a song like 'Be My Baby' is on there. Spector deserves a mention. The song is a piece of brilliance. Fuck the voices, listen to that boom. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henry Spencer 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2004 I, too, am surprised by the high placing of Heroes. Not disapointed, though. It's my favorite Bowie song by far. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest combat_rock Report post Posted November 24, 2004 I can't believe Blitzkerg Bop is only at 92. Like it or not, there aren't many more iconic, genre defining (and in my opinion) perfect songs than that one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ravenbomb 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2004 Not one single Pink Floyd song in the top 50...And where's the love for I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anorak 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2004 At least Waterloo Sunset made the top 50. Glad to see Bridge Over Trouble Water as well. Everybody Hurts > One Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mecha Mummy 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2004 "Imagine" has to be the most overrated song in the history of...er...history. It's a truly vile song. Even Maynard James Keenan's voice can't make that song listenable. Maynard made it worse. Because then it was the same song except now the vocals were droning. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
