Rolling Stone releases a updated "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list

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  1. Penny24

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  2. Hombre

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    Before the thread is closed, I'll share the Beatles songs on that list:

    Strawberry Fields Forever
    I Want To Hold Your Hand
    A Day In The Life
    Yesterday
    Hey Jude
    In My Life
    Something
    Let It Be
    She Loves You
    Eleanor Rigby
    Penny Lane
    Help!
     
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  4. J_D__

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    The list makes me think it was a younger group of people making these selections.
     
  5. Penny24

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    Just did. This is the latest version.
     
  6. danasgoodstuff

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    And once again it must be noted that this isn't about great songs, it's about great records. If it was about songs, songwriters would be listed before performers and most of the list would not be rock or rap. And it's not really 'of all time' either. But at least they shook it up a little. And I think the inevitable conspiracy theories - 'they picked this because...' are just paranoid nonsense, the fact that they could have a more or less legit process and come up with dubious choices is in some ways worse tho'.
     
  7. Wildest cat from montana

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    Well...at least ' A Day In The Life ' made the Top 25.
     
  8. Penny24

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    It should be in the Top 10, IMO.
     
  9. danasgoodstuff

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    For instance, they list the JHE version of "All Along the Watchtower" at #40. It's a great record, but the song is something apart from that version or Bob's version on JWH or Bob's later live versions... the song is what all those versions have in common, but it is not any single one of them.
     
  10. john lennonist

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    No Tomorrow Never Knows nor I Am the Walrus?

    They're outta their bleedin' minds!

    Though at least they rated the Fabs' best song correctly.
     
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  11. Hombre

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    Those songs weren't even included in the 2003 list.

    If I remember correctly, the old list also included these songs:

    Please Please Me
    I Saw Her Standing There
    Can't Buy Me Love
    A Hard Day's Night
    Ticket To Ride
    Norwegian Wood
    Rain
    With A Little Help From My Friends
    All You Need Is Love
    While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    Come Together
     
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  12. lawrev

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    This is a topic that could go on forever.

    I haven't looked at the list yet, but does anyone know if any songs by ELO made the list? And please don't tell me Mr. Blue Sky. :)
     
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  13. Meyer

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    Please…
     
  14. SITKOL'76

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    Why was the original thread closed? Lmao, you people are crazy :laugh:
     
  15. DK Pete

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    You honestly expect a list like this to include TNK??
     
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  16. JoeF.

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    It used to be 500 songs from three decades, then four, now six or seven. Either expand the list to "1000 songs", or break it up into different eras and genres.
    We are too far along in the "rock era"--for want of a better term--to try to break down seven decades of music --which often have little in common--into a mere 500 songs.
     
  17. wdiv

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    My Generation was #11 on their 2004 list... #232 on the 2021 list.
     
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  18. Jmac1979

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    is there anything wrong with that? For the longest time, RS lists like this consisted solely of the votes of white men born between 1945-1955 who believe music went downhill after Woodstock and the breakup of The Beatles. It's good to see a different perspective, and the irony is that people claim this list hates older artists, when the reality is the top 4 songs all came from the 60s and only three songs are less than 40 years old in the top 10, but because the outlook that only British invasion groups and acts who played Woodstock were the only artists that made music that mattered, it gets people riled up.

    This list STILL loves all your faves. The Beatles, Dylan, Stones, et al are still there and still pretty high, just that no longer is there the mentality that this is the ONLY music that ever mattered like beforehand. The Beatles still have more songs in the top 100 than any other artist, just that people no longer have a consensus idea that music immediately went to hell when they broke up any longer.
     
  19. john lennonist

    john lennonist There ONCE was a NOTE, PURE and EASY...


    The voters review music for a living, not sure why this would be out of their purview.

    Though they correctly pick the Fabs best track, Strawberry Fields Forever, as the top Beatles song, they also say something about it being the first psychedelic song, or ushering in psychedelic music or something like that.

    But Tomorrow Never Knows is way more psychedelic and predated Strawberry Fields Forever by the better part of a year.

    I'd take Tomorrow Never Knows over 30 Yesterdays or Hey Judes.
     
  20. DK Pete

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    Yesterday….beautiful song, great record….not even in my top 150 personal Beatle favorites.
     
  21. rjp

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    nor here comes the sun
     
  22. john lennonist

    john lennonist There ONCE was a NOTE, PURE and EASY...


    Nor Please Please Me... the song that started it all (or at least started an segment of it all).
     
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  23. rjp

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    lorde - #50

    robyn - #20

    and linda ronstadt nor carly simon not in the top 100.....my my my my my
     
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    Love to see Timbaland in the top 10.
     
  25. Jmac1979

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    Robyn at #20 is well deserved given she never has had the chart success she deserves. I knew "Dancing On My Own" was an immediate dance-pop classic the moment I first heard it 11 years ago. So what if it's not from the 60s/70s?
     
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