200 Greatest Songs of All Time

[Caravan Ray]

just saw this in the on-line news.

Where are the Pixies?!?

The top 200 from Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time to be issued in the latest edition today:

1. Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone, 1965
2. Rolling Stones, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, 1965
3. John Lennon, Imagine, 1971
4. Marvin Gaye, What's Going On, 1971
5. Aretha Franklin, Respect, 1967
6. Beach Boys, Good Vibrations, 1966
7. Chuck Berry, Johnny B Goode, 1958
8. Beatles, Hey Jude, 1968
9. Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit, 1991
10. Ray Charles, What'd I Say, 1959
11. The Who, My Generation, 1966
12. Sam Cooke, A Change Is Gonna Come, 1965
13. Beatles, Yesterday, 1965
14. Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind, 1963
15. The Clash, London Calling, 1980
16. Beatles, I Want to Hold Your Hand, 1964
17. Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze, 1967
18. Chuck Berry, Maybellene, 1955
19. Elvis Presley, Hound Dog, 1956
20. Beatles, Let it Be, 1970
21. Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run, 1975
22. The Ronettes, Be My Baby, 1963
23. Beatles, In My Life, 1966
24. Impressions, People Get Ready, 1965
25. Beach Boys, God Only Knows, 1966
26. Beatles, A Day in the Life, 1967
27. Derek and the Dominos, Layla, 1971
28. Otis Redding, Sittin On the Dock of the Bay, 1968
29. Beatles, Help! 1965
30. Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line, 1956
31. Led Zeppelin, Stairway To Heaven, 1971
32. Rolling Stones, Sympathy For The Devil, 1968
33. Ike and Tina Turner, River Deep, Mountain High, 1966
34. Righteous Brothers, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', 1964
35. The Doors, Light My Fire, 1967
36. U2, One, 1991
37. Bob Marley and the Wailers, No Woman No Cry, 1974
38. Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter, 1969
39. Buddy Holly and the Crickets, That'll Be the Day, 1957
40. Martha and The Vandellas, Dancing In The Street, 1964
41. The Band, The Weight, 1968
42. The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset, 1967
43. Little Richard, Tutti Frutti, 1956
44. Ray Charles, Georgia On My Mind, 1960
45. Elvis Presley, Heartbreak Hotel, 1956
46. David Bowie, Heroes, 1977
47. Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1969
48. Jimi Hendrix, All Along The Watchtower, 1968
49. The Eagles, Hotel California, 1977
50. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Tracks Of My Tears, 1965
51. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, The Message, 1982
52. Prince, When Doves Cry, 1984
53. Sex Pistols, Anarchy In The UK, 1977
54. Percy Sledge, When A Man Loves A Woman, 1966
55. The Kingsmen, Louie Louie, 1963
56. Little Richard, Long Tall Sally, 1956
57. Procol Harum, Whiter Shade Of Pale, 1967
58. Michael Jackson, Billie Jean, 1983
59. Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin', 1963
60. Al Green, Let's Stay Together, 1971
61. Jerry Lee Lewis, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, 1957
62. Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley, 1957
63. Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth, 1968
64. Beatles, She Loves You, 1964
65. Cream, Sunshine of Your Love, 1970
66. Bob Marley and the Wailers, Redemption Song, 1968
67. Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock, 1957
68. Bob Dylan, Tangled Up In Blue, 1975
69. Roy Orbison, Cryin', 1961
70. Dionne Warwick, Walk On By, 1964
71. Beach Boys, California Girls, 1965
72. James Brown, Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, 1965
73. Eddie Cochran, Summertime Blues, 1958
74. Stevie Wonder, Superstition, 1972
75. Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Love, 1969
76. Beatles, Strawberry Fields Forever, 1967
77. Elvis Presley, Mystery Train, 1956
78. James Brown, I Got You (I Feel Good), 1965
79. The Byrds, Mr Tambourine Man, 1968
80. Marvin Gaye, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, 1965
81. Fats Domino, Blueberry Hill, 1956
82. The Kinks, You Really Got Me, 1964
83 Beatles, Norwegian Wood, 1965
84. Police, Every Breath You Take, 1983
85. Patsy Cline, Crazy, 1961
86. Bruce Springsteen, Thunder Road, 1975
87. Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire, 1963
88. The Temptations, My Girl, 1965
89. Mamas And The Papas, California Dreamin', 1966
90. Five Satins, In The Still Of The Nite, 1956
91. Elvis Presley, Suspicious Minds, 1969
92. Ramones, Blitzkrieg Bop, 1976
93. U2, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, 1987
94. Little Richard, Good Golly, Miss Molly, 1958
95. Carl Perkins, Blue Suede Shoes, 1956
96 Jerry Lee Lewis, Great Balls of Fire, 1957
97. Chuck Berry, Roll Over Beethoven, 1956
98. Al Green, Love and Happiness, 1972
99. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fortunate Son, 1969
100. Rolling Stones, You Can't Always Get What You Want, 1969
101. Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), 1968
102. Gene Vincent, Be-Bop-A-Lula, 1956
103. Donna Summer, Hot Stuff, 1979
104. Stevie Wonder, Living for the City, 1973
105. Simon and Garfunkel, The Boxer, 1969
106. Bob Dylan, Mr Tambourine Man, 1965
107. Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Not Fade Away, 1957
108. Prince, Little Red Corvette, 1983
109. Van Morrison, Brown Eyed Girl, 1967
110. Otis Redding, I've Been Loving You Too Long, 1965
111. Hank Williams, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, 1949
112. Elvis Presley, That's Alright (Mama), 1954
113. The Drifters, Up On The Roof, 1962
114. Crystals, Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home), 1963
115. Sam Cooke, You Send Me, 1957
116. Rolling Stones, Honky Tonk Women, 1969
117. Al Green, Take Me to the River, 1974
118. Isley Brothers, Shout - Pts 1 and 2, 1959
119. Fleetwood Mac, Go Your Own Way, 1977
120. Jackson 5, I Want You Back, 1969
121. Ben E King, Stand By Me, 1961
122. Animals, House of the Rising Sun, 1964
123. James Brown, It's A Man's, Man's, Man's, Man's World, 1966
124. Rolling Stones, Jumpin' Jack Flash, 1968
125. Shirelles, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, 1960
126. Big Joe Turnerhake, Rattle And Roll, 1954
127. David Bowie, Changes, 1972
128. Chuck Berry, Rock & Roll Music, 1957
129. Steppenwolf, Born to Be Wild, 1968
130. Rod Stewart, Maggie May, 1971
131. U2, With or Without You, 1987
132. Bo Diddley, Who Do You Love, 1957
133. The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again, 1971
134. Wilson Pickett, In The Midnight Hour, 1965
135. Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, 1968
136. Elton John, Your Song, 1970
137. Beatles, Eleanor Rigby, 1966
138. Sly and the Family Stone, Family Affair, 1971
139. Beatles, I Saw Her Standing There, 1964
140. Led Zeppelin, Kashmir, 1975
141. Everly Brothers, All I Have to Do is Dream, 1958
142. James Brown, Please Please Please, 1956
143. Prince, Purple Rain, 1984
144. Ramones, I Wanna Be Sedated, 1978
145. Sly and the Family Stone, Every Day People, 1968
146. B-52's, Rock Lobster, 1979
147. Iggy Pop, Lust for Life, 1977
148. Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee, 1971
149. Everly Brothers, Cathy's Clown, 1960
150. Byrds, Eight Miles High, 1966
151. Penguins, Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine), 1954
152. Jimi Hendrix, Foxy Lady, 1967
153. Beatles A Hard Day's Night 1965
154. Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Rave On, 1958
155. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Proud Mary, 1964
156. Simon and Garfunkel, The Sounds Of Silence, 1968
157. Flamingos, I Only Have Eyes For You, 1959
158. Bill Haley and His Comets, (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock, 1954
159. Velvet Underground, I'm Waiting For My Man, 1967
160. Public Enemy, Bring the Noise, 1988
161. Ray Charles, I Can't Stop Loving You, 1962
162. Sinead O'Connor, Nothing Compares 2 U, 1990
163. Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, 1975
164. Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues, 1956
165. Tracy Chapman, Fast Car, 1988
166. Eminem, Lose Yourself, 2002
167. Marvin Gaye, Let's Get it On, 1973
168. Temptations, Papa Was A Rollin' Stone, 1972
169. R.E.M., Losing My Religion, 1991
170. Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now, 1969
171. Abba, Dancing Queen, 1977
172. Aerosmith, Dream On, 1975
173. Sex Pistols, God Save the Queen, 1977
174. Rolling Stones, Paint it Black, 1966
175. Bobby Fuller Four, I Fought The Law, 1966
176. Beach Boys, Don't Worry Baby, 1964
177. Tom Petty, Free Fallin', 1989
178. Big Star, September Gurls, 1974
179. Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart, 1980
180. Outkast, Hey Ya! 2003
181. Booker T and the MGs, Green Onions, 1969
182. The Drifters, Save the Last Dance for Me, 1960
183. BB King, The Thrill Is Gone, 1969
184. Beatles, Please Please Me, 1964
185. Bob Dylan, Desolation Row, 1965
186. Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved A Man (the Way I Love You), 1965
187. AC/DC, Back In Black, 1980
188. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Who'll Stop the Rain, 1970
189. Bee Gees, Stayin' Alive, 1977
190. Bob Dylan, Knocking on Heaven's Door, 1973
191. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Free Bird, 1974
192. Glen Campbell, Wichita Lineman, 1968
193. The Drifters, There Goes My Baby, 1959
194. Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Peggy Sue, 1957
195. Chantels, Maybe, 1958
196. Guns N Roses, Sweet Child O Mine, 1987
197. Elvis Presley, Don't Be Cruel, 1956
198. Jimi Hendrix, Hey Joe, 1967
199. Parliament, Flash Light, 1978
200. Beck, Loser, 1994

[john m]

Man, some lists are just bad.

[Bjam]

One Queen song? BS!

Interesting list though... For many many reasons.

[Eric Y.]

okay first of all, more than 10% of that list (22 songs by my count) are from the past 25 years. and i doubt that is accurate. furthermore, i'm not going to debate over anything that's been excluded and shouldn't have been, but i see no reason why eminem should appear on the best anything list.

[jute gyte]

that list is awful.

[Caravan Ray]

No. songs from each decade:

1940’s – 1
1950’s – 39
1960’s – 95
1970’s – 43
1980’s – 15
1990’s – 5
2000’s – 2

Apparently almost 90% of the Greatest Songs of All Time were recorded between 1950 and 1979.

[Eric Y.]

90% of the Greatest Songs of All Time were recorded {before} 1979.

i killed music!

[Caravan Ray]

Apparently, 1965 produced more of the Greatest Songs of All Time than the last 20 years combined. That was a hell of a year! Must have been hard to stop dancing.

[mkilly]

Why is Respect so high. Why is What'd I Say so high. Why is Smells Like Teen Spirit so high. Why is Let it Be so high.

I do concur with number 1, at least.

[Eric Y.]

why is bohemian rhapsody so LOW?

[Sober]

Good:

The Clash is quite high up there
The Sex Pistols are on there twice
Metallica is not on there

Bad:

No Black Sabbath
No Dead Kennedys
Queen is way low
Beastie Boys are not on there
The Ramones are not on there (wait, they are, but pretty low)
Non-shitty hip-hop is sparsely represented. I wanted to see White Lines on there (ok, Grandmaster Flash and Public Enemy are there)
Eminem's "Lose yourself" is better than Losing My Religion...

As much as I like Sinead O'Connor, the idea that Queen's BH is not as good as her singing a Prince song makes me gag.

I've always hated Rolling Stone.

Another thread full of people bitching about a list that couldn't possibly satisfy everyone. Who could this list possibly satisfy, though, apart from Bob Dylan?

[erik]

Yeah, I know, it's a dumb-dumb list from a dumb-dumb magazine, but I just don't get why they have to say "OF ALL TIME" if they're not going to even try and go back farther than 1949. There's no Gershwin, there's no Porter, no Duke Ellington, there's no showtunes at all. I suppose that "Top 497 songs from the birth of rock until the present day with 3 from a few years before so that we can claim we're diverse" doesn't really roll off the tongue as well.

[Caravan Ray]

Using only the songs in the list - this is how I think the Top 10 should read (original positions in parenthesis):

1. (1). Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone, 1965
2. (2). Rolling Stones, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, 1965
3. (53). Sex Pistols, Anarchy In The UK, 1977
4. (9). Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit, 1991
5. (64). Beatles, She Loves You, 1964
6. (102). Gene Vincent, Be-Bop-A-Lula, 1956
7. (25). Beach Boys, God Only Knows, 1966
8. (51). Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, The Message, 1982
9. (159). Velvet Underground, I'm Waiting For My Man, 1967
10. (82). The Kinks, You Really Got Me, 1964

(though ideally I'd have Debaser by The Pixies lobbing in around Number 4-ish)

[Eric Y.]

ERROR!
ERROR!

i've just realised, WHERE IS THE PINK FLOYD IN THIS LIST?
i mean, if they're going to be all crappy and look at what's popular rather than what's good, in a lot of cases, shouldn't they have taken into account the fact that the dark side of the moon lingered on billboard charts longer than any other album "of all time"? i mean seriously. not even one song in the top 200. that's a travesty.

also, as sober points out, no black sabbath?
geesh, they were certainly one of the most influential bands of the 70's, i mean like a DOZEN genres of music directly spawned from them... what the hell kind of list includes "dancing queen" but not "paranoid"? what a bunch of shit.

[jack]

stairway to heaven number 31? there's a reason those signs hang in every friggin music shop in the world.

[j$]

Gak what a suck list. Nothing that shouldn't be on there (although not neccessarily in their right place) and that's what makes it so dull.

[Caravan Ray]

ERROR!
ERROR!

i've just realised, WHERE IS THE PINK FLOYD IN THIS LIST?
.

I don't mean to defend the list - but Pink Floyd?

Sure a lot of people bought their record - but a lot of people play Dungeons and Dragons - it doesn't make it good.

(NB: if you were being sarcastic, and I hope you were, I apologise)

[HeuristicsInc]

Hm.
Pink Floyd is awesome.
I'll forgive you for this lapse, Caravan Ray.

-bill

[fodroy]

no mexican hat dance?

[j$]

Hm.
Pink Floyd is awesome.-bill

Pink Floyd suck. Music for Phsyics Post-Graduates who can't get laid. I point everyone to Johnny Rotten's 'I Hate Pink Floyd' t-shirt.

Black Sabbath suck. Fat Plumber rock.

Abba's Disco Queen is the best pop single of all time. Comparing it to Paranoid is like comparing Al Pacino to Pauly Shore.

There, I think I managed to offend just about everybody who has posted in this thread so far. hehehe

J$

[Leaf]

Who appointed these people? First of all, sorry sober, but in my world, Metallica would be on that list, VERY high up.... fuck it, I AM THE NEW AUTHORATI! [/cartman]

1. Master of Puppets ~ Metallica
2. Teenland ~ The Northern Pikes
3. Roxanne ~ The Police
4. Sheep ~ Pink Floyd
5.Do't Call Me Dude ~ Scatterbrain
6. Screaming for Vengeance ~ Judas Priest
7. I will Follow ~ U2
8. Wha Cha Want ~ The Beastie Boys
9. Train in Vain ~ the Clash
10. I want You (She's So Heavy) ~ The Beatles



...now I have offended everyone. Ha.

[Kapitano]

10 Skunkwhippet - Suck my Tonsure
9 DJ Dummkopf - Velco Headlamp Siezure (Part 5)
8 My Favourite Lycanthropy - Zippity Hotmuggins
7 Kid Gaylord and the Brooms - Aaah Aaah (Spoonwinder Remix)
6 Massive Brain Failure - McGyver In Raspberry Jam
5 Brontosaurus Haystax III - Becomming More Like Adolf
4 Glooo - Syphoning Mucus Through My Mother (15-16 Radio Edit)
3 The Rectal Telephone Band - Let's Do The Frump-Frump
2 Blind Jimmy Toastrack - Stencilhead City Mastication Blues
1 Tepid Bonobo Nautiloid Therapy - Theme from Gargling Flatweasle