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Title: What do you think of this list?
Post by: sange on November 18, 2004, 07:32:10 AM
Just wondering what you think about the songs on this list, and the fact that the Beatles didn't get a listing until no.8? (Although John was no.3)

Not just about the Beatles songs, but also the other songs listed. (We are allowed to occasionally stray from the Beatles aren't we?)

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/11/18/1100718133367.html
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: An Apple Beatle on November 18, 2004, 10:12:17 AM
We don't stray, we expand upon our horizons. lol
Don't think nothing of this list. Is it co-incidence that this has been compiled by 'Rolling Stone' magazine and we get Dylans 'like a rolling stone' as no.1 and then 'The rolling stones' 'Satisfaction.' as no.2..........I smell a rat.
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Post by: visitorfromarticcircle on November 18, 2004, 10:52:57 AM
Is the whole list in net somewhere?  Could not find it in Rolling Stones pages..
Looks like about the same as the Mojo-magazine´s list some time ago, but they voted  In my life - for the best song. Dont much care about whos first or anything like that, but i have found couple of inresting artist (from the bottom of the list...) through them. It would have been more inresting to see one with genre or time or maybe with female artist or  something like that, as the top 30 is always the same...
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: Bruno on November 18, 2004, 03:13:23 PM
this hast to be a very new list because RS website doesn't say anything. Im dissapointed at the 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, The 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, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  18. Maybellene, Chuck Berry
  19. Hound Dog, Elvis Presley
  20. Let It Be, The Beatles
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: Indica on November 18, 2004, 03:44:50 PM
Yeah, its total rubbish.
Imagine..what the hell?
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: Joost on November 18, 2004, 04:36:16 PM
Like a rolling stone the best song of all time?

What a joke...
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: Joost on November 18, 2004, 04:38:08 PM
In the Netherlands they made a list of the worst songs of all time a while ago, and Ob-la-di, ob-la-da "won". What the hell?

I know Ob-la-di, ob-la-da wasn't exactly the most briliant song Paul McCartney ever wrote, but there are still at least hundreds of thousands songs out there that are worse...
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: Indica on November 18, 2004, 06:47:57 PM
Yeah, I heard about that.
Although Ob la-di, Ob la-da can be grating to some listeners, I think its a perfect pop song.
It shows the genuis of Mccartney, and was a smash hit when Marmalade covered it..thus..I cant see how it could be the worst Number One...
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: GroovinUpSlowly on November 19, 2004, 08:23:52 PM
Bob Dylan's great... but not that great.. I'd put The Who before him anytime.
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: Joost on November 19, 2004, 09:31:53 PM
ROLLING STONE's list, "Like a ROLLING STONE" is #1 and the ROLLING STONEs are on #2... I wonder if they really chose those two because they thought they were the best songs ever made...
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: Joost on November 19, 2004, 09:32:25 PM
And I don't even like Bob Dylan. To my opinion he's one of the most overrated musicians of all time.
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Post by: Herecomesyoursun on November 19, 2004, 10:46:59 PM
I love Bob Dylan, but thats definatley not #1 on my list.  Probably Hey Jude or Stairway to Heaven.  WHere the hell is that on their list?? On another one i found it was #1!
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: Joost on November 19, 2004, 10:59:03 PM
I think God Only Knows by the Beach Boys is hands down the best song ever made.
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Post by: number14 on November 20, 2004, 12:27:03 AM
that dylan song i dislike
the beatles should be way up there #8?
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Post by: Bruno on November 20, 2004, 01:18:38 AM
I think Yesterday is the best song of all time, everybody loves that song
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Post by: Mairi on November 20, 2004, 01:21:42 AM
You can't pick just one greatest song of all time, it's impossible. There are just so many great ones out there not to mention many different genres.
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Post by: sange on November 20, 2004, 01:22:18 PM
Biscuit Power, I think I agree with you.  Much as I adore the Beatles, "Pet Sounds" rates higher on my list than any of the Beatles albums...it is unbelievably perfect.
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: apple sauce on November 21, 2004, 12:34:15 AM
This is a travisty of injustice! No "AMERICAN-PIE" the song was one of the most played songs of all time! Where "Rock Around The Clock" (there is no rock and roll without that song) Where the hells "Maggie May" the best rock ballad of all time and my F-N favorite that introduced the second best band ever OASIS- Wonderwall! This list is bogus if you put it to the test you can see right through it!
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: SgtSkelter on November 21, 2004, 02:59:39 AM
Lists like these are all bullsh*t, 100% of the time. There is no way that there can be a definate 500 greatest songs list slated by a group of morons who are just as bad as MTV and VH1. They DON'T know music and never will... Not only that, human minds are, 100% of the time, always roaming and never set or satisfied by nature, therefore the #1 of 500 songs could be Like A Rolling Stone to one guy today but Free Bird the next. It's folly from the beginning.

Opinion should never be published in my opinion. But ah well... That's the world.
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: apple sauce on November 21, 2004, 04:58:25 PM
I can name lots of songs that are much better than their so called list!  Where's "American Pie?" "Rock Around The Clock?"  "Maggie May?"  "8 Miles High?" "House Of The Rising Sun?" I could go on forever about signifigant songs that shaped past generations of "Baby boomers" The list must have been made up by journalists who had nothing to go on but, the actual music and not what the songs represented to a generation or, they would have had a very different looking list!
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Post by: SieLiebtDich on November 22, 2004, 01:26:29 AM
Imagine is 3 place and dylan 1 what?!
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Post by: Frightwolf on November 22, 2004, 03:13:40 AM
Let It Be is on there... :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: Joost on November 22, 2004, 09:16:24 PM
[quote by=sange link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1100763130,s=16 date=1100956938]Biscuit Power, I think I agree with you.
Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: pc31 on November 23, 2004, 11:35:35 AM
[quote by=Biscuit_Power link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1100763130,s=10 date=1100899945]And I don't even like Bob Dylan. To my opinion he's one of the most overrated musicians of all time.[/quote](http://jm.g.free.fr/smileys/unclassified/smiley_abpy.gif)
true that!!!!!

Title: Re: What do you think of this list?
Post by: TurnMeOnDeadman on November 28, 2004, 05:50:55 AM
Dylan has some great tunes....but #1?? Like A Rolling Stone is a good song, but i wouldnt even put it in the top 100, id probably give it like 199 or something