50 Best Songs of All Time According to Rolling Stone's BRAND NEW, 100% Revamped Top 500

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Not arguing against the notion that Nina is still cresting. That's what these updates are kind of all about tho.

i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link

Must be right if it's in Rolling Stone. LOL

Maybe it is different in the UK to the USA? She was always bigger and had more hit records here.

stirmonster, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link

this is "Dreams" for me

Bee OK, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link

I scrolled through this too fast and thought Daddy Yankee was the Damn Yankees and was like "man no wonder everyone is pissed about this list"

chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link

I love or at least like about 40 out of these 50, but at the moment "My Girl" has the strongest claim, for me, of being one of humanity's finest achievements.

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, September 16, 2021 1:24 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes

J. Sam, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link

Listening to a playlist of the list on random and getting a few pleasant surprises here and there, like Marshall Jefferson "Move That Body."

i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link

did it make the list? I didn't even scroll thru the thing.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link

I'm devastated Noel's "Silent Morning" and Sylvester-Patrick Cowley's "Do You Wanna Funk" didn't make the list, apparently.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link

this is "Dreams" for me


great call

brimstead, Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link

xps RS makes it impossible to scroll thru the whole thing ... a Spotify playlist of the purported full list has it on it

i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link

You can also see the full list in one place here:
http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=149454#p149454

jaymc, Thursday, 16 September 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link

326 Rilo Kiley, 'Portions for Foxes' 2004
324 Billy Joel, 'Scenes From an Italian Restaurant' 1977

!!

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 16 September 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link

that rilo kiley track showing up is maybe the most 'huh?' pick

ufo, Thursday, 16 September 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link

Seven nation army really? That stupid riff

calstars, Thursday, 16 September 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link

I really have to stretch to find a song I'm not at least a little bit tired of. Probably Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg or Lauryn Hill.

clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link

Meant to say that I played about two minutes each of the Top 10 for a grade 6 class today (three minutes for Sam Cooke--played a Malcolm X clip). And held my breath during a clean version of Missy Elliott, because clean to the uploader doesn't necessarily mean clean in a school setting. Stuff I miss about having my own class.

clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link

One guy really surprised me by asking if the J5's "I Want You Back" was on the list. Evidently should have been give a vote.

clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link

"given"

clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link

"fremme neppa ventte" is INAPPROPRIATE for the classroom, Mr Clemenza! Please take the rest of the week off -unpaid!

you had me at "giallo" (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link

I'm fired!

clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link

I would love to have had you as my 6th grade teacher. Instead I got the harsh Sister Julianna

didn't ever see the Fight the Power video before now

Dan S, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:14 (two years ago) link

Our French teacher played us "Je t'aime... moi non plus" in class, and blew our minds

juristic person (morrisp), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link

I was a little nervous about "Fight the Power," too, but I think "never meant shit to me" is all there is, right (which came later in the song anyway). With "Hey Ya," I played the actual video and was more wary of the visuals with some of the women (and the lawn jockey imagery was potentially a problem, although a little too esoteric for grade 6s; I did flash back to playing Culture Club on a remote job last spring and having blackface pop up.) "Je t'aime"? Wow--don't think I'd risk that

clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link

my eye-rolling moment:

120. X-Ray Spex, 'Oh Bondage! Up Yours!'
121. Marvin Gaye, 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'

These lists never seem to know if they are rating milestones or performances or recordings or songwriting or what.

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link

Went with "A Day in the Life," which still has a lot of magic for me.

jmm, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link

Eric is there not some other poll you could be dealing with right now

ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link

Maybe a little something called The Last Dangerous Morbsies, aka I Have NO POLL and I Must Screen?

I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link

Please stop making lists

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link

Voted Missy without reading any further down, get ur freak on is a really good song. strawberry feilds forever is also very good.

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link

'Respect' wouldn't even make it into in my top ten Aretha songs, I don't think.

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link

This might be 'When Doves Cry' for me. If they'd included 'Long Tall Sally' instead of 'Tutti Frutti' I might've gone with Little Richard.

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:37 (two years ago) link

"Superstition" over "Satisfaction"

aegis philbin (crüt), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link

I love Unknown Pleasures but I will never understand why "Love Will Tear Us Apart" gets so much acclaim, it's kinda wack

aegis philbin (crüt), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link

Please stop making lists

OTM, truth bomb, solitary post etc.

I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link

Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z, "Crazy in Love"

I know I am way TF out of touch, but don't remember this one at all. Looking at the list of her big hits, I know most of them but this one even listening to it, I kinda don't remember it.

Did not know the MIA, Kanye or the Daddy Yankee tune either...

I can't believe that Idioteque is on this list. Seems odd to me that tune would be the one on this list.

earlnash, Friday, 17 September 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link

If you asked a bunch of people who are interested in this kind of stuff "What is the most surprising song in the Top 10?" I expect most would pick either Outkast or Missy Elliott. Weirdly--I'd have to give my explanation some thought--it was "Dreams" that surprised me the most (pleasantly so).

clemenza, Friday, 17 September 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link

The vibe man skateboarded and drank juice

the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 September 2021 01:08 (two years ago) link

One guy really surprised me by asking if the J5's "I Want You Back" was on the list. Evidently should have been give a vote.

― clemenza, Thursday, September 16, 2021 7:07 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah "I Want You Back" at 104 was the most shocking thing about this list for me

J. Sam, Friday, 17 September 2021 01:48 (two years ago) link

Have to admit I heard the Graham Parker version first.

I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 September 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link

You guys know the thing about the second verse of “The Love You Save,” right?

I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 September 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link

“be my baby”

mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Friday, 17 September 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link

I'd like to announce and renounce my ignorance, and write capsule reviews of the eight songs I wasn't familiar with till this morning:

08. Missy Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On” - Good, though I wish the whole song was as rhythmically exciting as the coda

16. Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z, "Crazy in Love” - boring sample, boring song, boring rap

20. Robyn, "Dancing on My Own” - adequate, but about 40% as good as Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder. There’d better be something else amazing about your song if you want me to sit through another I - V - IV pattern

25. Kanye West feat. Pusha T, “Runaway" - intriguing, but I think you’d have to be way more invested in him than I am to know what this all signifies

30. Lorde, “Royals" - very well done, but it’s a protest song about nothing

45. Kendrick Lamar, “Alright" - I know his previous record, and this is obviously great

46. M.I.A., "Paper Planes” - any annoyance on my part is intentional on her part, but I still prefer Elastica. I’d be more impressed if someone told me this came out in 1982

50. Daddy Yankee feat. Glory, “Gasolina” - this wouldn’t be my kind of thing even if I spoke Spanish

I was most pleased to see "Waterloo Sunset" and "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" on here, and I voted for the former.

Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 19 September 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link

man someone boarded Challop Airlines today

you had me at "giallo" (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 September 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link

You know “B.O.B.” but not "Get Ur Freak On”(?)

juristic person (morrisp), Sunday, 19 September 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link

You know “B.O.B.” but not "Get Ur Freak On”(?)

I saw some of her other videos, OutKast I made a point of listening to.

Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link

I'm trying to calculate age and location probabilities for hearing Crazy in Love for the first time in 2021. I have 8, Papua New Guinea or 72, Idaho.

Nabozo, Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link

own private Idaho, makes sense

you had me at "giallo" (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link

The declaration that Robyn and M.I.A. made two of the 50 greatest songs of all time is as much of a challop as anything in that post imo.

Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link

I personally took the rankings of the songs with a grain of salt as I read thru the list, but I guess ppl will inevitably critique the rankings

juristic person (morrisp), Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link

156 The Kingsmen, 'Louie Louie' 1963
155 The Strokes, 'Last Nite' 2001

This one made me laugh.

jmm, Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link

No, this was before they went under. It wasn't much, believe me--$10 per printed P&J comment?

In that case, I definitely prefer a free record (as long as I get to choose)!

birdistheword, Friday, 15 October 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link

Thanks to this thread, I dreamt someone gave me a pizza. I didn't have to provide any lists in exchange though.

Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 16 October 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link

ILX'ors cryptosicko and Kevin J. Bozelka have their lists up there.

clemenza, Saturday, 16 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link

I've discovered the Tammys' "Egyptian Shumba" (1964) off KJB's list.

clemenza, Saturday, 16 October 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link


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