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

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"

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

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

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

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

this is "Dreams" for me

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

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

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

!!

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

Seven nation army really? That stupid riff

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.

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.

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.

"given"

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

I'm fired!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Please stop making lists

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

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

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.

"Superstition" over "Satisfaction"

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

Please stop making lists

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.

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).

The vibe man skateboarded and drank juice

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

Have to admit I heard the Graham Parker version first.

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

“be my baby”

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.

man someone boarded Challop Airlines today

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

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.

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.

own private Idaho, makes sense

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.

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

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

This one made me laugh.

Mostly agree with stirmonster and Eric's picks. Went with James Brown on principle, even if that song probably isn't in my top 50 JB.

This recent Rolling Stone list has had me thinking about what an ILX version of this list would look like. I ended up going down a huge rabbit hole this morning and tried to find the #1 track in all the ILM polls over the years. Here's the results (I'm sure I missed some):

Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Pavement - Summer Babe
Blur - This is a Low
Ol’ Dirty Bastard f/Kelis - Got Your Money
Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper
Pulp - Common People
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
The Beatles - A Day in The Life
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On
James Brown - Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag
Paul Simon - Graceland
Neil Young - Powderfinger
PJ Harvey - Dress
The Doors - The Crystal Ship
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Stereolab - Dymaxion Loop
Can - Future Days
Dionne Warwick - Walk On By
The Cramps - Garbageman
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Spacemen 3 - Walkin’ With Jesus
Prince and the Revolution - When Doves Cry
REM - Harborcoat
Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This?
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
Guided By Voices - Game of Pricks
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
David Bowie - Life on Mars?
Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump
The Cure - A Forest
Lindstrome - I Feel Space
Miles Davis - Shhh/Peaceful
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
The Clash - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Jay Z - Dead Presidents II
Sam and Dave - Hold On, I’m A Comin’
R. Kelly - Step In The Name Of Love
Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief
Outkast - SpottieOttieDopaliscious
Brian Eno - St. Elmo’s Fire
Radiohead - There There
Autechre - Cichili
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Mr. Flagio - Take a Chance
Oasis - Live Forever
Iggy & The Stooges - Search & Destroy
Chaka Khan - I Feel for You
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
John Lennon - Instant Karma!
Tori Amos - Silent All These Years
Prefab Sprout - Appetite
Big Black - Kerosene
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
The Bee Gees - To Love Somebody
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
The Who - Substitute
Saint Etienne - Avenue
Husker Du - Eight Miles Hight
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
The Fall - Slates
New Order - Temptation
The Cocteau Twins - Aikea-Guinea
Lou Reed - Satellite of Love
Roxy Music - Mother of Pearl
Sleater-Kinney - Get Up
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
The Ramones - Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
Pixies - Debaser
Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
Spoon - Everything Hits at Once
Queen/David Bowie - Under Pressure
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - The Waiting
Slayer - Reign In Blood
The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Van Halen - Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
George Michael - Freedom ’90
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
Blondie - Dreaming
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
Beck - Loser
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Janet Jackson - Escapade
The Replacements - I Will Dare
Todd Rundgren - Hello It’s Me
The Afghan Whigs - Faded
ABBA - SOS
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Talking Heads - The Great Curve
Belle & Sebastian - The State I Am In
Underworld - Rez & Cowgirl
Nick Cave - Sleeping Annaleah
MF Doom - Doomsday
Television - Marquee Moon
Bauhaus - Dark Entries
Joy Division - Disorder
Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Madonna - Into the Groove
B-52’s - 52 Girls
Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
The Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane
Bjork - Hyperballad

Yes, ILX could get there. We just need to work a bit more on canonizing global pop history (the stuff that gave birth to afrobeats, reggaeton, k-pop...). Rolling Stone even tried to do it with the top 50 latin pop songs list and that was an ok start.

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