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

This whole thing inspired me to make a list of my own 50 favorites… is there a place we can post & share without being unwelcome or clogging another thread?

I love that ILM results. Good job everyone involved.

is there a place we can post & share without being unwelcome or clogging another thread?

Feel free to clog this thread with fantasy ballots.

create a poll of your 50 favorites to annoy the ghost of turrican

Respect has certainly suffered from being overplayed and overused, but it got overplayed and overused because it rules *so hard*

I was curious how many of these songs i had never heard before so i combed the top 200 and played the four new-to-me tracks once.

#14 - The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset"
I like quite a lot of The Kinks music that I've heard quite a lot but I do not like this at all!

#75 - Pulp "Common People"
I have never ever listened to Pulp somehow. This seems okay, maybe, kinda? I like the instrumental parts a lot more than i like jarvis cocker's voice and to give you a sense of how little i care about this band I initially thought the lead singer was damon albarn because pulp and blur have the same number of letters. i don't think i will ever intentionally listen to this again.

#77 - The Modern Lovers "Roadrunner"
Pretty great! I could see trying this album out.

#155 - The Strokes "Last Nite"
I got through the entirety of the 2000s without listening to or forming an opinion about the Strokes. It feels real appropriate that fucking RS is the impetus for me to break a 20 year streak with these guys. Was this like a commercial for jeans or a car or something? It probably should be. I bailed at the 90 second mark.

Feel free to clog this thread with fantasy ballots.

Ok, I may do it! But the more I look at my list, the more idiosyncratic and (I guess) "challopsy" it seems (b/c I was focusing purely on personal faves, rather than historical/canonical significance)... so then I wonder if I should tip the balance a little... etc. It makes me appreciate the difficulty of this task a little more.

#75 - Pulp "Common People"

I have never ever listened to Pulp somehow. This seems okay, maybe, kinda? I like the instrumental parts a lot more than i like jarvis cocker's voice and to give you a sense of how little i care about this band I initially thought the lead singer was damon albarn because pulp and blur have the same number of letters. i don't think i will ever intentionally listen to this again.

boo

Not going to lie, whatever "ballot" I've been composing in a hidden Spotify playlist for myself is somewhat informed by having seen the list. In other words, hedging on some choices (e.g. "Sir Duke" for Stevie Wonder, instead of "Summer Soft" or "You and I").

if not common people, tell me the pulp song i should listen to that will win me over

curious to know what you would think of 'My Legendary Girlfriend' tbh

if you don't like jarvis cocker's voice, pulp is probably not for you, tbh

try "something changed," maybe? it's a well-written british invasion throwback that lays off the psychosexual stuff and the social commentary and smooths down cocker's vocal tics a bit

"Juicy" is the only one that actually belongs here.

Party Hard xp

"Sorted for E's and Whizz" is the best pulp song. But it does sound like maybe Pulp isn't for you.

forks, listen to "this is hardcore" or "sunrise"

"Underwear" is pretty great imo

I used to keep a blog where I wrote about every pulp song, underwear was the last entry I wrote

https://pulpsongs.wordpress.com/

hope to resume it one day but won't be for a while

one listen per, who knew that 9/20/21 would be my pulp day.

My Legendary Girlfriend - Great intro, very Talking Heads and I approve of the effects. In general this is a sufficiently strange enough take on 70's R&B that I could see coming around to it. I wish it would rock out a bit harder at the apex but maybe on headphones?

Something Changed - Inoffensive but boring. I have an association with this era of breakout britpop with a time when i was living in a trailer park in the outskirts of Nashville, sleeping on the floor next to a flea-ridden hound, so you're gonna have to be a lot better than this to win me over with this sorta sound.

Party Hard - I'm into the electric jaw harp and the guitar line and the driving drums but man i just don't care for Cocker's Lugosi/Dr Frank-n-Furter voice at all. It is weighing down a very very busy track to the point where I don't want to put in the effort to figure out where I'm supposed to grab hold.

Sorted for E's and Wizz - I assume this is made for the clunkiest woodland children. I like the burping electronics.

i'll try three more but then i'm clocking out.

Babies is the best Pulp song

I wish it would rock out a bit harder at the apex but maybe on headphones

yeah Babies might still be the best

This Is Hardcore - Musically, it's kind of interesting: a James Bond theme as imagined by a sad drunk who won't stop going on. Wish it had spun out naturally around 4.15, which is where I derailed right around THAT GOES IN THERE THAT GOES IN THERE UNGHGUGNGHGUUHH. Pretty charming up till then though.

Sunrise - Six minutes of pomp without circumstance. Generally that speaks to me but not here.

Underwear - If they gave the dead milkmen quaaludes

as always, i reserve the right to completely rethink everything i believe but i am okay not listening to pulp anymore except maybe for the newly posted version of Legendary Girlfriend to see if they made the highs higher.

Yeah the Youtube version of Leg Girl is very good!

lo-fi pulp hits the right points imo

I have been biting my tongue not talking about 80s pulp but would say it is all pretty lo-fi

As a Pulp fan I mostly agree with your observations. Try Babies.

forks if you like Roadrunner (and who wouldn't?) you should definitely check out that Modern Lovers album. Lots more of the same vibe.

i will likely go back to that modern lovers album.

Babies is pretty good! If I had started here I woulda likely had a lot more patience for this band.

Frankly had no idea they dated back to the 80s!

So forks is coming around on Pulp. Now onto “Waterloo Sunset.”

xp Formed in 1978 when Jarvis was 15!

Is there an Apple Music playlist of the whole 500 up anywhere? A few quick searches revealed only partial lists, older lists, people's personal selections from the master list, etc.

I thought I knew every song in the top 50 but just listened to "Gasolina," and cannot recall ever hearing this curiosity. Wish I could change my vote. Video is heinous.

Sorry, should have posted that in the Worst songs thread.

just listened to Gasolina in full for first time and I love it

Is there an Apple Music playlist of the whole 500 up anywhere? A few quick searches revealed only partial lists, older lists, people's personal selections from the master list, etc.

Here you go:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4EdmaJCUXvXsXJKXZGvj2r?si=bc91434935b6452d

I also made a playlist of all ILX track poll winers that I listed in my post from yesterday, in case anyone's interested:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cgduOuzi3ut0Lq2zmz0rt?si=d27239fd317645f0

ILXors discovering "Gasolina," perhaps one of the most consequential songs of the 21st Century, is very entertaining, plz do not stop

It's a good example of how fractured music is in the 21st Century!

I don't know about "discover" as I have heard it many times in bits and pieces, first time I have actually listened to it properly

#14 - The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset"
I like quite a lot of The Kinks music that I've heard quite a lot but I do not like this at all!

this is truly one of the most baffling opinions i've ever heard on ilx

don't know what to tell you!

nor I you!

"purple rain" ranking over "when doves cry" is really grinding my gears

also

42. Bob Marley & the Wailers, "Redemption Song"

isn't even a top 20 marley song much less representing reggae as a whole in the top 50

I never thought Gasolina was one of the best 50 songs of all time but in a dour playlist like this, it certainly feels like a “hell yeah!” moment when it comes on.

the ranking is, in general, hilarious here but it's such an obvious attempt at "sparking discourse" that i can hardly let it bother me.

as with all top whatever lists, this is a list of songs where most of them are well known and pretty good to excellent. which is not to say they are < or > than anything else.

Gasolina was inescapable for years in huge parts of the world, but yeah, living in the US you could easily have never heard it. Of course, the same was true of Las Ketchup, and I don't see them in the top 50.

I kinda like The Ketchup Song (Asereje), something about the slightly out-of-time, slightly-out-of-rhythm unharmonised descending-scale vocals paired with the generic upbeat backing produces this distinctive kind of unintended melancholy, it's like a V/VM version of itself.

very tempted to troll whiney and bring up crazy frog here

I’m not much of a fan of “Waterloo sunset” either. I’d put 10 Kinks’ songs ahead of that one easily.

That said I don’t mind it and can see why some people think it’s one of their best songs.