Music Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of all time
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The Stones didn’t even have 500 songs.
These lists are always garbage
If Ed Sheerans in it, it’s a rubbish list.
To paraphrase Groucho Marx “I don’t want to read about any music club that’d have Ed Sheeran as a member”
(and from memory, RS have previously put some odd songs in to try and prove they’re edgy. “we know ‘Wonderul woman’ might not be everyone’s favourite Smiths song but we think it’s a hidden gem so it’s 221 in the all time greatest songs and we’ve omitted ‘how soon is now’ and ‘there is a light that never goes out’”)
(edit. Now I’m going to have to check it out. Better have some Police in there)
To paraphrase Groucho Marx “I don’t want to read about any music club that’d have Ed Sheeran as a member”
(and from memory, RS have previously put some odd songs in to try and prove they’re edgy. “we know ‘Wonderul woman’ might not be everyone’s favourite Smiths song but we think it’s a hidden gem so it’s 221 in the all time greatest songs and we’ve omitted ‘how soon is now’ and ‘there is a light that never goes out’”)
(edit. Now I’m going to have to check it out. Better have some Police in there)
Of course they are because how can you legitimately rank songs? Or albums? It’s dumb.
It's comically scewed. Lorde and Robyn have not made one of the 100 best songs ever that much is for sure. Robyn even made top 25 if I remember correctly.
Top 10?
Top 100 includes Whitney Houstons COVER of ‘I will always love you‘. I‘d rather listen to Dolly Partons original (at least it feels honest) but neither are top 100… which is above ‘Let it be’, ‘I heard it through the grapevine’, ‘I say a little prayer’, ‘Creep’, ‘at last’, ‘higher ground’, ‘something’, ‘sympathy for the devil’, etc etc
There are a few surprising but welcome inclusions. Nice to see Kate Bush at 60 though I prefer ‘the man with the child in his eyes’ (written at 13!) over ‘running up that hill’.
BTS, Rihanna and eight Arianna Grande songs
Arianna Grande can’t sing has she really got songs in the top 10?
Objectively speaking she can sing, you just don't like her songs but she actually has a fantastic voice.
Hahaha, I fully agree.
Why is Daddy Yankee - Gasolina at 50.
She really doesn’t, sounds like a 40 year old man on 40 a day..
We all know the greatest song of all time is A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. I assume it’s in the list.
Is that a Proclaimers cover?
No this better than Proclaimers, it's literally double the mileage
Honestly what kind of 40 year old men do you know? Do you need to talk to someone?
Why?
Any Duran Duran?
Double A side of 500 Miles
Ok Peter Crouch.
Come on man - not a fan or Ariana Grande but she can absolutely sing. She has an amazing voice. Also, that description doesn't suit her at all, are you confusing her with someone else? A friend of yours who is 40 and on 40 a day, perhaps?
Out of curiosity I checked this out cos those bastards were prolific, apparently they have recorded 422 songs. Not bad.
It's actually the same distance, due to them being will to go 500 miles and then 500 miles further.
Gasolina a top 50 song . Those lists are always arbitrary of course but putting Gasolina above 99 percent of Dylan songs is laughable.
. Those lists are always arbitrary of course but putting Gasolina above 99 percent of Dylan songs is laughable.Coming at number 20, just one spot behind John Lennon's 'Imagine', and in all honesty a little unlucky not to have leapfrogged the bespectacled moaner:
Now I do like Missy Elliot's Get "Ur* Freak On, but is it one one the 10 best songs ever, and better than The Ronettes' Be My Baby? Is it feck.
Daft list, but then whatever form the list took, it would be. You just can't compare and rank songs.
Also, instrumental tracks aren't songs, in my book. I love an instrumental, but a song is something with a singer and lyrics.
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Daft list, but then whatever form the list took, it would be. You just can't compare and rank songs.
Also, instrumental tracks aren't songs, in my book. I love an instrumental, but a song is something with a singer and lyrics.
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Bloody hell!
Out of curiosity I checked this out cos those bastards were prolific, apparently they have recorded 422 songs. Not bad.
Should be 5th at worst
I'm totally on board for Sam Cooke's 'A change is gonna come' being in the top 3 but other than that the top ten is mental. How is Strawberry Field's Forever the Beatles best song for example?
I think it probably is. But I'm much more a fan of their more sonicly experimental stuff. It was like nothing else before it when that song came out.
Firstly, it should be named "500 English speaking songs from the last 60 years". Secondly, these lists are completely garbage.
I think thats the only thing I would probably agree with them. For me it's always between Eleanor Rigby, A day in the life and strawberry fields, yet I think I prefer strawberry fields.
You don’t think ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ belongs in the top 10? It’s not my favorite Dylan song but it’s definitely worthy of being in the top 10. ‘Respect’ definitely too.
I kind of hoped that there would be more than 239 songs out there better than Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way.
Because its an absolute classic. Should be No 1 tbh
Was happy about that - one of my all time favourite songs, always makes me feel emotional.
It’s an absolutely brilliant song. Would be a worthy no. 1.
when I saw this I was expecting it to be bollocks, but I was wrong
it's utter bollocks
it's utter bollocks
And not a Golden Earring song?