Like a Rolling Stone named greatest song ever

Reuters ^ | November 18, 2004 | Steve Gorman

[ConservativeStatement]

"No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all time," wrote Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke in an article accompanying the magazine's list of the top 500 rock songs of all time.

[newcats]

Not Gospel, just consistency.

[RockinRight]

OK, it's not "OK."

[Safetgiver]

It has a whiny stoned hippy singing nonsensical lyrics ina weird voice that gives another group advertisements. Or else not.

[TChris]

So, the greatest song ever is by an artist who barely even sings? I mean, please... Is anyone going to defend Dylan's voice?

Then again, maybe the vote was for the song in spite of the voice?

[Safetgiver]

"Keep on Chooglin'" CCR.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The Clash rules.

[winodog]

Missisippi Queen by Mountain
I also thought Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison was a classic

[jmhfnyc]

Favorite: Dylan Bob Positively 4th Street

Circa.1965

You've Gotta Lotta Nerve To Say You Are My Friend
When I Was Down You Just Stood There Grinnin'
You've Gotta Lotta Nerve To Say You Have A Helping Hand To Lend
You Just Want To Be On The Side That's Winnin'

You See Me On The Street, You Always Act Surprised
Ya Say "how Are You?", "good Luck", But Ya Dont Mean It
When You Know As Well As Me You'd Rather See Me Paralized
Why Dont You Just Come Out Once And Scream It

I Know The Reason You Talked Behind My Back
I Used To Be Among The Crowd You're In With
But Do You Take Me For Such A Fool, To Think I'd Make Contact
With The One Who Tries To Hide What He Dont Know To Begin With?

You Say I've Let You Down - Ya Know Its Not Like That
If You're So Hurt, Why Then Doncha Show It?
You Say You've Lost Your Faith, But Thats Not Where Its At
Ya Have No Faith To Lose - An' Ya Know It

No, I Doe Not Feel That Good When I See The Heartbreaks You Embrace
If I Was A Master Thief Perhaps I'd Rob Them
And Tho I Know You're Dissatisfied With Your Position And Your Place
Dont You Understand, Its Not My Problem?

I Wish That For Just One Time You Could Stand Inside My Shoes
And Just For That One Moment I Could Be You
Yes, I Wish That For Just One Time You Could Stand Inside My Shoes
You'd Know What A Drag It Is To See you

[Texas Songwriter]

You bunch of pseudo conservatives take a sharp hard right turn and move to the country. He Stopped Loving Her Today. Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning-Alan Jackson. Anything Strait does. Haggard, Jones. Dylan wrote poems and set them to crappy cord structures. He couldn't sing his way out of a wet paper bag. Nuggent and Clapton are good. Give Country a chance. Now have at me.

[The Raven]

Mack the Knife...Bobby Darin

[Red Badger]

I love ALL those guys.....I'm no Dylan fan, Why are you on my case?.....

[broadsword]

I thought Jack Black made the greatest song in the world.

[esquirette]

Dust in the Wind.

[ArmyBratCutie]

Im thinking:

"Like A Rock"

[zeugma]

I recently found a copy of "Rising Sun Blues" whilst digging though an uncle's old albums. I can't remember who the artist was, but it was recorded sometime in the late 40's to early 50's. According to Wikipedia, it actually dates much further back than that.

[Texas Songwriter]

Just kiddin with you. Needed to know if there were any country music lovers out there.

[ken5050]

I caught Dylan a few times in the early 60's at few coffee houses in Greenwich Village..But Janis Joplin, in person, in a small club..unbelieveable...<{P> BTW, FYI...best song ever.."Satisfaction"..hands down..summer of '66..me, Elaine Fayman, and my new, for me, pristine 1961 Studebaker Lark..

Back then, in the metro NYC area, there were 2 Rock and Roll stations...Murray the K. ruled the airwaves....teh self proclaimed 5th Beatle....and his legions of "submarine race watchers"..but Satisfaction ruled that year..IT was #1 forever, and it was played like 5 times every hour, by every station on the radio..

[Psycho_Bunny]

 

 

 

Dude, I write crap like this when I bored:

 

I know I sound pretentious, but snobbery's not really what I'm about.  I can honestly say I've walked out of more operas and symphonies than I've sat through.

And I've never heard one genre of music that didn't have at least one example of pure brilliance.  My music collection spans from Gregorian Chants to The Crystal Method.

The problem I have is like if a book lover spends a couple years reading the complete works of Shakespeare, then Byron, then Plato, and then a friend gives them the Harry Potter series.

It might be a diversion but Harry Potter just isn't going to be all that interesting after Apology.

Sure, Dylan wrote a few cool diddys but the guy can't even stay in tune for a whole song (If you ever meet someone with perfect pitch, what you won't find in their record collection is a Beatles album). Some good counterpoint would be nice and maybe modulating keys once in a while without having to start a whole new song might be unique.

Dylan has some decent songs but if you know the difference between a C-Clef, G-Clef and F-Clef, the guy is just flat-out boring after 5 or 10 minutes.