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.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Beyond the Sea" with Kevin Spacey...Tell me that's true.

True.

Best rock song ever: AC/DC -- "You Shook Me All Night Long."

Best Motown: Sam & Dave -- "Soul Man."

Best ballad: Roy Orbison -- "Cryin.'"

Best pop (A Tie): Sinatra -- "I'll Be Seeing You" and John Gary -- "Once Upon A Time."

Best social protest: John Lennon -- "Working Class Hero."

Best classical: Beethoven -- "Ode to Joy."

Best overall lyricist: Bob Dylan

[Red Badger]

Considering Dylan's latest interview, he's probably laffing his arse off at these morons! He said he could write songs and load them up with all sorts of imagery and similes and they would go nuts over them. Sounds like he was putting one over on them for 40 years!.....

[Doogle]

eh...*shruggs*


Doogle

[Red Badger]

I saw Foreigner in 78. One of the most boring concerts I ever saw, second only to YES in the Round.....

[ConservativeStatement]

Beyond the Sea:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363473/

If this doesn't work, go to www.IMDB.com and enter Kevin Spacey by name and info will come up about the movie.

[RockinRight]

Well...it's not as bad as most modern hip-hop...

[don'tbedenied]

"Better leave this thread before the Foreigner contingent shows up."
Or God forbid, Styxx.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Excellent.

Discerning Dylan bump.

[whereasandsoforth]

The greatest song is by Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane)...

It's named "Rejoyce" and uses "throw up" (as in "vomit") and "crotch" in the lyrics. That makes it!

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Thanks. My bad. I also forgot to mention "Mozambique", which may have marked the last time Dylan picked up a guitar in anger. Very cool

[ConservativeStatement]

And I thought Suicidal Tendencies "Institutionalized" had its merits. :-)

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Nice list of tunes, but not a power chord or drum break among 'em. If that's REALLY rock, then you have to include Donovan as a rocker, and I, for one, can't go there.

[Alberta's Child]

What's really ironic about including "Imagine" on this list is that Lennon himself probably didn't even consider it a great song. There's a DJ on a classic rock station here in New York who once said that his fondest memory of John Lennon was that every time he saw Lennon driving around New York City, Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" always seemed to be emanating from the stereo in Lennon's Bentley. This DJ is convinced that Lennon went to his grave wishing he had written that song.

[Dr.Deth]

Stairway and Kashmir have their merits... for whatever reason my Zep fave was always Ten Years Gone.

[Delbert]

3 Words: Baby Got Back.... (just kidding)

[BossLady]

Zing!

Of course, my top fav is 'Satisfaction' LOL!

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Any serious list of top rock songs has to include at least one Ramones tune in the top 50 (my own choice would be Judy is a Punk). Puh-leeeez!

[Alberta's Child]

Any serious list of top rock songs should also include an outrageous modern punk tune like "Detachable Pen!s" by King Missile -- just for comic relief.

[Former Dodger]

ANYTHING from the 1st Led Zep albumm..."Dazed and Confused" is my favorite...far outshines the saccharine mystical crap that "Stairway" represents. "No Quarter" is another great song and an amazing song to see them do live...

[Moose4]

"From A Buick 6" and "Highway 61 Revisited" are my favorite Dylan songs. I have no idea why.

So where did Rolling Stone put Southern classics on the list..."Free Bird," "Sweet Home Alabama," "Ramblin' Man," "Tied to the Whippin' Post," y'know, REAL down-home ass-kicking rock and roll? Does RS even give a damn about any rock that isn't from Liverpool, New York, Athens, GA, or LA?

}:-)4