Maybe I’m biased by the greatness of the rest of the album, but this is one of my sub 1 minute faves:
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Greatest song under 60 seconds.
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As long as the list is called something like “The Rolling Stones Greatest Songs of All Time” I have no complaints.
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Nothing before 1935, huh. Sorry, Ah, vous dirai-je maman which inspired composers like Mozart and Haydn and is still known today by just about every child. Silent Night, the beloved Christmas carol that I have seen so many old people light up to hear. Wade in the Water that was sung by slaves trying to escape and Battle Hymn of the Republic by soldiers fighting against their oppressors. That was before people discovered what music can really be…they just don’t hold up next to modern innovators like Hank Williams and the Backstreet Boys.
Sorry to be down on this, but it’s really inviting this complaint when they say all time. It should mean a little more than “I considered my parents’ records too!” That’s not even touching that while it’s nice they might have added a few people besides white guys, they didn’t exactly go roaming the world looking for them. It’s like talking about history’s greatest leaders and then ranking the US presidents since the second world war.
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It’s a pretty good way to get clicks though, even if everyone just shows up to complain.
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First off, I fricking love that song. Second, that is an extremely white crowd in that video.
No nickelback in the top ten, a national tragedy if I’ve ever seen one.
Maybe your nation. Eh?
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Think this calls for a real classic. Greatest song ever. God bless the USAAaaaa!
Never forget!!!
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God Only Knows only got 11?
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Nah, they’re from Canadia.
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Y’know what they say about headlines posed as a question, right?
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“The first time the magazine published their list, it was 2003 and a bunch of white guys were at the top:
1 Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” 1965
2 The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” 1965
3 John Lennon “Imagine” 1971
4 Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” 1971
5 Aretha Franklin “Respect” 1967
6 The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” 1966
7 Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” 1958
8 The Beatles “Hey Jude” 1968
9 Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” 1991
10 Ray Charles “What’d I Say”“
Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry and Ray Charles are white guys now?
It’s more accurate to call the top ten a sausage fest.
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I find it very hard to believe that not a single song written and performed in a language other than English is included in the ten greatest songs of all time. The odds are astronomical.
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John Peel famously complained about “white boys with guitars” when compiling the listener votes on his festive 50s. It wasn’t that he didn’t like them, he just felt that by focusing on them women and so many other genres were being ignored.
Personally I can think of several highly influential songs that will never make these kinds of list.
Since there’s already a discussion about John Peel. have you seen the Peelenium? A selection of John Peel’s favourite songs for each year of the 20th century, starting in 1900.
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Apparently they meant the very tippety-top.
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I don’t think a single one of these will teach me a dance.
but I have not and do not intend to look
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I’ve got a link to a Beetles song, if that counts
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I had to listen to that, live and in person, in the conference room at the company where I worked at the time. (Apparently he’s uncle to one of my former co-workers)
I’m not a fan of the song, and I’m even less of a fan of the racist and jingoistic rant that preceded it.
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Thank you, BoingBoing… or Rolling Stone… or King Bog up in the Sky for this wonderful discovery, plucked from the list. Very short, sparse, and sweet. I never knew of Nick Drake.
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