Greatest Songs of all Time

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Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
Its all right ma (I'm only bleeding) Bob Dylan
Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles
A Day in the Life (The Beatles)
Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones)
Badlands (Bruce Springsteen)
Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
London Calling (The Clash)
Have you ever seen the rain? (CCR)
Rock'n Roll Suicide (David Bowie)
Layla (Derek and the Dominoes)
Hotel California (The Eagles)
Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello)
Casey Jones (Grateful Dead)
No Time (The Guess Who)
All along the watchtower (Hendrix)
Voodoo Child (Hendrix)
Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
Karma Police (Radiohead)
Take the long way home (Supertramp)
Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads)
Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)
Baba O'Reilly (The Who)
Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)

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"Mr. Tambourine Man" - Bob Dylan
"Wagon Wheel" - Old Crow Medicine Show
"Tiny Dancer" - Elton John
"St. Andrew's Fall" - Blind Melon
"Jessica" - Allman Brothers Band
"American Pie" - Don McLean
"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
"One Big Holiday" - My Morning Jacket
"Karma Police" - Radiohead
"New Slang" - The Shins

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Even if you realize thats a cover, I cant ever imagine my top 10 including a cover. If you havent written the song, you dont deserve much credit.

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yeah, Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" was such a hack job. [censored] that guy.

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I agree, Hendrix's version was terrific. But if you're making a list of greatest songs, I dont see how you can give someone credit for the song when they didnt even write it. Im not saying a cover cant be better than the original, but to be given credit, I think it requires actually writing the song, thats all.

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wow, you're so flat out wrong in your opinion, it's sick.

Johnny cash "Hurt" > NIN
Aretha Franklin "Respect" > Otis redding
Tina/Ike turner "Proud mary" > CCR

Just because it's a cover doesn't mean it's not a better version.

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Jesus. Did you even read what I wrote.

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check out this list. it's Bacoben's top 500 rock songs, and they are all solid choices. imo its better than rolling stones top 500 list.

http://www.btmon.com/Other/Unsorted/...s.torrent.html

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seems limited in its scope. at least, i'm 200 songs in and haven't seen anything written after 1985. Or from a particularly wide range of artists.

edit: It's like they said, "If you're 45-55 years old and "love rock and roll", this is the playlist for you!"

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check out this list. it's Bacoben's top 500 rock songs, and they are all solid choices. imo its better than rolling stones top 500 list.

http://www.btmon.com/Other/Unsorted/...s.torrent.html

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seems limited in its scope. at least, i'm 200 songs in and haven't seen anything written after 1985. Or from a particularly wide range of artists.

edit: It's like they said, "If you're 45-55 years old and "love rock and roll", this is the playlist for you!"

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I'm only thirty years old and in my opinion there is no list of 500 songs written "after 1985" that could compare to the ones in that torrent as a whole.

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I'm only thirty years old and in my opinion there is no list of 500 songs written "after 1985" that could compare to the ones in that torrent as a whole.

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What? I didn't say the list had to be written exclusively after 1985. Of course it can't compare; so much of the best music was written between 1965-1974 or so. But I didn't see a SINGLE SONG written after 1985 in that list.

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Jesus. Did you even read what I wrote.

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A lot of us have read what you wrote. Give it up, already. Your point is ridiculous AND moot. The ridiculous part is the idea that the person who wrote a song somehow has a magic hold over it. An awesome song is an awesome song, how is it mysteriously less deserving of praise because someone else sang it first? Here is an equally valid use of your logic: The 1969 Camaro SS does not deserve to be on a list of the greatest cars of all time because it's just a cover of the Ford Model-T. I've got news for you, baby: the idea is the same, it's the execution that matters.

The moot part is that you're obviously confusing "first to record" with "having written", anyway. Many of the greatest songs of all time were written by people you've never heard of and certainly people who themselves never made commercial recordings of the songs in question. If we had to limit a "best of" list like to this to only songs that were written by the artist(s) who recorded them, we wouldn't have 500 songs worth putting on the list.

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For the greatest song, that is. NOT performance.


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Is absolutely ludicrous in more ways than I can be bothered to describe. Let's just cover the basic facts: Until it is played, a "song" is symbols on paper and nothing more. There is no "song" without a performance. Are you telling me that whatever song you consider to be the greatest song of all-time is still the greatest song of all-time when performed by a thick-fingered junior-high band? You're telling me that those musical squiggles have the same impact silently on paper as they do in your ears? I think not.

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I'm only thirty years old and in my opinion there is no list of 500 songs written "after 1985" that could compare to the ones in that torrent as a whole.

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What? I didn't say the list had to be written exclusively after 1985. Of course it can't compare; so much of the best music was written between 1965-1974 or so. But I didn't see a SINGLE SONG written after 1985 in that list.

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So, what post-1985 songs do you think qualify to be among the greatest of all time?

SpaceAce

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I'm only thirty years old and in my opinion there is no list of 500 songs written "after 1985" that could compare to the ones in that torrent as a whole.

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What? I didn't say the list had to be written exclusively after 1985. Of course it can't compare; so much of the best music was written between 1965-1974 or so. But I didn't see a SINGLE SONG written after 1985 in that list.

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So, what post-1985 songs do you think qualify to be among the greatest of all time?

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High Hopes, On the Turning Away and Learning To Fly def qualify.

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I'm only thirty years old and in my opinion there is no list of 500 songs written "after 1985" that could compare to the ones in that torrent as a whole.

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What? I didn't say the list had to be written exclusively after 1985. Of course it can't compare; so much of the best music was written between 1965-1974 or so. But I didn't see a SINGLE SONG written after 1985 in that list.

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So, what post-1985 songs do you think qualify to be among the greatest of all time?

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Bands off the top of my head that should have songs on this list: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, the Pixies, Guns N' Roses, Radiohead, R.E.M., the Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica.

Seriously, this list is definitely tailored to the "Classic rock radio station playlist" crowd. Yeah, "Move It on Over" by George Thorogood is a better song than "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Or "Welcome to the Jungle". Okay, buddy.

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Not the greatest songs in a strict musical sense, but these are the ones I always have in my playlist. Notice the number of covers I have included... surely that can't be right!

CCR: House of the rising sun (Yes, it's a cover, but way better IMHO)
Kenny Rogers: The Gambler (I just like it a lot)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo: The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Again, fantastic cover)
Nina Simone: Sinnerman (great song, great voice)
Eva Cassidy: Fields of Gold (Again, better than the original version)
Johnny Cash: Hurt (Cover, but that song just oozes Johnny Cash)
Twenty 4 Seven - Slave To The Music (Most definitely sentimental reasons - '93 a great year for music btw!)

And so on...