[Music] Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs (Updated Edition)

[YellowKing]

If it were up to me, that would absolutely be #1.

[Skinypupy]

20 - Robyn - "Dancing on My Own" - Sure, Rolling Stone, this is one of the top 20 songs of all time. A fucking Robyn club track. Get the fuck out of here. Sorry, I promised to stop bitching about this list but come on. At some point you're just putting stupid shit on here to drive controversy and get clicks. Apologies to any die-hard Robyn fans out there. Someone out there please tell me I'm wrong.

Granted, I'm completely out of the loop when it comes to modern music, but I typically have at least heard of the artist or heard snippets of most of the songs in the top 50. I have honestly never heard of this artist or this song before.

Just listened to it, and it sounds like every other bland, generic synth pop song that's come out in the past 30 years. There wasn't anything unique or interesting about it at all.

While I may not personally enjoy songs by, say, Beyonce or Outkast, I can at least recognize the talent on display. But this song? Someone had to just be trolling.

[hepcat]

NPR on why it's better than you might think.

[LordMortis]

OK you made me listen. There isn't anything musically interesting to me though it might have been in 1989 when music defined by BPM were a I enjoyed the way bands were playing with. Her voice isn't interesting to me. The lyrics aren't interesting to me. To each their own.

[hepcat]

It doesn't appeal to me, but reading why it's so well loved I can understand why others see it a different way.

[Dramatist]

I love Robyn - Dancing On My Own.

I’m not arguing for the song to be #20 all time, but I’m a big fan of some club music and I like emotional lyrics so the song to me is an all time classic.


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[Jeff V]

I have no problem with Respect being the top song...although it rather smacks of pandering since her biopic is coming out and she is recently deceased.

The rest of the top 10...is not. The local dinosaur rock station played Smells Like Teen Spirit today (as they did a few days ago), I like the song but grunge is not one of my top-10 sub-genres, so there's no way it would make my top 10.

Which begs the question - what is your top-10?

I'll give it a go...

1. Time - Pink Floyd
2. Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
4. Starship Trooper - Yes
5. Vehicle - Ides of March
6. Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
7. Dreamworld - Midnight Oil
8. Train in Vain - The Clash
9. Live or Let Die - Paul McCartney and the Wings
10. Your So Vain - Carly Simon

[Skinypupy]

Which begs the question - what is your top-10?

Off the top of my head today. The top 5 are pretty solid, the bottom five can change depending on my mood.

1. Life on Mars - David Bowie
2. Nature’s Revenge - Skinny Puppy
3. Ghost Reveries - Opeth
4. Love You to Death - Type O Negative
5. Crystal Mountain - Death
6. Row Row - Zeal & Ardor
7. Ov Fire and the Void - Behemoth
8. Blinded by Fear - At the Gates
9. The Soul Grave - Sigh
10. End of an Empire - Turisas

[Jeff V]

The thing about top-10 lists is they change by day. More so if you don't over-think it.

1. Point of Know Return - Kansas
2. Madame Blue - Styx
3. I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
4. Mony Mony - Tommy James and the Shondells
5. Who Are You? - The Who
6. Knife's Edge - ELP
7. La Sagrada Familia - Alan Parsons
8. Can't Take My Eyes Off of You - Frankie Valli
9. Lick My Love Pump - Spinal Tap
10. Down in the Park - Gary Numan

[Exodor]

5 - Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - This album..and this song...really defined my high school experience. I remember people arguing over Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and other grunge bands of the day, but nobody argued over Nirvana. I didn't know anyone who didn't love them or this album. It absolutely belongs on this list - it really was that sea change in music that I'm really happy I got to experience in real time at the right age to appreciate it.

This song hit just as I started my first year of college. I have never experienced anything like it - overnight this song was just everywhere. I remember picking up the CD-Single but it wasn't really necessary because you couldn't go anywhere on campus without hearing this coming out of someone's dorm room or car.

[Dramatist]

Which begs the question - what is your top-10?

1 Joy Division - Transmission
2 The Chameleons - Second Skin
3 OMD - The Romance of the Telescope
4 Talk Talk - Tomorrow’s Started
5 David Bowie - Life On Mars
6 The Cars - It’s All I Can Do
7 Love Spit Love - Am I Wrong
8 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Head On
9 Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
10 Gusgus - Believe

These will change somewhat tomorrow.


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[Kraken]

I can't believe Safety Dance isn't on anyone's list.

[Pyperkub]

I am surprised at Respect being at the top of the list.

I thought for sure that Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" would make number 1.

Factoid, Aretha's version of "Respect" is a cover of the initial hit by Otis Redding:

Otis Redding wrote this and originally recorded it in 1965, with his version hitting #35 in the US. Redding said of the song shortly before his death in 1967: "That's one of my favorite songs because it has a better groove than any of my records. It says something, too: 'What you want, baby, you got it; what you need, baby, you got it; all I'm asking for is a little respect when I come home.' The song lines are great. The band track is beautiful. It took me a whole day to write it and about twenty minutes to arrange it. We cut it once and that was it. Everybody wants respect, you know."
Redding's version consisted of only verses - no chorus or bridge. Aretha appropriated King Curtis' sax solo from Sam & Dave's "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby," which he recorded the previous night for Stax Records, and used that for the bridge.
Franklin's cover is by far the best-known version, but this was an important song for Otis Redding. It was just his second Top 40 hit

[hepcat]

NPR did a story on that years ago that I listened to, so I already knew that. The legend is that when he heard Aretha's version, he simply said “well, I guess it’s that girl’s song now.”.

However, the legend that "Just a Friend" is actually a cover of a Hank Williams song is probably not true.

[disarm]

I can't believe Safety Dance isn't on anyone's list.

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