Posted on 05/21/2010 10:32:14 PM PDT by pissant
Bob Dylan's cult hit Like A Rolling Stone beat off competition from none other than the rock and roll band 'The Rolling Stones' to be crowned the Greatest Song Of All Times.
The folk legend's 1965 hit took the title while the British band's number Satisfaction came second in the list compiled by Rolling Stones magazine.
The magazine's editors and contributors spent months piecing together the ultimate top 500 list and Dylan's track from the album Highway 61 revisited won by a huge majority.
John Lennon's Imagine came in at three, while What's Going On by Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin's 1967 anthem Respect rounded out the top five.
Also making the top 10 are Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry's Johnny B Goode', The Beatles' Hey Jude and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.
One of the most evil popular songs ever sung.
John Lennon’s Imagine came in at three
Oh how I hate that frickin’ song.
Me, too. Pure “utopian/communist bull $shit.
No loss when he got taken out. What a pig of a human being.
Sorry pigs.
I generally like most all of the 60s and 70s rockers and folkers. But how anybody ever decided that Bob Dylan had any musical talent at all is completely beyond me. There’s another Minnesota product named Prince that is even more of an enigma to me, who doesn’t just lack talent but assaults the ears with painful and hideous crap that no sentient creature would ever voluntarily listen to.
Totally agree on Dylan. Good Vibrations deserves on the list but Imagine is an awful song. IMO, George Harrison was the best songwriter in the Beatles. Bob Dylan, Ray Davies and Elvis Costello are my favorites.
Yet, Prince can play the electric guitar.
I should also add Brian Wilson. Absolutely incredible songwriter.
If he’d have done it later with Jimi accompanying and tied it in with the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse on “Slow Train Coming” it would be awesome.
Just sayin’.
Best Song Ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHJCvJSnyyg&feature=related
Warning! The song at the link will never leave your head so click at your own risk! I warned you.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
No words can adequately describe how much I despise the squeak and grunts that spring from the disgusting little jerk.
Back in the 80s at large noisy college house parties, I would suddenly be overcome by the most profound sense of irritation. Of course, it turned out the problem was the disgustingly awful noise pollution from the androgynous little creep being played on the house stereo.
I’d add Hurricane, Ballad of a Thin Man and Another Cup of Coffee to your list. And there are so many many more.
RIP, John.
LOL
Lennon was the lowest of scum.
Sorry but, Like A Rolling Stone was so overplayed on radio when it came out that I learned to hate it - and still do. I nearly break my finger, because of hitting the radio station preset button so fast, whenever it comes on.
Okay, and we wouldn't want to minimize the affinity of demons for what they can use.
“Yet, Prince can play the electric guitar.”
He could have been a great musician - yet he got caught up in sexual innuendo and nonsense.
He is an incredible guitarist who never seems to challenge his talent on record at least.
Yet despite all that talent seeing him makes me want to vomit!
Mel
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