I can think of so may more but I wouldn't remove any of your choices.
Is it a list of the top 100 SONGS or the top 100 PERFORMANCES of songs? I don't think these people---who seem to be more like groupies---at MOJO understand the difference. They do a disservice to the "songwriters" they supposedly "invited" to participate.
IF it is the SONG that is voted on, then it has nothing to do with the performer---original, "definitive," or whatever, but rather credit goes to the SONGWRITER(s). If it is the top 100 songs of all time as performed or whatever (however they wish to describe it), then just say so, and they shouldn't mix in "songwriter" at all in the mix. Like most people, they don't seem to understand that the creative process of the creation of the song is different than the person singing and performing the song. Even with the ubiquitous singer-songwriter of the rock-era, the song is only written once, though then performed eternally (or maybe, in the case of much rock music, it just SEEMS that way.) The song exists external to the singer's performance of the song. Hence, many or most of the great songwriters toil in anonymity, but that is ok with them. (example: does anyone at Mojo know---or care---who WROTE "Over The Rainbow"? I'd BET that if you took a poll at Mojo it would be like asking the blondes questions on Howard Stern......I bet most would say, oh, Judy Garland wrote it. BTW...the ans is E. Y Harburg and Harold Arlen wrote "Over The Rainbow.")
BTW, I've never heard of most of these songs.
P.S. I wonder if those Mojo people ever heard of Old Man River, I'll Be Home for Christmas, One Alone, Basin Street Blues, Blue-tail Fly, Careless Love, Deep River, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, Loch Lomond, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, My Old Kentucky Home, I Got Rhythm, Ah Sweet Mystery of Life, Carry Me Back to Old Virginie, Annie Laurie, The Minstral Boy, Mother Machree, Sweet and Low, I Been Workin' on the Railroad, Greensleaves, Molly Malone, Go Down Moses, Thinking of You, The Dark Town Strutters Ball, California Here I Come, Chattanooga Choo Choo... (Oops! Forgot! That's classical music? Opera?)
P.P.S. What the hell is Mojo anyway? Are they connected with that "writer" from New York?
-Eric
The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon, Like Trumpets.
What makes these people think that their list of their 100 favorite songs is definitive for everyone? (By the way, anyone who has 100 favorite songs has entirely too much time on their hands.) Taste in music is SO subjective...my top ten list looks nothing like theirs.
And what's with the Greatest Songs of All Time title? They're honestly going to say that Britney Spears ranks above the Psalmist, Mozart, Bach, etc.? Please.
I would like to nominate :
I Actually think Thunder Road is the better song that had the misfortune of being on the same album, but Born to Run is the ultimate rock anthem.