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.
ping
Well, but no “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road,” by Loudon Wainwright III?
No Little Old Lady from Pasadena?
Nirvana is in the top ten? Iron Maiden should be up there, period.
I thought you meant Dylan is the little old lady from Pasadena, that’s what he looks like now.
The greatest song of all time is “Jesus loves me.”
Or “Amazing Grace.”
It’s a toss-up.
How could they forget Led Zeppelin!
Greatest songwriter of all time...Girl from the Red River Shore, Blind Willie McTell, Just Like a Woman, Visions of Johanna, Tangled Up in Blue, Shelter from the Storm, A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall, Forever Young, Not Dark Yet, Workingman’s Blues #2, Standing in the Doorway, Jokerman...just to name a very few possibilities.
Free Bird!
Actually, if this is about rock songs, seriously I’m thinking maybe “Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.”
Oh how I hate that frickin' song.
“All Along the Watchtower”. Hendrix cover tied.
Mystical apocalyptic stuff we thought had great meaning, only to find later the artists were at least as screwed up as we were.
Ah to be young again...
Dylan is awesome. Good Vibrations is a masterpiece, and the best use of the theremin in music ever.
I love Satisfaction, but Paint it Black or Get off of my Cloud are better Stones songs.
Before the 'Dylan can't sing' crowd comes in to bore us to death with info that is already known or tolerated and at the same time irrelevant.
bttt
Very true...you know, I almost put Watchtower in my little list but I thought that the definitive version really was Hendrix’, which brought all the mysticism you mention out in the song (Dylan’s version was just a touch sparse and flat as he was in that sort of mood at the time recorded that song). Had Dylan recorded that song in 1966 or 1974/75 his original would have been much, much different and more powerful.
Old news! The list was in Rolling Stone, not “Rolling Stones,” magazine in 2004.
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