Rolling Stone Mag's Top 500 Songs: Van Halen didn't make the list!

[Switch84]

Oh, HELL NAW! I just received my RS # 963 Saturday and checked out their "Top 500 Songs of All Time" and Van Halen's nowhere on it (but Nirvana is!)

Here's the Top 10. Read 'em and weep.....

1. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
3. Imagine - John Lennon
4. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
5. Respect - Aretha Franklin
6. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
7. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
8. Hey Jude - The Beatles
9. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (WTF??)
10. What I'd Say? - Ray Charles

[Matt White]

OLD BALLZ

Notice how 9 out of 10 songs are from the 60-70's, or earlier?!?
Just illustrates that the RS editors are OLD BASTARDS still stuck in the music of their youth!
Wait a minute...........
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! So am I!!!!

[RogueHorseman]

Originally posted by Switch84
Oh, HELL NAW! I just received my RS # 963 Saturday and checked out their "Top 500 Songs of All Time" and Van Halen's nowhere on it (but Nirvana is!)

Here's the Top 10. Read 'em and weep.....

1. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
3. Imagine - John Lennon
4. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
5. Respect - Aretha Franklin
6. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
7. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
8. Hey Jude - The Beatles
9. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (WTF??)
10. What I'd Say? - Ray Charles

Switch, why do you subscribe to that rag anyway?

Seriously...

It is utter b/s, just like the other "poll" mentioned in the earlier thread today.

[Switch84]

OMG! "Hey Ya!" by Outkast is #180, while The Beatles "Something" is # 273! AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" ranked # 254!

[blueturk]

Disco and (c)rap,but no Van Halen. Fuck Rolling Stone.Creem,where are you?

[Switch84]

Originally posted by RogueHorseman
Switch, why do you subscribe to that rag anyway?

Seriously...

It is utter b/s, just like the other "poll" mentioned in the earlier thread today.

It was for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. I get a year for .50 per copy and all of the money goes to the cancer fund.

My bad!

[RogueHorseman]

Originally posted by Switch84
It was for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. I get a year for .50 per copy and all of the money goes to the cancer fund.

My bad!

No, you should be commended for that!

Still...

Next Newport you fire up, light that rag aflame along with it.

Then-

Shake it, sh-shake it (Oh oh!)
Shake it, sh-shake it
Shake it, sh-shake it
Shake it, shake it
Sh-shake it (Oh oh!)
Shake it like a polaroid picture
Shake it, sh-shake it (Hey ya!)
Shake it, sh-shake it
Shake it, shake it
Shake it, sh-shake it (Oh oh!)
Shake it like a polaroid picture

You'll find that Newport much more pleasureable watching that b/s chart turn to ash.

[Figs]

link

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6596661/sort/rank?rnd=1101750790666&has-player=true&version=6.0.8.1024

Dancin' in the Streets and You really Got Me are on the list. Oh, original versions. There aren't a lot of hard rock songs on it. I like Nirvana a lot, but Teen Spirit is probably the only song that should be on a list like this.

I can't believe they didn't a least put Jump on the list, the song that is both their biggest hit and worst Roth-era song(IMO).

[diamondsgirl]

Originally posted by RogueHorseman
No, you should be commended for that!

Still...

Next Newport you fire up, light that rag aflame along with it.

Then-

Shake it, sh-shake it (Oh oh!)
Shake it, sh-shake it
Shake it, sh-shake it
Shake it, shake it
Sh-shake it (Oh oh!)
Shake it like a polaroid picture
Shake it, sh-shake it (Hey ya!)
Shake it, sh-shake it
Shake it, shake it
Shake it, sh-shake it (Oh oh!)
Shake it like a polaroid picture

You'll find that Newport much more pleasureable watching that b/s chart turn to ash.

Shake it, Rogue!

[Rikk]

Originally posted by Figs
I like Nirvana a lot, but Teen Spirit is probably the only song that should be on a list like this.

I love Nirvana. I will say this: TEEN SPIRIT is their most obviously catchy song, but definitely nowhere near their actual best song. I think Nirvana deserved a few on there (I don't know how many they got).

As for VH not getting any, that figures. I guess OUTKAST is more important to rock history than Van fucking Halen.

I fucking hate Rolling Stone. It's a corporate rock publication run by hippies. I hate corporate hacks and I hate hippies...thus I hate the magazine. I'm sick of hearing about the fucking sixties.

[Figs]

Originally posted by Rikk
I love Nirvana. I will say this: TEEN SPIRIT is their most obviously catchy song, but definitely nowhere near their actual best song. I think Nirvana deserved a few on there (I don't know how many they got).

Oh yeah, it's just that usually the just the "hit" songs are what make lists like these.

[Parnelly]

I dont know about everybody else but fuck Rolling Stone. We all know Dave and VH Dave years were and always will be the fuckin bomb. I dont need a shitty magazine like Rolling Stone to tell whats good. Rolling Stone is a shit talking waste of trees.

Dave or the grave.

[Rikk]

Originally posted by Figs
Oh yeah, it's just that usually the just the "hit" songs are what make lists like these.

You're absolutely right. And the thing is, that's the short-sightedness of ROLLING STONE. There's a lot more to a band than its hit singles. I would argue that almost anything off the IN UTERO album, for instance, is better than TEEN SPIRIT.

[Rikk]

Originally posted by Parnelly
I dont know about everybody else but fuck Rolling Stone. We all know Dave and VH Dave years were and always will be the fuckin bomb. I dont need a shitty magazine like Rolling Stone to tell whats good. Rolling Stone is a shit talking waste of trees.

Dave or the grave.

ROLLING STONE didn't even pay attention to VH back in the day. Even now, they still begrudgingly give Zeppelin respect even though they were shitting on them all through the Seventies.

[Switch84]

Originally posted by RogueHorseman
No, you should be commended for that!

Still...

Next Newport you fire up, light that rag aflame along with it.

Then-

Shake it, sh-shake it (Oh oh!)
Shake it, sh-shake it
Shake it, sh-shake it
Shake it, shake it
Sh-shake it (Oh oh!)
Shake it like a polaroid picture
Shake it, sh-shake it (Hey ya!)
Shake it, sh-shake it
Shake it, shake it
Shake it, sh-shake it (Oh oh!)
Shake it like a polaroid picture

You'll find that Newport much more pleasureable watching that b/s chart turn to ash.

:D LMAO! Your homeboys from the ATL, Rogue Baby! I will be 'shakin' it' as it burns, hehehee! I like Outkast, but not enough to rank on the Top 500 while CVH is M.I.A !