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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | For your consideration:
Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 40 List of 'Songs That Changed the World'
1. Elvis Presley "That's All Right"
2. Ray Charles "I Got A Woman"
3. Chuck Berry "Maybellene"
4. Bob Dylan "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
5. The Kingsmen "Louie Louie"
6. The Ronettes "Be My Baby"
7. The Beatles "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
8. Martha and the Vandellas "Dancing In The Street"
9. The Rolling Stones "(I Cant Get No) Satisfaction"
10. Bob Dylan "Like A Rolling Stone"
11. The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever"
12. The Velvet Underground "Herion"
13. Aretha Franklin "Respect"
14. Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze"
15. Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love"
16. James Brown "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine"
17. Marvin Gaye "What's Going On"
18. John Lennon "Imagine"
19. David Bowie "Ziggy Stardust"
20. Bob Marley "I Shot The Sheriff"
21. Joni Mitchell "Help Me"
22. Bruce Springsteen "Born To Run"
23. Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"
24. The Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop"
25. The Sex Pistols "Anarchy in the UK"
26. Donna Summer "I Feel Love"
27. The Sugarhill Gang "Rappers Delight"
28. Black Flag "TV Party"
29. Michael Jackson "Billie Jean"
30. Prince "When Doves Cry"
31. U2 "Pride (In The Name Of Love)"
32. Madonna "Like A Virgin"
33. Run DMC and Aerosmith "Walk This Way"
34. The Cure "Just Like Heaven"
35. Guns N Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine"
36. Public Enemy "Bring The Noise"
37. Dr. Dre "Nuthin' But A G Thang"
38. Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
39. Britney Spears "Baby One More Time"
40. The White Stripes "Fell In Love With A Girl"
41. Ass Scratchers "Itch" |
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Location: NJ | I missed that one.
Which $300/pair jeans ad was THAT across from?? |
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Location: south east Michigan | I would agree on the top 11.
Most of the others make sense.
And this gives me an excuse to mention my most dis-liked band ever.
I hate #35.. Guns-N-Roses. Especially Axel. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | As much as I love these lists (they make great conversation pieces, QED) this one has got to take the cake for presumptiousness. "Songs that changed the world"? Really? The world is a different place because of a Britney Spears song?
Maybe their world, but not mine. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | zepp stole that song from muddy waters, they're missing anything by bo diddley, jimmy rodgers, phooy, their world is not mine. |
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Location: NJ | ". . The world is a different place because of a Britney Spears song? . ."
It doesn't necessarily say "change for the BETTER" . . . |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Some of these songs are meaningless to me. Now, add some Ventures tunes and I'm in! |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | What a crock! Glad I don't subscribe to that rag. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Changed the world? Exactly how would the world as we know it be one iota different if any of these songs had never existed?
Now, if Al Gore had never invented the internet? THAT would could have altered the course of history and the world as we know it...
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Location: Omaha, NE | Even if you take this list seriously, I have a hard time understanding what is so exceptional about some of the entries. "Fell In Love With a Girl" for example. Big deal. I don't understand what could possibly be considered noteworthy about it. |
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Location: Tennessee | I must be living in a different world. Where the hell is Rock Around The Clock? Great Balls Of Fire? And as much as I dislike it, Stayin' Alive? No Johnny Cash? How about I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank? I would also think We Are The World would have to be way up there given it's impact.
Maybe this is why my suscription lapsed ...
BTW Jeff, I like your #41. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | If Al Gore hadn't invented the internet, none of us would have met. And that's a bad thing.
If Julie Brown had never written and recorded "Earth Girls Are Easy", they never would have made the movie, and I wouldn't know. and that's a bad thing... |
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by Omaha:
Really? The world is a different place because of a Britney Spears song?
Maybe their world, but not mine. First correct response I found. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Interesting that I was just thinking of Al Gore this morning. If he hadn't invented the internet, we wouldn't all be on these computers all day, there would be a lot less heat generated by the computers and we wouldn't have global warming. I bet he planned the whole thing so he'd have something to do after he won the election. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
I must be living in a different world. Where the hell is Rock Around The Clock? Great Balls Of Fire? And as much as I dislike it, Stayin' Alive? No Johnny Cash? How about I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank? I would also think We Are The World would have to be way up there given it's impact.
Maybe this is why my suscription lapsed ...
BTW Jeff, I like your #41. I agree.
Along with Cash and Williams, how about "Jerry Lee Lewis(AKA "The Killer"), Buddy Holly, And whole bunch of others. :mad: |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | After looking at the list, I guess reading the article may be helpful but I'm guessing it's not the tunes themselves, but what happened around them. They also didn't say "improved" the world or any indication of the affect other than change. Although most of the instances were before my time of paying attention to such things, I do see several that affected or caused censorship, or inspired political conversation etc... They also don't indicate "great" change, just change. Now it can be argued we all affect the world in some way, but I'd guess John Lennon (and Yogo) doing thier sleep-in affected more people than me mowing my lawn. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I can't say that I agree with much of this. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | ...I saw " Spiderman III " to-day....
Vic |
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Location: NJ | I can play chopsticks on the piano |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | I can play on the piano with chopsticks |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Slipkid:
I hate #35.. Guns-N-Roses. Especially Axel. Who do I hate more... Axel Rose, or David Lee Roth? It's a toss-up... |
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Location: ranson,wva | not a big guns n roses fan but i do like slash...david lee roth is just a flat out prick....jason |
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Location: Scotland | Another stunning piece of journalism from Rolling Stone. This just supports my theory that Rolling Stone is written by a bunch of 19 year-old college drop-outs whose idea of "research" is to use Wikipedia and then spend the other 7 and 3/4 hours of their working day on their PSP's |
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| There you go again - I have no idea what a PSP is.
You would have to figure that anything played by The Red Army Band from about 1920 onwards changed the world more than any of the pop music on that list. |
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