Not a good list, half of these songs don't deserve to be there. Fight The Power mught be a rap classic, but it cannot be the second best song ever, it's not better than A Day In The Life, Good Vibrations, Johnny B Goode, Purple Rain, Lola, etc. Hey Ya by Outkkast Number 10? No Way. There are hundreds of better songs that are not in this list.
Hey ya is far from being OutKast’s best song, but it’s still a classic and the factor that put it’s at #10 is it’s influence. It was a HUGE song that has had a ton of influence on rap and pop.
I actually don't mind the hey ya placement as much as I probably should, Missy Elliot and Public Enemy are the great offenders in the top 10 more than anything
Rolling Stone makes a joke of themselves with this. Should have a disclaimer "For entertainment purposes only" No Eminem at all. How is Michael Jackson not in the top 10? No love for music made before 1975. Minimum love for The Beatles. No Eagles, CCR, Elvis, ect. This is a mess and I think they are just trying to get clicks, attention, and maybe a couple magazines sold. Since hardly anyone buys magazines or takes Rolling Stone serious anymore.
You didn't even get the title right lmao, it's "Big Yellow Taxi", and that's not even her best song. Biggest hit maybe. I'd put "Help Me" as her best, "California" close 2nd, and "Free Man in Paris" 3rd, "Coyote" 4th, and "A Case of You" maaaaybe 5th. Nowhere near her best
@@thomasnelson5758 I didn't remember title on hand so I just put it. Fans would know the song. I've listened to alot of Joni. Though I'm not a diehard. "Big Yellow Taxi" is her biggest hit, because it's her best song, also everyone enjoys the song not just die hards 🤷♂️. I have California on my Playlist as well. Great song imo it doesn't compare to the 2 I mentioned.
Rolling stone should only put out a top 100 for each decade and then you can cobble together a top 500 from each of the decades. Comparing the music of the 60s with today is pointless today you don't need to be a musician it's more about image and technology.
1; Stairway To Heaven 2; Bohemian Rhapsody 3; Jailhouse Rock 4; Johnny b. Goode 5; Rock Around The Clock 6; Let It Be or Hey Jude 7; Hotel California 8; Purple Haze 9; A Day in the Life 10; I cant get No Satisfaction ; Free Bird
How interesting... My list would be: 1. Stairway To Heaven. 2. Bohemian Rhapsody. 3. A Day In the Life. 4. Hotel California. 5. Wish You Were Here. 6. Good Vibrations. 7. Starless - King Crimson. 8. Johnny B. Goode. 9. Paranoid Android. 10. I Can't Get No (Satisfaction).
Stairway and Bohemian Rhapsody are two of the most painfully overrated songs in history. I'd put Kashmir at #1 before I put Stairway even in the top 100. Those Beatles picks are so humdrum and safe too. What's so revolutionary about Let it Be or Hey Jude? I actually agree with their pick of Strawberry Fields at 7. It is their most forward thinking and innovative song. Made Brian Wilson pull over to catch his breath
As a Latino I'm disgusted by the mere presence of Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee (let alone how high they are). "Gasolina" is higher than Stairway To Heaven and Good Vibrations. This list is horse-5hit.
So many songs better than B.O.B. too. Elevators (Me & You) is my favorite.. Rosa Parks is a very solid pick if they are gonna take a "more known" Outkast song. It's a b.s. list all around though.
I feel sorry for anyone who'd never heard a song in their life, and then decided to take this list seriously as a guide. It's a complete joke, politically driven to make a "statement". These are not the songs that the public has strongly embraced over the various decades. This is RS showing their strong personal bias for a very narrow musical demographic and declaring it "best of all time". This list couldn't be any more a departure from what the public considers "great" if they'd chosen 300 Gregorian chants for the "Top 500 songs of all time".
I love music of all genres. Regardless, how is Bob Dylan in the top 10? I mean there is the Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil and Gimme Shelter. Led Zeppelin's: Stairway to Heaven. John Lennon's: Imagine. Whitney Houston's: I Will Always Love You. Diana Ross and the Supremes: Pick a song. Prince: Little Red Corvette. Nirvana, good pick Rolling Stone. Elvis Presley's: Suspicious Minds. Santana's: Black Magic Woman. George Harrison's: Here Comes the Sun and My Sweet Lord. Feel free to add on. Come on Rolling Stone Magazine.
Bob Dylan is loved by RS much more than the public loves him. They can claim that this list was chosen by others, but RS chose the choosers and knew what they'd go for. The whole thing is a joke. It's one thing to be subjective, but another to be that far out of step with the public. When you look at actual song sales, this list barely intersects with that at all. The public has better taste in music than RS.
"Like a Rolling stone" changed radio more than any other song ever. I grew up then. It is the first 6 minute song on radio. Dylan was an incredible influence. Think of Dire Straits.
@@andrewfurst5711 "Like a Rolling stone" changed radio more than any other song ever. I grew up then. It is the first 6 minute song on radio. Dylan was an incredible influence. Think of Dire Straits.
i heard Sam smith, lizzo and megan the stallion helped create this list LOL so knowing that it makes perfect sense. i mean who do you go to when you know what GREAT music is? sam smith ofc!
what a rag magazine.. and completely PC.. folks there should be Elvis songs on that list from his earliest rock and roll days to his hits in the fifties. I think he has like one song around number 250... I would say he had a pretty good influence on folks on both sides of the Atlantic to get into rock and roll and form bands.. Rolling Stone magazine has sucked for years
Enter Sandman is at 390. Somehow Cardi B, Drake, and Taylor Swift were placed higher on the list. Master of Puppets is at 256, I think these are the only Metallica songs on the list.
in the future there will be even less REAL Rocks songs in these lists as more real rock songs will be taken out. I mean there are real rock anthems out there but now its all shitty 2 min raps songs with no melodies and they move all above all the really great music. think about real lyrics and chord progressions, guitar solos with real musicians. remember SNL did the more cowbell skit with more christopher walken more cowbell. this is woke list that someone said make it more black, no more black even more black.and then no no make it even more black. and I like all music so the Temps, 4 Tops Sam Cooke Hey I am all for it. but that top 10 lost me, Fight the power number 2??? LOL also top ten missy elliot LOL with Layla over 215 spots behind that? Eric CLAPTON or Missy Elliot and Public Enemy ITS WOKE List. And you know what Rollingstone wants respect. but they just lost it all.
Public Enemy and Missy Elliot actually know how to write songs, Clapton is an awful songwriter (+ Duane Allman did everything on Layla lmaoooooo). Oh and Missy Elliot is a way better singer than Clapton too.
@@maplesyrup4881 Eric wrote the songs on Layla. Duane was not a great songwriter. Gregg was the songwriter for the Allmans. This is from a guy who saw Duane 4 times.
I honestly liked the list better than most top songs lists. The other ones have the same top songs... Stairway, Rhapsody, Free Bird, Imagine, Dream On, etc. Atleast that list is unique
Agreed! The average joe would just take their local classic rock radio station playlist (which ofc is usually just Stairway, Rhapsody, Dream On, and Freebird over and over again) and call that the top 10 of all time. Those are usually not even the best songs by their respective artists. While most of the placements are bewildering, I'm glad they didn't just declare 70s FM radio the be-all end-all of songwriting.
@@nightprism6548 the songs that you mentioned (minus Imagine) are objectively in the Top30 of greatest songs ever. Just because you're tired of seeing them mentioned over and over again, doesn't make the Rolling Stone list any less awful. It has "Get Your Freak On" at N°8, and "Gasolina" at N°50. FFS
@@AlanGarciaC.1093 Objectivity doesn't exist in music. If you have the same top 10 as everyone else, I am inclined to believe you can't form an opinion for yourself. While the songs you mentioned should absolutely not be on this list, I thought they had some great picks in the top 100. "Once in a Lifetime" at 28, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" at 41, "Alright" at 45, "Running Up That Hill" at 60 are all great picks that I would take any day over the songs I mentioned
Objectively, this list suddenly has a very woke skew to it. The same list was made years ago by Rolling Stone with “Like a Rolling Stone” being number 1. How do existing songs like Respect become better so many years after release?
these comments are so dumb. y'all do realize that there is no definitive greatest songs ever, right? It's all subjective on the generation making the list. In about 15 years you'll start seeing people on this list like Lil Uzi, Juice WRLD, Chief Keef, Lil Baby, Young Thug, etc.
No. Your comment is dumb. It is NOT entirely subjective. In fact the difference between "good music" and "bad music" is pretty objective. All those artists that you mention are objectively terrible. It doesn't matter if someone in 15 years is dumb enough to think otherwise. There is no "definitive" ranking of greatest songs ever that would be entirely correct in every single position. But it is an objective fact that Stairway To Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody are in the Top15, and it is an objective fact that "Get Your Freak On" doesn't deserve to be near the Top500 at all.
No. It's not. Including "Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee at all, is already objectively wrong. Putting it higher than Stairway To Heaven and Good Vibrations should be punished with literal jail.
@@joshnic6639 Wait, What?! Black Lives Matter? Are you drunk? What does that have to do with it? It's a generational thing. Don't put your political far right bs into this and everything..
Hey Jude & Let It Be are the worst two Beatles songs. Strawberry Fields is definitely a Beatles sound and innovative for its time. Stay in your lane Dan.
Exactly. Imagine criticizing a list for their Beatles picks and then picking the safest, most straightforward pop hits the Beatles ever wrote for your top picks lmao. Strawberry Fields, Tomorrow Never Knows, A Day in the Life, this is what the Beatles should be remembered by, not fucking Hey Jude
No one on earth will agree with anyone else's list, but this list is insane.
how is Lords royal a top 50 song of all time
BTS is higher than Elvis. Beyonce- Crazy in love higher than John Lennon-Imagine.
This is just insane. Now, PC has invaded music industry.
@@casperk2557 BTS being higher than Elvis is crazy, but Crazy in Love > Imagine in my opinion.
@@manuam98 you have a horrible taste of music
@@casperk2557 no
As a 29 year long DJ let me say concerning this list.... HORSE SHIT!
This list is the usual Rolling Stones dribble
as a hip hop head I was shocked by how high some of the emcees were. They deserve spots but not that high.
Missy Elliott at 8?
WHERE THE FUCK ARE NAS AND PAC
I thought Ny state of mind would be at least top 50
@@dragosmateirus5630 That and "The World is Yours" are great top 50 contenders, imo both are "eh, fair enough" top 10's.
@@Nersius The whole list is shit anyway
Irrelevant list from an irrelevant magazine.
Not a good list, half of these songs don't deserve to be there. Fight The Power mught be a rap classic, but it cannot be the second best song ever, it's not better than A Day In The Life, Good Vibrations, Johnny B Goode, Purple Rain, Lola, etc. Hey Ya by Outkkast Number 10? No Way. There are hundreds of better songs that are not in this list.
Hey ya is far from being OutKast’s best song, but it’s still a classic and the factor that put it’s at #10 is it’s influence. It was a HUGE song that has had a ton of influence on rap and pop.
I actually don't mind the hey ya placement as much as I probably should, Missy Elliot and Public Enemy are the great offenders in the top 10 more than anything
That rap crap shouldn't be in the top million. I bet Rolling Stone loves democrats.
without even watching this video, i know dan will say "what about zeppelin?!"
The Beatles have 3 in their top 50, not just 1: Strawberry Fields, I Want to Hold Your Hand & A Day in the Life.
Yeah but this list is fucked up.
Now politics are the criteria in these lists. Music is not important.
Rolling Stone makes a joke of themselves with this. Should have a disclaimer "For entertainment purposes only" No Eminem at all. How is Michael Jackson not in the top 10? No love for music made before 1975. Minimum love for The Beatles. No Eagles, CCR, Elvis, ect. This is a mess and I think they are just trying to get clicks, attention, and maybe a couple magazines sold. Since hardly anyone buys magazines or takes Rolling Stone serious anymore.
Al Green’s entire catalog is a million times better than Public Enemy’s best song.
Rolling Stones editors are officially on drugs
I bet Democrats love that.
"Yellow Taxi Cab" is Joni Mitchell's best song. " A Case of You" is close 2nd
You didn't even get the title right lmao, it's "Big Yellow Taxi", and that's not even her best song. Biggest hit maybe.
I'd put "Help Me" as her best, "California" close 2nd, and "Free Man in Paris" 3rd, "Coyote" 4th, and "A Case of You" maaaaybe 5th. Nowhere near her best
@@thomasnelson5758 I didn't remember title on hand so I just put it. Fans would know the song. I've listened to alot of Joni. Though I'm not a diehard. "Big Yellow Taxi" is her biggest hit, because it's her best song, also everyone enjoys the song not just die hards 🤷♂️. I have California on my Playlist as well. Great song imo it doesn't compare to the 2
I mentioned.
River is her best
Lists like this is like watching the NBA.
Rolling stone should only put out a top 100 for each decade and then you can cobble together a top 500 from each of the decades. Comparing the music of the 60s with today is pointless today you don't need to be a musician it's more about image and technology.
Should be Top PC/Woke songs. Nobody takes this seriously.
1; Stairway To Heaven 2; Bohemian Rhapsody 3; Jailhouse Rock 4; Johnny b. Goode 5; Rock Around The Clock 6; Let It Be or Hey Jude 7; Hotel California 8; Purple Haze 9; A Day in the Life 10; I cant get No Satisfaction ; Free Bird
@@dakota-dan7484 really. Now that’s sad. American Pie is one of the greatest songs of all time.
You Really Got Me should be in there. Most underrated song ever! Look at all the hard rock and punk bands it influenced!
How interesting...
My list would be:
1. Stairway To Heaven.
2. Bohemian Rhapsody.
3. A Day In the Life.
4. Hotel California.
5. Wish You Were Here.
6. Good Vibrations.
7. Starless - King Crimson.
8. Johnny B. Goode.
9. Paranoid Android.
10. I Can't Get No (Satisfaction).
@@AlanGarciaC.1093 You have great taste my Brother; I'm surprise you dont have Jailhouse Rock in your Top Ten
Stairway and Bohemian Rhapsody are two of the most painfully overrated songs in history. I'd put Kashmir at #1 before I put Stairway even in the top 100. Those Beatles picks are so humdrum and safe too. What's so revolutionary about Let it Be or Hey Jude? I actually agree with their pick of Strawberry Fields at 7. It is their most forward thinking and innovative song. Made Brian Wilson pull over to catch his breath
As a Latino I'm disgusted by the mere presence of Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee (let alone how high they are).
"Gasolina" is higher than Stairway To Heaven and Good Vibrations.
This list is horse-5hit.
OutKast has so many songs better then hey ya.
Return Of The G
Yeah I agree
So many songs better than B.O.B. too. Elevators (Me & You) is my favorite.. Rosa Parks is a very solid pick if they are gonna take a "more known" Outkast song. It's a b.s. list all around though.
I feel sorry for anyone who'd never heard a song in their life, and then decided to take this list seriously as a guide. It's a complete joke, politically driven to make a "statement". These are not the songs that the public has strongly embraced over the various decades.
This is RS showing their strong personal bias for a very narrow musical demographic and declaring it "best of all time". This list couldn't be any more a departure from what the public considers "great" if they'd chosen 300 Gregorian chants for the "Top 500 songs of all time".
I love music of all genres. Regardless, how is Bob Dylan in the top 10? I mean there is the Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil and Gimme Shelter. Led Zeppelin's: Stairway to Heaven. John Lennon's: Imagine. Whitney Houston's: I Will Always Love You. Diana Ross and the Supremes: Pick a song. Prince: Little Red Corvette. Nirvana, good pick Rolling Stone. Elvis Presley's: Suspicious Minds. Santana's: Black Magic Woman. George Harrison's: Here Comes the Sun and My Sweet Lord. Feel free to add on. Come on Rolling Stone Magazine.
Bob Dylan is loved by RS much more than the public loves him. They can claim that this list was chosen by others, but RS chose the choosers and knew what they'd go for. The whole thing is a joke. It's one thing to be subjective, but another to be that far out of step with the public. When you look at actual song sales, this list barely intersects with that at all. The public has better taste in music than RS.
"Like a Rolling stone" changed radio more than any other song ever. I grew up then. It is the first 6 minute song on radio. Dylan was an incredible influence. Think of Dire Straits.
@@andrewfurst5711 "Like a Rolling stone" changed radio more than any other song ever. I grew up then. It is the first 6 minute song on radio. Dylan was an incredible influence. Think of Dire Straits.
If "Get ur freak on" is one of the best songs ever created, I can telll you that my shit tastes like vanilla !
This is the mag that dumped on all of zeppelin albums
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i heard Sam smith, lizzo and megan the stallion helped create this list LOL so knowing that it makes perfect sense. i mean who do you go to when you know what GREAT music is? sam smith ofc!
Is Kenny Loggins on the list? Hiiiiiiwayyyyy to the danger zone!!! Me and Archer love that song! Lol.
Lana… Lana ?… LLLAAANNNAAA!!!!
The list is terrible but I actually like Hey Ya! at 10
Woke strikes Rolling Stone list.
Exactly
How can that Public Enemy "Fight the Power" be in the top 1 million?
The list is dumb. As a well-known music critic told me "Rap isn't even music. Rap is crap." LOL
Where is Van Halen
Jump is on there somewhere at like 200 and that’s it. Such a joke
Oh yes. Get Your Freak On at no.8, 45 places above Good Vibrations. Very convincing list. There is a simple way to summarise this list: LOL
what a rag magazine.. and completely PC.. folks there should be Elvis songs on that list from his earliest rock and roll days to his hits in the fifties. I think he has like one song around number 250... I would say he had a pretty good influence on folks on both sides of the Atlantic to get into rock and roll and form bands.. Rolling Stone magazine has sucked for years
I was so triggered by the list
I looked through the list and didn't see 'Mississippi Queen'. The list is a joke.
Where was Metallica on this list?
Enter Sandman is at 390. Somehow Cardi B, Drake, and Taylor Swift were placed higher on the list. Master of Puppets is at 256, I think these are the only Metallica songs on the list.
Has anyone made this into a Playlist on any Streaming Service? That be great
Gimme shelter, all a long the watchtower,
They are in the list
in the future there will be even less REAL Rocks songs in these lists as more real rock songs will be taken out. I mean there are real rock anthems out there but now its all shitty 2 min raps songs with no melodies and they move all above all the really great music. think about real lyrics and chord progressions, guitar solos with real musicians. remember SNL did the more cowbell skit with more christopher walken more cowbell. this is woke list that someone said make it more black, no more black even more black.and then no no make it even more black. and I like all music so the Temps, 4 Tops Sam Cooke Hey I am all for it. but that top 10 lost me, Fight the power number 2??? LOL also top ten missy elliot LOL with Layla over 215 spots behind that? Eric CLAPTON or Missy Elliot and Public Enemy ITS WOKE List. And you know what Rollingstone wants respect. but they just lost it all.
Public Enemy and Missy Elliot actually know how to write songs, Clapton is an awful songwriter (+ Duane Allman did everything on Layla lmaoooooo). Oh and Missy Elliot is a way better singer than Clapton too.
@@maplesyrup4881 Eric wrote the songs on Layla. Duane was not a great songwriter. Gregg was the songwriter for the Allmans. This is from a guy who saw Duane 4 times.
@@Gnofg Layla isn’t a well written song, the instrumental is good tho and I was referring to Duane composing that song.
@@maplesyrup4881 He didn't compose the song. Layla is a two part song with the end being by Bobby Whitlock
I honestly liked the list better than most top songs lists. The other ones have the same top songs... Stairway, Rhapsody, Free Bird, Imagine, Dream On, etc. Atleast that list is unique
Your priorities are a joke. 😐
@@AlanGarciaC.1093 How
Agreed! The average joe would just take their local classic rock radio station playlist (which ofc is usually just Stairway, Rhapsody, Dream On, and Freebird over and over again) and call that the top 10 of all time. Those are usually not even the best songs by their respective artists. While most of the placements are bewildering, I'm glad they didn't just declare 70s FM radio the be-all end-all of songwriting.
@@nightprism6548 the songs that you mentioned (minus Imagine) are objectively in the Top30 of greatest songs ever.
Just because you're tired of seeing them mentioned over and over again, doesn't make the Rolling Stone list any less awful.
It has "Get Your Freak On" at N°8, and "Gasolina" at N°50. FFS
@@AlanGarciaC.1093 Objectivity doesn't exist in music. If you have the same top 10 as everyone else, I am inclined to believe you can't form an opinion for yourself.
While the songs you mentioned should absolutely not be on this list, I thought they had some great picks in the top 100. "Once in a Lifetime" at 28, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" at 41, "Alright" at 45, "Running Up That Hill" at 60 are all great picks that I would take any day over the songs I mentioned
Respect is a nice song but it was not revolutionary in any way . Like a Rolling Stone changed radio forever. This is from someone who grew up then.
Objectively, this list suddenly has a very woke skew to it. The same list was made years ago by Rolling Stone with “Like a Rolling Stone” being number 1. How do existing songs like Respect become better so many years after release?
Tracking from Spotify and apple music. I wonder if they factor in what people listen to on these apps for their so called "List"
I'll tell you how: a generation of "Woke"-turds, coupled with a popular biopic on Aretha Franklin (talk about a recency bias!).
Metallica?
these comments are so dumb. y'all do realize that there is no definitive greatest songs ever, right? It's all subjective on the generation making the list. In about 15 years you'll start seeing people on this list like Lil Uzi, Juice WRLD, Chief Keef, Lil Baby, Young Thug, etc.
Sadly, those artists you listed aren't even the most acclaimed artists today.
rap is objectively bad music, however.
No. Your comment is dumb.
It is NOT entirely subjective. In fact the difference between "good music" and "bad music" is pretty objective. All those artists that you mention are objectively terrible. It doesn't matter if someone in 15 years is dumb enough to think otherwise.
There is no "definitive" ranking of greatest songs ever that would be entirely correct in every single position.
But it is an objective fact that Stairway To Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody are in the Top15, and it is an objective fact that "Get Your Freak On" doesn't deserve to be near the Top500 at all.
LMAO! This list is not mine, everybody has a different list, my number 1 song of all-time is Die Young by Black Sabbath.
I love how Dan gets so bent out of shape. IT’S SUBJECTIVE!! Lol!
No. It's not.
Including "Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee at all, is already objectively wrong.
Putting it higher than Stairway To Heaven and Good Vibrations should be punished with literal jail.
@@AlanGarciaC.1093 lol thank you man.
@@AlanGarciaC.1093 I agree 100% this list is mostly BLM bullshit!
@@joshnic6639 Wait, What?! Black Lives Matter? Are you drunk? What does that have to do with it? It's a generational thing. Don't put your political far right bs into this and everything..
This list is the absolute dumbest thing Ive ever read. TERRRIBLE!!! Rolling Stone is a sick joke.
Anything from Hejira. But definitely Song for Sharon.
Aretha did stole Respect for Otis Redding
horrible!
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Hey Jude & Let It Be are the worst two Beatles songs. Strawberry Fields is definitely a Beatles sound and innovative for its time.
Stay in your lane Dan.
Exactly. Imagine criticizing a list for their Beatles picks and then picking the safest, most straightforward pop hits the Beatles ever wrote for your top picks lmao. Strawberry Fields, Tomorrow Never Knows, A Day in the Life, this is what the Beatles should be remembered by, not fucking Hey Jude
I love how Dan gets so bent out of shape. IT’S SUBJECTIVE!! Lol!
Maybe if you post this comment a third or fourth time somebody will actually give a shit
No it's not.. It's done to get attention. And it's bullshit.