Rolling Stone Mag's "40 Songs that changed the World"

[simonay19]

Rolling Stone Magazine's "40 Songs that changed the World":

1. Elvis Presley “That’s All Right”
2. Ray Charles “I Got AWoman”
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 e “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”

http://www.rollingstoneextras.com/patron40songs/

Wow, what an acoomplishment for Britney, she's the only one from our generation.

 

[gameboy 11]

No Mariah Carey? That blows. :/

 

[jsd62]

I'm a little surprised that there is nothing from The Who. I would've thought that "My Generation" would have made the cut.

 

[Apollo]

i cant believe britney made the list. but i guess its because she is the reason for the trash that is pop music today.

 

[renegade_killerbee]

I hate to beat a dead horse but I agree with BlackWolf.

And at 36, I don't think Britney is of "My Generation." I think I'll be of the Madonna and Prince Generation! Kudos to "When Doves Cry" and "Like A Virgin." Hell the entire year of 1984!

~ Kevin In Tulsa

my page: http://www.dlist.com/MEERKATMANOR

 

[Txgoodoldboy]

I agree where is The Who? And what about Janis Joplin?

 

[xyboyms]

I think they chose songs that ushered in a new wave of music for that period of time.
Even though some may disagree with Britney, I think that song definitely belongs up there for what it did for the music scene....

 

[seijnsational]

Wow, what an acoomplishment for Britney, she's the only one from our generation.

You really have to give it to Britney. Didn't she eventually go on to have the biggest selling debut by a female (in SPITE of what Mimi says...)? And then, not to be outdone , with her second cd, produces the largest sound scanned release in recorded history (at the time) to boot?

I am anxiously awaiting her next offering. Please give us another Toxic and another "Oops" style MTV Awards performance. Fuck the haterz!

 

[dr_beat]

I always love these lists. They're so random. How exactly did any of these songs "change the world"?

 

[gaz1978]

A lot of the artists are worthy of their place, but I disagree with a lot of the song choices.

And yeah, The Who should be in there. As should Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come".

 

[Danugh]

Way to go Britney.

She was ROBBED Best New Artist in 2000. It took me a long time to get over that loss.

"Baby One More Time" is a classic that really did change the music scene in 1999.

Britney is totally awesome and her comeback is going to be HUGE.

Her producers have said TOXIC times 10

 

[doctorsun]

If we're talking about Britney's influence, the praise is a little undeserved there. She's not the first artist to find success with that style of pop. It was the early- and mid-90s Europop explosion that saw the rise of groups like Ace Of Base, Real McCoy, Snap! and others that opened the doors to the Britney Spears clones and boy bands of the late-90s and early-00s.

 

[Claudio63]

I always love these lists. They're so random. How exactly did any of these songs "change the world"?

I'm glad someone asked.

Even some cases like the Beatles "I wanna hold your hand", where the song signals the beginning of 60s Beatlemania, it still seems pretentious to say it changed the world.

 

[renegade_killerbee]

If you really pay attention to this list you will see that it begins (No. 1) with the beginning of rock -- Elvis in the mid-1950's -- and ends with the most recent critically lauded band, The White Stripes, in 2002.

I don't think these songs perse changed things but it's more of a listing of the most influential artists of the past 50 years.

Very interesting that the No. 1 selling act of the 2000's -- Eminem, isn't on the list.

~ Kevin In Tulsa

www.myspace.com/iluvdaytimedramas

 

[breatheH20]

The White Stripes are from our generation.. They're from this decade.. There are definitely some songs not up there that deserve to be..

The Who definitely.

 

[dr_beat]

If you really pay attention to this list you will see that it begins (No. 1) with the beginning of rock -- Elvis in the mid-1950's -- and ends with the most recent critically lauded band, The White Stripes, in 2002.

I don't think these songs perse changed things but it's more of a listing of the most influential artists of the past 50 years.

Very interesting that the No. 1 selling act of the 2000's -- Eminem, isn't on the list.

~ Kevin In Tulsa

www.myspace.com/iluvdaytimedramas

Still pretty random, especially without reasons for the influence.

 

[Raven03]

I'm surprised Janet's Rythm Nation wasnt on the list.

 

[parasun]

If we're talking about Britney's influence, the praise is a little undeserved there. She's not the first artist to find success with that style of pop. It was the early- and mid-90s Europop explosion that saw the rise of groups like Ace Of Base, Real McCoy, Snap! and others that opened the doors to the Britney Spears clones and boy bands of the late-90s and early-00s.

I was hoping to see ace of base up there... but I guess they didn't make as big a dent as I thought.

 

[LatinoSTAR]

I expected "stairway to heaven " to be on there, but they placed "whole lotta love" instead.

I definatley think "the message" from Grandmaster flash should of been on there.

 

[Ontariobear]

You can't make a list to please everyone.

I'm old enough to have seen the Beatles on Sullivan in 1964, so starting with song #7 I've lived through all that music as it became part of our pop culture. And I'm as impressed as hell with it.

I would argue that while certainly worthy, artists like The Who or Janet or Mariah were preceded by someone of a similar genre and with a list of only 40 you don't have room to double up very much.