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

DANNO said:
I am the biggest MC fan out there, but I kinda agree with the list. With the expection of Fantasy, Mariah hasn't really done anything fantastically groundbreaking.

Its funny, because Britney kinda did. It's an ironic world we live in!
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Didn't she popularize the whole "featuring" thing, and actually redoing ur hit songs instead of doing a typical remix?
 
not a valid list, janis joplin not on there and the 1st mainstream record 'rock around the clock' by bill haley & the comets, circa 1954, would be # 1 on the list [it was before elvis].
 
Ontariobear said:
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.
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I'm still curious as to how they "changed the world."
 
I gotta give them kudos, though, for making it a mixed bag. You have the critics' darlings U2 in there one minute and of course, the worst "vocalist" of all-time, Britney Spears and then you look around and see ... The Cure (?!?!). So in a way I think they did try to please just about everybody.

But doing so you sadly see some really hugely talented giants from this past decade (re: Sheryl Crow, Beck, Lucinda Williams and Dixie Chicks) get omitted.
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I think they should of titled this more like songs that changed the music world because if we're talking about impact on politics or public opinion some of theses songs just don't got it and some that did, ie "Strange Fruit" by mis Holiday aren't there
 
Of course these lists are incredibly stupid/arbitrary/subjective. But every time they put one out they sell a shitload of magazines.

I just realised I have pretty much all of those songs in my rekkid collection
 
What? You know how many video spoofs there are to Backstreet Boys' I Want It That Way?

Anyway, I think such list is bias. How many can remember these songs? Mostly those 30yo and above.
 
"Changed the world"? How rediculous can they get?
 
Changing the world doesn't have to be sbout world peace or the environment. It was music that got people listening and talking, which in its way is also very powerful stuff. Nothing at all ridiculous about that.

I realize for the younger JUBBERS whose first hand listening starts with either Nirvana or Britney, this list might not seem very meaningful, but those of us (relics) who lived through it, there's some very powerful stuff there. I can think about the first time I heard (insert title here) and what it made me feel.

The reason they picked Whole Lotta Love instead of Stairway is that it was the first big LZ song that made people sit back and listen.
 
Ontariobear said:
Changing the world doesn't have to be sbout world peace or the environment. It was music that got people listening and talking, which in its way is also very powerful stuff. Nothing at all ridiculous about that.

I realize for the younger JUBBERS whose first hand listening starts with either Nirvana or Britney, this list might not seem very meaningful, but those of us (relics) who lived through it, there's some very powerful stuff there. I can think about the first time I heard (insert title here) and what it made me feel.

The reason they picked Whole Lotta Love instead of Stairway is that it was the first big LZ song that made people sit back and listen.
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Very typical boomer attitude here. Because it had an impact on boomers it "changed the world." If something like "Whole Lotta Love" is so important, why is "Stairway To Heaven" more popular? What is it about the song that made people "sit back and listen"? Besides, lots of songs not on that list got people talking. I still think it's rather arbitrary.
 
Guys it's a list by Rolling Stone of course it's biased towards the American/British classic rock genre... I love it but still... it's gonna be bias. Rolling Stone tries hard whenever they make these lists but in teh end it's always about the Stones, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles. The second problem is theses numbers (in this case 40 ) is picked aribitrarly and as a result things just aren't gonna be on the same level I mean you sure Hit Me Baby One More Time may be the prime example of bubblegum pop that dominated the music scene in the 90s but to compare that mindless drivel to the work of a legendary visionary like Lennon is laughable at best
 
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.
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More specifically, Britney Spears didn't do anything that Debbie Gibson didn't do ten years earlier.

I agree with the people who say that not every great song "changed the world". The list is just too long.
 
How could you rank Nirvana much higher when the list was in chronological order?

And let's not start generalizing about boomers - that was a lot more like an attack than it needed to be.
 
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