1. Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana
2. Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division
3. I Feel Love Donna Summer
4. How Soon Is Now? The Smiths
5. Last Nite The Strokes
6. Common People Pulp
7. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor Arctic Monkeys
8. Blue Monday New Order
9. Be My Baby The Ronettes
10. Good Vibrations The Beach Boys
11. Eleanor Rigby The Beatles
12. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths
13. Live Forever Oasis
14. God Only Knows The Beach Boys
15. "Heroes" David Bowie
16. Seven Nation Army The White Stripes
17. A Day in the Life The Beatles
18. Hey Ya! OutKast
19. Heart of Glass Blondie
20. Girls & Boys Blur
21. Ghost Town The Specials
22. There She Goes The La's
23. Waterloo Sunset The Kinks
24. Hurricane Bob Dylan
25. Wake Up Arcade Fire
Even Rolling Stone thinks that list is terrible. Arctic Monkeys in the top 10? Well you can tell what country this list originated from. Most overrated band by the Brit press ever (which is really saying something).
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Strange list. Of course, these lists should always have a note that says "according to me and absolutely no one else".
You can always count on Arctic Monkeys being on anything by NME. How they make it on the list in place of some other gems is laughable, regardless of your taste.
Like this top 25 is mind bogglingly bad. No Bohemian Rhapsody? No Bridge Over Troubled Water? No Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd or Black Sabbath? I actually really think the point of these list is to try and be a bit outrageous to get people to actually read it.
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I think it is quite possible to put together a credible list of "The best songs of all time" given a certain criteria, that wouldn't induce the rage of the internet.
However this list is just silly. Hey Ya? The Arctic Monkeys?
I could be contradicting myself, but I don't care.
Of all time? Probably something by Beethoven, Mozart or Bach. Of the past 100 years; probably Lateralus. I think that song will still be played in 150 years, people will analyze it and remember it much longer than any of those other songs, reason being it has complex mathematical/geometric patterns and it implements a leitmotif much like the major composers.
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In some ways I like this list better than Rolling Stone's list, which is so reverential to the 60s and 70s, where the only song from the last 20 years to crack the top 100 is Gnarls Barkley's Crazy at 100th.
In some ways I like this list better than Rolling Stone's list, which is so reverential to the 60s and 70s, where the only song from the last 20 years to crack the top 100 is Gnarls Barkley's Crazy at 100th.
Agreed. While I agree there was a lot of great music made in the 70's there were a lot of great songs made in the 80's and 90's.
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