Can you name the top 100 songs from Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time?

#	Song	Artist
100		The Rolling Stones
99		Creedence Clearwater Revival
98		Al Green
97		Chuck Berry
96		Jerry Lee Lewis
95		Carl Perkins
94		Little Richard
93		U2
92		Ramones
91		Elvis Presley
90		The Five Satins
89		The Mamas & The Papas
88		The Temptations
87		Johnny Cash
86		Bruce Springsteen
85		Patsy Cline
84		The Police
83		The Beatles
82		The Kinks
81		Fats Domino
80		Marvin Gaye
79		The Byrds
78		James Brown
77		Elvis Presley
76		The Beatles
75		Led Zeppelin
74		Stevie Wonder
73		Eddie Cochran
72		James Brown
71		The Beach Boys
70		Dionne Warwick
69		Roy Orbison
68		Bob Dylan
67		Elvis Presley

#	Song	Artist
66		Bob Marley & the Wailers
65		Cream
64		The Beatles
63		Buffalo Springfield
62		Bo Diddley
61		Jerry Lee Lewis
60		Al Green
59		Bob Dylan
58		Michael Jackson
57		Procol Harum
56		Little Richard
55		The Kingsmen
54		Percy Sledge
53		The Sex Pistols
52		Prince
51		Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
50		Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
49		The Eagles
48		Jimi Hendrix
47		Simon & Garfunkel
46		David Bowie
45		Elvis Presley
44		Ray Charles
43		Little Richard
42		The Kinks
41		The Band
40		Martha & the Vandellas
39		Buddy Holly & the Crickets
38		The Rolling Stones
37		Bob Marley & the Wailers
36		U2
35		The Doors
34		The Righteous Brothers
33		Ike & Tina Turner

#	Song	Artist
32		The Rolling Stones
31		Led Zeppelin
30		Johnny Cash
29		The Beatles
28		Otis Redding
27		Derek & the Dominos
26		The Beatles
25		The Beach Boys
24		The Impressions
23		The Beatles
22		The Ronettes
21		Bruce Springsteen
20		The Beatles
19		Elvis Presley
18		Chuck Berry
17		Jimi Hendrix
16		The Beatles
15		The Clash
14		Bob Dylan
13		The Beatles
12		Sam Cooke
11		The Who
10		Ray Charles
9		Nirvana
8		The Beatles
7		Chuck Berry
6		The Beach Boys
5		Aretha Franklin
4		Marvin Gaye
3		John Lennon
2		The Rolling Stones
1		Bob Dylan

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Rolling Stone's Greatest Songs Quiz

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	Tim_Allen:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 16:13 GMT	9 points
	Not to be a nitpicker, but it is really necessary to put the parentheses on (Sittin on) the Dock of the Bay?

	drhaase:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 16:21 GMT	8 points
	agreed...i knew that had to be the answer but for the life me it wasn't coming up. maybe a little more time, especially because I have to keep scrolling up and down to see what artist it is, and then to type. i'm gonna try this again later.

	Italiafirenze:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 16:22 GMT	6 points
	I agree with Tim Allen, some of these I typed and then found out my apostrophes or parentheses were incorrect. Surely loving should be acceptable for lovin'? But even with that I still only got 48.

	pftw:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 17:27 GMT	5 points
	I'm amazed that Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman didn't make the list before Crying! Great Quiz!

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	magister:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 17:50 GMT	2 points
	What about "The cover of the Rolling Stone" song? Who was that? Dr. Hook?

	meltingbridge:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 18:03 GMT	3 points
	The list has several flaws (it overrepresents the 1960s and 1970s and underrepresents the 1990s) but i think it is a good list for readers of the magazine. If you're not a classic rock fan, it is difficult (i only got 7).

	Antithesys:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 18:14 GMT	7 points
	I like the quizzes that require going into fullscreen mode. Shoulda gone all out and did the entire list of 500 :D

	AeroE:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 18:27 GMT	12 points
	I know that the Byrds version of Mr. Tambourine Man is more well known, but the song was written by Bob Dylan and I really like his version better.

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 18:32 GMT	6 points
	Emma: A lot of songs were written by Bob Dylan, but made famous by other bands. The famous version should be the one that's on the list.

	bujumbo:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 18:36 GMT	5 points
	ditto, Emma (in terms of liking Dylan's version better). As for the list... music seems to me the most subjective of all the major art forms, so there's always going to be much discontent. I only managed 72 here, but there are a number of tracks that I'd include amongst my own faves: "Like a Rolling Stone", "Satisfaction", "What's Going On", "Respect", "Good Vibrations", "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "What'd I Say" -- and that's just from the top ten. I do agree that it's too over-representative of the 60s in particular. There are too many great tracks here for me to feel begrudgingly towards RS, however!

	Matt8204:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 18:48 GMT	9 points
	Great list! Fun but frustrating. I missed at least 5 or 6 because I couldn't spell the name of a song. And I don't know why I blanked on so many Beatles songs.

	pitty:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 19:24 GMT	8 points
	I think I Can't Get No Satisfaction should count. The actual title of the song is (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. The part in parenthesees wasn't even included for the song (as it was in other songs on the list)

	Kevin:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 19:37 GMT	5 points
	Yeah, the Rolling Stone list is terrible. Q104.3 in New York does a Top 1,043 rock songs of all time each Thanksgiving. The top ten is always a little anti-climatic, but then again, should Stairway to Heaven be number one on any list?

	Sondheim:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 20:01 GMT	2 points
	Not a bad list. Sure, there are others I would like to have seen included - but there's nothing that sticks out as being particularly out of place either. "Like a Rolling Stone" is indeed the greatest rock song of all time.

	davidr:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 20:03 GMT	5 points
	Yes, it's a top 100 of all time list. It's bound to be rubbish. They always are because they're different from your personal list. And they always over-represent the 60s and 70s, partly because they're compiled by people who were young then and partly because it's hard to tell whether something that was released last year is going to be a classic or just a passing fad.

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 20:51 GMT	4 points
	I don't expect the top 100 songs to be my personal 100 favorite songs. I just think that even Rolling Stone wouldn't consider this a real top 100.

	chrispaz:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 21:54 GMT	3 points
	meltingbridge, i don't thing it's fair to say that the 60s and 70s are overrepresented, or that the 90's are underrepresented. Are you saying that they should have put in an equal number from each decade just for the sake of fairness? It just so happens that most of the greatest songs do come from those decades. I'm not saying there weren't lots of great songs in the 90s, but the problem is that a lot of them were heavily influenced by the preceding decades. Remember that the full list is actually 500 songs, so perhaps your favourites are in there somewhere ( http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs )

	acfangirl:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 22:10 GMT	9 points
	No Queen :( I should have known...rolling stone seems to really not like Queen. At least I got all the Beatles songs right...

	Tom_the_Dog:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 22:46 GMT	5 points
	I would suggest accepting "Maybelline" for "Maybellene," since it is so often misspelled that way (sometimes even on Chuck Berry's own greatest hits albums!).

	magister:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 23:20 GMT	3 points
	Someone had a list of the most important alternative songs somewhere. That could be more forgiving to the 1990s and 1980s.

	radiosilence:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 00:22 GMT	3 points
	I'm mad at some of the ones I missed. I Heard It Through the Grapevine? My Generation? California Girls? Yep, I missed them.

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 00:32 GMT	4 points
	68 here. Blanked on a lot of Beatles as well and some I missed... geez - Norwegian Wood, California Girls, Help, Blowin' In The Wind. Typed "Maybelline" wrong. Tried "Whole Lotta Shakin" and left out the rest. Tried every Bowie song but "Heroes" and lastly I kept saying the Sam Cooke song was the one featured in the movie "Talk To Me" but couldn't remember the name. All in all, if you just type the song EVERYONE knows by the artist, most times you'll be right. The only one of these that'd make my Top 100 all time would be "God Only Knows" and maybe "One" by U2

	Salukimars:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 02:10 GMT	4 points
	need some more time on this one...long song titles and vast artist cataloges take awhile to type out....and for the record, i can think of 100 songs better than "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

	magister:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 02:55 GMT	1 point
	@Salukimars: I know that it is in completely poor taste to argue with anyone about taste in music. Moreover, I understand what can turn people away from "Smells Like Teen Spirit" which is, in a paraphrase of the band's own words, a Pixies knock-off. It also features an utterly strange chord progression and screamed, unintelligible and enigmatic lyrics. However, as a former music journalist and amateur rock historian, I solemnly believe that today's music and the music of the last 17 years, would not be possible without "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Regardless of how "good" it is, its importance cannot be debated.

	Salukimars:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 03:31 GMT	3 points
	Its not about taste...grunge is my favorite genre, and I somewhat like Nirvana, and the song...however, I wouldn't even consider it the best song on Nevermind... but I think it receives too much credit. Sometimes people rate the song because of its "groundbreaking-ness" and not on the song itself.

	ts15210:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 03:50 GMT	0 points
	Any list that can put 30 songs in front of stairway to Heaven ahs no credibility whatsoever. Even if it's not in your top ten...30??

	Mr_T:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 06:39 GMT	4 points
	Rolling Stone ain't what it was. This list sucks. No Van Halen? No AC/DC? But Dionne Warwick made it. Dionne Warwick?! I think this list was made by Ringo Starr. Now, U2 is great, and so is "One." But "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" makes it and "Pride (In the Name of Love)" doesn't?! Whatever - Rolling Stone just put Obama on the cover. Uh, what song did he do? May the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson rise and knock some heads around over there!!

	magister:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 11:25 GMT	6 points
	@Salukimars: But I think "groundbreaking-ness" is what this list is all about. That's why there's the abundance of the 60s and 50s as was derided by previous posters. Notice that the only punk songs are The Ramones and Sex Pistols, and I think "New Rose" by The Damned trumps both of those for quality, but not importance. Grandmaster Flash as the only rap song? Two Bob Marley songs? There's nothing else in all of reggae? This list has nothing to do with quality, it is only the overall influence on the rest of rock and roll. Which is why Dylan tops the list. Finally, just because I'm a nerd, one could make a case for "Bleach" being Nirvana's only grunge album. Now accepting flames...

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	Amy:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 14:51 GMT	1 point
	AWESOME quiz!!!!

	magister:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 16:03 GMT	1 point
	@ : A few comments on that. 1) Seeing that Rolling Stone is a rock magazine I don't think that they would include these. 2) Seeing that Rolling Stone is an American magazine, I don't think that they would include Boyzone, because it was never as popular in America as elsewhere. 3) This is only the top 100, as others have pointed out, so they might be in 101-500. 4) Backstreet Boys have it, but I would almost point to Britney Spears, and then specifically to the production of Max Martin. Martin was the guy behind that crazy staccato explosion in that type of music (i.e. the blamps in "blamp blamp yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah blamp blamp I think i did it again...") This was then added to N'Sync and copied by artists like Celine Dion. Incidentally he's also behind some of Kelly Clarkson's hits right now, which I always thought were influenced by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 16:42 GMT	0 points
	@magister: You have a very thorough and correct answer to :'s comment, but one thing I've learned when reading these comments is that : will never say anything serious or of value to any conversation, so it's best to ignore him. @Mr. T: I totally agree. That's what I was saying in my first comment.

	magister:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 17:25 GMT	1 point
	Actually, Admiral: I've been pretty much ignoring : for a long time. (See Most Populous Countries.) However, occasionally he has some reasonably interesting and insightful comments (See NBA Rookies of the Year,) and therefore when he has something interesting to say (or something that I can comment on, regardless of his intentions) I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt.

	magister:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 20:27 GMT	2 points
	So I actually did the leg work and found the entire 500 song list. There's some interesting things that came up: 1) Most of the songs people are angry about find their way on. 2) Still very very little 1990s music relative to other decades. 3) Hip hop is much better represented, but in weird ways. Sugarhill Gang gets only 248 for "Rapper's Delight" and Run DMC gets 287 for "Walk This Way." These would be okay if Outkast didn't get 180 for "Hey Ya!" and worse yet Eminem got 166 for "Lose Yourself"!!! I like both of these songs (Outkast much much more than Eminem) but how influential are they? Furthermore, the Beastie Boys, pioneers of rap, get only as high as 475? For "Sabotage"!?!? They have nothing better that could reach anywhere higher??? On a side note: The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony - 382. Take that One Hit Wonders Quiz!

	Rackie:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 21:52 GMT	1 point
	Yay thank you, awesome quiz :D

	jesus:	Oct 25th, 2008 at 09:58 GMT	3 points
	@Admiral Maxtreme: why do my comments have to be serious. Everyone likes a joke now and then and I find I deliver the perfect balance to some of the more serious comments on Sporcle.

	jesus:	Oct 25th, 2008 at 10:21 GMT	-1 points
	@magister: Another instance of where I have made a serious insightful comment is in the periodic table game. Don't believe me, go see for yourself.

	Camden:	Oct 26th, 2008 at 16:13 GMT	2 points
	@ : Do your thing. The... (ahem)... Admiral needs to pull the fireplug out of his hindparts. Chill out, Maxtreme. Whey the hell do you care? Get over yourself.

	jesus:	Oct 26th, 2008 at 16:35 GMT	2 points
	Thank you