NME releases "500 greatest songs of all time"

[DeadLikeMe]

is magazine british?

Yep....When i feel nothing at all woo hoo.

Anyone read the whole list yet? I didn't want to scroll through 500 pages, though I've got the top 25 here... what the Hell No.7 is doing inside a top 500 is beyond me:

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit ***8211; Nirvana
2. Love Will Tear Us Apart ***8211; Joy Division
3. I Feel Love ***8211; Donna Summer
4. How Soon Is Now? ***8211; The Smiths
5. Last Nite ***8211; The Strokes
6. Common People ***8211; Pulp
7. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor ***8211; Arctic Monkeys
8. Blue Monday ***8211; New Order
9. Be My Baby ***8211; The Ronettes
10. Good Vibrations ***8211; The Beach Boys
11. Eleanor Rigby ***8211; The Beatles
12. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out ***8211; The Smiths
13. Live Forever ***8211; Oasis
14. God Only Knows ***8211; The Beach Boys
15. "Heroes" ***8211; David Bowie
16. Seven Nation Army ***8211; The White Stripes
17. A Day in the Life ***8211; The Beatles
18. Hey Ya! ***8211; OutKast
19. Heart of Glass ***8211; Blondie
20. Girls & Boys ***8211; Blur
21. Ghost Town ***8211; The Specials
22. There She Goes ***8211; The La's
23. Waterloo Sunset ***8211; The Kinks
24. Hurricane ***8211; Bob Dylan
25. Wake Up ***8211; Arcade Fire


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...#ixzz2sfDwVbp4

I mean, ****ing Hell... I LIKE "Hey Ya!" and all, but it's just fluff, innit? It would look out of place if it scraped to 418, let alone 18...

Genuine classic tracks from that top 25 (and I almost included Joy Division and The La's)...

3. I Feel Love - Donna Summer
9. Be My Baby - The Ronettes
10. Good Vibrations -The Beach Boys
11. Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
13. Live Forever - Oasis (I know, right? I was surprised when I picked it myself)
14. God Only Knows -The Beach Boys
15. "Heroes" - David Bowie
17. A Day in the Life - The Beatles
19. Heart of Glass - Blondie (Most of these are WAY too high though, and Atomic was their best)
21. Ghost Town -The Specials
23. Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

[SirTomJones]

Where the feck is 'Crossroads' by Blazing Squad?

number 378 mate.

[Oasis_Lad]

number 378 mate.

Not even truly appreciated in their own time. Tragic.

[New England]

songs

music snob here. i won't lie to you about it.


big boys listen to and rate whole albums. songs are for girls.

[New England]

who the hell wasted that much time making a list that bad?

[Tamis!]

True, although three there are Fat Yankian.

I wouldn't really have any issues if songs by, say, The Beatles or Stones or, maybe, Radiohead were in there.
But does anyone really think Blur made one of the 500 greatest songs ever?

And I say that as a Blur fan.

Ditto. At least one song from Sgt. Pepper or from The Bends/OK Comp.

Coffee and Teevee would be a shoo-in.

[Tamis!]

who the hell wasted that much time making a list that bad?

Yeah. It's like katie Bush's list (no pun).

Not even a song from the heavyweights in the top 25 (ie; Pink Floyd, CREAM, Queen, LedZep, Stone Roses) if it was really from a UK chart base.

And a David Bowie song at no. 15 which IMO is pretty weak lol

With that list they should include Afternoon delight in the top 5....skyrockets in flightiee...