When it comes to deciding which 100 songs are the best ever, it really depends on whom you ask. Rolling Stone asked over 200 musicians, producers, artists, critics, journalists and music industry folks to pick their favorite 50. Then RS tabulated the results to come up with Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Songs of All Time. Here’s the top 10:
- Respect. Aretha Franklin. 1967
- Fight The Power. Public Enemy. 1989
- A Change Is Gonna Come. Sam Cooke. 1964
- Like A Rolling Stone. Bob Dylan. 1965
- Smells Like Teen Spirit. Nirvana. 1991
- What’s Going On. Marvin Gaye. 1971
- Strawberry Fields Forever. The Beatles. 1967
- Get Ur Freak On. Missy Elliot. 2001
- Dreams. Fleetwood Mac. 1977
- Hey Ya! Outcast. 2003
Interesting. Most of these we know and a couple of them we don’t know. Hey, we all have our own tastes and opinions. The nice thing about these lists is that there’s some music out there that some knowledgable people feel is pretty good and we might want to give those songs we don’t know a listen.
– Jet Cannon
