Top 10 songs ever

[desh]

In honor of WXPN's countdown of the top 885 songs of all time, here is my vote for 10 best, or what it would've been had I voted on time:

1. Doors - Light My Fire
2. The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
3. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
4. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
5. Billy Joel - Piano Man
6. John Lennon - Imagine
7. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
8. Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
9. Beatles - Hey Jude
10. U2 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday

...and, man, I can't believe I have to leave out Romeo And Juliet, Orange Sky, Hallelujah, Bobby McGee, everything by Pearl Jam, everything by Zeppelin...

What are your lists? (Looking at other people's lists here might help.)

I might try to start a meme next week, once their top 100 is revealed...

Comments

[krisispm.livejournal.com]

Well, i had partially accounted for the methodology, as that's how most of these lists are compiled, but i didn't necessarily account for the sample population. However, i was assuming "no covers unless they're definitive" ("Respect" & "Hound Dog") in the same way Y100's album countdown typically leads with "no compilations or best ofs, unless they're definitive" (Bob Marley "Legend").

That said, the Beatles did represent about half of a recent Rolling Stone Best Albums poll top ten - I would be shocked not to see it happen here. However, I don't think Bob would necessarily rank that many songs at the top if a different population was polled, but a glance at their sample page has all sorts of Dylan songs i don't know in top tens.

This is, of course, why i rarely put any faith in scientific polling that samples such a fractional amount of a population, no matter how carefully or randomly selected; i would wager that a truely representative poll of music lovers (and, be sure, this isn't a critics poll, they haev musicians right next to traffic reporters) around the country would *probably* yield less top-ranked Dylan in favor of more commercially successful singles in the vein of "Respect" and "Satisfaction" in the same way that any idiot knew that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was being watched by a hell of a lot more people than Neilsen said it was.

Ahh, grad school, how she beckons me.