Do you think Rolling Stones magazine were taking the piss?

[Bretrick]

The number 1 song on the first Rolling Stones magazine 500 Greatest Songs of all Time 2004 was - Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan.
Number 500 on the list in 2004 was Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones.
The magazine title featured in the first and last songs on the list.
Hmm, me smells shenanigans afoot here.

 

[Pepper]

Where’s Stairway to Heaven? Here it’s usually in first. Or top 3.

 

[retiredtraveler]

"....were taking the piss...".​

I'm not sure if the non-Brits (or non Aussies) know this expression.​

 

[Rakaia]

Where did the Dr Hook song come?

 

[Rakaia]

Where’s Stairway to Heaven? Here it’s usually in first. Or top 3.

There's a stairway to heaven but there's a highway to hell, that tells us something about the expected traffic flow.

 

[Bretrick]

Where’s Stairway to Heaven? Here it’s usually in first. Or top 3.

2004 - Ranked number 31, 2021 - Ranked number 61

 

[Bretrick]

Where did the Dr Hook song come?

The cover of a Rolling Stone never made the 500 greatest songs of all-time list.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

That Bob Dylan was #1 seems p*ssy to me.

 

[Rakaia]

That Bob Dylan was #1 seems p*ssy to me.

He's a great songwriter, it's a shame that he can't sing.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

He's a great songwriter, it's a shame that he can't sing.

EXACTLY! I don't know if you saw my previous post (another thread) in which I said a singer who is a very good friend of my BFF did a three month European tour with Bob Dylan. I told BFF to ask her how she could stand it.

 

[smiley]

never liked Bob at all - wasn't on my too listen list but his song "Most of the time" just hit a cord about my life and times and that's my favourite atm?

 

[Aunt Bea]

Where did the Dr Hook song come?

The cover of a Rolling Stone never made the 500 greatest songs of all-time list.

 

[RambleTamble]

John Lennon's Imagine, which is pure drivel, was ranked number 3.

Their "greatest songs of all time" are the "greatest" from the perspective of musicians and producers at the time -- a lot of them being in their 20s. So the songs they choose won't even remotely look like the picks from the babyboomer generation, which is really all that matters.

 

[RambleTamble]

He's a great songwriter, it's a shame that he can't sing.

I like his voice on his albums from the '60s and '70s. The fact that so many singers -- including John Lennon -- tried to emulate him says something about his abilities.

Bob Dylan is really horrible live, though. He's unlistenable. I've seen him in concert twice and it was awful both times as well as any live recordings that I've heard. Mick Jagger is another singer who is horrible live, and Robert Plant. Some singers just can't reproduce what they do in the studio when they perform live, so they don't even bother to try.