Friday random ten: Revisiting the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs list, part 3

Here’s their list. You know the drill.

1. Pink Houses – John Cougar Mellencamp (#447)
2. Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley (#444)
3. New Year’s Day – U2 (#435)
4. Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple (#434)
5. Tumbling Dice – Linda Rondstadt (#433, orig. Rolling Stones)
6. American Idiot – Green Day (#432)
7. Piano Man – Billy Joel (#429)
8. Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith (#416)
9. In Bloom – Butch Walker & the Black Widows (#415, orig. Nirvana)
10. We’ve Only Just Begun – Grant Lee Buffalo; Modern Barbershop Quartet (#414, orig. The Carpenters)

Song I have heard often enough on TV commercials to not feel the need to own: “Push It”, Salt ‘n’ Pepa (#446). They were selling flip-phones before they were selling car insurance.
Song that’s giving me another reason to buy “The Commitments” soundtrack: “Mustang Sally”, Wilson Pickett (#441). Seriously, I just need to buy it already.
Song that satellite radio has introduced me to: “William, It Was Really Nothing”, The Smiths (#431). The Sirius “Classic Alternative” station loves it some Smiths and some Morrissey. As big as those acts were, I can honestly say I’d never heard any of their music until very recently, mostly thanks to Sirius.
Song I don’t have but should: “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”, CS&N (#426). I bought the one Crosby, Stills & Nash album that came out in the late 80s, but quickly forgot about it and never ripped it to MP3.
Song I used to have but don’t any more: “Boys of Summer”, Don Henley (#423). I had “Building The Perfect Beast” on vinyl, but must have lost it or sold it before doing my Ripping Vinyl project. I need to re-purchase this one, which ought to come with the same bonus track that was on the original CD version.
Special shout-out: “Ode to Billie Joe”, Bobbie Gentrey (#419), a song that is referenced as a joke by the Austin Lounge Lizards at the end of their version of “Shallow End Of The Gene Pool” – “and that’s why Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge”. It always got a big laugh at live shows, but having never heard the song, I never quite got the joke.

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One Response to Friday random ten: Revisiting the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs list, part 3

  1. Linkmeister says:

    That first CSN album is sublime. You really should get it for all its songs, not just Suite Judy Blue Eyes.

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