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Lincoln:
Found this on another forum:

THE TOP 50

1: Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone

Writer: Bob Dylan

Released: August 1965

Chart positions: UK: 4, US: 2

Notable for being, at six minutes, twice the length of the standard pop single, and for introducing a strain of poetic bile into the pop chart

2: The Rolling Stones, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Writers: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

Released: August 1965

Chart positions: UK: 1; US: 1

The song that kick-started a great songwriting partnership

3: John Lennon, Imagine

Writer: John Lennon

Released: November 1971 (US), October 1975 (UK)

Chart positions: UK: 6 (1975), 1 (1981), 3 (1999); US: 3

The most mellifluous of anarchist anthems

4: Marvin Gaye, What's Going On

Writers: Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye and Renaldo Benson

Released: February 1971

Chart position: US: 2

Title-track of the landmark album which announced Marvin Gaye's new, politicised musical direction

5: Aretha Franklin, Respect

Writer: Otis Redding

Released: April 1967

Chart positions: UK: 10; US: 1

The black pride anthem which brought the Queen of Soul overnight success after six years of ill-advised cabaret schmaltz

6: Beach Boys, Good Vibrations 1966

7: Chuck Berry, Johnny B Goode 1958

8: The Beatles, Hey Jude 1968

9: Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit 1991

10: Ray Charles, What'd I Say 1959

11: The Who, My Generation 1966

12: Sam Cooke, A Change Is Gonna Come 1965

13: The Beatles, Yesterday 1965

14: Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind 1963

15: The Clash, London Calling 1980

16: The Beatles, I Want to Hold Your Hand 1964

17: Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze 1967

18: Chuck Berry, Maybellene 1955

19: Elvis Presley, Hound Dog 1956

20: The Beatles, Let It Be 1970

21: Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run 1975

22: The Ronettes, Be My Baby 1963

23: The Beatles, In My Life 1966

24: The Impressions, People Get Ready 1965

25: Beach Boys, The God Only Knows 1966

26: The Beatles, A Day in the Life 1967

27: Derek and the Dominos, Layla 1971

28: Otis Redding, (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay 1968

29: The Beatles, Help! 1965

30: Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line 1956

31: Led Zeppelin, Stairway To Heaven 1971

32: Rolling Stones, Sympathy For The Devil 1968

33: Ike & Tina Turner, River Deep, Mountain High 1966

34: The Righteous Brothers, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' 1964

35: The Doors, Light My Fire 1967

36: U2, One 1991

37: Bob Marley and the Wailers, No Woman, No Cry 1974

38: The Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter 1969

39: Buddy Holly and the Crickets, That'll Be the Day 1957

40: Martha and The Vandellas, Dancing In The Street 1964

41: The Band, The Weight 1968

42: The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset 1967

43: Little Richard, Tutti Frutti 1956

44: Ray Charles, Georgia On My Mind 1960

45: Elvis Presley, Heartbreak Hotel 1956

46: David Bowie, Heroes 1977

47: Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water '69

48: Jimi Hendrix, All Along The Watchtower 1968

49: The Eagles, Hotel California 1977

50: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Tracks Of My Tears 1965

Ras Kass' Toothpick:
Where the hell is my "Hotel California" and "Stairway To Heaven"?
(my two favourite non-rap songs btw)

West Coast Veteran:
From that list "Imagine" and "What's Goin' On" are my favorites.

Thirteen:
where's "Oh Sherry"?

Steve Perry was robbed

Lincoln:
I could do without Respect on the list (I like Otis Redding's version better) and Smells Like Teen Spirit, I've never been a huge Nirvana fan. And IMO that's not even Marvin's best song on the What's Going On album.

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