Rolling Stone's fake "top 500" list - ignore it, it's just a trick to get people indignant.
zajal
last 10 years is Eminem's "Lose Yourself" (166). Songs from the '60s
comprise more than 40 percent of the list. Unstated but implicit is
that no song counts unless it was after 1956 (although Hank Williams
squeezes in toward the middle), thus Georgia On My Mind gets in only
because it was recorded by Ray Charles, not because it was a great
song, as with Mack The Knife by Bobby Darin, and Sloop John B by The
Beach Boys.
Also unstated is that they are talking not about songs but
performances. I guess there were no great performances before the 50s
either. It does boggle the mind that Donna Summers' Hot Stuff is 150
points higher than The Who's I Can See For Miles, as well as Positively
4th Street, Gloria, I Fall To Pieces, Born In The USA, Can't Buy Me
Love, La Bamba, Piece of My Heart, ad inf. but there are dozens of
equally puerile judgements.
Whatever. Picture this. Desperate for attention, a quorum of aging
rock journalists puts together a clueless list, knowing that having
people argue about it is great publicity. That it makes an irrelevant
magazine relevant. So let's not do that. It isn't close to being
worth the effort. And the list is certainly not worth looking at
unless you enjoy getting upset.