Artic Monkeys made it up to 20? wtf?

Where is:
Pearl Jam – Evenflow?

And so Many More.
Clearly this person/People have 256GB Mp3 Players…Had to break it down from a playlist of + or – 48 songs.

Brimful of Asha can stay over a couple of the other terrible crummy picks….I mean when you pick a top 20/50/500 list don’t you pick songs people might want to hear again? ‘Stan’ can go if thats the case.

I like the way you grab articles from other mags, make fun of them, and then use their ideas…

Where’s the creativity?

It’s really not THAT bad of a list. Give em credit for some of the songs. Who says Nirvana can’t be #1? Do they have to be daring and eclectic and pick some random song in order for it to count? Even my grandparents know that song. However, Britney Spears? I nominate Coldplay’s “Clocks”, Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out”, Radiohead’s “Karma Police”, and REM’s “Losing My Religion”.

Nirvana is highly overrated. Oasis should have been higher and the Arctic Monkeys- it makes me cry that they’re below Britney Spears.They totally rock. What about the Strokes or even the Libertines? Q sucks.

It’s hard to pick one, but the Smashing Pumpkins certainly deserve to be on this list. Britney Spears–let’s call a spade a spade–did not write the song, sang it poorly, and basically single-handedly set pop music back 40 years. Elizabeth, kudos for once for including Weezer and the Cure, but you lose major points for using the royal “we,” and your unabashed support for rap is almost as disgusting as your blind devotion to late 80s/early 90s indie rock.

arctic monkeys shouldnt have made it, the songs good… but not THAT good. and why cant nirvana be 1?? they changed rock n roll from then on!

This list is so so so much better than any list Rolling Stone ever put together.

Love love love “Common People” and “Brimful of Asha” is way better than Americans realize.

Guess what, the British have better taste in music. Go figure.

Autobahn from elfshu should have been number 7

http://www.myspace.com/elfshu

GnR — “Welcome to the Jungle”
The Walkmen — “The Rat”

…….45!

Look. Pearl Jam means NOTHING to people outside America. I mean, what’s their biggest song: “Jeremy”? A song about a very American kid who brings a gun to school. OOooo, so dramatic!

That sort of sentimental garbage doesn’t sit well with Brits. For one thing, because guns are illegal and quite rare in the UK. And for another thing, because the British school system don’t share America’s bully culture. It’s quite different. Bullies are just part of life to the Brits, and rather than whinging about you, you are expected to pull up your boot straps and give them a good punch. Indeed, the British, like most of the world, finds America’s obsession with teenage angst rather comical.

Get over yourselves.

I belive it’s “Unfinished Sympathy”. Why am I writing this?

am i the only person who doesn’t think ‘hey ya’ is that great?
brimful sounds too close to luna’s tiger lily

No chili peppers? No Soundgarden? No Johnny Cash? To each is own i guess, all these lists are arbitrary anyway, it would be different with any person or magazine you asked. No need to follow. Make your own and turn it up.

pearl jam never meant shit to me. and still dont even w/ the comeback.
and i am an american in the lower 48.
same thudding beats, overwraught, zzzzz. . .
vitology was cool tho.
songs got faster and had some energy.
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the design of that record was dope too.

If you Brits are so proud of your music, culture, and bad teeth why do you try so desperately to attract American audiences? If your artists are so wonderful why can’t they get the recognition you believe they deserve…you like your european nieghbors have your taste in your ass, case and point… Hasslehoff!!

Man, I think this is a lot better than any Rolling Stone list I’ve ever seen except for Britney and the Arctic Monkeys. Oh, and they chose the wrong Oasis song as far as I’m concerned, and it is bland since every list seems to have Smells Like Teen Spirit at the top.

BTW, Robbie Williams is good, but America just doesn’t seem to give him a chance (BTW, I’m American, not British). It’s cheesy pop music, but isn’t that essentially what The Beatles wrote (and no, I’m not saying that Robbie Williams is better than The Beatles, not by a long a shot).

However, yeah, “Summer Babe” should be on the list.

Guns and Roses???? How did that white trash crap make it? Did anyone even think about this list or did someone click random on their itunes.

Am I the only one who thinks the Supersuckers version of “Hey Ya” tops the original?

Guess so.

Not even 1 Radiohead song?? Yeah right…..

I love Nirvana, but Teen Spirit is soooo cliche.
No Strokes? Libertines?

Why Verve? Robbie W? Emimen?
Crazy by Gnarls Barkely is horrible, theres been a million songs that sound like.

Brits smell like gingivitis.

Wut de fuk? Q’s a great magazine, but my god do these Brits have their heads up their narrow assholes. Robbie?, Acne Monkeys? Prodigy? Cornershop? and then Eminem? Gnarls FUCKIN Barkley? Goddamned shit, I’m surprised they haven’t made room for FatBoySlim… Where’s Modest Mouse? Pavement “Gould Soundz”? M83 “Run Into Flowers”? Interpol “NYC”?, JAMC “Just Like Honey”? Aphx twn “Windowlicker”? Black Star “Definition”? BEastie Boys “So Watcha Want”? Bonnie Prince Billy “A Minor Place”? Anything by My Bloody Valentine? Pumpkins “1979″? Fuck even Alice In Chains should have made the list with “No Excuses”…THE FLAMING LIPS????

R.E.M?

This list is absolutely terrible and shows how terrible the taste is for music recently

I didn’t realize the British have to like exactly the same music that Americans like. My apologies.

Why doesn’t the whole world do exactly like America? Because America is so right about everything. And then we won’t need to travel or read books because everyone and everything in the whole world can be exactly the same as everything else. I love America so much. It so great. I want to share how great it is with everyone. Hurrah!

We’ll all live in giant houses made from cheap plasterboard and spend all of our time watching shit TV and not talk to each other and eating fatty food and gloating in our superiority and listening to Pearly Jam and Clay Aiken. And nobody will have an opinion about anything.

It’ll be so great. I mean, look how happy I am!

DPR’s List: Coldplay’s “Clocks”, Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out”, Radiohead’s “Karma Police”, and REM’s “Losing My Religion”.

Perfect.

Hey Ya is NOT that great. Neither is Teen Spirit – Nirvana have better songs. Come As You Are is better, IMO.

Furthermore there are too many recent songs on that list. A song that came out this year has no business on a ‘all time’ list – wait 5 years and see if it sticks.

Madonna for sure has better songs than Like a Prayer. Just because it was deeper than her more general pop output doesn’t make it one of the greatest.

And Britney has NO business on that top 20.

Why the FU*K is there not ONE Pearl Jam song on that list? Pearl Jam is the greatest fuc*king American band of all time – They have written classic song after classic song

It’s not the best songs of the past 20 years, its the most trendy songs of the past 20 years

‘Alive’ was the anthem for a generation you cu*nts @ Q magazine, DEAL WITH IT.

And Rolling Stone are a bunch of c*cksuckers too.. Pearl Jam wins the last polls you put up here & you still blow them off

eat sh*t Rolling Stone.

pearl jam fans are annoying!

I agree. Pearl jam fans ARE anoying. I agree with RS there are some songs missing on the list.

Pearl Jam’s music is painful to listen to. The only good thing they ever did was the solo in Alive.

And yes, Brits do smell like gingivitis.

one headlight. the wallflowers

Nirvana! What a pile of over rated bum fodder! (as you can tell I’m english). Robbie’s done alot for english pop so his critasism is perhaps a bit out of order. There are a lot of english tracks on there that may not mean very much to you yanks but hold a special place in our evidently cold english hearts. Case and point the Verve and Pulp. However there three tracks I’d rather off the list: Hey Ya (number two? Are Q deaf to ANY other music?), Crazy (over played and over rated) and finally Arctic Monkeys for the same reasons as crazy. It’s good but not that good! There are alot of good songs forgotten because of over bought trash as said in the article like the cure. But Q have gotten it wrong for a while I think they are off the pulse a bit now, they should quit while they are ‘ahead’ I use this term very lighly for Q.
Also not all english people have bad teeth and smell. Most of us our lovely there are always a few who spoil it for the rest!

I like heart shaped box better then teen spirit. Let’s see Trailer Trash by Modest Mouse on there too.

I’m surprised there’s no Stone Roses song on the list. Not that I’m a huge fan, but because those Brits are up their ass like the Artic Monkeys, who somehow also made the NME Brit Rock Mag’s top five greatest british albums released, ahead of the Clash and the Beatles.

To my peoples in the most elegant town on the planet:

Terrence Trent D’arby-Anything from “Introducing The Hardline…”

Soul II Soul-Anything from “Keep On Movin”

Lisa Stansfield-Anything from”Affection”

Floetry-Any thing from “Floetic”

Brand New Heavies-Anything from their first self-titled album to
“Get Used To It”

Oasis-”Anything from(What’s The Story)Morning Glory” to “Don’t Believe The Truth”

The Go! Team-Anything from “Lightening,Thunder,Strike!”

Gorillaz-Anything from their first self-titled album to “Demon Days”

How ’bout that lads?

hate it or love it, smells like teen spirit did more to the world than any other song in the last 20 years…i still remember the 1st time i heard it i was shocked…but by now it has lost its meaning…
artic monkeys – wow, i can honestly say i’ve never heard of them? what about pearl jamj’s “alive”?…red hot chilli peppers “under the bridge”? no weezer?! guess this is why i left europe.

“Creep” by Radiohead and “New Slang” by The Shins should have made ANY list for best song of the past 20 years, easily.

Why does everybody think “One” is U2’s best song? It’s probably the most meaningful, but I think New Year’s Day (the unedited version) is their ballsy-est and most heartfelt song to date. Insert that at #7. And oh yea, Hard to Explain definitely belongs on there.

FACT!

What is the Q criteria for this song list? Does it only pertain to officially released “singles”? An artist’s most well known single does not always mean it’s his or her best song.

That God awful Goodman is at it again. How dare she refer to Q Magazine as “fading?” Look at the garbage journalism she posts each day under the banner of Rolling Stone. Q, at least, still treats their readers with respect and assumes their literacy. A hardy issue of Q contains text written at beyond the 6th grade level (I mean England’s 6th grade.)What do you get with the thin, advertising heavy copy of RS? Do you really want to talk about the fading glory of rock press?

I agree, you cant look at the best songs of the past 20 years and ignore Radiohead, but Creep sucks so I’d go with something like Paranoid Android or Idioteque or even something unreleased like Lift.

creep!!!! by radiohead

and

long veiw or jesus of suberbia -GREEN DAY

COME ON THESE ARE THE SONGS OF MY GENERATION!

I nominate “Creep,” (Radioheaad) “Losing My Religion, (REM) “Take Me Out,” (Franz Ferdinand) “The Scientist” (Coldplay), “Californication” (RHCP), “Last Night” (The Strokes).

No, Rolling Stone, it you who is fading.

lists are silly, especially those involving art. it’s even sillier to get angry over someone else’s opinions regarding, uh, pop music. anyone doing so is just trying to win the cool contest by listing this or that group or song. in these matters, there is no “is” or “should,” simply personal view. to get so aggro about it really drains any possible fun out of it. that said, gbv’s “teenage fbi” is the best goddamn song ever, you freaking buttholes…

So many better Nirvana songs out there. “Lithium” and “In Bloom” come up first in my mind. Green Day with “Welcome To Paradise” has to be on there. Bottom Line: Worst list ever!

glenn robinson loves martha and the muffins he lives in echo beach cause he lives a boring life he’s an office clerk my point echo beach is a place in your mind glenn is also kind of poor from hobo mike

this could be the least original list ever
i mean seriously, everyone’s heard teen spirit so many times that no one in their right mind finds it exciting anymore

the dirty yanks may hate british/ ENGLISH q magazine but THE WORLD HATES AMERICA

wot language u type this article in? thats right ENGLISH

pearl jam the best american band ever? that’s quite laughable…

pearl jam had 2 good albums

the rest of their catalogue hovers between being bog average 2 just plain sh*t

creep is a real whingey sh*tty song

radiohead had 3 good albums- the bends, ok comp. & kid A

rest is unnecessary

rolling stone spends HALF its time covering k-fed and paris hilton- die bitch die

Going by initial and lasting popularity, influence, and importance, here is the list of the 20 greatest songs of the past 20 years… without songs I don’t personally like, and only giving one entry per artist:

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
2. Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
3. Live Forever – Oasis (or Wonderwall if you prefer)
4. Song 2 – Blur
5. California Love – 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre
6. Jeremy – Pearl Jam
7. Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
8. Paranoid Android – Radiohead
9. Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine
10.Chop Suey! – System Of A Down
11.Under The Bridge – Red Hot Chili Pepeprs
12.Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden
13.Bring The Noise – Public Enemy
14.Rooster – Alice In Chains
15.Losing My Religion – R.E.M.
16.Loser – Beck
17.Clocks – Coldplay
18.One – U2
19.Smooth – Santana feat. Rob Thomas
20.Lose Yourself – Eminem (I don’t actually like this one but it was #1 for my entire summer vacation between 6th and 7th grade)

‘not all english people have bad teeth and smell’

not all yanks r dumb obese bible bashing redneck hillbillys who gorge themselves on the boring average pearl jam (thats when theyre not warmongering)

Ne-Gro- if brits smell like gigivitis then black r chocolate cavemen who swing in trees

If your artists are so wonderful why can’t they get the recognition you believe they deserve posted by wish u were americans

ok dumb yank- heard of radiohead coldplay led zepplin black sabbath iron maiden the beatles oasis? all ENGLISH

dont like us so much? dont communicate in our language u OBESE WARMONGERING BIBLE BASHING HILLBILLY

What – no black hole sun?

-employeedirt.com

Well, I didnt realize there was so much crap between American and English when it came to music…I miss things easily though lol….
I personally think that Teen Spirit is overrated, (I love the song, but I cant even listen to it anymore, its just too “used” in the music industry, and I’ve heard it too many times..) Nirvana probably should have been in the list, but they have better songs…. Now, I am American and I dont really know too much about artists like the Artic Monkeys(but I’ve heard good things…) so I cant tell if they dont belong, they very well may, but Britney Spears? C’mon, any list is better without her..and I believe that “Crazy” is played too often as well…Outkast isnt bad, but that shouldnt have been #2…..I am a fan of Pearl Jam, meh, they arent my favorite, but theyre good, but I also feel that they are also overrated…besides some of their work of course, but “Alive” wasnt as good as their other stuff…I dunno that it should be up there…I believe that this was simply because of a Country difference, because if this was an American list it wouldve had PJ all over it, along with the other generic American bands…..but it was from a British perspective, who enjoy a different kind of music in some aspects(apparently not all the way due to the #1 song) but anyway, one more thing…..Wheres REM?

Where is Radiohead? – Paranoid Android?? Fake Plastic Trees,etc?

It is hard to put together a list of the best songs of the last 20 years- (I’m going by the impact they had at the time they came out, and longevity they have had), but lets see.
In No order
1-Paranoid Android- Radiohead
2-ONE -U2 (I’ll agree with that)
3-It’s the End of the World as we know it -REM
4-Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
5- Nothin but a G Thang – Dr Dre
6-Summergirl- Pavement
7- Wrong – Archers of Loaf
8- Welcome to the Jungle -G&R (yeah I kinda hate em now, but that song made an impact when it came out)
9- Give it Away -Chili Peppers
10- Wonderwall -Oasis
11- Where is My Mind – Pixies
12- Love Song – The Cure
13 – Mockingbird -Grant Lee Buffalo
14 – Bring the Noise -Public Enemy
15 – Waiting Room – FUGAZI
16 – Jeremy – Pearl Jam
17 – Tonight Tonight – Smashing Pumkins
18 – Poor Places -Wilco
19 – Its Not Dark Yet, but its getting There- Bob Dylan
20 – Brick -Ben Folds

Just a few songs

how can you mention the best 20 songs in the best 20 years without mentioning “Jeremy,” “corduroy,” or “betterman” by pearl jam.

OR “there goes the fear” or “Black and white town” by Doves.

rolling stones elton john pink floyd Queen ALL ENGLISH

NEWSFLASH tom cruise just bought a new house in england (joins the ranks of miss camel toe herself madonna)

The list sucks, but we all could have come to that conclusion on our own. Thank you for wasting our time and taking up space. Speaking as a musician, the experience of listening to music is entirely subjective.

Simply speaking as an American, I prefer the British music mags over any of the crap we’ve got here. My feelings about Q Magazine are indifferent, but at least they’re writing about music and aren’t a Hollywood tabloid in disguise. Q was writing about the “Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs” and “the Strokes” long before Rolling Stone ever took notice of them. So maybe a few lessons can be learned from Q, either that or Rolling Stone should stop pretending that it’s still relevant.

I’m just a bit confused. When Rolling Stone Magazine put together a list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, wasn’t “Smells Like Teen Spirit” the highest song from the past twenty years? Wasn’t Nevermind the highest on 500 Greatest albums considering all included released in the past twenty years?

mike post theme, real good looking boy-the who

trent reznor cites depeche mode as an influence- so there

i think as a rock fan

guns n roses welcome to the jungle, november rain, and pearl jams jeremy

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” Nirvana, 1991
“Sweet Child O’ Mine” Guns N’ Roses, 1987
“One” U2, 1991
i feel deserve to be on the list the others im not a huge fan of

Two suggestions would be paradise city guns n roses and epic faith no more

Its like the singles pop charts..who actual buys them?? 13 year old girls..

Good on Nirvana but-jesus I fwd smells every time I throw the album on.

Sooooo many good songs out there-shame only the real crap ones get marketed for mass production.

Go massive attack..maybe some portishead–or the cure?

Im sick of the bling- standard rap vid bullock as well.

Hard to moan about living on the streets driving and your hummer..and ask to be taken with respect.

Grunge is certainly overrated so no surprise w/ nirvana at 1. Hey Ya is a good song, although rock-oriented fans don’t always realize that Outkast’s whole catalog has at least a dozen songs that are as good. Guns and Rose’s popularity says more about the intense confusion and crass vulgarianism of our times than the quality of their crude, lumbering, idiotic songs.

Lists are stupid but…..paranoid android (radiohead), disarm (smashing pumpkins), waiting room (fugazi), losing my religon (rem) should definantly be on there.

Ummmm… Michael Jackson? Ok, that’s excusable, his best work is not from the last 20 years. But Blur ‘Song 2′? Its not even a very good Blur song.

You included Britney and left out the Beastie Boys? This is a joke, right?

I think Rolling Stone owes it to its readers whenever they criticize the opinion of another publication to mention the fact that when it made its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, they failed to include a single song from ALL of these artists, among others:

Alice In Chains
Blur
Jane’s Addiction
Nine Inch Nails
Oasis
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Soundgarden
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Stone Roses

plus every song they claim is among the top 20 of the 90’s… funny, by saying that not all of the top 20 songs of the 90’s deserve to be in the top 500 songs of all time, it would appear that the magazine may be a bit biased against 90’s music… making them hyocrites for criticizing another magazine’s opinion of the decade.

It’s music. Listen to it and enjoy it. Let it slip through your ears, tear into your heart and alter your soul. Last time I checked, that is musics purpose. So take your worthless opinons and whine to the sorry bastards that care. The majority of the individuals that are wincing about this subject should silence their moaning and clean their piss stained pants.

i can’t believe no one’s mentioned Jeff Buckleys Grace. The title track, Lover you should’ve come over, or nearly half of the other songs are approximately infinitely better in every way to all of the songs on this list

this has to be a RS joke…
arctic monkeys, britney, what the hell?? a lot of new shit for it to be from the last 20 years…

no rain blind melon
preaching the end of the world cornell
aaaa… to much stuff, but its a joke

WTF? who even cares what some crap brit magazine says anyway! i can’t even find a decent mag anymore, this is a list that will never be seen eye to eye with anyone,NEVER

losing my religion, black, stan, lovesong, welcome to the jungle, creep (radiohead), one (u2), one (metallica), green eyes, nutshell, jane says, bulls on parade, in bloom.

ps….what about chumbawumba? hahahaah…..queers

welcome to the jungle- guns n roses
should be there

Hey! I just had a great idea! Lets take every single song on this list…and replace them with songs that require instrumental skill and musical knowledge…you know, the things that make music art.

How bout the guy who sang I’M TOO SEXY? THAT GUY KICKED ASS. C’MON NOW, THAT SONG PEELS PAINT OFF WALLS FOR HOLY MAPLE SYRUPS SAKE NOW WON’T YA HAYOOOOO

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE……..

Someone actually deleted my comment.

It read, essentially:

Rs actually has the balls to criticize another publication when this rag has been dead for years? That’s guts.

And while I disagree with this list nearly completely, Whatever crap RS would put together I’m certain wouldn’t be much better…

Horray for censoring your readers, Rolling Stone.

Lists are so much fun. Here’s mine.
1. Teenage Riot-Sonic Youth (1988)
2. Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana (1991)
3. Paranoid Android-Radiohead (1997)
4. Where Is My Mind?-Pixies (1987)
5. Corduroy-Pearl Jam (1994)
6. Hurt-Nine Inch Nails (1994)
7. One-U2 (1991)
8. Don’t Look Back In Anger-Oasis (1995)
9. Bring the Noise-Public Enemy (1988)
10. Today-Smashing Pumpkins (1993)
11. So What’cha Want-Beastie Boys (1992)
12. Where It’s At-Beck (1996)
13. Nightswimming-R.E.M. (1992)
14. Hard to Explain-The Strokes (2001)
15. Seven Nation Army-The White Stripes (2003)
16. The Day I Tried to Live-Soundgarden (1994)
17. Hate to Say I Told You So-The Hives (2001)
18. Master of Puppets-Metallica (1986)
19. Touch Me I’m Sick-Mudhoney (1988)
20. Dig Me Out-Sleater Kinney (1997) Long live Sleater Kinney!!!

What’s disgusting about this list is that there’s a bunch of average songs, and folks like Soundgarden, Pixies, Beck, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Dylan, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, The Libertines, Muse, Neil Young, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, Primus, Radiohead, Rage, Chili Peppers, Sonic Youth, STP, Sublime, System of a Down, Tenacious D, Tool and the Yeah yeah yeahs all get shafted.

Tell me again what the point of doing this is anyway?

By Charlie Miller:
“What’s the point?”

It’s fun. It’s fun to see how many people agree or disagree. I’m sure lots of people would slam my list in a second, but that’s cool because they’re sticking up for their favorite artist.

Q is a great magazine.
Maybe Rolling Stone should leaf through a copy to get some good ideas

RS: don’t knock cornershop simply because the american mainstream (your readership) don’t know who they are or wrote them off as a one-hit wonder. ‘when i was born for the 7th time’ was one of the best albums of 1997 (it even took top spot in spin’s year-end poll above ‘ok computer’) and still stands up as an epic work. they sure as hell deserve to be on that list over “anything by Green Day.” I’d give GD “Jesus of Suburbia,” which barely made the cutoff.

Anything by Neil from The Young Ones.

yeah.. “anything from Green Day…NIN” are you seriously cuckoo? maybe a song here or there but _anything_? both those bands have tons of mediocre filler.

Since you’ve asked.. in no particular order..

Tender -Blur.
Movin On Up -Primal Scream.
Cigarettes and Alcohol -Oasis
Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve.
Walk On/ Kite – U2.
November Rain – Guns N’ Roses

Brimful Af Asha – Cornershop.
Thunder Struck – ACDC
Jump On Top Of Me – The Rolling Stones.
Summer Days/Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dunb – Bob Dylan.
Drunken Angel – Lucinda Williams.
If It Makes You Happy – Sherl Crow
Gimme One Good Reason -Tracy Chapman.
Nothing Compares To You – Sinead O’Conner.

Where’s your head at?- Basement Jaxx.
Disco Inferno/Music – Madonna, from The ‘Confessions Live Tour’ DVD.
Get Busy- Sean Paul
London Bridges – Fergie.
Thief In The Night – Keith Richards and the Rolling Stones.

In fact, thats not a bad running order for a tape.

You know better add
Last Night -the Strokes.
right before ‘Brimful of Asha’ for the tape running order.

Who cares…It’s all so subjective anyway. What was their criteria for judging? Maybe I really happen to love Gallons of Rubbing Alchohol Flow Through The Strip, does that make it one of the best songs ever?

Substitute ‘Veins’ for ‘Strip’ and I think we have a winner.

I think it’s a crappy list, but who cares? More importantly, why care about the Brit mag’s list? It’s their mag. Their list. RS makes lists like this all the time. Opinions are ok, but not bashing. Tss.

My List of the Best Songs of the Last 20 Years:

20. The White Stripes – Dead Leaves In The Dirty Ground
19. The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
18. The Cure – Lovesong
17. Soundgarden – Burden In My Hand
16. No Doubt – Spiderwebs
15. The Black Eyed Peas – Where Is The Love?
14. Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
13. The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
12. Muse – Hysteria
11. Nirvana – In Bloom
10. Fatboy Slim – Praise You
9. Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
8. Oasis – Wonderwall
7. Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name
6. Social Distortion – Story Of My Life
5. 311 – I’ll Be Here Awhile
4. Coldplay – Clocks
3. Green Day – Minority
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge
1. Pearl Jam – Alive

That’s just my opinion. I’m kind of partial to Alternative Rock and I’m also into songs that have an impact .

I can’t believe I forgot this song…
What’s Up -4nonBlonds (the remix that was popular instead of the original) and drop Sinead o’Connor. Ok that’s enough work time spent on this…

I think Stefan de la Barbulesti’s ‘Eu Vin a Casa Cu Drag” should be at #1.

I’d rather read Q than the bullshit Rollingstone. List is Ok, not as bad as you make out. Wow, you have got really nasty and bitter to us Brits all of a sudden. Wrongly accusing oasis of snubbing the Beatles and now having a go at a repected British magazine.

Can’t get over the fact that US music in general stinks and produces nothing new. All US bands do is recycle British ideas and re invent them as their own.

Britney Fucking Spears over Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”, are they fucking kidding or fucking retarded.

I think Keane – Bedshaped should hav been on the list
Jules, wht do you mean “Stefan de la Barbulesti”?! I love the irony!

Soul Asylum “Runaway Train”, RATM “Killing In The Name”,Metallica “The Unforgiven”,Jamiroquai “Too Young To Die”,Pantera “Cemetary Gates”,Radiohead “Creep”,Sheryl Crow “All I Wanna Do,Garbage “You Look So Fine”,No Doubt “Don’t Speak”,Shakira “Objection”,Skunk Anansie “Hedonism”,Daft Punk “Around The World”,Cypress Hill “Insane In The Brain”,Beastie Boys “Intergalactic”,Wu Tang Clan “CREAM”,Dead Prez “Behind Enemy Lines”,Dr Dre “Nothing But A G Thang”,Fugees “Killing Me Softly”,Nas “NY State Of Mind”,Naughty By Nature “OPP”,Snoop Dogg”What’s My Name” and of course GNR”Sweet Child O’ Mine”!

No particular order:
Twilight Singers “Teenage Wristband”
REM “Nightswimming”
U2 “One”
Jane’s Addiction “Three Days”
Screaming Trees “Dollar Bill”
Pearl Jam “Rearviewmirror”
Nirvana “Teen Spirit”
Metallica “Master Of Puppets”
Beastie Boys “So Whatcha Want”
Guns N Roses “Estranged”
NIN “Reptile”
Soundgarden “Fell On Black Days”
Pre)Thing “Won + X”
Probot “Shake Your Blood”
Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock”
STP “Interstate Love Song”
Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees”
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead “Caterwaul”
ASG “Act Like You Know”
The Cult “Love Removal Machine”

This list is the worst I have seen in awhile.

Beck Please, any Beck tune will do.

As a Brit, I would just like to assure our American Friends that Q is dead- and it was never that alive in the first place.

NME is a far superior music magazine and it’s top 50 songs of the last 10 years included:

The Strokes: Last Night at #1.
The Libertines: Time for Heroes at #2.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Maps.
Radiohead: Paranoid android.
Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out.
The Killers: Mr Brightside.
No one Knows: Queens of the Stone Age.
Hounds Of Love – The Futureheads
American Idiot – Greenday
Where It’s At – Beck
Celebrity Skin – Hole
Get Ur Freak on – Missy Elliott
99 Problems – Jay Z
Rebellion (Lies) – Arcade Fire
Hurt – Johnny Cash

A far superior list in every way. And for the record Robbie Williams licks balls. Adios my American Friends.

Rolling Stone – oh dear.
You Americans are all the same, you get a band who wear deodorant and look respectable and you just don’t get it.

Modest Mouse? Pavement “Gould Soundz”? M83 “Run Into Flowers”? Interpol “NYC”?, JAMC “Just Like Honey”? Aphx twn “Windowlicker”? Black Star “Definition”? BEastie Boys “So Watcha Want”? Bonnie Prince Billy “A Minor Place”? Anything by My Bloody Valentine? Pumpkins “1979″?

All the above are complete and utter shite.

Oasis all the way.

Pgirl is right – every mag, including this one, come out with these crap lists all the time to fill space and sell a few more copies to people who don’t know what music they should buy. Let Q have their opinion and we can argue about it ’til the next list comes out……. I’m still trying to work out how Bob Dylan’s recent mediocre effort made the top of your list, Rolling stone…..

Chinese Democracy starts now!

to be honest, the list of supposed “omissions” rolling stone have included isn’t particularly any better than what Q have compiled (say it ain’t so? please…).

as for whoever claimed pearl jam mean jack in england, i guess that’s why they headlined carling festival this year? you idiot….

the list rolling stone made is extreamily gay there was a couple good songs but no real rock. whoever topher is had a great list and i actually have all thoes songs on a play list on my i pod. read his list!!!!

did everyone forget how dirty x-tina was??

porch monkey 4 life is an idiot, even i think my list sux moose ballz

It’s funny that you don’t think Smells Like Teen Spirit should be at the top when it’s the highest song from the past 20 years on the RS 500 greatest songs of all time.

What’s wrong with this list again? Oh, yeah, just the Britney song.

Your blogs suck, RS. Go back to school.

Revisionist history is great, isn’t it? Anybody who doesn’t appreciate “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is falling for the hype, imprisoned by their vapid inability to seperate fame and quality. Yes, assholes, every great once in a while, something truly great is in fact incredibly popular (I would put Outkast and Public Enemy in the same category). Bryan Adams “Reckless” is a great album! Long live Bryan Adams “Reckless!”

nme is utter shit

they back bog average bands beginning with ‘the.’ this music is all style no SUBSTANCE

nme’s readers r made up of lazy student bums

ppl. who like indie want 2 b diff. but dont have the balls 2 check out rock

R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming” is the best song of the past 20 years (at least). If it helps, Chris Martin of Coldplay agrees with me. Regardless of my opinion, this list is indeed pretty awful, I think we can all agree on that. No Radiohead? No Drive-by Truckers? No Soundgarden? As well as all the bands RS pointed out the absence of? And I hate that I have to agree with many of the far-too-loyal Pearl Jam fans, but yeah they should be on there too. Damned Brits.

england really dont care 4 pearl jam

ok- they appeared at carling festival; a rock festival. they headlined for 2 reasons:

1. theyre the sole survivors of grunge movement

2. theyre better than emo- the fall out boys of this world

ask ure average guy on the street in england- they either havent heard of or dont give a shit about them

similar 2 how america sees robbie williams

pearl jam r only marginally better known than dave matthews band or phish who ure average english man will never have heard of

chris martin is an ass jockey

england is full of wankers and america is full full of assholes. go canada!

This is a comprehensive list. ‘Angels’ certainly belongs on there as well, contrary to the musings of RS.

As for ‘anything by Pavement’, I can’t even name one Pavement song, much less ‘anything by the band’ as to imply that they have a wealth of material that is worthy of this list. Pleeeeeaaaaz

I’m sure eventually one of us will list twenty songs that everyone collectively and suddenly agrees is the correct list despite infinite differences in music tastes, exposure and intelligence.

Ok, Here’s the list as a tape running order.
Tender -Blur.
Movin On Up -Primal Scream.
Cigarettes and Alcohol -Oasis
Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve.
Walk On/ Kite – U2.
November Rain – Guns N’ Roses

Last Night-the Strokes
Brimful Af Asha – Cornershop.
Thunder Struck – ACDC
Jump On Top Of Me – The Rolling Stones.
Summer Days/Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dunb – Bob Dylan.
Drunken Angel – Lucinda Williams.
If It Makes You Happy – Sherl Crow
Gimme One Good Reason -Tracy Chapman.

What’s Up – 4 non blonds (a remix instead of original)
Where’s your head at?- Basement Jaxx.
Disco Inferno/Music – Madonna, from The ‘Confessions Live Tour’ DVD.
No No No ( You Don’t love me Anymore)–Dawn Penn (Pick a remix)
Get Busy- Sean Paul
London Bridges – Fergie.
Thief In The Night – Keith Richards and the Rolling Stones.

Yer Welcome.

In reference to Killa’s post. Just because you can’t name a song by a band doesn’t mean their songs aren’t better than any song by a band whose songs you can name.

This is in no particular order, and deliberatley In My Omniscient Opinion, but that’s okay, because I’m better than you.

Stone Roses-I Am The Resurrection

Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah

Pavement-S ummer Babe

Guns N’ Roses-Welcome to the Jungle

Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Storm

Massive Attack-Angel

Jane’s Addiction-Been Caught
Stealing

Straightjacket Fits-She Speeds, Down In Splendour

Mint Chicks-Blue Team Go!

Kyuss-100°”/”Space Cadet”/”Demon Cleaner

N.E.R.D.-She Wants To Move

Sonic Youth-Teenage Riot

Oasis-Fuckin’ In The Bushes (Noel’s best writing, and Liam’s best vocal in 3:18)

Radiohead-Pyramid Song

RATM-Sleep Now In The Fire

Air-Sexy Boy

Fugazi-Give Me the Cure

The Pixies-DEBASER

Queens of the Stone Age-Burn the Witch

if you don’t know it, than maybe you should look it up. Imbecile.

Best song is

Sex Pistols – Anarchy in th U.K

1. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Nirvana, 1991 on list

2. “Hey Ya!” OutKast, 2003 on list

3. “Sweet Child O’ Mine” Guns N’ Roses, 1987 on list

4. “Unfinished Symphony” Massive Attack, 1991 no

5. “One” U2, 1991 no

6. “Live Forever” Oasis, 1994 no

7. “Bitter Sweet Symphony” The Verve, 1997 on list

8. “Common People” Pulp, 1995 on list

9. “There She Goes” The LA’s, 1990 no

10. “7 Nation Army” The White Stripes, 2003 on list

11. “Song 2″ Blur, 1997 on list

12. “Crazy” Gnarls Barkley, 2006 on list

13. “Angels” Robbie Williams, 1997 NO

14. ” … Baby One More Time” Britney Spears, 1999 NO

15. “Personal Jesus” Depeche Mode, 1990 no

16. “Like A Prayer” Madonna, 1989 NO

17. “Firestarter” The Prodigy, 1997 NO

18. “Brimful of Asha” Cornershop, 1997 No

19. “Stan” Eminem, 2000 no

20. “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” Arctic Monkeys, 2006 No
Things to add
Green day:welcome to paradise
Arcade fire:Intervention(lies)
Pixie s:monkey gone to heaven
NIN:closer
Public enemey:Fight the power
Johnny Cash:Hurt
Radiohead:Paranoide d Android
The Cure:Just like Heaven
Pearl Jam-Black
soul asylum-runaway train
Run Dmc-walk this way
the shins-new slang

Rolling stone I don’t think you can talk about fadeing magazines, you gave linkin park 4 stars and have been behind in the time sence the 70’s. You put garbage on the cover, ie fall out boy, panic at the disco, led zeppelin.

personally i would list only nirvana songs in the top 20 of the last 20 years cause they have been the only good band in that time no one has or will come close unless they do nirvana cover songs.thank you so much kurt the likes we will never see again

Sailor? Racey? Leiutenant Pigeon?? Goombay Dance Band??? Did they die in vain?!!!
Bix Beiderbeck is spinning in his grave.

no radiohead, no credibility

Some of the best songs of the last 20 years are:

1. Oasis – Live Forever (easy)
2. The Verve – History
3. Metallica – One
4. U2 – One
5. Temple Of The Dog – Hungerstrike
6. Alice In Chains – Would?
7. The Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold
8. Pearl Jam – Alive
9. Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness
10. Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy

Also re Nirvana – they weren’t a scratch on the other Seattle based groups from that era. Alice In Chains were easily the best, then Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots were all better than Nirvana as well.

not a lot of those bands impacted an entire generation like nirvana did though!

uhm well what about backstreet boys i want it that way. theyre the most successful boy band ever, selling over 100 million albums. i want it that way is timeless.

Is there some rule that says one song per band? Because all the best songs of the last 20 years have been recorded by just two groups. Here they are, arranged alphabetically, because there is no way to chose which of these songs are better than the others.

The Waiters – Absence
The Waiters – Back In The Day
Remote Possibility – Canis Horribillis
Remote Possibility – Canowindra
Remote Possibility – Can’t Wait
The Waiters – Cast A Shadow
The Waiters – Christmas Lights (Luzes de Natal)
Remote Possibility – Coked Up In Kentucky
Remote Possibility – Give Someone You Love a Vegematic
The Waiters – I Got Ideas
Remote Possibility – Mystery Snack
Remote Possibility – Shevilla Lobole
The Waiters – Teenage Punk Rocker In Love
The Waiters – The Beach
Remote Possibility – Topango
Remote Possibility – Underwater Groove
Remote Possibility – Vacancy
Remote Possibility – War Record
The Waiters – Watermelon Sugar
Remote Possibility – Your Condition

nirvana rules!!! alice in chain,stp and pearl jam are better than nirvana??? c’mon!!! nirvana was the one who changed the contemporary on thaht era, they started the grunge genre!