What with thousands upon thousands of songs having been written throughout all of recorded and non-recorded history, it's obvious that a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time is going to :
1. Be really difficult to whittle down to
2. Leave out a lot of really good songs
What that list should NOT do, however, is include a 3-minute compilation of screams, record scratches, and a single guitar chord being throttled to within an inch of its life.
And yet...
That's exactly what Rolling Stone did when it decided "Sabotage", by Beastie Boys, should be honored with the 475th place on the list.
"Alone Again Naturally" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) didn't make the list.
"American Pie" (Don McLean) didn't make the list.
"Amazing Grace", "Classical Gas", and "I'll Follow the Sun" are nowhere to be found on the high and holy list...
...and yet they made room for "Sabotage" with its total lack of melody and indiscernible lyric.
What's my Senator's address??!?
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