You kinda have to wonder about the editors at Rolling Stone when they put a song on their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list that is really a medley of two songs. I mean...is that kind of an unfair advantage?
In any case, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels made the list with the two-song medley, "Devil With a Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly," which made Number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966.
It's a good thing that slash is in the title. If it weren't, we might have been cursed with a song called "Good Devil With Miss Blue Molly on a Guess Dolly," and I'm pretty sure the world wasn't ready for something like that.
Speaking of cultural readiness, the actual version of the song probably wouldn't fly in today's hyper-sensitive, chauvinism-phobic, what-did-you-just-call-me atmosphere.
Just because a female has tattoos, a wig that matches her shades, high-heeled shoes, and an alligator hat is no reason to label her a devil.
Of course, at this point, is calling someone a devil considered an insult or a compliment?
I'm so easily confused.
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