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10 best songs of the 60's

bennett13bennett13 Posts: 439
edited April 2011 in Other Music
Rolling Stone magazine released their list:

10. Beach Boys - God Only Knows
9. Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
8. Zep - Whole Lotta Love
7. Beatles - Hey Jude
6. Doors - Light My Fire
5. Who - My Generation
4. Stones - Gimme Shelter
3. Stones - Satisfaction
2. Beatles - A Day in the Life
1. Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone

I'll have to think long and hard before I post my top ten. How about y'all?
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    not usually a fan of lists like this, but that baby looks impenetrable.

    good vibrations maybe needs to be on it, but god only knows what I'd take off!
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  • CDFishCDFish Boston, MA Posts: 173
    Not a terrible list but I could certainly pick several better Beatles songs than Hey Jude. Dear Prudence is the first that comes to mind and I think there are better Zeppelin songs as well. I guess its all a matter of opinion really.
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  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,941
    pretty narrow list.
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  • pinkbutterflypinkbutterfly Posts: 1,391
    I love God Only Knows!!
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    You're right. You are a monster! You are sick! Get help!

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  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    no disrespect to the op at all, i love making and reading lists like this, but i think it's just a ridiculous concept to even think about narrowing down a list and naming the ten best songs of the 60's. does rolling stone have nothing better to come up with?...anyway, seriously, so many great songs from the 60's. no way i could make a list, and i don't think anyone could and actually stand by it. you could put up ten songs by the same artist with ten different artists and the list would still be respectable. one thing to do albums, but songs? impossible....i'd still be interested to see what people come up with though.
  • MysteryTrainMysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    From RS: Last weekend we asked our readers to vote for their favorite song of the Sixties. We have counted the votes and the results are in. As usual, if you're unhappy about the results, you only have yourselves to blame. We're just the vote counters.
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    this is fun!...these coming to mind ....today
    my 10 best 60's songs, in no particular order.... age 4 in '60

    Elvis..... Are You Lonesome Tonight

    Kingsmen...Louie Louie

    Supremes ..... Come See About Me

    Beatles.....Come Together

    Louie Armstrong .... What A Wonderful World

    Stones..... Paint it Black

    Otis Redding...Dock of the Bay

    CCR...Susie Q

    Bob Seger System...Ramblin Gambin Man

    Steppenwolf....Born to be Wild ties with Magic Carpet Ride
  • bennett13bennett13 Posts: 439
    Lifted wrote:
    no disrespect to the op at all, i love making and reading lists like this, but i think it's just a ridiculous concept to even think about narrowing down a list and naming the ten best songs of the 60's. does rolling stone have nothing better to come up with?...anyway, seriously, so many great songs from the 60's. no way i could make a list, and i don't think anyone could and actually stand by it. you could put up ten songs by the same artist with ten different artists and the list would still be respectable. one thing to do albums, but songs? impossible....i'd still be interested to see what people come up with though.

    No disrespect taken. I think it's a daunting task to come up with the 10 best songs of a decade myself. That's why I didn't post one of my own, just Rolling Stone's, and the purpose was to start a conversation about these kinds of lists (especially lists prepared by Rolling Stone and other such publications). That being said, I think the list looks rather....safe. Hard to argue with but you could also put several other lists with 10 songs from the 60's, and they would be hard to argue with as well.
  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 11,918
    Let's see - I'll do my 10 favorite, following my rule of one per band:

    Beatles: A Day in the Life
    John Coltrane: Chasin' the Trane
    Cream: We're Going Wrong
    Doors: Light My Fire
    Iron Butterfly: My Mirage
    Jimi Hendrix: Castles Made of Sand
    Johnny Cash: 25 Minutes to Go (thx for covering this PJ!!!)
    Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Down by the River
    Rolling Stones: Paint it Black

    There we go. 8-)
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    MysteryTrain wrote:
    From RS: Last weekend we asked our readers to vote for their favorite song of the Sixties. We have counted the votes and the results are in. As usual, if you're unhappy about the results, you only have yourselves to blame. We're just the vote counters.
    This.
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  • The Waiting Trophy ManThe Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    In My Life
    Yesterday
    A Day in the Life
    She Loves You
    Hey Jude
    Let it Be
    Something
    Come Together
    Strawberry Fields Forever
    Eleanor Rigby
    Another habit says it's in love with you
    Another habit says its long overdue
    Another habit like an unwanted friend
    I'm so happy with my righteous self
  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:
    In My Life
    Yesterday
    A Day in the Life
    She Loves You
    Hey Jude
    Let it Be
    Something
    Come Together
    Strawberry Fields Forever
    Eleanor Rigby
    :thumbup:
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