What say ye? What did they get right? What songs should be on the list but aren’t? Is the music that best defined your generation and.or personal preferences well represented?
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Here is their idea of the Top 50
Respect — Aretha Franklin (#5)
Fight The Power — Public Enemy (#330)
A Change Is Gonna Come — Sam Cooke (#12)
Like a Rolling Stone — Bob Dylan (#1)
Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana (#9)
What's Going On — Marvin Gaye (#4)
Strawberry Fields Forever — The Beatles (#76)
Get Ur Freak On — Missy Elliott (#466)
Dreams — Fleetwood Mac (N/A)
Hey Ya! — OutKast (#182)
God Only Knows — The Beach Boys (#25)
Superstition — Stevie Wonder (#73)
Gimme Shelter — The Rolling Stones (#38)
Waterloo Sunset — The Kinks (#42)
I Want To Hold Your Hand — The Beatles (#16)
Crazy In Love — Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z (#118)
Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen (#166)
Purple Rain — Prince (#144)
Imagine — John Lennon (#3)
Dancing On My Own — Robyn (N/A)
Strange Fruit — Billie Holiday (N/A)
Be My Baby — The Ronettes (#22)
"Heroes" — David Bowie (#46)
A Day In The Life — The Beatles (#28)
Runaway — Kanye West feat. Pusha T (N/A)
A Case Of You — Joni Mitchell (N/A)
Born to Run — Bruce Springsteen (#21)
Once in a Lifetime — Talking Heads (N/A)
Nothin' But A “G” Thang — Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg (N/A)
Royals — Lorde (N/A)
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction — The Rolling Stones (#2)
Juicy — The Notorious B.I.G. (#424)
Johnny B. Goode — Chuck Berry (#7)
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag — James Brown (#71)
Tutti Frutti — Little Richard (#43)
Seven Nation Army — The White Stripes (#286)
When Doves Cry — Prince (#52)
(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay — Otis Redding (#26)
B.O.B. - Bombs Over Baghdad — OutKast (N/A)
All Along The Watchtower — Jimi Hendrix (#47)
Love Will Tear Us Apart — Joy Division (#181)
Redemption Song — Bob Marley & The Wailers (#66)
My Girl — The Temptations (#88)
Billie Jean — Michael Jackson (#58)
Alright — Kendrick Lamar (N/A)
Paper Planes — M.I.A. (#236)
Tiny Dancer — Elton John (#397)
Idioteque — Radiohead (N/A)
Doo Wop (That Thing) — Lauryn Hill (N/A)
Gasolina — Daddy Yankee feat. Glory (N/A)