What the hell? Is there an explanation for that?

You forgot:

011 - The B52s - Love Shack

OMG DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A GIRL CRY... FADE INTO YOU, STRANGE YOU NEVER KNEW.... i think of a ship lost at sea when i hear that song... her voice has the most haunting sound....beautiful...

how in the world did Bob Dylan make it to number 1..what a joke..the number 1 song should be the one that sold the most and by far i dont think its dylan.

Since when did profit determine quality? If you did that the list would be populated by the backstreet boys and spice girls type songs.

What most of the songs in there top ten have in common are they were songs that opened the door for later bands with similar sounds. Songs that broke new ground,as it were. Older song by virtue of having lasted proved themselves and are going to make 'greatest ever' lists more than new stuff. While my list would be different but I will say that I wasn't born when most of the top ten were released but I still know the words to most,if not all of them so they must have done something right.

not unless you can come up with one, i just wanted to point out that i knew one of those songs was a cover :)

Why, are only teen agers allowed to pick so that we can have yet another "top 10 greatest songs of all time" that feature only songs from the passed decade? :1orglaugh

I think Nirvana could go in top3 and not only this song but many others, i still adore it...agree?

It had its reign for about 30 yrs being number 1 on many list

No, I don't agree. I agree that it prompted a change from rock to alternative... however, the guy couldn't sing, the songs really weren't all that "great", and really didn't have much statement to it.

Now, Cobain himself... he could draw emotion out of his audience. His moody, dark, tragic persona/life was the source of a huge following that could fabricate emotion out of his lyrics despite not being able to understand them. It wasn't the music they were feeling, it was him.

But because they only saw him while he was playing this mediocre music, it was the music they remembered... and they thought that music was "great."

Does that make the music worthy of a top spot? Well, yes and no. I guess it's a matter of your perception of what makes a song one of the best in history.

Thats probably the number 1 on the karoke list....its easy to get girls upto sing with you for that 1:1orglaugh

Sometimes people do covers better than the originals. Is the cover from Johnny Cash? Most his songs were covers, and I think he did "Hurt" better than NIN

It's a cover of an Otis Redding song of the same title. Her version is really well done - you wouldn't be able to tell it's the same song (Redding also did outstanding covers). Aretha's version is much more commercial and poppy compared to Redding's raw earthy organic style. I'm an Otis fan so I'm partial to everything he's done.

I am usually somebody that hates covers unless they are much better than the originals. However, at that time people were swapping songs all over the place.

in most cases, its easy to play/sing a song, you can find the music, you know the words, etc...its having that creative mind to write those lyrics, thats big

i know that i would be angry if i had written a song and a cover of it became RS's top 10 of all time, without getting credit/attribution for the lyrics...i dont think otis would mind, in this case

definitely.......

Where's Iron Man :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Well theres plenty of song writers that can't sing, but I absolutely agree about the creativity in the original songs.

He was turned to Steel in a Great Big Magnetic Field...:1orglaugh

True though many people with songs on the large list didn't write their songs. I am one of those annoying people that go around pointing out that Tainted Love, for example, is not a Soft Cell song but a cover, etc. The BBC did a poll a few years ago of the 'nation's faveorite lyric'. That was an interesting list and then it was the writers that got the credit. However, if it is the single then the singer as as much to do with it.

100 greatest hits woulda been better

the list when it expands to 100 songs even more clearly demonstrates that it's a biased baby boomers' list.

the list needs more cowbell

I love Nirvana, but i've got no respect for any list of the 10 greatest songs of all time that includes one of their songs.