Having two sides that would both be top 10 material by themselves makes it pretty much unbeatable in these things.

The Beach Boys: the New Order of 1965-74.

pre-emptive edit: a reference to the top-heaviness of New Order/Joy Division in the all time SOMB single poll.

Great job as usual Dr. Bill. Thanks SOMB for your exceedingly excellent taste. I knew there was a reason I come here.

I'm pretty sure if we get round to an all time top *** songs that "God Only Knows" will get at least twice the points of "Wouldn't It Be Nice"

Stellar job tGDB, We are all eternally greatful for the effort you but in. Thanks to everyone who weighed in with the chat in between.

Time for us all to crack on with 1975-84!

Stellar job GDB. Absolutely phenomenal.

terrific job, GDB. I agree with all the discussion so far about the #1. God Only Knows would wipe the floor with Wouldn't It Be Nice (great as that song is). And as much as I find the Beach Boys to be overrated (particularly Pet Sounds), I have no argument with that single as #1. And while Good Vibrations is also a great song, I do wish it hadn't been #2. But hey, the numbers don't lie. (if only norton had voted, sigh).

Yes, EXCELLENT work, tracking down the tracks, sleeves, quotes, pretty damn impressive.

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GDB!

(and a tip of the hat to our video surfer, Rob Gordon. I don't get the chance to see these, but I applaud your efforts)

Awesome to see the Beach Boys take both one and two. NICE WORK, BILL.

okay, solace.



YEAH BOYEEEE! BEACH BOYZ 4 LIFE! I'm definitely satisfied after the travesty that was Pet Sounds' placement. Ugh. Now the 75-84 lists are more looming than ever.

Nice to see 2 tracks from my top album (MMT) make the top 5 And indeed, the Beach Boys taking the top 2 spots is a nice bonus, though I prefer Surf's Up and Heroes & Villians (the original Smile versions at least)

Great job as usual, Doc

Great work again Bill. Perhaps a bit strange to find the Beach Boys at nos. 1 & 2, but no real argument here. Would have been nice to see Sam Cooke at no.1 though.

full results for you psychos

1 Beach Boys Wouldn't it Be Nice / God Only Knows 1768 20
2 Beach Boys Good Vibrations 1399 18
3 Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone / Gates of Eden 1394 17
4 Sam Cooke Shake / A Change is Gonna Come 1265 13
5 Beatles Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever 1257 16
6 Al Green Let's Stay Together 1200 15
7 ? And the Mysterians 96 Tears 1009 13
8 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles The Tracks of My Tears 1003 14
9 Kinks Waterloo Susnet 957 14
10 Stevie Wonder Superstition 957 15
11 Rolling Stones Honky Tonk Women / You Can't Always Get What You Want 942 16
12 Jackson Five I Want You Back 922 15
13 Jimi Hendrix All Along the Watchtower 877 12
14 Otis Redding (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay 844 13
15 Marvin Gaye What's Going On 835 13
16 Five Stairsteps O-o-h Child / Dear Prudence 834 11
17 Velvet Underground Sweet Jane / Rock and Roll 824 10
18 Beatles Hey Jude / Revolution 821 13
19 Rolling Stones (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 808 13
20 Freda Payne Band of Gold 792 11
21 Bob Dylan Positively 4th Street / From a Buick 6 787 13
22 Beatles Paperback Writer / Rain 772 12
23 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles The Tears of a Clown 768 9
24 Rolling Stones Let's Spend the Night Together / Ruby Tuesday 764 12
25 Creedence Clearwater Revival Down on the Corner / Fortunate Son 737 11
26 Who My Generation / Shout and Shimmy 724 11
27 Band The Weight / I Shall Be Released 695 10
28 Four Tops Reach Out, I'll Be There 675 10
29 Badfinger No Matter What 673 10
30 Tommy James & the Shondells Crimson and Clover 666 9
31 Sly & the Family Stone Everyday People 651 10
32 Stooges Search and Destroy 627 9
33 Glen Campbell Witchita Lineman 615 10
34 Rolling Stones Paint it, Black / Long Long While / Stupid Girl 614 9
35 Count Five Psychotic Reaction 612 9
36 Beatles Day Tripper / We Can Work it Out 611 8
37 Dusty Springfield Son of a Preacher Man / I Don't Blame You At All 608 14
38 Temptations Papa Was a Rolling Stone 603 10
39 Left Banke Walk Away Renee / I Haven't Got the Nerve 600 8
40 Dolly Parton Jolene 589 9
41 Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues / She Belongs to Me 586 10
42 Curtis Mayfield Move on Up 583 10
43 Rolling Stones Tumbling Dice / Sweet Black Angel 580 11
44 Who I Can See for Miles 576 9
45 Zombies Time of the Season / Friends of Mine 565 10
46 Spencer Davis Group Gimme Some Lovin' 564 8
47 Byrds Eight Miles High 563 8
48 Love Alone Again Or / A House is Not a Motel 561 9
49 Aretha Franklin Respect 557 7
50 Raspberries Go All the Way 555 8
51 Elvis Presley Suspicious Minds 553 12
52 Todd Rundgren I Saw the Light 545 7
53 Supremes You Keep Me Hangin' On 539 9
54 Derek & the Dominoes Layla 514 7
55 Easybeats Friday on My Mind 505 8
56 Cream Sunshine of Your Love / Swlabr 499 7
57 Stealer's Wheel Stuck in the Middle With You 477 9
58 T Rex Bang a Gong (Get It On) 475 10
59 David Bowie Rebel Rebel / Lady Grinning Soul 466 10
60 Mott the Hoople All the Young Dudes 464 7
61 ABBA Waterloo 464 8
62 Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side / Perfect Day 462 8
63 Turtles Happy Together 460 8
64 Led Zeppelin Over the Hills and Far Away / Dancing Days 457 7
65 Who I Can't Explain 455 7
66 Al Green Tired of Being Alone 452 9
67 Roxy Music Virginia Plain 450 7
68 Otis Redding Try a Little Tenderness 447 8
69 Sly & the Family Stone Stand / I Want to Take You Higher 442 7
70 Beatles Come Together / Something 440 9
71 Sly & the Family Stone Thank U Falettin' Me Be Mice Elf Again / Everybody is a Star 439 7
72 Kinks Sunny Afternoon / I'm Not Like Everybody Else 436 8
73 David Bowie Changes / Andy Warhol 434 8
74 Gladys Knight & the Pips Midnight Train to Georgia 433 7
75 Sly & the Family Stone Family Affair 433 8
76 Band Up on Cripple Creek / The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 430 9
77 Spinners I'll Be Around / How Could I Let You Get Away 429 7
78 John Lennon Instant Karma (We All Shine On) 429 10
79 Rolling Stones Jumpin' Jack Flash 425 5
80 Simon & Garfunkel Mrs. Robinson 424 6
81 David Bowie Starman / Suffragette City 416 7
82 Harry Nilsson Everybody's Talkin' 416 7
83 Jackson Five ABC 415 8
84 James Brown The Payback 413 7
85 Beatles Ticket to Ride / Yes It Is 411 6
86 Thunderclap Newman Something in the Air 401 7
87 Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze 398 7
88 Sparks This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us 396 6
89 Carpenters Superstar / Bless the Beasts and Children 394 8
90 Jackie Wilson (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher 388 6
91 Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) 386 8
92 Association Never My Love 380 6
93 Led Zeppelin Immigrant Song / Hey Hey What Can I Do 377 6
94 Monkees Pleasant Valley Sunday / Words 377 6
95 David Bowie Life on Mars? / The Man Who Sold the World 376 6
96 Delfonics (Didn't I) Blow Your Mind This Time 374 6
97 Spinners Could it Be I'm Falling in Love 373 5
98 Yardbirds Heart Full of Soul 367 6
99 Impressions People Get Ready 366 6
100 Stevie Wonder Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing / Blame it on the Sun 363 5
101 Steely Dan Rikki Don't Lose That Number 363 8
102 Big Star September Girls / Mod Lang 361 9
103 Sam and Dave Hold On, I’m Coming 359 7
104 T Rex The Jeepster / Life's a Gas 356 6
105 Love 7 and 7 Is 354 6
106 Todd Rundgren Hello It's Me 353 6
107 Creedence Clearwater Revival Proud Mary 347 5
108 Supremes Stop in the Name of Love 347 6
109 Kool & the Gang Jungle Boogie 345 6
110 Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 343 4
111 Sonics The Witch / Psycho 343 5
112 Beatles Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby 341 6
113 Rod Stewart Maggie Mae / Reason to Believe 341 7
114 Marvin Gaye I Heard it Through the Grapevine 340 5
115 Hollies Bus Stop 337 5
116 James Brown Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine 337 7
117 Who Won't Get Fooled Again 336 5
118 Desmond Dekker Israelites 336 7
119 Sly & the Family Stone Hot Fun in the Summertime 333 5
120 Rolling Stones Happy / All Down the Line 333 6
121 Temptations Ain't Too Proud to Beg 333 6
122 Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love / Livin' Lovin' Maid (She's Just a Woman) 332 6
123 Bobby Womack Across 110th Street 327 6
124 Buffalo Springfield For What It's Worth 326 6
125 Creedence Clearwater Revival Bad Moon Rising / Lodi 318 5
126 Stevie Wonder Uptigt (Everything's All Right) 316 6
127 Four Tops Bernadette 313 5
128 Carole King It's Too Late / I Feel the Earth Move 313 7
129 Beatles Help / I'm Down 311 5
130 Temptations Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) 307 6
131 Toots & the Maytalls Pressure Drop 307 8
132 Marvin Gaye Let's Get it On 305 6
133 Stooges I Wanna Be Your Dog / 1969 305 7
134 Rolling Stones Street Fighting Man / No Expectations 304 7
135 Cream Badge 302 4
136 Kinks Tired of Waiting for You / Come on Now 302 5
137 Raspberries Overnight Sensation (Hit Record) 300 4
138 Left Banke Pretty Ballerina 298 4
139 Black Sabbath Paranoid 297 7
140 Bobby Fuller Four I Fought the Law 296 8
141 Sly & the Family Stone If You Want Me to Stay 293 5
142 Lovin' Spoonful Summer in the City 293 7
143 Byrds All I Really Want to Do / I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better 292 6
144 Hall & Oates She's Gone / I'm Just a Kid (Don't Make Me Feel Like a Man) 292 6
145 Staple Singers I'll Take You There 292 7
146 Jimmy Ruffin What Becomes of the Brokenhearted? 290 4
147 Elton John Your Song 290 5
148 Simon & Garfunkel The Boxer / Baby Driver 290 5
149 Who Substitute / Circles 286 5
150 Martha and the Vandellas Nowhere to Run 283 6
151 Carly Simon You're So Vain 283 7
152 Percy Sledge When a Man Loves a Woman 283 7
153 Frank Wilson Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) 282 4
154 Rolling Stones 19th Nervous Breakdown / As Tears Go By 282 4
155 George Harrison My Sweet Lord / Isn't It a Pity 282 6
156 Yes Roundabout 281 5
157 Electric Prunes I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night 280 6
158 Wilson Pickett Midnight Hour 280 6
159 Stevie Wonder Livin' for the City / Visions 277 4
160 Nancy Sinatra These Boots Were Made for Walkin' 276 5
161 Rolling Stones Wild Horses 273 4
162 Kinks Lola 272 6
163 Monkees I'm a Believer 272 7
164 O'Jays Love Train 271 7
165 Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come 270 6
166 Mamas and the Papas California Dreamin' 270 7
167 Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man 269 5
168 Jefferson Airplane Somebody to Love 269 5
169 Animals We Gotta Get Out of This Place / I'm Cryin' 268 5
170 Standells Dirty Water 268 5
171 Monkees Daydream Believer 268 6
172 James Brown Papa's Got a Brand New Bag 267 4
173 Sparks Amateur Hour 265 3
174 Outsiders Time Won't Let Me 264 5
175 Beau Brummels Just a Little 258 4
176 Chi-Lites Oh Girl 257 4
177 Pink Floyd See Emily Play / The Scarecrow 254 3
178 Rolling Stones She's a Rainbow / 2000 Light Years from Home 253 4
179 Kenny Rodgers & the First Edition Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) 252 3
180 Kinks Victoria 252 4
181 Troggs Wild Thing / With a Girl Like You 252 5
182 Chambers Brothers Time Has Come Today 246 5
183 Faces Stay With Me 246 5
184 Carole King So Far Away 245 4
185 Badfinger Baby Blue 244 4
186 Donovan Hurdy Gurdy Man 241 4
187 Stevie Wonder Higher Ground 241 5
188 Led Zeppelin Black Dog / Misty Mountain Hop 239 5
189 John Fred & His Playboy Band Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) 238 5
190 Joni Mitchell Free Man in Paris 236 4
191 Who Pictures of Lilly 235 3
192 Edison Lighthouse Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 235 5
193 Steely Dan My Old School 235 5
194 Jimi Hendrix The Wind Cries Mary 234 5
195 Doors Light My Fire 233 4
196 Box Tops The Letter 232 4
197 Donovan Sunshine Superman 229 4
198 Isaac Hayes Walk on By 225 3
199 Paul McCartney Jet / Let Me Roll It 225 4
200 Simon & Garfunkel The Sounds of Silence 225 6
201 Aretha Franklin Chain of Fools 224 3
202 Jimi Hendrix Foxy Lady / Hey Joe 224 5
203 Marvin Gaye Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) / Wholy Holy 223 3
204 Velvet Underground White Light / White Heat / Here She Comes Now 223 3
205 Sly & the Family Stone Dance to the Music / Life 221 4
206 Association Along Comes Mary 220 3
207 Harry Nilsson Without You 217 3
208 Sam and Dave Soul Man 217 4
209 Chairmen of the Board Give Me Just a Little More Time 216 4
210 Rolling Stones Brown Sugar / Bitch / Let it Rock 216 4
211 Hollies Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress 214 4
212 Frankie Valli Can't Take My Eyes Off of You 214 5
213 Beatles All You Need is Love / Baby You're a Rich Man 213 3
214 Golden Earring Radar Love 211 5
215 Paul McCartney Live and Let Die 210 5
216 William DeVaughn Be Thankful for What You Got 209 3
217 Ike & Tina Turner River Deep, Mountain High 207 3
218 Spencer Davis Group I'm a Man 207 3
219 Todd Rundgren Couldn't I Just Tell You 207 4
220 Beach Boys Heroes and Villians / You're Welcome 206 3
221 Charlie Rich Behind Closed Doors 206 3
222 Small Faces Itchychoo Park 205 3
223 Tommy James & the Shondells Crystal Blue Persuasion 205 4
224 Raspberries I Wanna Be With You 202 3
225 Doris Duke To the Other Woman (I'm the Other Woman) / I Don't Care Anymore 200 2
226 Shuggie Otis Strawberry Letter 23 200 3
227 Neil Young Cinnamon Girl / Sugar Mountain 200 4
228 O'Jays Back Stabbers 200 4
229 Beau Brummels Laugh, Laugh 199 4
230 Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi 199 4
231 Velvet Underground Sunday Morning / Femme Fatale 199 4
232 Van Morrison Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) 198 4
233 Marvin Gaye Ain't That Peculiar 197 3
234 George McCrae Rock Your Baby 196 4
235 Paul Simon Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard 196 5
236 Beach Boys Surf's Up / Don't Go Near the Water 194 3
237 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Ain't No Mountain High Enouogh 191 4
238 Ike & Tina Turner Proud Mary 190 3
239 Marvin Gaye Trouble Man / Don't Mess With Mr. T 190 3
240 Them Mystic Eyes 190 3
241 Beach Boys Caroline No 189 3
242 Monkees Last Train to Clarksville 189 4
243 Neil Young Heart of Gold 189 4
244 Focus Hocus Pocus 188 3
245 Crosby, Stills & Nash Suite: Judy Blue Eyes 188 4
246 Paul Revere & the Raiders Steppin' Out 187 2
247 Harry Nilsson Jump Into the Fire / The Moobeam Song 187 3
248 David Bowie The Jean Genie / Ziggy Stardust 186 2
249 Stone Poneys Different Drum 186 2
250 Classics IV Spooky 186 3
251 Edwin Starr War 186 4
252 Dave Edmunds I Hear You Knockin' 184 3
253 Tommy James & the Shondells I Think We're Alone Now 184 3
254 Bill Withers Ain't No Sunshine 184 4
255 Beach Boys Sloop John B. 183 3
256 Beatles Hello Goodbye / I Am the Walrus 181 3
257 Doors Love Me Two Times 181 3
258 Sweet Little Willy 181 3
259 Fleetwood Mac Albatross 181 5
260 Kinks Days / She's Got Everything 180 2
261 Shangri-Las Past, Present and Future 180 2
262 Big Star When My Baby's Beside Me / In the Street 180 3
263 Chi-Lites Have You Seen Her? 180 5
264 Turtles Elenore 179 3
265 Gordon Lightfoot If You Could Read My Mind 177 3
266 Sagittarius My World Fell Down 176 3
267 Small Faces Tin Soldier / I Feel Much Better 176 4
268 Nazz Open My Eyes / Hello It's Me 175 4
269 T Rex Metal Guru 175 4
270 Al Green Here I Am (Come and Take Me) 174 3
271 Johnny Nash I Can See Clearly Now 174 4
272 Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky 174 5
273 Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) 173 3
274 Petula Clark Don’t Sleep in the Subway 173 3
275 Creedence Clearwater Revival Travelin' Band / Who'll Stop the Rain 173 5
276 Temptations My Girl 172 5
277 Peter & Gordon I Go to Pieces 171 3
278 Led Zeppelin Communication Breakdown / Good Times, Bad Times 171 4
279 Van Morrison Brown-Eyed Girl 170 4
280 Foundations Build Me Up Buttercup 168 4
281 Leonard Cohen Suzanne / So Long, Marianne 168 4
282 Van Morrison Wild Night 168 4
283 Foster Sylvers Misdemeanor 167 2
284 Neil Young Old Man / The Needle and the Damage Done 167 4
285 Unit 4 + 2 Concrete and Clay 166 3
286 Byrds It Won't Be Wrong 165 2
287 Olivia Newton-John Have You Never Been Mellow? 165 2
288 Swamp Dogg Sam Stone 165 2
289 Dionne Warwick I Say a Little Prayer 164 3
290 Ann Peebles I Can't Stand the Rain 164 4
291 Lovin' Spoonful Daydream 162 2
292 MFSB Love is the Message / TSOP (The Sound of Phildelphia) 162 3
293 Isley Brothers That Lady 162 4
294 Roy Head Treat Her Right 161 2
295 Serge Gainsborug Bonnie and Clyde 161 2
296 Beatles Yesterday 160 2
297 Yardbirds I'm Not Talking 160 3
298 Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention Peaches en Regalia 159 2
299 Aretha Franklin Rock Steady 158 2
300 Junior Walker & the All-Stars Shotgun 158 2
301 Young Rascals A Girl Like You 158 2
302 Alice Cooper Under My Wheels 157 2
303 Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense and Peppermints 157 4
304 Beach Boys Darlin' 156 2
305 Young Rascals How Can I Be Sure? 156 2
306 Johnny Cash Sunday Morning Come Down 155 2
307 David Bowie Space Oddity / Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud 155 3
308 Zombies I Want You Back Again / I Remember When I Loved Her 154 2
309 James Taylor Fire and Rain 154 3
310 James Brown Call Me Super Bad 153 2
311 Don MacLean American Pie 153 3
312 Paul Simon Kodachrome 153 3
313 John Lennon Imagine 152 3
314 Kinks A Well Respected Man / Nothing in This World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl 152 4
315 Simon & Garfunkel Cecilia / The Only Living Boy in New York 152 5
316 Kinks Til the End of the Day / Where Have All the Good Times Gone 151 4
317 Fontella Bass Rescue Me 149 2
318 Creation Makin' Time 149 3
319 Bee Gees To Love Somebody 148 2
320 Arthur Conley Sweet Soul Music 147 2
321 Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs Little Red Riding Hood 147 2
322 Bob Dylan Lay Lady Lay 146 2
323 Moby Grape Omaha 146 2
324 Beach Boys Long Promised Road / 'Til I Die 145 3
325 Who The Kids are All Right / The Ox 145 4
326 Lee Michaels Do You Know What I Mean 144 3
327 Rolling Stones We Love You / Dandelion 144 3
328 Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water / Keep the Customer Satisfied 144 3
329 Raspberries Let's Pretend 143 2
330 Alice Cooper School's Out 142 3
331 Joni Mitchell Help Me 142 3
332 Queen Killer Queen 142 5
333 Can Spoon 141 2
334 Royalettes It's Gonna Take a Miracle 141 2
335 Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra Some Velvet Morning 141 3
336 Scott Walker The Seventh Seal / The Old Man's Back Again 140 2
337 Yardbirds Shapes of Things 140 2
338 Elvis Presley In the Ghetto 140 3
339 Sonny and Cher I Got You Babe 140 4
340 Velvet Underground What Goes On / Jesus 140 4
341 Gilberto Gil Aquele Abraco 139 2
342 Al Wilson Show and Tell 138 2
343 Moody Blues Nights in White Satin 138 3
344 Neil Diamond Cracklin' Rosie 138 3
345 Steely Dan Reeling in the Years 138 3
346 Stooges Down on the Street / 1970 137 2
347 Left Banke She May Call You Up Tonight 136 2
348 Wilson Pickett Land of 1000 Dances 136 3
349 Fugs Frenzy 135 2
350 Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit 135 3
351 Bob Dylan I Want You / Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Live) 134 2
352 Swingin' Medallions Double Shot (of My Baby's Love) 134 2
353 Mott the Hoople All the Way from Memphis 134 3
354 Curtis Mayfield Superfly 134 4
355 Monkees Porpoise Song 133 2
356 Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River 133 3
357 Creedence Clearwater Revival Have You Ever Seen the Rain? / Hey Tonight 133 3
358 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles Ooh Baby Baby 132 2
359 Persuaders Thin Line Between Love and Hate 132 3
360 Crazy World of Arthur Brown Fire 132 4
361 James Brown Cold Sweat 132 4
362 Chuck Wood Seven Days Too Long 131 2
363 Looking Glass Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) 131 2
364 Jackson Five Never Can Say Goodbye 131 3
365 Roberta Flack & Donnie Hathaway Where is the Love? 131 3
366 Foundations Baby, Now That I Found You 130 2
367 Rolling Stones Get Off of My Cloud 130 2
368 George Harrison What is Life? 130 3
369 King Harvest Dancing in the Moonlight 129 3
370 Association Cherish 128 2
371 Loretta Lynn Coal Miner's Daughter 128 2
372 Turtles She's My Girl 128 2
373 Yardbirds I'm a Man 128 2
374 Young Rascals I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart No More 128 2
375 Serge Gainsborug Ballade de Melody Nelson 127 2
376 Simon & Garfunkel America 126 2
377 Creedence Clearwater Revival Lookin' Out My Back Door 126 3
378 New York Dolls Trash / Personality Crisis 126 4
379 Al Green Love and Happiness 125 2
380 Eddie Floyd Knock on Wood 125 3
381 Cat Stevens Peace Train 124 2
382 Los Bravos Black is Black 124 3
383 Bob Marley & the Wailers Get Up, Stand Up / Slave Driver 123 2
384 Supremes Reflections 122 2
385 Flirtations Nothing But a Heartache 121 2
386 Paul Revere & the Raiders Kicks 121 4
387 Dolly Parton Coat of Many Colors 120 1
388 Guess Who No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Natrue 120 1
389 Chocolate Watch Band Let's Talk About Girls 120 2
390 Curtis Mayfield Freddie's Dead / The Underground 120 2
391 13th Floor Elevators You're Gonna Miss Me 120 3
392 Curtis Mayfield (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go 119 2
393 Stevie Wonder I Was Made to Love Her 119 2
394 Knickerbockers Lies 119 3
395 Led Zeppelin Rock & Roll 119 3
396 Skatalites The Guns of the Navarone 119 3
397 Seeds Pushin' Too Hard 118 2
398 Walker Brothers The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore 118 3
399 T Rex 20th Century Boy 116 3
400 Sir Douglas Quintet She's About a Mover 115 2
401 Stevie Wonder You Haven't Done Nothin' 115 2
402 Human Beinz Nobody But Me 115 3
403 Yes I've Seen All Good People 113 2
404 Allman Brothers Ramblin' Man 112 2
405 James Brown I Got the Feelin' 112 2
406 Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody 112 2
407 Beatles The Ballad of John and Yoko 111 2
408 Doobie Brothers Black Water 110 2
409 Lovin' Spoonful Do You Believe in Magic? 110 2
410 Boz Scaggs We Were Always Sweethearts 109 2
411 Canned Heat Going Up the Country 109 2
412 Dolly Parton I Will Always Love You 109 2
413 Gilbert O'Sullivan Alone Again (Naturally) 109 2
414 Creedence Clearwater Revival Up Around the Bend / Run Through the Jungle 109 3
415 Paul McCartney Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey / Too Many People 108 2
416 Archies Sugar, Sugar 107 2
417 Four Tops I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) 107 2
418 Rolling Stones As Tears Go By / Gotta Get Away 107 2
419 Janis Joplin Me and Bobby McGee 106 2
420 Lou Reed Satellite of Love / Walk it and Talk It 106 2
421 Stevie Wonder Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours 106 2
422 Aretha Franklin Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby) / Ain't No Way 105 1
423 Nancy Sinatra You Only Live Twice 105 1
424 John Lennon Mother 105 2
425 New Colony Six Love You So Much 105 2
426 Elton John Bennie and the Jets 104 2
427 Soul Survivors Expressway to Your Heart 104 2
428 Billy Swan I Can Help 104 3
429 Fleetwood Mac The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown) 103 2
430 Ohio Express Yummy, Yummy, Yummy 103 2
431 Wilson Pickett 99 and a Half Won't Do 103 2
432 Doors Touch Me 103 3
433 Animals Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 102 2
434 David Bowie Jean Genie 102 2
435 Grass Roots Midnight Confessions 101 2
436 T Rex Telegram Sam 101 2
437 Barbarians Moulty 100 1
438 Mountain Mississippi Queen 100 1
439 Paul Simon American Tune 100 1
440 Shadows of Knight Gloria 100 1
441 Silver Apples Oscillations / Misty Mountain 100 1
442 Aretha Franklin I Say a Little Prayer 100 2
443 Litter Action Woman 100 2
444 James Brown It's a Man's Man's Man's Man's World 99 2
445 Electric Light Orchestra Can't Get it Out of My Head 99 4
446 Allman Brothers Melissa 98 2
447 Every Mother's Son Come on Down to My Boat 98 2
448 Glen Campbell By the Time I Get to Phoenix 98 3
449 John Lennon Whatever Gets You Thru the Night 98 3
450 Amboy Dukes Journey to the Center of the Mind 97 1
451 Black Ivory Wishful Thinking 97 1
452 Gladys Knight & the Pips If I Was Your Woman 97 1
453 Jim Croce Bad Bad Leroy Brown 97 1
454 Millenium To Claudia on Thursday / There is Nothing More to Say 97 1
455 Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird 97 2
456 Marvin Gaye Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) 97 3
457 Byrds So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star? 96 1
458 Emerson Lake & Palmer Lucky Man 96 1
459 Paul Revere & the Raiders Let Me 96 1
460 Herb Alpert This Guy's in Love With You 96 2
461 Marvelettes The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game 96 2
462 Crosby, Stills & Nash Ohio 96 3
463 Bob Dylan It Ain't Me Babe 95 1
464 Brenton Wood Gimme Little Sign 95 1
465 Sir Douglas Quintet Mendocino 95 1
466 Al Green I'm Still in Love With You 95 2
467 Isaac Hayes Theme from "Shaft" 95 3
468 Steppenwolf Magic Carpet Ride 95 3
469 Fleetwood Mac Oh Well (Parts 1 & 2) 95 4
470 Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes If You Don't Know Me By Now 95 4
471 Bob Dylan Knockin' on Heaven's Door 94 1
472 Contours Just a Little Misunderstanding 94 1
473 Lynsey de Paul Ooh I Do 94 2
474 Shocking Blue Venus 94 2
475 Stylistics People Make the World Go Round 94 2
476 Yardbirds You're a Better Man Than I 94 2
477 Bobbie Gentry Ode to Billie Joe 93 1
478 Pink Floyd Arnold Layne / Candy & a Currant Bun 93 1
479 Tremoloes Here Comes My Baby 93 1
480 MC5 Kick Out the Jams 93 2
481 Harry Chapin Cat's in the Cradle 93 3
482 Four Tops Standing in the Shadows of Love 92 1
483 Lee "Scratch" Perry & the Upsetters Bucky Skank 92 1
484 Pink Floyd Point Me at the Sky / Careful With That Axe Eugene 92 1
485 Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs How Do You Catch a Girl / The Love You Left Behind 92 1
486 Three Degrees When Will I See You Again? 92 1
487 Meters Cissy Strut 92 2
488 Toots & the Maytalls 54 - 46 (Was My Number) 92 2
489 Stevie Wonder You are the Sunshine of My Life 91 1
490 O'Jays For the Love of Money 91 3
491 Bill Withers Use Me 90 1
492 Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention How Could I Be Such a Fool? / It Can't Happen Here 90 1
493 Howard Tate Ain't Nobody Home 90 1
494 Kinks Celluloid Heroes 90 1
495 Patti Smith Piss Factory / Hey Joe 90 1
496 Paul Simon Duncan 90 1
497 Residents Fire / Lightning / Explosion / Aircraft Damage 90 1
498 Van Morrison Come Running / Crazy Love 90 1
499 Who Behind Blue Eyes 90 1
500 Moody Blues Go Now 90 2
501 Rod Stewart You Wear it Well 90 2
502 Small Faces All or Nothing / Understanding 90 2
503 Tommy James & the Shondells Hanky Panky 90 2
504 Zombies Care of Cell 44 / Maybe After He's Gone 90 2
505 Bill Brandon Rainbow Road 89 1
506 Bob Dylan I Threw it All Away 89 1
507 Bob Marley & the Wailers Small Axe 89 1
508 James Carr The Dark End of the Street 89 1
509 Beach Boys California Girls 89 2
510 Beatles Let it Be / You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) 89 2
511 Cream Crossroads 88 1
512 Jerry Lee Lewis She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye 88 1
513 Shangri-Las Out in the Streets 88 1
514 Cream I Feel Free / N.S.U. 88 2
515 Koko Taylor Wang Dang Doodle 88 2
516 Animals Don't Bring Me Down 87 1
517 Bob Seger System Ramblin' Gamblin' Man 87 1
518 Elton John Candle in the Wind 87 1
519 Four Tops The Same Old Song 87 1
520 Funkadelic Cosmic Slp 87 1
521 Love Stephanie Knows Who / Orange Skies 87 1
522 Moody Blues Ride My See-Saw 87 1
523 Animals It's My Life 87 2
524 Jimi Hendrix Crosstown Traffic 87 2
525 Beatles Get Back / Don't Let Me Down 87 3
526 Sweet Ballroom Blitz 87 4
527 Choir It's Cold Outside 86 1
528 Kinks Shangri-La 86 1
529 Slim Harpo Baby Scratch My Back 86 1
530 Young-Holt Unlimited Soulful Strut 86 1
531 Bob Marley & the Wailers No Woman, No Cry 86 2
532 Doors Hello I Love You 85 1
533 Grass Roots Temptation Eyes 85 1
534 Grateful Dead Uncle John's Band 85 1
535 Lynsey de Paul Getting a Drag 85 1
536 Paul Revere & the Raiders Mr. Sun Mr. Moon 85 1
537 Simon & Garfunkel I Am a Rock 85 1
538 Small Faces Here Comes the Nice 85 1
539 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles More Love 85 1
540 Grass Roots Let's Live for Today 85 2
541 Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes The Love I Lost (Part One) 85 2
542 Cuby & the Blizzards Your Body Not Your Soul 84 1
543 Jimmy Cliff You Can Get it If You Really Want 84 1
544 Junior Wells Up in Yeah 84 1
545 Kinks Big Black Smoke 84 1
546 Monkees Daily Nightly 84 1
547 Percy Sledge It Tears Me Up 84 1
548 Barbara Streisand Stoney End 84 2
549 Herbie Hancock Chameleon 84 2
550 Vogues Five O'Clock World 84 2
551 Wilson Pickett Mustang Sally 84 2
552 Byrds Turn Turn Turn (To Everything There is a Season) 83 1
553 Conway Twitty You've Never Been This Far Before 83 1
554 Dusty Springfield Goin' Back 83 1
555 Herman's Hermits There's a Kind of Hush 83 1
556 Led Zeppelin D'Yer Maker 83 1
557 Lou Christie Rhapsody in the Rain 83 1
558 Mamas and the Papas 12:30 83 1
559 Residents Santa Dog 83 1
560 Four Seasons Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me) 83 2
561 Merry Go Round Live 83 2
562 Stories Brother Louie 83 2
563 Carl Douglas Kung Fu Fighting 83 3
564 Animals Sky Pilot 82 1
565 Four Tops Ain't No Woman (Like the One I Got) 82 1
566 Joe Cocker With a Little Help from My Friends 82 1
567 Kraftwerk Autobahn 82 1
568 Move Do Ya 82 1
569 Bruce Springsteen 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) 82 2
570 Pink Floyd Money 82 2
571 Jimmy Cliff Vietnam 81 1
572 American Breed Bend Me, Shape Me 81 2
573 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles I Second That Emotion 81 4
574 Otis Redding That's How Strong My Love Is 80 1
575 Chicago 25 or 6 to 4 80 2
576 Merle Haggard Mama Tried 80 2
577 Mungo Jerry In the Summertime 80 2
578 Otis Redding I've Been Loving You Too Long 80 3
579 Booker T. and the MGs Hang 'em High 79 1
580 Cowsills The Rain, the Park and Other Thigns 79 1
581 Janis Joplin Piece of My Heart 79 1
582 Love Affair Everlasting Love 79 1
583 Monkees Valleri / Tapioca Tundra 79 1
584 Roxy Music The Thrill of it All 79 1
585 Turtles You Showed Me 79 1
586 Elton John Daniel 79 2
587 Beach Boys I Can Hear Music 78 1
588 Bobbie Gentry Fancy 78 1
589 Music Explosion A Little Bit of Soul 78 1
590 Syndicate of Sound Little Girl 78 1
591 Yardbirds Happenings Ten Years Ago 78 1
592 Jean Knight Mr. Big Stuff 78 2
593 Temptations Get Ready 78 2
594 Buckinghams Kind of a Drag 77 1
595 Detroit Emeralds Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms) 77 1
596 Ides of March Vehicle 77 1
597 Partridge Family I Think I Love You 77 1
598 Darrell Banks Open the Doors to Your Heart 77 2
599 Delfonics La-La (Means I Love You) 77 2
600 James Brown I Got You (I Feel Good) 77 2
601 Tammy Wynette Stand By Your Man 77 2
602 Yardbirds For Your Love 77 2
603 Cher Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves 77 3
604 Diana Ross Ain't No Mountain High Enough 76 1
605 Dobie Gray Drift Away 76 1
606 Donovan Wear Your Love Like Heaven 76 1
607 Jackson C. Frank Blues Run the Game 76 1
608 Shadows of Knight Someone Like Me 76 1
609 Elton John Tiny Dancer 76 3
610 Paul McCartney Band on the Run 76 3
611 Beginning of the End Funky Nassau 75 1
612 Buffalo Springfield Rock and Roll Woman 75 1
613 Dr John Such a Night 75 1
614 Kinks Autumn Almanac 75 1
615 Monkees Randy Scouse Git 75 1
616 James Gang Walk Away 75 2
617 Otis Redding Respect / Ole Man Trouble 75 2
618 Rolling Stones Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows? 75 2
619 Alice Cooper I'm Eighteen 74 1
620 Hollies Jennifer Eccles 74 1
621 Joe Tex The Love You Save May Be Your Own 74 1
622 Monks Love Can Tame the Wild 74 1
623 Stevie Wonder He's Misstra Know-it-All 74 1
624 Roberta Flack The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 74 3
625 Beatles Eight Days a Week / I Don't Want to Spoil the Party 73 1
626 Clarence Carter Slip Away 73 1
627 Elvis Presley Kentucky Dream 73 1
628 Osmonds One Bad Apple 73 1
629 Procol Harum Conquistador 73 1
630 Todd Rundgren We Gotta Get You a Woman 73 1
631 Tommy James & the Shondells Mony Mony 73 1
632 Tyrone Davis Can I Change My Mind 73 1
633 Bonzo Dog Band Urban Spaceman 72 1
634 Chuck Berry My Ding-a-Ling 72 1
635 Herman's Hermits Listen People 72 1
636 Johnny Cash Man in Black 72 1
637 Rolling Stones Under My Thumb 72 1
638 Sandy Denny Who Knows Where the Time Goes 72 1
639 Trade Winds New York's a Lonely Town 72 2
640 Johnny Cash Big River 71 1
641 Remains Don't Look Back 71 1
642 Small Faces Afterglow (of Your Love) 71 1
643 John Lennon Cold Turkey 71 2
644 Stevie Wonder My Cherie Amour 71 2
645 Who Pinball Wizard 71 2
646 Beach Boys Sail on, Sailor 70 1
647 Dramatics Whatcha See is Whatcha Get 70 1
648 Paul Revere & the Raiders Just Like Me 70 1
649 Spiral Starecase More Today Than Yesterday 70 1
650 Aretha Franklin Think 70 2
651 Badfinger Come and Get It 70 2
652 Bobby Womack Woman's Gotta Have It 69 1
653 Cannibal & the Headhunters Land of 1000 Dances 69 1
654 Elton John Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me 69 1
655 Hot Butter Popcorn 69 1
656 Lou Reed Vicious / Goodnight Ladies 69 1
657 Nite-Liters K-Jee 69 1
658 Neil Diamond Cherry Cherry 69 2
659 Aaron Neville Tell it Like It Is 69 3
660 Dave & Ansell Collins Double Barrell 69 3
661 Elvis Presley Promised Land 68 1
662 Johnny Cash 25 Minutes to Go 68 1
663 Napoleon XIV They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Ha 68 1
664 Wilson Pickett 634-5789 (Soulsville USA) 68 1
665 Arlo Guthrie City of New Orleans 68 2
666 Al Green You Ought to Be With Me 67 1
667 Aretha Franklin (You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman 67 1
668 Donna Lynn I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls 67 1
669 Hot Legs Neanderthal Man 67 1
670 Supremes You Can't Hurry Love 67 1
671 Sutherland Brothers & Quiver (I Don't Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway 67 1
672 Terry Jacks Seasons in the Sun 67 1
673 Tommy James Draggin' the Line 67 1
674 Bruce Springsteen Spirit in the Night 66 1
675 D. Logan Forster Mystery Ship 66 1
676 Vicki Lawrence The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia 66 1
677 Edwin Hawkin Singers Oh Happy Day 66 2
678 Kinks Dedicated Follower of Fashion 66 2
679 Procol Harum A Whiter Shade of Pale 66 2
680 Bob Seger & the Last Heard Heavy Music 65 1
681 Cat Stevens Moonshadow 65 1
682 Donovan Mellow Yellow 65 1
683 Gentrys Keep on Dancin' 65 1
684 Ken Boothe Crying Over You 65 1
685 Sam and Dave When Something is Wrong With My Baby 65 1
686 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage 65 1
687 Show Stoppers Ain't Nothin' But a House Party / What Can a Man Do 65 2
688 Traffic Paper Sun 65 2
689 Al Green Call Me (Come Back Home) 64 1
690 Animals Bring it On Home to Me 64 1
691 Beach Boys Add Some Music to Your Day 64 1
692 Bob Kukan & the In-Men The Cheater 64 1
693 Five Americans I See the Light 64 1
694 Ray Stevens The Streak 64 1
695 1910 Fruitgum Co. Indian Giver 63 1
696 Byrds Goin' Back 63 1
697 Linda Ronstadt You're No Good 63 1
698 Paul Kelly The Day After Forever 63 1
699 Who Summertime Blues (Live) 63 1
700 America Ventura Highway 63 2
701 Gary Lewis & the Playboys Everybody Loves a Clown 63 2
702 R. Dean Taylor There's a Ghost in My House 63 2
703 Temptations I Can't Get Next to You 63 2
704 Doors Strange Days 62 1
705 Lynsey de Paul Sugar Me 62 1
706 Silver Apples You & I / I Have Known Love 62 1
707 Statler Brothers Flowers on the Wall 62 1
708 T Rex Children of the Revolution 62 1
709 Upsetters Return of Django 62 1
710 Simon & Garfunkel Homeward Bound 62 2
711 Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band Express Yourself 62 4
712 Blues Magoos We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet 61 1
713 Chakachas Jungle Fever 61 1
714 Jackie DeShannon I Remember the Boy 61 1
715 Jackson Five Doctor My Eyes 61 1
716 Status Quo Pictures of Matchstick Men 61 1
717 Neil Diamond Sweet Caroline 61 2
718 Bobby Womack Lookin' for a Love 60 1
719 Boyce and Hart I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight 60 1
720 Buoys Timothy 60 1
721 Cream Spoonful (Parts 1 & 2) 60 1
722 Friends of Distinction Going in Circles 60 1
723 Funkadelic Can You Get to That 60 1
724 Paul Butterfield Blues Band Come On In 60 1
725 Byrds My Back Pages 60 2
726 Tyrone Davis Turn Back the Hands of Time 60 2
727 B.B. King The Thrill is Gone 59 1
728 Hollies Look Through Any Window 59 1
729 Partridge Family I Woke Up in Love This Morning 59 1
730 Paul Revere & the Raiders Hungry 59 1
731 Hollies I Can't Let Go 58 1
732 Creedence Clearwater Revival Sweet Hitchhiker 58 2
733 Yardbirds Over Under Sideways Down / Jeff's Boogie 58 2
734 Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama 58 3
735 Music Machine Talk Talk 58 3
736 Tony Joe White Polk Sand Annie 58 3
737 Al Wilson The Snake 57 1
738 Crabby Appleton Go Back 57 1
739 James Brown Mother Popcorn 57 1
740 Kinks Apeman 57 1
741 Melanie Brand New Key 57 1
742 Neu Super / Neuschnee 57 1
743 Paul Simon Mother and Child Reunion 57 1
744 Percy Sledge Spooky 57 1
745 People I Love You 57 1
746 Righteous Brothers Just Once in My Life 57 1
747 Van Morrison Into the Mystic 57 1
748 Bob Marley & the Wailers Stir It Up 56 1
749 Jaggerz The Rapper 56 1
750 Joe Cocker Delta Lady 56 1
751 Grateful Dead Truckin' / Ripple 55 1
752 Simon & Garfunkel At the Zoo / The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy) 55 1
753 Supremes Nathan Jones 55 1
754 Doobie Brothers Long Train Running 55 2
755 Jackson Five The Love You Save 55 2
756 Al Green Look What You Done for Me 54 1
757 Bobby Fuller Four Let Her Dance 54 1
758 Dr John Right Place Wrong Time 54 1
759 Dusty Springfield Magic Woman 54 1
760 Guess Who Shakin' All Over 54 1
761 Isley Brothers It's Your Thing 54 1
762 Leonard Cohen Joan of Arc / Diamonds 54 1
763 Tom Jones What's New Pussycat 54 1
764 Aretha Franklin The House That Jack Built 53 1
765 Creedence Clearwater Revival I Heard it Through the Grapevine 53 1
766 Johnny Rivers Secret Agent Man 53 1
767 Rolling Stones Mother's Little Helper 53 1
768 Zombies Gotta Get a Hold of Myself 53 1
769 Fortunes You've Got Your Troubles 52 1
770 Joe Tex Skinny Legs and All 52 1
771 Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly with His Song 52 1
772 Sparks Acho 52 1
773 Spinners & Dionne Warwick Then Came You 52 1
774 Who Magic Bus 52 1
775 Supertramp Dreamer 52 2
776 Bill Withers Kissing My Love 51 1
777 Johnny Cash Daddy Sang Bass 51 1
778 Small Faces Lazy Sunday 51 1
779 Alive and Kickin' Tighter and Tighter 51 2
780 Buddy Miles Them Changes 51 2
781 Janis Joplin Cry Baby 51 2
782 Band The Shape I'm In 50 1
783 Fairport Convention Percy's Song 50 1
784 Grand Funk Railroad We're an American Band 50 1
785 Monkees A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You / The Girl I Knew Somewhere 50 1
786 War All Day Music 50 1
787 William Bell I Forgot to Be Your Lover 50 1
788 Wilson Pickett Funky Broadway 50 1
789 Johnny Rivers Poor Side of Town 50 2
790 Velvet Underground Who Loves the Sun? / Oh Sweet Nuthin' 50 3
791 Michael Jackson Ben 49 1
792 Tom Jones It's Not Unusual 49 1
793 Charlie Daniels Uneasy Rider 48 1
794 Commodores Machine Gun 48 1
795 David Bowie Rock n Roll Suicide / Quicksand 48 1
796 Dobie Gray The "In" Crowd 48 1
797 Evie Sands Any Way That You Want It 48 1
798 Hugh Masekela Grazing in the Grass 48 1
799 Humble Pie 30 Days in the Hole 48 1
800 Linda Lyndell What a Man 48 1
801 Hollies The Air That I Breathe 48 2
802 Dusty Springfield The Look of Love 48 3
803 Doors Roadhouse Blues 47 1
804 First Class Beach Baby 47 1
805 Jerry Reed Amos Moses 47 1
806 Love Little Red Book 47 1
807 Procol Harum A Salty Dog 47 1
808 Steve Miller Band My Dark Hour / Songs for Our Ancestors 47 1
809 Bobby Womack That's the Way I Feel About Cha 47 2
810 Billy Preston Will it Go Round in Circles 46 1
811 Nazareth Love Hurts 46 1
812 Stevie Wonder I Don't Know Why 46 1
813 Velvet Underground All Tomorrow's Parties 46 1
814 Lou Christie Lightning Strikes 45 1
815 Outsiders Help Me Girl 45 1
816 Aretha Franklin Natural Woman 45 2
817 Deep Purple Smoke on the Water 45 2
818 Edward Bear Last Song 44 1
819 Four Tops 7 - Rooms of Gloom 44 1
820 Honey Cone One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (Part One) 44 1
821 Lynn Anderson Rose Garden 44 2
822 Paul McCartney Another Day 44 2
823 Elton John Rocket Man 43 1
824 Godspell Day By Day 43 1
825 Janis Ian At Seventeen 43 1
826 Santana Black Magic Woman 43 1
827 Joe Cocker Feelin' Alright 42 1
828 John Denver Annie's Song 42 1
829 John Lennon Jealous Guy 42 1
830 Lovin' Spoonful Darlin' Be Home Soon 42 1
831 Nico These Days 42 1
832 Nina Simone To Be Young, Gifted & Black 42 1
833 Young Rascals A Beautiful Mornin' 42 1
834 Charlie Rich The Most Beautiful Girl 41 1
835 Hollies Carrie-Ann 41 1
836 Jackie Mittoo & the Soul Vendors Ram Jam 41 1
837 Moby Grape 8:05 41 1
838 Stylistics You Make Me Feel Brand New 41 1
839 Velvet Underground I'm Waiting for the Man / There She Goes Agin 41 1
840 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing 41 2
841 Bubble Puppy Hot Smoke & Sassafrass 40 1
842 Pretty Things Defecting Grey 40 1
843 T Rex Hot Love 40 1
844 Ringo Starr Photograph 40 2
845 Donovan Catch the Wind 39 1
846 Dyke & the Blazers We Got More Soul 39 1
847 Rockin' Berries The Water is Over My Head 39 1
848 Simon & Garfunkel Hazy Shade of Winter 39 1
849 Bar-Kays Soul Finger 39 2
850 Roger Miller King of the Road 39 3
851 Buckinghams Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song) 38 1
852 Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention Trouble Every Day / Who are the Brain Police? 38 1
853 Hollies Stop Stop Stop 38 1
854 James Carr You Got My Mind Messed Up 38 1
855 Rolling Stones Angie 38 2
856 Electric Prunes Get Me To the World on Time 37 1
857 Joe Cuba El Pito (I'll Never Go Back to Georgia) 37 1
858 Marlena Shaw Woman of the Ghetto 37 1
859 Move Blackberry Way 37 1
860 Box Tops Cry Like a Baby 36 1
861 Move I Can Hear the Grass Grow 36 1
862 Sugarloaf Green-Eyed Lady 36 1
863 Supremes I Hear a Symphony 36 1
864 Cliff Nobles & Co. The Horse 36 2
865 Supremes Love Child 36 2
866 Brenda Holloway You Can Cry on My Shoulder 35 1
867 Flamin' Groovies Slow Death 35 1
868 Glen Campbell Gentle on My Mind 35 1
869 Rolling Stones The Last Time / Playing With Fire 35 1
870 Hugh Montonegro The Good, The Bad & the Ugly 34 1
871 J. Geils Band Give it to Me 34 1
872 Sly & the Family Stone Runnin' Away 34 1
873 Solomon Burke Got to Get You Off My Mind 34 1
874 Winstons Color Him Father 34 1
875 Association No Fair At All 33 1
876 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends w/ Eric Clapton Comin' Home 33 1
877 Fleetwood Mac Man of the World 33 1
878 J.J. Jackson But It's Alright 33 1
879 Lynn Williams Don't Be Surprised 33 1
880 Temptations Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today) 33 1
881 Young Rascals I've Been Lonely Too Long 33 1
882 Joni Mitchell California 33 2
883 Edwin Starr 25 Miles 32 1
884 Isaac Hayes By the Time I Get to Phoenix 32 1
885 Sonny and Cher What Now My Love? 32 1
886 Traffic Glad 32 1
887 Gary Glitter Rock and Roll Part 2 32 2
888 Albert King Laundromat Blues 31 1
889 Betty Wright Clean-Up Woman 31 1
890 Donovan Atlantis 31 1
891 Mamas and the Papas Monday Monday 31 1
892 T Rex Ride a White Swan 31 1
893 Traffic The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys 31 1
894 Van McCoy The Hustle 31 1
895 Jackson Five I'll Be There 31 2
896 Blue Cheer Summertime Blues 30 1
897 First Choice Armed and Extremely Dangerous 30 1
898 King Floyd Groove Me 30 1
899 Lemon Pipers Green Tambourine 30 1
900 Max Frost & the Tropers The Shape of Things to Come 30 1
901 Troggs I Can't Control Myself 30 1
902 Turtles You Baby 30 1
903 Tower of Power So Very Hard to Go 30 2
904 Elton John Pinball Wizard 29 1
905 George Baker Selection Little Green Bag 29 1
906 Robert Plant Don't Look Back 29 1
907 Sam Hawkins Hold on Baby 29 1
908 Tremoloes Even the Bad Times are Good 29 1
909 Brook Benton Rainy Night in Georgia 29 2
910 Bryan Ferry A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall 28 1
911 Dave Clark Five Try Too Hard 28 1
912 Jerry Reed Guitar Man 28 1
913 Joni Mitchell Chelsea Monday 28 1
914 Stevie Wonder For Once in My Life 28 1
915 United States of America The Garden of Earthly Delights / Love Song for the Dead Che 28 1
916 Alice Clark You Hit Me (Right Where It Hurt) 27 1
917 Bob Marley & the Wailers Trechtown Rock 27 1
918 Brooklyn Bridge Worst That Could Happen 27 1
919 Clefs of Lavender Hill Stop Get a Ticket 27 1
920 KISS Rock n Roll All Night 27 1
921 Otis Redding I've Got Dreams to Remember 27 1
922 Stylistics Betcha By Golly Wow 27 1
923 Temptations I Wish It Would Rain Down 27 1
924 Van Morrison Domino 27 2
925 Elton John Crocodile Rock 26 1
926 Guess Who Star Baby 26 1
927 Kinks Everybody's Gonna Be Happy 26 1
928 Mandrill Fencewalk 26 1
929 Four Tops Walk Away Renee 25 1
930 General Crook What Time It Is 25 1
931 Hollies Dear Eloise 25 1
932 McCoys Hang on Sloopy 25 1
933 Paul Simon Loves Me Like a Rock 25 1
934 Waylon Jennings This Time 25 1
935 Barry White You're the First, My Last, My Everything 24 1
936 Classics IV Traces 24 1
937 Crosby, Stills & Nash Teach Your Children 24 1
938 Faces Ooh La La 24 1
939 Gene Pitney Something's Got a Hold of My Heart 24 1
940 Grass Roots Sooner or Later 24 1
941 Hombres Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) 24 1
942 Kinks Starstruck / Picture Book 24 1
943 Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels Devil With a Blue Dress / Good Golly Miss Molly 24 1
944 Neil Young Only Love Can Break Your Heart 24 1
945 Rufus You Got the Love 24 1
946 Temptations Cloud Nine 24 1
947 Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair / Canticle 24 2
948 Beatles Nowhere Man 23 1
949 Blues Project No Time Like the Right Time 23 1
950 Charlie Rich Life's Little Ups and Downs 23 1
951 David Bowie Panic in Detroit 23 1
952 Doors Break on Through 23 1
953 Sandie Shaw (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me 23 1
954 Stylistics I'm Stone in Love With You 23 1
955 Badfinger Day After Day 22 1
956 Barbara Lewis Baby I'm Yours 22 1
957 Bill Deal & the Rhondels May I 22 1
958 Cymande The Message 22 1
959 Daddy Cool Eagle Rock 22 1
960 Guess Who Laughing / Undun 22 1
961 John Prine Hello in There 22 1
962 Raspe Tonight 22 1
963 Stevie Wonder Nothing's Too Good for My Baby 22 1
964 Who Anwyay, Anyhow, Anywhere 22 1
965 Cream Strange Brew / Tale of Brave Ulysses 21 1
966 Don Covay 40 Days - 40 Nights 21 1
967 Love Unlimited Orchestra Walking in the Rain With the One I Love 21 1
968 Maria Muldaur Midnight at the Oasis 21 1
969 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Your Precious Love 21 1
970 Rolling Stones It's Only Rock & Roll 21 1
971 Sam and Dave You Don't Know Like I Know 21 1
972 John Lennon #9 Dream 21 2
973 Slade Cum on Feel the Noize 21 2
974 BJ Thomas Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head 20 1
975 Desmond Dekker 007 (Shanty Town) 20 1
976 Detroit Emeralds Feel the Need in Me 20 1
977 Elvis Presley Burnin' Love 20 1
978 Fifth Dimension One Less Bell to Answer 20 1
979 Impressions Choice of Colors 20 1
980 Jeanie C. Riley Harper Valley PTA 20 1
981 Lorraine Harrison Stay With Me 20 1
982 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles Baby Baby Don't Cry 20 1
983 Sonny and Cher The Beat Goes On 20 1
984 Billy Paul Me and Mrs. Jones 20 2
985 Elton John Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting 20 2
986 Donovan Epistle to Dippy 19 1
987 Eddie Holman Hey There Lonely Girl 19 1
988 Lulu Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby) 19 1
989 Manfred Mann The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) 19 1
990 Merle Haggard Okie from Muskogee 19 1
991 Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges Cais 19 1
992 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles Goin' to a Go-Go 19 1
993 Bobbi Martin For the Love of Him 18 1
994 Eddie Floyd I Never Found a Girl 18 1
995 R.B. Greaves Take a Letter Maria 18 1
996 Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs Wooly Bully 18 1
997 Troggs Love is All Around 18 1
998 John Lennon Give Peace a Chance 18 2
999 Aretha Franklin Baby I Love You 17 1
1000 Buckinghams Susan 17 1
Eddie and Ernie The Sky is Crying / Standing at the Crossroads 17 1
Frank and Nancy Sinatra Somethin' Stupid 17 1
Lulu To Sir With Love 17 1
Neil Young When You Dance You Can Really Love 17 1
Pointer Sisters Yes We Can Can 17 1
Shorty Long Function at the Junction 17 1
Sparks Wonder Girl 17 1
Vanity Fare Hitchin' a Ride 17 1
Eddie Kendricks Keep on Truckin' 16 1
Jamo Thomas I Spy (For the FBI) 16 1
Spirit Nature's Way 16 1
Zakary Thaks Bad Girl 16 1
Cannonball Adderley Quartet Mercy, Mercy, Mercy 15 1
Classics IV Stormy 15 1
Eddie Floyd Big Bird 15 1
King Floyd Baby Let Me Kiss You 15 1
Erma Franklin Piece of My Heart 14 1
King Curtis Memphis Soul Stew 14 1
Mamas and the Papas Soul Finger 14 1
Slickers Johnny Too Bad 14 1
Rascals Good Lovin' 14 2
Clarence Carter Patches 13 1
Five Stairsteps World of Fantasy 13 1
John Lennon Power to the People 13 1
Jonathan King Everyone's Gone to the Moon 13 1
Nancy Sinatra So Long Babe 13 1
Neil Diamond Solitary Man 13 1
Sweet Blockbuster 13 1
Booker T. and the MGs Groovin' 12 1
David Bowie John, I'm Only Dancing 12 1
Impressions This is My Country 12 1
Johnnie Taylor Doing My Own Thing 12 1
Little Anthony & the Imperials Hurt So Bad 12 1
Mott the Hoople The Golden Age of Rock and Roll 12 1
Simon & Garfunkel Fakin' It 12 1
Blood, Sweat & Tears Spinning Wheel 11 1
Hues Coproration Rock the Boat 11 1
Kinks See My Friends 11 1
Manfred Mann Pretty Flamingo 11 1
Santana Evil Ways 11 1
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles I Don't Blame You at All 11 1
Spinners Mighty Love 11 1
Timmy Thomas Why Can't We Live Together 11 1
We All Together Symbolic Queen 11 1
Aton Ellis Cry Tough 10 1
Bread The Guitar Man 10 1
Chi-Lites The Coldest Days of My Life (Part 1) 10 1
Fascinations Girls Are Out to Get You 10 1
Joni Mitchell You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio) 10 1
Rugbys You, I 10 1
Stevie Wonder We Can Work It Out 10 1
Incredible Bongo Band Apache 10 2
Aretha Franklin The Weight 9 1
Bob Dylan One of Us Must Know / Queen Jane Approximately 9 1
Davie Allen & the Arrows Blue's Theme 9 1
Dionne Warwick I'll Never Fall in Love Again 9 1
Elton John Levon / Goodbye 9 1
Mott the Hoople Honaloochie Boogie 9 1
Castaways Liar, Liar 8 1
Donovan Colours 8 1
Jackson Five Maybe Tomorrow 8 1
John Kongos He's Gonna Step on You Again 8 1
Johnny Cash Jackson 8 1
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas Tramp 8 1
Supremes Someday We'll Be Together 8 1
Carpenters (They Long to Be) Close to You 7 1
Chris Farlowe Out of Time 7 1
Fifth Dimension Stoned Soul Picnic 7 1
Free All Right Now 7 1
Honey Cone While You're Out Looking for Sugar 7 1
Spinners It's a Shame 7 1
Traffic Feelin' Alright 7 1
Waylon Jennings Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line 7 1
America Tin Man 7 2
Daddy Maxfield Rave 'n' Rock 6 1
Four Seasons Beggin' 6 1
Honey Cone Want Ads 6 1
Staple Singers Respect Yourself 6 1
Elvis Presley If I Can Dream 5 1
Fifth Dimension Wedding Bell Blues 5 1
Friend and Lover Reach Out of the Darkness 5 1
Irma Thomas She'll Never Be Your Wife / You're the Dog (But I Do All the Barking Myself) 5 1
Joni Mitchell Carey 5 1
Mable John Your Good Thing (Is About to End) 5 1
Al Green I Can't Get Next to You 4 1
Bachman-Turner Overdrive Takin' Care of Business 4 1
Dennis Coffey Scorpio 4 1
Jackson Browne Doctor My Eyes 4 1
Bachman-Turner Overdrive You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet 3 1
Dean Parrish Tell Her 3 1
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Take Your Love Back) 3 1
Lou Christie Beyond the Blue Horizon 3 1
Neil Diamond You Got to Me 3 1
Archie Bell & the Drells Tighten Up 2 1
Byrds Chesnut Mare 2 1
Distant Cousins She Ain't Lovin' You 2 1
Millenium It's You 2 1
Roberta Flack Feel Like Makin' Love 2 1
Donovan There is a Mountain 1 1
Frigid Pink House of the Rising Sun 1 1
Gary Puckett & the Union Gap Young Girl 1 1
Holly St. James That's Not Love 1 1
Temptations Since I Lost My Baby 1 1
Toots & the Maytalls Bam Bam 1 1
Van Morrison Tupelo Honey 1 1
Vogues You're the One 1 1

Scary amount of excellent songs all through that list from top to bottom.

I'll second that....damn....could make a good excuse for putting about half of thsoe in a top 100.
Hey and I think this post puts me at 500...yeah...yeah....yeah...i know...I'm a member....(he said member)

Phenomenal job, GDB. (And to all the contributors too -- the quality throughout the list from top to bottom is staggering.)

Pop music had been around for how long when this statement was made? How many "times" had their been?

How many songs can you write a whole book around, let alone an essay?

Ask the 33 1/3 series.

Have you read that book?

Pop music had been around for pretty long by 1965 actually. Pop music certainly existed in the 30's and 40's, as well as the 50's and early 60's. I suspect, as well that this quote also referred to times since then as well, meaning that even since 1965 no other song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of ITS time. You may not agree but it's a valid statement. And it's a great song. All you haters are just trying to be hip.

The statement is very accurate. Before Dylan brought forth that song....pop music were songs with lightweight subject matter. Love, hate, cars, girls, boys, novelty tunes, etc. That song was like nothing heard on top 40 before.
It changed the biggest pop band of all, The Beatles. Enough said.

Great job GDB. The board actually stopped working for me right after "Let's Stay Together" was posted, so I was freaking out all last night that it had crashed again and I would be able to see the end of the countdown (even though it was pretty obvious what songs were left). Now it's time for me to get to work on my 75-84 lists.

Defensive, aren't we? I didn't hate on a thing. I just think such bold claims should maybe backed up a little bit.

Here are a couple claims we can vettTrue or untrue? Ask The Seegers. What makes the Dylan song so serious? How can it's influence on other songs be measured?True or untrue?Certainly true. Is that our sole measure of impact? It's significant, but I don't think it alone can soundly support the original claim, nor does it address Dylan's impact in comparison to other successful songs of that or other "times."

"No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time."

Sure it's hyperbole, but I don't think Rob was trying to, nor does he have to, mount an elaborate defense of the statement.
Challenging the statement would be more effective if you could name another song that could compare to Like a Rolling Stone in its effect on the comercial laws and artistic conventions of its time.

Good God, how could I be the only person to vote for these? There's something seriously wrong with you people...



Oops, I listed this as Stevie Wonder /I Don't Know Why when I meant Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour/I Don't Know Why. Damn, would have edged into the top 400 as well.

You see how many songs there are.....so many greats....can't vote for them all....

Frankly, I don't think you can have the discussion until you define the terms. I can't create a system of measurement until I know what I'm measuring. That's the problem with hyperbole, you lose your grip a little bit.

I don't mean to really get on the song. I think it's great. I just wanted to prod critspeak a little bit. I think it gets way out of hand with the "all-time" business, when it's really talking about a very small universe.

I hear ya, and for the most part I agree with you regarding critspeak, particularly with regard to this era, and particularly with regard to Bob Dylan.

Actually, I'd backdate this to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan



But still...





It was a #2 hit clocking over 6 minutes, that along was huge in 1965.

If you want more on Dylan's influence (and not necessarily "Like A Rolling Stone"), well, other anecdotes off the top of my head:

Otis Redding met Dylan in 1966, and this was around Monterey, and Redding was interested in learning new music. He didn't get Blonde on Blonde, but the earlier, less surreal work made more sense to him, and partially inspired his new direction (granted, he was killed soon after, but he recorded an ENORMOUS amount of material during this time, including "Sitting at the Dock of the Bay.")

Jimi Hendrix obviously was influenced, he covered some of Dylan's songs, appreciated the more surreal lyrics...he said he was inspired to front his own band because Dylan had so much success with a "terrible" voice, a mediocre voice like Hendrix's should do fine.

Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground were heavily influenced. (Lou of course showed up at the 30th anniversary concert.)

Neil worships Dylan and is heavily influenced by his writing, he's made that clear for 30 years.

Patti Smith obviously. They toured together.

A lot of Dylan's influence was filtered down through other artists to the next generation and the next, etc.

Even if you don't like Dylan or never hear his music, chances are, whatever you're listening to now bears his imprint in some way. His early social protest songs broke through in a way few before had (the Weavers were suppressed, labels were fearful of songs like "Strange Fruit"...Dylan didn't just record these songs, he wrote them, and lots of people covered them and gave them greater success). Then you look at "Chimes of Freedom," and the surreal imagery to paved the way for psychedelia, if not in sound than in spirit and words...to his trifecta of mid-60's classics...then the 180 where he went rural when everyone else was tripping...then a landmark confessional album that's probably more beloved than Joni Mitchell's Blue...etc. You can overestimate anybody's influence, but with Dylan, it's pretty tough.

Ya know, it's got nothing to do with this issue, but I bet college kids are citing wikipedia in their research papers. That's alarming.

what's alarming is college professors still unwilling to accept Wikipedia as a legitimate source.

Wikipedia is completely and utterly worthless as a scholarly/academic source other than to get pointed in the right direction on a topic that you know nothing about.

18th century French philosophers? Fine. Look at wikipedia, get some names and concepts and then go do some real research.

---no more thread hijacking from me--

For the purposes of this thread, it's fine, but if I was writing a paper or a news article, forget it. It's great, I know the Dylan stuff I posted is right on (most of it I'm pretty sure came from his bios and the recent documentary on PBS), but any source that allows anyone to edit can't be 100% reliable. Remember that joke someone played with wikipedia, the one regarding JFK's assassination?

Someone whose initials were ML had it as their #9 pick in the Top 500. Who was that....Midnight Lurcher?

Misery Loves

This song is really fun done live--we had friends who covered it. Maybe the Collectors or Creepy D could add it to their repertoire...?

I'd never heard this song before today. What's the appeal, I wonder, over his other hits?

a very good question. Wish I understood myself.

Maybe it's something to do w/ its historical niche...? Or it's one of those songs that caught the SOMB wave...?

In any event, swell poll as always GDB. Thanks for putting it together so splendidly. That may well be the first time I've ever used "splendidly" in a sentence.

Maybe because it's a stunning anthem of the civil rights movement, the apogee of a genre, an all too rare moment when an extraordinary talent was allowed to shed the conventions forced on him by the church and the market to say something really profound and human and touching about something that really matters...to tell an honest story to and for a people....to sing a song that meant something real, something that needed to be said....about pain and sorrow and still then hope....and to do it so well, to sing it like it fucking mattered....it's a fucking cry from the heart...from beyond the god damn grave, too, by the way...

...instead of, say, some bullshit, self-indulgent, overly long mess of wannabe beat poetry, pretentious rambling about iron horses and some meth-addicted chick you tried to bang the week before. oh shit. dude was playing a HAMMOND ORGAN! There's a chapter! He got some dorks from Liverpool high for the first time! There's another!

and wikipedia is a fun idea, but those who champion it as an alternative to more reliable sources simply because of ease of access deserve every untruth they swallow. although you can find some information about Cooke's song, told, of course, through the frame of Bob Dylan (SHOCKA!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Change_Is_Gonna_Come_(song)

Sure, OK, historical niche (you know, as a kid, my dream was to become a Black Panther). But do you really think that's why all these sombies voted for it?

ask them. I told you why I voted for it.

Do you really think it's no more distinguished than "Little Red Rooster" or most of the shit this guy had to sing for his supper?

Ben said it far better than I could, but yeah, the song is great in it's own right, but coupled with the message it delivers and Cooke's incredible delivery it achieves legendary status in my eyes. I'm not sure how thils long without hearing the song, either. It gets relatively universal praise (101 on the acclaimed music all-time list).

Then read Guralnick's bio, ass cobra. Same info.

And if you think Dylan's only influence on the Beatles is getting them stoned, you don't have a fucking clue.

Having said that, I voted for "A Change Is Gonna Come," too. Put yourself in the singer's place, it's 1964, you're a financial success, but you're still a second class citizen. The singer's got no one to turn to, he's even slapped down by his own people. He doesn't want to be a martyr because he's not even sure of his own faith anymore. He was born a n***** and he's going to die one, no matter what he does, but he's clinging on to some desperate hope that things will get better. But he's got no proof this will happen, and if it does, he doubts he'll ever see it. Pretty moving shit. 30 years later, think about being a Chinese political prisoner or a kid in Darfur thinking things will turn around. People notice the problem, but as far as you can see, nothing is going to happen, you're life is hell, has been since day one and you may very well go to an early grave worse off than before. But you can't give in completely because if there's nothing, what's the point of going on? Especially if there's nothing beyond death. So you cling on to that last bit of hope, or manufacture it, I don't know...if you can tap into that, that's the appeal of the song.

well then it's cited about as well as Bill's term papers, because there's no mention of it in the wiki page. And I don't really get your point because none of that stuff is news to me. It's not so much the information I was getting on, but simply my observation that Dylan is giving a starring role without there being any evidence presented of a direct connection. The writing of that specific article frames it such that Cooke was supposedly directly inspired to write about racial oppression by Dylan. Without further evidence, it's extremely tenuous.This is just fucking laughable. Can I bet your first child that a white guy wrote it? Music writers have their head so far up their ass.

It's a shitty article, wikipedia's got tons of them, hence you have to be selective of what you quote - I don't reference it here unless I know I've read that same info elsewhere.

Anyway, anyone interested in a reliable source, here's biographer Guralnick on NPR. Click on the "listen link" and listen to Guralnick talk about "A Change Is Gonna Come" around 3:09 on.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014891

It really resonates with people who were born by the river in a little tent.

I've seen it cited in other places (including, IIRC, the Dylan doc from last year) that Cooke was extremely inspired by Dylan and particularly "Blowin' in the Wind". Regardless, why should someone's clumsy writing about a song have any effect on anyone's opinion?

It's a beautiful song, with weighty subject matter handled simply and straightforwardly, sung with utter conviction. Historical relevance is good and all, but never causes me to replay anything. And I have no problem listening to this song anytime.

Otis Redding's cover is damn good too.

Because of it's content, perhaps. Sentences try to mean things. Some succeed more than others.