Friday random ten: Revisiting the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs list, part 16

Here’s their list.

1. Not Fade Away – Trout Fishing In America (orig. Buddy Holly and The Crickets, #108)
2. The Boxer – Simon and Garfunkel (#106)
3. Hot Stuff – Donna Summer (#104)
4. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) – Stevie Ray Vaughan (orig. Jimi Hendrix, #102)
5. Crazy – Gnarls Barkley (#100)
6. Fortunate Son – Creedence Clearwater Revival (#99)
7. Roll Over Beethoven – The Beatles (orig. Chuck Berry, #97)
8. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2 (#93)
9. Blitzkrieg Bop – The Ramones (#92)
10. Suspicious Minds – Elvis Presley (#91; also a version by Fine Young Cannibals)

Song I don’t have but probably should: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, Rolling Stones (#101). You might have noticed by now that I have basically no Stones music. I’ve never been that big a fan, and besides you can always hear them a ton on any rock (and now oldies) station, But this one is one I feel bad about not owning.
Song that you really have to see performed live by the original artist to fully appreciate: “Good Golly Miss Molly”, Little Richard (#94). I saw him perform at a fundraiser event fifteen years or so ago. OMG, that’s all I can say.

Am I the only one who gets unreasonably annoyed when the opening lyrics of Fortunate Son (“Some men were born, born to wave the flag”) as a patriotic feel-good backdrop for selling blue jeans? Is is sacreligious to admit that I prefer the FYC version of Suspicious MindsM to Elvis’?

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