and why would the stones ever come in ahead of the beatles in any classic rock song poll

Preach it, brother!

Yeah, there have to be a lot more than four groups better than they....

I don't really care which Beatles song they pick, they have so many great ones that you could pick almost at random....so long as you didn't pick something dumb like 'Why don't we write a filler song', I mean 'Why Don't We Do It in the Road?', 'Honey Pie' or 'Revolution 9' now that I think about it, The White Album sure does seem to have a lot of stupid pointless filler songs on it doesn't it?) but the basis principle that the number one song HAS TO BE a Beatles song is pretty solid I think....there are at least a dozen that I would consider a worthy candidate for 'best' Beatles song, but whatever song they pick #1 has to be a Beatles song...

well that happens all the time... both of the polls i listed at the beginning of the thread had other than beatles songs as #1... i'm sure there are many more...i just didn't bother looking for others

My faith in mankind is being shaken today.

that's what happens when public opinion comes into play.... look at the non-winners of AI at times

I think that in the future, whenever anyone, anywhere in the world, decides to make such lists, this sentence should be branded onto them somewhere prominent, in order to help avoid such shameful mistakes as putting the Beatles at #5.

Of course, the prospect of the branding might decrease the frequency with which such lists are produced. But I'm not sure that's an altogether bad thing. These lists usually just tick me off. For instance, this one.

Which just goes to prove what I have always said.....90% of the human race are too stupid to live...

so are we pretty much in agreement the top 4 have to be, in no particular order, ac/dc, led zeppelin, stones and aerosmith?

think of the other link i provided...the highest ranking beatles song was let it be at #10

I like AC/DC but I would pretty much NEVER put them on a 'best of' anything list....unless the list was 'best bands that re-made the same song 50000 times in the course of their career'

I don't really mind 'best of lists' but what I do hate is the ranking, which is arbitrary....in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (which, by the way, is more or less a complete joke) they have a list of 'the 500 songs that influenced rock and roll', there is absolutely no ranking, it's just a list of 500 songs that are regarded as very important and influential....if you're gonna make a list, that's the way to do it...

People I disagree with:

1) gherkin
2) Doom

Hmmmmmmmm ... maybe Doom has a point here ....

i agree with doom

no srv ... what a joke!!!

No Stevie Ray Vaughn, no Rush, but they let in Guns n Roses, who had two albums before falling apart, and they have bizarre choices like the Four Tops, Miles Davis and The Shirelles, who may have been good groups, but were NOT rock musicians....if you're going to let in Miles Davis, then why not Leonard Bernstein or John Cage? The admission standards appear to be completely random.

agree... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many in the hall not remotely associated with rock and roll

Well, I like AC/DC a whole lotta less now than I did when I was about 16, but still, if you're doing a list of great classic rock songs, AC/DC's got to appear. I preferred the Bon Scott years (though like everyone else, Back in Black was still my favorite album), but it's pretty obvious they'll go for You Shook Me...