Top 5 greatest songs of all time (according to Rolling Stone)

List from Rolling Stone's 500 greatest songs of all time

The other day I made some stupid grandiose claim (wholly unaided by mind altering substances such as chocolate, icecream or dinosaur lollies) that my favouritest rock song ever, ever, ever in the history of rock songs was Carry on, wayward son by Kansas. So much so that it pains me - as in shooting-sharp-pains-in-my-chest pains me - to see that we don't have a copy of it catalogued on any of our umpteen numbers of compact discs. It's quite likely it *is* sitting on one of our discs somewhere but the track list just hasn't been added to a library record *cue tears* I should've known better than to make a statement such as that because someone - namely a sibling (pick one, any one, I have eight) - was going to call me on it. Sure enough, one of my (many) sisters responded with, 'Favouritest rock song? Yes. Ever? No.' And I fired back with, 'This is *my* list. It's *my* favouritest rock song.' There's nothing like siblings to remind me that mentally I'm forever five years old and always a sentence away from a childish I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I type of retort. Her comment did get me thinking, though. Is there a definitive list of all time rock songs? Whose list is it? How credible is it? And, of course, the sixty-four thousand dollar question: did I agree? After a quick and dirty Google-fu session I got distracted, not by an ultimate rock list so much as the all encompassing Rolling Stone's 500 greatest songs of all time list and OH. WOW. It certainly provoked comment at our dinner table, and what a mission to get through it/read it aloud without ending up shouting each other down (because in our family he/she who shouts the loudest wins). And as for my questions? Totally disregard them! I did :)

Query: What one song would you have had on this list? And yes, Carry on, wayward son by Kansas is totally acceptable :-)

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires."
- Plato

Shortest intro from me ever, ever, ever: Lots of you want to know what Paul Henry was thinking :P