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10 songs that changed the world

hristostoichkov

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that's from www.ananova.com


Elvis Presley's 50-year-old classic That's All Right has been named the song that shook the world.

The track, which was his first release and which many say gave the world rock'n'roll, was chosen by the experts and musicians as the most influential track yet made.

The Beatles are the highest-ranking British act for the song which cracked the US, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, which is at number two in the list for a special edition of Q magazine.

That's All Right, recorded in 1954, was never actually released as a single in the UK but the Elvis's delivery started his musical career in the US on a high.

American music bible Billboard called the singer "a potent new chanter who comes through with a solid performance" in their review of the track, which he recorded for his mother.

Music legend Bob Dylan, who recorded the song himself three times in the Sixties said: "When I first heard Elvis's voice I just knew that nobody was going to be my boss. It was like busting out of jail."

God Save The Queen by The Sex Pistols, a song largely banned by radio stations, came third in the list. The punk classic, a call to arms for disaffected youth, was given a 25-year anniversary makeover last year.

The most recent song on the list is My Name Is by Eminem from 1999 which is at 37.

Other Nineties tracks to make the grade include Sir Elton John's Candle In The Wind '97 at 50, Firestarter by Prodigy from 1996 (91), Wannabe by the Spice Girls from 1996 (23) and Oasis's 1994 single Live Forever (78).
 

rhizome17

Fan Favourite
Top ten of Q's 100 Songs That Changed The World: 1 Elvis Presley - That's All Right; 2 The Beatles - I Wanna Hold Your Hand; 3 Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen; 4 Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight; 5 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit; 6 Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit; 7 Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone; 8 Run DMC - Walk This Way; 9 New Order - Blue Monday; 10 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?

no. 8 should have Aerosmith named as well; good to see no.'s 5, 6, and 9 there as well.
 

zul-aid

Starting XI
Originally posted by IceBlu
i think One by U2 should be in there too

Well i actually have to disagree with you there
Dont get me wrong, i love U2 as they are my favourite band but when you look at the scope of there career it wasnt there biggest song and it sound similar to the rest of the early 90's albums (Zooropa and Achtung Baby). One is my all time favourite song but to say what song U2 made that shocked the world you have to look 5 years back to the Joshua Tree / Rattle and Hum tour.

The song i would pick is "All i want is you" for the fact that many many romantic songs were produce during the late 1980s but without the power of that song. The flimclip of the circus midget trying to find true love only for her to die is what also somes up the song. Again it isnt one of there best songs but in the 1980s it was and catapulted them into stardom.

The only point i would like to make is even though Rattle and Hum was a cover album (they wrote none of those songs - John Lennon Paul Macartney Bob Dylon did) it represented Southern American music, no one in Europe had never done that kind of cross-over. Joshua Tree was the beginning of that in the mid 1980s and is the better album, but imo Rattle and Hum was the biggest shock album.

so to sum up: "All i want is you" by U2 was the bigger shock than "One" imo.
 
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IceBlu

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Originally posted by zul-aid


so to sum up: "All i want is you" by U2 was the bigger shock than "One" imo.


well maybe... 'Where the streets have no name' is another that could/should have made it...but at the end of the day none of them made it :(

sad and stupid really considering that a Spice Girls song made the list ... :kader:
 

zul-aid

Starting XI
Originally posted by IceBlu


sad and stupid really considering that a Spice Girls song made the list ... :kader:

well the spice girls were manufactured to recreate pop and turn it on its head - remember the three year olds getting into it with there parents if it wasnt for them we wouldnt have Britney Christina imo.

Spice Girls like them or not (i dont) re-made pop for the nineties before that you have to look to the 1980s for pop like Adam Ant or Wham! for pop. I dont like the Spice Girls but i can understand why they are there.

really its not our opinions if it were we would never all be happy like an election.
 

maddog1983

Starting XI
Originally posted by zul-aid
well the spice girls were manufactured to recreate pop and turn it on its head - remember the three year olds getting into it with there parents if it wasnt for them we wouldnt have Britney Christina imo.

Spice Girls like them or not (i dont) re-made pop for the nineties before that you have to look to the 1980s for pop like Adam Ant or Wham! for pop. I dont like the Spice Girls but i can understand why they are there.

really its not our opinions if it were we would never all be happy like an election.

agreed

some songs affect a whole generation and i think thats what this list was aiming at rather than a particular genre or popular music
 
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IceBlu

Guest
if that were the case, how come none of Madonna's songs got the nod ?

i think her stuff was more influential then most of the bands mentioned...
 

mhflierman

Starting XI
These lists are always a bit .... well a bit weird if you ask me. Over 30 years or so, we'll be making those lists and it will look so much different then. Good to see Nirvana in there though. I missed the Stones though.... :kader: :rockman:
 

hermolt

Starting XI
And why no Sabbath for spawning metal as we know it today?

And why no Metallica/Slayer for revolutionising said genre?
 

zul-aid

Starting XI
Originally posted by hermolt
And why no Sabbath for spawning metal as we know it today?

And why no Metallica/Slayer for revolutionising said genre?

My guess is the intend auidence for this poll was not fans of that genre.
 

monkee

Senior Squad
You have to realise that this is Q magazine, one of your typical 'pat British music on it's back 'cos we're the best' music magazines on the shelves. Although they do get some things right because they're not quite as self-important as NME, and some songs you just can't ignore like Elvis' and Nirvana's and The Beatles.

They are also the type of magazine that would put some pap like Eminem's in there (I don't think that that was a song that shook the world), and the Spice Girls at number 23, if they are so high then who knows where [edit (forgot to finish my scentance before posting): NKOTB or Take That would be, after did they not start the entire manufactured boy/girl band on a large scale, aimed at kids. I know Motown did something similar but then large numbers of their acts were extremely talented singers/songwriters that weren't hired on looks and dancing ability alone.] Have they included the song that really shook the world and changed the face of popular music forever 'Rock Around the Clock'? Probably, otherwise they couldn't consider themselves a serious music magazine.
 

INFESTA

Official
Originally posted by monkee
They are also the type of magazine that would put some pap like Eminem's in there (I don't think that that was a song that shook the world), and the Spice Girls at number 23, if they are so high then who knows where. Have they included the song that really shook the world and changed the face of popular music forever 'Rock Around the Clock'? Probably, otherwise they couldn't consider themselves a serious music magazine.

:clapwap:

Also, good choices by hermolt and Ice.

My 2 cents: Velvet Underground and The Pixies had more impact in the music world, than 80% of the bands on that list, even though they weren't that popular. All the alternative music has roots in what these 2 bands did.
 

rhizome17

Fan Favourite
Originally posted by monkee
You have to realise that this is Q magazine, one of your typical 'pat British music on it's back 'cos we're the best' music magazines on the shelves. Although they do get some things right because they're not quite as self-important as NME, and some songs you just can't ignore like Elvis' and Nirvana's and The Beatles.

They are also the type of magazine that would put some pap like Eminem's in there (I don't think that that was a song that shook the world), and the Spice Girls at number 23, if they are so high then who knows where [edit (forgot to finish my scentance before posting): NKOTB or Take That would be, after did they not start the entire manufactured boy/girl band on a large scale, aimed at kids. I know Motown did something similar but then large numbers of their acts were extremely talented singers/songwriters that weren't hired on looks and dancing ability alone.] Have they included the song that really shook the world and changed the face of popular music forever 'Rock Around the Clock'? Probably, otherwise they couldn't consider themselves a serious music magazine.

I agree. Putting Eminem in there is a bit of a joke really, I mean all the hard work had already been done for him, so his songs are hardly 'world changing'.. As for the manufactured band stuff, Stock, Aitken and Waterman were doing it in the UK ages ago, with Kylie, Jason, Mel & Kim :crazyboy: etc. (what ARE Mel & Kim doing these days???).
 

monkee

Senior Squad
Originally posted by rhizome17
I agree. Putting Eminem in there is a bit of a joke really, I mean all the hard work had already been done for him, so his songs are hardly 'world changing'

That was my reasoning too. All of the rap music that 'shook the world' was done almost a decade before he came on the scene with groups like Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash and Public Enemy. If their reasoning is that it was a 'white boy' rapping then they've obviously forgotten about the Beastie Boys, who's 'Fight For Your Right To Party' (not sure if that's the actual title) should definately be there and if they were doing videos the 'Sabotage' should.
 


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