Re: Top 500 rock song of all time

[Jeremy Mixer <mixer@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Vilma wrote:

> http://classicrock.about.com/library/misc/bltop500a.htm
>
> 1 Stairway to Heaven
> 11 Rock and Roll
> 22 Kashmir
> 31 Whole Lotta Love
> 41 Black Dog
> 56 Communication Breakdown
> 72 Thank You
> 116 Going to California
> 157 Immigrant Song
> 191 Heartbreaker/Living Lovin Maid
> 200 Ramble On
> 251 Trampled Under Foot
> 283 Over The Hills and Far Away
> 310 Misty Mountain Hop
> 337 Fool In the Rain
> 399 Good Times Bad Times
> 430 Dyer Maker
> 445 All My Love
>
> Why wasn't Sibly included.....or anything from Presence

I would say that the most likely reason is because the general rock n roll
listening public is least likely to pop in Presense into their CD player,
the most popular song on that album generally is "NFBM" (or Achilkes from
those who actually have heard it- a lot of radio stations don't play it
though but do play NFBM) and SIBLY- while a great song, once again it just
isn't as popular as the ones listed above. The above list is also the most
likely songs that you will hear on the radio by Zeppelin. If a DJ says you
are going to hear Led Zeppelin, there is an 80-90% chance, no matter what
station it is, that it will be one of the above songs.