At this point, lists on The Rolling Stone are cliches. They’re engagement fodder, rage-bait. I’m compulsive and love any excuse to talk about the music I love, the music I love to hate, so I get list culture in media coverage. But I also get why list making is weird and off-putting. I’m sure the latest Rolling Stone list, The 250 Greatest Songs of the Century So Far, will have some lightening rods, but I haven’t read it yet. I had the top ten spoiled and I’m pleased with the placement of the most popular White Stripes song, but songs 249 - 10 are a mystery to me. Let’s give Rolling Stone the en-rage-ment they want!
