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Which is NME's best song of all time? And it's not by The Beatles

After last year's contentious poll of their top 500 albums of all time, 82 critics, past and present, from Britain's New Musical Express (NME) magazine have voted on the best song of all time, resulting in another fascinating list that's sure to annoy as many, if not more, people than it impresses.

King of the hill is Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, which also topped Triple J's 2009 poll for the Hottest 100 of all time. The only other song the two surveys have in common in their top 10s is Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart, which is No. 2 for NME and was No. 4 for Triple J listeners.

The full 500 can be found in this week's issue of NME. Meanwhile the top 25 are:

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana

2. Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division

3. I Feel Love – Donna Summer

4. How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths

5. Last Nite – The Strokes

6. Common People – Pulp

7. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys

8. Blue Monday – New Order

9. Be My Baby – The Ronettes

10. Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys

11. Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles

12. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths

13. Live Forever – Oasis

14. God Only Knows – The Beach Boys

15. "Heroes" – David Bowie

16. Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes

17. A Day in the Life – The Beatles

18. Hey Ya! – OutKast

19. Heart of Glass – Blondie

20. Girls & Boys – Blur

21. Ghost Town – The Specials

22. There She Goes – The La's

23. Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks

24. Hurricane – Bob Dylan

25. Wake Up – Arcade Fire

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They seemed to have left off Cotton Eye Joe - I'm sure this list can be trusted.

No, seriosuly, there are some decent songs on there but I Feel Love – Donna Summer at number 3??

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I wonder how much of this type of list is written by people who want to give the impression they like certain types of music but actually find it all a bit hard?

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it appears to be slanted towards 80s & 90's Brit Pop but that is NME readership is wanting . Personally i would not have put any of them in the top 25 but many will not agree and so for every individual there would be a different top 25 or top 500.

Also does best mean the most musically perfect in every sense of the word or just a damm good song. And no doubt if we were talking most influential songs of all time then it would be a different list again .

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Simon & Garfunkel, Eagles, Floyd ? And the beat goes on.

jb1

Oops not to mention the Stones

No 'Imagine' - No Dylan? No Radiohead? Hendrix? The Doors?

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There are a few of my favourites in there but some I don't get at all.

For example I Feel Love is the third best song of all time (?) and Eleanor Rigby would struggle to get into most people's favourite top ten Beatles songs.

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Simon & Garfunkel, Eagles, Floyd ? And the beat goes on.

jb1

Oops not to mention the Stones

No 'Imagine' - No Dylan? No Radiohead? Hendrix? The Doors?

Victoria de los Angeles - Un bel di vedremo

Joan Sutherland - Lakeme -Viens, Mallika

Lovin'Spoonful - Sporting Life

Bob Markey - Stir It Up

He Ji Hong - Shi Song Hong Jun

Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma

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It's all a load of cods... Lists like these are only good for one thing: casually browse through them, perhaps listen to something you don't know, or something long "forgotten". They might serve the purpose of discovering "new" music, although I personally find other tools/methods/sources much better.

The best songs ever are the ones YOU like best, not what other people prefer.

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