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Rolling Stone hits the big 4-0 The list-loving music magazine picks the 40 songs "that changed the world" as part of its 40th-birthday celebration.
  • Missing Metal?

    I'm not at all a metal fan, but it would seem that the whole genre is missing from the intial list. At least one Van Halen track should be on there (as EVH was a massive influence over later guitarists), probably an early Metallica track of sorts, and maybe Motorhead's Ace of Spades as a Metal/Punk fusion. I'm not sure there is much on the original list I'd kick off, but at least the EVH omission is pretty glaring.

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