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Monday, April 23, 2007 12:00 AM

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.

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  • Monday, April 23, 2007 01:20 PM

    This land is your land?!?

    Maybe it's just me, but the only thing this song inspire me towards is humming the school boy version involving ownership of a shotgun...

    Maybe it's my Gen X lack of historical perspective, but I just don't see how this song is truly that important. Maybe if you were a 60s flower child, but for the rest of us... it's just drivel and fodder for parody from schoolchildren.

    —Anonymous

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