Rolling Stone updates "Best 500 songs" list; Rhiannon cut from list

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This month, Rolling Stone updated its "500 Best Songs of All time," which it first published in 2004, cutting "Rhiannon" - among others - to make room for some pretty ghastly songs. I know I shouldn't take any Rolling Stone list seriously since this is the magazine that awarded the new Britney Spears album 4 stars to Stevie's 3 and a half, but cutting "Rhiannon" to make room for a song by Rihanna is just uncivilized.

The entire top 25 remained unchanged. Although certain songs had changed their rank in the top 100, the only new entry was Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" at number 100.

The songs added in the update are as follows. U2 and Jay-Z both have two songs added to the list, however Jay-Z is also featured in an additional two other new songs on the list, "Crazy in Love" by Beyoncé, and "Umbrella" by Rihanna:

"Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley (#100)
"Crazy in Love" by Beyonce featuring Jay-Z (#118)
"Moment of Surrender" by U2 (#160)
"99 Problems" by Jay-Z (#172)
"Rehab" by Amy Winehouse (#194)
"Paper Planes" by M.I.A. (#236)
"Mississippi" by Bob Dylan (#260)
"Jesus Walks" by Kanye West (#273)
"Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes (#286)
"One More Time" by Daft Punk (#307)
"Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand (#327)
"Beautiful Day" by U2 (#345)
"Maps" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (#386)
"Umbrella" by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z (#412)
"Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G. (#424)
"American Idiot" by Green Day (#432)
"In da Club" by 50 Cent (#448)
"Get Ur Freak On" by Missy Elliott (#466)
"Big Pimpin'" by Jay-Z featuring UGK (#467)
"Last Nite" by The Strokes (#478)
"Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson (#482)
"Cry Me a River" by Justin Timberlake (#484)
"Clocks" by Coldplay (#490)
"Time to Pretend" by MGMT (#493)
"Ignition (Remix)" by R. Kelly (#494)
"The Rising" by Bruce Springsteen (#497)

The songs dropped from the list in the update are as follows. The Crystals are the only artist to have had two songs dropped from the list:

"Da Doo Ron Ron" by The Crystals (#114)
"Lose Yourself" by Eminem (#166)
"Sh-Boom" by The Chords (#215)
"Band of Gold" by Freda Payne (#391)
"Kicks" by Paul Revere & the Raiders (#400)
"I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly (#406)
"Crossroads" by Cream (#409)
"Lola" by The Kinks (#422)
"Devil With A Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly" by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (#428)
"Keep A-Knockin'" by Little Richard (#442)
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glen Campbell (#450)
"Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price (#456)
"One Fine Day" by The Chiffons (#460)
"Search and Destroy" by The Stooges (#468)
"It's Too Late" by Carole King (#469)
"Free Man in Paris" by Joni Mitchell (#470)
"On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson (#471)
"One Nation Under a Groove" by Funkadelic (#474)
"Graceland" by Paul Simon (#485)
"Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac (#488)
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" by Dusty Springfield (#491)
"Then He Kissed Me" by The Crystals (#493)
"Desperado" by Eagles (#494)
"Rainy Night in Georgia" by Brook Benton (#498)
"The Boys Are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy (#499)
"More Than a Feeling" by Boston (#500)