# Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 500: As Cutting Edge As The Saturday Evening Post **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-magazines-top-500-as-cutting-edge-as-the-saturday-evening-post/275282 "2004-11-17T16:12:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-magazines-top-500-as-cutting-edge-as-the-saturday-evening-post/275282/61 "2004-11-20T16:35:18Z")
If you sort the list by age, it’s a sad little list 451 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 1984 . . . 500 Hey Ya! Outkast 2003 three songs in the past four years, twenty in the 1990s. Maybe Rolling Stone needs to hire people who are under the age of fifty 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-magazines-top-500-as-cutting-edge-as-the-saturday-evening-post/275282/62 "2004-11-20T18:37:10Z")
Actually, they do sort it by age. From page 78: 1940-49: 1 1950-59: 71 1960-69: 202 1970-79: 144 1980-89: 55 1990-99: 24 2000-04: 3 Acts with the most entries: 23 - Beatles 14 - Rolling Stones 11 - Elvis 7 - Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, U2 6 - Chuck Berry, James Brown, Prince, Led Zeppelin, Sly and the Family Stone ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-magazines-top-500-as-cutting-edge-as-the-saturday-evening-post/275282/63 "2004-11-20T18:39:11Z")
And in the magazine, #500 is “More than a Feeling” by Boston. The OutKast song was… 188? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-magazines-top-500-as-cutting-edge-as-the-saturday-evening-post/275282/64 "2004-11-20T18:42:01Z")
My bad. It was #180. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-magazines-top-500-as-cutting-edge-as-the-saturday-evening-post/275282/65 "2004-11-20T18:43:03Z")
:smack: I see what you did, **Tapioca**. Me and my print fetish! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-magazines-top-500-as-cutting-edge-as-the-saturday-evening-post/275282.md?page=3)