The 98 issue of Spanish Rolling Stone (December 2007) is an special number commemorating the 40 Anniversary of US-Rolling Stone. It includes 40 interviews from Bob Dylan to Kanye West, from Martin Scorsese to Al Gore. And it included 4 lists, one about music (from a single critic) not eligible for Acclaimed Music (I suppose) and as predictable as expected. Here there are anyway:


40 Songs that changed the world (by Douglas Wolk):
1. ELVIS PRESLEY “That’s All Right” (July 1954).
2. RAY CHARLES “I Got a Woman” (January 1955).
3. CHUCK BERRY “Maybellene” (July 1955).
4. BOB DYLAN “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (May 1963).
5. THE KINGSMEN “Louie Louie” (May 1963).
6. THE RONETTES “Be My Baby” (August 1963)
7. THE BEATLES “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (December 1963).
8. MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS “Dancing in the Street” (July 1964).
9. THE ROLLING STONES “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (May 1965).
10. BOB DYLAN “Like a Rolling Stone” (July 1965).
11. THE BEATLES “Strawberry Fields Forever” (February 1967).
12. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND “Heroin” (March 1967).
13. ARETHA FRANKLIN “Respect” (April 1967).
14. JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE “Purple Haze” (August 1967).
15. LED ZEPPELIN “Whole Lotta Love” (October 1969).
16. JAMES BROWN “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine” (July 1970).
17. MARVIN GAYE “What’s Going On” (February 1971).
18. JOHN LENNON “Imagine” (September 1971).
19. DAVID BOWIE “Ziggy Stardust” (June 1972).
20. THE WAILERS “I Shot the Sheriff” (October 1973).
21. JONI MITCHELL “Help Me” (January 1974).
22. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Born to Run” (August 1975).
23. QUEEN “Bohemian Rhapsody” (October 1975).
24. THE RAMONES “Blitzkrieg Bop” (May 1976).
25. SEX PISTOLS “Anarchy in the U.K.” (November 1976).
26. DONNA SUMMER “I Feel Love” (May 1977).
27. THE SUGARHILL GANG “Rapper’s Delight” (October 1979).
28. BLACK FLAG “TV Party” (December 1981).
29. MICHAEL JACKSON “Billie Jean” (December 1982).
30. PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION “When Doves Cry” (June 1984).
31. U2 “Pride (In the Name of Love)” (October 1984).
32. MADONNA “Like a Virgin” (November 1984).
33. RUN-D.M.C. featuring AEROSMITH “Walk This Way” (May 1986).
34. THE CURE “Just Like Heaven” (May 1987).
35. GUNS N’ ROSES “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (August 1987).
36. PUBLIC ENEMY “Bring the Noise” (November 1987).
37. NIRVANA “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (September 1991).
38. DR. DRE featuring SNOOP DOGGY DOGG “Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang” (December 1992).
39. BRITNEY SPEARS “…Baby One More Time” (October 199 .
40. THE WHITE STRIPES “Fell in Love with a Girl” (July 2001).


40 Movies that changed the world (by Manuel Piñón):
1. MIKE NICHOLS “The Graduate” (1967).
2. STANLEY KUBRICK “2001: A Space Oddyssey” (196 .
3. DENNIS HOPPER “Easy Rider” (1969).
4. ROBERT ALTMAN “MASH” (1970).
5. DON SIEGEL “Dirty Harry” (1971).
6. FRANCIS F. COPPOLA “The Godfather” (1972).
7. WILLIAM FRIEDKIN “The Exorcist” (1973).
8. TOBE HOPPER “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974).
9. STEVEN SPIELBERG “Jaws” (1975).
10. MARTIN SCORSESE “Taxi Driver” (1976).
11. JOHN G. AVILDSEN “Rocky” (1976).
12. GEORGE LUCAS “Star Wars” (1977).
13. WOODY ALLEN “Annie Hall” (1977).
14. JOHN LANDIS “The Blues Brothers” (1980).
15. RIDLEY SCOTT “Blade Runner” (1982).
16. DAVID CRONENBERG “Videodrome” (1983).
17. BRIAN DE PALMA “Scarface” (1983).
18. JOHN HUGHES “The Breakfast Club” (1985).
19. ROBERT ZEMECKIS “Back to the Future” (1985).
20. DAVID LYNCH “Blue Velvet” (1986).
21. OLIVER STONE “Platoon” (1986).
22. KATSUHIRO OTOMO “Akira” (198 .
23. JAMES CAMERON “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” (1991).
24. JONATHAN DEMME “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991).
25. CLINT EASTWOOD “Unforgiven” (1992).
26. PAUL VERHOEVEN “Basic Instinct” (1992).
27. KEVIN SMITH “Clerks” (1994).
28. QUENTIN TARANTINO “Pulp Fiction” (1994).
29. BEN STILLER “Reality Bites” (1994).
30. JOHN LASSETER “Toy Story” (1995).
31. DAVID FINCHER “Se7en” (1995).
32. WES CRAVEN “Scream” (1996).
33. PETER & BOBBY FARRELLY “There’s Something About Mary” (199 .
34. JOEL COHEN “The Big Lebowsky” (199 .
35. PETER WEIR “The Truman Show” (199 .
36. ANDY & LARRY WACHOWSKI “The Matrix” (1999).
37. CAMERON CROWE “Almost Famous” (2000).
38. BAZ LUHRMANN “Moulin Rouge” (2001).
39. SAM RAIMI “Spiderman” (2002).
40. GORE VERBINSKI “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (2007).

Ugh, a safe and risk-less list if there’s one. Almost all are American mainstream movies (except “Akira” . Odd coming from a Spanish critic.


40 People that changed the world (by Darío Manrique):
1. Martin Luther King.
2. John Lennon.
3. Che Guevara.
4. Guy Debord.
5. Andy Warhol.
6. Meher Baba.
7. Monty Python.
8. Timothy Leary.
9. Anton LaVey.
10. Abbie Hoffman.
11. Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
12. Shere Hite.
13. Salvador Allende.
14. Muhammad Ali.
15. Milton Friedman.
16. Lech Walesa.
17. Pope John Paul II.
18. Jackie O.
19. Akio Morita.
20. Tony Wilson.
21. Nelson Mandela.
22. Homer Simpson.
23. Tim Berners-Lee.
23. Keith Haring.
25. The Tiananmen hero.
26. John Peel.
27. Larry Flint.
28. Steve Jobs.
29. Filo & Yang.
30. Valentino.
31. Michael Eavis.
32. Mijaíl Gorbachov.
33. Shawn Fanning.
34. Madonna.
35. Jean-Paul Gaultier.
36. Hillary Clinton.
37. Bill Gates.
38. Bansky.
39. Al Gore.
40. Maradona.


40 Books that changed the world (by Darío Vico):
1. GABRIEL G. MARQUEZ “Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)” (1967).
2. NORMAN MAILER “Armies of the Night” (196 .
3. STANISLAW NEM “Cyberiada (The Cyberiad)” (1967).
4. KURT VONNEGUT “Slaughterhouse-Five” (1969).
5. CHARLES BUKOWSKI “Notes of a Dirty Old Man” (1969).
6. PHILIP K. DICK “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (196 .
7. HUNTER S. THOMPSON “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1971).
8. ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN “Архипелаг ГУЛАГ (The Gulag Archipielago)” (1973).
9. J. G. BALLARD “Crash” (1973).
10. THOMAS PYNCHON “Gravity’s Rainbow” (1973).
11. THOMAS BERNHARD “Die Ursache (Gathering Evidence)” (1975).
12. ANNE RICE “Interview with the Vampire” (1976).
13. JIM CARROLL “The Basketball Diaries” (197 .
14. JOHN IRVING “The World According to Garp” (197 .
15. DOUGLAS ADAMS “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (197 .
16. MICHAEL ENDE “Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story)” (1979).
17. JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE “A Confederacy of Dunces” (1980).
18. RAYMOND CARVER “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” (1981).
19. SAM SHEPARD “Motel Chronicles” (1982).
20. WILLIAM GIBSON “Neuromancer” (1984).
21. BRETT EASTON ELLIS “Less Than Zero” (1985).
22. ORSON SCOTT CARD “Ender’s Game” (1985).
23. HARUKI MURAKAMI “Norwegian Wood” (1987).
24. TOM WOLFE “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (1987).
25. SALMAN RUSHDIE “The Satanic Verses” (198 .
26. PAUL AUSTER “Moon Palace” (1989).
27. HANIF KUREISHI “The Buddha of Suburbia” (1990).
28. ART SPIEGELMAN “Maus” (1991).
29. IRVINE WELSH “Trainspotting” (1993).
30. NICK HORNBY “High Fidelity” (1995).
31. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN “A Game of Thrones” (1996).
32. CHUCK PALAHNIUK “Fight Club” (1996).
33. DANIEL CLOWES “Ghost World” (1993-97).
34. J. K. ROWLING “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (1997).
35. MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ “Les particules élémentaires (The Elementary Particles)” (199 .
36. ALAN MOORE “From Hell” (1999).
37. NAOMI KLEIN “No Logo” (2000).
38. JEFFREY EUGENIDES “Middlesex” (2002).
39. MARK HADDON “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” (2004).
40. JOE HILL “Heart-Shaped Box” (2007).

However I like a lot the books list. I like the mix of novel, comics and essays. Lots of great ones on it: for instance Middlesex, Norwegian Wood, Maus and, of course, Gabriel G. Márquez magnum opus.

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The 98 issue of Spanish Rolling Stone (December 2007) is an special number commemorating the 40 Anniversary of US-Rolling Stone. It includes 40 interviews from Bob Dylan to Kanye West, from Martin Scorsese to Al Gore. And it included 4 lists, one about music (from a single critic) not eligible for Acclaimed Music (I suppose) and as predictable as expected. Here there are anyway:


40 Songs that changed the world (by Douglas Wolk):
1. ELVIS PRESLEY “That’s All Right” (July 1954).
2. RAY CHARLES “I Got a Woman” (January 1955).
3. CHUCK BERRY “Maybellene” (July 1955).
4. BOB DYLAN “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (May 1963).
5. THE KINGSMEN “Louie Louie” (May 1963).
6. THE RONETTES “Be My Baby” (August 1963)
7. THE BEATLES “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (December 1963).
8. MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS “Dancing in the Street” (July 1964).
9. THE ROLLING STONES “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (May 1965).
10. BOB DYLAN “Like a Rolling Stone” (July 1965).
11. THE BEATLES “Strawberry Fields Forever” (February 1967).
12. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND “Heroin” (March 1967).
13. ARETHA FRANKLIN “Respect” (April 1967).
14. JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE “Purple Haze” (August 1967).
15. LED ZEPPELIN “Whole Lotta Love” (October 1969).
16. JAMES BROWN “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine” (July 1970).
17. MARVIN GAYE “What’s Going On” (February 1971).
18. JOHN LENNON “Imagine” (September 1971).
19. DAVID BOWIE “Ziggy Stardust” (June 1972).
20. THE WAILERS “I Shot the Sheriff” (October 1973).
21. JONI MITCHELL “Help Me” (January 1974).
22. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Born to Run” (August 1975).
23. QUEEN “Bohemian Rhapsody” (October 1975).
24. THE RAMONES “Blitzkrieg Bop” (May 1976).
25. SEX PISTOLS “Anarchy in the U.K.” (November 1976).
26. DONNA SUMMER “I Feel Love” (May 1977).
27. THE SUGARHILL GANG “Rapper’s Delight” (October 1979).
28. BLACK FLAG “TV Party” (December 1981).
29. MICHAEL JACKSON “Billie Jean” (December 1982).
30. PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION “When Doves Cry” (June 1984).
31. U2 “Pride (In the Name of Love)” (October 1984).
32. MADONNA “Like a Virgin” (November 1984).
33. RUN-D.M.C. featuring AEROSMITH “Walk This Way” (May 1986).
34. THE CURE “Just Like Heaven” (May 1987).
35. GUNS N’ ROSES “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (August 1987).
36. PUBLIC ENEMY “Bring the Noise” (November 1987).
37. NIRVANA “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (September 1991).
38. DR. DRE featuring SNOOP DOGGY DOGG “Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang” (December 1992).
39. BRITNEY SPEARS “…Baby One More Time” (October 199 .
40. THE WHITE STRIPES “Fell in Love with a Girl” (July 2001).


40 Movies that changed the world (by Manuel Piñón):
1. MIKE NICHOLS “The Graduate” (1967).
2. STANLEY KUBRICK “2001: A Space Oddyssey” (196 .
3. DENNIS HOPPER “Easy Rider” (1969).
4. ROBERT ALTMAN “MASH” (1970).
5. DON SIEGEL “Dirty Harry” (1971).
6. FRANCIS F. COPPOLA “The Godfather” (1972).
7. WILLIAM FRIEDKIN “The Exorcist” (1973).
8. TOBE HOPPER “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974).
9. STEVEN SPIELBERG “Jaws” (1975).
10. MARTIN SCORSESE “Taxi Driver” (1976).
11. JOHN G. AVILDSEN “Rocky” (1976).
12. GEORGE LUCAS “Star Wars” (1977).
13. WOODY ALLEN “Annie Hall” (1977).
14. JOHN LANDIS “The Blues Brothers” (1980).
15. RIDLEY SCOTT “Blade Runner” (1982).
16. DAVID CRONENBERG “Videodrome” (1983).
17. BRIAN DE PALMA “Scarface” (1983).
18. JOHN HUGHES “The Breakfast Club” (1985).
19. ROBERT ZEMECKIS “Back to the Future” (1985).
20. DAVID LYNCH “Blue Velvet” (1986).
21. OLIVER STONE “Platoon” (1986).
22. KATSUHIRO OTOMO “Akira” (198 .
23. JAMES CAMERON “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” (1991).
24. JONATHAN DEMME “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991).
25. CLINT EASTWOOD “Unforgiven” (1992).
26. PAUL VERHOEVEN “Basic Instinct” (1992).
27. KEVIN SMITH “Clerks” (1994).
28. QUENTIN TARANTINO “Pulp Fiction” (1994).
29. BEN STILLER “Reality Bites” (1994).
30. JOHN LASSETER “Toy Story” (1995).
31. DAVID FINCHER “Se7en” (1995).
32. WES CRAVEN “Scream” (1996).
33. PETER & BOBBY FARRELLY “There’s Something About Mary” (199 .
34. JOEL COHEN “The Big Lebowsky” (199 .
35. PETER WEIR “The Truman Show” (199 .
36. ANDY & LARRY WACHOWSKI “The Matrix” (1999).
37. CAMERON CROWE “Almost Famous” (2000).
38. BAZ LUHRMANN “Moulin Rouge” (2001).
39. SAM RAIMI “Spiderman” (2002).
40. GORE VERBINSKI “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (2007).

Ugh, a safe and risk-less list if there’s one. Almost all are American mainstream movies (except “Akira” . Odd coming from a Spanish critic.


40 People that changed the world (by Darío Manrique):
1. Martin Luther King.
2. John Lennon.
3. Che Guevara.
4. Guy Debord.
5. Andy Warhol.
6. Meher Baba.
7. Monty Python.
8. Timothy Leary.
9. Anton LaVey.
10. Abbie Hoffman.
11. Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
12. Shere Hite.
13. Salvador Allende.
14. Muhammad Ali.
15. Milton Friedman.
16. Lech Walesa.
17. Pope John Paul II.
18. Jackie O.
19. Akio Morita.
20. Tony Wilson.
21. Nelson Mandela.
22. Homer Simpson.
23. Tim Berners-Lee.
23. Keith Haring.
25. The Tiananmen hero.
26. John Peel.
27. Larry Flint.
28. Steve Jobs.
29. Filo & Yang.
30. Valentino.
31. Michael Eavis.
32. Mijaíl Gorbachov.
33. Shawn Fanning.
34. Madonna.
35. Jean-Paul Gaultier.
36. Hillary Clinton.
37. Bill Gates.
38. Bansky.
39. Al Gore.
40. Maradona.


40 Books that changed the world (by Darío Vico):
1. GABRIEL G. MARQUEZ “Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)” (1967).
2. NORMAN MAILER “Armies of the Night” (196 .
3. STANISLAW NEM “Cyberiada (The Cyberiad)” (1967).
4. KURT VONNEGUT “Slaughterhouse-Five” (1969).
5. CHARLES BUKOWSKI “Notes of a Dirty Old Man” (1969).
6. PHILIP K. DICK “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (196 .
7. HUNTER S. THOMPSON “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1971).
8. ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN “Архипелаг ГУЛАГ (The Gulag Archipielago)” (1973).
9. J. G. BALLARD “Crash” (1973).
10. THOMAS PYNCHON “Gravity’s Rainbow” (1973).
11. THOMAS BERNHARD “Die Ursache (Gathering Evidence)” (1975).
12. ANNE RICE “Interview with the Vampire” (1976).
13. JIM CARROLL “The Basketball Diaries” (197 .
14. JOHN IRVING “The World According to Garp” (197 .
15. DOUGLAS ADAMS “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (197 .
16. MICHAEL ENDE “Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story)” (1979).
17. JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE “A Confederacy of Dunces” (1980).
18. RAYMOND CARVER “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” (1981).
19. SAM SHEPARD “Motel Chronicles” (1982).
20. WILLIAM GIBSON “Neuromancer” (1984).
21. BRETT EASTON ELLIS “Less Than Zero” (1985).
22. ORSON SCOTT CARD “Ender’s Game” (1985).
23. HARUKI MURAKAMI “Norwegian Wood” (1987).
24. TOM WOLFE “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (1987).
25. SALMAN RUSHDIE “The Satanic Verses” (198 .
26. PAUL AUSTER “Moon Palace” (1989).
27. HANIF KUREISHI “The Buddha of Suburbia” (1990).
28. ART SPIEGELMAN “Maus” (1991).
29. IRVINE WELSH “Trainspotting” (1993).
30. NICK HORNBY “High Fidelity” (1995).
31. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN “A Game of Thrones” (1996).
32. CHUCK PALAHNIUK “Fight Club” (1996).
33. DANIEL CLOWES “Ghost World” (1993-97).
34. J. K. ROWLING “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (1997).
35. MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ “Les particules élémentaires (The Elementary Particles)” (199 .
36. ALAN MOORE “From Hell” (1999).
37. NAOMI KLEIN “No Logo” (2000).
38. JEFFREY EUGENIDES “Middlesex” (2002).
39. MARK HADDON “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” (2004).
40. JOE HILL “Heart-Shaped Box” (2007).

However I like a lot the books list. I like the mix of novel, comics and essays. Lots of great ones on it: for instance Middlesex, Norwegian Wood, Maus and, of course, Gabriel G. Márquez magnum opus.

Is "changing the world" the same as being acclaimed? After all, Hitler changed the world.

That book list is horrible. Hardly any of those books changed the literary world let alone the actual world. They are good books but they are hardly revolutionary.

I think that goes for the movie list too and maybe even the music list. Poor choice of wording considering the lists.

The fact that they only include books from the late 1960s and onwards doesn't do the list much good either.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the Spanish Rolling Stone and there's not a single Spanish piece of art or Spanish person in there. How about a Buñuel or Almodovar movie? I'm also pretty sure Franco had a major effect on the world...probably more than Madonna at least (or Cortes if we want to go way back). Or (and this pisses me off most) how about Don "FRIGGEN" Quixote which, you know, kinda invented the novel? Seems pretty influential.

And, sorry to say, I think that the "Macarana" probably changed the world more than "Just Like Heaven," but that's me (not for the better of course).

Anyway, I'm gonna go hate Rolling Stone some more, especially the fact that they seemed to take a concerted effort to get the four Spaniards most obsessed with American culture and let them edit the "Spanish" Rolling Stone. How's that for editorial freedom?

Can we all just agree that Rolling Stone sucks ass?

"The fact that they only include books from the late 1960s and onwards doesn't do the list much good either."

It is a list of the past 40 years so anything earlier than that would kind of discredit their research skills.

I actually don't mind the list, I just think their wording is poor. It's not a typical "sacred cow" RS list. There are a lot of interesting, good books and movies. Even the music list isn't that standard. But, to say most of their list changed the world is absurd.

All four lists are abysmal, but 'Reality Bites' as a movie that "changed the world"?-that film sucked harder than Linda Lovelace.
Rolling Stone-shocking all over the world.

The Songs list was published in USA RS (and had been posted)- and, based on past lists, indeed would be eligible.

The other lists, far as I know, weren't published in USA RS.

It is a list of the past 40 years so anything earlier than that would kind of discredit their research skills.

The music list starts in 1954 so I don't see why the book list couldn't have started earlier, but I suppose the lists make a little more sense in that case.

Well, all i can do is mostly agree with all of you. Some points though:
- Like John pointed, it’s a selection of films and books from the period of the 40 years of the Magazine (from 1967 till 2007). However the song lists included many songs prior to this period (and it’s not from a Spanish writer, probably they simply reproduced the US-list, as JR said).
- And, yes, Slush, it’s ridiculous an all American list coming from a Spanish critic. You said it well, it’s absurd that lack of editorial freedom.
- Anyway, like any other list, it includes good songs, good books and good movies, it couldn’t be any other way. The ridiculous thing is the “changed the world” thing, with that pretentious title any list with “... Baby One More Time”, “Reality Bites”, “Jackie O.” or “Harry Potter” on it will suck for sure.

a big supporter of Britney Spears (woman just lacks), but "...Baby One More time" has gotten a decent amount of acclaim, so not shocking to see that track cited. it actually was included on Fuse's Ten Videos That Rocked the World series. But, with her, that's it, really, and maybe a couple other notable singles.