Greatest Rock Songs of All Time? A survey of surveys...

Posted by Jim Burger on Jan 20, 2012

Every Thanksgiving, the New York classic rock station does a survey of the top 1,043 songs of all time. A couple of weeks ago I also came across a Boston station's survey. So I did a little research and found one from LA, too.

There are many similarities in the results -- a lot of the same titles pop up in the top 20 or so -- but it's interesting to see the differences in specific rankings. Here are links to the top finishers of all three:

New York (Q104.3)
Boston (100.7 WZLX)
Los Angeles (95.5 KLOS)

All of these are based on listener voting, so they reflect the opinions of the classic rock fan base in the 3 respective cities.

I had thought that Stairway to Heaven always wins these things, but apparently not in Boston, although it's still a Zep tune that comes out on top (Kashmir? Really? No wonder I decided not to live in Boston!). Strangely, the citizens of these 3 great cities can't even agree on the top tune by the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin or Pink Floyd.

Source: http://www.q1043.com/common/top_songs/2011.html