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Every few years, Rolling Stone updates their Top 500 songs list. They did that again in February 2024. I looked for an updated torrent and couldn't find one, so I created this one. If I didn't screw up, this has all 500 songs in Rolling Stone's latest list.

They are all FLAC.

You'll notice that every FLAC file has a corresponding TXT file.

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The text is the paragraph or two that Rolling Stone writes for each song. For example, here is the text in "#005 Nirvana 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' (1991).txt":

"Producer Butch Vig first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' in early
1991, on a boombox cassette recorded by bassist Krist Novoselic,
drummer Dave Grohl, and singer-guitarist-songwriter Kurt Cobain in a
barn in Tacoma, Washington. The fidelity was abysmal. Vig about to
work with Nirvana on their major-label debut, Nevermind could not
tell that the song would soon make underground Seattle rock the new
mainstream and catapult Cobain, a troubled young man with strict
indie-culture ethics, into mega-celebrity.\n'I could sort of hear the
'Hello, hello' part and the chords,' Vig said years later. 'But it
was so indecipherable that I had no idea what to expect.' 'Teen
Spirit' was Cobain's attempt to 'write the ultimate pop song,' he
said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies.
The insidious hooks also showed his admiration for John Lennon.
Cobain 'had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation,' Vig said,
'but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of
that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice.'\nSadly, by the time
of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late 1993, Cobain was tortured by the
obligation to play 'Teen Spirit' every night. 'There are many other
songs that I have written that are as good, if not better,' he
claimed. But few songs by any artist have reshaped rock and roll so
immediately, and permanently."

In the magazine, that's 3 paragraphs:

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Sorry, I should have formatted the text better. At least it's easy to get to. 🤔😆

I play music with VLC, which ignores the text files. If they present a problem on your music player, you can delete them or move them to a subfolder.

If you have an Apple ID, you can play the songs on the RS web site (but why would you?):

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In the "\0 Extras" folder:

195 2024 Songs that were 2004 Songs.txt
 
This was a by-product of how I found and renamed songs on my computer for this torrent. It might be interesting because you can observe (for example):

2024 Rank: 2 2004 Rank: 322 - Public Enemy - Fight The Power (1989).flac
 
Public Enemy's "Fight The Power" moved up from #322 (out of 500) to #2!

373 Performers in the 2024 Top 500. Beatles have the most songs; 11.txt
 
These are the performers with the most songs, e.g. Bob Dylan has 7 songs in this collection:

The Beatles 11
Bob Dylan 7
The Rolling Stones 7
Bruce Springsteen 5
David Bowie 5
Aretha Franklin 4
Elton John 4
Joni Mitchell 4
Marvin Gaye 4
Prince 4
Stevie Wonder 4
Beyonce 3
Bob Marley and the Wailers 3
Chuck Berry 3
Elvis Presley 3
Fleetwood Mac 3
James Brown 3
Led Zeppelin 3
Madonna 3
Michael Jackson 3
Neil Young 3
Outkast 3
R.E.M. 3
Radiohead 3
Taylor Swift 3
The Jimi Hendrix Experience 3
The Kinks 3
The Who 3
U2 3

The rest have 2 or fewer songs in the list.

Rolling Stone distributed their 500 descriptions across 10 web pages. This file has a link to each of those pages:

The 10 RollingStone pages listing Top 500 songs.txt

If you go to any of the 10 web pages, you'll find that it's really easy to navigate to the others. Very nice UI, RS!

To start this process, I wrote code to scrape data from the 10 web pages, to get the set of songs I had to gather. I captured each song's rank, performer, title, year and description. The last is what appears in the TXT files. This file:

The 500 songs for 2024 (scraped from RollingStone.com) - turn off wrap.txt

has all that data. The fields are tab-separated so the data can be pasted into Excel.

The 500 songs in this torrent are listed here:

The 500 Songs in this torrent.txt

I won't paste ALL of them into this description because the last time I did something like that, when I submitted the torrent, NONE of my torrent description was there. My guess is my description was too long because it included the titles of 355 movies.

Here are the top 30 songs:

#001 Aretha Franklin 'Respect' (1967).flac
#002 Public Enemy 'Fight the Power' (1989).flac
#003 Sam Cooke 'A Change Is Gonna Come' (1964).flac
#004 Bob Dylan 'Like a Rolling Stone' (1965).flac
#005 Nirvana 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' (1991).flac
#006 Marvin Gaye 'What's Going On' (1971).flac
#007 The Beatles 'Strawberry Fields Forever' (1967).flac
#008 Missy Elliott 'Get Ur Freak On' (2001).flac
#009 Fleetwood Mac 'Dreams' (1977).flac
#010 Outkast 'Hey Ya!' (2003).flac
#011 The Beach Boys 'God Only Knows' (1966).flac
#012 Stevie Wonder 'Superstition' (1972).flac
#013 The Rolling Stones 'Gimme Shelter' (1969).flac
#014 The Kinks 'Waterloo Sunset' (1967).flac
#015 The Beatles 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' (1963).flac
#016 Beyonce feat. Jay-Z 'Crazy in Love' (2003).flac
#017 Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (1975).flac
#018 Prince and the Revolution 'Purple Rain' (1984).flac
#019 John Lennon 'Imagine' (1971).flac
#020 Robyn 'Dancing on My Own' (2010).flac
#021 Billie Holiday 'Strange Fruit' (1939).flac
#022 The Ronettes 'Be My Baby' (1963).flac
#023 David Bowie 'Heroes' (1977).flac
#024 The Beatles 'A Day in the Life' (1967).flac
#025 Kanye West feat. Pusha T 'Runaway' (2010).flac
#026 Joni Mitchell 'A Case of You' (1971).flac
#027 Bruce Springsteen 'Born to Run' (1975).flac
#028 Talking Heads 'Once in a Lifetime' (1980).flac
#029 Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' (1992).flac
#030 Lorde 'Royals' (2011).flac

This torrent is being seeded by a seedbox, only my second torrent to do so. Please let me know if downloading seems sprightly.

Big Thanks (again) to those who create the torrents that I cobble together in these collections!

Enjoy!

Edit: I could not find 1 of the 500 songs: "#402 Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma 'Ella Baila Sola' (2023)". I found the official video for the song on Youtube and used VLC to extract the audio as a FLAC. So that song is the only one with three files: a FLAC, and TXT and (uniquely) an MP4 (the Youtube  video). I don't know if the FLAC sounds good, not knowing the song and being about half-deaf. 🤪 If someone will PM me a link so I can download the real FLAC, I'll add it to the collection. Thanks in advance!

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by Guest-1056
    on 2024-08-04 08:55:04
avatarfound the bous file :P #402 Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma 'Ella Baila Sola' (2023)
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by hoytster:_verified_uploader::_male::_kitty::_turtle:
    on 2024-08-04 12:03:41
avatarDing ding ding!

I looked hard for that song, no luck.
by hoytster:_verified_uploader::_male::_kitty::_turtle:
    on 2024-08-04 18:27:35
avatarIf someone will (please!) PM a link to that song, I'll add it to the collection and release an UPDATED version of the torrent.

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