Is this the greatest rock and roll song of all time? Or is it “Satisfaction”? Or is it “She Loves You”? Or is it “Shake, Rattle and Roll”? Or is it just whichever one you happen to be listening to at any given moment in time?
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It still might be “Satisfaction”.
Might be.
No one can deny its greatness. And yet a single line like this, from “Shake, Rattle and Roll”, gives one pause in not awarding it the crown — “I believe to my soul you’re the Devil in nylon hose.” Or is that too poetic? Does true greatness lie in simplicity? “She loves you, and you know that can’t be bad — she loves you, and you know you should be glad.” In any case, Bruce Springsteen summed it up best — “We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned school.”