MUSIC, FILMS, TV AND BOOKS THAT 'CHANGED THE WORLD'

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1. Bob Dylan
Like a Rolling Stone
2. Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel
3. The Beatles She Loves You
4. The Rolling Stones
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. The Godfather and The Godfather II
7. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
8. Taxi Driver
9. Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
10. The Prisoner

Dylan single 'changed the world'

Bob Dylan's song Like a Rolling Stone has topped a poll of rock and film stars to find the music, movies, TV shows and books that changed the world.
The 1965 single beat Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel into second place in the survey for Uncut magazine.

Sir Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher, Robert Downey Jr, Rolling Stone Keith Richards and Lou Reed were among those who gave their opinions.

Rocker Patti Smith said of the winning song: "It got me through adolescence."

Ex-Beatle Sir Paul picked Heartbreak Hotel as his number one choice.

He said: "It's the way [Presley] sings it as if he is singing from the depths of hell.
"His phrasing, use of echo, it's all so beautiful. Musically, it's perfect."

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange was the highest-placed movie at number five, followed by The Godfather and The Godfather II films.

The Prisoner was the top-ranking TV series at number 10 while Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road was the highest book, in 19th place.

Actors Edward Norton and Juliette Lewis and ex-Beach Boy Brian Wilson also took part in the poll, marking the magazine's 100th issue.

Uncut editor Allan Jones said: "This list has been a massive undertaking and considering which films have had a greater cultural impact than Bowie, for example, has fuelled many discussions.

"What we have been left with is Dylan as the most seminal artistic statement of the last five decades - but I'm sure others will disagree."

― petlover, Friday, 5 August 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

what a crock of shit.

― N_RQ, Friday, 5 August 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

i mean, even the small world of uncut readers wasn't much changed by 'taxi driver', was it? really? i wonder how many of these had even seen 'a clockwork orange' before 2000. maybe it changed the world then. yes. maybe the world changed, five years ago, when some uncut readers were allowed to see 'a clockwork orange'.

― N_RQ, Friday, 5 August 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

it's all very insulting. I just posted this here because I wanted ilx to bash the survey :)

― petlover, Friday, 5 August 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

feel free to bash uncut guv, ain't nothin' to do with me any more...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 August 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

oh, so you used to write for them? the horror!

― petlover, Friday, 5 August 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

i wonder how many of those Lex knows? 8)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 5 August 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

This list is fucking pathetic. How about The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, or The Communist Manifesto, or The Kinsey Report, or Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, or ...

Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road was the highest book, in 19th place.

*shoots self*

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 5 August 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

More interesting lists plz, e.g. Billy Bunter in Brazil, or Daphne and Celeste's We Didn't Say That!, or Ramsbottom Rides Again, or Conference of the Birds by Dave Holland.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 August 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

That's really quite a strange list, at least from a non-music point of view. I think The Prisoner is a very good TV show, but I wouldn't say that it changed much.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 5 August 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I would say that Star Trek was much more influential than The Prisoner, mostly for the way it changed fandom and introduced things like slash and conventions.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 5 August 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

I mean, honestly... Darwin's "The Origin of the Species", Machiavelli's "The Prince", Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"...

Anything written by Galileo... I mean, that literally changed the world, it made the sun stop going around it!!!

― Alec Tea-Skirt (kate), Friday, 5 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

But they didn't make any teenager girl wet her knickers, did they? Or if they did, I WANNA MEET THAT GIRL!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 5 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

AND MARRY HER!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 5 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

i wonder how many of those Lex knows? 8)

I have heard all the songs except 'Like A Rolling Stone'
I have seen none of the films except A Clockwork Orange

I don't think much of any of them. Boooooring.

Sir Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher, Robert Downey Jr, Rolling Stone Keith Richards and Lou Reed were among those who gave their opinions.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA IDIOTS AND FOOLS.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

EVEN THOUGH SHE'LL BE DEAD BY 500 YEARS NOW!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

I like how the reviewers forgot about culture before they were born, god forbid anything revolutionary happened before 1955. King James Bible? Eroica?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

NO ANCIENT SOCIAL CONVENTIONS SHOULD LIMIT A BEAUTIFUL BOND BETWEEN A CONSENTING ADULT AND A CADAVER!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

HA HA HA I HAVE CONTRARY OPINIONS. I AM AN "ORIGINAL".

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

(sorry Lex, wasn't picking on you, was genuinely interested on the generational aspects of these things and of holes in people's knowledge in general)

> I don't think much of any of them.

me neither. don't understand the world changing aspect of them, probably because all i've known is the 'changed' world. watched taxi driver again the other week and it was ok. and the best bit about clockwork orange is that it has darth vader / green cross man in it 8)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

LOOKEE ME! I ARE "ICONOCLAST"

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

???

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Hell, those didn't even change the "civilised" Western world, much less anywhere else.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I thought that Galileo and Machiavelli and Stravinsky and Marx were already dead in 1955...

― Frank van der Loo, Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

shit, i WISH The Prisoner was one of the top things that had changed the world...

but yeah, Star Trek with a lot more impact, etc

actually, you wanna know a list of books that (mostly) changed the world, usually for the better? Go dig up that list of "most harmful books of the 19th & 20th Century" that a buncha ultraconservatives put together earlier this year.

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

note: when Uncut say "changed the world" they do not actually mean "changed the world."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

i guess they did change the world in the sense that the world would be slightly different without "she loves you," taxi driver and the prisoner in it, but in that case it would also be a different world if i'd had a burrito for dinner instead of a sandwich.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

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