

Ward to Bill Ward - as well as figures from the music industry and leading critics and journalists. To create the new version of the RS 500 we convened a poll of more than 250 artists, musicians, and producers - from Angelique Kidjo to Zedd, Sam Smith to Megan Thee Stallion, M. So we’ve decided to give the list a total reboot. But a lot has changed since 2004 back then the iPod was relatively new, and Billie Eilish was three years old. It’s one of the most widely read stories in our history, viewed hundreds of millions of times on this site. Check out last night’s Harrison and Clash covers below.In 2004, Rolling Stone published its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. MMJ also covered Erykah Badu’s Tyrone last night and on the first night at the Wiltern covered Elton John’s Rocket Man, The Band’s It Makes No Difference and Prince’s I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man. The first was a joint cover of George Harrison’s Isn’t It a Pity and then on a cover of The Clash’s Rock the Casbah for which Sam Beam held the lyric cue cards for Jim James. The two artists crossed paths twice on stage last night. We’ll write more later about My Morning Jacket’s raging 2-1/2 hour set and Iron & Wine’s (solo Sam Beam this time around as opposed to last year’s big band headlining show at the Wiltern) sublime opening segment (see setlist at bottom).

We would have preferred less of their obscurities and more of their most-highly-regarded songs, but we get it. Conceptually this makes for some very interesting setlists (see below the videos), and particularly for the band’s most rabid fans. We wondered down to LA last night for the second night of My Morning Jacket’s three-night residency at the Wiltern in which the band will play an entirely different set each of the three nights without repeating a single song over the course of the three nights.
