<p>Ok this is a subjective list of objective ratings (sorry for the bad title)</p>
<p>subjective=pick your 10 favorite songs</p>
<p>objective=pick the 10 greatest songs (which is still subjective, but not in every sense of the word)</p>
<p>Ok, I will try to give my reasoning.</p>
<p>You can just compare Hendrix to Jackson on the impact that they had to American History.
Jackson was way more popular to Hendrix, but Hendrix was the headline act for Woodstock, which was far more important.</p>
<p>Talent as in Hendrix was the lead guitarist and lead singer of a successful group-how many others can you say that about? Talent as in everyone that plays guitar tries to be like Hendrix. I don’t know if you can say the same for everyone in pop. I have to say that MJ was the greatest dancer of all time in music, but he got a lot of his moves from people like Fred Astaire. Hendrix revoluntionized guitar playing.</p>
<p>You can compare the lyrics to Redemption Song by Marley to Billie Jean by MJ and you can see that Marley was a better writer (this is obviously an opinion, but like I said, it’s not just mine-most magazines agree).</p>
<p>Michael Jackson had a really good voice, but it was limited (high range). Freddie Mercury could sing in any pitch, as he covered a lot more octives.</p>
<p>Elvis and MJ as a performer…that’s a lot harder. They were both super popular and were both great, but I like I said, look at Rolling Stone’s list (which is not my list-which is objective atleast that it is not biased by my view) and you can see that Elvis is way higher than MJ.</p>
<p>EDIT: MJ=Michael Jordan for me…first time I’ve actually used it for Jackson.</p>