Best rock song of all times

I don’t even know what "Rock" means. I know what Rock ’n’ Roll means, but my definition is different from that of younger Rockers, to whom Little Richard (Paul McCartney’s role model, along with Buddy Holly), Chuck Berry (John Lennon, Keith Richards, and Dave Edmunds role model), Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Bobby Fuller mean next-to-nothing. Barrett Strong’s recording of "Money (That’s What I Want)" is as tough a song as there is (the tone of the guitar playing the song’s trademark riff is SO wickedly cool!), but it came out on Motown Records, so can it be Rock? The Beatles liked the song enough to include on their first album; their version is good, Barrett’s is great.

Is "Like A Rolling Stone" Rock? It meets the op’s criteria, and still never fails to raise the hair on the back of my neck. To me, it’s the ultimate anthem song, along with Bobby Fuller’s recording of "I Fought The Law" (written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets). The Clash’s version of "IFTL" is definitely Rock, and simply dreadful. What a terrible, terrible band. I had to keep that opinion to myself when I was in Pearl Harbour’s band, as she had been married to their bassist Paul Simonon. One of the worst professional musicians in the entire history of recorded music, his "style" was to just play the root note of the chords the guitars were playing. A real knuckle-dragger ;-) .