Great list, but the one song I would change for my own is Bennie and the Jets over Saturday Night's ....
Took a long time, but that weird rhythm of Bennie finally won me over. Hard to imagine very many people writing a song in that style and expect it to be popular. It's part of Glam Rock, which is hard to pin down if you aren't thinking about the outward appearance of a band. It's good rock, but there's an ambiguous freedom in it that isn't absolutely testosterone driven. For me, Bennie and the Jets is almost hypnotic with it's jabbing piano chords, the over-dubbed audience clapping along, the odd singing. Bizarrely fascinating.
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