Even if you just go by the “popular” songs i.e. songs that were singles rather than album tracks, it’s easy to make a list of songs missing from the Rolling Stone Top 500. Since there was serious discounting of songs from the 80s onwards (80s - 50+ songs, 90s - 20 songs, 00s - 3 songs), it was easy enough to come up with a quick list of some missing tunes:
The White Stripes “Fell In Love With a Girl”
The La’s “There She Goes”
Oasis “Wonderwall”
The Violent Femmes “Blister in the Sun”
a-ha “Take On Me”
Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence”
Massive Attack “Unfinished Sympathy”
Dexy’s Midnight Runners “Come On Eileen”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge”
The Bangles “Manic Monday”
New Order “Blue Monday”
Elastica “Stutter”
Portishead “Sour Times”
As for 50s-70s songs that they missed, again trying to just list singles:
The Jam “A Town Called Malice”
Smokey Robinson “Tears of a Clown”
The Supremes “You Can’t Hurry Love”
Martha and the Vandellas “(Our Love is Like A) Heat Wave”
Solomon Burke “Got to Get You Off My Mind”
The Jackson 5 “ABC”
The MC5 “Kick Out the Jams”
Dusty Springfield “Son of a Preacher Man”
Edwin Starr “War”
Good God, y’all. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.