Listening to Aerosmith's "Dream On" and I got to feeling this song is really timeless -- I think it'd appeal to old rockers and young kids alike.

What are some other ones?

"Party Like It's 1999" -- Prince
"1984" -- David Bowie
"Summer of 69" -- Bryan Adams

I'm No Angel by Greg Allman

No Time: The Guess Who

It's my experience in concert-going that 70s classic rock still appeals to a wide spectrum of listeners. The dinosaur bands that I see attract a surprising number of younger fans, and it's the 70s stuff that really gets people on their feet. Even Paul McCartney goes about 50/50 Beatles to 70s, almost nothing from his 80s (and later) oeuvre.

This is very true. Classic rock radio stations continue to thrive over the decades, mostly playing the same songs by the same artists for 30+ years. It's impossible to deny the broad mass appeal of that stuff. You still see kids today with Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, and the like T-shirts. It's not my kind of music, but I'm weird, with screwed up off the wall tastes. To me, timeless is the Smiths or Delta Blues.

I think we're all tip-toeing around the obvious answer: The Devil Went Down to Georgia.

" The Pretender " - Jackson Brown
" What's Going On " - Marvin Gaye
" Sail Away " - Randy Newman
" Sprits in the Material World " - The Police
" Son of a Preacher Man " Dusty Springfield
" Tangled up in Blue " Bob Dylan
" Freddie's Dead " Curtis Mayfield
" Thunderball "- Tom Jones

If it's still being played on the radio twenty years or more after it was released, then it's timeless for all practical purposes - or as 'timeless' as anything can be in the context of popular music. I'm sure people in the 1920's thought George Gershwin's stuff was timeless, but tastes change, etc. It does seem like rock (as a genre) has lasted way, way longer than anyone expected it to.

WCBS-FM, which has been NYC's oldies station for decades, has risen to #1 in the market playing a mix of 70s and 80s hits. They've almost completely dropped stuff from the 60s, outside of the Beatles.

How ironic that the "modern rock" of the 80s is now oldies fodder.

I suspect shenanigans in this post.

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

This is a good list.

Piano Man - Billy Joel

"Dark Was The Night" by Blind Willie Johnson;an astonishing record.
All great music is timeless. No matter how music evolves,a record like "West End Blues" will always sound great.

Le Freak ce Chic.

There's an oldies station here that, when it started off, had this whole slogan about how they would never play anything recorded after 1989.

About three years in, they started playing some Nirvana, and the odd Sheryl Crow song...then some more recent Bon Jovi stuff, some early Foo Fighters....I suppose it's inevitable that the rules about what an 'oldie' is change as new generations of people come along.

What gave it away?

Lost track of this thread for a bit and forgot to add some of my additional selections —

The Beatles —

Get Back
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Something
Come Together
Revolution
Let It Be
Here Comes the Sun
Across the Universe

Boston —

More Than A Feeling
Peace Of Mind

Creedence Clearwater Revival —

Down on the Corner
Fortunate Son
Who'll Stop The Rain
Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

The Doors —

Break on Through (To the Other Side)
Light My Fire

The Foo Fighters —

Everlong
My Hero
Long Road to Ruin

Guns 'n Roses —

Sweet Child of Mine
Welcome to the Jungle
Paradise City
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Live and Let Die

The Jimi Hendrix Experience —

Purple Haze
Fire
Foxy Lady
Little Wing
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Journey —

Don't Stop Believin'

Pearl Jam —

Once
Even Flow
Alive
Black
Jeremy

The Police —

Message In A Bottle
Every Breath You Take
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Don't Stand So Close To Me
Roxanne

Radiohead —

Creep
High & Dry
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Black Star
(Nice Dream)
Paranoid Android
No Surprises

The Red Hot Chili Peppers —

Under the Bridge
Give It Away
Californication
Scar Tissue

Rolling Stones —

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Sympathy For The Devil
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Gimme Shelter
Start Me Up
The Harlem Shuffle

Smashing Pumpkins —

Disarm
Tonight, Tonight
1979

The Steve Miller Band —

The Joker

U2 —

Pride (In The Name Of Love)
New Year's Day
With Or Without You
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Where The Streets Have No Name

Queen —

Another One Bites the Dust
You're My Best Friend
We Are the Champions
We Will Rock You
Under Pressure
Radio GaGa

Weezer —

Buddy Holly
Say It Ain't So
In The Garage
Hash Pipe

That's enough for now.

You left out 2112 by Rush.

Good one!

In The Year 2525---timeless for another 511 years,anyway.