It's all down to personal taste really, isn't it? Some people would consider the likes of Neu! and Can to be the dross the other poster was talking about!
Can't remember what their number 1 was - I was so disgusted I switched off (that being the reasonable alternative to hurling a pint glass at the tele, which also briefly went through my mind!)
The one the ultra trendy hosts (Hepworth and Ellen?) didn't show on the final show (a countdown of the best 20 (or 50 or 100 or whatever) best bits) because it wasn't their sort of trendy. Everybody was waiting for Freebird to come on - number 3? No.... Number 2? No...... Must be number 1 then...
The Very, Very Old Grey Whistle Test, then.
Actually, the Beeb do show a lot of OGWT stuff, in programmes like Guitar Heroes at the Beeb, Great Guitar Riffs at the Beeb, Motown at the Beeb, etc, etc. A lot of the footage in these programmes is from the OGWT.