Saturday, July 26, 2014

1,000 Posts 100 Songs


This is my thousandth post on here. So I thought I'd post 100 favourite songs by a hundred favourite artists. Not the best songs ever written necessarily but favourites of mine. Many will remain there forever. The next 100 will come a thousand posts further down the line.

1. The Go-Betweens - Cattle & Cane
2. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues
3. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
4. Can - Vitamin C
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
6. David Bowie - Golden Years
7. Vince Taylor - Brand New Cadillac
8. Toots & the Maytals - 54-46 Was My Number
9. James Brown - Hot Pants
10. R.E.M. - Harborcoat
11. Dion - I Was Born To Cry
12. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
13. Ken Boothe - Everything I Own
14. The Clash - London Calling
15. The Ronettes - Be My Baby
16. ? & the Mysterians - 96 Tears
17. Mink De Ville - Spanish Stroll
18. The Cramps - Human Fly
19. Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
20 The Shins - New Slang
21. The Ramones - Rockaway Beach
22. Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache
23. The Jaynettes - Sally Go Round the Roses
24. PIL - Public Image
25. Television - Venus
26. Aztec Camera - The Boy Wonders
27. Anne Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain
28. Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
29. The Who - Pinball Wizard
30. Echo & the Bunnymen - The Cutter
31. Jackson 5 - The Love You Save
32. The Stooges - Down on the Street
33. The Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll
34. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
35. Scott Walker - Montague Terrace
36. Big Star - September Gurls
37. Missy Elliot - Get Your Freak On
38. The Strokes - The Modern Age
39. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
40. The Triffids - Wide Open Road
41. LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
42. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
43. Al Green - Tired of Being Alone
44. The 13th Floor Elevators - You're Going to Miss Me
45.  Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day
46. The New York Dolls - Trash
47. The Smiths - Jeane
48. Subway Sect - Ambition
49. The Undertones - It's Going to Happen
50. Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno
51. The Kinks - Shangri-La
52. Frank Sinatra - It Was a Very Good Year
53. The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
54. The Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight
55. The Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas
56. Aretha Franklin - I Say a Little Prayer
57. Dionne Warwick - This Girl's in Love With You
58. The Byrds (So You Want to Be) a Rock'n'Roll Star
59. Patti Smith - Piss Factory
60. The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You
61. The Sonics - Strychnine
62. The Chills - Pink Frost
63. Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
64. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
65. Ray Charles - What I'd Say
66. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
67. Nick Drake - At the Chime of the City Clock
68. Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
69. Serge Gainsbourg - Initials B.B.
70. Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?
71. Love - A House is not a Motel
72. Them - It's All Over Now Baby Blue
73. The Crystals - (He Hit Me) and it Felt like a Kiss
74. Petula Clark - Don't Sleep in the Subway
75. Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
76. Talking Heads - Heaven
77. Marsha Hunt - Walk on Gilded Splinters
78. Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
79. The Rolling Stones - Time is on my Side
80. Tom Waits - Step Right Up
81. Gram Parsons - She
82. The Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do is Dream
83. Micky & Sylvia - Love Is Strange
84. Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions
85. Joy Division - Transmission
86. Jacques Dutronc - Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi
87. Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York
88. Suicide - Rocket USA
89. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
90. Max Romeo - War in a Babylon
91. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
92. Pulp - I Spy
93. Lee Hazlewood - My Autumn's Done Gone
94 The Replacements - Unsatisfied
95. Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
96. The Doors - LA Woman
97. Elvis Costello - Alison
98. Pixies - Bone Machine
99. Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Song
100. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rollin' Stone

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