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The Guardian Albums Of The Year 2012
As appeared on the Guardian Web Site During December 2012
1. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
2. Grimes – Visions
3. Jessie Ware – Devotion
4. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
5. Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, MAAD City
6. Tame Impala – Lonerism
7. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
8. The xx – Coexist
9. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
10. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe
11. Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
12. Django Django – Django Django
13. Chromatics – Kill for Love
14. Grizzly Bear – Shields
15. Cooly G – Playin' Me
16. Taylor Swift – Red
17. Lana Del Rey – Born to Die
18. Saint Etienne – Words and Music by Saint Etienne
19. Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes
20. Plan B – Ill Manors
21. Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
22. The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
23. Jam City – Classical Curves
24. Dawn Richard – Armor On
25. Actress – RIP
26. Bright Light, Bright Light – Make Me Believe in Hope
27. Poliça – Give You the Ghost
28. Tribes – Baby
29. Jack White – Blunderbuss
30. Angel Haze – Reservation
31. Marina and the Diamonds – Electra Heart
32. Farrah Abraham – My Teenage Dream Ended
33. Mala – Mala in Cuba
34. Dexys – One Day I'm Going to Soar
35. Nite Jewel – One Second of Love
36. Beach House – Bloom
37. Orbital – Wonky
38. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver…..
39. Killer Mike – RAP Music
40. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Tracks Of 2012
1. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
2. Usher – Climax
3. Plan B – Ill Manors
4. Jessie Ware – 110%
5. Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
6. Jai Paul – Jasmine
7. Solange – Losing You
8. Savages – Husbands
9. Zebra Katz – Ima Read
10. Blur – Under The Westway
11. Major Lazer – Get Free
12. AlunaGeorge – Your Drums, Your Love
13. Miguel – Adorn
14. Grimes – Oblivion
15. Haim – Forever
16. TNGHT – Higher Ground
17. Polica – Lay Your Cards Out
18. Dean Blunt – The Narcissist
19. Sky Ferreira – Everything Is Embarrassing
20. Rihanna – Where Have You Been
100 Best Albums Ever
As appeared in The Guardian - UK daily broadsheet newspaper, on September 19th 1997.
As voted for by a panel of judges including Artists, Critics & DJ's from around the world.
See also:
›› Paul Gambaccini Lists
›› Channel 4/Guardian The Millennium List
Thanks to Skuds at the Spizz Site for supplying this list.
1. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
2. The Beatles - Revolver
3. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
4. Nirvana - Nevermind
5. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
6. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
7. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
8. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
9. The Beatles - The White Album
10. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
11. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
12. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
13. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
14. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
15. Radiohead - The Bends
16. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
17. The Clash - London Calling
18. Oasis (What's the Story) - Morning Glory
19. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
20. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
21. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
22. The Beatles - Abbey Road
23. Lou Reed - Transformer
24. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
25. The RoIlIng - Stones Exile On Main Street
26. REM - Automatic For The People
27. The RolIIng Stones - Let It Bleed
28. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
29. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
30. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
31. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty Dread
32. Patti Smith - Horses
33. Television - Marquee Moon
34. The Clash - The Clash
35. Joni Mitchell - Blue
36. Portishead - Dummy
37. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
38. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key of Life
39. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
40. The Verve - A Northern Soul
41. John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
42. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
43. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
44. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
45. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
46. Aretha Franklin - Queen of Soul
47. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
48. Alanis Morisette - Jagged little pill
49. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
50. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
51. The Jam - All Mod Cons
52. The Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
53. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
54. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend
55. Garbage - Garbage
56. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
57. U2 - The Joshua Tree
58. The Who - Who's Next?
59. The Beastie Boys - Licence To III
60. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
61. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
62. David Bowie - Low
63. Tricky - Maxinquaye
64. Ian Dury and the Blockheads - New Boots And Panties
65. TheRamones - TheRamones
66. The Beach Boys - Sunflower.
67. The Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
68. Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
69. Paul Simon - Graceland
70. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
71. U2 - Achtung Baby
72. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
73. The Smiths - The Smiths
74. James Brown - Live At The Apollo
75. Pulp - Different Class
76. The Doors - The Doors
77. David Bowie - Heroes
78. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
79. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Live!
80. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus
81. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
82. Goldie - Timeless
83. The Pixies - Doolittle
84. The Beatles - 1962-66
85. The Cocteau - Twins Treasure
86. Prince - Sign 'O' The Times
87. The Specials - The Specials
88. ABC - Lexicon Of Love
89. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
90. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
91. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
92. Adam and the Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
93. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For.The Young Soul Rebels
94. Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swinging Lover.s
95. Joy Division - Closer.
96. The Pretenders - The Pretenders
97. REM - Out Of Time
98. Stereo - MC's Connected
99. John Lennon - Imagine
100. Augustus Pablo
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Top 100 (Even though there are 102 albums) Albums That Don’t Appear In All The Other Top 100 Albums Of All Time.
Big Thanks to Mike Gardner for supplying this list.
See Also:
›› The Wire who also compiled a list with similar criteria.
This list appeared in the Guardian Friday Review on 29th January 1999. Tom Cox compiled it.
Some notes – A panel of 50 hand picked critics and music makers compiled the list. The brief was to select their top 20 all time favourite albums that don’t appear in most of the other all time top 100 albums. See the ultimate album lists #1 & 2 for a rough idea of the exclusions. They were also excluded from selecting albums that were less than 2 years old (to prevent the farce of having an album 3 months old at number one, as in the Q reader’s poll in 1998). A personal note: No Bob Marley albums – although only Legend was excluded!
1. Nick Drake – Bryter Later - 1970
2. Tom Waits – Rain Dogs - 1985
3. The Band – The Band - 1969
4. Gene Clarke – No Other – 1974
5. Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left – 1969
6. The Beatles – A Hard Days Night – 1964
7. Curtis Mayfield – Curtis – 1970
8. Todd Rundgren – A Wizard And A Star – 1973
9. George Harrison – All Things Must Pass – 1970
10. Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything – 1972
11. Pink Floyd – Piper At The Gates Of Dawn – 1967
12. Bid Star – Radio City – 1974
13. The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Guilded Palace Of Sin – 1969
14. Earth Wind & Fire – I Am – 1979
15. Jeff Buckley – Grace - 1994
16. My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything – 1988
17. Scott Walker – Scott 4 – 1969
18. Buffalo Springfield – Again – 1967
19. Laura Nyro – New York Tendaberry – 1969
20. Sly And The Family Stone – Fresh – 1973
21. The Beach Boys – Holland
22. Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels – 1980
23. Joni Mitchell – Court And Spark – 1974
24. The Boo Radleys – Giant Steps – 1993
25. Steely Dan – Countdown To Ecstasy – 1973
26. Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis – 1969
27. John Cale – Music For A New Society – 1982
28. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure – 1973
29. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain - 1971
30. Blue Nile – Hats – 1989
31. Public Enemy – Fear Of A Black Planet – 1990
32. Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man - 1988
33. Talking Heads – Fear Of Music – 1979
34. Chic – Risqué – 1979
35. Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells A Story – 1971
36. Joni Mitchell – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns – 1975
37. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme – 1965
38. Iggy & The Stooges – Raw Power – 1973
39. Lou Reed – Berlin – 1973
40. Tim Hardin – Tim Hardin 2 – 1967
41. The Stooges – Fun House – 1970
42. Suicide – Suicide – 1980
43. David Bowie – Young Americans – 1975
44. Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night – 1975
45. Run Dmc – Raising Hell – 1986
46. Aretha Franklin – Young Gifted And Black – 1972
47. Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom – 1974
48. Captain Beefheart – Clear Spot – 1972
49. The Band – Music From Big Pink – 1968
50. Tom Waits – The Heart Of Saturday Night – 1974
51. Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Don’t Stand Me Down – 1985
52. The Jayhawks – Hollywood Town Hall – 1992
53. Public Image Ltd – Metal Box – 1979
54. Husker Du – Warehouse: Songs & Stories – 1987
55. Grateful Dead – Live Dead – 1970
56. Moby Grape – Moby Grape – 1967
57. Pavement – Slanted And Enchanted – 1992
58. Miles Davis – Sketches Of Spain – 1960
59. The Beach Boys – Today – 1965
60. Laura Nyro – Eli And The Thirteenth Confession – 1968
61. The Slits – Cut – 1979
62. Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Aye – 1982
63. Al Green – The Belle Album – 1977
64. Roxy Music – Stranded – 1973
65. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground – 1969
66. Little Feat – Dixie Chicken – 1973
67. Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance – 1977
68. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85- 92 – 1992
69. Kraftwerk – Radioactivity – 1975
70. The Velvet Underground – Loaded – 1970
71. Neil Young – On The Beach – 1974
72. The Everly Brothers – Roots – 1968
73. Blondie – Eat To The Beat - 1979
74. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love –1995
75. Todd Rundgren – Todd – 1974
75. Jane Siberry – When I Was A Boy – 1993
76. Big Star – Sister Lovers – 1979
77. The Zombies – Odessey (Sic) And The Oracle – 1968
78. Ar Kane – Sixty Nine – 1988
79. Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul – 1969
80. Nick Drake – Pink Moon – 1972
81. The Mothers Of Invention – We’re Only In It For The Money – 1968
82. The Beach Boys – Sunflower – 1970
83. Neil Young – Arc/Weld – 1991
84. Husker Du – Zen Arcade – 1984
85. The Rolling Stones – Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out – 1970
86. Crowded House – Temple Of Love – 1988
87. Tim Buckley – Starsailor – 1970
88. The Doors – Strange Days – 1967
89. Van Morrison – Tupelo Honey – 1971
89. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew – 1969
90. The Lilac Time – Paradise Circus – 1989
91. Al Green – Al Green Is Love – 1975
92. REM – Lifes Rich Pageant – 1986
93. Beach Boys – Summer Days (And Summer Nights) – 1965
94. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – 1994
95. The Millennium – Begin – 1968
96. Prefab Sprout – Steve McQeen – 1985
97. TLC – Crazy Sexy Cool – 1995
98. Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders – 1993
99. Iggy Pop – The Idiot – 1977
100. Dr John – Gris Gris – 1968
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Found on The Gardian web site in September 2019
For a full rundown and album summery, goto The Gardian - Here
1. Amy Winehouse - Back To Back - 2006
2. The Strokes - Is This It - 2001
3. Kenye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantacy - 2010
4. Kendrick Lamar - To Pinp A Butterfly - 2015
5. Lcd Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver - 2007
6. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner - 2003
7. The Streets - Original Pirate Material - 2002
8. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am. That’s What I'm Not - 2006
9. Beyonce - Beyonce - 2013
10. Frank Ocean - Blond - 2016
11. Radiohead - In Rainbows - 2007
12. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange - 2012
13. D'angelo - Voodoo - 2000
14. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City - 2012
15. Robyn - Body Talk - 2010
16. Radiohead - Kid A - 2000
17. Outkast - Stankonia - 2000
18. Kanye West - Yeezus - 2013
19. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - 2000
20. Arcade Fire - Funeral - 2004
21. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake - 2011
22. Joanna Newsom - Ys - 2006
23. Outkasy - Spaekerboxxx/The Love Below - 2003
24. David Bowie - Blackstar - 2016
25. Beyonce - Lemonade - 2016
26. The XX - The XX - 2009
27. Bjork - Vespertine - 2001
28. Aaliyah - Aaliyah - 2001
29. Deftones - White Pony - 2000
30. Jay-Z - The Blueprint - 2001
31. Burial - Untrue - 2007
32. MIA - Arular - 2005
33. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago - 2007
34. The Avalanches - Since I Left You - 2000
35. Daft Punk - Discovery - 2001
36. Grimes - Visions - 2012
37. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell - 2015
38. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell - 2003
39. Britney Spears - Blackout - 2007
40. Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now - 2005
41. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra - 2011
42. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command - 2000
43. Kendrick Lamar - Damn - 2017
44. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City - 2013
45. Portishead - Third - 2008
46. Grimes - Art Angels - 2015
47. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods - 2005
48. The White Stripes - Elephant - 2003
49. D'angelo - Black Messiah - 2014
50. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights - 2002
51. The Microphones - The Glow Pt.2 - 2001
52. N.E.R.D. - In Search Of… - 2001
53. St Vincent - St Vincent - 2014
54. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream - 2014
55. St Vincent - Strange Mercy - 2011
56. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein - 2001
57. Amy Winehouse - Frank - 2003
58. J Dilla - Donuts - 2006
59. Joanelle Monae - The Archandroid - 2010
60. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala - 2007
61. Kanye West - The College Dropout - 2004
62. The Knife - Silent Shout - 2006
63. Jay-Z - The Black Album - 2003
64. Kelis - Tasty - 2003
65. Primal Scream - XTMNTR - 2000
66. Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor - 2001
67. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP - 2000
68. The National - Boxer - 2007
69. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend - 2008
70. Lana Del Boy - Born To Die - 2012
71. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark - 2010
72. Lilly Allen - Alright, Still - 2006
73. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury - 2007
74. Salif Keita - Moffou - 2002
75. MIA - Kala - 2007
76. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers - 2009
77. The Bug - London Zoo - 2008
78. Drake - Take Care - 2011
79. Kanye West - Late Registration - 2005
80. Lady Gaga - The Fame - 2008
81. Madvillain - Madvillainy - 2004
82. Yo La Tengo - And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out - 2000
83. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree - 2016
84. Konono No1 - Congotronics - 2004
85. Chromatics - Kill For Love - 2012
86. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 - 2000
87. Justin Timberlake - Justified - 2002
88. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes - 2008
89. Taylor Swift - 1989 - 2014
90. Katy B - On A Mission - 2011
91. Ali Farka Toure And Toumani Diabate - In The Heart Of The Moon - 2005
92. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) - 2008
93. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire - 2001
94. Peaches - The Teaches Of Peaches - 2000
95. Charli XCX - Pop 2 - 2017
96. Missy Elliott - Miss E… So Addictive - 2001
97. Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue - 2005
98. Rokia Traore - Tchamantche - 2008
99. Rihanna - Anti- - 2016
100. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is…. - 2012
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Guardian - UK
1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die (November 2007)
Alphabetical order. This does not necessarily follow the original list. One album per artist. Though this rule is relaxed if the artist is listed as working with someone else [ie Brian Eno is also allowed the Brian Eno & David Byrne album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts].
Thanks to Steve Parker For Typing This List Up
o Aaliyah - Aaliyah (2001)
o Los de Abajo - Cybertropic Chilango Power
o ABBA - Visitors
o ABC - Lexicon of Love
o Rabih Abou-Khalil - Cactus of Knowledge
o Above the Law - Livin’ Like Hustlers
o Abyssinians - Forward Onto Zion
o AC/DC - Powerage
o Acoustic Ladyland - Last Chance Disco
o Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
o Cannonball Adderley - Somethin’ Else
o King Sunny Adé & His African Beats - Juju Music
o Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts
o Christina Aguilera - Stripped
o a-ha - Hunting High & Low
o Mahmoud Ahmed - Éthiopiques Vol 7: Erè Mèla Mèla
o Air - Moon Safari
o Alice Cooper - Killer
o All Saints - All Saints
o Lily Allen - Alright, Still
o Ellen Allien - Thrills
o Mose Allison - Back Country Suite
o Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche à Bamako
o Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
o Laurie Anderson - Big Science
o Vicki Anderson - Mother Popcorn: Anthology
o Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
o Aphrodite’s Child - 666
o AR Kane - 69
o Arcade Fire - Funeral
o Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
o Neil Ardley - Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises
o Julian Argüelles - Escapade
o Louis Armstrong - Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven
o Art Ensemble of Chicago - Full Force
o Associates - Sulk
o Association - Birthday
o Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
o Avalanches - Since I Left You
o Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy
o Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity
o Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
o Babyface - Tender Lover
o Burt Bacharach - Make it Easy on Yourself
o Bad Brains - Banned in DC: Bad Brains’ Greatest Riffs
o Bad Plus - Give
o Erykah Badu - Baduizm
o Derek Bailey - Ballads
o Gato Barbieri - Last Tango in Paris: Soundtrack
o Syd Barrett - Madcap Laughs
o John Barry & Various Artists - Midnight Cowboy: Soundtrack
o Basement Jaxx - Remedy
o Count Basie - Complete American Decca Recordings
o Basquiat Strings - With Seb Rochford
o Beach Boys - Today!
o Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
o Beat (UK) - I Just Can’t Stop It
o Beatles - Rubber Soul
o Sidney Bechet - Shake ‘Em Up: 1938-1947
o Beck - Mellow Gold
o Bee Gees - Odessa
o Bee Gees & Various Artists - Saturday Night Fever: Soundtrack
o Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
o Bellowhead - Burlesque
o Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Novo
o Tim Berne - Science Friction
o Chuck Berry - Reelin’ & Rockin’: Very Best of...
o Beta Band - Three EPs
o Betty Boo - Boomania
o B-52’s - B-52’s (1979)
o Bhundu Boys - Shed Sessions
o Big Black - Songs About Fucking
o Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills
o Big Star - Radio City
o Big Youth - Screaming Target
o Bikini Kill - Singles
o Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
o Biz Markie - Goin’ Off
o Björk - Debut
o Cilla Black - Abbey Road Decade: 1963-1973
o Black Flag - First Four Years
o Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
o Black Uhuru - Red
o Blackstreet - Blackstreet
o Art Blakey - A Night at Birdland: Vol 1
o Carla Bley - Escalator Over the Hill
o Mary J Blige - Share My World
o Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
o Blondie - Parallel Lines
o Blue Ash - No More, no Less
o Blue Magic - Best of...
o Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
o Colin Blunstone - One Year
o Blur - Parklife
o Blurt - Fish Needs a Bike: Best of… Vol 1
o Bo Diddley - Story of Bo Diddley (2006)
o Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
o Curt Boettcher - Misty Mirage
o Dock Boggs - Complete Early Recordings
o Stefano Bollani - Piano Solo
o Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
o Bonzo Dog Band - Cornology
o Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
o Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
o David Bowie - Low
o Billy Bragg - Brewing Up with Billy Bragg
o Brandy - Afrodisiac
o Anthony Braxton - For Alto (1969)
o Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage
o Breeders - Pod
o Anne Briggs - A Collection
o Broadcast - Haha Sound
o Broken Family Band - Welcome Home, Loser
o Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun
o James Brown - Live at the Apollo (1963)
o Ruth Brown - Best of...
o Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
o Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
o Jeff Buckley - Grace
o Tim Buckley - Dream Letter: Live in London, 1968
o Roy Budd - Get Carter: Soundtrack
o Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
o Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
o Burial - Burial (2006)
o Rahul Dev Burman - Sholay: Soundtrack
o Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
o Gary Burton Quartet - Country Roads & Other Places
o Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
o Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
o Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
o Cabaret Voltaire - Original Sound of Sheffield 83-87
o John Cale - Paris 1919
o Camille (Camille Dalmais) - Le Fil
o Glen Campbell - 20 Golden Greats
o Can - Tago Mago
o Vinicius Cantuaria - Sol Na Cara
o Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot (1973)
o John Carpenter - Assault on Precinct 13: Soundtrack
o Carpenters - Singles: 1969-1973
o James Carr - Complete Goldwax Singles
o Betty Carter - Droppin’ Things
o Eliza Carthy - Rough Music
o Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbrick - Byker Hill
o Johnny Cash - At San Quentin
o Cat Power - The Greatest
o Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
o Ce’Cile - Bad Gyal
o Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green is the Soul Machine
o Central Line - Breaking Point
o A Certain Ratio - Early
o Chairmen of the Board - Skin I’m In
o Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
o Manu Chao - Clandestino: Esperando la Ultima Ola…
o Charlatans - Charlatans (1995)
o Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music
o Cheap Trick - In Color
o Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
o Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
o Chic - Risqué
o Chi-Lites - A Lonely Man
o Chills - Heavenly Pop Hits
o Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbert
o Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Orchestra - Solo Flight: 1939-1941
o Lou Christie - Paint America Love
o Church - Heyday
o Gene Clark - With the Gosdin Brothers
o Clash - On Broadway
o Jimmy Cliff & Various Artists - Harder They Come: Soundtrack
o Patsy Cline - Showcase (1961)
o Clipse - Hell Hath no Fury
o cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
o Cluster & Eno - Cluster & Eno
o Eddie Cochran - Legendary Masters Series
o Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
o Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man
o Coldcut - Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness
o Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
o Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
o Ornette Coleman Quartet - This is Our Music
o Steve Coleman - Motherland Pulse
o Judy Collins - Wildflowers
o Lyn Collins - Mama Feelgood: Best of...
o Shirley Collins & Davy Graham - Folk Roots, New Routes
o John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
o Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun
o Commodores - Very Best of the...
o Common - Electric Circus
o Company (Derek Bailey, etc) - Company 5
o Congos - Heart of the Congos
o Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music
o Sam Cooke - Night Beat
o John Cooper Clarke - Snap Crackle & Bop
o Julian Cope - Fried
o Ruth Copeland - Self Portrait
o Coral - Coral
o Chick Corea - Light as a Feather
o Elvis Costello [Costello Show] - King of America
o Cotton Mather - Kontiki
o Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Session
o Kevin Coyne - Marjory Razorblade
o Cramps - Off the Bone
o Crass - Stations of the Crass
o Crazy Horse - Crazy Horse
o Cream - Disraeli Gears
o Creation - Our Music is Red, with Purple Flashes
o Cristina (Cristina Palaci) - Sleep it Off
o David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name...
o Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night
o CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
o Culture Club - Colour By Numbers
o Culture - Two Sevens Clash
o Cure - Pornography
o Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
o Holger Czukay - Movies
o DAF - Gold und Liebe
o Daft Punk - Discovery
o Karen Dalton - It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best
o Damned - Damned Damned Damned
o Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
o De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising
o Decemberists - Her Majesty... the Decemberists
o Deep Purple - Machine Head
o Sam Dees - Show Must Go On
o Def Leppard - Hysteria
o Delfonics - La La Means I Love You
o Destiny’s Child - Survivor
o Damien Dempsey - Seize the Day
o Denim - Back in Denim
o Sandy Denny - Sandy (1972)
o Depeche Mode - Violator
o Derek & the Dominos - Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
o Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
o Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
o Neil Diamond - 12 Songs
o Bo Diddley - Story of Bo Diddley (2006)
o Dillinger - CB200
o Dinosaur Jr - You’re Living All Over Me
o Dion - Born to Be with You
o Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
o Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
o Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
o DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
o Dr Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town
o Dr Dre - The Chronic
o Dr John - Gris Gris.
o Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonecologyst
o Thomas Dolby - Flat Earth
o Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
o Fats Domino - Jukebox (2002)
o Donovan - Sunshine Superman
o Doors - Doors
o Dave Douglas - Charms of the Night Sky
o Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
o Dramatics - Best of the... (1986)
o Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine & Roses
o Drifters - Definitive (2003)
o Duran Duran - Rio
o Durutti Column - Return of the Durutti Column
o Bob Dylan - Biography
o Earl Brutus - Your Majesty... We Are Here
o Steve Earle - Just an American Boy
o Earth, Wind & Fire - All ‘n All
o Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
o Edan - Beauty & the Beat
o Eek-a-Mouse - Wa-Do-Dem
o 801 - Live
o 808 State - Ex:El
o Elastica - Elastica
o Duke Ellington - At Newport (1956)
o Duke Ellington with Max Roach & Charles Mingus - Money Jungle
o Missy ‘Misdemeanour’ Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
o Lorraine Ellison - Stay with Me: Best of...
o Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
o En Vogue - Funky Divas
o Brian Eno - Another Green World
o Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
o Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
o ESG - A South Bronx Story
o Eurythmics - Touch
o Bill Evans Trio - Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961
o Gil Evans - Individualism of Gil Evans
o Everly Brothers - In Our Image
o Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
o Césaria Évora - Café Atlantico
o Faces - A Nod is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse
o Donald Fagen - Nightfly
o John Fahey - Days Have Gone By
o Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
o Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
o Fall - Perverted By Language
o Ali Farka Touré - Savane
o Fatboy Slim - You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
o Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt
o Faust - Faust Tapes
o Felt - Stains on a Decade
o Ibrahim Ferrer - Buenos Hermanos
o Pedro Luis Ferrer - Rustico
o Bryan Ferry - Bride Stripped Bare
o Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird’s Bark
o Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
o Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
o Flatlanders - More a Legend Than a Band
o Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
o Flying Burrito Brothers - Out of the Blue
o Celso Fonseca - Natural
o Roberto Fonseca - Zamazu
o Forest - Full Circle
o Forever Amber - Love Cycle
o Four Tops - Reach Out
o Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
o Franco & OK Jazz - Originalité
o Jackson C Frank - Jackson C Frank
o Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
o Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way That I Love You
o Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
o Free - Fire & Water
o Free Design - Sing for Very Important People
o Von Freeman - Young & Foolish
o Bill Frisell - Have a Little Faith
o Fugazi - 13 Songs
o Fugees - The Score
o Fugs - First Album
o Fun Boy Three - Fun Boy Three
o Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
o Nelly Furtado - Loose
o Billy Fury - Sound of Fury
o Future Sound of London - Accelerator
o Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel [IV, aka Security]
o Serge Gainsbourg - Comic Strip
o Galaxie 500 - On Fire
o Gang of Four - Entertainment!
o Gang Starr - Step in the Arena
o Jan Garbarek - 12 Moons
o Gastr del Sol - Serpentine Similar
o Mary Gauthier - Filth & Fire
o Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
o Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
o Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
o Bobbie Gentry - Delta Sweete
o Stan Getz - Jazz Samba
o Ghostface Killah - Ironman
o Robin Gibb - Robin’s Reign
o Michael Gibbs - Michael Gibbs (1970)
o Gilberto Gil - Early Years
o Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
o Dana Gillespie - Foolish Seasons
o Dizzy Gillespie - Cubana Be, Cubana Bop
o Ginuwine - Bachelor
o Paul Giovanni & Magnet - Wicker Man: Soundtrack
o Girls Aloud - Sound of Girls Aloud: Greatest Hits
o Egberto Gismonti - Selected Works
o Robert Glasper - In My Element
o Global Communication - 76:14
o Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
o Go-Betweens - Tallulah
o Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
o Luiz Gonzaga - Focus: O Essential de Luiz Gonzaga
o Rubén Gonzalez - Introducing...
o Good, the Bad & the Queen - Good, the Bad & the Queen
o Benny Goodman - At Carnegie Hall, January 16th 1938
o Gorillaz - Demon Days
o Gotan Project - Revancha del Tango
o Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump
o Grateful Dead - American Beauty
o Green On Red - Here Come the Snakes
o Guided By Voices - Human Amusements at Hourly Rates: Best of...
o Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
o Trilok Gurtu - 20 Years of Talking Tabla
o Margo Guryan - Take a Picture
o Woody Guthrie - Legend of American Folk Blues: Very Best of...
o Merle Haggard - Hag: Best of Merle Haggard
o Hall & Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette
o Peter Hammill - Love Songs
o Herbie Hancock - Takin’ Off
o Handsome Boy Modeling School - So... How’s Your Girl?
o Happy Mondays - Bummed
o Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 2
o Françoise Hardy - La Question
o Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia
o Roy Harper - Stormcock
o Richard Harris - Yard Went on Forever
o PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
o Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything
o Coleman Hawkins - Body & Soul: 1939-1956
o Hawkwind - Space Ritual
o Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
o Lee Hazlewood - Love & Other Crimes
o Michael Head & the Strands - Magical World of the Strands
o Heaven 17 - Penthouse & Pavement
o Hello - Keeps Us Off the Streets
o Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
o Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver: Soundtrack
o Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
o Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
o Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick
o Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
o Hole - Live Through This
o Billie Holiday - Lady Day Swings
o David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
o Hollies - For Certain Because...
o Buddy Holly - Gold
o David Holmes - Let’s Get Killed
o John Holt - 1000 Volts of Holt
o John Lee Hooker - Hooker (4 CD)
o House of Love - House of Love (1988)
o Howlin’ Wolf - Genuine Article
o Keith Hudson - Pick a Dub
o Hugo Largo - Drum
o Human Chain - Cashin’ In
o Human League - Dare!
o Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
o Leroy Hutson - Love, Oh Love
o Abdullah Ibrahim - Water from an Ancient Well
o Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
o Ice T - Power
o Impressions - Big Sixteen
o Incredible String Band - 5000 Spirits Or the Layers of the Onion
o Inner City - Paradise
o Intruders - Cowboys to Girls: Best of the...
o Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
o Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
o Isley Brothers - 3 + 3
o J Dilla - Donuts
o Janet Jackson - Control
o Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
o Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
o Millie Jackson - Caught Up
o Walter Jackson - Speak Her Name
o Wanda Jackson - Rockin’ with Wanda
o Jacksons - Triumph
o Jam - Sound Affects
o James - Stutter
o Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
o Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch (1965)
o Japan - Tin Drum
o Victor Jara - Manifiesto
o Keith Jarrett - Köln Concert
o Jay-Z - Black Album
o Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
o Billy Jenkins & the Voice of God Collective - Scratches of Spain
o Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
o Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
o Linton Kwesi Johnson - Dread Beat an’ Blood
o Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
o Daniel Johnston - 1990
o George Jones - Spirit of Country Music: Essential
o Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
o Janis Joplin - Pearl
o Josef K - Entomology
o Joy Division - Closer
o Joyce [Joyce Silveira Palhano de Jesus] - Just a Little Bit Crazy
o Judas Priest - British Steel
o Junior Boys - Last Exit
o K’Naan - Dusty Foot Philosopher
o Salif Keita - Soro
o Kelis - Kaleidoscope
o Stan Kenton - City of Glass: Plays Bob Graettinger
o Khalèd - Khalèd (1992)
o Johnny Kidd & the Pirates - 25 Greatest Hits
o Killers - Hot Fuss
o Killing Joke - Killing Joke (1980)
o Soweto Kinch - Conversations with the Unseen
o King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
o Carole King - Tapestry
o Kinks - Face to Face
o KLF - White Room
o Knife - Silent Shout
o Konono No 1 - Congotronics
o Kool & the Gang - Very Best of... (1999)
o Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba - Segu Blue
o Kraftwerk - The Mix
o Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
o Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions
o Fela Kuti - Music Is the Weapon: Best of...
o Bappi Lahiri - Disco Dancer: Soundtrack
o La’s - BBC in Session
o Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
o kd lang - Ingénue
o Daniel Lanois - Shine
o LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
o Lead Belly - Take This Hammer: Complete RCA Victor Recordings
o Nara Leão - Muse of Bossa Nova
o Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
o Left Banke - There’s Gonna Be a Storm: Complete Recordings 1966-1969
o Leftfield - Leftfism
o Michel Legrand - Parapluies de Cherbourg (Umbrellas of Cherbourg): Soundtrack
o Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
o Lemonheads - It’s a Shame About Ray
o John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
o Larry Levan - Live at the Paradise Garage
o Level 42 - World Machine
o Barbara Lewis - Many Grooves of Barbara Lewis
o Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
o LFO - Frequencies
o Libertines - Up the Bracket
o Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Music
o Lift to Experience - Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads
o Light of the World - Light of the World (1979)
o Gordon Lightfoot - Summer Side of Life
o Lilac Time - Lilac Time (1987)
o Arto Lindsay - Noon Chill
o Linx - Intuition
o Little Richard - Original British Hit Singles
o Lo’ Jo - Au Cabaret Sauvage
o Julie London - Julie is Her Name
o Orlando Cachaito López - Cachaito
o Joe Lovano Ensemble - Streams of Expression
o Love - Forever Changes
o Lovin’ Spoonful - Greatest Hits (2000)
o LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression
o Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
o Luscious Jackson - In Search of Manny [EP]
o Loretta Lynn - Definitive Collection (2005)
o Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
o Humphrey Lyttleton & His Band - Parlophones: Vols 1-4
o Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii
o Kirsty MacColl - Galore
o Joanna MacGregor - Play
o Thee Madcap Courtship - I Know Elektrikboy
o Madness - Divine Madness
o Madonna - Like a Prayer
o Madvillain - Madvillainy
o Magazine - Real Life
o Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
o Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
o Miriam Makeba - Definitive Collection (2002)
o Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens - Thokozile
o Mamas & the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
o Manhattans - Kiss & Say Goodbye: Best of the…
o Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible
o Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground
o Mariza - Fado em Mim
o Bob Marley & the Wailers - Soul Revolutionaries: Early Jamaican Albums
o Wynton Marsalis - Plays Monk: Standard Time Vol 4
o Warne Marsh - Release Record, Send Tape
o John Martyn - Bless the Weather
o Hugh Masekela - Stimela
o Souad Massi - Deb
o Massive Attack - Blue Lines
o Mastodon - Blood Mountain
o Derrick May - Innovator
o Michael Mayer - Fabric 13
o Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly: Soundtrack
o Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
o MC Solaar - Prose Combat
o MC5 - High Time
o Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On the Run
o Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kate & Anna McGarrigle (1975)
o Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath - Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath
o John McLaughlin - My Goal’s Beyond
o Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
o Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
o Joe Meek & the Blue Men - I Hear a New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy
o Brad Mehldau Trio - Art of The Trio Volume 4: Back at the Vanguard
o Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs
o Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Best of... (1995)
o Mercury Rev - Deserter’s Songs
o Mestre Ambrósio - Mestre Ambrósio
o Metallica - Master of Puppets
o Pat Metheny - 80/81
o MIA - Kala
o George Michael - Faith
o Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
o Millennium - Begin
o Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
o Jeff Mills - Live at the Liquid Rooms, Tokyo
o Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods
o Kylie Minogue - Ultimate Kylie
o Minor Threat - Complete Discography
o Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
o Misty in Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovision
o Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer Lawns
o Mobb Deep - Infamous
o Moby - Play
o Modern Jazz Quartet - Artistry of the...
o Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
o Nils Petter Molvær - Khmer
o Moments - Love on a Two-Way Street: Best of the…
o Monica - Boy is Mine
o Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
o Monkees - Head
o Yves Montand - Chante Prévert
o Wes Montgomery - Incredible Jazz Guitar of...
o Christy Moore - Live At the Point
o Beny Moré - Coleccion Cubana
o Lee Morgan - Sidewinder
o Giorgio Moroder - E = MC2
o Ennio Morricone - Mondo Morricone
o Van Morrison - It’s Too Late to Stop Now
o Jelly Roll Morton - Complete Recorded Works 1926-1930
o Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity
o Motörhead - No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith
o Mott the Hoople - Ballad of Mott: A Retrospective
o The Move - The Move (1968)
o Muddy Waters - King of Chicago Blues (2006)
o Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Original Quartet with Chet Baker
o Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves
o Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
o Os Mutates - Everything Is Possible: Best of...
o My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything
o Mya (Washington DC) - Fear of Flying
o Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
o Youssou N’Dour - Immigrés
o Nas - Illmatic
o Necks (Australia) - Drive By
o Fred Neil - Fred Neil (1966)
o Oliver Nelson - Blues & the Abstract Truth
o Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
o Neon Philharmonic - Moth Confesses
o Neptunes - Present... Clones
o N*E*R*D - In Search of... [Original Version]
o Neu! - Neu! 75
o Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
o New Colony Six - Attacking a Straw Man
o New Order - Substance
o New York Dolls - New York Dolls (1973)
o Joanna Newsom - Ys
o Roger Nichols - & the Small Circle of Friends
o Nico - Marble Index
o Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet
o Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
o Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
o Nirvana (UK) - Story of Simon Simopath
o Nóis 4 - Gente
o Stina Nordenstam - Dynamite
o Norma Jean (Norma Jean Wright) - Norma Jean
o Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
o NWA - Straight Outta Compton
o Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry
o Mary Margaret O’Hara - Miss America
o O’Jays - Back Stabbers
o Oasis - Definitely Maybe
o Phil Ochs - Rehearsals for Retirement
o Ohio Players - Skin Tight
o Omni Trio - Deepest Cut
o One Blood - In Love
o Only Ones - Only Ones (1978)
o Orange Juice - You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever
o Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
o Roy Orbison - Love Songs (2001) [1980s recordings]
o Orchestra Baobab - Specialist in All Styles
o Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality
o Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Sensation!
o Orpheus - Orpheus (1971)
o Beth Orton - Central Reservation
o Mike Osborne - Outback
o Greg Osby - Banned in New York
o Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
o OutKast - Stankonia
o Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
o Palace Brothers - There is No-One What Will Take Care of You
o Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective - Wátina
o Robert Palmer - Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
o Panda Bear - Person Pitch
o Priscilla Paris - Priscilla Sings Herself
o Charlie Parker - On Dial: Complete Sessions
o Evan Parker - 50th Birthday Concert
o Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
o Jaco Pastorius - Word of Mouth
o Billy Paul - 360 Degrees of Billy Paul
o Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
o Peaches - Teaches of Peaches
o Penetration - Moving Targets
o Pentangle - Basket of Light
o Pere Ubu - Modern Dance
o Lee Scratch Perry - Arkology
o Pet Shop Boys - Pop Art: Hits
o Oscar Peterson - Night Train
o Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
o Astor Piazzólla - Tango: Zero Hour
o Courtney Pine - Devotion
o Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
o Pixies - Surfer Rosa
o Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork
o Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
o Polar Bear - Held on the Tips of Fingers
o Police - Ghost in the Machine
o Pop Group - Y
o Iggy Pop - The Idiot
o Portishead - Dummy
o Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen [aka Two Wheels Good]
o Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis
o Pretenders - Pretenders
o Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
o Primal Scream - Screamadelica
o Prince Buster - Fabulous Greatest Hits
o Prince & the Revolution - Parade
o Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
o Propaganda - A Secret Wish
o Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
o Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
o Public Image Ltd - Metal Box
o Pulp - Different Class
o Queen - Greatest Hits
o Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
o Radio Tarifa - Rumba Argelina
o Radiohead - The Bends
o AR Rahman - Bombay: Soundtrack
o Ramones - Ramones
o Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
o Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Sings Soul
o Lou Reed - Berlin
o Refused - Shape of Punk to Come
o Steve Reich - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint [Kronos Quartet & Pat Metheny]
o Django Reinhardt - Pêche à la Mouche
o REM - Fables of the Reconstruction
o Replacements - Let it Be
o Trent Reznor & Various Artists - Natural Born Killers: Soundtrack
o Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation
o Richard X - Presents His X-Factor: Vol 1
o Alasdair Roberts - Farewell Sorrow
o Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Going to a Go-Go
o Rocket from the Tombs - Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs
o Rodrigo y Gabriela - Live: Manchester & Dublin
o Virgínia Rodrigues - Nós
o Rolling Stones - London Years: Singles Collection
o Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
o Max Romeo & the Upsetters - War Ina Babylon
o Wallace Roney & Geri Allen - Jazz
o Mick Ronson - Slaughter on 10th Avenue
o Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
o Roots - Things Fall Apart
o Diana Ross - Diana
o Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
o Röyksopp - Melody AM
o Run DMC - Raising Hell
o Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
o Kate Rusby - 10
o Rush - 2112
o George Russell - New York Big Band
o Ruts - The Crack
o Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
o Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
o Oumou Sangare - Moussolou (Women)
o Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
o Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
o Maria Schneider - Concert in the Garden
o Chico Science & Naçao Zumbi - Afrociberdelia
o Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
o John Scofield - Time on My Hands
o Scorch Trio - Luggumt
o Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research Inc
o Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
o Searchers - Sounds Like Searchers
o Sean Paul (Sean Paul Henriques) - Dutty Rock
o Section 25 - From the Hip
o Sex Pistols - Spunk
o SF Jazz Collective - SF Jazz Collective
o Shadows - 20 Golden Greats
o Shangri-Las - Myrmidons of Melodrama [RPM 506]
o Ravi Shankar - In Celebration
o Del Shannon - Runaway with Del Shannon
o Sheila & B Devotion - King of the World
o Andy Sheppard - Dancing Man & Woman
o Wayne Shorter - Alegría
o Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
o Judee Sill - Abracadabra: Asylum Years
o Silver Jews - American Water
o Paul Simon - Graceland
o Simon & Garfunkel - The Graduate: Soundtrack
o Simple Minds - Sons & Fascination
o Frank Sinatra - September of My Years
o Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju
o Sister Sledge - We Are Family
o Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
o Sizzla - Black Woman & Child
o Slade - Slayed?
o Slave - Best of… Featuring Steve Arrington
o Slayer - Reign in Blood
o Sleep - Jerusalem
o Slick Rick - Behind Bars
o Slint - Spiderland
o Slits - Cut
o Slowdive - Souvlaki
o Sly & the Family Stone - There’s a Riot Goin’ On
o Small Faces - Autumn Stone
o Patti Smith - Horses
o Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
o Smog - Knock Knock
o Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
o Soft Machine - Volumes 1 & 2 (2 on 1)
o Son of Bazerk - Bazerk, Bazerk, Bazerk
o Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
o Soundgarden - Superunknown
o Soulwax - 2 Many DJs: As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Volume 2
o Spacemen 3 - Perfect Prescription
o Spandau Ballet - Journeys to Glory
o Sparks - Kimono My House
o Britney Spears - Baby... One More Time
o Specials - Singles
o Phil Spector & Various Artists - Back to Mono: 1958-1969
o Spice Girls - Spice
o Spinners (US) - Pick of the Litter
o Spirit - Future Games
o Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
o Dusty Springfield - From Dusty with Love
o Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Born to Run
o Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
o Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night
o Candi Staton - Candi Staton: 1968-1973
o Status Quo - Twelve Gold Bars
o Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
o Steeleye Span - Please to See the King
o Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
o Gwen Stefani - Love.Angel.Music.Baby
o Stereo MCs - Connected
o Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
o Rachel Stevens - Come & Get It
o Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
o Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
o Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
o Stone Roses - Stone Roses
o Stooges - Stooges (1969)
o Stranglers - The Raven
o Streets - Original Pirate Material
o Strokes - Is This It
o Stylistics - Best of the... (1975)
o Subway Sect - We Oppose All Rock ‘n’ Roll: 1976-1980
o Suede - Dog Man Star
o Sugababes - Overloaded: Singles Collection
o Suicide - Suicide (1977)
o Donna Summer - Endless Summer
o Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Jazz in Silhouette
o Sunn O))) - Black One
o Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
o Supergrass - I Should Coco
o John Surman - rarum Vol 13: Selected Recordings
o Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Plays Monk
o Bettye Swann - Bettye Swann: 1968-1970
o Sweet - Greatest Hits (2001)
o Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville
o System of a Down - Toxicity
o T.Rex - Electric Warrior
o June Tabor - At the Wood’s Heart
o Craig Taborn - Light Made Lighter
o Rachid Taha - Tékitoi
o Taj Mahal - Natch’l Blues
o Talk Talk - Colour of Spring
o Talking Heads - Fear of Music
o Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
o Tango Crash - Otra Sanata
o Taraf de Haïdouks - Band of Gypsies
o Art Tatum - Group Masterpieces: Vol 8
o Cecil Taylor - Jazz Advance
o Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
o Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
o Television - Marquee Moon
o Temptations - All Directions
o Jake Thackray - Jake in a Box: EMI Recordings 1967-1974
o The The - Soul Mining
o Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous
o 13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds of the...
o This Heat - This Heat (1979)
o This Mortal Coil - It’ll End in Tears
o Carroll Thompson - Hopelessly in Love
o Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
o Throbbing Gristle - DOA: Third & Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
o Justin Timberlake - Justified
o Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water is Life
o Keith Tippett - Mujician I & II
o TLC - CrazySexyCool
o Christine Tobin - You Draw the Line
o Toots & the Maytals - Pressure Drop: Definitive Collection
o Peter Tosh - Legalize It!
o Colin Towns’ Mask Orchestra - Another Think Coming
o Stan Tracey - Under Milk Wood
o Traffic - Traffic (1968)
o Rokia Traoré - Bowmboï
o Tribalistas [Arnaldo Atunes, Carlinhos Brown & Marisa Monte] - Tribalistas
o A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
o Tricky - Maxinquaye
o Lennie Tristano - Lennie Tristano (1955)
o Troggs - Hit Single Anthology
o Tubeway Army - Replicas
o 23 Skidoo - Seven Songs
o McCoy Tyner - Enlightenment
o U2 - Achtung Baby
o Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown
o Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992
o Undertones - Undertones
o Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
o United States of America - United States of America
o UNKLE - War Stories
o Upsetters - Super Ape
o Dino Valente - Dino Valente (1968)
o Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
o Vangelis - Blade Runner: Soundtrack
o Van Halen - Van Halen
o Vanity 6 - Vanity 6
o Sarah Vaughan - With Clifford Brown
o Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
o Caetano Veloso - Definitive Collection
o Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
o Verve - A Northern Soul
o Edward Vesala - Ode to the Death of Jazz
o Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa
o Gene Vincent - Rock ‘n’ Roll Collection
o Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
o Virgo [Merwyn Saunders & Eric Lewis] - Virgo
o Vitalic - OK Cowboy
o Wailing Souls - Firehouse Rock
o Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
o Rick Wakeman - Myths & Legends of King Arthur & the Round Table
o Scott Walker - Sings Jacques Brel
o Was (Not Was) - Are You Okay?
o Waterboys - This is the Sea
o Norma Waterson - Norma Waterson (1996)
o Chris Watson - Weather Report
o Weather Report - Black Market
o Wedding Present - Seamonsters
o Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
o Paul Weller - Wild Wood
o Wendy & Bonnie - Genesis
o kanYe West - College Dropout
o West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One
o Whatnauts - Message from a Black Man
o Kenny Wheeler - Gnu High
o Barry White - Stone Gon’
o Bergen White - For Women Only
o James White & the Blacks - Off White
o White Stripes - White Blood Cells
o Who - Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy
o Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
o Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
o Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
o Paul Williams - Someday Man
o Robbie Williams - Greatest Hits
o Hal Willner with Various Artists - Amarcord Nino Rota
o Cassandra Wilson - Travelin’ Miles
o Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
o Wire - Chairs Missing
o Bill Withers - Still Bill
o Wizzard - Wizzard Brew
o Bobby Womack & JJ Johnson - Across 110th Street: Soundtrack
o Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
o World Party - Bang!
o Link Wray - Early Recordings
o Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
o Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
o X - Los Angeles
o X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
o XTC - Compact XTC: Singles 1978-1985
o Yardbirds - Over Under Sidways Down [aka Roger the Engineer]
o Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric’s
o Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor
o Lester Young - Complete Aladdin Sessions
o Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night
o Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
o Timi Yuro - Something Bad on My Mind
o Frank Zappa & Ensemble Modern - Yellow Shark
o Joe Zawinul - Faces & Places
o Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
o John Zorn - Big Gundown
o ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Various Artists
o 100% Dynamite [Soul Jazz]
o Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers: Mojo Presents… [MOJO]
o Anthology of American Folk Music: Compiled by Harry Smith [Smithsonian/Folkways]
o Artificial Intelligence [Warp]
o CD86: 48 Tracks from the Birth of Indie Pop [Castle/Sanctuary]
o Balearic Mastercuts [Mastercuts/Beechwood]
o Classic House Mastercuts: Vol 1 [Mastercuts/Beechwood]
o Classic Salsoul Mastercuts: Vol 1 [Mastercuts/Beechwood]
o Crucial Electro 2 [Streetsounds]
o Cuisine Non-Stop: Introduction to the French Nouvelle Generation [Luaka Bop]
o Dave Godin’s Deep Soul Treasures: Vol 1 [Kent/Ace]
o Do the Pop! Australian Garage-Rock Sound 1976-1987 [Do the Pop]
o Futurism (2002) [City Rockers]
o Grease: Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture [Polydor]
o Guilty Pleasures: Sean Rowley Presents... [Sony]
o Headz (1996) [Mo’ Wax]
o Impressed with Gilles Peterson Vol 1 [Universal Jazz]
o It’ll Never Be Over for Me: 20 Northern Soul Masterpieces [EMI]
o Jumpin’ 1: Original Full Length Classics from the Disco Underground [Harmless]
o Let the Good Times Roll: 20 of New Orleans’ Finest R&B Classics 1949-1966 [Capitol]
o London is the Place for Me: Trinidadian Calypso in London 1950-1956 [Honest Jon’s]
o Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm [Ze]
o New Orleans Funk Vol 1: New Orleans Funk & Soul [Soul Jazz]
o Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era [Rhino]
o Brother, Where Art Thou? Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack [Mercury]
o OHM: Early Gurus of Electronic Music [Ellipsis Arts]
o One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds, Lost & Found [Rhino]
o Pulp Fiction: Music from the Motion Picture [MCA]
o Queer Noises 1961-1978: From the Closet to the Charts [Trikont]
o Really Heavy Soul: Dirty Guitar-Driven Fat-Assed Funk [Ocho]
o Run the Road: Vol 1[679/Vice]
o Son Cubano NYC: Cuban Roots New York Spices 1972-1982 [Honest Jon’s]
o Songs the Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us [Lightning Tree]
o Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Stax]
o Street Corner Serenade: Greatest Doo Wop of the 1950s & 1960s [Rhino]
o Sub Pop 200 [Sub Pop]
o Sugar Hill Records: Best of... [Rhino]
o Tamla Motown Gold [Universal]
o Techno! New Dance Sound of Detroit [10/Virgin]
o Tighten Up: Vol 2 [Trojan]
o Tombstone After Dark [Fiend]
o Tommy Boy’s Greatest Beats [Tommy Boy]
o Trojan Skinhead Reggae Box Set [Trojan/Sanctuary]
o Tropicália: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound [Soul Jazz]
o Velvet Tinmine: 20 Junk Shop Glam Ravers [RPM]
55 Additional Readers’ Choices ‘Missed’ from the Original List
o Afghan Whigs - 1965
o American Music Club - California
o Arab Strap - Philophobia
o Arno (Hintjens) - French Bazaar
o Band & Various Artists - Last Waltz
o Buju Banton - ‘Til Shiloh
o Chris Barber’s Jazz Band - In Berlin (1960)
o Harry Beckett - Passion & Possession
o Blowzabella - Blowzabella
o Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties
o Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
o Chico Buarque - Construção
o Cachao - Master Sessions: Vol 1
o Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
o Change - Glow of Love
o Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark: Vol 1
o Cathal Coughlan - Black River Falls
o Crosby, Stills & Nash - CSN (1977)
o Crowded House - Together Alone
o Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables
o DNA - A Taste of DNA
o Doll by Doll - Remember
o Ian Dury & the Blockheads - New Boots & Panties!!
o Eagles - Desperado
o Earth - Earth 2
o Duane Eddy - Have Twangy Guitar, Will Travel
o Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
o Fatima Mansions - Viva Dead Ponies
o Bill Fay Group - Tomorrow, Tomorrow & Tomorrow
o Dick Gaughan - Handful of Earth
o Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season
o Gun Club - Fire of Love
o Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
o Kip Hanrahan - Tenderness
o Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
o George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
o Heart - Dreamboat Annie
o Hem - Eveningland
o John Hiatt - Slow Turning
o Veda Hille - Return of the Kildeer
o Insect Trust - Insect Trust (1968)
o Camarón de la Isla - Soy Gitano
o Jethro Tull - Stand Up
o Korn - Korn
o Living Colour - Time’s Up
o Make Up - I Want Some
o Monks - Black Monk Time
o Paul Mounsey - City of Walls
o Pale Fountains - From Across the Kitchen Table
o Rain Parade - Explosions in the Glass Palace
o Redskins - Neither Washington Nor Moscow
o Cliff Richard - Cliff (1959)
o Tool - Lateralus
o Win - Uh! Tears Baby (A Trash Icon)
o Various Artists - Rebirth of Cool Phive [4th & Broadway]
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To Top1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear
From The Guardian March 2009
The list is divided ito seven sections.
Part 1: Love
o ABC - Look of Love
o Badly Drawn Boy - Shining
o Beach Boys - God Only Knows
o Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
o Beach Boys - Wouldn’t It Be Nice
o Beatles - Eight Days a Week
o Beatles - Girl
o Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
o Beatles - She Loves You
o Beatles - Something
o Beatles - With a Little Help from My Friends
o Beautiful South - Song for Whoever
o Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love
o Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen
o Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z - Crazy In Love
o Big Star - Thirteen
o Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland - I’ll Take Care of You
o David Bowie - ‘Heroes’
o David Bowie - Wedding Song
o Buffalo Springfield - Sit Down, I Think I Love You
o Solomon Burke - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
o RD Burman - Mehbooba Mehbooba
o Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
o Kate Bush - Man with the Child In His Eyes
o Kate Bush - Man I Love
o Carlton & the Shoes - Love Me Forever
o James Carr - Dark End of the Street
o Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
o Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Deanna
o Ray Charles - I Got a Woman
o Chi-Lites - Stoned Out of My Mind
o Chi-Lites - That’s How Long
o Clash - Stay Free
o Judy Clay & William Bell - Private Number
o Coldplay - Yellow
o Contours - Do You Love Me?
o Sam Cooke - Cupid
o Elvis Costello - I’m In the Mood Again
o Elvis Costello [Costello Show] - Jack of All Parades
o Crystals - Then He Kissed Me
o Cure - Friday I’m In Love
o Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
o Dion & the Belmonts - A Teenager In Love
o Dion - Born To Be with You
o Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill
o Bob Dylan - Girl from the North Country
o Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
o Bob Dylan - Wedding Song
o Elbow - One Day Like This
o Bryan Ferry - Let’s Stick Together
o Ella Fitzgerald - Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
o Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly with His Song
o Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Power of Love
o Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
o Aretha Franklin - I Say a Little Prayer
o Patsy Gallant - It’ll All Come Around
o Judy Garland - Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
o Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
o Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You’re All I Need To Get By
o Steve Goodman - The Dutchman
o Al Green - Let’s Get Married
o Al Green - Let’s Stay Together
o Al Green - Love & Happiness
o Guns N’ Roses - Sweet Child o’ Mine
o Herman’s Hermits - I’m Into Something Good
o Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
o Leroy Hutson - So In Love with You
o Impressions - I’m So Proud
o Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
o Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze
o Elton John - Are You Ready for Love
o Grace Jones - Vie En Rose
o Alicia Keys - No One
o Ben E King - Stand By Me
o Kinks - You Really Got Me
o KD Lang - Constant Craving
o Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly
o Bob Marley & the Wailers - Is This Love
o Paul McCartney & Wings - My Love
o Gwen McRae - 90% of Me Is You
o Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out of My Head
o Miracles - You’ve Really Got a Hold On Me
o Joni Mitchell - Help Me
o Van Morrison - Madame George
o Randy Newman - You’ve Got a Friend In Me
o Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
o Donny Osmond - Puppy Love
o Gram Parsons - She
o Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You
o Wilson Pickett - I’m In Love
o Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good & Evil
o Cole Porter [various versions] - Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall In Love
o Elvis Presley - Can’t Help Falling In Love
o Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender
o Pretenders - I’ll Stand By You
o Louis Prima & Keely Smith - That Old Black Magic
o Proclaimers - Let’s Get Married
o Queen - You’re My Best Friend
o AR Rahman - Kehna Hi Kya
o Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
o Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella
o Ronettes - Be My Baby
o Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse - Valerie
o Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light
o Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts - Angel of the Morning
o Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack
o Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
o Labi Siffre - It Must Be Love
o Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
o Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To the Moon
o Frank Sinatra - Get Me To the Church On Time
o Frank Sinatra - Love & Marriage
o Percy Sledge - True Love Travels On a Gravel Road
o Patti Smith Group - Frederick
o Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
o Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe
o Soul Brothers Six - You Gotta Come a Little Closer
o Spice Girls - Wannabe
o Spinners - I’ll Be Around
o Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind
o Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums
o Donna Summer - I Feel Love
o Supremes - Baby Love
o Supremes - Stoned Love
o Supremes - You Can’t Hurry Love
o Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon - Why Do Fools Fall In Love
o Temptations - My Girl
o Them - Gloria
o Them - Here Comes the Night
o Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High
o Twinkle - Terry
o Dinah Washington - Mad About the Boy
o Jimmy Webb - Wichita Linesman
o Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me
o Andy Williams - Music To Watch Girls By
o Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
o Bill Withers - Lean On Me
o Neil Young - Like a Hurricane
o Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Part 2: Heartbreak
o ABBA - Winner Takes It All
o ABC - Tears Are Not Enough
o Ryan Adams - Call Me On Your Way Back Home
o All Saints - Never Ever
o Bill Allen & the Backbeats - Please Give Me Something
o Badfinger - Without You
o Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust
o Beatles - You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
o Belle & Sebastian - Boy Done Wrong Again
o Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart
o Blondie - Heart of Glass
o Blondie - One Way Or Another
o Bon Iver - Flume
o David Bowie - Letter To Hermione
o David Bowie - Repetition
o Toni Braxton - He Wasn’t Man Enough
o Bright Eyes - Lua
o Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?)
o Johnny Cash - I Still Miss Someone
o Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Far from Me
o Vic Chesnutt - Where Were You
o Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
o Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
o Patsy Cline - Crazy
o Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne
o Coldplay - Scientist
o Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)
o Communards featuring Sarah Jane Morris - Don’t Leave Me This Way
o Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Either Side of the Same Town
o Elvis Costello & the Attractions - I Hope You’re Happy Now
o Elvis Costello & the Attractions - I Want You
o Crystals - He Hit Me (& It Felt Like a Kiss)
o Cure - Disintegration
o Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel
o Derek & the Dominos - Layla
o Duffy - Warwick Avenue
o Bob Dylan - Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
o Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
o Bob Dylan - If You See Her, Say Hello
o Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman
o Bob Dylan - She’s Your Lover Now
o Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
o Blind Snooks Eaglin - Brown Skin Woman
o Steve Earle - Goodbye
o Echo & the Bunnymen - Killing Moon
o Elbow - My Very Best
o Everything But the Girl - Missing [Todd Terry Mix]
o Marianne Faithfull - Why’d Ya Do It?
o Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
o Stephen Fretwell - Emily
o Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
o Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
o Glasvegas - Daddy’s Gone
o Lesley Gore - It’s My Party
o Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
o Daryl Hall & John Oates - She’s Gone
o Handsome Family - Weightless Again
o House of Love - Christine
o Human League - Don’t You Want Me
o Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out with Him?
o Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
o Etta James - I’d Rather Go Blind
o Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
o Elton John - I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues
o Daniel Johnston - Some Things Last a Long Time
o Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
o Tom Jones - Delilah
o Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
o Kelis - Caught Out There
o Alicia Keys - You Don’t Know My Name
o Killers - Mr Brightside
o BB King - Thrill Is Gone
o Carole King - It’s Too Late
o Kinks - Lola
o Bettye LaVette - Let Me Down Easy
o John Lennon - Jealous Guy
o Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
o Madonna - Crazy for You
o McAlmont & Butler - Yes
o Van Morrison - It’s All In the Game
o Morrissey - More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
o Mountain Goats - No Children
o New Order - Blue Monday
o Sinéad O’Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
o Mary Margaret O’Hara - To Cry About
o Roy Orbison - Crying
o Gram Parsons - Love Hurts
o Gram Parsons - $1000 Wedding
o Dolly Parton - Jolene
o Ann Peebles - It Was Jealousy
o Katy Perry - Ur So Gay
o Liz Phair - Divorce Song
o Police - Can’t Stand Losing You
o Police - Every Breath You Take
o Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind
o Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
o Dory Previn - Beware of Young Girls
o Prince & the Revolution - When Doves Cry
o Mohammed Rafi - Jaan Pehechaan Ho
o Lou Reed - Sad Song
o REM - Everybody Hurts
o REM - One I Love
o Righteous Brothers - You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
o Rolling Stones - Stupid Girl
o Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
o Ronettes - (Best Part Of) Breakin’ Up
o Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
o Arthur Russell - A Little Lost
o Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better
o Carly Simon - You’re So Vain
o Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
o Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely
o Small Faces - All Or Nothing
o Smiths - I Know It’s Over
o Smiths - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
o Smog - Left Only with Love
o Spiritualized - Broken Heart
o Dusty Springfield - I Just Don’t Know What To Do with Myself
o Dusty Springfield - You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
o Rod Stewart - Maggie May
o Streets - Dry Your Eyes
o Strokes - Last Nite
o Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
o Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin’ On
o Bettye Swann - (My Heart Is) Closed for the Season
o Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - Bed Is for Sleeping
o Take That - Back for Good
o TLC - No Scrubs
o U2 - With Or Without You
o Luther Vandross - Give Me the Reason
o Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale
o Tom Waits - Ruby’s Arms
o Walker Brothers - Make It Easy On Yourself
o Dionne Warwick - Walk On By
o kanYe West featuring Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger
o kanYe West - Say You Will
o Who - Substitute
o Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart
o Robbie Williams - No Regrets
o Amy Winehouse - Stronger Than Me
o Amy Winehouse - You Know I’m No Good
o Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine
o Bill Withers - Use Me
o Tammy Wynette - D-I-V-O-R-C-E
o Neil Young - A Man Needs a Maid
Part 3: People & Places
o Ryan Adams - New York, New York
o Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah - Lake Shore Drive
o Bob Andy - I’ve Got To Go Back Home
o Animals - We’ve Gotta Get Out of This Place
o Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
o Roy Ayers - Chicago
o Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun
o Beatles - Doctor Robert
o Beatles - Drive My Car
o Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
o Beatles - Penny Lane
o Beatles - She’s Leaving Home
o Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
o Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
o Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
o Chuck Berry - Memphis, Tennessee
o Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go
o Mike Berry & the Outlaws - A Tribute To Buddy Holly
o Bobby Bland - Ain’t No Love In the Heart of the City
o Archie Bleyer - Hernando’s Hideaway
o Blur - For Tomorrow
o Bo Diddley - Road Runner
o David Bowie - Life On Mars?
o David Bowie - Space Oddity
o Jan Bradley - Nights In New York City
o Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs’ Tears
o Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats [Ike Turner] - Rocket 88
o Anne Briggs - Blackwater Side
o Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
o Byrds - Eight Miles High
o Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - Minnie the Moocher
o Glen Campbell - Galveston
o Cars - Drive
o Martin Carthy - Scarborough Fair
o Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
o Johnny Cash - I’m Free from the Chain Gang Now
o Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind
o Ray Charles - Lonely Avenue
o Guy Clark - LA Freeway
o Clash - London Calling
o Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross
o Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel #2
o Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
o Nat King Cole - (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
o Shirley Collins - Sweet Primeroses
o Ry Cooder - Taxes On the Farmer Feeds Us All
o Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
o Bing Crosby - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
o Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea
o Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife
o Desmond Dekker & the Aces - 007 (Shanty Town)
o Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno
o Dion - The Wanderer
o Donovan - Sunny Goodge Street
o Doves - Black & White Town
o Drifters - On Broadway
o Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Billericay Dickie
o Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man
o Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell
o Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
o Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band - The Mountain
o Elbow - Station Approach
o Fall - Leave the Capitol
o Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City
o Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
o Judy Garland - Over the Rainbow
o Good, the Bad & the Queen - Green Fields
o Woody Guthrie - Do Re Mi
o Merle Haggard - Big City
o Tim Hardin - Tribute To Hank Williams
o Emmylou Harris - Boulder To Birmingham
o Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
o Heinz - Just Like Eddie
o Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O’Lee Blues
o Jam - Down In the Tube Station At Midnight
o Eddie Jefferson - So What
o Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues
o Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee
o Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
o Ben E King - Spanish Harlem
o Kinks - Dead End Street
o Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
o Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
o Lord Kitchener - London Is the Place for Me
o Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
o Lemon Jelly - Ramblin’ Man
o Louvin Brothers - Kentucky
o Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
o Mamas & the Papas - California Dreamin’
o Mano Negra - King of Bongo
o Bob Marley & the Wailers - No Woman, No Cry
o Sam Mayo - Things Are Worse In Russia
o Don McLean - Vincent
o Memphis Minnie - Me & My Chauffeur Blues
o Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
o Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend
o Van Morrison - Coney Island
o Willie Nelson - On the Road Again
o Randy Newman - A Few Words In Defense of Our Country
o Randy Newman - Baltimore
o Randy Newman - I Love LA
o Harry Nilsson - I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City
o Gary Numan - Cars
o Roy Orbison - Blue Bayou
o Roy Orbison - Domino
o Charles Hubert Hastings Parry / William Blake [various versions] - Jerusalem
o Pentangle - Bruton Town
o Pet Shop Boys - King’s Cross
o Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
o Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally
o Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
o Pogues - Dirty Old Town
o Pogues - Rainy Night In Soho
o Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
o PJ Proby - Somewhere [from West Side Story]
o Pulp - Common People
o Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City
o Lou Reed - Berlin
o Jeannie C Riley - Harper Valley PTA
o Robins [Coasters] - Riot In Cell Block #9
o Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel [aka ‘T’ for Texas]
o Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile
o Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
o Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Jenny Take a Ride!
o Bim Sherman - Chancery Lane
o Paul Simon - Graceland
o Paul Simon - Late Great Johnny Ace
o Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
o Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson
o Frank Sinatra - New York, New York
o Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Jackson
o Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
o Squeeze - Up the Junction
o Stanley Brothers - Rank Strangers
o Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
o Thin Lizzy - Boys Are Back In Town
o Toots & the Maytals - 54-46 (That’s My Number)
o Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
o Townes Van Zandt - Snowin’ On Raton
o Tom Waits - In the Neighborhood
o Tom Waits - Johnsburg, Illinois
o Dionne Warwick - Do You Know the Way To San José
o Paul Weller - Wild Wood
o Stevie Wonder - Living for the City
o Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin’)
Part 4: Sex
o Aaliyah - Try Again
o ABBA - Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
o AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
o Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
o Lily Allen - Smile
o Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down
o Au Pairs - Come Again
o Beatles - Another Girl
o Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
o Chuck Berry - My Ding-a-Ling
o Big Star - Kangaroo
o Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus
o Blur - Girls & Boys
o Bonzo Dog Band - Tent
o Boys Town Gang - Cruisin’ the Streets
o James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
o Tim Buckley - Get On Top
o Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
o Byrds - Triad
o Elvis Costello & the Attractions - High Fidelity
o Elvis Costello & the Attractions - I Want You
o CSS - Let’s Make Love & Listen To Death from Above
o D’Angelo - Brown Sugar
o Destiny’s Child - Say My Name
o Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
o Divinyls - I Touch Myself
o Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Wake Up & Make Love with Me
o Bob Dylan - I Want You
o Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay
o Eagles - Lyin’ Eyes
o Elastica - Stutter
o Elastica - Vaseline
o Missy Elliott featuring Ludacris - One Minute Man
o Missy Elliott - Work It
o Eurythmics - Who’s That Girl?
o Faces - Stay with Me
o Flirts - Passion
o Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
o Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
o Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On
o Marvin Gaye - (Sexual) Healing
o Bobbie Gentry - Fancy
o Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
o Happy Mondays - Bob’s Yer Uncle
o Hidden Cameras - Man That I Am with My Man
o Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
o Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love for You
o Isley Brothers - Between the Sheets
o Millie Jackson - Summer (The First Time)
o Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama
o Etta James - I Just Want To Make Love To You
o Rick James - Super Freak
o Tommy James & the Shondells - Crimson & Clover
o Grace Jones - Pull Up To the Bumper
o Kelis - Milkshake
o R Kelly - Ignition (Remix)
o Khia - My Neck, My Back (Lick It)
o Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move
o Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
o Kiss - Black Diamond
o Labelle - Lady Marmalade
o JC Lodge - Telephone Love
o Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make It Through the Night
o Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
o Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
o Lil’ Louis - French Kiss
o Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
o Lovin’ Spoonful - Darling Be Home Soon
o Loretta Lynn - You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
o Kirsty MacColl - Don’t Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!
o Madonna - Justify My Love
o Martha & the Vandellas - (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
o Max Romeo - Wet Dream
o MGMT - Electric Feel
o George Michael - Fast Love
o George Michael - I Want Your Sex
o Mr Vegas - Heads High
o Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
o Naughty By Nature - OPP
o Me’Shell NdegéOcello - If That’s Your Boyfriend (He Wasn’t Last Night)
o New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
o Randy Newman - You Can Leave Your Hat On
o Nine Inch Nails - Closer
o Normal - Warm Leatherette
o Kellee Patterson - I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Baby
o Billy Paul - Me & Mrs Jones
o Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away
o Pixies - Gigantic
o Police - Roxanne
o Prince & the Revolution - Darling Nikki
o Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend
o Prince & the Revolution - Kiss
o Prince & the Revolution - Little Red Corvette
o Jamie Principle - Baby Wants To Ride
o Pulp - Babies
o Pulp - Do You Remember the First Time?
o Pulp - Sheffield: Sex City
o Rhythim Is Rhythim - Nude Photo
o Minnie Riperton - Inside My Love
o Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
o Rolling Stones - Let’s Spend the Night Together
o Diana Ross & the Supremes - Love Child
o Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache
o Salt-N-Pepa - Let’s Talk About Sex
o Sam & Dave - Hold On! I’m a Comin’
o Shangri-Las - Give Him a Great Big Kiss
o Owen & Leon Silvera with the Baba Brooks Band - I Want My Cock
o Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
o Small Faces - Rene
o Smiths - Reel Around the Fountain
o Bessie Smith - Empty Bed Blues
o Elliott Smith - Between the Bars
o Soul Sisters - Wreck a Buddy
o Britney Spears - …Baby One More Time
o Bruce Springsteen - I’m On Fire
o Rod Stewart - Da’Ya’ Think I’m Sexy?
o Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
o Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb - Guilty
o Suede - Animal Nitrate
o Suede - Drowners
o Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
o T.Rex - Get It On
o TLC - Red Light Special
o Tone Loc - Wild Thing
o Troggs - Wild Thing
o Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle & Roll
o Tweet - Oops (Oh My)
o U2 - Desire
o Vapors - Turning Japanese
o Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
o Who - Pictures of Lily
Part 5: Politics & Protest
o !!! - Me & Guiliani Down By the Schoolyard (A True Story)
o Antony & the Johnsons - Another World
o Arcade Fire - Windowsill
o Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - (What Did I Do To Be So) Black & Blue
o Roy Bailey - Stand Up for Judas
o Beach Boys - A Day In the Life of a Tree
o Carl Bean - I Was Born This Way
o Beat (UK) - Stand Down Margaret
o Beatles - I Am the Walrus
o Beatles - Revolution [Hey Jude B-side]
o Black Sabbath - War Pigs
o Blue Mink - Melting Pot
o Body Count - Cop Killer
o Eric Bogle - & the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
o Boogie Down Productions - Stop the Violence
o Billy Bragg - Between the Wars
o Bright Eyes - When the President Talks To God
o Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
o James Brown - Say It Loud (I’m Black & I’m Proud)
o Burning Spear - Slavery Days
o Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
o Ian Campbell Folk Group - Sun Is Burning
o Martin Carthy - Company Policy
o Manu Chao - Rainin In Paradize
o Clash - Straight To Hell
o Clash - White Riot
o Jarvis Cocker - Running the World
o John Coltrane Quartet - Alabama
o Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
o Julian Cope - All the Blowing-Themselves-Up Motherfuckers (Will Realise the Minute They Die That They Were Suckers)
o Elvis Costello - Tramp the Dirt Down
o Country Joe & the Fish - ‘Fish’ Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag
o Bing Crosby - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
o Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio
o Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
o Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles
o Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
o Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television: Drug of the Nation
o Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice
o Bob Dylan - Hurricane
o Bob Dylan - Maggie’s Farm
o Bob Dylan - Masters of War
o Bob Dylan - Times They Are a-Changin’
o Bob Dylan - When the Ship Comes In
o Steve Earle - John Walker’s Blues
o Eminem - Role Model
o Faith No More - We Care a Lot
o Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
o Aretha Franklin - Respect
o Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law
o Dick Gaughan - Victor Jara of Chile
o Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
o Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
o Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five featuring Melle Mel & Duke Bootee - The Message
o Grange Hill Cast - Just Say No
o Green Day - American Idiot
o Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land
o Merle Haggard - Okie from Muskogee
o Paul Hardcastle - 19
o Heaven 17 - (We Don’t Need) This Fascist Groove Thang
o Jimi Hendrix with Gypsy Sun & Rainbows - Star-Spangled Banner
o Billie Holliday - Strange Fruit
o Impressions - Check Out Your Mind
o Impressions - People Get Ready
o Jam - Eton Rifles
o Jam - Going Underground
o Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves
o Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
o Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 - Zombie
o Lead Belly - Bourgeois Blues
o Ewan MacColl - Ballad of Sharpeville
o Madonna - Material Girl
o Johnny Mandel - Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)
o Bob Marley & the Wailers - Get Up, Stand Up
o Bob Marley & the Wailers - Redemption Song
o Bob Marley & the Wailers - Zimbabwe
o MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
o Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
o Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
o Mothers of Invention - Trouble Every Day
o Moving Hearts - On the Blanket
o Randy Newman - Short People
o NWA - Fuck tha Police
o Phil Ochs - I Ain’t Marching Anymore
o Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
o Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace a Chance
o Pogues - Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
o Elvis Presley - In the Ghetto
o Primal Scream - Come Together
o Prince - Sign ‘O’ the Times
o John Prine - Sam Stone
o Public Enemy - Bring the Noise
o Public Enemy - Fight the Power
o Rage Against the Machine - Killing In the Name
o Blind Alfred Reed - How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
o REM - Fall On Me
o Tom Robinson Band - Glad To Be Gay
o Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man
o Diana Ross - I’m Coming Out
o Buffy Sainte-Marie - Now That the Buffalo’s Gone
o Nitin Sawhney featuring Natty - Days of Fire
o Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon
o Peggy Seeger - I’m Gonna Be An Engineer
o Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome
o Sex Pistols - Anarchy In the UK
o Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
o Sham 69 - If the Kids Are United
o Sheffield Socialist Choir - The Internationale
o Nina Simone - (To Be) Young, Gifted & Black
o Sly & the Family Stone - Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey
o Sonic Youth - Swimsuit Issue
o Spacemen 3 - Revolution
o Specials - Ghost Town
o Special AKA - Nelson Mandela
o Bruce Springsteen - American Skin (41 Shots)
o Bruce Springsteen - Born In the USA
o Staple Singers - Long Walk To DC
o Edwin Starr - War
o Steppenwolf - Monster
o Cat Stevens - Peace Train
o Rod Stewart - Killing of Georgie (Parts 1 & 2)
o Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
o Super Furry Animals - Man Don’t Give a Fuck
o System of a Down - BYOB
o Talib Kweli - The Proud
o Richard Thompson - Dad’s Gonna Kill Me
o Peter Tosh - Legalize It
o 2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up
o U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
o USA for Africa - We Are the World
o Tom Waits - Day After Tomorrow
o Scott Walker - Old Man’s Back Again (Dedicated To the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
o Wham! - Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)
o Who - My Generation
o Stevie Wonder - You Haven’t Done Nothin’
o Chris Wood - Cottager’s Reply
o World Domination Enterprises - Asbestos Lead Asbestos
o Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
o Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
o Neil Young - Rockin’ In the Free World
o Neil Young - Southern Man
Part 6: Life & Death
o Abyssinians - Satta Massagana
o Aerosmith - Dream On
o Alice Cooper - School’s Out
o Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
o Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five - St James Infirmary
o Louis Armstrong’s Orchestra & Chorus - What a Wonderful World
o Beach Boys - In My Room
o Beatles - Yer Blues
o Beatles - Yesterday
o Chris Bell - Look Up
o Black Sabbath - Paranoid
o Blue Nile - Happiness
o Blue Öyster Cult - (Don’t Fear) the Reaper
o Blur - This Is a Low
o David Bowie - Kooks
o David Bowie - Never Get Old
o Kate Bush - Bertie
o Byrds - Goin’ Back
o Carter Family - Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By & By)
o Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Mercy Seat
o Chairmen of the Board - I’m On My Way To a Better Place
o Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
o Eddie Cochran - C’mon Everybody
o John Coltrane Quartet - My Favorite Things
o Congos - Fisherman
o Elvis Costello & the Imposters - My Three Sons
o Crickets [Buddy Holly] - That’ll Be the Day
o Cure - Killing An Arab
o Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
o Chris Difford - Fat As a Fiddle
o Mark Dinning - Teen Angel
o Donovan - Sunshine Superman
o Lee Dorsey - Working In the Coal Mine
o Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog
o Bob Dylan - Death Is Not the End
o Bob Dylan - Every Grain of Sand
o Bob Dylan - Forever Young
o Bob Dylan - Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
o Bob Dylan - Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
o Steve Earle - Lonelier Than This
o Everly Brothers - Ebony Eyes
o Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime
o Four Seasons - Walk Like a Man
o Marvin Gaye - Save the Children
o Bobbie Gentry - Glory Hallelujah, How They’ll Sing
o Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks On Me
o Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley - So Nice (Summer Samba)
o Al Green - Tired of Being Alone
o Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In the Sky
o Merle Haggard - Workin’ Man’s Blues
o George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
o Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I Hear Voices
o Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe
o Herman Düne - Not On Top
o Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
o Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday
o Hüsker Dü - These Important Years
o Ice Cube - Dead Homiez
o Inner City - Good Life
o Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
o Terry Jacks - Seasons In the Sun
o Bert Jansch - Needle of Death
o Anthony Johnson - Gun Shot
o Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy
o King Creosote - Favourite Girl
o LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
o LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
o Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole
o John Lennon - God
o Barrington Levy - Here I Come
o Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl
o Love - Alone Again Or
o Madness - Baggy Trousers
o Makaveli [2Pac] featuring Kastro, Young Noble & Prince Ital - Hail Mary
o Manic Street Preachers - Tristesse Durera (Scream To a Sigh)
o John Martyn - May You Never
o Massive Attack - Safe from Harm
o Metallica - Fade To Black
o Nas - Life’s a Bitch
o Naturally 7 - Feel It (In the Air Tonight)
o Randy Newman - God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)
o Nirvana - Lithium
o Notorious BIG featuring Puff Daddy & Ma$e - Mo Money Mo Problems
o Notorious BIG - Suicidal Thoughts
o Gilbert O’Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)
o Oasis - Live Forever
o Orbital - Satan
o OutKast - Ms Jackson
o Dolly Parton - 9 To 5
o Pink Floyd - Another Brick In the Wall (Part 2)
o Police - Message In a Bottle
o Portishead - Glory Box
o Portishead - Sour Times
o Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
o Radiohead - Paranoid Android
o Otis Redding - (Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay
o Lou Reed & John Cale - Work
o Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
o Scarface - I Seen a Man Die
o Paul Simon - Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard
o Nina Simone - Feeling Good
o Frank Sinatra - It Was a Very Good Year
o Patti Smith - Piss Factory
o Smog - Dress Sexy At My Funeral
o Sonic Youth - 100%
o Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender
o Ralph Stanley - O Death
o Talking Heads - Once In a Lifetime
o Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
o The The - This Is the Day
o Irma Thomas - I Wish Someone Would Care
o Richard & Linda Thompson - End of the Rainbow
o 2Pac - I Ain’t Mad At Cha
o U2 - Exit
o U2 - One
o Velvet Underground - Jesus
o Loudon Wainwright III - Rufus Is a Tit Man
o Tom Waits - Martha
o Scott Walker - My Death
o Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate
o Waterboys - You In the Sky
o Paul Weller - Moon On Your Pyjamas
o Mae West - Frankie & Johnny
o Paul Westerberg - 23 Years Ago
o Hank Williams - I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
o Hank Williams - My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
o Bill Withers - Grandma’s Hands
o Stevie Wonder - Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing
o X-Ray Spex - Germ-Free Adolescents
o Neil Young - Old Man
o Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart
Part 7: Party Songs
o ABBA - Dancing Queen
o AC/DC - Back In Black
o Afroman - Because I Got High
o Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
o Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
o Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor
o Artful Dodger - Re-Rewind (Crowd Say Bo Selecta)
o Ashford & Simpson - Bourgie Bourgie
o ATB - 9pm (Till I Come)
o Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
o Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)
o Bee Gees - Night Fever
o Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up
o Benga & Coki - Night
o B-52’s - Love Shack
o Björk - Big Time Sensuality
o Hamilton Bohannon - Let’s Start II Dance Again
o David Bowie - Let’s Dance
o Laura Branigan - Self Control
o Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby
o Cannibal & the Headhunters - Land of 1000 Dances
o Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
o Irene Cara - Flashdance... What a Feeling
o Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues
o Ray Charles - Shake Your Tailfeather
o Chic - Le Freak
o Class Action featuring Chris Wiltshire - Weekend
o Commodores - Machine Gun
o Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
o Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Bedazzled
o Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
o Cramps - Drug Train
o Crystal Mansion - Somebody Oughta Turn Your Head Around
o Daft Punk - Da Funk
o Roy Davis Jr featuring Peven Everett - Gabriel
o Tullio De Piscopo - Stop Bajon (Primavera)
o Deee-Lite - Groove Is In the Heart
o Depeche Mode - Just Can’t Get Enough
o Devo - Whip It
o Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
o Dillinger - Cokane In My Brain
o Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin’
o Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
o Earth, Wind & Fire with the Emotions - Boogie Wonderland
o 808 State - Pacific State
o Electribe 101 - Talking with Myself
o Electric Light Orchestra - Livin’ Thing
o Missy Elliott - 4 My People
o Shirley Ellis - Clapping Song
o Fatman Scoop featuring the Crooklyn Clan - Be Faithful
o First Choice - Doctor Love
o Flanders & Swann - Gnu Song
o Flight of the Conchords - Think About It
o Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
o Girls Aloud - Biology
o Gorillaz - Dare
o Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)
o Half Man Half Biscuit - All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit
o Herbie Hancock - Rockit
o Happy Mondays - WFL [Think About the Future Mix]
o Richie Havens - Going Back To My Roots
o Hot Chip - Over & Over
o House of Pain - Jump Around
o Indeep - Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
o Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
o Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
o Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll
o Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
o Grace Jones - Williams’ Blood [Aeroplane Remix]
o Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Cocktails for Two
o Joy Division - Transmission
o Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends
o Janet Kay - Silly Games
o Parvati Khan - Jimmy Jimmy Aaja
o Kingsmen - Louie Louie
o Kittu - Baby Let’s Dance Together
o Klaxons - Golden Skans
o Knack - My Sharona
o Kraftwerk - Numbers/Computer World... 2
o George Kranz - Din Daa Daa
o Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 - Upside Down
o Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
o Lethal Bizzle - Pow! (Forward)
o LFO (UK) - LFO
o Libertines - Can’t Stand Me Now
o Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face?
o Lulu - Love Loves To Love Love
o M - Pop Muzik
o Maceo & the Macks - Cross the Tracks (We Better Go Back)
o Machine - There But for the Grace of God Go I
o Madonna - Beautiful Stranger
o Madonna - Everybody
o Madonna - Holiday
o Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
o George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
o Malcolm McLaren & the World’s Famous Supreme Team - Buffalo Gals
o MGMT - Kids
o MIA - Paper Planes [DFA Remix]
o Nelly - Hot In Herre
o New Order - True Faith
o Randy Newman - Short People
o Nolans - I’m In the Mood for Dancing
o Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
o Ol’ Dirty Bastard featuring Kelis - Got Your Money
o OutKast - Hey Ya!
o Phuture - Acid Trax
o Pigbag - Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag
o Pitman - Witness the Pitness
o Pogues - Streams of Whiskey
o Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love)
o Pretenders - Brass In Pocket
o Primal Scream - Loaded
o Prince & the Revolution - 1999
o Prince & the Revolution - Let’s Go Crazy
o Prodigy - Out of Space
o Tito Puente - Hit the Bongo
o Pulp - Sorted for E’s & Wizz
o Queen - Now I’m Here
o Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer
o Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
o Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night)
o Ce Ce Rogers - Someday
o Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope)
o Rose Royce - Car Wash
o Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
o Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - Once You Get Started
o Salsoul Orchestra featuring Loleatta Holloway - Runaway
o Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - The Bottle
o Max Sedgley - Happy
o Selecter - On My Radio
o Shannon - Let the Music Play
o Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Begin the Beguine
o Pluto Shervington - Dat
o Nina Simone - Gin House Blues
o Sister Sledge - He’s the Greatest Dancer
o Sister Sledge - Lost In Music
o Skee-Lo - I Wish
o Sly & the Family Stone - Dance To the Music
o Wayne Smith - Under Me Sleng Teng
o Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
o Soft Cell - Memorabilia
o Sparks - Beat the Clock
o Specials - Nite Klub
o Spencer Davis Group - I’m a Man
o Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
o Sueño Latino featuring Carolina Damas - Sueño Latino
o Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight
o Sundown Playboys - Saturday Nite Special
o Surfaris - Wipe Out
o Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
o T-Connection - Do What You Wanna Do
o Tears for Fears - Shout
o Temptations - Cloud Nine
o Ting Tings - Great DJ
o Trammps - Disco Inferno
o Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
o War - Me & Baby Brother
o West Street Mob - Break Dance-Electric Boogie
o Who - My Generation
o Esther Williams - Last Night Changed It All
o Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher
o Larry Young - Turn Off the Lights
