1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die
Submitted by openstacks on Wed, 02/23/2011 - 20:51
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- O sole mio - Enrico Caruso
- St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith
- Allons à Lafayette - Joe & Cléoma Falcon
- Lágrimas negras - Trio Matamoros
- Pokarekare - Ana Hato (with Deane Waretini)
- St. James Infirmary Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five (I have a live version)
- El manisero - Don Azpiazú & His Havana Casino Orchestra
- Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
- Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl - Bessie Smith
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - Bing Crosby
- Mal hombre - Lydia Mendoza
- Hula Girl - Sol Hoopii
- Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By) - The Carter Family
- Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
- Hellhound on My Trail - Robert Johnson
- Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
- Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland
- The Gallis Pole - Lead Belly
- Mbube - Solomon Linda & The Evening Birds
- Jave Jive - The Ink Spots
- Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday
- Guantanamera - Joseíto Fernández
- God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday
- Stormy Weather - Lena Horne
- Rum and Coca-Cola - Lord Invader
- This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
- Lili Marleen - Marlene Dietrich
- (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 - The Nat King Cole Trio
- Al gurugu - La Niña de los Peines
- La vie en rose - Edith Piaf
- La mer - Charles Trenet
- White Christmas - Bing Crosby
- Good Rockin’ Tonight - Roy Brown
- Nature Boy - The Nat King Cole Trio
- Saturday Night Fish Fry - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams (RS500)
- Autumn Leaves - Jo Stafford
- Summertime - Sarah Vaughn
- Goodnight, Irene - The Weavers
- Mambo No. 5 - Perez Prado
- Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats
- Cry - Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
- How High the Moon - Les Paul and Mary Ford
- London Is the Place for Me - Lord Kitchener
- They Can’t Take That Away From Me - Fred Astaire
- Dust My Broom - Elmore James
- Foi Deus - Amalia Rodrigues
- Le gorille - Georges Brassens
- Singin’ in the Rain - Gene Kelly
- Just Walkin’ in the Rain - The Prisonaires
- Please Love Me - B.B. King
- Crying in the Chapel - The Orioles
- Riot in Cell Block No. 9 - The Robins
- Love for Sale - Billie Holiday
- The Wind - Nolan Strong & The Diablos
- My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker
- Shake, Rattle and Roll - Big Joe Turner & His Blues Kings (RS500)
- (We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets (RS500)
- I Get Along Without You Very Well - Chet Baker
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra
- Tutti Frutti - Little Richard (RS500)
- Only You (and You Alone) - The Platters
- Cry Me a River - Julie London
- Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
- I’m a Man - Bo Diddley (RS500)
- Blue Monday - Fats Domino
- Burundanga - Celia Cruz
- Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) - Ella Fitzgerald
- I’ve Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
- Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald
- Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps (RS500)
- Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley (RS500)
- Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino (RS500)
- Hound Dog - Elvis Presley (RS500)
- Honey Hush - The Johnny Burnette Trio
- I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash (RS500)
- Knoxville Girl - The Louvin Brothers
- Ella - Jose Alfredo Jimenez
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord - Mahalia Jackson
- Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash (RS500)
- I Put a Spell on You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (RS500)
- Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody - Louis Prima
- Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group
- Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis (RS500)
- That’ll Be the Day- Buddy Holly & The Crickets (RS500)
- Little Darlin’ - The Diamonds
- Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis (RS500)
- When I Fall in Love - Nat King Cole
- You Send Me - Sam Cooke (RS500)
- It’s Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
- Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry (RS500)
- Move It! - Cliff Richard & The Drifters
- La Bamba - Ritchie Valens (RS500)
- Yakety Yak - The Coasters
- At the Hop - Danny & The Juniors
- Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price (RS500)
- Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran (RS500)
- Dans mon ile - Henry Salvador
- Lonesome Town - Ricky Nelson
- Fever - Peggy Lee
- One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) - Frank Sinatra
- Le poinconneur des Lilas - Serge Gainsbourg
- Nel blu dipinto di blu - Domenico Modugno
- All I Have to Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers (RS500)
- To Know Him Is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears
- Brand New Cadillac - Vince Taylor & His Playboys
- What I’d Say (Parts 1 & 2) - Ray Charles (RS500)
- I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos (RS500)
- Ne me quitte pas - Jacques Brel
- Shout (Parts 1 & 2) - The Isley Brothers (RS500)
- Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin (RS500)
- It Ain’t Necessarily So- Diahann Carroll & The Andre Previn Trio
- Wondrous Place - Billy Fury
- Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters (RS500)
- Chaje shukarije - Esma Redzepova
- Oh Carolina - Folkes Brothers
- The Click Song (Qongqothwane) - Miriam Makeba
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles (RS500)
- Love Hurts - The Everly Brothers
- September Song - Ella Fitzgerald
- Shakin’ All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
- Non, je ne regretted rien - Edith Piaf
- Spanish Harlem - Ben E. King (RS500)
- Mad About the Boy - Dinah Washington
- Lazy River - Bobby Darin
- Back Door Man - Howlin’ Wolf
- The Red Rooster - Howlin’ Wolf
- Johnny Remember Me - Johnny Leyton
- I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline (RS500)
- Stand by Me - Ben E. King (RS500)
- Blue Moon - The Marcels
- Crazy - Patsy Cline (RS500)
- Tous les garcons et les filles - Francoise Hardy
- You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me - The Miracles
- Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker (RS500)
- He’s a Rebel - The Crystals (RS500)
- Do You Love Me - The Contours
- Your Cheating Heart - Ray Charles
- Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters
- La javanaise - Juliette Gréco
- Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl
- On Broadway - The Drifters
- Louie Louie - The Kingsmen (RS500)
- One Fine Day - The Chiffons (RS500)
- In Dreams - Roy Orbison (RS500)
- Sally Go’ Round the Roses - The Jaynets
- Be My Baby - The Ronettes (RS500)
- Surfin’ Bird - The Trashmen
- Sapore di sale - Gino Paoli
- Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las (RS500)
- Les copains d'abord - Georges Brassens
- Samba malato - Nicomedes Santa Cruz
- Walk On By - Dionne Warwick (RS500)
- Don’t Gimme No Lip Child - Dave Berry
- E se domani - Mina
- The Girl from Ipanema - Stan Getz & João Gilberto
- A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke (RS500)
- Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas (RS500)
- I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself - Dusty Springfield
- You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling - The Righteous Brothers (RS500)
- You Really Got Me - The Kinks (RS500)
- The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals (RS500)
- Go ‘Way from My Window - John Jacob Niles
- Amsterdam - Jacques Brel
- La paloma - Caterina Valente
- Sinnerman - Nina Simone
- The Irish Rover - The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
- Needle of Death - Bert Jansch
- Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown (RS500)
- La boheme - Charles Aznavour
- California Dreamin’ - The Mamas & The Papas (RS500)
- Ticket to Ride - The Beatles (RS500)
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stone (RS500)
- The Tracks of My Tears - The Miracles (RS500)
- Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds (RS500)
- Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (RS500)
- People Get Ready - The Impressions (RS500)
- Who Do You Love - The Preachers
- The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers
- Psycho - The Sonics
- I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (to Stop Now )- Otis Redding (RS500)
- Stop! In The Name of Love - The Supremes
- Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan (RS500)
- The Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel (RS500)
- My Generation - The Who (RS500)
- Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers (RS500)
- Et moi et moi et moie - Jacques Dutronc
- Stay with Me - Lorraine Ellison
- Al-atlal - Umm Kulthum
- You’re Gonna Miss Me - The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
- Substitute - The Who
- Eight Miles High - The Byrds (RS500)
- Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
- Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones (RS500)
- Summer in the City - The Lovin’ Spoonful (RS500)
- God Only Knows - The Beach Boys (RS500)
- (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone - Paul Revere & The Raiders
- Mas que nada - Sergio Mendes & Brasil’ 66
- El muerto vivo - Peret
- Tomorrow Is a Long Time - Elvis Presley
- Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles (RS500)
- River Deep--Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner (RS500)
- 7 and 7 Is - Love
- 96 Tears - ? & The Mysterians (RS500)
- Pushin’ Too Hard - The Seeds
- Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
- Reach Out (I’ll Be There) - The Four Tops (RS500)
- Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys (RS500)
- Dead End Street - The Kinks
- The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore - The Walker Brothers
- Season of the Witch - Donovan
- Friday on My Mind - The Easybeats
- I’m a Believer - The Monkees
- Dirty Water - The Standells
- I Feel Free - Cream
- You Keep Me Hangin’ On - The Supremes (RS500)
- Happenings Ten Years Time Ago - The Yardbirds
- Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
- The End - The Doors (RS500)
- Electricity - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- Corcovado - Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Heroin - The Velvet Underground (RS500)
- Chelsea Girls - Nico
- For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield (RS500)
- The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield
- I’d Rather Go Blind - Etta James
- (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher - Jackie Wilson (RS500)
- Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles (RS500)
- White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (RS500)
- Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (RS500)
- I’m a Man - The Spencer Davis Group
- Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground
- Fire - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks (RS500)
- Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (RS500)
- The Dark End of the Street - James Carr
- Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
- Respect - Aretha Franklin (RS500)
- Montague Terrace - Scott Walker
- A Day in the Life - The Beatles (RS500)
- Alone Again Or - Love (RS500)
- Tin Soldier - The Small Faces
- See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
- A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum (RS500)
- The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
- Sunshine of Your Love - Cream (RS500)
- Cold Sweat - James Brown & The Famous Flames
- The First Cut Is the Deepest - P.P. Arnold
- I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
- The Snake - Al Wilson
- Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins Singers
- Israelites - Desmond Dekker & The Aces
- Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell (RS500)
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (RS500)
- America - Simon & Garfunkel
- Ain’t Got No; I Got Life - Nina Simone
- Piece of My Heart - Big Brother & The Holding Company (RS500)
- Say It Loud--I’m Black and I’m Proud - James Brown (RS500)
- Hard to Handle - Otis Redding
- A minha menina - Os Mutantes
- Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (RS500)
- Pressure Drop - Toots & The Maytals (RS500)
- Cyprus Avenue - Van Morrison
- Hey Jude - The Beatles (RS500)
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (RS500)
- The Pusher - Steppenwolf
- The Weight - The Band (RS500)
- Days - The Kinks
- My Way - Frank Sinatra
- The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
- I’m Just a Prisoner (of Your Good Lovin’) - Candi Staton
- She Moves Through the Fair - Fairport Convention
- Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff (RS500)
- In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
- Oh Well, Parts 1 & 2 - Fleetwood Mac (I have two live versions)
- The Real Thing - Russell Morris
- Sister Morphine - Marianne Faithfull
- Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard
- Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin (RS500)
- Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee
- Sweetness - Yes
- Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley (RS500)
- Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills, & Nash (RS500)
- Pinball Wizard - The Who
- Je t’aime…moi non plus - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
- Is It Because I’m Black? - Syl Johnson
- I Want to Take You Higher - Sly & The Family Stone
- The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
- Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin (RS500)
- I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges (RS500)
- Kick Out the Jams - The MC5
- I Want You Back - The Jackson 5 (RS500)
- The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King (RS500)
- Up Around the Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Layla - Derek & The Dominos (RS500)
- War Pigs - Black Sabbath
- When the Revolution Comes - The Poets
- Band of Gold - Freda Payne (RS500)
- Love the One You’re With - Stephen Stills
- Fire & Rain - James Taylor
- Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
- Black Night - Deep Purple
- War - Edwin Starr
- (To Be) Young, Gifted and Black - Bob and Marcia
- Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
- Avec le temps - Léo Ferré
- The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie (I have a live version.)
- Awaiting on You All - George Harrison
- Northern Sky - Nick Drake
- Maybe I’m Amazed - Paul McCartney (RS500)
- Into the Mystic - Van Morrison (RS500)
- Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine - James Brown (RS500)
- Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (RS500)
- The Only Living Boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
- In a Broken Dream - Python Lee Jackson
- Oh Lonesome Me - Neil Young
- 54-46 Was My Number - Toots & The Maytals I have the later "54-46 (That's My Number)"
- Working Class Hero - John Lennon Acoustic version
- Box of Rain - The Grateful Dead
- Life on Mars? - David Bowie
- Bang a Gong (Get It On) - T.Rex
- Blackwater Side - Anne Briggs
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It - Crazy Horse
- A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
- Crayon Angels - Judee Sill
- Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
- Chalte Chalte - Lata Mangeshkar
- Maggie May - Rod Stewart (RS500)
- Imagine - John Lennon (RS500)
- Laughing - David Crosby
- When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
- Surf’s Up - The Beach Boys Have re-recorded 2004 version
- Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
- It’s Too Late - Carole King (RS500)
- Dum Maro Dum - Asha Bhosle
- Tired of Being Alone - Al Green (RS500)
- Won’t Get Fooled Again - The Who (RS500)
- Vincent - Don McLean
- City of New Orleans - Steve Goodman
- Peace Train - Cat Stevens
- Superstar - The Carpenters
- A Nickel and a Nail - O.V. Wright
- Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - Marvin Gaye
- Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone - The Temptations (RS500)
- I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers (RS500)
- Soul Makossa - Manu Dibangu
- Superstition - Stevie Wonder (RS500)
- Elected - Alice Cooper
- Sam Stone - John Prine
- Willin’ - Little Feat (Numerous live versions)
- It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl - Faust
- Sail Away - Randy Newman (RS500)
- Silver Machine - Hawkwind
- Tumbling Dice - The Rolling Stones (RS500)
- Thirteen - Big Star (RS500)
- Big Eyed Beans from Venus - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
- Rocket Man - Elton John (RS500)
- Mama Weer All Crazee Now - Slade
- Rocky Mountain High - John Denver
- The Night - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
- Reelin’ in the Years - Steely Dan
- Always on My Mind - Elvis Presley
- Most People I Know… - Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
- Taj Mahal - Jorge Ben
- Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed (RS500)
- Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
- You’re So Vain - Carly Simon
- Today I Started Loving You Again - Bettye Swann
- Il mio canto libero - Lucio Battisti
- Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
- Crazy Horses - The Osmonds
- All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople (RS500)
- Personality Crisis - New York Dolls (RS500)
- The Ballrom Blitz - The Sweet
- Jolene - Dolly Parton (RS500)
- Next - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
- 20th Century Boy - T. Rex
- Rock On - David Essex
- Search & Destroy - Iggy & The Stooges (RS500)
- Desperado - The Eagles (RS500)
- Child’s Christmas in Wales - John Cale
- Solid Air - John Martyn
- I Know What I Like (in Your Wardrobe) - Genesis
- Cum on Feel the Noize - Slade
- Living for the City - Stevie Wonder (RS500)
- I Can’t Stand the Rain - Ann Peebles
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
- Future Days - Can
- Essiniya - Nass El Ghiwane
- Carpet Crawlers - Genesis
- Águas de Março - Antonio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina
- Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City - Bobby Bland
- (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night - Tom Waits
- Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd (RS500)
- Piss Factory - Patti Smith Group
- Evie - Stevie Wright
- Free Man in Paris - Joni Mitchell (RS500)
- I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
- The Grand Tour - George Jones
- Withered and Died - Richard and Linda Thompson
- Louisiana 1927 - Randy Newman
- You Haven’t Done Nothin’ - Stevie Wonder
- This Town Ain’t Big Enough fo the Both of Us - Sparks
- Only Women Bleed - Alice Cooper
- Jive Talkin’ - Bee Gees
- Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet - Gavin Bryars
- Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
- Fight the Power (Parts 1 & 2) - The Isley Brothers (I have Part 1 - the single version)
- That’s the Way (I Like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band
- Kalimankou denkou - Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares
- Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
- Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (RS500)
- Gloria - Patti Smith
- Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan (RS500)
- Walk This Way - Aerosmith (RS500)
- Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (RS500)
- Time of the Preacher - Willie Nelson (Live version)
- Rimmel - Francesco De Gregori
- Born to Be With You - Dion
- Musica ribelle - Eugenio Finardi
- Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (RS500)
- Leb’ Wohl - NEU!
- Legalize It - Peter Tosh
- (Don’t Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult (RS500)
- More Than a Feeling - Boston (RS500)
- Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
- The Killing of Georgie (Parts I & II) - Rod Stewart
- Dancing Queen - Abba (RS500)
- Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones (RS500)
- Love Hangover - Diana Ross
- Cokane in My Brain - Dillinger
- Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin
- (I’m) Stranded - The Stains
- Hotel California - The Eagles (RS500)
- Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers (RS500)
- American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- Detroit Rock City - Kiss
- Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton
- Chase The Devil - Max Romeo
- New Rose - The Damned
- Anarchy in the U.K. - Sex Pistols (RS500)
- Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Warren Zevon
- Underground - The Upsetters
- God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols (RS500)
- Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
- Sweet Gene Vincent - Ian Dury
- By This River - Brian Eno
- Dum Dum Boys - Iggy Pop
- Com'è profondo il mare - Lucio Dalla
- Ghost Rider - Suicide
- Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks
- Holidays in the Sun - Sex Pistols
- Peaches - The Stranglers
- Black Betty - Ram Jam
- Born for a Purpose - Dr. Alimantado & The Rebels
- Zombie - Fela Kuti & Africa 70
- Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
- Uptown Top Ranking - Althea & Donna
- I Feel Love - Donna Summer (RS500)
- Peg - Steely Dan
- Marquee Moon - Television (RS500)
- Like a Hurricane - Neil Young (Live versions)
- The Passenger - Iggy Pop
- Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees
- Wonderous Stories - Yes
- Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac (RS500)
- “Heroes“ - David Bowie (RS500)
- Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers
- River Song - Dennis Wilson
- Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC
- Black Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
- Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
- Lust for Life - Iggy Pop (RS500)
- Non-Alignment Pact - Pere Ubu
- Blue Valentines - Tom Waits
- Heart of Glass - Blondie
- Ever Fallin in Love…(with Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) - Buzzcocks
- Le Freak - Chic
- Milk and Alcohol - Dr. Feelgood
- Don’t Stop Me Now - Queen
- Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
- You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester
- Human Fly - The Cramps
- Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) - The Jacksons
- (I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
- One Nation Under a Groove - Funkadelic (RS500)
- Das Model - Kraftwerk
- Shot by Both Sides - Magazine
- Public Image - Public Image Ltd
- Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
- (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash (RS500)
- Ambition - Subway Sect
- Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees
- Being Boiled - The Human League
- Rock Lobster - The B-52’s (RS500)
- Roxanne - The Police (RS500)
- Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
- Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex
- Runnin’ with the Devil - Van Halen
- Hammond Song - The Roches
- Heaven - Talking Heads
- The Eton Rifles - The Jam
- London Calling - The Clash (RS500)
- Transmission - Joy Division
- Voulez-Vous - Abba
- Beat the Clock - Sparks
- Oliver’s Army - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
- Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
- Gloria - Umberto Tozzi
- Black Eyed Dog - Nick Drake
- Are “Friends” Electric? - Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
- Boys Don’t Cry - The Cure
- Good Times - Chic
- Don’t Stop ‘til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
- Lost in Music - Sister Sledge
- Brass in Pocket - Pretenders
- Outdoor Miner - Wire
- Rapper’s Delight - The Sugarhill Gang (RS500)
- California Über Alles - Dead Kennedys
- Typical Girls - The Slits
- Atomic - Blondie
- Gangsters - The Specials
- Cars - Gary Numan
- Babylon’s Burning - The Ruts
- Message in a Bottle - The Police
- The Winner Takes It All - Abba
- Rapture - Blondie
- While You See a Chance - Steve Winwood
- Heartattack and Vine - Tom Waits
- Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants
- Redemption Song - Bob Marley & The Wailers (RS500)
- Dead Souls - Joy Division
- Master Blaster (Jammin’) - Stevie Wonder
- Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime - The Korgis
- I’m Coming Out - Diana Ross
- Back in Black - AC/DC (RS500)
- Let My Love Open the Door - Pete Townshend
- Geno - Dexys Midnight Runners
- Guilty - Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibb
- Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division (RS500)
- Wardance - Killing Joke
- Ace of Spades - Motörhead
- Start! - The Jam
- Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
- Vienna - Ultravox
- Caballo Viejo - Simon Diaz
- I Got You - Split Enz
- It Must Be Love - Madness
- Tom Sawyer - Rush
- Girls on Film - Duran Duran
- I Love Rock ‘n Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (RS500)
- Mickey - Toni Basil
- Computer Love - Kraftwerk
- O Superman - Laurie Anderson
- In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
- Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks
- Via con me - Paolo Conte
- Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie
- Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Go’s
- Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
- Ghosts - Japan
- Tainted Love - Soft Cell
- Walking on Thin Ice - Yoko Ono
- Please Don’t Touch - Motörhead/Girlschool
- Super Freak - Rick James (RS500)
- Don’t Stop Believin’ - Journey
- Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs
- Ghost Town - The Specials
- I’m in Love with a German Film Star - The Passions
- Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
- The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (RS500)
- 365 Is My Number - King Sunny Ade & His African Beats
- Do You Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club
- Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics (RS500)
- Atomic Dog - George Clinton
- State of Independence - Donna Summer
- Save a Prayer - Duran Duran
- Candy Girl - New Edition
- Mad World - Tears for Fears
- Black Metal - Venom
- Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
- Cattle and Cane - The Go-Betweens
- Uncertain Smile - The The
- Valley Girl - Frank Zappa
- Thriller - Michael Jackson
- Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
- Save It for Later - The Beat
- Great Southern Land - Icehouse
- Party Fears II - The Associates
- Situation - Yazoo
- Rock The Casbah - The Clash
- Buffalo Gals - Malcolm McLaren
- A New England - Billy Bragg
- Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
- Let’s Dance - David Bowie
- This Charming Man - The Smiths
- Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
- Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil
- Everything Counts - Depeche Mode
- Dear Prudence - Siouxsie & the Banshees
- It’s Like That - Run-DMC
- Rock of Ages - Def Leppard
- Gimme All Your Lovin’ - ZZ Top
- Every Breath You Take - The Police (RS500)
- 99 Luftballons - Nena
- Zungguzungguguzungguzeng - Yellowman
- Blue Monday - New Order
- The Trooper - Iron Maiden
- Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Runaway - Bon Jovi
- Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen (RS500)
- World Destruction - Time Zone
- Immigres/Bitim Rew - Youssou N’Dour
- It’s My Life - Talk Talk
- Smooth Operator - Sade
- I Feel for You - Chaka Khan
- The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
- You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)- Dead or Alive
- The Boys of Summer - Don Henley (RS500)
- Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
- Plateau - Meat Puppets
- Tenderness - General Public
- Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) - Scritti Politti
- I Will Dare - The Replacements
- How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths (RS500)
- Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
- Im Nin’ Alu - Ofra Haza
- Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution (RS500)
- State of Shock - The Jacksons featuring Mick Jagger
- Private Dancer - Tina Turner
- Freedom - Wham!
- I Want You Back - Hoodoo Gurus
- Sally Maclennane - The Pogues
- Voices Carry - ‘Til Tuesday
- The Sun Always Shines on T.V. - A-ha
- Into the Groove - Madonna
- Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) - Kate Bush
- West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
- She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
- Close to Me - The Cure
- Under Mi Sleng Teng - Wayne Smith
- Cruiser’s Creek - The Fall
- Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy
- The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys
- Marlene on the Wall - Suzanne Vega
- How Will I Know - Whitney Houston
- Manic Monday - Bangles
- Sun City - Artists United Against Apartheid
- Kerosene - Big Black
- Ay te dejo en San Antonio - Flaco Jiménez
- Time of No Reply - Nick Drake
- Wide Open Road - The Triffids
- There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
- Some Candy Talking - The Jesus and Mary Chain
- No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
- Raining Blood - Slayer
- First We Take Manhattan - Jennifer Warnes
- True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
- Move Your Body - Marshall Jefferson
- Rise - Public Image Ltd
- Love Can’t Turn Around - Farley “Jackmaster” Funk
- Dear God - XTC
- Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely - Hüsker Dü
- Kiss - Prince & The Revolution (RS500)
- Attencion Na SIDA - Franco
- Under the Milky Way - The Church
- Bamboleo - Gipsy Kings
- This Corrosion - The Sisters of Mercy
- Camaron - Pata Negra
- Amandari - Ali Farka Toure
- Push It - Salt-N-Pepa (RS500)
- Bring the Noise - Public Enemy (RS500)
- True Faith - New Order
- It’s a Sin - Pet Shop Boys
- Pump Up the Volume - M|A|R|R|S|
- Birthday - The Sugarcubes
- Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
- Yé Ké Yé Ké - Mory Kanté
- Just Like Heaven - The Cure (RS500)
- The One I Love - R.E.M.
- Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
- Paradise City - Guns N’ Roses (RS500)
- Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode
- Faith - George Michael
- Need You Tonight - INXS
- With or Without You - U2 (RS500)
- Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
- Follow the Leader - Eric B. & Rakim
- Where Is My Mind? - The Pixies
- Waiting Room - Fugazi
- Touch Me I’m Sick - Mudhoney
- Feed Me with Your Kiss - My Bloody Valentine
- Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
- Fast Car - Tracy Chapman (RS500)
- Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
- Opel - Syd Barrett
- Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrisey
- Orinoco Flow - Enya
- One - Metallica
- The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Ederlezi - Goran Bregovic
- Ale Brider - Klezmatics
- Love Shack - The B-52’s (RS500)
- A Little Respect - Erasure
- Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
- Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode (RS500)
- Soy gitano - Camarón de la Isla
- I Am the Resurrection - The Stone Roses
- Me, Myself and I - De La Soul
- Epic - Faith No More
- Like a Prayer - Madonna (RS500)
- W.F.L. (Think about the Future) - Happy Mondays
- Getting Away with It - Electronic
- Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies (RS500)
- Can’t Be Sure - The Sundays
- Lullaby - The Cure
- Free Fallin’ - Tom Petty (RS500)
- Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O’Connor (RS500)
- The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
- Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) - Soul II Soul
- Nothing Has Been Proved - Dusty Springfield
- Headlights on the Parade - The Blue Nile
- Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns - Mother Love Bone
- Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson
- Painkiller - Judas Priest
- Loaded - Primal Scream
- Iceblink Luck - Cocteau Twins
- Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
- Energy Flash - Joey Beltram
- Bonita Applebum - A Tribe Called Quest
- Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb
- Three Days - Jane’s Addiction
- Dub Be Good to Me - Beats International
- Kool Thing - Sonic Youth
- Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Saint Etienne
- Crazy - Seal
- Musst Mustt (Lost in his Work) - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Diaraby Nene - Oumou Sangare
- 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
- Balada conducatorolui - Taraf de Haïdouks
- Calling All Angels - Jane Siberry with k.d. lang
- I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt (RS500)
- Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
- No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
- Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (RS500)
- Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
- Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
- One - U2 (RS500)
- Losing My Religion - R.E.M. (RS500)
- Life Is a Highway - Tom Cochrane
- Always on the Run - Lenny Kravitz
- Treaty - Yothu Yindi
- Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
- Justified & Ancient - The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette
- Enter Sandman - Metallica (RS500)
- Weather with You - Crowded House
- You Got the Love - The Source featuring Candi Staton
- Blind Willie McTell - Bob Dylan
- Move Any Mountain-Progen 91 - The Shamen
- How I Could Just Kill A Man - Cypress Hill
- Cop Killer - Body Count
- Pretend We’re Dead - L7
- My Drug Buddy - Lemonheads
- Shake Your Head - Was (Not Was)
- Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
- Creep - Radiohead
- Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
- Connected - Stereo MC’s
- Inkanyezi Nezazi - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Sodade - Cesária Évora
- Remedy - The Black Crowes
- No Rain - Blind Melon
- Walk - Pantera
- Real Love - Mary J. Blige
- Deep Cover - Dr. Dre introducing Snoop Doggy Dogg
- Out of Space - The Prodigy
- Didi - Khaled
- Animal Nitrate - Suede
- La solitudine - Laura Pausini
- Rumba Argelina - Radio Tarifa
- Loser - Beck (RS500)
- French Disko - Stereolab
- Into Dust - Mazzy Star
- Rid of Me - PJ Harvey
- Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
- Laid - James
- Open Up - Leftfield-Lydon
- Possession - Sarah McLachlan (live version
- Cannonball - The Breeders
- C.R.E.A.M. - Wu-Tang Clan
- Because the Night - 10,000 Maniacs
- Ching Söörtükchülerining Yryzy - Huun-Huur-Tu
- It Ain’t Hard to Tell - Nas
- Inner City Life - Goldie presents Metalheads
- End of a Century - Blur
- Connection - Elastica
- Confide in Me - Kylie Minogue
- Your Ghost - Kristin Hersh featuring Michael Stipe
- Doll Parts - Hole
- 7 Seconds - Youssou N’ Dour featuring Neneh Cherry
- Live Forever - Oasis
- Cut Your Hair - Pavement
- All Apologies - Nirvana
- Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
- Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
- Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
- Waterfalls - TLC
- Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos
- Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley (RS500)
- Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Sabotage - Beastie Boys (RS500)
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World - Prince
- Sour Times - Portishead
- Army of Me - Björk
- Champagne Supernova - Oasis
- The Fever - Garth Brooks
- Kung Fu - Ash
- 1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
- Common People - Pulp
- Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue
- Insomnia - Faithless
- Scream - Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson
- Hell Is Round the Corner - Tricky
- Born Slippy Nuxx - Underworld
- You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette
- Back for Good - Take That
- Stupid Girl - Garbage
- Miss Sarajevo - Passengers
- River of Detroit - Mad Season
- Dear Mama - 2Pac
- The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind) - The Bucketheads
- Guilty By Association - Joe Henry and Madonna
- A irmandade das estrelas - Carlos Nunez
- Brooklyn’s Finest - Jay-Z featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
- Novocaine for the Soul - Eels
- Ready or Not - Fugees
- Firestarter - The Prodigy
- Professional Widow (Armand’s Star Trunk Funkin’ Mix) - Tori Amos
- Nancy Boy - Placebo
- Devil’s Haricut - Beck
- I’ll Be There for You… - Method Man featuring Mary J. Blige
- The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
- Criminal - Fiona Apple
- Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
- On & On - Erykah Badu
- Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check - Busta Rhymes
- No Diggity - Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre
- Woke Up This Morning - Alabama 3
- Block Rockin’ Beats - The Chemical Brothers
- Breakdown - Mariah Carey
- Chan Chan - Buena Vista Social Club fat. Compay Segundo
- Between the Bars - Elliott Smith
- Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) - Backstreet Boys
- 4,3,2,1, - LL Cool J feat. Method Man, Redman, Canibus & DMX
- Simarik - Tarkan
- Spice Up Your Life - Spice Girls
- Given to Fly - Pearl Jam (live version)
- Paranoid Android - Radiohead (RS500)
- Come to Daddy (Pappy Mix) - Aphex Twin
- Never Ever - All Saints
- Song 2 - Blur
- Time of Your Life (Good Riddance) - Green Day
- Broken Heart - Spiritualized
- Into My Arms - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Doo Wop (That Thing) - Lauryn Hill
- Kelly Watch the Stars - Air
- You Get What You Give - New Radicals
- Music Sounds Better with You - Stardust
- Erase/Rewind - The Cardigans
- Teardrop - Massive Attack
- Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
- Bok Espok - Kepa Junkera
- Save Me - Aimee Mann
- No One Will Ever Love You - The Magnetic Fields
- Surfacing - Slipknot
- Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Ms. Fat Booty - Mos Def
- Caught Out There - Kelis
- Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? - Moby
- I Try - Macy Gray
- U Don’t Know Me - Armand Van Helden
- Race for the Prize - The Flaming Lips (live version)
- One Armed Scissor - At the Drive-In
- Hate to Say I Told You So - The Hives
- Frontier Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
- One More Time - Daft Punk
- Stan - Eminem featuring Dido (RS500)
- Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams feat. Emmylou Harris
- Fuck the Pain Away - Peaches
- Feel Good Hit of the Summer - Queens of the Stone Age
- Ms. Jackson - Outkast
- Romeo - Basement Jaxx
- Can’t Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue
- Vuelvo al sur - Gotan Project
- Clandestino - Manu Chao
- Iag bari - Fanfare Ciocărlia
- Oiça lá ó Senhor Vinho - Mariza
- You and Whose Army? - Radiohead
- Romando y tomando - Lupillo Rivera
- New York City Cops - The Strokes
- Fell In Love with a Girl - The White Stripes
- Get Ur Freak On - Missy Elliott
- 21 Seconds - So Solid Crew
- Stay Together for the Kids - Blink-182
- Schism - Tool
- Rock Star - N*E*R*D
- Fallin’ - Alicia Keys
- More Than a Woman - Aaliyah
- 911 - Gorillaz
- Tiempo de soleá - Ojos de Brujo
- Freak Like Me - Sugababes
- Mundian to bach ke - Panjabi MC
- A Little Less Conversation - Elvis Presley vs. JXL
- Gimme the Light - Sean Paul
- I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness
- Ashes of American Flags - Wilco (live version)
- Like I Love You - Justin Timberlake
- You Know You’re Right - Nirvana
- All the Things She Said - T.A.T.U.
- Untitled - Interpol
- Slob - Weezer
- Strange and Beautiful (I’ll Put a Spell on You) - Aqualung
- Quelqu’un m’a dit - Carla Bruni
- Heartbeats - The Knife
- Fuck Me Pumps - Amy Winehouse
- Strict Machine - Goldfrapp
- Step into My Office, Baby - Belle & Sebastian
- Run - Snow Patrol
- Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Toxic - Britney Spears
- Destroy Rock N’ Roll - Mylo
- Mr. Brightside - The Killers
- Televators - The Mars Volta
- Through The Wire - Kanye West
- 7 Nation Army - The White Stripes
- Fix Up, Look Sharp - Dizzee Rascal
- Crazy in Love - Beyoncé
- Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
- Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
- Perfekte Welle - Juli
- I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
- Can’t Stand Me Now - The Libertines
- Float On - Modest Mouse
- Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day
- Mein Teil - Rammstein
- Portland, Oregon - Loretta Lynn featuring Jack White
- Points of Authority... - Jay-Z with Linkin Park
- The Art Teacher - Rufus Wainwright
- Dry Your Eyes - The Streets
- Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
- Todo cambia - Mercedes Sosa
- I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
- Hard to Beat - Hard-Fi
- Fix You - Coldplay
- Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above - CSS
- Best of You - Foo Fighters
- Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós
- Hope There’s Someone - Antony & The Johnsons
- Welcome to Jamrock - Damian Marley
- Little Bear - Guillemots
- Consolation Prizes - Phoenix
- Not Ready to Make Nice - Dixie Chicks
- Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
- Love Is a Losing Game - Amy Winehouse
- Ain’t No Other Man - Christina Aguilera
- Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
- We Are Your Friends - Justice vs. Simian
- Pop the Glock - Uffie
- Ovunque proteggi - Vinicio Capossela
- Please Read The Letter - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
- Crank That (Soulja Boy) - Soulja Boy
- My People - The Presets
- Flux - Bloc Party
- My Moon My Man - Feist
- D.A.N.C.E. - Justice
- re: Stacks - Bon Iver
- With Every Heartbeat - Robyn with Kleerup
- Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
- Paper Planes - M.I.A.
- Mercy - Duffy
- Sabali - Amadou & Mariam
- Divine - Sebastien Tellier
- Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
- Time To Pretend - MGMT
- Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
- L.E.S. Artistes - Santogold
- Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
- One Day Like This - Elbow
- Viva la Vida - Coldplay
- Dog Days Are Over - Florence & The Machine
- The Fear - Lily Allen
- Summertime Clothes - Animal Collective
- Rain Dance - The Very Best feat. M.I.A.
- Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
- Tenalle chegret - Tinariwen
- Harry Patch (In Memory of) - Radiohead
- Go Do - Jónsi
- Me and the Devil - Gil Scott Heron
- Stylo - Gorillaz
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from the book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die edited by Robert Dimery - Ones in bold are presently in my music collection. (In progress) - RS500 indicates overlap with the Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs of All Time