1000 songs part 3
1000 songs everyone must hear
People and places: part three of 1000 songs everyone must hear
My selection of 108 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 145
- We Gotta Get Out of This Place (The Animals, 1965)
- A Certain Romance (Arctic Monkeys, 2006)
- Fun, Fun, Fun (The Beach Boys, 1964)
- Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles, 1966)
- Doctor Robert (The Beatles, 1966)
- Drive My Car (The Beatles, 1965)
- Penny Lane (The Beatles, 1967)
- She’s Leaving Home (The Beatles, 1967)
- Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles, 1967)
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco (Tony Bennett, 1962)
- Memphis, Tennessee (Chuck Berry, 1959)
- No Particular Place to Go (Chuck Berry, 1964)
- Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry, 1958)
- Jerusalem (William Blake, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1916)
- Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City (Bobby Bland, 1974)
- Hernando’s Hideaway (Archie Bleyer, 1954)
- For Tomorrow (Blur, 1993)
- Life On Mars? (David Bowie, 1971)
- Space Oddity (David Bowie, 1969)
- Levi Stubbs’ Tears (Billy Bragg, 1986)
- Blackwater Side (Anne Briggs, 1971)
- Smalltown Boy (Bronski Beat, 1984)
- Eight Miles High (The Byrds, 1966)
- Galveston (Glen Campbell, 1969)
- Minnie the Moocher (Cab Calloway, 1931)
- Drive (The Cars, 1984)
- Scarborough Fair (Martin Carthy, 1965)
- Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash, 1955)
- Georgia on My Mind (Ray Charles, 1960)
- LA Freeway (Guy Clark, 1975)
- London Calling (The Clash, 1979)
- Many Rivers to Cross (Jimmy Cliff, 1969)
- Chelsea Hotel #2 (Leonard Cohen, 1974)
- First We Take Manhattan (Leonard Cohen, 1988)
- The Banks of the Sweet Primroses (Shirley Collins, 1967)
- Chain Gang (Sam Cooke, 1960)
- Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (Bing Crosby, 1932)
- Beyond the Sea (Bobby Darin, 1959)
- Mack the Knife (Bobby Darin, 1959)
- 007 (Shanty Town) (Desmond Dekker, 1967)
- Geno (Dexys Midnight Runners, 1980)
- Roadrunner (Bo Diddley, 1960)
- The Wanderer (Dion, 1961)
- Sunny Goodge Street (Donovan, 1965)
- Black and White Town (Doves, 2005)
- On Broadway (The Drifters, 1963)
- Billericay Dickie (Ian Dury, 1977)
- Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan, 1965)
- The Mountain (Steve Earle, 1999)
- Station Approach (Elbow, 2005)
- Sin City (The Flying Burrito Brothers, 1969)
- Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel, 1977)
- Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland, 1939)
- Do Re Mi (Woody Guthrie, 1940)
- Boulder to Birmingham (Emmylou Harris, 1975)
- Just Like Eddie (Heinz, 1963)
- Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (The Jam, 1978)
- Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin, 1971)
- Cross Road Blues (Robert Johnson, 1936)
- Choo Choo Ch’Boogie (Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five, 1946)
- Spanish Harlem (Ben E King, 1961)
- (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 (Nat King Cole, 1946)
- Dead End Street (The Kinks, 1966)
- The Village Green Preservation Society (The Kinks, 1968)
- Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks, 1967)
- Trans-Europe Express (Kraftwerk, 1977)
- Ramblin’ Man (Lemon Jelly, 2002)
- Kentucky (The Louvin Brothers, 1956)
- Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd, 1974)
- California Dreamin’ (The Mamas and the Papas, 1965)
- No Woman, No Cry (Bob Marley and the Wailers, 1974)
- Vincent (Don McLean, 1971)
- Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend (Marilyn Monroe, 1953)
- On the Road Again (Willie Nelson, 1980)
- Cars (Gary Numan, 1979)
- Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison, 1963)
- Bruton Town (Pentangle, 1968)
- King’s Cross (Pet Shop Boys, 1987)
- West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys, 1985)
- Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett, 1966)
- Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Pink Floyd, 1975)
- Dirty Old Town (The Pogues, 1985)
- Rainy Night in Soho (The Pogues, 1985)
- Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley, 1956)
- Somewhere (PJ Proby, 1964)
- Common People (Pulp, 1995)
- Bright Lights, Big City (Jimmy Reed, 1961)
- Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, 1972)
- Harper Valley PTA (Jeannie C Riley, 1968)
- T for Texas (Jimmie Rodgers, 1928)
- Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones, 1967)
- Jenny Take a Ride (Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, 1965)
- Graceland (Paul Simon, 1986)
- Homeward Bound (Simon and Garfunkel, 1966)
- Mrs Robinson (Simon and Garfunkel, 1968)
- New York, New York (Frank Sinatra, 1980)
- Jackson (Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, 1967)
- Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen, 1975)
- Up the Junction (Squeeze, 1979)
- Rank Stranger (The Stanley Brothers, 1950)
- Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf, 1968)
- The Boys Are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy, 1976)
- 54-46 (That’s My Number) (Toots and the Maytals, 1968)
- My Perfect Cousin (The Undertones, 1980)
- Do You Know the Way to San José (Dionne Warwick, 1968)
- Wild Wood (Paul Weller, 1993)
- Living for the City (Stevie Wonder, 1973)
- Master Blaster (Jammin) (Stevie Wonder, 1980)
1000 songs everyone must hear
People and places: part three of 1000 songs everyone must hear