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1000 songs everyone must hear
Life and death: 1000 songs everyone must hear
My selection of 65 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 131
- What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong, 1968)
- Yer Blues (The Beatles, 1968)
- Yesterday (The Beatles, 1965)
- Paranoid (Black Sabbath, 1970)
- (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult, 1976)
- This Is a Low (Blur, 1994)
- Kooks (David Bowie, 1971)
- Bertie (Kate Bush, 2005)
- Goin’ Back (The Byrds, 1968)
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By) (The Carter Family, 1935)
- The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 1988)
- If I Could Turn Back Time (Cher, 1989)
- C’mon Everybody (Eddie Cochran, 1958)
- My Favorite Things (John Coltrane Quartet, 1961)
- School’s Out (Alice Cooper, 1972)
- My Three Sons (Elvis Costello and the Imposters, 2008)
- Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy (Kid Creole and the Coconuts, 1982)
- That’ll Be the Day (The Crickets, 1957)
- Killing an Arab (The Cure, 1978)
- Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode, 1989)
- Teen Angel (Mark Dinning, 1959)
- Sunshine Superman (Donovan, 1966)
- Working in a Coal Mine (Lee Dorsey, 1966)
- Forever Young (Bob Dylan, 1974)
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan, 1973)
- Lonelier Than This (Steve Earle, 2000)
- Summertime (Ella Fitzgerald, 1959)
- Regulate (Warren G and Nate Dogg, 1994)
- Save the Children (Marvin Gaye, 1971)
- So Nice (Summer Samba) (Astrud Gilberto, 1966)
- Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum, 1969)
- Workin’ Man’s Blues (Merle Haggard, 1969)
- All Things Must Pass (George Harrison, 1970)
- Hey Joe (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1966)
- The Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden, 1982)
- Seasons in the Sun (Terry Jacks, 1974)
- Needle of Death (Bert Jansch, 1965)
- Knoxville Girl (The Louvin Brothers, 1959)
- Alone Again Or (Love, 1967)
- Baggy Trousers (Madness, 1980)
- La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) (Manic Street Preachers, 1993)
- 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton, 1980)
- Another Brick in the Wall, Part II (Pink Floyd, 1979)
- Message in a Bottle (The Police, 1979)
- Paranoid Android (Radiohead, 1997)
- (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding, 1968)
- Paint it Black (The Rolling Stones, 1966)
- Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (Paul Simon, 1972)
- Feeling Good (Nina Simone, 1965)
- It Was a Very Good Year (Frank Sinatra, 1965)
- Dress Sexy at My Funeral (Smog, 2000)
- No Surrender (Bruce Springsteen, 1984)
- O Death (Ralph Stanley, 2000)
- Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads, 1980)
- Psycho Killer (Talking Heads, 1977)
- One (U2, 1992)
- Walk Like a Man (Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, 1963)
- Frankie and Johnny (Mae West, 1928)
- Grandma’s Hands (Bill Withers, 1971)
- My Death (Scott Walker, 1967)
- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams, 1949)
- Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing (Stevie Wonder, 1973)
- Germ Free Adolescents (X-Ray Spex, 1978)
- Old Man (Neil Young, 1972)
- Keep Me In Your Heart (Warren Zevon, 2003)
1000 songs everyone must hear
Life and death: 1000 songs everyone must hear