Saturday 21 March 2009

Part 3 : People and Places

1000 songs everyone must hear

People and places: part three of 1000 songs everyone must hear

My selection of 145 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 145

New York, New York (Ryan Adams, 2001)
Lake Shore Drive (Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, 1971)
I’ve Got to Go Back Home (Bob Andy, 1966)
We Gotta Get Out of This Place (The Animals, 1965)
A Certain Romance (Arctic Monkeys, 2006)
Chicago (Roy Ayers, 1983)
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)
Tribute to Buddy Holly (Mike Berry and the Outlaws, 1961)
Jerusalem (William Blake, Charles Hubert and 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)
Nights in New York City (Jan Bradley, 1968)
Levi Stubbs’ Tears (Billy Bragg, 1986)
Rocket 88 (Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats, 1951)
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)
I’m Free From the Chain Gang Now (Johnny Cash, 2006)
Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash, 1955)
King of Bongo (Manu Chao, 1998)
Georgia on My Mind (Ray Charles, 1960)
Lonely Avenue (Ray Charles, 1956)
LA Freeway (Guy Clark, 1975)
London Calling (The Clash, 1979)
Many Rivers to Cross (Jimmy Cliff, 1969)
Riot in Cell Block #9 (The Coasters, 1954)
Chelsea Hotel #2 (Leonard Cohen, 1974)
First We Take Manhattan (Leonard Cohen, 1988)
The Banks of the Sweet Primroses (Shirley Collins, 1967)
Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All (Ry Cooder, 1972)
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)
Ballad of a Thin Man (Bob Dylan, 1965)
Blind Willie McTell (Bob Dylan, 1991)
Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan, 1965)
The Mountain (Steve Earle, 1999)
Station Approach (Elbow, 2005)
Leave the Capitol (The Fall, 1981)
Sin City (The Flying Burrito Brothers, 1969)
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel, 1977)
Green Fields (The Good, the Bad and the Queen, 2007)
Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland, 1939)
Do Re Mi (Woody Guthrie, 1940)
Big City (Merle Haggard, 1981)
Tribute to Hank Williams (Tim Hardin, 1967)
Boulder to Birmingham (Emmylou Harris, 1975)
Coles Corner (Richard Hawley, 2005)
Just Like Eddie (Heinz, 1963)
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (The Jam, 1978)
So What (Miles) (Eddie Jefferson, 1961)
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)
London is the Place For Me (Lord Kitchener, 1951)
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)
Things Are Worse in Russia (Sam Mayo, 1922)
Vincent (Don McLean, 1971)
Me and My Chauffeur Blues (Memphis Minnie, 1941)
Stack O’ Lee (Mississippi John Hurt, 1928)
Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend (Marilyn Monroe, 1953)
Coney Island (Van Morrison, 1989)
On the Road Again (Willie Nelson, 1980)
Cars (Gary Numan, 1979)
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country (Randy Newman, 2008)
Baltimore (Randy Newman, 1977)
I Love LA (Randy Newman, 1983)
I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City (Nilsson, 1969)
Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison, 1963)
Domino (Roy Orbison, 1956)
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)
Berlin (Lou Reed, 1973)
Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, 1972)
Harper Valley PTA (Jeannie C Riley, 1968)
T for Texas (Jimmie Rodgers, 1928)
Moonlight Mile (The Rolling Stones, 1971)
Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones, 1967)
Jenny Take a Ride (Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, 1965)
Chancery Lane (Bim Sherman, 1978)
Graceland (Paul Simon, 1986)
The Late Great Johnny Ace (Paul Simon, 1983)
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)
Snowin’ on Raton (Townes Van Zandt, 1987)
My Perfect Cousin (The Undertones, 1980)
In the Neighbourhood (Tom Waits, 1983)
Johnsburg, Illinois (Tom Waits, 1983)
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)

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