A few of the good folk I follow on Twitter have posted their #top100 records of all time. After much agonising, downloading, ripping, purchasing, fiddling etc I've finally cobbled together my own list. The only rules are that each artist can only appear twice at most, so I limited myself to pairing up with the usual suspects only: Beatles, Dylan, Radiohead, REM, New Order/Joy Division and Massive Attack (the long standing loves of my life) in order to build a more eclectic list.
The tracks are now all assembled on an mp3 playlist and have been through an exhaustive quality control and end user verification process! Some of the tracks suffer from the familiarity gained from being heard thousands of times, but they've made it precisely because I've played them that often. Putting the playlist on shuffle is a joy as I'm rarely disappointed! The list is ordered, but ranking does get slightly arbitrary after number 30-something!
At some point soon (when I've worked out how) I'll tag notes to each entry.
| Beatles | Tomorrow Never Knows |
| Van Morrison | Sweet Thing |
| New Order | Your Silent Face |
| Joy Division | Disorder |
| Radiohead | Let Down |
| Bob Dylan | Visions Of Johanna |
| Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart |
| Marvin Gaye | Inner City Blues |
| David Bowie | TVC 15 |
| Thievery Corporation | Shoalin Satellite |
| Beatles | Strawberry Fields Forever |
| Rob D | Clubbed To Death |
| Hashim | Al Naayfish |
| New Order | Procession |
| Radiohead | Paranoid Android |
| Bob Dylan | Girl from the North Country (+ Johnny Cash) |
| Massive Attack | Protection |
| Clash | Bank Robber |
| REM | Half A World Away |
| Big Audio Dynamite | E=MC2 |
| A Guy Called Gerald | Voodoo Ray |
| Rolling Stones | Gimme Shelter |
| U2 | Running To Stand Still |
| Gomez | Here Comes The Breeze |
| Tom Waits | Swordfishtrombone |
| Kraftwerk | Radioactivity |
| Talking Heads | Drugs |
| Gladiators | Looks Is Deceiving |
| Joan Armatrading | Love and Affection |
| Public Image Limited | Public Image |
| REM | Radio Free Europe |
| Sugarhill Gang | Rapper's Delight |
| Linton Kwesi Johnson | It Dread Inna Inglan |
| Goldie | Inner City Life |
| Gang Starr | Jazz Thing |
| Laura Marling | Night Terror |
| Donna Summer | I Feel Love |
| Morrissey | Everyday is like Sunday |
| Sugarcubes | Birthday |
| Sex Pistols | Holiday in the sun |
| Kinks | David Watts |
| Massive Attack | Risingson |
| John Lennon | Mind Games |
| Chemical Brothers | Let Forever Be |
| House Of Love | Destroy The Heart |
| Pixies | Debaser |
| Manic Street Preachers | A Design For Life |
| David Holmes | I Heard Wonders |
| LCD Soundsystem | All My Friends |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Maps |
| Queens of The Stone Age | No One Knows |
| Pogues | Medley: The Recruiting Sergeant/The Rocky Road to Dublin/The Galway Races |
| Fleet Foxes | Sim Sala Bim |
| Grandmaster Flash | The Message |
| Cameo | Word Up |
| Otis ReddIng | A Change is gonna come |
| Strokes | Hard To Explain |
| Stone Roses | I am the resurrection |
| Public Enemy | Don't believe the Hype |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young | 4 And 20 |
| Jesus and Mary Chain | Some Candy Talking |
| Joni Mitchell | Carey |
| Faith No More | Everything's Ruined |
| Grant Lee Buffalo | Fuzzy |
| The Verve | History |
| Bloc Party | So Here We Are |
| The Jam | That's Entertainment |
| Velvet Underground | Waiting For The Man |
| De La Soul | Say No Go |
| Police | The Bed's Too Big Without You |
| Sundays | Can't Be Sure |
| Jimi Hendrix | The Wind Cries Mary |
| Pulp | Babies |
| Elvis Costello | Accidents Will Happen |
| The Beat | Mirror In the Bathroom |
| Jefferson Airplane | White Rabbit |
| Beck | Devil's Haircut |
| Saint Etienne | People Get Real |
| Leonard Cohen | Suzanne |
| Beta Band | Dry The Rain |
| Oasis | Colombia |
| Wedding Present | Kennedy |
| Eric B and Rakim | Follow The Leader |
| 10,000 Maniacs | Hey Jack Kerouac |
| Led Zeppelin | Good Times Bad Times |
| Jurassic 5ive | Jayou |
| James | Laid |
| Macka B | Looks Are Deceiving |
| Augustus Pablo | King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown |
| Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here |
| Funboy 3 | Our Lips Are Sealed |
| Smiths | There is a light that never goes out |
| Damned | New Rose |
| Nirvana | Drain You |
| Primal Scream | Don't Fight it, Feel it |
| Waterboys | Fisherman's Blues |
| Joan Jett | I Love Rock And Roll |
| Bon Iver | Holocene |
| Beastie Boys | Jimmy James |
| The Stooges | I Wanna Be Your Dog |
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