Behind the cut is the list of my favorite 500 songs as of now. Or as of some nebulous time over the past several months, since that’s how long it took me to put this together.
One of my 101/1001 goals is to either own or get directly from friends at least half of these songs. Why does it matter how I get them, since I already have the audio? Because bit quality matters, and getting the song in the context of the full CD matters, and if the artist is little-enough-known that my well-versed friends don’t have their music, they could probably use my money. So help me out! What of this can you lend me?
Or suggest more songs I might like! I don’t listen to radio or Pandora much, so I either get my music from my friends or from my grocery store (sad, but true). I’d rather it be from you’all.
These are songs for all of my moods. These are the songs I sing to when I’m alone (which I do loudly). I know that some of it isn’t good music. It’s just what I’ve run across, or thought to chase down, or was easy to download. I don’t exactly endorse this music– I’d only recommend a fraction of it– but I do enjoy it a lot. Maybe you will too. I will gladly pass on any of this (or all of it), just ask me.
| 10,000 Maniacs – These Are Days | 311 – Beautiful Disaster |
| 311 – Champagne | Aerosmith – Walk This Way |
| AFI – This Celluloid Dream | A-ha – Take On Me |
| Alanis Morissette – Head Over Feet | Alanis Morissette – You Learn |
| Alex Ubago – Dame Tu Aire | Amaral – Te Necesito |
| America – Sister Golden Hair | Amon Tobin – Bridge |
| Amon Tobin – Toys | Andy M. Stewart – A Red, Red Rose |
| Anonymous 4 – Ce que je tieng/Certes mout/Bone compaignie/MANERE | Antonin Dvorak – Humoresque* |
| Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Winter op. 8 – Allegro non molto* | Aphex Twin – Vordhosbn |
| Arlo Guthrie – City of New Orleans | Arlo Guthrie – Darkest Hour |
| Bach – Minuet and Badinerie (from Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor)* | Badfinger – No Matter What |
| Barenaked Ladies – One Week | Beck – Loser |
| Beck – The New Pollution | Beck – Where It’s At |
| Bedlam Abbey – Pastimes With Good Company | Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones – Flight of the Cosmic Hippo |
| Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones – New South Africa | Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones – The Sinister Minister |
| Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones – UFO Tofu | Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones – Scratch and Sniff |
| Benny Benassi – Satisfaction | Bill Withers – Lean On Me |
| Billy Idol – Rebel Yell | Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young |
| Billy Joel – Piano Man | Billy Joel – She’s Always A Woman To me |
| Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start the Fire | Billy Joel – For the Longest Time |
| Billy Joel – All About Soul | Black Sabbath – Heaven And Hell |
| Blood Hound Gang – Bad Touch | Blue Man Group – Boston |
| Blues Travelers – The Hook | Bob Dylan – All Along The Watchtower |
| Bob Dylan – Forever Young | Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone |
| Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues | Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue |
| Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’ | Bob Dylan – My Back Pages |
| Bob Marley – Could You Be Loved | Bob Marley – Is This Love |
| Bob Marley – No Woman No Cry | Bob Marley – One Love |
| Bob Seger – Against The Wind | Bob Seger – Give Me The Beat Boys (Drift Away) |
| Bob Seger – Like A Rock | Bob Seger – Night Moves |
| Bon Jovi – You Give Love a Bad Name | Bon Jovi – Livin’ on a Prayer |
| Bonnie Raitt – Something To Talk About | Brian Adams – I’ll Be right Here Waiting for You |
| Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth | Butthole Surfers – The Shame of Life |
| Cabaret – Hey, Big Spender | Cake – Daria |
| Cake – I Will Survive | Cake – Italian Leather Sofa |
| Cake – Let Me Go | Cake – Love You Madly |
| Cake – Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps | Cake – The Distance |
| Cake – You Turn The Screws | Carbon Leaf – Grey Sky Eyes |
| Carbon Leaf – Life Less Ordinary | Carbon Leaf – Raise the Roof |
| Carbon Leaf – The Boxer | Carbon Leaf – What About Everything |
| Cat Stevens – Moonshadow | Cat Stevens – Morning Has Broken |
| Cat Stevens – Wild World | Cat Stevens – Peace Train |
| Catch 22 – 9mm and a Three Piece Suit | Celine Dion – Nature Boy |
| Charles Aznavour – La Boheme | Charlie Parker – Warming Up a Riff |
| Chris DeBurgh – Lady In Red | Clandestine – Babylon |
| Clandestine – Cannonball | Clandestine – A World Turned Upside Down |
| Clandestine – Long Journey South | Clandestine – Peggy |
| Collin Matthews – Elan* | Counting Crows – Accidentally in Love |
| Counting Crows – American Girls | Counting Crows – Mr. Jones |
| Counting Crows – Big Yellow Taxi | Cream – The Sunshine Of Your Love |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Who’ll Stop The Rain | Creedence Clearwater Revival – Down On The Corner |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Carry On | Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Teach Your Children Well |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Horse With No Name | Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Judy Blue Eyes |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Marrakesh Express | Cursive – Driftwood |
| Cursive – At Conception† | Cursive – Rise Up! Rise Up!† |
| Daler Mehndi – Tunak Tunak Tun | Dave Brubeck – Take Five |
| David Usher – What If | Dire Straights – Sultans of Swing |
| Do Make Say Think – Soul and Onward | Don Henley – End of the Innocence |
| Don McLean – American Pie | Double Indemnity – Beggars to God† |
| Double Indemnity – Dunnenkirk and the Gypsy† | Double Indemnity – Inesheet Aire† |
| Electric Masada – Hadasha | Electric Masada – Lilin |
| Elton John – Candle in the Wind | Elton John – Circle Of Life |
| Elton John – I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues | Elton John – Your Song |
| Elton John – Blue Jean Baby | Emerald Rose – Merry May Folk |
| Emerald Rose – Pagan Girl | Emerald Rose – Red Haired Mary |
| Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Lucky Man | Empty Hats – If It’s A Rose (Then It Will Bloom)* |
| Empty Hats – Give Me Your HandLittle Stack Of Wheat* | Empty Hats – Cyrus In The Moonlight* |
| Empty Hats – Beggars To God* | Enrique Bunbury – Infinito |
| Eric Clapton – Classical Guitar Solo | Eric Clapton – Layla |
| Eric Clapton – Tears In Heaven | Estopa – La Raja De Tu Falda |
| Fall Out Boy – Of All the Gin Joints in the World | Fall Out Boy – Dance Dance |
| Fall Out Boy – Sugar We’re Goin’ Down | Fall Out Boy – Sophomore Slump or the Comeback of the Year |
| Foreigner – Cold As Ice | Frank Zappa – Apostrophe |
| Frank Zappa – Peaches en Regalia | Frog Brigade – Buzzards of Green Hill |
| Frog Brigade – Cosmic Highway | Frog Brigade – David Makalaston |
| From First to Last – The Latest Plague | Garaj Mahal – Beware My Ethnic Heart |
| Garaj Mahal – MondoGaraj | Genesis – Land of Confusion |
| George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue | George Michael – Faith |
| Grateful Dead – Black Muddy River | Grateful Dead – Drivin’ That Train, High On Cocain |
| Grateful Dead – Mexicali Blues | Grateful Dead – Sugar Magnolia |
| Grateful Dead – Touch of Grey | Grateful Dead – Truckin’ |
| Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band | Grateful Dead – And It Stoned Me |
| Grateful Dead – Ripple | Gunn Marc – The Parting Glass* |
| Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child of Mine | Gustav Mahler – Im Tempo eines gemaechlichen Laendlers…* |
| Gypsy Kings – Lord of the Dance | Gypsy Soul – Who |
| H.I.M – Wings of a Butterfly | H.I.M – Soul on Fire |
| Hair – Hare Krishna | Hair – L.B.J |
| Hair – Let the Sun Shine In | Hair – Good Morning Starshine |
| Hair – 3-5-0-0 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Wicked Little Town (Tommy Gnosis version) |
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Tear Me Down | Hedwig and the Angry Inch – The Origin of Love |
| Herbie Hancock – Chamelion | Heroes del Silencio – Entre Dos Tierras |
| Hootie and the Blowfish – Hold My Hand | Hootie and the Blowfish – Only Wanna Be With You |
| Huey Lewis & the News – The Power of Love | Infected Mushroom – Cities of the Future |
| Interpol – Evil | Interpol – Metropolis |
| Interpol – Slow Hands | Interpol – Say Hello To The Angels |
| Jackson Browne – Rosie | Jackson Browne – Running On Empty |
| Jackson Browne – On The Boulevard | Jackson Browne – Stay |
| Jackson Browne – That Girl Could Sing | Jackson Browne – The Pretender |
| Jackson Browne – The road | James Brown – Say It Loud |
| James Gang – Funk #49 | James Gang – Midnight Man |
| Janis Joplin – Piece of my Heart | Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit |
| Jefferson Starship – Sarah | Jefferson Starship – We Built This City |
| Jennifer Licko – Peggy and the Soldier | Jenny Gardner – Three Yui’s* |
| Jenny Gardner – Lucy Bain* | Jenny Gardner – A Wee Story* |
| Jenny Gardner – Bank Street* | Jenric – New Years Medley |
| Jenric – Rakes of Kildare | Jenric – Through the Window Medley |
| Jenric – Traveler | Jesus Jones – Right Here Right Now |
| Jim Croce – Operator | Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower |
| Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze | Jimi Hendrix – Red House |
| Jimmy Buffet – Margaritaville | Jimmy Eat World – Sweetness |
| Jimmy Eat World – The Middle | Joan Baez – And The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda |
| Joan Manuel Sarrat – Mara | Johann Pachelbel – Canon in D major* |
| John Coltrane – My Favorite Things | John Coltrane – Straight No Chaser |
| John Lennon – Imagine | John Lennon – So this is Christmas |
| John Mellencamp – Hurts So Good | John Mellencamp – Jack and Diane |
| John Mellencamp – Small Town | John Mellencamp – Summer Of 69 |
| John Mellencamp – I Saw You First | John Scofield – Acidhead |
| John Waite – I Ain’t Missing You | Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now |
| Julio Iglesias – Cantare, Cantaras | Kansas – Carry On My Wayward Son |
| Kansas – Dust In The Wind | Karat – Der Blaue Planet |
| Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes | La Oreja de Van Gogh – Muneca de Trapo |
| Led Zepplin – Kashmir | Led Zepplin – Stairway to Heaven |
| Led Zepplin – I Can’t Quit You Baby | Les Miserables – Master Of The House |
| Les Miserables – Do You Hear The People Sing | Les Miserables – At The End Of The Day† |
| Looking Glass – Brandy | Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125* |
| Madonna – Cherish | Madonna – Like A Prayer |
| Madonna – Material Girl | Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra – Miles Ahead | Marlo Thomas and Friends – Free To Be… You And Me |
| Marlo Thomas and Friends – Glad To Have a Friend Like You | Martin Page – Martin Page – In The House Of Stone And Light |
| Meatloaf – Let Me Sleep On It | Mecano – Hijo de la Luna |
| Medeski, Martin, and Wood – Uninvisible | Medeski, Martin, and Wood – Green Tea |
| Medeski, Martin, and Wood – Lively Up Yourself | Medeski, Martin, and Wood – Hermeto’s Daydream* |
| Medeski, Martin, and Wood – Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus* | Medeski, Martin, and Wood – Where’s Sly* |
| Medeski, Martin, and Wood – Beeah* | Men at Work – Down Under |
| Menagerie – Spancil Hill* | Metallica – Nothing Else Matters |
| Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning | Mike and the Mechanics – The Living Years |
| Miles Davis – Sanctuary | Mindless Self Indulgence – Shut Me Up |
| Modest Mouse – The World at Large† | Modest Mouse – Float On† |
| Modest Mouse – The View† | Monty Are I – Dublin Waltz |
| Monty Python – Galaxy Song | Mor Gwyddelig – Buain na Rainich* |
| Moxy Fruvous – Gulf War Song | Moxy Fruvous – If Only You Knew |
| Moxy Fruvous – Jockey Full of Bourbon | Moxy Fruvous – King of Spain |
| Moxy Fruvous – The Drinking Song | Mr. Big – To Be With You |
| Muse – Time Is Running Out† | Muse – Hysteria† |
| My Chemical Romance – The Sharpest Lives | My Chemical Romance – Helena |
| My Chemical Romance – To the End | Natalie Imbruglia – Torn |
| Nickelback – Animals | Of Montreal – The Party’s Crashing Us |
| Of Montreal – She’s A Rejector | Oysterhead – Little Faces |
| Panic at the Disco – Its Time To Dance | Pantera – Cemetary Gates |
| Paul Simon – Call Me Al | Peggy Seeger – I’m Gonna Be an Engineer |
| Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill | Peter, Paul, and Mary – Puff the Magic Dragon |
| Phil Collins – You Can’t Hurry Love | Phil Collins – Follow You Follow Me |
| Phil Collins – Invisible Touch | Phish – Gin and Juice |
| Pink Floyd – One of These Days | Pink Floyd – Fearless |
| Pink Floyd – Echoes | Pink Floyd – Speak to Me & Breathe in the Air |
| Pink Floyd – Time | Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky |
| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb | Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond Par | Pink Floyd – Have a Cigar |
| Pretty Women – King of Wishful Thinking | Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody |
| Queen – Killer Queen | Queen – Misfire |
| Ra Ra Riot – Each Year† | Ra Ra Riot – Dying Is Fine† |
| Radiohead – Creep | Radiohead – Street Spirit |
| Radiohead – Subterranean Homesick Alien† | Radiohead – Karma police† |
| Radiohead – 15 Step | Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi |
| Radiohead – Videotape | REM – Losing My Religion |
| REM – To the One I Love | Rent – Take Me or Leave Me |
| Rent – One Song Glory | Rent – La Vie Boheme |
| Rent – Light My Candle | Rent – Seasons of Love |
| Riverdance – American Wake | Riverdance – Firedance |
| Riverdance – The Harvest | Rob Orbison – Pretty Woman |
| Rob Thomas – Smooth | Rob Thomas – Lonely No More |
| Robbers on High Street – Love Underground† | Robbers on High Street – Spanish Teeth† |
| Robbers on High Street – Beneath the Trees† | Robbers on High Street – Dig the Lightning† |
| Robbers on High Street – The Price & Style† | Robbers on High Street – Hudson Tubes† |
| Rod Stewart – Forever Young | Rod Stewart – Maggie May |
| Sandra Parker – If I Was A Blackbird | Senses Fail – Calling All Cars |
| Shania Twain – That Don’t Impress Me Much | Shania Twain – You’re Still The One |
| Shpongle – Crescent Suns | Shpongle – DMT |
| Simon and Garfunkel – Me And Julio Down By the Schoolyard | Simon and Garfunkel – Mother And Child Reunion |
| Simon and Garfunkel – Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover | Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| Simon and Garfunkel – Cecilia | Simon and Garfunkel – The Boxer |
| Simon and Garfunkel – Baby Driver | Simon and Garfunkel – Song For The Asking |
| Simon and Garfunkel – The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) | Simon and Garfunkel – America |
| Simon and Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson | Simon and Garfunkel – A Hazy Shade Of Winter |
| Simon and Garfunkel – Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream | Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound Of Silence |
| Simon and Garfunkel – Peggy-O | Simon and Garfunkel – I Am A Rock |
| Solas – The Wind that Shakes the Barley | Solas – I Will Remember You |
| Solas – Nil Na La | Solas – Charmy Chaplain |
| Solas – Georgia Lee | Solas – The Newry Highwayman |
| Solas – Maybe in a Prayer | Solas – The Unquiet Grave |
| Solas – Legless | Solas – A Miners Life |
| Solas – Pastures Of Plenty* | Solas – La Bruxa* |
| Solas – Song of Choice* | Solas – The Stride Set* |
| Soulive – My Body | Soulive – Azucar |
| Soulive – Dream | Steve Miller Band – Abracadabra |
| Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle | Steve Miller Band – The Joker |
| Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Say I Love You | Stevie Wonder – Part Time lover |
| Stevie Wonder – Superstition | Sting – Desert Rose |
| Sublime – Badfish | Sublime – Romeo |
| Sublime – Santeria | Sublime – Scarlet Begonias |
| Sublime – What I Got | Supertramp – The Logical Song |
| Taking Back Sunday – You’re So Last Summer | Taking Back Sunday – Number Five with a Bullet |
| Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World | Tesla – Signs |
| The Academy Is – Slow Down | The Animals – House of the Rising Sun |
| The Beatles – Blackbird | The Beatles – Come Together |
| The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby | The Beatles – With a Little Help From My Friends |
| The Beatles – Here Comes The Sun | The Beatles – Hey Jude |
| The Beatles – Last Christmas | The Beatles – Let It Be |
| The Beatles – Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds | The Beatles – Miss Robinson |
| The Beatles – Obladi Oblada | The Beatles – Penny Lane |
| The Beatles – The Fool On The Hill | The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps |
| The Beatles – Revolution 1 | The Beatles – Girl |
| The Beatles – In My Life | The Beatles – Yestarday |
| The Beatles – I’ll Follow the Sun | The Beatles – The Ballad of John and Yoko |
| The Byrds – Turn, Turn, Turn | The Cells – Silver Cloud |
| The Chieftans – River Dance | The Chieftans – Red Is The Rose |
| The Disco Biscuits – Gimme Three Steps | The Disco Biscuits – float like a butterfly |
| The Disco Biscuits – hope | The Disco Biscuits – the tunnel |
| The Disco Biscuits – haleakala crater | The Disco Biscuits – home again |
| The Disco Biscuits – i remember when | The Disco Biscuits – spacebirdmatingcall |
| The Disco Biscuits – aceetobee | The Disco Biscuits – little betty boop |
| The Doors – Love Her Madly | The Doors – Roadhouse Blues |
| The Eagles – Hotel California | The Eagles – Life in the Fast Lane |
| The Eagles – Lyin’ Eyes | The Eagles – Peaceful, Easy Feeling |
| The Good Life – The Beaten Path† | The Matches – Sick Little Suicide |
| The Monkeys – Daydream Believer | The Muppet Movie – The Rainbow Connection |
| The New World Renaissance Band – Fuggi, Fuggi, Fuggi† | The New World Renaissance Band – Daphne† |
| The New World Renaissance Band – A La Una Yo Naci† | The New World Renaissance Band – Since First I Saw Your Face† |
| The Pixies – All Over the World | The Pixies – Where is My Mind |
| The Police – Don’t Stand So Close To Me | The Police – Every Breath You Take |
| The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic | The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger |
| The Rising Pints – Courting in the Kitchen | The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Hot Patootie |
| The Shills – Angry Dance† | The Shills – Say What You Will† |
| The Silk Road – Mahur | The Used – I Caught Fire (in Your Eyes) |
| The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony | The White Stripes – The Denial Twist |
| Thelonius Monk – Criss Cross | Thelonius Monk – Caravan |
| Tinsmith – Cold Frosty Morning Set | Tinsmith – Star of the County Down |
| Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra – Tin Tin Deo | Tom Petty – Into The Great Wide Open |
| Tom Petty – Mary Jane’s Last Dance | Tony Elman – Elzic’s Farewell* |
| Tony Elman – Si Bheag Si Mhor* | Tosca Tanga Orchestra – Lastima Grande |
| Tosca Tanga Orchestra – Mi Otra Mitad de Naranja | Toto – Africa |
| Train – Meet Virginia | U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For |
| U2 – One | U2 – Mysterious Ways |
| U2 – Stuck In the Moment | U2 – Sweetest Thing |
| Van Morrison – And It Stoned Me | Vanessa Williams – Save The Best For Last |
| We Are Scientists – Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt† | We Are Scientists – The Scene is Dead† |
| We Are Scientists – Can t Lose† | We Are Scientists – Worth the Wait† |
| Weird Al Yankovic – Constipated? Jurassic Park? | Whitesnake – Here I Go Again On My Own |
| Wilson Phillips – Hold On | Wir sind Helden – Denkmal |
| Wir sind Helden – Gekommen um zu bleiben | Yes – I’ve Seen All Good People |
A couple songs are out of place, from little changes I’ve made.
* I already own these.
† These I’ve ripped from friends.
And tomorrow’s my pre-trip trip!