10 favorite songs per year.
Submitted by Jeandré on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 11:16
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- Since I've been a kid I've liked romantic-era classical music, as a teenager I found '60s-'90s top 40 pop, then rock, hard rock, grunge, and since my 20s it's been more adult contemporary and score.
- Classical
- Unknown year
- 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1940s
- 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s
- 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1960s
- 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1970s
- 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1980s
- 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 1990s
- 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2000s
- 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2010s
- All
2011
2010
- 1. "Change of seasons"* - Sweet thing
- 2. "Take on me"* - Graziella Schazad [Magne Furuholmen, Morten Harket, Pål Waaktaar]
- 3. "Dance mother"* - Sweet thing
2009
- 1. "Memories (someone we'll never know)" - Clint Mansell [Clint Mansell]
- 2. "Somebody loved (Adam version)"* - The weepies [Deb Talan, Steve Tannen (2003)]
2008
- 1. "Diamond ring" - Sheryl Crow [Sheryl Crow, Jeff Trott]
- 2. "Ships" - Josh Woodward [Josh Woodward]
- 3. "Chasing pavements" - Adele [Adele, Eg White]
2007
- 1. "Farsi prayer" - Lisbeth Scott [Robert Duncan (The unit 2.14)]
- 2. "She remained" - Josh Woodward [Josh Woodward]
- 3. "Hometown glory" - Adele [Adele]
2006
- 1. "Inside job" - Pearl jam [Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder]
- 2. "What he means"* - Just jinjer
- 3. "Gone" - Pearl jam [Eddie Vedder]
2005
- 1. "Less than a pearl"* - Enya [Enya, Roma Ryan]
- 2. "The funeral" - unknown [Greg Edmonson (Firefly) (2003)]
2004
- 1. "Somewhere only we know" - Keane [Tim Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes]
- 2. "Breathe me" - Sia Furler [Sia Furler, Dan Carey]
- 3. "The heart asks pleasure first - The promise (edit)" - Michael Nyman, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra [Michael Nyman]
- 4. "How it ends"* - DeVotchKa [DeVotchKa]
- 5. "Jesus is on the main line"* - Aerosmith [traditional]
2003
- 1. "Chosen (long version)" - unknown [Robert Duncan (Buffy 7.22)]
- 2. "Hymn I (axion esti)" - Vassilis Tsabropoulos [Vassilis Tsabropoulos, traditional hymn]
- 3. "The boys of summer" - The ataris [Don Henley, Mike Campbell (1984)]
- 4. "Such great heights"* - Iron and wine [Ben Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello]
- 5. "Into the west" - Annie Lennox [Fran Walsh, Howard Shore]
- 6. "Man of the hour" - Pearl jam [Eddie Vedder]
- 7. "Prayer" - Vassilis Tsabropoulos [Vassilis Tsabropoulos]
- 8. "Friend of the devil" - Counting crows [Jerry Garcia, John Dawson, Robert Hunter (1970)]
2002
- 1. "Mad world"* - Michael Andrews and Gary Jules [Roland Orzabal]
- 2. "Gollum's song" - Emiliana Torrini [Fran Walsh, Howard Shore]
- 3. "Arc" - Pearl jam [Eddie Vedder]
- 4. "A little less conversation (Junkie XL remix, radio edit)" - Elvis Presley [Mac Davis, Billy Strange (c1968)]
- 5. "Can't keep" - Pearl jam [Eddie Vedder]
2001
- 1. "Smooth criminal" - Alien ant farm [Michael Jackson (1988)]
- 2. "Jaded" - Aerosmith [Steven Tyler, Marti Frederiksen]
- 3. "Drops of Jupiter (tell me)" - Train [Pat Monahan]
2000
- 1. "Hanging by a moment" - Lifehouse [Jason Wade]
- 2. "The time is now"* - Moloko [Róisín Murphy, Mark Brydon]
- 3. "Speak the word" - Tracy Chapman [Tracy Chapman]
1999
- 1. "Colorblind" - Counting crows [Adam Duritz, Charlie Gillingham]
- 2. "Higher" - Creed [Mark Tremonti, Scott Stapp]
- 3. "Blue eyes" - Springbok nude girls
- 4. "The dolphin's cry" - Live [Ed Kowalczyk]
- 5. "Last kiss" - Pearl jam [Wayne Cochran, Joe Carpenter, Randall Hoyal, Bobby McGlon (1961)]
- 6. "Dance with you" - Live [Ed Kowalczyk]
- 7. "Where fishes go" - Live [Ed Kowalczyk]
1998
- 1. "Whiskey in the jar" - Metallica [traditional (1600s)]
- 2. "Wishlist" - Pearl jam [Eddie Vedder]
- 3. "Believe" - K's choice [Sarah Betten, Gert Betten]
- 4. "My favourite game" - The cardigans [Peter Svensson, Nina Persson]
- 5. "Uninvited" - Alanis Morissette [Alanis Morissette]
- 6. "Music sounds better with you"* - Stardust [Thomas Bangalter, Benjamin Cohen, Alain Quême]
- 7. "Everything for free" - K's choice [Sarah Betten, Gert Betten]
- 8. "Given to fly" - Pearl jam [Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder]
- 9. "Come with me (instrumental)"* - Jimmy Page, Tom Morello [Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham, Sean Combs, Mark Curry]
- 10. "Lullaby"* - Shawn Mullins [Shawn Mullins]
1997
- 1. "Good riddance (time of your life)"* - Green day [Billie Joe Armstrong]
- 2. "Pink" - Aerosmith [Steven Tyler, Richie Supa, Glen Ballard]
- 3. "Bitter sweet symphony" The verve [Richard Ashcroft, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards]
- 4. "Bitch" - Meredith Brooks [Meredith Brooks, Shelly Peiken]
- 5. "The departure" - unknown [Michael Nyman (Gattaca)]
- 6. "If God will send his angels (single version)" - U2 [U2]
- 7. "When we dance (edit)" - Sting [Sting (1994)]
1996
- 1. "Angels of the silences" - Counting crows [Adam Duritz, David Bryson]
- 2. "Blue moon revisited (song for Elvis)" - Cowboy junkies [Margo Timmins, Michael Timmins, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart]
- 3. "Walls (circus)" - Tom Petty and the heartbreakers, Lindsey Buckingham [Tom Petty]
- 4. "Hey Jupiter" - Tori Amos [Tori Amos]
- 5. "King of New Orleans"* - Better than Ezra [Kevin Griffin]
- 6. "Susan's house"* - Eels [Mark Oliver Everett, Jim Jacobsen, and Jim Weatherly]
- 7. "Feelin' love" - Paula Cole [Paula Cole]
- 8. "Breathe" - Midge ure [Midge Ure]
- 9. "Hard to make a stand (accoustic)"* - Sheryl Crow [Bill Bottrell, R.S. Bryan, Sheryl Crow, Todd Wolfe]
- 10. "Bulls on parade"* - Rage against the machine [Rage Against the Machine, Zack de la Rocha.]
1995
- 1. "Don't speak" - No doubt [Gwen Stefani, Eric Stefani]
- 2. "The promise" - Tracy Chapman [Tracy Chapman]
- 3. "1979" - The smashing pumpkins [Billy Corgan]
- 4. "Your house" - Alanis Morissette [Alanis Morissette]
- 5. "Thirty-three" - The smashing pumpkins [Billy Corgan]
- 6. "Tonight, tonight" - The smashing pumpkins [Billy Corgan]
- 7. "Zero" - The smashing pumpkins [Billy Corgan]
- 8. "Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me" - U2 [U2]
- 9. "Bullet with butterfly wings" - The smashing pumpkins [Billy Corgan]
- 10. "Down by the water" - PJ Harvey [PJ Harvey]
1994
- 1. "Cornflake girl" - Tori Amos [Tori Amos]
- 2. "Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley [Leonard Cohen (1984)]
- 3. "I alone"* - Live [Live]
- 4. "The day I tried to live" - Soundgarden [Chris Cornell]
- 5. "4th of July" - Soundgarden [Chris Cornell]
- 6. "Better man" - Pearl jam [Eddie Vedder]
- 7. "Corduroy" - Pearl jam [Eddie Vedder]
- 8. "Fell on black days" - Soundgarden [Chris Cornell]
- 9. "Black hole sun" - Soundgarden [Chris Cornell]
- 10. "Lightning crashes"* - Live [Live]
1993
- 1. "Into dust" - Mazzy star [Hope Sandoval, David Roback]
- 2. "Run, baby, run" - Sheryl Crow [David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, Sheryl Crow]
- 3. "Daughter" - Pearl jam [Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder]
- 4. "Are you gonna go my way?" - Lenny Kravitz [Lenny Kravitz, Craig Ross]
- 5. "Bolero, red" - Sinfonia varsovia [Zbigniew Preisner]
- 6. "Livin' on the edge" - Aerosmith [Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Mark Hudson]
- 7. "The crossing (Osiyeza)" - Johnny Clegg and Savuka [Johnny Clegg]
- 8. "Eat the rich" - Aerosmith [Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jim Vallance]
- 9. "Disarm" - The smashing pumpkins [Billy Corgan]
- 10. "I shall believe" - Sheryl Crow [Bill Bottrell, Sheryl Crow]
1992
- 1. "Smells like teen spirit" - Tori Amos [Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic (1991)]
- 2. "Runaway train" - Soul asylum [Dave Pirner]
- 3. "Everybody hurts"* - R.E.M. [Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck, John Paul Jones]
- 4. "Somebody to shove" - Soul asylum [Dave Pirner]
- 5. "I want you" - Sophie B. Hawkins [Bob Dylan (1966)]
- 6. "Cat's in the cradle" - Ugly kid Joe [Harry Chapin, Sandra Chapin (1974)]
- 7. "What's up?" - 4 non blondes [Linda Perry]
- 8. "Wake up"* - Rage against the machine [Zack de la Rocha]
- 9. "Creep"* - Radiohead [Radiohead, Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood]
- 10. "Black gold" - Soul asylum [Dave Pirner]
1991
- 1. "Main title from Terminator 2"* - Brad Fiedel [Brad Fiedel]
- 2. "Walking in Memphis" - Marc Cohn [Marc Cohn]
- 3. "Love... thy will be done" - Martika [Martika, Prince]
- 4. "Black" - Pearl jam [Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard]
- 5. "Nothing else matters" - Metallica [James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich]
- 6. "The show must go on" - Queen [Queen]
- 7. "The unforgiven" - Metallica [James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett]
- 8. "Jeremy" - Pearl jam [Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament]
- 9. "Jesus Christ pose" - Soundgarden [Matt Cameron, Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd, Kim Thayil]
- 10. "Civil war"* - Guns n' roses [Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan]
1990
- 1. "I can see clearly now"* - The hothouse flowers [Johnny Nash]
- 2. "Farewell and end title" - unknown [John Barry (Dances with wolves)]
- 3. "Nothing compares 2 u" - Sinéad O'Connor [Prince]
- 4. "The John Dunbar theme (initial)" - unknown [John Barry (Dances with wolves)]
- 5. "Moneytalks"* - AC/DC [Angus Young, Malcolm Young]
- 6. "Thunderstruck"* - AC/DC [Angus Young, Malcolm Young]
- 7. "Bird on a wire"* - The Neville brothers [Leonard Cohen (1969)]
- 8. "Crying in the rain"* - A-ha [Howard Greenfield, Carole King]
- 9. "Suicide blonde"* - INXS [Andrew Farriss, Michael Hutchence]
1989
- 1. "The downeaster 'Alexa'" - Billy Joel [Billy Joel]
- 2. "Janie's got a gun" - Aerosmith [Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton]
- 3. "Closer to fine" - Indigo girls, Hothouse flowers, Luka Bloom, Paulinho da Costa [Emily Saliers]
- 4. "Leningrad" - Billy Joel [Billy Joel]
- 5. "I wish it would rain down" - Phil Collins [Phil Collins]
- 6. "Another day in paradise" - Phil Collins [Phil Collins]
- 7. "Something happened on the way to heaven" - Phil Collins [Phil Collins, Daryl Stuermer]
- 8. "The best" - Tina Turner [Mike Chapman, Holly Knight]
- 9. "Free fallin'" - Tom Petty [Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne]
- 10. "Like a prayer"* - Madonna [Madonna, Patrick Leonard]
1988
- 1. "Bullet the blue sky (Rattle and hum, live)" - U2 [U2]
- 2. "Watermark" - Enya [Enya]
- 3. "Everybody knows" - Leonard Cohen [Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson]
- 4. "I'm gonna be (500 miles)" - The proclaimers [Craig Reid, Charlie Reid]
- 5. "Stand" - R.E.M. [Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe]
- 6. "Desire" - U2 [U2]
- 7. "Talkin' bout a revolution" - Tracy Chapman [Tracy Chapman]
- 8. "Where is my mind?" - Pixies [Black Francis]
- 9. "The living years" - Mike the mechanics [Mike Rutherford, B. A. Robertson]
- 10. "Fast car" - Tracy Chapman [Tracy Chapman]
1987
- 1. "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" - U2 [U2]
- 2. "China in your hand" - T'Pau [Carol Decker, Ron Rogers]
- 3. "With or without you" - U2 [U2]
- 4. "Where the streets have no name" - U2 [U2]
- 5. "Hungry eyes"* - Eric Carmen [John DeNicola, Franke Previte]
- 6. "Mothers of the disappeared" - U2 [U2]
- 7. "Beds are burning" - Midnight oil [Rob Hirst, James Moginie, Peter Garrett]
- 8. "Fragile" - Sting [Gordon Sumner]
- 9. "The movie" - Aerosmith, Christine Arnott (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer]
- 10. "Englishman in New York" - Sting [Sting]
1986
- 1. "Almaz" - Randy Crawford
- 2. "Live to tell"* - Madonna [Madonna, Patrick Leonard]
- 3. "Who wants to live forever" - Queen [Brian May]
- 4. "You can call me Al"* - Paul Simon [Paul Simon]
1985
- 1. "Walking on sunshine" - Katrina and the waves [Kimberley Rew]
- 2. "Somewhere" - Barbra Streisand [Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim]
- 3. "Clouds across the moon"* - The RAH band [Richard Anthony Hewson]
- 4. "Don't come around here no more"* - Tom Petty and the heartbreakers [Tom Petty, David A. Stewart]
- 5. "One vision" - Queen [Queen]
- 6 "We don't need another hero (Thunderdome)"* - Tina Turner [Terry Britten, Graham Lyle]
- 7. "Russians" - Sting [Sting]
1984
- 1. "Fade to black" - Metallica [James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton, Kirk Hammett]
- 2. "99 red balloons"* - Nena [Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Carlo Karges, Kevin McAlea]
- 3. "One knight in Bangkok" - Murray Head, Anders Glenmark [Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Tim Rice]
- 4. "Against all odds (take a look at me now)"* - Phil Collins [Phil Collins]
- 5. "Radio ga ga" - Queen [Roger Taylor]
- 6. "Pride (in the name of love)" - U2 [U2]
- 7. "Drive" - The cars [Ric Ocasek]
- 8. "We belong"* - Pat Benatar [Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro]
1983
- 1. "Song to the siren"* - This mortal coil [Larry Beckett, Tim Buckley (1969)]
- 2. "Every breath you take" - The police [Sting]
- 3. "All time high" - Rita Coolidge [John Barry, Tim Rice]
- 4. "Sunday bloody Sunday" - U2 [U2]
- 5. "New year's day" - U2 [U2]
- 6. ""40"" - U2 [U2]
- 7. "Uptown girl" - Billy Joel [Billy Joel]
1982
- 1. "Jack and Diane"* - John Mellencamp [John Mellencamp]
- 2. "Africa"* - Toto [David Paich, Jeff Porcaro]
1981
- 1. "October" - U2 [U2]
- 2. "In the air tonight" - Phil Collins [Phil Collins]
- 3. "Under pressure" - Queen, David Bowie [Queen, David Bowie]
- 4. "Bette Davis eyes" - Kim Carnes [Donna Weiss, Jackie DeShannon]
- 5. "Kids in America" - Kim Wilde [Marty Wilde, Ricky Wilde]
1980
- 1. "Don't stand so close to me" - The police [Sting]
- 2. "Take that look off your face" - Marti Webb [Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black]
1979
- 1. "My Sharona" - The knack [Doug Fieger, Berton Averre]
- 2. "Ballad of Lucy Jordan" - Marianne Faithfull [Shel Silverstein]
- 3. "Video killed the radio star" - The buggles [Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Bruce Woolley]
- 4. "I don't like Mondays"* - Boomtown rats [Bob Geldof]
1978
- 1. "Baker street" - Gerry Rafferty [Gerry Rafferty]
1977
- 1. "Dust in the wind"* - Kansas [Kerry Livgren]
- 2. "Kings and queens" - Aerosmith [Steven Tyler, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, Jack Douglas]
- 3. "We will rock you" - Queen [Brian May]
1976
- 1. "Hotel California"* - Eagles [Don Felder, Glenn Frey, Don Henley]
- 2. "Blowin' in the wind" - Joan Baez [Bob Dylan (1963)]
- 3. "Alpha" - Vangelis [Vangelis]
1975
- 1. "At seventeen" - Janis Ian [Janis Ian]
- 2. "Symphony to the powers b, movement 3" - Vangelis [Vangelis]
- 3. "Bohemian rhapsody" - Queen [Freddie Mercury]
1974
- 1. "Seasons in the sun"* - Terry Jacks [Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen]
- 2. "Sweet home Alabama" - Lynyrd Skynyrd [Ed King, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant]
1973
- 1. "Angie" - The rolling stones [Mick Jagger, Keith Richards]
- 2. "Piano man" - Billy Joel [Billy Joel]
- 3. "The free electric band" - Albert Hammond [Albert Hammond, Mike Hazelwood]
- 4. "Dream on" - Aerosmith [Steven Tyler]
1972
- 1. "Perfect day" - Lou Reed [Lou Reed]
- 2. "The first time ever I saw your face" - Roberta Flack [Ewan MacColl]
- 3. "Walk on the wild side"* - Lou Reed [Lou Reed]
- 4. "Rocket man"* - Elton John [Elton John, Bernie Taupin]
- 5. "Stuck in the middle with you" - Stealers wheel [Gerry Rafferty, Joe Egan]
1971
- 1. "Imagine" - John Lennon [John Lennon]
- 2. "Joy to the world" - Three dog night [Hoyt Axton]
- 3. "American pie"* - Don McLean [Don McLean]
- 4. "Stairway to heaven" - Led zeppelin [Jimmy Page, Robert Plant]
- 5. "Happy xmas (war is over)" - John & Yoko/Plastic Ono band with the Harlem community choir [John Lennon, Yoko Ono]
- 6. "Going to California" - Led zeppelin [Jimmy Page, Robert Plant]
- 7. "Riders on the storm" - The doors [Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore]
- 8. "The revolution will not be televised" - Gil Scott-Heron [Gil Scott-Heron]
- 9. "Long cool woman in a black dress" - The hollies [Allan Clarke, Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway]
- 10. "Black dog" - Led zeppelin [Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones]
1970
- 1. "Lady D'Arbanville"* - Cat Stevens [Cat Stevens]
- 2. "Mr. Bojangles" - The nitty gritty dirt band [Jerry Jeff Walker (1968)]
- 3. "Lookin' out my back door"* - Creedence clearwater revival [John Fogerty]
- 4. "Up around the bend"* - Creedence clearwater revival [John Fogerty]
- 5. "Layla"* - Derek and the dominos [Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon]
- 6. "Sugar man"* - Rodriquez [Sixto Diaz Rodriguez]
- 7. "Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel [Paul Simon]
- 8. "Instant karma!" - John Lennon [John Lennon]
1969
- 1. "Fortunate son" - Creedence clearwater revival [John Fogerty]
- 2. "Where do you go to (my lovely)" - Peter Sarstedt [Peter Sarstedt]
- 3. "Spirit in the sky"* - Norman Greenbaum [Norman Greenbaum]
- 4. "Streets of London"* - Ralph McTell [Ralph McTell]
- 5. "Don't let me be misunderstood" - Nina Simone [Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus]
- 6. "Little green bag" - George Baker selection [Jan Visser, George Baker]
1968
- 1. "Sympathy for the devil" - The rolling stones [Mick Jagger, Keith Richards]
- 2. "Born to be wild"* - Steppenwolf [Mars Bonfire]
- 3. "All along the watchtower"* - The Jimi Hendrix experience [Bob Dylan (1967)]
- 4. "In the year 2525 (exordium and terminus)"* - Zager and Evans [Rick Evans]
1967
- 1. "Can't take my eyes off you"* - Frankie Valli [Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio]
- 2. "A whiter shade of pale" - Procol harum [Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, Matthew Fisher]
- 3. "So long, Marianne" - Leonard Cohen [Leonard Cohen]
- 4. "Ruby Tuesday" - The rolling stones [Mick Jagger, Keith Richards]
- 5. "Respect" - Aretha Franklin [Otis Redding (1965)]
- 6. "Hey, that's no way to say goodbye" - Leonard Cohen [Leonard Cohen]
- 7. "She's a rainbow" - The rolling stones
- 8. "Heroin" - The velvet underground [Lou Reed (1964)]
1966
- 1. "Paint it black" - The rolling stones [Mick Jagger, Keith Richards]
- 2. "Wild thing"* - The troggs [Chip Taylor (1965)]
- 3. "Don't explain" - Nina Simone [Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.]
- 4. "Wouldn't it be nice?" - Beach boys [Brian Wilson, Tony Asher, Mike Love]
- 5. "Scarborough Fair"* - Simon & Garfunkel [traditional, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel]
1965
- 1. "Strange fruit" - Nina Simone [Abel Meeropol (aka Lewis Allan) (1939)]
- 2. "The sounds of silence"* - Simon and Garfunkel [Paul Simon]
- 3. "We gotta get out of this place" - The animals [Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil]
- 4. "California dreamin'" - The mamas and the papas [John Phillips, Michelle Phillips]
- 5. "Mr. tamborine man" - The byrds [Bob Dylan]
- 6. "You've got to hide your love away" - The beatles [John Lennon]
- 7. "Play with fire" - The rolling stones [Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman]
- 8. "Turn, turn, turn (to everything there is a season)" - The byrds [Solomon, Pete Seeger]
1964
- 1. "House of the rising sun" - The animals [traditional]
- 2. "Fly me to the moon (in other words)"* - Frank Sinatra [Bart Howard]
- 3. "The times they are a-changin'"* - Bob Dylan [Bob Dylan]
1963
- 1. "Twist and shout"* - The beatles [Phil Medley, Bert Russell (1961)]
1962
- 1. "Boom boom"* - John Lee Hooker [John Lee Hooker]
1961
- 1. "At last" - Etta James [Mack Gordon, Harry Warren (1941)]
- 2. "Stand by me"* - Ben E. King [Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller]
1960
- 1. "Only the lonely (know how I feel)"* - Roy Orbison [Roy Orbison, Joe Melson]
1959
- 1. "Sleep walk" - Santo and Johnny [Santo Farina, Johnny Farina]
- 2. "Take five" - The Dave Brubeck quartet [Paul Desmond]
1948
- 1. "Nature boy" - Nat King Cole [eden ahbez (1947)]
Unknown year
- 1. "My baby just cares for me" - Nina Simone [Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson (1928)]
- 2. "Reflections (China Beach version)"* - Diana Ross and the supremes [Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Jr.]
- 3. "Sizo ngena" - ANC choir Angola
Classical
- "Adagio for strings" - The Philadelphia orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (1985) [Samuel Barber (1936)]
- "Clair de lune" - Alexis Weissenberg [Claude Debussy (1905)]
- "Symphony 7, 2 allegretto" - BBC philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda [Ludwig van Beethoven (1812)]
- "Enigma variations, Nimrod" - London symphony orchestra, Adrian Boult [Edward Elgar]
- "Lacrimosa (Requiem in D minor)" - London philharmonic choir and orchestra, David Bell (1990) [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791)]
- "Moonlight sonata, 1 Adagio sostenuto" - Dubravka Tomsic (1993) [Ludwig van Beethoven (1801)]
- "Miserere mei, Deus 1-4, 17-20" - Choir of king's college, Cambridge, Timothy Beasley-Murray, Gerald Finley, Stephen Cleobury (1984) [David (c. 1000 BCE), Gregorio Allegri (c. 1635)]
- "Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, variation 18: andante cantabile" - Cécile Ousset, City of Birmingham symphony orchestra (1984) [Sergei Rachmaninov (1934)]
- "Violin concerto 1 in A minor, 2 Andante, BWV 1041" - Yehudi Menuhin, Bath festival orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin [Johann Sebastian Bach (1748)]
- "Dulcissime (Carmina Burana, Cour d'amours)" - Gerda Harman, Salzburg Mozarteum orchestra and chorus, Kurt Prestel [Karl Orff (1936)]
- "Turandot, Nessun dorma" - José Carreras, Chœurs de l'opéra du Rhin, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Alain Lombard [Giacomo Puccini]
- "O fortuna (Carmina Burana)" - Atlanta symphony orchestra and chorus [Carl Orff (1936)]
- "Egmont overture" - London symphony orchestra, Alfred Scholz (1993) [Ludwig van Beethoven (1810)]
- "Zadok the priest" - Ambrosian singers, Menuhin festival orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin [George Frideric Handel (1727)]
- "Romeo and Juliet, Montagues and Capulets (dance of the knights)" - The Philadelphia orchestra, Riccardo Muti [Sergei Prokofiev]
- "Lakmé, Viens, Malika (flower duet)" - Mady Mesplé, Danielle Millet, Orchestre du théâtre national de l'opéra-comique, Alain Lombard [Léo Delibes]
- "Harpsichord concerto 5 in F minor, BWV 1056, 2 Largo" - George Malcolm, Menuhin festival orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin [Johann Sebastian Bach (c. 1738)]
- "Messa de requiem, Dies irae" - Philharmonic chorus and orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini [Giuseppe Verdi]
2010s
- 1. "Change of seasons"* - Sweet thing (2010)
- 2. "Dance mother"* - Sweet thing (2010)
2000s
- 1. "Memories (someone we'll never know)" - Clint Mansell (2009)
- 2. "Smooth criminal" - Alien ant farm (2001)
- 3. "Farsi prayer" - Lisbeth Scott (2007)
- 4. "Somewhere only we know" - Keane (2004)
- 5. "Mad world"* - Michael Andrews and Gary Jules (2002)
- 6. "Chosen (long version)" - unknown [Robert Duncan (Buffy 7.22)] (2003)
- 7. "Diamond ring" - Sheryl Crow [Sheryl Crow, Jeff Trott] (2008)
- 8. "Hymn I (axion esti)" - Vassilis Tsabropoulos (2003)
- 9. "The boys of summer" - The ataris (2003)
- 10. "Such great heights"* - Iron and wine (2003)
1990s
- 1. "Angels of the silences" - Counting crows (1996)
- 2. "I can see clearly now"* - The hothouse flowers (1990)
- 3. "Colorblind" - Counting crows (1999)
- 4. "Blue moon revisited (song for Elvis)" - Cowboy junkies (1996)
- 5. "Into dust" - Mazzy star (1993)
- 6. "Higher" - Creed (1999)
- 7. "Whiskey in the jar" - Metallica (1998)
- 8. "Walls (circus)" - Tom Petty and the heartbreakers, Lindsey Buckingham (1996)
- 9. "Cornflake girl" - Tori Amos (1994)
- 10. "Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley (1994)
1980s
- 1. "Walking on sunshine" - Katrina and the waves (1985)
- 2. "October" - U2 (1981)
- 3. "Almaz" - Randy Crawford (1986)
- 4. "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" - U2 (1987)
- 5. "Live to tell"* - Madonna (1986)
- 6. "Somewhere" - Barbra Streisand (1985)
- 7. "Fade to black" - Metallica (1984)
- 8. "Song to the siren" - This mortal coil (1983)
- 9. "The downeaster 'Alexa'" - Billy Joel (1989)
- 10. "Janie's got a gun" - Aerosmith (1989)
1970s
- 1. "Perfect day" - Lou Reed (1972)
- 2. "My Sharona" - The knack (1979)
- 3. "Imagine" - John Lennon (1971)
- 4. "The first time ever I saw your face" - Roberta Flack (1972)
- 5. "Ballad of Lucy Jordan" - Marianne Faithfull (1979)
- 6. "Angie" - The rolling stones (1973)
- 7. "Seasons in the sun"* - Terry Jacks (1974)
- 8. "Lady D'Arbanville"* - Cat Stevens (1970)
- 9. "At seventeen" - Janis Ian (1975)
- 10. "Joy to the world" - Three dog night (1971)
1960s
- 1. "Paint it black" - The rolling stones (1966)
- 2. "Strange fruit" - Nina Simone (1965)
- 3. "Can't take my eyes off you"* - Frankie Valli (1967)
- 4. "The sounds of silence"* - Simon and Garfunkel (1965)
- 5. "At last" - Etta James (1961)
- 6. "A whiter shade of pale" - Procol harum (1967)
- 7. "Stand by me"* - Ben E. King (1961)
- 8. "Fortunate son" - Creedence clearwater revival (1969)
- 9. "Where do you go to (my lovely)" - Peter Sarstedt (1969)
- 10. "Sympathy for the devil" - The rolling stones (1968)
1950s
- 1. "Sleep walk" - Santo and Johnny (1959)
- 2. "Take five" - The Dave Brubeck quartet (1959)
1940s
- 1. "Nature boy" - Nat King Cole (1948)
All
- 1. "Paint it black" - The rolling stones (1966)
- 2. "Angels of the silences" - Counting crows (1996)
- 3. "Perfect day" - Lou Reed (1972)
- 4. "Adagio for strings" - The Philadelphia orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (1985) [Samuel Barber (1936)]
- 5. "Strange fruit" - Nina Simone (1965)
- 6. "Memories (someone we'll never know)" - Clint Mansell (2009)
- 7. "Walking on sunshine" - Katrina and the waves (1985)
- 8. "I can see clearly now"* - The hothouse flowers (1990)
- 9. "Colorblind" - Counting crows (1999)
- 10. "Smooth criminal" - Alien ant farm (2001)
Author Comments:
75-79, 80-89, 90-100
Artists most represented:
13 Pearl jam
13 (1) U2
9 Aerosmith
7 Queen
6 (1) The rolling stones
6 The smashing pumpkins
5 Live
5 Phil Collins
5 Soundgarden
4 Billy Joel
4 Metallica
4 (1) Nina Simone
4 Sheryl Crow
4 Tracy Chapman
3 (2) Counting crows
3 Creedence clearwater revival
3 Led zeppelin
3 Leonard Cohen
3 Simon and Garfunkel
3 Soul asylum
3 Sting
3 Tori Amos
5 unknown








Great idea...I'm in the process of doing this list myself, I guess great minds think alike! ;) Some great choices...glad to see 1986 contains Madonna's "Live To Tell" just a great song and also the incomparable Nina Simone's with 1965's "Strange Fruit", just haunting! I can't wait to see more!
For the listies: songs, I'm using your Favorite Tracks (under construction) list - please ping me when your year list is published.
Sure thing.
Favorite covers:
1. Strange fruit - Nina Simone [Billie Holliday]
2. I can see clearly now - The hothouse flowers [Jimmy Nash]
3. Smooth criminal - Alien ant farm [Michael Jackson]
4. Whiskey in the jar - Metallica [traditional]
5. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley [Leonard Cohen]
6. At last - Etta James [Ray Eberle, Pat Friday, Glenn Miller]
7. Somewhere - Barbra Streisand [Reri Grist]
8. Mad world - Michael Andrews and Gary Jules [Tears for Fears]
9. The first time ever I saw your face - Roberta Flack [Peggy Seeger]
10. The boys of summer - The Ataris [Don Henley]
11. The ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull [Dr Hook]
12. Such great heights - Iron and wine [The postal service]
13. My baby just cares for me - Nina Simone [Eddie Cantor]
14. Nothing compares 2 u - Sinéad O'Connor [The family]
15. Smells like teen spirit - Tori Amos [Nirvana]