Meine letzte Liste finde ich zwar immer noch famos, aber nach viereinhalb Jahren hat sich doch einiges getan, Neues hinzugekommen, ältere Favoriten haben sich geändert. Nichts ist schwieriger und vielleicht unbeständiger, hier meine Liste der 100 tollsten, berührensten und ergreifensten Songs aller Zeiten.
1. JOHN CALE – Hallelujah
2. BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY – I See A Darkness
3. THE SMITHS – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
4. BOB DYLAN – Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
5. NEIL YOUNG – After The Gold Rush
6. JOHNNY CASH – Hurt
7. RANDY NEWMAN – I Think It Going To Rain Today
8. JONI MITCHELL – Both Sides, Now
9. THE UNDERTOMES – Teenage Kicks
10. SCOTT WALKER – Farmer In The City
11. JOHN CALE – A Child’s Christmas In Wales
12. SIMON & GARFUNKEL – The Sound Of Silence
13. ARETHA FRANKLIN – Think
14. ELLIOTT SMITH – Twilight
15. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – Venus In Furs
16. THE MODERN LOVERS – Government Center
17. THE SMITHS – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
18. JOANNA NEWSOM – Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
19. BELLE & SEBASTIAN – This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
20. BUZZCOCKS – I Don’t Mind
21. BOB DYLAN – ‘Cross The Green Mountain
22. JACKIE WILSON – Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher & Higher)
23. SMOG – To Be Of Use
24. NICK DRAKE – Fruit Tree
25. THE BEACH BOYS – God Only Knows
26. TINDERSTICKS – Another Night In
27. JACKSON BROWNE – Colors Of The Sun
28. THE FOUR TOPS – Reach Out (I’ll Be There)
29. ROXY MUSIC – Virginia Plain
30. SCOTT WALKER – Cowboy
31. LOVE – Alone Again Or
32. JOY DIVISION – Love Will Tear Us Apart
33. THE RONETTES – Be My Baby
34. SAM COOKE – A Change Is Gonna Come
35. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten
36. THE FLAMING LIPS – What Is The Light
37. SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES – Tracks Of My Tears
38. TOM WAITS – Tom Traubert’s Blues
39. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT – Dinner At Eight
40. NICK DRAKE – Day Is Done
41. WILCO – Jesus, etc.
42. ARCADE FIRE – Intervention
43. TOWNES VAN ZANDT – None But The Rain
44. SIGUR RÒS – Heysátan
45. THE BEATLES – We Can Work It Out
46. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – Sunday Morning
47. LEONARD COHEN – Chelsea Hotel #2
48. RADIOHEAD – Let Down
49. ELVIS COSTELLO – Alison
50. GRAM PARSONS – A Song For You
51. NEIL YOUNG – Philadelphia
52. PULP – Sunrise
53. JOY DIVSION – Atmosphere
54. THE BEATLES – A Hard Day’s Night
55. THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN – Just Like Honey
56. BOB NEUWIRTH AND JOHN CALE – Old China
57. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
58. JONI MITCHELL – A Case Of You
59. CURTIS MAYFIELD – Move On Up
60. BOB DYLAN – Don’t Think Twice It’s Alight
61. JOANNA NEWSOM – 81
62. NICO – Afraid
63. ELLIOTT SMITH – Say Yes
64. SCOTT WALKER – If You Go Away
65. TALK TALK – Inheritance
66. PETULA CLARK – Downtown
67. LEONARD COHEN – One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
68. ROXY MUSIC – A Song For Europe
69. JOHN CALE – Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend
70. TOWNES VAN ZANDT – Snow Don’t Fall
71. TINDERSTICKS – Blood
72. SMOG – It’s Rough
73. BELLE & SEBASTIAN – The Loneliness Of A Middle Distance Runner
74. THE SMITHS – Still Ill
75. ROBERT WYATT – Sea Song
76. RAMONES – Rockaway Beach
77. PATRICK WOLF – The Magic Position
78. KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE – I Eat Dinner
79. JAMES YORKSTON – Midnight Feast
80. MARVIN GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
81. THE DIVINE COMEDY – Our Mutual Friend
82. THE FLAMING LIPS – Waiting For A Superman
83. TRAVIS – All I Wanna Do Is Rock
84. NEIL YOUNG – Long May You Run
85. BOB DYLAN – Not Dark Yet
86. NICK DRAKE – FLY
87. RICHARD THOMPSON – Let It Blow
88. LUCKY JIM – You’re Lovely To Me
89. AL GREEN – Let’s Stay Together
90. PULP – Common People
91. THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS – Sin City
92. NICK DRAKE – Which Will
93. BRIGHT EYES – Lua
94. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – Pale Blue Eyes
95. HANK WILLIAMS – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
96. ARETHA FRANKLIN – Ain’t No Way
97. JOY DIVISION – Transmission
98. THE ZOMBIES – Care Of Cell 44
99. SIMONE WHITE – You May Be In Darkness
100. BEN FOLDS – The Luckiest
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