Simple Pleasures part 4

Ever wondered what the 100 greatest songs of all time are? Well trouble yourself no longer - here they are…

(only one song per artist/band; songs with words, not instrumental)

Hells Bells - AC/DC
The Stars We Are - Marc Almond
Uptown Top Ranking - Althea & Donna
Ventura Highway – America
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Across the Universe - The Beatles
Harrow Road - Big Audio Dynamite
Hyperballad – Bjork
The Last Month of the Year - Blind Boys of Alabama
In the Sun - Blondie
Everything I Own - Ken Boothe
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed - David Bowie
ESP – Buzzcocks
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
White Man in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Do you really want to hurt me? - Culture Club
Ninety Nine and a Half - Dorothy Love Coates
Alison - Elvis Costello
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Eloise - The Damned
Knowledge of Beauty - Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Soolimon - Neil Diamond (from Hot August Night)
The End - The Doors
Fruit Tree - Nick Drake
Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
That’s Alright Mama – Elvis
This is the house that Jack built - Aretha Franklin
Sometimes - Michael Franti & Spearhead
Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
Hatikvah
Sonny - Bobby Hebb
The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix
Winter in America - Gil Scott Heron
A Town Like Malice - The Jam
Jerusalem – hymn
Tainted Love - Gloria Jones
Atmosphere - Joy Division
Danny Boy - Brian Kennedy
Batonga - Angelique Kidjo
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin
Oh Yoko - John Lennon
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Jealousy - Geraldine MacGowan [County Clare's finest]
Fairytale of New York - Shane MacGowan & Kirsty MacColl
The Snake with Eyes of Garnet - Shane MacGowan & the Popes
The Prince - Madness
Like a Prayer – Madonna
Shot by Both Sides – Magazine
My Little Empire - Manic Street Preachers
Natty Dread - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Don’t Want to Know - John Martyn
Wandrin’ Star - Lee Marvin
Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
Amazing - George Michael
Monkees theme - The Monkees
Moondance - Van Morrison
Police & Thieves - Junior Murvin
Jerusalem the Golden - Effi Netzer singers
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Raglan Road - Sinead O’Connor
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Julia Dream - Pink Floyd
Public Image Limited – PIL
Fanciness - Shabba Ranks & Lady G
Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
Cold Water - Damien Rice
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
Chase the Devil - Max Romeo & the Upsetters
Street Life - Roxy Music
In a Rut - The Ruts
Anarchy in the UK - The Sex Pistols
If I Was a Bell - Jean Simmons (in Guys & Dolls movie)
One for my baby - Frank Sinatra
Icon - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Because the Night - Patti Smith
Ghost Town - The Specials
For What it’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen (MTV Plugged session 1992)
Down on Mississippi - Mavis Staples
Father & Son - Cat Stevens
Runaway Boy - The Stray Cats
You’re the Best Thing - The Style Council
Forbidden Colours - David Sylvian & Ruichi Sakamoto (from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
No Scrubs – TLC
Listening Wind - Talking Heads
Fire & Rain - James Taylor
Treason - Teardrop Explodes
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations
The Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
One - U2
Ivory Madonna - UB40
Mannish Boy – Muddy Waters
My Generation - The Who
Armagideon Time - Willie Williams
That Girl - Stevie Wonder
Old Man - Neil Young
Freedom Suite - The Young Disciples

This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end of our elaborate plans
The end of everything that stands
The end, no safety or surprise
The end
I’ll never look into your eyes… again

Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free?
Desperately in need of some stranger’s hand
In a desperate land

In the beginning
God created
The heaven
And the earth

And the earth
was without form
and void
and darkness was upon the face
of the deep

Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain

And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters

There’s danger on the edge of town
Ride the King’s highway, baby

Weird scenes inside the gold mine

Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake
He’s old, and his skin is cold

And God said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly
The moving creature that hath life
And God created every living creature that moveth

Be fruitful and multiply

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind
And cattle after their kind
And every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind
And God saw that it was good

Now the serpent was more subtle
Than any beast of the field
Which the Lord God had made

The Lizard King

King of the universe

So God created man in his own image
In the image of God created he him
Male and female created he them

Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the East
In Eden
And there he put the man he had formed

The West is the best
The West is the best
Get here and we’ll do the rest

The blue bus is callin’ us
The blue bus is callin’ us
Driver, where you takin’ us?

And God said: Behold
I have given you every herb
And the earth brought forth grass

And God said: Let there be light
And there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good
And God divided the light
From the darkness
And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Divide the light from the darkness

The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
“Father?”
“Yes, son”
“I want to kill you”
“Mother… I want to… fuck you”

And God blessed them
And God said unto them
Be fruitful and multiply
And replenish the earth
And subdue it

C’mon, baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin’ a blue rock, on a blue bus
Doin’ a blue rock, c’mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

What have you done?

In the middle of the garden were the tree of life
And the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

The voice of your brother’s blood
Cries to me from the ground!

This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end
It hurts to set you free
But you’ll never follow me

He made the stars also

Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of God
Wandering, wandering in hopeless night
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned
Immaculate

The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end.