What Are You Listening to Wednesday - Week 13

Off and on for the last little while, I have been listening to music provided for Debi by Ana. I still intend to get back to doing that, but I also have my own list. My friend Vanessa from A Journey Through My Music Collection made me my own list, though. She went through the book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die and made me a list from there.

The list is as follows:

1. Hank Williams – “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949)
2. Little Richard – “Tutti Frutti” (1955)
3. Johnny Cash – “I Walk the Line” (1956)
4. Roy Orbison – “In Dreams” (1963)
5. The Ronettes – “Be My Baby” (1963)
6. The Kinks – “You Really Got Me” (1964)
7. The Supremes – “Stop! In the Name of Love” (1965)
8. The Who – “My Generation” (1965)
9. Beach Boys – “God Only Knows” (1966)
10. Love – “7 and 7 Is” (1966)
11. The Velvet Underground – “Heroin” (1967)
12. The Velvet Underground – “Venus in Furs” (1967)
13. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – “Fire” (1967)
14. Love – “Alone Again Or” (1967)
15. Pink Floyd – “See Emily Play” (1967)
16. Procol Harum – “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
17. Cream – “Sunshine of Your Love” (1967)
18. Big Brother and the Holding Company – “Piece of My Heart” (1968)
19. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” (1968)
20. The Band – “The Weight” (1968)
21. The Stooges – “I Wanna Be Your Dog” (1969)
22. MC5 – “Kick Out the Jams” (1969)
23. BB King – “The Thrill is Gone” (1969)
24. Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Up Around the Bend” (1970)
25. Black Sabbath – “War Pigs” (1970)
26. David Bowie – “The Man Who Sold the World” (1970)
27. Neil Young – “Oh, Lonesome Me” (1970)
28. Simon and Garfunkel – “The Only Living Boy in New York” (1970)
29. Big Star – “Thirteen” (1972)
30. Dolly Parton – “Jolene” (1973)
31. Iggy and the Stooges – “Search and Destroy” (1973)
32. Dolly Parton – “I Will Always Love You” (1974)
33. Bob Dylan – “Tangled Up in Blue” (1975)
34. Bruce Springsteen – “Born to Run” (1975)
35. Blue Oyster Cult – “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper” (1976)
36. ABBA – “Dancing Queen” (1976)
37. Ramones – “Blitzkrieg Bop” (1976)
38. The Modern Lovers – “Roadrunner” (1976)
39. Kraftwerk – “Trans-Europe Express” (1977)
40. Kate Bush – “Wuthering Heights” (1977)
41. Television – “Marquee Moon” (1977)
42. Richard Hell and the Voidoids – “Blank Generation” (1977)
43. Pere Ubu – “Non-Alignment Pact” (1978)
44. The Jacksons – “Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)” (1978)
45. Kraftwerk – “The Model” (1978)
46. Buzzcocks – “Ever Fallen In Love” (1978)
47. Siouxsie and the Banshees – “Hong Kong Garden” (1978)
48. The Human League – “Being Boiled” (1978)
49. The B-52s – “Rock Lobster” (1978)
50. The Clash – “London Calling” (1979)
51. Joy Division – “Transmission” (1979)
52. ABBA – “Voulez Vous” (1979)
53. The Cure – “Boys Don’t Cry” (1979)
54. Dead Kennedys – “California Uber Alles” (1979)
55. The Slits – “Typical Girls” (1979)
56. ABBA – “The Winner Takes It All” (1980)
57. Tom Waits – “Heartattack and Vine” (1980)
58. Joy Division – “Dead Souls” (1980)
59. Killing Joke – “Wardance” (1980)
60. Motorhead – “Ace of Spades” (1980)
61. Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”(1980)
62. Ultravox – “Vienna” (1980)
63. Kraftwerk – “Computer Love” (1981)
64. The Specials – “Ghost Town” (1981)
65. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – “The Message” (1982)
66. Venom – “Black Metal” (1982)
67. Yazoo – “Situation” (1982)
68. David Bowie – “Let’s Dance” (1983)
69. The Smiths – “This Charming Man” (1983)
70. Run-DMC – “It’s Like That” (1983)
71. New Order – “Blue Monday” (1983)
72. Iron Maiden – “The Trooper” (1983)
73. Echo and the Bunnymen – “The Killing Moon” (1984)
74. Meat Puppets – “Plateau” (1984)
75. The Replacements – “I Will Dare” (1984)
76. The Smiths – “How Soon Is Now?” (1984)
77. Prince and the Revolution – “Purple Rain” (1984)
78. Kate Bush – “Running Up that Hill” (1985)
79. Big Black – “Kerosene” (1986)
80. Slayer – “Raining Blood” (1986)
81. Hüsker Dü – “Don’t Want To Know if You Are Lonely” (1986)
82. The Church – “Under the Milky Way” (1987)
83. The Cure – “Just Like Heaven” (1987)
84. The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl – “Fairytale of New York” (1987)
85. Depeche Mode – “Never Let Me Down Again” (1987)
86. Dinosaur Jr. – “Freak Scene” (1988)
87. Pixies – “Where Is My Mind” (1988)
88. Fugazi – “Waiting Room” (1988)
89. Mudhoney – “Touch Me I’m Sick” (1988)
90. Metallica – “One” (1988)
91. Pixies – “Monkey Gone to Heaven” (1989)
92. Sonic Youth – “Kool Thing” (1990)
93. Ministry – “Jesus Built My Hotrod” (1991)
94. Rage Against the Machine – “Killing in the Name” (1992)
95. Pantera – “Walk” (1992)
96. Bruce Springsteen – “Streets of Philadelphia” (1993)
97. The Breeders – “Cannonball” (1993)
98. Hole – “Doll Parts” (1994)
99. Pavement – “Cut Your Hair” (1994)
100. Nirvana – “All Apologies” (1994)
101. Nine Inch Nails – “Hurt” (1994)
102. Soundgarden – “Black Hole Sun” (1994)
103. Stone Temple Pilots – “Interstate Love Song” (1994)
104. Jeff Buckley – “Hallelujah” (1994)
105. Beastie Boys – “Sabotage” (1994)
106. Portishead – “Sour Times” (1994)
107. Pulp – “Common People” (1995)
108. Eels – “Novocaine For the Soul” (1996)
109. Fugees – “Ready or Not” (1996)
110. Beck – “Devil’s Haircut” (1996)
111. Chemical Brothers – “Block Rockin’ Beats” (1997)
112. Elliott Smith – “Between the Bars” (1997)
113. The Cardigans – “Erase/Rewind” (1998)
114. Aimee Mann – “Save Me” (1999)
115. At the Drive In – “One Armed Scissor” (2000)
116. Daft Punk – “One More Time” (2000)
117. Radiohead – “You & Whose Army” (2001)
118. White Stripes – “Fell In Love With a Girl” (2001)
119. Tool – “Schism” (2001)
120. Nirvana – “You Know You’re Right” (2002)
121. Modest Mouse – “Float On” (2004)
122. Foo Fighters – “Best of You” (2005)
123. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – “Please Read the Letter” (2007)
124. Robyn with Kleerup - “With Every Heartbeat” (2007)
125. Fleet Foxes – “Mykonos” (2008)
126. MGMT – “Time to Pretend” (2008)

Looking at this list, here are some songs I thought about:
The Roy Orbison song on the list made me think of this one:




The Metallica song 'One' reminded me of one of the few songs I like by U2:




And, just because this is stuck in my head: