No. 23 - Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll

A rock band doing what the do best, playing good old hard rock 'n' roll.

"Seems so long since we walked in the moonlight"

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No. 25 - Deep Purple - Smoke on The Water

Go out and buy "Made in Japan by deep Purple", turn the volume up and play Smoke on the water if this don't make you want to be a rocker, then forget it. One of the best rifts in rock and a great duel between guitar and organ on the album. 

"Funky Claude was running in and out

Pulling kids out the ground"

RIP Claude

No. 26 - Thin Lizzy - Are You Ready

Lizzy at there very best, doing the business on the stage. A great set opener.

"Are you ready to rock?

Are you ready to hit the floor?

Are you ready lover?

'Cause if you're ready, I'm ready!"

Well are you ?

No. 27 - Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

Most songs i pick are not from the 2000 years as most modern music doesn't have the same affect as the early stuff, and the experiences I can relate them to, but this song really did it for me and maybe it should be higher I don't know lets see how i feel about it in 10 years time.

""And it's no coincidence I've come

And I can die when I'm done"

No. 28 - The Clash - If Music Could Talk

This is a song hardly played on the radio and not known outside die hard Clash fans. Why do I love it so much is the two way conversation Joe has when singing and narrating the song. I always hear something different every time I hear it. It gives me a lot to think about, just a word, sentence etc. A fantastic song.

"I smash my glass and shout shanghi"

No. 29 - Eddi Reader - "Kiteflyer's Hill"

I love sitting on the tops of  hills or tors, I just love watching the sun set or rise and wondering about the people who live below, this songs sums how happy and at one I am on a hill.

"My wild summer love

Where are you now ?

Do you think of me sometimes"

No. 30 - Thin Lizzy - Me and the boys

A great encore song, can't find the Glasgow clip where Lizzy  are at there fucking best. 

Pity Brian is not in this clip.

"me and the boys were wondering 

how you and the girls are getting home from here tonight"

No. 31 - Sam the Sham the Pharaos - Wooly Bully

I remember hearing this on the radio and went looking for it in my local record shop. 

"Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw."

No. 32 - Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

When your smoking waccy bacca, this is one of the songs you know you want to hear. Walking on disused railways line takes the pain away with you smoke a great bit of weed. 

I would wait to scream out "You Bastards " as it played on the tape. 

"The people who have crippled you

You want to see them burn"

No. 33 - John Lennon - God

A song that made me question what I was ever told or taught. I have since hearing this way back in the 70's never accepted what someone says I should do. My life journey is mine to go down be it right or wrong, it's my path.

"and so dear friends

you'll just have to carry on

The Dream is over
"

No. 34 - Japan - Ghosts

I was not a lover of the new romantic / electronic phase in the 80's but this song just sends goosebumps over me when I hear it.

"Just when I think I'm winning

When I've broken every door

The ghosts of my life blow wilder than before "

No. 35 - Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

One of the best songs the stones have ever written.

"Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave "

No. 36 - John lennon - Working Class Hero

Lennon is like Marmite you either like him or not. A song that sums up most peoples lives. Nice one John

"Keep you doped with religion, sex and T.V.

and you think you're so clever and classless and free

but you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see"

No. 37 - Butch Hancock - "Mario y Maria"

I love songs that give you a story and I spent ages trying to find the lyrics to this song as i tried to work what the story was about. 

I still love it and I wish Angeline carved my dreams.

"Angeline carved wooden dreams

An artist of the world it seems"

No. 38 - Oasis - Songbird

A song writtern byliam rather than Noel. I love it for it's simplicity.

"Gonna write a song so she can see

Give her all the love she gives to me"

No. 39 Emm Gryner - Running Back

A very haunting version of the Thin Lizzy classic by Canadian singer songwriter Emm Gryner.  I bet if Phil had heard it he would have loved it as well as trying to pull Emm. I can see Phil raising a class in approval for this fantastic version.

"The show is over

and we must all go home

Just leave me by myself

I'll be alright here on my own"

No. 40 - The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

The undertones 2 minutes and 21 seconds of sheer brillance. 

What every boy   wanted when he saw a girl in the street.

"Another girl in the neighborhood

Wish she was mine, she looks so good"

No. 41 - The Clash - Stay Free

Mick Jones singing how two lives go separate ways. How he ended up with the world and his mate ended up in prison. My favorite line comes from this song and I still use it today.

"go easy...step lightly...stay free"

No. 42 - The clash - Police and Thieves

the clash did more to bring reggae to a wider, white audience than any other white band. 

"Police and thieves in the streets, oh yeah
Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition"

No. 43 - Guns and Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

This song always reminds me of marking stock in as this was being played on the radio  around 87.  I also remember it because I was riding home from seeing KB one night in thick fog and going up Gilbert road and I could hear a car coming and you could hear him hitting wing mirrors on the cars parked on the road and I thought I'm going to die, doesn't matter where I go he is going to hit me on my bike. Turned this song up on my Walkman and he went passed me still hitting wing mirrors further up the road.

"I'd hate to look into those eyes

And see an ounce of pain"

 

No. 44 - Gary Moore - Don't Believe A Word

this might as well be Thin Lizzy rather than Gary Moore. This is how it was originally written not the fast tempo released by Lizzy. So Gary recorded it and stuck it on his first solo album. Love the Duet as well.

"Your heart is like a promise

Made to be broken"

No. 45 - David Bowie - Young Americans

Bowie used a cut up process to write songs. he was also hip to what was going on and re-invented himself so many times it makes you wonder who he was really. 

"Black's got respect, and white's got his Soul Train"

No. 46 - The Clash - London Calling

Forget the media the clash did more to educate me about the wars, the terrors, the brutally of the world and more importantly England and how the lower class are dumped on by the upper class.

"Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust

London calling, see we ain't got no swing

'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing"

No. 47 - U2 - Desire

Another short song from U2. A really good rock n Roll song. Nice one boys.

"Like a preacher stealing hearts

At a traveling show"

No. 48 - Johnny Cash - Hurt

Simply the most moving video I have ever seen. A legend singing a classic song, and no doubt Johnny was not afraid to die, but he had so much to offer in such a short time.

"Everyone I know goes away

In the end "

No. 49 - Hey Joe - Patti Smith

Patti Smith is a required taste and the intro to "Hey Joe" sums her up really, speaking out for what we all thought. Also I liked the fact this version has been slowed down. Nice one Patti.

"you know I caught my old lady messin' 'round town.

And I gave her the gun and I shot her!"

No. 50 - John Mellencamp - Wild Night ft. Me'Shell Ndegeocello

This is a song that should be played as an alarm through a stack of speakers as it will make you get out of bed and enjoy the day ahead.

great version of Van"the grumpy" man song.

 

"All the girls walk by, dressed up for each other
And the boys, do the boogie-woogie."

No. 51 - The Rolling Stones - Angie

Another song listened to on the Lambeg road and Belise park.  For SL who didn't deserve me and I didn't deserve her love.

"With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats"

No. 52 - Mamas Boy`s - Belfast City Blues

A band hit with so many problems not self inflicted. a fantastic band who toured with Lizzy. First heard this song on Tommy Vance's Friday night rock show. The best city I've ever been to

"Why can't I stay in a town that I love - Belfast city"

No. 53 - Cream - Badge

My all time favorite cream song, short and sweet. 

"She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle."

No. 54 Francis Rossi - Claudie

A great song about a break up seen from the fellas perspective. nice one Francis

"When I left did you think of me crying

Did you care that I felt I was dying"

No. 55 - U2 - Vertigo

Bono and the boys doing what they do best singing rock and playing roll.

"They twinkle as the boys play rock and roll

"They know that they can’t dance - at least they know"

No. 56 - Jess Roden - Desperado

I saw Jess Roden at the Winter Gardens Bournemouth, there was about 50 of us and he sand the band played as if the hall was full and I remember him blowing me away with this version of the Eagles classic.

Which he recorded more, miss your soulful voice jess

"You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet"

No. 57 - Slade - Coz I Luv You

Everybody wanted to hear Gudbuy to Jayne and Cum on feel the noise at the disco's I wanted this. I love Slade and I love Jimmy lea's Violin playing.

"When we're miles apart you still reach my heart how I love you"

ENo. 58 - Ellvis Presley - Suspicious Minds

This is Elvis being Elvis and not giving a  shit, check the video out at 56 seconds and I quote " shove it up your nose". Only one singer since his death has come close to have the same appeal as Elvis and that's Robbie Williams, check his version out on the Jools Holland show on you tube.

 

 

"And we can't build our dreams

On suspicious minds"

No. 59 - Phil Lynott - Ode To A Black Man)

I love this guy, his lyrics, his attitude and his coolness. here he is trying to look like Dennis the menace, whilst singing a song about great black guys and in some cases bad black guys in history.

"If you see the doctor tell him he's still king, you too Muhammad Ali
"

No. 60 - Everything But The Girl - Missing (Official)

This song sums up everyone I miss. MT, CR, AC and a cast of thousands, well maybe a few. I always think of those 3 people when I hear this song. 

It is said if you love someone let them go for if they return they were always yours, Thank god I've got patience. 

"And I miss you

Like the deserts miss the rain"

No. 61 - Primal Scream - Country Girl

This crowd should be BOUNCING, cracking song. Great band.

"I have stole I have sinned, oh my soul is unclean"

No. 62 - Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon (live)

It took a long time for me to get into Fleetwood Mac, I suppose i always saw them as 15 minute guitar solos from the orginal band, before Lindsey and Stevie joined.

Great band for getting me 4 miles down the road on the bike when it's cold, wet, and windy.

"Would you stay if she promised you heaven?"

No. 63 - The Beatles - Help

A great version of this song is done by the punk rockers "The Damned"

"My independence seems to vanish in the haze"

No. 64 - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Like A Hurricane

I was a Postman in the 70's and getting up early for 5:00 am starts was no joke and I would have a coffee and a fag listening to the radio and they would always play Neil Young s like a hurricane, guess the DJ needed a toilet break as it went on for ages. Love the missions version.

"Dancing on the light

from star to star."

No. 65 - The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want

Summer days and nights getting turned onto the stones by MT and he always played this.

I love the following lines as it always made me giggle knowing that mick was standing in line.

"I went down to the Chelsea drugstore

To get your prescription filled

I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy"

No. 66 - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Sebastian

In the 70's I was listening to glam rock and cockney rebel came out and in 73 Steve Harley comes out with this song. How I wanted to meet the girl with 

 

"Your Persian eyes sparkle; your lips, ruby blue, never speak a sound"

 

Never did, will always wonder who she was.

No. 67 - Oasis - Champagne Supernova

Oasis, Manchester's answer to Liverpool's Beatles. Both great bands but like the footie times I suspect would have been great rivals.

The only band in the 90's who should be in every bodies record collection.

"Faster than a cannon ball

Where were you while we were getting high?"

No. 68 - Bruce Springsteen - The River

Another great story teller, not as good as ole' mr Zimmerman, but great never the less.

"And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat "

No. 69 Joe Strummer And Tippa Irie - The Harder They Come

Strummer had a fantastic attitude to all sorts of music, sadly he is missed and I'm sure music today could do with a Strummer kick up the arse. A fantastic versions of the Jimmy Cliff song.

 

"But I'd rather be a free man in my grave

Than living as a puppet or a slave"

No. 70 - Bryan Adams - When You're Gone ft. Melanie C

Mel C is the only spice girl I fancy something about her eyes just does it for me. Check her out at 2:47 on this video, she can melt me everytime.

"this is torture - this is pain - it feels like I'm gonna go

insane"

No. 71 - The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Fantastic song from George and with Eric Clapton on guitar what more could you want. this is the first song I ever taped, followed by deep purples smoke on the water. When of my all time favorite Beatles song.

"I don't know how you were diverted

You were perverted too"

No. 72 - Bob Dylan - Hurricane

This is why Dylan's is the greatest song writer of my generation. How
can anyone write a song about something that really happened and be able
to paint the story in your head.

Amazing!

"Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties

Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise

While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell"

No. 73 - Sade - Still In Love With You

My all time favorite love song, yes it will reappear later but this version by Sade is worthy of being in my top 100. If this doesn't make you want to dance with a partner then their is no hope. One of the many songs that can take me to different places, different memories and make me cry. Thanks Phil

"After all that we've been through

I try my best but it's no use

I guess I'll keep on loving you"

No. 74 - U2 - Spanish Eyes

I love U2 and this track should have been on the Joshua Tree. Love it because it takes me back to walking disused railway tracks, smoking stuff I couldn't at home grooving on Sabbath and U2.

"Our love shines like rain

In those Spanish eyes

Spanish eyes "

No. 75 - The Alarm - Rescue Me

One of the best bands to come out of Wales, sadly under rated by the media and always called a U2 or Big country clone.

The Alarm were unique and Mike Peters wrote great songs.

"I want love

And physical asylum"

No.76 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop (

Fantastic intro, if this don't make you head dance nothing will.

Always me of the old audio stock room in No.25 at John Lewis as it was always being played when I went in to do security checks.

"Can't stop, addicted to the shindig"

No. 77 - The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

The first Beatles song I loved. Simple as that and the movie is stil funny today. Reminds me of hanging out in a squash court listening to cassettes on a mono cassette recorder

"So why on earth should I moan, cos when I get you alone

You know I feel OK"

No. 78 - Golden Earring - Radar Love

This has the best rifts ever in a song, great for driving, cycling and running especially on a tread mill.

One of the best band's to come out of Holland

"And the radio played that forgotten song

Brenda Lee's "Coming On Strong""

No. 79 - Billy Bragg - Jerusalem

Coming in at No.79 is Billy Bragg singing the first song I ever learned as a pupil in a welsh school many many years ago. This is the song that should be played at every England game, be it footie, rugby, cricket.

Makes you proud to be English.

"Till we have built Jerusalem,

In England's green & pleasant Land"