This started as a list of 100 songs that were the track I thought was the best ever, that I would listen to on repeat thinking, this song is the best song ever... until I tired of it. I present them in rough autobiographical order - by which I mean the order, in my life, when I was was so entranced by them.
While some fit that bill entirely, some stand for not a particulary song I used to listen to on repeat, but to an album I was overtaken by.
I also had to add the rule of one band/artist per entry. Otherwise more than half the list would be by two artists.
Here's 100 songs, the songs of my life.
- Atirei o pau ao gato
- Banda sonora Rei Leao - Eu mal posso esperar para ser Rei
- The Connels - 74/75
- Rui Veloso - O ourives mestre Joao
- Beethoven - 9th Symphony ( version: George Szell - Cleveland Orchestra)
- Dulce Pontes - Cancao do mar
- Korn - freak on a leash
- Candela Azul - Juegalo
- Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan
- Joaquin Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez - Alegro (version: Paco de Lucia)
- Queen - It's a kind of Magic
- Atomic kitten - Eternal Flame
- Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
- Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the name
- The Guitar Trio - Mediterranean Sundance
- The Prodigy - Smack my bitch up
- Livin' la Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
- The Offspring - Come out and play
- Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now
- Zeca Afonso - Cantar Alentejano
- Proppelerheads - Spybreak!
- Portishead - Glory Box
- Area - L'elefante bianco
- Can - Mother Sky
- Gong - Flying Teapot
- Paco de Lucia - Zyriab
- Norah Jones - Don't know why
- The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs
- Laurie Anderson - From the air
- Santana feat. Rob Thomas- Smooth
- White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
- Count Basie - Sing Sing (with a Swing)
- Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Karn evil 9
- King Crimson - 21st century schizoid man
- The Doors - The End
- Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
- Frank Zappa - Cruisin for Burgers (version: Zappa in New York)
- Colosseum - The Kettle
- Goldfrapp - Lovely Head
- Hallogallo - Neu!
- Genesis - The Knife
- Headhunters - Chamaeleon
- Justice - Genesis
- Dave Brubeck - Take Five
- Roxy Music - Re-Make/Re-Model
- John Coltrane - Afro-blue
- Peter Gabriel - The Feeling Begins
- Aimee Mann - One
- John Brarry - Theme from Midnight Cowboy
- Serge Gainsbourg - Le poinconneur des lilas
- Charles Aznavour - Formidable
- Mler Ife Dada - Sinto em mim
- Faust - No Harm
- Sun Ra - Space is the place
- Pharoah Sanders - You got to have Freedom
- Buraka Som Sistema - Kalemba
- Raul Seixas - Ouro de tolo
- John Zorn/Electric Masada - Karaim
- Fausto - Por este rio acima
- Scraping foetus off the wheel - Descent into the Inferno
- Can - Mother Sky
- Van der Graaf Generator - Lemmings
- Captain Beefheart - Electricity
- Zero Seven - In the Waiting line
- The Kinks - Sunday Afternoon
- Sanseverino - Comment seduire une femme marie
- Nancy Sinatra - You only live twice
- Soft Machine - Moon in June
- Charles Mingues - Better get hit in 'yo soul
- Mahavishnu Orchestra - The inner mounting flame
- Morphine - Good
- Ellington, Mingus, Roach - Caravan
- Emir Kusturica - Unza Unza Time
- Gilberto Gil - Aquele Abraco
- Madredeus - O Pastor
- Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
- Addagietto, 7th Symphony, Beethoven, Karajan
- Madvillainy - Accordion
- Nina simone - I get on without very well (except sometimes)
- Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts - Tank!
- Seu Jorge - Life on Mars
- Baden Powell - Canto de Ossanha
- Zlabya - Harmonika Tulli
- Novos Baianos - Acabou Chorare
- La Femme d'argent - Air
- LCD Soundsystem - Us v Them
- Dj Shadow - Rocket Fuel
- Jungle by night - Attila
- Zef - Musique Mazurka
- Tim Maya - Bom Senso
- Duo Brotto Lopez - La Candela
- Cantiga da burra - Quadrilha
- Fela Kuti - Water no get enemy
- Tom Ze - Xique Xique
- Caetano Veloso - It's a long road
- My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
- Cameo - Shake your pants
- Joni Mitchel - Case of you
- Jacques Brel - Vesoul
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