My 1000 favourite songs

Zombie - Mainly written about The Troubles in Ireland and 1993 Warrington bombing killing 2 kids

The Impression That I Get - great lyrics in this mashup of ska and punk rock

You Oughta Know - almost the definitive musical version of bitterness

Lullaby - cool sounding as if Jack Nicolson made a rock ballad - a bit Bono-ish too

Joan Of Arc - such a good synth pop song from a great act

Pictures Of Matchstick Men - a surpisingly good and different cover of the Status Quo oldie

Alphabet Street - Prince was so prolific and versatile and this is a great little song with almost T Rex guitar licks

Only You - great great song

Faster - imho the punkiest thin the MSP ever did

I Saved the World Today - so smooth pop song

Goody Two Shoes - hi energy pop "dont drink dont smoke what do you do?"

Ghost Town - ominous and deserved political comemntary

King Of Hearts - this whole album is a treat but I like this track as Hagens vocals are restrained. I think the voice gymanstics wears thin after a while

Killer - so simple yet so effective

Crazy crazy nights - not on this album but this was when Kiss became unmasked. Its a dumb rock anthem and all the better for it

Titanium - featuring great vocals from Sia. This is how electronic dance pop should sound like

Chiauhua - a guilty please to like this infectious cheesy pop song

I'm Yours - a nice simple song. I really should listen to more of his stuff

The Show - wonderfully cute and contrived song

Someone Like You - About the only song I like from Adele. Great singer but has poor records other than this

Back To Black - great voice, Sad that she was so poorly managed she ended up dead

Love Missile F1-11 - slogans as lyrics nursery rhyme like melodies mixed with Giorgio Moroder I Feel Love type basslines and fuzzy guitars...now only if the group had been female theyd have been perfect

The Fuses Have Been Lit - years ago I was really into PWEI but today a lot of their music sounds too garish for me but this song holds up well

Ain't Talkin Bout Dub - a really inspired mix of rock, reggae and techno

What Time Is Love (Pure tRance version) - the KLF did so many versions of their songs...and I like this as its devoid of the stuff that KLF put in their hit songs like all the "mumu" chants

This Town Aint Big Enough For The Both Of Us - such a rocker from this quirky act. One of my favourite guitar sounds on record

Golden Brown - its not about toast or the sun but drugs. This song showed that The Stranglers were far from the punk era

Public Image - post Sex Pistols. That bassline. Almost arty and contrived ( in a good way) with the hellos at the start and goodbye at the end

Owner Of A Lonely Heart - when people thought prog rock dinosaurs were dead and buried they release this greta pop rock album Most songs are great and better for a simpler more easy to listen to approach. Funnily the production which is soooo 80s makes it Yes' least timeless album

The Sound of Silence - I might stick my neck out and say S & G were better than the Beatles. This will be one of many of their songs on this list

Basket Case - a fun high energy pop punk song

American Pie - weirdly covered by Madonna but the original is still far far better

The Power of Love - what can I say other than I like it. Its funny to watch videos of stars in this era - all big hair and shoulder pads...and thats just the men

Back For Good - in which teen boy band Take That proved they could craft an excellent pop ballad

Betty Davis Eyes - excellent sultry sung pop song which was a cover. This version adds a modern sheen almost sounding like Princes Little Red Corvette in that period

E=MC2 - a nice mix of dance and rock from former Clash member Mick Jones

(Don't Fear) The Reaper - such a great rock classic

Eleanor Rigby - probably the definitive sad pop song mainly down to melding of those strings and the depressign lyrics

Glory Box - subtly sexy song

When The Crowds Are Gone - a Pink Floyd ish hard rock ballad

Solsbury Hill - If I was to make a top 20 list I think this song would be in there - I liie how its lyrically vague and abstract but supposed to capture former Genesis singer Peter Gabriels frustartions with the band and setting himself free from it

Whole Lotta Rosie - a great rock track. To me its a shame that AC/DC didnt really experiment at all so in retrospect theys eem like the MacDonalds of rock

Making Love Out of Nothing At All - one of writer/producer Jim Steinmans best songs

Dancing Queen - just one of man great pop songs the band made -epect more later in the list

Reverie - synth pioneer Tomita puts his spin on Debussys classical music and takes beautiful tunes and somehow manages to make them more unearhly and more beautiful

Stoodup - this entire album is great and Im a huge Rungren fan. This is a great little slice of weird electronic pop. Terrible album cover though. You will see more Rundgren tunes dotted around this list

Life On Mars - one of those building epic ballads which was Bowies attempt to re-write My Way. Expect more Bowie in this list

We Didnt Start The Fire - one of my favourite shopping list type of songs and includes the dark couplet in the lyrics of "Starkweather homicide, childre of thalidomide"

Holy Grail - such a great Day In The Life style song where 2 distinct styles are cut and pasted together but it works

If I Could Fly - a cool rock instrumental partly (in)famous for a lawsuit against Coldplay as there are simialrities in melody to their Viva La Vida song. I think its just one of those musical coincidences and not plagiarism as the 2 songs sound radically different