1000 favorite songs/recordings/tracks of the "rock era" [dec. 2011]: 1000-901

1000. “Light My Fire” [Single Edit] – The Doors [1967]
0999. “Rock and Roll Music” – Chuck Berry [1957]
0998. “Prisencolinensinainciusol” – Adriano Celentano [1972]
0997. “Too Young” – Phoenix [2000]
0996. “Fleurdamus Can’t Get It” – Von Südenfed [2007]
0995. “The Breaks” – Kurtis Blow [1980]
0994. “Kings of the Wild Frontier” – Adam & the Ants [1980]
0993. “Bad Cover Version” – Pulp [2001]
0992. “I’ll Believe in Anything” – Wolf Parade [2005]
0991. “Homosapien” – Pete Shelley [1981]
0990. “Birdhouse in Your Soul” – They Might Be Giants [1989]
0989. “Seventeen” – Ladytron [2002]
0988. “Werewolves of London” – Warren Zevon [1978]
0987. “Cloud Song” – The United States of America [1968]
0986. “It’s My Life” – Talk Talk [1984]
0985. “Life Begins at the Hop” – XTC [1979]
0984. “Fake Palindromes” – Andrew Bird [2005]
0983. “Into the Mystic” – Van Morrison [1970]
0982. “Swastika Eyes” [Jagz Kooner Mix] – Primal Scream [2000]
0981. “Song Against Sex” – Neutral Milk Hotel [1996]
0980. “Atomic” – Blondie [1980]
0979. “Panis et Circenses” – Os Mutantes [1968]
0978. “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” – Digable Planets [1993]
0977. “Lights Out” – Santogold [2008]
0976. “Girls Can Tell” – The Crystals [1964]
0975. “Birthday” – Junior Boys [2003]
0974. “Pictures of Lily” – The Who [1967]
0973. “Gut Feeling/ (Slap Your Mammy)” – Devo [1978]
0972. “Rolling Down the Hills” (Spring Demo) – Glass Candy [2007]
0971. “Build Me Up Buttercup” – The Foundations [1968]
0970. “Love Without Sound” – White Noise [1968]
0969. “Lullaby” – The Cure [1989]
0968. “6’1”” – Liz Phair [1993]
0967. “Pony” – Ginuwine [1996]
0966. “Puddin ‘n Tain” – The Alley Cats [1963]
0965. “Galang” – M.I.A. [2003]
0964. “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite” – R.E.M. [1993]
0963. “Hercules’ Theme” – Hercules & Love Affair [2008]
0962. “Victoria” – The Kinks [1969]
0961. “Open Your Heart” – The Human League [1981]
0960. “Suspicious Minds” – Elvis Presley [1969]
0959. “Coup” (12” Version) – 23 Skidoo [1984]
0958. “OLV 26” – Stereolab [1996]
0957. “Up the Neck” – The Pretenders [1980]
0956. “Cheated Hearts” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs [2006]
0955. “Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)” – My Bloody Valentine [1988]
0954. “1 Thing” – Amerie [2005]
0953. “This Will Be Our Year” – The Zombies [1968]
0952. “The Great Deceiver” – King Crimson [1974]
0951. “Both Sides Now” – Joni Mitchell [1969]
0950. “Triumph” – Wu-Tang Clan [1997]
0949. “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” – The Supremes [1966]
0948. “All I Want” – LCD Soundsystem [2010]
0947. “Banging the Door” – Public Image Ltd. [1981]
0946. “All My Little Words” – The Magnetic Fields [1999]
0945. “Earth Died Screaming” – Tom Waits [1992]
0944. “White Sky” – Vampire Weekend [2010]
0943. “Yoo Doo Right” – Can [1969]
0942. “Watch Me Jumpstart” – Guided by Voices [1995]
0941. “Take Me Out” – Franz Ferdinand [2004]
0940. “Total Trash” – Sonic Youth [1988]
0939. “Twin Cinema” – The New Pornographers [2005]
0938. “Rebel Without a Pause” – Public Enemy [1988]
0937. “Crimewave” [vs. Health] – Crystal Castles [2007]
0936. “Stars and Sons” – Broken Social Scene [2002]
0935. “No More Heroes” – The Stranglers [1977]
0934. “For Reverend Green” – Animal Collective [2007]
0933. “Negativland” – Neu! [1972]
0932. “Moby Octopad” – Yo La Tengo [1997]
0931. “No Children” – The Mountain Goats [2002]
0930. “Inertia Creeps” – Massive Attack [1998]
0929. “The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders” – Sufjan Stevens [2005]
0928. “Pendulum” – Broadcast [2003]
0927. “Rhymin’ and Stealin’” – Beastie Boys [1986]
0926. “(Love is Like a) Heat Wave” – Martha & the Vandellas [1963]
0925. “House of Cards” – Radiohead [2007]
0924. “Pusherman” – Curtis Mayfield [1972]
0923. “You Make No Sense” – ESG [1983]
0922. “Limb by Limb” – Cutty Ranks [1993]
0921. “Anything You Want” – Spoon [2001]
0920. “Melody” – Serge Gainsbourg [1971]
0919. “Pretty Ballerina” – The Left Banke [1966]
0918. “Little Willy” – Sweet [1972]
0917. “On a Plain” – Nirvana [1991]
0916. “S.P.Q.R.” – This Heat [1981]
0915. “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man” – Prince [1987]
0914. “I’ll Be By Your Side” – Sally Shapiro [2006]
0913. “Don’t Let it Bring You Down” – Neil Young [1970]
0912. “Cocoon” – Björk [2001]
0911. “Scenario” – A Tribe Called Quest [1991]
0910. “Bodhisattva” – Steely Dan [1973]
0909. “Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying” – Belle & Sebastian [1996]
0908. “Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne” – Suicide [1980]
0907. “Gimme Shelter” – The Rolling Stones [1969]
0906. “I Had to Say This” – The Clientele [1999]
0905. “I Got You Babe” – Sonny & Cher [1965]
0904. “A Kissed Out Red Floatboat” – Cocteau Twins [1988]
0903. “Grounded” – Pavement [1995]
0902. “Jump” – Van Halen [1984]
0901. “Jump Into the Fire” – Harry Nilsson [1971]