Sorry to keep everyone waiting for the definitive Rocko’s Top 100 Tracks of All Time.
I’ve taken the trouble of creating a Spotify playlist with my tracks (with one or two unfortunate exceptions where the tracks weren’t available).
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I also feel like sharing a few things that occurred to me when I was putting this together:
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[]I thought this would be a matter of narrowing down from 200. It was the other way for me. It’s not that I don’t like more songs, just I don’t think they belong in a definitive list like this.
[]I seem to have a penchant for slower songs. I don’t think that’s reflected in all my listening but I think they tend to stand out to me more as being the best songs from various artists.
[]I also like country music maybe a little more than I thought.
[]The list is almost entirely devoid of English artists - with a couple of exceptions. That’s not on purpose, just noticed that. I like my Irish music and most of the rest that appeals to me seems to be American.
[]They are in alphabetical order for your ease of reading.
[]Apologies if you don’t like country music.
[*]I’m sure I’ve left out loads of stuff I really like. Apologies to any artists offended by their omission.
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Addict – Dust
Ash – Girl From Mars
Athenrye – Roll Of Honour
Belle & Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher
Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With the Arab Strap
Bob Dylan – Seven Curses
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Redemption Song
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - I See a Darkness*
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Coney Island**
Bright Eyes – At The Bottom Of Everything
Bruce Springsteen – The River
Christy Moore – Viva La Quinte Brigada
Collie - Daily Listings***
Damien Dempsey – Canadian Geese
Damien Dempsey – Colony
Damien Rice – The Blowers Daughter
Day Jantus - Party Night****
Derek Warfield – Old Skibereen
Dolly Parton – Jolene
Elliott Smith – Angeles
Elliott Smith – Kings Crossing
Elvis Costello – Tramp The Dirt Down
Frightened Rabbit – The Twist
Gillian Welch – Look at Miss Ohio
Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy
Guy Clark – Let Him Roll
Guy Clark – Desperados Waiting For A Train
Hothouse Flowers – Don’t Go
House Of Pain – Jump Around
Imelda May – Kentish Town Waltz
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
John Murry – Little Coloured Balloons
Johnny Cash – Don’t Take Your Guns To Town
Johnny Cash – Highway Patrolman
Johnny Cash – Sunday Morning Coming Down
Josh Ritter – The Temptation Of Adam
Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues
Kila – Tine Lasta
Lana Del Rey – Video Games
Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Day
Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #2
Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat
Luke Kelly – For What Died The Sons Of Roisin
Luke Kelly – Raglan Road
Luke Kelly – Springhill Mining Disaster
Nanci Griffith – Trouble In The Fields
Mercury Rev – Goddess On A Hiway - Remastered
Nanci Griffith – Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
Paddy Reilly – The Fields Of Athenry
Paddy Reilly – Grace
Paul Brady – Arthur McBride - New Recording
PJ Harvey – This Is Love
Shane Macgowan – Haunted
Sharon Van Etten – One Day
Spiritualized – Stop Your Crying
Steve Earle feat. The Dukes – Billy Austin
Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
Steve Earle – Ellis Unit One
Steve Earle – Goodbye
Steve Earle – Rich Man’s War
Sufjan Stevens – John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Sufjan Stevens – To Be Alone With You
Terry O’ Neill – The Legend
The Chieftains – The Foggy Dew
The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
The Clash – Bankrobber
The Cribs – We Were Aborted
The Decemberists – 16 Military Wives
The Felice Brothers – Ballad Of Lou The Welterweight
The Felice Brothers – Boy from Lawrence County
The Felice Brothers – Cooperstown
The Frank And Walters – After All
The Magnetic Fields – All My Little Words
The Magnetic Fields – The Book Of Love
The Magnetic Fields – With Whom To Dance?
The National – Fake Empire
The Pogues – A Pair Of Brown Eyes
The Pogues – A Rainy Night In Soho
The Pogues – The Broad Majestic Shannon
The Slow Show – Brother
The Stone Roses – She Bangs the Drums - Remastered
The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony - 2004 Digital Remaster
The Waterboys – The Whole Of The Moon
Tom Waits – Long Way Home
Townes Van Zandt – Poncho & Lefty
Townes Van Zandt – Tecumseh Valley
Townes Van Zandt – Waitin’ Around To Die
Two Gallants – Long Summer Day
Two Gallants – Steady Rollin’
U2 – Exit - Remastered
U2 – Running To Stand Still - Remastered
Uncle Tupelo – Moonshiner
Underworld – Born Slippy (Nuxx)
Villagers – That Day
Whipping Boy – We Don’t Need Nobody Else
Whipping Boy - When We Were Young (Philo Version)*****
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy doesn’t appear to have many tunes on spotify so doesn’t make the playlist.
** Bonnie “Prince” Billy doesn’t appear to have many tunes on spotify so doesn’t make the playlist.
*** I wasn’t really expecting to find Daily Listings on Spotify.
**** Same for Day Jantus
***** The Whipping Boy song in my top 100 is the Philo version of When We Were Young which is a cover of Thin Lizzy’s Shades of a Blue Orphanage set to the music of When We Were Young. Not on spotify but it is on youtube:
