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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

COMING NEXT THE TOP 10.

I would just like to say thank you to everyone who has taken time to read, like, share or comment on any of the songs I have written about over the past 1000 days. I can’t believe how quickly the time has gone, it doesn’t seem like two minutes since I set out on this labour of love back on June 29th, 2017 and to think in just ten days time on March 24th the list will be complete.
There have been many lists of ‘best songs’ submitted by many organisations over the years, but I think where mine differs is in its diversity. I have striven to include every genre of music from the 1920’s onward, and include all genres of music from the ‘Crooners’ of the pre Rock ‘N’ Roll era, all the way through to the ‘Grime’ artists of the early 21st Century.
The one thing that becomes evident when studying popular music is that the majority of artists have written their best material by the age of 30, it appears that even the greatest musicians struggle to keep the standard up as they head towards middle age.
Pop Music certainly took off with the advent of Rock ‘N’ Roll, there is no comparison between listening to a song from 1957 and then hearing what was being recorded in just ten short years later, but it appears that Pop Music’s most productive period according to my countdown is the years from 1967-1969 with more songs appearing in this list from that time than any other. I would also suggest that the years of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s were also a boom period.
We are so lucky to have such wonderful music in abundance, any of the top 10 are worthy of being the best song ever. I hope you take time to listen to my choices over the next ten days and please feel free to comment.

Music was my first love and it will be my last
Music of the future and music of the past
To live without my music would be impossible to do
In this world of troubles
My music pulls me through.

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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
11-Donna Summer-I Feel Love.
1977-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 0.10. Even at the age of 16 with a very limited knowledge of Pop Music, I knew on first listen, I was hearing something that had never been done before, and was ground breaking. It appears I was in good company as according to David Bowie who at that time was in West Germany recording his ‘Berlin Trilogy,’ his collaborator Brian Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future,’ he puts on ‘I Feel Love.’He said, ‘This is it, look no further, this single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.’
‘I Feel Love’ was written and produced by Giorgio Moroder and Peter Belotte (see also best songs 78,) it was first released on Donna Summer’s fifth studio Album, ‘I Remember Yesterday’ which was a concept Album. Each track was meant to evoke the sound of a different decade, for example a 60’s girl group (‘Loves Unkind,’) or the 1940’s feel of the title track. Moroder and Belotte wanted to create a track that would supposedly represent the future of Disco music to close the Album.
Before ‘I Feel Love’ most Disco music was played by orchestras, but Moroder who had been experimenting with Synthesizers for years borrowed a ‘Moog Modular 3P’ from the classical composer Eberhard Schoener, aided by Schoener’s assistant Robby Wedel they would create something unique for it’s time.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of this song as it went on to influence the genres of ‘New Wave,’ ‘House Music,”Techno,”Trance’ and ‘Electronic Dance Music.’
‘Ooh, it’s so good, it’s so good, it’s so good.’
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This is the highest placed ‘Dance’ song on this countdown.YOUTUBE.COMDonna Summer I Feel Love Original 8 minute 12″ version 1977

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Published by Barry Philips · March 13 at 1:00 PM · 

THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
12-Lynyrd Skynyrd-Free Bird.
1973-In the UK the song charted at Number 43 in 1979, and again in 1982 peaking at Number 21.
Best Bit-At 4.43.Whenever Lynyrd Skynyrd performed this song live it would end up being a ‘jam’ that would go on forever and ever. It has become a humorous tradition for audience members at any type of concerts they are attending to shout ‘Play Free Bird,’ so the next time your at the latest ‘Westlife’ reunion and someone shouts out ‘Free Bird,’ you’ll know why.
‘Free Bird’ was co-written by Allen Collins (1952-1990) and Ronnie Van Zant (1948-1977.) Collins got the idea for the songs subject when his girlfriend Kathy whom he later married asked him, ‘If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me.’ Van Zant when asked what the song meant said, ‘it means to be free, in that a bird can fly wherever he wants to go, everyone wants to be free.’
Lynyrd Skynyrd (see also best songs 204) started out life in 1964 under the name ‘My Backyard,’ before becoming ‘The Nobel Five,’ then ‘The One Percent,’ before finally settling on ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd’ in 1970. The name is a mocking tribute to ‘Leonard Skinner’ a P.E. teacher at ‘Robert E.Lee High School’ where some of the bands members had attended, apparently Skinner was very strict and wouldn’t allow boys at the school to have long hair.
Tragedy struck in 1977 when an air plane crash killed three of the group, Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines a guitarist who had joined the group in 1976, and his sister Cassie Gaines who was the bands backing singer.
‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now, and this bird you cannot change.’
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Published by Barry Philips · March 12 at 1:00 PM · 

THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
13-Neil Diamond-Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed so Good.)
1969-It did not chart in the UK until 1971, when reaching Number 8.
Best Bit-At 1.04.Forget ‘We will Rock You,’ ‘We are the Champions,’ ‘Three Lions’ or ‘Eye of the Tiger,’ when attending a sporting event around the world this is the anthem you are most likely to hear.
Neil Diamond (see also best songs 536 and 426) is well known for teasing interviewers as to what his songs are about. Reading between the lines Diamond appears to have taken initial inspiration for the songs title after seeing a magazine cover photo of President John F.Kennedy’s daughter Caroline as a young child on a horse, with her parents. However in 2014 Diamond said the song was about his then wife Marcia, but he needed a three syllable name to fit it’s melody.
Diamond has said that he was due in the recording studio for a three hour session but he only had two songs to record, so the night before in his motel room he wrote ‘Sweet Caroline,’ he said it was one of the fastest songs he ever wrote. Of all the cover versions of the song he has said that the ‘Big Band’ rendition by Frank Sinatra is the best by far.
‘How can I hurt when I’m holding you.’
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Published by Barry Philips · March 11 at 1:00 PM · 

THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
14-Snow Patrol-Chasing Cars.
2006-Number 6 single.
Best Bit-At 2.26.The phrase ‘Chasing Cars’ came from Gary Lightbody’s father, in reference to a girl Lightbody was infatuated with, he said, ‘You’re like a dog chasing a car, you’ll never catch it, and you just wouldn’t know what to do with it if you did.’
The songs writer Gary Lightbody was born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Island in 1976. He formed his first band called ‘Shrug’ while studying English Literature at the University of Dundee in 1994. Over the next seven years he met the other musicians whom he would work with, using the name ‘Polarbear,’ and eventually ‘Snow Patrol.’
In the UK Snow Patrol have had thirteen top 40 singles, but in America this song remains their only hit. The big breakthrough came in the States when Chasing Cars was chosen as the music to be played during the second-season finale of the American medical drama ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ bringing them to the attention of a very large audience.
In 2009 the UK music licencing body ‘PPL’ announced that Chasing Cars was the most played song of the decade, and in 2019 they announced that it was now the most played track of the 21st Century.
‘Chasing Cars’ is a love song, it is about being emotionally very close to someone, and feeling that together you can achieve anything you want.
‘All that I am, all that I ever was, is here in your perfect eyes, they’re all I can see.’
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This is the highest placed song on this countdown from the 21st Century.YOUTUBE.COMSnow Patrol – Chasing CarsBrand new album WILDNESS is out now: http://SnowPatrol.lnk.to/WildnessID Playlists:…

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Published by Barry Philips · March 10 at 1:00 PM · 

THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
15-Oasis-Wonderwall.
1995-Number 2 single.
Best Bit-At 0.38. Noel Gallagher has been quoted as saying that the best song he as ever written is ‘Live Forever,’ he is wrong. He also stated his favourite version of ‘Wonderwall’ is the 2003 recording by American Rock singer Ryan Adams, he is wrong again, it is not a patch on Liam Gallagher’s memorising vocal.
‘Wonderwall’ is taken from Oasis’ second studio Album ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’ The Album is the second best selling in British history, the best seller is the Beatles ‘Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.’
Noel Gallagher (see also best songs 758) would be the first to admit the debt and the influence he owes the Beatles. Wonderwall was the title of George Harrison’s first solo Album from 1968, the Album is all instrumental and was written as the soundtrack for a film of the same name starring English actress Jane Birkin.
When Gallagher first recorded ‘Wonderwall’ the press assumed that it was written about his future wife Meg Mathews, Gallager explained, ‘The meaning of that song was taken away from me by the media who jumped on it and how do you tell your Mrs. it’s not about her once she’s read it is? It’s about an imaginary friend who’s going to come and save you from yourself.’
‘Because maybe you’re gonna be the one who saves me, and after all your my Wonderwall.’
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This is the 2nd highest placed song from the 1990’s on this countdown.YOUTUBE.COMOasis – Wonderwall (Official Video)Music video by Oasis performing Wonderwall. (C) 1995 Big Brother Recordings Limited SUBSCRIBE HERE: Youtube:…

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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
16-Motorhead-Ace of Spades.
1980-Number 15 single. With sales of downloads in 2016, it peaked at Number 13.
Best Bit-At 2.33. If you asked a Punk Rock fan and a Heavy Metal fan what they had in common, it would probably be an appreciation of this song.
By 1980 Punk Rock had thrown all the best music it had at us and then ‘Ace of Spades’ came along, with all the raw energy of Punk, but essentially very much in the Heavy Metal genre, but with a twist. ‘Ace of Spades’ was different it was faster and louder and helped create a new genre of music that would become ‘Speed Metal,’ influencing the next generation of bands such as Iron Maiden and Saxon.
Motorhead were formed in 1975 by the bands one constant Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister (1945-2015,) (see also best songs 577.) Up until 2015 when the band disbanded because of the death of ‘Lemmy’ there had been ten different group members throughout the years, though the classic line up was ‘Lemmy,’ ‘Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor (1954-2015) and ‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke (1950-2018.)
‘Ace of Spades’ is a song about gambling and it’s risks, Lemmy recalled, ‘Writing it was a word exercise on gambling, all the cliches.’
I personally see the gambling references as a metaphor for a reckless lifestyle, fuelled by drugs and alcohol. He knows he is gambling with his life and eventually will be dealt the ‘Ace of Spades,’ (the card of death.)
‘But that’s the way I like it baby, I don’t wanna live forever.’
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This is the 2nd highest placed song from the 1980’s on this countdown.YOUTUBE.COMMotörhead – Ace Of Spades (Official Video)Official music video of the legendary ‘Ace of Spades’ track by Motörhead. Originally released in 1980. Remembering Lemmy…

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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
17-Sugarhill Gang-Rapper’s Delight.
1979-Number 3 single.
Best Bit-At 2.20.This is ‘Old-school hip-hop,’ there was no bad language to try to make you sound cool, there was no derogatory words spoken about women, there was no use of the ‘N’ word, there was no homophobia, and you could hear the lyrics, there was no mumbling.
The original three members of the Sugarhill Gang were Michael ‘Wonder Mike’ Wright, Henry ‘Big Bank Hank’ Jackson (1956-2014,) and Guy ‘Master Gee’ O’Brien, they were discovered by Joey Robinson Jr. (1962-2015) the son of Sylvia Robinson (1935-2011) the co-founder of ‘Sugarhill Records.’
Rap had been performed in and around New York City since the early 1970’s but record labels didn’t see it as something which would sell in recorded form to the masses, it was seen as a fad only performed live. It was Sylvia Robinson (see also best songs 597-523-466-290 and 87) later to become dubbed as ‘The Mother of Hip-Hop’ who had the foresight, the song became the first ever Rap song to chart on Billboard and in the UK.
‘Rapper’s Delight samples the Disco song by ‘Chic’ called ‘Good Times’ (see also best songs 175,),’ this was written by Nile Rogers and Bernie Edwards (1952-1996,) after suing Sugarhill Records they are now added as the songs co-writers and receive royalties.
On a personal note, my one claim to fame is having seen the Sugarhill Gang perform this song live in Leeds in 1980.
‘I said a hip hop the hippie to the hippie, the hip hip a hop and you don’t stop a rock it.’
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This is the highest placed Rap song on this countdown.YOUTUBE.COMThe Sugarhill Gang – Rapper’s Delight (Official Video)Official video for The Sugarhill Gang – Rapper’s Delight. Rapper’s Delight was the first single released on Sugarhill Records on 16th September…

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Published by Barry Philips · March 7 at 1:00 PM · 

THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
18-Bobby Gentry-Ode to Billie Joe.
1967-Number 13 single.
Best Bit-At 4.22.Sometimes it’s more fun if the reason why it happened always remains a mystery, rather than find out and have all the mystique removed.
‘Ode to Billie Joe’ tells the story of Billie Joe McAllister who commits suicide by jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge in Money, Mississippi. The songs narrator had been observed on the bridge previously with McAllister, and they had been seen throwing something in to the water below.
These two incidents captured the imagination of the general public so much to the extent that ‘Warner Bros.’ commissioned the author Herman Raucher to expand and adapt the story as a novel and screenplay in 1976. Gentry when asked for input was asked why McAllister committed suicide, she answered by saying she didn’t know, which left Raucher free to write his own adaption. In the film and the book McAllister has a homosexual encounter which he enjoyed, but later was overcome with guilt. It is also revealed that it was a rag doll that the couple threw from the bridge in to the water, signifying the narrators transformation from a child in to an adult.
Booby Gentry(see also best songs 740) has been quoted as saying that most people miss the really important messages in the song. She has said’ The song revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide, the song is a study in unconscious cruelty. Second, the obvious gap between the girl and her mother is shown when both women experience a common loss (first Billie Joe and later, Papa,) and yet Mama and the girl are unable to recognise their mutual loss or share their grief.’
‘And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black eyed peas, well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits please.’
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Published by Barry Philips · March 6 at 1:00 PM · 

THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
19-Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Two Tribes.
1984-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 4.12.The late Patrick Allen (1927-2006) frightened the life out of us with his talk of imminent nuclear destruction, before jumping back in to his helicopter to sell some more Barratt Homes.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood were formed in Liverpool in 1980 by Holly Johnson (vocals,) Paul Rutherford (vocals,) Peter Gill (drums,) Mark O’Toole (bass guitar) and Brian Nash (guitar,) they took their name from a headline in ‘The New Yorker’ magazine which read ‘Frankie Goes Hollywood,’ next to a photograph of Frank Sinatra.
‘Two Tribes’ had been written as far back as 1982, but it wasn’t until legendary music producer Trevor Horn signed ‘FGTH’ to his ‘ZTT’ record label and remixed the song that it became a hit. The track was released in six different mixes but the two to concentrate on are the ‘Annihilation Mix’ and the ‘Carnage Mix,’ I have chosen to post the ‘Carnage Mix,’ but both come highly recommended.
In the early 1980’s tensions ran very high between The United States and the Soviet Union, and people were very worried of a potential Nuclear War. The songs famous video was directed by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, it depicts a wrestling match between look-a-likes President Reagan, and then Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko.
‘Two Tribes’ spent nine weeks at Number 1 in the UK in 1984, it was the longest stay at the top of the charts by any song in the whole of the 1980’s.
‘Sock it to me biscuits.’
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