400 Songs

I started a little challenge on my 49th birthday, to create a definitive playlist of my life by picking a song-a-day as the soundtrack to my life. The 366 potential songs were ambitiously increased to 400. However, as my 50th year on planet Earth didn’t go anything like to plan (with bereavements of people very close to me and the small matter of the global pandemic), I simply stopped all my blogging activity. Much like the Doctor Who episode reviews, I might get around to finishing this list of songs.

  1. Elbow – “Grounds For Divorce” [6/12/19]
  2. Paul Simon – “Mother and Child Reunion” [7/12/19]
  3. Tim Minchin – “White Wine in the Sun” [8/12/19]
  4. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas – “Nowhere to Run” [9/12/19]
  5. Robert Palmer – “Addicted To Love” [10/12/19]
  6. Harry Styles – “Sign of the Times” [11/12/19]
  7. Arctic Monkeys – “A Certain Romance” [12/12/19]
  8. R.E.M. – “It’s The End of The World As We Know It” [13/12/19]
  9. k.d. Lang – “Constant Craving” [14/12/19]
  10. The Pogues and Kirstie MacColl – “Fairytale of New York” [15/12/19]
  11. Def Leppard – “Pour Some Sugar On Me” [16/12/19]
  12. The Spin Doctors – “Two Princes” [17/12/19]
  13. Ian Brown – “F.E.A.R.” [18/12/19]
  14. The Animals – “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” [19/12/19]
  15. The Flaming Lips – “Yoshimi Vs The Pink Robots Pt 1” [20/12/19]
  16. The Men They Couldn’t Hang – “The Ghosts of Cable Street” [21/12/19]
  17. Liza Minelli & The Pet Shop Boys – “Losing My Mind” [22/12/19]
  18. Freddie Mercury & Monsterrat Cabellé – “The Golden Boy” [23/12/19]
  19. Band Aid – “Do They Know It’s Christmas” [24/12/19]
  20. Hafdis Huld – “Wolf” [25/12/19]
  21. Chumbawumba – “Tubthumper” [26/12/19]
  22. David Gray – “Babylon” [27/12/19]
  23. Morcheeba – “Part of the Process” [28/12/19]
  24. Bonnie Tyler – “Holding Out For a Hero” [29/12/19]
  25. Dire Straits – “Money For Nothing” [30/12/19]
  26. Lewis Capaldi – “Someone You Loved” [31/12/19]
  27. Jodie Whittaker – “Yellow” [1/1/20]
  28. Leonard Cohen – “First We Take Manhattan” [2/1/20]
  29. Sarah Blasko – “Xanadu” [3/1/20]
  30. Ralph McTell – “The Streets of London” [4/1/20]
  31. 10cc – “I’m Not In Love” [5/1/20]
  32. It Bites – “Kiss Like Judas” [6/1/20]
  33. Sinéad O’Connor – “Nothing Compares 2U” [7/1/20]
  34. The Cars – “Drive” [8/1/20]
  35. Spiller – “Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)” [9/1/20]
  36. The Clash – “London Calling” [10/1/20]
  37. Tori Amos – “Cornflake Girl” [11/1/20]
  38. Republica – “Drop Dead Gorgeous” [12/1/20]
  39. Cake – “I Will Survive” [13/1/20]
  40. Billie Eilish – “Ocean Eyes” [14/1/20]
  41. Aztec Camera – “Somewhere In My Heart” [15/1/20]
  42. Starship – “We Built This City” [16/1/20]
  43. Will Young – “Leave Right Now”
  44. Journey – “Don’t Stop Believing”
  45. Elvis Costello – “Oliver’s Army”
  46. Eminem – “Without Me”
  47. Mark Owen – “Four Minute Warning”
  48. Bob Dylan – “Mr Tambourine Man”
  49. Aztec Camera – “Somewhere In My Heart”
  50. Van Morrison – “Brown Eyed Girl”
  51. Bernard Cribbins – “Right Said Fred”
  52. Wheatus – “Teenage Dirtbag”
  53. Hoit Axton – “Della and the Dealer”
  54. Babybird – “You’re Gorgeous”
  55. Louis Armstrong – “Summertime”
  56. Toploader – “Dancing In The Moonlight”
  57. Rogue Traders – “Voodoo Child”
  58. Poison – “You’re Momma Don’t Dance”
  59. The Rah Band – “Clouds Across The Moon”
  60. Nina Simone – “My Baby Just Cares For Me”
  61. The Gypsy Kings – “Bamboleo”
  62. New Order – “Blue Monday”
  63. Westworld – “Sonic Boom Boy”
  64. The Zutons – “Valerie”
  65. The Streets – “Dry Your Eyes”
  66. Gerry Rafferty – “Baker Street”
  67. Martha & The Muffins – “Echo Beach”
  68. Soft Cell – “Tainted Love”
  69. The Walker Brothers – “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”
  70. The Alarm – “Sixty Eight Guns”
  71. Average White Band – “Pick Up The Pieces”
  72. Jamiroquai – “Virtual Insanity”
  73. The Magic Numbers – “Morning’s Eleven”
  74. Morcheeba – “Part of the Process”
  75. East 17 – “It’s Alright”
  76. The Fratellis – “Whistle For The Choir”
  77. Andy William – “Music To Watch Girls Go By”
  78. Joe Cocker – “Summer In The City
  79. Charlie Pride – “Crystal Chandeliers”
  80. The Stranglers – “Golden Brown”
  81. Kate Nash – “Foundations”
  82. Fun Lovin’ Criminals “Scooby Snacks”
  83. Spin Doctors – “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”
  84. Bjork – “Violently Happy”
  85. Sammy Davis Jr. – “The Lady Is  A Tramp”
  86. James Blunt – “Monsters”  by James Blunt
  87. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – “Murder On The Dancefloor”
  88. Madonna – “Justify My Love”
  89. Bruce Springsteen – “Born To Run”
  90. Guns and Roses – “Sweet Child ‘O Mine”
  91. Ella Fitzgerald – “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”
  92. Strawberry Switchblade – “Since Yesterday”
  93. Santana – “Smooth”
  94. Meat Loaf – “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”
  95. Lily Allen – “Him”
  96. Damien Rice – “The Blower’s Daughter”
  97. Blur – “Parklife”
  98. It Bites – “Underneath Your Pillow”
  99. The Divine Comedy – “Something For The Weekend”
  100. Terrorvision – “Josephine”
  101. Elbow – “One Day Like This”
  102. Snow Patrol – “Run”
  103. Pink Floyd – “Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)”
  104. Bon Jovi – “Livin’ On A Prayer”
  105. Neil Diamond – “Love On The Rocks”
  106. Prince – “1999”
  107. Pulp – “Common People”
  108. Dean Martin – “Volare”
  109. Ian Brown – “F.E.A.R.”
  110. Boomtown Rats – “I Don’t Like Mondays”
  111. Robbie Williams – “Come Undone”
  112. Space – “Dark Clouds”
  113. Macy Gray – “Sexual Revolution”
  114. Amy MacDonald – “Mr Rock & Roll”
  115. Will Smith – “Summertime”
  116. Alanis Morissette – “You Oughta Know”
  117. U2 – “City of Blinding Lights”
  118. Amy Winehouse – “Rehab”
  119. Paul Simon – “You Can Call Me Al”
  120. John and Wayne – “Tripping Up Inclines”
  121. Kate Bush – “Running Up That Hill”
  122. Keane – “Bedshaped”
  123. Shakespeare’s Sister – “You’re History”
  124. Don McLean – “American Pie”
  125. Billy Joel – “My Life”
  126. Annie Lennox – “Walking On Broken Glass”
  127. David Gray – “Babylon”
  128. Arctic Monkeys – “A Certain Romance”
  129. REM – “Losing My Religion”
  130. Francis Dunnery – “American Life In The Summertime”
  131. The Beatles – “Across The Universe”
  132. Ben Folds – “Rockin’ The Suburbs”
  133. Oasis – “Don’t Look Back In Anger”
  134. Queen – “These Are The Days Of Our Lives”