My top 25 (actually 43) favourite tracks of all time in alpha order

No doubt this list of favourite tracks says a lot about me inadvertently!  I started out thinking I would only list 25 but that proved much too hard.  The list does demonstrate how you can get stuck in a time warp with music.  I wish there was an easy way to find great new music – it must be out there surely?

(Everything I do) I do it for you – Bryan Adams

1972 – Josh Rouse

5.01am – Roger Waters

Ain’t No Cure for Love – Leonard Cohen

April Sun in Cuba – Dragon

Big Spender – Peggy Lee

Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen

Boogie Street – Leonard Cohen

Desperado - the Eagles

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – The Animals

Forgiveness – Christine McVie

Funeral for a Friend – Elton John

Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen

Home Again – Carole King

Honky Tonk Women – Rolling Stones

House of the Rising Sun – The Animals

I Got You Babe – Cher

I’ve Never Been to Me – Charlene

It Doesn’t Matter Any More – Buddy Holly

Keep Me In Your Heart – Warren Zevon

Lay Down Sally – Eric Clapton

Love Hurts – Gram Parsons w Emmy Lou Harris

Mustang Sally – The Commitments

Night and Day – Ella Fitzgerald

Nine Million Bicycles – Katie Melua

Northern Lights – Goldenhorse

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Doris Day

Postcards from Paraguay – Mark Knopfler

That Don’t Impress Me Much – Shania Twain

The End of the Innocence – Don Henley

The Gnu Song – Flanders & Swan

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – Gene Pitney

Those Three Days – Lucinda Williams

Trav’lin Light – Billie Holliday

Under the Boardwalk – the Drifters

Volare – Dean Martin

We Don’t Need Another Hero – Tina Turner

Why Worry – Dire Straits

Willie and Laura Mae Jones – Dusty Springfield

Words – The Bee Gees

Yesterday – The Beatles

You Can Leave Your Hat On – Joe Cocker

It would be great to get suggestions about what other tracks I should consider adding to this list.

The Wall at Vector

Roger Waters is on tonight at Vector performing the Wall in its entirety.  A real extravaganza.  Wish I'd thought to get tickets.... sigh

Roger Waters – The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking

Ok ok, this is a bit eccentric.  But a friend who is now a Judge got me into it.  Nothing – well almost nothing – beats the title track played really loud.  I realise I didn’t include it in my earlier list… a mistake.  And the album cover will be appreciated by any red-blooded male. 

It dates from 1984.  Eric Clapton was a guitarist for the album.

Roger Waters of course was part of Pink Floyd.  He is thrice married and divorced and according to Wiki is now engaged again.  An optimist, obviously.