Tuesday, May 16, 2006

WFUV Top Essential Songs

WFUV
Essential Songs:
Listener Poll Results
We asked our listeners for their essential songs,
and you sent 'em! Tons of them. Thanks to everyone
who took the time to answer that question-it's a
tough one. Our DJs have listed theirs, and some of our
favorite musicians named theirs, & here are yours.

WFUV Top 90 Essential Songs
Bruce Springsteen - "Thunder Road"
Bob Dylan - "Like a Rolling Stone"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born to Run"
Van Morrison - "Into the Mystic"
Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"
The Beatles - "In My Life"
Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up in Blue"
The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
The Band - "The Weight"
Simon and Garfunkel - "America"
Van Morrison - "Moondance"
Richard Thompson - "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"
Derek & the Dominoes - "Layla"
Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing"
Bruce Springsteen - "4th of July, Asbury Park
(Sandy)"
Joni Mitchell - "A Case Of You"
Louis Armstrong - "What a Wonderful World"
John Lennon - "Imagine"
The Rolling Stones - "(I Can't Get No)
Satisfaction"
The Beatles - "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
Joni Mitchell - "All I Want"
The Grateful Dead - "Eyes of the World"
Elvis Costello - "Alison"
Don McLean - "American Pie"
Bruce Springsteen - "Jungleland"
Bob Dylan - "Visions of Johanna"
The Grateful Dead - "Box Of Rain"
Janis Joplin - "Me & Bobby McGee"
Elvis Costello - "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace
Love and Understanding"
The Velvet Underground - "Sweet Jane"
The Beatles - "Hey Jude"
The Beatles - "A Day In The Life"
Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"
Joni Mitchell - "River"
Dar Williams - "When I Was a Boy"
Bob Dylan - "Positively 4th Street"
Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey"
The Grateful Dead - "Uncle John's Band"
The Beatles - "Here Comes The Sun"
Steve Goodman - "The Dutchman"
Robert Earl Kean - "Feels So Good Feelin' Good
Again"
Kirsty MacColl - "In These Shoes?"
John Prine - "Angel from Montgomery"
James Taylor - "Sweet Baby James"
Jackson Browne - "For a Dancer"
U2 - "One"
The Who - "Won't Get Fooled Again"
The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil"
The Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset"
The Beatles - "Here, There, and Everywhere"
The Beatles - "Blackbird"
Paul Simon - "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"
Otis Redding - "Try A Little Tenderness"
Miles Davis - "So What?"
Jimi Hendrix - "All Along the Watchtower"
Indigo Girls - "Closer to Fine"
Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
Bob Dylan - "Mr. Tambourine Man"
Allman Brothers - "Melissa"
Allman Brothers - "Blue Skies"
Joni Mitchell - "Carey"
Van Morrison - "Brown Eyed Girl"
Traffic - "Low Spark of High Heel Boys"
The Talking Heads - "This Must Be The Place (Naive
Melody)"
The Grateful Dead - "Sugar Magnolia"
The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood"
The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations"
The Band - "It Makes No Difference"
Paul McCartney - "Maybe I'm Amazed"
Neil Young - "After the Goldrush"
Michelle Shocked - "Come a Long Way"
Marvin Gaye - "What's Goin' On?"
Lucy Kaplansky - "Ten Year Night"
Lucinda Williams - "Sweet Old World"
Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"
James Taylor - "Fire and Rain"
Frank Sinatra - "New York, New York"
Etta James - "At Last"
Bob Marley - "No Woman No Cry"
Bob Dylan - "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
Bob Dylan - "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"
Aretha Franklin - "Respect"
Ryan Adams - "New York, New York"
Ray Charles - "Georgia"
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion"
Wilco - "Jesus, Etc."
The Clash - "London Calling"
Stevie Wonder - "As"
Patti Smith - "Gloria"

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