Okay, I've managed to compile a list of my top 100 favourite songs from a lifetimes worth of music. It hasn't been easy, and I've had sleepless nights thinking of which tunes to include. They are in no order whatsoever - I struggled to get to a top 100, never mind a countdown!!
So here goes...
2Pac – Dear Mama
5th Dimension - Age Of Aquarious/Let the Sunshine in.
808 State – Pacific State
A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray
AC/DC – Highway to Hell
Air – La Femme D’Argent
Ashford & Simpson – Street Corner
Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine
Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives
Black Science Orchestra – Emancipation
Bobby Kline – Say Something Nice To Me
Chic – Good Times
Cloud One – Disco Juice
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Daft Punk – Around The World
De La Soul – Say No Go
Deniece Lopez – Don’t You Wanna Be Mine
Diana Ross – Love Hangover
Double Exposure – Baby I Need Your Loving
Double Exposure – My Love Is Free
Eddie Kendricks – Girl You Need A Change Of Mind
The Emotions - I Don't Wanna Lose your Love
Elvis Presley – If I Can Dream
Executive Suite – You Believed In Me
First Choice – Let No Man Put Asunder
Friday Saturday & Sunday - There Must Be Something
Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove
George Benson – El Barrio/The Ghetto (Masters At Work Mix)
Gil Scott-Heron – Home Is Where The Hatred Is
Gil Scott-Heron - Is that Jazz?
Grandmaster Flash – Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel
Gwen Mccrae – Funky Sensation
Happy Mondays – 24 Hour Party People…
Incognito - Nights Over Egypt
Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
Inner Life – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Larry Levan Mix)
Isaac Hayes – By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Isaac Hayes – (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To be Right
James Brown – Paid Tha Cost To Be The Boss
Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe
Joe Smooth – Promised Land
Joy Division - Digital
Joyce Sims – Come Into My Life
Jungle Brothers – Beyond This World
Jurassic 5 – Concrete Schoolyard
Keith Mcnully – Greed
L.F.O. – L.F.O.
Lenny Williams – Cause I Love You
Loleatta Holloway – Love Sensation
Loose Joints – is It All Over My Face?
Love Committee - Just As Long As I’ve Got You
Mantronix – Who Is It?
Marlene Shaw - California Soul
Marshall Jefferson – Move Your Body
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
Masters At Work – To Be In Love
Mister Fingers - Can You Feel It?
MFSB – Love Is The Message
Nightmares On Wax – Les Nuits
Norma Jean Bell – I’m The Baddest Bitch
Nuyorican Soul - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (4 Hero mix)
Otis Redding – That’s How Strong My Love Is
Pamela Fernandez – Kickin’ In The Beat
Patrick Adams Institute – Kings and Queens
Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma
Primal Scream – Loaded
Raze – Break 4 Love
Ray Charles - Witchita Lineman
Rhetta Hughes - You're Doing it With Her (When it should be me)
Rose Royce – Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Roy Ayers – What You Won’t Do For Love
Rufus & Chaka Khan – Live In Me
Run DMC – Peter Piper
Sargeant & Malone - Love Message
Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The UK
Sly And The Family Stone – Luv ‘n’ Haight
Stevie Wonder - As
Sugarhill Gang – Rappers Delight
Syl Johnson - Concrete Reservation
Taana Gardner – Heartbeat
Taana Gardner – When You Touch Me
T-Connection – Do What You Want To Do
T-Coy – Carino
Teddy Pendergrass - The more I Get (The more I want)
The Beatles – Hey Jude
The Clash – Magnificent Dance
The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
The Pound Boys – I’m In Love
The Rhythm Makers – Soul On Your Side
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
The Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
The Streets – Has It Come To This?
Tom Browne – Funkin’ For Jamaica
Toots and the Maytals - 54-46 That's my Number
Unlimited Touch – I Hear Music In The Street
Urban Blues Project – Deliver Me
Willie Kendrick – What’s That On Your Finger?
Womack & Womack – Baby, I’m Scared Of You
Wood, Brass & Steel – Funkanova
Yarbrough & Peoples - Don't stop The Music
Young Mc - Know How
