45 45s at 45: THE LIST

1. My Sharona – The Knack
2. Tunnel of love – Dire Straits
3. Once in a lifetime – Talking Heads
4. Start me up – The Rolling Stones
5. Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen
6. Rock the Casbah – The Clash
7. New frontier – Donald Fagen
8. My ever changing moods – The Style Council
9. The killing moon – Echo & The Bunnymen
10. Pride (in the name of love) – U2
11. Purple rain – Prince
12. Lost weekend – Lloyd Cole and The Commotions
13. Small town – John Mellencamp
14. Just like honey -The Jesus and Mary Chain
15. It’s a good thing – That Petrol Emotion
16. Bigmouth strikes again – The Smiths
17. Greetings to the new brunette – Billy Bragg
18. It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) – R.E.M.
19. Could you be the one? – Husker Du
20. Fisherman’s blues – The Waterboys
21. Fool’s gold – The Stone Roses
22. Loaded – Primal Scream
23. The wagon – Dinosaur Jr.
24. Unfinished sympathy – Massive Attack
25. Come as you are – Nirvana
26. Dress – PJ Harvey
27. Remedy – The Black Crowes
28. Slow emotion replay – The The
29. Cherub rock – Smashing Pumpkins
30. Gentlemen – Afghan Whigs
31. Sabotage – Beastie Boys
32. Live forever – Oasis
33. Glory box – Portishead
34. Just when you’re thinkin’ things over – The Charlatans
35. A design for life – Manic Street Preachers
36. I will survive – Cake
37. Bittersweet symphony – The Verve
38. I am the black gold of the sun – Nuyorican Soul
39. This is hardcore – Pulp
40. New York, New York – Ryan Adams
41. Jesus, etc. – Wilco
42. Wake up – Arcade Fire
43. Black and white town – Doves
44. First day of my life – Bright Eyes
45. All my friends – LCD Soundsystem

• Video killed the radio star – Buggles  (Bonus Track)
• What I am? – Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians  (Bonus Track – Spazio Cipo)

What a long strange trip it’s been…

Another BIG thank you to JC, l’inventore dei 45 45s at 45, che ha pubblicato sul suo blog The Vinyl Villain un post di imbarazzante apprezzamento: http://www.thevinylvillain.blogspot.it/2012/12/45-45s-at-45-italian-style.html

La sua storica lista del 2008 si trova, per le posizioni dalla 11 alla 45 (ordine non cronologico), qui: http://thevinylvillain.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/45-45s-at-45-number-11.html

…mentre i post delle prime 10 posizioni cominciano qui (e proseguono consecutivamente): http://thevinylvillain.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/45-45s-at-45-number-10.html

E’ stato bello essere il n.2 di questo gioco… speriamo arrivi presto, da qualche parte nel mondo, il n.3…!

E poi, Merry Christmas… Qui ci vuole una B-side d’epoca.