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Mar 17, 2009

Songs everyone should hear (that I own)

The Guardian is running a series in print and online at the moment detailing 1000 songs everyone should hear – it runs until next weekend, and provides thematic lists of songs (e.g. love, breakups, places) selected by critics, along with the stories behind the tracks in many cases. Online, there are links to hear individual tracks on Spotify, too.

But we’ve also added in a little HTML generation widget which means you can go through each list and check a box to say whether you’ve heard (or own) a particular track. You can then click a little button at the end and a tasty chunk of HTML will be produced, ready for copying into your blog CMS of choice, should you so desire. Each link goes to the entry in the data table on the Guardian site.

I’ve been through the first few days’ lists already, and I’ll add the rest as the series progresses.

NB, I’ve done these lists as being about songs I actually own in my music collection, not whether I’ve heard them at all. In cases where I own a version of the song but by a different artist, I’ve said I own it because it’s the track that matters most, I think.

Interestingly, my music collection appears to overlap about a third with what the critics think everyone should hear….


1000 songs everyone must hear

Sex: part four of 1000 songs everyone must hear

I own 46 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 131


People and places: part three of 1000 songs everyone must hear

I own 54 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 145


Heartbreak: part two of 1000 songs everyone must hear

I own 62 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 145


Love: part one of 1000 songs everyone must hear

I own 47 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 139

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