
De Classics 1000 van Radio 1 is de opvolger van de Classics 100 op, die samengesteld werd van 2010 tot en met 2015. De lijst bevat nummers die generaties lang goed blijven en daarmee is de Classics 1000 een gevarieerd overzicht van de muziekgeschiedenis.
De lijst bevat niet alleen bekende namen zoals The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, David Bowie Van Morrison en The Kimks, maar ook Belgische artiesten zoals Jacques Brel, Gorki en Raymond Van Het Groenewoud, Het Zesde Metaal, War On Drugs, T.C. Matic, Spinvis en The Scabs.
Sinds 2020 is er ook de digitale stream 'Radio 1 Classics', beschikbaar via de Radio 1-app en radio1.be, waarop de lijst 24/7 te beluisteren is.
Tommy James & the Shondells
Crimson And Clover
Neil Young
Cortez the Killer
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Jubilee Street
Leonard Cohen
Famous Blue Raincoat
Bob Dylan
Sara
Nina Simone
Sinnerman
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Red Right Hand
Neil Young
Harvest Moon
Patti Smith
Gloria
Leonard Cohen
Dance Me to the End of Love
Leonard Cohen
The Partisan
Grandaddy
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
Patti Smith
People Have the Power
Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel
Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit
Wilco
Impossible Germany
The War on Drugs
Under the Pressure
Led Zeppelin
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Leonard Cohen
Take This Waltz
Jacques Brel
Quand on n’a que l’amour
Noir Désir
Le vent nous portera
Frank Zappa
Bobby Brown
Talking Heads
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Louis Neefs
Laat ons een bloem
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
Tom Waits
I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
Simon & Garfunkel
The Boxer
The Beatles
In My Life
Bob Dylan
Blind Willie McTell
Elvis Presley
Blue Suede Shoes
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Mercy Seat
Frank Zappa
Peaches en Regalia
Portishead
Glory Box
Joy Division
Transmission
Talking Heads
Heaven
Van Morrison
Madame George
Nick Cave
The Weeping Song
Nina Simone
Mr. Bojangles
Tom Waits
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Patti Smith
Frederick
eels
Beautiful Freak
Sufjan Stevens
Chicago
Natalie Merchant
Motherland
Rory Gallagher
Going to My Home Town
Bram Vermeulen
Rode wijn
Patti Smith
Dancing Barefoot
Sigur Rós
Svefn-g-englar
The War on Drugs
Strangest Thing
Talking Heads
Burning Down the House
Minnie Riperton
Lovin’ You
John Cale
Close Watch
Bram Vermeulen
De wedstrijd
The Beatles
I Am the Walrus
The Herd
From the Underworld
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Powderfinger
PJ Harvey
This Is Love
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Summertime
John Lennon
Working Class Hero
The Cure
Charlotte Sometimes
Wilco
Jesus, Etc.
Lou Reed
Sweet Jane
Joni Mitchell
A Case of You
eels
Novocaine for the Soul
Leonard Cohen
Bird on the Wire
Tom Waits
Jersey Girl
Nick Drake
Northern Sky
Led Zeppelin
Dazed and Confused
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
Joan Armatrading
The Weakness in Me
Neil Young
Cinnamon Girl
This Mortal Coil
Song to the Siren
Pavlov’s Dog
Julia
France Gall
Évidemment
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
David Bowie
Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
Warren Zevon
Desperados Under the Eaves
Roxy Music
A Song for Europe
Brenda Lee
Sweet Nothin’s
The Doors
Roadhouse Blues
Blue Blot
Hold the Line
Grant Lee Buffalo
Fuzzy
Fats Domino
Blue Berry Hill
Nirvana
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
Mink DeVille
Demasiado Corazón
Neil Young
Down by the River
Morphine
Cure for Pain
Björk
Human Behaviour
Serge Gainsbourg
Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais
Kevin Ayers & The Whole World
Puis-je?
Paul Simon
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Gilbert Bécaud
L’important c’est la rose
The Cure
Lovesong
Lyle Lovett
Simple Song
Harry Nilsson
Everybody’s Talking
Paul Simon
Late in the Evening
Pulp
Common People
Zjef Vanuytsel
Tussen Antwerpen en Rotterdam
Bobbie Gentry
Ode to Billy Joe
John Hiatt
Perfectly Good Guitar
Les Rita Mitsouko
Marcia baila
Daft Punk
Da Funk
Bonnie Raitt
I Can’t Make You Love Me
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Little Wing
Tim Buckley
Song to the Siren
Ralph McTell
Streets of London
Bob Dylan
Tangled Up in Blue
Richard Thompson
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Brad
The Day Brings
The Walkabouts
The Light Will Stay On
Tom Waits
Downtown Train
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker
The National
I Need My Girl
Radiohead
Reckoner
The Stills–Young Band
Long May You Run
Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man
The Doors
Break On Through (to the Other Side)
Françoise Hardy
La Maison où j’ai grandi
Led Zeppelin
Black Dog
Joni Mitchell
River
Lana Del Rey
Video Games
David Bowie
Young Americans
The Beatles
Revolution
Arcade Fire
Wake Up
The Verve
The Drugs Don’t Work
Roy Orbison
She’s a Mystery to Me
Amy Winehouse
Love Is a Losing Game
Johnny Cash
One
Warren Zevon
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
David Sylvian
Forbidden Colours
Trixie Whitley
Closer
Jackson Browne
Running on Empty
Chuck Berry
Carol
The Kinks
Days
David Bowie
Station to Station
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cowgirl in the Sand
Serge Gainsbourg
Initials B.B.
The Scene
Open
The Velvet Underground
Pale Blue Eyes
Elvis Presley
Hound Dog
Beirut
Nantes
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Roadrunner
Hazel O’Connor
Will You?
Kate Bush
Babooshka
Simple Minds
Theme for Great Cities
David Bowie
Fame
I Muvrini
Á té Corsica
Gerry Rafferty
Right Down the Line
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Refugee
Long John Baldry
(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew
Bon Iver
Skinny Love
Bob Dylan
Jokerman
The Beatles
Nowhere Man
Martha and the Muffins
Echo Beach
Elvis Presley
Don’t Be Cruel
Fischer‐Z
The Worker
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Killing Moon
Bob Dylan
Masters of War
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Take 5
Bob Dylan
I Want You
Nick Drake
Time Has Told Me
Arcade Fire
Intervention
Chicken Shack
I’d Rather Go Blind
Jacques Dutronc
Il est cinq heures, Paris s’éveille
Lamb
Gabriel
Zaz
Je veux
Oasis
Supersonic
Jacques Brel
Les Vieux
Tom Waits
The Piano Has Been Drinking
John Cale
Dead or Alive
Leonard Cohen
Sisters of Mercy
Robert Palmer
Johnny and Mary
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & PJ Harvey
Henry Lee
Editors
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
We've Got Tonight
Damien Rice
The Blower's Daughter
The Shirts
Laugh and Walk Away
The Stone Roses
Fools Gold
Steely Dan
Gaucho
Melanie De Biasio
No Deal
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
David Bowie
Amsterdam
Jethro Tull
Bourée
Jerry Lee Lewis
Whole Lotta Shaking Going On
The Cure
In Between Days
Eddie Vedder
Guaranteed
Joni Mitchell
Amelia
Us3
Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A‐Changin’
Cesária Évora
Sodade
Neil Young
Out On The Weekend
The Beatles
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Kae Tempest
People’s Faces (Streatham Version)
Elliott Smith
Waltz #2
Pixies
Gouge Away
Sonic Youth
Teenage Riot
The Tragically Hip
Grace Too
Robert Wyatt
Shipbuilding
The Smiths
Girlfriend in a Coma
SX
Gold
The Triffids
Bury Me Deep in Love
Georges Moustaki
Le Métèque
Grauzone
Eisbär
The Smiths
This Charming Man
Leonard Cohen
Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
Jeanette
Porque te vas
Van Morrison
Into the Mystic
Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn
Protection
Steely Dan
Peg
The Waterboys
How Long Will I Love You
Sonic Youth
The Diamond Sea
EELS
A Line in the Dirt
Duncan Browne
The Wild Places
Funkadelic
Maggot Brain
Sparks
This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us
Fairport Convention
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Neil Young
Southern Man
The Beatles
She’s Leaving Home
Van Morrison
Real, Real Gone
Depeche Mode
Everything Counts
The Waterboys
Fisherman’s Blues
The Box Tops
The Letter
Little Feat
Willin’
Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Learning to Fly
The Stone Roses
I Wanna Be Adored
Kraftwerk
Radioactivity
Bart Peeters
Poolijs
Tom Waits
Ol’ 55
David Bowie
Five Years
The Ronettes
Be My Baby
Jethro Tull
Aqualung
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Against the Wind
PJ Harvey
Sheela‐Na‐Gig
Axelle Red
Rouge ardent
The Doors
People Are Strange
Steve Miller Band
The Joker
Ian Dury
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
In the Mood
The The
Slow Emotion Replay
Lowell George
Cheek to Cheek
Steely Dan
Reelin’ In the Years
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Davy’s on the Road Again
Boudewijn de Groot
Beneden alle peil
XTC
Making Plans for Nigel
Peter Gabriel
In Your Eyes
Jah Wobble
How Much Are They?
Claude François
Comme d’habitude
Eefje de Visser
Scheef
First Aid Kit
Emmylou
The Flaming Lips
Race for the Prize
Rufus Wainwright
Going to a Town
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Born on the Bayou
Bob Dylan
Changing of the Guards
Selah Sue
You
Tony Joe White
Polk Salad Annie
Massive Attack
Angel
The Doors
Touch Me
Oasis
Live Forever
Wu‐Tang Clan
C.R.E.A.M.
Joy Division
Atmosphere
Joe Jackson
A Slow Song
Randy Newman
Baltimore
Véronique Sanson
Amoureuse
John Lennon
Jealous Guy
Jerry Lee Lewis
Great Balls of Fire
Nina Hagen Band
Unbeschreiblich weiblich
Yazoo
Nobody’s Diary
Madredeus
O pastor
Serge Gainsbourg
Ballade de Melody Nelson
Michelle Shocked
Anchorage
Caetano Veloso
Cucurrucucú paloma
Beirut
Gallipoli
Otis Redding
I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
Paolo Conte
Max
Grant Hart
All of My Senses
Charles Aznavour
Emmenez‐moi
Echo & the Bunnymen
Bring on the Dancing Horses
Dionne Warwick
Walk on By
Raymond van het Groenewoud
In m’n hoofd
This Mortal Coil
You and Your Sister
Spinvis
Voor ik vergeet
Blur
Parklife
The Doors
Hello, I Love You