
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.
Nina Simone
Sinnerman
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cortez the Killer
Patti Smith
People Have the Power
Jacques Brel
Quand on n’a que l’amour
Wilco
Impossible Germany
Leonard Cohen
Dance Me to the End of Love
Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit
Patti Smith
Gloria
Leonard Cohen
Famous Blue Raincoat
Patti Smith Group
Frederick
The War on Drugs
Under the Pressure
Neil Young
Harvest Moon
Leonard Cohen
Take This Waltz
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Mercy Seat
Noir Désir
Le vent nous portera
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Red Right Hand
Talking Heads
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Tom Waits
I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
Amy Winehouse
Love Is a Losing Game
Warren Zevon
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Bob Dylan
Sara
Grace Jones
I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
Nina Simone
Mr. Bojangles
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Jubilee Street
Leonard Cohen
The Partisan
Led Zeppelin
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Paul Simon
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
The Rolling Stones
Time Is on My Side
Patti Smith Group
Dancing Barefoot
Frank Zappa
Peaches en Regalia
The Beatles
She Loves You
Bonnie Raitt
I Can’t Make You Love Me
Joni Mitchell
A Case of You
Bob Dylan
Masters of War
Carole King
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Summertime
Natalie Merchant
Motherland
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Shipbuilding
The War on Drugs
Strangest Thing
Wilco
Jesus, Etc.
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
Talking Heads
Heaven
David Bowie
Five Years
Nick Drake
Northern Sky
The Beatles
In My Life
Bob Dylan
I Want You
Van Morrison
Madame George
Pavlov’s Dog
Julia
David Bowie
Station to Station
Brad
The Day Brings
Arcade Fire
Intervention
Tom Waits
In the Neighborhood
The Beatles
Nowhere Man
Nirvana
The Man Who Sold the World
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Little Wing
Rory Gallagher
Goin’ to My Hometown
Chicken Shack
I’d Rather Go Blind
Joy Division
Transmission
The Rolling Stones
Honky Tonk Women
The Who
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Gerry Rafferty
Right Down the Line
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Down by the River
Grandaddy
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
Joni Mitchell
Amelia
Joan Armatrading
The Weakness in Me
Elvis Presley
Blue Suede Shoes
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Frank Zappa
Bobby Brown
Jacques Brel
Les Vieux
Sigur Rós
Svefn-g-englar
The Doors
Roadhouse Blues
Zaz
Je veux
Lou Reed
Sweet Jane
The Beatles
She’s Leaving Home
France Gall
Évidemment
The Velvet Underground & Nico
All Tomorrow’s Parties
Neil Young
After the Gold Rush
Sufjan Stevens
Chicago
John Cale
Close Watch
Serge Gainsbourg
Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais
Bram Vermeulen
Rode wijn
The Doors
Break On Through
Steeleye Span
All Around My Hat
Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel
Grace Jones
Slave to the Rhythm
Plastic Ono Band
Give Peace a Chance
Bob Dylan
Changing of the Guards
Grant Lee Buffalo
Fuzzy
Jackson Browne
Running on Empty
Ray Charles
Georgia on My Mind
Tom Waits
Downtown Train
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Powderfinger
The Beatles
I Am the Walrus
John Cale
Dead or Alive
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker
Funkadelic
Maggot Brain
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cowgirl in the Sand
David Bowie
Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
Simple Minds
Theme for Great Cities
Portishead
Glory Box
John Lennon
Working Class Hero
XTC
Making Plans for Nigel
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
In the Mood
Men Without Hats
The Safety Dance
Steely Dan
Gaucho
Talking Heads
Burning Down the House
The Doors
Touch Me
The Cure
Charlotte Sometimes
PJ Harvey
This Is Love
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Roadrunner
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Against the Wind
Tom Waits
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Lowell George
Cheek to Cheek
John Hiatt
Perfectly Good Guitar
Bob Dylan
Make You Feel My Love
Johnny and the Hurricanes
Red River Rock
Bram Vermeulen
De wedstrijd
Warren Zevon
Desperados Under the Eaves
Roxy Music
A Song for Europe
Roy Orbison
She’s a Mystery to Me
Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man
Pulp
Common People
The National
I Need My Girl
Arcade Fire
Wake Up
Kevin Ayers & The Whole World
Puis-je?
Björk
Human Behaviour
Faithless
Insomnia
Bob Dylan
Tangled Up in Blue
J.J. Cale
Magnolia
Neil Young
Southern Man
First Aid Kit
Emmylou
Les Rita Mitsouko
Marcia baila
The Velvet Underground
Pale Blue Eyes
Françoise Hardy
La Maison où j’ai grandi
Massive Attack
Teardrop
? and the Mysterians
96 Tears
The Triffids
Bury Me Deep in Love
The Doors
People Are Strange
Kraftwerk
Radioactivity
Serge Gainsbourg
Initials B.B.
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
We've Got Tonight
Donald Fagen
I.G.Y.
Fairport Convention
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
The Stranglers
Always the Sun
Grace Jones
Pull Up to the Bumper
Mark Lanegan Band
The Gravedigger's Song
Axelle Red
Rouge ardent
The Shirts
Laugh and Walk Away
Steely Dan
Peg
eels
Beautiful Freak
Jeanette
Porque te vas
Led Zeppelin
Dazed and Confused
Bob Dylan
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Elvis Presley
That's All Right
The Scene
Open
Randy Newman
Baltimore
Van Morrison
Real, Real Gone
Grauzone
Eisbär
The Sundays
Here’s Where the Story Ends
Kate Bush
Babooshka
John Prine
Angel From Montgomery
Steely Dan
Reelin’ In the Years
Sœur Sourire
Dominique
Sonic Youth
The Diamond Sea
Bob Dylan
Jokerman
Elvis Presley
Mystery Train
Richard Hawley
Standing at the Sky's Edge
Echo & the Bunnymen
Bring on the Dancing Horses
eels
Novocaine for the Soul
Daft Punk
Da Funk
Tom Waits
Jersey Girl
Elvis Presley
Hound Dog
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cinnamon Girl
Rory Block
Lovin' Whiskey
Rufus Wainwright
Going to a Town
The Beatles
Ticket to Ride
Beirut
Nantes
Roxy Music
The Same Old Scene
Dionne Warwick
Walk on By
Morphine
Cure for Pain
The Clash
The Magnificent Seven
Bobby Womack and Peace
Across 110th Street
David Bowie
Amsterdam
Bob Dylan
A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall
The Hollies
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)
The Velvet Underground
I’m Waiting for the Man
Lyle Lovett
Simple Song
Joni Mitchell
River
I Muvrini
Á té Corsica
Richard Thompson
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Weeping Song
Robert Wyatt
Shipbuilding
The War on Drugs
Burning
PJ Harvey
To Bring You My Love
Us3
Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Kristin Hersh & Michael Stipe
Your Ghost
The Lovin’ Spoonful
Summer in the City
Rickie Lee Jones
Chuck E's in Love
Kirsty MacColl
Days
Sly & the Family Stone
Everyday People
Etta James
At Last
Bobbie Gentry
Ode to Billie Joe
Vanessa Paradis
Joe le taxi
Johnny Cash & June Carter
Jackson
The Walkabouts
The Light Will Stay On
The Jam
Going Underground
Canned Heat
On the Road Again
Leonard Cohen
Bird on the Wire
Fats Domino
I’m Walkin’
Mink DeVille
Demasiado Corazón
Steve Miller Band
Fly Like an Eagle
The Mamas & the Papas
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Paul Simon
Late in the Evening
Pixies
Gouge Away
Nina Simone
Lilac Wine
Christine and the Queens
Christine
Sinéad O’Connor
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Duncan Browne
The Wild Places
Sonic Youth
Teenage Riot
Nancy Sinatra
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’
The Ronettes
Be My Baby
Petula Clark
La nuit n’en finit plus
The Stone Roses
I Wanna Be Adored
The Supremes
You Can’t Hurry Love
Long John Baldry
(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew
P.P. Arnold
The First Cut Is the Deepest
Cesária Évora
Sodade
Martha and the Muffins
Echo Beach
John Cale
Paris 1919
Robert Palmer
Johnny and Mary
David Sylvian
Forbidden Colours
Rod Stewart
Handbags and Gladrags
Led Zeppelin
Black Dog
The Beatles
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Charles Trenet
La Mer
Boudewijn de Groot
Een tip van de sluier
Minnie Riperton
Lovin’ You
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & PJ Harvey
Henry Lee
The Band
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Nick Drake
Time Has Told Me
Bon Iver
Skinny Love
Stromae
Santé
Roxy Music
More Than This
Fleetwood Mac
Never Going Back Again
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
Church
Under the Milky Way
Moloko
The Time Is Now
The Velvet Underground
Sunday Morning
The Stills–Young Band
Long May You Run
Screaming Trees
Nearly Lost You
Everything but the Girl
Missing
Elliott Smith
Waltz #2 (XO)
Joan Baez
Here’s to You
Blur
Parklife
Prefab Sprout
Appetite
Miriam Makeba
Pata Pata
Fad Gadget
Lady Shave
Fleet Foxes
Mykonos
Georges Moustaki
Le Métèque
Nina Simone
Strange Fruit
Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit & Holger Czukay
How Much Are They?
Texas
I Don’t Want a Lover
The Cure
In Between Days
Jerry Lee Lewis
Great Balls of Fire
Eddie Cochran
C’mon Everybody
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Gene Vincent
Be Bop a Lula
Pixies
Here Comes Your Man
Manu Chao
Clandestino
This Mortal Coil
Song to the Siren
Prefab Sprout
When Love Breaks Down
Antony and the Johnsons
You Are My Sister
David Bowie
Young Americans
Amy Winehouse
Tears Dry on Their Own
The Beatles
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Arno
Solo gigolo
Department S
Is Vic There?
Wings
Live and Let Die
James Brown
It's a Man's Man's Man's World
Michelle Shocked
Anchorage
Traveling Wilburys
Handle With Care
Lou Reed
Vicious
Frank Zappa
Joe’s Garage
Jethro Tull
Aqualung
Joan Armatrading
Love and Affection
Green on Red
Time Ain’t Nothing
Kae Tempest
People’s Faces (Streatham Version)
Jeff Buckley
Everybody Here Wants You
Gilbert Bécaud
L’important c’est la rose
Nina Hagen Band
Unbeschreiblich weiblich
The Beatles
Eight Days a Week
Tim Hardin
If I Were a Carpenter
Billy Bragg
A New England
Charles Aznavour
Emmenez‐moi