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The 100 recordings that define the 20th century

This came out yesterday.  The voters were Ben Wener, Steve Eddy, Gene Harbrecht
and Cary Darling.  The list is in chronological order.  The Who came in with
Tommy at #73.  Here's what they had to say about it: "For better or worse -- and
in The Who's case, it's always been the better -- here is the birth of the rock
opera. The Pretty Things' "SF Sorrow" and even Townshend's mini-epic "A Quick
One While He's Away" preceded it, but nothing rivals this one's majesty and
vision."

Here's the list.  I hope you enjoy.

		-Brian in Atlanta

1.  Scott Joplin, "Maple Leaf Rag" (1899)
2.  W.C. Handy, "Memphis Blues" (1912)
3.  George M. Cohan, "Over There" (first performed by Nora Bayes at a Red Cross
benefit show,
 1917)
4.  Jelly Roll Morton, "Wolverine Blues" (1923)
5.  Bessie Smith, "Downhearted Blues" (1924)
6.  Louis Armstrong, "West End Blues" (1928)
7.  Paul Robeson, "Ol' Man River" (1928)
8.  George Gershwin with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, "Rhapsody in Blue" (1928)
9.  Jimmie Rodgers, "Waiting for a Train" (1929)
10.  The Carter Family, "Wildwood Flower" (1932)
11.  Fred Astaire, "Night and Day" (1934)
12.  Roy Acuff, "The Wabash Cannonball" (1936)
13.  Robert Johnson, "Cross Road Blues" (1936)
14.  Kate Smith, "God Bless America," (1938, written in 1918)
15.  Ella Fitzgerald, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (1938)
16.  Benny Goodman, "Sing Sing Sing" (1938)
17.  Coleman Hawkins, "Body and Soul" (1939)
18.  Judy Garland, "Over the Rainbow" (1939)
19.  Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit" (1939)
20.  Glenn Miller, "In the Mood" (1939)
21.  Count Basie and Lester Young, "Lester Leaps In" (1939)
22.  Woody Guthrie, "This Land Is Your Land" (1940)
23.  Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, "New San Antonio Rose" (1940)
24.  Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys, "Mule Skinner Blues" (1940)
25.  The Andrews Sisters, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (1941)
26.  Duke Ellington, "Take the `A' Train" (1941)
27.  Bing Crosby, "White Christmas" (1942)
28.  The Mills Brothers, "Paper Doll" (1942)
29.  Ernest Tubb, "Walkin' the Floor Over You" (1943)
30.  Charlie Parker, "Now's the Time" (1945)
31.  Hank Williams, "Lovesick Blues" (1947)
32.  Mahalia Jackson, "Move On Up a Little Higher" (1947)
33.  The Weavers, "Goodnight Irene" (1950)
34.  Kitty Wells, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (1952)
35.  Nat King Cole, "Unforgettable" (1953)
36.  Muddy Waters, "Mannish Boy" (1955)
37.  Little Richard, "Tutti Frutti" (1955)
38.  Bill Haley and the Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" (1955)
39.  Harry Belafonte, Calypso (1956)
40.  The Crickets, "That'll Be the Day" (1956)
41.  Elvis Presley, "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" (1956)
42.  Frank Sinatra, "I've Got You Under My Skin" (1956)
43.  Chuck Berry, "Johnny B. Goode" (1958)
44.  The Platters, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1958)
45.  Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958)
46.  Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" (1959)
47.  The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out (1959)
48.  Roy Orbison, "Only the Lonely" (1960)
49.  Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western (1962)
50.  Patsy Cline, "Crazy" (1962)
51.  James Brown, Live at the Apollo (1963)
52.  The Ronettes, "Be My Baby" (1963)
53.  The Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (1964)
54.  John Coltrane, A Love Supreme (1964)
55.  Barbra Streisand, "People" (1964)
56.  Dionne Warwick, "Walk on By" (1964)
57.  The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965)
58.  Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone" (1965)
59.  The Rolling Stones, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1965)
60.  The Temptations, "My Girl" (1965)
61.  The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds (1966)
62.  The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
63.  The Doors, "Light My Fire" (1967)
64.  Aretha Franklin, "Respect" (1967)
65.  The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced? (1967)
66.  Otis Redding, "Try a Little Tenderness" (1967)
67.  The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
68.  Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968)
69.  Merle Haggard, "Mama Tried" (1968)
70.  Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Proud Mary" (1969)
71.  Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (1969)
72.  The Jackson 5, "I Want You Back" (1969)
73.  The Who, Tommy (1969)
74.  Tammy Wynette, "Stand By Your Man" (1969)
75.  Sly & the Family Stone, Stand! (1969)
76.  Marvin Gaye, What's Going On (1971)
77.  Carole King, Tapestry (1971)
78.  Led Zeppelin, IV (1971)
79.  David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and Spiders From Mars
(1973)
80.  Bob Marley and the Wailers, Catch a Fire (1973)
81.  Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
82.  Stevie Wonder, Innervisions (1973)
83.  Gram Parsons, Grievous Angel (1974)
84.  Patti Smith, Horses (1975)
85.  Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, "Born to Run" (1975)
86.  Kraftwerk, Trans-Europe Express (1977)
87.  The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)
88.  Various artists, Saturday Night Fever (1977)
89.  Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to
Be Cowboys" (1978)
90.  Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove (1978)
91.  The Clash, London Calling (1979)
92.  Grandmaster Flash, "The Message" (1982)
93.  Michael Jackson, Thriller (1982)
94.  R.E.M., Murmur (1983)
95.  Wynton Marsalis, Think of One (1983)
96.  Paul Simon, Graceland (1986)
97.  Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
98.  Garth Brooks, "Friends in Low Places" (1990)
99.  Nirvana, Nevermind (1991)
100.  Beck, Odelay (1996)
101.  Elvis Presley, The Sun Sessions (1975)