1.
In My Life – The Beatles || Let It Be
2.
Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley || Not Fade Away
or That’ll Be the Day (Buddy Holly); or La Bamba (Richie Valens)
3.
God Only Knows – Beach Boys / OK
4.
Crazy – Patsy Cline / OK
5.
For What It’s Worth/Stop Hey What’s That Sound –
Buffalo Springfield || Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
6.
He Stopped Loving Her Today – George Jones || King
of the Road (Roger Miller)
7.
C’est La Vie/You Never Can Tell – Emmylou Harris || same song, by its author, Chuck
Berry!!
8.
You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC || Back in
Black or Highway to Hell
9.
Hotel California – Eagles || SO melodramatic…instead:
Taking Care of Business (BTO)
10.
Landslide – Steve Nicks || The Chain (Fleetwood
Mac)
11.
Gangsta’s Paradise – Coolio / OK but—only one for
rap?—maybe Mama Said Knock You Out or Rock the Bells (LL Cool J); Lose Yourself
(Eminem); In Da Club (50 Cent); F*ck tha Police or Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A.);
Paid in Full (Eric B. and Rakim); Fight the Power (Public Enemy); The Message
(Grandmaster Flash); Gin & Juice (Snoop Dogg); or Push It (Salt-N-Pepa)—or at
least two of these, maybe LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, and Grandmaster Flash? Along with
Coolio?
12.
Little Green – Joni Mitchell || Carey or Both
Sides Now
13.
A House Is Not a Home – Dionne Warwick || This
Guy’s in Love with You (Herb Alpert), if you really want to go down that road
14.
Lately – Stevie Wonder || Higher Ground or Boogie
On Reggae Woman or Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing or Superstition or You Haven’t
Done Nothin’ or I Wish
15.
Harvest Moon – Neil Young || Born to Run
(Springsteen) or One (U2)—or both
16.
Once Upon a Time – Frank Sinatra || Summer Wind—if
Sinatra really needs to be here at all
