
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.
Neil Young
Cortez the Killer
Led Zeppelin
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Nick Drake
Northern Sky
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
Tom Waits
I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
Nina Simone
Mr. Bojangles
King Crimson
21st Century Schizoid Man
Joan Armatrading
The Weakness in Me
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cowgirl in the Sand
John Cale
Close Watch
Leonard Cohen
The Partisan
Simon & Garfunkel
The Boxer
Steve Miller Band
Fly Like an Eagle
Les Rita Mitsouko
Marcia baila
Patti Smith
Frederick
Portishead
Glory Box
Bob Dylan
I Want You
Leonard Cohen
Bird on the Wire
Noir Désir
Le vent nous portera
The Velvet Underground
Heroin
Neil Young
Harvest Moon
Lou Reed
Sweet Jane
Bob Dylan
Sara
Suede
Animal Nitrate
David Bowie
Five Years
Tom Waits
Jersey Girl
Leonard Cohen
Dance Me to the End of Love
Joan Armatrading
Love and Affection
Nirvana
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Kevin Coyne
Sunday Morning Sunrise
Jackson Browne
Running on Empty
Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited
Wilco
Jesus, Etc.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Shipbuilding
Jethro Tull
Aqualung
Elvis Presley
Don’t Be Cruel
The Beatles
I Am the Walrus
Leonard Cohen
Famous Blue Raincoat
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
Paolo Conte
Max
Otis Redding
Try a Little Tenderness
Muse
Muscle Museum
Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Red Right Hand
John Cale
Paris 1919
Joy Division
Atmosphere
The Beatles
In My Life
Joni Mitchell
Amelia
Neil Young
After the Gold Rush
Bob Dylan
Tangled Up in Blue
Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Born on the Bayou
John Hiatt
Perfectly Good Guitar
Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi
Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man
Tom Waits
Downtown Train
Amy Winehouse
Tears Dry on Their Own
Nick Drake
Cello Song
Françoise Hardy
La Maison où j’ai grandi
Jeff Buckley
Everybody Here Wants You
Joan Baez
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Morrissey
Everyday Is Like Sunday
Joni Mitchell
Coyote
Tubeway Army
Are 'Friends' Electric?
John Lennon
Mother
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Weeping Song
Pearl Jam
Better Man
Robert Wyatt
Shipbuilding
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Little Wing
16 Horsepower
Black Soul Choir
Talking Heads
Heaven
Patti Smith
Gloria
Bob Dylan
Masters of War
Led Zeppelin
Black Dog
Elliott Smith
Waltz #2
Serge Gainsbourg
Requiem pour un con
Calexico
The Crystal Frontier
Ennio Morricone
My Name is Nobody
Elvis Presley
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Warren Zevon
Werewolves of London
Jeanette
Porque te vas
Joy Division
She's Lost Control
I Muvrini
Á té Corsica
Frank Zappa
Peaches en Regalia
eels
Beautiful Freak
Patti Smith Group
Pissing in a River
The Triffids
Bury Me Deep in Love
Led Zeppelin
Ramble On
Nina Simone
Sinnerman
Chicken Shack
I’d Rather Go Blind
John Williams
Hedwig’s Theme
John Cale
Dead or Alive
The National
I Need My Girl
Bob Dylan
Ballad of a Thin Man
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Roadrunner
Serge Gainsbourg
Initials B.B.
David Bowie
Young Americans
Bobbie Gentry
Ode to Billy Joe
Joe Jackson
Happy Ending
Elvis Presley
Blue Suede Shoes
EELS
Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
Brad
The Day Brings
Bob Dylan
Changing of the Guards
Elvis Costello
Alison
The Waterboys
Fisherman’s Blues
Sufjan Stevens
Chicago
Manu Chao
Bongo Bong
Florence + the Machine
You’ve Got the Love
Fats Domino
Blue Berry Hill
First Aid Kit
Emmylou
The Allman Brothers Band
Jessica
The War on Drugs
Under the Pressure
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Summertime
Led Zeppelin
Rock and Roll
Nick Drake
Way to Blue
Iron Butterfly
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Patti Smith
Free Money
Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Stir It Up
Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
Love Hurts
David Bowie
Fame
Het Zesde Metaal
Est miskien
Roxy Music
A Song for Europe
Kevin Coyne
Marlene
Bruce Springsteen
Point Blank
Roy Orbison
She’s a Mystery to Me
Kraftwerk
Radioactivity
Zaz
Je veux
John Lee Hooker
Boom Boom Boom Boom
Marvin Gaye
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Anne Clark
Sleeper in Metropolis
Joni Mitchell
Blue
The Walkabouts
The Light Will Stay On
David Bowie
Warszawa
Dusty Springfield
I Think It’s Going to Rain Today
Leonard Cohen
Take This Waltz
Françoise Hardy
Comment te dire adieu
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Turn the Page
Lou Reed
Satellite of Love
The Doors
Break On Through (to the Other Side)
David Sylvian
Forbidden Colours
Van Morrison
And It Stoned Me
Pulp
Common People
Paul McCartney
Maybe I’m Amazed
Michelle Shocked
Anchorage
Adriano Celentano
Prisencolinensinainciusol
Minnie Riperton
Lovin’ You
Laura Marling
Ramblin’ Man
Richard Hawley
Open Up Your Door
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Refugee
Van Morrison
Real, Real Gone
Paul Simon
The Boy in the Bubble
Warren Zevon
Let Nothing Come Between You
Johnny Cash
One
Frank Zappa
Bobby Brown Goes Down
Patti Smith
People Have the Power
The White Stripes
Jolene
Bob Dylan
Blind Willie McTell
The Cure
Seventeen Seconds
Eefje de Visser
Ongeveer
Grandaddy
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
Mercedes Sosa
Gracias a la vida
Neil Young
Down by the River
Booker T. & the MG’s
Green Onions
Echo & the Bunnymen
Bring on the Dancing Horses
George Harrison
What Is Life
Wilco
Impossible Germany
The Rolling Stones
Happy
Rory Gallagher
Going to My Home Town
Patti Smith
Dancing Barefoot
The Doors
People Are Strange
Richard Hawley
The Ocean
? and the Mysterians
96 Tears
Miriam Makeba
Pata Pata
Sigur Rós
Svefn-g-englar
Jacques Brel
La Chanson de Jacky
Sonic Youth
Superstar
Balthazar
Do Not Claim Them Anymore
Arcade Fire
Intervention
Luka Bloom
Sunny Sailor Boy
Led Zeppelin
Dazed and Confused
Nick Drake
Pink Moon
Mumford & Sons
I Will Wait
Bonnie Raitt
I Can’t Make You Love Me
Oasis
Live Forever
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
A Good Year for the Roses
Wigbert
Ebbenhout Blues
Eagles
Take It to the Limit
David Bowie
Amsterdam
Talking Heads
Burning Down the House
Damien Rice
The Blower's Daughter
Stevie Wonder
As
Loudon Wainwright III
Your Mother & I
Derroll Adams
Oregon
Elvis Presley
Hound Dog
Steely Dan
Aja
Cesária Évora
Sodade
Crowded House
Four Seasons in One Day
Hannelore Bedert
Altijd nooit meer
The Box Tops
The Letter
Kate Bush
Babooshka
The Romantics
What I Like About You
Van Morrison
Into the Mystic
Laurie Anderson
O Superman
Joni Mitchell
A Case of You
Martha and the Muffins
Echo Beach
Elliott Smith
Between the Bars
Long John Baldry
(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew
The Velvet Underground
Venus in Furs
Talking Heads
Crosseyed and Painless
Ray Charles
Hallelujah I Love Her So
The Doors
Roadhouse Blues
Neil Young
Southern Man
Serge Gainsbourg
Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais
Frank Zappa
Dancin' Fool
Buzzcocks
Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?)
Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison Blues
Macy Gray
I Try
Rory Block
Lovin' Whiskey
Lhasa
La Frontera
John Lennon
Working Class Hero
Melanie
Look What They’ve Done to My Song
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Learning to Fly
Pavlov’s Dog
Julia
Indila
Dernière danse
Gordon Lightfoot
If You Could Read My Mind
The Psychedelic Furs
Pretty in Pink
Neil Young
Out On The Weekend
Billy Bragg
A New England
Jeff Buckley
Lilac Wine
Mumford & Sons
The Cave
Ry Cooder
Little Sister
Tanita Tikaram
Twist in My Sobriety
Elliott Murphy
Last of the Rock Stars
Kevin Ayers
Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
Cowboy Junkies
Sweet Jane
Ryan Adams
New York, New York
Roberta Flack
Killing Me Softly With His Song
Khaled
Didi
This Mortal Coil
You and Your Sister
Bobby Womack
Across 110th Street
Genesis
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
The Doors
Touch Me
Tim Buckley
Song to the Siren
The Temptations
My Girl
John Prine
All the Best
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Bold as Love
James Brown
It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World
Amadou & Mariam
La réalité
John Hiatt
Riding With the King
Arthur Conley
Sweet Soul Music
Melissa Etheridge
You Can Sleep While I Drive
Ray Charles
Georgia on My Mind
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & PJ Harvey
Henry Lee
Antony and the Johnsons
You Are My Sister
Frank Sinatra
You Make Me Feel So Young
Tom Waits
In the Neighbourhood
Grant Lee Buffalo
Fuzzy
The Velvet Underground
I’m Waiting for the Man
Massive Attack
Safe from Harm
Beirut
Nantes
J.J. Cale
Call Me the Breeze
Frank Zappa
Joe’s Garage
Little Feat
Willin’
Arcade Fire
No Cars Go
Dionne Warwick
Anyone Who Had a Heart
Tony Joe White
Polk Salad Annie
Agnes Obel
Riverside
Jacques Brel
Orly
Joni Mitchell
All I Want
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Killing Moon
Jean Gabin
Maintenant je sais
Tim Hardin
If I Were a Carpenter
The B‐52’s
Dirty Back Road
A Tribe Called Quest
I Left My Wallet in El Segundo
Hot Chocolate
Brother Louie
Sandy Denny
Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
Zaz
On ira
The Waterboys
A Man Is in Love
Counting Crows
Round Here
Simple Minds
Theme for Great Cities
Lou Reed
Coney Island Baby
The Smashing Pumpkins
1979
Neil Young
A Man Needs a Maid
The Smiths
Half a Person
Morphine
Cure for Pain
Manu Dibango
Soul Makossa
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Bruce Springsteen
Darkness on the Edge of Town
R.E.M.
Orange Crush
Steve Winwood
Valerie
James Taylor
Handy Man
Jonathan Richman
Ice Cream Man
Wilson Pickett
Land of 1000 Dances
Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn
Protection
Neil Young
Harvest
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Jamming
Curtis Mayfield
Pusherman
Cat Power
The Greatest
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Boudewijn de Groot & Elly Nieman
Prikkebeen
Sly & the Family Stone
Everyday People
The Church
Under the Milky Way
Zjef Vanuytsel
Zal je dan nog voor me zorgen
Buddy Holly
Oh Boy!
J.J. Cale
Magnolia
Randy Newman
Baltimore
The Korgis
Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime
Rodriguez
Sugar Man
Rickie Lee Jones
Chuck E's in Love
Sigur Rós
Við spilum endalaust
Kevin Ayers & The Whole World
Puis-je?
Fischer‐Z
Marliese
Richard & Linda Thompson
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Sade
Never as Good as the First Time
Del Amitri
Nothing Ever Happens
Lou Reed
Sad Song
The Ramones
The KKK Took My Baby Away
Angie Stone
Wish I Didn’t Miss You
Neil Young
Cinnamon Girl
P.P. Arnold
The First Cut Is the Deepest
Björk
Venus as a Boy
De La Soul
Eye Know
Ella Fitzgerald
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Lyle Lovett
She’s No Lady
The Supremes
You Can’t Hurry Love
Grauzone
Eisbär
Madredeus
O pastor
Jerry Lee Lewis
High School Confidential
Fleet Foxes
Mykonos
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Hong Kong Garden