
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 & Crazy Horse
Cortez the Killer
Leonard Cohen
Dance Me to the End of Love
Jacques Brel
Quand on n’a que l’amour
Nina Simone
Sinnerman
Patti Smith
Gloria
Leonard Cohen
Famous Blue Raincoat
Leonard Cohen
The Partisan
Bob Dylan
Sara
Tom Waits
I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Red Right Hand
Gerry & the Pacemakers
You’ll Never Walk Alone
Neil Young
Harvest Moon
Patti Smith
People Have the Power
Patti Smith
Frederick
Wilco
Impossible Germany
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker
Led Zeppelin
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Oasis
Live Forever
Joni Mitchell
A Case of You
Joy Division
Transmission
Louis Neefs
Laat ons een bloem
Talking Heads
Heaven
Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit
The War on Drugs
Strangest Thing
Sufjan Stevens
Chicago
Talking Heads
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Grauzone
Eisbär
Frank Zappa
Peaches en Regalia
Warren Zevon
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Bram Vermeulen
Rode wijn
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Mercy Seat
Noir Désir
Le vent nous portera
Paul Simon
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Patti Smith
Dancing Barefoot
Bart Peeters
Poolijs
Lou Reed
Sweet Jane
Tom Waits
Closing Time
Roxy Music
A Song for Europe
Tom Waits
Jersey Girl
The Cure
Charlotte Sometimes
Grandaddy
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Little Wing
The War on Drugs
Under the Pressure
Wilco
Jesus, Etc.
Nina Simone
Mr. Bojangles
The Velvet Underground
Pale Blue Eyes
Portishead
Glory Box
Tom Waits
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man
Warren Zevon
Desperados Under the Eaves
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Killing Moon
Van Morrison
Madame George
Leonard Cohen
Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
The Beatles
In My Life
Ralph McTell
Streets of London
Ramses Shaffy
Wij zullen doorgaan
Charles Trenet
La Mer
Nirvana
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Bob Dylan
Tangled Up in Blue
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Powderfinger
I Muvrini
Á té Corsica
John Cale
Close Watch
Neil Young
Down by the River
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Summertime
Simon & Garfunkel
The Boxer
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
The Doors
Touch Me
David Bowie
Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
Nick Drake
Northern Sky
Elliott Smith
Between the Bars
Bobbie Gentry
Ode to Billy Joe
Bram Vermeulen
De wedstrijd
Mink DeVille
Demasiado Corazón
France Gall
Évidemment
Sigur Rós
Svefn-g-englar
Bob Dylan
Changing of the Guards
Leonard Cohen
Take This Waltz
Pixies
Here Comes Your Man
Bonnie Raitt
I Can’t Make You Love Me
John Lennon
Working Class Hero
The Walkabouts
The Light Will Stay On
John Cale
Dead or Alive
Eddie Vedder
Guaranteed
Louis Armstrong
What a Wonderfull World
The Doors
People Are Strange
Grant Lee Buffalo
Fuzzy
Sœur Sourire
Dominique
Richard Thompson
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
The Doors
Break On Through (to the Other Side)
Bob Dylan
Blind Willie McTell
The Smiths
Girlfriend in a Coma
The National
I Need My Girl
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Born on the Bayou
Talking Heads
Burning Down the House
Tom Waits
Ol’ 55
Bob Dylan
I Want You
David Bowie
Station to Station
Johnny Cash
Man in Black
Tom Waits
Downtown Train
Martha and the Muffins
Echo Beach
Gilbert Bécaud
L’important c’est la rose
The Kinks
Days
Kevin Ayers & The Whole World
Puis-je?
Neil Young
After the Gold Rush
Boudewijn de Groot
Een tip van de sluier
Teenage Fanclub
The Concept
The Smiths
This Charming Man
Pulp
Common People
John Hiatt
Perfectly Good Guitar
David Bowie
Fame
Jackson Browne
Running on Empty
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Take 5
Neil Young
A Man Needs a Maid
Amy Winehouse
Love Is a Losing Game
Leonard Cohen
Bird on the Wire
David Bowie
Five Years
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Stir It Up
Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A‐Changin’
Robert Wyatt
Shipbuilding
Joan Armatrading
The Weakness in Me
Arcade Fire
Intervention
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Weeping Song
Paul Simon
Late in the Evening
eels
Novocaine for the Soul
Rory Gallagher
Going to My Home Town
eels
Beautiful Freak
Editors
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Led Zeppelin
Black Dog
Serge Gainsbourg
Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais
Gerry Rafferty
Right Down the Line
First Aid Kit
Emmylou
Arcade Fire
Wake Up
The Doors
Roadhouse Blues
Raymond van het Groenewoud
In m’n hoofd
Simple Minds
Theme for Great Cities
Fats Domino
Blue Berry Hill
Jacques Brel
Les Vieux
Neil Young
Out On The Weekend
Sonic Youth
Teen Age Riot
Morphine
Cure for Pain
Oasis
Supersonic
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cowgirl in the Sand
R.E.M.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
Roy Orbison
She’s a Mystery to Me
The Beatles
Revolution
Long John Baldry
(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew
The Velvet Underground
Sunday Morning
Frank Zappa
Bobby Brown
Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
Steely Dan
Gaucho
Les Rita Mitsouko
Marcia baila
Spinvis
Voor ik vergeet
Fleetwood Mac
Never Going Back Again
The Waterboys
How Long Will I Love You
Traveling Wilburys
Handle With Care
Pavlov’s Dog
Julia
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Learning to Fly
Fischer‐Z
The Worker
Joan Baez
Here’s to You
PJ Harvey
This Is Love
Bob Dylan
A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall
Kate Bush
Babooshka
The Cure
Lovesong
Van Morrison
Into the Mystic
Portishead
Roads
Duncan Browne
The Wild Places
Claude François
Comme d’habitude
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
Randy Newman
Baltimore
Robert Palmer
Johnny and Mary
Gordon Lightfoot
If You Could Read My Mind
Lou Reed
Dirty Blvd.
Paul Weller
Wild Wood
Dionne Warwick
Walk on By
Tom Waits
The Piano Has Been Drinking
Pixies
Gouge Away
Depeche Mode
Everything Counts
Steely Dan
Reelin’ In the Years
The Scene
Open
Brad
The Day Brings
Minnie Riperton
Lovin’ You
Chicken Shack
I’d Rather Go Blind
Us3
Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
David Sylvian
Forbidden Colours
This Mortal Coil
Song to the Siren
Lou Reed
Vicious
The Cure
Pictures of You
The Beatles
I Am the Walrus
Sonic Youth
The Diamond Sea
Natalie Merchant
Motherland
Lyle Lovett
Simple Song
Depeche Mode
Personal Jesus
Neil Young
Cinnamon Girl
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Against the Wind
The Waterboys
Fisherman’s Blues
Steely Dan
Peg
Damien Rice
The Blower's Daughter
B.B. King
The Thrill Is Gone
Ryan Adams
Oh My Sweet Carolina
Bryan Ferry
Don’t Stop the Dance
Moloko
The Time Is Now
Bernthøler
My Suitor
George Harrison
What Is Life
Bob Dylan
Simple Twist of Fate
EELS
A Line in the Dirt
David Bowie
Amsterdam
Jethro Tull
Aqualung
Paolo Conte
Via con me
Balthazar
Wrong Vibration
Petula Clark
Cœur blessé
Björk
Human Behaviour
Sinéad O’Connor
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Zaz
Je veux
Françoise Hardy
La Maison où j’ai grandi
Steely Dan
Dirty Work
Leonard Cohen
Who by Fire
Georges Moustaki
Le Métèque
Boudewijn de Groot
Beneden alle peil
Billy Bragg
Greetings to the New Brunette
Radiohead
Idioteque
Rod Stewart
Handbags and Gladrags
Led Zeppelin
Dazed and Confused
Elvis Presley
Mystery Train
Hazel O’Connor
Will You?
Rodriguez
Sugar Man
Marvin Gaye
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Jethro Tull
Bourée
Morrissey
Everyday Is Like Sunday
Crowded House
Better Be Home Soon
The B‐52’s
Rock Lobster
Axelle Red
Rouge ardent
The Tragically Hip
Grace Too
The Verve
Lucky Man
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & PJ Harvey
Henry Lee
Jonathan Richman
Ice Cream Man
The Rolling Stones
Time Is on My Side
Pixies
Gigantic
Cat Stevens
Wild World
Bob Dylan
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Van Morrison
Dweller on the Treshold
Canned Heat
On the Road Again
The Sundays
Here’s Where the Story Ends
The Cure
In Between Days
The Beatles
Nowhere Man
T.C. Matic
Middle Class and Blue Eyes
Ray Charles
Georgia on My Mind
Pearl Jam
Better Man
Neil Young
Pocahontas
Janis Joplin
Ball and Chain
J.J. Cale
Magnolia
Gilbert Bécaud
Et maintenant
Melanie De Biasio
No Deal
Elvin Bishop
Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Donald Fagen
I.G.Y.
Melanie
Ruby Tuesday
Cream
Crossroads
Warren Zevon
Carmelita
The Beatles
She’s Leaving Home
Steve Miller Band
Fly Like an Eagle
Nick Drake
Time Has Told Me
Kraftwerk
Radioactivity
Miriam Makeba
Pata Pata
Joy Division
Atmosphere
Elvis Presley
Blue Suede Shoes
Department S
Is Vic There?
Daft Punk
Da Funk
Bon Iver
Skinny Love
Indila
Dernière danse
The Verve
The Drugs Don’t Work
The Clash
The Magnificent Seven
Beirut
Nantes
The Stone Roses
Fools Gold
Agnes Obel
Riverside
Michelle Shocked
Anchorage
Arcade Fire
No Cars Go
Lowell George
Cheek to Cheek
Feist
I Feel It All
Jeanette
Porque te vas