
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.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Into My Arms
Patti Smith Group
Because the Night
T.C. Matic
Oh La La La
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Red Right Hand
Prince & The Revolution
Purple Rain
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cortez the Killer
Leonard Cohen
Dance Me to the End of Love
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Jubilee Street
Nina Simone
Sinnerman
Patti Smith
People Have the Power
Simple Minds
New Gold Dream
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Ship Song
Cockney Rebel
Sebastian
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
All Along the Watchtower
The War on Drugs
Under the Pressure
Patti Smith
Gloria
Natalie Merchant
Motherland
Zaz
Je veux
Pixies
Where Is My Mind?
Talking Heads
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
The Rolling Stones
Paint It, Black
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Mercy Seat
Electric Light Orchestra
Mr. Blue Sky
Neil Young
Rockin’ in the Free World
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
I Want You
Queen & David Bowie
Under Pressure
Frank Zappa
Bobby Brown
Otis Redding
(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay
Nina Simone
Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
Leonard Cohen
The Partisan
eels
Novocaine for the Soul
Neil Young
Harvest Moon
dEUS
Suds & Soda
Leonard Cohen
Take This Waltz
Simon & Garfunkel
The Sound of Silence
The Moody Blues
Nights in White Satin
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Redemption Song
Patti Smith
Dancing Barefoot
Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit
Big Brother & the Holding Company ft. Janis Joplin
Piece of My Heart
Leonard Cohen
Famous Blue Raincoat
Liesbeth List & Ramses Shaffy
Pastorale
Wilco
Impossible Germany
Tom Waits
I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
Nick Cave
The Weeping Song
Jackson Browne
The Load-Out / Stay
Talking Heads
Heaven
Patti Smith
Frederick
Noir Désir
Le vent nous portera
Bob Dylan
Sara
Joni Mitchell
A Case of You
The Sisters of Mercy
Temple of Love
Bob Marley & The Wailers
No Woman, No Cry
Red Zebra
I Can’t Live in a Living Room
Lou Reed
Sweet Jane
Arcade Fire
Rebellion (Lies)
Jacques Brel
Quand on n’a que l’amour
Nina Simone
Mr. Bojangles
Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Lhasa
La Frontera
Édith Piaf
Non, je ne regrette rien
Bonnie Raitt
I Can’t Make You Love Me
The Beatles
Nowhere Man
Tom Waits
Jersey Girl
Grandaddy
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Three Little Birds
The War on Drugs
Strangest Thing
Ramones
Blitzkrieg Bop
Nick Drake
Northern Sky
Amy Winehouse
Love Is a Losing Game
PJ Harvey
This Is Love
10cc
I’m Not in Love
Joan Armatrading
The Weakness in Me
Talking Heads
Burning Down the House
Editors
No Sound but the Wind
The Beatles
Help!
Tom Waits
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Willem Vermandere
Duizend soldaten
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
David Bowie
Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
Sonic Youth
The Diamond Sea
Wilco
Jesus, Etc.
The National
I Need My Girl
Fischer‐Z
So Long
The Beatles
In My Life
The Cure
Charlotte Sometimes
Bart Peeters
Dicht bij mij
Absynthe Minded
My Heroics, Part One
Bob Dylan
Tangled Up in Blue
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Mainstreet
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Our House
Van Morrison
Into the Mystic
Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Summertime
Rory Gallagher
Going to My Home Town
Mark Lanegan Band
The Gravedigger's Song
Van Morrison
Madame George
Michel Fugain & Le Big Bazar
Une belle histoire
I Muvrini
Á té Corsica
Led Zeppelin
Since I’ve Been Loving You
T.C. Matic
Putain putain
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Powderfinger
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Against the Wind
Elliott Smith
Waltz #2
Daft Punk
Da Funk
Joni Mitchell
River
Paul Simon
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Paul McCartney & Wings
Band on the Run
Roxy Music
A Song for Europe
Françoise Hardy
Tous les garçons et les filles
Ike & Tina Turner
River Deep - Mountain High
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker
Frank Boeijen Groep
Kronenburg park (Ga die wereld uit)
Joan Baez
Here’s to You
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Killing Moon
Chicken Shack
I’d Rather Go Blind
Sinéad O’Connor
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Sufjan Stevens
Chicago
eels
Beautiful Freak
Chuck Berry
Johnny B. Goode
Sigur Rós
Svefn-g-englar
Fleetwood Mac
Never Going Back Again
Tracy Chapman
Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
Simon & Garfunkel
The Boxer
Moloko
The Time Is Now
Jacques Dutronc
Il est cinq heures, Paris s’éveille
Guns N’ Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
Steely Dan
Babylon Sisters
Blur
Parklife
PJ Harvey
Good Fortune
The Sisters of Mercy
Alice
Jo Lemaire + Flouze
Je suis venue te dire que je m’en vais
The Velvet Underground
Pale Blue Eyes
Derek and the Dominos
Layla
Joni Mitchell
Amelia
Brad
The Day Brings
Joy Division
Transmission
Bob Dylan
Forever Young
Tom Waits
Downtown Train
The Doors
Roadhouse Blues
Fleetwood Mac
Oh Well
Joan Armatrading
Love and Affection
The Walkabouts
The Light Will Stay On
Portishead
Glory Box
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Almost Cut My Hair
Radiohead
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Roy Orbison
She’s a Mystery to Me
Warren Zevon
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
This Mortal Coil
Song to the Siren
Frank Zappa
Peaches en Regalia
Sonic Youth
Sugar Kane
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds feat. Kylie Minogue
Where the Wild Roses Grow
The Velvet Underground
Sunday Morning
The Cure
In Between Days
Steely Dan
Peg
Nits
In the Dutch Mountains
Warren Zevon
Desperados Under the Eaves
Joe Jackson
Happy Ending
Simple Minds
Theme for Great Cities
The Hollies
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)
Randy Newman
Baltimore
Dionne Warwick
Walk on By
Nirvana
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Neil Diamond
I Am… I Said
Grant Lee Buffalo
Fuzzy
Bob Dylan
I Want You
Humble Pie
Natural Born Bugie
France Gall
Évidemment
Minnie Riperton
Lovin’ You
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Born on the Bayou
Bobbie Gentry
Ode to Billy Joe
Neil Young
After the Gold Rush
Ike & Tina Turner
Nutbush City Limits
Kristin Hersh & Michael Stipe
Your Ghost
Damien Rice
The Blower's Daughter
Jackson Browne
Running on Empty
Nirvana
All Apologies
Bob Dylan
Blowing in the Wind
Bruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A.
John Cale
Close Watch
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
Arcade Fire
Intervention
Beirut
Nantes
Radiohead
Street Spirit
Blue Öyster Cult
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cowgirl in the Sand
Georges Moustaki
Le Métèque
Bob Dylan
A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall
Melanie & The Edwin Hawkins Singers
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
Richard Hawley
The Ocean
Department S
Is Vic There?
Jacques Brel
Les Vieux
Crowded House
Four Seasons in One Day
The Cure
Lovesong
Steely Dan
Dirty Work
Pulp
Common People
David Bowie
Five Years
Jah Wobble
How Much Are They?
Raymond van het Groenewoud
In m’n hoofd
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & PJ Harvey
Henry Lee
Bonnie Tyler
Total Eclipse of the Heart
The Waterboys
Fisherman’s Blues
Canned Heat
Going Up the Country
Iron Butterfly
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Editors
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Leonard Cohen
Bird on the Wire
Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse
Valerie
Tommy James & the Shondells
Crimson And Clover
World Party
Is It Like Today
Wannes Van de Velde
Ik wil deze nacht in de straten verdwalen / Dans cette nuit j'ai envie de me perdre
Adele
Make You Feel My Love
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Make Me Smile
Fischer‐Z
The Worker
Pavlov’s Dog
Julia
Billy Bragg
A New England
Joe Cocker
N’oubliez jamais
Melanie De Biasio
No Deal
Neil Young
Pocahontas
Prince & The Revolution
Kiss
Miriam Makeba
Pata Pata
Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man
Sex Pistols
God Save the Queen
Tubeway Army
Are 'Friends' Electric?
Lyle Lovett
Simple Song
David Bowie
Fame
Elliott Smith
Between the Bars
Elvis Presley
Blue Suede Shoes
Bobby Womack
Across 110th Street
The Beatles
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Portishead
Roads
Judy Collins
Send in the Clowns
Depeche Mode
Everything Counts
Mink DeVille
Demasiado Corazón
First Aid Kit
Emmylou
John Cale
Paris 1919
Laïs
't Smidje
Neil Young
Cinnamon Girl
Funkadelic
Maggot Brain
Paul Simon
Late in the Evening
Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Box Tops
The Letter
Cat Stevens
Wild World
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Learning to Fly
Morphine
Cure for Pain
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
I Need Never Get Old
Björk
Human Behaviour
David Bowie
Young Americans
Ralph McTell
Streets of London
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
In the Mood
John Cale
Dead or Alive
Prince and The Revolution
Let's Go Crazy
Steve Miller Band
Fly Like an Eagle
P!nk feat. Indigo Girls
Dear Mr. President
Gerry Rafferty
Right Down the Line
Feist
Limit to Your Love
The Style Council
My Ever Changing Moods
The Pogues
A Rainy Night in Soho
Lou Reed
Vicious
George Michael
Freedom
The Specials
Gangsters
The Beatles
I Am the Walrus
Neil Young
A Man Needs a Maid
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
The Velvet Underground
I’m Waiting for the Man
Arcade Fire
Wake Up
The Doors
Touch Me
Laurie Anderson
O Superman
Arno
Forget the Cold Sweat
John Hiatt
Perfectly Good Guitar
Calexico
The Crystal Frontier
Boudewijn de Groot
Welterusten mijnheer de president
Eurythmics
When Tomorrow Comes
ZZ Top
Gimme All Your Lovin’
Peter & Zijn Rockets
Kom van dat dak af
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Freebird
Sinéad O’Connor
Mandinka
Grace Jones
I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
The Verve
The Drugs Don’t Work
Jerry Lee Lewis
Great Balls of Fire
Television
Marquee Moon
Grauzone
Eisbär
Lamb
Gabriel
Peter Sarstedt
Where Do You Go to My Lovely
Steely Dan
Gaucho
Manu Chao
Clandestino
Long John Baldry
(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew
Kate Bush
Babooshka
Steeleye Span
All Around My Hat
Led Zeppelin
Black Dog
The Sundays
Here’s Where the Story Ends
Jay‐Z & Alicia Keys
Empire State of Mind
R.E.M.
Leaving New York
Neil Young
Out On The Weekend
Prince and The Revolution
I Would Die 4 U
Pixies
Gigantic
Nico
Chelsea Girls
Noordkaap
Wat is kunst?
Bill Haley & His Comets
Rock Around the Clock
Grace Jones
Slave to the Rhythm
Bram Vermeulen
Rode wijn
Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian
Forbidden Colours
Eddie Cochran
C’mon Everybody
Pink Floyd
Echoes
MEROL
Vol
Neil Young
Down by the River
Angie Stone
Wish I Didn’t Miss You
Kevin Ayers & The Whole World
Puis-je?
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Refugee
Lady Linn and Her Magnificent Seven
I Don’t Wanna Dance
Big Country
Chance
Sandy Denny
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
The Waterboys
How Long Will I Love You
Joni Mitchell
Coyote
Lana Del Rey
Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Ricky Nelson
Hello Mary Lou
Peter Gabriel
Red Rain
U2
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Hazel O’Connor
Will You?
Sade
Hang On to Your Love
Steve Forbert
Romeo's Tune
R.E.M.
Find the River
J.J. Cale
Magnolia
Michelle Shocked
Anchorage
Little Feat
Willin’
The Doors
Break On Through (to the Other Side)
Selah Sue
Raggamuffin
Frank Zappa
Joe’s Garage
Petula Clark
Cœur blessé
Cyndi Lauper
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Steve Miller Band
The Joker
A Tribe Called Quest
Can I Kick It?
Marisa Monte
Beija eu
Randy Newman
I Think It’s Going to Rain Today
The The
Slow Emotion Replay
Elvin Bishop
Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Complainte pour Ste. Catherine
The Velvet Underground
Venus in Furs
Ferre Grignard
Ring, Ring, I've Got to Sing
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Electricity
Wendy & Lisa
Waterfall
David Bowie
Amsterdam
The Herd
From the Underworld
Tori Amos
Past the Mission
The Supremes
You Can’t Hurry Love
The Crusaders
Street Life
Serge Gainsbourg
Bonnie and Clyde
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
Stevie Nicks
Edge of Seventeen
Eric Clapton
Let It Grow
Martha and the Muffins
Echo Beach
The Smashing Pumpkins
Today
The B‐52’s
Rock Lobster
Emmylou Harris
Boulder to Birmingham
Khruangbin, Leon Bridges & Austin Jenkins
Texas Sun
Véronique Sanson
Amoureuse
The Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Roadrunner
T. Rex
Hot Love
The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
Fairytale of New York
James Brown
Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
Jeanette
Porque te vas
Massive Attack
Safe from Harm
The The
This Is the Day
The Style Council
The Paris Match
St. Germain
Rose rouge
Grace Jones
Pull Up to the Bumper
Townes Van Zandt
Waiting Around to Die
The Shirts
Laugh and Walk Away
Kevin Coyne
Marlene
Nick Drake
Pink Moon
Bernthøler
My Suitor
The Beatles
Drive My Car
Paolo Conte
Max
Womack & Womack
Teardrops
Jethro Tull
Aqualung
Timmy Thomas
Why Can't We Live Together
Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
Robert Wyatt
Shipbuilding
Rheingold
Dreiklangsdimensionen
Tanita Tikaram
Twist in My Sobriety
Bob Dylan
Changing of the Guards
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
Wooly Bully
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Dancing in the Streets
Steely Dan
Aja
Black Pumas
Colors
Pearl Jam
Sirens
Scott McKenzie
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
Laid Back
Bakerman
They Might Be Giants
Birdhouse in Your Soul
Les Poppys
Non, non rien n’a changé
Rory Block
Lovin' Whiskey
Bachman–Turner Overdrive
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
The Velvet Underground & Nico
All Tomorrow’s Parties
Suzanne Vega
The Queen and the Soldier
The Stills–Young Band
Long May You Run
Paolo Nutini
Candy
The Pogues
Dirty Old Town
Al Green
Take Me to the River
Robert Palmer
Johnny and Mary
Elkie Brooks
Pearl’s a Singer
Cat Power
The Greatest
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Take 5
Regina Spektor
Samson
The Clash
The Magnificent Seven
Gilbert Bécaud
L’important c’est la rose
Luc van Acker & Anna Domino
Zanna
Electric Light Orchestra
Can't Get It Out of My Head
Kris Kristofferson
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Gordon Lightfoot
If You Could Read My Mind
Fats Domino
Blue Berry Hill
ABBA
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
Arsenal
Estupendo
Jethro Tull
Bourée
John Lennon
Working Class Hero