
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
Patti Smith
Frederick
Bob Dylan
Sara
Leonard Cohen
The Partisan
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Jubilee Street
Noir Désir
Le vent nous portera
Nick Cave
The Weeping Song
Björk
Human Behaviour
Louis Neefs
Laat ons een bloem
Jacques Brel
Quand on n’a que l’amour
Wilco
Impossible Germany
Tom Waits
I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
Led Zeppelin
Since I’ve Been Loving You
eels
Novocaine for the Soul
Morphine
Cure for Pain
Neil Young
Harvest Moon
Simon & Garfunkel
The Boxer
Bob Dylan
Blind Willie McTell
Elliott Smith
Between the Bars
Neil Young
Down by the River
Leonard Cohen
Famous Blue Raincoat
Joni Mitchell
A Case of You
Frank Zappa
Bobby Brown
The Beatles
I Am the Walrus
Bon Iver
Skinny Love
Leonard Cohen
Take This Waltz
Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit
Patti Smith
Gloria
Grant Lee Buffalo
Fuzzy
Grandaddy
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
Joy Division
Transmission
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker
John Cale
Close Watch
Bram Vermeulen
De wedstrijd
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Mercy Seat
Patti Smith
Dancing Barefoot
Bram Vermeulen
Rode wijn
Tom Waits
Jersey Girl
The Cure
Charlotte Sometimes
Pavlov’s Dog
Julia
This Mortal Coil
Song to the Siren
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Red Right Hand
Joan Armatrading
The Weakness in Me
Blur
Girls & Boys
Nina Simone
Sinnerman
The War on Drugs
Under the Pressure
The Beatles
In My Life
Long John Baldry
(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew
The Doors
Roadhouse Blues
Paul Simon
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Louis Armstrong
What a Wonderfull World
Jackson Browne
Running on Empty
Robert Wyatt
Shipbuilding
Patti Smith
People Have the Power
Guru feat. DC Lee
No Time to Play
Nirvana
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Ray Charles
Georgia on My Mind
Amy Winehouse
Love Is a Losing Game
Nick Drake
Northern Sky
Björk
Venus as a Boy
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
Sufjan Stevens
Chicago
Warren Zevon
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Neil Young
Out On The Weekend
David Bowie
Station to Station
Talking Heads
Heaven
Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A‐Changin’
Gilbert Bécaud
L’important c’est la rose
Talking Heads
Burning Down the House
Eddie Vedder
Guaranteed
Bob Dylan
Tangled Up in Blue
Rory Gallagher
Going to My Home Town
Bobbie Gentry
Ode to Billy Joe
Paul Simon
Late in the Evening
Portishead
Glory Box
Charles Trenet
La Mer
Bonnie Raitt
I Can’t Make You Love Me
Van Morrison
Madame George
Bob Dylan
Jokerman
Sigur Rós
Svefn-g-englar
Talking Heads
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Warren Zevon
Desperados Under the Eaves
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Little Wing
The Sugarhill Gang
Rapper's Delight
Duncan Browne
The Wild Places
The Velvet Underground
Pale Blue Eyes
Led Zeppelin
Dazed and Confused
Spinvis
Voor ik vergeet
Nina Simone
Mr. Bojangles
Wilco
Jesus, Etc.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cowgirl in the Sand
Bob Dylan
Simple Twist of Fate
John Cale
Dead or Alive
Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man
Frank Zappa
Peaches en Regalia
The Waterboys
Fisherman’s Blues
Roxy Music
A Song for Europe
The Lemonheads
It's About Time
Martha and the Muffins
Echo Beach
Grauzone
Eisbär
Bob Dylan
Changing of the Guards
Georges Moustaki
Le Métèque
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
France Gall
Évidemment
Kraftwerk
Radioactivity
Leonard Cohen
Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
Pixies
Gouge Away
Van Morrison
Into the Mystic
David Sylvian
Forbidden Colours
Tom Waits
Downtown Train
PJ Harvey
This Is Love
The National
I Need My Girl
Steely Dan
Peg
Raymond van het Groenewoud
In m’n hoofd
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
Daft Punk
Da Funk
Boudewijn de Groot
Een wonderkind van 50
Neil Young
After the Gold Rush
The Rolling Stones
Midnight Rambler
Roy Orbison
She’s a Mystery to Me
Oasis
Live Forever
Leonard Cohen
Bird on the Wire
The Waterboys
How Long Will I Love You
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Summertime
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Stir It Up
Warren Zevon
Let Nothing Come Between You
I Muvrini
Á té Corsica
Johnny Cash
Man in Black
Gordon Lightfoot
If You Could Read My Mind
Lou Reed
Sweet Jane
Grace Jones
Pull Up to the Bumper
The Beatles
Revolution
Fischer‐Z
The Worker
Van Morrison
Real, Real Gone
Jacques Brel
Les Vieux
Johnny Cash & June Carter
Jackson
The Velvet Underground
Sunday Morning
David Bowie
Fame
Ralph McTell
Streets of London
The Doors
People Are Strange
Neil Young
Pocahontas
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cutter
Tom Waits
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Indila
Dernière danse
Bob Dylan
Masters of War
Steely Dan
Hey Nineteen
Weezer
Buddy Holly
The Velvet Underground
I’m Waiting for the Man
Neil Young
Southern Man
Damien Rice
The Blower's Daughter
Fats Domino
Blue Berry Hill
The Cure
In Between Days
Steve Miller Band
The Joker
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Killing Moon
Boudewijn de Groot
Beneden alle peil
Simple Minds
Theme for Great Cities
David Bowie
Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
The War on Drugs
Strangest Thing
John Lennon
Working Class Hero
Beirut
Nantes
Bob Dylan
Oh, Sister
Blue Blot
Hold the Line
Editors
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
The Scabs
Crystal Eyes
Depeche Mode
Personal Jesus
Serge Gainsbourg
Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais
Randy Newman
Baltimore
Lou Reed
Vicious
Natalie Merchant
Motherland
Billy Bragg
A New England
Mink DeVille
Demasiado Corazón
Arcade Fire
Intervention
Us3
Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Gerry Rafferty
Right Down the Line
John Hiatt
Perfectly Good Guitar
The Ronettes
Be My Baby
Depeche Mode
Everything Counts
James Blake
Limit To Your Love
Led Zeppelin
Black Dog
Otis Redding
Try a Little Tenderness
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
We've Got Tonight
Air
Kelly Watch the Stars
Kate Bush
Babooshka
Steely Dan
Reelin’ In the Years
Neil Young
Cinnamon Girl
The Triffids
Bury Me Deep in Love
David Bowie
Five Years
Iron Butterfly
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Tom Waits
The Piano Has Been Drinking
Wim De Craene & Della Bosiers
Mensen van 18
Joni Mitchell
Amelia
The Smiths
This Charming Man
Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
Pixies
Here Comes Your Man
Richard Thompson
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Bob Dylan
Blowing in the Wind
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Roadrunner
Massive Attack
Angel
The Doors
Touch Me
Steely Dan
Gaucho
Arctic Monkeys
Crying Lightning
Lyle Lovett
Simple Song
Les Rita Mitsouko
Marcia baila
Claude François
Comme d’habitude
The Sundays
Here’s Where the Story Ends
Moloko
Forever More
The Beatles
Nowhere Man
M.A.N.D.Y. vs Booka Shade feat. Laurie Anderson
O Superman
Neil Young
A Man Needs a Maid
Joy Division
Atmosphere
Cream
Crossroads
Lamb
Gabriel
Arcade Fire
Wake Up
Buffalo Springfield
Expecting to Fly
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Take 5
The Stone Roses
Fools Gold
First Aid Kit
Emmylou
Boudewijn de Groot
Een tip van de sluier
Serge Gainsbourg
Initials B.B.
Tourist LeMC feat. Raymond van het Groenewoud
Spiegel
The xx
Islands
Crowded House
Better Be Home Soon
eels
Beautiful Freak
The Herd
From the Underworld
The War on Drugs
Burning
Elliott Smith
Waltz #2 (XO)
Roxy Music
Do the Strand
The Stranglers
No More Heroes
The Smiths
Girlfriend in a Coma
Grant Hart
All of My Senses
Carole King
I Feel the Earth Move
Françoise Hardy
La Maison où j’ai grandi
Tom Waits
Ol’ 55
Jah Wobble
How Much Are They?
Jethro Tull
Aqualung
Jonathan Richman
Ice Cream Man
Jeanette
Porque te vas
The Velvet Underground
Venus in Furs
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Learning to Fly
Otis Redding
I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
Bart Peeters
Poolijs
Carole King
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Melanie
Ruby Tuesday
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Born on the Bayou
De La Soul
Eye Know
B.B. King
The Thrill Is Gone
The Clash
The Magnificent Seven
Roxy Music
Same Old Scene
Bob Dylan
I Want You
Zaz
Je veux
Rory Block
Lovin' Whiskey
Feist
How Come You Never Go There
The Allman Brothers Band
Jessica
Steve Miller Band
Fly Like an Eagle
The Box Tops
The Letter
Vampire Weekend
Holiday
Ray LaMontagne
You Are the Best Thing
Talk Talk
I Believe in You
Ryan Adams
Bad Blood
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Refugee
Elkie Brooks
Pearl’s a Singer
The Flaming Lips
Race for the Prize
Blackstreet & Dr. Dre
No Diggity
Harry Nilsson
Everybody’s Talking
Sonic Youth
Teenage Riot
Françoise Hardy
Comment te dire adieu
Tom Waits
In the Neighbourhood
The Stone Roses
I Wanna Be Adored
Prefab Sprout
Cars and Girls
Lowell George
20 Million Things
Kristin Hersh & Michael Stipe
Your Ghost
Nick Drake
River Man
John Cougar Mellencamp
Paper in Fire
Fleet Foxes
Mykonos
Bernthøler
My Suitor
Regina Spektor
Samson
Air
Sexy Boy
Chicken Shack
I’d Rather Go Blind
Agnes Obel
Riverside
Talking Heads
I Zimbra
Radiohead
The Bends
Dionne Warwick
Walk on By
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & PJ Harvey
Henry Lee
Ennio Morricone
My Name is Nobody
Townes Van Zandt
Waiting Around to Die
Robert Palmer
Johnny and Mary
Jethro Tull
Thick as a Brick
Léo Ferré
Avec le temps
XTC
Making Plans for Nigel
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
Girl From the North Country
Arctic Monkeys
Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?
Texas
I Don’t Want a Lover