
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.
The War on Drugs
Thinking of a Place
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Into My Arms
Patti Smith Group
Because the Night
Big Brother & the Holding Company ft. Janis Joplin
Piece of My Heart
T.C. Matic
Oh La La La
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cortez the Killer
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Jubilee Street
Bob Dylan
Sara
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Ship Song
Leonard Cohen
The Partisan
Patti Smith
People Have the Power
Nina Simone
Sinnerman
Leonard Cohen
Dance Me to the End of Love
Patti Smith
Gloria
Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit
Electric Light Orchestra
Mr. Blue Sky
Amy Winehouse
Love Is a Losing Game
Leonard Cohen
So Long, Marianne
Patti Smith
Frederick
Pixies
Where Is My Mind?
Édith Piaf
Non, je ne regrette rien
Neil Young
Rockin’ in the Free World
Leonard Cohen
Take This Waltz
Wilco
Impossible Germany
Grandaddy
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
Red Zebra
I Can’t Live in a Living Room
Talking Heads
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Patti Smith
Dancing Barefoot
Leonard Cohen
Famous Blue Raincoat
Frank Zappa
Bobby Brown
Françoise Hardy
Tous les garçons et les filles
Grant Lee Buffalo
Fuzzy
John Cale
Dead or Alive
Lou Reed
Sweet Jane
Jacques Brel
Quand on n’a que l’amour
Joy Division
Transmission
Nina Simone
Mr. Bojangles
Frank Zappa
Peaches en Regalia
John Cale
Close Watch
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Mercy Seat
Simple Minds
Theme for Great Cities
Roxy Music
A Song for Europe
Joan Armatrading
The Weakness in Me
Tom Waits
I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
Warren Zevon
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Jo Lemaire + Flouze
Je suis venue te dire que je m’en vais
Van Morrison
Madame George
I Muvrini
Á té Corsica
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Summertime
Jackson Browne
The Load-Out / Stay
Noir Désir
Le vent nous portera
Tom Waits
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Sigur Rós
Svefn-g-englar
Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water
The Walkabouts
The Light Will Stay On
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Red Right Hand
Talking Heads
Heaven
Ramones
Blitzkrieg Bop
Bob Dylan
I Want You
Bonnie Raitt
I Can’t Make You Love Me
The Cure
Charlotte Sometimes
Peter Sarstedt
Where Do You Go to My Lovely
Joni Mitchell
A Case of You
The War on Drugs
Under the Pressure
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Our House
dEUS
Suds & Soda
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Purple Haze
The Cure
Lovesong
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Killing Moon
David Bowie
Five Years
The Velvet Underground
Sunday Morning
Warren Zevon
Desperados Under the Eaves
The Sisters of Mercy
Temple of Love
The National
I Need My Girl
Tubeway Army
Are 'Friends' Electric?
Chicken Shack
I’d Rather Go Blind
Sufjan Stevens
Chicago
This Mortal Coil
Song to the Siren
The Velvet Underground
Pale Blue Eyes
Tommy James & the Shondells
Crimson And Clover
Mink DeVille
Demasiado Corazón
The Rolling Stones
Midnight Rambler
David Bowie
Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
Wannes Van de Velde
Ik wil deze nacht in de straten verdwalen / Dans cette nuit j'ai envie de me perdre
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Complainte pour Ste. Catherine
Fischer‐Z
So Long
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Born on the Bayou
Rory Gallagher
Going to My Home Town
Wilco
Jesus, Etc.
Derek and the Dominos
Layla
Bob Dylan
Blowing in the Wind
George Michael
Freedom
Neil Young
After the Gold Rush
Natalie Merchant
Motherland
Led Zeppelin
Black Dog
The War on Drugs
Strangest Thing
Martha and the Muffins
Echo Beach
Editors
No Sound but the Wind
Neil Young
Harvest Moon
Paul Simon
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Joni Mitchell
Amelia
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Little Wing
Tom Waits
Downtown Train
Michel Fugain & Le Big Bazar
Une belle histoire
Dionne Warwick
Walk on By
Melanie De Biasio
No Deal
Steely Dan
Peg
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Mainstreet
Joni Mitchell
River
Bob Dylan
Tangled Up in Blue
Pearl Jam
Sirens
Joan Baez
Here’s to You
The Doors
Touch Me
Neil Young
Out On The Weekend
Bob Dylan
A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall
Nick Drake
Northern Sky
Brad
The Day Brings
David Bowie
Fame
Neil Diamond
I Am… I Said
Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man
Damien Rice
The Blower's Daughter
Sex Pistols
God Save the Queen
Fischer‐Z
The Worker
10cc
I’m Not in Love
Weezer
Buddy Holly
Steely Dan
Dirty Work
The Sisters of Mercy
Alice
Björk
Human Behaviour
Arcade Fire
Intervention
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
I Want You
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
Tom Waits
Jersey Girl
The Beatles
Revolution
Simon & Garfunkel
The Boxer
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
John Cale
Paris 1919
Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel
First Aid Kit
Emmylou
Crowded House
Four Seasons in One Day
Nirvana
All Apologies
Canned Heat
Going Up the Country
Steely Dan
Gaucho
Low
Dinosaur Act
Bob Dylan
Simple Twist of Fate
Grace Jones
Slave to the Rhythm
Sonic Youth
The Diamond Sea
The Stills–Young Band
Long May You Run
Queen
Radio Ga Ga
Fleetwood Mac
Never Going Back Again
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Powderfinger
Arcade Fire
Wake Up
The Stone Roses
Fools Gold
Raymond van het Groenewoud
In m’n hoofd
Radiohead
Street Spirit
Joe Cocker
N’oubliez jamais
Bernthøler
My Suitor
Pulp
Common People
Pavlov’s Dog
Julia
Arcade Fire
Rebellion (Lies)
Georges Moustaki
Le Métèque
Steve Winwood
While You See a Chance
PJ Harvey
This Is Love
Bob Dylan
Forever Young
Ike & Tina Turner
Nutbush City Limits
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Make Me Smile
Editors
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
The Beatles
I Am the Walrus
Leonard Cohen
Bird on the Wire
Jeanette
Porque te vas
Bon Iver
Skinny Love
The Clash
The Magnificent Seven
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Electricity
France Gall
Évidemment
Roy Orbison
She’s a Mystery to Me
The Sundays
Here’s Where the Story Ends
The Velvet Underground
I’m Waiting for the Man
Fleetwood Mac
Oh Well
The Doors
Roadhouse Blues
Axelle Red
Rouge ardent
Funkadelic
Maggot Brain
Neil Young
A Man Needs a Maid
MEROL
Vol
Timmy Thomas
Why Can't We Live Together
The Cure
In Between Days
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & PJ Harvey
Henry Lee
Lenny Kravitz
Mr. Cab Driver
Jah Wobble
How Much Are They?
Gilbert Bécaud
L’important c’est la rose
Zaz
Je veux
Neil Young
Pocahontas
Kate Bush
Babooshka
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Redemption Song
The Herd
From the Underworld
Paul McCartney & Wings
Band on the Run
Elvin Bishop
Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Grace Jones
I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Cowgirl in the Sand
The Box Tops
The Letter
St. Germain
Rose rouge
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
The Smiths
This Charming Man
Department S
Is Vic There?
Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian
Forbidden Colours
The Smashing Pumpkins
Today
David Bowie
Amsterdam
Long John Baldry
(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew
Joy Division
Disorder
Sandy Denny
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Grauzone
Eisbär
Noordkaap
Wat is kunst?
Véronique Sanson
Amoureuse
Robert Wyatt
Shipbuilding
Boudewijn de Groot
Een wonderkind van 50
Jackson Browne
Running on Empty
Nancy Sinatra
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Prefab Sprout
Appetite
Van Morrison
Into the Mystic
Jethro Tull
Bourée
Portishead
Roads
Fats Domino
Blue Berry Hill
The Bangles
Walk Like an Egyptian
Paul Simon
Late in the Evening
Laurie Anderson
O Superman
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
I Need Never Get Old
The Beatles
In My Life
Randy Newman
Baltimore
Kristin Hersh & Michael Stipe
Your Ghost
eels
Novocaine for the Soul
The Doors
Break On Through (to the Other Side)
Rickie Lee Jones
Chuck E's in Love
Tori Amos
Past the Mission
Talking Heads
Burning Down the House
Elliott Smith
Between the Bars
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Against the Wind
The Waterboys
Fisherman’s Blues
Depeche Mode
Everything Counts
Elkie Brooks
Pearl’s a Singer
Jacques Brel
Les Vieux
Neil Young
Cinnamon Girl
The Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon
Led Zeppelin
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Grace Jones
Pull Up to the Bumper
Gerry Rafferty
Right Down the Line
The Shirts
Laugh and Walk Away
Blue Öyster Cult
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Take 5
Nick Cave
The Weeping Song
Bobbie Gentry
Ode to Billy Joe
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
Nirvana
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Portishead
Glory Box
Gotye feat. Kimbra
Somebody That I Used to Know
Johnny Cash & June Carter
Jackson
David Bowie
Young Americans
Bob Dylan
Jokerman
The The
Slow Emotion Replay
Miriam Makeba
Pata Pata
Iron Butterfly
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Robert Palmer
Johnny and Mary
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker
Laïs
't Smidje
Lou Reed
Vicious
Adele
Make You Feel My Love
Les Rita Mitsouko
Marcia baila
Daft Punk
Da Funk
Lyle Lovett
Simple Song
Joan Armatrading
Love and Affection
Beirut
Nantes
Sade
Hang On to Your Love
Kirsty MacColl
Days
A Tribe Called Quest
Can I Kick It?
The Beatles
Two Of Us
The Waterboys
How Long Will I Love You
Sonic Youth
Sugar Kane
Nirvana
Polly
Randy Newman
I Think It’s Going to Rain Today
The Ronettes
Be My Baby
Sly & the Family Stone
Dance to the Music
Al Green
Take Me to the River
Bram Vermeulen
Rode wijn
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Almost Cut My Hair
Rod Stewart
Handbags and Gladrags
Steve Miller Band
The Joker
Erykah Badu
Bag Lady
Jay‐Z & Alicia Keys
Empire State of Mind
Lady Linn and Her Magnificent Seven
I Don’t Wanna Dance
Randy Newman
Sail Away
Robert Palmer
Every Kinda People
Melanie & The Edwin Hawkins Singers
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Refugee
Kevin Coyne
Marlene
Boz Scaggs
Lido Shuffle
Minnie Riperton
Lovin’ You
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Ohio
Heaven 17
Temptation
Joni Mitchell
Coyote
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Dear Prudence
Bob Dylan
Positively 4th Street
Pierre Henry
Psyche Rock
Flash and the Pan
Hey, St. Peter
Joe Jackson
Happy Ending
Willem Vermandere
Duizend soldaten
The Go‐Go’s
Our Lips Are Sealed
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds feat. Kylie Minogue
Where the Wild Roses Grow
Indigo Girls
Closer to Fine
Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Electric Prunes
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Calexico
The Crystal Frontier
Ennio Morricone
My Name is Nobody
Wendy & Lisa
Waterfall
Morphine
Cure for Pain
Lhasa
La Frontera
PJ Harvey
Good Fortune
Bobby Womack
Across 110th Street
Alabama Shakes
Hold On
Regina Spektor
Samson
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Learning to Fly
James Brown
Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
Fleetwood Mac
You Make Lovin’ Fun
The Style Council
My Ever Changing Moods
Richard Hawley
The Ocean
T.C. Matic
Putain putain
Commodores
Easy
Sinéad O’Connor
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Ferre Grignard
Ring, Ring, I've Got to Sing
Bruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A.
Daniel Lanois
The Maker
Black Pumas
Colors
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Dancing in the Streets
The Pogues
A Rainy Night in Soho
De La Soul
Eye Know
Magazine
Shot by Both Sides
Peter Gabriel
Red Rain
Agnes Obel
Riverside
The Pointer Sisters
Automatic
Kevin Ayers & The Whole World
Puis-je?
P!nk feat. Indigo Girls
Dear Mr. President
R.E.M.
Leaving New York
Paul Simon
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
T. Rex
Hot Love
Manu Chao
Clandestino
The Beatles
Nowhere Man
Django Django
Default
Cat Stevens
Wild World
Marisa Monte
Beija eu
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Nothing Rhymed
Pixies
Gigantic
Selah Sue
Raggamuffin
Radiohead
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
The Crusaders
Street Life
New York Dolls
Personality Crisis
Daryl Hall & John Oates
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
Killing Joke
Love Like Blood
The Style Council
The Paris Match
Angie Stone
Wish I Didn’t Miss You
The Supremes
You Can’t Hurry Love
Steely Dan
Babylon Sisters
Blur
Parklife
Arno
Forget the Cold Sweat
Lamb
Gabriel
Rheingold
Dreiklangsdimensionen
Elliott Smith
Waltz #2
Bonnie Tyler
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Billy Bragg
A New England
The Psychedelic Furs
Pretty in Pink
The Cramps
Human Fly
Electric Light Orchestra
Can't Get It Out of My Head
Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
Get Lucky
Mark Lanegan Band
The Gravedigger's Song
Eurythmics
When Tomorrow Comes
The Smashing Pumpkins
1979
Judy Collins
Send in the Clowns
Ibeyi
River
Steeleye Span
All Around My Hat
eels
Beautiful Freak
Steve Miller Band
Fly Like an Eagle
Moloko
The Time Is Now
Noordkaap
Het komt voor in de beste families
Deee‐Lite
Groove Is in the Heart
Sly & the Family Stone
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
The Verve
The Drugs Don’t Work
Vanessa Paradis
Joe le taxi
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Roadrunner
Lana Del Rey
Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Chuck Berry
Johnny B. Goode
Jacques Dutronc
Il est cinq heures, Paris s’éveille
Tracy Chapman
Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
John Hiatt
Perfectly Good Guitar
The Velvet Underground
Venus in Furs
Petula Clark
Cœur blessé
Jamie Woon
Night Air
Bart Peeters
Dicht bij mij
Marianne Faithfull
Working Class Hero
OutKast
Ms.Jackson
Nico
Chelsea Girls
Midlake
Acts of Man
Emmylou Harris
(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie
Feist
Limit to Your Love
Ralph McTell
Streets of London
A Flock of Seagulls
Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
The Specials
Gangsters