Cyber Music: DIY Top Ten
It's the perfect treat for any of us locked into the past - our very own pick'n'mix album. The Virgin Record Store, the UK's first digital record shop, has set up a computer at London's Cyberia Internet Cafe which will mean you will soon be able to compile your own Top 10 all-time greats hit album. Xenia Gregoriades asked 10 music lovers for their Top 10s.
FINLEY QUAYE, pop star
1. Cross Town Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
2. Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
3. Put Your Hands Up - Reef
4. Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin' Criminals
5. Money In Your Pocket - Dennis Brown
6. See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
7. Sun Is Shining - Bob Marley
8. Passing Me By - Pharcyde
9. Dust My Broom - Robert Johnson
10. Planet Rock - Soulsonic Force
THE STORM MODEL AGENCY DEFINITIVE LIST
1. Miss You - Rolling Stones
2. Rock 'n' Roll - Led Zeppelin
3. Creep - Radiohead
4. Green Onions - Booker T and the MGs
5. Pretty Baby - Blondie
6. Clouds - Joni Mitchell
7. Mr Blue - Michael Franks
8. Dirty Old Man - Faithless
9. Mary Jane - Alanis Morrisette
10. Loverman - Billie Holliday
CHRIS EUBANK, boxer
1. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
2. One Drop - Bob Marley
3. Cherry, O Baby - UB40
4. Concrete Jungle - Bob Marley
5. Stir It Up - Bob Marley
6. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
7. What's Goin' On? - Marvin Gaye
8. Got Til It's Gone - Janet Jackson
9. Ghetto Woman - Marlena Shaw
10. Once I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls - Joan Sutherland
BRIAN McLAUGHLIN, managing director of HMV Europe
1. American Pie - Don McLean
2. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
3. What's Goin' On? - Marvin Gaye
4. Let's Dance - David Bowie
5. Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight - REM
6. Chuck E's In Love - Rickie Lee Jones
7. And I Love Her - The Beatles
8. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
9. House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
10. In Dreams - Roy Orbison
PETER STRINGFELLOW, night-club owner
1. Move It - Cliff Richard
2. Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
3. Come on Everybody - Eddie Cochran
4. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
5. Ichycoo Park - Small Faces
6. Keep On Running - Spencer Davis
7. My Generation - The Who
8. Don't You Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart
9. It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones
10. Please Please Me - The Beatles
The Right Rev JIM THOMPSON, Bishop of Bath and Wells
1. Elgar's Sea Pictures - sung by Janet Baker
2. Missa Solemnis - Beethoven
3. Marriage of Figaro - Mozart
4. Symphony No 1 - Brahms
5. Dream of Gerontius - Elgar
6. When I Fall In Love - Nat King Cole
7. I Was Glad - Hubert Parry
8. Bring in the Clowns - Shirley Bassey
9. Requiem - Verdi
10. Piano Concerto No 5 - Beethoven
LEO SAYER, rock singer
1. No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley
2. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
3. Hootchie Cootchie Man - Muddy Waters
4. My Baby Still Cares For Me - Nina Simone
5. Mystery Train - Elvis Presley
6. Weather With You - Crowded House
7. Fall For You - Ray Charles
8. Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
9. Last Train Home - Pat Metheny
10. Creep - Radiohead
TRACEY EMIN, artist
("I could write a different list every day of my life.")
1. Tight Connection to the Heart - Bob Dylan
2. Rock and Roll Suicide - David Bowie
3 Nirvana Unplugged New York - The Real Thing
4. The Crystal Ship - The Doors
5. It's You I want - The Milkshakes
6. I'm too Sexy - Right Said Fred
7. You Make me Feel - Sylvestre
8. Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
9. Burning Up - Elvis Presley
10. Hotel California - The Eagles
(B-list Number One: Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners)
BRIAN MOORE, former rugby international
1. Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute - Mozart
2. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury
3. Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber
4. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
5. Intermezzo, Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni
6. I Know What I Like - Genesis
7. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python
8. Always the Sun - The Stranglers
9. Goodbye for the Roses - Elvis Costello
10. There is Beauty in the Bellow of the Gale, from Mikado - Gilbert and Sullivan
HANIF KUREISHI
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys ("That does everything for me")
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