- John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
- Cesar Franck – Piano Quintet in F-minor
- Captain Beefheart – Big Eyed Beans from Venus
- Jimi Hendrix – Driving South
- Pere Ubu – Thirty Sec. over Tokyo
- Bob Dylan - Tangled up in Blue
- Yoko Ono – Don’t Worry Kyoko
- Velvet Underground – Heroin
- Robert Pete Williams – Prisoner’s Talking Blues
- Townes Van Zandt – Nothin‘
- Igor Strawinski – Le Sacre du Printemps
- Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Three for the Festival
- Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze (plus Instr. Solo)
- Miles Davis – Call it Anything
- Velvet Underground – Sister Ray
- Bob Dylan – Just Like a Woman
- Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
- R.L. Burnside – Goin’ Down South
- John Coltrane – Ogunde
- Trelldom – Sonar Dreyri
- Torres Strait Islands Death Wail
- The Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where the Time Goes
- Muddy Waters – I Can’t Be Satisfied (I Be’s Trouble)
- The Stooges – Search and Destroy
- Maria Callas – Casta Diva
- Lucille Bogan – Shave ‘em Dry
- Robert Johnson – Hellhound on My Trail
- Baka Forest Pygmees – Water Drums
- Thelonious Monk – Round Midnight
- Kurt Weill/Bertol Brecht – Moritat von Mackie Messer
- The Sex Pistols – Anarchy in the UK
- Albert Ayler – Ghosts
- Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
- M.I.A. – Born Free
- Effisio Melis – Fiorassio
- Harmonica Frank – Rockin’ Chair Daddy
- Bozie Sturdivant – Ain’t no Grave can hold My Body Down
- Miles Davis – Great Expectations
- Neil Young – Like a Hurricane
- Yma Sumac – Chuncho
- Captain Beefheart – Kandy Korn
- Geechie Wiley – Last Kind Words Blues
- Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Diamanda Galas – Deliver Me (from Mine Enemies)
- Joy Division – 24 Hours
- Iry Lejeune – Donnes Moi Mon Chapeau
- Alessandre Moreschi – Ave Maria
- Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell on You
- John Coltrane – Ascension
- Erik Satie – Gnossiennes
- Daniel Johnston – Excuse Me
- Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile
- Roscoe Holcomb – Stingy Woman Blues
- John Cale –A Close Watch
- Dr. John – I Walk on Guilded Splinters
- Townes Van Zandt – Waiting Around to Die
- Mississippi Fred McDowell – Shake ‘em on Down
- Anon. Kipsigis (Kenya) – Chemirocha
- Muchatera Mujuru – Nyamoropa Yevana Vava Muchonga
- Rocket From the Tombs – Ain’t it Fun
- Van Morrison – I’ll be Your Lover too
- Tsjuder – Blasphemy
- Al Green – Simply Beautiful
- Nico – Fairest of the Seasons
- Edgar Varese – Ionization
- Lucinda Williams – I Envy the Wind
- Frank Zappa – Trouble Comin’ Every Day
- Bikini Kill – Rebel Girl
- Nina Simone – Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
- Augustus Pablo – Rocker’s Dub
- Harlem Hamfats – Weed Smokers Dream
- Basque (Anon.): Ariñ-Ariñ
- Cat Power – Baby Doll
- The Raincoats – In Love
- The Slits – A Boring Life
- Giovanna Marini – Ulrike Meinhof
- Chukchi Shamanic Ritual
- Cat Power – Hate
- Brian Eno – Baby’s on Fire
- Blooddawn – Nailed Fist
- Bob Marley – Mr. Brown
- Beth Orton – Shopping Trolley
- Zwabesho Sibisi – Angihambe
- Ni Lemon, dari Djangger – Lagoe Taboehgari
- Khan Shushinski – Shikestei Fars
- Nick Drake – Cello Song
- Francis Bebey – Akwaaba
- Daniel Johnston – Like a Monkey in a Zoo
- Wanda Jackson – Funnel of Love
- Peter Laughner – Cinderella Backstreet
- Nick Cave – From Her to Eternity
- Cat Power – I Lost Someone
- Lou Reed – Berlin
- Laurie Anderson – O Superman
- Don Drummond – Green Island
- James Brown – It’s a Man’s, Man’s World
- The Moldy Peaches – Anyone Else But You
- Fairuz – Ya Ana Ya Ana
- Steve Reigh – Tehillim
The Top 100 started as a hobby; a fan adoring his musical heroes and paying tribute by making portraits of them. The hobby became obsession and the project went from the boy’s room into the art world. But I'm still that fan, it's about them in the end, their music, and not about me.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The 100 Greatest Recordings Ever
And here's the list... You can find a watercolor for each in posts from the last 5 months.
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Great work, I did a entry in my blog about you. http://pequenoscriminales.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/curiosas-acuarelas-desde-florida.html
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