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Submitted by Seth Rogovoy on October 20, 2009 - 5:06pm

by Seth Rogovoy
 
 
Sometimes ten is just not enough. It was excruciating limiting my selections in this month’s Beat Goes On column to only ten per category. In most, if not all, cases, any of another ten could easily be swapped for those I listed in the various Top 10 categories.
 
 
So what follows are most of the original Top 10 lists, with another ten added in each category to make for Top 20 lists:
 
 
Top 20 Albums
    1.    Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
    2.    Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
    3.    All Things Must Pass, George Harrison
    4.    Imperial Bedroom, Elvis Costello
    5.    Court and Spark, Joni Mitchell
    6.    Horses, Patti Smith
    7.    Revolver, The Beatles
    8.    Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
    9.    Sandinista, The Clash
    10.  Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams 
    11. Music from Big Pink, The Band
    12. Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris
    13. Sail Away, Randy Newman
    14. Transformer, Lou Reed
    15. Fear of Music, Talking Heads
    16.  Low, David Bowie
    17.  What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye
    18.  Excitable Boy, Warren Zevon
    19.  The Future, Leonard Cohen 
    20.  Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair
 
Top 20 Songs
    1.    “Idiot Wind,” Bob Dylan
    2.    “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen
    3.    “Lost in the Supermarket,” The Clash
    4.    “Talk of the Town,” The Pretenders
    5.    “Superstition,” Stevie Wonder
    6.    “A Day in the Life,” The Beatles
    7.    “Talent Show,” The Replacements
    8.    “Trenchtown Rock,” Bob Marley
    9.    “People Have the Power,” Patti Smith
    10.  “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” Velvet Underground
    11. “Davy the Fat Boy,” Randy Newman
    12. “Heroes,” David Bowie
    13. “Kashmir,” Led Zeppelin
    14. “I Saw the Light,” Todd Rundgren
    15. “Rock and Roll,” Lou Reed
    16. “Veronica,” Elvis Costello
    17. “Mercy Mercy Me,” Marvin Gaye
    18. “What Is Life,” George Harrison
    19. “Let’s Stay Together,” Al Green
    20. “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” Bob Dylan
 
 
Top 20 Groups   
    1.    The Beatles
    2.    The Band
    3.    The Velvet Underground
    4.    The Clash
    5.    The Pretenders
    6.    The Replacements
    7.    Radiohead
    8.    Talking Heads
    9.    U2
    10.  Wilco
    11.   The Kinks
    12.   The Who
    13.   The Rolling Stones
    14.   Steely Dan
    15.   Dire Straits
    16.   The Police
    17.   The Ramones
    18.   Pulp
    19.   The Wallflowers.
    20.   Los Lobos
 
 
Top 10 Artists
    1.    Bob Dylan
    2.    Bruce Springsteen
    3.    Patti Smith
    4.    Stevie Wonder
    5.    Joni Mitchell
    6.    Elvis Costello
    7.    David Bowie
    8.    Ani DiFranco
    9.    David Byrne
    10.  Bob Marley
11.  Chrissie Hynde
12.  Aimee Mann
13.  Ray Davies
14.  Madonna
15.  Mark Knopfler
16.  Lou Reed
17.  Brian Eno
18.  Paul McCartney
19.  Neil Young
20.  Keith Richards
 
 
Top 20 Songwriters
    1.    Bob Dylan
    2.    Joni Mitchell
    3.    Randy Newman
    4.    Ray Davies (The Kinks)
    5.    Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
    6.    Carole King
    7.    Paul Simon
    8.    Lou Reed (Velvet Underground)
    9.    Leonard Cohen
    10.  Pete Townshend (The Who)
11.      Elvis Costello
12.      Patti Smith
13.      Lucinda Williams 
14.      George Harrison
15.      Lou Reed
16.      Stevie Wonder
17.      David Bowie
18.      Robbie Robertson (The Band)
19.      Bob Marley
20.      Donald Fagen (Steely Dan)
 
 
Top 20 Vocalists
    1.    Ray Charles
    2.    Roy Orbison
    3.    Joni Mitchell
    4.    Johnny Cash
    5.    Marvin Gaye
    6.    Sam Cooke
    7.    Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
    8.    Al Green
    9.    Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)
10.      Aimee Mann
11.      Bob Dylan
12.      Patti Smith
13.      Dusty Springfield
14.      Richard Manuel (The Band)
15.      Rick Danko (The Band)
16.      George Harrison
17.      Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones)
18.      David Bowie
19.      Gladys Knight
20.      Shawn Colvin
 
 
 

Seth Rogovoy is Berkshire Living's award-winning editor-in-chief and music critic. His book, BOB DYLAN: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, is being published by Scribner in November 2009.

 

 

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