The Great Rock Discography Survey, Canongate Books, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

 

1.     Frank Zappa 1 Evelyn, a modified dog /2 The torture never stops / 3 Baby snakes/ 4 What's the ugliest part of your body? / 5 The ocean is the ultimate solution / 6 Time is money / 7 I have been in you / 8 The Illinois enema bandit / 9 Excentrifugal Forz / 10 Francesco Zappa No 5 2nd Movement Minuetto Grazioso

 

2.     Little Feat 1 Willin' (Studio) / 2 All that you dream / 3 Red Streamliner / 4 Time loves a hero / 5 Old folks boogie / 6 Gringo / 7 Lonesome whistle / 8 Easy to slip / 9 Somebody's leaving / 10 Brides of Jesus

 

3.     Steely Dan 1 third world man/ 2 green earrings/ 3 soul ram / 4 a little with sugar / 5 android warehouse / 6 pearl of the quarter / 7 you go where i go / 8 gaucho / 9 any major dude / 10 the royal scam

 

4.     Neil Young 1 the needle and the damage done / 2 sugar mountain / 3 comes a time / 4 star of bethlehem / 5 time fades away / 6 lotta love / 7 the loner / 8 cinnamon girl / 9 i am a child / 10 down by the river

 

5.     Peter Gabriel 1 excuse me / 2 mother of violence / 3 solsbury hill / 4 i have the touch / 5 on the air / 6 the rhythm of the heat / 7 moribund the burgermeister / 8 humdrum / 9 games without frontiers / 10 san jacinto

 

6.     Van Der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill 1 german overalls / 2 when she comes / 3 a place to survive / 4 masks / 5 childlike faith in childhoods end/ 6 killer / 7 refugees / 8 been alone so long / 9 not for keith / 10 my experience 

 

7.     Joe Jackson 1 is she really going out with him?/ 2 in every dream home / 3 Not here, not now / 4 big world / 5 steppin' out / 6 breaking us in two / 7 be my number two / 8 symphony in one movement / 9 biology / 10 beat crazy

 

8.     Joni Mitchell 1 the last time i saw richard / 2 a bird that whistles / 3 my secret place / 4 i had a king / 5 this flight tonight / 6 blue / 7 you turn me on, I'm a radio / 8 real good for free / 9 my old man / 10 cold blue steel and sweet fire

 

9.     Rolling Stones 1 you got the silver / 2 she's a rainbow / 3 little red rooster / 4 let's spend the night together / 5 It's all over now / 6 country honk / 7 sweet virginia / 8 Prodigal son / 9 Have you seen your mother, baby, standin' in the shadow / 10 get off of my cloud

 

10.  Art Of Noise 1 Galleons of Stone / 2 Fin du temps / 3 How Rapid? / 4 Roller 1 / 5 nothing was going to stop them anyway / 6 How to kill / 7 Peter Gunn / 8 Roundabout 727 / 9 Opus 4 / 10 Close (to the edit)

11.  Randy Newman 1 Let's burn down the cornfield / 2 Kathleen / 3 Mama told me not to come / 4 underneath the Harlem moon / 5 have you seen my baby

 

12. Bob Mould 1 Sunspots /2 Wishing well/ 3 heartbreak a stranger / 4 Poison Years / 5 sinners and their repetances

 

13.  Yazoo 1 Happy People / 2 in my room / 3 Walk away from love / 4 ode to boy / 5 too pieces 

 

14.  Talk Talk 1 I believe in you / 2 Taphead / 3 desire / 4 Such a shame / 5 Happiness is easy 

 

15.  King Crimson 1 Cadence & Cascade / 2 i talk to the wind / 3 easy money (live) / 4 in the court of the crimson king / 5 Starless and bible black

 

16. Fortification 55 1 memories / 2 innocent victims / 3 i believe / 4 fall out / 5 changing my exist

 

17.  Front 242 1 Animal - Zoo / 2 fuel / 3 Masterhit / 4 Headhunter / 5 Circling Overland

 

18.  Miranda Sex Garden 1 Lovely Joan / 2 Full Fanthom Five / 3 open Eyes / 4 inferno / 5 all creatures are now merry minded

 

19. Tubes 1 Haloes / 2 Up from the deep / 3 Turn me on / 4 Telecide / 5 let's make some noise

 

20.  Prince 1 Darling nikki / 2 Raspberry beret / 3 Sign 'o' the times / 4 I would die 4 u/ 5 anotherloverholenyohead

 

21.  Jimi Hendrix 1 Who knows / 2 Machine gun / 3 and the gods make love

 

22.  Doors 1 Light my fire / 2 riders on the storm / 3 when the music's over

 

23.  Devo 1 Uncontrollable Urge / 2 Gates of steel (live)/ 3 Girl u want (live)

 

24.  Brand X 1 ... and so to f... / 2 running on three / 3 born ugly

 

25.  Human League 1 the black hit of space / 2 WXJL tonight / 3 Only after dark

 

26.  Sparks 1 this town ain't big enough for the both of us / 2 under the table with her / 3 achoo

 

27.  Pixies 1 levitate me /2 there goes my gun / 3 gouge away

 

28.  New Order 1 the beach / 2 the perfect kiss / 3 every little counts

 

29.  Pat Metheny 1 Sirabhorn / 2 are you going with me? / 3 as falls wichita, so falls wichita falls

 

30.  Pankow 1 madness (danke gisela) / 2 me and my ding dong/ 3 let me be stalin

The bonus 20

1.     Larry Norman - The Tune

2.     Carman - We 're marching and moving

3.     REM - Moral kiosk

4.     Ministry - Jesus built my hot rod

5.     Type O Negative - Christian Woman

6.     Stevie Wonder - Send one your love

7.     Flying Lizards - Dizzy Miss Lizzy

8.     Marc Cohn - True Companion

9.     Steve Vai - Sex & Religion

10.  Dead Can Dance - Fortune present gift not according to the book

11.  Arrested Development - Tennessee

12.  Rev . Dan Smith - It takes God to build a home

13.  Jan Akkerman - Skydancer

14.  Al di Meola - Mata Hari

15.  Jon Lord - Gigue

16.  Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Ard na greine

17.  Daevid Allen's Gong - Radio Gnome

18.  Carly Simon - Coming around again

19.  Bangles - More than meets the eye

  1.  Pink Floyd – Echoes