LTDMT 128 8 Disc Box Set!

Alright, another halftime is here where I will put up some innocuous posts about things that I did on the Excel sheet while I was bored. First up, yesterday I took the time to put all 128 songs in chronological order by release date to make a theoretical ultimate box set. It ended up pretty cool- for starters, check out this graph:

As you can see, the hot spots by year are definitively concentrated around 1968 (12 qualifiers) and flanked by ’67 (8) and ’69 (7)…no wonder Bryan Adams thought so highly of that summer. However, something should be said of what 1982 did for music (7 qualifiers, driven by MJ, supported among others by Grandmaster Flash and the release of Combat Rock) as well as 1994 (The Blue Album, Dookie, then Jeff Buckley and some others.)

One last cool fact: as Nos noted earlier, Cash is looking pretty f’ing unstoppable. One good reason why might be that he pretty much bookends the entire chronology (Folsom Prison Blues, Disc 1, Track 1 all the way to Hurt, Disc 8, Track 7.) Granted, there is a dearth of production in the 80s and 90s from that guy, but I mean, he did suffer a severe injury from getting kicked by an ostrich that got him back on painkillers. Could happen to anybody.

What follows is a chronological list, seeding removed, of what this box set would look like:

Disc 1: 1955-1966

Track	Song	Artist	Year
1	Folsom Prison Blues	Johnny Cash	1955
2	Wonderful World	Sam Cooke	1960
3	Stand By Me	Ben E. King	1961
4	Don’t Think Twice	Bob Dylan	1963
5	Louie Louie	Kingsmen	1963
6	Blowin in the Wind	Bob Dylan	1963
7	Twist and Shout	Beatles	1963
8	Ring of Fire	Johnny Cash	1963
9	All Day and All of the Night	Kinks	1964
10	My Girl	Temptations	1964
11	Sounds of Silence	Simon and Garfunkel	1965
12	Like a Rollin Stone	Bob Dylan	1965
13	In My Life	Beatles	1965
14	We Can Work It Out	Beatles	1965
15	Wouldn’t It Be Nice	Beach Boys	1966
16	Paint It Black	Rolling Stones	1966

Disc 2: 1967-1968

Track	Song	Artist	Year
1	Purple Haze	Jimi Hendrix	1967
2	Respect	Aretha Franklin	1967
3	Let’s Spend the Night Together	Rolling Stones	1967
4	For What It’s Worth	Buffalo Springfield	1967
5	A Day In the Life	Beatles	1967
6	The Wind Cries Mary	Jimi Hendrix	1967
7	Brown Eyed Girl	Van Morrison	1967
8	Somebody To Love	Jefferson Airplane	1967
9	Hey Jude	Beatles	1968
10	Sympathy for the Devil	Rolling Stones	1968
11	Mrs. Robinson	Simon and Garfunkel	1968
12	The Weight	The Band	1968
13	All Along the Watchtower	Jimi Hendrix	1968
14	I Heard It Through The Grapevine	Marvin Gaye	1968
15	America	Simon and Garfunkel	1968
16	Son of a Preacherman	Dusty Springfield	1968

Disc 3: 1968-1971

Track	Song	Artist	Year
1	Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay	Otis Redding	1968
2	Piece of My Heart	Janis Joplin	1968
3	Magic Carpet Ride	Steppenwold	1968
4	Wonderful World	Louis Armstrong	1968
5	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	Rolling Stones	1969
6	Here Comes The Sun	Beatles	1969
7	Suspicious Minds	Elvis Presley	1969
8	The Boxer	Simon and Garfunkel	1969
9	Golden Slumbers Medley	Beatles	1969
10	Fortunate Son	CCR	1969
11	Gimme Shelter	Rolling Stones	1969
12	Wild World	Cat Stevens	1970
13	Lookin out my back door	CCR	1970
14	Layla	Derek & The Dominoes	1970
15	Let It Be	Beatles	1970
16	Changes	David Bowie	1971

Disc 4: 1971-1975

Track	Song	Artist	Year
1	When the Levee Breaks	Led Zeppelin	1971
2	Wont Get Fooled Again	Who	1971
3	Stairway to Heaven	Led Zeppelin	1971
4	Baba O’Reilly	Who	1971
5	Man In Black	Johnny Cash	1971
6	Superstition	Stevie Wonder	1972
7	Rocket Man	Elton John	1972
8	Tiny Dancer	Elton John	1972
9	Over the Hills and Far Away	Led Zeppelin	1973
10	Let’s Get It On	Marvin Gaye	1973
11	Piano Man	Billy Joel	1973
12	No Woman No Cry	Bob Marley	1974
13	Born to Run	Bruce Springsteen	1975
14	Bohemian Rhapsody	Queen	1975
15	Thunder Road	Bruce Springsteen	1975
16	Tangled Up In Blue	Bob Dylan	1975

Disc 5: 1976-1980

Track	Song	Artist	Year
1	Night Moves	Bob Seger	1976
2	Go Your Own Way	Fleetwood Mac	1976
3	Staying Alive	Bee Gees	1977
4	American Girl	Tom Petty	1977
5	Come Sail Away	Styx	1977
6	Just What I Needed	Cars	1978
7	Is This Love	Bob Marley	1978
8	Sultans of Swing	Dire Straits	1978
9	I Will Survive	Gloria Gaynor	1978
10	Fool in the Rain	Led Zeppelin	1979
11	Another Brick In The Wall	Pink Floyd	1979
12	Rapper’s Delight	Sugarhill Gang	1979
13	Call Me	Blondie	1980
14	Train in Vain	Clash	1980
15	Another One Bites The Dust	Queen	1980
16	You Shook Me All night Long	AC/DC	1980

Disc 6: 1981-1987

Track	Song	Artist	Year
1	Don’t Stop Believing	Journey	1981
2	Under Pressure	Queen/David Bowie	1981
3	The Message	Grandmaster Flash	1982
4	Beat It	Michael Jackson	1982
5	Come on Eileen	Dexy’s Midnight Runners	1982
6	Jack and Diane	John Cougar Mellencamp	1982
7	Thriller	Michael Jackson	1982
8	Rock the Casbah	Clash	1982
9	Billie Jean	Michael Jackson	1982
10	Modern Love	David Bowie	1983
11	Born In The USA	Bruce Springsteen	1984
12	We Built This City	Jefferson Starship	1985
13	You Can Call Me Al	Paul Simon	1986
14	Where The Streets Have No Name	U2	1987
15	With or Without You	U2	1987
16	Welcome to the Jungle	Guns n Roses	1987

Disc 7: 1988-1996

Track	Song	Artist	Year
1	We Didn’t Start the Fire	Billy Joel	1989
2	Free Fallin’	Tom Petty	1989
3	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Nirvana	1991
4	Creep	Radiohead	1992
5	Under the Bridge	Red Hot Chili Peppers	1992
6	All Apologies	Nirvana	1993
7	Laid	James	1993
8	Hallelujah	Jeff Buckley	1994
9	Longview	Green Day	1994
10	Basket Case	Green Day	1994
11	Buddy Holly	Weezer	1994
12	Zombie	Cranberries	1994
13	Say It Ain’t So	Weezer	1994
14	Sabotage	Beastie Boys	1994
15	Where Did You Sleep Last Night	Nirvana	1994
16	One Headlight	Wallflowers	1996

Disc 8: 1996-2011

Track	Song	Artist	Year
1	Killing Me Softly	Fugees	1996
2	Paranoid Android	Radiohead	1997
3	Everlong	Foo Fighters	1997
4	New Slang	Shins	2001
5	Me Gustas Tu	Manu Chao	2001
6	Johnny Appleseed	Joe Strummer	2001
7	Hurt	Johnny Cash	2002
8	Lose Yourself	Eminem	2002
9	Such Great Heights	Postal Service	2003
10	Hey Ya	Outkast	2003
11	Seven Nation Army	White Stripes	2003
12	Tunnels	Arcade Fire	2004
13	Wagon Wheel	Old Crow Medicine Show	2004
14	Holiday	Green Day	2004
15	Wavin’ Flag	K’Naan	2009
16	Roll Away Your Stone	Mumford and Sons	2010

5 Responses to LTDMT 128 8 Disc Box Set!

The Catholic says:

March 15, 2011 at 3:49 pm

How many of the 128 could be put into a Grooveshark playlist? I’m gonna be doing some chores this week… could use some compost turnin’ music.

Astrid says:

March 15, 2011 at 5:02 pm

That would be a seriously awesome box set!

guillermo olivos says:

March 15, 2011 at 5:21 pm

i actually had a quasi-alterior motive in this- Nick and Astrid, you remember Kate Magro? I totally promised her I’d burn this box set and mail it to Africa. Which I will do as soon as I acquire the 20 songs I still need (I have a serious lack of Beatles.)

- Astrid says:
  
  March 15, 2011 at 9:53 pm
  
  Nice! I have tons of Beatles. Let me know which songs you still need and I can email the songs or snail mail you a disc of mp3’s.
  
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