Arno’s song ‘Les yeux de ma mère’ is number 1 in the Radio 1 Classics 1000 for the second year in a row. Radio 1 listeners chose the song as the ultimate classic during this fourteenth edition of the list. The passing of Arno, now almost a year ago, and his ode to his mother, clearly still move many Radio 1 listeners. The VRT reports this on Saturday.
With ‘Wish you were here’ by Pink Floyd on 2 and ‘Martha’ by Tom Waits on 3, the stage looks just the same as last year. The War On Drugs advance to 4 with ‘Thinking of a place’. Pink Floyd closes the top five with ‘Shine on you crazy diamond’. Only two newcomers can be found in the top 10: Nick Cave at 9 with ‘Into my arms’ and Nina Simone at 10 with ‘Feeling good’.
There are 536 different artists in the Radio 1 Classics 1000. That is 19 more than last year and 47 more than in 2021. The strongest climber is Iggy Pop with ‘Lust for life’: the number goes from 829 to 177. Kate Bush’s ‘Running up that hill’ takes a giant leap forward: thanks Stranger things the number rises 409 places. It therefore ends up at position 100.
Below are the top twenty, last year’s ranking is in parentheses for comparison:
1 | My mother’s eyes (1) – Arno
2| Wish You Were Here (2) – Pink Floyd
3| Martha (3) – Tom Waits
4| Thinking of a place (10) – The War On Drugs
5| Shine On You Crazy Diamond (4) – Pink Floyd
6| A Day in the Life (7) – The Beatles
7| Bohemian rhapsody (8) – Queen
8| Heroes (6) – David Bowie
9| Into My Arms (13) – Nick Cave
10| Feeling Good (12) – Nina Simone
11| Sultans of swing (14) – Dire Straits
12| Born to Run (11) – Bruce Springsteen
13| Stairway to Heaven (15) – Led Zeppelin
14| A Forest (22) – The Cure
15| Go Your Own Way (29) – Fleetwood Mac
16| Black (27) – Pearl Jam
17| Wuthering Heights (59) – Kate Bush
18| Troy (16) – Sinead O’Connor
19| Because the night (42) – Patti Smith
20| Back To Black (18) – Amy Winehouse
