■ Best music tracks ever!

You know what they say, tomorrow is what today was yesterday. Whatever one may mean by "best music ever", it must include tracks that stand the test of time — they are not ephemeral. You can hear them time and again and cannot get bored with them. Some tunes you love first time, others grow on you. A few years back I presented a list of best music albums. Here is a list of individual tracks that made a mark on me for one reason or other. If you are into music like me, I am sure you will find lots to appreciate in this collection. Do check out the special tunes marked with a star

DMCA notice. I am an old timer so I own all these tracks in LPs and CDs. I have searched youtube for publicly available links to them. I don't know who or why put them there. Some of these won't play in all countries, and may evaporate without notice. Youtube quality often leaves much to be admired.

ps. Times change, so I added Spotify playlists for all the tracks I could find. Spotify doesn't have everything, and neither does YouTube, but between the 2 of them you can grab my favorites.

But enough with small print and disclaimers, onto the music. Organized by genre and in no particular order:

Genre: Jazz (traditional) [spotify playlist]

John Coltrane - Central Park West
Art Blakey - Flight to Jordu
Charles Mingus - Nostalgia In Times Square
Stan Getz - Desafinado
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
star Charlie Rouse & Red Rodney - Darn That Dream
Wayne Shorter - Witch Hunt
Grant Green - My Favorite Things
Melvin Sparks - Thank You
Donald Byrd - Fly Little Bird Fly
star Wes Montgomery - Cariba
Wes Montgomery - Blue And Boogie
Donald Byrd - Book's Bossa
Miles Davis - All Blues
star Miles Davis - Solea
Ivan Jones - Black Whip
star Idris Muhammad - By the Red Sea
Nat Adderley - Big 'E'
Lee Morgan - Edda
Freddie Hubbard - Assunta
Freddie Hubbard - Nostrand And Fulton

Genre: Jazz (modern) [spotify playlist]

Arild Andersen - Dragon Dance
star Kip Hanrahan - Love is like a cigarette
Jack Dejohnette - Bayou Fever
Steve Coleman - Pass It On
Charles Lloyd - The blessing
Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy - I only have eyes for you
John Abercrombie - Timeless
Jan Garbarek - Dis
star John Abercombie - Backwoods Song
Keith Jarrett - Prism
Keith Jarrett Trio - Stella By Starlight
Jan Garbarek - He comes from the north
John Mclaughlin - One melody
Keith Jarrett - My Song
star Dave Holland - The Oracle
Eberhard Weber - Eyes That Can See In The Dark
John Abercrombie - Sidekicks
Miroslav Vitous - Silver Lake
Art Ensamble Of Chicago - Dreaming Of The Master
Egberto Gismonti - Don Quixote
Barre Phillips - Mountainscapes VIII
star Egberto Gismonti - Ciranda Nordestina
The Lounge lizards - Bob the bob(Home)
Bill Frisell - Monica Jane
Paul Bley - Memories
Gary Burton - Sea Journey
Charlie Rouse - Spelunke
Marvin Smitty Smith - I'll Love You Always

Genre: Rock [spotify playlist]

Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me
The Cult - Nirvana
Incubus - Blood on the ground
Soundgarden - Blow Up The Outside World
star Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
AC/DC - Gone Shootin'
Paw - Gasoline
thin lizzy - whiskey in the jar
judas priest - Never Satisfied
Saxon - Sixth Form Girls
Pearl Jam - Dissident
Rush - The Weapon
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
star The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Rage Against The Machine - Born Of A Broken Man
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
Prince - The Cross
Korn - Falling Away from Me
Ted Nugent - Stranglehold

Genre: Electronica [spotify playlist]

effective force - fish
Bill Laswell - Lost Roads
War - The World is a Ghetto
Vangelis - Creation du Monde
star Stereo Nova - Telecom 99
G.Pal - Sunrising
Freil - West Of Motebe
David Bowie - Space Oddity
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Bugge Wesseltoft - Moving
Leftfield - Melt
St. Germain - Deep in It
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Regiment
star X-Press 2 Ft. David Byrne - Lazy
Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness
The Art Of Noise - Something Always Happens
The Prodigy - Narayan
Maceo & The Macks - Soul Power 74
star Saint Germain - So Flute
star Incogninto (Peterson remix) - I can see the future
Pete Namlook - Pulsar

Genre: Pop songs [spotify playlist]

Craig David feat. Artful Dodger - Re Rewind
Jamiroquai - Too Young to Die
faithless - reverence
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
star Coldplay - Clocks
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together in Electric Dreams
The Cars - Drive
star Prefab sprout - Bonny
The Doors - LA Woman
Fiction Factory - (Feels Like) Heaven
Robbie Williams - Angels
The Christians - Harvest For The World
Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth
Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Sade - Maureen
Sam Cooke - Wonderful World
Black Mighty Orchestra - Ocean Beach
Prince - Purple rain
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

Genre: Leftfield [spotify playlist]

Joy Division - Heart and Soul
Tuxedomoon - Bonjour Tristesse
The Cure - A strange day
star The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
Tom Waits - Jockey Full Of Bourbon
star Tom Waits - Red Shoes
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Bjork - Possibly Maybe

Genre: Greek

star Nikos Papazoglou - Treli ki adespoti
Alkistis Protopsalti - Venzinadiko
Kazantzidis - Afti H Nixta Menei
Eleftheria Arvanitaki - Efyges noris

Genre: Other [spotify playlist]

Public Enemy - You're Gonna Get Yours
Tchaikovsky - Valse des Fleurs
Goran Bregovic - Underground
Piero Umiliani - Crepuscolo sul mare
BBC - allo'allo theme
Van Morrison - My Lagan love
The Exploited - Punk's Not Dead
star The Pogues - Dark Streets of London

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