역대 음반으로 발매된 가장 위대한 곡 1001가지 『죽기 전에 꼭 들어야 할 팝송 1001』은 거의 한 세기에 달하는 분량의 음악 중에 선곡한 것으로, 독자들에게 역대 최고의 음반들을 소개하고자 한다. 이 책은 각 항목마다 한 편씩 위대한 노래에 대한 이야기를 담고 있다. 작곡가에게 영감이 된 것은 무엇이었는지, 이 트랙이 세월의 시련에도 광채를 잃지 않은 비결은 무엇인지, 그 곡이 영향을 끼친 곡들, 그리고 주목할 만한 커버 버전까지도 말이다. 책을 읽는 과정에서 독자는 흥미진진한 일화와 상식을 발견하게 될 것이다. 레드 벨리, 로니 도니건, 블랙 베티를 연결하는 것은 뭐가 있을까? 필 스펙터의 1번째 히트작에 영감이 되어준 묘석은 누구의 것이었는가? 크리스티나가 ‘더 문 피플’과 힘을 합치게 되었던 사건은? 책장을 넘기다보면 그 해답을 쉽게 찾을 수 있을 것이다.

저자 토니 비스콘티 저자 토니 비스콘티는 미국 음반 프로듀서이자 뮤지션이다. 그는 무디 블루스, 티렉스, 신 리지, 스파크스, 크리스틴 영, 모리세이, 데이비드 보위를 포함한 다양한 류의 저명한 아티스트와 함께 작업한 바 있다. 특히 데이비드 보위의 경우 [Space Oddity]와 [Reality]를 포함한 다수의 앨범을 제작했다. 그가 가장 최근 출간한 서적으로는 『The Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy』가 있다. 역자 이문희 역자 이문희는 대원외고를 자퇴하고 도영하여 런던 소재 로열 아카데미 오브 뮤직의 피아노 학과를 졸업했고, 이후 경희대 대학원 퍼포밍 아트학과 석사를 마쳤다. 현재 동대학원 박사 과정을 공부 중이며 경희대 포스트 모던 음악학과와 한국외국어대학교 교양학부 강의를 맡고 있다. 역서로는 『죽기 전에 꼭 들어야 할 클래식 1001』이 있다. 한국의 장례 문화와 상조업(양장본 Hardcover) 죽기 전에 꼭 들어야 할 팝송 1001 애착외상의 발달과 치료 자연치유 불변의 법칙 성격장애의 정신역동치료 심리상담 이론과 실제 아동 청소년 성격장애 치료 리틀 바이블 스토리(Little Bible Story)(양장본 Hardcover) 왜, 살은 다시 찌는가? 인격적 우주와 인간 에너지 책임편집 로버트 다이머리 책임 편집자 로버트 다이머리는 토니 윌슨의 『24Hour Party People』과, 『Breaking into Heaven: The Rise and Fall of the Stone Roses』를 포함한 다양한 대중 음악 서적에 참여했던 작가이자 편집자이다. 그는 엄청난 인기를 끌었던 『죽기 전에 꼭 들어야 할 음반 1001』의 편집장을 맡았으며 [Time Out London], [Vogue]를 포함한 다양한 잡지에서도 활약했다.

서문 / 필자소개 / 작품별 색인 4,3,2,1 7 and 7 Is 7 Nation Army 7 Seconds 20th Century Boy 21 Seconds 212 96 Tears 99 Luftballons 365 Is My Number 911 1952 Vincent Black Lightning 1979 54-46 Was My Number A irmandade das estrelas A minha menina Ace of Spades Aguas de Marco Ain’t Got No; I Got Life Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Ain’t No Other Man Al gurugu Al-atlal Ale Brider All Apologies All I Have to Do Is Dream All the Things She Said All the Young Dudes Allons a Lafayette Alone Again Or Alternative Ulster Always on My Mind Always on the Run Amandari Ambition America American Girl Amsterdam Anarchy in the U.K. Animal Nitrate Another Girl, Another Planet Are “Friends” Electric? Army of Me Art Teacher Ashes of American Flags At the Hop Atomic Atomic Dog Attencion na SIDA Autumn Leaves Avec le temps Awaiting on You All Ay te dejo en San Antonio Babylon’s Burning Back Door Man Back for Good Back in Black Back to Life(However Do You Want Me) Balada conducatorolui Ball of Confusion Ballroom Blitz Bamboleo Band of Gold Bang a Gong (Get It On) Bat Out of Hell Be My Baby Beat the Clock Beautiful People Be-Bop-A-Lula Because the Night Beds Are Burning Being Boiled Best of You Between the Bars Big Eyed Beans from Venus Birdhouse in Your Soul Birthday, 596 Black Betty Black Eyed Dog Black Hole Sun Black Metal Black Night Blackwater Side Blank Generation Blind Willie McTell Blister in the Sun Blitzkrieg Bop Block Rockin’ Beats Blue Monday (1956) Blue Monday (1983) Blue Moon Blue Valentines Blueberry Hill Bohemian Rhapsody Bok espok, 778 Bomb! ... Bonita Applebum Boom Boom Born for a Purpose Born in the U.S.A. Born Slippy Nuxx Born to Be with You Born to Run Boulder to Birmingham Box of Rain Boys Don’t Cry Boys of Summer Brand New Cadillac Brass in Pocket Breakdown Bring the Noise Broken Heart Brooklyn’s Finest Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Buffalo Gals, 519 Buffalo Stance Burundanga, 70 By This River C.R.E.A.M., 703 Caballo viejo California Dreamin’ California ?ber Alles Calling All Angels Camar?n Can the Circle Be Unbroken(By and By) Can’t Be Sure Candy Girl Cannonball Can’t Get You Out of My Head Carnival Is Over Carpet Crawlers, 335 Cars Case of You Cattle and Cane Caught Out There Chaje shukarije Chalte Chalte Champagne Supernova Chan Chan Change Is Gonna Come Chase the Devil Chelsea Girls Chicago Child’s Christmas in Wales Ching s??rt?kch?lerining yryzy Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns City of New Orleans, 294 Clandestino Click Song (Qongqothwane) Close to Me Cokane in My Brain Cold Sweat Com’? profondo il mare Come to Daddy (Pappy Mix) Common People Computer Love Confide in Me Connected Connection Consolation Prizes Cop Killer Corcovado Cornflake Girl Court of the Crimson King Crash into Me Crayon Angels Crazy (1961) Crazy (1990) Crazy (2006) Crazy Horses Crazy in Love Creep Criminal Cross Road Blues Cruiser’s Creek Cry Cry Baby Cry Me a River Crying in the Chapel Cum on Feel the Noize Cut Your Hair Cyprus Avenue Dancing in the Street Dancing Queen Dans mon ?le Dark End of the Street Das Model Day in the Life Days Dead End Street Dead Souls Dear God Dear Mama Dear Prudence Death to My Hometown Deep Cover Desperado Destroy Rock & Roll Detroit Rock City Devil’s Haircut Diaraby nene Didi Digital Witness Dirty Water Do You Love Me Do You Really Want to Hurt Me Dog Days Are Over Doll Parts (Don’t Fear) The Reaper Don’t Gimme No Lip Child Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely Don’t Stop Believin’ Don’t Stop Me Now Doo Wop (That Thing) Drone Bomb Me Dry Your Eyes Dub Be Good to Me Dum Dum Boys Dum Maro Dum Dust My Broom E se domani Ederlezi Edge of Seventeen Eight Miles High El manisero El muerto vivo Eleanor Rigby Elected Electric Avenue Electricity Ella Empire State of Mind End End of a Century Energy Flash Enter Sandman Epic Erase/Rewind Essiniya Et moi et moi et moi Eton Rifles Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye Ever Fallen in Love...(with Someone You Should,‘t’ve) Every Breath You Take Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime Everyday Is Like Sunday Everything Counts Evie Exodus Eyes to the Wind Fairytale of New York Faith Fallin’ Famous Blue Raincoat Fast Car Feed Me with Your Kiss Feel Good Hit of the Summer Fell in Love with a Girl Fever (1958) Fever (1995) Fight the Power (Pts 1 & 2) Fire Fire and Rain Firestarter First Cut Is the Deepest First Time Ever I Saw Your Face First We Take Manhattan Fix Up, Look Sharp Fix You Foi Deus Follow the Leader Folsom Prison Blues For What It’s Worth Formation Four Five Seconds Freak Like Me Freak Scene Free Fallin’ Free Man in Paris Freedom French Disko Friday on My Mind Frontier Psychiatrist Fuck Me Pumps Fuck the Pain Away Future Days Gallis Pole Gangsters Genius of Love Geno Germ-Free Adolescents Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine) Get Ur Freak On (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 Getting Away with It Ghost Rider Ghost Town Ghosts Gimme All Your Lovin’ Gimme the Light Girl from Ipanema Girls on Film Give It Away Given to Fly Gloomy Sunday Gloria (1975) Gloria (1979) Go ’Way from My Window Go Your Own Way God Bless the Child God Only Knows God Save the Queen Good Rockin’ Tonight Good Times Good Vibrations Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Goodnight, Irene Grand Tour Great Balls of Fire Great Southern Land Guantanamera Guilty Guilty by Association Hallelujah Hammond Song Happenings Ten Years Time Ago Hard to Handle Harlem Shuffle Harry Patch (In Memory Of) Hate to Say I Told You So He’s a Rebel Headlights on the Parade Heart of Glass Heartattack and Vine Heartbeats Heartbreak Hotel Heartbreaker Heaven Hell Is Round the Corner Hellhound on My Trail “Heroes” Heroin Hey Jude Holidays in the Sun Holocene Honey Hush Hong Kong Garden Hopp?polla Hotel California Hound Dog House of the Rising Sun How High the Moon How I Could Just Kill a Man How Soon Is Now? How Will I Know Hula Girl Human Fly Humpty Dance Hunger of the Pine Hurt I Am the Resurrection I Believe in a Thing Called Love I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction I Can’t Make You Love Me I Can’t Stand the Rain (I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea I Don’t Want to Talk About It I Fall to Pieces I Feel for You I Feel Free I Feel Love I Get Along without You Very Well I Got You I Heard It Through the Grapevine I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself I Know What I Like... I Love Rock’n Roll I Only Have Eyes for You I Predict a Riot I Put a Spell on You I Say a Little Prayer I Try I Walk the Line I Wanna Be Your Dog I Want to Take You Higher I Want You Back I Want You Back I Will Always Love You I Will Dare I’d Rather Go Blind I’ll Be There for You… I’ll Take You There I’m a Believer I’m a Man(1955) I’m a Man(1967) I’m Coming Out I’m in Love with a German Film Star I’m Just a Prisoner(of Your Good Lovin’) (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (I’m) Stranded I’ve Been Loving You Too Long... I’ve Got You Under My Skin Iag bari Iceblink Luck Il mio canto libero Im Nin’ Alu Imagine Immigr?s/Bitim Rew In a Broken Dream In Dreams In the Air Tonight In the Ghetto In the Wee Small Hours... Inkanyezi Nezazi Inner City Blues... Inner City Life Insomnia Interstate Love Song Into Dust Into My Arms Into the Groove Into the Mystic Iris Irish Rover Is It Because I’m Black? Is That All There Is? Israelites It Ain’t Hard to Tell It Ain’t Necessarily So It Must Be Love It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl It’s a Sin It’s My life It’s Only Make Believe It’s Too Late It’s Like That Java Jive Je t’aime... moi non plus Jesus Built My Hotrod Jesus of Suburbia Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet Jive Talkin’ Johnny B. Goode Johnny Remember Me Jolene Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody Just Like Heaven Just Walkin’ in the Rain Justified & Ancient Kalimankou denkou Kelly Watch the Stars Kerosene Kick Out the Jams Killing in the Name Killing Moon Killing of Georgie (Pts I & II) Kings of the Wild Frontier Kiss Knoxville Girl Kool Thing Kung Fu La Bamba La boh?me La javanaise La mer La paloma La solitudine La vie en rose L?grimas negras Laid, 699 Laughing Layla Lazaretto Lazarus Lazy River Le Freak Le gorille Le poinconneur des Lilas Leader of the Pack Leb’ Wohl Legalize It Les copains d’abord Let My Love Open the Door Let’s Dance Let’s Do It(Let’s Fall in Love) Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above Life in a Northern Town Life Is a Highway Life on Mars? Like a Hurricane Like a Prayer Like a Rolling Stone Like I Love You Lili Marleen Little Darlin’ Little Fluffy Clouds Little Less Conversation Little Respect Live Forever Living for the City Loaded London Calling London Is the Place for Me Lonesome Town (Looking for)The Heart of Saturday Night Look of Love Loser Losing My Religion Lost in Music, 446 Louie Louie, 130 Louisiana 1927 Love Can’t Turn Around Love for Sale Love Hangover Love Hurts Love Is a Losing Game Love Shack Love the One You’re With Love Will Tear Us Apart Lullaby, 632 Lust for Life Mack the Knife Mad About the Boy Mad World Maggie May Mal Hombre Mama Weer All Crazee Now Mambo No. 5 Man Manic Monday Man Who Sold the World Many Rivers to Cross Maps Marcus Garvey Marlene on the Wall Marquee Moon Mas que nada Master Blaster(Jammin’) Maybe I’m Amazed Mbube Me Myself and I Mein Teil Mercy Seat Message Message in a Bottle Mickey Milk and Alcohol Million Reasons Minnie the Moocher Miss Sarajevo Monkey Gone to Heaven Montague Terrace(in Blue) More Than a Feeling More Than a Woman Most Beautiful Girl in the World Most People I Know... Motorcycle Emptiness Move Any Mountain-Progen 91 Move It! Move Your Body Mr. Brightside Mr. Tambourine Man Ms. Fat Booty Ms. Jackson Mundian to bach ke Music Sounds Better with You Musica ribelle Mustt Mustt(Lost in His Work) My Drug Buddy My Funny Valentine My Generation My People My Way Mykonos Nancy Boy Nature Boy Ne me quitte pas Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl Need You Tonight Needle of Death Nel blu dipinto di blu Never Ever Never Let Me Down Again New England New Rose New York City Cops Next Nickel and a Nail, 297 Night No Diggity No More Tears No One Will Ever Love You No Rain No Sleep Till Brooklyn Non, je ne regrette rien Non-Alignment Pact Northern Sky Not Ready to Make Nice Nothing Compares 2 U Nothing Has Been Proved Novocaine for the Soul Numbers O sole mio, 20 O Superman Ode to Billie Joe Oh Carolina Oh Happy Day Oh Lonesome Me Oh My Sweet Carolina Oh Well, Parts 1 & 2 Ohio Oica la o Senhor Vinho Okie from Muskogee Oliver’s Army On & On On Broadway Once in a Lifetime One (1988) One (1991) One Armed Scissor One Day Like This One Fine Day One For My Baby... One I Love One More Time One Nation under a Groove Only Living Boy in New York Only Love Can Break Your Heart Only Women Bleed Only You (and You Alone) Opel Open Up Orgasm Addict Orinoco Flow Our Lips Are Sealed Out of Space Outdoor Miner Over the Rainbow Painkiller Paint It Black Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag Paper Planes Paradise City Paranoid Android Party Fears II Passenger Peace Train Peaches Peg People Get Ready Personal Jesus Personality Crisis Piece of My Heart Pinball Wizard Piss Factory Plateau Please Don’t Touch Please Love Me Please Read the Letter Pokarekare Police and Thieves Poor Poor Pitiful Me Portland, Oregon Possession Pressure Drop Pretend We’re Dead Pretty in Pink Private Dancer Professional Widow... Psycho Psychotic Reaction Public Image Pump Up the Volume Purple Haze Purple Rain Pusher Pushin’ Too Hard Push It Quelqu’un m’a dit Race for the Prize Radio Free Europe Raining Blood Rapper’s Delight Rapture Rattlesnakes Reach Out (I’ll Be There) Ready or Not Real Love Real Thing Rebellion (Lies) Redemption Song Red Right Hand Red Rooster Reelin’ in the Years Relax Remedy Respect Revolution Will Not Be Televised Rhythm Nation Rid of Me Rimmel Riot in Cell Block No. 9 Rise River Deep?Mountain High River of Deceit River Song Roadrunner Rock Island Line Rock Lobster Rock of Ages Rock On Rock Star Rock the Casbah Rock You Like a Hurricane Rocket 88 Rocket Man Rocky Mountain High Romando y tomando Romeo Roxanne Rum and Coca-Cola Rumba Argelina Run Runaway Runnin’ with the Devil Running Up That Hill... Sabali Sabotage Sail Away Sally Go ’Round the Roses Sally Maclennane Sam Stone Samba malato Sapore di sale Saturday Night Fish Fry Save a Prayer Save It for Later Save Me Save the Last Dance for Me Say It Loud ? I’m Black and I’m Proud Scar Tissue Schism Scream Search and Destroy Season of the Witch See Emily Play September Song Sex on Fire Shake It Off Shake Your Body... Shake Your Head Shake, Rattle and Roll Shakin’ All Over She Moves through the Fair She Sells Sanctuary Shipbuilding Shock the Monkey Shot by Both Sides Shout(Parts 1 & 2) Silver Machine ?imarik Singin’ in the Rain Sinnerman Sir Duke Sister Morphine Situation Sixteen Tons Slob Smells Like Teen Spirit Smooth Operator Snake Solid Air Some Candy Talking Someone Great Song 2 Song to the Siren Soul Makossa Sounds of Silence Sour Times Soy gitano Spanish Harlem Spice Up Your Life St. James Infirmary Blues St. Louis Blues Stagger Lee Stan Stand by Me Start! State of Independence State of Shock Stay Together for the Kids Stay with Me Stayin’ Alive Step into My Office, Baby Stop! In the Name of Love Stormy Weather Straight Outta Compton Strange and Beautiful(I’ll Put a Spell on You) Strange Fruit Strawberry Fields Forever Streets of Philadelphia Strict Machine Stupid Girl Stylo Substitute Subterranean Homesick Blues Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Summer in the City Summertime(1950) Summertime(1991) Summertime Blues Summertime Clothes Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Any More Sun Always Shines on T.V. Sun City Sunny Afternoon Sunshine of Your Love Super Bass Superfly Super Freak Supermassive Black Hole Superstar Superstition Surf’s Up Surfacing Surfin’ Bird Suspicious Minds Suzanne Sweet Dreams... Sweet Gene Vincent Sweet Home Alabama Sweetness Sympathy for the Devil Tainted Love Taj Mahal Take Me Out Take My Hand, Precious Lord Tangled Up in Blue Teardrop Tears of a Clown Teenage Kicks Televators Tenderness That’ll Be the Day That’s the Way (I Like It) Theme from Shaft There Is a Light That Never Goes Out They Can’t Take That Away from Me Thirteen This Charming Man This Corrosion This Land Is Your Land This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us Three Days Thriller Thrill Is Gone Through the Wire Ticket to Ride Tiempo de sol?a Titled Time of No Reply Time of the Preacher Time of Your Life... Time to Pretend Tin Soldier Tired of Being Alone (To Be) Young, Gifted and Black To Know Him Is To Love Him Today I Started Loving You Again Todo cambia Tom Sawyer Tomorrow Is a Long Time Tomorrow Never Knows Touch Me I’m Sick Tous les garcons et les filles Toxic Tracks of My Tears Trans-Europe Express Transmission Treaty Trooper True Colors True Faith Tumbling Dice Tusk Tutti Frutti Two Tribes Two Weeks Typical Girls U Don’t Know Me Ultralight Beam Uncertain Smile Unchained Melody Under Mi Sleng Teng Under Pressure Under the Milky Way Underground Unfinished Sympathy Untitled Up Around the Bend Uptown Top Ranking Valley Girl Venus in Furs Via con me Vienna Vincent Virginia Plain Video Games Viva la Vida Voices Carry Voodoo Child(Slight Return) Voulez-Vous Vuelvo al Sur W.F.L. (Think about the Future) Waiting Room Walk Walk On By Walk on the Wild Side Walk This Way Walking on Thin Ice War War Pigs Wardance Waterfalls Waterloo Sunset We Are Your Friends We the People Weather with You Weight Welcome to Jamrock (We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock West End Girls What’d I Say When I Fall In Love When the Levee Breaks When the Revolution Comes Where Is My Mind? Where the Wild Roses Grow While You See a Chance White Christmas (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais White Rabbit Whiter Shade of Pale Who Do You Love Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On Whole Lotta Love Whole Lotta Rosie Whole of the Moon Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? Wichita Lineman Wicked Game Wide Open Road Will You Love Me Tomorrow Willin’ Wind Winner Takes It All Wish You Were Here With or Without You Withered and Died Woke Up This Morning Won’t Get Fooled Again Wonderous Stories Wondrous Place Wood Beez... Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check Working Class Hero World Destruction Written on the Forehead Wuthering Heights Yakety Yak Y? K? Y? K? You and Whose Army? You Get What You Give You Got the Love You Haven’t Done Nothin’ You Keep Me Hangin’ On You Know You’re Right You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) You Oughta Know You Really Got a Hold On Me You Really Got Me You Send Me You Spin Me Round... You Want it Darker (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher You’re Gonna Miss Me You’re So Vain Young Hearts Run Free Your Cheatin’ Heart Your Ghost You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling Zombie Zungguzungguguzungguzeng 노래 색인 / 꼭 들어야 할 팝송 리스트 10,001/ 필자 소개 / 사진 출처

팝송을 사랑하는 당신이라면 꼭 한 번은 펼쳐 봐야 할 『죽기 전에 꼭 들어야 할 팝송 1001』 지난 100여 년의 시대를 아우른 가수와 연주자들의 1001곡은 무엇일까? 대중음악의 풍부한 역사는 노래 고전들을 기반으로 이루어졌다. 틴 팬 앨리에서 브릴 빌딩, 밥 딜런부터 커트 코베인, 조니 미첼부터 에이미 와인하우스까지, 이들은 우리 삶의 일부가 되었다. “Tutti Frutti”와 “Hound Dog”의 황홀한 떠들썩함이 없는 50년대는 상상하기 어렵다. “Le Freak”과 “Anarchy in the U.K.” 등이 없는 70년대, “Toxic”이나 “Crazy” 같은 색다른 팝이 없는 2천년대(2000~2009)는 떠올릴 수 있을까? 이 음악들은 당시의 시대상이나 사회 전체를 반영하기도 하고, 개인의 행복, 혹은 절망의 순간을 상세히 기록하기도 한다. 곡이 쓰이게 된 일화부터 평론가 및 대중의 반응까지 모든 기록이 한 권에! 『죽기 전에 꼭 들어야 할 팝송 1001』은 거의 한 세기에 달하는 분량의 음악 중에 선곡한 것으로, 독자들에게 역대 최고의 음반들을 소개하고자 한다. 이 책은 각 항목마다 한 편씩 위대한 노래에 대한 이야기를 담고 있다. 작곡가에게 영감이 된 것은 무엇이었는지, 이 트랙이 세월의 시련에도 광채를 잃지 않은 비결은 무엇인지, 그 곡이 영향을 끼친 곡들, 그리고 주목할 만한 커버 버전까지도 말이다. 책을 읽는 과정에서 독자는 흥미진진한 일화와 상식을 발견하게 될 것이다. 레드 벨리, 로니 도니건, 블랙 베티를 연결하는 것은 뭐가 있을까? 필 스펙터의 1번째 히트작에 영감이 되어준 묘석은 누구의 것이었는가? 크리스티나가 ‘더 문 피플’과 힘을 합치게 되었던 사건은? 책장을 넘기다보면 그 해답을 쉽게 찾을 수 있을 것이다. 앨범 커버, 프로듀서, 작사가, 발표연도 등 곡에 대한 상세한 정보 수록 역대 음반으로 발매된 가장 위대한 곡들에 대한 흡입력 강한 소개를 담고 있는 이번 가이드북은 다양한 경험으로 무장한 음악 저널리스트와 평론가들로 구성된 팀에 의해 저술됐다. 각 곡마다 컬러 인쇄 사진들이 삽화로 들어가 있으며, 애호가들을 위해 곡에 대한 세세한 정보를 담아 보다 친절한 설명을 덧붙였다. 꼭 다운로드 해야 할 10,001 팝송 리스트 포함 인기리에 판매되고 있는 1001 시리즈 최신판 『죽기 전에 꼭 들어야 할 팝송 1001』은 세계 최대 규모의 플레이리스트를 제공하고 있으며 참조문헌에 10,001여 개의 필수 다운로드 곡이 실려 있다.