Welcome to Readers Recommend: The
Complete Index.
This site is dedicated to indexing and cataloguing
the Readers Recommend column and blog from The Guardian
newspaper in the UK for easy reference. Readers
Recommend has been a Friday feature in the Guardian
since 2005. Founded by Guardian writer Dorian Lynskey,
the blog was taken over by The Guardian's Maddy Costa on
April 18, 2008. Rob Fitzpatrick took up the reins from
February 13 to May 22, 2009 while Maddy was on maternity
leave and Paul MacInnes has been at the helm since May
29, 2009.
This index is divided into several parts. The first
is the A-Z index by topic. The second is the A-Z index
by artist. This is the same index that The Guardian
posts on its website as the A-Z of all songs ever listed
but refined and with topics added. The third is the A-Z
index by song which is divided into two parts. The first
page accessed lists all the songs recommended in the
current year. This page also has a link to a page
listing all the songs from previous years (a rather
large page) The final part of
this website is the Topics By Date index. This lists all
Readers Recommend columns by date. The main page lists
the current year and has links to the other years.
But there's more. Some of the indexes link to pages for each
topic. These Topic Pages include links to the blog and
column for that topic as well as listing the ten
selections made for the column. The writers often
include a B List of songs in the blog that did not make
it. In more recent cases these B Lists are also
included.
With this index you can now go back and read the
columns and blogs you missed that may interest you.
Enjoy! A short note on naming conventions: If
you are trying to find an artist alphabetically, here is
how I have organized them.
- Solo Singers: alphabetically by last name
- Duets: e.g. Al Bowlly & Anona Winn - listed
under each singer individually by last name. The
song title will include (with name of other artist)
in front of the song title.
- Groups with a front man: e.g. Nick Cave & the
Bad Seeds - listed under the last name of the singer
- Groups named after one of the members: e.g.
Spencer Davis Group or Dave Clark Five - listed
alphabetically by the first name of the person
Acknowledgements: Thanks to fourfoot who
did most of the leg work on compiling the data up to
August 2008 in a marvellous spreadsheet. Thanks to
DarceysDad and goneforeign for sending me the
spreadsheet. Thanks to GarethI, ejaydee and
Toffeeboy for support of this project. Thanks to
Maddy for her enthusiastic support and encouragement
and sending along useful info and answering the odd
question. Thanks to the RR regulars who always make
reading the blog entertaining.
Contact: Please
email me
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