It is a theme based list and is different to Guardian (UK) - A history of modern music (2011) list which is genre based.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/music ... ngs-missed
Full data is available in list formatToday sees the first instalment of 1,000 Songs Everyone Must Hear, a lovingly compiled week-long series of supplements free with your copy of the Guardian and the Observer. For each day, we picked a different theme and through a process of rigorous debate (and the odd insult), our award-winning team of music critics and writers came up with the songs we think best represent that theme.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/table ... -must-hear
and in spreadsheet
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/mar/20/1
It is not a reader list for sure . They used the same format as in their 1000 novels everyone must read
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/ ... ks-fiction
They then published the readers suggestions to what was missing from their list separately as {...} songs we missed … but this has nothing to do with the main list, which is purely staff selected.Selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems – from any decade and in any language. Originally published in thematic supplements – love, crime, comedy, family and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy, war and travel – they appear here for the first time in a single list.
Feel we've left off a crucial book? Email to us with your nomination and an explanation in no more than 150 words at review@theguardian.com, or post your submission to The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, by 4 February.
Hope this helps.