Rock: Train Kept a Rollin' (1999)

About this title: To commemorate the end of the century, Sony Music assembled the 26-disc box set Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century. The title was imposing, as was the idea behind it -- to chronicle the life of the oldest record label in the music industry. To be clear, Sony Music has not existed for 100 years, but the heart of its catalog, Columbia Records, was founded early in the 20th century. Sony realized that most consumers wouldn't invest in a 26-disc box, no matter how impressive it was, so they simultaneously released a series of 12 genre-specific double-disc sets that culled highlights ... read more

Tracks:

1. Subterranean Homesick Blues [Dylan]
2. Mr. Tambourine Man [Dylan]
3. Why Do I Cry [Tashian]
4. Over, Under, Sideways, Down [Relf/McCarty/Beck]
5. Omaha [Spence]
6. Down on Me [Joplin]
7. Time Has Come Today [Chambers/Chambers]
8. I Ain't Superstitious [Dixon]
9. Albatross [Green]
10. I Got a Line on You [California]
11. I Want to Take You Higher [Stewart]
12. Black Magic Woman [Green]
13. All the Young Dudes [Bowie]
14. Raw Power [Pop/Williamson]
15. Frankenstein [Winter]
16. Born to Run [Springsteen]
17. Carry on Wayward Son [Livgren]
18. More Than a Feeling [Scholz]
19. (Don't Fear) The Reaper [Roeser]
20. Walk This Way [Tyler/Perry]
21. Cat Scratch Fever [Nugent]
22. Barracuda [DeRosier/Ennis/Fish]
23. Surrender [Nielsen]
24. Paradise by the Dashboard Light [Steinman]
25. Paradise by the Dashboard Light [Steinman]
26. Pump It Up [Costello]
27. London Calling [Jones/Strummer]
28. Breaking the Law [Downing/Halford/Tip]
29. Pretty in Pink [Psychedelic Furs]
30. Don't Stop Believin' [Perry/Schon/Cain]
31. Beds Are Burning [Midnight Oil]
32. Learning to Fly [Carin/Ezrin/Gilmour]
33. Cult of Personality [Reid/Calhoun/Glover]
34. No More Tears [Castillo/Inez/Osbou]
35. Runaway Train [Pirner]
36. Black [Gossard/Vedder]
37. Would? [Cantrell]
38. Killing in the Name [Rage Against The Ma]
39. Wonderwall [Gallagher]
40. Got the Life [Welch/Silveria/Davi]
41. Love Sick [Dylan]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.