Richard Thompson 1000 Years of Popular Music

The album was originally conceived after Richard Thompson along with many other artists was asked by Playboy magazine to nominate his choice of the best songs of the last 1000 years He took them exactly at their word and served up a list that included the oldestknown Englishlanguage songs a medieval Italian dance tune and various other folk songs alongside slightly more contemporary fare The list was never published by Playboy it was subsequently released into CD format The songs comprising the track list cover a roughly thousandyear period 10682001 starting with Sumer Is Icumen In The most recent song included on the album is Britney Spears hit Oops I Did It Again