Pick an artist and list your favorite track from each of their releases

The Monkees:

"Saturday's Child" - The Monkees
"Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" - More of The Monkees
"Sunny Girlfriend" - Headquarters
"Love Is Only Sleeping" - PAC & J, Ltd.
"Auntie’s Municipal Court" - The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees
"Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)" - Head
"While I Cry" - Instant Replay
"Good Clean Fun" - The Monkees Present
"Ticket on a Ferry Ride" - Changes

 

Great Nat, Waylon and Bowie lists!

 

waiting for a Frank Zappa list!

 

Excellent thread idea !

Good list !

Agree with your album preference song. (see above)

 

Thanks!

After compiling the list I noticed that most of my choices were ballads. To quote Mike Love, "I guess I'm just a sentimental sap".

 

Hank III

Ramblin' Man (Live In Scotland)
On My Own (Rising Outlaw)
5 Shots Of Whiskey (Lovesick, Broke & Driftin')
Crazed Country Rebel (Straight To Hell)
3 Shades Of Black (Damn Right, Rebel Proud)
'Neath A Cold Grey Tomb Of Stone (Men With Broken Hearts)
I'm Drunk Again (Bootleg 1)
Hellbilly Joker (Bootleg 2)
Tennessee Driver (Bootleg 3)

 

Surfin' Safari (Surfin' Safari)
Shut down (Surfin' USA)
Catch a wave (Surfer girl)
Be true to your school (Little deuce coupe)
Don't worry baby (Shut down volume 2)
Girls on the beach (All summer long)
Little saint Nick (Christmas album)
Please let me wonder (Today!)
Girl don't tell me (Summer days (and summer nights)
Devoted to you (Party!)
God only knows (Pet sounds)
Heroes and Villians (Smile) (OK I'm cheating, sue me)
Good vibrations (Smily Smile)
Darlin' (Wild honey)
Wake the world (Friends)
Wouldn't it be nice (Stack-o-tracks)
Time to get alone (20/20)
Forever (Sunflower)
'Til I die (Surf's up)
Marcella (Carl and the passions So tough)
Sail on sailor (Holland)
Had to phone ya (15 big ones)
Airplane (Love you)
Come go with me (M.I.U.) (That was a tough one)
Lady Lynda (L.A. light album)
Goin' on (Keepin' the summer alive)
Getch back (Beach boys 1985)
Kokomo (Still cruisin')
Lahaina aloha (Summer in paradise)

 

baby, let me follow you down (bob dylan)
bob dylan's dream (the freewheelin' bob dylan)
ballad of hollis brown (the times they are a-changin')
spanish harlem incident (another side of bob dylan)
love minus zero/no limit (bringing it all back home)
like a rolling stone (highway 61 revisited)
visions of johanna (blonde on blonde)
I dreamed I saw st. augustine (john wesley harding)
one more night (nashville skyline)
belle isle (self portrait)
sign on the window (new morning)
final theme (pat garrett & billy the kid)
the ballad of ira hayes (dylan)
never say goodbye (planet waves)
most likely you go your way (before the flood)
simple twist of fate (blood on the tracks)
you ain't goin' nowhere (the basement tapes)
one more cup of coffee (desire)
shelter from the storm (hard rain)
changing of the guards (street legal)
blowin' in the wind (bob dylan at budokan)
man gave names to all the animals (slow train coming)
saving grace (saved)
watered down love (shot of love)
jokerman (infidels)
tangled up in blue (real live)
tight connection to my heart (empire burlesque)
abandoned love (biograph)
brownsville girl (knocked out loaded)
silvio (down in the groove)
queen jane approximately (dylan & the dead)
most of the time (oh mercy)
handy dandy (under the red sky)
last thoughts on woody guthrie (the bootleg series, vol. 1)
wallflower (the bootleg series, vol. 2)
angelina (the bootleg series, vol. 3)
you're gonna quit me (good as I been to you)
lone pilgrim (world gone wrong)
dignity (mtv unplugged)
standing in the doorway (time out of mind)
baby, let me follow you down (the bootleg series, vol. 4)
mississippi (love and theft)
love minus zero/no limit (the bootleg series, vol. 5)
if you gotta go, go now (the bootleg series, vol. 6)
dink's song (the bootleg series, vol. 7)
nettie moore (modern times)
red river shore (the bootleg series, vol. 8)
I feel a change comin' on (together through life)

 

Great list and close to what I would have done with Dire Straits - My only differences would have been:

Private Investigations (Love Over Gold)
The Man's Too Strong (Brothers In Arms) - title track is a very close 2nd
Calling Elvis (On Every Street)

Knopfler differences would look something like this:

Vic And Ray (Golden Heart)
Prairie Wedding (Sailing To Philadelphia)
You Don't Know Your Born (The Ragpicker's Dream) - Why Aye Man is a close 2nd
Boom Like That (Shangri-La)

 

Great tracks. On the Dire Strait's albums is difficult to find a track to skip

 

R.E.M.

Wolves, Lower (Chronic Town)
Talk About the Passion (Murmur)
So. Central Rain (Reckoning)
Driver 8 (Fables of the Reconstruction)
Fall on Me (Lifes Rich Pageant)
It's the End of the World As We Know It (Document)
You Are the Everything (Green)
Near Wild Heaven (Out of Time)
Nightswimming (Automatic for the People)
What's the Frequency, Kenneth? (Monster)
Electrolite (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Daysleeper (Up)
The Lifting (Reveal)
Boy in the Well (Around the Sun)
Living Well's the Best Revenge (Accelerate)

 

What about "All the Roadrunning?"

 

you are right, but I wouldn't consider it exactly a solo album
Anyway, "I dug up a diamond" and "If this is goodbye" are my favorite tracks

 

Grateful Dead- 67-91

Golden Road- The Grateful Dead
New Potato Caboose- Anthem Of The Sun
Dupree's Diamond Blues- Aoxomoxoa (I also love the original mix of Mountains Of The Moon)
Dark Star- Live Dead
Dire Wolf- Workingman's Dead
Ripple- American Beauty (a tough choice!)
Not Fade Away/Goin'Down The Road- Grateful Dead
China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider- Europe '72
Katie Mae- Bear's Choice
Eyes Of The World- Wake Of The Flood
Ship Of Fools- Mars Hotel
Crazy Fingers- Blues For Allah
El Paso- Steal Your Money
Estimated Prophet- Terrapin Station
If I Had The World To Give- Shakedown Street (This is the only Dead album I don't have, but I remember really liking this, although most heads hate it)
Althea- Go To Heaven
Bird Song- Reckoning
Fire On The Mountain- Dead Set
Throwin' Stones- In The Dark
Built To Last- Built To Last
Feel Like A Stranger- Without A Net

Archive releases came fast and furious around 1992, have them all, but I think that's a daunting task!

 

UFO
UFO 1 - Boogie For George
UFO 2 - The Coming Of Prince Kajuku
PHENOMENON - Rock Bottom
FORCE IT - Too Much Of Nothing
NO HEAVY PETTING - On With The Action
LIGHTS OUT - Love To Love
OBSESSION - Pack It Up (And Go)
NO PLACE TO RUN - No Place To Run
THE WILD THE WILLING & THE INNOCENT - Profession Of Violence
MECHANIX - Dreaming
MAKING CONTACT - Blinded By A Lie
MISDEMEANOR - The Name Of Love
AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' - Another Saturday Night
HIGH STAKES & DANGEROUS MEN - Don't Want To Lose You
WALK ON WATER - Venus
COVENANT - Unraveled
SHARKS - Someone's Gonna Have To Pay
YOU ARE HERE - Messing Up The Bed
THE MONKEY PUZZLE - Who's Fooling Who
THE VISITOR - TBA!

 

Mine, too.

 

Kiss:
Deuce (Kiss)
Parasite (Hotter Than Hell)
Rock Bottom (Dressed To Kill)
Detroit Rock City (Destroyer)
I Want You (RNR Over)
I Stole Your Love (Love Gun)
I Can't Stop The Rain (Peter Criss)
Rip It Out (Ace Frehley)
Burning Up With Fever (Gene Simmons)
Wouldn't You Like To Know Me (Paul Stanley)
I Was Made For Loving You (Dynasty)
What Makes The World Go Round (Unmasked)
World Without Heroes (Elder)
Creatures Of The Night (same)
A Million To One (Lick It Up)
Heavens On Fire (Animalize)
Tears Are Falling (Asylum)
Reason To Live (Crazy Nights)
Forever (HITS)
Unholy (Revenge)
I Will Be There (COS)
Within (PC)

Deep Purple:
Hush (Shades)
Shield (Book)
Why Didn't Rosemary (s/t)
Child In Time (In Rock)
No One Came (Fireball)
Highway Star (Machine Head)
Woman From Tokyo (WDYTWA)
Burn (same)
Soldier Of Fortune (Stormbringer)
Gettin' Tighter (CTTB)
Perfect Strangers (s/t)
Bad Attitude (HOBL)
King Of Dreams (S & M)
Battle Rages On (s/t)
Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming (Purpendicular)
Any Fule Kno That (Abandon)
Silver Toungue (Bananas)
Wrong Man (Rapture)





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Steely Dan

Midnight Cruiser
My Old School
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Doctor Wu
Don't Take Me Alive
Aja
Third World Man
Almost Gothic
Pixeleen

 

Asia
Time Again (s/t)
Open Your Eyes (Alpha)
Voice Of America (Astra)
An Extraordinary Life (Phoenix)

 

Deep Purple
And The Address (Shades Of Deep Purple)
Anthem (The Book of Taliesyn)
The Painter (Deep Purple)
Hard Lovin' Man (In Rock)
No No No (Fireball)
Pictures Of Home (Machine Head)
Smooth Dancer (Who Do We Think We Are)
Sail Away (Burn)
Holy Man (Stormbringer)
Comin' Home (CTTB)
Under The Gun (Perfect Strangers)
Dead Or Alive (The House Of Blue Light)
King Of Dreams (Slaves & Masters)
Time To Kill (The Battle Rages On)
A Castle Full Of Rascals (Purpendicular)
Almost Human (Abandon)
I Got Your Number (Bananas)
Wrong Man (Rapture of the Deep)

 

Paul McCartney:

Maybe I'm Amazed (McCartney)
Too Many People (Ram)
Dear Friend (Wild Life)
Band On The Run (Band On The Run)
Little Lamb Dragonfly (Red Rose Speedway)
Letting Go (Venus & Mars)
Warm & Beautiful (Speed of Sound)
I've Just Seen A Face (Wings Over America)
London Town (London Town)
Arrow Through Me (Back To The Egg)
Coming Up (McCartney II)
Here Today (Tug Of War)
Through Our Love (Pipes Of Peace)
No More Lonely Nights (Broad Street)
Footprints (Press To Play)
Don't Get Around Much Anymore (CHOBA B CCCP)
We Got Married (Flowers In The Dirt)
Back In The USSR (Tripping The Live)
Hi Heel Sneakers (Unplugged)
The Lovers That Never Were (Off The Ground)
Good Rocking Tonight (Paul Is Live)
Beautiful Night (Flaming Pie)
She Said Yeah (Run Devil Run)
Back In The Sunshine (Driving Rain)
Riding To Vanity Fair (Chaos & Creation)
Why So Blue (Memory Almost Full)

 

The Clash

I'm So Bored with the U.S.A. (s/t -- U.K. version)
White Man in Hammersmith Palais -- (s/t -- U.S. version)
Safe European Home (Give 'Em Enough Rope)
Death or Glory (London Calling)
Pressure Drop (Black Market Clash)
Charlie Don't Surf (Sandinista!)
Should I Stay or Should I Go (Combat Rock)
Three Card Cheat (Cut the Crap)

Jeff

 

The Doors

The Crystal Ship (The Doors)
Moonlight Drive (Strange Days)
Not To Touch The Earth (Waiting For The Sun)
The Soft Parade (The Soft Parade)
Queen Of The Highway (Morrison Hotel)
Riders On The Storm (LA Woman)


Mark Knopfler

Sultans Of Swing (Dire Straits)
Where Do You Think You're Going? (Communique)
Skateaway (Making Movies)
Industrial Disease (Love Over Gold)
Brothers In Arms (Brothers In Arms)
You And Your Friend (On Every Street)

Are We In Trouble Now (Golden Heart)
Sailing To Philadelphia (Sailing To Philadelphia)
Devil Baby (Ragpicker's Dream)
5:15 AM (Shangri-La)
Beyond My Wildest Dreams (All The Roadrunning)
The Fish And The Bird (Kill To Get Crimson)

Some really tough choices with MK.


R.E.M.

Stumble (Chronic Town)
We Walk (Murmur)
7 Chinese Brothers (Reckoning)
Maps And Legends (Fables Of The Reconstruction)
Fall On Me (Lifes Rich Pageant)
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (Document)
Orange Crush (Green)
Country Feedback (Out Of Time)
Find The River (Automatic For The People)
What's The Frequency, Kenneth? (Monster)
Leave (New Adventures In Hi-Fi)
Falls To Climb (Up)
The Lifting (Reveal)
The Ascent Of Man (Around The Sun)
Mr. Richards (Accelerate)

Gah! More tough choices there.

 

Ooh, I forgot about that song! I think I've changed my mind about the Around the Sun representative...

 

I don't think there are any artists of whom I have all of their releases, because of style changes and so on. But here's a couple:

Moody Blues / related
Evening Time to Get Away (Days of Future Passed)
House of Four Doors (In Search of the Lost Chord)
Send Me No Wine (On the Threshold of a Dream) [or Have You Heard]
Candle of Life (Children's Children)
Dawning is the Day (Question of Balance)
The Story in Your Eyes (EGBDF)
Lost in a Lost World (Seventh Sojourn)
I Dreamed Last Night (Blue Jays)
Carry Me (Natural Avenue)
I Wish We Could Fly (From Mighty Oaks) [or Love is the Key]
Driftwood (Octave)

Genesis:
In Hiding (FGTR)
Visions of Angels (Trespass)
The Fountain of Salmacis (Nursery Cryme) [or Giant Hogweed]
Supper's Ready (Foxtrot)
Firth of Fifth (Selling England)
The Light Dies Down on Broadway (Lamb)
Mad Man Moon (Trick of the Tail) [or Entangled]
Eleventh Earl of Mar (Wind and Wuthering)
Scenes From a Night's Dream (And Then There Were Three)
Behind the Lines (Duke)
Down La Dolce Vita (Peter Gabriel) [or Solsbury Hill]

Bee Gees:
Claustrophobia / Cherry Red (early stuff)
Please Read Me (First)
And The Sun Will Shine (Horizontal)
Kilburn Towers (Idea) [or Let There Be Love, or even When the Swallows Fly]
Lamplight (Odessa)
I Lay Down and Die (Cucumber Castle)
The Worst Girl In This Town (Robin's Reign)

Millennium
There Is Nothing More To Say (Begin)

Hambi and the Dance
Major Major (Heartache) [or Madelaine, or Standing in the Rain]

The Stone Roses
Bye Bye Badman (s/t)