Name five songs from one artist that you could listen to forevermore.

JOHN
Instant Karma
God
Imagine
Jealous Guy
Mind Games

PAUL
Maybe I'm Amazed
Band On The Run
The Back Seat Of My Car
Somedays
Wanderlust

GEORGE
All Things Must Pass
Run Of The Mill
My Sweet Lord
Got My Mind Set On You
All Those Years Ago

RINGO
It Don't Come Easy
You're Sixteen
Photograph
I'm The Greatest
Wrack My Brain

 

Wreckless Eric

Reconnez Cherie
Semaphore Signals
Whole Wide World
Let's Go To The Pictures
The Final Taxi

 

Led Zeppelin
The Butthole Surfers
Rudimentary Peni
Nirvana
Sonic Youth

 

Since I abandoned classic rock radio about 8 years ago I am no longer sick of any of my old favorites.

I used to roll my eyes at "More Than A Feeling" or "Black Dog" type of songs just from hearing them too much.

Now I can listen to any song any time.

 

Morrissey (solo)

The World Is Full of Crashing Bores
You're the One for Me, Fatty
The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
The National Front Disco
Speedway

[possibly five completely different ones tomorrow, though]

 

Bob Dylan
Red River Shore
Isis
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Like A Rolling Stone
Nobody 'Cept You

Neil Young
Ambulance Blues
Throw Your Hatred Down
Scenery
Powderfinger
Cortez The Killer

Bruce Springsteen
Wreck On The Highway
Racing In The Streets
Land Of Hopes And Dreams
Ghost Of Tom Joad
Reason To Believe

Lou Reed
The Bells
Perfect Day
Street Hassle
The Kids
Sally Can't Dance No More

The Velvet Underground
I Heard Her Call My Name
Sister Ray
Heroin
Satellite Of Love
Ride Into The Sun

The Beatles
It's All Too Much
Tomorrow Never Knows
She's Leaving Home
Love You Too
I Feel Fine

 

Elvis Costello
Oliver's Army
Pump It Up
Man Out of Time
You Tripped at Every Step
Suit of Lights

Joe Henry
Short Man's Room
This Close to You
Trampoline
Sault Ste Marie
Parker's Mood
Land

Old 97's
Barrier Reef
Holy Cross
I'm a Trainwreck
Friends Forever
Broadway

Psychedelic Furs
Fall
No Tears
Run and Run
House
Torch

Bunnymen
With a Hip
Do It Clean (live at the RAH)
Killing Moon
The Cutter
A Promise

Velvet Underground
Sister Ray
Pale Blue Eyes
Some Kinda Love
White Light White Heat
Here She Comes Now

 

Neil Young
Powderfinger
Crime In The City
Thrasher
Out On The Weekend
Sail Away

Rolling Stones
Gimme Shelter
Winter
Tumbling Dice
Far Away Eyes
2000 Light Years From Home

Bob Dylan
Dignity
Tangled Up In Blue
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
Shelter From The Storm

 

Me too. I abandoned all radio (except for a bit of sport radio during football season) around 6 years ago and haven't missed it. Now the songs that I would curse for being overplayed only pop up occasionally on my iPod Classic and that's cool.

 

Avett Brothers
Matrimony
Kick Drum Heart
I Killed Sally's Lover (live and loud)
Murder in the City
Die Die Die

Replacements
Unsatisfied
F@ck My School
Alex Chilton
Bastards of Young
Anywhere's Better Than Here

They Might Be Giants
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
They'll Need a Crane
Ana Ng
James K. Polk
Alienation's for the Rich

R.E.M
Begin the Begin
Pretty Persuasion
Harborcoat
We Walk
Swan Swan H

Bruce Springsteen
Badlands
Thundercrack
Tougher Than the Rest
Downbound Train
Jackson Cage

Peter Gabriel
I Go Swimming
Intruder
Solsbury Hill
Mercy Street
I Have the Touch

Tom Waits
Time
A Little Rain
The Day After Tomorrow
In the Neighborhood
Table Top Joe

Bob Dylan (this is insane)
Shelter from the Storm (live Hard Rain)
Moonshiner
Changing of the Guard
Visions of Johanna (live Sydney 1966)
Abandoned Love (live Other End 1975)

Bowie
Wild Is the Wind
Sweet Thing
The Bewlay Brothers
It's No Game (Pt. 1)
The Jean Genie

 

Beach Boys:

You Still Believe In Me
Don't Worry Baby
Surf's Up (sung by Brian)
Kiss Me Baby
Hushabye

Monkees:

Porpoise Song (Theme From "Head")
Daydream Believer
Sometime In The Morning
Sweet Young Thing
The Girl I Knew Somewhere

R.E.M.:

The Wrong Child
Green Grow the Rushes
Near Wild Heaven
Half A Mile Away
Harborcoat

 

The Who
I Can See For Miles
Bargain
Music Must Change
Blue Red and Grey
Love Reign O'er Me

 

Nick Drake

River Man
Cello Song
Thoughts of Mary Jane
One of These Things First
Parasite

 

The Beach Boys:

The Warmth Of The Sun
Don't Worry Baby
California Girls
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Surf's Up

 

The Beatles:

I'm Only Sleeping
Tomorrow Never Knows
The Fool On The Hill
Strawberry Fields Forever
There's A Place

 

Half A WORLD Away!

 

R.E.M.:

Radio Free Europe
Perfect Circle
Talk About The Passion
Fall On Me
Nightswimming

 

Beatles:
She Loves You
Nowhere Man
And Your Bird Can Sing
I Want to Hold Your Hand
I Saw Her Standing There
Anytime At All

Sorry - that's six : )

 

Steely Dan:
Peg
Aja
Glamour Profession
Hey Nineteen
Time Out of Mind

Neil Young:
Like A Hurricane
Rockin' in the Free World
Cinnamon Girl
Comes A Time
Hey Hey, My My

The Beatles:
A Day In The Life
Here Comes The Sun
Penny Lane
Ob-La-Di, Ob, La Da
Get Back

 

Here's one for Michael 'Mick' Head, one of my favorite artists ever, be it with Pale Fountains, or Shack, or the Strands, or any other group of musicians that can give voice to his amazing songs ... this list looks way too small now that it's here ...

Something Like You from The Magical World of The Strands
Undecided from Waterpistol
Undecided (Reprise) from The Magical World of The Strands
Byrds Into Stone from Here’s Tom With the Weather
Comedy from HMS Fable



Sgt. Major from Waterpistol
Meant to Be from Here’s Tom With the Weather
Emergency from Zilch
X Hits The Spot from The Magical World of The Strands
And Luna from The Magical World of The Strands

 

The Beatles
We Can Work it Out
Day Tripper
Eleanor Rigby
For No One
Tomorrow Never Knows

Fleetwood Mac (Buckingham-Nicks)
Gypsy
Little Lies
Say You Love Me
Sara
Beautiful Child

Fleetwood Mac (w/o Buckingham-Nicks)
Why
Emerald Eyes
Future Games
Dragonfly
Sentimental Lady

Simon & Garfunkel
April Come She Will (Central Park version)
Baby Driver
Keep the Customer Satisfied
The Sound of Silence (Original Version)
Scarborough Fair

Elton John
Harmony
Original Sin
Sacrifice
Daniel
I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues

 

It's hard to think of artists where exactly five songs stand out ...

Tremeloes
Here Comes My Baby
Silence is Golden
Suddenly You Love Me
I Shall Be Released
Negotiations in Soho Square

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
The Legend of Xanadu
The Tide is Turning
Where From Where To
Zabadak
Bend It

Rolling Stones
Mother's Little Helper
19th Nervous Breakdown
Dandelion
Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadow
The Last Time
Get Off My Cloud
(sorry that's six, five is impossible)

Peter Frampton
the five on Frampton's Camel that don't start or end a side

Hambi and the Dance
Standing in the Rain
Madelaine
Major Major
Time After Time
The World
(a bit of a cheat, they only had one LP)

 

Grateful Dead:
Cassidy
Scarlet Begonias>
Fire on the Mountain
If I Had the World to Give
Lazy River Road


Jethro Tull:
Summerday Sands
Cold Wind to Valhalla
Wond'ring Again
Inside
Crazed Institution

 

Judas Priest:
Solar Angeles
Desert Plains
Last Rose of Summer
The Sinner
Exciter

 

Elvis Presley

My Baby Left Me
Jailhouse Rock
Are You Lonesome Tonight
If I Can Dream
Green Green Grass of Home

Frank Sinatra

Time After Time
I'm A Fool To Want You
All The Way
One For My Baby
The Summer Wind

The Beatles

The Night Before
No Reply
In My Life
Girl
Elanor Rigby

Led Zeppelin

The Lemon Song
Ramble On
Since I've Been Loving You
In My Time of Dying
Ten Years Gone

The Rolling Stones

Gimme Shelter
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Sway
Sweet Virginia
Let it Loose