Create a 5-song sampler of your favorite artist

...if you were trying to introduce a friend to a particular band or solo artist. Can you pick just 5? Try not to choose 5 "greatest hits" but a couple of their popular songs and the balance being album tracks. And try to sequence for a good song flow

Here's one for Badfinger

1. Just A Chance
2. Come And Get It
3. Baby Blue
4. When I Say
5. Hold On

 

George Harrison:

1. "What Is Life"
2. "My Sweet Lord"
3. "Isn't It A Pity"
4. "Blow Away"
5. "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)"

 

Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Cinnamon Girl
Sugar Mountain
Powderfinger
Heart Of Gold
Like A Hurricane

 

I'm gonna do an all-around sample of the Beatles (together and solo) similar to the 4 EP and I'll include tracks that aren't as popular as others, but still fairly popular.

1. She Loves You
2. Woman
3. Goodnight Tonight
4. This Is Love
5. Weight Of The World

 

BECK
1. Loser
2. E-Pro
3. Lost Cause
4. Blue Moon
5. Where It's At

 

1. Station To Station
2. Aladdin Sane
3. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)
4. Always Crashing In The Same Car
5. The Bewlay Brothers

needless to say there are several more EPs of equal greatness to be made from the Bowie catalogue.

 

Little Feat
Fat man in the bathtub
Dixie chicken
Rock n roll doctor
Spanish moon
Willin

 

From Waiting For Columbus, right?

 

Big Star!

O My Soul
In The Street
September Gurls
The Ballad Of El Goodo
Thirteen

 

Hendrix

Purple Haze
Bold As Love
1983, A Merman I Should Turn To Be/Moon, Turn The Tides, Gently, Gently, Away
Hear My Train A Comin' (Berkeley Community Theatre 1970)
Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)

 

Led Zeppelin 5 song Sampler:

1. The Song Remains The Same (Live)
2. The Rain Song (Live)
3. No Quarter (Live)
   
4. Dazed And Confused (Live)
   
5. Kashmir (Live)

 

Joni Mitchell

1. Carey
2. For the Roses
3. Shades of Scarlett Conquering
4. Sweet Sucker Dance
5. People's Parties/Same Situation

@Aurora do you approve?

 

Brinsley Schwarz

Surrender to the Rhythm
Unknown Number
What's So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding
Cruel to Be Kind
Hooked on Love

 

Pentangle

1. "House Carpenter"
2. "Light Flight"
3. "So Clear"
4. "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme"
5. "Pentangling"

 

Prince
1. When Doves Cry

2. 1999

3. Raspberry Beret

4. Kiss

5. Diamonds & Pearls

 

Kate Bush

The Kick Inside
Breathing
Sat In Your Lap
Running Up That Hill
The Fog

 

Hard for me to pick a favorite artist, so I listed 5 of them.

Peter Gabriel:

Red Rain
Solsbury Hill
Signal to Noise
Loved to be Loved
Biko

Talking Heads:

Once in a Lifetime
Crosseyed and Painless(Live Verion from 'The Name of this Band is Talking Heads)
Artists Only
Blind
Burning Down the House

Pink Floyd:

Echoes
One of These Days
Interstellar Overdrive
Comfortably Numb
High Hopes

David Bowie:

Absolute Beginners
Heroes
Ashes to Ashes
Bring Me the Disco King
Space Oddity

The CURE:

A Forest
Love Song
100 Years
Pictures of You
Just Like Heaven

 

Can't argue that the first 3 songs are great, but it got me thinking about my own Prince list.

Let's Pretend We're Married
Wild & Loose(performed by The Time)
Alphabet Street
Let's Go Crazy
Thunder

 

Steve Young (not all his own compositions but all great versions).

Seven Bridges Road
My Oklahoma
No Place to Fall
Little Birdie
Come Sit by my Side

 

The Clash:
London Calling
The Street parade
Rock The Casbah
Safe European Home
I`m So Bored With The USA

Van halen;
Runnin With The Devil
Dance The Night Away
And The Crade Will Rock
Unchained
Panama

 

Miles Davis :
1. Concierto de Aranjuez (Sketches of Spain, 1960)
2. Limbo (Sorcerer, 1967)
3. In a Silent Way/It's About That Time (In a Silent Way, 1969)
4. Lonely Fire (Big Fun, 1974)
5. Mr. Pastorius (Amandla, 1989)

 

All great songs. I feel like "Diamonds & Pearls" is the most Prince-like record of the his 90's singles. That's why I included it in my sampler list.

 

I like 'Gett Off' a lot from 'D & P', but liked 'Thunder' more. The Symbol Album is actually my favorite '90s Prince album, yet I did not include any songs off of it, but 'Seven' would have been my first choice from that album.

 

Van Morrison
And it Stoned Me
Bright Side of the Road
Wild Night
Moondance
Into the Mystic

 

Miles Davis:

So What
Freddie Freeloader
Blue in Green
All Blues
Flamenco Sketches