Create a 5-song sampler of your favorite artist

Jethro Tull

1. Locomotive Breath

2. Living In The Past

3. Cross Eyed Mary

4. Bouree

5. Nothing Is Easy

 

God Only Knows
Wouldn't it Be Nice
She Knows Me Too Well
Surfs up
Don't Worry Baby

Nowhere Man
She Loves You
A Hard Days Night
Blackbird
For No One

Cat Stevens
Lillywhite
Maybe Your Right
Father and Son
Morning Has Broken
Katmandu

Duke Ellington
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
Black And Tan Fantasy
Ring Dem Bells
Mood Indigo
In A Sentimental Mood

Leo Kottke
Watermelon
Room 8
From The Cradle To The Grave
The Last Of The Arkansas Greyhound
Morning Is The Long Way Home

 

Very interesting selections! Captures quite a few sides of the band.

 

Hand on My Heart
Better the Devil You Know
Confide in Me
Butterfly
In Your Eyes
Someday

 

The Minutemen

1. This Ain't No Picnic (Double Nickels On The Dime)

2. Tension (Punch Line)

3. The Anchor (What Makes A Man Start Fires?)

4. I Felt Like A Gringo (Buzz And Howl Under The Influence Of Heat)

5. Little Man With A Gun In His Hand (any version)

Actually just get all 45 songs on Double Nickels and enjoy, the whole double album is probably as long as five Yes songs, so that's fair

 

Models

2 People per Square Km
Cut Lunch
Dying For My Country in the War
No Shoulders No Head
Seeing is Believing

 

Riders on the Storm
End of the Night
Indian Summer
The Crystal Ship
The Soft Parade

 

Thanks. I tried to select tracks that showed how they moved through different styles. They are - or were - a lot more than just a rock 'n' roll band.

 

All My Loving
Savoy Truffle
Babys in Black
Sexy Sadie
Your Mother Should Know

 

Wilco

Handshake Drugs
I'm Always In Love
Passenger Side
Poor Places
Misunderstood

 

Genesis

Watcher of the Skies
Firth of Fifth
Ripples
Behind The Lines
Me and Sarah Jane

This is pretty much impossible though.

 

The Beatles
1. Ticket to Ride

2. If I Fell

3. Penny Lane

4. Tomorrow Never Knows

5. Here Comes the Sun



The Rolling Stones
1. Satisfaction

2. Paint It Black

3. Gimme Shelter

4. Can't You Hear Me Knocking

5. Rocks Off



The Who
1. My Generation

2. Substitute

3. I Can See For Miles

4. Baba O'Riley

5. Won't Get Fooled Again

 

To a friend who plays piano and wants to learn some cool tracks...

Steely Dan

Home at Last
Kings
Any world
Bad sneakers
Dr. Wu

 

Pretty Things

Come See Me
The Sun
Mr Evasion
Grass
Is It Only Love

 

Brian Eno

Baby's On Fire
Taking Tiger Mountain
I'll Come Running
Deep Blue Day
Lay My Love

 

The Mamas & the Papas

1. Got a Feelin' (If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, 1966)
2. Strange Young Girls (The Mamas & the Papas, 1966)
3. Did You Ever Want to Cry (Deliver, 1967)
4. Boys & Girls Together (Deliver, 1967)
5. Twelve Thirty (The Papas & the Mamas, 1968)

 

Rolling Stones

Gimme Shelter
Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
She's a Rainbow
Ruby Tuesday
Rocks Off

 

Santana
Soul Sacrifice
Incident At Neshabur
Samba Pa Ti
Toussaint L'Overture
Europa

Madness
Bed And Breakfast Man
Embarrassment
E.R.N.I.E.
Our House
Shut Up

The Rolling Stones
Baby, What's Wrong
It's All Over Now
I Cant Get No Satisfaction
Under My Thumb
Ruby Tuesday

Django Reinharht
I've Had My Moments
Djangology
Dahpne
Improvisation No1
Minor Swing

 

Sonic Youth
1- Teen Age Riot
2- Tunic (Song For Karen)
3-Hey Joni
4-(I Got A) Catholic Block
5-The Diamond Sea

Wussy
1-Teenage Wasteland
2 - Airborne
3- Funeral Dress
4- Grand Champion Steers
5-Hello, I'm A Ghost

Archers of Loaf
1 Web In Front
2 Wrong
3 Harnessed In Slums
4 What Did You Expect?
5 Chumming The Ocean

Moby
1 - Feeling So Real
2- Go
3- Move (You Make Me Feel So Good)
4 - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
5 - That's When I Reach For My Revolver

 

jim o'rourke:

there's hell in hello but more in goodbye
through the night softly
good times
the visitor
and a 1, 2, 3, 4

"and a 1, 2, 3, 4" is the only track here that's not in his 'pop', or 'traditional instrumentation' vein, but there's a lot of feeling to it.

 

Asia (original lineup)
Time Again
Open Your Eyes
An Extraordinary Life
Through My Veins
No Religion

 

michael hurley:

i'm worried
automatic slim & the fat boys
o my stars
slurf song
werewolf song

 

R.E.M.
Living well is the best revenge
Walk unafraid
Harborcoat
Bittersweet me
Drive

 

Beatles:
A Hard Day's Night
Eleanor Rigby
Strawberry Fields Forever
A Day In The Life
Here Comes The Sun

Paul McCartney:
Maybe I'm Amazed
Band On The Run
Mull Of Kintyre
Calico Skies
The End Of The End

John Lennon:
Instant Karma
Imagine
Mind Games
#9 Dream
Beautiful Boy

George Harrison:
What Is Life
Give Me Love
Crackerbox Palace
Your Love Is Forever
When We Was Fab

Ringo Starr:
It Don't Come Easy
Early 1970
Photograph
You're 16
Weight Of The World

 

Hard to make some of the cuts!