Create a 5-song sampler of your favorite artist

Neil Young
1. Cortez the Killer
2. Old man
3. Will to Love
4. Old Laughing Lady
5. Albuquerque

 

Joy Division:

Disorder
New Dawn Fades
Transmission
Atrocity Exhibition
Atmosphere

 

The Moody Blues:

1. Nights in White Satin
2. Legends of a Mind
3. Have You Heard Part 1 / The Voyage / Have You Heard Part 2
4. Question
5. Story in Your Eyes

 

Queen:

White Queen (As it began)
Brighton Rock
Death on Two Legs
The Prophet Song
Tie Your Mother Down

 

Bread

1. Dismal Day
2. Truckin'
3. Mother Freedom
4. Down On My Knees
5. The Guitar Man

 

Manfred Mann's Earth Band

1. Father Of Day, Father Of Night
2. In The Beginning, Darkness
3. Drowning On Dry Land
4. Medicine Song (live in 1991, from the recently released live boxset)
5. Martha's Madman
Yes

1. The Gates Of Delirium
2. Perpetual Change
3. Close To The Edge
4. South Side Of The Sky
5. Roundabout

 

The Moody Blues

Lunch Breakeak Hour
Ride My See-Saw
Don't you feel Small
Out and In
After You Came

 

or

1. Introduction
2. Beginnings
3. Questions 67 And 68
4. Ballet For a Girl in Buchannon
5. 25 Or 6 To 4

 

Steely Dan For a Tuesday...(songs that start with T).

The Boston Rag
The Caves of Altamira
The Royal Scam
Third World Man
Things I Miss the Most

 

FREE
Broad Daylight
The Stealer
Sail On
Mr Big (live)
Little Bit Of Love
Can I make it 10?

 

Bowie
Life On Mars?
Art Decade
Time
Buddha Of Suburbia
Teenage Wildlife

Numan
Everything Comes Down To This
Metal
We Take Mystery
Pure
Love & Napalm

Depeche Mode
Never Let Me Down Again
Walking In My Shoes
Enjoy The Silence
Black Celebration
Barrel Of A Gun

Marillion
Fish era
Assassing
Script
Fugazi
White Russian
Slainte Mhath
H era
Afraid Of Sunlight
Invisible Man
Under The Sun
Deserve
Separated Out

 

I think this is a nice formula, I'll try to borrow it.

Electric Light Orchestra.
I must admit that I am such a newbie listening their music that I really don't know if these are "rarely heard" or "lower-charting". Anyway, this is my list:
1) the one that's gonna catch their ear, and say, "That's THEM…?!"
- Rockaria!
2) one they expect to hear, and can't possibly concentrate on other stuff until they hear this
- Turn to Stone
3) the one that shows off qualities of the artist style they may already be aware of, in a fresh setting - perhaps a live version that opens it up
(OR, a surprising cover that puts the song in a fresh setting)
- Steppin’ Out (With Richard Tandy; Mr. Blue Sky - The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra)
4) YOUR favorite rarely-heard cut
- Without someone / Need Her Love (Sorry; can not decide)
5) one of the best lower-charting tracks they may have been familiar with at one time
- Lonesome Lullaby

 

Peter Gabriel

Moribund The Burgermiester
Games Without Frontiers
Rhythm Of The Heat
Red Rain
Mercy Street

 

AC/DC

1. Highway to Hell
2. Live Wire
3. Ride On
4. Back in Black
5. For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)

 

TOWER OF POWER

1. Sparkling in the Sand
2. You're Still a Young Man
3. What is Hip?
4. So Very Hard to Go
5. Below Us, All The City Lights

 

MICHAEL FRANKS

1. Popsicle Toes
2. The Lady Wants to Know
3. Antonio's Song (The Rainbow)
3. Tiger in the Rain
5. "When Sly Calls (Don't Touch That Phone)"

 

Alice Cooper

1. Teenage Lament '74
2. Billion Dollar Babies
3. Elected
4. Be My Lover
5. No More Mr. Nice Guy

Judging from above, it's probably apparent what album I consider to be the band's main masterpiece.

It also occurs to me that if you sequence the above as 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, it might even flow extremely well as a "fantasy album side".

 

The Hollies:

Another Night
Too Young To Be Married
I Can't Let Go
King Midas In Reverse
Bus Stop

 

Queen

It's Late
The Prophets Song
Somebody To Love
Dont Stop Me Now
A Winters Tale

 

Totally, but just cheat and say "Side 1 of Moondance". Hard to argue with that.

 

Black Crowes for people who 'like' the Black Crowes but only know what they've heard on the radio

1. Feathers
2. What is Home
3. No Speak No Slave
4. Exit
5. Bring On Bring On

 

Marty Stuart

Me & Hank & Jumpin' Jack Flash/ High on a Mountain Top
Way out West
Three Chiefs
The Pilgrim
So Many People

Lyle Lovett

L.A. County
Family Reserve
Step Inside This House
The Road to Ensenada
Bears

 

John Hiatt

Walk On
Have a Little Faith in Me
Real Fine Love
Feels Like Rain
Straight Outta Time

Whiskeytown

16 Days
Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart
Don't Be Sad
Empty Baseball Park
If He Can't Have You

 

Xavier Rudd

Spirit Bird
No Woman, No Cry
While I'm Gone
The Letter
Better People

Jackie Greene

Hollywood
About Cell Block #9
Rusty Nail
Gone Wanderin'
Gd Black Devil / 14 Miles

Shawn Mullins

Faith
All in My Head
Everywhere I Go
Lullaby
Shimmer

 

Rainbow
-Man on the Silver Mountain
-Tarot Woman
-Stargazer
-Catch the Rainbow (live)
-Gates of Babylon

Blue Oyster Cult
-Before the Kiss.. a Redcap
-Then Came the Last Days of May
-The Subhuman (live)
-The Vigil
-After Dark

The Who
-Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
-Naked Eye
-My Wife
-Sea and Sand
-However Much I Booze