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

R.E.M.

Chronic Town - Gardening At Night
Murmur - Pilgrimage
Reckoning - Harborcoat
Fables - Life & How To Live It
Lifes Rich Pageant - Begin The Begin
Dead Letter Office - Ages Of You
Document - Disturbance At The Heron House
Green - 11th Untitled Song
Out Of Time - Belong
Automatic For The People - Drive
Monster - What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
New Adventures In Hi-Fi - Binky The Doormat
Up - At My Most Beautiful
Reveal - I've Been High
Around The Sun - Electron Blue
Accelerate - Horse To Water

 

Sonic Youth

debut EP - I Dreamed I Dream
Confusion Is Sex - Inhuman
Bad Moon Rising - Death Valley '69
Evol - Shadow of a Doubt
Sister - Schizophrenia
Daydream Nation - The Sprawl
Goo - Dirty Boots
Dirty - Theresa's Sound-World
Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star - Bull In The Heather
Washing Machine - The Diamond Sea
A Thousand Leaves - Sunday
NYC Ghosts & Flowers - NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Murray Street - The Empty Page
Sonic Nurse - New Hampshire
Rather Ripped - Reena
The Eternal - What We Know

 

Sandy Denny: (includes Strawbs, Fairport and Fotheringay)

You Never Wanted Me (The Original Sandy Denny)
Sail Away To The Sea (Sandy and the Strawbs)
Fotheringay (What We Did on our Holidays)
Percy's Song (Unhalfbricking)
Crazy Man Michael (Liege and Lief)
The Sea (Fotheringay)
The Sea Captain (NorthStar Grassman and the Ravens)
Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (Sandy)
Carnival (Like An Old Fashioned Waltz)
John The Gun (FC Live-A Moveable Feast)
One More Chance (Rising For The Moon)
I'm A Dreamer (Rendezvous)
After Halloween (demo) (Who Knows Where The Time Goes)
Suzanne (FC Heyday)
Easy To Slip (Attic Tracks CD)
Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Gold Dust: Live at the Royalty)
The Ballad of Easy Rider (No More Sad Refrains)
The Music Weaver (At The BBC)
Eppie Moray (Fotheringay 2)

 

I'll Keep It with Mine
She Moves through the Fair
Meet on the Ledge

Genesis Hall
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
A Sailor's Life
Percy's Song

Reynardine

Late November
John the Gun

Quiet Joys of Brotherhood
It Suits Me Well

 

Van Halen

Van Halen - I'm the One
II - Women In Love
Women and Children First - In a Simple Rhyme
Fair Warning - So This Is Love?
Diver Down - Little Guitars
1984 - Top Jimmy
5150 - "5150"
OU812 - Finish What Ya Started
F.U.C.K. - The Dream Is Over
Balance - Seventh Seal
BOV1 - Can't Get This Stuff No More
III - Once
BOBW - It's About Time

Steely Dan

Can't Buy a Thrill - Only a Fool Would Say That
Countdown To Ecstacy - King of the World
Pretzel Logic - Parker's Band
Katy Lied - Your Gold Teet II (or Dr. Wu)
The Royal Scam - Kid Charlemagne
Aja - Josie
Gaucho - Time Out of Mind
The Nightfly - I.G.Y.
Kamakiriad - Confide In Me (b-side)
Two Against Nature - Negative Girl
Everything Must Go - Godwhacker
Morph the Cat - Security Joan

Yes

Yes - Survival
Time and a Word - The Prophet
The Yes Album - Yours Is No Disgrace
Fragile - Roundabout
Close To the Edge - And You And I
Tales From Topographic Oceans - Leaves of Green section of Part III
Relayer - To Be Over
Going For the One - Awaken
Tormato - On the Silent Wings of Freedom
Drama - Tempus Fugit
90125 - Hearts
Big Generator - I'm Running
ABWH - Birthright
Union - Silent Talking
Talk - State of Play
Keys To Ascension (both) - Mind Drive
Open Your Eyes - Universal Garden
The Ladder - The Messenger
Magnification - Dreamtime

Pat Metheny Group


S/T - Jaco
American Garage - American Garage
Offramp - James
First Circle - The First Circle
Still Life Talking - Minuano 6/8
Letter From Home - Have You Heard
We Live Here - Stranger In Town
Quartet - Take Me There
Imaginary Day - Follow Me
Speaking of Now - You
The Way Up - uhh . . . The Way Up

 

Deep Purple

And the Address (Shades)
Wring That Neck (Book)
Bird Has Flown (s/t)
Speek King (In Rock)
No One Came (Fireball)
Never Before (Machine Head)
Woman From Tokyo (WDYTWA)
Burn (same)
You Can't Do It Right (Stormbringer)
This Time Around/Owed To G (CTTB)
Knockin' At Your Back Door (s/t)
Strangeways (HOBL)
King Of Dreams (S & M)
Anya (s/t)
Ted the Mechanic (Purpendicular)
She Was(Abandon)
Bananas (Bananas)
Clearly Quite Absurd (Rapture)

 

Michael Schenker (albums with vocalists)

S/T - Feels Like a Good Thing
MSG - But I Want More
Assault Attack - Desert Song
Built To Destroy - The Dogs of War
Perfect Timing - I Don't Wanna Lose
Save Yourself - title track
MSG - Nightmare
Written In the Sand - Back To Life
Unforgiven - Hello Angel
Be Aware of Scorpions - Sea of Memory
Arachnophobiac - Fatal Strike
Tales of Rock 'n Roll - Rock 'n Roll
In the Midst of Beauty - End of the Line
Gipsy Lady - still digesting but those last four lack a bit compared to earlier works

 

Marillion

Script For a Jesters Tear - He Knows You Know
Fugazi - Assassing
Besides Themselves - Cinderella Search
Misplaced Childhood - the whole thing as one
Clutching At Straws - Sugar Mice
Season's End - Easter
Holidays In Eden - Dry Land
Brave - The Great Escape
Afraid of Sunlight - Gazpacho
This Strange Engine - Estonia
Radiation - Cathedral Wall
Marillion.com - Go!
Anoraknophobia - Quartz
Marbles - Fantastic Place
Somewhere Else - Faith
Essence - Essence
The Hard Shoulder - Asylum Satellite

 

Porcupine Tree

On the Sunday of Life - Radioactive Toy
Up the Downstair - Up the Downstair
Staircase Infinities - Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape
The Sky Moves Sideways - Title track, Phase 1
Metanoia - Door To the River
Signify - Signify
Stupid Dream - Stop Swimming
Lightbulb Sun - Where Will You Be?
Recordings - Disappear
In Absentia - Heart Attack In a Layby
Deadwing - Futile (b-side)
Fear of a Blank Planet - Anesthetize
Nil Recurring - Normal

 

Leonard Cohen

Songs Of Leonard Cohen-Suzanne
Songs From A Room-Bird On The Wire
Songs Of Love And Hate-Dress Rehearsal Rag
New Skin For The Old Ceremony-Chelsea Hotel #2
Death Of A Ladies Man-Paper Thin Motel
Recent Songs-Ballad Of The Absent Mare
Various Positions-Hallelujah
I'm Your Man-I'm Your Man
The Future-The Future
Ten New Songs-Alexandra Leaving
Dear Heather-The Faith

 

The Fall

Live At The Witch Trials - Rebellious Jukebox
Dragnet - Muzorewi's Daughter
Totale's Turns - Fiery Jack
Grotesque - c'n'c S-Mithering
Slates - Leave The Capitol
Hex Enduction Hour - Iceland
Room To Live - Papal Visit
Perverted By Language - Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot
The Wonderful And Frightening World of the Fall - Lay of the Land
Call For Escape Route - Clear Off
This Nation's Saving Grace - L.A.
Bend Sinister - Terry Waite Sez
The Frenz Experiment - Oswald Defence Lawyer
I Am Kurious Oranj - Van Plague
Extracate - Bill Is Dead
Shift Work - Rose
Code:Selfish - Free Range
The Infotainment Scan - A Past Gone Mad
Middle Class Revolt - City Dweller
Cerebral Caustic - Life Just Bounces
Light User Syndrome - He Pep!
Levitate - Masquerade
The Marshall Suite - Antidotes
The Unutterable - Dr. Buck's Letter
Are You Are Missing Winner - Crop-Dust
Heads Roll - Blindness
Reformation Post TLC - Das Boat
Imperial Wax Solvent - ?????


all subject to change

 

THE NEIGHBORHOODS

1984 - Fire is Coming - "Fire is Coming"
1986 - ...the High Hard One - "Real Stories"
1987 - Reptile Men - "Pure & Easy"
1991 - Hoodwinked - "Southern Girls"
1991 - The Neighborhoods -"Roxxanne"
unreleased album - "Mr. Reeves"

 

All add on my version of my fave by one of my all time fave artists:



You Never Wanted Me (The Original Sandy Denny)
Two Weeks Last Summer (Sandy and the Strawbs)
Fotheringay (What We Did on our Holidays)
Autopsy (Unhalfbricking)
Crazy Man Michael (Liege and Lief)
The Sea (Fotheringay)
North Star Grassman and the Ravens (NorthStar Grassman and the Ravens)
The Music Weaver (Sandy)
Whispering Grass (Like An Old Fashioned Waltz)
John The Gun (FC Live-A Moveable Feast)
One More Chance (Rising For The Moon)
One Way Donkey Ride (Rendezvous)
After Halloween (demo) (Who Knows Where The Time Goes)
I Don't Know Where I Stand (FC Heyday)
No End (Attic Tracks CD)
Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Gold Dust: Live at the Royalty)
The Ballad of Easy Rider (No More Sad Refrains)
???? some demo/solo (At The BBC)
Late November (Fotheringay 2)



very similar, yet different!

 

George Harrison
All Things Must Pass - Run Of The Mill
Living In The Material World - Don't Let Me Wait Too Long
Dark Horse - Simply Shady
Extra Texture - World Of Stone
Thirty Three & 1/3 - It's What You Value
George Harrison - Soft-Hearted Hana
Somewhere In England (Original Version) - Sat Singing
Somewhere In England - Life Itself
Gone Troppo - Dream Away
Cloud Nine - That's What It Takes
Brainwashed - Stuck Inside A Cloud

 

Pet Shop Boys (omitting Disco collections, compilations, other non-studio albums)

Please - "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"
Actually - "Heart"
Introspective - "I'm Not Scared"
Behaviour - "This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave"
Very - "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing"
Alternative - "Jack the Lad" and "Do I Have To?" (double album)
Bilingual - "Se A Vida E (That's the Way Life Is)"
Nightlife - "Footsteps in the Dark"
Release - "I Get Along"
Fundamental - "Luna Park"
Yes - I'll let you know once I've listened to it (just got it today!!!)

 

Genesis

Genesis:

In the Wilderness (From Genesis to Revelation)
White Mountain (Trespass)
The Fountain of Salmacis (Nursery Cryme)
Can-Utility and the Coastliners (Foxtrot)
The Cinema Show (Selling England by the Pound)
The Lamia (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
Los Endos (A Trick of the Tail)
One For the Vine (Wind & Wuthering)
Burning Rope (...And Then There Were Three...)
Behind the Lines (Duke)
No Reply At All (Abacab)
That's All (Genesis)
The Brazilian (Invisible Touch)
Fading Lights (We Can't Dance)
none - not a real Genesis album (Calling All Stations)

 

Kevin Gilbert (obscure, but excellent)

Mephisto's Tarantella (NRG)
The Last Thing On My Mind (Giraffe - The Power of Suggestion)
Air Dance (Giraffe - The View From Here)
The Ballad of Jenny Ledge (Toy Matinee)
Song For a Dead Friend (Thud)
Joytown (Live At the Troubador)
A Long Day's Life (The Shaming of the True)
The Sultan of Brunei (Kaviar)
The Best of Everything (upcoming set of "other" stray songs)

 

Brian Wilson (solo)

Caroline No (Pet Sounds)
One For the Boys (Brian Wilson)
Love & Mercy (I Just Wasn't Made For These Times)
Rainbow Eyes (Sweet Insanity)
You're Still a Mystery (The Andy Paley bootleg tapes)
Happy Days (Imagination)
Gettin' In Over My Head (Gettin' In Over My Head)
Surf's Up (BWP Smile)
What I Really Want For Christmas (WIRWFC)
Southern California (Lucky Old Sun)

Honorable mention for the non-lp track (placed on a Target store compilation) with Burt Bacharach. It was fantastic.

 

John Payne doesn't count, right?

I'd say:

Time Again (Asia)
Eye To Eye (Alpha)
Countdown To Zero (Astra)
Summer Can't Last Too Long (Then & Now)
No Alibis (Phoenix)

 

Same for me, except I would include:

Your Latest Trick (Brothers In Arms)
Planet of New Orleans (On Every Street)

 

U2

The Electric Co (Boy)
I Fall Down (October)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (War)
11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Under a Blood Red Sky)
Wire (The Unforgettable Fire)
Where the Streets Have No Name (The Joshua Tree)
Angel of Harlem (Rattle & Hum - best live track was either Pride or ISHFWILF)
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Achtung Baby)
Stay (Zooropa)
Last Night On Earth (Pop)
Stuck In a Moment (All That You Can't Leave Behind)
Sometimes You Can't Make It (Atomic Bomb)
still deciding (No Line On the Horizon)

 

Gene Clark

Is Yours Is Mine (with The Gosdin Bros.)
With Care From Someone (Fantastic Expedition)
Kansas City Southern (Through the Morning . . . )
Winter In (White Light)
In a Misty Morning (Roadmaster, best "Full Circle Song" is on the Byrds reunion album)
Lady of the North (No Other)
Past Addresses (Two Sides To Every Story)
Won't Let You Down (the MCH albums, despite the fact that it basically re-writes "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better")
The Rain Song (Firebyrd)
Gypsy Rider (So Rebellious a Lover)

 

The Sonics.
Here Are The Sonics - Strychnine
Boom - Cinderella
Introducing The Sonics - Psycho
Merry Christmas From The Sonics, The Wailers & The Galaxies - Santa Claus

 

Led Zeppelin

Your Time Is Gonna Come (LZ)
Living Loving Maid (LZII)
Friends (LZIII)
Black Dog (Zoso)
The Rain Song (Houses of the Holy)
Kashmir & Ten Years Gone (Physical Grafitti)
Achilles Last Stand (Presence)
I'm Gonna Crawl (In Through the Out Door)
Wearing & Tearing (Coda)
Wonderful One (No Quarter)
Shining In the Light (Walking Into Clarksdale)

Honorable mention for a very credible "The Only One" on Page's _Outrider_ album.

 

eels

Are You & Me Gonna Happen (A Man Called E)
The Only Thing I Care About (Broken Toy Shop)
Your Lucky Day In Hell (Beautiful Freak)
Climbing To the Moon (Electro-Shock Blues)
A Daisy Through Concrete (Daisies of the Galaxy)
That's Not Really Funny (Souljacker)
Numbered Days (Shootenanny!)
Trouble With Dreams (Blinking Lights)
Saw a UFO (Useless Trinkets)
That Look You Gave That Guy (Hombre Lobo)