The Essential <insert band/artitst>

[SubMethod]

If you were given the job of making an 'essentials' list for one of your favorite bands for somebody that had never heard them what band and songs would you choose?

I'm going to choose my favorite band at the moment The White Stripes.

Essential White Stripes Songs:
Jolene
Seven Nation Army
Fell In Love With A Girl
Hello Operator
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Screwdriver
Truth Doesn't Make A Noise
The Hardest Button To Button
We're Going To Be Friends
When I Hear My Name
Ball and Biscuit
The Union Forever

[bowieee]

Originally posted by SubMethod
If you were given the job of making an 'essentials' list for one of your favorite bands for somebody that had never heard them what band and songs would you choose?

I'm going to choose my favorite band at the moment The White Stripes.

Essential White Stripes Songs:
Jolene
Seven Nation Army
Fell In Love With A Girl
Hello Operator
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Screwdriver
Truth Doesn't Make A Noise
The Hardest Button To Button
We're Going To Be Friends
When I Hear My Name
Ball and Biscuit
The Union Forever

Nice selections SubMethod :)

Hmm I have to go to sleep right now but this thread really interests me. I'll be back to post a few lists tomorrow night :)

[Annie Hall]

Ooh, I'm gonna learn a lot in this thread, I can feel it.

The Essential Belle & Sebastian

Expectations
If You're Feeling Sinister
Mary Jo
Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying
My Wandering Days are Over
She's Losing It
Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie
The Model
Is It Wicked Not to Care
The State that I am In
Don't Leave the Light on Baby
Seeing Other People
You're Just a Baby
We Rule the School

The Essential Dave Matthews Band
Crush
Seek Up
Cry Freedom
Jimi Thing
The Best of What's Around
One Sweet World
Two Step
The Christmas Song
Say Goodbye
So Right
Fool to Think
Grace is Gone
Grey Street
Crash
Ants Marching

[NeuGenX]

With abround 20 CDs it'd have to be a 2 disc set :)
The Essential UFO:

1. The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent
2. Lights Out
3. Doctor, Doctor
4. Martian Landscape
5. Crystal Light
6. Terri
7. Lipstick Traces
8. Try Me
9. Love to Love
10. On With the Action
11. Chains, Chains
12. Cherry
13. The Writer
14. Back Into My Life
15. I'm A Loser
16. Belladonna
17. Highway Lady
18. Profession of Violence
19. Lonely Heart
20. We Belong to the Night
21. Night Run
22. Darker Days
23. Runnin' On Empty
24. Rock Bottom

[notchreturns]

Radiohead:

Paranoid Android
Idioteque
Fake Plastic Trees
Talk Show Host
Just
Sulk
Climbing Up The Walls
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Lucky
How To Disappear Completely
The National Anthem
Karma Police
Let Down
A Wolf at the Door
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Pyramid Song
Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)

[POLYDISTORTION]

The Essential: U2
From Boy:
1 - Stories For Boys
2 - I Will Follow
3 - An Cat Dubh
4 - Twilight
From:October
1 - Gloria
2 - With A Shout
3 - I Threw A Brick Through A Window
4 - Is That All?
From War:
1 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
2 - New Year's Day
3 - Two Hearts Beat As One
4 - 40
From The Unforgettable Fire:
1 - The Unforgettable Fire
2 - Bad
3 - Pride (In the Name Of Love)
4 - A Sort Of Homecoming
From The Joshua Tree:
1 - With Or Without You
2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
3 - Running To Stand Still
4 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
From Rattle & Hum:
1 - Heartland
2 - All I Want Is You
3 - Angel Of Harlem
4 - Desire (And Buy The Movie:D)
From Achtung Baby:
1 - One
2 - Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
3 - Until The End Of The World
4 - The Fly
From Zooropa:
1 - Zooropa
2 - Lemon
3 - Stay (Far Away So Close)
4 - Numb
From POP:
1 - Gone
2 - If You Wear That Velvet Dress
3 - Please
4 - Mofo
From All That You Can't Leave Behind:
1 - New York
2 - Walk On
3 - Elevation
4 - Beautiful Day

[BadCoverVersion]

The Essential SCOTT WALKER...

Scott.
Montague Terrace (In Blue)
Mathilde
Amsterdam
Such a Small Love
Scott 2.
The Girls From The Streets
Next
Jackie
Plastic Palace People
Scott 3.
If You Go Away
It's Raining Today
Big Louise
Scott 4.
The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
The Seventh Seal
Hero Of the War
Tilt.
Farmer in the City
Tilt
The Cockfighter
Boy Child
The Plague


The Essential PULP...

It
Blue Girls
Seperations
My Legendary Girlfriend
His 'N' Hers
Babies
Lipgloss
She's a Lady
Do You Remember the First Time?
Razzmatazz
Different Class
Common People
I Spy
Sorted for E's and Wizz
This is Hardcore
The Fear
Dishes
This is Hardcore
I'm a Man
We Love Life
Weeds
Wickerman
Bad Cover Version
Sunrise
Various B-sides/other incarnations.
Little Girl with Blue Eyes
Sheffield Sex City
All Time High
Tomorrow Never Lies
Walk Like a Panther
A Cheat
The Last Day of the Miner's Strike

[BakeTheMooCow]

The Essential:

The Cure
Lullaby
Lovesong
Just Like Heaven
Pictures Of You
Fascination Street
A Forest

Opeth
The Drapery Falls
Forest Of October
Face Of Melinda
Bleak
Benighted
The Amen Corner

Deftones
Root
Mascara
Bored
Be Quiet and Drive
Minus Blindfold
Change (In The House Of Flies)

Incubus
A Certain Shade Of Green
Drive
Pardon Me
New Skin
Privelege
The Warmth

Tool
Stinkfist
Sober
46 and 2
Eulogy
Cold and Ugly
Hooker With a Penis

Radiohead
Bones
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Creep
Paranoid Android
The Bends
Karma Police

[Indiana Sev]

I'll do a list for The Beatles, since they're my favorite band.

I have however decided to make it a bit harder on myself by limiting the list to 12 essential songs. Otherwise, I'd pick at least 25-30 songs and this is supposed to be an essential's list rather than a "best of".

So, I've tried to mix-in some silly with the serious in order to give a virgin listener of the band a greater idea of "who" The Beatles are or were...

(in no particular order)

1. Yesterday
2. Can't Buy Me Love
3. Something
4. Let It Be
5. Blackbird
6. All You Need Is Love
7. Girl
8. Revolution
9. From Me To You
10. Hey Jude
11. Strawberry Field's Forever
12. I'll Follow The Sun/Michelle (tie :D )

[Reigh Kaufman]

The Charlatans:

Nine Acre Court
Over-Rising
How High
Tellin' Stories
One To Another
Can't Get Out Of Bed
The Only One I Know
Love Is The Key
My Beautiful Friend
A Man Needs To Be Told
Forever
Blind Stagger
You're So Pretty, We're So Pretty
Just Lookin'
Sproston Green
Weirdo

Blur:

He Thought Of Cars
On Your Own
Sunday, Sunday
Coffee And TV
Song 2
Chemical World
The End
The Universal
There's No Other Way
Out Of Time
Music Is My Radar
Country Sad Ballad Man
Sing

Supergrass:

Sofa (Of My Lethargy)
In It For The Money
Late In The Day
Time
We're Not Supposed To
Grace
Pumping On Your Stereo
Caught By The Fuzz
Strange Ones
Mary

[Annie Hall]

Another list, if that's quite alright

The Essential Nirvana

All Apologies
Smells like Teen Spirit
Lithium
Heart Shaped Box
In Bloom
Lake of Fire
Something in the Way
Rape me
Polly
You Know You're Right

[charliebobo]

Originally posted by Annie Hall
Another list, if that's quite alright

The Essential Nirvana

All Apologies
Smells like Teen Spirit
Lithium
Heart Shaped Box
In Bloom
Lake of Fire
Something in the Way
Rape me
Polly
You Know You're Right

Good choices... my list would be like this:

Lithium
Come As You Are
Smells Like Teen Spirit
About A Girl
All Apologies
Heart Shaped Box
Something In The Way
Pennyroyal Tea
Dumb
The Man Who Sold The World

[Ren Hoek]

Can't be arsed to make an essentials list for my favourite artist (Bob Dylan: 37 albums!!!), so I picked two other faves of mine with a far less extensive oeuvre ;)

WEEZER

Blue Album
1. My Name is Jonas
2. The World has Turned and Left Me Here
3. In the Garage

Pinkerton
4. Tired of Sex
5. Across the Sea
6. The Good Life
7. Butterfly

Green Album
8. Photograph
9. Island in the Sun
10. Glorious Day

Maladroit
11. Dope Nose
12. Death and Destruction

----------------

BEN FOLDS FIVE

Naked Baby Photos
1. Eddie Walker
2. Underground (Live)

Ben Folds Five
3. Philosophy
4. Best Imitation of Myself
5. Boxing

Whatever and Ever and Amen
6. Fair
7. Brick
8. Smoke
9. Battle of Who Could Careless

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
10. Mess
11. Magic
12. Army

[Annie Hall]

Agh, this is addicting...someone stop me :)

The Essential Bright Eyes

Waste of Paint
Something Vague
Method Acting
Going for the Gold
Lover I Don't Have to Love
No Lies, Just Love
An Attempt to Tip the Scales
The Movement of a Hand
A Perfect Sonnet
Arienette

[electriclite]

The Essential PJ Harvey

Dress
Water
50ft Queenie
Yuri G
Me-Jane
Rid of Me
Highway 61
Long Snake Moan
To Bring You My Love
Meet Ze Monsta
C'mon Billy
Angelene
The Garden
No Girl So Sweet
The River
The Whore's Hustle The Hustler's Whore
Horses in My Dreams
Kamikaze

My Own Private Revolution
Memphis
30
Wang Dang Doodle

[Raymond Babbit]

Mine would probably have to be a 3 or 4 cd set:
THE ESSENTIAL REM
Radio Free Europe
Catapult
I Am Super-man
Talk About The Passion
Gardening At Night
Driver 8
Welcome To The Occupation
Exhuming McCarthy
It's The End Of The World As We Know It
Finest Worksong
Stand
Pop Song 89
Orange Crush
World Leader Pretend
Losing My Religion
Radio Song
Shiny Happy People
Drive
Man On The Moon
Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
Everybody Hurts
Ignoreland
Nightswimming
Find The River
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Crush With Eyeliner
Star 69
Electrolite
How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us
The Great Beyond
Imitation Of Life
All The Way To Reno
The Final Straw

[Indiana Sev]

The Essential Depeche Mode
-----------------------------------------------

1.Personal Jesus
2.People Are People
3. A Question of Lust
4. Master And Servant
5. Policy Of Truth
6. Walking In My Shoes
7. I Feel You
8.Get The Balance Right
9. Just Can't Get Enough
10. Sweetest Perfection
11.Waiting For The Night
12. Love In Itself

[quoth_the_raven]

The Essential...


Nirvana

Smells Like Teen Spirit
Negative Creep
Blew
Aneurysm
Spank Thru
The man who sold the world
where did you sleep last night?
Dive
Lithium
Very Ape



Weezer

Buddy Holly
The Sweater Song
Hash Pipe
Keep on fishin'
Dope Nose
Say it aint so
El scorcho
tired of sex




Incubus

Pardon Me
Stellar
A Certain Shade of green
Wish you were here
Mexico
New Skin
Drive
Make yourself
Nebula



more later...

[POLYDISTORTION]

The Essential: The Cure
Just Like Heaven
Letter to Elise
Pictures Of You
Close To Me
Killing an Arab
Lullaby
Love Cats
Charlotte Sometimes
Walk
Fascination Street
Boys Don't Cry
Why Can't I Be You
Let's Go To Bed
In between Days
Friday I'm In Love
Mint Car
One Hundred Years
10:15 Saturday Night
Love Song
Kyoto Song
The Caterpillar

[Ren Hoek]

Van "The Man" Morrison ...I'll try to limit it to 12 titles (average album length, I guess):

1. Brown Eyed Girl
2. Moondance
3. Did Ye Get Healed
4. Gloria
5. Coney Island
6. Hymns to the Silence
7. Bright Side of the Road
8. Jackie Wilson Said
9. It's all over now Baby Blue
10. Going Down Geneva
11. Rave on John Donne
12. Hard Nose the Highway

[POLYDISTORTION]

The Essential: SMASHING PUMPKINS
From GISH:
1 - I Am One
2 - Rhinoceros
3 - Tristessa
4 - Siva

From SIAMESE DREAM:
1 - Mayonaise
2 - Today
3 - Disarm
4 - Silverfuck

From MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS:
1 - ZERO
2 - 1979
3 - Tonight Tonight
4 - 33

From ADORE:
1 - Perfect
2 - Apples + Oranges
3 - Pug
4 - Ava Adore

From MACHINA/THE MACHINES OF GOD:
1 - Stand Inside Your Love
2 - Try,Try,Try
3 - The Everlasting Gaze
4 - Blue Skies Brings Tears

From PISCES ISCARIOT:
1 - Soothe
2 - Landslide
3 - Plume
4 - Pissant

From AIRPLANE FLIES HIGH.......:
1 - Clones (We're All)
2 - Airplane Flies High (Turns Left Looks Right)
3 - Tonite Reprise
4 - Marquis In Spades

From MACHINA II:THE FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF MODERN MUSIC:
1 - Blue Skies Brings Tears (Heavy)
2 - Vanity
3 - Cash Car Star
4 - Soul Power

[notchreturns]

ELLIOT SMITH
Roman Candle
Waltz #2
Needle in the Hay
Bottle Up and Explode!
Bled White
Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
Miss Misery
Big Ballad Of Nothing
Tomorrow Tomorrow
Say Yes

[Rated R]

Foo Fighters:

S/T:

I'll Stick Around
Alone And Easy Target
For All The Cows
Exhausted


The Colour And The Shape:

Monkey Wrench
Hey, Johnny Park!
My Poor Brain
My Hero
Everlong
New Way Home


There's Nothing Left To Lose:

Stacked Actors
Generator
Aurora
Live-In Skin
M.I.A.


One By One:

Times Like These
Tired Of You
Halo
Lonely As You
Come Back

[Sigur509]

Bjork

Army Of Me
Possibly Maybe
It's Oh So Quiet
Cocoon
Pagan Poetry

Radiohead

Creep
Just
I Might be Wrong
There, There
Life in a glass house
You and whose army?
Knives out


Smashing Pumpkins

1979
Tonight, Tonight
Cherub Rock
Disarm
Everlasting Gaze
Perfect
Ava Adore
Eye
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Thirty-Three
Zero
Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Foo Fighters

Times Like These
Walking After You
Everlong
Big Me
Hero
All My Life
Monkey Wrench


Dave MAtthews Band

Crush
Seek Up
Cry Freedom
Jimi Thing
The Best of What's Around
One Sweet World
Two Step
So Right
Crash
Where are You going

Nine Inch Nails

Wish
Suck
Head Like a Hole
The Fragile
Closer
March Of The Pigs
The Way Out Is Through
Starfuckers, Inc.
The Frail

[bob]

Indiana marked his territory with The Beatles, and I'm waiting for Quentin's Essential Bob Dylan list, so I'll go with Led Zeppelin.

I
Good Times, Bad Times
Dazed and Confused
How Many More Times
Communication Breakdown

II
Heartbreaker
Bring it On Home
Ramble On
Living Loving Maid

III
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Out on The Tiles
Celebration Day
Immigrant Song

Zoso, IV, whatever you want to call it
Misty Mountain Hop
Black Dog
When The Levee Breaks
Rock 'N' Roll

Physical Graffiti (It's a 2-disc set, so I'll do 8 songs instead of 4)
In My Time of Dying
In The Light
Bron-Y-Aur
Boogie With Stu
Trampled Underfoot
Black Country Woman
Custard Pie
Ten Years Gone

In Through The Out Door
Fool in The Rain
Hot Dog

...And One More
Nobody's Fault But Mine

Yep, yep. 27 songs to get you into Led Zep.

[paul calf]

the essential stone roses

waterfall
she bangs the drum
sally cinamon
elephant stone
fools gold
one love
i am the ressurection
driving south
tightrope
10 storey love song
love spreads
sugar spun sister

the essential james

sit down
come home
ring the bells
johnny yen
seven
laid
out to get you
just like fred astair
on top of the world
she's a star
sometimes
say something
destiny calling

the essential embrace

all you good good people
come back to what you know
your weakness is none of my business
fireworks
the good will out
save me
yoiu're not alone
drawn from memory
happiness will get you in the end
wondor
make it last

[Psychocandy]

The essential Jesus & Mary Chain

Just Like Honey
Never Understand
You Trip Me Up
The Hardest Walk
Cut Dead
Some Candy Talking
Darklands
April Skies
Happy When It Rains
Nine Million Rainy Days
Deep One Perfect Morning
Sidewalking
Kill Surf City
Surfin' USA
Everything Is Alright When You're Down
Just Out Of Reach
Blues From A Gun
Between Planets
Head On
Here Comes Alice
Gimme Hell
Reverence
Teenage Lust
Far Gone And Out
Almost Gold
Sugar Ray
Snakedriver
Something I Can't Have
Tower Of Song
Write Record Release Blues
Guitarman
Sometimes Always
Come On
Girlfriend
Feeling Lucky
These Days
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
I Hate Rock 'n' Roll
Cracking Up
Never Understood
Dream Lover

Limited myself to five tracks per album. Ignored most b-sides. They haven't in my opinion recorded a single song that was totally worthless (except perhaps Perfume on Munki). They were, are and always will be the greatest rock band in the history of music. You can argue with me but I ain't listening. :D

[Romero&Juliet]

Essential Black Crowes

Downtown Money Waster
High Head Blues
She Talks To Angels
P 25 London
Horsehead
Sometimes Salvation (my personal fav)
Smile
Midnight From The Inside Out

[Romero&Juliet]

Originally posted by RenHoek
Van "The Man" Morrison ...I'll try to limit it to 12 titles (average album length, I guess):


9. It's all over now Baby Blue


good call, but I hope you're referring to the THEM version.. what a fucking INCREDIBLE song~~!!!!

[bob]

Originally posted by Romero&Juliet
good call, but I hope you're referring to the THEM version.. what a fucking INCREDIBLE song~~!!!!

How about the DYLAN version? That wasn't too bad, either, you know.;)

[Lady Summerisle]

THE ESSENTIAL KATE BUSH

Get Out of My House
There Goes A Tenner
Wuthering Heights
Mother Stands for Comfort
Cloudbusting
Running Up the Hill
This Woman's Work
Rocket's Tail
Night of the Swallow
Babooska
Army Dreamers
the Sensual World

[POLYDISTORTION]

Essential COUNTING CROWS
From AUGUST & EVERYTHING AFTER:
1 - Mr. Jones
2 - Perfect Blue Buildings
3 - Round Here
4 - A Murder Of One

From RECOVERING THE SATELLITES:
1 - A Long December
2 - Goodnight Elisabeth
3 - I'm Not Sleeping
4 - Angels Of The Silences

From THIS DESERT LIFE:
1 - Colorblind
2 - I Wish I Was A Girl
3 - Hangin' Around
4 - Four Days

From HARD CANDY:
1 - Miami
2 - American Girls
3 - Big Yellow Taxi (If You Have The U.K. Version)
4 - Butterfly In Reverse

[Hucksta G]

Essential Deftones:

Knife Party
Mascara
Passenger
Fireal
Mx
Minerva
Be Quiet And Drive (far away)
Feiticeira
Korea
The Boy's Republic
Change (in the house of flies)
Fist

Essential Metallica:

One
Nothing Else Matters
Blackened
Harverster of Sorrow
Master of Puppets
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Fade To Black
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Enter Sandman
Creeping Death
No Leaf Clover

Essential Radiohead:

Everything In Its Right Place
Paranoid Android
How To Dissapear Completely
Karma Police
Fake Plastic Trees
Street Spirit
Idioteque
Exit Music for a Film

Essential Pink Floyd:

Wish You Were Here
Empty Spaces
Don't Leave Me Now
Comfortably Numb
The Trial
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Hey You
Is there anybody out there?
Goodbye Cruel World

Essential Smashing Pumpkins:

Hummer
1979
Landslide
Tonight, Tonight
Eye
Luna
Silverfuck
Soma
Stumbline
X.Y.U
Take Me Down
By Stralight
Farewell and Goodnight

Essential System of A Down:

Chop Suey!
Forest
ATWA
Shimmy
Toxicity
Psycho
Aerials
A.D.D
Mr. Jack
I-E-A-I-A-I-O
Pictures
Highway Song
Roulette
Suite - Pee
Know
Sugar
Mind
Peephole
Darts
P.L.U.C.K

Essential Nirvana:

Heart Shaped Box
Rape Me
Penny Royal Tea
All Apologies
Serve the Servants
Milk It
Smells Like Teen Spirit
In Bloom
Something in the Way
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Lithium
You Know You're Right

[Reigh Kaufman]

The Essential The Doors

Not To Touch The Earth
When The Music Is Over
Riders On The Storm
Peace Frog
Back Door Man (Live)
Break On Through (Dead Cats, Dead Rats interlude)
Five To One
The Crystal Ship
Roadhouse Blues
LA Woman
Cars Hiss By My Window
L'America
The End
The Unknown Soldier
You're Lost Little Girl

[electriclite]

Essential Liz Phair

6'1

Dance of the Seven Veils

Fuck and Run

Shatter

Flower

Nashville

Whip-Smart

Shane

Jealously

Whitechocolatespaceegg

Polyester Bride

Baby Got Going

Uncle Alvarez

Only Son

[BakeTheMooCow]

This is fantastic. All the songs of artists I've been dying to get into are being noted and I'll give them a spin once my exams get over tomorrow. I've already done a few of my favorite bands.. here are some more.. :

The Essential

The Pixies
Where Is My Mind?
Hey
Debaser
Here Comes Your Man
Havalina
Gigantic
Bone Machine
Wave Of Mutilation
I Bleed

Kyuss
Green Machine
Thumb
Demon Cleaner
Supa Scooper and Mighty Scoop
Freedom Run
Space Cadet
Thong Song
100 Degrees
Mondo Generator

[BadCoverVersion]

The Essential BLACK LACE

~Superman
~Do The Conga
~Agadoo
~Y Viva Espana
~Simon Says
~The Boney M Medley
~The Music Man
~El Vino Collapso
~Jammin' The Sixties
~Hokey Cokey
~I Speaka Da Lingo
~Hi Ho Silver Lining
~Wig Wam Bam
~The Line Dance Medley
~Hot Hot Hot
~Gang Bang
~Hands Up
~Birdie Dance

[Reigh Kaufman]

I think I speak for everyone, Lady Version, when I say...um, yeah.

P.S. Black Lace. What are you on today?

[charliebobo]

The Essential Simon & Garfunkel

Wednesday Morning 3AM
The Sound Of Silence
I Am A Rock
Scarborough Fair
Homeward Bound
America
Old Friends/ Bookends
Fakin' It
Mrs. Robinson
Hazy Shade Of Winter
At The Zoo
Bridge Over Troubled Water
El Condor Pasa
The Boxer
The Only Living Boy In New York

[bowieee]

Originally posted by RenHoek
Van "The Man" Morrison ...I'll try to limit it to 12 titles (average album length, I guess):

1. Brown Eyed Girl
2. Moondance
3. Did Ye Get Healed
4. Gloria
5. Coney Island
6. Hymns to the Silence
7. Bright Side of the Road
8. Jackie Wilson Said
9. It's all over now Baby Blue
10. Going Down Geneva
11. Rave on John Donne
12. Hard Nose the Highway

Ren you never cease to amaze me with your taste. great list... espicially including Hymns to the silence :)




The Essential Tom Waits:

The Heart Of Saturday Night
Tom Traubert's Blues
Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
Better off without a wife
Kentucky avenue
Romeo is bleeding
underground
Anywhere I Lay My Head
Gun Street Girl
Earth Died Screaming
Dirt in the Ground
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Misery Is The River of the World
Get Behind The Mule
Chocolate Jesus
Ol' 55
Soldier's Things
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Jersey Girl
On the Nickel
Briar and the Rose
Innocent When You Dream (78)
Way Down in the Hole

[paul calf]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
The Essential BLACK LACE

~Superman
~Do The Conga
~Agadoo
~Y Viva Espana
~Simon Says
~The Boney M Medley
~The Music Man
~El Vino Collapso
~Jammin' The Sixties
~Hokey Cokey
~I Speaka Da Lingo
~Hi Ho Silver Lining
~Wig Wam Bam
~The Line Dance Medley
~Hot Hot Hot
~Gang Bang
~Hands Up
~Birdie Dance


i thought "i speaka da lingo" was a little overated but the others were bangin

[TATU]

The essential

Marilyn Manson:

The Dope Show

Tainted Love

The Love Song

Disposable Teens

5-2-1

MOBscene

Angel With Scabby Wings

The Fight Song

Beautiful People

Sweet Dreams (Cover)

Another Brick in The Wall (PInk Floyd cover)

Highway 2 Hell (AC *lightning bolt* DC cover)

Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record) (Cover)

Like A Virgin (Madonna cover)

Down In The Park (Cover)

I Put A Spell On You (Because You're Mine) (Cover)

Long Hard Road Outta Hell (Meatloaf cover, I think...)

Rock Is Dead

Mechanical Animal

The KKK Took MY Baby Away (Ramones cover)

Rob Zombie

Dragula

Living Dead Girl

Astrocreep

Superbeast

The Ballad Of Ressurection Joe And Rosa Whore

What Lurks On Channel X???

Return Of The Phantom Stranger

Spookshow Baby

Children Of The Grave (Black Sabbath tribute.)

Blitzkrieg Bop (Ramones cover)

Murderdolls

Dead In Hollywood

B-Movie Scream Queen

Lets Kill Miss America

Twist My Sister

Love At First Fright

Dressed To Depress

Lets Go To War

Dawn Of The Dead

Grave Robbing USA

That's all for me.

[POLYDISTORTION]

The essential BEASTIE BOYS:
From LICENSED TO ILL:
1 - Girls
2 - Fight For Your Right
3 - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
4 - Brass Monkey

From PAUL'S BOUTIQUE:
1 - Shake Your Rump
2 - Hey Ladies
3 - The Sound Of Science
4 - Eggman

From CHECK YOUR HEAD:
1 - What'cha Want
2 - Something's Got To Give
3 - Finger Licking' Good
4 - Time For Livin'

From I'LL COMMUNICATION:
1 - Sure Shot
2 - Sabotage
3 - Bodhisattva Vow
4 - Get It Together

From HELLO NASTY:
1 - Three MC's And One DJ.
2 - Intergalactic
3 - Body Movin'
4 - Remote Control

[Reigh Kaufman]

Great list, Polydistortion. Add their cover of Benny And The Jets and you have a keeper.

[SIREN30]

The Essential Bing Crosby

When The Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day
True Love
Samantha
Tura Lura Lura
Well, Did You Evah (with Frank Sinatra)
Swinging On a Star
Sweet Leilani
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
Blue Skies


The Essential Clutch

El Jefe Speaks
In the Great Shining Bath of the Brave Monster Trucks
A Showgun Names Marcus
Big News
Animal Farm
Escape from the Prison Planet
The House that Peterbilt
Impetus
Arcadia
Release the Kraken
Elephant Riders
Dragonfly
Wishbone
Pure Rock Fury
Drink to the Dead
Open Up the Border


The Essential Ramones

The KKK Took My Baby Away
California Sun
Blitzcrieg Bop
Rock N Roll High School
Rock N Roll Radio
Pet Cemetary
I Wanna Be Sedated
Sheena is a Punkrocker


The Essential Simon and Garfunkel

Baby Driver
The Boxer
Only Living Boy in New York
Bleeker Street
The Sound of Silence
I Am a Rock
Homeward bound
Blues Run the Game
Kathy's Song
Cloudy
Dangling Conversation
The 59th Street Bridge Song
For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
Hazy Shade of Winter
America
Punky's Dilemma
Mrs Robinson
Overs
Bookends Theme
Cecilia
Bridge Over Troubled Water

[quoth_the_raven]

Originally posted by SIREN30



The Essential Ramones

The KKK Took My Baby Away
California Sun
Blitzcrieg Bop
Rock N Roll High School
Rock N Roll Radio
Pet Cemetary
I Wanna Be Sedated
Sheena is a Punkrocker





perfection. good call siren :)

[SIREN30]

Originally posted by SubMethod
If you were given the job of making an 'essentials' list for one of your favorite bands for somebody that had never heard them what band and songs would you choose?

I'm going to choose my favorite band at the moment The White Stripes.

Essential White Stripes Songs:
Jolene
Seven Nation Army
Fell In Love With A Girl
Hello Operator
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Screwdriver
Truth Doesn't Make A Noise
The Hardest Button To Button
We're Going To Be Friends
When I Hear My Name
Ball and Biscuit
The Union Forever

Thanks for that Submethod, I just burned a cd based on your list...love and kisses my friend! The only songs I had to add were You're Pretty Good Looking, Black Math, and Sister, Do You Know My Name...

[SIREN30]

Originally posted by Indiana Sev
The Essential Depeche Mode
-----------------------------------------------

1.Personal Jesus
2.People Are People
3. A Question of Lust
4. Master And Servant
5. Policy Of Truth
6. Walking In My Shoes
7. I Feel You
8.Get The Balance Right
9. Just Can't Get Enough
10. Sweetest Perfection
11.Waiting For The Night
12. Love In Itself

Very Good list but I'd add the little coffee house lovesong, Somebody and the incomparable live version of Stripped.

[SIREN30]

Originally posted by notchreturns
I'll do essentials for my two favorite bands:

RADIOHEAD
Exit Music (For A Film)
Paranoid Android
Just
Black Star
Everything In It's Right Place
Climbing Up The Walls
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
The National Anthem
The Tourist
Karma Police


TOOL
H.
Stinkfist
Sober
46 & 2
Third Eye
The Patient
Intolerance
Prison Sex
Eulogy
Pushit

Was the blaring omission of Opiate intentional, Notch?:confused:

[notchreturns]

Originally posted by SIREN30
Was the blaring omission of Opiate intentional, Notch?:confused:


Just way too many songs to choose from, Siren. Opiate is still an awesome song/album, but the ones I listed are my absolute favorites, the songs I can't live without and so on...

I think I can go a day without listening to Opiate, but when it comes to Aenima or Undertow, well I really don't want to think of the consequences ;)

[notchreturns]

And yet another list:

PEARL JAM
Better Man
Do The Evolution
Alive
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Black
Porch
Off He Goes
Jeremy
Nothingman
Daughter

[Harry Hood]

Since we've had two lackluster DMB lists so far :p ...

Recently
Warehouse
Dancing Nancies
Pantala & Rapunzel
Halloween
Pig
GRey Street
Grace is Gone
Spotlight
Busted STuff
41
40
Rhyme & Reason
Two Step
ANGEL
JtR
Tripping Billies

That shoudl all fit on one CD
if we're allowed covers, then Angel From Montgomery, Watchtower, and Maker too instead of some of those.


Phish: although it seems they'rea dying breed round these boards. For brevitys sake 3 songs per album

A Picture of Nectar:
Caven
Stash
Chalkdust Torture
Bily Breathes:
Free
Theme From the Bottom
Billy Breathes
Farmhouse
Bug
First Tube
Farmhouse
Hoist
Sample in a Jar
Julius
Down With Disease
Junta
You Enjoy Myself
Contact
Fee
Lawn Boy
Run Like an Antelope
Bouncing Around the Room
Split Open and Melt
Rift
My Friend My Friend
Horse>Silent int hte Morning
Wedge
Round Room
46 Days
Seven Below
MExican Cousin
Story of the Ghos
Guyute
Wading in the Velvet Sea
Birds of a Feather

[SIREN30]

The Essential Pink Floyd

Astronomy Domine
Pillow of Winds
One of these Days
Comfortably Numb
Run Like Hell
Goodbye Blue Sky
Mother
Brain Damage
Time
Shine on You Crazy Diamond
ANother Brick in the Wall
Hey You
Have a Cigar
Sorrow
High Hopes
The Final Cut
Wish You Were Here

[Annie Hall]

Originally posted by Harry Hood
Since we've had two lackluster DMB lists so far :p ...

Recently
Warehouse
Dancing Nancies
Pantala & Rapunzel
Halloween
Pig
GRey Street
Grace is Gone
Spotlight
Busted STuff
41
40
Rhyme & Reason
Two Step
ANGEL
JtR
Tripping Billies

Now now, let's not criticize one another...to each his own. :) Don't get me started on the wildly overrated Tripping Billies or Busted Stuff ;)

[Romero&Juliet]

Originally posted by electriclite
Essential Liz Phair

6'1

Dance of the Seven Veils

Fuck and Run

Shatter

Flower

Nashville

Whip-Smart

Shane

Jealously

Whitechocolatespaceegg

Polyester Bride

Baby Got Going

Uncle Alvarez

Only Son

Great List!


here's mine..

Dont Be So In Love With Yourself
Miss Lucy
Fuck Or Die
Johnny Sunshine
Fuck and Run
Chopsticks
Whipsmart
Baby Got Going
Divorce Song
Shane
Uncle Alvarez

[electriclite]

Originally posted by Romero&Juliet
Great List!


here's mine..

Dont Be So In Love With Yourself
Miss Lucy
Fuck Or Die
Johnny Sunshine
Fuck and Run
Chopsticks
Whipsmart
Baby Got Going
Divorce Song
Shane
Uncle Alvarez


I was wondering when you were get on the ball with your list Romero;)


I can't believe I forgot Divorce Song! That's one of my faves off Exile !

(bangs head against wall) Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!


Oh, little piece of info I've been forgetting to share with you Romero.... Me and Liz share the same birthday!

[Haddonfield]

The Black Crowes:

Remedy
Bring On Bring On
Thorn in my Pride
Wiser Time
Gone
Go Tell The Congregation
Evil Eye

[MikeyB]

The WHO

Baba O'Riley
My Generation
Behind Blue Eyes
Won't Get Fooled Again
I Can't Explain
Magic Bus
The Kids Are Alright
I Can See for Miles
Who Are You
Eyesight To the Blind
The Real Me
I Don't Mind
Happy Jack
Armenia City in the Sky
A Quick One, While He's Away

[Romero&Juliet]

Originally posted by electriclite
I was wondering when you were get on the ball with your list Romero;)


I can't believe I forgot Divorce Song! That's one of my faves off Exile !

(bangs head against wall) Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!


Oh, little piece of info I've been forgetting to share with you Romero.... Me and Liz share the same birthday!



Lol, and I forgot Dance Of The Seven Veils..

its all good..



Same B-day?!!? Consider yourself lucky.. I share a birthday with Joan Rivers... :(

[The Claw]

Originally posted by Romero&Juliet
Lol, and I forgot Dance Of The Seven Veils..

its all good..



Same B-day?!!? Consider yourself lucky.. I share a birthday with Joan Rivers... :(

bAH! i share a birthday with chris tucker and RICHARD FUCKING GERE. two of the most annoying actors ever, at least i think i do.


p.s. eddie murphy is a fine singer.

[bowieee]

Originally posted by The Claw
bAH! i share a birthday with chris tucker and RICHARD FUCKING GERE. two of the most annoying actors ever, at least i think i do.


p.s. eddie murphy is a fine singer.

At least your two birthday sharers are famous. I have Terry "shiny head" savalas to share my birthday with.

[electriclite]

Originally posted by bowieee
At least your two birthday sharers are famous. I have Terry "shiny head" savalas to share my birthday with.


Aw, come on! That's KOJAK maaaaaaaan!

[SAI]

The Black Crowes (Different and more extensive than the list above)

From SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER
Twice As Hard
Jealous Again
Hard To Handle
She Talks To Angels

From THE SOUTHERN HARMONY AND MUSICAL COMPANION
Remedy
Hotel Illness
Black Moon Creeping
My Morning Song

From AMORICA
A Conspiracy
High Head Blues
Cursed Diamond
Wiser Time

Ignore 3 Snakes and 1 Charm

From BY YOUR SIDE
Kickin' My Heart Around
By Your Side
Horsehead
Then She Said My Name

From LIONS
Lickin'
Greasy Grass River
Soul Singing

From LIVE AT THE GREEK
Hey Hey What Can I Do
Oh Well


The Essential Aimee Mann (I actually made a tape with this track listing for a friend)

From WHATEVER
I Should Have Known
50 Years After The Fair
Put Me On Top
Mr Harris

From I'M WITH STUPID
Long Shot
Sugarcoated
Thats Just What You Are
Frankenstein

From BACHELOR NO 2 OR THE LAST REMAINS OF THE DODO
Red Vines
The Fall Of The World's Own Optimist
Ghost World
Calling It Quits
Susan

From MAGNOLIA OST
Momentum
Deathly
Driving Sideways
Wise Up
Save Me

From LOST IN SPACE
High On Sunday 51
Pavlovs Bell
The Moth
It's Not

Bonus Track:
Time Stand Still: Rush feat Aimee Mann

[Harry Hood]

Originally posted by Annie Hall
Now now, let's not criticize one another...to each his own. :) Don't get me started on the wildly overrated Tripping Billies or Busted Stuff ;)

I really didn't mean to offend, but I can pullt he same on your list with the vastly overrated Crash and Ants Marching.

I so wish there was a person to debate phish with here though...:(

[SAI]

More than 3 years since the last post... about bloody time this was brought back then. I got to thinking about this list and decided to have a go at it.

This will be a list for a 2 cd compilation, in chronological order

The Essential... Madonna

From Madonna / The First Album
Lucky Star
Borderline
Holiday

From Like A Virgin
Like A Virgin
Material Girl
Dress You Up

From True Blue
(I could put just about the whole album on this list, but I shan't)
Papa Don't Preach
Live To Tell
Where's The Party
True Blue

From Like A Prayer
(Again, every song is a candidate)
Like A Prayer
Promise To Try
Cherish
Dear Jessie
Oh Father

From I'm Breathless
Vogue

From The Immaculate Collection
Justify My Love

From Erotica
Erotica
Rain

From Bedtime Stories
Secret
Take A Bow

From Something To Remember
You'll See

From Ray of Light
Drowned World (Substitute For Love)
Ray of Light
Frozen

From Music
Music
Impressive Instant
Don't Tell Me

From GHV2
Beautiful Stranger

From American Life
Love Profusion
Nothing Fails

From Confessions On A Dancefloor
Hung Up
Future Lovers
Isaac

No apologies for sticking close to the singles. First off Madonna has always released lots of singles and generally picked her best tracks and secondly I think of a list like this as an introduction to an artist (if such a thing is even still possible with this one) and familliarity is always helpful in that.

[bucket]

Guns n Roses

November Rain
Welcome to the Jungle
Paradise CIty
Sweet Child o Mine
Estranged
Get in the Ring
Civil War
Better
Night Train
Patience
The Blues
Rocket Queen
You Could be mine
My Michelle
Don't Cry
Catcher in the Rye

[Sigur509]

WIlco - My second favorite band at the moment.

I Must Be High
Shouldn't Be Ashamed
That's Not The Issue
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
What's The World Got In Store
Hotel Arizona
Someday Soon
Someone Else's Song
The Lonely 1
She's A Jar
A Shot In The Arm
We're Just Friends
I'm Always In Love
How To Fight Loneliness
Via Chicago
My Darling
When You Wake Up Feeling Old
In A Future Age
I am Trying to Break Your Heart
Radio Cure
Jesus, etc
Ashes of American Flags
Poor Places
Hell Is Chrome
Muzzle Of Bees
Hummingbird
Wishful Thinking
Company In My Back
Less Than You Think

Not counting the Mermaid Avenue series.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Great idea for a thread.


The Essential The Smiths

Ask
Sheila Take a Bow
Shoplifters of the World Unite
Golden Lights
Still Ill
Barbarism Begins at Home
How Soon is Now?
Bigmouth Strikes Again
This Charming Man
Girlfriend in a Coma
What Difference Does it Make?
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
William, it Was Really Nothing
Panic
Hand in Glove
Sweet and Tender Hooligan
Rubber Ring
What She Said
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
There is a Light that Never Goes Out

[Brando @$$ Fat]

The Essential R.E.M.

Driver 8
Radio Free Europe
Shiny Happy People
Drive
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Can't Get There From Here
Everybody Hurts
Fall On Me
Losing My Religion
So, Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
Man on the Moon
It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
The One I Love

[powersauce]

essential Cars

Just What I Needed
Good Times Roll
All Mixed Up
Moving in Stereo
My Best Friend's Girl
Bye Bye Love
You're All I've Got Tonight
Let's Go
It's All I Can Do
Dangerous Type
You Can't Hold On Too Long
Got A Lot On My Head
Double Life
Since I Held You
Panorama
Touch and Go
Gimmie Some Slack
Don't Tell Me No
Down Boys
You Wear Those Eyes
Up and Down
Shake It Up
Since You're Gone
I'm Not the One
Victim of Love
A Dream Away
This Could Be Love
Hello Again
Looking For Love
Drive
You Might Think
Magic
Why Can't I Have You?
Stranger Eyes
Tonight She Comes
You Are the Girl

[therealjohng]

NINE INCH NAILS:

BROKEN
Pinion/Wish
Happiness In Slavery
Gave Up

PRETTY HATE MACHINE
Head Like a Hole
Something I Can Never Have
Ringfinger

STILL
The Persistence of Loss
Leaving Hope

THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL
Mr. Self Destruct
Piggy
Heresy
March of the Pigs
Closer
Ruiner
The Becoming
I Do Not Want This
Big Man With a Gun
A Warm Place
Eraser
The Downward Spiral
Hurt

THE FRAGILE
Somewhat Damaged
The Day The World Went Away
The Frail/The Wretched
We're In This Together
The Fragile
Just Like You Imagined
Even Deeper
Pilgrimage
La Mer
The Great Below

The Way Out Is Through
Into The Void
The Mark Has Been Made
Please
Starfuckers Inc.
Complication
I'm Looking Foward To Joining You, Finally
The Big Comedown
Underneath It All
Ripe (With Decay)

WITH TEETH
All The Love In The World
You Know What You Are?
The Hand That Feeds
Only
Getting Smaller
Beside You In Time
Right Where It Belongs


TOOL:

UNDERTOW
Intolerance
Prison Sex
Sober
Bottom
Crawl Away
Swamp Song
Undertow
4 Degrees
Flood
Disgustipated

AENIMA
Stinkfist
Eulogy
Die Eier Von Satan
Forty Six & 2
Pushit
Third Eye
Aenima

LATERALUS
The Grudge
Schism
Parabol/Parabola
Ticks & Leeches
Lateralus
Disposition
Reflection
Triad

10,000 DAYS
Vicarious
Jambi
The Pot
Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)
Rosetta Stoned
Intension
Right In Two


A PERFECT CIRCLE

MER DE NOMS
The Hollow
Judith
Magdalena

THIRTEENTH STEP
The Package
Weak & Powerless
The Noose
Blue
Vanishing
A Stranger
The Outsider
Crimes
The Nurse Who Loved Me
Lullaby
Gravity

eMOTIVe
What's Going On
Peace Love and Understanding
Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rythym of the War Drums

[Sigur509]

Originally posted by Brando @$$ Fat
Great idea for a thread.


The Essential The Smiths


No 'I Know It's Over'?

[DarkKnight81]

The Essential Coldplay (I'll try to limit it to 15)
1. Sparks
2. Spies
3. Yellow
4. Trouble
5. We Never Change
6. Politik
7. Clocks
8. Daylight
9. Warning Sign
10. Amsterdam
11. Square One
12. Speed Of Sound
13. Fix You
14. Talk
15. Low

Make all the '40 Year Old Virgin' "You know how I know you're gay" jokes you want. Coldplay rocks!

[Frank the Tank]

The Essential The Cure:

10.15 Saturday Night
A Fire In Cairo
Boys Don't Cry
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Killing An Arab
Play For Today
A Forest
Three
Primary
The Funeral Party
The Drowning Man
One Hundred Years
Siamese Twins
The Hanging Garden
Cold
Pornography
The Lovecats
The Caterpillar
The Empty World
In Between Days
Six Different Ways
Push
Close To Me
Charlotte Sometimes
Torture
Why Can't I Be You
Just Like Heaven
All I Want
One More Time
The Perfect Girl
Shiver And Shake
Pictures Of You
Closedown
Love Song
Last Dance
Lullaby
Fascination Street
Prayers For Rain
Disintegration
Untitled
Burn
Open
High
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
Wendy Time
Friday I'm In Love
Letter To Elise
Cut
Club America
Strange Attraction
Gone!
Trap
Bare
Watching Me Fall
The Loudest Song
39
Bloodflowers
Anniversary
Us Or Them
Alt.end
On
Taking Off
The Promise




Kind of tough considering, a few of their albums have songs that are all essential like Disintegration, Pornography, or The Head On The Door and Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. I've been revisiting all of their albums lately and damn Wish is one fucking underrated album. Hell, so is their self titled album they released a couple of years ago.


The Essential Death:

Zombie Ritual
Sacrificial
Mutilation
Evil Dead
Left To Die
Pull The Plug
Living Monstrosity
Spiritual Healing
Genetic Reconstruction
Flattening Of Emotions
Lack Of Comprehension
Vacant Planets
Secret Face
Overactive Imagination
Jealousy
Individiual Thought Patterns
Trapped In A Corner
The Philosopher
1,000 Eyes
Without Judgment
Crystal Mountain
Misanthrope
Perrenial Quest
Scavenger Of Human Sorrow
Spirit Crusher
Flesh And The Power It Holds
The Voice of The Soul
A Moment Of Clarity

The Essential Suffocation:

Liege Of Inveracity
Effigy Of the Forgotten
Seeds Of The Suffering
Reincremation
Mass Obliteration
Involuntary Slaughter
Breeding The Spawn
Epitaph Of The Credulous
Anomalistic Offerings
Pierced From Within
Thrones Of Blood
Suspended In Tribulation
The Invoking
Brood Of Hatred
Funeral Inception
Devoid Of Truth
Deceit
Souls To Deny
Surgery Of Impalement
Immortally Condemned
Tomes Of Acrimony

The Essential Talking Heads:

New Feeling
No Compassion
Don't Worry About The Government
Psycho Killer
Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
Artists Only
Take Me To The River
The Big Country
I Zimbra
Life During Wartime
Air
Heaven
Drugs
Born Under Punches
Crosseyed And Painless
The Great Curve
Once In A Lifetime
The Overload
Burning Down The House
Girlfriend Is Better
Slippery People
Swamp
This Must Be the Place
And She Was
Creatures Of Love
Stay Up Late
Road To Nowhere
Wild Wild Life
City Of Dreams
Blind
Flowers

[Tyler_Durden_208]

Hm... I guess I'll add some of my favorite bands to the thread :P

THE ESSENTIAL FEAR FACTORY
1. Martyr
2. Scapegoat
3. Self Immolation
4. Demanufacture
5. Replica
6. Edgecrusher
7. Smasher/Devourer
8. Descent
9. Resurrection
10. Timelessness
11. Cars
12. Linchpin
13. Invisible Wounds (Dark Bodies)
14. Cyberwaste
15. Archetype
16. Bite the Hand that Bleeds
17. Human Shields
18. 540,000° Farenheit
19. Echo of My Scream
20. Supernova

THE ESSENTIAL FAITH NO MORE
1. From Out of Nowhere
2. Epic
3. Falling to Pieces
4. Zombie Eaters
5. Caffeine
6. Midlife Crisis
7. Everything's Ruined
8. A Small Victory
9. Ricochet
10. Evidence
11. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
12. Cuckoo for Caca
13. Digging the Grave
14. Take This Bottle
15. What A Day
16. Stripsearch
17. Last Cup of Sorrow
18. Naked in Front of the Computer
19. Helpless
20. Mouth to Mouth
21. Ashes to Ashes
22. Paths of Glory

THE ESSENTIAL RAMMSTEIN
1. Asche Zu Asche
2. Heirate Mich
3. Sehnsucht
4. Engel
5. Du Hast
6. Spiel Mit Mir (Live)
7. Du Riescht So Gut '98
8. Sonne
9. Ich Will
10. Mutter
11. Spielhur
12. Mein Teil
13. Dalai Lama
14. Keine Lust
15. Los
16. Amerika
17. Ohne Dich
18. Benzin
19. Mann Gegen Mann
20. Rosenrot
21. Stirb Nicht Vor Mir (Don't Die Before I Do)
22. Te Quiero Puta!

THE ESSENTIAL MACHINE HEAD
1. Davidian
2. Old
3. I'm Your God Now
4. Block
5. Ten Ton Hammer
6. Take My Scars
7. Down To None
8. Desire To Fire
9. The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears
10. From This Day
11. Message in a Bottle
12. The Burning Red
13. Bulldozer
14. Crashing Around You
15. Trephination
16. Deafening Silence
17. Imperium
18. In the Presence of My Enemies
19. Seasons Whither
20. Descend the Shades of Night

THE ESSENTIAL IN FLAMES
1. Behind Space
2. Moonshield
3. Artifacts of the Black Rain
4. Lord Hypnos
5. Dead Eternity
6. Gyroscope
7. Episode 666
8. Ordinary Story
9. Bullet Ride
10. Pinball Map
11. Only for the Weak
12. Satellites and Astronauts
13. System
14. Cloud Connected
15. Dawn of a New Day
16. Like You Better Dead
17. My Sweet Shadow
18. Take This Life
19. Dead End
20. Come Clarity

[Raoul Duke]

The Clash
Rudie Can't Fail
White Riot
London Calling
The Clampdown
Janie Jones
Death or Glory
I'm So Bored with the U.S.A.
Rock the Casbah
Train In Vain
Spanish Bombs
I Fought the Law
Guns of Brixton

Dead Kennedys
Kill the Poor
Holiday in Cambodia
California Uber Alles
Chemical Warfare
Police Truck
Too Drunk to Fuck
MTV-Get Off the Air
Stars and Stripes of Corruption
I Fought the Law
Viva Las Vegas
Terminal Preppie
Nazi Punks Fuck Off

Sublime
April 29, 1992
Smoke Two Joints
We're Only Gonna Die From Our Own Arrogance
Date Rape
Saw Red
Pool Shark (acoustic)
Scarlet Begonias
KRS-One
Greatest Hits
What I Got
Santeria
Boss D.J.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Originally posted by Sigur509
No 'I Know It's Over'?

They're all so great, there's no way to choose just 20 or so. I kicked myself for forgetting Shakespeare's Sister.

[Puck Bond]

My kind of topic since I own over a dozen of "The Essential" Cds

The Essential Garbage
Disc 1
1. Supervixen
2. Queer
3. Only Happy When It Rains
4. Vow
5. Stupid Girl
6. My Lover's Box
7. Fix Me Now
8. Milk
9. #1 Crush
10. Temptation Waits
11. I Think I'm Paranoid
12. Medication
13. Special
14. Push It
15. The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
16. Sleep Together
17. You Look So Fine
Disc 2
1. The World Is Not Enough
2. Androgyny
3. Can't Cry These Tears
4. Cherry Lips(Go Baby Go)
5. Drive You Home
6. Untouchable
7. Bad Boyfriend
8. Run Baby Run
9. Why Do You Love Me
10. Bleed Like Me
11. Sex Is not the Enemy
12. It's All Over But the Crying
13. Happy Home

The Essential Alice in Chains
Disc 1
1. Man in the Box
2. Sea of Sorrow
3. Them Bones
4. Dam That River
5. Down in a Hole
6. Rooster
7. Angry Chair
8. Would?
9. Nutshell
10. I Stay Away
11. No Excuses
12. Whale & Wasp
Disc 2
1. Brother
2. Got Me Wrong
3. Right Turn
4. Grind
5. Heaven Beside You
6. Again
7. Over Now
8. Nutshell(Live)
9. No Excuses(Live)
10. Down in a Hole(Live)
11. Rooster(Live)
12. Would?(Live)
These "Essential" CD's like to throw in Live tracks so I'd take all these from the Unplugged Album.

I shoulda been a record producer...you know this!

[powersauce]

essential Police (culled from Message in a Box)

Next to You
So Lonely
Roxanne
Dead End Job (b side)
Hole in My Life
Can't Stand Losing You
Truth Hits Everybody
Born in the 50's
Be My Girl - Sally
Message in a Bottle
Regatta De Blanc (instrumental)
Bring on the Night
Walking on the Moon
Bed's Too Big Without You
No Time This Time
Visions of the Night (b side)
Don't Stand So Close to Me
Driven to Tears
When the World Is Running Down,You Make the Best of What's Still Around
Canary in a Coalmine
Bombs Away
Behind My Camel (instrumental)
De Do Do Do,De Da Da Da
Man in a Suitcase
The Other Way of Stopping (instrumental)
Low Life (b side) - great sax solo
Spirits in the Material World
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Invisible Sun
Hungry For You
Demolition Man
Rehumanize Yourself
Omegaman - best Police song written by Andy Summers
Secret Journey
Darkness
Synchornicity I/II
O My God
Every Breath You Take
King of Pain
Wrapped Around Your Finger
Murder by Numbers
Tea in the Sahara
I Burn For You (b side)
Once Upon a Daydream (b side)

[Tayzlor]

Every song off every album I've listened to of his is about essential as it comes though...

Essential Dylan
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Girl from North Country
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
One Too Many Mornings
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Motorpsycho Nitemare
Ballad in Plain D
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Mr. Tambourine Man
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Like a Rolling Stone
Ballad of a Thin Man
Queen Jane Approximately
Desolation Row
Visions of Johana
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
Tangled Up in Blue
Idiot Wind
Buckets of Rain
Love Sick
Not Dark Yet


Although I admit I haven't listened to "The Basement Tapes", "New Morning", "Desire", "Love and Theft", and everything else.

Essential VU
I'll Be Your Mirror
Venus in Furs
Sunday Morning
Heroin
I'm Waiting for The Man
Lady Godiva's Operation
Sister Ray
Some Kinda Love
Pale Blue Eyes
The Murder Mystery
After Hours
Stephanie Says
Lisa Says
Foggy Notion
Sweet Jane
New Age
Who Loves the Sun
Oh! Sweet Nuthin'

[Deadite914]

the essential:

Op Ivy:
sound system
freeze up
the crowd
take warning
screaming in my ear
bombshell
gonna find you
bad town
one of these days(semi-cover)
artifical life

the presidents of the united states of america

lump
peaches
sunshine
love delicateson
tiny explosions
japan
lunatic to love
volcano
tiger bomb
video killed the radio star(cover)
kitty
jazz guy
cleveland rocks
bug city
man(opposable thumbs)

[powersauce]

Oingo Boingo

Little Girls
On the Outside
Capitalism
You Really Got Me
Only a Lad
What You See
Nasty Habits
Grey Matter
Insects
Private Life
Wild Sex (In the Working Class)
Whole Day Off
Nothing to Fear (But Fear Itself)
Why'd We Come
Islands
Who Do You Want to Be?
No Spill Blood
Cry of the Vatos
Fill the Void
Sweat
Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me
Wake Up (It's 1984)
Dead or Alive
Little Guns
Just Another Day
Dead Man's Party
Heard Somebody Cry
No One Lives Forever
Stay
Fool's Paradise
Help Me
Same Man I Was Before
Weird Science
Where Do All My Friends Go
Elevator Man
New Generation
We Close Our Eyes
Not My Slave
My Life
Outrageous
When the Lights Go Out
Skin
Flesh n Blood
Out of Control
Goodbye Goodbye

[Le_Big_Mac]

The Beatles

Yesterday
Hey Jude
A Day in the Life
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Across the Universe
I Am the Walrus
Help!
Strawberry Fields Forever
Something
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
I Want to Hold Your Hand
In My Life
Helter Skelter
Eleanor Rigby
She Loves You
Come Together
Let It Be
Because
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Yellow Submarine

BONUS TRACKS:

Imagine (John Lennon)
Maybe I'm Amazed (Paul McCartney)


The Rolling Stones

Gimme Shelter
Paint It Black
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Sympathy For the Devil
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Miss You
Street Fighting Man
Let It Loose
Tumbling Dice
Wild Horses
Angie
Mixed Emotions
Bitch
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
Ruby Tuesday


Pink Floyd

Time
Comfortably Numb
Wish You Were Here
Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
Echoes
Money
Brain Damage
Eclipse
Run Like Hell
Shine On You Crazy Diamond

[one_crow_sorrow]

I'm going to go the "Best song from each album" route. Mostly because I'm bored and should be doing other things.

Genesis
The Conqueror
The Knife
The Musical Box
Supper's Ready
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
In the Cage
Dance on a Volcano
Eleventh Earl of Mar
Down and Out
Turn It On Again
Dodo/Lurker
Home by the Sea
Domino
Driving the Last Spike

Gentle Giant
Nothing at All
Pantagruel's Nativity
Mister Class and Quality?
The Advent of Panurge
The Runaway
Cogs In Cogs
On Reflection
Design

Peter Gabriel
Solsbury Hill
Mother of Violence
Intruder
The Rhythm of the Heat
Mercy Street
Come Talk to Me
Darkness

[Cermond]

Rush
-By-Tor And The Snow Dog
-2112
-A Farewell To Kings
-Xanadu
-Circumstances
-The Trees
-La Villa Strangiato
-Spirit Of The Radio
-Freewill
-Different Strings
-Limelight
-Camera Eye
-Vital Signs
-Subvisions
-Red Sector A
-The Enemy Within
-Mystic Rhytms
-Animate
-Farcry

Iron Maiden
-Prowler
-Phantom Of The Opera
-Killers
-Hallowed Be Thy Name
-Children Of The Damned
-Revelations
-Where Eagles Dare
-Aces High
-Flash Of The Blade
-Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
-Alexander The Great
-Moonchild
-The Propechy
-No Prayer For The Dying
-Fates Warning
-Childhood's End
-Fear Of The Dark
-Sign Of The Cross
-Lord Of The Flies
-Judgment Of Heaven
-Edge Of Darkness
-Educated Fool
-When Two World's Collide
-The Wicker Man
-Ghost Of The Navigator
-Dance Of Death
-Paschendale
-Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
-The Longest Day
-For The Greater Good Of God
-The Legacy

Slayer
-The Antichrist
-Show No Mercy
-Hell Awaits
-Chemichal Warfare
-Angel Of Death
-Altar Of Sacrifice
-Criminally Insane
-Raining Blood
-South Of Heaven
-Dead Skin Mask
-War Ensemble
-Seasons In The Abyss
-Killing Fields
-Dittohead
-Disciple
-War Zone
-Cult
-Flesh Storm

Metallica
-The Four Horsemen
-Whiplash
-Fade To Black
-Creeping Death
-The Call Of Ktulu
-Master Of Puppets
-Welcome Home(Sanitarium)
-Orion
-Blackened
-One
-Dyer's Eve
-The Unforgiven
-God That Failed
-St. Anger

[therealjohng]

THE ESSENTIAL Nickelback:

[xseanymacx]

Essential ON BROKEN WINGS:

Listless
I Do My Crosswords in Pen
As You Speak
Like Starstream