Your personal Best Of... albums

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Oh crap! I meant that to be “The Wrong Girl”.

Hey, I thought these lists were supposed to be 12 songs long…in that case, throw “Waiting for the Moon to Rise” back in there, along with about 60 other Belle and Seb songs…:smiley:

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Not bad… but I’d counter with:

  1. Hush
  2. Speed King
  3. Child in Time
  4. Flight of the Rat
  5. Black Knight
  6. Rat Bat Blue
  7. Highway Star
  8. Fireball
  9. Burn
  10. Knocking at Your Back Door
  11. Gypsy’s Kiss
  12. Perfect Strangers
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A Baker’s Dozen of Rush:

  1. YYZ
  2. 2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx
  3. Closer to the Heart
  4. The Trees
  5. Freewill
  6. Tom Sawyer
  7. Limelight
  8. Fly by Night
  9. Subdivisions
  10. Show Don’t Tell
  11. Red Barchetta
  12. The Spirit of Radio
  13. The Rhythm Method
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Best of ELP:

  1. Take a Pebble
  2. The 3 Fates
  3. From the Beginning
  4. Eruption
  5. Stones of Years
  6. Battlefield
  7. Jersusalem
  8. Toccata (by Ginastera)
  9. Karn Evil 9: Third Impression
  10. Keith Emerson’s Piano Concerto #1
  11. Closer to Believing
  12. Pirates

Best of the Kinks:

  1. You Really Got Me
  2. Tired of Waiting for You
  3. Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
  4. Big Sky
  5. Animal Farm
  6. Victoria
  7. Shangri-la
  8. Arthur
  9. Apeman
  10. Rock and Roll Fantasy
  11. Do It Again
  12. Don’t Forget to Dance
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Best of Billy Joel:

  1. Captain Jack
  2. The Entertainer
  3. Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
  4. Only the Good Die Young
  5. Stiletto
  6. You May Be Right
  7. A Matter of Trust
  8. Baby Grand
  9. Allentown
  10. Leningrad
  11. The Downeaster Alexa
  12. And So It Goes

Best Of Bruce Springsteen:

  1. Rosalita
  2. Jungleland
  3. She’s the One
  4. Thunder Road
  5. Darkness On the Edge of Town
  6. Pink Cadillac
  7. Because the Night
  8. Open All Night
  9. I’m On Fire
  10. One Step Up
  11. Tougher Than the Rest
  12. Human Touch

Best of the Cars:

  1. You’re All I’ve Got Tonight
  2. Bye Bye Love
  3. Candy-O
  4. Let’s Go
  5. Dangerous Type
  6. Down Boys
  7. Up and Down
  8. Gimme Some Slack
  9. Shake It Up
  10. Think It Over
  11. Magic
  12. It’s Not the Night
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Ahem. “Sweet Jane”?! I mean, I get that you can’t put everything on there (though I think the only “Best of the Velvet Underground” would have to include at least all four studio albums and “Ride into the Sun”), but how can you leave off “Sweet Jane?” Personally, I’d’ve taken off “Train 'Round the Bend” and put in “Sweet Jane.” And I’d probably cut “I’m Sticking with You” and put on either “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’” or “Some Kinda Love,” just because there’s not enough of the third album on your list. Otherwise, bravo!

27

astorian, you forgot Talk to the Wind. At least I hope you forgot it.

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Best of Alice in Chains

  1. Them Bones
  2. No Excuses
  3. I Stay Away
  4. Rooster
  5. Down in a Hole
  6. Bleed the Freak
  7. Angry Chair
  8. Man in the Box
  9. We Die Young
  10. Would?
  11. Sea of Sorrow
  12. What the Hell Have I?

Best of Metallica (2)

  1. Battery
  2. Master of Puppets
  3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  4. Fade to Black
  5. Enter Sandman
  6. Nothing Else Matters
  7. One
  8. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
  9. The Four Horsemen
  10. Creeping Death
  11. Stone Cold Crazy (Queen cover)
  12. Seek and Destroy

The first list is my 12 favorite AiC songs, while the second list is the 12 best Met songs. You will notice nothing from the “Load twins” appears, because those albums sucked.

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In no particular order:

Sweet Emotion w/Dazed and Confused & Peter Gunn, intro-Uncle Salty*
Pink
The Farm
Janie’s Got a Gun
Train Kept a Rollin’
Come Together
Dream On**
Livin’ On The Edge
Love In An Elevator
Same Old Song And Dance
Walk This Way
Taste of India

*- as played often in 70’s tours
**- as heard at MTV’s 10th Anniversary show, with a full symphony orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen.

I guess I like the darker, more bass-driven ones.

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Just to defend my selection a bit - well, I wanted to put Sweet Jane on there, but I think it’s a pretty mediocre song as far as VU goes. It’s just that everyone else talks about it so much that made me want it there in the first place. But I didn’t feel like cutting a song I really love to put in a song that everyone else loves, so I left it out. :slight_smile:

And if I replaced “I’m Sticking with You” with any other song longer than 2 minutes and 40 seconds it wouldn’t fit on a CD, so no dice.

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Best of U2

(in no order)

  1. One
  2. Where the Streets Have No Name
  3. Acrobat
  4. Mysterious Ways
  5. Beautiful Day
  6. The Fly
  7. Mofo
  8. Staring at the Sun
  9. With or Without You
  10. New Year’s Day
  11. Miss Sarajevo
  12. Sweetest Thing
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Actually, there were a lot of songs I agonized over, but that wasn’t one of them. I’ve chosen to limit myself to 12 as a (ahem) “discipline,” and that usually means a lot of good stuff doesn’t make it. My nearest misses were “Satori in Tangiers,” “Cadence and Cascade,” “The Night Watch,” and “Easy Money.”

Best of the Byrds:

  1. Mr. Tambourine Man
  2. Feel a Whole Lot Better
  3. The Bells of Rhymney
  4. Chimes of Freedom
  5. Eight Miles High
  6. So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star
  7. Wasn’t Born to Follow
  8. Goin’ Back
  9. Get To You
  10. Change Is Now
  11. Dolphin Smile
  12. Love That Never Dies
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Twelve favourite Genesis songs - although that would fill more than once CD:

  1. Mad man moon
  2. Carpet crawlers
  3. Cinema show
  4. The lamia
  5. Dancing with the moonlit knight
  6. Firth of Fifth
  7. Ripples
  8. Entangled
  9. A trick of the tail
  10. Land of confusion
  11. Follow you follow me
  12. Squonk
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Twelve Queen greats:

  1. Killer queen
  2. Love of my life
  3. You’re my best friend
  4. Under pressure
  5. Bohemian rhapsody
  6. Who wants to live forever
  7. Another one bites the dust
  8. '39
  9. Crazy little thing called love
  10. Save me
  11. Bicycle race
  12. Now I’m here
35

The best of Simon and Garfunkel:

  1. Sound of silence
  2. Kathy’s song
  3. For Emily
  4. Scarborough fair
  5. America
  6. The boxer
  7. Homeward bound
  8. Mrs Robinson
  9. I am a rock
  10. The only living boy in New York
  11. Old friends
  12. Hazy shade of winter
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Best of U2 (2)

  1. Beautiful Day
  2. Pride (in the name of love)
  3. Where the streets have no name
  4. Still haven’t found what I’m looking for
  5. With or without you
  6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
  7. Walk on
  8. One
  9. Electrical storm
  10. All I want is you
  11. Mysterious ways
  12. Desire

Regarding my Metallica best of I’d probably take out Memory and put For Whom the Bell Tolls instead. I forgot about that one.

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U2/Passengers - my view:

  1. New years day
  2. With or without you
  3. Miss Serajevo
  4. Pride
  5. October
  6. One
  7. Sunday bloody Sunday
  8. Bad
  9. Still haven’t found what I’m looking for
  10. Where the streets have no name
  11. I will follow
  12. Beautiful day
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Beatles (controversial choice on #1)

  1. She’s leaving home
  2. A day in the life
  3. Blackbird
  4. Eleanor Rigby
  5. Yesterday
  6. Lucy in the sky with diamonds
  7. The ballad of John and Yoko
  8. Penny Lane
  9. Strawberry fields forever
  10. A hard day’s night
  11. Lady madonna
  12. Back in the USSR
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Roxy Music, anyone?

  1. Oh yeah
  2. Take a chance on me
  3. Virginia plain
  4. Street life
  5. Jealous guy
  6. Dance away the heartache
  7. Do the strand
  8. More than this
  9. Avalon
  10. Love is the drug
  11. Angel eyes
  12. Pyamarama
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Oasis

  1. Rock and Roll Star
  2. D’you Know What I Mean
  3. Champagne Supernova
  4. Idler’s Dream
  5. Rockin Chair
  6. Live Forever
  7. Songbird
  8. Some Might Say
  9. Going Nowhere
  10. To Be Someone (Jam song, I know)
  11. Columbia
  12. Don’t Look Back In Anger