You seem to have misspelled “Mr. Blue Sky” on your list. 
Great list! I would add:
Passenger Side
Candyfloss
and if it’s not cheating, a couple from the “Mermaid Avenue” CD with Billy Bragg:
California Stars
Hesitating Beauty
Why not anything from The Resistance?
Brian Jonestown Massacre:
(1) Swallowtail
(2) Anenome (not a typo)
(3) Spun
(4) Straight Up and Down
(5) Miss June '75
(6) Nevertheless
(7) That Girl Suicide
(8) Everyone Says
(9) Servo
(10) Oh Lord
The Decemberists:
(1) The Rake’s Song
(2) I Was Meant for the Stage
(3) July, July!
(4) The Hazards of Love 2
(5) My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist
(6) Odalisque
(7) The Tain
(8) Kingdom of Spain
(9) Grace Cathedral Hill
(10) California One-Youth and Beauty Brigade
Anberlin - in no particular order
- Godspeed
- Paperthin Hymn
- A Day Late
- Dance, Dance, Christa Paffgen
- Time and Confusion
- The Resistance
- Feel Good Drag
- The Haunting
- There Is No Mathematics To Love And Loss
- The Promise (cover)
Best album - Cities (IMO)
Richard Thompson
1 King Of Bohemia
2 Cooksferry Queen
3 From Galway To Graceland
4 Guns Are The Tongues
5 Old Thames Side
6 She Cut Off Her Long Silken Hair
7 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
8 Dry My Tears And Move On
9 I Can’t Wake Up To Save My Life
10 I Feel So Good
11 Dark Hand Over My Heart
12 Al Bowlly’s in Heaven
13 Razor Dance
14 Crawl Back
15 A Heart Needs A Home
16 Dimming Of The Day
17 Shoot Out The Lights
18 I Misunderstood
19 Valerie
20 Sibella
Good list, my list for the 'Coop…
Be My Lover
Desperado
Blue Turk
Generation Landslide
Billion Dollar Babies
Muscle of Love
Welcome to my Nightmare
I’m the Coolest
Wish You Were Here
You and Me (live Muppets version :D)
I’m Your Gun
Roses on White Lace
Prince of Darkness
Jimmy Buffett
- Havana Daydreamin’
- Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season
- One Particular Harbor
- A Pirate Looks At Forty
- Desperation Samba
- If The Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s Me
- Incommunicado
- God’s Own Drunk
- Party At The End Of The World
- Apocalypso
- It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere
- That’s My Story And I’m Stickin’ To It
- Volcano
- Cuban Crime of Passion
- Tiki Bar
**
Warren Zevon**
- The Envoy
- Seminole Bingo
- Back In The High Life Again
- Hasten Down The Wind
- Piano Fighter
- Poor Poor Pitiful Me
- Keep Me In Your Heart
- Mohammed’s Radio
- Desperadoes Under the Eaves
- Life’ll Kill Ya
Chuckle…it’s just never been on my list of faves, though it’s definitely a prototypical ELO song.
Well, there’s only four tracks on that that I’d be tempted to include: “Resistance,” “United States of Eurasia,” “Unnatural Selection,” and “I Belong To You” – because listing the Exogenesis Symphony as one track is totally cheating (and listing its movements separately would give that opus too much of a presence on my list). Of those, “US” is the kind of darkly proggy (the organ bit helps) and heavy-riffing track I’ve come to expect from Muse, “USoE” is an achingly lovely number albeit devoted to some of Matt’s most lunatic lyrics since “Exo-Politics,” and “IBTY” was a most delightful surprise, if equally bizarre in its own right (for Matt – unpronouncable French lyrics in the 19th-C. opera credenza, and then there’s that clarinet solo at the end). And TBH, it probably doesn’t help their cases that on their touring over the past year Matt’s been skipping the Chopin outro on “USoE,” they’ve all but dropped “US” from the playlist already, and “IBTY” only got performed, like, twice. (And forget the clarinet solo!)
But mainly it was due to my arbitrary limiting the list to a mere ten. You realize, I posted a Musey favorites list that left off “Plug In Baby” (with the guitar riff listed in one magazine poll as the 11th best in the history of rock, and whose performance is always accompanied by those hilarious oversized, confetti-containing Hullaballoons/eyeball-balloons), “Assassin” (any version), “Blackout,” “Hate This and I’ll Love You” (hey, I freakin’ LOVE that song!), “Execution Commentary” (a pet favorite; its heavy breakdown riffing sends me over the edge into ecstasy every time), “Dead Star” (does that track have some of the most complicated rhythms, or what? How Dom counts out that drum part, I’ll never know…), “Map of the Problematique” (a concert staple and the best song Depeche Mode never wrote), “Escape” (that early song that they almost never performed even in their early days, even though that guitar solo was a most telling and teasing promise of things to come), “Fillip,” “Uno,” “Agitated,” “Thoughts of a Dying Atheist,” and…
“NEW BORN”. Yep, I left off that perennial staple of virtually ALL their shows for the past decade. The song that defines Muse as much as any other. That kicks things off with two minutes’ worth of piano arpeggios and wraps them up with about three-to-four minutes’ worth of insane heavy-metal riffing and sometimes-sexualized amp abuse.
Whew! Sorry to go on like this, but you did ask… and I’m truly obsessed with that band (can you tell?).
Revisiting your list, I feel tempted to check this band out, partly because you’re familiar with Muse, but mostly because two of their song titles are in common with great songs by two of my favorite bands – #6 “The Resistance” (Muse, although their song title leaves off the article) and #8 “The Haunting” (The Golden Palominos).
Silly, I know, but that probably goes with the territory of being a die-hard Muse fan. 
It probably is cheating.
And how about “Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key”?
As a Skinny Puppy fan, I can say that there are no objectionable tracks on that list. Good choices, overall.
VNV Nation
- Honour
- Beloved
- Kingdom
- Standing
- The Farthest Star
- Chrome
- From My Hands
- Further
- Nemesis
- Perpetual
Mesh (UK) - Leave You Nothing
- Trust You
- Petrified
- It Scares Me
- Is it so hard?
- Fragile (US Mix)
- Not Prepared
- Only Better
- Let them crush us
- From this height
EELS
Dirty Girl
Fresh Feeling
That Look You Give That Guy
Blinking Lights (For Me)
Railroad Man
Flyswatter
It’s a Mtherfcker
Beginners Luck
Trouble With Dreams
Grace Kelly Blues
End Times
Fresh Blood
Climbing To The Moon
CAKE
- Comanche
- Pentagram
- I Bombed Korea
- Ain’t No Good
- Frank Sinatra
- The Distance
- It’s Coming Down
- She’ll Come Back To Me
- Italian Leather Sofa
- Mexico
- Walk On By
- Sheep Go To Heaven
- Opera Singer
- Shadow Stabbing
- Short Skirt/Long Jacket
- Arco Arena
- Comfort Eagle
- Wheels
- Dime
- End Of The Movie
(Regarding Muse)
Fair enough. Just too many good songs.
Regarding Anberlin: I guess it’s a coincidence that The Resistance, off of the album New Surrender, came out almost exactly one year before Muse’s The Resistance. That’s the only song I included off New Surrender, though, and I didn’t include any off their new album Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place. Both are good but their earlier stuff is a bit better IMO.
But yeah, you should definitely check out Anberlin, especially the albums Never Take Friendship Personal and Cities.
Eva Cassidy
- Over the Rainbow
- Fields of Gold
- Autumn Leaves
- Songbird
- Kathy’s Song
- Tennessee Waltz
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Blues in the Night
- Penny to My Name
- Little Children
Barenaked Ladies
I can’t sort a top ten, so these are my favorites in no particular order:
- Aluminum
- The Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel
- When I Fall [one of my all-time favorite songs, period]
- I Didn’t Mean to Break Your Heart
- The Old Apartment
- Straw Hat and Dirty Hank
- Pinch Me
- One Week
- For You
- Alcohol
I could go on…I do love their music.
Would it help if we tried to define the genre?
So folks looking for good mellow '70’s singer-songwriter stuff don’t end up wasting their time with-
Ministry:
01 Stigmata
02 N.W.O.
03 Lies
04 Thieves
05 Jesus Built My Hotrod
06 What About Us? (from the film, A.I.)
07 Khyber Pass
08 So What
09 Animosity
10 Everyday is Halloween
Again, ten songs should be enough.
I’m totally about sharing my love of music to folks who might not get it, I also understand it’s best done in small amounts.
If I could ever do a Merzbow list, it would be at least 144 tracks long. Yes, just because.
You could take your clock radio, tune it to static, and record yourself beating the shit out of it, night after night, but it wouldn’t be the same. Masami Akita does it better.
Good list, but I would have traded “Boom-Boom Mancini” for “Back In The High Life Again”.