You have 3 songs ... make the case for your favorite artists

[sir clinksalot]

If you had 3 songs to showcase your favorite artists, what would that they be?

Radiohead:
Fake Plastic Trees
The National Anthem
Reckoner

Bon Jovi:
Wanted Dead or Alive
Livin' on a Prayer
Bed of Roses

The Cure:
10:15 Saturday Night
All Cats are Grey
Why Can't I Be you?

Dave Matthews Band:
Satellite (Live at Red Rocks)
Bartender
Warehouse

Depeche Mode:
Personal Jesus
Walking in My Shoes (live)
Somebody

Foo Fighters:
Monkey Wrench
The Last Song
Marigold (Live - Acoustic)

Kings X:
Lost in Germany
It's Love
Goldilox

NIN:
March of the Pigs
Sin
The Hand That Feeds

Presidents of the United States of America:
Volcano
Japan
Boll Weevil

Primus:
John the Fisherman
DMV
Jerry was a race car driver (have to go with it)

Smashing Pumpkins:
Pug
Siva
Cherub Rock

U2:
Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Red Hill Mining Town
Mofo

Weird Al:
Yoda
Party at the Leper Colony
Trapped in the Drive Thru

Genesis (Pete lead):
Watcher Of The Skies
The Cinema Show
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis (Phil lead):
Blood On The Rooftops
You Might Recall
Me And Sarah Jane

AC/DC:
Back in Black
Thunderstruck
Highway to Hell

Rush:
Spirit of Radio
Red Barchetta
The Pass

I tried to narrow the Beatles down to 3, I just can't do it.

[MonstersGoBoo!]

AFI:
Malleus Maleficarum
Wester
Death Of Seasons

Queensryche:
Someone Else? (Full band version)
Take Hold of the Flame
Empire

The Gaslight Anthem:
Miles Davis & The Cool
Old White Lincoln
1930

The Faint:
I Disappear
Posed To Death
Glass Danse

System of a Down:
Boom!
Ddevil
Streamline

Tiger Army:
Afterworld
Under Saturn's Shadow
Santa Clara Twilight

[Tui]

The White Stripes
One More Cup of Coffee (Bob Dylan cover)
Ball and Biscuit
Fell in Love with a Girl

Radiohead
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Creep
Karma Police

The Pixies
Where is My Mind?
Hey
Vamos

[aashee]

Oooh, I love this thread. Give me some time to think, I have to many artisits.

[mister_peterman]

Animal Collective
My Girls
For Reverend Green
Fireworks

Arcade Fire
Wake Up
(Antichrist Television Blues)
Neighbourhood #2 (Laika)

Beck
Mixed Bizness
The New Pollution
The Golden Age

Belle & Sebastian
Wrapped up in Books
The Boy With the Arab Strap
Seeing Other People

Blur
Battery In Your Leg
Trouble In The Message Centre
Coffee & TV

The Clash
This is Radio Clash
The Guns of Brixton
Spanish Bombs

The Flaming Lips
Kim's Watermelon Gun
Talkin' 'Bout The Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues
The Spark That Bled

The New Pornographers
Sing Me Spanish Techno
The Body Says No
The Laws Have Changed

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Mercy Seat
Abattoir Blues
Tupelo

Of Montreal
Rapture Rapes the Muses
Suffer For Fashion
An Eluardian Instance

The Shins
Phantom Limb
Girl Inform Me
Saint Simon

The Sleepy Jackson
This Day
I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree
Cavities

Talking Heads
Life During Wartime
Once in a Lifetime
Houses in Motion

[aimster]

U2
Out of Control
Where the Streets Have No Name
City of Blinding Lights

The Cure
Disintegration
Primary
A Forest

Duran Duran
Hold Back the Rain
The Seventh Stranger
None of the Above

Depeche Mode
Policy of Truth
Behind the Wheel
A Question of Lust

OK Go
You're So Damn Hot
Do What You Want
Get Over It


I got more but need to think a bit (and look at my CDs at home).

[dizzneeland]

Metallica
To Live Is To Die
Seek And Destroy
End Of The Line


Primus:
John the Fisherman
DMV
Jerry was a race car driver (have to go with it)
(Sir Clink hit it on the nose)


Eminem:
I'm Back
Criminal
Marshall Mathers

Freddy Flossalini
Go Bad
Riding It Still
Thoughts


I'll think of more later....

[brand42]

mister peterman, I like a lot of the artists that you listed!

The Arcade Fire
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Black Wave/Bad Vibrations

The Decemberists
The Engine Driver
We Both Go Down Together
The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid

The Flaming Lips
Fight Test
Race for the Prize
Waitin' for a Superman

Interpol
The New
Slow Hands
The Heinrich Maneuver

Muse
Map of the Problematique
Knights of Cydonia
Time is Running Out

Neko Case
Deep Red Bells
If You Knew
People Got a Lotta Nerve

The New Pornographers
Letter to an Occupant
The End of Medicine
My Rights Versus Yours

Portishead
The Rip
Mysterons
Cowboys

Radiohead
There There
2+2=5
Like Spinning Plates

Sigur Ros
Hoppipolla
Saeglopur
Samskeyti

The Smiths
Big Mouth Strikes Again
There is a Light that Never Goes Out
The Boy with a Thorn in his Side

Sufjan Stevens
For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti
Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head

The White Stripes
Icky Thump
Hello Operator
Hotel Yorba

[Angie_Duke]

Just 3?

The Andrews Sisters
Oh Johnny! Oh Johnny! Oh!
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar / Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Huey Lewis and the News
The Power of Love
Hip to be Square
I Want a New Drug

Oingo Boingo
Weird Science
Just Another Day
Dead Man's Party

Kenny Loggins
Footloose
Mr. Night
Return to Pooh Corner* / I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man) (personal choice)

Guns N' Roses
Paradise City
November Rain
Sweet Child O' Mine

Aerosmith
Love in an Elevator
Rag Doll
Cryin'

Electric Light Orchestra
All Over the World
Don't Bring Me Down
I'm Alive

*not really in my "top 3" but I still find it crazy how the same person who wrote "Danger Zone" could also write this incredibly sad/beautiful (for me at least) song.

more will come later

[Rocker]

Rush-

Losing It (one of the band's most underrated songs ever!)
Vital Signs (another great underrated song)
Turn the Page

The Rolling Stones-

Miss You
Mixed Emotions
She's So Cold

Aerosmith

The Train Kept a Rollin'
F.I.N.E
Sick as a Dog

Beck-

Loser
The New Pollution
The Devil's Haircut

AC/DC-

Highway to Hell
You Shook Me All Night Long
Thunderstruck

INXS

Suicide Blonde
A New Sensation
The One Thing

Weezer-

Buddy Holly
No One Else
Island in the Sun

The Doobie Brothers-

Black Water
China Grove
Listen to the Music

Green Day-

American Idiot
Basket Case
Brain Stew

[flynnibus]

I can't believe it took 9 posts until someone mentioned the Stones.

Sorry, but these kinds of threads remind me of drinking games that try to make you think. Trying to mix brain work with something that should be totally devoid of it Picking tracks is laborous... just give me shelter

[Radiobarry]

I'll probably have a few posts here.

Beach Boys - (from different parts of their development)

California Girls
God Only Knows
Til' I Die

Beatles - (same as above)

She Loves You
I'll Follow The Sun
All You Need Is Love

Stones
Satisfaction
Baby You're Out Of Time
Start Me Up

Eagles
Take It Easy
New Kid In Town
Already Gone

Alabama
Mountain Music
Give Me One More Shot
my Home's In Alabama

ELO

Strange Magic
Can't Get It Out Of My Head
Turn to Stone

more to come...I'm sure...

[Pete's Dragon]

Dave Matthews Band
Crush (Live from Central Park)
Best of What's Around
I'll Back You Up

311
Prisoner
Come Original
Down

Genesis (Phil Collins)
Domino
Throwing it All Away
Invisible Touch

Goldfrapp
Little Bird
Utopia
Koko

M83
Kim and Jessie
Teen Angst
Highway of Endless Dreams

Spoon
I turn my camera on
The ghost of you lingers
I Summon You