Name a band, then list 3 songs you think are essential to their catalog of music

[BrokenVisage]

I'm trying to expand my music library with new bands/songs since it recently dawned on me that I only listen to the same stuff over and over, so I'm looking for suggestions of what to sample from bands I never thought to listen to or heard of to see if I like them enough to add to my collection. Guess I'll start with a few of my own picks to get the ball rolling.

Boston - Dont Look Back, Long Time, More Than A Feeling
The Cars - Bye Bye Love, Just What I Needed, My Best Friend's Girlfriend
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4, You're The Inspiration, Saturday In the Park
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight, Take Me Home, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
Elvis Costello - Veronica, Pump It Up, Accidents Will Happen
Genesis - Follow You Follow Me, Home By The Sea, No Reply At All
Heart - Crazy On You, Barracuda, Magic Man
The Hooters - And We Danced, Where Do The Children Go, Day By Day
INXS - New Sensation, Devil Inside, Never Tear Us Apart
The Police - Synchronicity II, King of Pain, Every Breath You Take
REM - Pop Song 89, Stand, Radio Song
Rush - Closer To The Heart, Fly By Night, Subdivisions
Talking Heads - Once In a Lifetime, And She Was, Wild Wild Life
Van Halen (w/ DLR) - Dance The Night Away, I'll Wait, Jump
Van Halen (w/ Sammy) - Can't Stop Lovin' You, Summer Nights, Dreams
Yes - Brother Of Mine, Owner Of a Lonely Heart, Starship Trooper

I could go on a lot further but I think that's a good enough mix of what I got so far.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times, Hvite Krists Død, Mother North
Enslaved - Hordalendingen, Alfablot, Kvasirs Blod
Einherjer - Far Far North, Odin Owns Ye All, Hammar Haus
Bloodbath - The Soul Collector, Ways to the Grave, Breeding Death

 

[stargazr]

James Gang - Walk Away, Funk #49, Tend My Garden

 

[Gibson486]

Blur- Beetlebum, The Universal, No Distance Left to run
Ash- Kung fu, Shining Light, Goldfinger
Sebadoh- Ocean, Flame...and well, that is all I really recommend from them

 

[Imp]

U2 - Ultraviolet, With or Without You, Where the Streets Have No name
Aimee Mann - Red Vines, Ghost World, I Can't Help You Anymore
Sara Bareilles - Gonna Get Over You, August Moon, Bottle It Up
Matthew Good - Apparitions, Load Me Up, Hello Time Bomb
Taylor Swift - The Way I Loved You, Enchanted, Teardrops of My Guitar

 

[Kadarin]

Clan of Xymox - There's No Tomorrow, Imagination, Blind Hearts

 

[Jeffg010]

Rush - Tom Sawyer, The Spirit Of Radio, Closer To The Heart

Rush the with the right songs

 

[Jeffg010]

Joe Satriani- Surfing With The Alien, Big Bad Moon, Summer Song

 

[PClark99]

The Who - My Generation, Won't Get Fooled Again, Baba O'Riley

 

[Joseph F]

Disturbed - Stricken, Prayer, Inside The Fire
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby, Help!, Something
Hollywood Undead - Undead, Everywhere I Go, Hear Me Now
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, All Along The Watchtower
KMFDM - Megalomaniac, Anarchy, Looking For Strange
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole, Last, Happiness In Slavery
Pearl Jam - Alive, Black, Jeremy
Papa Roach - Take Me, She Loves Me Not, Scars
Rammstein - Mein Teil, Feuer Frei!, Du Riechst So Gut
Trapt - Headstrong, Made Of Glass, Stand Up
Weezer - Buddy Holly, Say It Ain't So, Island In The Sun
Puddle of Mudd, She Hates Me, Blurry, Psycho
Shinedown - 45, Save Me, Burning Bright

 

[CPA]

Rush - Tom Sawyer, The Spirit Of Radio, Closer To The Heart

Rush the with the right songs

As much as it might be blasmaphous, I would change out Closer to the Heart with Trees.


My choice:

Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills, Number of the Beast and Two Minutes to Midnight

 

[Scotteq]

Heading off the beaten path



Miles Davis ("Modern" Jazz) - 'Flamenco Sketches', 'Blue in Green', and 'So What'. All on the album 'Kind of Blue'.


Kelly Joe Phelps (Acoustic Blues/Folk) - "Katy", "Fleashine", "Black Waterside" (which Jimmy Page borrowed from Bert Jansh as 'Black Mountainside')

 

[JohnAn2112]

Pantera - Walk, Fucking Hostile, Cemetery Gates

 

[Anubis]

As much as it might be blasmaphous, I would change out Closer to the Heart with Trees.


My choice:

Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills, Number of the Beast and Two Minutes to Midnight

D:

Hallowed be thy Name, Powerslave, Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 

[PatrickBateman]

Alice in Chains - Would?, Rooster, Down in a hole
Soundgarden - Rusty cage, jesus christ pose, black hole sun
Faith no More - epic, midlife crisis, a small victory
Tool - sober, aenima, parabola

 

[Ns1]

Tool - Lateralus, Intolerance, Third Eye
NIN - The Wretched, The Becoming, Terrible Lie

 

[Ns1]

Tool - parabola

parabola is only 60% of a tool song without parabol.

 

[shortylickens]

For Yes, you should substitute Homeworld for Brother of Mine.

 

[Anubis]

Metallica: Master of Puppets, Creeping Death, One

 

[PatrickBateman]

parabola is only 60% of a tool song without parabol.

true, but many people I know (not including myself) skip parabol

 

[Anubis]

Dio: Holy Diver, Rainbow in the Dark, Dream Evil

 

[Krynj]

At The Gates: Blinded By Fear - Terminal Spirit Disease - World of Lies.
Arch Enemy: Ravenous - Black Earth - I am legend, Out for Blood.
The Faceless: Leica - Prison Born - Xenochrist
Veil of Maya: It's not safe to swim today - We Bow In Its Aura - Unbreakable

 

[datwater]

Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias, Eyes of the World, Wharf Rat

 

[irishScott]

Deff Leppard:
Pour Some Sugar on Me
Photograph
Rocket

 

[SP33Demon]

For the Police, Roxanne > synchronicity