Mini-Best-Ofs

[Rob McCow]

What would go on the Mini-Best-Ofs of your favourite musical acts? 5 songs max!

Here's a couple to get started. Of course, I'm now 33 and now woefully out of date, musically.

New Order:
Bizarre Love Triangle
True Faith
Close Range
Regret
Your Silent Face

Kate Bush:
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
How To Be Invisible
Hounds of Love
Wuthering Heights
Lily

Tell us yours!

[SiHart]

ABBA:
Dancing Queen
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Super Trouper
The Winner Takes It All
One of Us

David Bowie
Space Oddity
Changes
Golden Years
Ashes to Ashes
Everyone Says Hi!

[duncan]

Culture Club
Karma Chameleon
Your Kisses are Charity
It's A Miricle
Move Away
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

Take That
Rule the World
Shine
The Flood
Back for Good
Patience

[Dino]

A Seriously Brief Guide To...

Jimi Hendrix

Manic Depression
Bold As Love
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
Machine Gun
Night Bird Flying

Pink Floyd

Interstellar Overdrive
A Saucerful Of Secrets (Umma Gumma version)
Echoes
Time
Comfortably Numb

I tried doing more but ended up with a headache! More about leaving off certain tracks. If you don't, I might start a thread about Mini-Best of's about Doctor Who Doctors.

[Nyder]

Do these have to be Top 40 hits, or any song from an artist / band? I need to know Da Rulz :-)

[Rob McCow]

It's your Mini-Best-Of, Dave - if you had to compile a best-of from an artists' back catalogue (no limits on singles or album tracks) what would you choose?

Of course, you can make up your own rules if you like! No songs with the letter 'a' in the title is a good'un.

[SiHart]

I was thinking what 5 songs would I play someone to convince them that this is a great band/ artist myself, so not necessarily the hits.

[Nyder]

Okay 5 from Rufus Wainwright:-

I Don't Know What It Is
Foolish Love
Tiergarten
The Dream
Release The Stars

and 5 from The Beach Boys:-

God Only Knows
(Don't Talk) Put Your Head On My Shoulder
Time To Get Alone
Breakaway
I Get Around

[Dino]

Rotary Connection

I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun
And...
Er...
Well basically...
That's it.

OK, let's try and do The Beatles.

A Hard Day's Night
If I Needed Someone
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
Martha My Dear
Because

My take on the Beach Boys

Country Air
Darlin'
This Whole World
Feel Flows
Surf's Up

[Nyder]

I'm liking your BB selection Dino :-)

[SiHart]

The Beatles (my version)
A Hard Day's Night
The Word
Yellow Submarine
I Am The Walrus
Here Comes the Sun

[Nyder]

The Beatles (my version)

Don't Bother Me
In My Life
For No-One
Across The Universe
The Night Before

[Dino]

This is why The Beatles were the greatest band, everyone can make a list of 5 songs and they'd still be the right choices!

[Perry Vale]

Nice thread.

Kate Bush (my version)

Symphony In Blue
Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake
The Wedding List
Violin
Suspended In Gaffa

Frank Sinatra

I Get A Kick Out Of You
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Just One Of Those Things
All Of Me
(Love Is) The Tender Trap

(all on Capitol)

Billie Holiday

It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
Fine And Mellow
Good Morning Heartache (on Decca)
Gloomy Sunday
Comes Love

Ella Fitzgerald

Vote For Mr. Rhythm
A-tisket, A-tasket
Dream A Little Dream Of Me (with Louis Armstrong)
Bewitched
Love For Sale

New Order (my version)

Temptation
Age Of Consent
Leave Me Alone
Thieves Like Us
Confusion

[Jon Masters]

Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Play the Game
Somebody to Love
I'm Going slightly Mad
Show Must go on

Meat Loaf
Bat out of Hell
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
It's All coming Back to me Now
Los Angeloser
Still Alive

REM
Daysleeper
Man on the Moon
Everybody hurts
Leaving New York
Bad Day

Fish
Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
Internal Exile
Pilgrim's Address
A Gentlemen's Excuse Me
13th Star

[Dino]

Super Furry Animals

The Very Best of Neil Diamond
The Undefeated
No Sympathy
Mountain People
Cabin Fever

[SiHart]

No, no, no, the SFA one should read as follows...

Super Furry Animals
If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You
Ice Hockey Hair
Play It Cool
The Piccolo Snare
It's Not The End of the World

[Anthony Williams]

Black Sabbath
Children of the Grave
Die Young
Zero the Hero
No Stranger to Love
The Shining

Metallica
The Four Horsemen
Master of Puppets
Enter Sandman
Fuel
All Nightmare Long

Porcupine Tree
Radioactive Toy
Piano Lessons
Blackest Eyes
Trains
Anesthetize

Marillion (Fish era)
Script for a Jester's Tear
Fugazi
Blind Curve
Warm Wet Circles
That Time of the Night

Marillion (Hogarth era)
Afraid of Sunlight
King
This Strange Engine
Neverland
Real Tears for Sale

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

As far as I'm aware I've excluded covers from both of these:

Will Young

Leave Right Now
Your Game
You & I
Changes
All Time Love

Jamie Cullum

Twentysomething
I'm all over it now
Mixtape
Photograph
Oh God

[Jeff]

Led Zeppelin

Since I've Been Loving You
Achilles Last Stand
Traveling Riverside Blues
The Lemon Song
Ramble On

[SiHart]

Rufus Wainwright
Going to a Town
The One You Love
I Don't Know What It Is
Poses
Sansoucci

[Rob McCow]

(Because according to Doctor Who we're due their best of this year...)

Franz Ferdinand
Do You Want To?
Take Me Out
Ulysees
Walk Away
Can't Stop Feeling

[SiHart]

I don't think that's right... it's more like this...

Franz Ferdinand
Do You Want To?
Eleanor Put Your Boots On (single version)
Dark Of the Matinee
No You Girls
Take Me Out

(hmm, actually, that's not terribly different)

[Nyder]

Mr Hart I think we need to combine our Rufus list (oops typed lust there - Freudian slip) to form a "Maxi Best Of". Limited edition of course ;-)

[SiHart]

It's probably best not to share our Rufus lust!