Make Your Own Compilation Albums

[nutso42]

Let's say you want to introduce someone to a new artist or band or whatnot, so you assemble a custom Compilation album to show them that artist's variety. What artist do you pick, and which songs would you put on the album?

Syd Barrett
1. See Emily Play
2. Bike
3. Interstellar Overdrive
4. Jugband Blues
5. Octopus
6. Love You
7. Here I Go
8. Effervescing Elephant

[Kool Keith Sweat]

Low
1. Words
2. Violence
3. Lullaby
4. When I Called Upon Your Seed (w/ Dirty Three)
5. Pretty People
6. Cue the Strings
7. Starfire
8. Sunflower
9. Dinosaur Act
10. Point of Disgust
11. Murderer

[Jasonconfused]

Oh man this is going to be fun. A+ thread. I'll do a couple right now.

Brian Eno
Only going to include early pop-rock stuff. It'd be too difficult to mix it with the longer ambient stuff, plus I'm not as familiar with it.

1. On Some Faraway Beach
2. Burning Airlines Gives You So Much More
3. No One Receiving
4. St. Elmo's Fire
5. Cindy Tells Me
6. Here He Comes
7. Mother Whale Eyeless
8. The Great Pretender
9. The Big Ship
10. The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch
11. By This River
12. I'll Come Running
13. Some Of Them Are Old
14. Everything Merges With The Night
15. Taking Tiger Mountain

Black Sabbath
Limiting myself to Ozzy years.

1. Black Sabbath
2. War Pigs
3. Wheels of Confusion
4. Sweet Leaf
5. Symptom of the Universe
6. Megalomania
7. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
8. Paranoid
9. Children of the Grave
10. Snowblind
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[benpaco]

OK maybe this is cheating a bit but

Joy Division

1 Disorder
2 New Dawn Fades
3 She's Lost Control
4 Shadowplay
5 I Remember Nothing
6 Transmission
7 Isolation
8 Heart and Soul
9 Colony
10 Love Will Tear Us Apart
11 Sister Ray (Live)
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[Mercury]

Wilco:

1. Casino Queen
2. Sunken Treasure
3. The Lonely 1
4 Misunderstood
5. California Stars
6. She's A Jar
7. Via Chicago
8. Summerteeth
9. Airline to Heaven
10. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
11. Jesus, etc
12. At Least That's What You Said
13. Impossible Germany
14. Bull Black Nova

Pretty amazing band.

And of course I have to do...

The Tallest Man On Earth

1. Steal Tomorrow
2. The Gardner
3. Where Do My Bluebirds Fly?
4. The Sparrow and the Medicine
5. The Wild Hunt
6. Drying of the Lawns
7. King of Spain
8. Love is All
9. The Dreamer
10. Like The Wheel
11. Criminals
12. Little Brother
13. Kids on the Run

(Now that! is a magnificent batch of songs right there!)
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[HoldenM]

If I were to make a "best-of" compilation for bands I loved, this is what a few of them would look like.

Arcade Fire

Pt. I
1. No Cars Go
2. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
3. Une Année Sans Lumière
4. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
5. Wake Up
6. Haiti/Rebellion (Lies)
7. Black Mirror
8. Keep the Car Running
9. Intervention
10. My Body Is a Cage
11. The Suburbs/Ready to Start
13. Half Light I
14. Suburban War

Pt. II
15. Month of May/Wasted Hours
16. We Used to Wait
17. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
18. Speaking in Tongues
19. Reflektor
20. Here Comes the Night Time
21. It's Never Over (Hey Orpheus)
22. Afterlife
23. In the Backseat

Bon Iver

1. Flume
2. Blood Bank
3. The Wolves Acts I & II
4. Beach Baby
5. Skinny Love
6. Creature Fear/Team
7. Michicant
8. Perth/Minnesota, WI
9. Towers
10. Calgary
11. Holocene
12. I Can't Make You Love Me/Nick of Time
13. For Emma
14. Lisbon, OH/Beth/Rest
15. Re: Stacks

Death Cab for Cutie

Pt. I
1. President of What
2. Champagne from a Paper Cup
3. Amputations
4. Army Corp of Architects
5. Title Track
6. For What Reason
7. 405
8. Company Calls
9. Company Calls Epilogue
10. Photobooth
11. Steadier Footing/A Movie Script Ending
12. We Laugh Indoors
13. Why You'd Want to Live Here
14. Blacking Out the Friction
15. All Is Full of Love

Pt. II
1. The New Year/Lightness
2. Title and Registration
3. The Sound of Settling
4. Tiny Vessels/Transatlanticism/Passenger Seat
5. Marching Bands of Manhattan/Soul Meets Body
6. I Will Follow You Into the Dark
7. Crooked Teeth
8. Bixby Canyon Bridge
9. I Will Possess Your Heart
10. You Can Do Better Than Me/Grapevine Fires
11. I Was Once a Loyal Lover
12. Doors Unlocked and Open/You Are a Tourist/Unobstructed Views
13. Underneath the Sycamore
14. St. Peter's Cathedral
15. Talking Bird (Demo)

Kanye West
1. Intro/We Don't Care
2. Jesus Walks
3. School Spirit
4. Through the Wire
5. Touch the Sky
6. Gold Digger
7. Diamonds of the Sierra Leone (Remix)
8. Good Morning
9. Love Lockdown
10. Paranoid
11. Heartless
12. Stronger
13. Flashing Lights
14. Homecoming
15. Power
16. Monster
17. Runaway
18. Hell of a Life
19. Blood on the Leaves
20. Black Skinheads
21. Send It Up
22. Hey Mama
23. Lost in the World/Who Will Survive in America

[antiloopje]

Cream:

1. White room
2. Spoonfull
3. Swlabr
4. I'm so glad
5. Badge
6. I feel free
7. Deserted cities of the heart
8. Sunshine of your love
9. Tale of brave Ulysses
10. Crossroads

extra: Toad (live)

[Antonio-Pedro]

Sonic Youth

Teen Age Riot
Death Valley 69'
Dirty Boots
Kool Thing
100%
I Got A Catholic Block
Silver Rocket
Starpower
Washing Machine
The World Looks Red
Incinerate
Pipeline/Kill Time
The Sprawl
The Empty Page
Candle
Mary-Christ
Peace Attack
Lights Out
Expressway To Yr Skull
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