Best song trifecta - one group

The Who:
Won't Get Fooled Again
Baba O'Riley
Love Reign O'er Me

(And as a lifelong Who fan it's killing me to list three that are that obvious, so I'll add Tattoo, A Quick One, and Pictures of Lily.)


Elvis Costello:
Riot Act
Suit of Lights
Accidents Will Happen


The Jam:
The Bitterest Pill
Absolute Beginners
Man in the Corner Shop


The Clash:
Train In Vain
I'm So Bored With The USA
Death or Glory


X:
Johny Hit & Run Pauline
4th of July
White Girl


Midnight Oil:
Read About It
Tin Legs & Tin Mines
Hercules


Replacements:
Can't Hardly Wait
Go
I Will Dare


Grant Lee Buffalo:
Honey Don't Think
Mockingbirds
Lone Star Song


Spinal Tap:
Big Bottom
Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
Stonehenge

 

The Gear Daddies:
Black Superman
She's Happy
Statue of Jesus

 

Queen:
Somebody to Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
Killer Queen

Elvis Costello:
Alison
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
Oliver's Army

Cheap Trick:
Oh, Candy
Surrender
Downed

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons:
Walk Like a Man
Dawn
Let's Hang On

Spoon:
I Turn My Camera On
Everything Hits At Once
Metal School

Ben Folds/Ben Folds Five:
Missing the War
Underground
The Luckiest

White Stripes:
I'm Finding it Harder To Be A Gentleman
Sister, Do You Know My Name?
Hotel Yorba

Oasis:
She's Electric
Slide Away
Rock 'n' Roll Star

 

Sometimes a song gets played to death and people who listen to that band repeatedly get tired of it. That's one explanation. And I don't think it was a matter of best songs, but personal preference.

 

Stranded on an island huh?

Jimmy Buffett:
Margaritaville -- just because
One Particular Harbor
The Weather Is Here I Wish You Were Beautiful

Rush:
Spirit of Radio
Drum Solo off Show of Hands
Fly By Night

Lynard Skynard:
Freebird
Simple Man
Sweet Home Alabama

Alabama:
Mountain Music
My Home's In Alabama
If You're Going To Play In Texas...

Garth Brooks:
Friends in Low Places
Much Too Young
That Summer

George Strait:
Baby Blue
Heartland
Ocenfront Property

AC/DC:
Hell's Bells
Back In Black
Highway to Hell

G&R:
Welcome to the Jungle
Paradice City
Sweet Child of Mine

Def Leppard:
Photograph
Pour Some Sugar on Me
Armageddon It

The Who:
Tommy - a technicality
Won't Get Fooled Again
Happy Jack

Marshall Tucker Band
Heard it in a Love Song
Can't You See?
Fire on the Mountain

 

Rush:
The Analog Kid
Cold Fire
By Tor and the Snow Dog

Kraftwerk:
The Robots
Computer Love
Autobahn

Talking Heads:
Drugs
Naive Melody
Cities

The Fixx:
One thing leads to another
Red Skies at Night
Stand or fall

 

Springsteen:

Side 2 of The Wild, the Incident & the E Street Shuffle (all studio - Incident, Rosalita, NYC Serenade)

OR

1. Thunder Road
2. No Surrender
3. Prove It All Night (1978 Live version)


Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
1. This Time Baby's Gone for Good
2. Sweeter Than Honey
3. You Mean So Much to Me (live w/Ronnie Spector)

Slaid Cleaves
1. One Good Year
2. For the Brave
3. Bring It On
OR
1. New Year's Day
2. Last of the V8s
3. River Runs

Rod Picott
1. Up All Night
2. Stray Dogs
3. Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues

Marah
1. Christian Street
2. East
3. Freedom Park

Waco Brothers
1. Walking on Hell's Roof Looking at the Flowers
2. See Willy Fly By
3. Join the Club
OR
1. Take Me to the Fires
2. Fox River
3. Johnson to Jones

Old 97s
1. Harold's Super Service
2. Big Brown Eyes
3. Am I Too Late


Joe Ely
1. Road Goes on Forever
2. Dallas
3. Fingernails
OR
1. Musta Gotta Lotta
2. Settle for Love
3. All Just to Get to You

Son Volt
1. Windfall
2. Tear Stained Eye
3. Out of the Picture

Kinky Friedman
1. They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore
2. Homo Erectus
3. Asshole from El Paso
OR
1. Lover Please
2. Waitret, Please, Waitret
3. Men's Room, L.A.

The Kinks
1. Around the Dial
2. Celluloid Heroes
3. Better Days
OR
1. Misfits
2. Stop Your Sobbing
3. Catch Me Now I'm Falling

 

N'SYNC
1. Gone
2. Girlfriend
3. It's Gonna Be Me

 

Eww? Try:

1. Bye, Bye, Bye
2. Tearin' Up My Heart
3. Pop

 

Bye, Bye, Bye got old, old, old in no time. Never cared for "Pop" except when J-Timberlake talks about the "ice around my neck." But "Tearin' Up My Heart" almost made the cut -- last one out but could have very easily been top three.

 

OK, I took this to mean one group/singer and three songs...not a list of 15-20 songs..sheesh....anyway...

Double J...I love that you love some George! LOL He's the best. Just narrowly missing out was ..."A fire I can't put out" and "The chair" which are personal faves. I'd play GS Greatest hits over and over till hell freezes over. Just awesome stuff.
Ace: again...good George stuff.

As for everyone else..focus in! focus in! This isn't pick your 20 best. This is like Pick 3 lottery dangit!

 

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