Favorite Songs From The Albums By Your Favorite Band

I'll do another one, this time it's Megadeth (the albums I am familiar with):

Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
1. Mechanix
2. The Skull Beneath the Skin
3. Rattlehead
4. Looking Down the Cross
5. These Boots

Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
1. Wake Up Dead
2. The Conjuring
3. Peace Sells
4. My Last Words
5. Good Mourning/Black Friday

So Far, So Good... So What!
1. Into the Lungs of Hell/Set the World Afire
2. Hook in Mouth
3. In My Darkest Hour
4. Anarchy in the U.K.
5. Mary Jane

Rust In Peace
1. Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
2. Hangar 18
3. Rust In Peace... Polaris
4. Tornado of Souls
5. Five Magics

Countdown to Extinction
1. Countdown to Extinction
2. Sweating Bullets
3. Symphony of Destruction
4. Foreclosure of a Dream
5. Skin o' My Teeth

Houses of the Holy:
1. D'yer M'aker
2. The Ocean
3. The Rain Song

Physical Graffiti: (1 and 2)
1. The Rover
2. Kashmir
3. Down by the Seaside
4. Bron Yr- Aur
5. The Wanton Song

Led Zeppelin III
1. Since I've Been Loving You
2. Out on the Tiles
3. Hats off to Roy Harper
4. Immigrant Song

I think there's a few I can do:

I'll start off with the first three Dire Straits albums (I've ignored Love Over Gold as it only has 5 tracks):
Dire Straits
5) Six Blade Knife
4) Water Of Love
3) Down To The Waterline
2) In The Gallery
1) Sultans Of Swing

Communique
5) Angel Of Mercy
4) Lady Writer
3) Where Do You Think You're Going?
2) Once Upon A Time In The West
1) Single Handed Sailor

Making Movies
5) Solid Rock
4) Skateaway
3) Expresso Love
2) Romeo And Juliet
1) Tunnel Of Love

Next I'll do the Eagles (1972-1976). I found picking my favourites by Dire Straits relatively straightforward, but I think this is going to be a bit trickier.
Eagles
5) Train Leaves Here This Morning
4) Peaceful Easy Feeling
3) Take The Devil
2) Witchy Woman
1) Take It Easy

Desperado
5) Certain Kind Of Fool
4) Tequila Sunrise
3) Doolin-Dalton
2) Desperado
1) Doolin-Dalton/Desperado (Reprise)
(If Doolin-Dalton and the reprise are counted as one song, Saturday Night would be number five)

On The Border
5) You Never Cry Like A Lover
4) Good Day In Hell
3) The Best Of My Love
2) My Man
1) Already Gone
(found this one tricky, I like all the songs here - I'm happy with my top 4 but any of the remaining 6 tracks could be my fifth favourite on a given day)

One Of These Nights
5) After The Thrill Is Gone
4) Journey Of The Sorcerer
3) Lyin' Eyes
2) Take It To The Limit
1) One Of These Nights
(very difficult splitting the top three here, this changes depending on my mood - right now the title track is my favourite)

Hotel California
5) Try And Love Again
4) New Kid In Town
3) Life In The Fast Lane
2) The Last Resort
1) Hotel California

Next, Fleetwood Mac (1975-1979):
Fleetwood Mac (The White Album)
5) Over My Head
4) Say You Love Me
3) Landslide
2) Monday Morning
1) Rhiannon

Rumours
5) Don't Stop
4) Second Hand News
3) You Make Loving Fun
2) Go Your Own Way
1) The Chain
(I'd put the rest of the album at number 5 if I could, but that really would be cheating!)

Tusk
5) Think About Me
4) Beautiful Child
3) What Makes You Think You're The One
2) I Know I'm Not Wrong
1) Sara
(doesn't have as many great songs across two discs as Rumours has on one IMO, but I digress...)

Pink Floyd (DSOTM and The Wall only - most of the other great PF albums have too few tracks to make for an interesting exercise)
The Dark Side Of The Moon
5) The Great Gig In The Sky
4) Us And Them
3) Money
2) Brain Damage/Eclipse
1) Time

The Wall
5) In The Flesh (both versions)
4) Hey You
3) Mother
2) Run Like Hell
1) Comfortably Numb

Came across this old thread and I couldn't resist posting for some of the new albums I've discovered over the past year or so:

Led Zeppelin
I
5) Your Time Is Gonna Come
4) Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
3) Communication Breakdown
2) Good Times, Bad Times
1) Dazed And Confused

II (difficult but I'll give it a go...)
5) The Lemon Song
4) Ramble On
3) What Is And What Should Never Be
2) Whole Lotta Love
1) Heartbreaker

III
5) Gallows Pole
4) That's The Way
3) Since I've Been Loving You
2) Tangerine
1) Immigrant Song (hands down)

IV
5) Going To California
4) Rock And Roll
3) Black Dog
2) Stairway To Heaven
1) When The Levee Breaks

Houses of the Holy
5) The Rain Song
4) The Song Remains The Same
3) The Ocean
2) No Quarter
1) Over The Hills And Far Away

I find it impossible to put my favourites from Physical Graffiti into an order but I can identify my personal top five - Custard Pie, In My Time Of Dying, Kashmir, Ten Years Gone and The Wanton Song.


Neil Young (I can't claim to be comprehensive here)
After The Gold Rush
5) When You Dance, I Can Really Love
4) Don't Let It Bring You Down
3) After The Gold Rush
2) Southern Man
1) Tell Me Why

Harvest
5) Words (Between The Lines Of Age)
4) Old Man
3) Out On The Weekend
2) The Needle And The Damage Done
1) Heart Of Gold

Zuma
5) Danger Bird
4) Barstool Blues
3) Pardon My Heart
2) Don't Cry No Tears
1) Cortez The Killer

Rust Never Sleeps
5) Pocahontas
4) Thrasher
3) Powderfinger (seriously considered making this number one)
2) My My, Hey Hey
1) Hey Hey, My My

Freedom
5) Wrecking Ball
4) Too Far Gone
3) Rockin' In The Free World (acoustic)
2) Crime In The City
1) Rockin' In The Free World (electric)


Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
5) She Belongs To Me
4) It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding
3) Love Minus Zero/No Limit
2) Mr. Tambourine Man
1) Subterranean Homesick Blues

Highway 61 Revisited
5) Highway 61 Revisited
4) Desolation Row
3) Queen Jane Approximately
2) Tombstone Blues
1) Like A Rolling Stone

Blood On The Tracks
5) Shelter From The Storm
4) Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts
3) Idiot Wind
2) You're A Big Girl
1) Tangled Up In Blue

I might as well add two albums I ignored by Dire Straits and the Eagles from last time:
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
5) Ride Across The River
4) So Far Away
3) Man's Too Strong
2) Money For Nothing
1) Brothers In Arms

The Long Run - Eagles
5) In The City
4) I Can't Tell You Why
3) Those Shoes
2) The Long Run
1) The Sad Café

Looking back through my lists from when I posted in this thread previously, I have to say there are some choices that I would change but on the whole I still tend to agree my earlier asssessments.

The Flaming Lips (I avoided the covers/collaborative albums)

Hear It Is
1) Staring At Sound/With You
2) Jesus Shootin' Heroin
3) With You
4) Godzilla Flick
5) She Is Death

Oh My Gawd... The Flaming Lips!
1) One Millionth Billionth Of A Millisecond On A Sunday Morning
2) Can't Stop The Spring
3) Love Yer Brain
4) Od To C.C. (part one)
5) Maximum Dream For Evil Knievel

Telepathic Surgery
1) Drug Machine In Heaven
2) Chrome Plated Suicide
3) U.F.O. Story
4) Miracle On 42nd Street
5) Michael, Time To Wake Up

In A Priest Driven Ambulance
1) There You Are
2) Unconsciously Screamin'
3) Shine On Sweet Jesus
4) Take Meta Mars
5) Rainin' Babies

Hit To Death In The Future Head
1) Hit Me Like You Did The First Time
2) The Sun
3) Halloween On The Barbary Coast
4) Deathporn Immortality Blues
5) Frogs

Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
1) Turn It On
2) Moth In The Incubator
3) Pilot Can At The ***** Of God
4) When Yer Twenty-Two
5) She Don't Use Jelly

Clouds Taste Metallic
1) Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needles
2) When You Smile
3) The Abandoned Hospital Ship
4) Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
5) Lightning Strikes The Postman

Zaireeka
1) The Train Runs Over The Camel But Is Derailed By The Gnat
2) Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand
3) Thirty-Five Thousand Feet Of Despair
4) Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (You're Invisible Now)
5) A Machine In India

The Soft Bulletin
1) What Is The Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical [In Our Brains] by Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accelerating Universe)
2) Race For The Prize (Sacrifice of the New Scientists)
3) The Gash (Battle Hymn for the Wounded Mathematician)
4) The Spark That Bled (The Softest Bullet Ever Shot)
5) Feeling Yourself Disintegrate

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
1) In The Morning Of The Magicians
2) One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
3) Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Part One
4) Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Part Two
5) Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)

At War With The Mystics
1) The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)
2) Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)
3) The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)
4) The Sound Of Failure/It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark??
5) Pompeii am Gotterdammerung

Embryonic
1) Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast
2) See The Leaves
3) Worm Mountain
4) I Can Be A Frog
5) Scorpio Sword

The Terror
1) Look... The Sun Is Rising
2) Be Free, A Way
3) Always There In Our Hearts
4) You Lust
5) Try To Explain

The lists will probably alter by the time i post but i'll try it with Dylan and Sabbath.


Bob Dylan

Highway 61 Revisited
5 – From a Buick 6
4 – Ballad of a Thin Man
3 – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
2 – Desolation Row
1 – Like a Rolling Stone

Blonde on Blonde
5 – Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
4 – Absolutely Sweet Marie
3 – One of Us Must Know
2 – Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
1 – Visions of Johanna

Blood on the Tracks
5 – Shelter from the Storm
4 – Tangled Up in Blue
3 – Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts
2 – Simple Twist of Fate
1 – Idiot Wind

Bringing It All Back Home
5 – Subterranean Homesick Blues
4 – It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
3 – She Belongs to Me
2 – Maggie’s Farm
1 – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

Time Out of Mind
5 – Dirt Road Blues
4 – Love Sick
3 – Highlands
2 – Cold Irons Bound
1 – Not Dark Yet


Black Sabbath

Master of Reality
5 – Solitude
4 – Lord of this World
3 – Children of the Grave
2 – After Forever
1 – Sweet Leaf

Vol. 4
5 – Wheel’s of Confusion
4 – Cornucopia
3 – Tomorrow’s Dream
2 – Snowblind
1 – Supernaut

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
5 – Killing Yourself to Live
4 – Spiral Architect
3 – A National Acrobat
2 – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1 – Sabbra Cadabbra

Paranoid
5 – Hand of Doom
4 – Iron Man
3 – Electric Funeral
2 – Paranoid
1 – War Pigs

TheWhalerfan said:

Heart

Dreamboat Annie
- Magic Man
- Crazy on You
- Dreamboat Annie
- Sing Child
- Soul of the Sea

Little Queen
- Little Queen
- Barracuda
- Love Alive
- Dream of the Archer
- Say Hello

Magazine
- Magazine
- Heartless
- Devil Delight
- I've Got the Music in Me
- Without You

Dog & Butterfly
- Mistral Wind
- Straight On
- High Time
- Nada One
- Cook with Fire

Bebe le Strange
- Bebe le Strange
- Rockin' Heaven Fown
- Even It Up
- Silver Wheels
- Raised on You

(Now it gets hard to find 5 good ones)

Private Audition
- City's Burning
- The Situation
- One Word
- Perfect Stranger
- This Man is Mine

Passionworks
- Sleep Alone
- How Can I Refuse?
- Allies
- Beat by Jealousy
- Together Now

Heart
- What About Love
- If Looks Could Kill
- Never
- Nothin' at All
- These Dreams

Bad Animals
- Who Will You Run To
- Alone
- There's the Girl
- I Want You So Bad
- Bad Animals

Here I stop since I don't like most of the stuff they did after Bad Animals. Instead of pondering over releases I don't care for, I will just add a few songs I enjoy from their post big hair catalogue

- Black on Black II
- Oldest Story in the World
- Wheels

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In my opinion some of Heart's best work has been their post-hair days where they got back to writing their own stuff so I'll start with the newest and go backwards. (Songs in order of 1-5, best first).

Beautiful Broken
- I Jump
- Beautiful Broken
- Two
- Heaven
- Down on Me

Fanatic
- Mashallah
- Fanatic
- Million Miles
- Corduroy Road
- Dear Old America

Red Velvet Car
- WTF
- Wheels
- Death Valley
- Hey You
- Red Velvet Car

Jupiters Darling
- Oldest Story In The World
- Make Me
- Fallen Ones
- Move On
- Lost Angel

Desire Walks On
- Black on Black
- Rage
- Back to Avalon
- My Crazy Head
- Desire Walks On

Brigade
- Wild Child
- The Night
- Tall Dark Handsome Stranger
- Secret
- Call of the Wild

Bad Animals
- Bad Animals
- Alone
- Who Will You Run To
- Wait for an Answer
- RSVP

Heart (s/t)
- If Looks Could Kill
- Never
- The Wolf
- What About Love
- Nothin' At All

Passionworks
- How Can I Refuse
- Allies
- Sleep Alone
- Blue Guitar
- Johnny Moon

Private Audition
- City's Burning
- The Situation
- Perfect Stranger
- Angels
- This Man Is Mind

Bebe Le Strange
- Rockin' Heaven Down
- Bebe Le Strange
- Sweet Darlin
- Even It Up
- Down On Me

Dog and Butterfly
- Mistral Wind
- Straight On
- Dog and Butterfly
- High Time
- Cook With Fire

Magazine
- Devil Delight
- Heartless
- Magazine
- Without You
- Just the Wine

Little Queen
- Barracuda
- Love Alive
- Little Queen
- Kick It Out
- Dream of the Archer

Dreamboat Annie
- Crazy On You
- Magic Man
- How Deep It Goes
- Love Me Like Music
- Dreamboat Annie (2nd version)

Guns N' Roses

...
Depending on my mood.


Aerosmith

Aerosmith
Dream On
Mama Kin

Get Your Wings
Train Kept A-Rollin'

Toys In The Attic
Walk This Way
Sweet Emotion

Rocks
Back in the Saddle
Last Child
Rats In The Cellar
Combination
Get The Lead Out
Lick And A Promise

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band OST
Come Together

Permanent Vacation
Dude (Looks Like a Lady)

Pump
Young Lust
Love in an Elevator
Water Song / Janie's Got A Gun

Get A Grip
Cryin'

Nine Lives
Pink

Armageddon OST
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing

Santana

Abraxas

5. Hope You're Feeling Better
4. Samba Pa Ti
3. Oye Como Va
2. Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
1. Incident At Neshabur

Caravanserai

5. All The Love Of The Universe
4. Song Of The Wind
3. Waves Within
2. Every Step Of The Way
1. Stone Flower

Lotus

5. Castillos De Arena Part. 1/Part. 2
4. Incident At Neshabur
3. Toussaint L'Overture
2. Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
1. Mantra

Santana

5. Jingo
4. Waiting
3. Evil Ways
2. Treat
1. Soul Sacrifice

Moonflower

5. She's Not There
4. Dance Sister Dance
3. Transcendance
2. Europa
1. Soul Sacrifice