Some of my favorite songs are......

The first few that come to mind are:

"Born to Be Wild" - Steppenwolf
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" - Stones
"In My Life" - Beatles
"Thirteen" - Big Star
"Alison" - Elvis Costello
"Tracks of My Tears" - Smokey Robinson
"The Heart Needs a Home" - Richard and Linda Thompson
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" - CCR
"Sweet Old World" - Lucinda Williams
"Crazy" - Patsy Cline
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" - George Jones
"Pale Blue Eyes" - Velvet Underground
"Protection" - Massive Attack
"Summer Wind" - Frank Sinatra
"Lucky One" - Freedy Johnston
"Let's Get It On" - Marvin Gaye
"Easy's Getting Harder Every Day" - Iris Dement
"Cinnamon Girl" - Neil Young
"Tuesday's Gone" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Web in Front" - Archers of Loaf
"Take the Skinheads Bowling" - Camper Van Beethoven
"Eight Miles High" - Byrds
"Mr. Tambourine Man" - Bob Dylan

Sorry, but this could go on forever...

I like your list Walter. In My Life, sung by Judy Collins, has to be added to mine along with Iris Dement's "Easy." And you reminded me of Wm Robinson - one of my favorite songs is (Take a Walk and) Don't Look Back, performed by Tosh and Jagger.

Neil Young - Harvest Moon (Dad & I do a pretty good version)
Jack Williams - Eternity & Main
Into The Mystic - Van Morrison
I'm a Goin' Fishin - Taj Mahal
Blackbird - The Beatles
Diamonds On My Windshield - Tom Waits
Night Shift - The Commodores
Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song - David Wilcox
Gaia - James Taylor
Tomorrow - Jow Walsh
Little Town - Jay Webber
Lazy Afternoon - The Roots
Gaucho - Steely Dan
Starship Trooper - Yes

This list could go on forever....this doesn't count those "DAM I haven't heard this in years" moments, which could possibly be the best.

5 songs culled from 35 years of listening is not difficult but downright impossible...anyway,here goes:
1.Dylan - Ramona
2.Neil Young - Weekend(have't discovered a better piece of music to check bass response.Opening track on Harvest).
3.Don Mclean - Pride Parade
4.King Crimson - Epitaph
5.Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

Also ran:
Roger Waters - Amused to death
Tom Paxton - Outward Bound
Jennifer Warnes - Joan of Arc
Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag
Greg Brown - Maria

Guess I could go on forever...
Njoy

Color me surprised that 13 made it onto someone else's list--nice pick Walter, although I have a fondness for the Magnapop cover. Lets see, beyond that at the present moment and mood...

Sugar, "Hoover Dam"
The Clash, "Safe European Home"
Gram Parsons, "Return of the Grievous Angel"
Steve Earle, "Copperhead Road"
Townes Van Zandt, "Snowin' on Raton"
The Avengers, "The American In Me"
Bob Dylan, "Tangled Up in Blue"
Martha & the Vandellas, "Nowhere to Run"
R.E.M., "Radio Free Europe"
Grateful Dead, "Ripple"
Husker Du, "59 Times the Pain"
Johnny Rivers, "Secret Agent Man"
Dusty Springfield, "Son of a Preacher Man"
Roxy Music, "Avalon"
Sex Pistols, "Pretty Vacant"
Nancy Sinatra, "Boots"

Check with me tomorrow!