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what are your five essential songs

there is a local radio show where the host has invited everyone to go to enter their 5 essential songs and she plays 3 or 4 of them per show--so let me know what yours are.

my list in no particular order:
equinox-john coltrane
romeo is bleeding- tom waits
no getting over you - bonnie riatt
mandela- hugh masekela
jupiter- from holst the planets
bianchi27
cfchew
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Doctor Wu - Steely Dan
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen/and version by Jeff Buckley
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Didn't I Blow you Mind - Delfonics
My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
Crazy Love - Van Morrison
Amado Mio - Pink Martini
Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
Born Slippy - Underworld
Birdland - Weather Report

oh that was more like ten...
styxtrekr
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Hard to pick FIVE, but these always to captivate me

All Along the Watchtower-Jimi Hendrix version
Lark Ascending-Vaughan Williams
I Confess English Beat
Madame George- Van Morrison
4th Time Around- Bob Dylan
timbrepitch
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"An Ending (Ascent)" by Brian Eno
"Bad" by U2
"Videotape" by Radiohead
"Clocks" by Coldplay
"Blue In Green" by Miles Davis

That was difficult! Whew!
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synthfreek
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Oh Comely-Neutral Milk Hotel
Autumn Leaves(The Irresistible Force Mix)-Coldcut
14:31-Global Communication
Far Beyond The Sun-Yngwie Malmsteen
My Pal Foot Foot-The Shaggs
sounds_real_audio
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Chewie

Boy you have picked more than one of mine. Cohen Dire Straits, Crazy Love...

Then I put on Blue Joni Mitchell and nominate the whole dam album/CD
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