Todd Rundgren's "Something/Anything" is #3.

You might want to give The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds a whirl.
I'm also not ashamed to admit I own Abba Gold. Though, maybe I should...

Prince
Pink Floyd
Queen
Michael Jackson
Tom Petty
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Doors
Depeche Mode
Metallica

I guess I like Californication's singles, just download those three

This is the start of RHCP decline. I would just download the 80's funk stuff, BloodSugarSexMagik, and ignore everything else they ever released. At least ignore everything since they stopped using drugs.

ELO, you can get by on Greatest Hits, as long as it has "Fire on High," "Do Ya," and "10538 Overture." Obviously it would have "Can't Get It Out of My Head."


Going down the line here:
You need Dirty Mind, 1999, Purple Rain, Sign O the Times, black album
All of it
none of it
Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad
Greatest Hits
I guess I like Californication's singles, just download those three
don't bother
Violator
I'm not into Metallica

Phish was on this list until last night, when I got the Live in Chicago '94 (UIC) 6 disc album delivered from either ebay or amazon for under $10 in anticipation of possibly seeing them play this summer.

For the most part, I'm quite content with not having any material from any I've listed with the exception of perhaps a handful

So this was about 25% of one night's set, right? 3 songs total?

Bad Company slipped through the cracks for me for a long time

I own very little. I probably listened to 20ish albums in the past calendar year...and maybe five of them more than once.
With the exception of 4-5 bands, I really am a terrible music fan.

I like Bad Company. They wrote a song called "Bad Company." Then they put it on an album called Bad Company. With a move like that, you never knew what they'd think of next.

Yeah I have the ELO greatest hits which all anyone would ever need. As for your assessment of the other artists
I would likely agree with most of it. I doubt I would get all of Pink Floyd but grew up on The Wall, Dark Side of the
Moon and Meddle but they were my roommates. Queen can probably be handled with a greatest hits disc. I had a
brief period of the heavier rock and even some metal but never gravitated to Metallica for some reason although I
like some of their older stuff more than the mainstream. I actually saw Megadeth live. Also went to a Tool show.
Both were very good.

This is the start of RHCP decline. I would just download the 80's funk stuff, BloodSugarSexMagik.

Phish was on this list until last night, when I got the Live in Chicago '94 (UIC) 6 disc album delivered from either ebay or amazon for under $10 in anticipation of possibly seeing them play this summer.

So this was about 25% of one night's set, right? 3 songs total?

Stop there.

Agreed. That was an awesome album, Sir Psycho Sexy being a personal favorite of mine.

Everything since then has had some pretty good stuff here and there but mostly pop-ish, meandering fluff....a skeleton of what they used to be. It happens with age and sobriety. I did like their stuff with Dave Navarro, though, people criticized it for not being "RHCP" but I think it was more RHCP compared to most of their stuff after BloodSugarSexMagik.

That said, I do enjoy By the Way, on occasion.

ELO, you can get by on Greatest Hits, as long as it has "Fire on High," "Do Ya," and "10538 Overture." Obviously it would have "Can't Get It Out of My Head."

Jeff Lynne is a musical genius.

Agreed. Like his style a lot. Travelling Wilburys is a forgotten treasure with him, Dylan, Petty and Harrison.

Don't forget Roy Orbison.