what are your five essential songs

Somewhere in Time, Dave Alvin and Los Lobos
White Man in Hammersmith Palais, The Clash
Surf Wax America, Weezer
Eurotrash Girl, Cracker
Dumb Things, Paul Kelly

No particular order:
- Brown-Eyed Women - Grateful Dead
- Baby Please Don't Go - Van Morrison and Them (Big Joe Williams cover with little known session guitarist named Jimmy Page!)
- The Look of Love - Shelby Lynne (Burt Bacharach/Hal David cover originally recorded by Dusty Springfield)
- In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers Band
- Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughan (Hendrix cover)

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...

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

"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!