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
Norwegian Wood-The Beatles
Doctor Wu-Steely Dan
Late for the Sky-Jackson Browne
Bella Donna-Stevie Nicks
Werewolves of London-Warren Zevon
Grateful Dead--Uncle John's Band
Ain't No Cure for Love--Jennifer Warnes (Leonard Cohen)
C'est extra--Renée Claude (Léo Ferré)
The Well--Jennifer Warnes
Cycles--Rickie Lee Jones
Professor Longhair - Tipitina
John Coltrane - Naima
Grahm Central Station - Hair
World Saxophone Quartet - Ming
The Meters - Fiyo on the Bayou
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
Georgia - Ray Charles
Season of The Witch - Bloomfield, Kooper, Stills version
River Man - Nick Drake
America - Simon & Garfunkel
US Blues Grateful Dead
Michelle The Beatles
Surfer Girl Beach Boys
The Wasp The Doors
Deacon Blues Steely Dan

I must say that everyone's choices seem as eclectic as mine