10 Songs

So, if you had to pick ten songs to introduce yourself and/or your musical tastes to someone, and you could only pick one song from any particular group/artist... which ten songs?  In no particular order:

1. Time/Pink Floyd:  This is the song that got me hooked on Pink Floyd, and is part of why they're my favorite group.  (Dad got Mom the CD for Christmas one year... the same year I got my first CD player.  I had the album in for a good six months straight.)
2. Peter Gunn/Duane Eddy:  This is not the first song I heard by Duane Eddy; no, that was Rebel Rouser, on a dual-record album (yes, vinyl) of 1950s hits.  (Rebel Rouser, by the way, is also awesome.)  Peter Gunn, however, is my ultimate driving song, and hearing it makes me want to go cruisin'.  (It's also the song that plays in my head when my World of Warcraft character gets on a motorcycle.)
3. Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto/Beethoven:  The first CD I ever owned was two of Beethoven's Overtures (Lenore and Consecration of the House) that I had had on record (yes, again with the vinyl) when I was little, that I used to roller skate to.  And while I might have listed one of those, the second movement of the seventh symphony is probably my favorite Beethoven work ever.  Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia used it for the music for its feature article on communism and the fall of the Soviet Union back in the mid-1990s, and it's one of the works used in Mr. Holland's Opus to illustrate how he's coming to terms as a musician with his son's deafness.  I used to open the article on communism just to listen to the music.
4. The Last Unicorn/America:  America did the soundtrack for the Last Unicorn, and the title song, set to images from the Unicorn Tapestries, haunted me for years.  (I cried when I got to see them in person at the Cloisters in New York.)  I think this movie may have been my introduction to fantasy as a genre.  The book (by Peter Beagle) is also amazing (and the movie follows it closely).
5. Can't Take My Eyes Off You/Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons:  This is the song my husband and I danced to at our wedding.
6. Ohne Dich/Rammstein:  My German isn't good enough to know what *all* the words mean (which, knowing Rammstein, probably isn't bad, since it might embarrass me), but Ohne Dich is my favorite of their songs.
7. Space Lion/The Seatbelts:  If you haven't heard of this, it's probably because it's from the soundtrack to the anime series Cowboy Bebop.  Yoko Kanno did the music for the series, and it's what hooked me, before I ever even watched it.
8. The Eternal Conflict/Blizzard Entertainment:  This is a mix of music from (I think mostly) Diablo II; it still gives me goosebumps.  I played Diablo II off and on for about four years before World of Warcraft came out.  Blizzard's games always have awesome music.  (I think the ultimate in "geek cred" is not starting your own (successful) computer game company, but making a band to write and sing rock songs about your game's world.  Yes, that's the co-founder of Blizzard on the bass guitar.)
9. Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor (BWV 582)/J. S. Bach:  No, not just any recording of BWV 582; the one done at Augustana College in Illinois on a pedal harpsichord.  Yes, a pedal harpsichord.  It is awesome.  I was on the fine arts academic bowl team in high school, and one year this was one of the musical works we studied.  We were just given a tape with a copy; I played it to death until I managed to track down the actual recording on CD.  (Not actually my favorite Bach fugue, though - that's BWV 578.)
10. Here They Come!/John Williams:  I feel like I would be remiss to not include something by John Williams; I own the soundtracks for all of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Jaws...  I played brass in junior high band, and Mr. Williams does not skimp on the brass.  This piece follows Ben Kenobi's death in the original Star Wars, when TIE fighters chase the Millenium Falcon.