The iPod in question.

The iPod in question. (April 10, 2012)

So a friend of mine at work handed me an empty iPod, her five favorite artists, and simply said, "fill it".  So instead of trying to give her entire albums of material she might not like I gave her one song from 224 different artists I could relate to her top five.  So what you have below is the list of artists/songs with links to most of them for your listening enjoyment. 

In the crazy alphabetical order that iTunes uses:

 

AC/DC - Rising Power

Acid Bath - Scream Of The Butterfly

Agents Of Oblivion - Endsmouth

Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole

The Allman Brothers Band - Black Hearted Woman

Amanda Shires - When You Need a Train It Never Comes

Amber Asylum - Black Swan

Amoeba - Skin

Amorphis - The Way

Anathema - Deep

Angelo Badalamenti - Dance Of The Dream Man

Ann Beretta - Russ' Song

Aretha Franklin - Do Right Woman, Do Right Man

Atrina - Seven Ways

Avail - Deepwood

The Avett Brothers - Swept Away

Band Of Annuals - Lower