Index of artists, ordered by quality of their 20th best song

The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Rolling Stones
Prince
Aretha Franklin
Van Morrison
Marvin Gaye
The Beach Boys
Elvis Presley
Madonna
Miles Davis
Neil Young
The Clash
Public Enemy
Stevie Wonder
Jimi Hendrix
R.E.M.
Elvis Costello
Talking Heads
Bob Marley
The Velvet Underground
The Who
Joni Mitchell
PJ Harvey
Bruce Springsteen
Nirvana
Radiohead
David Bowie
Drive-By Truckers
Björk
The Kinks
Pink Floyd
Michael Jackson
Led Zeppelin
U2
The Byrds
The Doors
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Smiths

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Including solo Siouxsie but not "Cish Cash", plus I never listened to The Creatures. Tumblr notes.

1. Happy House (Kaleidoscope)
2. Hong Kong Garden
3. Melt! (A Kiss in the Dreamhouse)
4. Into the Light (Juju)
5. Spellbound (Juju)
6. Jigsaw Feeling (The Scream)
7. Mirage (The Scream)
8. Cannons (Tinderbox)
9. Dazzle (Hyaena)
10. Arabian Knights (Juju)
11. Heaven and Alchemy (solo, Mantaray)
12. Party’s Fall (Tinderbox)
13. Cascade (A Kiss in the Dreamhouse)
14. Cities in Dust (Tinderbox)
15. Voodoo Dolly (Juju)
16. Green Fingers (A Kiss in the Dreamhouse)
17. Dear Prudence (Hyaena)
18. Christine (Kaleidoscope)
19. Carcass (The Scream)
20. About to Happen (solo, Mantaray)

Drive-By Truckers

Isbell was good company to keep

1. Outfit
2. My Sweet Annette
3. The Company I Keep
4. Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife
5. Carl Perkins' Cadillac
6. Hell No, I Ain't Happy
7. Birthday Boy
8. Three Great Alabama Icons
9. A Ghost to Most
10. The Day John Henry Died
11. The Man I Shot
12. Ronnie and Neil
13. A World of Hurt
14. Decoration Day
15. Marry Me
16. Puttin' People on the Moon
17. Bulldozers and Dirt
    
18. The Purgatory Line
    
19. TVA
20. Wallace
    

Michael Jackson

(Jackson 5 stuff excluded)

1. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough
2. Billie Jean
3. Wanna Be Startin' Something
4. Beat It
5. Rock with You
6. Off the Wall
7. Black or White
8. The Way You Make Me Feel
9. I Wanna Be Where You Are
10. Got to Be There
11. Rockin' Robin
12. She's Out of My Life
13. Unbreakable
14. Can't Let Her Get Away
15. In the Closet
16. 5000 Watts
17. Smile
18. Thriller
19. Girlfriend
20. Shake a Body

Björk

1. Venus as a Boy
2. Pagan Poetry
3. Bachelorette
4. Human Behaviour
5. Hyper-Ballad
6. Joga
7. Earth Intruders
8. The Hidden Place
9. All Is Full of Love (Greatest Hits version)
10. It's Oh So Quiet
11. Army of Me
12. Big Time Sensuality
13. Undo
14. Hunter
15. Declare Independence
16. Cocoon
17. Triumph of a Heart
18. Unison
19. Violently Happy
20. Cover Me

The Kinks

1. Waterloo Sunset
2. Sunny Afternoon
3. Arthur
4. All Day and All of the Night
5. Lola
6. You Really Got Me
7. Victoria
8. Tired of Waiting for You
9. Fancy
10. A Well Respected Man
11. Plastic Man
12. Rosie Won't You Please Come Home
13. Complicated Life
14. Last of the Steam Powered Trains
15. David Watts
16. The Way Love Used to Be
17. A House in the Country
18. Shangri-La
19. Set Me Free
20. Alcohol

PJ Harvey

not much for either whoring or hustling these days

1. Good Fortune
2. You Said Something
3. Sheela-Na-Gig
4. 50 Ft Queenie
5. Down by the Water
6. A Place Called Home
7. Rid of Me
8. Big Exit
9. Long Snake Moan
10. C'mon Billy
11. The Sky Lit Up
12. Dress
13. The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
14. Angelene
15. Is This Desire?
16. This Is Love
17. To Bring You My Love
18. Rub 'til It Bleeds
19. O Stella
20. Meet Ze Monsta

Miles Davis

there's a 20 minute time limit, so no "Right Off", "Yesternow", "Pharoah's Dance", "He Loved Him Madly", "Lonely Fire", "Funky Tonk"...

1. So What [Kind of Blue]
2. Shhh/Peaceful [In a Silent Way]
3. Move [Birth of the Cool]
4. Walkin' [The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel, first disc]
5. 'Round Midnight ['Round About Midnight]
6. Moon Dreams [Birth of the Cool]
7. Moja Part 1 [Dark Magus]
8. All Blues [Kind of Blue]
9. If I Were a Bell [Relaxin']
10. Bye Bye Blackbird ['Round About Midnight]
11. Concierto de Aranjuez [Sketches of Spain]
12. In a Silent Way/It's About That Time [In a Silent Way]
13. Rated X/Billy Preston [Panthalassa]
14. Tune Up/When Lights Are Low [Cookin']
15. Stella by Starlight [The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel, last disc]
16. My Funny Valentine [My Funny Valentine]
17. Nne Part 2 [Dark Magus]
18. Oleo [Relaxin']
19. Freddie Freeloader [Kind of Blue]
20. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down [Bitches Brew]

The Doors

poor Freud

1. Riders on the Storm
2. Light My Fire
3. People Are Strange
4. Break on Through (To the Other Side)
5. Hyacinth House
6. Roadhouse Blues
7. The End
8. Hello, I Love You
9. L.A. Woman
10. Love Me Two Times
11. Who Do You Love (live)
12. Peace Frog
13. Little Red Rooster (live)
14. The WASP (Texas Radio & the Big Beat)
15. Wild Child
16. Moonlight Drive
17. Soul Kitchen
18. Waiting for the Sun
19. Universal Mind
20. Touch Me

Public Enemy

I only recently realised that "Pollywanacraka" has a DOUBLE MEANING

1. Bring the Noise
2. Welcome to the Terrordome
3. Rebel Without a Pause
4. Fight the Power
5. Night of the Living Baseheads
6. Can't Truss It
7. Game Face
8. Don't Believe the Hype
9. Hard Rhymin'
10. I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Nigga
11. You're Gonna Get Yours
12. 911 Is a Joke
13. So Whatcha Gone Do Now?
14. Go Cat Go
15. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
16. Son of a Bush
17. By the Time I Get to Arizona
18. MKLVFKWR
19. Pollywanacraka
20. Raw Shit

The Byrds

30% Dylan-written

1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2. Eight Miles High
3. Hickory Wind
4. Turn! Turn! Turn!
5. All I Really Want to Do
6. Nothing Was Delivered
7. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
8. Draft Morning
9. Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
10. Old Blue
11. I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
12. My Back Pages
13. Old John Robertson
14. The Christian Life
15. I See You
16. I Knew I'd Want You
17. Ballad of Easy Rider
18. 5D (Fifth Dimension)
19. Goin' Back
20. Tribal Gathering

Joni Mitchell

after she got over her pretensions, she made a few incredible albums; after that she decided she'd rather be pretentious

1. River
2. Help Me
3. You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio
4. Blue
5. Both Sides Now
6. Big Yellow Taxi
7. A Case of You
8. I Wish I Were in Love Again [Both Sides Now]
9. Free Man in Paris
10. Blonde in the Bleachers
11. Come in from the Cold
12. My Old Man
13. Comes Love [Both Sides Now]
14. Raised on Robbery
15. Urge for Going
16. For the Roses
17. Impossible Dreamer
18. Woodstock
19. All I Want
20. Chelsea Morning

The Smiths

someone else can love them

1. How Soon Is Now?
2. Panic
3. Hand in Glove
4. This Charming Man
5. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
6. What Difference Does It Make?
7. Girlfriend in a Coma
8. Sweet and Tender Hooligan
9. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
10. Bigmouth Strikes Again
11. The Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty)
12. Shakespeare's Sister
13. Death of a Disco Dancer
14. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
15. William, It Was Really Nothing
16. Paint a Vulgar Picture
17. Cemetry Gates
18. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
19. The Headmaster Ritual
20. Shoplifters of the World Unite

Madonna

True Blue is the ultimate Eighties "singles-only but most of the songs are singles" album, even more than Thriller

1. Borderline
2. Open Your Heart
3. Crazy for You
4. Like a Prayer
5. Holiday
6. Live to Tell
7. Papa Don't Preach
8. Into the Groove
9. Hanky Panky
10. Deeper and Deeper
11. What It Feels Like for a Girl
12. Justify My Love
13. Like a Virgin
14. Vogue
15. Where's the Party
16. Ray of Light
17. Rain
18. La Isla Bonita
19. Music
20. Human Nature

Talking Heads

subgenius sounds about right

1. Once in a Lifetime
2. Crosseyed and Painless
3. Take Me to the River
4. Life During Wartime
5. The Great Curve
6. Wild Wild Life
7. Listening Wind
8. And She Was
9. Stay Up Late
10. Thank You for Sending Me and Angel
11. (Nothing But) Flowers
12. Road to Nowhere
13. Born Under Punches
14. Burning Down the House
15. Psycho Killer
16. Memories Can't Wait
17. The Big Country
18. Swamp
19. Totally Nude
20. Walk It Down

Van Morrison

a album of Ray Charles covers plz

1. And It Stoned Me
2. Wild Night
3. Domino
4. Astral Weeks
5. Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)
   
6. Moondance
7. It's All in the Game
8. Wavelength
9. Madame George
10. Here Comes the Night [It's Too Late to Stop Now]
11. Brown Eyed Girl
12. Georgia on My Mind
13. Bright Side of the Road
14. Cleaning Windows
15. Into the Mystic
16. Sweet Thing
17. I Believe to My Soul [It's Too Late to Stop Now]
18. Gloria [Too Long in Exile]
19. Full Force Gale
20. Blue Money

Elvis Costello

d. 1986

1. (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
2. Man Out of Time
3. Watching the Detectives
4. Beyond Belief
5. Pills & Soap
6. Less Than Zero
7. Watch Your Step
8. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
9. From a Whisper to a Scream
10. Tokyo Storm Warning
11. Oliver's Army
12. I Want You
13. Brilliant Mistake
14. Radio, Radio
15. Alison
16. Every Day I Write the Book
17. New Amsterdam
18. New Lace Sleeves
19. The Big Light
20. Pump It Up

Bob Marley

"Zimbabwe" is hard to listen to (and as necessary as ever) these days, thanks to that other Bob M.

1. No Woman, No Cry [Live!]
2. Simmer Down
3. I Shot the Sheriff
4. Duppy Conqueror
5. Stir It Up
6. Lively Up Yourself
7. Get Up, Stand Up
8. Kinky Reggae
9. Redemption Song
10. Buffalo Soldier
11. Is This Love
12. Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
13. Trenchtown Rock [Live!]
14. Burnin' and Lootin'
15. Concrete Jungle
16. Jamming
17. Satisfy My Soul
18. Zimbabwe
19. Could You Be Loved
20. Who Feels It Knows It

Pink Floyd

baby, it's cold outside

1. Wish You Were Here
2. Apples and Oranges
3. Money
4. Bike
5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts 1-5
6. See Emily Play
7. Us & Them
8. Interstellar Overdrive
9. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
10. Time
11. Arnold Layne
12. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts 6-9
13. Jugband Blues
14. Sheep
15. Astronomy Domine
16. The Great Gig in the Sky
17. Welcome to the Machine
18. Echoes
19. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
20. Eclipse

Stevie Wonder

mushy like Catullus or Chaplin

1. Living for the City
2. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
3. Superstition
4. Boogie On Reggae Woman
5. Skeletons
6. Fingertips, Part 2
7. Cold Chill
8. I Just Called to Say I Love You
9. You Haven't Done Nothin'
10. Sir Duke
11. You Are the Sunshine of My Life
12. Heaven Help Us All
13. Master Blaster (Jammin')
14. Don't You Worry About a Thing
15. My Love Is With You
16. Dark 'n' Lovely
17. Village Ghetto Land
18. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)
19. Blame It on the Sun
20. Happy Birthday