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The B-52's (no surprise):
1.Rock Lobster
2.Private Idaho
3.Mesopotamia
4.Give Me Back My Man (the Party Mix version)
5.Whammy Kiss
6.Communicate
7.Planet Claire
8.Love Shack
9.Is That You Mo-Dean
10.Pump
Red Hot Chili Peppers:
1.True Men Don't Kill Coyotes
2.Jungle Man
3.Fight Like a Brave
4.Under the Bridge
5.Higher Ground (awesome cover)
6.Can't Stop
7.Hump De Bump
8.This is the Place (from By the Way)
9.Californication
10.Warped

Introduction to black metal cd:

1. Venom – Black Metal
2. Bathory – The Return Of the Darkness and Evil
3. Sarcofago – INRI
4. Beherit – The Oath of Black Blood
5. Darkthrone – In the Shadow of the Horns
6. Emperor – Cosmic Keys to My Creations and Times
7. Mayhem – Pagan Fears
8. Burzum – Jesus Tod
9. Ildjarn – Chill Of the Night (Returning)
10. Graveland – Blood of Christians On My Sword

I feel this would be a good compilation for someone new to the genre as it focuses both on the genre’s earliest beginnings as well as tracks from the infamous albums that came to represent the variations within black metal.
I’ll try and do one for death metal or thrash metal or something later…

Considering how much Porcupine Tree has evolved over the past 20 years, my idea for an introduction to them would be a double-disc set-- disc 1 for their early work in the '90s, and disc 2 for their more polished work in the '00s:

Disk 1 - 1990-1999
1. The Nostalgia Factory
2. Radioactive Toy
3. Nine Cats
4. Synesthesia
5. Up The Downstair
6. The Joke's On You
7. Dislocated Day
8. Stars Die
9. Waiting Phase One
10. Waiting Phase Two
11. Idiot Prayer
12. Even Less
13. Piano Lessons
14. Don't Hate Me
15. A Smart Kid

Disk 2 - 2000-2009
1. Lightbulb Sun
2. Four Chords That Made A Million
3. Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
4. Blackest Eyes
5. Trains
6. The Sound Of Muzak
7. Collapse The Light Into Earth
8. Deadwing
9. Shallow
10. Lazarus
11. Fear Of A Blank Planet
12. Way Out Of Here
13. The Blind House
14. Time Flies
15. Flicker

Maybe I'm breaking rules or whatever, but here's an introduction to random stuff from my music library...
(no particular order, besides the last one, but then, there are several that are wonderful for endings, but it's nice to have numbers)

1) Flirted With You All My Life - Vic Chesnutt
2) Contact - Phish
3) Rentre Sans Moi - Gillian Hills
4) Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds - Modest Mouse
5) Evil - Red House Painters
6) The Motel - David Bowie
7) Floodlit World (Fierce Panda version) - Ultrasound
8.) Archangel - Burial
9) La Chanson De Prévert - Serge Gainsbourg
10) Space is Deep - Hawkwind
11) Ungain I Un - Datblygu
12) Llosgi Pontydd - The Gentle Good
13) Kirkonväki - Paavoharju
14) Ashes in Winter Light - Elysian Fields

Here is one that I've actually put together, and it's not even fully representative of my musical tastes as it's merely an hour and a half long.

Or if you just want to look at the playlist:
1. The Decomposers - Intro
2. Eraldo Bernocchi and Blackfilm - Dark Area of the Night Sky
3. Nina Simone - Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair (Jaffa Remix)
4. eleven tigers - Stableface
5. The New Law - Vaya Con Dios
6. Nosaj Thing - Coat of Arms
7. Aphex Twin - Nannou
8. Holy Spirits - White Walls
9. Fat Freddy’s Drop - Runnin’
10. Metaform - O.C.D.
11. Pepe Deluxe - Indifference
12. Emmanuel Santarromana - Opera
13. Max Richter - Journey 4
14. Photek - Ren 2
15. Bear in Heaven - You Do You (ESKMO Remix)
16. Hurts - Stay (Millions Like Us Remix)
17. Portico Quartet - Line
18. Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones - Ta Grenier
19. Bersarin Quartett - Nachtblind
20. Kashiwa Daisuke - Rabbit’s_Quartet
21. 36 - The Box
22. oyaarss - sejā tumši vaibsti
23. Of Porcelain - Here For Now
24. Seekae - Gnor
25. Juno Reactor - Angels and Men
26. Gravita - La Couleur Noir
27. Vuneny - Some Savage Animal, A Local Feud or an Avalanche
28. The Tiger Who Came to Tea - Aanhanger
29. EZ3kiel - Phantom Land
30. John Lee Hooker - Highway 13
31. The Decomposers - Outro