Top 10 Accessible, Radio-Friendly Prog Songs

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   (Neither an April Fool's joke or a pun. )
Imagine you've been working at a radio station for a year now. For the most part you've just been helping out other hosts with their shows--and yes, that includes doing the coffee runs. However, you've just been given your own radio show to host where you'll be bringing prog to the masses. As much as you would like to play ten epics, well... you can't. The station still needs to air commercials and all that, so for your show you'll need ten songs that:

-Will interest the regular listeners of the station. You can decide what the radio station plays regularly (classic rock, hard rock, music from 'x' country only etc.)
-The songs must be 5 minutes or less for the most part. (Can be a few seconds over)
-You may have one longer song in your radio show, at most 7 minutes long. Again, it has to interest your audience.
-You can have songs with a bit of swearing in it, as it'll be edited out. If swearing is the whole song, probably not a great choice.

For example, a station that plays at heaviest Metallica and lightest The Rolling Stones:
-Devin Townsend--The Fluke (LONG SONG)
-Voivod--Into My Hypercube
-Pink Floyd--Have a Cigar
-Jethro Tull--Overhang
-Genesis--I Know What I Like
-The Mars Volta--L'via L'viaquez (single version)
-Rush--YYZ
-Tool--Sober
-Devin Townsend--Bend it Like Bender!
-Rush--Spirit of Radio

It's surprisingly difficult!

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