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The Electricity Club have just published a good read here, a credible stab at a John Foxx chronological "best of"

http://www.electricity-club.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-john-foxx/

If TEC can do it, so can we.
And why not

You have four discs.
No more than one track off each album

Here's my opening shot

DISC ONE
I Want To Be A Machine
Man Who Dies Every Day
Just For A Moment
No-One Driving
The Garden
A Woman On A Stairway
Spin Away
Avenham Collonade
An Ocean We Can Breathe
Camera
Burning Car (live Exotour version)
Quiet Splendour
Spoken Roses
Some Way Through All The Cities
Metanym

DISC TWO
Broken Furniture
Underwater Dream Sex
Shadow Dancing
Kurfurstendamm
My Sex (live from a Room As Big As A City)
A Million Cars
X-Ray Vision
Impossible
Imperfect Hymn
A Secret Life – Part 2
Luminous (Long Version)
A Man Made Of Shadows

DISC THREE
Underpass (Mark Reeder’s Sinister Subway Mix)
Violet Bloom
Flightpath Tegel
Catwalk
Torn Sunset
Down A Windy Street
Unrecognised
Evidence (featuring The Soft Moon)
Changelings (John Foxx & The Maths remix)
Where Is Kittin? (John Foxx & The Maths remix)
The Good Shadow (instrumental)
Evangeline (David Lynch remix)
Empty Avenues

DISC FOUR
Velocity Logic
The Other Side
The Tearing Sound Of Smiling
Oceanic II
A Small Wood In A Big World
When We Came To This Shore
Musique Electron
Lincoln Street

That's a pretty decent looking box set! Am tempted to set this up as a playlist.

I would say that 4 CDs might be a bit too much for a beginner though - perhaps a 2 CD version could be created (or even a single CD). Maybe one CD of songs, one of instrumentals. I'd love to mix up the styles too - something like Young Savage followed by What Kind Of Girl springs to mind! Mess with their heads a bit.

I'll have a think ...

I look forward to the results of your thunk

Good lord ; I clicked on the link and he's the spitting image of Feargel Sharkey in that first photo !

"I'm gonny do Onderpass fer yers nie ! "

A good ARP these days is hard to find