D’Angelo, who died Tuesday at the age of just 51, was indisputably a musical genius, but he didn’t leave much behind: Just three studio albums and an under-the-radar live set over the course of two decades, and a handful of remixes and loose tracks, so a “10 greatest songs” (out of maybe 35 original compositions) seems kind of pointless — just cue up any of a dozen “greatest hits” playlists and click.

But his discography is deep enough to hold some hidden gems, most of them covers or live tracks or both, notably remixes; and we’ll throw in some rarities like his live sets with Questlove — which were mostly soul covers from the ‘60s and ‘70s — and the “Soul Blends” cassette, which was the first whiff we got of “Voodoo” back in the fall of 1999 and was remixed by a then-little-known New

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