Crowe

Good idea! I did one - with a theme, I really like theme mixes. This one I call: (play in order for full effect)

The Women We Love
Songs with a female subject in the title
Alkaline Trio - Emma
The Damned - Melody Lee
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence
Patti Smith - Gloria
The Kinks - Lola
The Hollies - Carrie-Ann
Belle & Sebastian - Mary Jo
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - This Lady is Beautiful
Grizzly Bear - Marla
Final Fantasy - This is the Dream of Win & Regine
Michael Buble - Me and Mrs. Jones
Tom Waits - Muriel
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Lucy
Jens Lekman - Julie RMX
Okkervil River - Savannah Smiles
Beethoven - Ave Maria

Man I could make this mix like 30 songs longer if I had my druthers. But I liked the way that these songs flowed together. I think this list has a good representation of a lot of the stuff I like... certainly not everything.
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lucifer_sam

No Layla??? Blasphemy!

Hmmm...I don't know of as many obscure bands as other people, so it should look recognizable:

1. Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up
2. Queens of the Stone Age - Long Slow Goodbye
3. Velvet Underground & Nico - All Tomorrow's Parties
4. Tool - Parabola
5. Pink Floyd - Childhood's End
6. The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues
7. Otis Redding - That's How Strong My Love Is
8. Elliott Smith - Bled White
9. Miles Davis - Bye Bye Blackbird
10. Johnny Cash - Further On Up The Road
11. David Bowie - Sons Of The Silent Age
12. Earthbound - Phuturistic Journey
13. Metallica - Orion
14. Led Zeppelin - Since Ive Been Loving You
15. Public Enemy - Fight The Power
16. Nobuo Uematsu - Aeris' Theme (orchestral)

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Son of JayJamJah

Good list and all, but really? over the Them version or Morrison Live in 1973?

Crowe

Absolutely JJJ, yes. Let me explain why.

1) Patti Smith gets very, very little attention around these MB parts whereas we get Morrison GUSSSHHING in every top <insert name here> thread. We have a whole thread dedicated to his works. Now, I like Van Morrison and all, in fact I like him and his body of work A LOT... but it's nice to have a little change of pace.

2) THIS Gloria opens up one of my top 50 favorite albums "Horses", and in my opinion has superior lyrical content. The opening line "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" coming out of Patti Smith is chilling.

3) Number 3 being said. It's barely the same song. It only keeps the chorus of the Them original. It was much more directed towards the punk movement which Horses is considered to be a forerunner.

4) THAT being said. Notice its place on my playlist - which has just as much to do about composition rather than stuffing all of my favorite "woman themed" songs into 16 tracks. The goal here is to show a nice selection of different sounds if I remember correctly. Right after Patti's Gloria, I have the Kinks' "Lola", another English group from the same time period. I can make another whole playlist with Popular English groups from 1960-1965 with the same theme...

5) And finally. I think that Them's Gloria is boring. ESPECIALLY the live 1973 version.

I'm surprised that I was called out to defend my Patti Smith Gloria rather than my Siouxsie and the Banshees' Dear Prudence. Don't "good list and all" me either. This isn't about the textual LIST of the songs, it's about the sound as a cohesive mix... give it a listen and then we can talk lists, eh?

Love, Crowe!

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Urban Hat€monger ?

I think those versions of both those songs are better than the originals myself.

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Crowe

I know you aren't much of a Beatles fan, based off of the blurb you wrote for Revolver in your top 100. Speaking of which, your grandaddy thread has inspired me to do my own 100 (aptly, The Crowe 100) your presence in the thread would be much appreciated - due to the fact that it's an homage to your original.

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Son of JayJamJah

Actually I felt that Van got very little mention on here and it's always Brown Eyed Girl and Astral Weeks anyway, that's why I created the thread. But you don't need to defend your choice, I think you could tell, but I was not offended still you did provide your reasoning which was enjoyable.

I personally don't care for the Patti Smith song and love the Live version in '73. Van plays that song at every show (nearly) even still today. Rarely did he put as much effort in it as the recorded version from Too late to Stop Now. Won't argue on lyrical content that's a no-brainier.

As far as good list and all, it's simply there to set a non-abrasive tone, no slight intended or implied.

Crowe

I have to apologize for my jump to fully armed guard. My past experiences with this forum in particular have included some horrific elitist posters (who seem to have disappeared NICE) who were always on the attack. Hell, I even left MB for about two years (by left I mean, left every day thread discussions) because of that fact. It seems the tone has changed around here. Gotta take that proverbial "chill pill". But I stand by my enjoyable reasoning! Kudos, by the by, on making a "Them" reference... haven't heard that yet, here.

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Molecules

look forward to hearing all of these, and gazing deep into the souls of their creators...

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Crowe

I told you! It coulda gone on FOREEVVER - trust me I had Layla in the final 20, but the playlist could only be 16 songs looong... and I like the way that these ones flow together! I immediately regret this decision !!! Another Clapton song with a chick in the title when he was with the Byrds was Hang On Sloopy... I wanted that in there too --- oh the travesty ;(

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