Late Night Back At Urbans

yeah man, i wanted to squeeze some more hip hop in there but it wasn't working. that tunes unhinged and kind of works in the context. RZA says he looked to Thelonious Monk when he wanted to write a disjointed piano phrase
 
O.K I have quickly thrown together a 12 track compilation of chilled out tunes. Here is the tracklist. Explanations later!

1. Clannad-Banba Oir.
2. Faith No More-Evidence.
3. John Martyn-Glistening Glyndebourne.
4. All About Eve-Freeze.
5. Larab-All In Your HanRAB.
6. Tanita Tikaram-For All These Years.
7. Fat Freddy's Drop-Roady.
8. Beth Orton-Stars All Seem To Weep.
9. Everything But The Girl-No Difference.
10. Lisa Gerard-Meltdown.
11. Aswad-Back To Africa.
12. King Curtis-A Whiter Shade Of Pale.

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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 Marabazo - 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 SeeRAB - 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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nice one on the comp jackhammer, i've been pretty strung out recently and your mix is the first thing to have relaxed me. Sweet unconsciousness! Especially that track from the Insider soundtrack and the Aswad. Good call on the Faith No More track, that was a schizo album, what would you think about starting a Mike Patton thread?

Also enjoyed Crowe's aswell, plenty of piano-led goodness. I've not heard 'Gloria' for years so that was fantastic, and the Hollies are always a treat - Manchester's answer to the Beatles! The more recent indie/folk banRAB on there were interesting too; and the last time I heard Alkaline Trio was the 'Just A Kid' single?
 
Absolutely JJJ, yes. Let me explain why.

1) Patti Smith gets very, very little attention around these rab parts whereas we get Morrison GUSSSHHING in every top 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) Nuraber 3 being said. It's barely the same song. It only keeps the chorus of the Them original. It was much more directed towarRAB 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 sounRAB if I remeraber 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!
 
I think you are thinking of "Stupid Kid" - really their only song to dip into the mainstream MTV audience. Orrrr... you are getting them confused with that Simple Plan song from when they first came about... and I hope that is NOT the case. Glad you liked it, will be making another one soon.
 
Dude i'm coming round your place if you play stuff as good as that. I like the way it progressively sank into hard electro, i think if you'd have thrown me into the deep end straight away i wouldn't have liked it but the psycho stuff opened my mind enough! I need to get me some Misunderstood. And where the hell did you get that Luv Machine track, that was some heavy shizz! Fave of the whole comp if you take away the Bowie track.

Next up: Jackhammers
 
Normally chillout stuff like this bores the tits off me but this was really good. You did a good job on the order, everything flowed really well which is surprising because it's quite a diverse mix. Good job sir! I'll pop this on again tonight, should calm me a bit.
 
I have not been a huge fan of a lot of the songs in these compilations,(liked most, but nothing I love, lots of new {to me}stuff which is good) but I got to say you guys (jack, Mole etc>) really did a nice job making the different songs flow together.

Mostly just saying thanks (via back handed compliment albeit) for taking the time to make and share these!!! (If I used smilies I'd put one here)
 
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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