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So there`s loads of those compilation albums put together by people in bands & DJs mixing all sorts of stuff together.Some well known stuff , some obscure stuff , some old stuff , some new stuff usually covering a wide range of different genres.
So I figured why let them all have the fun , we can do that.
So choose 16 songs that you love covering a broad spectrum of your taste in music and put them in an order that flows and then just sit back and enjoy the music and let others enjoy the fruits of your work & imagination.

Anyway here`s the tracklisting for mine....

1. Death In Vegas (Feat. Iggy Pop) - Aisha
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee
3. 13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House
4. Hawkwind - Urban Guerilla
5. De La Soul - Say No Go
6. Martina Topley Bird - Soul Food
7. Pulp - My Legendary Girlfriend
8. Scott Walker - The Old Man`s Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
9. Curtis Mayfield - Underground
10. Can - I`m So Green
11. Brian Eno - Baby`s On Fire
12. Akron/Family - Blessing Force
13. Imitation Electric Piano - Kings Evil
14. Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - Boys Keep Swinging
15. Primal Scream - MBV Arkestra
16. Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection

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Ok your turn.

Akron/Family and Plot... nice.

so is this just a compilation, or is it actually mixed?

Mixed?

Nahh far too difficult , would be nice though. I`d love to put Black Dice next to Tom Jones

i had my mp3 player on today and aotea went beatifully into Khanate. i cant really do this though as i have a total of about 40 mp3s since my hard drive died. :(

I think I'm going to do one of these tonight.

^^^^

Famous last words! I think this is a great idea for a thread.

This is what I'm talking about! Looking forward to the Scott Walker track. This could take awhile... would be so great to do a mix proper but mp3 mixers are crazy money

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. Lamb-All In Your Hands.
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 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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look forward to hearing all of these, and gazing deep into the souls of their creators...

No Layla??? Blasphemy! :yikes:

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)

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 ;(

Jennifer by Faust belongs on any such list.

I've never listened to Faust... is this a recommendation in the making Proggy?

I made one of these a while ago and put it in the Compilation thread, if anyone's desperate for it i could probably upload it again.

1. Clip from Spaced - Jaffa Cakes
2. Mr Scruff - Get A Move On
3. Goldfrapp - Deer Stop
4. A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour
5. Nightmares On Wax - The Sweetest
6. Blonde Redhead - 23
7. The Duke Spirit - Bottom of The Sea
8. Midnight Juggernaughts - Shadows
9. Eels - My Descent Into Madness
10. Easy Star All-Stars - The Great Gig In The Sky
11. Love - Always See Your Face
12. Cortney Tidwell - Eyes At The Billions
13. John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey - That Was My Veil
14. Hexstatic - Perfect Bird
15. Aphex Twin - IZ-US

Link (belatedly) added to my list.

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

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!

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

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.

I have been watching that thread with interest.
So far there's not really been anything in it that I can really add much on but as soon as you post something i'm familiar with i'll get involved more.

This is the intended running order for my one; I tried to go for enjoyable material that not everybody had heard whilst representing some of my listening habits. 'The guitar side' contains the sort of psychedelic nonsense I love, proto-shoegaze, proggy indie etc... Oh and today's best David Bowie song ever. Meh.

The dance following on MB is not strong so the second half is mainly that - accelerating in tempo from acid house to hard dance. Timbrally (new word!) it's probably the opposite of Jackhammer's excellent chill-out compilation :afro:
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1. I Unseen - The Misunderstood
2. Dive Into Yesterday - Kaleidoscope
3. Bombers - David Bowie
4. Witches Wand - Luv Machine
5. Night Of The Assassins - Les Rallizes Denudés
6. Snowball - Test Icicles
7. Holiday In Disneyland - Dalek I Love You
8. Working To Work - Field Music
9. Filmstar - Suede
10. Generation Space - The Silents
11. Must Be Bobby - RZA
12. The Life of Points - My My
13. DJ Doktor Megatrip With Luv Bass - Genesis P'Orridge
14. Siddown - Delinquent Feat Mr G
15. No Qualms - Wiley
16. Tasty Mushroom - Infected Mushroom
17. Wolf - DJ Hype + Shy FX
18. Make You Freak - Plus System

^^^

I will have to download this beauty for sure.

urban - your link is dead mate.
piss me off - give us a comp sahn!

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.

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.

Well, I guess Ethan's taking a break, but don't be fooled. :p:
Molecules, is Must Be Bobby a Bobby Digital track?

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

Holy crap super chilled out after that. Beautiful sax on 'Whiter Shade of Pale'. really liked 'Roady' and 'All In Your Hands' too

I'm nicking yours Molecules, looks good.
I might make a new one later....

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 bands on there were interesting too; and the last time I heard Alkaline Trio was the 'Just A Kid' single?

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)

Excellent. I have only got a few tracks in but I have had to draw breath! Digestion is the key. Expect a few PM's!