The Crowe 100 (lyrics, soundtrack, lead singer, music video, electronic)

Crowe · 07-04-2008, 01:10 PM

Yeah, it's weird talking about some of my top100 because for a site where music is... the topic constantly at hand, I rarely ever see CarterUSM/Scritti Politti and some of my others mentioned. I didn't know Carter was still touring. Where are you seeing them?

jackhammer · 07-04-2008, 01:34 PM

They are doing a couple of anniversary dates and that is it as far as I know. I am seeing them in Birmingham (U.K).

Crowe · 07-04-2008, 09:27 PM

84. Janis Joplin - Pearl (1971)
Someone had put this album on my iPod a long, long time ago... and I had never really listened to it until my freshman year at college, about 3 years ago. It was cold, really bone chilling cold in the city of Chicago and I had my 18 layers of clothes on and my iPod blaring as though it would help me to forget I was getting frostbite. All of a sudden in my giant headphones - a wail breaks out and at first I think that this is some... 80's hair metal singer that I wasn't familiar with and I look down and holy mother... it's Janis Joplin, the song; "Cry Baby". After the song finishes I go to the album and sit in a joint called Caribou Cafe to escape from the cold and listen to the entire thing drinking hot chocolate. A unique voice makes an artist for me. So it follows suit that I fell in love with Janis Joplin immediately. Me and Bobby McGee is on Pearl - her most famous song - but the album contains tons of raw emotion coming from the drug and alcohol soaked vocal cords of Janis before she finally left for the big party in the sky (or the bigger party in the ground).

Check out: Cry Baby, Trust Me, My Baby

83. Nirvana - In Utero (1993)
This is one of the first cds I ever bought for myself - and I had to settle for the K-Mart "clean" version (where instead of the song being called Rape Me on the back cover it was called Waif Me, lol). As a kid, one of my camp counselors was talking about how much better In Utero was than Nevermind - and he found out I had just gotten a CD player for Christmas and I had finally saved up enough allowance to go get a new CD. I think I wanted to get an Aerosmith album... but he inspired me to grab In Utero. At this time I was used to mostly hair metal, 50s and 60s stuff like Elvis and the Beach Boys and Hootie and the Blowfish. Imagine my surprise when I heard Nirvana in full for the very first time. I ended up shelfing In Utero for a few years because I didn't really like it to begin with. As I got older I began to appreciate a wider variety of music and was glad I kept this gem around. In Utero became the soundtrack of the summer after 6th grade and has never been too far away from my stereo (and has a permanent position in my car.. or did before I started using my iPod).

Check out: All Apologies, Heart Shaped Box, Milk It, Pennyroyal Tea

82. Matisyahu - Live at Stubb's (2005)
This is one of the few rap albums you'll find on my list. Matisyahu was introduced to me when I went off to college from the safe, sheltered, suburbs of St. Louis to a school full of pretentious art-school kids. The one good thing about these artsy kids though is that they have their fingers on the pulse of non-mainstream music... and they know everything about it (they know they know everything too, which is annoying). So when one of my new roommates heard I didn't like rap - he sat me down and popped in a burned copy of this... jamaican guy singing about God knows what. Except it wasn't a jamaican guy... it was Matisyahu... a hasidic jew. Imagine my surprise! We sat and listened to the album and my roommate explained the songs to me (which sucked, because he talked so much I couldn't hear the music). So I ripped the album onto my iPod and listened to it on the train that very same day... I was absolutely moved by the lyrical content and the island sounds of this... guy, Matisyahu. I found the album where most of this material came from and really ended up enjoying the live version better!

Check out: King Without a Crown, Heights, Close My Eyes

81. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow (2005)
This album and Live at Stubb's are really interchangeable. My introduction to Devendra came from the same guy in the same sit down. I really dig Devendra's crazy lyrics and his voice is awesome - it sets him apart from other folky artist in my opinion. I'm a big fan of making playlists and more often than not - half of Cripple Crow is on them (on the road trip playlists and the sort). Banhart's simplicity and his voice aching with freak-folk subtlety wins him a spot in the back 5th of the top 100. Make sure to listen to the exotic instruments in the background.. again very subtle. One of the big things that keeps this album out of the top 50 is it's leeengggth. Sometimes you are like... Come on, let's get around to finishing this thing... and just when it starts to lose points... it finishes nicely with Canela. Oh yeah, Devendra doesn't know it's not the 60's anymore... and it shows. And it's great.

Check out: Chinese Children, I Feel Just Like a Child (awesome lyrics), Canela, I Do Dig a Certain Girl

pheurton · 07-05-2008, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Crowe

82. Matisyahu - Live at Stubb's (2005)
This is one of the few rap albums you'll find on my list. Matisyahu was introduced to me when I went off to college from the safe, sheltered, suburbs of St. Louis to a school full of pretentious art-school kids. The one good thing about these artsy kids though is that they have their fingers on the pulse of non-mainstream music... and they know everything about it (they know they know everything too, which is annoying). So when one of my new roommates heard I didn't like rap - he sat me down and popped in a burned copy of this... jamaican guy singing about God knows what. Except it wasn't a jamaican guy... it was Matisyahu... a hasidic jew. Imagine my surprise! We sat and listened to the album and my roommate explained the songs to me (which sucked, because he talked so much I couldn't hear the music). So I ripped the album onto my iPod and listened to it on the train that very same day... I was absolutely moved by the lyrical content and the island sounds of this... guy, Matisyahu. I found the album where most of this material came from and really ended up enjoying the live version better!

Check out: King Without a Crown, Heights, Close My Eyes

He proves they do make Jews like Jesus from time to time, instead of the fragile sort from the 20th Century. Good pick.

Crowe · 07-05-2008, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by pheurton

He proves they do make Jews like Jesus from time to time, instead of the fragile sort from the 20th Century. Good pick.

haha, I don't know what to make of this comment :O.

GravitySlips - which is your favorite album of Motorpsycho? You think Black Canvas is overrated?

lucifer_sam · 07-05-2008, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Crowe

83. Nirvana - In Utero (1993)
This is one of the first cds I ever bought for myself - and I had to settle for the K-Mart "clean" version (where instead of the song being called Rape Me on the back cover it was called Waif Me, lol). As a kid, one of my camp counselors was talking about how much better In Utero was than Nevermind - and he found out I had just gotten a CD player for Christmas and I had finally saved up enough allowance to go get a new CD. I think I wanted to get an Aerosmith album... but he inspired me to grab In Utero. At this time I was used to mostly hair metal, 50s and 60s stuff like Elvis and the Beach Boys and Hootie and the Blowfish. Imagine my surprise when I heard Nirvana in full for the very first time. I ended up shelfing In Utero for a few years because I didn't really like it to begin with. As I got older I began to appreciate a wider variety of music and was glad I kept this gem around. In Utero became the soundtrack of the summer after 6th grade and has never been too far away from my stereo (and has a permanent position in my car.. or did before I started using my iPod).

Check out: All Apologies, Heart Shaped Box, Milk It, Pennyroyal Tea

Excellent album. I find that I enjoy it more than Nevermind (probably because it's so overrated). Good choice!

Crowe · 07-05-2008, 01:52 PM

80. Carl Orff - Carmina Burana (~1935)
"What's this? A neo-classical piece stuck into a list with predominately alternative rock albums from the 80s and 90s? What say you, Crowe?" As some of you old timers may know, I use to be very into the choral program in my pre-college schooling (where it was the "cool" thing to do). Carmina Burana was the first "Masterworks" piece I had ever done. As a Tenor I ( a voice part for those of you not in the know) I got to sing a bunch of really cool parts in this epic 59 minute piece. All of you have heard the opening track - even if you are not aware of it. O Fortuna is a haunting, powerful track that is used in a lot of advertisements nowadays. It is the theme song for the movie "Excalibur" if that helps at all. My personal favorite song from Carmina Burana is "Ecce Gratum"

Check out: ... as a classical album it works better as a whole, but... for the sake of continuity; O Fortuna, Ecce Gratum, Veni - Veni - Venias

79. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill (1986)
I almost put "Hello Nasty" here - Intergalactic was the song that got me into the Beastie Boys, but really it is the hits from Licensed to Ill that really kept the Beastie Boys around in my life. While the songs have never had impact on my personal life as much as some of these other albums so far have... I really, really have a lot of fun listening to it... and how can you blame me? Tracks like Brass Monkey, Paul Revere, She's Crafty.... Fight For Your Right for f's sake. Incredible.

Check out: Paul Revere, Girls, No Sleep Til Brooklyn

78. Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb (1998)
With Sonic Bloom receiving some airplay in the late 90's, I always had Tripping Daisy's one major hit in my head as a kiddo going to school. It wouldn't be until years later watching some "I Love the 90's" thing on Vh1 that I would even remember Tripping Daisy. Using my internet powers, I went and downloaded Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb. Unlike most albums on my list - I almost never listen to this album and it's not because I don't like it... I mean, I like it a lot - I just always seem to forget about it. I call it the Tripping Daisy Phenomena and it's awful because whenever I hear it - I'm like "OHHHH yeeeahhhhh!" I'm sure you all have your own version of the "Holy hell I forgot about this!" noise. Mine manifests as the "oh yeaah". Singer Tom DeLaughter, Bassist Mark Pirro and old drummer Dryan Wakeland would go on to form the Polyphonic Spree and drummer for this album, <insert name here> would go on to drum for the Secret Machines

Check out: Sonic Bloom, Field Day Jitters, Tiny Men

77. Walt Mink - El Producto (1996)
I am a well known Pitchfork basher, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that they've lead me to some great music. The reviewers piss me off though with their pretentiousness. But whatever. I found Walt Mink with a coveted Pitchfork "10" score. Later I would find out that PF would blame this rating on a writer they fired. Walt Mink, if anything, is just good indie rock coming out of grunge era of the early 90s. There isn't really a weak track on the album - but there is nothing spectacular as it were. I got everyone at my old job hooked on this group - and every time I had a shift - I'd hear, "Crowe, did you bring your iPod... think we could put on some Minkage?" - really a great album to make Sub sandwiches to. I've read that they sound like a poor man's Matthew Sweet, which I can see - but don't necessarily agree with.

Check out: Stood Up, Settled, Sunshine M.

Zombeels · 07-28-2008, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowe

78. Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb (1998)
With Sonic Bloom receiving some airplay in the late 90's, I always had Tripping Daisy's one major hit in my head as a kiddo going to school. It wouldn't be until years later watching some "I Love the 90's" thing on Vh1 that I would even remember Tripping Daisy. Using my internet powers, I went and downloaded Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb. Unlike most albums on my list - I almost never listen to this album and it's not because I don't like it... I mean, I like it a lot - I just always seem to forget about it. I call it the Tripping Daisy Phenomena and it's awful because whenever I hear it - I'm like "OHHHH yeeeahhhhh!" I'm sure you all have your own version of the "Holy hell I forgot about this!" noise. Mine manifests as the "oh yeaah". Singer Tom DeLaughter, Bassist Mark Pirro and old drummer Dryan Wakeland would go on to form the Polyphonic Spree and drummer for this album, <insert name here> would go on to drum for the Secret Machines

Check out: Sonic Bloom, Field Day Jitters, Tiny Men

This album has always been a favorite of mine. I think it's in my top 25. Best song on the album has to be Band-Aids For Hire. First time ever I've seen this album on someone else's top 100 list.

sleepy jack · 07-07-2008, 05:51 PM

Jesus I thought I was the only Sun Kil Moon fan on here, nice pick on all of them. Except Van Halen ;D

15Steps · 07-08-2008, 07:47 AM

Red House Painters ftw

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Crowe Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 690	84. Janis Joplin - Pearl (1971) Someone had put this album on my iPod a long, long time ago... and I had never really listened to it until my freshman year at college, about 3 years ago. It was cold, really bone chilling cold in the city of Chicago and I had my 18 layers of clothes on and my iPod blaring as though it would help me to forget I was getting frostbite. All of a sudden in my giant headphones - a wail breaks out and at first I think that this is some... 80's hair metal singer that I wasn't familiar with and I look down and holy mother... it's Janis Joplin, the song; "Cry Baby". After the song finishes I go to the album and sit in a joint called Caribou Cafe to escape from the cold and listen to the entire thing drinking hot chocolate. A unique voice makes an artist for me. So it follows suit that I fell in love with Janis Joplin immediately. Me and Bobby McGee is on Pearl - her most famous song - but the album contains tons of raw emotion coming from the drug and alcohol soaked vocal cords of Janis before she finally left for the big party in the sky (or the bigger party in the ground). Check out: Cry Baby, Trust Me, My Baby 83. Nirvana - In Utero (1993) This is one of the first cds I ever bought for myself - and I had to settle for the K-Mart "clean" version (where instead of the song being called Rape Me on the back cover it was called Waif Me, lol). As a kid, one of my camp counselors was talking about how much better In Utero was than Nevermind - and he found out I had just gotten a CD player for Christmas and I had finally saved up enough allowance to go get a new CD. I think I wanted to get an Aerosmith album... but he inspired me to grab In Utero. At this time I was used to mostly hair metal, 50s and 60s stuff like Elvis and the Beach Boys and Hootie and the Blowfish. Imagine my surprise when I heard Nirvana in full for the very first time. I ended up shelfing In Utero for a few years because I didn't really like it to begin with. As I got older I began to appreciate a wider variety of music and was glad I kept this gem around. In Utero became the soundtrack of the summer after 6th grade and has never been too far away from my stereo (and has a permanent position in my car.. or did before I started using my iPod). Check out: All Apologies, Heart Shaped Box, Milk It, Pennyroyal Tea 82. Matisyahu - Live at Stubb's (2005) This is one of the few rap albums you'll find on my list. Matisyahu was introduced to me when I went off to college from the safe, sheltered, suburbs of St. Louis to a school full of pretentious art-school kids. The one good thing about these artsy kids though is that they have their fingers on the pulse of non-mainstream music... and they know everything about it (they know they know everything too, which is annoying). So when one of my new roommates heard I didn't like rap - he sat me down and popped in a burned copy of this... jamaican guy singing about God knows what. Except it wasn't a jamaican guy... it was Matisyahu... a hasidic jew. Imagine my surprise! We sat and listened to the album and my roommate explained the songs to me (which sucked, because he talked so much I couldn't hear the music). So I ripped the album onto my iPod and listened to it on the train that very same day... I was absolutely moved by the lyrical content and the island sounds of this... guy, Matisyahu. I found the album where most of this material came from and really ended up enjoying the live version better! Check out: King Without a Crown, Heights, Close My Eyes 81. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow (2005) This album and Live at Stubb's are really interchangeable. My introduction to Devendra came from the same guy in the same sit down. I really dig Devendra's crazy lyrics and his voice is awesome - it sets him apart from other folky artist in my opinion. I'm a big fan of making playlists and more often than not - half of Cripple Crow is on them (on the road trip playlists and the sort). Banhart's simplicity and his voice aching with freak-folk subtlety wins him a spot in the back 5th of the top 100. Make sure to listen to the exotic instruments in the background.. again very subtle. One of the big things that keeps this album out of the top 50 is it's leeengggth. Sometimes you are like... Come on, let's get around to finishing this thing... and just when it starts to lose points... it finishes nicely with Canela. Oh yeah, Devendra doesn't know it's not the 60's anymore... and it shows. And it's great. Check out: Chinese Children, I Feel Just Like a Child (awesome lyrics), Canela, I Do Dig a Certain Girl __________________ Last edited by Crowe; 07-04-2008 at 10:00 PM.

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Crowe Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 690	80. Carl Orff - Carmina Burana (~1935) "What's this? A neo-classical piece stuck into a list with predominately alternative rock albums from the 80s and 90s? What say you, Crowe?" As some of you old timers may know, I use to be very into the choral program in my pre-college schooling (where it was the "cool" thing to do). Carmina Burana was the first "Masterworks" piece I had ever done. As a Tenor I ( a voice part for those of you not in the know) I got to sing a bunch of really cool parts in this epic 59 minute piece. All of you have heard the opening track - even if you are not aware of it. O Fortuna is a haunting, powerful track that is used in a lot of advertisements nowadays. It is the theme song for the movie "Excalibur" if that helps at all. My personal favorite song from Carmina Burana is "Ecce Gratum" Check out: ... as a classical album it works better as a whole, but... for the sake of continuity; O Fortuna, Ecce Gratum, Veni - Veni - Venias 79. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill (1986) I almost put "Hello Nasty" here - Intergalactic was the song that got me into the Beastie Boys, but really it is the hits from Licensed to Ill that really kept the Beastie Boys around in my life. While the songs have never had impact on my personal life as much as some of these other albums so far have... I really, really have a lot of fun listening to it... and how can you blame me? Tracks like Brass Monkey, Paul Revere, She's Crafty.... Fight For Your Right for f's sake. Incredible. Check out: Paul Revere, Girls, No Sleep Til Brooklyn 78. Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb (1998) With Sonic Bloom receiving some airplay in the late 90's, I always had Tripping Daisy's one major hit in my head as a kiddo going to school. It wouldn't be until years later watching some "I Love the 90's" thing on Vh1 that I would even remember Tripping Daisy. Using my internet powers, I went and downloaded Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb. Unlike most albums on my list - I almost never listen to this album and it's not because I don't like it... I mean, I like it a lot - I just always seem to forget about it. I call it the Tripping Daisy Phenomena and it's awful because whenever I hear it - I'm like "OHHHH yeeeahhhhh!" I'm sure you all have your own version of the "Holy hell I forgot about this!" noise. Mine manifests as the "oh yeaah". Singer Tom DeLaughter, Bassist Mark Pirro and old drummer Dryan Wakeland would go on to form the Polyphonic Spree and drummer for this album, <insert name here> would go on to drum for the Secret Machines Check out: Sonic Bloom, Field Day Jitters, Tiny Men 77. Walt Mink - El Producto (1996) I am a well known Pitchfork basher, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that they've lead me to some great music. The reviewers piss me off though with their pretentiousness. But whatever. I found Walt Mink with a coveted Pitchfork "10" score. Later I would find out that PF would blame this rating on a writer they fired. Walt Mink, if anything, is just good indie rock coming out of grunge era of the early 90s. There isn't really a weak track on the album - but there is nothing spectacular as it were. I got everyone at my old job hooked on this group - and every time I had a shift - I'd hear, "Crowe, did you bring your iPod... think we could put on some Minkage?" - really a great album to make Sub sandwiches to. I've read that they sound like a poor man's Matthew Sweet, which I can see - but don't necessarily agree with. Check out: Stood Up, Settled, Sunshine M. __________________ Last edited by Crowe; 07-06-2008 at 10:55 AM.

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