G-Sphere

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Mansion On The Hill

Artist Song
The Stone Roses  Breaking Into Heaven (Second Coming, 1994) 
Happy Mondays  Kinky Afro (Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, 1990) 
Lenny Kravitz  Always On The Run (Mama Said, 1991) 
Primal Scream  Moving Up (Screamadelica, 1991) 
Supergrass  Seen The Light (Life On Other Planets, 2003) 
The Flaming Lips  Shine On Sweet Jesus (In A Priest Driven Ambulance, 1995) 
The Brian Jonestown Massacre  Straight Up And Down (Take It From The Man, 1996) 
The Fall  Crop Dust (50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 30 Golden Greats, 2004) 
Echo & The Bunnymen  Hurricane (Crystal Days: 1979-1999, 2001) 
The Soup Dragons  No More Understanding (Hotwired, 1992) 
Radiohead  The Bends (The Bends, 1995) 
Neil Young  Mansion On The Hill (Ragged Glory, 1990) 
Matthew Sweet  Giving It Back (100% Fun, 1995) 
Oasis  Cigarettes And Alcohol (Definitely Maybe, 1994) 
Spiritualized  Electricity (Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, 1997) 
David Bowie  Hallo Spaceboy (Outside, 1995) 
Gomez  Ping One Down (In Our Gun, 2002) 
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club  Shade Of Blue (Take Them On, On Your Own, 2003) 

Comment:

Tossed off on a cold snowy January night. Some guitar worship and neo-psychedelic grooves & jams. Kravitz on the cover.

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The Misfit
Date: 1/27/2005
Very nice.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 1/27/2005
Very nice, indeed (that's exactly what I was going to say before seeing the Misfit's comment). I love this kind of stuff, and that Stone Roses opener is underrated and a killer.
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Salman1
Date: 1/27/2005
Pretty cool, although I HATE that Lenny Kravitz song. Great Flaming Lips pick though.
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hemizen
Date: 1/27/2005
Cool, especially the Supergrass
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Rob Conroy
Date: 1/27/2005
I hate Lenny Kravitz, too, to be honest with you, as well as Gomez, but so much of this looks great--the Stone Roses track that I mentioned, plus the Happy Mondays, the Scream, the Lips, the Fall, Echo, Spiritualized and Radiohead picks--that I can still embrace this one. :-)
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G-Sphere
Date: 1/27/2005
Kravitz does that to people and I've noticed many love/hate comments when he is used on a mix. Thus, I put him on the mix cover too.
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p the swede
Date: 1/27/2005
I really hate that Kravitz tune(he's music for models only) but the rest looks like a good night out with the boys
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Nicholas Vegas
Date: 1/27/2005
I dont know why i have to think about Ice COld HEINEKEN Bottles when i saw this Cd Cover , but its certainly a Nice Rock Mix

NV
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Sean Lally
Date: 1/27/2005
dig it - love seeing supergrass on a mix. as for kravitz, i can't hate him. he rips off too many good artists. sure, he makes more money than sly stone is these days, and lenny's lyrics are routinely DUMB ... still, the guy can rock. it's hard to divorce kravitz the nutball personality from kravitz the music "thief". i don't know - i think he's harmless, and i still like his first album. so there!
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Dom1
Date: 1/27/2005
I'm w/Lally re:Kravitz..& I love GOMEZ' debut...& a great lookin' mix!
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mckbrd
Date: 1/27/2005
nice mix george! interesting debate about kravitz, thus will abstain......
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SMoss
Date: 1/27/2005
Hey George! - do you by chance desire one or two of mine? I'd love to get one or two in this series? I've only heard a handful to Kravitz tracks, but the pop/hook method he's adopted works for me. Fields of Joy was great. I like Little Girl's Eyes a Lot, and the FM staple from about 2 years ago was very nice. Too many rock and roll artists these days do not have good enough ability to "phrase" the vocals to pull it off. Like Eddie Vedder - whatever he tries to sing sounds like he's reading a shopping list for the first time - how awkward. Conversely, with Kravitz who cares about the words - he can deliver the vocal sounds in a real groove. I must pick up one or two of his.
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steelkillie
Date: 1/27/2005
From start to finish.Wonderful.
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Orchid
Date: 1/27/2005
Ahhh, this brings back pleasant memories. I will forgive your inclusion of Lenny Kravitz just because you included a track from "The Second Coming". That album will always hold a special place in my heart, as it was literally stuck in my car tape player for 9 months.... therefore I'm intimately familiar with every blissful millisecond of it.
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Bear
Date: 1/28/2005
With P and Rob on Kravitz and Dom on Gomez's first lp (dunno what happened to them after that, though). The rest is great choices. Nice Oasis-Spiritualized face-off!
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McDonald12
Date: 1/28/2005
I don't dislike Lenny Kravitz. How could I? He wrote a song about a cab driver, and that makes him ok in my book! Also the rest of this concoction is really first class, especially the Neil cut "In that mansion on the hill, psychedelic music fills the air, peace and love live there still.........." Music to my ears!
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G-Sphere
Date: 1/28/2005
I didn't know what the association of Kravitz with Heineken
beer was until I just googled the two together. Heineken Festival, playing beer bottles on stage, etc. Really taking the sponsership thing over the top. I guess one more thing to hate Kravitz about. What else is there to hate? The Hollywood/Cosby connection? The Look? The "music for models" comment really cracked me up. He's a ripoff but like Sean says... he rocks.
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g.a.b. l@bs
Date: 1/28/2005
I only have one Kravitz disc...& I'd probably adopt his persona if someone threw a few bags of cash for my trouble...
Regardless, this looks rockin', George!
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 1/28/2005
Excellent mix George. And Kravitz? He had the good taste to hire Cindy Blackman as his drummer which counts for something I suppose.
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Siobhan
Date: 1/28/2005
Beautiful, George - seems like it flows very nicely indeed, and I like the Gomez.