Help with playlist about Greek gods/Greece

Dear all,

Just after a bit of help compiling a playlist for a friend who’s moving to Greece. So far I have:

Gold Panda - Greek Style
Echo & the Bunnymen - Parthenon Drive
British Sea Power - Zeus
Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite
The Orb - Earth (Gaia)
Flight Facilities - Apollo

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers all,
SpartaFC

Hefner - I Stole A Bride (loosely based on the story of Helen Of Troy)

Athens you go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like Agrinio

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Arcade Fire - It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus)

^I might have the brackets round the wrong way there but still.

And maybe Common People by Pulp (she came from Greece; she had a thirst for knowledge)

Frankie Valli - Greece

Hermes House Band - Country Roads
Bloc Party - Ares
Styx - Come Sail Away
Mary J Blige - No More Drachma

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Fictional M.J.B song best idea yet cheers

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Smashing Pumpkins - Greek USA

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oh, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Lyre of Orpheus

“Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!” by Sunset Rubdown

Have a listen to Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown, bound to be something on there.

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How about Trojan Curfew by Stephen Malkmus? Opening verse for example:

Greek gods are communing
Beneath the doric arch
And they talk how small we humans are
They drink to agamemnon
They toast his pyhrric march
And wait for the sacrifices

Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
Bob Dylan - Temporary Like Achilles

How about just putting on the whole of Hadestown by Anais Mitchell

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Mercury Rev - Hercules
Jonny Trunk - Zeus

The latter’s very good:

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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell (Erebus & dido in the lyrics)

Rufus Wainwright - Greek Song
Robert Pollard - Pop Zeus

Yeah, I thought about Sufjan too, but it was the mention of Poseidon in Should’ve Known Better which came to mind.

There is of course Icarus Smicarus by Mclusky as well.

Or rather the mention of Poseidon being in All Of Me Wants All Of You. Gah!