“Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns” by Mother Love Bone

"Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns" is two songs stitched into one long, slow-burning suite, and it's the centerpiece of Shine, the 1989 debut EP from Seattle's Mother Love Bone. "Chloe Dancer" drifts in hushed and hazy before the band swells into "Crown of Thorns", with Andrew Wood singing the whole thing in a big, aching, theatrical voice. Wood wrote it with Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather and Greg Gilmore; the band produced it with Mark Dearnley, and Tim Palmer mixed.

"Crown of Thorns" later turned up on its own on Apple in 1990, the band's only studio album, while "Chloe Dancer" never got a solo spot. Cameron Crowe used the pairing in his 1989 film Say Anything..., though it stayed off the soundtrack. Critics have heaped praise on it, and Rolling Stone eventually counted it among the finest songs to run past seven minutes.

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