Funky Disco (Leopard) 5

 A few really big hits and a few dig in your crate moments in this pick of funky disco. I have a few in the Leopard series and they are not all funk. Some just disco. I can't remember if I gave the story why it is called the leopard series, you'll have to check and see. If it's not there, ask me, I'll tell you. As I was compiling this one, I happened to notice that I had a small mini connection going in here. Eight or so of the tracks have "yourself" in the title. That's just happy serendipity. I'm pretty sure none of the others in this series have any. Just worked out that way. Not sure how many funky disco tracks have that in their title. Do you know of any others?

Funky Disco (Leopard) 5

63 Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - Tell Me Something Good

64 New York Community Choir - Express Yourself

65 Eumir Deodato - Funk Yourself

66 Teddy Pendergrass - You Can't Hide From Yourself

67 Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself

68 Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop

69 Jacksons - Enjoy Yourself

70 Brothers Johnson - Get The Funk Out Ma Face (Disco Version)

71 Slave - Watching You

72 Chic - Good Times (Original 12')

73 Upstairs - You're Just Yourself

74 Lakeside - It's All The Way Live

75 Cameo - Just Be Yourself

76 Mass Production - Firecracker

77 Graham Central Station - Release Yourself

78 Parliament - Up for the Down Stroke

79 Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau (Part 1)

Funky Disco (Leopard) 4

I like this whole series. It's funk but acknowledges the disco aspect of funk. It's a blurry line, but when you take funk's soul and put it on disco's dancefloor turbo, you get funky disco. And that's what I tried to pick. I like both funk and disco so when you get a little of both it's good. Some of the funk bands had disco versions of their songs, I tried to use those as I could fit them. I hope I am never done with this series.

Funky Disco (Leopard) 4

47 The Meters - Cissy Strut

48 Temptations - Shakey Ground

49 Thunder, Lightning & Rain - Super Funky

50 Johnny Guitar Watson - A Real Mother For Ya

51 Tower Of Power - What Is Hip

52 Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost

53 Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica

54 Kool & The Gang - Hollywood Swinging

55 Con Funk Shun - Ffun (12'' Version)

56 Lyn Collins - Think (About It)

57 Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep (Part 1) (Full version)

58 Pleasure - Glide

59 Isley Brothers - I Turned You On

60 Ohio Players - Feel The Beat (Everybody Disco)

61 Judy Carnes - Sock It To Me

62 Isaac Hayes - Do Your Thing

Flic Your Bic 9

As you can see, this pick is an ongoing series. It has been awhile since I posted one up, however. You have to go back to August of 2023 to see the last Flic Your Bic. But worth clicking to get all of them if you like this sort of stuff (and I do). These are all songs that I would pull out my lighter (an app nowadays) for if I saw this song played live. So it's very subjective. I am sure you have a favorite that you would think is anthemic rock. See if it has already been posted before and if it hasn't, leave a comment with your choice.

Flic Your Bic 9

97 John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.

98 Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe

99 Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

100 Queen - We Are the Champions-We Will Rock You

101 Cream - White Room

102 AC-DC - Highway To Hell

103 Tom Petty; Jeff Lynne; Steve Winwood; Dhani Harrison; Prince - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

104 Jethro Tull - Aqualung

105 ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man

106 Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane

107 Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever

108 Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band

109 Sweet - Fox On The Run

110 Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

111 Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World (Electric)

112 REO Speedwagon - Ridin' the Storm Out

113 Kiss - Rock And Roll All Nite

114 Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild

What's The Connection? DJ

In honor of National Disc Jockey Day today, here is a connection of songs with DJ in the title. A couple of pretty well known tracks and a couple much less known, but all are pretty good. Play this today to celebrate your favorite DJ's, whether they can scratch, mix in key or not. More than a third of these have "Hey" in the title, too. As a DJ, I can tell you that "Hey, Mr. DJ" is not uncommon, not that any of us mind, I'm sure. I wonder how long it will be before a robot takes over for all DJ's? I'm sure eventually AI will figure out the best way to watch a crowd and get them dancing on cue and eventually when to MC. But for now, it's really not that efficient. One day, maybe...

What's The Connection? DJ

01 SL2 - DJ's Take Control

02 Joel Corry - Hey DJ

03 Pitbull - Something For The DJs

04 Betty Boo - Hey DJ, I Can't Dance (To That Music You're Playing)

05 Pet Shop Boys - DJ culture

06 Usher Featuring Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love

07 CNCO with Yandel - Hey DJ

08 Robbie Williams - Rock DJ

09 David Bowie - DJ

10 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - The Last DJ

11 Paul Collins Beat - Hey DJ

12 World's Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ

13 Beastie Boys - Three MCs And One DJ (Live Video Version)

14 Dimples D - Sucker DJ's (I Will Survive) (12 inch Version)

15 The Egyptian Lover - What Is A DJ If He Can't Scratch

16 The Ting Tings - Great DJ  (7th Heaven Radio Edit)

17 Rihanna - Pon De Replay (Hey Mr DJ Turn The Music Up)

18 Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

19 Zhane - Hey Mr. DJ

20 Kylie Minogue - Where Does The DJ Go

21 The Baseballs - My Baby Left Me For A DJ

22 They Might Be Giants - Hey Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal

I Have A Dream (repost)

This repost is actually on the day we celebrate MLK, but his actual birthday was four days ago. We've been in some weird times lately. We have bigots screaming for racism in the schools, school boards asking for segregation and pointing fingers of white supremacy. We almost seem more divided today than when Dr. King was alive. But we aren't. In reality, Dr. King asked when we would see people by the color of their deeds rather than the color of their skin. I think once we get past the political rhetoric we are closer together than we ever have been. I'm proud to live in the only country who fought a war to stop slavery and has been progressing under Conservative views to become more and more a country where color of the skin means less than your actions. This connection is about songs inspired by and about Martin Luther King. 

I Have A Dream 

01 Ben Harper - Like A King

02 Neil Diamond - Dry Your Eyes

03 Beatles - Blackbird

04 King Dream Chorus & Holiday Crew - King Holiday

05 Marvin Gaye - Abraham, Martin & John

05 Scientist - Martin Luther King

06 Common featuring Will.i.am - I Have A Dream

07 Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome

08 Nina Simone - Why (The King of Love Is Dead)

09 U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)

10 Patty Griffin - Up To The Mountain (Mlk Song)

11 Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What

12 Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream

13 James Brown - Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud), Pt. 1

14 Stevie Wonder - Happy Birthday

15 The Speech - I Have A Dream

16 Queen - One Vision

18 Rascals - People Got To Be Free

19 Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona

20 U2 - MLK

RIYL Uptown Funk (repost)

This repost is from the first year I was posting on this site. I like this RIYL pick. I still play it a lot. It just sounds good. Here's what I originally said about it: You know how you are listening to a song and it it really feels like you've heard the song before? I was listening to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' hit Uptown Funk and it kept bothering me. Not so much like Blurred Lines and Got To Give It Up sounded like they would make a good mash up, but I knew I had that vibe and sound in my head. So I started searching and remembering. This is the playlist pick that I came up with. Pretty much this is my Recommended If You Like Uptown Funk. Let me know what you would recommend in the comments below.

Uptown Funk 

01 Stevie Wonder - Superstition 

02 The Bar-Kays - Too Hot To Stop (Pt. 1) 

03 Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce (Pt. 1) 

04 Brass Construction - Get Up To Get Down 

05 Earth, Wind & Fire - GetaWay 

06 James Brown - Living In America 

07 One Way - Let's Talk 

08 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk 

09 Michael Jackson - Jam 

10 Skyy - Call Me 

11 Cameo - Shake Your Pants (Original 12' Club Mix) 12 The Time - Cool 

13 Prince - Partyup 

14 Gap Band - Party Train 

15 Sun - We're So Hot (Instrumental)

Action Movies (repost)

This is a repost from one of my first posts on this site (in 2021) with updated links. Everyone loves an action movie. I sure do. Here are some scenes from some (then) recent action movies with the music they played through it. As you listen, remember how the scene went. I know that some of these tracks have been used in more than one movie, but these are the movies I associate them with. Do you have a favorite action sequence in a movie? What song is associated with it? By the way I make all the covers for these picks. Click on them.

Action Movies (repost)

01 Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You (Reservoir Dogs)

02 Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Star Trek)

03 Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up (Matrix)

04 P.O.D. - Boom (Rollerball)

05 Beowulf - 2 Cents (Tank Girl)

06 AC-DC - Back In Black (Iron Man)

07 Tomoyasu Hotei - Battle Without Honor or Humanity (Kill Bill)

08 Rammstein - Feuer Frei! (xXx)

09 Extreme - Play With Me (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)

10 Metallica - Master of Puppets (Zombieland)

11 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Bellbottoms (Baby Driver)

12 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (Thor Ragnorak)

13 Eric Serra - The Diva Dance (Fifth Element)

14 Propellerheads - Spybreak! (Matrix)

15 Imagine Dragons - Battle Cry (Transformers 4)

16 Rupert Gregson-Williams - Wonder Woman's Wrath

17 The Runaways - Cherry Bomb (Guardians Of The Galaxy)

18 AC-DC - Shoot To Thrill (Iron Man 2)

19 George Thorogood And The Destroyers - Bad To The Bone (Terminator 2)

20 Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine (Terminator 2)

21 Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright (Kingsman The Golden Circle Edit)

22 Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (Shaun Of The Dead)

23 Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Kong Island)