Bim Sherman Pick

I cannot seem to break away from this tangent I am on. Today's pick is Bim Sherman. Who had plenty of albums and success before On-U Sound and plenty after, too. But also was featured on a few tracks with Tackhead, Dub Syndicate, Strange Parcels, Gary Clail & On-U Sound System. I added some early tracks and some later tracks on his own, plus tracks with the above. I said it before. The tracks with Gary Clail always stick in my head. One track that I posted before and the last track that I saved. Sherman just has that sound that I really love. And Adrian Sherwood takes good care of that, although when you listen to the none Sherwood produced tracks the voice just is captivating.

Bim Sherman Pick

01 Tackhead featuring Bim Sherman - Stealing

02 Bim Sherman - Mighty Ruler

03 Bim Sherman - Sit And Wonder

04 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System with Bim Sherman - Beef

05 Bim Sherman And The Strange Parcels - Man Next Door

06 Strange Parcels & Bim Sherman - More Is Insane

07 Bim Sherman - Lightning & Thunder

08 Bim Sherman - Slummy Ghetto Pt. 2

09 Bim Sherman - Keep On Trying

10 Bim Sherman - Can I Be Free (From Crying)

11 Bim Sherman - Lovers Leap

12 Bim Sherman & Dub Syndicate - Haunting Ground

13 Bim Sherman - Golden Locks

14 Bim Sherman - Just Can't Stand It

15 Bim Sherman - Across The Red Sea

16 Bim Sherman - Golden Morning Star

17 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System with Bim Sherman - Two Thieves and a Liar

Skip McDonald Pick

More of the Tackhead pick. The last several days have been one On-U Sound family pick. Not that they have been all On-U, they haven't been. But related, yes. Skip McDonald, or Little Axe, as he sometimes goes by, has definitely been associated with the whole cabal. Started with them in Sugarhill Gang, did a bunch of associated rap bands and songs. I include a couple. He also played with a ton of other bands as the studio go to guy. I only included a few. I didn't include Sinead O'Connor or Donna Summer or tons more. Search for him, though. He's played with a lot of people. He doesn't have much solo stuff under his own name. Mostly on the On-U compilations. The rest is under Little Axe. I love the Lee Perry, Little Annie and the Barmy Army. Some of the tracks on the previous days posts also include Skip, so check them out. Very incestuous. They all appear on each other's stuff. Sometimes uncredited or with made up names.

Skip McDonald Pick

01 Grandmaster Flash - The Message

02 The Sugarhill Gang - Apache (Jump On It)

03 Afrika Bambaataa - Funk You

04 Little Axe - Ride On (Fight On)

05 Little Axe - Midnight Dream

06 Little Axe - Grinning In Your Face

07 Little Axe - If I Had My Way

08 Little Axe - Speakeasy

09 Little Axe - Soul Of A Man

10 Skip McDonald - Hammerhead

11 Little Axe - Song To Sing

12 Little Annie - Give it to me

13 Doug Wimbish - Quasimodo

14 Barmy Army - Leroy's Boots

15 Bim Sherman - Lovers Leap

16 Daby Toure & Skip McDonald - Time Has Come

17 Lee Scratch Perry - Seven Devils Dead

18 ABC - Tower Of London

19 Will Downing - In My Dreams

Mark Stewart Pick

I'm obviously on a thread here over the last few days. This pick of Mark Stewart is also related to the On-U Sound stable. He was also in The Pop Group and part of New Age Steppers and other On-U Sound bands. But today, all you get is a few Pop Group songs and Mark solo and with Maffia. I put a couple of twelve inch versions because they were good, but also shorter, so I could add an extra song or so. I got a little from as many albums as I could. I didn't add any New Age Steppers (saved that for an upcoming family pick). This is harder than some of the stuff over the last few days, but it's all good. Each of these covers is different, but they have similar layouts.

Mark Stewart Pick

01 Mark Stewart - Dream Kitchen (Unreleased 12 Version)

02 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Hysteria

03 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Radio Freedom

04 Mark Stewart + Maffia - Liberty City

05 Mark Stewart - The Puppet Master

06 Mark Stewart - Stranger Than Love

07 Mark Stewart - These Things Happen

08 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Hypnotised (Unique New York 12 Version)

09 Mark Stewart - Babycino

10 Mark Stewart - The Lunatics Are Taking Over The Asylum

11 The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes

12 Mark Stewart - Gustav Says

13 The Pop Group - We Are Time

14 The Pop Group - Beyond Good And Evil

15 Mark Stewart - Mr. You're A Better Man Than I

16 Mark Stewart + Maffia - Jerusalem

17 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Paranoia

Gary Clail Pick

This is related somewhat to yesterday's pick. Gary Clail did play with Tackhead Sound System. He also is closely related to Adrian Sherwood, but he also worked with Paul Oakenfold. I included the club hit that they did, but put in the original version that has Billy Graham samples throughout it. That was added as an extra track on a Japanese pressing. One of my favorite tracks, but probably less known I saved for a family pick later. There was enough for here any way. Some of the On-U Sound System, Tackhead Sound System, solo stuff, some  singles and I love the Tennessee Ernie Ford cover (written by Merle Travis). It's a great cover. The one that gets caught in my head, though, is the one he does with Bim Sherman. How low can you go? Try playing this right after yesterday's pick. It works really well. I do have a couple of doubles, but I also have a track that doesn't appear there (and it easily could.)

Gary Clail Pick

01 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Reality

02 Gary Clail - Enough Is Enough

03 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Mind at the End of the Tether

04 Gary Clail - Half Cut For Confidence

05 Gary Clail Sound System - Control

06 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System with Bim Sherman - Beef

07 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - Bad Natured

08 Gary Clail - Speak No Evil

09 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Hard Left

10 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - False Leader (Parts 1 & 2)

11 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - Escape

12 Gary Clail - Who Pay The Piper

13 Gary Clail - Sixteen Tons

14 Gary Clail - Another Hard Man

Tackhead Pick

I could easily do a Tackhead family pick or two and probably one for each person associated with the band. Look them up if you don't know about these guys. If just for their association with Sugarhill Gang or with On-U Sound and Adrian Sherwood, they would be great. Their studio work is probably as varied as the boys behind the scenes at Motown. Here I took a track of them as Strange Parcels, a couple when they were Fats Comet. Plus with Keith LeBlanc, Mark Stewart, Gary Clail and DJ Cheese and all the rest from each of their albums. I added a few covers and a track they redid, but gave you the original version with Melle Mel. I left a  track or two for an up and coming family pick. Listening to it again last night, it really is a good sampling. I saw these guys live a couple of times in the 90's. They were good. So good.

Tackhead Pick

01 Tackhead - Loose Booty (Adrian Sherwood Mix)

02 Tackhead - Tell Me the Hurt

03 Tackhead - For The Love Of Money

04 Tackhead - Ticking Time Bomb

05 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Mind at the End of the Tether

06 Tackhead featuring Melle Mel - Original Sex

07 Tackhead - Super Stupid

08 Strange Parcels - Disconnection

09 Tackhead with DJ Cheese - King Of The Beat (Tackhead Remix)

10 Tackhead - Fire

11 Fats Comet - Rockchester

12 Fats Comet - Dub Storm

13 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Hard Left

14 Tackhead featuring Doug Wimbish - Crosstown Traffic

15 Keith LeBlanc - Major Malfunction

16 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Jerusalem

17 Tackhead - Strange Things

Dub Syndicate

English band Dub Syndicate is, for me, one of the most perfect dub reggae bands. Try the Mad Professor Dub Me Crazy Pick for another one. Forget Adrian Sherwood, or the Tackhead connections (although I will have a Tack>>Head pick coming soon). Forget the Lee Perry connections, even though I put two tracks on here, Don't think of the On-U Sound. Forget everything you know about them. Just put this compilation on and listen. There are twenty compilations they've put out (and they are all good), I might pick a different set tomorrow, but today it's this one. I should have played other tracks. I should have picked tracks from the other really good Lee Perry album with them. But I  didn't. It goes against my one CD length rule by almost 15 minutes, but forget all that. Just play it. But really any of their stuff. You can't go wrong.

Dub Syndicate

01 Dub Syndicate - Night Train

02 Dub Syndicate - Hey Ho

03 Dub Syndicate - Substyle

04 Dub Syndicate - Wadada

05 Dub Syndicate - 2001 Love

06 Dub Syndicate - Sound Clash

07 Dub Syndicate - One In A Billion

08 Dub Syndicate - Dubbing Is A Must

09 Dub Syndicate - Boggled Minds

10 Lee Scratch Perry & Dub Syndicate - Jungle

11 Lee Scratch Perry & Dub Syndicate - De Devil Dead

12 Dub Syndicate - No Bed Of Roses

13 Dub Syndicate - Time (Version)

14 Dub Syndicate - Togetherness

15 Dub Syndicate - Jamaican Proverb

16 Dub Syndicate - Roots Commandment

17 Dub Syndicate - No Dog Barks

18 Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate

What's The Connection? Because 1

No reason for this connection. I made it Because. So stupid. Seriously, I was thinking of the Beatles and Dave Clark Five and Patti Smith covering Bruce Springsteen. Not that they go together or anything, but because they all were cool songs I liked. I started looking for more songs and found a ton. I'm sure there is enough to do multiple volumes, but these are the ones I picked. It goes all over the place, but surprisingly still sounds kinda good. I will compile more as I feel like it.

What's The Connection? Because 1

01 Afroman - Because I Got High

02 War - Just Because

03 Magazine - Because You're Frightened

04 John Lennon - Just Because

05 The Orb - Before Because

06 Masami Tsuchiya - Because

07 Dean Martin - Because You're Mine

08 Tower Of Power - Because I Think The World Of You

09 Soft Boys - I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) [Live]

10 Rolling Stones - Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner

11 Echo & The Bunnymen - All Because Of You Days

12 David Bowie - Because You're Young

13 Robyn Hitchcock - Because You're Over

14 The Dave Clark Five - Because

15 Beatles - Because

16 Patti Smith Group - Because the Night

17 Frankie Yankovic - Just Because

18 Stevie B - Because I Love You (The Postman Song)

19 U2 - All Because Of You

20 Death In June - Because Of Him

21 Fatboy Slim - Because We Can

22 Cocteau Twins - Because of Whirl-jack