Brisket Beats 2

Look at yesterday's post for the whole story or click on Brisket Beats to see the updates. But this pick is bar dancing and drinking music. It's designed specifically. Every song has a reason for being here. You'll notice that there are multi-lingual songs and that all the songs or artists have a Texas connection. This area of Texas (by which I mean almost all of Texas) has a lot of pride in being Texan. Even people who move here end up being proud of it. I have seen that a little in most places in the world, but not to the extent that it is here. And there is good reason for it. I always tell people I wasn't born in Texas, but I came as soon as I could. The music tells a story (if you'll listen). And it's made for couples to have a night out with each other (or to meet someone.) There are pauses here and there for a reason. BTW, if you are a bar and are interested in knowing how this can help you increase business let me know (I'll explain it all to you.)

Brisket Beats 2

021 Johnny Bush - Whiskey River

022 Ned Miller - From A Jack To A King

023 Ray Price - For The Good Times

024 Selena - Bidi Bidi Bom Bom

025 Clay Walker - What's It To You

026 Miranda Lambert - Gunpowder & Lead

027 Freddie King - I'm Tore Down

028 ZZ Top - Tush

029 Asleep At The Wheel - Way Down Texas Way

030 Lyle Lovett - Cowboy Man

031 Al Green - Let's Stay Together

032 Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee

033 Mickey Gilley - Room Full of Roses

034 Gene Watson - Love in the Hot Afternoon

035 Texas Tornados - Una Mas Cerveza_pn

036 Johnnie Taylor - Cheaper To Keep Her

037 Johnny Copeland - Cut Off My Right Arm

038 Jerry Lee Lewis - You Win Again

039 Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue

040 Willie Nelson - On The Road Again

Brisket Beats 1

I already posted a Brisket Beats or Texas Soul comp in my vs picks. But this is more comprehensive. This series will have some overlap with that first one, but since it's almost 200 songs wide, there is a whole lot more. I started this one because I was looking at the special DJ nights that some bars were putting on all around the world (and there are some good ones see the vs link above) and how lackluster the ones in my area were. I tried to come up with something programmed as an entire regular night. It's not just music, it's an event designed for a bar. Although you willonly get the music portion here, I designed it to maximize profit in a bar by giving people what they want and need to drink and dance all night for a specific kind of diverse multi-cultural crowd that is fairly conservative and has pride for Texas. It's interesting. I designed everything from music to promotions, even commercial tie-ins to products and local businesses. It was fun. For now, I'm just gonna share some of the music over the next week or so.

Brisket Beats 1

001 Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover

002 Statler Brothers - Flowers On The Wall

003 Tyrone Davis - Turn Back The Hands Of Time

004 Delbert McClinton - Giving It Up for Your Love

005 Freddy Fender - Before the Next Teardrops Falls

006 Jim Reeves - Welcome To My World

007 Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart

008 Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You

009 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Pride and Joy

010 Archie Bell And The Drells - Tighten Up

011 Luis Miguel - La Puerta (1958)

012 Kacey Musgraves - Space Cowboy

013 Jim Reeves - He'll Have To Go

014 Eddy Arnold - Make The World Go Away

015 Joe Stampley - Honky Tonk Queen

016 Roy Head & The Traits  - Apple Of My Eye

017 The Champs - Tequila

018 Archie Bell & the Drells - Here I Go Again

019 Los Umbrellos - No Tengo Dinero (C&J Mix)

020 Mel Tillis - I Ain't Never

Gelukkig Nieuwjaar (repost)

This is a repost of a New Year's Connection all about New Year's songs.  Not any one genre at all. You may notice that I named this What's The Connection? in the Dutch traditional greeting for the New Year. I have some Dutch in my heritage, so it's what my family says. I get that it's impossible to pronounce if you do not speak Dutch. Just remember that the "G" is softer than you think. Anyway enjoy the cover (Amsterdam fireworks in the background) and the weird songs mixed in with more mainstream stuff. For more New Year's songs  ← click there.

Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! Lucky New Year

01 Lightnin' Hopkins - Happy New Year
02 Eagles - Funky New Year
03 Kid Rock - Happy New Year
04 Violent Femmes - Happy New Year Next Year
05 The Residents - Mr. Skull's New Year's Eve Song
06 Camera Obscura - Happy New Year
07 James Brown - Merry Christmas My Baby And A Very, Very Happy New Year
08 Bing Crosby - Let's Start the New Year Right
09 Tom Waits - New Year's Eve
10 Stevie Ray Vaughan - Happy New Year Blues
11 Graham Parker - New Year's Revolution
12 Barry Manilow - It's Just Another New Years Eve
13 Bowling For Soup - Merry Flippin' Christmas (Happy Freakin' New Year)
14 Brave Combo - Mambo in a Brand New Year
15 The Malibooz - And A Happy New Year
16 Michael Franks - The Way We Celebrate New Years
17 O'Jays - Christmas Just Ain't Christmas, New Years Ain't New Years Without The One You Love
18 Pink Martini - Congratulations-A Happy New Year Song
19 B.B. King - Bringing In A Brand New Year
20 Dan Wilson - What A Year For A New Year
21 Joe Walsh - New Year's Eve

CCCC (Cake, Camp, Crack)

A little northern California indie alt rock served family style. This pick (I called it the Chocolate Chip Connection while I was making it) but it's really the family crossovers of Cake, Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker. The first 13 tracks are just them, but the next seven are where they went to or came from. The biggest glue to all of this are the three Davids and Michael Urbano. Lowery in CVB and Cracker, Urbano in all three, Immergluck was in CVB and Cracker. And then they were in the other bands - look them up and you'll see. I picked at least one track in each band that had them on it, and I still had to love the track.

CCCC (Cake, Camp, Crack)

01 Cake - The Distance

02 Cracker - I'm A Little Rocket Ship

03 Cake - Wheels

04 Camper Van Beethoven - Reason to Believe

05 Cracker - Get Off This

06 Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling

07 Cracker - Low

08 Cake - No Phone

09 Camper Van Beethoven - The Day That Lassie Went To The Moon

10 Cake - Never There

11 Camper Van Beethoven - Northern California Girls

12 Cracker - Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)

13 Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men

14 Third Eye Blind - How's It Going To Be

15 Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

16 Monks of Doom - Chang

17 Smash Mouth - I'm a Believer

18 Pixies - Where is My Mind

19 Bourgeois Tagg - I Don't Mind At All

20 The Ophelias - Lawrence of Euphoria

Fall Do Overs

The last couple of days I've had picks that were somewhat related to The Fall, so I figured I should get right to the heart of it. These are all by the band covering other people's songs. A "do over" for them. I've always liked the band and especially their covers, so here are as many as I could figure out. I go against my rule of only putting enough songs in these playlists that end up being CD length (up to 80 minutes in my world). This is almost half hour too much. Sorry, but I didn't have the heart to cut any and I know I should have. You are just going to have to suck it up and deal with my shortcomings. I wanted them all in one place.

Fall Do Overs

01 The Fall - Junk Man

02 The Fall - Loop 41-Houston

03 The Fall - Mr. Pharmacist

04 The Fall - Black Monk Theme Part I

05 The Fall - Gotta See Jane

06 The Fall - I'm Going To Spain

07 The Fall - This Perfect Day

08 The Fall - Higgle-dy Piggle-dy

09 The Fall - Lost in Music

10 The Fall - Funnel Of Love

11 The Fall - Bound

12 The Fall - F-'oldin' Money

13 The Fall - Last Chance To Turn Around

14 The Fall - Stout Man

15 The Fall - Jungle Rock

16 The Fall - War

17 The Fall - Kimble

18 The Fall - Just Waiting

19 The Fall - Stay Away (Old White Train)

20 The Fall - Why Are People Grudgeful

21 The Fall - A Day In The Life

22 The Fall - White Lightning

23 The Fall - Victoria

24 The Fall - I'm a Mummy

25 The Fall - I Can Hear the Grass Grow

26 The Fall - White Line Fever

27 The Fall - Strangetown

28 The Fall - Rollin' Dany

29 The Fall - The Legend Of Xanadu

30 The Fall - I'm Not Satisfied

31 The Fall - There's a Ghost in My House

32 The Fall - Shut Up!

Laura Elise (Adult Net, Brix Smith)

Yesterday I posted a pick of Mark E Smith. Today it's his ex-wife Brix E Smith's early solo work, mostly with Adult Net, but also a couple of singles she released as Brix. It does not include any of the stuff from the 2010's and later where she was with the Extricated and also later with Marty Wilson-Piper. Don't get me wrong, that's all good music but didn't fit with this stuff that was more on the poppy psychedelic side. I was lucky enough to meet her a few times and she was smart, cute and fun. That was when she first was doing Adult Net stuff but also still touring with the Fall. The bikes on the cover are because she went to my house and rode my bike. It was fun. Anyway, I like her work with the Fall a lot, some of their best work and I really like her solo stuff. Here's some of it. Her given names are Laura Elise, so that's why the title.

Laura Elise (Adult Net, Brix Smith)

01 Adult Net - White Night (Stars Say Go)

02 Adult Net - Incense And Peppermints

03 Brix Smith - Oringina

04 Adult Net - Take Me

05 Adult Net - August

06 Adult Net - Waking Up In The Sun

07 Adult Net - Spin This Web

08 Adult Net - Edie

09 Adult Net - Sad

10 Adult Net - Baby You're Away

11 Adult Net - Where Were You

12 Adult Net - Honey Tangle

13 Adult Net - Tiffany Tuesday

14 Adult Net - Tomorrow Morning's Daydream

15 Adult Net - Going Nowhere

16 Adult Net - It's The Way

17 Brix Smith - Hurdy Gurdy Man

18 Adult Net - Sea Of Rain

19 Adult Net - Over The River

20 Brix Smith - Space Oddity

Mark E Smith

I am a Mark E Smith fan, especially in The Fall. And was happy to find him on other recordings besides the millions with the Fall. He did some guest spots and he was sampled and he did some side projects. This pick is a sampling of all that. Not as popular in the States as he was back home, but he definitely had some followers here. I figured he was probably a drunk and an ass, but anyone who could put out music like him was worth my time. He always looke dlike he would be yelling at someone to get off his lawn. Just my kind of guy!

Mark E Smith

01 Mouse On Mars - 21Again

02 Tackhead featuring Mark E Smith - Repetition (Repetition)

03 Coldcut featuring Mark E Smith - (I'm) In Deep

04 Gorillaz featuring Mark E Smith - Glitter Freeze

05 Edwyn Collins - Seventies Night

06 Shuttleworth featuring Mark E Smith - England's Heartbeat

07 DOSE featuring Mark E Smith - Plug Myself In

08 Blaney featuring Mark E Smith - Thinking Of You

09 Jan St. Werner featuring Mark E Smith - Back To Animals

10 Von Südenfed, Mark E. Smith, Mouse On Mars - The Rhinohead

11 Mouse On Mars featuring Mark E Smith - Cut the Gain

12 Ghostigital - Not Clean

13 12 Inch featuring Mark E Smith - Inch

14 Mark E Smith - Dissolute Singer

15 Mark E Smith & Ed Blaney - Real Good Time Together

16 Inspiral Carpets featuring Mark E Smith - I Want You

17 Long Fin Killie - The Heads Of Dead Surfers

18 The Clint Boon Experience - You Can't Keep A Good Man Down

19 The Fall - Totally Wired