What's The Connection? Lasts 1

This connection isn't Last, but Lasts. Plural and it ends up having a different meaning. Sort of. These are songs about how long things last. Mostly with Lasts in the title. Especially if it lasts forever, if it doesn't last at all. Some sing about nothing lasting and others about love lasting. I think I want to believe in Kissing The Pink. You have to decide for yourself. What lasts and what doesn't? What will last is your wanting to play this over and over (or will it?)

What's The Connection? Lasts 1

01 Echo & the Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever

02 Ride - Nothing Lasts Forever

03 Maroon 5 - Nothing Lasts Forever

04 Half Japanese - Love Lasts Forever (Sometimes)

05 Inner Life - Make It Last Forever

06 Steve Miller Band - Nothing Lasts

07 Trillion - Make It Last Forever

08 Judy Collins - Nothing Lasts Forever

09 Nathan And The Zydeco Cha Chas - Your Love Lasts As Long As Your Money

10 Endgames - First, Last For Everything (Club Mix)

11 The Icicle Works - When Winter Lasted Forever

12 The Chi-Lites - Nothing Lasts Forever

13 The Invisible Surfers - It Won't Last Forever

14 Bo' Flyers - If Saturday Night Could Only Last Forever

15 Marie Osmond - True Love Lasts Forever

16 Whatt Four - Our Love Should Last Forever

17 Chicago - We Can Last Forever

18 Madonna - Nothing Lasts Forever

19 Kissing The Pink - Love Lasts Forever (Long Remix)

20 Kinks - Nothing Lasts Forever

Doug Sahm Pick

Not a special day to celebrate Doug Sahm, other than any day is a good day to celebrate him. I did finish what I think is a good pick of his work over the years. Born in November 1941 and died in November 1999 he left a nice body of work. I'm not sure how I would categorize him, but he did have some great songs. Early Rock, San Francisco Hippy, Latin Rock, Country, Blues. It was all good. I have a little of each period even his song with Los Super Seven (listen to the other albums, they're all good). I love the Sir Douglas Quintet, but his work with the Texas Tornados was just as good if not better. I included a track from the movie Tin Cup and some solo stuff as well. I think you can tell, I like his stuff.

Doug Sahm Pick

01 Sir Douglas Quintet - Nuevo Laredo

02 Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover

03 Sir Douglas Quintet - Song Of Everything

04 Doug Sahm - Beautiful Texas Sunshine

05 Doug Sahm - At The Crossroads

06 Texas Tornados - (Hey Baby) Que Paso

07 Sir Douglas Quintet - Be Real

08 Texas Tornados - Wasted Days And Wasted Nights

09 Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm - Reconsider Baby

10 Texas Tornados - Guacamole

11 Doug Sahm & Band - (Is Anybody Going To) San Antone

12 Doug Sahm And Band - It's Gonna Be Easy

13 Texas Tornados - Little Bit Is Better Than Nada

14 Doug Sahm And The Pharoahs - Slow Down

15 Sir Douglas Quintet - Too Little Too Late

16 Doug Sahm - Groover's Paradise

17 Doug Sahm featuring The Gourds - Get A Life

18 Texas Tornados - Who Were You Thinkin' Of

19 Doug Sahm - Dynamite Woman

20 Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino

21 Sir Douglas Quintet - Texas Tornado

22 Sir Douglas Quintet - The Rains Came

23 Sir Douglas Quintet - Revolutionary Ways

24 Los Super Seven - Rio De Tenampa

25 Sir Douglas Quintet - Love Don't Treat Me Fair

26 Texas Tornados - Una Mas Cerveza

dmh

Another three letter mixtape. I seem to be getting a few of these picks posted up lately. A couple of these I was going to use on my last one, but it didn't quite work out to make them fit, but I liked the songs anyway. Jeff Back and Tom Scott if you cared. I used another Manzanera track, just because I like that album a lot. All the tracks are in camelot key order and are around 125 bpm, but varying degrees of energy. I almost cut out the beginning of the Blue Oyster Cult song so it would mix better, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. The Eno track I switched in for another track that I wanted to use, but this fit better. And I have to figure out how to use Siwtchfoot more often, because I really like that band. My daughter's middle school teacher was into the band and I got caught up with the ferver and still like them after all these years (decades now).

dmh

01 St. Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review - Policy Of Truth (Europen Edition)

02 Tom Scott - Rock Island Rocket

03 Moe. - Downward Facing Dog

04 Grand Funk - The Locomotion

05 Bauhaus - Earwax

06 Blue Oyster Cult - Golden Age Of Leather

07 Brian Eno - Backwater

08 Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart (Wonderous Mix)

09 Armageddon - Buzzard

10 The Dinky Toys - The Sweetest Hangover

11 AC-DC - T.N.T.

12 Cake - Never There

13 ABC - Poison Arrow

14 Joshua Moses - Pretty Girl

15 Jeff Beck - Where Were You

16 Phil Manzanera - The Flex

17 Switchfoot - More Than Fire

18 Buzzcocks - Sixteen

tgr

Working from yesterday's Rhumba connection, this pick became a mixtape starting with Wire. I had that song and then wanted to get to Big Black. Instead I went all around, old and new, past a bunch of other stuff. But it does flow. Not sure why, because by all accounts, it shouldn't. But it does. I do like the three letter cover. I am going to have to use the marble in something else coming up.

tgr

01 Wire - Three Girl Rhumba

02 Sisters Of Mercy - Black Planet

03 Roman Holliday - One Foot Back In Your Door

04 Kinks - Wish I Could Fly Like Superman

05 New Order - World In Motion

06 Martha And The Muffins - Several Styles Of Blonde Girls Dancing

07 Sam Cooke - Twistin' The Night Away

08 The Four Tops - Don't Walk Away

09 Barry Blue - Dancin' (On A Saturday Night)

10 Doug Sahm And Band - (Is Anybody Going To) San Antone

11 Big Black - The Model

12 Turtles - Eve Of Destruction

13 Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

14 Ral Donner & The Starfires - Girl Of My Best Friend

15 Major Lance - Hey Little Girl

16 Paul Anka - Are You My Destiny

17 Badlands - Dreams In The Dark

18 Grateful Dead - Truckin'

19 Original Casuals - So Tough

20 Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Frank Sinatra

21 Chi Coltrane - Thunder And Lightning

22 Halestorm - You Call Me a Bitch Like It's a Bad Thing

23 Grand Funk - Bad Time

24 Billy Joe Royal - Cherry Hill Park

What's The Connection? Rhumba 1

This connection started because of Phil Manzanera. His great album Diamond Head has a bonus track that got me going on this. Not all of these songs are actual rhumba songs as in the dance, but they all have Rhumba in the title. Going back to Phil, is it a play on Rhumba and a car? Or is it a play on Caramba? Which means something entirely different. I have no idea, but I love the song (as well as the rest of the album). From A Certain Ratio to Little Feat, there is wide variety. As long as I found a way to include Wire, I was going to be happy with the choices. As for the dance, I practiced it a lot as it was what we danced for the first dance at my wedding. Turned out pretty good.

What's The Connection? Rhumba 1

01 A Certain Ratio - Tumba Rhumba (7 inch Single B-Side)

02 Jimmy Reed - Roll And Rhumba

03 Miles Davis - New Rhumba

04 Roaring Lion - Rhumba Dance

05 Nicolette Larson - Rhumba Girl

06 The Tikiyaki Orchestra - La Hula Rhumba

07 Walter Davis Jr. - Rhumba Nhumba

08 Arrow - Soca Rhumba

09 Haruomi Hosono - Japanese Rhumba

10 Elvis Presley - No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car

11 Hank Snow - Rhumba Boogie

12 Johnny Horton - The Train With The Rhumba Beat

13 Wire - Three Girl Rhumba

14 Ray Anthony & His Orchestra - Rock-umba, Rock-Rock-Cha-Cha, Blue Rhumba

15 King Biscuit Boy - Bald-Headed Rhumba Boogie

16 Combustible Edison - Headshake Rhumba

17 Warren Barker - Rhumba Rhapsody

18 Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes - Rhumba And Coke

19 Phil Manzanera - Carhumba

20 Xavier Cugat - Rhumba Rhumba

21 The Nat King Cole Trio - Rex Rhumba

22 Little Feat - Rhumba Man

What's The Connection? Obsession 1

Yesterday I had the collision connection, but I had made that one after I had made this WTC about obsessions. Well, the obsession is about sticking to the title including the word obsession instead of actually being about things we are obsessed with. If it was the latter it would be songs about albums and compilations and playlists, but it isn't about me abd what I am obsessed with. It's these songs. Some cool ones on volume one of this. And let me tell you there are multiple volumes coming. Animotion is of course on here, but also disco, rock industrial dance, pop and more. I think Hall & Oates had the biggest hit on this volume, but I could be wrong. Somebody check and tell me. Either way I hope this playlist becomes your obsession.

What's The Connection? Obsession 1

01 Bee Gees - Obsessions

02 Kylie Minogue - Obsession

03 Adam Ant - Obsession

04 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Obsession

05 Chris And Cosey - Obsession

06 Animotion - Obsession

07 Hall & Oates - Possession Obsession

08 Icehouse - My Obsession

09 Suede - Obsessions

10 Guns N' Roses - Bad Obsession

11 Xymox - Obsession

12 Cheap Trick - My Obsession

13 Alexander Robotnick - Obsession For The Disco Freaks (Original)

14 Cabaret Voltaire - Obsession

15 Rolling Stones - My Obsession

16 Scorpions - Obsession

17 Hawkwind - Sweet Obsession

18 Killing Joke - Obsession

What's The Connection? Collision 1

My normal sense was colliding with craziness when I thought of this connection. the genres are colliding with each other, but that's how I like it. A lot less colliding songs in my collection than I thought would be here, but that's sometimes how it works. The cover is water and fire in a collision. Blame this all on the Obsession connection that's coming soon, but I mad before this one. I was getting into alliteration and went this direction instead.

What's The Connection? Collision 1

01 Rancid - Collision Course

02 Pizzicato Five - Collision And Improvisation

03 Jerry Harrison - Worlds In Collision

04 Mark Stewart - Collision

05 Genesis P-Orridge & Splinter Test - Gamma Collision

06 John Foxx - Geometry, Collision And Coincidence

07 Pere Ubu - Worlds In Collision

08 Front Line Assembly - Collision

09 John Waite - Love Collision

10 Mott The Hoople - Collision Course

11 Faith No More - Collision

12 Ruts DC Meets Mad Professor - Rhythm Collision

13 Dub Syndicate - Sound Collisions

14 New Found Glory - Head On Collision

15 ZZ Top - Decision Or Collision