ftg

I was just messing around and actually looking for another connection and it hit me that I had a couple of unrelated songs that were made for each other, so this mixtape came about. I wasn't really planning this pick at all. I haven't even relistened to it more than once. And usually I do listen multiple times before I make a final post. So it could suck. It may have songs that I just fancifully put together that do not mesh at all. If so, I'm sorry. Tell me. I can take it. But, I hope it sounds as good as I think it does right now as I am posting this. I could be wrong though, I often am.

ftg

01 Sisters Of Mercy - Temple Of Love (1992) (Touched By The Hand Of Ofra Haza)

02 The Cure - Close To Me (Closer Mix)

03 Visage - Fade To Gray (12" Version)

04 New Order - True Faith (94 US Version)

05 Blancmange - Waves (Single Remix)

06 Yazoo - Situation (Remix)

07 Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel (Shep Pettibone Remix)

08 Bananarama - Venus (The Greatest Remix)

09 Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies

10 Trans-X - Living On Video

11 Stranglers - Always The Sun (Long Hot Sunny Side Up...)

12 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Original 12 Inch)

What's The Connection? Looking Glass

Continuing on from the last couple of days, this connection is songs using the words Looking Glass. It's an old fashioned way of saying Mirror. My first thoughts of the "word" are both Alice In Wonderland and the song Brandy. Prince actually has Alice in the title of his song. The rest don't mention it. As for the band Looking Glass, I made a mistake and included it as a bonus track. But it's not really part of the connection. I have a few tracks that might be called jazz, some oldies, pop, prog and more. Similar cover as the last couple of days, but numbering starts at one again.

What's The Connection? Looking Glass

01 The La's - Looking Glass

02 The Glove - Looking Glass Girl

03 Yanni - Looking Glass

04 Peter Hammill - This Side Of The Looking Glass

05 Duke Ellington - Looking Glass

06 Chris Rea - Looking Glass Blues

07 Andy Bell - The Looking Glass

08 Frank Sinatra - The Man In The Looking Glass

09 Anne Murray - Days Of The Looking Glass

10 Ramsey Lewis - Looking Glass

11 Henry Mancini - Life In A Looking Glass

12 Prince - Alice Through The Looking Glass

13 Association - Looking Glass

14 Allan Holdsworth - Looking Glass

15 The Bunch - Looking Glass

16 The Monkees - Through The Looking Glass

17 Mott The Hoople - Through The Looking Glass

18 Tori Amos - Ruby Through The Looking-Glass

19 Dream Theater - The Looking Glass

20 Bill Nelson - Henrietta Through The Looking Glass

Ooops, a bonus track:

Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)

What's The Connection? Mirrorball 1

Yesterday I posted the story of how I started going on this path for this connection, so read that if you are interested. None of these songs has really anything to do with disco. They just have mirrorball in the title. A couple of longer songs and a remix. And of course I broke my own rules in here. I included Dave Ball and his solo song Mirrors, because I found it funny to include it. The genres go all over the place and that's good. The numbering starts from one, because it was enough of a distinct connection to not have be a continuation of yesterday's connection. I looked for Looking Glass Ball, but apparently it doesn't exist.

What's The Connection? Mirrorball 1

01 Everything But The Girl - Mirrorball

02 Chara - Mirrorball

03 Electrafixion - Mirrorball

04 Nightmares on Wax - Mirrorball

05 Taylor Swift - Mirrorball

06 The Orb - God's Mirrorball

07 Peter Gabriel - Mirrorball

08 Caroline K - Mirrorball (Alessandro Adriani Remix)

09 Sons Of Hippies - Mirrorball

10 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Moon Hits The Mirrorball

11 John Foxx & Robin Guthrie - Mirrorball

12 Blur - Mirrorball

13 Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be A Mirrorball

14 Elbow - Mirrorball

15 Dave Ball - Mirrors

What's The Connection? Mirrors 1

I actually started this connection with Looking Glass and their one hit Brandy. But I quickly went down a rabbit hole, finding mirror songs and dumping the band Looking Glass. I had enough for about three volumes. If I include Looking Glass songs and Mirrorball songs perhaps more. I divided them up. I included the originals of Kraftwerk (didn't use Siouxsie), Velvet Underground (almost used the Primitives version) and Jimi Hendrix (although I liked the Pretenders version as well). Jimi did end up in here twice with once being with Bootsy. Not sure what my favorite song is, but it may just be the last track on this compilation.

What's The Connection? Mirrors 1

01 Kraftwerk - Hall Of Mirrors

02 The Cure - Piggy In The Mirror

03 Bootsy Collins featuring Jimi Hendrix - Mirrors Tell Lies

04 Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror

05 Diana Ross - Mirror Mirror

06 Prince - Objects In The Mirror

07 Hawkwind - Mirror Of Illusion

08 Velvet Underground, the & Nico - I'll Be Your Mirror

09 Blue Oyster Cult - Mirrors

10 Meat Loaf - Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are

11 Five's Company - Friends and Mirrors

12 Jimi Hendrix - Room Full Of Mirrors

13 Human League - Mirror Man

14 Until December - Mirrors

15 Fabulous Poodles - Mirror Star

16 Love & Rockets - Mirror People '88

17 The English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom

mfw

This is another one of my three letter mixtape picks. I started with one track and then just picked around that one, branching as I saw fit. My starting track was the Paula Yates one. I wish she had recorded more stuff as I like this cover. Considering who she hung out with/married you would think there would be more recordings of her. Unfortunately not and since she's dead there is little chance of that ever happening. Some of the other tracks are similar. Cristina has a few tracks that remind me of her. Anyway, that Nancy Sinatra cover started this journey. One other that I really like is The Fall. I like all the stuff they did, but especially the Brix Smith era. I probably should have included a track of Brix solo, but I didn't. The 12 inch version of her and the Fall was good enough, I guess.

mfw

01 Gun Club - Sex Beat

02 British Electric Foundation featuring Paula Yates - These Boots Are Made For Walking

03 The Creatures - Right Now

04 Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11

05 Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny

06 Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria (12 mix)

07 Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight

08 Wall Of Voodoo - Do It Again

09 Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards

10 Vicious Pink - I Confess

11 Human League - I Love You Too Much

12 Book Of Love - Boy (Extended)

13 Disko Junkie - U Spin Me (Extended Mix)

14 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Genetic Engineering

15 Tuxedomoon - What Use

16 The Genetic Terrorists - TGT (Anthem) (Remix)

17 Cristina - Is That All There Is (Long Version)

18 The Fall - C.R.E.E.P. (12)

April Fools 3

I have a cousin who was born on April 1. She hated it. But out of all my cousins, I always remember her birthday with no calendar needed. She was a fool for hating the date. To honor her and the date, here is part three of my April Fools connection. If you want to hear part one and two of April Fools click that. I'm pretty sure there are no doubles yet, but there are some covers. And there is a Yacht Rock song and Frank Zappa, some country, some crooners and some new wave. I like that both Elvis tracks landed right next to each other based only on BPM. What a coincidence! I have enough songs about fools to do several more years worth. I do need more joker songs, though.

April Fools 3

42 Lee Hazlewood - When A Fool Loves A Fool

43 Dean Martin - Nobody But A Fool

44 Funkadelic - Old Fool

45 Edgar Winter - Cool Fool

46 Hank Snow - (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I

47 Eight to the Bar - Young Man's Fool

48 Frank Sinatra - I'm A Fool To Want You

49 Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over)

50 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - You Little Fool

51 Elvis Presley - A Fool Such As I

52 Barbra Streisand with Barry Gibb - What Kind Of Fool

53 Matt Bianco - What A Fool Believes

54 Triumph - Fool for Your Love

55 Elvin Bishop - Just Your Fool

56 Carpenters - Ordinary Fool

57 The Cars - Cool Fool

58 Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving

59 New Order - Nothing But A Fool

60 Love & Rockets - Holy Fool

61 Frank Zappa - Dancin' Fool

62 Beat Farmers - Bigger Fool Than Me

63 New York Dolls - Fool For You Baby

What's The Connection? Walking In 1

This connection is a follow up to previous Walking Connections. There are some duplicates, but this comp is different because each title has Walking In within the title. Inside this are a few versions of the Shangri-Las hit, even though the Go-Go's put the parentheses around the wrong part. Flash and the Pan does a version of another hit that I know most from Grace Jones (who is on one of the other Connections). My favorites are the Blackbyrds and probably Missing Persons. But all are pretty good.

What's The Connection? Walking In 1

01 Millie Jackson - I Feel Like Walking In The Rain

02 Leo Stephens - Walking In My Sleep Crying Over You

03 Glasgow Tiki Shakers - Walking In Space

04 Go-Go's - (Remember) Walking In The Sand

05 Flash And The Pan - Walking In The Rain

06 Jeff Monn - Walking Around In Your Disguise

07 Aerosmith - Remember (Walking In The Sand)

08 The Ronettes - Walking In The Rain

09 Ryan & Rachel O'Donnell - Walking In The Air

10 Central Line - Walking Into Sunshine

11 The Blackbyrds - Walking In Rhythm

12 Ben E. King - Walking In The Footsteps Of A Fool

13 Johnnie Ray - Just Walking In The Rain

14 David Crosby - Walking In The Mountains 2

15 Year 2000 - Walking In Dry Rain

16 Marty Dread - Walking In Kingston

17 Marc Cohn - Walking In Memphis

18 The Shangri-Las - Remember (Walking In The Sand)

19 Erasure - Walking In The Rain

20 Missing Persons - Walking In L.A.

21 Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Walking In The Sunshine

22 Love Unlimited - Walking In The Rain (With The One I Love)