What's The Connection? Kings 2

I did part 1 of this Kings connection in November of last year, but today is actually King's Day, so here is part two. Nothing special to post about these songs with King in the title, but I hope you get to have a little something Dutch in celebration of the King of Nederland. That's all. I suppose I should have more, but I am celebrating.

What's The Connection? Kings 2

20 Go West with Kate Bush - The King Is Dead

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

22 Aerosmith - Kings And Queens

23 Jimmy Liggins - Boogie Woogie King

24 Barbara McNair - He's a King

25 Styx - Long Live The King

26 Gamalon - The King

27 Focus - House Of The King

28 UB40 - King

29 Steely Dan - Kings

30 Billy Barry - I'm A King

31 Michael Schenker - To Live For The King

32 Renaissance - Kings & Queens

33 Sade - Your Love Is King

34 Ringo Starr - King Of The Kingdom

35 Golden Earring - King Dark

What's The Connection? Route 66 (repost)

Repost of this, because it's my 66th birthday today! I even updated the links! I understand that this connection is horribly inadequate. There are way too many versions of Route 66 or about Route 66 to really do this justice. But these are the main ones I have. I even put the Eagles and Jackson Browne in because it was about Route 66. Nat King Cole will always be my definitive but I must say that Depeche Mode has caught my ears in recent times with their version. I especially like the mashup version with their other hit. I first heard it on a single and I have loved it ever since. If you have another great version I didn't bring up on this list please leave it in the comments. I would love to hear it. Great song! I traveled along Route 66 before and it was very fun, even if it doesn't actually go all the way through any longer, the historic route is there. I stood on the corner in Winslow, Arizona and it was a site to see. I recommend that everyone do it at least once.

What's The Connection? Route 66

01 The Surfaris - (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66

02 Jason & The Scorchers - Route 66

03 Dr. Feelgood - (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66

04 Blue Cheer - Route 66

05 Rolling Stones - Route 66

06 Glenn Frey - Route 66

07 The Yardbirds - Route 66

08 Them - Route 66

09 The Motels - Route 66 (Live)

10 The Pretty Things - Route 66

11 The Cramps - Route 66

12 Nancy Sinatra - Route 66

13 Nat King Cole And His Trio - Get Your Kicks On Route 66

14 Al Jarreau - Route 66

15 Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel-Route 66 (Mega-Single Mix)

16 Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66

17 Manhattan Transfer - Route 66

18 Eagles - Take It Easy

19 Jackson Browne - Take It Easy

20 The Dregs - Route 66

21 The Replacements - Route 66

22 Chuck Berry - Route 66

23 Buckwheat Zydeco - Route 66

24 Yo La Tengo - Route 66

25 Matchbox - Route 66

26 The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Route 66

What's The Connection? Sixties

In just a day or two it will be my birthday (you can send presents of music if you want) and I am going to be 66. I started looking for songs with sixty six in the title (and there are a lot if you include Route 66 songs). Come back tomorrow for those. But I found quite a few with sixty in the title. So I am presenting some of them. This connection has nothing to do with birthdays, but here you go. It also has nothing to do with an "era" so hopefully you aren't confused anymore.

What's The Connection? Sixties

01 The Alarm - Sixty Eight Guns (Single Version)

02 Brent J. Cooper - Sixty Seconds to What

03 Sir Douglas Quintet - Sixty Minutes Of Your Love

04 Beatles - When I'm Sixty-Four

05 Du-Droppers - Can't Do Sixty No More

06 Erasure - Sixty-Five Thousand

07 Dominoes - Sixty-Minute Man

08 Pablo Cruise - Zero To Sixty In Five

09 Brooklyn Express - Sixty-Nine

10 Brian Setzer - Sixty Years

11 Paul Davis - Sixty-Five Love Affair

12 U2 - Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come

13 Gogol Bordello - 60 Revolutions

14 Neil Young - Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero Part I)

15 Asleep At The Wheel - Route 66

16 Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy - Sixty Six

17 Larry Norman - Six Sixty Six

18 Elton John - Sixty Years On

19 Inspirators - Three-Sixty

20 Throbbing Gristle - Six Six Sixties

Classic Jack

I have been doing my House cleaning and dividing up all my tracks I previously had all under a house series and putting into more precise categories. This pick I call Classic Jack and I am not sure that is a good and proper category, but that's what I am calling it. It is classic Chicago House and it leans towards the Jack sound. Really, jacking was more of a specific dance style rather than music and this pick does have classic styles that ended up becoming Deep and the Acid direction it ended up going towards later. But this is the historical or classic start of it, So hopefully the title works for you as it did for me. Either way, they're all great tracks!

Classic Jack

01 DJ Pierre - Box Energy (Original 12' Club Mix)

02 Phuture - Acid Trax

03 Mr Fingers - Washing Machine

04 Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around

05 Cajmere - Percolator

06 The Todd Terry Project - Bango (To The Batmobile)

07 LNR - Work It To The Bone

08 Jaxine - Jack Me Free (Less Summer Mix)

09 Fingers Inc. - Can You Feel It

10 KC Flightt - Voices (Out Of Reach Wonka Remix)

11 Frankie Knuckles - Your Love

12 Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem)

13 Royal House - Can You Party

14 Steve Silk Hurley - Jack Your Body

15 Chip E - Time To Jack (Original 12' House Mix)

16 Adonis - No Way Back (Vocal)

Techno

For the last several days I've been cleaning up some old House picks and putting tracks where they actually belong. I'm trying to make a pick of songs that are one CD's length and have what I consider the most category of the category. Instead of mixing it all in to one big category that doesn't match at all. Today the category is Techno. You tell me if I did good. At least notice that the covers are all different, but related. 

Techno

01 Joey Beltram - Energy Flash

02 Ben Klock - Subzero

03 Underground Resistance - The Final Frontier

04 The Surgeon - La Real

05 Plastikman - Spastik

06 Laurent Garnier - Crispy Bacon (Original mix)

07 Regis - Blood Witness

08 Robert Hood - Minus

09 Model 500 - No Ufo's (Remix)

10 Jeff Mills - The Bells

11 Dave Clarke - Red 2

12 Marcel Dettmann - Corebox

13 X-101 - Sonic Destroyer

14 DVS1 - Black Russian

Rave

I was cleaning an older House pick because I realized I had crossed over into other territories (I keep wanting to say Terror-tories, but that's wrong) So I broke off to make a couple of other picks that were a little more true to their categories. Hopefully I got it less wrong this time with this Rave journey. I went a few in the day and I am not sure I remember much except for crazy old school lights and "feelings" of bass (and many body parts), but I'm pretty sure many of these tracks were played. I think. Can't be too sure. They do sound familiar.

Rave

01 Congress - 40 Miles Vocal Mix

02 2 Bad Mice - Bombscare

03 Urban Hype - Trip To Trumpton

04 The Klf - What Time Is Love (Original)

05 Awesome 3 - Don't Go

06 DJ Seduction - Hardcore Heaven

07 Hyper On Experience - Lords Of The Null-Lines (Foul Play Remix)

08 N-Joi - Anthem

09 Liquid - Sweet Harmony

10 Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode

11 Altern-8 - Activ-8 (Come With Me)

12 Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy

13 Acen - Trip II The Moon (The Darkside)

14 Bizarre Inc. - Playing With Knives (Quadrant Mix)

15 The Prodigy - Everybody In The Place (Fairground Mix)

16 Shut Up And Dance - £10 To Get In

17 SL2 - On a Ragga Tip

18 Nookie - Shining In Da Darkness

Big Beat

I am re-arranging some things. I am definitely not getting rid of things around the House. My wife keeps dropping hints. Watching Hoarders. Telling me vinyl is hoarding, but so far I have not gotten the message. I still have thousands of LP's and CD's (even some 8-tracks and laser discs) and I can't even think of getting rid of any. They're neatly stored in temperature controlled room, even though I end up playing mostly mp3's like these. This is my attempt at making a brilliant Big Beat pick and I hope you like it. Technically there is at least one Breakbeat song which is related but close enough for me.

Big Beat

01 Groove Armada featuring Gram'ma Funk - I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Remix)

02 The Crystal Method - Busy Child

03 Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out

04 Apollo 440 - Stop The Rock

05 The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats

06 Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank

07 Coldcut - Stop This Crazy Thing (Funkymix)

08 Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At

09 Freestylers - Push Up

10 Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

11 Moby - Go (Woodtick Mix)

12 Low Fidelity Allstars - Battleflag

13 The Wiseguys featuring Greg Nice - Start the Commotion

14 Propellerheads - Spybreak!

15 The Prodigy - Firestarter