What's The Connection? I Want To 1

This connection is sort of part of a series of Want connections. I Want To tell you more, but I think you will figure it out.  There are more of these songs to make another volume, but I am waiting for a short while. On my backstage area, I call this Want I To to keep it alphabetically in some order that makes sense for me. The cover of this one is similar to the other ones.

What's The Connection? I Want To 1

01 UB40 - All I Want To Do

02 Soft Boys - (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp

03 Johnny Cash - I Want To Go Home

04 Magazine - I Want To Burn Again

05 Elvis Costello - I Want To Vanish

06 Bill Withers - I Want To Spend The Night

07 Queen - I Want To Break Free

08 Eartha Kitt - I Want To Be Evil

09 Nina Hagen & Leipzig Big Band - I Want To Be Happy

10 Nazareth - I Want To (Do Everything)

11 Pet Shop Boys - I Want To Wake Up

12 Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is

13 Talking Heads - I Want To Live

14 Ultravox! - I Want To Be A Machine

15 Ohio Players - I Want To Be Free

16 John Denver - I Want To Live

17 Steve Miller Band - I Want To Make The World Turn Around

18 Toyah - I Want To Be Free

19 Eight To The Bar - I Want To Rock

What's The Connection? Talk 1

I was digging through some folders and kept tripping over the same word. There isn't a real connection here, it’s just twenty tracks where people are either talking or telling someone else to shut up. It’s a dead-on connection for the speakers, even if it's really just all talk in the end. You get everything from the art-school side like Brian Eno and Cabaret Voltaire to the straight-up radio noise of Salt 'n' Pepa and Toby Keith. If you want to keep the conversation going, I’ve got Some Kind Of Talk posted over at the other link.

What's The Connection? Talk 1

01 Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk

02 Cabaret Voltaire - Ghost Talk

03 Cheap Trick - You're All Talk

04 Paul Revere & the Raiders - Too Much Talk

05 Chocolate Watch Band - Let's Talk About Girls 

06 Tubes - Talk To Ya Later

07 Pretenders - Talk Of The Town

08 Earth, Wind & Fire - Let Me Talk

09 English Beat - Pato And Roger A Go Talk

10 Chris And Cosey - Talk To Me

11 Olivia Newton-John - Talk To Me

12 Gary Myrick And The Figures - She Talks In Stereo

13 Chris Isaak - Talk To Me

14 REM - Talk About The Passion

15 Prince - Ronnie, Talk to Russia

16 Salt 'n' Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex

17 Toby Keith - A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action

18 Alisha - Baby Talk

19 Beach Boys - Talk To Me

20 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Talk That Talk

What's The Connection? Trouble Double

Here's another fun connection in the series: From classic blues heartache to dubstep drops and bubble-popping chaos, Every track here doubles down on 'Double Trouble' (or bubbles it up). Trouble comes in pairs... and ends with a burst! Funny how many songs with the same or nearly the same title are completely different. I added the Bubble variations at the end just for fun. I put Team Rocket on the cover since they are the epitome of Double Trouble in the Pokemon universe. Grab the playlist, crank it up, and let the double dose of trouble roll.

What's The Connection? Trouble Double

01 Big Bill Broonzy - Double Trouble

02 Otis Rush - Double Trouble

03 Elvis Presley - Double Trouble

04 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Double Trouble

05 Travis Tritt - Double Trouble

06 Cars - Double Trouble

07 Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Double Trouble

08 Public Image Limited - Double Trouble

09 Half Japanese - Double Trouble

10 Fourplay - Double Trouble

11 Sly & Robbie - Double Trouble

12 Mad Lion - Double Trouble

13 The Roots - Double Trouble

14 Diva - Double Trouble

15 Cluster Buster - 12 Gauge Double Trouble

16 Team Rocket - Double Trouble

17 Will Ferrell & My Marianne - Double Trouble

18 Book Of Love - Trouble In A Bubble

19 M.I.A. - Double Bubble Trouble

20 Cookie Monsta - Bubble Trouble

Moss 3

Three rounds in and the moss is still growing. I honestly thought I’d bottomed out the barrel with the last two, but the deeper I go into these sub-folders, the weirder the connections get. This session feels like the heaviest of the lot—moving from the sheer soul-power of Aretha and Ike & Tina to the raw basement noise of Reagan Youth without blinking. It’s a jagged, high-energy run through the Stones' catalog that trades the obvious radio edits for a bit more grit and some serious volume. This is my latest Pick for when the original versions just feel a little too safe and you need something that stays deep in the red. What does that drivel even mean? I think it means it may be a while before you get volume 4.

Moss 3

38 The Residents - Satisfaction

39 Scorpions - Start Me Up

40 Deep Purple - Paint It Black

41 Grand Funk Railroad - Gimme Shelter

42 Opium Jukebox - Brown Sugar

43 Ike & Tina Turner with The Ikettes - Honky Tonk Women

44 Reagan Youth - Rocks Off

45 Death Of Samantha - Salt Of The Earth

46 The Shop Assistants - Respectable

47 Deana Carter - Ruby Tuesday

48 The Pink Fairies - Street Fighting Man

49 Johnny Cash - No Expectations

50 The Ultra 5 - Off The Hook

51 Anakelly - Under My Thumb

52 Shake Keane with the Ivor Raymonde Orchestra - As Tears Go By

53 Jason & The Scorchers - 19th Nervous Breakdown

54 Etta James - Miss You

55 Aretha Franklin - You Can't Always Get What You Want

Poke Pick (Repost)

It's National Pokemon Day! I did not even know there was such a day, but since there is here is this repost. Go see the original Poke Pick for the story behind it all. I decided to update the link and while I was at it I also added some songs to the original post. No real Pocket Pokemon songs exist, but I did add some from more recent Pokemon shows and even a Go Remix. I did not change the cover, or how I started and ended the pick, because I liked that (see the story behind it on the original page) Either way, you get more and updated stuff this time. Prepare for Trouble! And make it double!

Poke Pick (Repost)

01 Billy Crawford - Pokemon Theme

02 Walk Off The Earth - The Journey Starts Today

03 Pokemon - 2 B A Master

04 Weird Al Yankovic - Polkamon

05 Vitamin C - Vacation

06 B-Witched - Get Happy

07 M2M - Don't Say You Love Me

08 Angela Via - Catch Me If You Can

09 Haven Paschall - Becoming Me

10 Isaiah Tyrelle Boyd & Haven Paschall - My Favorite Pokémon

11 Mandah - Lullaby

12 Pikachu's Rescue Adventure - Dance Of The Bellossom

13 NSync - Somewhere Someday

14 Michelle Ray - Heart of a Hero

15 Cam Steady - Good Game

16 Illit - Secret Quest

17 9Lana - Let Me Battle

18 Alter Loy featuring SaraSandwich - Pokémon GO Night (Remix)

19 Youngstown (featuring Nobody's Angel) - Pokemon World

20 O-Town - Comin' To The Rescue

21 Blessid Union Of Souls - Brother My Brother

22 Donna Summer - The Power Of One

23 The B-52's - The Chosen One

24 Team Rocket - Double Trouble

25 Team Rocket - Team Rocket Motto

What's The Connection? Suck 1

This is one of those connections that really suck. I am sure you will agree that you would have to be a sucker to not think that's true. All that to just get a link in to a previous, somewhat related pick. The hoops I jump through to do that are sometimes amazing. I made this while I was making the other one and it's the leftover sucky ones. I say that but each is a pretty darn good track, just all over the place like usual with these. Notice that the cover is very similar to the other one with octopus parts inside. I really like the Milo track.

What's The Connection? Suck 1

01 Nine Inch Nails - Suck

02 Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One

03 Mark Knopfler - Don't Suck Me In

04 Dregs - Bloodsucking Leeches

05 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss

06 Nina Hagen - Dope Sucks

07 Johnny Cash - Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog

08 Consolidated - You Suck

09 Moe. - Suck A Lemon

10 Wire - Being Sucked In Again

11 Shriekback - Suck

12 Red Crayola - War Sucks

13 The Slickee Boys - This Party Sucks

14 Teddybears Sthlm - The Art Sucks It Up

15 KMFDM - Sucks (12' Mix Edit)

16 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You

17 Toy Dolls - Sciatica Sucks

18 Descendents - My Dad Sucks

Cops & Robbers

There’s always a moment right after the score and right before the sirens — where the fantasy starts to crack. Cops & Robbers lives in that tension: a back-and-forth duel between street swagger and patrol grit, heists and highway lights, jailbreak bravado and the weight of the badge. The robbers run hot, the law runs steady, and somewhere in the chase the jokes fade and the consequences don’t. Seventy minutes. No fluff. Just the rhythm of the street meeting the hammer that always comes down. This is the Pick when you need to hear both sides of the siren. When you just need more police click there. Don't look too close at the lettering, those bills are too modern looking for the rest of the cover.

Cops & Robbers

01 Bo Diddley - Cops & Robbers

02 The Clash - Bankrobber

03 Junior Brown - Highway Patrol

04 Notorious B.I.G. - Gimme The Loot

05 Steve Miller Band - Take The Money And Run

06 Inner Circle - Bad Boys

07 Judas Priest - Breaking The Law

08 Devo - Supercop

09 George Strait - The Weight Of The Badge

10 Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

11 Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law

12 Marty Robbins - Big Iron

13 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

14 Bad Wolves - Officer Down

15 Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

16 Waylon Jennings - Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand

17 Merle Haggard and The Strangers - Mama Tried

18 Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns And Money.mp3

19 Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down

20 Who - Won't Get Fooled Again