Beat This (RIYL Hoodoo Gurus Leilani) Repost

Repost: This is kind of a RIYL (Recommended If You Like) playlist. I put Hoodoo Gurus in the title, but really it may not have started with them. But it kind of doesn't matter with RIYL's because pick any song that you like and the rest should be a little matchie-matchie. It has to do with the drum sound. To me they all have a similar feel. I know they don't actually, but they all could easily follow another. The Adam and the Ants track was from a flexi disc, but the rest should be on one album or another. Although the Passengers does seem difficult to find outside of Australia. Anyway enjoy this pick and by all means make some suggestions for a future volume. Not sure why, but I have always liked the cover. Simple.

Beat This

01 Hoodoo Gurus - Leilani
02 Multi Coloured Shades - Teen Sex Transfusion
03 Butthole Surfers - Dum Dum
04 The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck
05 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Pump It Up
06 Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
07 Godfathers - This Damn Nation
08 Billy Idol - Mony Mony
09 Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
10 Go Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
11 Josie Cotton - Johnny, Are You Queer
12 The Pandoras - In And Out Of My Life (In A Day)
13 Passengers - Girlfriend's Boyfriend
14 Bongos - Space Jungle
15 Fleshtones - I've Gotta Change My Life
16 Jules and the Polar Bears - Good Reason
17 Adam and the Ants - A.N.T.S.
18 Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
19 Soft Boys - Give It To The Soft Boys
20 Figures On A Beach - In Camera Obscura
21 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

What's The Connection? Jungle repost

Repost of one of the first posts on this site back in November 2021: A wide variety of songs with Jungle in the title. This Jungle What's the Connection? was inspired by my listening to Bootsy Collins and the Jungle Brothers at this time (over and over again). I got mesmerized by the two albums (EP and album). So i started thinking of other Jungle songs I liked. This is what came out. I am positive that there are hundreds more. Tell me your favorite Jungle song in the comments. I added George of the Jungle theme song, because there was room at the end of the CD. As always click on the album cover. BTW, If you dig the Bootsy, I suggest getting the whole EP: the long versions are killer.

WTC? Jungle

01 Richard Cheese - Welcome To The Jungle.mp3

02 Electric Light Orchestra - Jungle.mp3

03 Steve Miller Band - Jungle Love.mp3

04 Jethro Tull - Bungle in the Jungle.mp3

05 Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie.mp3

06 The Chakachas - Jungle Fever.mp3

07 Morris Day & The Time - Jungle Love.mp3

08 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Jungle Man.mp3

09 Yello - Jungle Bill (Essential Version).mp3

10 The B-52's - Juicy Jungle.mp3

11 Bongos - Space Jungle.mp3

12 Brian Eno - Back In Judy's Jungle.mp3

13 The Cramps - Jungle Hop.mp3

14 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run through the Jungle.mp3

15 The Vines - In The Jungle.mp3

16 The Eternals - Rockin' In The Jungle.mp3

17 The Cadets - Stranded in the Jungle.mp3

18 Rico - Jungle Music.mp3

19 Bob Marley - Concrete Jungle.mp3

20 Bootsy's Rubber Band - Jungle Bass (Short Version).mp3

21 Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle.mp3

22 TeeVee Toons - George of the Jungle.mp3

More Smoke Again Repost

Repost: This is another one of those CD picks I made for a buddy of mine. We went to so many concerts together. If you want to know about the More Smoke reference, look at the explanation on yesterday's post. Some of the bands that we saw, include David Bowie, Lou Reed, Yoko Ono (he went under protest, but we got to meet her and Sean), Jonathan Richman, Joe Pop-O-Pie, Roxy Music, Nina Hagen, Kraftwerk, Tones On Tail and hundreds more. Always a good show and always a great time. On the way we'd usually listen to the new album or whatever they were promoting and later, who knew. This was just a follow up pick to the last one. I can't remember who was coming soon then. Might have been Shonen Knife, or maybe Zappa Plays Zappa. or Lost Sounds. So long ago, I don't remember which one for sure.

More Smoke Again

01 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso

02 Beck - Loser

03 Radiohead - Creep

04 The Humans - Get You Tonight

05 Fabulous Poodles - Mirror Star

06 The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

07 The Strokes - Hard To Explain

08 David Bowie - Fly

09 Shonen Knife - Mosquitoes

10 Lost Sounds - Energy Drink & The Long Walk Home

11 The Faint - Agenda Suicide

12 Wall Of Voodoo - The Good The Bad & The Ugly-Hang 'Em High

13 Rosenkrantz, Almond, Nina Hagen - Total Eclipse

14 Pink Coffee - Another Brick In The Wall

15 Kraftwerk - Mega Mix

17 Thee Headcoatees - Come Into My Mouth

18 Dweezil Zappa - Dick Cinnamon's Office

More Smoke Repost

Repost: My friend Phil and I would often go to concerts in the Bay Area. We have similar tastes in some music. We disagreed on a few things, but usually we were pretty much on the same wave length. Although he would rather listen to old Velvet Underground or Brian Eno rather than listen to new stuff if he had the choice, he was open to new music every now and again. When we drove to concerts, many times I would drive and since I had a CD player in my car, I would make a CD that had songs that I figured he would like if he heard them. Anyway one day I had tickets to see a band that he did not know (My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult). We had a drive from San Jose to the I-Beam in San Francisco and I put together this pick to play on the drive. A few bands he knew (but not these songs) and some he didn't know. I ended up naming it More Smoke, because the I-Beam show had so much smoke that you could barely see the band. I won't even talk about drunken-ness and Back Seat Betty's, but that happened.

More Smoke

01 Red Zone - News From The Red Zone

02 Frank Zappa - Variations On The Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression

04 The Sisters Of Mercy - Emma

05 Pop -O- Pies - Fascists Eat Donuts

06 Nina Hagen - Hare Krishna

09 Devo - Mongoloid

10 Yoko Ono - Why

11 Quiet Sun - Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil

12 Wall Of Voodoo - Dance You Fuckers

13 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Kooler Than Jesus

14 Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of

Mixmag 25 Years 2 Repost

This is the repost of the second half of the Mixmag pick of 25 years of dance club hits and mixes. It'[s their pick and I just found all the mixes and compiled them for my use. All in BPM order per disc. Now that it's a playlist you can reorder it as one and I did give you a playlist as separate discs and as one. Just add to yesterday's post and it's all there. It was never a mainstream magazine, but one known to DJ's and clubbers. Now the mag doesn't exist except online. Use as your guide to a nice set of classic mixes. 

Mixmag 25 Years Disc 2 

13 Frankie Knuckles featuring Jamie Principle - Your Love (12 inch)

14 Orbital - Chime

15 Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You

16 Underworld - Rez

17 Mylo - Drop The Pressure

18 Age Of Love - Age Of Love (Jam & Spoon Watch Out For Stella)

19 Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face

20 Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness

21 Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar '98 (Original Three N' One Mix)

22 The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

23 Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel

24 System F - Out Of The Blue (Original 12'' Version)

25 Tony De Vit - The Dawn (Paul Janes Remix)

Mixmag 25 Years 1 Repost

Repost: Mixmag was a magazine for dance music and clubbing. Unless you are completely in to that or are a club DJ you probably didn't subscribe. Now they are online only. They put out yearly lists and reviews of club songs and mixes. Sometime in their history they put out a list of 25 years of mixes. I collected them all and made two CD's worth of music. So kind of my pick, but really theirs. They are each in order of BPM, so you could use two discs to mix the whole thing. Today I post the first disc, and tomorrow the second. Great for a dance club set.

Mixmag 25 Years Disc 1

01 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

02 Felix Da Housecat with Miss Kittin - Silver Screen Shower Scene

03 Daft Punk - Around The World

04 Faithless - Insomnia (Monster Mix Edit)

05 Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)

06 Groove Armada - Superstylin'

07 New Order - Blue Monday

08 Layo & Bushwacka - Love Story (Vs Finally)

09 Liquid - Sweet Harmony

10 Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Sweeping Strings Remix)

11 Sasha - Xpander

12 Underworld - Born Slippy Nuxx

New Beat

New Beat crawled out of the late 80s at a tempo that dared you to dance to it anyway. There is always a sense with this music that the drop is coming, just not yet. Maybe later. The acid squelches and industrial edges in this pick lean into that tension, the kind that never fully resolves. It shares DNA with house, but the relationship is complicated in ways that are hard to explain without just playing the record. But here it is part of my house cleaning.

New Beat

01 Code 61 - Drop The Deal

02 Amnesia - Hysteria

03 Dirty Harry - D-Bop

04 Rhythm Device - Acid Rock

05 Explorers Of The Nile - We Are All Egyptians

06 L&O - Even Now

07 Acts Of Madmen - The Dream

08 Confetti's - Sound of C...

09 Taste of Sugar - Hmm Hmm

10 Tribe 22 - Aciiiiiiied (12' Version)

11 Lords Of Acid - I Sit On Acid

12 Tragic Error - Tanzen

13 Langsam - Straks (Two Years Behind)

14 A Split Second - Flesh (The Original Mix)

15 Erotic Dissidents - Move Your Ass & Feel the Beat

16 The Concrete Beat - I Want You!