Kinks Pick

Yesterday I posted a repost of my Kinks Kovers Kompilation. When I first posted it I was planning on posting this one, too. Something must have happened. So, years later here it is. Compare it to the Kovers version and also to any of the commercially available comps of theirs. It's a little different. Probably different from your favorites too. Something about this band. They are so good and yet so bad at the same time. Some of the best Rock ever written and also some of the most stupid songs ever. Some of both are on here, because I love the stupid ones as much if not more than the others. You tell me what your favorite Kinks song is.

Kinks Pick

01 Kinks - Don't Forget To Dance

02 Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

03 Kinks - A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy (Single Version)

04 Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion

05 Kinks - Everybody's Gonna Be Happy

06 Kinks - Sleepwalker

07 Kinks - Tired Of Waiting For You

08 Kinks - Stop Your Sobbing

09 Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman (Disco Mix Extended Edit)

10 Kinks - Sunny Afternoon

11 Kinks - Get Up

12 Kinks - Do It Again

13 Kinks - Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)

14 Kinks - I Need You

15 Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night

16 Kinks - You Really Got Me

17 Kinks - Better Things

18 Kinks - Juke Box Music

19 Kinks - Till the End of the Day

20 Kinks - Victoria

21 Kinks - Destroyer

22 Kinks - Lola

23 Kinks - Come Dancing

24 Kinks - A Well Respected Man

Kinks Kovers Repost

Repost: This was fun to do. But also frustrating at the same time. I like the Kinks and originally was making a pick of my favorite Kinks songs. But I got to the frustrating part. The Kinks are great songwriters and sometimes great at recording. They are too British for me at times and my favorites are sometimes not anywhere near the top listened to songs by the Kinks. I compare them to the Who, but the Who were better in the studio. For instance, You Really Got Me. A great song. But Van Halen does it way better than the Kinks. In fact I like that song done better by 801 with Brian Eno. And Stop Your Sobbing. There is no doubt that the Pretenders do a much better version of the song. So that's not true for every song. But definitely a few. So I took some of my favorite covers of Kinks songs and put this together. Not an end all be all covers collection, just some of my favorites. Many versions of songs on this one. Some of my favorites: Shonen Knife, The Fall, Stranglers, The Jam, Nancy Sinatra, etc.

Kinks Kovers

01 Queens Of The Stone Age - Everybody's Gonna Be Happy

02 Def Leppard - Waterloo Sunset

03 Buster Poindexter - Alcohol

04 David Bowie - Waterloo Sunset

05 Sonny & Cher - Set Me Free

06 Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing

07 Green Day - Tired Of Waiting For You

08 Yo La Tengo - King Kong

09 Stranglers - All Day & All Of The Night

10 The Standells - Sunny Afternoon

11 801 - You Really Got Me

12 Monks Of Doom - King Kong

13 The Hammersmith Gorillas - You Really Got Me

14 Bob Geldof - Sunny Afternoon

15 Van Halen - You Really Got Me

16 Big Star - Till The End Of The Day

17 Silicon Teens - You Really Got Me

18 The Sun - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman

19 The Fall - Victoria

20 Robbie Williams - Lola

21 Lee Rocker - Come Dancing

22 The Jam - David Watts

23 Ace Frehley - Lola

24 Patti Lupone - Superman (Wish I Could Fly) (Live)

25 Shonen Knife - Till The End Of The Day

26 Gary Lewis & The Playboys - A Well Respected Man

What's The Connection? Workin' 1 (repost)

This repost connection is about working. I included jobs, hours everything about work in the USA. That means not all of them have work in the title, but they are all about having to work. In the Coal Mine, In the Car Wash or in the office, it's all work. A couple where people are tired of working (for good, or just until the next day and are stopping for a drink at the bar to recharge) and at least one about finding work. One of my favorites is the Rush song from early pre-Neil Peart Rush. It shows where they were going and is the best early Rush you will find.

What's The Connection? Workin' 1

01 Huey Lewis and the News - Workin' For A Livin'

02 Loverboy - Working For The Weekend

03 Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money

04 Dolly Parton - 9 To 5

05 Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It

06 Junior Brown - Ain't Gonna Work Today

07 Dwight Yoakam - Let's Work Together

08 Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

09 John Conlee - Working Man

10 Rose Royce - Car Wash

11 Jim Croce - Working At The Car Wash Blues

12 Lee Dorsey - Working In The Coal Mine

13 Michael Jackson - Working Day And Night

14 Prince - Let's Work

15 The Silhouettes - Get A Job

16 The Vogues - Five O'Clock World

17 Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary

18 Rush - Working Man

19 Weird Al Yankovic - Dog Eat Dog

20 James Brown - Living In America

21 Grandmaster Melle Mel - We Don't Work For Free

What's The Connection? Tired

Repost: I think I must have been getting little sleep around the time I was making this Connection. All songs with Tired in the title. My favorites of the tired songs I own. I only give myself the room on a CD, even though no one uses CD's anymore. So go ahead and place these in your iPod or on your phone and enjoy feeling tired, or sick and tired. I remember when I started this that the Beatles I'm So Tired was the inspiration to start it, but The Kinks and Rocky Burnette tunes were the ones that kept me going. Love all three of those songs! BTW, those are my tired dogs on their bed. They did not always look like this. Most of the time they were constant wiggle butts. 

What's The Connection? Tired

01 Buck Owens - Tired Of Livin'

02 Canned Heat - I'm So Tired

03 The Chavis Bros - So Tired

04 Leroy Thomas - I'm Tired And Hungry

05 Mose Allison - So Tired

06 Dynamic Nutones - Sick & Tired

07 Junior Wells - So Tired

08 Savoy Brown - I'm Tired

09 Rod Stewart - So Tired

10 Slowdive - So Tired

11 Uriah Heep - So Tired

12 Black Sabbath - Sick And Tired

13 Johnny Guitar Watson - Too Tired

14 Rocky Burnette - Tired Of Toein' the Line

15 Kinks - Tired of Waiting for You

16 Johnny Winter - Tired Of Tryin'

17 LCD Soundsystem - Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up

18 Buckwheat Zydeco - I'm Just So Tired

19 Hoodoo Gurus - Waking Up Tired

20 Haircut One Hundred - So Tired

21 Pixies - I've Been Tired

22 Beatles - I'm So Tired

23 Neville Grant - Sick and Tired

24 The Rolling Stones - Looking Tired

Do You Wanna Dance Repost

Not much I can say about this pick. Do You Wanna Dance was a playlist I made years ago on cassette. I redid it on CD and now as a playlist. I loved making cassettes at the time. It took real time to record. As for this pick, it's just songs I considered to be danceable. I probably have played every one of these songs at a gig somewhere way back then. When you play this, you will feel your butt start to wiggle, because these are very danceable. Tell me what you like (or don't) and what you would place in it's stead. The cover is similar to the cassette I originally made. Moody red with a script like title.

Do You Wanna Dance?

01 Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way

02 Pseudo Echo - Funkytown

03 Soft Cell - Tainted Love-Where Did Our Love Go

04 Book Of Love - Tubular Bells

05 Depeche Mode - Route 66

06 S-Express - Theme from S-Express

07 2 Men A Drum Machine And A Trumpet - Tired Of Getting Pushed Around

08 The Romantics - What I Like About You

09 Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye

10 Chic - Jack Le Freak

11 New Order - Blue Monday

12 Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween

13 Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind

14 M.A.R.R.S. - Pump Up The Volume (12 inch Mix)

15 Stock Aitken Waterman - Packjammed (With the Party Posse)

16 Otis Day & The Knights - Shout

Bliksem 1 (Repost)

Repost of this playlist pick I called Bliksem. That is Dutch for Lightning. Not because it has anything to do with weather at all. But I started with Blitzkreig Bop and Ballroom Blitz, which all kinda mean lightning in German. The idea was to get songs that matched in intensity, if not speed of those songs. I guess it could be RIYL those songs. You could possibly use this as a playlist to run, or ski, or just to drive to. In fact, a couple of these songs are in my On The Road Again series (all songs to take on the road). I did post them one day three years ago. So enjoy this pick, I left off a couple that I might use in volume two including one of my favorites: Betty Blowtorch. One day I might make volume 2 (I did make it already). So leave any suggestions, but for volume 3, but only until after you listen to the pick. It's kind of like the Beat This pick. It just sounds good together.

Bliksem 1

01 Judas Priest - Breaking The Law

02 Deep Purple - Highway Star

03 Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

04 ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses

05 Golden Earring - Radar Love

06 Jethro Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery

07 Styx - Renegade

08 J Geils Band - Must Of Got Lost

09 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

10 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

11 Electric Light Orchestra - Four Little Diamonds

12 AC-DC - T.N.T.

13 Brownsville Station - Smokin' In The Boys' Room

14 Jefferson Starship - Ride the Tiger

15 Sniff 'N' The Tears - Driver's Seat

16 Cheap Trick - Surrender

17 Heart - Barracuda

18 Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

19 The Knack - My Sharona

20 Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Recommended If You Like (RIYL) Get Closer (repost)

I do like these picks. Recommended If You Like or RIYL. It is a fun sort of compilation, but easy for you to skip. If you don't like the main song or the main band, you probably won't like the rest of the songs. It is designed to give you songs that sound similar in feel to the main comparison song/band, whatever. In this case it is Seals & Crofts Get Closer. When I first heard Seals & Crofts I thought it was pleasant enough music, but at the time I was listening to the Isley Brothers and, I'm sorry, they are better. I grew to like Seals & Crofts and this song got me to listen to more stuff like it. Not the same kind of stuff like our last RIYL a few days ago. I hope you like this one. Leave a comment about any choices I might have missed or a RIYL that you would like to hear.

Recommended If You Like Get Closer

01 Seals & Crofts - Get Closer

02 England Dan & John Ford Coley - Nights Are Forever Without You

03 Gordon Lightfoot - Carefree Highway

04 Jefferson Starship - Runaway

05 Randy Vanwarmer - Just When I Needed You Most

06 Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds - Don't Pull Your Love

07 Doobie Brothers - You Belong to Me

08 Firefall - Strange Way

09 Stephen Bishop - On And On

10 Kenny Loggins - This Is It

11 Ambrosia - You're the Only Woman

12 Chicago - Just You 'N' Me

13 Carly Simon - You Belong To Me

14 Walter Egan - Magnet And Steel

15 Bread - Lost Without Your Love

16 Pablo Cruise - Love Will Find A Way

17 Christopher Cross - Never Be The Same

18 Rita Coolidge - We're All Alone

19 Bob Seger - We've Got Tonight

20 Climax Blues Band - I Love You

21 Gino Vannelli - I Just Wanna Stop

22 Paul Davis - I Go Crazy