Extra Dimensional Crisis

I had fun making this mixtape. I had (and always have) a folder of stuff I want to use, but I haven't found the combination to pick a good mix. I had several tracks in there from over two years ago. And then I was relistening to the CJ & Co album and not stopping at their big hit and realized it would fit right in with a couple of other leftovers to make all of them gel. I was right! I added the remix of War, a little Yello and Gichy Dan and I had this. I was dancing all over the kitchen. A little old and a little new. The title you will never guess. It does not come from one of the songs, but rather from a game I was playing. If you figure out which one, I will send you my friend ID and we can play against each other (or with each other) for both of our benefits. In the meantime, enjoy this wormhole of music. I kept wanting to spell it crises, but it's only one.

Extra Dimensional Crisis

01 Laid Back - Bakerman
02 Dinosaur L - Clean Your Bean #1
03 Ray Barretto - A Deeper Shade Of Soul
04 Foals - In Degrees (Purple Disco Machine Remix)
05 CJ & Co - Sure Can't Go To The Moon
06 House of Prayers - Shake Your Booty (Original Mix)
07 Hyper Crush featuring LMFAO - This Is My Life
08 Yello - Tied Up
09 Grey & Hanks - Dancin'
10 Gilla - We Gotta Get Outta This Place (Long Version)
11 Gichy Dan - Cowboys and Gangsters
12 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
13 Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (Radio)
14 Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger (Cutmore Radio Edit Clean)
15 The Trammps - Hold Back The Night
16 War - Low Rider (Kyle Watson Remix)
17 One Track Mind - I Like You (Remix)


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It's been a while since I made one of these mixtapes. This one definitely goes all over the map. Some hits and well known tracks on this pick, but also some deeper cuts. They mix well soundwise. Not sure I would do a gig playing all these tracks, unless they were very eclectic (and drunk) but it is fun. I didn't start this one with a specific track, but rather the image of the spiral that I came across while looking for a texture for another playlist. I didn't use it and then ended up manipulating it a bit. I like adding the digital noise. A few tracks with food: Chili, Cinnamon, Cream, Cocaine, Jelly Beans, Lemon... okay, one of those things isn't food. None of that has anything to do with the random three letters. That's just the way it is. Unless you can come up with something that my subconscious mind didn't pick up. I'm waiting. I had fun with this one.

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01 Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene
02 Felix & His Guitar - Chili Beans
03 J.J. Cale - Cocaine
04 Neil Young With Crazy Horse - Cinnamon Girl
05 Shock Headed Peters - Burn The Fun Guarantee
06 Billy Joe Royal - Hush
07 Jelly Beans - Baby Be Mine
08 Eagles - New Kid in Town
09 Arthur Mckay - She Squeezed My Lemon
10 Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy
11 The Nips - All the time in the world
12 Association - Enter The Young
13 Shriekback - My Spine Is The Bassline (12' Edit)
14 Los Lonely Boys - Born On The Bayou
15 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - I Won't Back Down
16 Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
17 Turtles - How You Loved Me
18 The Residents - Kaw-Liga
19 Scorpions - Hell Cat
20 Joan Jett - Scratch My Back
21 Don Armando's 2nd Ave. Rhumba Band - I'm An Indian Too

Beatle Paul

Ok, this pick is part three of the individual selections of members of the Beatles within the Beatles. No more than seventten tracks, had to feature the main songwriting or vocal skills of the individual Beatle. Today it's Paul McCartney. Check out the previous ones at this Beatles link. All of them are done, except for Ringo. He'll hopefully be posted this month, though. So these tracks in this playlist are mostly attributed to Paul as the writer, although as you know their songs were always Lennon/McCartney. These have more of the obvious Paul feel to me. Also some of the biggest hits. Remember these were not compiled for anyone, except for me, but I do hope you like them anyway. You probably can't tell the subtle ombre background I made in each of these covers. 

Beatle Paul

01 Beatles - Oh! Darling
02 Beatles - Martha My Dear
03 Beatles - Blackbird
04 Beatles - For No One
05 Beatles - Yesterday
06 Beatles - We Can Work It Out
07 Beatles - Here, There And Everywhere
08 Beatles - And I Love Her
09 Beatles - Penny Lane
10 Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
11 Beatles - I've Just Seen A Face
12 Beatles - Get Back
13 Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
14 Beatles - I'll Follow The Sun
15 Beatles - Things We Said Today
16 Beatles - Let It Be
17 Beatles - Hey Jude

America 1

Happy 4th of July! If you are not from the USA, you may not know that we celebrate this day as our Independence Day. So as proud Americans we light things on fire (fireworks), drink beer and BBQ hotdogs, steaks or chicken. I spent a 4th of July in Europe (France) and was surprised to find a bar that celebrated it with us. They had hotdogs and decorated it with American flags. We didn't get fireworks, but they did play a bunch of American music. Not any of these songs, well, maybe John Mellencamp. What's funny to me is that many of these bands on this mixtape pick are not American bands. That's okay, they just had to have America in the title. Either way as you listen to this, BBQ something and eat it.

America 1

01 John Mellencamp - R.O.C.
K. In The U.S.A.
02 Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock In America
03 Blow Monkeys - My America
04 Beach Boys - Spirit Of America
05 Stranglers - Big In America
06 Santana - America
07 Kansas - Song For America (Single Edit)
08 Brian Eno & David Byrne - America Is Waiting
09 James Brown - Living In America
10 Yes - America (Single Version)
11 Patrick Juvet - I Love America
12 Iggy Pop - Wild America
13 Village People - America
14 Prince & the Revolution - America
15 Brooks & Dunn - Only In America
16 Nice - America
17 Jackson Browne - For America
18 Supertramp - Breakfast In America
19 U2 - The Hands That Built America (Theme From Gangs Of New York)
20 Jay & The Americans - Only In America

Blame It On T.I.A.

It's been another five days and yet another afflicted playlist pick. As usual for these, I didn't do it. I blame it on anything else I can. I take no responsibility for this being 1ll at 138 bpm and in a key mixing order (although the energy is all over the place). You definitely would not, in normal circumstances, put these in this order if you were to play them for an audience. If you did you would have to blame the autopen for signing off on these tracks. Not sure how many more of these I am going to do. What do you think? Maybe one more T.K.O.?

Blame It On T.I.A.

01 Melanie C - I Turn To You
02 Kinks - You Really Got Me
03 The Killers - Somebody Told Me (Mylo Remix Edit)
04 Shonen Knife - I Wanna Eat Choco Bars
05 Lounge Lizards - Incident On South Street
06 Asia - Heat Of The Moment
07 Gaelic Storm - Johnny Tarr
08 War - Low Rider
09 Missing Persons - Walking In L.A.
10 Isley Brothers - Shout (Part 1 & 2)
11 Santana - Everybody's Everything
12 Band Of Oz - Shaggin'
13 Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now
14 Lou Reed - Rock 'N' Roll
15 Ruts - In A Rut
16 Hollies - Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)
17 Joe Jackson - Fools In Love
18 Le Tigre - TKO
19 Jonas Brothers - Sucker
20 The Who - I Can't Explain
21 Gino Vannelli - I Just Wanna Stop

Happy Anniversary!

This connection or pick of anniversary songs is because today is my anniversary. Been married quite a while (since '07 if you want to know). I actually celebrate it twice a year six months apart because we had a church wedding six months after our actual wedding. Makes it kind of fun. Now these songs, however, are not all celebratory, but they do all have Anniversary in the title. Just don't play them for you other half and expect it to be all nice-nice. Some are. Some are not. I keep hoping there will be a better, newer anniversary song to celebrate, than the Little River Band, which isn't really about their anniversary, but celebrating that his significant other is happy with someone else. But it sounds happy! Oh well! Duran Duran is more in line with the sentiment, but it's not their best song.

Happy Anniversary!

01 Mission UK - Prelude Anniversary
02 Al Stewart - Anniversary
03 Tony! Toni! Tone! - Anniversary
04 The Pogues - Anniversary
05 Todd Rundgren - Happy Anniversary
06 Tom Jones - Anniversary Song
07 Shep And The Limelighters - Our Anniversary
08 Blur - Anniversary Waltz
09 Toy Dolls - The Anniversary Waltz
10 John Cale - On A Wedding Anniversary
11 Andy Williams - Anniversary Song
12 Suzanne Vega - Anniversary
13 Duran Duran - Anniversary
14 The Cure - Anniversary
15 Cowboy Junkies - Anniversary Song
16 Merle Haggard - Anniversary Blue Yodel
17 Al Jolson - Anniversary Song
18 Little River Band - Happy Anniversary
19 Giveon - Heartbreak Anniversary
20 Saint Etienne - Sadie's Anniversary
21 Jim Capaldi - Oh How We Danced (Anniversary Song)
22 Jimi Hendrix - 51st Anniversary [Mono]
23 Robert Plant - Anniversary

Eric Clapton With

I've done a few "With" picks, probably most recently Todd Rundgren With which turned out pretty good. But I guess not too many of these. Here's Eric Clapton With a bunch of other bands. Not really fair since he was a studio musician who loved playing on people's albums. I didn't include any tracks with him solo, nor did I include any Yardbirds nor any Cream. I did leave Derek & the Dominos on this pick. Oh well. I also included a track from the Bunbury's Bunbury Trail (which is another supergroup Eric was in - this time with the Bee Gee's). No rhyme or reason. But the tracks are all good. I almost added Yoko Ono, because Clapton plays on Don't Worry Kyoko... (a great song, but it didn't fit and it wasn't quite the best next to Brian Wilson anyway. Sorry about that. You will have to add it yourself.

Eric Clapton With

01 Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings - Melody
02 The Bunburys (Eric Clapton & The Bee Gees) - Fight The Good Fight
03 George Harrison - Wah Wah
04 Paul McCartney - Freedom
05 Ringo Starr - Never Without You
06 Derek & The Dominos - Layla
07 Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
08 Brian Wilson + Eric Clapton - City Blues
09 Buckwheat Zydeco - Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
10 Doris Troy - Ain't That Cute
11 Steve Winwood with Eric Clapton - Dirty City
12 Roger Waters - 4.41 AM (Sexual Revolution)
13 Bobby Whitlock - Where There's A Will There's A Way
14 Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It (Parts 1 And 2)
15 Toots And The Maytals - Pressure Drop
16 Tina Turner - What You Get Is What You See (Extended Rock Mix)