PAP Smear (Patrick Adams Pick) 2

Patrick Adams pick is continued on this second volume. Not sure why I added smear to this, since I definitely am not trying to smear him. In fact his legacy is unsmearable. But Patrick Adams Pick was too deliciously going to be PAP and that's what I thought of. Another non-New York disco outfit also came to mind and that was TK (Terry Kane) Records. Sunny and free Florida but also a healthy production team. Lots of different one off band names with Adams and lots of mentoring of young groups hoping to make it. And he gave them the best possible start. Lots of people like the boys from Chic credited Adams after he died and listening to some of these chord progressions you can hear why.

PAP Smear 2

11 Musique - Keep On Jumpin' (Remix)

12 Sine - Happy Is The Only Way

13 Dazzle - You Dazzle Me!!!

14 Sandy's Gang - Hungry (12' Extended Version)

15 Black Ivory - I Keep Asking You Questions

16 The Golden Flamingo Orchestra - The Guardian Angel Is Watching Over Us

17 Logg - I Know You Will (Larry Levan 12 inch Remix)

18 Rainbow Brown - Till You Surrender (Special Remix)

19 Louie Vega, Patrick Adams & Cloud Two featuring Anane - Rebel Nation

20 Patrick Adams - Jack In The Bush

21 Venus Dodson - Night Rider

22 The Shades Of Love - Come Inside (12'')

PAP Smear (Patrick Adams Pick) 1

If you have followed this site for awhile, you know that I love disco and also that I love following producers. This Patrick Adams pick does both. Going through his stuff was amazing and there was a deluge of songs, bands etc that I had not connected to Adams. This is going to be three volumes long. I was fascinated how even though they didn't work together there were some sonic parallels to Rinder & Lewis. One was East Coast, one was West. They didn't do the same stuff, but I kept hearing it underneath. Anyway this volume has the first song I ever owned by Patrick Adams (and I had no idea then it was him). In case you are wondering, it was Musique. But listen to these songs!

PAP Smear 1

01 Phreek featuring Christie Shire - Weekend (12'' Extended Version)

02 Wish & Fonda Rae - Touch Me (All Night Long)

03 Inner Life featuring Jocelyn Brown - Make It Last Forever

04 Patrick Adams Initiative - Kings And Queens

05 Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even (Club Version)

06 Musique - In The Bush

07 Caress - Opportunity

08 Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug (12 inch Mix)

09 Cloud One - Atmosphere Strut

10 The Sparks - Cool It

Almost Made It

I am not going to go over every band in here on this pick. Just suffice it to say that many of these bands led to bigger bands later, or to play with much bigger bands, or to get hits with someone else. Look them up, all the info is available. Some Canadian bands that should have hit big, too. Check out my Not Hits for related stuff. I have seen some of these bands in little clubs before they turned into hit monsters. I've even been in the personal recording studio of at least one. Whoo, I'm important. No. They were not big at the time at all. Anyway, check them out, follow where they went.

Almost Made It

01 Uncle Rainbow - Anyway The Wind Blows

02 Shooting Star - Hang On For Your Life

03 Highway Robbery - Fifteen

04 Granicus - Bad Talk

05 Angel - Tower

06 Orion The Hunter - So You Ran

07 Legs Diamond - Stage Fright

08 Badlands - Dreams In The Dark

09 Harlequin - Innocence

10 Prism - Don't Let Him Know

11 Max Webster - Paradise Skies

12 Hush - Gotta Get Back To You

13 Zebra - Tell Me What You Want

14 Starz - Cherry Baby

15 Spys - Don't Run My Life

16 Trillion - Big Boy

17 Touch - Listen (Can You Feel It)

18 Michael Stanley Band - He Can't Love You

19 Shnazz - Bad Boys

20 Hanoi Rocks - Tragedy

Worst Songs Ever 2

You didn't think there were only 21 did you? Notice, that I telegraphed that there were 40 in the total list (look at the cover closely). Yesterday was just the warm up, today is the finale. Now this pick will give you the full top 40 of the worst songs ever. Not sure why anyone would purposely try to listen to these more than once, but beauty is in the ear of the beholder they say (Or something like that). I really though I had posted these two a long time ago and someone brought up that I never followed through, so here it is. The thing that's funny is that several of these songs have been on client's Must Play list. Most were years ago, though. 

Worst Songs Ever 2

22 Des'ree - Life

23 Limp Bizkit - Nookie

24 Newsong - The Christmas Shoes

25 Sisqo - Thong Song

26 Hampton The Hampster - The Hampster Dance Song

27 Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) Radio Edit

28 Counting Crows Ft Vanessa Carlton - Big Yellow Taxi

29 Black Eyed Peas - My Humps

30 James Blunt - You're Beautiful

31 Nickelback - Rockstar

32 Artists For Haiti - We Are The World 25 For Haiti

33 Insane Clown Posse - Miracles

34 Justin Bieber & Ludacris - Baby

35 Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger

36 Rebecca Black - Friday

37 Double Take - Hot Problems

38 Alison Gold - Chinese Food

39 Play N Skillz featuring Redfoo, Lil Jon, Enertia McFly - Literally I Can't

40 Jake Paul - It's Everyday Bro

Worst Songs Ever 1

The following songs in this pick have been named by critics, broadcasters, composers, and 
listeners as the "worst ever". Examples of sources include VH1's 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever and Blender magazine's Run for Your Life! It's the 50 Worst Songs Ever!.  They are in release date order. From 1953 to 2017. Some of these songs were commercially successful, some highly catchy ear worms (see the Too Catchy series).  Most DJ's realize that the "Must Play" list and the "Do Not Play" list often overlaps. And yet at least a few of these songs will never make it to the must play list.

Worst Songs Ever 1

01 Harry Kari & His Six Saki Sippers - Yes Sir, That's My Baby

02 Napoleon XIV - !aaah-Ah, Yawa Em Ekat Ot Gnimoc Er'yeht

03 Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

04 Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed

05 Richard Harris - Macarthur Park

06 Paul Anka with Odia Coates - (You're) Having My Baby

07 Paper Lace - Billy, Don't Be A Hero

08 Rick Dees - Disco Duck (Pt. 1)

09 Reginald Bosanquet - Dance With Me

10 The Tweets - Birdie Song

11 Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder - Ebony and Ivory

12 Spandau Ballet - True

13 Black Lace - Agadoo

14 Phil Collins - Sussudio

15 Starship - We Built This City

16 Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy

17 Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

18 4 Non Blondes - What's Up

19 Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart

20 Take That - Could It Be Magic

21 Mr. Blobby - Mr Blobby

World Domination 6

I've always built these the same way a good night out actually works — you don't open at full speed and you don't end there either. You find an entry point, let the room warm up, push it somewhere it didn't know it was going, then bring it back down so nobody feels mugged on the way out. This pick does exactly that, and if you listen straight through you'll feel it in your legs before you figure out what's happening. Fifteen tracks, half a dozen languages I can't speak, corners of the map I've never been to, and it all fits together like it was always supposed to. That's the whole point of this World Domination series. That has always been the whole point. One hundred and three tracks in and I'm still not done taking over.

World Domination 6

89 Waqal Studio - Dhaanto Cusub Dirgaax (Jigjiga Dhaanto Party)

90 King Sunny Ade - Ja Funmi (Mr West Remix)

91 Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

92 Tiki Tokkers - Global Groove (Hana Hou)

93 Batuk featuring Lebon, Giovanni Kiyingi & Winnie - Forca Forca

94 Bajofondo Tango Club featuring Ryota Komatsu - Pa' Bailar

95 Shantel - Disko Partizani

96 Manu Dibango - New-Bell (Hard Pulsation)

97 Sergent Garcia - Acabar Mal

98 Sofi Tukker - Drinkee

99 DJ Arafat - Tapis Velo

100 Kinky - Oye Como Va (Extended Mix)

101 Coati Mundi - El Coco Loco (So So Bad)

102 Salome De Bahia - Outro Lugar (Club Mix)

103 Malcolm Mclaren - Soweto

World Domination 5

I’ve spent enough nights at SOB’s in NYC to know that "Sounds of Brazil" was always a convenient misnomer for a much wider, deeper kind of global friction. I’d sit there with those big bottles of Xingu black beer, bracing for the long taxi ride back and the inevitable late-night mess—usually involving me holding back some girl’s hair while she puked in my hotel bathroom. It was a gritty, high-fidelity education in how a relentless beat can occupy a space and the people in it. This latest pick for my ongoing quest for world domination is built on that same infectious, earth-shaking stomp. Just the kind of high-velocity rhythmic authority that doesn't need a translator to take over a room. Turn it up; the occupation has officially entered its next phase.

World Domination 5

75 Dengue Dengue Dengue - Simiolo (Dazed Dog Remix)

76 Konk - Your Life (Party Mix)

77 Talking Heads - I Zimbra (12" Version)

78 Basement Jaxx - Samba Magic

79 MC Fioti with Future, J Balvin, Stefflon Don & Juan Magan - Bum Bum Tam Tam

80 Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa featuring Ami Faku - Abalele

81 Art Of Noise - Yebo! (Mbaqanga)

82 Nicola Cruz - Colibria

83 Tejun Trouble - Bayou Boogie!

84 Chancha Via Circuito featuring Mateo Kingman - Ilalу

85 Bnot Avraham - We Build Together

86 Balkan Beat Box - Hermetico

87 Mungo's Hi Fi featuring Pupajim - Bike Rider

88 Ah Puch & Di Conch Fritters - San Pedro All Day