Rave

I was cleaning an older House pick because I realized I had crossed over into other territories (I keep wanting to say Terror-tories, but that's wrong) So I broke off to make a couple of other picks that were a little more true to their categories. Hopefully I got it less wrong this time with this Rave journey. I went a few in the day and I am not sure I remember much except for crazy old school lights and "feelings" of bass (and many body parts), but I'm pretty sure many of these tracks were played. I think. Can't be too sure. They do sound familiar.

Rave

01 Congress - 40 Miles Vocal Mix

02 2 Bad Mice - Bombscare

03 Urban Hype - Trip To Trumpton

04 The Klf - What Time Is Love (Original)

05 Awesome 3 - Don't Go

06 DJ Seduction - Hardcore Heaven

07 Hyper On Experience - Lords Of The Null-Lines (Foul Play Remix)

08 N-Joi - Anthem

09 Liquid - Sweet Harmony

10 Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode

11 Altern-8 - Activ-8 (Come With Me)

12 Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy

13 Acen - Trip II The Moon (The Darkside)

14 Bizarre Inc. - Playing With Knives (Quadrant Mix)

15 The Prodigy - Everybody In The Place (Fairground Mix)

16 Shut Up And Dance - £10 To Get In

17 SL2 - On a Ragga Tip

18 Nookie - Shining In Da Darkness

Big Beat

I am re-arranging some things. I am definitely not getting rid of things around the House. My wife keeps dropping hints. Watching Hoarders. Telling me vinyl is hoarding, but so far I have not gotten the message. I still have thousands of LP's and CD's (even some 8-tracks and laser discs) and I can't even think of getting rid of any. They're neatly stored in temperature controlled room, even though I end up playing mostly mp3's like these. This is my attempt at making a brilliant Big Beat pick and I hope you like it. Technically there is at least one Breakbeat song which is related but close enough for me.

Big Beat

01 Groove Armada featuring Gram'ma Funk - I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Remix)

02 The Crystal Method - Busy Child

03 Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out

04 Apollo 440 - Stop The Rock

05 The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats

06 Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank

07 Coldcut - Stop This Crazy Thing (Funkymix)

08 Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At

09 Freestylers - Push Up

10 Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

11 Moby - Go (Woodtick Mix)

12 Low Fidelity Allstars - Battleflag

13 The Wiseguys featuring Greg Nice - Start the Commotion

14 Propellerheads - Spybreak!

15 The Prodigy - Firestarter

House Pick 4

I last posted a volume of this House series a few years ago. I like the songs on each pick, but I wasn't (and still am not) happy with how they all turned out. I am definitely thinking of redoing the entire series. But if I do, I wanted to get this one at least posted so you could follow along with my thinking. So here is my fourth volume (it should have a hotel on the cover, but this is what I had back then and I am not fixing it.) and then I will clean house. I also have an Acid House volume, but I might redo that one as well. Not sure about it. Any way here's the last of this series before it gets redone.

House Pick 4

45 Fingers Inc. - Mysteries Of Love

46 Frankie Knuckles - Your Love

47 Jamie Principle - Baby Wants To Ride

48 ESP - It's You (Vocal)

49 Pat & Mick - Let's All Chant (Something For The Kids Mix)

50 Fast Eddie - Acid Thunder

51 Quando Quango - Love Tempo (Remix)

52 Phuture - Acid Trax

53 D.Mob - We Call It Acieed

54 Inner City - Good Life (Magic Juan Remix)

55 The JAMs aka The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis

56 Bizarre Inc. - Playing With Knives (Quadrant Mix)

57 Ron Hardy - Sensation (Original Mix)

58 DJ Pierre - Box Energy (Original 12' Club Mix)

59 Armand van Helden featuring Mita - Entra Mi Casa

Jim Steinman

Today's the remembrance day for Jim Steinman, he died in 2021. Unfortunately not bombastically or over the top like his songs, but of kidney failure after having been ill. Listening to his songs over the years, he had some amazing ones. I first heard Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell like probably most people, but he had songs before that. Lots of stuff I could have used, but chose not to. If you have to hear the other version (perhaps even the better version - ok for sure the better version) of Total Eclipse click there. And one day I will make my version of my favorite hours worth of Meat Loaf (well, I already have it made, but when will I post it?). I chose these to spread it out trying to give each artist a chance, but I still left out Brown, Lane, Hannah, Pandora's Box, Take That and even Steinman himself solo. Maybe I will post part two next year. Or maybe Meat Loaf doing the full albums he didn't do with Steinman (they sound great - the albums that could have been) For now you get this pick.

Jim Steinman

01 Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now

02 Boyzone - No Matter What

03 Taylor Dayne - Original Sin

04 Barry Manilow - Read 'em And Weep

05 Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

06 Todd Rundgren - Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

07 Barbra Streisand - Left In The Dark

08 Westlife - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Sunset Strippers Verse Club Mix)

09 Air Supply - Making Love Out Of Nothing At All

10 Fire Inc. - Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young

11 Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion

12 Joss Stone - Holding Out For A Hero

13 Bonnie Tyler With Todd Rundgren - Loving You's A Dirty Job But Somebody's Gotta Do It

Earn It!

Not every band here is American. Priest is from Birmingham, AC/DC hauled in from Australia, and Bon Jovi is from New Jersey which some days feels like a separate country. Doesn't matter. This American rock pick is about the feeling, not the passport - the belief that where you start doesn't determine where you finish, and nobody gets to the top without earning it. Same one my mother had when she told me they became citizens so I could be president if I wanted to. Nobody said I had to. Just that nothing was stopping me. That's the whole point of the next 78 minutes.

Earn It!

01 Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

02 Bon Jovi - It's My Life

03 Ted Nugent - I Still Believe

04 The Black Keys - Gold On The Ceiling

05 AC-DC - It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'roll)

06 Kid Rock - American Bad Ass

07 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Runnin' Down A Dream

08 Foreigner - Juke Box Hero

09 Common Ground - This Is America

10 Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way?

11 Heart - Barracuda

12 Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild

13 John Fogerty - Centerfield

14 Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly

15 Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'

16 John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.

17 Bruce Springsteen - Badlands

18 Boston - Peace of Mind

19 Rick Derringer - Real American

Stadium Stature

The World Cup is coming to the US this year. A few of the games not too far from my house. I was thinking of seeing Holland playing (and losing) and how many times I had seen those games. In the forum in '74 on this big screen and satellite and then at a British Pub for '78 and on my own big screen in 2010. So I put together these Stadium Songs to prep for this year. Songs from years ago to this year. I hope you pass this on and play it over and over again. I know Nederland  doesn't have much of a chance, but neither does the USA, but I will cheer them both on anyway. For more Soccer songs click there (only a couple that overlap) so a bunch of other songs to play as well.  A few of the songs on this comp are not neccesarily only songs for futbol, but are appropriate in many stadiums. You probably know most of them.

Stadium Stature

01 Queen - We Will Rock You

02 Ricky Martin - La Copa De La Vida (Spanish)

03 Nelly Furtado - Forca

04 Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam

05 2 Unlimited - Get Ready for This

06 Pitbull featuring Jennifer Lopez & Claudia Leitte - We Are One (Ole Ola)

07 The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

08 The Goal Line Groovers - Same Game, Same Goal

09 Magic System featuring Ahmed Chawki - Magic In The Air

10 Shakira - Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)

11 Gala - Freed from Desire

12 Livin' Joy - Dreamer

13 Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie

14 Blur - Song 2

15 Sprong Hooligans - Oranje Back Again

16 House Of Pain - Jump Around

17 AC-DC - Thunderstruck

18 Metallica - Enter Sandman

19 Darude - Sandstorm

20 Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400

21 K'Naan - Wavin' Flag

BTW, bonus video of Sprong Hooligans: 

https://rumble.com/v78cm8s-sprong-hooligans-oranje-back-again-netherlands-football-tribute-1930s-to-no.html

What's The Connection? Ways 3

It's been Ways too long since the last one. I must have filed an extension, apparently. Posted right after tax day, so hopefully your return was better than mine. Twenty-two more tracks running from sweet to nasty with a few stops that are hard to categorize politely, and the Connection holds up across all of them. There are more Ways to go and you should try them all.

What's The Connection? Ways 3

43 Victor Feldman's Generation Band - Let Me Count The Ways

44 Willie Dixon - 29 Ways

45 Impressions - We Go Back a Ways

46 Elvis Presley - Separate Ways

47 Television Personalities - Mysterious Ways

48 Tammy Wynette - The Ways To Love A Man

49 Grip Weeds - Give Me Some Of Your Ways

50 Herman's Hermits - This Door Swings Both Ways

51 Bob Dylan - Quit Your Lowdown Ways

52 Kenny O'Dell - My Honky Tonk Ways

53 King Biscuit Boy - Twenty Nine Ways

54 Gary Busey - True Love Ways

55 Steve Hackett - Let Me Count The Ways

56 Willie Bobo - Evil Ways

57 Long John Hunter - Nasty Ways

58 Blue Zoo - Love Moves In Strange Ways

59 Cabaret Voltaire - A Thousand Ways

60 Electric Chairs - So Many Ways

61 Saturday's Children - Your Loving Ways

62 Esquires - Sadie's Ways

63 Willie Kendrick - Change Your Ways

64 The Movement - Ways Of The World