Meat Loaf | Renegade Angel (Bad For Good)

In 1977 rock and roll was hit with a monster album by Meat Loaf (and Jim Steinman): Bat Out Of Hell. People wanted a followup album, but Meat Loaf was having issues (with his voice, his house, etc). Not important. But Steinman had an album pretty much written and was pressured to make the album. It took until 1981 to get released and he called it Bad For Good. It didn't do that badly, because people wanted it, but Steinman (and Rory Dodds and much of the same crew from Bat) wasn't Meat Loaf. Over the years after that album was released Meat recorded and released many of the songs on other albums. I always wondered what would the album sound like if they had released it together. This pick is as close as you will get. All the versions Meat did. Only two songs that he didn't quite do. One was The Storm (an instrumental) they did record an excerpt on Bat III. I put it here, but the Steinman album version is better, so it's here too. And the one song that never was redone: Dance In My Pants which kinda got panned and will remind you of another track in the first Bat. I put the Steinman version here. The Meat Loaf album was going to be called Renegade Angel, so that's what you get.

Meat Loaf | Renegade Angel (Bad For Good)

01 Meat Loaf - Seize The Night (The Storm Excerpt)
02 Jim Steinman - The Storm
03 Meat Loaf - Bad For Good
04 Meat Loaf - Wasted Youth
05 Meat Loaf - Lost Boys and Golden Girls
06 Meat Loaf featuring Jim Steinman - Stark Raving Love
07 Meat Loaf - Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)
08 Meat Loaf - Surf's Up
09 Jim Steinman with Karla DeVito - Dance In My Pants
10 Meat Loaf - Left In The Dark
11 Meat Loaf - Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through

Ait

I really can't believe I am having two of these within days of each other after not having any for a while, but here you go another mixtape pick that belongs in the three letter category for me. More rock and roll and all of it around 92 bpm. These edits fit well together and are in camelot key order (I almost typed odor.) Oops! A couple of these were big hits, but much of it are secondary should be hits. None stink. No way whatsoever to be able to explain the title. I have no reasons but there is some rhyme in here. BTW, track 18 is not named properly (it is those guys, that's right) But it is also G3. Saw a version of G3 in concert. They were great, but it was a different version. It's always Joe, but the guys with him change.

Ait

01 Jefferson Starship - Love Too Good
02 Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
03 Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
04 Sammy Hagar - Three Lock Box
05 Digger and the Pussycats - Coming to Get You
06 J Geils Band - Freeze-Frame
07 Black Sabbath - War Pigs
08 AC-DC - Back In Black
09 Beatles - I'm Down
10 Living Colour - Cult Of Personality
11 Sweet - The 6-Teens
12 Switchfoot - Out Of Control
13 The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind
14 The James Gang - Funk # 49
15 Kneel Dung & Psychotic Pony - Paid For By A King
16 Scorpions - Every Minute Every Day
17 Maroon 5 - How
18 Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson - My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
19 Pat Travers - I La La Love You

Bachman Family Pick

It's not any surprise band. I'm sure most people know of most of these tracks on this pick. It has not much to do with anything except that when I was teen, I joined the Columbia records club. They sent you a certain number of albums and then you had to buy a few more more over a period of the next year. One of my choices of the original 11 was BTO. I recognized a song and thought I would take a chance. After that I ended up getting the Guess Who. I ended up being a fan. These are some of the tracks that ended up in the family pick. You get the father, the son, the brother. They're from Canada: a place I've never been to. Almost, but didn't make it.

Bachman Family Pick

01 Guess Who - Laughing
02 Guess Who - American Woman
03 Guess Who - These Eyes
04 Guess Who - No Time
05 Guess Who - Undun
06 Brave Belt - Crazy Arms, Crazy Eyes
07 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Let It Ride
08 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Hey You
09 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
10 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Lookin' Out For No. 1
11 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
12 Bachman Turner Overdrive - Blue Collar
13 Bachman Turner Overdrive - Gimme Your Money Please
14 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Roll On Down The Highway
15 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Take It Like A Man
16 Ironhorse - Sweet Lui-Louise
17 Union - Mainstreet U.S.A.
18 Randy Bachman - Prairie Town
19 Bachman & Turner - Rollin' Along
20 Tal Bachman - She's So High

hio

It's been a while since I have posted a three letter mixtape. As you know, I take a song or few and figure out how they work together. These are mostly all rock and roll songs and it started with Stevie and Common Ground both at about 107 bpm and in the key of 9A (camelot style). So every song on this pick is either 8B or 9A or 9B. Which means they all are key mixable. I sorted all the tracks by key and ascending BPM. All that means is that they should sound pretty good if you play it all in a row. I've listened now a few times and sure enough it does. Like usual the three letter title is random. Eyes closed and hit the keyboard.

hio

01 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died
02 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down On The Corner
03 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
04 Haim - Rock N Roll Rules
05 Scorpions - The Zoo
06 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
07 Darkside - Guitar Voodoo
08 Aerosmith with Run DMC - Walk This Way
09 Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages
10 Common Ground - This Is America
11 Stevie Nicks With Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
12 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
13 Eagles - One Of These Nights
14 Tubes - She's A Beauty
15 The Byrds - Eight Miles High
16 Guess Who - Undun
17 Foreigner - Feels Like the First Time
18 Oasis - Roll With It
19 Question Mark And The Mysterians - Can't Get Enough Of You Baby

Crimson Blaze

Today is Dog Mom's day, so be sure to celebrate! It's also my brother's birthday. In unrelated news, the wormhole covers keep coming, and so do the wormhole mixtapes - even if nobody out there has cracked what the titles mean yet. This one leans hard into the early 80s, which wasn't really a plan so much as where the tracks kept landing. There's some cold wave, some post-punk, a little industrial edge, and then some mutant disco sneaks in and it doesn't even feel wrong. The pick here is the mood more than the genre. It's that slightly dangerous, slightly danceable feeling that a certain era did really well. And yes, Grandpa got his groove in there too.

Crimson Blaze

01 Sole Patrol - Step On It
02 The Tardy Disconesians - Grandpa Got The Groove
03 Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (Hithouse Mix)
04 Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
05 Mr Blackout Bean - Brewtal Awakening
06 Shriekback - My Spine (Is The Bass Line)
07 Voice Farm - Free Love
08 Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band - I'm An Indian, Too
09 Jaxine - Jack Me Free (Less Summer Mix)
10 The Cure - Hot Hot Hot!!!
11 Visage - Fade To Grey (12'' Version)
12 Depeche Mode - See You
13 Felix Da Housecat w-Miss Kittin - Silver Screen Shower Scene
14 Yello - The Race (Razormaid Remix)
15 ABC - Poison Arrow (US Jazz Mix)

Disco House

Some of this music I danced to when it was new and it hit just as hard then. There's a moment in every one of these tracks where the old disco source material punches through the production and reminds you why it never really went away. A pick that crosses decades and countries, some French, some not, all of it pointed at the same mirrorball. Somebody played Let's All Chant at a wedding in Belize once and I stood there thinking, is this disco? Is this House? Nobody knew. Nobody cared.

Disco House

01 Modjo - Chillin'
02 DJ Falcon - Honeymoon
03 Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Intro
04 Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (Extended Version)
05 Purple Disco Machine - Dished (Male Stripper Extended Mix)
06 The Supermen Lovers with Mani Hoffman - Starlight (Disco Edit)
07 Junior Jack - Thrill Me
08 Soldiers Of Twilight - Believe (Original Mix)
09 Armand Van Helden - My My My
10 Addy van der Zwan featuring The Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant (Original Mix)
11 Together - So Much Love To Give

Crossover House

Somebody stitched this pick together in a lab and threw the switch. These tracks have house DNA running through them. You can hear it. But they got loose, crossed over, and ended up on mainstream radio and MTV before the purists could stop them. A good house DJ could drop any of these without losing the room, but none of them really belong in a tidy category bin. Too pop for the deep heads, too groove-driven to dismiss. The villagers didn't know what to make of it. The dancefloor doesn't care. And these knockers are subwoofers.

Crossover House

01 Quando Quango - Love Tempo (Remix)
02 Inner City - Big Fun (Remix)
03 Adamski - Killer (extended version)
04 Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (extended Version)
05 Eric Prydz - Call On Me
06 Swedish House Mafia featuring Pharrell Williams - One (Your Name)
07 New Order - Blue Monday (Original 1983 12 Single Version)
08 MARRS - Pump Up the Volume (Original 1987 UK 12 Single Version)
09 Black Box - Ride On Time (extended version)
10 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
11 Felix - Don't You Want Me (12'' Version)
12 Daft Punk - One More Time