Two, Two Mints In One (repost)

Repost of this rom 2022 (and for some reason I lost my Three Mints In One and haven't re-made it yet, so it still isn't up) Some Connections are easy to pick, some are harder. You can't just search for doubles in song titles using regular search. Anyway, here is my pick of this What's the Connection? I named it Two Mints In One, because of the old commercial with twins in them. I'm too clever for myself. It doesn't really make sense unless you are me. Sometime in the future look for Three being the magic number. Three word songs that repeat the same word three times. I just have to get it ready. If you haven't seen what I do to prepare my mp3's, then you should look at that, read the complete instructions. In the meantime, please, please enjoy enjoy. I know I missed some, so if you think of any, let me know in the comments. BTW, this post was Inspired by Manolis who posted up a great comp when words are hard to find at ButterBoy. 

Two, Two Mints In One

01 Wire Train - Love, Love

02 Matt Bianco - Yeh-Yeh

03 Buggles - Clean Clean

04 The Beau Brummels - Laugh, Laugh

05 Squeeze - Bang Bang

06 The DI's - Yo-Yo

07 Paul Lekakis - Boom Boom 

08 Descendents - Hey Hey

09 Devo - Please Please

10 The Residents - La La

11 Music Machine - Talk Talk

12 Plastic Bertrand - Wha! Wha!

13 Freur - Doot Doot

14 The The - The The

15 Blondie - Rush Rush

16 Talk Talk - Talk Talk

17 Trio - Ya Ya

18 Butthole Surfers - Dum Dum

19 Nina Hagen Band - Wau wau

20 Dome - Ur-Ur

World Domination (repost)

This is a repost of a compilation playlist of various dance music from around the world. There's no rhyme or reason, except that I thought it had a danceable beat. We have all sorts of genres here, Reggae, Salsa, Soca, Bhangra, Rai and more. Music from the Americas, India. Africa, France, Yemen and much more. What's exciting to me is that this disparate music all kind of fits and flows. Be interesting to see what choices you would make. Leave a comment on what you would add or leave off this Pick. I would love to program a radio station to do a format like this. Top forty style DJ's with this music playing in rotation. I still think this is a great radio format. I would now add some zydeco and ska.

World Domination

01 Malkit Singh Golden Star UK - Jugni

02 Chaba Fadela - N'sel Fik

03 Black Uhuru - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

04 Orquesta De La Luz - Salsa Caliente Del Japon

05 Boukan Ginen - Nati Kongo

06 Les Negresses Vertes - Zobi La Mouche

07 Luiz Gonzaga - O Fole Roncou (The Bellows Roared)

08 Black Stalin - Let The Soca Play

09 Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens - Kazet (Dance Remix)

10 Anne Dudley & Jaz Coleman - Ziggarats Of Cinnamon

11 Yothu-Yindi - Djapana

12 Ofra Haza - Im Nin'alu

13 The Clash - Armagideon Time

14 Love Jones - Li'l Black Book

15 Brian Eno & David Byrne - Regiment

16 Sonora Dinamita - A Mover La Colita

17 Alpha Blondy - Yeye

18 Dub Syndicate - Reggae Raga

19 Clara Nunes - A Deusa Dos Orixás

20 Mustafa Ashraf - Yenes

21 Apache Indian - Chok There

22 Banda San Miguel - Disco Rayado

23 Gangbusters - Bad Attitude

24 Lee Perry & Dub Syndicate - Train to Doomsville

25 Jonga - Marcatchá

I'm Just A Dreamer (repost)

Repost from a few years go, All updated: I admit it. I like ballads. Smooth seductive sometimes. Slow most of the time. I've made many picks of ballads, slow songs. This is just another one. The title is from the Jacksons lyrics. I like the song. Notice that some of these songs are not about love. So I wouldn't use all of these at a wedding. A few are about loss or cheating. That doesn't stop it from being a great ballad. At the time, these were some of the slow ballads I was listening to. I hope you enjoy the playlist.

I'm Just A Dreamer

01 George Michael - Careless Whisper

02 Honeydrippers - Sea Of Love

03 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

04 Culture Club - Time (Clock Of The Heart)

05 Bronski Beat - It Ain't Necessarily So

06 The Cars - Drive

07 Tina Turner - Private Dancer (extended remix)

08 Corey Hart - It Ain't Enough

09 USA For Africa - We Are The World

10 Jacksons - Dreamer

11 Spandau Ballet - True

12 Quincy Jones & James Ingram - 100 Ways

13 Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You

14 Heatwave - Sho'nuff Must Be Luv

15 Commodores - Zoom

16 Billy Ocean - Suddenly

17 Smokey Robinson - Being With You

18 Rose Royce - I Wanna Get Next To You

19 Jermaine Jackson - Do What You Do

20 Sade - Smooth Operator (Long Version)

Africa 2 (repost)

All updated. I told you yesterday how I got started listening to African music. I found that African music had influenced quite a bit of "western" music as well. I through in a few here along with some of the picks I didn't fit on the first compilation. And some cheesy tracks that were popular when I put this together. I started the journey in the 80's, but I didn't put this together until much later (as witnessed by the Lion King). Remember this is not an end all be all compilation of African music. It would be falling very short if that was the case. It is just a starting point that I had with a couple added bonuses. There is so much to find. Please look for it. I cannot say that I liked everything I got. I have my favorites, but I had some busts too. These picks are a springboard for you. Find what you like and go forth.

Africa 2

15 Rhyth-O-Matics - Afro-Ska

16 King Sunny Ade - Kira Kira

17 Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens - Yebo! (Mbaqanga Mix)

18 Fela Kuti - Army Arrangement

19 The Chakachas - Jungle Fever

20 Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa

21 Babatunde Olatunji - Jin-Go-Lo-Ba

22 Kanda Bongo Man - Zing-Zong

23 Edikanfo - Something Lefeh-O

24 The Bhundu Boys - Jit Jive

25 Lebo M - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

26 Angelique Kidjo featuring Peter Gabriel - Salala

Africa 1 (repost)

I updated this. It is Brian Eno's fault. I started listening to African based pop music because of him. He had something to do with Edikanfo, so I bought the album. I had no idea about anything to do with Africa. But that one album opened up a stream of music that I could not stop. I am ignorant enough to label this all African, but I know that it is a large continent with a variety of styles of music and so much I still have no idea about. I made two compilations of my pick of African pop music. There is so much more available. I'm sure someone will post in the comments where to go next, This is just to whet your appetite, BTW, Edikanfo led to Fela Kuti, which led to Manu Dibango, which led to the rest. All because I listened to one album. I took a chance and it paid off. More tomorrow.

Africa 1

01 Zap Mama - Brrrlak!

02 Manu Dibango - Electric Africa

03 Fela Kuti - Government Chicken Boy

04 Osibisa - Music for Gong Gong

05 Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens - Kazet (Dance Remix)

06 Kotoja - Sawale

07 Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited - Hondo

08 Babatunde Olatunji - Soul Makossa

09 Mory Kante - Ye Ke Ye Ke

10 Edikanfo - Nka Bom

11 Kanda Bongo Man - Sai

12 Papa Wemba - M'Fono Yami

13 Baaba Maal - Mariama

14 Youssou N'Dour - Fakastalu

Death In June: Runes & Roses

I've done a few picks where I had Death In June on them and some that were inspired by their work. Just yesterday I had Sixth Comm on a Dark Wave-ish pick (featuring Patrick O-Kill who was in Death In June at one point) and Revelio several months ago, where I talked about the band in that Neo Folk pick. These guys, (really Douglas P and whoever he wants to work with at that moment make up the band) have been post-punk, neo folk, industrial, dark wave, martial marching music and whatever other things people think they are. I don't care what it's labeled, but I do like a lot of their music. So this is my choice of songs of their's. It covers 10 or eleven of their albums over the years - not all of them, but it's a decent sampling. I came up with the name and the cover for it (it sounded like something they would do, but haven't). I see the skull being embossed...

Death In June: Runes & Roses

01 Death In June - Nirvana

02 Death In June - The Calling (Mk II)

03 Death In June - Rain Of Despair

04 Death In June - She Said Destroy

05 Death In June - Heaven Street

06 Death In June - We Drive East

07 Death In June - Come Before Christ And Murder Love

08 Death In June - Hail! The White Grain

09 Death In June - Runes And Men

10 Death In June - To Drown A Rose

11 Death In June - Giddy Giddy Carousel

12 Death In June - Fall Apart

13 Death In June - Nothing Changes

14 Death In June - He's Disabled

15 Death In June - Little Black Angel

16 Death In June - The Giddy Edge Of Light

17 Death In June - Hollows Of Devotion

18 Death In June - But,What Ends When The Symbols Shatter

19 Death In June - Rose Clouds Of Holocaust

20 Death In June - 13 Years Of Carrion

21 Death in June - All Pigs Must Die

22 Death in June - Disappear In Every Way

Avada Kedavra 1

This pick is a companion to the Revelio comp from last June. That one was more Neo Folk and this one leans more to the Dark Wave, to me they overlap a lot. I almost had enough that I liked to do a part two, maybe sometime in the future. This past Halloween we had many kids dressed as characters in Harry Potter, besides making sure they said Trick or Treat we always asked for a spell and the one all of them said was Avada Kedavra. If they would have used the spell Accio, we would have given them more candy, but they didn't. Another compilation that is very slightly connected is my Viking one for Leif Erikson day. Not so much in sound, but maybe in feel. That one is more rock and metal. This not so much.

Avada Kedavra 1

01 Danheim - Berserkir

02 Sieben - Love's Promise

03 The Hafler Trio - Suppressed Noise

04 Lustmord - Black Star

05 Nurse With Wound - Yagga Blues

06 Einsturzende Neubauten - Sabrina

07 Swans - God Damn The Sun

08 In Gowan Ring - Hazel Steps

09 Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud - 14

10 Sonne Hagal - Flackerndes Feuer

11 Sixth Comm - Neiflheim

12 Autechre - Bike

13 Non - Out Out Out

14 Sigur Ro´s - Hoppipolla