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

What's The Connection? Tax Day Repost

Repost: This is the day that's most hated by pretty much everyone, except for IRS agents and Tax Preparers. If you voted me in to be King, I would get rid of the federal income tax and abolish the IRS. There. Everyone feels better. It's fair to everyone. No one pays. Then we could charge for use. The states could still do what they want, tax or not. But this is not about politics. This is about music. Here are some songs about taxes in this What's The Connection? Let me know how you feel about these songs in the comments below. I don't care what you think about taxes themselves. But if we have to pay taxes, please do yourself a favor and read the book Tax Free Wealth by Tom Wheelwright. Happy Tax Day! If you want to change your tax, change your facts. BTW, If you need a good bookkeeper here's a plug for my wife who is excellent.

Tax Connection

01 Don Henley - Workin' It

02 Celine Dion - Rain, Tax (It's Inevitable)

03 Guns N' Roses - I.R.S.

04 Relient K - Life After Death and Taxes (Failure II)

05 Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday

06 Tower of Power - Taxed To The Max

07 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes

08 Jimi Hendrix - Tax Free

09 B.O.B (Aka Bobby Ray) featuring Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You

10 Steve Howe - Success Story

11 Cheap Trick - Taxman, Mr. Thief

12 Ruder Than You - Tax Man

13 Blue Blot - IRS Blues

14 Toy Dolls - Lester Fiddled The Tax Man

15 Jethro Tull - Lap of Luxury

16 The Human Beinz - April 15th

17 Ultravox! - Life At Rainbow's End (For All The Tax Exiles On Main Street)

18 Kinks - Sunny Afternoon

19 Beatles - Taxman

20 The Who - Success Story

What's The Connection? Cherokee

There are a lot of ways to land on Cherokee, and this one covers more ground than most. It opens stretched all the way out, then snaps back into something more familiar and keeps shifting from there, bouncing between styles that don’t usually line up but manage to hold together anyway. The Indian connection is easy, but the approaches are all over the place, sometimes straight, sometimes barely related at all. Even Cher makes sense once you get there, which is kind of the whole point.

What's The Connection? Cherokee

01 Billy Ray Cyrus - Trail Of Tears

02 Gordon Lightfoot - Cherokee Bend

03 Jimi Hendrix - Cherokee Jam

04 Chet Baker - Cherokee

05 Manowar - Spirit Horse Of The Cherokee

06 Jerry Harrison - Cherokee Chief

07 Merle Haggard - Cherokee Maiden

08 Robbie Robertson - Cherokee Morning Song

09 Europe - Cherokee

10 Canned Heat - Cherokee Dance

11 kd Lang - Sweet Little Cherokee

12 Steve Howe & Martin Taylor - Cherokee Ridge

13 Paul Revere & the Raiders - Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)

14 Hot Club Of Cowtown - Cherokee Shuffle

15 Beau Brummels - Cherokee Girl

16 Michael Martin Murphey - Cherokee Fiddle

17 Joni Mitchell - Cherokee Louise

18 Onie Wheeler - White Lightning Cherokee

19 John Denver - Trail Of Tears

20 Moon Mullican - Cherokee Boogie (Eh-Oh-Aleena)

21 Cher - Half Breed