Clash Of The Titans 3

Continuing the Clash Of The Titans playlist series, this pick is just getting interesting. A couple of older songs mixed with newer songs that sure seem danceable. Less remixes this outing. I like the mix of Cabaret Voltaire and Talking Heads mixed with Juan Maclean and Hot Chip. I couldn't tell you anything about Fujiya & Miyagi, but I love the sound. Fischerspooner and LCD Soundsystem had hits later but here they were just blips.

Clash Of The Titans 3

01 The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize 

02 Cabaret Voltaire - Do Right

03 Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)

04 Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing

05 Cansei De Ser Sexy - Lets Make Love And Listen To Death From Above

06 Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko

07 Hot Chip - And I Was A Boy From School

08 Underworld - Cowgirl

09 Daft Punk - Technologic

10 Tomas Andersson - Copy Cat

11 Test Icicles - What's Your Damage (Digitalism Remix)

12 Vitalic - La Rock 01

13 Fujiya & Miyagi - Photocopier

14 Fischerspooner - Emerge

15 LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge

Clash Of The Titans 2

Part 2 of this series I call electroclash, but it really isn't all that. Mostly good danceable new new wave and even some edgier house. Songs from bands no one except for a select few really knows or remembers, but you will dance to it. Is this EDM? Gasp! Who cares? It mixes well, people dance to it and it just sounds good. Stop judging so much. This pick is mine and I like it. Just play it and dance. Love on the edits and remixes.

Clash Of The Titans 2

01 Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Turkish Delight

02 Frogsnatcher - Rat Race (Vocal Mix)

03 Tiefschwarz with Tracey Thorn - Damage (Radio Edit)

04 My Robot Friend - Rapture

05 Tiga - Louder Than A Bomb

06 Bush II Bush - Piano Track (MYNC Project's Balls To Bush Mix)

07 Kerri Chandler - Bar A Thym

08 Linus Loves - VH1 (12 Inch Mix)

09 Timmy Vegas & Barbara Tucker - Dutty Funk (We Can Do) (Vocal Mix)

10 Dorfmeister vs Madrid de los Austrias - Boogie No More

11 The Freaks - The Creeps (Vandalism Unreleased Mix)

12 Dynarec - Handjob

13 The Kills - Good Ones (Jagz Kooner Remix)

Clash Of The Titans 1

I put together this series of playlists around the time of the emergence of electroclash and although it isn't all that, it sounds enough like it it to start this series. I think I was watching the Clash Of The Titans movie or seeing a computer game or something like that and so this was born. It was more just danceable stuff that mixed real well. I hope you like it. I made a few of these and the theme doesn't hold up really at all. But it didn't matter, because I liked this pick and played it a lot. Lots of remixes.

Clash Of The Titans 1

01 The Killers - Somebody Told Me (Mylo Remix Edit)

02 Cream vs Hoxton Whores - Sunshine Of Your Love (Braund Remix)

03 Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone (Original)

04 Mylo - In My Arms 

05 Rex The Dog - Prototype (M.A.N.D.Y. Remix)

06 Kylie Minogue vs New Order - Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head 

07 Eyerer & Chopstick - She Loves It (Original Mix)

08 Throbbing Gristle - Hot Heels United (Carter Tutti Remix)

09 Max Graham & Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

11 Thomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Remix)

12 Who's Who - Not So Dirty (Steve Angello Remix)

13 Tiga - Pleasure From The Bass

14 Goldfrapp - Twist

15 Coburn featuring Dumb Blonde - We Have The Technology

16 Crazy Frog - Axel F

17 Le Tigre - TKO

Awesome Downtime 6

This is the last of the series (at least posted here). This is a George Glass pick. He's from Groovy Library and you should check it out. He has really well done compilations on his site. I really loved this series and got permission to post it here, but now you will have to get any newer ones at his site. I hope you liked the ones I posted here. I like them, so tough luck if you don't. I get impressed with someone that makes a compilation that is so unlike anything I would have picked and yet I think it's great.

Awesome Downtime 6

01 Boards of Canada - Satellite Anthem Icarus

02 Soulostar - As the Waves Wash Over Me

03 Anthony Island - White Palms (Space Lounge Mix)

04 Weathertunes - Sugar Loaf

05 Kerbside Collection - Walk the Talk

06 Arc8de - Skipping Stone

07 aso - Nothing but Luv

08 Snoozegod - Good Morning

09 Loafy Building - Cloud Companion

10 The Letter E - Mary Bahtyarli

11 Japancakes - Untitled One

12 Fly Project - Eyeliner

13 The Crusaders - No Place to Hide

14 Empty Spools - What Did We Learn, Kids

15 Jerro - Pantheon

16 The Doobie Brothers - Flying Cloud

Awesome Downtime 5

Lucky for us today, we have another of the Awesome Downtime playlist series (that I wish I had compiled, but was put together by George Glass at his Groovy Library blog). The closest I have that I picked is either my Am I Bent pick or my Textures series pick And none of them are anything quite like this series. He calls it downtempo, instrumental hip hop, chill hop, trip hop, nu jazz, instrumental soul jazz, but what do I know. I just like the combo George put together. His album covers are a gas and the music is even better. I will post one more and after that you will just have to go to his site to see if he posts anymore.

Awesome Downtime 5

01 Deodato - Love Island

02 Billy Cobham - Siesta

03 Love Unlimited Orchestra - Midnight and You

04 Kondor - Closer

05 Lovers Lane - Island Memories (Original Mix)

06 Lo Fidelity Allstars - Dark Is Easy

07 John Tropea - Dreams

08 The Giant Hogweed Orchestra - Spirals

09 Antoine Dufour - Catching the Light

10 Takeshi Inomata & Sound L.T.D. - Lullaby for You

11 Oliver Nelson - In a Japanese Garden

12 Isaac Hayes - Early Sunday Morning

13 The Drop - Chill Guitar

14 Ashra - Midnight on Mars

15 Alpha - Back

16 Phil Turcio - The Quiet

Awesome Downtime 4

I'm continuing with the guest appearance of George Glass from Groovy Library. I really liked his Awesome Downtime series so I asked if he minded if I reposted them here. Luckily he said yes. Yesterday he explained how he came up with his pick and the name. Today you get no such luck, just my ramblings of how much I enjoy listening to these playlists. Especially when I want to relax. I hope you are enjoying them too.

Awesome Downtime 4

01 Trog'low - Gymnopedie

02 Lemon Jelly - Soft

03 Tafubar - The Wicked Thoughts of You (Pete Phunk Afternoon Rhodesmix)

04 Synthetic Epiphany - Effervescent

05 BCee - Lost & Found (Hybrid Minds remix)

06 Jive Ass Sleepers - Native Skyline

07 Ingo Herrmann - Garden Life

08 Nightmares on Wax - Morse

09 Snoozegod - Don't Rush What You Want to Last

10 Sleepless - Distant Dreams

11 Vargo - Awakening (original chorus mix)

12 LTJ Bukem - Rhodes to Freedom

13 Hall & Oates - One on One (Ji Ben Gong remix)

14 Café Chillout Music Club - Jubel (chill lounge mix)

15 Kondor - Peace Project (feat. Shea)

16 Gyvus - Tôzen

Awesome Downtime 3

We've already had a couple of these Awesome Downtime playlists from George Glass (from Groovy Library) and I asked him to give me a little backstory. Here's what he wrote about his pick:

"I don't recall hearing the term "Downtime" until it came time to name the first comp. I just wanted to come up with something other than known genres (downtempo, chill, ambient, etc). How it started? During the mid 90s, I was exploring a lot of drum 'n' bass music. It became apparent in no time that it wasn't all just fast beats, but the ambience as well. And from there, it lead me to downtempo, chill, etc. A few year back, I started to create playlists for the bath, mainly with the music aforementioned. I didn't want the obligatory spa music, but melodic yet relaxing tunes not usually sleep inducing. And so in hindsight, you can find beauty in just about any style/genre of music. It's the patience in finding it. And that's the (very) condensed version."

Awesome Downtime 3

01 Lemil - Beautiful Day

02 Lemon Jelly - Pushy

03 Big Ben Beats - Love

04 Logistics - Wanderlust

05 Calibre - Manchester Nights

06 Broke for Free - Beyond Dazed

07 Mama Aiuto - Polaroid (feat. Makzo)

08 Bachelors of Science - 25th Street

09 The Society of Rockets - Beachcomber

10 The American Analog Set - Born on the Cusp

11 Ulrich Schnauss - Knuddelmaus

12 Keeno - In Dreams

13 Brookes Brothers - Hard Knocks

14 Don Gorda - (Theme From) A Taste of You

15 aebleo - Flight of the Purple Potato

16 Cesar Martinez Ensemble - Thinking of You

Awesome Downtime 2

Part two of this great series by George Glass of the Groovy Library blog. As George says: Press play, sit back, relax, groove... And I have been doing that since I fist heard these comps. I said it yesterday and I will say it again, I rarely put other people's compilations up here, but I really wanted to for this series. It's George's Pick. I can't tell you much about why he picked these songs (maybe he'll comment and tell us why.) I don't know how he picks his covers. I just know I like them. I listen to this series probably more than I should. Hopefully you enjoy it too.

Awesome Downtime 2

01 David Rich - David's Sunrise

02 Vargo - Beauty

03 Marco Papetti - Save the Jazz

04 P.M. Dawn - Paper Doll (instrumental)

05 Weathertunes - Passion

06 Gyvus - Venice

07 Fly Project - Dry Gel

08 Synthetic Epiphany - Technicolor

09 Empty Spools - Always the Best Way to Learn

10 Fausto Trusso Sfrazzetto - Nascere

11 Keeno - Hold Ya

12 Klute - Property Is Theft

13 dpb - Tethys

14 Nine Inch Nails - 13 Ghosts II

15 Five Seasons - Cocktail

16 David Rich - David's Sunset

Awesome Downtime 1

This compilation series is from a guest, George Glass, who has the blog Groovy Library which I subscribe to. He posted a series on his site that I absolutely love, called Awesome Downtime. I'm sure he will have a ton more, but I asked him if we could post the first several on this site, too. So here is the first in the series. Normally I post either how I came up with the idea or the title, but I don't know any of that. I just know that I have been listening to it regularly since I first came across them (at yet another site- Butterboy). I will post the next several over the next few days. I did not change the cover, but did run the files through Platinum Notes and basically did what I say in my Prepare MP3 article. Rezipped it and posted it.

Here's what George wrote on his site about this series:
Note: Every selection is good to great in my books. All tracks (including the previous downtime comp) and any future downtime comps, I listen on various occasions be it in the bath, relaxing, or simply when I feel like it. I find relaxing music in all kinds of genres, and not just something you'd hear in a spa. I have nothing against the latter (I listen to it myself) but I want the comps to be more eclectic. I've found over the years several D&B (drum & bass) tracks that are also soothing. I specify them as smooth d&b. Yes, faster beats can be tranquil. Well, it works for me.

Awesome Downtime 1

01 Jive Ass Sleepers - Morning Coffee

02 Lurch - All Yours

03 Ingo Herrmann - Rivers

04 Mama Aiuto - Bell Tower

05 Brookes Brothers - Desert Island

06 Nightmares on Wax - Fire in the Middle

07 Flowrian - Going Downtown

08 Foxwood - Flowerbeds

09 Bcee - Hold On

10 Lovers Lane - Funky Bliss (Voodoo Lounge Mix)

11 Lemonsoul - Mother

12 Sleepless - Process

13 Snoozegod - Control

14 Koi. - Explorers

15 Thunderball - Golden

16 Füxa - Rainy Day Dream Away (instrumental version)

Cool Jazz 2 (no jazz at all included)

This punk playlist pick is a recreation of the second cassette of the Cool Jazz series. Like being Rick Rolled, these playlists were a deception. Not Jazz. It was/is misinformation and disinformation. The cover was deceptive too. This was just around the time that people began painting nude women to look like they were dressed and photographing them in public, with almost no one figuring out that they were wearing only paint. Even the punk part of this pick was deceptive. Because it was more pop punk mixed in with some real punk. This volume makes it much more clear that this was not for kids. It is progressively more adult than volume one. By design. It gets more hardcore as you go along and then the stress releases and it becomes more pop. Humor mixed with division mixed with sex mixed with in your face confrontation. It takes the first amendment for this compilation to exist. Someone will be pissed off by at least one song. That, to me, is what punk is/was and also what the first amendment means and stands for. In life it is the same way, if somebody says something offensive and they are allowed to say it, then you have freedom. Misinformation, Disinformation are euphemisms for censorship. So enjoy your freedom!

Cool Jazz 2

31 The Slickee Boys - This Party Sucks

32 Black Flag - TV Party

33 Descendents - Weinerschnitzel

34 Fear - More Beer

35 Angry Samoans - You Stupid Jerk

36 The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes

37 Magazine - I Love You You Big Dummy

38 Wire - 1 2 X U

39 Motorhead - Ace of Spades

40 Simpletones - Tiger Beat Twist

41 Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl

42 Oingo Boingo - Little Girls

43 Suicidal Tendencies - I Saw Your Mommy

44 No Means No - Dad

45 Suburban Lawns - Janitor

46 The Replacements - Fuck School

47 Vandals - Anarchy Burger (Hold the Government)

48 Ween - You Fucked Up

49 Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off

50 The Feederz - Jesus Entering From The Rear

51 DOA - Let's Fuck

52 Bad Brains - Pay To Cum

53 Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict

54 Killer Pussy - Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage

55 Angry Samoans - Homo-sexual

56 Ruts - In A Rut

57 Chris Spedding - Pogo Dancing

58 The Meatmen - Punker-Ama

59 Circle Jerks - Golden Shower Of Hits (Jerks On 45)

Cool Jazz 1 (not jazz at all)

This was a cassette. And before I go on, this has nothing to do with Jazz. Cool or Hot. So if you came looking for Jazz, be prepared to be disappointed. I had this cassette in my car to throw people off. There were always people who wanted to pick what I played in my crazy hot rod cars. And this was one that they often picked thinking it was Jazz. It was my punk pick. Still is. You may have seen the Punk Primer that I previously posted. That was for kids. This was not for kids, although there is some overlap. I just didn't limit my choices based on content. So this playlist could ease people into punk rock. Sort of the pop side of punk. I had enough for a couple of volumes. Always fun to pull out. And very deceptive all around. Tell you more tomorrow.

Cool Jazz 1

01 Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro

02 Nina Hagen - I'm A Believer

03 Scott Goddard - Cowpunk

04 Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling

05 Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen - 2 Triple Cheese Side Order Of Fries

06 Descendents - I Like Food

07 Pop -O- Pies - Fascists Eat Donuts

08 Faction - Let's Go Get Cokes

09 Angry Samoans - My Old Man's A Fatso

10 Fishbone - Ugly

11 Devo - Mongoloid

12 Klark Kent - Don't Care

13 Members - Sound Of The Suburbs

14 Ruts - Babylon's Burning

15 Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK

16 The Crowd - Trix Are For Kids

17 The Dickies - You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)

18 Toy Dolls - Spiders in the Dressing Room

19 Ween - Tick

20 Shonen Knife - Mosquitoes

21 Fashion - Sodium Pentathol Negative

22 Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

23 Richard Hell And The Voidoids - Blank Generation

24 Was (Not Was) - Dad I'm In Jail

25 Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

26 Inflatable Boy Clams - Marin

27 Redd Kross - Annette's Got The Hits

28 Vandals - Ladykiller

29 X Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours

30 Flipper - Brainwash

Undercover (Noise) 2

A continuation of the Undercover series and the the noise/industrial series. As stated before in part one, this was a cassette originally before this pick was transformed into a CD and then this playlist. Covers here include a cover of Throbbing Gristle (already an industrial band) but pared with a Righteous Brothers hit to make this twofer medley. And then also TG doing their own cover of a song that Frank Sinatra made famous. I like that there is a cover of Sisters Of Mercy followed by Sisters Of Mercy doing a Hot Chocolate cover. Cracks me up every time. A couple more disco songs (Abba and Carl Douglas), Pink Floyd, Olivia Newton-John and more round off this side two. Make sure you get side one.

Undercover (Noise) 2

12 Cassandra Complex - Something Came Over Me-You've Lost That Loving Feeling

13 Big Black - The Model

14 Throbbing Gristle - Strangers In The Night

15 La Muerte - Kung Fu Fighting

16 The Leather Nun - Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)

17 a;Grumh... - Another Brick in the Wall Part II

18 Coil - Tainted Love

19 Poesie Noire - Marian

20 Revolting Cocks - Let's Get Physical

21 Sisters Of Mercy - Emma

22 Cabaret Voltaire - No Escape

Undercover (Noise) 1

More of the Undercover series. Again this pick was first a cassette. Side one will posted today. You can tell that I like cover versions of different songs. Less tracks today because the songs are longer. I call this (Noise) but it could have been (Industrial). I suppose it is both industrial and noise. Some totally cool tracks here in this pick. A few that are better than the originals and most all of them are totally different from the originals.

Undercover (Noise) 1

12 Cassandra Complex - Something Came Over Me-You've Lost That Loving Feeling

13 Big Black - The Model

14 Throbbing Gristle - Strangers In The Night

15 La Muerte - Kung Fu Fighting

16 The Leather Nun - Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)

17 a;Grumh... - Another Brick in the Wall Part II

18 Coil - Tainted Love

19 Poesie Noire - Marian

20 Revolting Cocks - Let's Get Physical

21 Sisters Of Mercy - Emma

22 Cabaret Voltaire - No Escape

Undercover (Punk) 2

This is side two of the Undercover (Punk) series. This pick was the other side of the cassette. And like side 1 is all cover versions done in the punk style, by mostly punk bands. Covers of Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Sweet, Grateful Dead, even the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song. You can't get better versions than these. I have another covers series that does all disco songs (A Life Of Vice) that has a few songs that could have made it on to this series, but I tried not to repeat.

Undercover (Punk) 2

18 Social Distortion - Ring Of Fire

19 Agent Orange - Pipeline

20 Creaming Jesus - A Forest

21 The Jam - Batman

22 Descendents - Wendy

23 UK Subs - She's Not There

24 The Dickies - Paranoid

25 Bongwater - Dazed & Chinese

26 Surf Punks - Ballroom Blitz

27 Black Flag - Louie Louie

28 Nina Hagen - I'm A Believer

29 Pop-O-Pies - Truckin'

30 Sex Pistols - (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone

31 Husker Du - Love Is All Around

32 Feederz - Have You Never Been Mellow

33 The Vandals - H.B. Hotel

34 The Cramps - Psychotic Reaction

Undercover (Punk) 1

This series started as a cassette. This was side 1. All covers by punk bands. Punk covers of a variety of songs. There are a million of them and so this pick was just my favorites of the ones that I owned. The title was a play on the show Undercover Boss. Which has nothing to do with the content. But my mind works in mysterious ways. I made that connection somehow. There was one song that I was looking for (and still do not have, so if you know how I can get it, comment below) and that's by the band SVDB and the Theme From Courtship of Eddie's Father (Best Friend). Which is a band that featured Brandon Cruz (Eddie) on vocals.

Undercover (Punk) 1

01 Sonic Youth - Beat on the Brat

02 Plugz - Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man)

03 Membranes - Super Freak

04 J.F.A. - Charlie Brown

05 The Damned - Help

06 Acid Head - I Am Woman

07 Nip Drivers - Rio

08 The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

09 The Stranglers - Walk On By

10 The Fall - Mr. Pharmacist

11 Wilma - Georgie Girl

12 The Lemonheads - Luka

13 Hollywood Brats - Then He Kissed Me

14 Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas

15 Circle Jerks - Golden Shower Of Hits (Long Version)

16 Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven

17 Toy Dolls - Blue Suede Shoes

Tolerable Schlock

I made this playlist (originally a CD) for a co-worker. I shared an office with this person. I can't remember her name, but she always listened to this most schlocky music ever. Blandish music with no soul. And the same stuff everyday. So I made this pick of schlocky music. Yes it was also schlocky, but much more tolerable for me. So she still played schlocky music, but every now and again, she would play this. And I was less perturbed. Even enjoyed myself. I hope you like this, too. Designed to be office friendly. 

Tolerable Schlock

01 Eurythmics - Jennifer

02 Sinead O'Connor - Damn Your Eyes

03 Yaz - Only You

04 Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

05 The Pretenders - I'm Not In Love

06 Prefab Sprout - Horsin' Around

07 Everything But The Girl - Each and Every One

08 Cars - Drive

09 Lydia Lunch - Spooky

10 Massive Attack with Tracy Thorn - Protection

11 Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows

12 The Housemartins - Happy Hour

13 Stranglers - Golden Brown

14 Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene

15 Chris & Cosey - October (Love Song)

16 Chris Isaak - Dancin'

Unexposed Silver Halides 2

Here's side two of the Unexposed Silver Halides cassette (obviously the pick has been redone to fit a CD and this playlist.) But the damage has been done. I am not sure that I would make this cassette again. It was cool for the time, but I like much better songs now. Not my best pick from Herbie Hancock. I definitely would not pick that Romantics song today. But that's what I was listening to at that time, so I have to live with the choice. It's interesting anyway. I bet after I listen to it again, it will make more sense to me again.

Unexposed Silver Halides 2

12 Frank Stallone - Far From Over
13 Herbie Hancock - Autodrive
14 Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday
15 Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
16 Irene Cara - Flashdance...What A Feeling
17 Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
18 Visage - Damned Don't Cry
19 Thomas Dolby - One Of Our Submarines
20 A Flock Of Seagulls - (It's Not Me) Talking
21 Weird Al Yankovic - Eat It

Unexposed Silver Halides 1

Let's start with the name. I was doing a bunch of photography at the time. Black and white real film. Had a lot of fun. I had a completely manual Pentax K. The songs were just songs I was really listening to at the time. And nothing to do with photography. A lot of the stuff coming out had computerized effects. And I liked it. Even the Neil Young. Obviously a few tracks from the soundtrack that was popular then. I think you can figure it out. This is side one of the cassette. This cassette pick became the CD and then the playlist. Enjoy it or not side 2 will be here tomorrow.

Unexposed Silver Halides 1

01 Kissing The Pink - Frightened In France

02 Weird Al Yankovic - The Brady Bunch

03 Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive

04 Herbie Hancock - Rockit

05 Spandau Ballet - Code Of Love

06 Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

07 Ultravox! - Man Who Dies Every Day

08 Neil Young - We R In Control

09 Bill Nelson - Acceleration

10 Eurythmics - Cool Blue

11 Michael Sembello - Maniac

Wild, Beautiful & Damned

Sometime in the early 80's I made this cassette. Which I re-did as a CD and then now as a playlist. The cassette had some weird scribbles of purple on the cover, which I tried to stay true to in redesigning the CD cover. There is no real theme to this and was just music I liked at the time. The Ultravox! song that I named the cassette after was particularly one of my favorites (being a Brian Eno production) and why I decided to make this pick in the first place. Most of it was stuff that was not being played on the radio. Well, obviously Beat It was played everywhere. But to me they all could co-exist together. I never understood why some of these tracks didn't get more popular. The Joe Jackson, the Tom Tom Club, the Visage tracks, for instance, and my favorite Depeche Mode song that I had on multiple 12" singles (all with different covers). Why weren't they major hits on every station. I can understand that the Ultravox! was an acquired taste. I don't pretend to know the answer. I just liked all of this.

Wild, Beautiful & Damned

01 B Movie - Moles

02 The Motels - Trust Me

03 Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

04 Ultravox! - The Wild, The Beautiful & The Damned

05 Spandau Ballet - Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

06 Human League - I Love You Too Much

07 Was (Not Was) - Wheel Me Out

08 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

09 Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf

10 Tom Tom Club - Man With The Four-Way Hips

11 Michael Jackson - Beat It

12 Men At Work - Overkill

13 Depeche Mode - See You

14 Joe Jackson - Memphis

15 Visage - Frequency 7 (Dance Mix)

16 Illustration - Tidal Flow

17 Kate Bush - Sat In Your Lap

18 Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang

19 Tin Huey - I'm A Believer

20 REM - Radio Free Europe

21 Devo - Whip It

22 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity

Surfing & Spying 2

Volume two of the cassette I made so long ago. This is the Spying side of the cassette. Although I said yesterday. the content is not quite so much divided. This pick has surf songs on both sides and frankly the most spying stuff is on the surfing side. I can't explain it. It's just the way it turned out. Either way this pick is from my collection back then, recreated as a playlist for you. I took the original cassette cover that I had hand drawn, scanned it and used parts of it for this cover.

Surfing & Spying 2

20 The Surfaris - Surfer Joe

21 Bananarama - No Feelings

22 Go-Go's - Beatnik Beach

23 The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O

24 The Ventures - Perfidia

25 The Ventures - Telstar

26 The Ventures - Rebel Rouser

27 The Jam - Batman

28 Marvelettes - Beechwood 4-5789

29 Bonnie Hayes with the Wild Combo - Girls Like Me

30 Josie Cotton - Tell Him

31 Question Mark and the Mysterians - 96 Tears

32 Surf Punks with Wolfman Jack - My Wave

33 Booker T & The Mg's - Time Is Tight

34 Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids - At The Hop

35 Surf Punks - Spoiled Brats From Malibu I

36 The Diamonds - Little Darlin'

37 Joey Dee & The Starlighters - Peppermint Twist

38 Chubby Checker - Dancin' Party

39 Mailbooz - My Baby Came Back On the Last Wave Today

Surfing & Spying 1

This is from a cassette I made a long time ago. One side I called Surfing and the other I called Spying. This is the first side. This pick includes a bunch of Surfing songs or beach songs, much of it instrumental. A few words here and there (tequila!). Each side is NOT really separated by Surf and Spy. But that was the premise of the whole cassette. The cover I recreated from the cassette as a CD and now it's the playlist cover. All songs that are and were in my collection.

Surfing & Spying 1

01 Surfaris - Wipeout

02 The Ventures - Walk Don't Run

03 The Ventures - Out Of Limits

04 The Ventures - Tequila

05 The Ventures - Apache

06 The Ventures - Ram Bunk Shush

07 The Surfaris - Punkline

08 The Chantays - Pipeline

09 The Wedge - Night Of The Living Wedge

10 Dan & Dale - Goldfinger

11 Go-Go's - Surfing and Spying

12 Blues Brothers - Green Onions

13 The Electric Firebirds - Electric Fireworks

14 Booker T & The Mg's - Hang 'em High

15 The Electric Firebirds - Let's Make It

16 The Ventures - Sugar, Sugar

17 Blues Brothers - Peter Gunn Theme

18 The Capitols - Cool Jerk

19 The Surfaris - Scatter Shield

Michael Jackson Pick

I wasn't going to post this, but some people messaged me and asked why the disco (leopard) series hardly had any Michael Jackson in it. The reason is this playlist. Any disco party I played, I would of course play the songs in the disco series that I have already posted, but I also brought along this playlist of my MJ picks. Yes. I also brought along Saturday Night Fever, some extra Bee Gee's etc. I wasn't going to post this, because you can find tons of great Michael Jackson greatest hits albums out there. This is just my pick. Many of you will disagree with some of my choices, but I stand by them. Tell me your favorites in the comments. You've probably already seen the companion Jacksons playlist.

Michael Jackson Pick

01 Jackson 5 - Dancing Machine

02 Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

03 Michael Jackson - Working Day And Night

04 Michael Jackson - Rock With You

05 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 

06 Michael Jackson - Beat It

07 Michael Jackson - Thriller

08 Michael Jackson - Bad

09 Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

10 Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel

11 Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror

12 Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana

13 Michael Jackson - Black Or White

14 Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone

15 Michael Jackson - You Rock My World

16 Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney - Say,Say,Say

17 Michael Jackson - Ease On Down The Road

18 Michael Jackson - One More Chance

Surf Beat 2

If you saw yesterday's post you will know the origin story. If you didn't see it, go back and read it. Either way. I listened to volume one for years. Always loved it, but knew I had skipped a bunch of songs that I used to play. That and I had since discovered a couple of bands that I would have played if they were around at the time (for sure the Surfrajettes - how cool are they!?). So it was time to make volume 2. So I made volume 2 and I really liked it too. My pick of Surf and Punk songs that make up this playlist are just the ticket for you to skate and thrash to this summer, so I am bringing it out again. I never made volume three, but listening to this again might inspire me.

Surf Beat 2

32 Man Or Astro-Man - F=(Gmm(Moon))(R^2)

33 The Wedge - Night Of The Living Wedge

34 The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O

35 Insect Surfers - Dorsal Fin

36 The Invisible Surfers - Malaguena

37 Susan and the Surftones - Chinese Rock

38 JFA - Walk Don't Run

39 Clint - Bankrupt

40 The Electric Firebirds - Electric Fireworks

41 Agent Orange - Everything Turns Grey

42 Architects of Sound - Surf Beat

43 The Jam - Batman

44 Fidlar - Cheap Beer

45 The Faction - Skate & Destroy

46 Ribzy - All Cut Up

47 Surf Punks - My Beach

48 The Phantom Surfers - Final Lap

49 Los Olvidados - Pay Salvation

50 The Slickee Boys - Surf Medley

51 Minutemen - Corona

52 The Malibooz - Faceoff At Point Dume

53 Wounds - Workaholic

54 Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Having An Average Weekend

55 The Supertones - Pugsakuk

56 The Weirdos - Life Of Crime

57 The Lively Ones - Surf Rider

58 Barracudas - His Last Summer

59 Link Wray - Ace of Spades

60 The Surfrajettes - Toxic

61 The Surfites - Surfville

62 The Eliminators - Surfin' Spies

Surf Beat 1

I love surf music and I love punk music. I used to do a radio show with both of those elements called Surf Beat. Back in the 80's you played mostly records (LP's and 45's) and on the radio you had carts. These looked like 8-tracks, but played stereo. So to do a show that included some really short songs, you had to have some on cart and be quick changing records (all while keeping track of what you played, breaks etc.) Very difficult. But that's where the Surf Beat playlist came from. This is my pick from that. Playing good Surf songs, good Punk songs and having it mix well. Classic Surf. Classic Punk.

Surf Beat 1

01 Surfaris - Wipeout

02 Dick Dale with Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pipeline

03 Laika & the Cosmonauts - Delayrium

04 Astronauts - Baja

05 The Pyramids - Penetration

06 Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Misirlou

07 Agent Orange - Bite The Hand That Feeds (Pt. 2)

08 The Marketts - Out Of Limits

09 Go-Go's - Surfing and Spying

10 Laika & the Cosmonauts - Mission Impossible

11 Comateens - Munsters Theme

12 Marketts - Batman Theme

13 Agent Orange - Get Smart

14 Laika & the Cosmonauts - Skater Dater

15 The Ventures - Walk Don't Run 64

16 Sandals - Theme From Endless Summer

17 Insect Surfers - Insect Stomp

18 Fu - Hawaii Five-O

19 Agent Orange - Somebody To Love

20 Trashmen - Surfin' Bird

21 Dead Kennedys - Rawhide

22 Surf Punks - My Wave

23 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

24 Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw

25 Vandals - Hocus Pocus

26 The Dickies - Secret Agent Man

27 Jan and Dean - Surf City

28 The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA

29 Surfaris - Surfer Joe

30 Junior Brown - Surf Medley

31 Toy Dolls - Wipeout

Snowballin' 6

By now you either are sick of this playlist series or you are hoping for more. I'm hoping it's the latter, but if it is the former, you are in luck because this is the last one. Unless you come up with a few comments with your suggestions and it inspires me to make another volume. Let's make YOUR pick. But at just over a hundred, I think it's pretty good. I do have more kinda waiting in the wings to make another playlist. It just depends. A whole spectrum of big to medium to small hits played on the dancefloor on this last one. Thanks for sticking to the end.

Snowballin' 6

87 Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On

88 Sylvester & Jeanie Tracy - Here Is My Love

89 Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays The Fool

90 Cerrone featuring Caroll Rowley - Strollin' On Sunday

91 Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Fallin' In Love

92 Quincy Jones and James Ingram - One Hundred Ways

93 Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - Stay

94 Commodores - Just to Be Close to You

95 Whispers - Lady

96 Rose Royce - I'm In Love (And I Love The Feeling)

97 Sylvia - Pillow Talk

98 Con Funk Shun - (Let Me Put) Love On Your Mind

99 The Real Thing - You'll Never Know What You're Missing

100 The Dramatics - Be My Girl

101 Baccara - Love You Till I Die

102 Cameo - We All Know Who We Are

103 Change - Sharing Your Love

Snowballin' 5

This is volume five and it is one of my favorites because it includes some little known disco ballads amongst the hits. Picks like Sparkle never hit any charts, were not even released as singles and yet got dancefloor recognition as a great song to slow dance to. Sun had minor dance hits, but nothing for their ballads. Even Donna Summer who rocked the charts throughout the late 70's and early 80's only had Last Dance as a "slow" song in the charts and it was only partially a ballad. Heatwave had both disco dance charters and ballads that are still being played. Their song here is not the "hit" and yet has all the makings of one. Should have been one. That mix of picks in this playlist is what make it so special.

Snowballin' 5

69 Enchantment - It's You That I Need

70 Shalamar - This Is For The Lover In You

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

72 Commodores - Still

73 Teddy Pendergrass - Turn off the Lights

74 Patrick Juvet - Another Lonely Man

75 Donna Summer - Can't We Just Sit Down And Talk

76 Change - Stop For Love

77 Heatwave - All I Am

78 Nilsson - Without You

79 Sun - I Want To Be With You (Forever)

80 Con Funk Shun - Give Your Love To Me

81 Taste Of Honey - Sukiyaki

82 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - My Eyes Adored You

83 Stylistics - You Are Everything

84 Champaign - How 'Bout Us

85 Cameo - Sparkle

86 Bee Gees - Love So Right

Snowballin' 4

I can't believe we're this far in to this series. Volume four of the Snowballin' pick. This playlist series has hits played on the radio, some that were only played in clubs and some album only tracks. But this volume has more of the former. But all of them were played in clubs for some reason or another. KC was not known for the great disco ballads, but this one just shows that he could. Bee Gees of course could and the first two picks show that well. Chicago with their horns, just like Earth, Wind & Fire, could really do a ballad, but were originally known for being rockers. That changed after this pick.

Snowballin' 4

50 Bee Gees - Too Much Heaven

51 Samantha Sang - Emotion

52 Jackson 5 - I'll Be There

53 Kool & The Gang - Cherish

54 KC And The Sunshine Band - Please Don't Go

55 Commodores - Sweet love

56 Isley Jasper Isley - Caravan Of Love

57 Chicago - If You Leave Me Now

58 Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You

59 The O'Jays - Stairway To Heaven

60 Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch

61 Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway - The Closer I Get To You

62 Midnight Star - Slow Jam

63 The Manhattans - Kiss And Say Goodbye

64 Blue Magic - Sideshow

65 The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl

66 Gino Vannelli - I Just Wanna Stop

67 Stylistics - Betcha By Golly, Wow

68 Barry White - Just The Way You Are

Snowballin' 3

Volume three of this playlist pick is a great example of how these worked. Hits from the Commodores were played everywhere on the radio and in clubs. Earth, Wind  & Fire had hits, but his track was certainly not one of them. Several others in this list are exactly the same. Not hits. But they were played on the dancefloor and when they did, it was full. Numbering continues as we go. We're only at the halfway point here. If you were around during this time, you will recognize a lot of these tracks. And Johnny Rivers says it all with his song the inspiration of this compilation.

Snowballin' 3

32 Johnny Rivers - Swayin' To The Music (Slow Dancin')

33 Teddy Pendergrass - Close The Door

34 Rose Royce - Wishing On A Star

35 Delegation - Oh Honey

36 Tower Of Power - So Very Hard To Go

37 Isley Brothers - For The Love Of You (Part 1 & 2)

38 Leo Sayer - When I Need You

39 Major Harris - Love Won't Let Me Wait

40 Commodores - Three Times A Lady

41 Earth Wind & Fire - Be Ever Wonderful

42 Peaches & Herb - Reunited

43 Madleen Kane - You & I

44 Norman Connors - You Are My Starship

45 Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams - Too Much, Too Little, Too Late

46 Heatwave - Happiness Togetherness

47 Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - Sweet Thing

48 Sharon Redd - Takin' A Chance On Love

49 High Inergy - You Can't Turn Me Off (In The Middle Of Turning Me On)

Snowballin' 2

Part two of this playlist pick continues down the slow disco road. Ballads. Slow Dancing. Swaying to the music. Some of these were hits in this series, but many were not. And you'll notice a couple of things. One is that not all of these artists had disco hits (or were even considered disco artists.) There was a lot more variety on disco floors back then. And you will also notice that some of these were not even released as singles (let alone hit a chart). Slow ballads could appear hidden on albums or the back of 12 inch singles. You never knew where. But DJ's found them and played them anyway.

Snowballin' 2

15 Boz Scaggs - Look What You've Done To Me

16 Stevie Wonder - Knocks Me Off My Feet

17 Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - Hollywood

18 Heatwave - Mind Blowing Decisions

19 Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin' Love

20 Isaac Hayes - The Look Of Love

21 Earth Wind & Fire - I'll Write A Song For You

22 Amazing Rhythm Aces - Third Rate Romance

23 Morris Albert - Feelings

24 Tower Of Power - You're Still A Young Man

25 Eric Carmen - All By Myself

26 England Dan And John Ford Coley - I'd Really Love To See You Tonight

27 Rose Royce - I Wanna Get Next To You

28 Commodores - Easy

29 Cameo - It's Over

30 Ray, Goodman & Brown - Special Lady

31 Floaters - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

Snowballin' 1

This is a multipart series of songs that I just rarely see, There are all kinds of compilations of disco hits. I posted a bunch of them in the past week or so. But disco ballads is another thing. These are all songs from around the disco era, that were played at proms, high school dances and yes, even clubs to slow it down so you could prepare for some action. The Snowball dance was just the slow dance swaying back and forth that everybody did. If you were good, or more daring, your leg was between the other person's legs and vice versa, making a very sexy move. I hope you like this playlist pick.

Snowballin' 1

01 Earth Wind & Fire - Reasons

02 Ohio Players - Sweet Sticky Thing

03 Patti Austin With James Ingram - Baby, Come Back To Me

04 Floaters - Float On (Long Version)

05 Billy Paul - Me And Mrs. Jones

06 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love

07 Marlena Shaw - Yu Ma-Go Away Little Boy

08 Jacksons - Dreamer

09 Olivia Newton-John - I Honestly Love You

10 10cc - I'm Not In Love

11 Kenny Nolan - I Like Dreamin'

12 Heatwave - Always And Forever

13 Commodores - Zoom

14 GQ - I Do Love You