What's The Connection? Party 2

Happy New Year's Eve! To get you started on your Party tonight I have this Party Connection Part two. If you want part one click on Party 1. But this two is a continuation of that one. Hence the numbering begins at 22. One of the Happiest Party songs ever is on this volume. Not sure why I didn't have it on volume one, but now you have Byron Lee & The Dragonaires. It always gets people happy and dancing. Haven't ever found a better Soca song. Rock, Surf, Bollywood, Country, etc. it's all in here. There will be a song that will make your day (or in this case, night). It's on here. You just need to find it. Have fun tonight, but stay safe.

What's The Connection? Party 2

22 The Surfrajettes - Party Line

23 Paul McCartney - Party

24 Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party

25 Miley Cyrus - Party In The USA

26 P.O.D. - Rock The Party (Off The Hook)

27 DMX - Party Up (Up In Here)

28 Depeche Mode - More Than A Party

29 The Brides Of Funkenstein - Party Up In Here

30 Shonen Knife - Party

31 Byron Lee & the Dragonaires - Happy-This Party Is It

32 Elvis Costello - Party Party

33 Pet Shop Boys - Party Song

34 Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People

35 The Gap Band - Party Train

36 Redfoo - Party Train

37 Fergie Feat Q-Tip & Goonrock - A Little Party Never Killed Nobody

38 Yo Yo Honey Singh - Party All Night

39 LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking

40 Bryan Ferry - It's My Party

41 Nina Hagen - Where's The Party

What's The Connection? Happy New Year

I have another compilation called Happy New Year! but it's really all about Auld Lang Syne songs, This Pick is an assortment of Happy New Year songs. From Auld Lang Syne to Resolutions, New Year's Day New Year's Eve and everything else leftover. But I am using the same cover (I like it). Not much else to say as I am rushing to get this posted. Have a great New Year!

Happy New Year

01 The Planet Smashers - Happy New Year's

02 Helen Reddy - New Years Resolution

03 Hanson - Til New Years Night

04 Huey 'Piano' Smith & The Clowns - Happy New Year

05 Frank Sinatra - Let's Start The New Year Right

06 Nat King Cole - Happy New Year

07 Steven Curtis Chapman - Happy New Year

08 Neil Sedaka - Happy New Year Baby

09 Connie Francis - Happy New Year Baby

10 Cyndi Lauper - New Years Baby (First Lullaby)

11 The Slackers - New Year's Day

12 The Mistletoe Disco Band - Auld Lang Syne

13 Brave Combo - New Year's Polka

14 Brenda Lee - Christmas Ain't Christmas, New Year's Ain't New Year's Without The One You Love

15 ABBA - Happy New Year

16 Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Happy New Year

17 Dengue Fever - New Year's Eve

18 Mastermix - New Year Hootenanny

What's The Connection? Cold 1

There is no snow for us this year, but it was cold and rainy Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas. Cold and sunny the day after and then just cold until today. To stay ready for the cold here is a connection of Cold songs. It's the first of what could be a lot, because there are a lot of songs about cold. We could probably do a WTC just on the song Baby, It's Cold Outside, but that will be for another year. Some fun cold songs on this volume. I think it's funny that Ohio Players who have a hit with Fire, also have a cold song. For some Hot songs click on Hot and find three volumes of them. And, of course, I included Foreigner who have the biggest Cold hit of all. We'll see what some other cold songs are later. Just enjoy these and give me some suggestions on your favorite cold songs in the comments. 

What's The Connection? Cold 1

01 The Strawbs - Out in the Cold

02 Ramsey Lewis - Cold and Windy

03 Taylor Swift - Cold As You

04 Greta Van Fleet - The Cold Wind

05 Scorpions - Cold

06 The White Stripes - In The Cold, Cold, Night

07 Klaus Nomi - The Cold Song

08 Mariah Carey - You're So Cold

09 Brian Eno - Cold

10 Ohio Players - Cold, Cold World

11 Rick James - Cold Blooded

12 Annie Lennox - Cold

13 Y&T - Cold Day In Hell

14 Big House - Cold Outside

15 Foreigner - Cold As Ice

16 Foo Fighters - Cold Day in the Sun

17 The Cure - I'm Cold

18 Communards - So Cold The Night

19 David Bowie - She Shook Me Cold

20 The Books - A Cold Freezin' Night

What's The Connection? Oldsmobile

More car types in this connection. Today we have Oldsmobile. And there used to be lots of these. Older songs, older bands. Less people made these into hotrods and probably fairly rare now. But people loved this brand for quite some time. I never owned one. Never drove one either. But I knew a guy who knew a guy who tricked one out. That's all I got. I just know they must have been a merry car. The cover is another comic version with similar background. And I did add a jingle for Oldsmobile.

What's The Connection? Oldsmobile

01 Mark Free - Oldsmobile (Jingle)

02 Clark Murray - In My Merry Oldsmobile

03 Doug DeJoe and The BloomLaters - Jesus Drives An Oldsmobile

04 Tommy Collins - Loud Mouthed Talking Oldsmobile

05 Rick Kokan - Working For An Oldsmobile

06 Hal Ketchum - Daddy's Oldsmobile

07 Ray Stevens - This Is Your Daddy's Oldsmobile

08 Brennen Leigh - Great Big Oldsmobile

09 Billy Murray - In My Merry Oldsmobile

10 Back to Blonde - Last Chance Oldsmobile

11 Bix Beiderbecke - In My Merry Oldsmobile

12 Gerhard Graml's Lunapark - Oldsmobile Tornado

13 Al Hirt - In My Merry Oldsmobile

14 Nipsey Hussle - Summertime In That Cutlass

15 Jamie Lin Wilson - Old Oldsmobile

16 Romancers - She Took My Oldsmobile

17 Larry Heagle - Rocket Action Oldsmobile

18 Greenleaf - Sold My Lady (Out The Back Of An Oldsmobile)

19 Lou Wamp - Oldsmobile Brokedown

20 Hot Mulligan - If You Had Spun Out In Your Oldsmobile, This Probably Wouldn't Have Happened

21 Howard Livingston & Mile Marke - Red 69 Oldsmobile

What's The Connection? Corvettes

I included songs with titles that had Corvette in it as well as Stingray. I know the connection cover has a yellow Corvette on it and that red Corvettes are especially popular in song, but I liked this rendering of a yellow Corvette. Prince is probably the most popular song about the car, but there are other versions that are good and many other great songs about Corvettes and Sting Ray Corvettes. The Marketts and Jan & Dean come to mind. It's crazy but this car  has been popular among artists for as long as the car has been out. And still today. This one will go by fast. I've unfortunately, never owned one, but I've driven several. They are fun.

What's The Connection? Corvettes

01 The Marketts - Sting Ray

02 The Swimming Pool Q's - Stingray

03 Beck - Corvette Bummer

04 Hi-Fives - Stingray

05 Jan & Dean - Sting Ray

06 Animal Collective - Two Corvettes

07 Boppin' B - '64 Stingray

08 Code Blue - Sting Ray

09 Marty Friedman - Fuel Injection Stingray

10 Meeks - Little Red Corvette

11 Marc Almond - Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

12 The Rippingtons - Stingray

13 Prince - Little Red Corvette

14 The Tornados - Stingray

15 John Mayer - Little Red Corvette

16 Tory Lanez - ‘87 Stingray

17 Gear Daddies - Little Red Corvette

18 Bob Cass - Corvette Baby

19 The Shadows - Stingray

20 Andy Summers - Stingray

21 Jill Johnson - Red Corvette

22 Barry Gray - Stingray

23 George Jones - The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)

24 Four Speeds - My Sting Ray

What's The Connection? Snow 2

This is the promised second part of the Snow connection. A few days ago, I posted part one of this WTC and promised after Christmas I'd get you more snow. Here it is. Blizzards of snow, but not near my house, so we have only this. But if you are snowed in, you gte this and Snow. How fun, unless you have to go in to work. Perhaps next year, or if I get hit with a lot of snow, I will post songs about snow fall or snowflakes. For now this is what you get. An amazing snow goose, a snow rabbit, purple snow and a little jazz and it has Kate Bush (finally). I didn't get much snow growing up. Never experienced a snow day. We did have a city block that had ice sprayed on it to simulate snow. Yuchh! Not the same thing. I was in Los Angeles.

What's The Connection? Snow 2

21 Camel - The Snow Goose

22 American Blues - Melted Like Snow

23 Rainy Daze - Snow And Ice And Burning Sand

24 Winifred Atwell - Snow Bells

25 Pink Martini - A Snowglobe Christmas

26 Rita Faye Wilson - Sleigh Bells, Reindeer & Snow

27 Anne Murray - Snowbird

28 Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow

29 Marvin Gaye - Purple Snowflakes

30 Matt Dusk - Snowed In With You

31 Ocean Wings - Loving In The Snow (Vocal)

32 Ramsey Lewis - Snowbound

33 Grant Miller - Tracks In The Snow (Extended)

34 Meaghan Smith - It Snowed

35 Pet Shop Boys - It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas

36 Blood, Sweat & Tears - Snow Queen

37 Flim & The BB's - New Snow

38 Little T and One Track Mike - Snow Angel

39 Buckethead - The Snow Rabbit

40 Patti Page - Pretty Snowflakes

41 En Vogue - Snowy Nights

Xmas Cookie Santa 2

Merry Christmas! This is the second part of the Xmas Cookie Santa pick. Can't remember how many of the Xmas Cookie's it is, since this is the offshoot of those, I'm not counting that. Another set of very cool Santa songs. A very few have appeared on previous Xmas Cookies before. This one includes the amazing Jorge Buccio, and also Fishbone, Deadbolt, Fitz & the Tantrums and the Beach Boys. All songs about Santa. Except for Saint Nick appears as does Sanity Claus. Now go open presents, go to church and enjoy your family.

Xmas Cookie Santa 2

30 Brenda Lee - I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus

31 The Bobs - Mambo, Santa, Mambo

32 Sloppy Seconds - Hooray For Santa Claus (Theme From Santa Claus Conquers The Martians)

33 Go Nuts - Snackin' Santa

34 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'

35 Louis Prima - What Will Santa Claus Say When He Finds Everybody Swinging

36 Fitz & the Tantrums - Santa Stole My Lady

37 Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - I Believe In Santa Claus

38 Jet - Back Door Santa

39 Nat King Cole - The Little Boy Who Santa Claus Forgot

40 Bing Crosby - Poppa Santa Claus

41 Pussycat Dolls - Santa Baby

42 Bob Rivers - Me And Mrs. Claus

43 Jimmy Donley - Santa! Don't Pass Me By

44 Toby Keith - Santa I'm Right Here

45 Dick & Richard - Santa Caught A Cold On Christmas Eve

46 The Woggles - Santa Claus

47 Brian Setzer Orchestra - Santa Drives a Hot Rod

48 Jorge Buccio - I Believe In You Santa Claus

49 Jackson 5 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

50 Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick

51 Augie Rios - Donde Esta Santa Claus

52 The Damned - There Ain't No Sanity Claus

53 Deadbolt - I'm The One Who Gunned Santa Down

54 Jimmy Boyd - Santa Claus Got Stuck In The Chimney

55 Fishbone - Slick Nick, You Devil You

56 Chicago - Jolly Old St Nicholas

Blue Christmas

Happy Christmas Eve! T'was the nite before Christmas and all throughout the land there are excited girls  and boys waiting for Santa Claus to come to their house. But we also have a decent amount of people who are sad at this time of year. Someone is no longer in their lives. Or they are having a tough year this year. Hard to believe with all those great Bidenomics going on in the US at least. For those people I present this connection of Blue Christmas songs. If you are blue this Christmas, then play these blue Christmas songs (or basically the same one over and over by different people. That might be just enough to really make you blue if you weren't before. Me? I love Christmas. Any holiday where I can make a few people happy with a good song, a good word or even a present is good for me. And I love Christmas lights and especially Xmas cookies, no matter what color they are.

Blue Christmas

01 Esquivel - Blue Christmas

02 REO Speedwagon - Blue Christmas

03 Jon Bon Jovi - Blue Christmas

04 Byron Lee and the Dragonaires with Keith Lyn - Blue Christmas

05 Kelly Clarkson - Blue Christmas

06 Elvis Presley & Frank Sinatra - Blue Christmas

07 Dead or Alive - Blue Christmas

08 Blake Shelton featuring Pistol Annies - Blue Christmas

09 The Pretenders - Blue Christmas

10 Belton Richard - Blue Christmas

11 Michael Buble - Blue Christmas

12 Collective Soul - Blue Christmas

13 Frantic Flintstones - Blue Christmas

14 She & Him - Blue Christmas

15 Beach Boys - Blue Christmas

16 Porky Pig - Blue Christmas

17 Ernest Tubb - Blue Christmas

18 Chris Isaak - Blue Christmas

19 Frankie Yankovic - Blue Christmas

20 Jerry Vale - Blue Christmas

21 Brian Setzer Orchestra - Blue Christmas

22 Johnny Cash - Blue Christmas

23 The Ventures - Blue Christmas

24 Ann & Nancy Wilson - Blue Christmas

25 Celine Dion - Blue Christmas

26 Sheryl Crow - Blue Christmas

27 Joe Perry - Blue Christmas

What's The Connection? Snow 1

It's the first of a two parter today. I could have sworn that I posted this up before, but it turns out I hadn't put this connection up yet and I was finishing up part 2. So one part today and the other after Christmas. I have no idea if it's snowing by your house or not, but it doesn't look like snow for me. Oh well. Here's a selection of songs with snow in the title, but no versions of Let It Snow. I started it off with a great song from a Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye movie. Can you tell me which movie it is? One of my favorites. Bunch of great bands in here. So enjoy it while you have it.

What's The Connection? Snow 1

01 Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee & Trudy Stevens - Snow

02 Jimmy Fallon - Snowball

03 Isaac Hayes - Winter Snow

04 Nashville Pussy - Snowblind

05 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)

06 Michael Franks - Watching the Snow

07 Frank Zappa - Don't Eat the Yellow Snow

08 Death In June - Peaceful Snow

09 The Monkees - Snowfall

10 Sisters Of Mercy - Driven Like The Snow

11 Black Sabbath - Snowblind

12 Claudine Longet - Snow

13 Earth, Wind & Fire - Snow

14 Yello - Life Is A Snowball

15 They Might Be Giants - Snowball In Hell

16 Trans-Siberian Orchestra - First Snow (Instrumental)

17 Devo - Snowball [Single Remix]

18 Haruomi Hosono - Snow Fall

19 The Cure - Snow In Summer

20 Rush - By-Tor And The Snow Dog

Funky Disco (Leopard) 3

I've done a few of these Funky Disco (Leopard) picks already and I hope you realize how much I like them. I grew up in the disco era and I always was a funk fan, so getting the two together is just bonus time for me. Several funk bands made disco tunes to get more airplay on both radio and clubs. I'm always surprised that people hate or love this genre. Fusing funk with disco or vice versa,  just makes so much sense to me. Later they fused disco with punk and new wave and industrial. I like them all. Notice a few things about this pick. Some are disco bands and some are funk bands. And all have done both. Remember that the Praxis track has nothing to do with the Bill Laswell associated band Praxis. That came later than this one and was much harder than this seventies band. Please leave a comment with a funk/disco track that I haven't used yet that you really like.

Funky Disco (Leopard) 3

33 Parlet - No Rump To Bump

34 Gap Band - Oops Up Side Your Head

35 B.T. Express - Do It (Till Your Satisfied)

36 Con Funk Shun - Confunkshunizeya

37 Rose Royce - It Makes You Feel Like Dancin'

38 The Bar-Kays - Shake Your Rump To The Funk

39 Chocolate Milk - Blue Jeans

40 Slave - Slide

41 Instant Funk - Slap Slap Lickedy Lap

42 Praxis - Funk 'N' Roll (Dancin' In the Funkshine)

43 Brass Construction - Movin'

44 Cameo - I Like It

45 Midnight Star - No Parking on the Dance Floor

46 Earth Wind & Fire - Let's Groove

Chalet Girl

This soundtrack to the movie Chalet Girl is here because a friend asked me to put it together. There may be an album somewhere of all the tracks in the movie, but I certainly didn't find it. So I tracked down each song and added them all here in this pick. I ran everything through Platinum Notes, MixedInKey, MP3Gain and BPM analyzer, like I do for all of these. Then I made a cover based on the poster for the movie. This is the result. Probably not that much call for this movie soundtrack, but some of the songs are quite good. Now, I can't say I am going to watch the movie over and over again, but the soundtrack, perhaps. It's growing on me.

Chalet Girl

01 This Is Freedom - Bad Company

02 Scouting For Girls - Posh Girls

03 Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up

04 Lucky Elephant - Edgar

05 Paloma Faith - Upside Down

06 The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)

07 Livingston - Disease

08 Livingston - Go

09 Rosie Oddie and The Odd Squad - Cola Coka

10 Toddla T featuring Wayne Marshall - Sky Surfing

11 Sliimy - Wake Up Lyrics

12 The Temper Trap - Fader

13 The Bees - Chicken Payback

14 Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work

15 Ellie Goulding - Who'd Wanna Find Love

16 One eskimO - Amazing

17 Eli 'Paperboy' Reed - Explosion

18 This Is Freedom - No Regrets

19 Two Door Cinema Club - Do You Want It All

20 Lostprophets - Where We Belong

21 Kim Wilde - Chequered Love

Fill It Up To The Rim 2

I had made another pick called Fill It Up To The Rim based on the Paper Moon soundtrack. And I always enjoyed it. Since that time, I have been quietly collecting other tracks that fit into the same kind of era, that I like, Some songs are from that time, or sound like they belong. Some from ten to twenty years later, but similar to the actual soundtrack still fit. A few of the tracks might have been played on the radio at that time, but were "hits" from the years prior. None of that matters to me, because I wasn't even a glimmer in my father's eyes yet. So as long as it sounds like it could belong, I allowed it to be in this one. So this is my volume two. I continued the numbering right after volume one, so you could play it all together if you wanted to.

Fill It Up To The Rim 2

21 Chick Endor - Singin' In The Bathtub

22 Colonial Club Orchestra With Vocal By Scrappy Lambert - You're The Cream In My Coffee

23 Jack Hylton & Orchestra - If I Had A Talking Picture Of You

24 Nat King Cole - My Blue Heaven

25 Big Bill Broonzy - Unemployment Stomp

26 Fats Waller - Dream Man Make Me Dream Some More

27 Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore

28 Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow

29 Frank Dalley Orchestra With Ann Lee Davies - With Plenty Of Money And You

30 Lee Wiley - Street Of Dreams

31 Ink Spots - Java Jive

32 Lena Horne - Stormy Weather

33 Barbra Streisand And Judy Garland - Get Happy-Happy Days Are Here Again

34 The Delmore Brothers - Fifteen Miles From Birmingham

35 Bing Crosby - Brother, Can You Spare A Dime_

36 Cab Calloway - The Scat Song

37 Frank Sinatra - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

38 Sarah Vaughan - Black Coffee

39 Fred Astaire - Let's Face The Music And Dance

40 Ginger Rogers - We're In The Money (Gold Diggers)

41 Tommy Dorsey With The Sentimentalists - On The Sunny Side Of The Street

42 Ella Fitzgerald Featuring The Delta Rhythm Boys - It's Only A Paper Moon

43 Ruth Etting - Life Is A Song (Let's Sing It Together)

44 Louis Armstrong - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

45 Rosemary Clooney - The Coffee Song

46 Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees - Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries

47 Dean Martin - Pennies From Heaven

Mixtape: Love Riot

This is not my usual kind of compilation that I would post here. I made this pick based on the movie Mixtape. I haven't seen a soundtrack for it, so I made one. The first eight songs (spoiler alert if you haven't seen the movie) are the songs she looks for throughout the movie. A cassette tape her parents made. It's a cute movie and has a number of really good songs in it. I'm pretty sure I screwed up the order in which they appear, but you can fix that if you feel inclined. But I put in all the songs I could find on here. I also put two versions of one song in the movie, by two artists. I'm confident that one of them is the correct one from the movie (track 25) but I didn't have it at first and put another version in, so switch them (or not) as you prefer. If you haven't watched the movie, like I said, it's cute and worth at least one viewing. I made the cover to look like the cover of the cassette, sort of.

Mixtape: Love Riot

01 Girls at Our Best! - Getting Nowhere Fast

02 The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda

03 Kinks - Better Things

04 The Stooges - I Got A Right

05 The Quick - Teacher's Pet

06 Roxy Music - More Than This

07 The Murderous Ambersons - Crash Right Through It

08 mxmtoon & Dylan Chenfield - The Wrong Song

09 The Gossip - Lesson Learned

10 Jackson Rathbone - Walk Away

11 Vertical Horizon - Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning)

12 Vitamin C - Smile

13 Lit - My Own Worst Enemy

14 Donna Lewis - I Love You Forever

15 Sandy Gaye - Talk Is Cheap

16 Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

17 Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go

18 The Martinis - Free

19 Jebediah - Leaving Home

20 Boffalongo - Dancing in the Moonlight

21 Cheap Trick - Surrender

22 Le Tigre - Les And Ray

23 The White Stripes - When I Hear My Name

24 Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away

Cover Medleys

I made this one special for Butterboy who has a great blog. Check it out. Here is his Meddled Pick. Mine has a couple that are the same, a couple of the same studio artists, but most is different. When I sent it to him, I said it's 25 songs from 21 artists and one bonus track. Most of these are from Studio only bands. A couple are from comedy or novelty acts. About ten are artists/bands who just did a medley. Shalamar became a "real" band, but the first album with this medley was a studio concoction. Some DJ's put together a lot of these. Some with sound-a-likes to mimic the "real" bands and some didn't bother. Lots of these were disco tracks played in clubs to allow DJ's to go to the bathroom. I don't care, I love them all. Five were live medleys and one was made to sound like it was live. Either way this is unlike most of the compilation picks I post. It's over three hours long.

Cover Medleys

01 Jive Bunny - That's What I Like

02 Frank Zappa - The Beatles Medley

03 Larry Elgart & His Manhattan Swing Orchestra - Hooked On Swing

04 Jive Bunny - Swing The Mood

05 Meco - Big Band Medley I

06 Soft Cell - Hendrix Medley

07 Carpenters - Oldies Medley

08 Barry Manilow - A Very Strange Medley (V.S.M.)

09 The Axis Of Awesome - Four Chords

10 Barron Knights - Pop Go The Workers (Medley)

11 Stars On 45 - Beatles Medley

12 The Slickee Boys - Surf Medley

13 Stars On 45 - Stars On 45 Medley (Original 12-Inch Version)

14 Selena - Disco Medley

15 Meco - Star Wars

16 Shalamar - Uptown Festival (Medley)

17 Gidea Park - Seasons Of Gold

18 Tight Fit - Back To The 60's Medley

19 DJ Cat - Motown Medley

20 Status Quo - The Anniversary Waltz (Part 1)

21 Louis Clark & the Royal Philharmonic - Hooked on Classics Parts 1 & 2

22 Gidea Park - Beach Boy Gold

23 Weird Al Yankovic - Polkas On 45

24 Surf Punks - Da Medley (Beat On The Brat, Do You Want To Dance, Let's Dance)

25 Junior Brown - Surf Medley

26 Tubes - Crime Medley (Live)

Blue Power 2

Continuing on with the colors connection and also the Blue Power Connection, here is volume two. I haven't even begun posting the Purple Power or the Red Power, but they are coming as are  volume two and more of the other colors I have already posted. Not sure why this got pushed to the front. Maybe because I also will be doing a Blue Christmas post this year. I do know that I had to randomly decide which tracks made it on to volume one and which got put on volume two, because I liked them all so much. Notice on either volume that on some tracks I put originals and others I used covers. I like both, but chose one or the other more based on time, since I still limit these to about a CD length. Even though no one plays CD's anymore and there is no limit to a play list. If you want one playlist just put them together and generate another m3u.

Blue Power 2

22 Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky

23 Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou 

24 Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes

25 Michael Franks - Mr. Blue

26 Colin Newman - Blue Jay Way

27 Johnny Mathis - When Sunny Gets Blue

28 Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll

29 Chocolate Milk - Blue Jeans

30 Jah Wobble - Blueberry Hill

31 Bing Crosby - Blue Skies

32 Styx - Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)

33 Debbie Gibson - Out Of The Blue

34 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)

35 Marcels - Blue Moon

36 New Order - Blue Monday

37 Bachman Turner Overdrive - Blue Collar

38 Yardbirds - The Nazz Are Blue

39 Chris Isaak - Blue Hotel

40 Toy Dolls - Blue Suede Shoes

Blue Power 1

More of the color connections. This Connection is about the power of Blue. Based on the number of Blue songs, it's probably very powerful. If you take out all the songs about Blues (that takes forever), thne you still have thousands of Blue songs left. The first two volumes of this WTC, I didn't limit the power. I took my favorite Blue Eye song and my favorite Blue Day songs etc and kept them in. After the initial ones, I will do a specific Baby Blue connection, a Blue Love connection, a Blue Moon connection, etc. In the meantime here are the top of my list in volume one and tomorrow volume two. Some great songs in here.

Blue Power 1

01 Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

02 Melissa Manchester - Midnight Blue

03 The Style Council - Blue Cafe

04 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Almost Blue

05 Tommy James & The Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion

06 The Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue

07 Neil Diamond - Song Sung Blue

08 Dave Brubeck - Blue Rondo A La Turk

09 Madonna - True Blue

10 Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet

11 Earth, Wind & Fire - Feelin' Blue

12 Blondie - Union City Blue

13 David Bowie - Blue Jean

14 Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)

15 Jane Wiedlin - Blue Kiss

16 The Raconteurs - Blue Veins

17 Who - Behind Blue Eyes

18 Michael Johnson - Bluer Than Blue

19 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Suite Judy Blue Eyes

20 Lene Lovich - Blue Hotel

21 Artie Shaw - My Blue Heaven

Green Power 1

Continuing on the colors, this connection is about green power. And I've noticed something. And perhaps this may become a future WTC. There were a couple of songs in here about green eyes. And I know just off the top of my head that there are brown eyed songs and blue eyed songs. Can't think of any yellow or red eyes songs right this moment. But there have to be a lot of songs about eyes. I'm thinking of eyes, since I am about to schedule some eye surgery. It's on my mind. Well, that's all besides the point for this compilation. Go back and search for other colors (brown, black, white, yellow so far) and leave your favorite suggestions in the comments. This might be my favorite color right now. More power to the green!

Green Power 1

01 Shonen Knife - Green Tea

02 Gary Lewis & the Playboys - Green Grass

03 Elvis Costello - Green Shirt

04 Tom Jones - Green, Green Grass of Home

05 Gaelic Storm - Green Eyes, Red Hair

06 The Kinks - Village Green

07 Jeff Beck - Love Is Green

08 Frank Sinatra - Bein' Green

09 Ray Charles - Greenbacks

10 Mike Oldfield - Green Green

11 The Lemon Pipers - Green Tamborine

12 Steely Dan - Green Earrings

13 Frank Zappa - Green Is the Colour

14 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Green Heaven

15 The Fall - Green Eyed Loco-Man

16 Robyn Hitchcock - Green Boy, The

17 New Order - Everything's Gone Green

18 Brian Eno - Another Green World

19 REM - Green Grow the Rushes

20 Booker T. & The Mgs - Green Onions

21 The Jam - Pretty Green

22 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Green

23 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River

24 The Meatmen - Green Acres

25 Sugarloaf - Greeneyed Lady

What's The Connection? Down 1

I already posted the I'm Down Connection. And also the Don't Down Me connection. This one is similar. It's all the other downs. Goin' Down, Down and Out etc. Including some She's Down, You're Down, We're Down, Sugar's Down. And there are some good ones. I figure just in time for the Christmas season, when some people just feel down, We'd be here to remind them by playing some of these songs. LOL! Seriously, it is an issue, so be careful around this time. Pay attention. Don't be playing all Christmas songs. Some is good, just not all.

What's The Connection? Down 1

01 Iron Butterfly - Am I Down

02 Bobby Womack - Nobody Wants You When You're Down And Out

03 Chuck Wells - Down & Out

04 Mary J Blige - I'm Goin' Down

05 LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down

06 Steampacket - She's Down

07 Janis Joplin - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out

08 AC-DC - Kick You When You're Down

09 John Lennon - Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out)

10 Cheynes - Down And Out

11 Tony Gregory - I'm Gonna Break You Down (Original Mix)

12 KMFDM - Down and Out

13 Freddie King - I'm Tore Down

14 Nashville Pussy - You're Goin' Down

15 Springfields - If I Was Down and Out

16 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Everything's Alright When You're Down

17 Nazz - She's Going Down

18 Camper Van Beethoven - Down and Out

19 Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down

What's The Connection? Homicide 1

Whether you want to call it murder or homicide, I have a clue for you, it's this connection. Not so much about murdering, but songs with Murder or Homicide in the title. And there are a lot. I can easily come up with three or four more, no problem. And that's not including songs that are about specific murders. One of my favorites of that selection would be about the Moors Murders in the UK by Throbbing Gristle. But the title of that song does not have Murder or Homicide in it. In fact, it's Very Friendly. And that murder was anything but friendly. Anyway, the Blow Monkeys and Budgie is where I started this. Forgive me. And also forgive me for the cover. I couldn't help it.

What's The Connection? Homicide 1

01 Kiss - Murder In High Heels

02 Blow Monkeys - Sweet Murder

03 The Police - Murder By Numbers

04 KMFDM - Murder

05 The Glove - Perfect Murder

06 ABC - The Night You Murdered Love (12in)

07 Meat Loaf - Getting away with murder

08 New Order - Murder

09 Ministry - Tonight We Murder

10 Death In June - Love Murder

11 999 - Homicide (Original 1978 United Artists Records 7 Single Version)

12 Budgie - Homicidal Suicidal

13 The Selecter - Murder

14 The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered

15 The Smiths - Meat Is Murder [Live]

16 The Specials - Somebody Got Murdered

17 Blue Oyster Cult - Dial M For Murder

18 The Runaways - Trash Can Murders

AKA Pseudonym

This was really fun to figure out. I knew plenty right off. And skipped a lot. These are all artists who recorded under a Nom De Plume or and AKA or a Pseudonym for this pick. Other than the Traveling Wilburys which has five artists all using a Wilbury fake name (and has George Harrison) I didn't use a single Beatles recording where they used a fake name. And there are a lot of those. And some good ones. I put two Prince ones in, but everyone else only one. XTC has another one that I didn't use, but it's Christmas oriented and didn't want that to be a factor. Some sound obviously like themselves and some not at all. That's the fun part of this. You never know. A couple have been released later with the original names no longer hidden (think Garth Brooks, The Alarm as examples). But a few have kept the joke going. Either way I would love it if you knew of some that I didn't and left me clues in the comments. 

AKA Pseudonym

01 Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line

02 Klark Kent (Stewart Copeland) - Don't Care

03 Liquorice John Death (Procol Harum) - High School Confidential

04 The Network (Green Day) - Roshambo

05 Chris Gaines (Garth Brooks) - Lost In You

06 Desert Sessions (Josh Homme) - I Wanna Make It Wit Chu

07 The Death Ramps (Arctic Monkeys) - Nettles

08 Hell Preachers Inc. (Lucifers Friend) - Preacher Man

09 Los Unidades (Coldplay) featuring Jozzy (Pharrell Williams) - E-Lo

10 Passengers (Eno & U2) & Luciano Pavarotti - Miss Sarajevo

11 Camille (Prince) - Scarlet Pussy

12 Funky Junction (Thin Lizzy) - Palamatoon

13 The Larry Lurex (Freddy Mercury) - I Can Hear Music

14 The Poppy Fields (The Alarm) - 45 R.P.M.

15 Chick (Mariah Carey) - Demented

16 Ciccone Youth (Sonic Youth) - Into The Groovey

17 Madhouse (Prince) - Six

18 Jake Back (David Guetta) - (It Happens) Sometimes

19 Hindu Love Gods (REM) - Raspberry Beret

20 Sir Horatio (A Certain Ratio) - Abracadubra

21 The Dukes Of Stratosphear (XTC) - Vanishing Girl

22 Dove The Band Of Love (Devo) - Gotta Serve Somebody

23 Celia And The Mutations (The Stranglers) - Mony Mony

What's The Connection? Yellow Power 1

In this continuing story of color connections, I bring you Yellow Power! See yesterday for links to other colors and the whole power part of it and forget all of it. It was only there to dupe you into thinking this was something other than just colors in titles. Today being Yellow, obviously. I did not put anything from the band Yello or Yellow Magic Orchestra. Only song titles with it in the title. A couple of my favorites include the Negativland track. I do not know why that tickles me so much, but I find the song great and hilarious. I know it's not the favorite of most Beatles fans, but I love this Ringo song and the movie it came from. Reminds me of early Peter Max. I even have a lava lamp based on the movie. And Zappa. I love Zappa. And that album has a special place in my heart. I know some of the other Yellow tracks may be more popular and good in their own way, but for me, those are the best.

What's The Connection? Yellow Power 1

01 Gun - Yellow Cab Man

02 Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

03 Coldplay - Yellow

04 Tony Orlando & Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree

05 Bill Nelson - Big Yellow Moon

06 Rick Wakeman - Yellow Man

07 Stranglers - Yellowcake UF6

08 Dave Dudley - Yellow Rose Of Texas

09 Donovan - Mellow Yellow

10 Frank Zappa - Don't Eat the Yellow Snow

11 Hank Snow - Yellow Roses

12 Beatles - Yellow Submarine

13 Michael Franks - In The Yellow House

14 Arthur Lyman - Yellow Bird

15 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

16 Brian Hyland - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikin

17 Negativland - Yellow Black And Rectangular

18 Scorpions - Yellow Raven

19 Philip Lynott - Yellow Pearl

20 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth

21 Gamma - Condition Yellow

22 Toy Dolls - Yellow Burt

23 Ministry - Yellow Cake

What's The Connection? Brown Power

Another one in the color connection series. Just to mess with you I added Power to the title to make it seem like it was more than just the color in the title, but it isn't. All of these are songs with Brown in the title and that's it. I already did a White Power connection and a Black Power connection. I got more color power coming your way, eventually. So hold your horses. Your favorite color is coming. My favorite hasn't been finished yet. Let me know what your favorite color is and your favorite song with that color in the title. Lots of great Brown songs, btw. One of my favorites is the one by the Stranglers. Also notice that two of the songs could also be used in in a Blue connection (that will be harder, because you have to filter out all the blues songs.

What's The Connection? Brown Power

01 Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

02 Chuck Berry - Brown Eyed Handsome Man

03 Frank Zappa - Pound for a Brown

04 Stranglers - Golden Brown

05 Glenn Miller - Little Brown Jug

06 Dorothy Lamour - Little Brown Gal

07 Jethro Tull - One Brown Mouse

08 Boney M - Brown Girl in the Ring

09 The Carter Family with Johnny Cash - Brown Eyes

10 The Pogues - A Pair Of Brown Eyes

11 Fleetwood Mac - Brown Eyes

12 John McCormack - Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair

13 Billy Paul - Brown Baby

14 Death In June - Brown Book

15 Lady GaGa - Brown Eyes

16 Elvis Costello - Brown To Blue

17 Shonen Knife - Brown Mushrooms

18 Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar

19 Nancy Sinatra - Sweet Georgia Brown

20 Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

21 Beatles - Old Brown Shoe

22 Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

Mercedes De Milo 4

It has been a while since I posted up one of these. The Mercedes De Milo pick started long ago, but has not stopped. Click on that link to find volume one where I tell the story. Even though it is long past the origins, I still have the PZA lalbel for this pick. Nostalgia, I guess. This one has a little mini connection going through it. See if you can guess what it is. Not too difficult. But I left you something like a Hi Lights Find The Difference. I used to love getting that magazine when I was a kid. Come to think of it, was that even the name of it? Goofus and Gallant I remember. First saw it at my Doctor's Office and we made mom get it for us. Sidetracked by the squirrel I see. Anyway these fit in nicely with the rest of the set. Someday I'll post volume 5. Any suggestions for it?

Mercedes De Milo 4

71 Robert Seidler - Christian Boy

72 Pixies - Where is My Mind

73 The Primitives - Crash

74 Violent Femmes - Add It Up

75 Young Fresh Fellows - Rock 'n' Roll Pest Control

76 Gun Club - Sex Beat

77 Los Lobos - Don't Worry Baby

78 Sha-Na-Na - Rock 'N' Roll Is Here To Stay

79 They Might Be Giants - Instanbul (Not Constantinople)

80 Cake - Rock N' Roll Lifestyle

81 Soft Boys - Rock 'n' Roll Toilet

82 Chris Isaak - Dancin'

83 The Del Fuegos - Don't Run Wild

84 Beat Farmers - Powderfinger

85 The Blasters - Dark Night

86 Buck Naked  And The Bare Bottom Boys - Bend Over, Baby (And Let Me Drive)

87 Pursuit Of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now

88 Gaelic Storm - Johnny Tarr

89 Pearl Harbor & The Explosions - Drivin'

90 A Drop In The Gray - All The Same

91 The Monochrome Set - He's Frank (Slight Return)

92 Paul Collins' Beat - Rock N Roll Girl

93 Chuck Berry - Rock And Roll Music

Donovan Covers

I have liked Donovan for a while. I wasn't a huge-normous fan, but I liked his stuff. I had a couple of albums including the Greatest Hits, but didn't collect everything. I really enjoyed when other people covered him. Kate Bush, who I do collect meticulously, had her rare cover of him. So that was my first pick. Brix E. Smith, who I also collect, has a great cover. And lo and behold Butthole Surfers have a great cover of the same song. So I had to allow for doubles. There are a few. But the Dickies isn't one of them. I've seen them live many times. Never once did I see them play this song. Too bad. At least I got to hear my other favorites. Only one song is not really a cover. You'll figure it out. I hope you enjoy these all. The cover caricature of Donovan was not done by me. Can't tell you who. Don't know. But I liked it.

Donovan Covers

01 Stephen Stills & Al Kooper - Season of the Witch

02 Butthole Surfers - The Hurdy Gurdy Man

03 Claudine Longet - Catch The Wind

04 Spiders & Snakes - Mellow Yellow

05 Deep Purple - Lalena

06 Marilyn Manson - Mellow Yellow

07 Donovan & Jeff Beck - Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)

08 Kate Bush - Lord Of The Reedy River

09 October Cherries - Barabajagal

10 David Rose - Wear Your Love Like Heaven, Workin' on a Groovy Thing

11 Vanilla Fudge - Season of the Witch

12 Posies - The River Song

13 The Flaming Lips - Atlantis

14 The Standells - Sunshine Superman

15 The Sandpipers - Jennifer Juniper

16 Mel Tormé - Sunshine Superman

17 Brix Smith - Hurdy Gurdy Man

18 The Dickies - Epistle To Dippy

What's The Connection? Let's Dance 1

This seems like it is a lot of covers of one song, but really it is a few songs. The connection is Let's Dance. When you think of that song, you probably think of one of two different songs. David Bowie or Chris Montez. But in reality there are many covers of both. And even a song or two with the same name that have nothing to do with those songs. Go listen to all of these. One you will see is by DOA and does not have the same title. If you are offended, too bad (skip it). It is a parody? of Chris Montez. The funny thing about this song is I had it on a 12 inch single. I bought it without knowing anything about the song except the title. I brought it home with a few other albums. I played it 33 rpm for quite some time, thinking Flipper and actually still finding it interesting. Later I realized my mistake and it's better at 45. 

What's The Connection? Let's Dance 1

01 The Tremeloes - Let's Dance

02 Chris Rea - Let's Dance

03 The Beatles - Let's Dance

04 Ramones - Let's Dance

05 Something Weird - Let's Dance!

06 Atrocity - Let's Dance

07 Del Shannon - Let's Dance

08 Jimmy Cliff - Let’s Dance

09 Benny Goodman - Let's Dance

10 Jake Shimabukuro - Let's Dance

11 DOA - Let's Fuck

12 Miley Cyrus - Let's Dance

13 Excels - Let's Dance

14 David Bowie - Let's Dance

15 Tom Browne - Lets Dance

16 Richie Furay - Let's Dance

17 Five - Let's Dance

18 Pleasure - Let's Dance

19 Super Junior - Let's Dance

20 Rainbow - Let's Dance

21 Chris Montez - Let's Dance

22 Gregory Isaacs - Let's Dance

23 Bill Nelson - Let's Dance

24 Slade - Let's Dance '88

25 Shakin' Stevens - Let's Dance

What's The Connection? Boots 2

This continuation of the Boots Connection has several versions of one song: These Boots Are Made For Walking. I know it as a Lee Hazlewood song that Nancy Sinatra made famous. There are probably hundreds of versions of this song, but I picked from the ones I have. Obviously not all of them. There are a couple I really like. One being the British Electric Foundation with Paula Yates. Paula was married to Bob Geldoff (who you should know) and also had affairs with Michael Hutchence (INXS) and Terrence Trent D'Arby and Rupert Everett. I guess she got around. I don't care but she had a tragic life and death. I only wish she would have sang on more songs. I love her version of this. I am not from the UK so I never watched her show on the Tube. So that was never impressive to me. I also like the Bay Area band Big Hair. Unfortunately they didn't record much. One of their spin offs was Whistling Bullets and they recorded a little and it was good. Old or new, sweet or raunchy, this song is pretty darn good. Notice, no Nancy (get that from two days ago Boots WTC).

What's The Connection? Boots 2

23 Geri Halliwell - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

24 French Affair - My Boots Are Made For Walking

25 Loretta Lynn - These Boots Are Made For Walking

26 KMFDM - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

27 The Coconutz - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

28 The Ventures - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

29 The Supremes - These Boots Are Made For Walking

30 Billy Ray Cyrus - These Boots Are Made For Walking

31 Mrs. Miller - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

32 Jessica Simpson - These Boots Are Made For Walking

33 British Electric Foundation featuring Paula Yates - These Boots Are Made For Walking

34 David Byrne - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (Solo Acoustic Version)

35 Teddy & Darrel - These Boots Are Made For Walking

36 Big Hair - Boots-12th Street Blues

37 Too Slim & The Taildraggers - These Boots Are Made For Walking

38 Javier Alvarez - These Boots Are Made For Walking

39 Pure Hell - These Boots Are Made For Walking

40 Beau Brummels - These Boots Are Made For Walking

41 Rose & The Heavenly Tones - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

42 The Meteors - These Boots Are Made For Walking

43 Megadeth - These Boots (Censored)

44 Crispin Hellion Glover - These Boots Are Made For Walking

45 Robert Gordon - These Boots Are Made For Walking

46 The Fixx - These Boots are Made for Walkin'

47 Lee Hazlewood - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

48 Barry Adamson - These Boots Are Made For Walking

Xmas G Pick (Christmas songs with a G rating for kids) (repeat)

It's December 5th! So, for little Dutch and Indo boys and girls, it's Christmas. Happy St. Nicholas Day to you. I grew up with this being the start of Christmas. We would put out our shoes by the fireplace and hope that St Nick would come and leave us some chocolate. And hope we weren't so bad that Zwarte Piet would come take us and bring us on a ship to Spain. I always got chhocolate and some dutch treats. and a note from Saint Nicholas that told me how I could improveover the next year. We still celebrated Christmas as well. I guess I was lucky to get to celebrate twice. In honor of St. Nick, here is a Pick of all G rated Christmas songs. Perfect to play on Christmas morning with the kids unwrapping presents. Enjoy the playlist cover!

WTC Xmas G

01 Tom Paxton - Reindeer on My Roof

02 Peter Alsop - When Jesus Was A Kid

03 Thurl Ravenscroft - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch

04 Spike Jones - All I Want For Christmas (Is My 2 Front Teeth)

05 Porky Pig - Blue Christmas

06 Singing Dogs - Jingle Bells

07 Ricky Zahnd & the Blue Jeaners - (I'm Gettin') Nuttin' For Christmas

08 Gene Autry - Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer

09 Art Carney - Santa And The Doodle-Li-Boop

10 The Chipmunks - Christmas Don't Be Late

11 Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas

12 Gayla Peevey - I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas

13 Stan Francis - Jingle, Jingle, Jingle

14 Santa and His Helpers - Santa's Laughing Song

15 The Ronettes - Frosty The Snowman

16 Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

17 Mel Blanc - I Can't Wait Till Quithmuth Day

18 Jackson 5 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

19 Drew Barrymore - My Favorite Day (Reprise)

20 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Mr. Heatmiser

21 Jimmy Boyd - Santa Claus Got Stuck In The Chimney

22 Dick & Richard - Santa Caught A Cold On Christmas Eve

23 Marty Gold Children's Chorus - The Kitty Ate The Tinsel On The Christmas Tree

24 The Little Stinkers - I Farted On Santa's Lap (Now Christmas Is Gonna Stink For Me)

25 Tom Hanks - Hot Chocolate

26 The Wombles - Wombling Merry Christmas

27 The Wiggles - Here Come The Reindeer

28 The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy's Christmas

29 Bobby Boris Pickett - Monster's Holiday

30 Elvis Presley - Here Comes Santa Claus

31 Linus VanPelt with Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Monologue (with music)

What's The Connection? Boots 1

One of my favorite Boots songs is by Nancy Sinatra and she's on this Connection, but believe it or not that's not the song that started me on the path of this WTC. It was of all people: Candyman. His song when it came out with the multiple samples was controversial, but popular. He was discovered by Tone Loc (who did an intro on the song) I had the original 12 inch of the song. It sampled, Rose Royce, who I loved. And Brick and Betty Wright and even Doug E Fresh. Great song. Anyways, I hadn't heard it in awhile, so I dug it out and decided to make a What's The Connection around it. What I found is that I had a ton of Nancy Sinatra covers (so I will do another volume of Boots with all those) and I a bunch of cool songs, so probably yet another volume of the ones that didn't fit on here. I had to put Nancy on here since I like that song so much, but none of the rest are covers of that song.

What's The Connection? Boots 1

01 Dave Dudley - Cowboy Boots

02 Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walking

03 Deep Purple - Hip Boots

04 Jon Pardi - Dirt On My Boots

05 Joe Bonamassa - Spanish Boots

06 Lee Perry featuring Mad Professor - Dancing Boots

07 Candyman - Knockin' Boots

08 Adam And The Ants - Puss 'n' Boots

09 Barmy Army - Leroy's Boots

10 Le Sisters - Kick Your Boots Off

11 Jeff Beck - Led Boots

12 Syd Dale - Kinky Boots

13 Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor Put Your Boots On

14 Devo - Knock Boots

15 Shania Twain - Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under

16 Pretenders - Boots Of Chinese Plastic

17 Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots

18 Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots

19 New York Dolls - Puss 'N' Boots

20 U2 - Get On Your Boots

21 The Clash - All The Young Punks (New Boots And Contracts)

22 Cheers - Black Denim Trousers And Motorcycle Boots

Bo Diddley Beat 2

This is the second one in the Bo Diddley Beat pick series. Yesterday I had volume one, so if you didn't get that yet, you should. Lots of great songs in this serries, just because it's Bo Diddley's Beat. Pretty much any song with this beat will be at minimum passable, and probably quite good. Judge for yourself. Only Tom Petty and The Rolling Stones are bands that are repeated from volume one to two. So many to choose from. Let me know if you know any bands with songs that have that Bo Diddley Beat. Leave suggestions in the comments. Anyway, another couple dozen songs for your perusement.

Bo Diddley Beat 2

25 Bruce Springsteen - She's The One

26 David Bowie - Panic in Detroit

27 Primal Scream - Movin' on Up

28 The Smiths - How Soon Is Now

29 George Michael - Faith

30 Rihanna - If It's Lovin' That You Want

31 The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail

32 Thomas Dolby - Europa And The Pirate Twins

33 George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Willie And The Hand Jive

34 The Pretenders - Cuban Slide

35 KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree

36 Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl-

37 Guns N' Roses - Mr. Brownstone

38 REO Speedwagon - Don't Let Him Go

39 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Bo Diddley Is Jesus

40 Talking Heads - Ruby Dear

41 U2 - Desire

42 Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away

43 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl

44 Husker Du - Hare Krsna

Bo Diddley Beat 1

This will be a multi volume compilation. There is so much to pick from. Once you hear the Bo Diddley beat you can't unhear it. Some people have called it a variation of Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits. There is some truth to that but it is more. As you listen to these it will automatically trigger some memories of other songs with a similar beat. I hope you enjoy this selection of two dozen songs with that beat. Including the original Bo Diddley himself. Side note that has nothing to do with this pick and is me just name dropping. I got to have lunch with Bo Diddley. A BBQ, with "Mrs Bo" (the fourth one) and he was very gracious, very nice. It wasn't long after their marriage so kinda lovey dovey still. Got to see but not carry his guitar. Very good in concert, even then.

Bo Diddley Beat 1

01 Supremes - When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes

02 The Miracles - Mickey's Monkey 

03 Jefferson Airplane - She Has Funny Cars

04 Buddy Holly & the Crickets - Not Fade Away

05 Dick Dale - Tribal Thunder

06 Johnny Otis Show - Willie And The Hand Jive

07 The Allman Brothers Band - No One To Run With

08 Shirley And Company - Shame Shame Shame

09 Tom Petty - A Mind With a Heart of It's Ow

10 The Strangeloves - I Want Candy

11 Stan Ridgway - That Big 5-0

12 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

13 Elvis Presley - (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame

14 Electric Prunes - Get Me To The World On Time

15 The Stooges - 1969

16 Rolling Stones - Please Go Home

17 Pretty Things - Rosalyn

18 Duane Eddy - Cannonball

19 Love - Bummer In The Summer

20 Them - Mystic Eyes

21 Yardbirds - I'm a Man (Bo Diddley)

22 Neil Sedaka - Bad Blood

23 The Andrews Sisters - Rum And Coca Cola

24 Who - Magic Bus

Feel Like It 2

It's not quite fair for me to call this pick Feel Like It 2, because it really doesn't match at all with feel like it 1. The songs are not based off the same seed song. These are completely separate. It is only because I am lazy and didn't want to make a new cover. I just added volume 2 to the other cover. And I didn't want to make a whole new folder. Like I said: lazy. I was calling it "newcomp" until the last second. That being said, I did use two songs that I considered for volume one (and rejected because I didn't think they quite fit) . They fit nicely here and I did like the songs. See if you can guess which two. Also at the time I was making this I realized that KC (Harry Casey) had written George McCrae's biggest hit and even recorded it and gave it to him. So I wanted to make a compilation with George, his wife Gwen (and her response song), a KC song and another song written by Casey for Jimmy Bo Horne. Not for any reason except I felt like it. There's also no reason to continue the numbering, but I did.

Feel Like It 2

24 Imagine Dragons - Bones

25 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)

26 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby (12 inch)

27 Shakatak - Down on the street (Original 12 inch)

28 Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (Graymatter Remix)

29 Pitbull & Ne-Yo - Time Of Our Lives

30 S.O.S. Band - Two Time Lover

31 KC and The Sunshine Band - That's the Way I Like It (12 inch)

32 Kungs - This Girl (Kungs Vs. Cookin' On 3 Burners) (Original Mix)

33 The O'Jays - I Love Music

34 Jimmy Bo Horne - Dance Across The Floor

35 Jonas Brothers - Waffle House

36 Gibson Brothers - Non Stop Dance

37 Flo Rida featuring Robin Thicke & Verdine White - I Don't Like It, I Love It

38 Gwen McCrae - Rockin' Chair

39 Miley Cyrus - Flowers

40 Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (GRAYMATTER Remix)

41 John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Thru The Night

Faux Punk

This Pick is about Fake Punk or Faux Punk. Both bands and songs. So we have fake punk band and fake punk songs. To me if you have the word Punk in your title, it's probably not a punk song. It's Faux Punk. There's quite a few songs, that were good songs, that just weren't punk that follow that rule. Just listen to Van Halen. By no stretch of the imagination are they punk. But Iggy Pop was a punk, but the song he did with Teddybears. I'm sorry not punk. The Meatmen have a great track on here and it's almost punk, they're pretty punk, but almost is not good enough. Side note: I had some faux punk pants (ripped jeans) that were signed by the Clitboys. And if you know the Meatmen song, you'll get it. The Dead Milkmen were sometimes punk, Bitchin' Camaro probably counts, but this track is so not punk. Find the fake punk bands. There are a few. They aren't even real bands. See Fake Bands for more of that kind of stuff. Anyway, enjoy the fakeness.

Faux Punk

01 Sugar Ray - Big Black Woman

02 Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias - Kill

03 Edge Of Etiquette - I Hate You

04 Van Halen - Atomic Punk

05 Muppet Punk - Too Hot

06 MXPX - Punk Rawk Show

07 Beastie Boys - Egg Raid On Mojo

08 Village People - Food Fight

09 Bowling For Soup - Punk Rock 101

10 Tubes - White Punks On Dope

11 Nina Hagen - Punk Wedding

12 Scott Goddard - Cowpunk

13 The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl

14 Corky Carroll & The Cool Water Casuals - Tan Punks On Boards

15 The Higsons - Put the Punk Back into Funk

16 Teddybears Featuring Iggy Pop - Punkrocker

17 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Punk Rock Classic

18 Smash Mouth - Sorry

19 The Meatmen - Punker-Ama

20 Cold Crush Brothers - Punk Rock Rap

21 Gorillaz - Punk

22 The Cure - So What

23 Dixie Dregs - Punk Sandwich

24 Scientist - Punk Motherfucker

25 The Ventures - Hollywood Punk

What's The Connection? You Feel 1

Ok, one more in the Feel connection series. This one is You Feel. You could probably do a complete WTC with just covers of the Righteous Brothers. I had close to enough and I was barely looking. But that will have to be later. I included their version plus a special version. I added the G-Clefs (who you'll also find in a New Years Eve connection since it's obviously has a little Auld Lang Syne in it). Plus some fairly older tracks mixed with newer ones. It's amazing the things you feel when you let it. I am tired of looking at basically the same cover, so I will take a break for real this time on the Feel comps.

What's The Connection? You Feel 1

01 Erasure - You've Lost That Loving Feeling

02 Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

03 G-Clefs - I Understand (How You Feel)

04 Patti Labelle - When You've Been Blessed (Feels Like Heaven)

05 Damon - Feel Your Love

06 Charles Penrose - Laugh and You'll Feel Grand

07 Teddybears Featuring Elephant Man - Are You Feelin' It

08 Frank Sinatra - Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)

09 Jefferson Airplane - Pretty As You Feel

10 Jimmy Durante - Did You Ever Have The Feeling That You Wanted To Stay

11 Perry Como With The Satisfiers - (Did You Ever Get) That Feeling In The Moonlight

12 Wilco - When You Wake Up Feeling Old

13 Thelma Houston - If You Feel It

14 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Feel Your Love

15 La Toya Jackson - If You Feel The Funk

16 Kylie Minogue - Whenever You Feel Like It

17 Ray Charles - How Did You Feel The Morning After

18 Sunny - It's Only When You're Feeling Lonely

19 The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate

20 Millie Jackson - How Do You Feel The Morning After

21 Slim Whitman - Anytime You're Feeling Lonely

What's The Connection? Make You Feel 1

I'm not sure how many more of these Feel Connections I'm going to post in a row, but it kind of feels like I want to take a break. Yea I crack myself up with stupid stuff like that all day. This one is Make You Feel in the title. There are probably enough Sylvester covers to do one just on his song, but I tried to spread it around.. There are three of these that got this one going. Red Hot Chili Peppers. I've been a fan since the early days. Somewhere on this site are some stories of early concerts. Michael Jackson and War. For some reason I must be the only person who has all of War's albums. They are good, even if they didn't all have hits on them. Or maybe because they didn't. There's no Tower of Power on this compilation, but they are another one, like War who have really good albums even if there are no hits on the albums. And I don't need to explain Michael. We grew up together. Him rich and me, not at all. 

What's The Connection? Make You Feel 1

01 War - This Funky Music Makes You Feel Good

02 Maria Muldaur - Don't You Feel My Leg (Don't You Make Me High)

03 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Make You Feel Better

04 Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

05 Ted Nugent - You Make Me Feel Right At Home

06 Styx - I'm Gonna Make You Feel It

07 Rose Royce - It Makes You Feel Like Dancin'

08 Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation - Music Makes You Feel All Right

09 Frank Sinatra with Nancy Sinatra - You Make Me Feel So Young (Old)

10 Bob Dylan - Make You Feel My Love

11 Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

12 Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel

13 Shalamar - I Can Make You Feel Good

14 The Spellbinders - That's the Way You Make Me Feel

15 Donna Summer - If It Makes You Feel Good

16 Garth Brooks - To Make You Feel My Love

17 Bananarama - Shy Boy (Don't It Make You Feel Good)

18 Lou Reed - Love Makes You Feel

19 Sylvester - You Make Me Feel

20 Cobra Starship featuring Sabi - You Make Me Feel...

21 Joe Hicks - Don't It Make You Feel Funky

22 Diamond Rio - How Your Love Makes Me Feel

23 Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New

What's The Connection? Can You Feel 1

Another one of the Feel series of connections (check the past couple of days if you missed any). This one has all Can You Feel in the title. The most obvious one being Elton John from the Disney film. Probably the last one they did that was great. Also going back to around that time The Capitol Steps doing their comedy political version. They had some funny tracks. Not sure what they are doing now. No one is in the mood for political humor, I guess. Kenny G doing his version of the same song, too. But some good tracks from Dub to House and much more. I hope you can feel it.

What's The Connection? Can You Feel 1

01 All In One - Can You Feel The Heat (Rave Mix)

02 S'Express - Can You Feel Me

03 Pigface - Can You Feel Pain

04 Gypsy - As Far as You Can See (As Much as You Can Feel)

05 Capitol Steps - Can You Feel The Rub Tonight

06 Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Can You Feel The Beat

07 Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight

08 Bring Me The Horizon - Can You Feel My Heart

09 Blue Pearl - (Can You) Feel the Passion

10 The Real Thing - Can You Feel The Force

11 Kenny G - Can You Feel The Love Tonight

12 Minnie Riperton - Can You Feel What I'm Saying

13 The Alarm - Can You Feel Me

14 Matthew Fisher - Can't You Feel My Love

15 Rome Is Not A Town - Can You Feel The Rush

16 King Tubby - Dub You Can Feel