White Mash

This is volume four of the white, bland, non-offensive, guilty pleasures of mine. Over the last several days you've probably gotten an idea of what makes it on here (and there still are a few more volumes to go.) It's easy to listen to. And I can sing along with each track. I really like Marie Osmond growing up (and wanted to be Donny). Watched their TV show and even now, I look at Marie and think she's gotten better with age. And their song always intrigued me. Every one of these tracks just hit me in one way or another. Some could be put on multiple themed picks and some (think Chuck E's In Love) where would they otherwise fit? But they have to be used, they're so good.

White Mash

01 Spinners - I'll Be Around

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

03 Michael Martin Murphy - Wildfire

04 Donny & Marie Osmond - A Little Bit Country (A Little Bit Rock 'N Roll)

05 Carpenters - Top Of The World

06 Glen Campbell - Southern Nights

07 Olivia Newton-John - Please Mr. Please

08 Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis

09 Charlie Rich - The Most Beautiful Girl

10 Level 42 - Something About You

11 Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful

12 Neil Diamond - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon

13 Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E.'s In Love

14 Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Too Late To Turn Back Now

15 Roberta Flack - The Closer I Get To You

16 B. J. Thomas - (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song

17 Billy Swan - I Can Help

18 Eddie Rabbit - I Love A Rainy Night

19 Dionne Warwick - I'll Never Fall In Love Again

20 Gino Vannelli - I Just Wanna Stop

21 Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

22 Maxine Nightingale - Lead Me On

23 Orleans - Still The One

24 Jessi Colter - I'm Not Lisa

White Marshmallow

The continuation of my pick of the white bland non-offensive guilty pleasures compilation. Several more to go. I have included several genres in here. I don't know why it switches so much from on pick to the next, but there always seems to be some fallbacks. I am sure you can figure it out. But bottom line is almost no one would be offended if these songs came on during a cocktail hour or dinner. And many would sing along. I sure would. This series may not represent the "best" song from each of these artists, but they sure might be. For some this might be their only "good" song. I doubt it though as I find so many great unknown or deep tracks on albums, the more I listen to them. But it might have been their only "hit." BTW, I love marshmallows.

White Marshmallow

01 Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays The Fool

02 Melanie - Brand New Key

03 Ray Parker Jr. And Raydio - You Can't Change That

04 Bloodstone - Natural High

05 Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze

06 Stevie Wonder - Knocks Me Off My Feet

07 War - Why Can't We Be Friends

08 Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

09 Partridge Family, The - I Think I Love You

10 Spinners - Could It Be I'm Falling In love

11 David Dundas - Jeans On

12 Neil Young - Lotta Love

13 L.T.D. - (Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again

14 Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

15 Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

16 Walter Egan - Magnet And Steel

17 Hall & Oates - Kiss On My List

18 Captain & Tennille - Lonely Night {Angel Face}

19 Newbeats - Bread And Butter

20 Chicago - Old Days

21 Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy

22 Chairmen Of The Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time

23 Stylistics - Betcha By Golly, Wow

24 Bread - Lost Without Your Love

White Rice

I love white rice. Both the food and the next volume in the bland, non-offensive, guilty pleasure pick this is. Not sure why Harry Truman wasn't everyone's favorite Chicago song, but from the moment I heard it, I knew I liked it. Several of these are really anything but bland for me. Hot Chocolate probably needs to be moved to the White Marshmallow pick, but I haven't posted that one yet and when I made this I didn't know I was going to be making another one. And Love Machine, c'mon, Pol, that isn't bland at all. Sorry. I know, but it is a guilty pleasure of mine.

White Rice

01 Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress

02 Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown

03 Poco - Crazy Love

04 Toto - Rosanna

05 Bobby Goldsboro - Summer (The First Time)

06 Chicago - Harry Truman

07 Orleans - Dance With Me

08 Climax - Precious And Few

09 Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You

10 Player - Baby Come Back

11 Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing

12 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died

13 Kid Rock - Amen

14 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves

15 Firefall - You Are The Woman

16 Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes

17 America - A Horse with No Name

18 Christopher Cross - Ride Like the Wind

19 Pablo Cruise - Love Will Find a Way

20 The Miracles - Love Machine

21 Dobie Gray - Drift Away

White Bread

Ok this is a different sort of compilation and there are multiple volumes of this. Each pick starts with White. This one obviously White Bread. I tried to pick the most non-offensive thing I could think of and then pick matching non-offensive songs. Some might say: Bland. But that is not quite accurate. I really don't think any of these are really bland songs, but they are mostly non-offensive. I tried on this volume to have some variety in the age of the songs and yet still keep the "theme" going. I love the combo of Moondance, Dancing In The Moonlight and Chevy Van. And I suppose that might have been the start of this series, but I Second That Emotion is probably more correct. Either way they are my guilty pleasures.

White Bread

01 Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light

02 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

03 Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat

04 Harry Chapin - Cats In The Cradle

05 Cat Stevens - If You Want To Sing Out

06 Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind

07 Bread - If

08 Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle

09 Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number

10 Van Morrison - Moondance

11 King Harvest - Dancing In The Moonlight

12 Sammy Johns - Chevy Van

13 Madonna - American Pie

14 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Everybody's Talkin'

15 Japan - I Second That Emotion

16 Everything But The Girl - Almost Blue

17 The Pretenders - I'm Not In Love

18 Will To Power - Baby, I Love Your Way-Freebird

19 Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun

I Might Like You Better

This is an interesting pick. You can probably tell it was mid to late 80's when I made this compilation. The title comes from a lyric from the Romeo Void song, but just because I liked the lyric. No other theme other than this is what I was listening to. At the time, I had not heard anything from the Comateens except for this one 12 inch single on here, but I rather liked it. Yello was getting played everywhere, but not so much this track as much as I Love You and I'm pretty sure that the Bongos were only getting airplay on College stations. Any way this was originally a cassette production and I re did it for CD and now mp3 compilation. Not sure how well the Rubinoos and Harold Faltermeyer hold up, but the rest is still pretty good.

I Might Like You Better

01 Yello - Vicious Games

02 Comateens - Don't Come Back

03 Book Of Love - Boy

04 The Fixx - Less Cities, More Moving People

05 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls

06 Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)

07 Sparks - All You Ever Think About Is Sex (Single Mix)

08 Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away

09 Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better

10 Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F

11 Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)

12 INXS - The One Thing

13 The Bongos - The Beat Hotel

14 The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make

15 Tears For Fears - Shout

16 Yazoo - Situation (Extended Version)

17 Ebn-Ozn - AEIOU Sometimes Y

18 Romeo Void - Never Say Never

19 Rubinoos - Revenge Of The Nerds

What Is The Connection? Party

This was fun to make. Sure there are hundreds of other songs I could have put on this connection, but these are the ones I picked. Leave a comment and tell me how I am dumb and should have included track X and maybe I will include it on Party 2. But for now these are the ones. You might think it strange that my favorite on this list is the one I heard on Dr. Demento from Barnes & Barnes, but it is. The Slickee Boys is from a 7" 45 RPM vinyl and I like that a lot. I also was madly in love with Unit 3 and Venus. I looked everywhere for their stuff and usually could only find it on Rodney on The ROQ's compilations. Two other ones I will mention is the Eddie Murphy track. He had a few 12 inch dance records and darn if they weren't as good as his comedy. And Bunny Sigler. None of my friends knew anything about Bunny Sigler, or only about his early soul stuff, but I went to disco's and this track got played a bunch. Usually mixed in with Let's All Chant from the Michael Zager Band or Got To Give It Up by Marvin Gaye. What a set! I'd now add Blurred Lines from Robin Thicke. Now that's party!

What Is The Connection? Party

01 Pink - Get The Party Started

02 Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party)

03 Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero

04 Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

05 Prince - Partyup

06 Unit 3 With Venus - Pajama Party

07 Wanda Jackson - Let's Have A Party

08 Fly-Rite Boys - Booze Party

09 Buddy Knox - Party Doll

10 Sam Cooke - Having A Party

11 Lesley Gore - It's My Party

12 Barnes & Barnes - Party In My Pants

13 Bunny Sigler - Let Me Party With You (Party, Party, Party)

14 Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time

15 Stevie B - Party Your Body

16 Aaron Carter - Aaron's Party

17 Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers - Party

18 Reverend Horton Heat - Loco Gringo's Like To Party

19 Black Flag - TV Party

20 Slickee Boys - This Party Sucks

21 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Party On Your Pussy

Roger Waters Pink Floyd Pick

The last of the bunch, this pick is the Waters' version of Pink Floyd. And I like it. It concentrates on the albums that had Waters in most control from Dark Side Of The Moon to Final Cut. It doesn't go back much farther. All the other picks from this family go back, but not for Waters. And there is one song that I almost put on: Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. It's Waters writing and lead vocal and it's a great song. But I didn't. You will have to add it manually. I did include it on Richard Wright's pick. And the song is cool because it features guitar from both Gilmour and Barrett (and all five members actually contributed parts to the song.) But to me, Waters really starts getting into his own at DSOTM, so that's where this begins. Argue all you want (in the comments), but it is my pick.

Roger Waters Pink Floyd Pick

01 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

02 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

03 Pink Floyd - Eclipse

04 Pink Floyd - Brain Damage

05 Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)

06 Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)

07 Pink Floyd - Money

08 Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell

09 Pink Floyd - Hey You

10 Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home

11 Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones)

David Gilmour Pink Floyd Pick

Recently I posted the Gilmour solo picks and the Gilmour Guest picks. This pick is the songs most associated with David Gilmour (as opposed to Roger Waters). It's got Floyd after Waters left, but also the songs sung by David Gilmour or written by him, etc. There is one song that is easily attributed to both Gilmour and Waters and that's on here and also on tomorrow's version of this pick. I tried to get a song from several albums instead of just all from the later stuff. Because Gilmour wrote for most of the albums. And most of these also feature lead vocal from Gilmour as well as the writing credit or co-credit. For instance the album Wish You Were Here has several co credits for writing, but the title track also has Gilmour on lead vocals, so I picked that for Gilmour and SOYCD has Waters on lead vocals, so that will be on tomorrow's pick for Waters. Whereas on the Animals album Gilmour only sings on one track (and he shares even that track with Waters.) The Final Cut generally thought of as the first Waters Solo album does not have even a cowrite for Gilmour, but does have him share lead vocals on one track which I included.

David Gilmour Pink Floyd Pick

01 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

02 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

03 Pink Floyd - Time

04 Pink Floyd - Dogs

05 Pink Floyd - Breathe

06 Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly

07 Pink Floyd - Young Lust

08 Pink Floyd - Fearless

09 Pink Floyd - Not Now John

10 Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun

11 Pink Floyd - High Hopes

Nick Mason Pink Floyd Pick

Even though he is probably the most replaceable part of Pink Floyd to many people, Nick Mason was an important part of the band. He's really the only one to be on every Pink Floyd album so that counts for a lot. This pick has a few tracks from the solo stuff he did, and his Hillage outing. It mostly covers the Floyd tracks he was most associated with and really he didn't have much that he wrote except for Grand Vizier's Garden Party so of course that's on there as well as some of his co-writers credit and the few times his voice was heard on any of the albums. I also included his charity track tacked on at the end.

Nick Mason Pink Floyd Pick

01 Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe, Eugene

02 Pink Floyd - The Grand Vizier's Garden Party Part One - Entrance

03 Pink Floyd - The Grand Vizier's Garden Party Part Two - Entertainment

04 Pink Floyd - The Grand Vizier's Garden Party Part Three - Exit

05 Pink Floyd - Corporal Clegg

06 Nick Mason & Rick Fenn - Lie For A Lie

07 Nick Mason - Rhoda

08 Pink Floyd - Echoes

09 Pink Floyd - Speak To Me

10 Pink Floyd - Time

11 Nick Mason - Can't Get My Motor To Start

12 Pink Floyd - One Of These Days

13 Steve Hillage - Leylines To Glassdom

14 Nick Mason - Siam

15 Beverley Knight, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Nick Mason, etc - Save The Children (Look Into Your Heart)

Richard Wright Pink Floyd Pick 2

Not going to say much today. Part 1 has a bit more of his solo stuff . This pick is strictly Pink Floyd tracks. Either Richard Wright sang on the tracks, or he wrote or co-wrote the songs. He had stopped contributing to Pink Floyd for awhile and was fired (and then rehired as a session player) for an album or so. And then rehired after Waters left. This pick covers the very early stuff until his last album contribution with Gilmour's Floyd after Wright died.

Richard Wright Pink Floyd Pick 2

09 Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly

10 Pink Floyd - Summer '68

11 Pink Floyd - See-Saw

12 Pink Floyd - What Do You Want From Me

13 Pink Floyd - Louder Than Words

14 Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky

15 Pink Floyd - Wearing The Inside Out

16 Pink Floyd - It Would Be So Nice

17 Pink Floyd - Remember A Day

18 Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine

19 Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

20 Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne

21 Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe, Eugene

Richard Wright Pink Floyd Pick 1

Continuing on with the Pink Floyd family pick this is Richard Wright solo and guest spots along with some key moments of his in Pink Floyd. David Gilmour said that Wright was the real heart of the band. I don't know about that, but he did have a few great moments in the band and  couple of guest spots, another band and his solo gig. Volume two will include more of the Floyd stuff. This one has Echoes which meant that I needed two volumes since it is too long. But it was co-written and partly sung by Wright so it had to be included. The Zee tracks are interesting because they are the collaboration of Wright and post punk artist Dave Harris (Fashion). I always had wondered what happened to Fashion (my favorite song was Sodium Pentathol Negative) and here is part of the group in another band that I didn't realize was him (and Wright) until later. Anyway it was great to hear Wright in a different setting that I like too.

Richard Wright Pink Floyd Pick 1

01 Zee - Confusion (Extended)

02 Richard Wright - Against The Odds

03 Richard Wright - Breakthrough

04 Pink Floyd - Echoes

05 Pink Floyd - Matilda Mother

06 David Gilmour - On An Island

07 Pink Floyd - Us And Them

08 Zee - Eyes Of A Gypsy

Syd Barrett Pink Floyd Pick

Most people argue about whether Roger Waters or David Gilmour are the heart of Pink Floyd. And arguably both were at one point or another, But so was Syd Barrett. In fact he was the heart of the start. And so this pick highlights my favorites of the Barrett era Floyd and some of his solo work right after. He had some great songs and I love this era of the band. It started my love of psychedelic music. Just listen to the songs on here. Amazing! You can hear the beginnings of what will later be called classic Floyd in several of these tracks. Before anyone says anything about my comments about the heart of the band. I have to clarify. It really isn't any of these three guys. It was the two other guys (Rick and Nick) and you will be getting those picks coming soon. Although there is a case to be made that all of them had to go through what they did to be able to leave what is really three legacies. All of them good.

Syd Barrett Pink Floyd Pick

01 Pink Floyd - Apples And Oranges

02 Pink Floyd - Bike

03 Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive

04 Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues

05 Pink Floyd - Pow R. Toc H.

06 Pink Floyd - Matilda Mother

07 Pink Floyd - Vegetable Man

08 Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine

09 Pink Floyd - See Emily Play

10 Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne

11 Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam

12 Pink Floyd - Scarecrow

13 Syd Barrett - Octopus

14 Syd Barrett - Baby Lemonade

15 Syd Barrett - Wouldn't You Miss Me (Dark Globe)

16 Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant

17 Syd Barrett - Gigolo Aunt

Roger Waters Solo Pick 2

Here's the continuation of the Roger Waters solo pick. He does sound a lot like the continuation of Pink Floyd. There are times you miss David Gilmour's guitar, but not all too much. I've seen him live doing some of this stuff and it just sounds like him, but amped. Anyway after this volume, please go ahead and tell me what tracks you would have put on here. And which you would have left out. I put in the live track with Cyndi Lauper, but really I probably should have put in the Scorpions track, because I do love some Scorps. I don't know why I was too lazy to make a different cover for this volume, but I have to say that I like this shot of Waters from way back. Even if it wasn't a pic from his solo tours.

Roger Waters Solo Pick 2

14 Roger Waters - We Shall Overcome

15 Roger Waters & Cyndi Lauper - Another Brick in the Wall, Part II

16 Roger Waters - Too Much Rope

17 Roger Waters - 5.01 AM (The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking Part 10)

18 Roger Waters - Sunset Strip

19 Roger Waters - Each Small Candle

20 Roger Waters - Amused To Death

21 Roger Waters - Hello (I Love You)

22 Roger Waters & Ron Geesin - Breathe

23 Roger Waters - Radio Waves

24 Roger Waters - Lost Boys Calling

25 Roger Waters - 4.50 AM (Go Fishing)

26 Roger Waters - Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Roger Waters Solo Pick 1

Interesting thing about this pick (volume 1 and 2) is that you always hear that Roger Waters was a genius songwriter, but difficult guy to get along with. It sort of bears out and sort of doesn't. He seems to have a lot of guests play with him on tour and some on his solo albums, but he doesn't seem to get invited to play on other people's stuff very often. I might be missing a whole segment of his career. Oh well. He does have enough solo album work to easily fill two volumes of my pick of it. Which is exactly what I have done. Here's volume 1 of my pick of the Waters solo albums. Tomorrow I'll post volume 2.

Roger Waters Solo Pick 1

01 Roger Waters - Towers Of Faith

02 Roger Waters - Perfect Sense Part I & II

03 Roger Waters - 5.06 AM (Every Strangers Eyes)

04 Roger Waters - The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)

05 Roger Waters - Three Wishes

06 Roger Waters - Folded Flags

07 Roger Waters - Watching TV

08 Roger Waters - Home

09 Roger Waters - The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range

10 Roger Waters - Smell The Roses

11 Roger Waters - Who Needs Information

12 Roger Waters - The Powers That Be

13 Roger Waters - What God Wants, Part I

Repost: What's The Connection? Luck

 Happy St. Patrick's Day! I guess you are lucky today, because here is my pick of lucky songs. A wide variety of songs about Luck. Lots of clovers all over the cover. Again nothing to do with St. Patrick or really the Irish, but somehow luck has been associated with the Irish. Good for them. Anyway, a couple of covers that I thought were worthy of inclusion instead of the originals. I never was a huge fan of Paul McCartney's Luck of the Irish, so when Japanese band Shonen Knife did a good cover of it, I had to include it. And besides I already had another McCartney track. A song or two from the movies. Some country, some blues, some dance, some jazz, some prog. Something for everyone. I hope it brings you lots of luck!

Luck Connection

01 Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - I'm Just A Lucky So And So

02 Julie London - If I'm Lucky

03 Frank Sinatra with Chrissie Hynde - Luck Be A Lady

04 Jo Stafford - With A Little Bit Of Luck

05 Judy Garland - Lucky Day

06 K.D. Lang And The Reclines - Luck In My Eyes

07 John Lee Hooker - Mr. Lucky

08 Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm

09 Josie Kreuzer - Lucky & Wild

10 Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck

11 Lene Lovich - Lucky Number

12 Jo Boxers - Just Got Lucky

13 Madonna - Lucky Star

14 Paul McCartney - With A Little Luck

15 High Fashion - Feelin' Lucky Lately

16 Well Red - Get Lucky

17 Style Council - Luck

18 The Sugarcubes - Lucky Night

19 The Strokes - Trying Your Luck

20 Rod Stewart - Some Guys Have All The Luck

21 Britney Spears - Lucky

22 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man

23 Shonen Knife - The Luck Of The Irish

What's The Connection? Guns 1

I know some people find it controversial to talk about guns, but they are a part of our lives. They are for millions of people a sign of freedom. If you look at all the songs about guns (both negative and positive) you  will see it is ingrained into us, as people. I believe in the Constitution of the USA, so I obviously believe in the right to bear arms. And that right must not be infringed upon. That is common sense. Anyone else that wants to debate the word "infringe" please go ahead. But I don't have to listen to nonsense. This connection is not about that, it's about songs with gun in the title. The first of a series of gun songs. The gun songs I like.

What's The Connection? Guns 1

01 Lulu - The Man With The Golden Gun

02 Chris Spedding - Gunfight

03 The Clash - The Guns Of Brixton

04 Kate Bush - James And The Cold Gun

05 Beatles - Happiness Is A Warm Gun

06 Siouxsie & the Banshees - Gun

07 Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun

08 Buzzcocks - Sound of a Gun

09 AC-DC - Fire Your Guns

10 The Cramps - Bikini Girls With Machine Guns

11 Kiss - Love Gun

12 Vanilla Fudge - Shotgun

13 Commodores - Machine Gun

14 Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun (1969)

15 The Genetic Terrorists - Machine Gun (Razormaid Mix)

16 Yello - She's Got A Gun

17 Negativland - Guns (Now)

18 Julie Brown - The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun

David Gilmour Guest Pick

A few days ago, I had a pick of David Gilmour solo work. Out of the main members of Pink Floyd, Gilmour had the most amount of guest appearances on other people's albums. And it turns out some of my favorites. He also produced several artists. I confined this pick to actual guest spots as defined by him playing something on each song (although a few he also produced.) One of my favorites are the Kate Bush tracks. You can kind of hear the flavor of Floyd on several. Anyway, cool to hear these tracks together. I can tell you that Waters did not play well with others. Gilmour definitely did. He had less solo albums, but plenty of guest spots. I like the Orb track too. There was a bootleg called Pink Coffee which was kind of a mashup of Pink Floyd and the Orb, this might be better.

David Gilmour Guest Pick

16 The Orb Featuring David Gilmour - Spheres Side (Es Vedra-Hymns To The Sun (Reprise)-Olympic-Chicago Dub-Bold Knife Trophy)

17 Elton John - Understanding Women

18 Peter Cetera Featuring David Gilmour - You Never Listen To Me

19 Jools Holland - Honey Dripper

20 Blue Pearl - Running Up That Hill

21 Kate Bush - Love And Anger

22 Bryan Ferry - Boys And Girls

23 Ringo Starr - I Think Therefore I Rock 'n Roll

24 Bryan Ferry - Seven Deadly Sins

25 Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound

26 Kate Bush - Passing Through Air

27 Pete Townshend - White City Fighting

28 Wings - Rockestra Theme

What's The Connection? WTC 3.1415926535 (π or pie)

March 14 is officially Pi day. And since the number of songs with π in it is very limited, it's your chance to play songs with Pie in the title. And there are a lot of those. The only real song about Pi that I know of is from Kate Bush, so that starts out this Connection and then it just goes in to some of my favorite songs about pie. My favorite pie to eat is an Apple Pie with a cinnamon sugar crumble on the top (and for sure it's got to be hot and served with vanilla ice cream). Not as many Apple Pie songs as there are Cherry Pies, unless you consider American Pie to be the same as Apple, I barely had one song. But it always reminds me of the band Mom's Apple Pie with the controversial LP cover. None of it has to do with math or numbers though. I will do more Pie songs next year!

What's The Connection? WTC 3.1415926535 (π or pie)

01 Kate Bush - Pi

02 Warrant - Cherry Pie

03 Beatles - Wild Honey Pie

04 Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie

05 Marvin & Johnny - Cherry Pie

06 Norman Fox & The Rob Roys - Pizza Pie

07 One Way - Cutie Pie

08 King Crimson - Potato Pie

09 The Strawbs - Lemon Pie

10 Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie

11 Jeff Beck - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

12 Insane Clown Posse - Cherry Pie

13 Dorothy Lamour - Sweetie Pie

14 Santana - Sweet Black Cherry Pie

15 Pop Will Eat Itself - Sweet Sweet Pie

16 Johnny Cash - Pie in the sky

17 Frank Sinatra - Cherry Pies Ought To Be You

18 Complex - Lemon Pie Fair

19 Frank Zappa - Chalk Pie

20 Don McLean - American Pie

21 Lockettes - Puddin' Pie

22 Jay And The Techniques - Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie

23 Al Jarreau - Sweet Potato Pie

House Pick 3

Yet another pick in this Connection. House music. And we are at volume three. We will have several more coming, but I will take a break from the House music for awhile. You probably noticed that the cover has the little green house on it from the game you know. Nothing to do with the music on this compilation series, but I do have a mind that goes around in circles (probably at 120 bpm or so). If you have any comments about other great House songs, make sure you leave them as I have several more volumes to put into this format, might as well include some of your favorites if I don't already have them coming.

House Pick 3

29 KLF - What Time Is Love

30 Mr Fingers - Washing Machine

31 Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives

32 Orbital - Chime

33 Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem)

34 Screamin' Rachael - Fun With Bad Boys

35 Inner City - Good Life

36 Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around

37 Todd Terry Project - Weekend

38 Ellen Allien - The Sun Can't Compare (Long Version)

39 808 State - Pacific State

40 The House Master Boyz & The Rude Boy Of House - House Nation

41 Hardrive - Deep Inside (Original)

42 Model 500 - No Ufo's [Remix]

43 Rhythim Is Rhythim - Strings Of Life

44 Soulsearcher - Can't Get Enough (Vocal Club Mix)

What Is The Connection? Walking

You could easily do fifty compilations of walking songs. But I condensed my pick of this connection to one CD's worth. I have a few favorites on this connection. Patsy Cline is one of course. And I did have a couple of other covers of Walking After Midnight that I liked. The Dean Martin and the Grace Jones are just perfect. My very favorite and this is not the popular view is the Yoko Ono. I really do enjoy many of her songs, but this one is just so perfect. One day I'll post my favorite pick of her songs. This remix by the Pet Shop Boys is darn good though. All the rest are pretty good, too. I mean how can you beat Nancy Sinatra? As for the cover, it's from me thinking about Walk, Don't Run. 

What Is The Connection? Walking

01 Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

02 Fats Domino - I'm Walkin'

03 Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun

04 Run DMC - Walk This Way

05 Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian

06 Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine

07 Rufus Thomas - Walking the Dog

08 Jacksons - Walk Right Now

09 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Walk Like A Man

10 Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line

11 Patsy Cline - Walking After Midnight

12 Eddy Grant - Walkin' On Sunshine

13 Dean Martin - My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You

14 Stranglers - Walk On By

15 The Ventures - Walk, Don't Run '64

16 Dire Straits - Walk Of Life

17 Grace Jones - Walking In The Rain

18 Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice (Pet Shop Boys Electro Mix)

David Gilmour Solo Pick

Pink Floyd is so well known that it's hard to do a compilation that hasn't been done, but this pick starts a series of Pink Floyd family picks of mine. I'm starting it off with David Gilmour. This is my pick of his solo stuff. Only one Pink Floyd song and that's with David Bowie. In the next day or so, I will continue another complete side of Gilmour's. People get a "personal" feeling with Pick Floyd so don't get mad if I don't pick your favorites. It is after all my pick. I did not include the song that I picked for my Beautiful Guitar Solos compilation on this one. Although I must like that one too.

David Gilmour Solo Pick

01 David Gilmour - Today

02 David Gilmour - Smile

03 David Gilmour - Love on the Air

04 David Gilmour - A Pocketful of Stones

05 David Gilmour - You Know I'm Right

06 David Gilmour - Murder

07 David Gilmour - Mihalis

08 David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock

09 David Gilmour - Near The End

10 David Gilmour - Out Of The Blue

11 David Gilmour - Blue Light

12 David Gilmour - On An Island

13 David Gilmour - Short And Sweet

14 David Gilmour - There's No Way Out Of Here

15 David Gilmour - Arnold Layne (with David Bowie)

House Pick 2

The second volume of my pick of house music. I am obviously a disco fan since you can find several disco comps on this site. And house music supposedly was synthesized from disco, just with more of a mechanical beat (as if disco couldn't be more mechanical). Whatever. Originally from the Chicago area and then spread across to New York and then the world, house music is everywhere and there is tons of house artists, These are just a few more of my favorite tracks. Again in BPM order, so if you were lazy you could just play the CD in one go. At around the same BPM anyway, it would not be too hard to mix any of them together. My suggestion is to key match and practicing mixing in key. Best way to learn. 

House Pick 2

15 Black Box - Everybody Everybody (Ultimix 35)

16 Virgo Four - Do You Know Who We Are

17 Axel Boman - Purple Drank (Original Mix)

18 Raze - Break For Love

19 Storm Queen - Look Right Through (Mk Remix)

20 Aly-Us - Follow Me (Club Mix)

21 Jesse Saunders - On & On (Original 12 vocal mix)

22 Frankie Knuckles - Move Your Body

23 Royal House - Can You Party

24 The Todd Terry Project - Bango (To The Batmobile)

25 Lil Louis - French Kiss

26 Cajmere - Percolator

27 Adonis - No Way Back (Vocal)

28 Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At

What's The Connection? Tired

I think I must have been getting little sleep around the time I was making this Connection. All songs with Tired in the title. My favorites of the tired songs I own. I only give myself the room on a CD, even though no one uses CD's anymore. So go ahead and place these in your iPod or on your phone and enjoy feeling tired, or sick and tired. I remember when I started this that the Beatles I'm So Tired was the inspiration to start it, but The Kinks and Rocky Burnette tunes were the ones that kept me going. Love all three of those songs! BTW, those are my tired dogs on their bed. They did not always look like this. Most of the time they were constant wiggle butts. Happy Birthday, Eric.

What's The Connection? Tired

01 Buck Owens - Tired Of Livin'

02 Canned Heat - I'm So Tired

03 The Chavis Bros - So Tired

04 Leroy Thomas - I'm Tired And Hungry

05 Mose Allison - So Tired

06 Dynamic Nutones - Sick & Tired

07 Junior Wells - So Tired

08 Savoy Brown - I'm Tired

09 Rod Stewart - So Tired

10 Slowdive - So Tired

11 Uriah Heep - So Tired

12 Black Sabbath - Sick And Tired

13 Johnny Guitar Watson - Too Tired

14 Rocky Burnette - Tired Of Toein' the Line

15 Kinks - Tired of Waiting for You

16 Johnny Winter - Tired Of Tryin'

17 LCD Soundsystem - Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up

18 Buckwheat Zydeco - I'm Just So Tired

19 Hoodoo Gurus - Waking Up Tired

20 Haircut One Hundred - So Tired

21 Pixies - I've Been Tired

22 Beatles - I'm So Tired

23 Neville Grant - Sick and Tired

24 The Rolling Stones - Looking Tired

House Pick 1

I already posted my Acid House pick, so I had to put in a few volumes of House (no acid). Here it is, volume 1.Remember that these picks are what I chose to mean house. Nothing to do with what is in the title, just how I separate the music. These are all about the same tempo (or BPM) and they are in order of BPM. All around 120 BPM or so. Now I can beat match and key match when I DJ, but I tend not to throughout a whole night. I used to go to the all House parties and marvel at the DJ, but also make fun of them. Especially in bars. All one long song is horrible for bars. It's one of my pet peeves. Sure it shows off a DJ's mixing abilities, but bar owners want diversity even if they don't know they do. Once I meet with a bar owner and explain it, they too realize why. Worst thing ever for a bar is to play all one continuous song.  Believe I have trained DJ's out of it and increased their incomes for this one thing. That being said, I do love a DJ that can make it happen. And House is a perfect genre for it.

House Pick 1

01 M.A.R.R.S. - Pump up the Volume

02 S-Express - Theme from S-Express

03 Fingers Inc. - Can You Feel It

04 A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray

05 Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (La La Dee)

06 Steve Silk Hurley - Jack Your Body

07 LNR - Work It To The Bone

08 2 In A Room - Wiggle It

09 Steffi - Sadness (Vinyl Version)

10 Jungle Brothers - I'll House You

11 Aly-Us - Time Passes On (Club Mix)

12 Swedish House Mafia featuring Pharrell Williams - One (Your Name)

13 Armand Van Helden - Koochy

14 KC Flightt - Voices (Out Of Reach Wonka Remix)

What Is The Connection? Cops

I made this compilation some time ago. Years ago. Let me be clear. I am not saying that all cops are good or all cops are bad. It does seem like many of the bands I listen to have an opinion. I didn't look for positive or negative views for this connection. My feeling is that some people in power tend to abuse that power eventually. Police are no different. I do not believe that they are systemically racist, but I do believe that they have preconceived notions just like al people. I definitely got pulled over more when I had a mohawk. Especially in the 80's. When I was clean cut looking, I did not. Just a fact of life. You can say that is prejudging people and that is true, but I also know that everyone does it. And I would rather they be careful and be vigilant rather than they not be there at all. Or die because they weren't careful. I can tell you I was a lot more polite when I had a mohawk. So I back the blue, but I am skeptical too. I know all too often it isn't random at all. My car has been completely searched for over an hour multiple times. But my looks don't reflect my lawfulness. But they do reflect my "question authority" mindset.

What Is The Connection? Cops

01 Body Count - Cop Killer (Original Version)

02 NWA - Fuck Tha Police

03 Dead Kennedys - Police Truck

04 Mudhoney - Hate the Police

05 The Strokes - New York City Cops

06 H20 - Cops

07 Keith Levene - Cops too

08 Pop -O- Pies - Fascists Eat Donuts

09 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Police Helicopter

10 Rage Against The Machine - Fuck The Police

11 Robyn Hitchcock - Do Police Sing-

12 The Dickies - My Pop The Cop

13 Devo - Supercop

14 Surf Punks - ...And Then The Cops Came

15 The Clash - Police on My Back

16 Gregory Isaacs - Police and thieves 

17 Junior Brown - Highway Patrol

18 Everything But The Girl - Good Cop Bad Cop

19 Village People - Hot Cop

20 Beatles - Piggies

21 Cheech and Chong - Stopped By a Cop

That's Nice, That's Real Nice

I've already posted a few volumes of my Country Picks, but this is the one that started it. I was visiting Texas and going to shows, meeting women from Texas and thinking I might move there. This was some thirty or so years ago. I took another twenty-five years to do it, but eventually I moved. Anyway driving the countryside I was listening to a lot of mainstream country music, which was okay, but I longed for something more alternative. So this pick came into being. Some of the bands I had seen in Texas were the Starkweathers and the Cornell Hurd Band. I loved the punk attitude of the Starkweathers. Live they did a great version of This Land Is Your Land (I never found a studio version of it by them, but they did it amazingly well). The Cornell Hurd Band was originally from San Jose (where I had been living) and were reason enough to come to Austin. They had a weekly gig at a Mexican restaurant which is no longer there. And rocked the place. Another band that I heard first in Austin was Junior Brown! Wow! Goober & the Peas was a band I saw in the beginning of  their career (one of their early members was Jack White.) I saw them play in New York on the same night that Guns and Roses played at the CBGB's Canteen. GNR sucked and I predicted they would go nowhere and a week later they were no. 2 in the charts - I can call them. But Goober & the Peas were great! The title came from a Texas saying.

That's Nice, That's Real Nice

01 Starkweathers - Burn The Flag

02 Kelly Hogan & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - 13 Nights

03 Goober & The Peas - Hot Women (Cold Beer)

04 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down

05 The Hollisters - Roses Are Blooming

06 The Unholy Trio - Bring The Noise

07 Moonshine Willy - Roulette Wheel

08 Knitters - Poor Little Critter On The Road

09 The Roughnecks - Going Home

10 Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked

11 Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Mudhoney - Buckskin Stallion Blues

12 Red Star Belgrade - Highway To Hell

13 Br549 - Too Lazy To Work, Too Nervous To Steal

14 Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

15 Vandals - Long Hair Queer

16 The Cornell Hurd Band - Here Comes My Ball And Chain Again

17 Waco Brothers - Do You Think About Me-

18 Old 97's - Por Favor

19 Ween - Piss Up A Rope

20 Confederate Railroad - Trashy Women

21 Junior Brown - Doin' What Comes Easy To A Fool

22 Dead Kennedys - Rawhide

23 Trailer Bride - Ghost On The Highway

24 Starkweathers - White Trash Boy

25 Robby Fulks - She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died)

Acid House Pick

A couple of caveats here, before you dive in to my Acid pick. This is my favorite of the Acid sub genre of house. So again this is what I love out of what I own. There well may be a bunch of other tracks (please share them with us in the comments) that I am unaware of or perhaps just don't own. I have made several house compilations that I will eventually post up here. I just went this direction because of yesterday's post. Notice that there is one track that is on both comps (the MESH track) and one additional PTV track on here not repeated on yesterday's pick. Anyway very danceable, all in BPM order. And I especially like that you could print out the cover and use it for blotter. You're welcome.

Acid House Pick

01 808 State - Flow Coma (Afx Remix)

02 Bam Bam - Where's Your Child

03 Bang The Party - Release Your Body (Mayday Mix)

04 Baby Ford - Oochy Koochy

05 The Nightwriters - Let The Music Use You

06 Pierre's Pfantasy Club - Dream Girl (Wet Dream)

07 Charles B - Lack of Love

08 Phuture - Acid Trax

09 Da Posse - In The Heat Of The Night (Acid Mix)

10 Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid

11 Mr Lee - Pump Up London

12 Pierre's Pfantasy Club - Fantasy Girl

13 Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness

14 Abe Duque featuring Blake Baxter - Acid

15 Armando - Land Of Confusion (Confusion Mix)

16 M.E.S.H. - Meet Every Situation Head On

17 Psychic TV - Tune In (Turn On Thee Acid House)

18 Code 3 - Code Of Acid

PTV Pick

Psychic TV was an offshoot of Throbbing Gristle (one of my favorites). They had some very different phases (of music and identities.) This is one of my favorite picks of that. Industrial Acid Dance. And I put in a pick or two from TG, so you can see that it started back then. Even though they are Carter-Tutti remixes of the songs. I also like the David Ball (Soft Cell) remix. There are so many PTV albums released it is hard to pick just enough tracks for one CD, but here it is. Originally it was Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson who started this band, but Peter left to form his own band and it became the baby of P-Orridge and his band of merry men (although I use that term loosely.) Great dance music and I didn't care what they did to their bodies. Just crazy enough to be genius, or who knows what. Just know that all of below is Genesis' different disguises. That's Psychick TV.

PTV Pick

01 Psychic TV - Good Vibrations

02 Psychic TV - Roman P.

03 Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady (Carter Tutti Remix)

04 King Tubby - Psyche Out

05 Psychic TV - Papal Breakdance

06 Psychic TV - Godstar

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

08 Psychic TV - S.M.I.L.E. (Remix by Greedy Bead Syndicate)

09 Psychic TV - Eve Ov Destruction

10 Psychic TV - Horror House

11 Nobody Uninc - Only Human

12 M.E.S.H. - Meet Every Situation Head On

13 Psychic TV - Money for E (Remix by Dave Ball)

14 Psychic TV - I.C. Water

SPK Pick

It's funny, but I was introduced to this band twice. And I liked them each time for different reasons. I had a girl, the same one who introduced me to Throbbing Gristle (she had Second Annual Report) and early Cabaret Voltaire, introduce me to SPK. But at the time it was a band called Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv (they switched it around for awhile before settling on SPK.) She had the album Leichenschrei (which is German for Corpse Scream.) It was a brilliant industrial album. It went well with TG's 2nd Annual Report. Later when SPK was on Elektra records I got the album and the Junk Funk 12 inch (I put that one on this pick) not realizing it was the same band. I liked them again. And some of the following were combos of industrial and industrial synthpop. I really liked that, too. Network records at that time had quite a few really good bands on their label (and I liked their rep) so I got a bunch of albums that I mostly all loved. Either way, I compiled my pick of each of these periods. And I mixed them all, industrial noise with the dance.

SPK Pick

01 SPK - Baby Blue Eyes

02 SPK - Slogun

03 SPK - Funk #2

04 SPK - Retard

05 SPK - Palms Crossed in Sorrow

06 SPK - In Flagrante Delicto

07 SPK - Necropolis

08 SPK - Mouth To Mouth

09 SPK - Kambuja

10 SPK - Sheer Naked Aggression

11 SPK - Junk Funk (The Special Crash Mix)

12 SPK - Breathless

13 SPK - Metal Dance

14 SPK - Day Of Pigs

15 SPK - Wars Of Islam

16 SPK - Mekano

17 SPK - Post-Mortem

The The Pick

The first time I heard Matt Johnson and The The was on a compilation called Some Bizarre. I actually bought it because it had a Depeche Mode song and a Soft Cell song on it that I hadn't heard before. And I liked both of those bands. The one track by The The was kinda of weird (as was the rest of the album) but I liked it. Later when I saw the first The The album come out, I saw this cool artwork and remembered the song. It wasn't on the album. I bought it right away. I had no idea what I was in for. I listened to the album late at night with headphones on. Seinheisers, with yellow foam and open ears. And on a really long cord. I listened to the album and then I played it again. And again. Over and over. Several times. I was entranced by the songs, the voice. I thought everyone would or should be listening to this album. They didn't. I didn't hear a single song on the radio stations. I tried to make it my mission to play a song every time I was out. I don't think he caught on until a few albums later. I bought them all. This is my pick of The The songs. But get all the albums. They are great. I didn't realize until later that all these people I loved guested on these albums. Bonus!

The The Pick

01 The The - I've Been Waitin' For Tomorrow

02 The The - The Beat(en) Generation

03 The The - Infected

04 The The - Gravitate To Me (Little Version)

05 The The - Armageddon Days (Are Here Again)

06 The The - The Whisperers

07 The The - Red Cinders In The Sand

08 The The - The The

09 The The - I Saw The Light

10 The The - Sweet Bird Of Truth

11 The The - Heartland

12 The The - Perfect (12 Remix)

13 The The - Slow Emotion Replay

14 The The - This Is The Day

15 The The - Uncertain Smile

16 The The - Love Is Stronger Than Death

17 The The - I Want 2 B U

18 The The - Dogs Of Lust

Carter Tutti CTI Pick

This is volume two of the Chris & Cosey pick. First it is, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti who make up Chris & Cosey (in case you didn't know). They also did work together as Carter Tutti, CTI, TGT and other variations. I always liked the TGT configuration although the TGT stands for The Genetic Terrorists and nothing to do with Throbbing Gristle and is a collaboration with Brian Lustmord. The track I included is a Razormaid remix and is not on the album. Some of this stuff I only own on white label LP's from Wax Trax that they sent out before the album was officially released. Carter also did a bunch of production and remix work, but I didn't include any in here, although some of it is quite good. All of it is a bit different than everything on yesterday's pick.

Carter Tutti CTI Pick

14 Chris Carter - Blissters

15 Chris Carter - Beat

16 CTI - No Mans Land

17 Chris Carter - Pulsec

18 Carter Tutti Void - F = (2.4)

19 Carter Tutti - Lucifer Sam

20 Carter Tutti Void - T 3.2

21 Cosey Fanni Tutti - Tutti

22 CTI - Repose

23 Chris Carter - Moonlight

24 Carter Tutti Void - V1

25 The Genetic Terrorists - Machine Gun (Razormaid Mix)

26 Carter Tutti - Sudden Dreaming