Steve Lillywhite Productions

This pick of Steve Lillywhite will only scratch the surface of his productions since he has over 500 to his name. But they are indicative of my favorites. Songs I own. I am not going to get into everything he's done and how famous he is, especially in Britain. Go to the internet and look it up. I'm sure they have gobs of pages there about him. I could care less. But I do care about bands like The Members and the album he produced. Stuff like Ultravox! when they were punky and edgy. Psychedelic Furs, Talking Heads, Big Country, Siouxsie, XTC, Pogues, etc. Lots of bands went through his hands and mostly for the better. Just listen and you will hear it. Thanks Steve.

Steve Lillywhite Productions

01 30 Seconds To Mars - Kings And Queens

02 Members - Sound Of The Suburbs

03 The Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe (Remastered Album Version)

04 Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

05 Ultravox! - My Sex

06 Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me

07 Marshall Crenshaw - Whenever You're On My Mind

08 Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers

09 Rolling Stones - Harlem Shuffle

10 The La's - There She Goes

11 Big Country - In A Big Country

12 Switchfoot - Awakening

13 Steel Pulse - Ku Klux Klan

14 The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God

15 U2 - Vertigo

16 Phish - Waste

17 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (Strings Intro)

18 XTC - Making Plans for Nigel

19 Morrissey - The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get

Instrumentals

I'm not saying these are the best, just that they are the ones I thought of when I made this pick. That said, they are all pretty good. I want to mention two of them. Journey I will talk about since most people think of them after Steve Perry joined. But their first couple of albums were pretty darn good. Prog rock-like. Jazz rock. Normally, I would include Kahoutek from the first album, but this time I included a different track. But they are all good. And second I want to just mention the Commodores. Before they went all Lionel-Ritchie-easy-going-pop-ballad, they rocked as a funk band. The track on here is a great example of it. They were good. Anyway, enjoy the pick. I have fun listening to it every now and again.

Instrumentals

01 Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien

02 King Crimson - Red

03 Focus - Hocus Pocus

04 Edgar Winter - Frankenstein

05 Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick

06 The Who - Sparks

07 Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia

08 Commodores - Machine Gun

09 Jimi Hendrix Experience - 3rd Stone From The Sun

10 38 Special - Robin Hood

11 Van Halen - Eruption

12 Jeff Beck - Freeway Jam

13 Booker T. And The MG's - Green Onions

14 Journey - Topaz

15 Traffic - Glad

16 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Opening Theme)

17 Santana - Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)

Hot N Dirty

Not family friendly, this pick includes a few dirty dance songs. Mostly it's double entendre. Ever since Donna Summer, I have always kept an ear out for songs that could be thought to be very dirty. I'm pretty sure most all of these qualify for at least a little bit naughty. The Yoko Ono remixes show how good her songs really are. I am in the like Yoko camp. Sorry if you are not. She's a trendsetter. I may one day do a pick on Belgian industrial dance or what became Body Music or a hundred other names. When I first heard Erotic Dissidents, I was firmly on that side of the fence, too. Taste of Sugar comes out of that camp, as well. I know that Nelly is who most people would play, but I liked Tiga's version. Several of these are only naughty if you have a dirty mind, luckily, I do. Please leave other suggestions in the comments, if you also have a dirty mind.

Hot N Dirty

01 Armand van Helden feat Mita - Entra Mi Casa

02 Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch

03 Erotic Dissidents - Move Your Ass

04 Taste Of Sugar - Hmm Hmm

05 Yoko Ono - Open Your Box (Orange Factory Mix)

06 Miss Kittin - Frank Sinatra (V.I.P Area Mix)

07 Tiga - Hot in Herre (Extended Version)

08 69 Boyz - Tootsee Roll

09 Quad City DJ's - C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)

10 Reel To Real - I Like To Move It

11 Tito Nieves - I Like it Like That

12 Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.

13 Sir Mix-A-lot - Baby Got Back

14 2 Live Crew - Me So Horny

15 Tone Loc - Wild Thing

16 Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby

17 Christina Aguilera - Dirrty

18 Prince - Orgasm

Evil Step-Brothership 2

A continuation of the Led Zeppelin covers and covered pick, with a few mashups included. The Beat Farmers is interesting and fairly rare. I understand the story is that they went to a recording booth at a fair or something like that and just recorded it on the spot. At least that's what they said during the interview when they were in the radio studio I worked at. I also love the Beatnix. I wish I had more from this band, because that's a brilliant version. Probably my most favorite Led Zeppelin cover because it doesn't sound at all like the original, but it is exactly like the original at the same time. I've had non-music people say that they had no idea that Led Zeppelin covered the Beatles. LOL!

Evil Step-Brothership 2

20 Dread Zeppelin - Kashmir

21 George Clinton - Heartbreaker featuring Killah Priest

22 Sheryl Crow - D'yer Mak'er

23 Red Star Rebels - Rock And Roll

24 Josh White - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed

25 Lez Zeppelin - On The Rocks

26 Doors vs Led Zeppelin - Break Through Love

27 Beat Farmers - Zeppelin Medley

28 Beatnix - Stairway to Heaven

29 Blind Willie Johnson - It's Nobodys Fault but Mine

30 Tool - No Quarter

31 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra - Whole Lotta Love

32 Stone Temple Pilots - Dancing Days

33 Hayseed Dixie - Black Dog

34 Martin Gore - In My Time of Dying (Dance remix)

35 Suzanne Vega vs Led Zeppelin vs Streetlab - Tom's Immigrant Diner

36 Orchestre National De Jazz - Dazed And Confused

Evil Step-Brothership 1

At one time I could tell you how I came up with the name, but for the life of me I can't think of it now. Had something to do with the mothership, step brothers and, I don't know. Maybe you can make sense of it. Had fun designing the cover, using that font. As you will see over these two picks (today and tomorrow) It's mostly people covering Led Zeppelin, but also the originals of a couple of songs that Zeppelin pilfered from. At least a couple of Zeppelin mashups and a couple of really stupid covers that are so stupid they are brilliant. This volume also has the Xmas Zeppelin, so save that for the season.

Evil Step-Brothership 1

01 Tori Amos - Thank You

02 Corinne Bailey Rae - Since I've Been Loving You

03 Dolly Parton - Stairway To Heaven

04 Dread Zeppelin - Heartbreaker (At The End Of Lonely Street)

05 The Dynamics - Whole Lotta Love

06 Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra - Black Dog

07 Muddy Waters - You Need Love

08 Little Roger & The Goosebumps - Stairway To Gilligans Island

09 Hayseed Dixie - Whole Lotta Love

10 Eek-A-Mouse - D'yer Maker

11 Bongwater - Dazed & Chinese

12 Pat Boone - Stairway To Heaven

13 The Dickies - Communication Breakdown (Live)

14 Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha - When the Levee Breaks

15 Dixie Dregs - Kashmir

16 Lez Zeppelin - The Ocean

17 Eight to the Bar - Rock and Roll

18 Fleming and John - Winter Wonderland-Misty Mountain Top

19 Bob Rivers - Sled Zeppelin

Glam Pick 1

Here's my pick of Glam music. It has some that you traditionally see on compilations like this, but at least a few that are not part of the regulars (and I think they should be.) One of my favorites of that section is Kalus Nomi. It's hard to be more glam than him. His music fits right in (although he does it with an opera sound voice at times.) The beat is right there, the music is as glam as you can get. He dresses glam. Homemade costumes with glitter and gold and large amounts of plastic. This track is one of my favorites, but perhaps not his biggest hit. A few others might have gotten more attention, but Wizard Of Oz is also a glam movie. Tell me I'm wrong. And rarely do we see Klaus on any Glam compilations. It's a shame, I tell you.

Glam Pick 1

01 T. Rex - Get It On

02 Sweet - Fox On The Run

03 Gary Glitter - Rock and Roll part 2

04 Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now

05 Suzi Quatro - Can The Can

06 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down

07 Elton John - The Bitch Is Back

08 Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night

09 Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love

10 Queen - Killer Queen

11 Mott the Hoople - Rock and Roll Queen

12 Ian Hunter - Once Bitten Twice Shy

13 Kiss - Christine Sixteen

14 Alice Cooper - Eighteen

15 David Bowie - Suffragette City

16 Roxy Music - Virginia Plain

17 Lou Reed - Vicious

18 Iggy & The Stooges - Gimme Some Skin

19 New York Dolls - Jet Boy

20 Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire

21 Osmonds - Crazy Horses

22 Klaus Nomi - Ding Dong

Flic Your Bic 7

This is the last of the series that is completely finished. You would think that getting the cover made would be easy, as well as setting up the text files and m3u's, but it always takes me awhile to finish each pick.. Even though it's already pretty much set. Oh well. This volume has quite a few doubles (bands, not songs). Can't help it. So many great songs to Flic Your Bic to. Anyway it may be a little bit before you see more of this compilation, but I know what's coming up, It'll be worth the wait. Probably not the write up, since this one was kind of lame.

Flic Your Bic 7

71 Deep Purple - Highway Star

72 Frank Zappa - Montana

73 Rush - Tom Sawyer

74 Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused

75 ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses

76 REO Speedwagon - 157 Riverside Avenue

77 Jimi Hendrix - Wild Thing

78 Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl

79 Scorpions - The Zoo

80 Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

81 Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane

82 Grateful Dead - Truckin'

83 Metallica - Enter Sandman

84 Kinks - Lola

85 Nazareth - Love Hurts

Flic Your Bic 6

The last few that are finished coming up on this Flic Your Bic pick series of anthemic songs that inspire me to flash my cell phone of my Bic lighter. Nothing too long in this volume Deep Purple is th eonly one that goes over ten minutes although Guns and Roses and Metallica get over seven minutes each. As we reach the last few in this compilation series that are completely done, make sure you leave your suggestions in the comments. What inspires you to Flic Your Bic?

Flic Your Bic 6

59 Triumph - Lay It On The Line

60 Boston - More Than a Feeling

61 Metallica - One

62 Scorpions - Coming Home

63 Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath

64 Spirit - Dark Eyed Woman

65 Deep Purple - Child In Time

66 Who - Behind Blue Eyes

67 Rush - The Trees

68 Elton John - Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)

69 Styx - Come Sail Away

70 Guns N' Roses - November Rain

Flic Your Bic 5

The fifth volume of Flic Your Bic picks. Several more to go, but we're reaching the back half of these anthemic rock song compilations that inspire me to pick up my lighter when I hear these tracks. I promised you a lame story of how the cover came to be. It has to do with graphic software called CorelDraw. I use it, have been using it and it is my graphic software of choice. I had found an interesting font and was trying out some textures and effects when I decided to use it for the very first Flic Your Bic picks. I liked it and as I made more of the volumes, I used the cover on all the rest. Only changing the volume number. I still like the look of it.

Flic Your Bic 5

48 Black Sabbath - War Pigs

49 Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good

50 Doors - Riders On The Storm

51 Eric Clapton - Cocaine

52 Neil Young - Like A Hurricane

53 Yes - Sound Chaser

54 Pink Floyd - Money

55 Rush - La Villa Strangiato

56 Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

57 Who - Who Are You

58 Jackson Browne - Stay

Flic Your Bic 4

Volume four of the Flic Your Bic pick. You will notice that there are only eight songs. Thats because each of these tracks is fairly long. Steve Miller Band is the shortest of the bunch at just five and a half minutes. This volume is not really fair. There is one track that never really was used as an anthemic Flic Your Bic song and now that he is dead and left word to not really play it live anymore, it won't get played as one in the future. But Watermelon In Easter Hay should be the perfect song for this category. One of my favorite FZ songs and perfect for raising your lighter. Okay, okay, the cover is not that big of a story. It mostly has to do with some software and I'll tell you about it tomorrow.

Flic Your Bic 4

40 Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

41 Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hanging on

42 Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay

43 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Heard it Through The Grapevine

44 Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida

45 Steve Miller Band - Threshold-Jet Airliner

46 Lou Reed - Rock 'N' Roll

47 Yes - Machine Messiah

Flic Your Bic 3

I did not get to see all these bands live, but I imagine the concerts of the ones I didn't get to see and these are the tracks I would have Flic'd My Bic to. And the rest, I really did Flic My Bic at these picks or at the very least I used my cell phone. Rush is one of those bands that I have seen live multiple times (and they are reflected by that over the course of several volumes. What I have not talked about yet is the cover I designed for this compilation pick. And I won't yet. Ha ha! And did you notice from yesterday that a couple of the tracks were also about fire, smoke, light? This volume has a few mentions of White. Is that coincidence?

Flic Your Bic 3

25 Bad Company - Shooting Star

26 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)

27 Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

28 Derek & The Dominos - Layla

29 It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird

30 Supertramp - The Logical Song

31 Free - All Right Now

32 The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

33 Jimi Hendrix - Gloria

34 Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son

35 Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog

36 Rush - The Spirit Of Radio

37 Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

38 Eagles - Hotel California

39 ZZ Top - La Grange

Flic Your Bic 2

Continuing on with the Flic Your Bic Pick, it's volume two! I limited the selection to only one song per band per volume. And not just to "hits". Well, I guess they are all hits, to me. The first couple of bands that are repeating show up on this volume. Led Zeppelin and Sweet are the ones here. Ballroom Blitz is the one song that people usually place first for Sweet, but you notice that I used Love is Like Oxygen on volume one. No mistake. I think of that song as the biggest Flic Your Bic song of theirs (although the Blitz is certainly up there. On the other hand fo Zeppelin, it is hard to not use Stairway as a Flic Your Bic tune. It is perhaps the biggest example of this type of song. The song I used here is probably way less thought of, but I think that's a mistake.

Flic Your Bic 2

11 Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll

12 Barnstorm - Rocky Mountain Way

13 Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla

14 Focus - Hocus Pocus

15 Edgar Winter - Frankenstein

16 Golden Earring - Radar Love

17 Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides

18 Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz

19 Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

20 Doors - Light My Fire

21 Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

22 Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light

23 Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes - The Great White Buffalo

24 Black Sabbath - Iron Man

Flic Your Bic 1

There could be a lot of volumes in this pick, and I have quite a few finished and more on the way. These are all anthemic rock songs that make you want to pull out your lighter in the dark. Back in the stone ages, we called it Flic Your Bic. Nowadays, you pull out your cell phone and put in flashlight mode (or you can even find a Bic Lighter app or perhaps a Zippo). Either way the concept is the same. The song is rocking or about to rock and you want to join in with the band and the rest of the audience. I am sure that over the course of the next several hours, you are going to agree (and perhaps strongly disagree) with my picks. As always leave a comment about Flic Your Bic songs you would like to see. over the course of the next week or so, each volume is long enough to fit on a CD.

Flic Your Bic 1

01 Journey - Kahoutek

02 Boston - Foreplay-Long Time

03 Yes - Roundabout

04 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

05 Kansas - Dust In The Wind

06 Aerosmith - Dream On

07 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

08 Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen

09 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

10 Beatles - A Day In The Life

Femmes Fatale 6

I have a few more of these put together, but not quite finished (volumes and covers, etc). So this will be the last one for a bit. I'm ending on the even side, so a little bit less mellow. I finished this one around 2006 or so. I was listening to the Mock and Toof remixes. I liked them quite a bit and mixed it in with several other remixes and edits that I also liked. You have enough of an idea of what I was trying to accomplsh with this pick, so even though I am busy with volumes seven through ten, give me some suggestions that you would like to see fit in this collection, in the comments. BTW, I have noticed that it sometimes takes  a while for me to get notification of the comments, I will get to it and approve everything (unless it is spam, which gets deleted)

Femmes Fatale 6

01 Basement Jaxx - Hush Boy

02 Midnight Star - No Parking on the Dance Floor

03 L'Trimm - Cars With The Boom (BootyClash Mix)

04 Paris - Stars Are Blind

05 SOS Band - Just Be Good To Me

06 Company B - Fascinated (Miami Mix)

07 Madonna - Lycra Virgin (Mock & Toof Remix)

08 Black Eyed Peas - Tight Humps (Mock & Toof Remix)

09 Kylie Minogue - I Believe In You (Mylo Vocal)

10 Olivia Newton John - Physical (HT Funk Remix)

11 Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) 

12 Cyndi Lauper - Disco Inferno

13 ATC - Around The World (La La La La La)

14 Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?

15 One Way - Cutie Pie

Femmes Fatale 5

Continuing down the Femmes Fatale pick path, we're now at volume five. Lots of great mellower songs on this one. But I will talk only about one artist. Claudine Longet. I first heard Longet in college. I had an amazing art professor. Loved his classes. He did a few things that impressed me quite a bit. First, he would lecture us while we were drawing, painting, whatever. He talked about how to form an LLC, get a business started and organized. Gave us resources. Said the biggest shame in the art world was not having artists be able to support themselves. Second, he always had a school record player brought in to class. And ALL he played were albums that he got at flea markets, or thrift stores for under a buck. That usually meant that the albums were in bad shape. Some had cracks or holes in them and only a few tracks were playable. One artist seemed to get played a lot: Claudine Longet. We heard stories about her controversies and listen to the few playable tracks from each album. I ended up really liking her "fey" sixties sound. Eventually I bought all her albums (better versions - even CD's once those came out.)

Femmes Fatale 5

01 Emma Bunton - Downtown

02 Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - Sweet Thing

03 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'aime Moi Non Plus

04 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song

05 kd Lang - So In Love

06 Claudine Longet - The Look Of Love

07 Donna Summer - The Power Of One

08 Kate Bush - The Handsome Cabin Boy

09 Olivia Newton-John - Hopelessly Devoted To You

10 Everything But The Girl - I Fall To Pieces

11 Concrete Blonde - Joey

12 Ladytron - Playgirl

13 The Edge & Sinead O'Connor - Heroine (Theme from 'Captive')

14 Rose Royce - I Wanna Get Next To You

15 Phoebe Snow - Poetry Man

16 Sheryl Crow - Good Is Good

17 Carrie Underwood - Jesus, Take The Wheel

18 Storm and The Balls - I Want You To Die

19 Pink - Tell Me Something Good

20 Alicia Keys - Fallin'

Femmes Fatale 4

I feel like I need to remind you that these Femmes Fatale picks are divided by odd and even volumes. Even is more upbeat. I'm going to mention two of the female singers on this comp. Not because they don't all deserve mention, but because I feel like it. The first is Jo Kennedy. You may not know who she is. But Down Under she is a singer actress. I saw her in a fun movie Starstruck. She plays a singer. Great soundtrack, a silly plot. One of my favorite Australian movies. I won't mention that the soundtrack includes several male bands that you may know. It has Jo Kennedy, that's all you need to know. The other artist is Storm Large. I never had heard of her. But I went to a concert (Nina Hagen) and accidentally came early to the show. Storm opened. Almost no one there. I was blown away. I instantly became a fan. Bought her CD's. Loved all of them. Supposedly she was on some TV show competing and made this single with Dave Navarro. I have no idea if she won or not, but if she didn't, shame on the judges. One of the best singers live I have ever seen/felt. And I've seen a lot. I want to be her groupie.She was amazing.

Femmes Fatale 4

01 Corinne Bailey Rae - Like a Star

02 Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice

03 Sheryl Crow - Soak Up the Sun

04 The Blow - Parentheses

05 Storm Large with Dave Navarro - Ladylike

06 Peaches with Joan Jett - You Love It

07 Cansei De Ser Sexy - Music is My Hot Hot Sex

08 Bang! Bang! - Candystop

09 Fergie - Fergalicious

10 Pink - Stupid Girls

11 Be Your Own Pet - Damn Damn Leash

12 Bonnie Hayes with the Wild Combo - Girls Like Me

13 Meg & Dia - Monster

14 The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me

15 Diva Zappa - When The Ball Drops

16 Jo Kennedy - Monkey In Me

17 Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peek-A-Boo

18 Eurythmics - I Need A Man

19 Divinyls - Pleasure And Pain

20 Cassie - Me & U

21 Lesley Gore - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

22 Bananarama - No Feelings

23 Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (Le Tigre Remix)

24 Maggie Estep - Hey Baby

Femmes Fatale 3

Back again with the odd volume of Femmes Fatale pick number three. More of the mellower tracks. A few more of the older tracks and some that mimic the older standard style. I love these picks.  But I have to talk about one in particular. Lisa Stansfield. I am generally not a big fan, Sorry I just am not. But when I heard the Red Hot Cole Porter compilation, I was blown away with her version of Down in The Depths. Her voice just struck me. It automatically became my favorite on the CD. I even went out to listen to more of her music (meh, which was disappointing to me). But everytime I listen to that one track, I am gobsmacked by her voice. Just brilliant, such depths. Love it. And that's not even the best song on this comp.

Femmes Fatale 3

01 10,000 Maniacs - Like The Weather

02 Etta James - At Last

03 Norah Jones - Don't Know Why

04 Lisa Stansfield - Down In The Depths

05 Christina Aguilera - I Got Trouble

06 Fugees - Killing Me Softly with His Song

07 Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - Hollywood

08 Lily Allen - Smile

09 Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

10 Kate Bush - Lord of the Reedy River

11 The Velvet Underground & Nico - Femme Fatale

12 Everything But The Girl - Almost Blue

13 Sandi Thom - I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)

14 Sylvia - Pillow Talk

15 Sinead O'Connor - Damn Your Eyes

16 Olivia Newton-John - I Honestly Love You

17 Chris & Cosey - Stolen Kisses

18 Diva Zappa - Girlie Woman

19 Mary J Blige - Be Without You

20 Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - Stay (I Missed You)

21 Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops

22 Regina Spektor - Fidelity

Femmes Fatale 2

Volume two of the Femmes Fatale pick is the first one with more upbeat feel. Play the two volumes after each other and it's very obvious. I was thinking of renumbering and putting all the evens and all the odd together, but I want to stay true to the original idea as I first envisioned it. So, too bad if it bothers your OCD (like it does with me.) All of these songs I played on my radio show at one time or another long ago. And it was a cassette at one point. A couple of notes that are interesting. I talked with Lydia Lunch way back when. I do love that girl! And I talked to her about all of her crazy shit she's done and she mentioned that she hated this track (and her version of Spooky) She thought it was weak. I told her she was crazy. It was brilliant in my mind, because of how she did it. Definitely not the same as her stuff with Clint Ruin etc, but I loved it just the same. Later that year she put out Trouble which is kind of in this same vein, so maybe she listened. Doubtful, though. Never went anywhere with her, but not because we didn't flirt enough. I have never had so much mutual grab ass with nothing coming of it.

Femmes Fatale 2

01 Romeo Void - Never Say Never

02 The Pandoras - In And Out Of My Life (In A Day)

03 Nina Hagen - I Love Pol

04 Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

05 Nena - 99 Luftballoons

06 The B-52's - Give Me Back My Man

07 Pearl Harbor & The Explosions - Drivin'

08 Grace Jones - Use Me

09 Suburban Lawns - Janitor

10 Missing Persons - Words

11 Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

12 Go-Go's - We Got The Beat

13 Lene Lovich - New Toy

14 Aretha Franklin - Respect

15 Concrete Blonde - Still in Hollywood

16 The Pretenders - Precious

17 Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach

18 Adult Net - White Night (Stars Say Go)

19 Blondie - Rip Her To Shreds

20 Lydia Lunch - Atomic Bongos

21 X Ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours

22 The Cosmopolitans - (How To Make Your) Husband Happy

Femmes Fatale 1

This pick is a multi volume set. All of the tracks feature a female singer. A few older tracks but the genre and year didn't matter at all in the pick. What did matter was it had to be a song I liked. The odd volumes are a little bit on the mellower side and the even volumes are slightly more upbeat. It's been a few years since I started making these. I still haven't finished compiling all of them. I need to clean up a few tracks and put the order together on a couple of the later volumes. I do have six or so ready right this moment, so enjoy what you get.

Femmes Fatale 1

01 The Velvet Underground & Nico - I'll Be Your Mirror

02 The Sugarcubes - Birthday

03 Sinead O'Connor - Troy

04 Billie Holiday - Crazy He Calls Me

05 Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

06 Everything But The Girl - Alfie

07 10,000 Maniacs - What's the Matter Here-

08 Astrud Gilberto - The Girl from Ipanema

09 Inflatable Boy Clams - I'm Sorry

10 Eurythmics - Jennifer

11 Martha & the Muffins - One Day In Paris

12 Tom Tom Club - Femme Fatale

13 Poly Styrene - Dreaming

14 Patsy Cline - Walking After Midnight

15 Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

16 Cindy Lee Berryhill - Damn, I Wish I Was A Man

17 Siouxsie & the Banshees - Trust In Me

18 Downy Mildew - Experience In The Far Southwest

19 Cocteau Twins - Crushed

20 Suzanne Vega - Luka

21 Yaz - Only You

First Summer Potpourri

Imagine you recently started dating someone in college and before they leave for the summer: surprise, surprise you get an unexpected cassette thay secretly had made for you. They mail it to you so you get the pick after they have left. Whoa! That's pretty cool. This is such a cassette. I wasn't expecting it. It had really cool songs on it. Several that were new releases at the time. And it has a message. A message of longing, but still a bit unsure. Testing the waters to see if I felt the same about her as she did about me. And also wanting to impress me with her knowledge of music. It worked. I ended up driving hours and hours in a bus to go see her as soon as I could. If I wasn't as much of a simpleton, it probably could have lasted much longer. Either way it ended up lasting for years. I was smitten. This cassette was a good reason for the start of that. I still don't understand a couple of the choices, but the other 95% I totally do.

First Summer Potpourri

01 Elvis Costello - Girls Talk

02 The Inkspots - If I Didn't Care

03 Suzanne Fellini - Love On The Phone

04 The Chipmunks - Christmas Don't Be Late

05 Elvis Costello - My Funny Valentine

06 The Selector - On My Radio

07 Icehouse - Sister

08 Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

09 Sue Saad & The Next - Won't Give Up

10 Romantics - She's Got Everything

11 Graham Parker - Heat Treatment

12 The Sinceros - I Still Miss You

13 The Inmates - The Walk

14 Joe Jackson - Jumpin' With Symphony Sid

15 Elvis Costello - Big Boys

16 Romantics - When I Look In Your Eyes

17 Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him

18 The Motels - Forever Mine

Faux

This is a special pick for me. First, I have had a couple of people in my life that I have felt completely in trust with them cutting my hair. Completely. Where I could just walk in and let them decide how to change my hair to something completely different and I would be okay with it. One of those was Mikel. He was the owner of Faux Hair Salon in Campbell, California. He died unfortunately. And I ended up moving out of California. Still have not found anyone like Mikel. He loved music. He loved trying new things with hair. I had some interesting haircuts over the years and years he cut my hair. His salon was amazing. Everyone there was really good. The cover of this commpilation was a tuck and roll wall that was on one side of the shop. New art all the time. It was cool. He loved playing new music. And I made several CD's for him to play at his shop over the years. This was one of them. 

Faux

01 Storm and The Balls - Hopelessly Devoted

02 Lydia Lunch with The Anubian Lights - Trouble

03 Ojays vs Britney - Back Stab Me One More Time

04 Miss Kittin - Kiss Factory

05 Ladytron - Seventeen

06 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

07 Book Of Love - Boy, It's My Sound & Vision

08 Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Asereja)

09 Rosenstolz, Almond, Nina Hagen - Total Eclipse

10 Melon - I Will Call You (And Other Famous Last Words)

11 The B-52's - Don't Worry

12 Garbage - Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)

13 Josie Cotton - Johnny, Are You Queer

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

15 Letters To Cleo - I Want You To Want Me

16 Suzanne Fellini - Love On The Phone

17 Nina Hagen - Pillow Talk

18 The Primitives - Crash

19 The Hummingbirds - Sister Goldenhair

20 Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet

What Is The Connection? Breathing

I guess it's really more than Breathing. It's songs with Breath, Breathe, Breathing, Air, Oxygen, etc in the title. That way I could put one of my favorite Sweet songs in the connection, as well as Kate Bush, X, Talking Heads and Ministry. How else would I get all those in one compilation? Only one, really, song about not breathing. although a couple could be construed as not breathing at all. I like this compilation, because it covers a lot of genres (all that I listen to)

What Is The Connection? Breathing

01 Spice Girls - Oxygen

02 Faith Hill - Breathe

03 Creed - One Last Breath

04 Kate Bush - Breathing

05 Berlin - Take My Breath Away

06 Hollies - The Air That I Breathe

07 Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight

08 Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air

09 The Police - Every Breath You Take

10 Telepopmusik - Breathe

11 Erasure - Breath Of Life

12 Talking Heads - Air

13 Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen

14 Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air

15 Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe

16 The La De Das - How Is The Air Up There-

17 Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath

18 Ministry - Breathe

19 X - Breathless

What's The Connection? Candy

I love Candy.I know it's not good for me. I try not to eat Candy, but I do. Most of the time I am keto friendly, and so I have tried many keto Candy. None are quite the same. This connection is all about songs with candy in the title. Some old, some newer. Rat Pack andone of my favorites, Jorge Buccio (the Mexican Elvis, who has some other great songs. Look for his Napkin Song) From my high school days: The Sylvers. Not their biggest hit, yet still a good one. I'm pretty sure Iggy had a minor hit with his track featuring members of the B-52's. And I could've put the Bow Wow Wow version on here, but chose the original. And one of my very favorite picks closes out the compilation. What's known as the dirtiest song ever without one nasty word. Lots more, so leave your favorites in the comments.

What's The Connection? Candy

01 John Mercer With Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers - Candy

02 Dean Martin - Candy Kisses

03 Sammy Davis Jr - The Candy Man

04 Jorge Buccio - Candy, In My Heart You'll Always Be

05 Jesus And Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking

06 Iggy Pop - Candy

07 Cars - Candy-O

08 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Candy Girl

09 Sylvers - Cotton Candy

10 New Edition - Candy Girl

11 Cameo - Candy

12 Mandy Moore - Candy

13 Christina Aguilera - Candyman

14 Roy Orbison - Candy Man

15 Strangeloves - I Want Candy

16 Siouxsie & the Banshees - Candyman

17 Bang! Bang! - Candystop

18 Jane Wiedlin - Big Rock Candy Mountain

19 Led Zeppelin - Candy Store Rock

20 Montrose - Rock Candy

21 50 Cent with Olivia - Candyshop

22 Sticky Fingers - Candy Rapper

What's The Connection? Boom 2

The continuing story of Boom volume 2. This connection has more of the favorite picks of Boom songs. There are tons more (leave any you would suggest in the comments.) I didn't know who Pat Travers was when I first saw him live. He opened up for a Day On The Green, but after seeing him play live, I was impressed. What a good show from a dude that was wearing a wrist watch. I was always struck by the fact that he didn't seem like a rock and roller, but boy did he rock. The only thing that troubles me about this compilation is the Yardbirds and the Animals both covering the same song so near each other. But differently than each other and John Lee Hooker. Oh, well.

What's The Connection? Boom 2

22 Dean Martin - Zing-A Zing-A Zing Boom

23 Charli XCX - Boom Clap

24 P.O.D. - Boom

25 Saliva - Click Click Boom

26 Pat Travers - Boom Boom Out Go The Lights

27 Snoop Dogg Feat. T-Pain - Boom

28 James Taylor - Baby Boom Baby

29 Abraxas Pool - Boom Ba Ya Ya

30 Pazant Brothers - The Pazant Brothers & The Beaufort Express - Chick A Boom

31 Brian Eno - Boomcubist

32 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow

33 Boys from the Bottom - Boom! I Got Your Girlfriend

34 The Jamaicans - Ba Ba Boom

35 Twinsets - Sophisticated Boom Boom

36 The Yardbirds - Boom Boom

37 The Danderliers - Chop Chop Boom

38 Lillian Hale - Don't Boom Boom

39 The Animals - Boom Boom

What's The Connection? Boom 1

All songs with Boom in the Title make this Connection. Volume one. When I finished this WTC, I realized that a couple of my very favorite Boom songs were not on this one. Granted I had Paul Lekakis, Krakftwerk, Perry Como and L'Trimm. I even had John Lee Hooker, but around this time I had already seen a special movie and the main song from that movie was not on this list. So tomorrow I do volume two.

What's The Connection? Boom 1

01 Juster - Boom Boom Boom

02 Goldo - Boom Da Boom

03 Shangri-Las - Sophisticated Boom Boom

04 Apache Indian - Boom Shakalak

05 DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - Boom! Shake the Room (Ultimix)

06 Perry Como - Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)

07 Dick Robertson - I Faw Down and Go Boom

08 Kraftwerk - Boing Boom Tschak

09 Hot Action Cop - Doom Boom

10 The Iguanas - Boom Boom Boom

11 The Chords - Sh Boom

12 L'Trimm - Cars With The Boom

13 Anastacia - Boom

14 Daddy Dewdrop - Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)

15 Nobody's Angel - Boom Boom

16 Paul Lekakis - Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)

17 Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom

18 Tom Tom Club - Booming And Zooming

19 Shaggy - Boombastic

20 John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom

21 Walt Solek - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay

What's The Connection? Hi-Fi Stereo

This is not really related to yesterday's Panned pick although one song repeats on this Connection. This is not so much how or if there is a stereo effect on the music, but more about the lyrics being about Stereo's or Hi-Fi's. The Cars track definitely fits in yesterday's and today's theme. There could be more. Leave suggestions for more of your favorites. By the way, my favorite out of all these has to be Gary Myrick. From the moment I heard the track I was hooked.

What's The Connection? Hi-Fi Stereo

01 Who - Quadrophenia

02 The Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy

03 Scientist - King Tubby's Hi-Fi

04 Dub Syndicate - Hi-fi Gets A Pounding

05 Cars - Moving In Stereo

06 Gary Myrick & The Figures - She Talks In Stereo

07 Elvis Costello - High Fidelity

08 Sparks - Stereo

09 La Tour - Allen's Got A New Hi-Fi

10 Bomfunk MC`s - In Stereo

11 Pavement - Stereo

12 SuperGrass - Pumping Up Your Stereo

13 Suzi Quatro - Fantasy In Stereo

14 Warrant - Love In Stereo

15 Mecano - Stereosexual

16 Specials - Stereotype

17 Cabaret Voltaire - Jack Stereo Unit

Panned

This pick was fun. I guess it started with Edgar Winter. Specifically listening to Frankenstein on my Sennheiser headphones, laying in my waterbed. I loved the way the song panned left and right in my head. I always looked for that effect as I collected albums. Recently I realized that I had plenty to make a CD of my favorites and this is it. Now translated to playlist. I am sure there are other songs that fit the bill (and I would love to hear which ones you would choose in the comments) but these were the ones I chose. I definitely say that you should put on a nice set of headphones to listen to this compilation. It's made for tweaking your ears.

Panned

01 The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot

02 The Orb - Ultraworld Nine-Star 6 & 7 8 9

03 Ott - The Queen Of All Everything

04 10cc - I'm Not In Love

05 Cars - Moving In Stereo

06 Kate Bush - Waking The Witch

07 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

08 Focus - Hocus Pocus

09 Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

10 Edgar Winter - Frankenstein

11 Led Zeppelin - Ramble On

12 Who - Baba O'Riley

13 Pink Floyd - Money

14 Yes - Sound Chaser (Single Edit)

Piece Of PZA 2

Part two of the Piece of PZA cassette. This pick of songs I really liked and that I thought this girl liked did not have the success I was hoping for. I was probably unredeemable by then. Totally my fault for the break up and even if this was a great collection of songs, there was no way it was going to bring that relationship back to life. Oh well, I was devastated for awhile, but I ended up with this pick of cool songs. Now you get the benefit of my desperate attempt to salvage something out of my emotional immaturity. I've improved, but still have a long way to go.

Piece Of PZA 2

10 Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman

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

12 Kool & The Gang - Celebration

13 Brothers Johnson - Stomp

14 The Contours - Do You Love Me

15 The Whispers - It's A Love Thing

16 Ray Parker Jr. - The Other Woman

17 Rose Royce - Do Your Dance

18 Rap Reiplinger - Loving You Is Surfing You

19 Heatwave - Sho'nuff Must Be Luv

Piece Of PZA 1

This was once a cassette. A pick for a girl. So this was side one of the 90 minute cassette. You can pretty much tell what I was listening to at the time. Early 80's soul pop funk mixed with a few seventies tracks. This was not what I would call a successful Cassette, because not too long after, she made that move away from me. I was still very smitten at the time so I always liked the playlist. Maybe it will work better for you. Either way the songs are good.

Piece Of PZA 1

01 Gap Band - Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)

02 Rick James - Give It to Me Baby

03 Prince - Let's Work

04 Brick - Sweat (Till You Get Wet)

05 Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money

06 Earth, Wind & Fire - Magnetic

07 Michael Jackson - Thriller

08 Shalamar - Make That Move

09 Marlena Shaw - Yu-Ma-Go Away Little Boy

Poke Pick

All songs picked for their relationship to Pokemon. My daughter and I played the Pokemon TCG. We were pretty good. We ran a Pokemon "Gym" at a local Toys R Us for quite a while until they decided to no longer host them. It was fun. At one time my daughter was in the top ten West Coast under nine players. I still have decks we made and played with. Of course, I made a CD of Pokemon related songs. I haven't kept up with it, but even though I am an old man, it was still fun. I have no idea what kind of new songs and artists have made Pokemon songs (please tell me of any "good" ones if you know.) As for the card game, I don't even know what the latest set is. Last I remember was Ruby? Or Sapphire? Or maybe one or two after that. We didn't make competition decks really much after Gym or Fossil or something like that. I always tried to make a Team Rocket deck, but they always kind of sucked. One year for Halloween, we dressed up as Team Rocket. Very Fun. Homemade costumes. Either way these were the songs.

Poke Pick

01 Billy Crawford - Pokemon Theme

02 Pokemon - 2 B A Master

03 Weird Al Yankovic - Polkamon

04 Vitamin C - Vacation

05 M2M - Don't Say You Love Me

06 B-Witched - Get Happy

07 Angela Via - Catch Me If You Can

08 NSync - Somewhere Someday

09 Youngstown (featuring Nobody's Angel) - Pokemon World

10 O-Town - Comin' To The Rescue

11 The B-52's - The Chosen One

12 Donna Summer - The Power Of One

13 Mandah - Lullaby

14 Pikachu's Rescue Adventure - Dance Of The Bellossom

15 Blessid Union Of Souls - Brother My Brother

16 Team Rocket - Team Rocket Motto

17 Team Rocket - Double Trouble