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

What's The Connection? Do You Feel 1

Continuing the Feel What's The Connection is Do You Feel. Yesterday was Feel You. These all have Do You Feel in the title. Had to do it, because of Peter Frampton. I included the single (shorter) version of the song, so I could fit in a few extra tracks, but by all means go listen to the longer version. It's probably better. Another wide variety when you do it by title. I included country, pop, disco, rock etc. A couple of the tracks have all the words but not exactly right after each other. Still in the same order, but other words inserted. Example is Jimmie Rodgers Snow or the Deniece Williams. But they were good songs and I wanted them included. I still have a few leftovers, so perhaps there will be a volume two, but I need to get some more to fill it out (maybe I will with the longer Peter Frampton.) See the similar cover.

What's The Connection? Do You Feel 1

01 Ohio Players - (I Wanna Know) Do You Feel It

02 Lou Reed - How Do You Think It Feels

03 Alessi Brothers - Do You Feel It

04 Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do (Single)

05 Jefferson Airplane - How Do You Feel

06 International Submarine Band - Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome

07 U2 - Do You Feel Loved

08 Rick James Pres Bobby M - How Do You Feel Tonight

09 311 - How Do You Feel

10 BBRA - Do What Makes You Feel Good

11 KC & The Sunshine Band - Do You Feel All Right

12 Olivia Newton-John - Do You Feel

13 Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - Do You Love What You Feel

14 Deniece Williams - Do What You Feel

15 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Do You Feel the Same Way

16 Belinda Carlisle - Do You Feel Like I Feel

17 Eddy Grant - Do You Feel My Love

18 The Primitives - How Do You Feel

19 Jimmie Rodgers Snow - How Do You Think I Feel

What's The Connection? Feel You 1

I gave a series of Feel connections. I started with I Feel and then I started working on Can You Feel, Feel It and Do You Feel. But here you go: one posted. Probably more like just Feel, bcause there are there is an I feel and your feelings and you feel. Don't want to be too strict about this one. I have more. Anyway I feel you will like this one. Different type of cover then the I feel, but the rest should be like this one. Enjoy the commercial at the end!

What's The Connection? Feel You 1

01 Santana - Hope You're Feeling Better

02 Partridge Family - I Can Feel Your Heartbeat

03 Freddy King - You've Got to Love Her With a Feeling

04 Crazy Penis - You've Lost That Loving Feeling

05 Erotic Dissidents - Move Your Ass & Feel the Beat

06 Jimi Hendrix - How You Feel

07 Scorpions - Born To Touch Your Feelings

08 Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

09 Earth, Wind & Fire - Let Your Feelings Show

10 Donna Summer - I Feel Love

11 Van Halen - Feel Your Love Tonight

12 Nrbo - Want You To Feel Good Too

13 Devo - Gut Feeling - Slap Your Mammy

14 Asia - I Know How You Feel

15 Frank Zappa - Feel How I Need You

16 Nazz - If That's The Way You Feel

17 Queens Of The Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire

18 David Bowie - You Feel So Lonely You Could Die

19 Mounds and Almond Joy Candy Bars - Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

What's The Connection? Yearn

This is one of those connections where I thought I only knew one song that had the word in the title. The only one I thought I knew (the one I did know) was the Earth, Wind & Fire. I knew several versions of the song. One of my favorite albums of all time (Gratitude) has live version. I started looking through my albums to see if there were any other songs and sure enough several that I just plain forgot showed up. I was originally thinking I would do Learn WTC (and I probably will eventually), but this worked out. More than a few country songs, some disco, some R&B, some jazz and even some punk in here. More of a Yearning than a plain old yearn, but you get the idea. I'm yearning for more of these.

What's The Connection? Yearn

01 Guy - Yearning For Your Love

02 Marty Friedman - The Yearning

03 Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - Yearning

04 Gap Band - Yearning For Your Love

05 Basia - Yearning

06 Terje Rypdal - Yearning

07 Tammy Wynette - Yearning (To Kiss You)

08 Pleasure - Yearnin' Burnin'

09 George Jones - Yearning

10 Ernest Tubb With Loretta Lynn - Yearning

11 Martin Rev - Yearning

12 Earth, Wind & Fire - Yearnin' Learnin'

13 British Sea Power - Someone's Yearning

14 Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Years Of Yearning

15 Nat King Cole - Yearning

16 Leon Redbone - Yearning (Just For You)

17 Paul Johnson - Burnin' You For Yearnin'

18 Paul Davis - I Got A Yearning (Single Version)

19 Prefab Sprout - The Yearning Loins

20 Nofx - My Heart Is Yearning

21 Johnny Paycheck - I've Got A Yearning

What's The Connection? Thanks

This actually was not started for Thanksgiving, but it works great for it. I used this connection as a Thank You for all sorts of events. Anytime I wanted to say thank you, instead of a card I sent this CD as a gift. The cover has multiple thanks on it from me. My handwriting. You are welcome to use it as you wish. As you can probably tell I made this some long time ago. Thank you for coming by this site and telling your firends about it, but especially thanks for those of you who comment on it. I hope you all enjoy the way I see the music put together and support the musicians by going to their shows, buying their t-shirts and other merch. It's a great Thank You to them. And Happy Thanksgiving to You!

What's The Connection? Thanks

01 Morton Downey - Thanks A Million

02 Bing Crosby - Thanks

03 Sam And Dave - I Thank You

04 William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got

05 Boz Scaggs - Thanks To You

06 Barenaked Ladies - Thanks That Was Fun

07 The James Gang - Thanks

08 Led Zeppelin - Thank You

09 Big Star - Thank You Friends

10 Bob Marley - Give Thanks And Praise

11 Robin S - I Want To Thank You

12 Sly And The Family Stone - Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

13 Johnny Guitar Watson - I Wanna Thank You

14 Deee-Lite - Thank You Everyday

15 Cabaret Voltaire - Thank You America

16 Voice Farm - Thank You

17 Don Henley - My Thanksgiving

18 XTC - Thanks for Christmas

19 Dido - Thank You

Feel Like It

 It's been awhile since I made a completely brand new mixtape. Except nowadays I call it a Pick. or a compilation playlist, since no one listens to CD's or tapes anymore. I called it Feel Like It, because I just felt like making one. I had come across Jason Mraz' song and I liked it. But even more, I knew I could easily mix from it intosongs from Dnce and Cake and even Justin Timberlake. I didn't need to go very far to grab some songs in the same key and close BPM's to come up with this one. Some new, some older but all in key matching order. Building up and winding down like a good set would do. I played it at a gig and was happy to see that it went over well. Even the theme is intertwined. Here you go!

Feel Like It

01 Jason Mraz - I Feel Like Dancing

02 DNCE - Cake By The Ocean

03 Cake - Never There

04 The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling

05 Dua Lipa - Dance The Night

06 Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

07 Adam Levine - Good Mood

08 Bahari - Dancing On The Sun

09 Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

10 Justice - D.A.N.C.E.

12 Jonas Brothers - Sucker

13 Paul McCartney - Ballroom Dancing

14 Ke$ha - Your Love Is My Drug

15 Walk The Moon - Shut Up and Dance

16 Kungs - Clap Your Hands

17 Sam & The Womp - Bom Bom

18 Mavis Staples - Tonight I Feel Like Dancing

19 Fergie featuring Q-Tip & GoonRock - A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)

20 Owl City featuring Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time

21 Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You

22 Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

23 Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling!

What's The Connection? Treat Her 1

This is another Treat connection. Treat Her to be exact. Some of these are repeats of the same couple of songs, just different covers. Deal with it. I don't have much to say about this one, because as I was making the Treat connections, this just came up, so I went with it. I do have a few more to start a volume 2, but I'm just not quite there. So help out if you have suggestions. I'll use them. Very similar covers as the others in the series. Although none of these songs are about treating a dog, I still am using the dog paws.

What's The Connection? Treat Her 1

01 Roy Head - Treat Her Right

02 Lou Rhodes - Treat Her Gently

03 Jerry Lee Lewis - Treat Her Right

04 Chris Farlowe - Treat Her Good

05 Slick Rick - Treat Her Like A Prostitute

06 Celine Dion - Treat Her Like A Lady

07 The Iguanas - Don't Treat Her Mean

08 Delta Deep - Treat Her Like Candy

09 Jimmy Buffett - Treat Her Like A Lady

10 Temptations - Treat Her Like A Lady

11 Otis Redding - Treat Her Right

12 P. K. Meyer - Treat Her Kind

13 New Colony Six - Treat Her Groovy

14 Box Tops - Treat Her Right

15 Shakin' Stevens - Treat Her Right

16 Eddie Kendricks - The Sweeter You Treat Her

17 Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Treat Her Like A Lady

18 Billy Gibbons - Treat Her Right

19 Ray, Goodman & Brown - Treat Her Right

20 Rory Gallagher - Treat Her Right

21 The PushRods - Treat Her like a Hooker

22 James Ingram - Treat Her Right

23 George Thorogood And The Destroyers - Treat Her Right

What's The Connection? Zoom 2

Part two of the zoom connection which is also slightly related to the Working at Home pick from several days ago. Eighteen more zoom tracks a few that you know are my favorite artists. Brian Eno, Bill Nelson, and Lionel Richie. Plus a couple of oldies, some eighties bands and some that sound like the 80's but are much newer. Basically it's all over the map and none of it has to do with making calls from home. Oh well. You probably noticed that I put Aretha in again, but this time the 12" version. Similar cover art. 

What's The Connection? Zoom 2

16 Lionel Richie - Zoomin'

17 Jean-Pierre Decerf - Zoomed

18 Murphy's Law - Zoom

19 Orchester Albert van Dam - Zoom Party

20 Ringo Starr - Zoom In Zoom Out

21 Collegians - Zoom Zoom Zoom

22 Brian Eno - Fractal Zoom

23 Louis Prima & Keely Smith - Angelina, Zooma Zooma

24 Manu Dibango - Zoom 2000

25 Dnce - Zoom

26 Duran Duran featuring Timbaland - Zoom In

27 Volker Kriegel - Zoom

28 Bobby McFerrin - Bang!Zoom

29 Starlighters - Zoom

30 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Sun Zoom Spark

31 Lil Boosie - Zoom

32 Bill Nelson - Zoom Sequence

33 Aretha Franklin - Who's Zoomin' Who (12'' Version)

What's The Connection? Zoom 1

Sort of associated with yesterday's pick of Working From Home. It's the first thing most people had to do when they were stuck working from home and that's setup a Zoom call. We zoomed our places of work, our clients, even our kids' school. They had zoom for lessons, not because it helped, but to justify getting paid. But I am cynical. I'm pretty sure none of these songs have anything to do with zoom calls, but great songs for this connection anyway. Commodores have an amazing song that I have always like better than Easy. Several rap or hip hop tracks are zoomin'And the amazing Aretha Franklin who has the only song on all three of these. From yesterday to today and to tomorrow (although a different version tomorrow.) Blondie, Tom Tom Club and Budgie are probably the ones I listen to the most. I put the full version of The Temptations with the whole "conversation" intro. I wonder how many songs have that in the beginning?

What's The Connection? Zoom 1

01 Commodores - Zoom

02 Dr. Dre with LL Cool J - Zoom

03 Perry Como - Zing Zing-Zoom Zoom

04 Cabaret Voltaire - Doom Zoom

05 Mc Solaar - Zoom

06 Fat Larry's Band - Zoom

07 Budgie - Zoom Club

08 Aretha Franklin - Who's Zoomin' Who

09 Blondie - Boom Boom In The Zoom Zoom Room

10 The Temptations - Zoom

11 Super Furry Animals - Zoom!

12 Tom Tom Club - Booming and Zooming

13 The Cadillacs - Zoom

14 Barbarians - Zoom Zoom Zoom

15 Don Henley - She's On The Zoom

Workin From Home Pick

This could be a Connection, but I made it a Pick. There are a couple of songs that are just about the vibe of workin from home, but aren't really. In the middle of the pandemic and people were sent home to work, except for the essential people I started thinking what it was like for people who had never worked from home before. I picked a bunch of songs that had work and home in the title and then added some work songs that I hadn't added to my last Work connection. Then I added what everyone started doing: Zooming. I had enough Zoom songs to make it's own Connection or two. So look for that soon. I picked one of those tracks to add here. But added two more songs (the last two) that really spoke to me about the attitude people need to work from home. Especially if you work for yourself but also for anyone else. I hope you like it. Please give me feedback on this one and suggestions for finishing the next Work WTC that I am not finished with.

Workin From Home Pick

01 Isley Brothers - Work To Do

02 REM - Finest Worksong

03 Rihanna with Drake - Work

04 Sparks - At Home, At Work, At Play

05 Momus - Working From Home

06 Hjortur - Home Working

07 Mclusky - Working From Home

08 Fifth Harmony with Ty Dolla $ign - Work From Home

09 Ministry - Work For Love (Sex Slave Edit)

10 J Geils Band - Homework

11 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Work

12 Britney Spears - Work Work

13 Front 242 - Work 01

14 U.S. Girls - Work From Home

15 Depeche Mode - Work Hard

16 Jordin Sparks Featuring B.O.B - Work From Home

17 Wiz Khalifa - Work Hard, Play Hard

18 Brinsley Schwarz - Home Work

19 Aretha Franklin - Who's Zoomin' Who

20 Imagine Dragons - Whatever It Takes

21 Rudimental featuring John Newman & Alex Clare - Not Giving In

What's The Connection? Treat 1

A few days ago you had Treat Me as a connection, today's What's The Connection is Treat. Just by itself. Not Treat Me or Treat Her. Treat You and Treatment and Treating. So kind of the starting off point or the leftovers. But this is where it started. Rice A Roni. Well, the commercial and Graham Parker. Then it was just looking for how many others I had. Too many so I broke off Treat Her and Treat Me. And that's the story. Same kind of cover.

What's The Connection? Treat 1

01 Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better

02 George Jones - You Better Treat Your Man Right

03 The Wolfe Tones - Treat My Daughter Kindly

04 The Bee Gees - Terrible Way To Treat Your Baby

05 Hank Williams Jr. - How's My Ex Treating You

06 Club Nouveau - Why You Treat Me So Bad

07 Alison Krauss With James Taylor - How's The World Treating You

08 Linda Ronstadt - You Can't Treat The Wrong Man Right

09 Elvis Presley - How´s The World Treating You

10 Chris Isaak - How's The World Treating You

11 Luther Vandross - Treat You Right

12 The Rolling Stones - Just Like I Treat You

13 Jim Reeves - How's The World Treating You

14 Howlin' Wolf - Just Like I Treat You

15 Ruth Brown - Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)

16 Ry Cooder - Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean

17 Rod Stewart - Just Like I Treat You

18 Santana - Treat

19 Graham Parker - Heat Treatment

20 Smart E's - Sesame's Treat

21 Jimmy Cliff - Treat the Youths Right

22 Rice-A-Roni - The San Francisco Treat

What's The Connection? Work It 2

This is the second Connection for Work It. Really it's for anything plus an It. So Do It, Work It, Shake It, Drop It all that similar to the first one I did. But This one was used for work outs. I don't know how that makes it any different in reality, but I always classified this as a Work It Work Out Class. I made a few work out class compilations and this one was different than most of them, because I usually had a quieter stretch section to warm up and then another at the end. This one doesn't have that so I was probably still working it out. Either way this is what I have. Compare it to the other Work It and see if there are any differences. The covers are very similar.

What's The Connection? Work It 2

19 Don Henley - Workin' It

20 Earth Wind & Fire - Work it Out

21 Queen - Tear It Up

22 Snoop Doggy Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot

23 Limbomaniacs - Shake It

24 Johnny Burnette - Tear It Up

25 Wall Of Voodoo - Do It Again

26 Cramps - Tear It Up

27 BT Express - Does It Feel Good

28 Beach Boys - Do It Again

29 LNR - Work It To The Bone

30 Cameo - I Like It

31 Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy

32 Tim McGraw - I Like It, I Love It

33 Steely Dan - Do It Again

34 Queens Of The Stone Age - Do It Again

35 Kinks - Do It Again

36 Prince - Do It All Night

37 Devo - Watch Us Work It

38 Cars - Shake It Up

39 Echo & The Bunnymen - Do It Clean

Three Men In A Tub 1

This pick may be really crappy for anyone that loves Dub Step. I don't know. I just know that when I made it I was trying to impress my daughter about knowing new music and this genre popped up. I know nothing about it. I listened to a few tracks that she had. It sounded very different from the Dub Reggae that I do know something about. But I am arrogant enough to think I can figure out what I like and it's probably going to be something everyone likes. One day ask me to tell you the Guns N Roses story to prove how dumb I am at that. So I put this pick together. I knew of Skrillex before I started. And I knew about Ctrl Z - just nothing dub step by them. Only house tracks, which I liked. I listened to a bunch of tracks and came up with about thirty I really liked (someday I will finish volume two). I picked my favorites from them. So this could suck if you like Dub Step or maybe, by accident, I picked a good set. I like it. Let me know how I did in the comments and give me some pointers on who else to listen to.

Three Men In A Tub 1

01 Bassnectar - Bass Head

02 Ry Legit - The Sweety Man

03 Going Quantum - Raw

04 Bass Farmers featuring Infamous Steez - Ruff Rude Boys

05 Wolfgang Gartner - Illmerica

06 Revolvr - Tomorrowland (Darth&Vader Remix)

07 F.O.O.L - Knight

08 Brain - Never Forget

09 Rusko - Cockney Thug

10 Nero - Doomsday

11 Far Too Loud - Firestorm (Specimen A Remix)

12 Flux Pavilion - Bass Cannon

13 Zeds Dead - Coffee Break

14 Ctrl Z vs The Freestylers featuring MC Navigator - Ruff Neck 09 (Excision and Datsik Remix)

15 Knife Party - Fire Hive

16 Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

17 Excision & Downlink - Existence VIP

What's The Connection? Treat Me 1

This is the first of a few Connections I made. Perhaps I should have started with the Treat connection, but maybe I am secretly very vain and everything is about me. So here it is Treat Me. The thing that's funny is that I made the cover based on treating a dog, but none of these songs are anywhere close to treats for a dog or even treats (as in candy or trick or treat.) But I have trained dogs and treats do work for most of them. The key is knowing what kind of treat. Some will do anything for some string cheese and others don't care about anything but the treat of getting praise from their best friend. I've had both. One dog only loved playing with other dogs. She was horrible at Fly Ball. She crossed lanes all the time to play with her opponent. Distracting the other dog and never getting the ball. We eventually found better things for her. One dog loved tennis balls more than anything. Much easier to get that dog to compete. By the time you read all these writeups, you'll probably know more about me than you expect. I've already (on this site) given you my password to my bank account.

What's The Connection? Treat Me 1

01 Tower Of Power - Treat Me Like Your Man

02 Bob Marley - Treat Me Right

03 Moby Grape - Treat Me Bad

04 Mötley Crüe - Treat Me Like The Dog I Am

05 Lisa Stansfield - Treat Me Like A Woman

06 Candi Staton - Treat Me Like A Secret

07 The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother

08 David Cassidy - Treat Me Like You Used To

09 Five Star - Treat Me Like A Lady

10 B.B. King - Treat Me Right

11 Conway Twitty - Treat Me Nice

12 Backstreet Boys - Treat Me Right

13 Jo Dee Messina - Treat Me Like A Woman Today

14 Johnny Winter - Treat Me Like You Wanta

15 Bananarama - Treat Me Right

16 Ella Fitzgerald - Treat Me Rough

17 Heart - Treat Me Well

18 Northern Lite - Treat Me Better

19 Pat Benatar - Treat Me Right

20 Macy Gray featuring will.i.am - Treat Me Like Your Money

21 The Crusaders - Treat Me Like Ya Treat Yaself

22 Motörhead - Treat Me Nice

23 Elvis Presley - Treat Me Nice

24 Joe Ely - Treat Me Like A Saturday Night

What's The Connection? Wrong 1

This connection is all the wrong songs. Can't say it better than that. There are a lot of wrong songs and these are some of my favorites. They are wrong in just the right way. I could probably make another couple of compilations of wrong songs, but leave your favorite suggestions in the comments anyway. I like that both Depeche Mode and The Cure have wrong songs as well as Heatwave and Earth, Wind & Fire. Good twofers. I'm not sure, but I think the Buzzcocks have the best wrong song for me. Or maybe BJ Thomas...

What's The Connection? Wrong 1

01 Cheap Trick - Wrong All Along

02 UB40 - Where Did I Go Wrong

03 Yardbirds - I Ain't Done Wrong

04 The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong

05 Heatwave - Where Did I Go Wrong

06 Dr John - Right Place, Wrong Time

07 Frank Zappa - This Is All Wrong

08 Stranglers - You Don't Think That What You've Done Is Wrong

09 The Cure - Wrong Number

10 Doobie Brothers - Wrong Number

11 Everything But The Girl - Wrong

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

13 The Cramps - Wrong Way Ticket

14 Buzzcocks - Something's Gone Wrong Again

15 Kid Creole & The Coconuts - There's Something Wrong In Paradise

16 The Fall - Wrong Place Right Time

17 Earth, Wind & Fire - When Love Goes Wrong

18 REM - I Wanted To Be Wrong

19 Dolly Parton - It's All Wrong, But It's All Right

20 X - What's Wrong With Me...

21 Depeche Mode - Wrong (Original)

What's The Connection? Wiggle Wobble 1

This one started several years ago and I was doing a wedding for some dancers. They both taught ballroom dance and I was expecting a bunch of traditional ballroom dance songs, but I was lucky they loved all the latest music as well. One of the songs was brand new at the time. It was Wobble, or Wiggle or they weren't sure. I said no problem I have a bunch of wobble and wiggle songs, I'm sure it is one of those. I played a them some of the ones I knew were hits, but it turned out to be the (unknown at the time) V.I.C. (which I had but it wasn't a hit yet).  Who knew? So all those choices and a few more are in this connection. Since that wedding, I have collected a few more, probably close to making a volume two, so if you have any suggestions on what I'm missing, add it in the comments, please.

What's The Connection? Wiggle Wobble 1

01 Paul Mccartney - Bogey Wobble

02 Flo-Rida - Wobble

03 V.I.C. - Wobble

04 Dexys Midnight Runners - She Got A Wiggle

05 Parliament - Mr. Wiggles

06 The Ventures - Ya Ya Wobble

07 Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox - Wiggle

08 Dyke & The Blazers - The Wobble

09 Jim Eanes - Wiggle Worm Wiggle

10 Earth, Wind & Fire - Wiggle

11 Southlanders - The Wiggle

12 Rhythm Tones - Wobble Wickie

13 Watermelon Slim & The Workers - The Wobble

14 Mills Blue Rhythm Band - St. Louis Wiggle Rhythm

15 Herbie Hancock - Wiggle-Waggle

16 2 In A Room - Wiggle It

17 Warner Powers, Michael Paterson - The Wobble (Original Mix)

18 Redfoo - Juicy Wiggle

19 Les Cooper & The Soul Rockets - Wiggle Wobble

20 Bill Haley - The Wobble

21 The Outhere Brothers - Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle) (Townhouse Radio Edit)

22 Kashmere Stage Band - Head Wiggle

23 Little Jerry Williams - Let's Do The Wobble

24 Jason Derulo Featuring Snoop Dogg - Wiggle

B-52's Pick 3

You could call this the B-52's Family Pick, because there isn't a single B-52's track on it. But several tracks with the whole (or most) of the band guesting. A few solo tracks. Kate has little solo, Cindy has a couple of EP's and an album, Fred has two albums. Keith has none and Ricky only guested on one track (Tom Verlaine) by himself before he died. I have some of all that. Most everyone has heard them guest on REM and Iggy Pop. The Ramones track was issued as a bonus track and has the girls (with Debbie Harry) on it. The Spirit of The Forest has the bulk of the band and is a one off charity record with a bunch of stars. The Martini Ranch track was on some of my original comps. Melon is a Japanese band with members of Plastics and more with the B-52's. I really like the track. Some of this really sounds like them and some it's hard to tell (until a voice comes in.) I have enough for a volume four, but I am not yet happy with it. So it may come out later.

B-52's Pick 3

38 Fred Schneider - Coconut

39 Bongwater With Fred Schneider - The Power Of Pussy

40 Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now

41 Junior Senior - Take My Time

42 Cindy Wilson - No One Can Tell You

43 Nina With Kate Pierson - Happy Tomorrow

44 Spirit Of The Forest - Spirit Of The Forest

45 Martini Ranch - Hot Dog

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

47 Rem - Shiny Happy People

48 David Byrne & Fatboy Slim Featuring Kate Pierson - The Whole Man

49 Ursula 1000 With Fred Schneider - Hey You!

50 Tom Verlaine With Ricky Wilson - Breakin' In My Heart

51 Foo Fighters Featuring Fred Schneider - Planet Claire (Live)

52 Fred Schneider - Monster

53 Iggy Pop - Candy

54 Kate Pierson - Let's Spend Half A Day

55 Dreams So Real Featuring Cindy Wilson - Appalachee Shoals

56 Miranda Lambert with The B-52's - Music City Queen

57 The Ramones Featuring Wilson, Pierson, Harry - Chop Suey

B-52's Pick 2

This is the continuation of the B-52's pick. It's go the tracks I wanted to add in volume one, but ran out of room, plus a couple of tracks from the live action movie The Flintstones, which kinda sucked, but had a couple of tracks originally attributed to the Bc-52's that were much better than the movie.The title track was later released on a CD single.  One track that is Pokemon related. A few tracks from Funplex and Good Stuff that I started to get into later and a couple of singles. Less of the "hits" on here, but all great songs. When I first made volume two it included some of the family tracks, but I have now moved that over to volume 3 of this pick.

B-52's Pick 2

20 The B-52's - 6060-842

21 The B-52's - 52 Girls

22 The B-52's - Good Stuff

23 The B-52's - The Chosen One

24 The B-52's - Deadbeat Club

25 The B-52's - Is That You Mo-Dean

26 The B-52's - Channel Z

27 The B-52's - Love Shack

28 The B-52's - Hallucinating Pluto

29 The B-52's - Roam

30 The B-52's - Debbie

31 The B-52's - (Meet) The Flintstones

32 The B-52's - Ultraviolet

33 The Bc-52's - The Bedrock Twitch

34 The B-52's - She Brakes For Rainbows

35 The B-52's - Pump

36 The B-52's - Song For A Future Generation

37 The B-52's - Moon 83

B-52's Pick 1

The B-52's are a band I like a lot. But they are a bad luck band for me. I have had tickets to go see them multiple times and for one reason or another I have never seen them play live. I made it in to the stadium twice and had to leave for one reason or another. Been in hospitals, stuck on the road, broken car, missed a flight. For some reason God does not want me to see this band. But I love them! I have made multiple picks over the years. On cassette, on CD and I have redone it multiple times. As new albums came out or new appearances on songs showed up, I made a new version. I just redid it again. The main part stays pretty much the same each time. I did add Funplex on volume one this time and I pulled all the Family picks and put them all in volume 3 (and now 4.) So enjoy the band. This is the best I ever get to hear them.

B-52's Pick 1

01 The B-52's - Private Idaho

02 The B-52's - Devil in My Car

03 The B-52's - Rock Lobster

04 The B-52's - Work That Skirt

05 The B-52's - Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland

06 The B-52's - Wig

07 The B-52's - Funplex

08 The B-52's - Summer Of Love

09 The B-52's - Housework

10 The B-52's - Quiche Lorraine

11 The B-52's - Dirty Back Road

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

13 The B-52's - Throw That Beat in the Garbage Can

14 The B-52's - Planet Claire

15 The B-52's - Legal Tender

16 The B-52's - Whammy Kiss

17 The B-52's - Party Out of Bounds

18 The B-52's - Dance This Mess Around

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

Visage Family Pick

Yesterday saw some of the crossover of this pick. In fact some of the players are the same. But many new. Like Steve Strange, Gary Barnacle, John McGeoch, Rusty Egan, Barry Adamson and Dave Formula. They all crossover in some way or another though. Slik and Rich Kids are still the base. And Ultravox and Midge Ure come in, but now we branch off to different phase of Magazine and get to touch on PiL. Formula and McGeoch were in Magazine, with the latter moving to Siouxsie. Strange had a solo album. McGeoch was also in Armoury Show and appeared with Peter Murphy and the Sugarcubes. Some overlap with yesterday's pick, but mostly new. I included a different mix for the Visage and Ultravox tracks, but Slik, Billy Currie, Midge Ure and Rich Kids have the same track.

Visage Family Pick

01 Magazine - Shot By Both Sides

02 Slik - Forever And Ever

03 Public Image Limited - Seattle

04 Barry Adamson - Something Wicked This Way Comes

05 Guru Featuring Gary Barnacle - Slicker Than Most

06 Rusty Egan - Wonderwerke

07 Visage - Fade To Grey [12 Inch Version]

08 The Sugarcubes - Gold

09 Steve Strange - The Best Is Yet To Come

10 Peter Murphy - The Light Pours Out Of Me

11 Rich Kids - Ghosts of Princes in Towers

12 Rusty Egan - Welcome To The Dance Floor

13 Midge Ure - If I Was

14 The Armoury Show - Castles In Spain

15 Billy Currie - Airlift

16 Rusty Egan - The Twilight Zone (Extended Version)

17 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Extended Version)

18 Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound

Ultravox Family Pick

To my eyes and ears, there were two Ultravox's. One was Ultravox! and the other dropped the exclamation point. Both were really good in different ways. We cover the family of both incarnations in this pick. The first Ultravox! was John Foxx with Billy Curie, John Cross, Warren Cann, Stevie Shears. The second Ultravox dropped John Foxx and gained Midge Ure. Others cycled in and out, but those two leads and Billy (and Warren) made up the band for decades. They came from Slik and The Rich Kids and we have a track from each. A track from John Foxx solo. Billy was also in Visage, and played with Gary Numan (among others) and had  solo tracks. Midge Ure was probably most famous for Band Aid, but also had great solo hits (look for a Midge Ure pick later). Several of Ultravox members over the years also played with Magazine, hence their track. Visage has several crossovers and we'll get in to more detail tomorrow. 

Ultravox Family Pick

01 Slik - Forever And Ever

02 Ultravox! - My Sex

03 Rusty Egan Featuring Midge Ure - Glorious

04 Visage - Fade To Grey

05 Midge Ure - The Man Who Sold The World

06 Midge Ure & Mick Karn - After A Fashion

07 Rich Kids - Ghosts of Princes in Towers

08 Midge Ure - If I Was

09 The Disco Boys Featuring Midge Ure - The Voice (Club Mix)

10 Steve Howe & Billy Currie - Airlift

11 Gary Numan - Cars

12 John Foxx - Underpass

13 Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me

14 Ultravox! - Hiroshima Mon Amour

15 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

16 Ultravox - Vienna

17 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas

Phil Lynott Pick

Yesterday I posted a pick about Gary Moore and today it is Phil Lynott. Both played together in and out of Thin Lizzy, so it makes some sense. There is some overlap because of it, but just ignore that. It's not much, but tracks that had to be on both. There is much more that is different. Even the Thin Lizzy songs are completely different. If you want to look up the background of each, it's all available and it's interesting to read about. All I want to say is that Phil Lynott is under appreciated and under recognized for his role in rock history. And he's got a ton of really great songs that he left behind. I included a track that isn't as well known in the US as it is in the UK and that is a track that Lynott wrote with Midge Ure: Yellow Pearl. It will probably show up soon in a Midge Ure associated pick coming up (tomorrow?)  That track was used as a theme for some show we don't have here in the States. Anyway, enjoy the selection.

Phil Lynott Pick

01 Phil Lynott - Nineteen (Extended Version)

02 Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Out In The Fields

03 Grand Slam - Military Man

04 Funky Junction - Palamatoon

05 Gary Moore With Phil Lynott - Spanish Guitar

06 Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways

07 Johnny Thunders With Phil Lynott - Daddy Rollin' Stone

08 Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar

09 Phil Lynott - Old Town

10 John Sykes - Please Don't Leave Me (Short Version)

11 Skid Row - New Faces Old Places

12 Phil Lynott - Dear Miss Lonely Hearts

13 Phil Lynott - Yellow Pearl (First Version)

14 Phil Lynott - King's Call

15 Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe A Word

16 Phil Lynott - Ode To A Black Man

17 Thin Lizzy - Dancing In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)

18 Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

19 Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town

Gary Moore Pick

This pick of Gary Moore includes several of his solo songs including his biggest hit. It also includes songs from the two Thin Lizzy albums he was on, his first band the Irish Skid Row (not to be confused with the hair metal US band). It also includes a track from G-Force (not Kenny G, but the band he formed), Scars (now sometimes referred as Gary Moore Scars) and also super group BBM. Not to mention his stint in Colosseum II, To round it out are a couple of his guest spots in some bands and even his appearance on Ferry Aid. He was known as a blues guy, but he rocked everywhere. His guitar playing was amazing (track 8 should prove that to you). I always had heard about him and Phil Lynott who he played with in several of these incarnations including of course Thin Lizzy, but he played all over. Hard to get just one track from each band.

Gary Moore Pick

01 Thin Lizzy - Still In Love With You

02 Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Out In The Fields

03 Gary Moore - Empty Rooms

04 G-Force - White Knuckles-Rockin' And Rollin'

05 BBM - Waiting In The Wings

06 Scars (Gary Moore) - When The Sun Goes Down

07 Rod Argent - Home

08 Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways

09 Cozy Powell - Sunset

10 Gary Moore - Over The Hills And Far Away

11 Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues

12 Skid Row - Sandies Gone

13 Colosseum Ii - Dark Side Of The Moog

14 Traveling Wilburys - She's My Baby

15 Beach Boys - Maybe I Don't Know

16 Ferry Aid - Let It Be

17 Thin Lizzy - Waiting For An Alibi

Blues 4

More of the Blues pick with a wide variety of tracks. Some actual traditional blues artists such as Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Little Walter mixed in with more modern guys like Gary Moore, Kenny Wayne Shepard and Rory Gallagher. And some rock bands doing bluesy songs. James Brown and even Weird Al Yankovic with a really great blues track that BB King said he loved. More will come but probably much later, So enjoy the first four volumes. Play them for friends who love rock, but don't really know the blues yet.

Blues 4

50 Bachman Turner Overdrive - Free Wheelin'

51 Doors - Back Door Man

52 Muddy Waters - You Need Love

53 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Mississippi Kid

54 Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Slow Ride

55 Aerosmith - Baby, Please Don't Go

56 James Brown - Messing With the Blues

57 10cc - Modern Man Blues

58 Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World

59 Doobie Brothers - Rainy Day Crossroad Blues

60 Beatles - Yer Blues

61 Weird Al Yankovic - Generic Blues

62 Deep Purple - Soldier Of Fortune

63 Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues

64 Rory Gallagher - A Million Miles Away

65 George Thorogood And The Destroyers - Bad To The Bone

66 Fleetwood Mac - Drifting

67 Howlin' Wolf - Evil

68 Little Walter - My Babe

69 Rolling Stones - Love In Vain

Blues 3

This is part three of my Blues Pick. Listen to the first couple of volumes of blues here. Designed to be more Rock and Roll than "real" blues it turned out to be pretty bluesy. The bottom line is that each of these volumes does get people that love rock to accept the blues in rock. And there's a lot of it. Some great tracks here starting with the last one by Howlin' Wolf. That's the real stuff, But hard to say that Black Sabbath didn't nail it. Or Boz Scaggs from his first album. The Stones and Zeppelin did quite a few blues tracks, but who thinks of the Kinks or Deep Purple as blues bands? When you listen to these tracks, you will.

Blues 3

01 Kinks - A Gallon Of Gas

02 Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

03 Rolling Stones - Down In The Hole

04 Budgie - Zoom Club

05 AC-DC - Ride On

06 Deep Purple - Mistreated

07 Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman

08 Bachman Turner Overdrive - Blue Collar

09 Boz Scaggs - Loan Me A Dime

10 Black Sabbath - Warning

11 Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'

Vote (Repost)

This is my pick of songs about voting, elections, politics and making choices and although a couple are about specific candidates, I don't think it matters much since, Zappa, Walsh and Chicago are not in the running anymore. All I can say is every year go out and vote. Even if you believe your vote doesn't matter, vote. It does matter. Get that sticker and wear it proudly (if you are in the USA) and if you are anywhere else in the world that allows fair and secure voting, go to the polls, show your ID and vote for whoever you want. Do it.

Vote

01 The Replacements - Election Day

02 Joe Walsh - Vote for Me

03 Carcass - RK The Vote

04 Lyle Lovett - Election Day

05 Ministry - Get Out and Vote 2020

06 Van Halen - Ballot Or The Bullet

07 Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours

08 The Radiants - Voice Your Choice

09 Arcadia - Election Day

10 Ry Cooder - One Cat, One Vote, One Beer

11 Johnnie Taylor - I Could Never Be President

12 Guided By Voices - Vote For Me Dummy

13 Paula Webb - Please, Mr. President

14 Frank Zappa - One Man, One Vote

15 Earth Wind & Fire - Freedom Of Choice

16 Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing

17 P!nk featuring Indigo Girls - Dear Mr. President

18 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son

19 Alice Cooper - Elected

20 Chicago - Vote For Me

21 Devo - Freedom Of Choice

22 The Move - Votes For Me (Mono)

23 Young Jeezy - My President

24 Radiohead - Electioneering

25 The Specials - Vote For Me

What's The Connection? Sick Fever 1

While we are on the subject of being sick, the biggest, most common symptom is a fever. This connection has being on fire and fever in the title. There are tons of these kids of songs, so there will be another volume, I'm sure. One of my favorites is the novelty song by Buckner & Garcia. Pretty funny and also a decent song. A few of these songs don't really have anything to do with being sick, but what the hell. Enjoy them anyway. I won't make you sing Soft Kitty.

What's The Connection? Fever 1

01 Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire

02 Garth Brooks - The Fever

03 Hot Action Cop - Fever For The Flava

04 Gene Wyatt - Love Fever

05 The Chakachas - Jungle Fever

06 Little Jimmy Dickens - Hillbilly Fever

07 Bee Gees - Night Fever

08 McCoys - Fever

09 Beach Boys - Island Fever

10 Humble Pie - Stone Cold Fever

11 Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire

12 Munich Machine - Love Fever

13 Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever

14 Sweet - Fever Of Love

15 Fela Kuti - Fever

16 Scorpions - Steamrock Fever

17 Annabella (Bow Wow Wow) - Fever

18 Peggy Lee - Fever

19 Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever

20 We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - Fever

21 Billy Scott - I Got The Fever

22 Gene Simmons - Burning Up With Fever