O Holy Night 1

Lots of versions of this song. Today's connection is O Holy Night. A variety of versions over the next couple of days. Country, pop, rockabilly, soul, soca, rock. You get the picture. As we get closer to Xmas, more chances for getting you in the mood for the season. Notice the cover, it's of the Bethlehem star as astronomers would see it.

O Holy Night 1

01 Trans-Siberian Orchestra - O Holy Night

02 Al Green - O Holy Night

03 Tevin Campbell - O Holy Night

04 Marie Osmond - O Holy Night

05 Glen Campbell - O Holy Night

06 Diana Ross - O Holy Night

07 Byron Lee and the Dragonaires - Holy Night

08 Christina Aguilera - Oh Holy Night

09 Celine Dion - O Holy Night

10 Brian Setzer Orchestra - O Holy Night

11 Backstreet Boys - O Holy Night

12 Nat King Cole - O Holy Night

13 Russell Watson - O Holy Night

14 Brand New - O Holy Night

15 Andy Williams - O Holy Night

16 Randy Travis - O Holy Night

17 Sheryl Crow - O Holy Night

18 The Drifters - O Holy Night

19 38 Special - O' Holy Night

20 Daryl Hall & John Oates - Oh Holy Night

Xmas (Christmas) Disco 2

Just a bit early, but you need to have some time to play these songs. This pick is about Xmas disco songs. This is part two, for Xmas Disco 1 click to get there. It's not all disco, but disco artists, disco sounding and disco adjacent Christmas songs. I have several hours more, but I try to not repeat a song in these play lists, so a few songs repeat over and over and I can only use it once per pick. If you have any suggestions for more good "disco" Christmas songs, leave them in the comments. For more Xmas compilations, I'm pretty sure I updated them all. Have a Merry Christmas!

Xmas Disco 2

20 Earth, Wind & Fire - Everyday Is Christmas

21 Love Unlimited - It May Be Winter Outside

22 The Trammps - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

23 Ohio Players - Happy Holidays, Pts. 1 & 2

24 KC & The Sunshine Band - A Sunshine Christmas

25 Wham! - Last Christmas

26 Spice Girls - Christmas Wrapping

27 Salsoul Orchestra - Deck The Halls

28 Irwin The Disco Duck - Sleigh Ride

29 Village People - Village People (Wishing Merry Christmas to You)

30 Kool & The Gang - Home For The Holidays

31 Diana Ross & The Supremes - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

32 Christmas Disco Collective - Christmas Disco Medley

33 The Mistletoe Disco Band - Jingle Bells

34 Claudja Barry - Let It Snow-Frosty The Snowman

35 Disco Christmas - White Christmas

36 Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road

What's The Connection? Winter 1

We're definitely in Winter and Christmas is coming soon. So this connection of songs with Winter in the title is in order. No songs about a Winter Wonderland. In fact none of these songs are much about the holidays really. Well, maybe a couple. But that didn't matter it wasn't a criteria. I have anothe volume or two worth of Winter songs, but you will have to wait for awhile. Enjoy what you get.

What's The Connection? Winter 1

01 Beach Boys - Fall Breaks And Back To Winter

02 Housemartins - I Smell Winter

03 Yoko Ono - Winter Friend

04 The Colourfield - Monkey In Winter

05 Isaac Hayes - Winter Snow

06 Blood, Sweat & Tears - Sometimes In Winter

07 Death In June - Blood Of Winter

08 Dean Martin - A Winter Romance

09 Steve Miller Band - Winter Time

10 Donna Summer - Winter Melody

11 Robyn Hitchcock - Winter Love

12 Yazoo - Winter Kills

13 Linda Ronstadt - Winter Light

14 Queen - A Winter's Tale

15 Johnny Mathis - Long Winter Nights

16 Love Unlimited - It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring)

17 Rolling Stones - Winter

18 Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter

19 Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter

20 Brix & The Extricated - Wintertyde

21 Duran Duran - Winter Marches On

22 Cake - The Winter

Mad Professor Meets Pick

Ok, sometime back I did a Mad Professor pick of his Dub Me Crazy series. It's pretty good. I took a track from each of most of his Dub Me albums. This time I took a track from each of his albums where he "Meets" another artist. Or where another artist Meets the Mad Professor. He's got a lot of them. I picked one each from seventeen of them on this compilation. It'll have to do. You can hear the Mad Professor touch on each. What's cool is that some feature singers and players and some are other producers and mixers. Now he also has worked with a bunch of other artists (a couple of my favorites are with Scientist, Lee Perry, Massive Attack and Pato Banton) where the album did not say that he "met them". Some say Mad Professor vs or with the Mad Professor. I didn't include those for this one. Although I did notice that different versions of a few changed the cover. If one of them said Meets, I included it here, until I ran out of room.

Mad Professor Meets Pick

01 Mad Professor Meets Gaudi - Smoking High

02 Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor - Chucusteady

03 Sly & Robbie Meet The Mad Professor featuring Dean Fraser - Memphis Happiness

04 Ruts DC Meets Mad Professor - Whatever We Do

05 Mad Professor Meets Channel One - Cornmeal Dub

06 Horace Andy Meets Mad Professor - Babylon Bridge (Extended Discomix by Lee Kelly)

07 Lee Perry Meets The Mad Professor - Mark Of The Beast

08 Mad Professor Meets Prince Fatty - Dub Revolution

09 Mad Professor Meets Puls Der Zeit - Nordpol Emil

10 Mad Professor Meets Jah9 - The I Of The Storm-Selassie I Dub

11 Mad Professor Meets Mafia & Fluxy - Ursa Major

12 Cedric Congo Meets Mad Professor - Jah Lightning

13 Sublime Meets Mad Professor - Pawn Shop Dub (Mad Professor Mix)

14 Yabby You Meets Mad Professor & Black Steel - Winds of Dub

15 Mad Professor Meets Dark Fantom - Rude Boy Dub

16 Negus Roots Meets Mad Professor - Dubbing Jah

17 Alika Meets Mad Professor - The Lion of Judah (No le des fuerza a Babilonia)

What's The Connection? Trippin' 1

I must have been Trippin' when I made this connection. There is little rhyme and less reason behind these tracks. I was looking at the Cerrone track for awhile in my ideas folder. It's weird I usually bring out Supernature when I think of Cerrone, but this track was semi popular in certain areas. It was played by a friend and DJ who loved Freestyle in the Bay Area and I ended up glomming on to it as well. I'm not sure Glomming is a real word, but in this case I hope it is. It's perfect for how it happened. Tell me the relationship between Pizzaman and another artist on this list in the comments.

What's The Connection? Trippin' 1

01 Beach Boys - Let's Go Trippin'

02 Platnum - Trippin' (Nero Remix)

03 Curtis Mayfield - Tripping Out

04 Primal Scream - Trippin' On Your Love

05 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin'

06 The Pretty Things - Trippin'

07 ZZ Top - Trippin'

08 Bananarama - Tripping On Your Love

09 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin

10 Ringo Starr - Trippin' On Own Tears

11 Marvin Gaye - Ego Tripping Out

12 The Orb - Trippin' On Sunshine

13 Erasure - No Point In Tripping

14 The Mystic Moods Orchestra - Honey Trippin'

15 Pizzaman - Trippin On Sunshine

16 BT - Tripping The Light Fantastic

17 Johnny Guitar Watson - Tripping

18 Cerrone - Trippin On The Moon

19 London Fogg - Trippin'

20 Cheech & Chong - Trippin' In Court

Hmm

This pick became a mixtape because of another mixtape. On around November 10th or so, I made a pick I called Blecch! It had a song by M which is really Robin Scott. It was a remix of Pop Musik. It reminded me of some other music from Scott which I liked and put aside. I put them into a holding folder that already had some disco remixes in it. When I went back to listen, they kind of all fit together. I added a couple more tracks and voila! here this was. To myself, I had to say Hmm when it all worked out. Here is the result. For some reason I've been liking these compilation mixtapes with three letter titles. The background of the cover is a sponge! I added sparkles and a weird transparent symbol. I'm still saying...

Hmm

01 M (Robin Scott) - Neutron

02 M - Pop Musik Remix (12 inch)

03 Diana Ross - Love Hangover (Extended Alternate Version)

04 Fox The Fox - Precious Little Diamond

05 Ryuichi Sakamoto & Robin Scott - The Left Bank

06 Prince - Raspberry Beret (12 Version)

07 Foals - In Degrees (Purple Disco Machine Remix)

08 House of Prayers - Disco Stepper (Original Mix)

09 CJ & Co - Devil's Gun

10 Hi-Tension - British Hustle

11 Saturday Night Band - Touch Me On My Hot Spot

12 Cerrone - Trippin On The Moon

Aah!

This is fun. On many levels. The pick starts with a few ballady kind of songs and then the energy picks up. All of the songs are right about 130bpm and all have a Camelot key of 2A. Hence the title of this mixtape. But notice that song key and BPM do not mean the songs sound the same. First the obvious genre differences from rock to world, new wave to zydeco and yet they all kind of flow. There are probably only a couple of songs on here that would be universally known by most people. Most are lesser known artists or tracks. That's the best part. It just sounds so good together. It was a sound of relief that it did. Also why the title became what it is. I just like it.

Aah!

01 Bryan Ferry - This Love

02 Craig Armstrong & Elisabeth Fraser - Cruel Intentions-This Love

03 CTI - Slow

04 Bill Nelson - Art For Art's Sake

05 Bow Wow Wow - Elimination Dancing

06 Clifton Chenier - Take Off Your Dress

07 Depeche Mode - Precious (Motor Remix)

08 Sons Of Aqua - Asian Rebel

09 Cabaret Voltaire - Radical Chic

10 Foreigner - Cold As Ice

11 Hawkwind - You Shouldn't Do That

12 Kraftwerk - Aerodynamik (François K Aero Mix Instrumental)

13 Yello - Oh Yeah Oh' Six (Booka Shade Remix)

14 Leftfield - Afrika Shox

15 Rihanna featuring David Guetta - Right Now

16 Yo Yo Honey Singh - High Heels

Fishing For Bass

I was fooling around after the last couple of weeks. I had a few tracks that I didn't use, a suggestion of a track that I didn't use or know of and a couple of tracks that I had put aside for awhile now. That almost gave me a whole pick. So I rooted around to find a couple that would tie them together. I didn't find them, so instead I went a completely  different way and jammed them together. What was weird, is that it worked. I'm as surprised as you. I have been listening to it and it actually came together. As for the title. I do like to fish, but do not fish often. In fact, seldom do I fish and I think I have only caught one bass in my life. But the instrument the bass, I enjoy. But again, I have to confess: I play, but very poorly.

Fishing For Bass

01 Laraaji & Bill Laswell - Airbass

02 Asian Dub Foundation - PKNB (Dry and Heavy Connection Dub Mix)

03 Bernie Worrell - Bass On The Line

04 The Orb And Lee Scratch Perry - Golden Clouds (Youth Gigantic Dreadnaught Dub Mix)

05 Houseguests - What So Never The Dance

06 Bill Laswell - Space-Time Paradox

07 A Certain Ratio - Sounds Like Something Dirty

08 Blackbeard - Electrocharge

09 New Order - Temptation (12 Version)

10 Tom Tom Club - Dangerous (Dub)

11 Errol Flabba Holt - Super Special Dub

12 Les Claypool Frog Brigade - Whamola

13 Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell - Orion

14 Linton Kwesi Johnson - Historic Dub

Echo & the Bunnymen Pick 2

Continuing from yesterday's pick is part two of Echo & the Bunnymen. Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Pete de Freitas. Nothing solo, just the band even when all are not in it. They have some great albums from the first on. I like most of them. But especially these songs on both volumes. I know some are not going to be happy that I didn't include their favorite, but get the albums because the tracks are mostly all good. Even some of the newer albums, and I include the 90's to now as newer. Just because I like the albums before Reverberation as the superior ones, doesn't mean I don't like the others.

Echo & the Bunnymen Pick 2

20 Echo & The Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever

21 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Somnambulist

22 Echo & The Bunnymen - Bedbugs & Ballyhoo

23 Echo & The Bunnymen - Enlighten Me

24 Echo & The Bunnymen - It's Alright

25 Echo & the Bunnymen - All You Need Is Love

26 Echo & The Bunnymen - Don't Let It Get You Down

27 Echo & The Bunnymen - Soul Kitchen (Live)

28 Echo & The Bunnymen - Hang On To A Dream

29 Echo & The Bunnymen - Gone, Gone, Gone

30 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Game

31 Echo & The Bunnymen - Think I Need It Too

32 Echo & The Bunnymen - Over The Wall

33 Echo & The Bunnymen - Seven Seas

34 Echo & The Bunnymen - Silver

35 Echo & The Bunnymen - Foggy Notion

36 Echo & The Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace

37 Echo & The Bunnymen - Meteorites

38 Echo & The Bunnymen - Rust

Echo & the Bunnymen Pick 1

This pick is so far from being definitive that it's not even funny. I have another volume and a half that I would add to my favorites. But here is volume one. I know they have a bunch of good compilations already. Probably too many. But this is my version of a greatest hits with at least one rarer track that I don't normally see on the best of's. Volume two will come soon. I did not add anything except for the band proper. No solo stuff. Perhaps another volume will include that.

Echo & the Bunnymen Pick 1

01 Echo & The Bunnymen - Flowers

02 Echo & The Bunnymen - King of Kings

03 Echo & The Bunnymen - In The Margins

04 Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses

05 Echo & The Bunnymen - All Because Of You Days

06 Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange

07 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

08 Echo & The Bunnymen - Ticket To Ride

09 Echo & The Bunnymen - Of A Life

10 Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar

11 Echo & The Bunnymen - A Promise

12 Echo & The Bunnymen - Stormy Weather

13 Echo & The Bunnymen - I Want To Be There (When You Come)

14 Echo & The Bunnymen - Never Stop

15 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter

16 Echo & The Bunnymen - Rescue

17 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Back Of Love

18 Echo & The Bunnymen - Do It Clean

19 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Puppet

What's The Connection? Lovers 2

Here's part two of the Lovers WTC. I had a good time putting the first Lovers connection together and had enough left over to make a few of them, so finally here it is. Part two. Several good bands on this one and a good companion to part 1. Get that one too. A wide variety so enjoy it. I want to write more, but I am getting called away. Just listen to it. Let me know which Lover songs I haven't used yet, that deserve to be on another volume.

What's The Connection? Lovers 2

20 Half Pint - I Am Not a Substitute Lover

21 Vibrators - Automatic Lover

22 White Witch - Black Widow Lover

23 Greta Van Fleet - Lover, Leaver

24 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Little Miss Lover

25 Teddybears Sthlm - Automatic Lover

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

27 AC-DC - Little Lover

28 Brazilian Girls - Lazy Lover

29 Erasure - When A Lover Leaves You

30 Carole Bennett - Haunted Lover

31 Frank Sinatra - Hey Jealous Lover

32 Richard Berry - Crazy Lover

33 Carol Jiani - Hit 'n' Run Lover

34 Dick Baker - Heartless Lover

35 Gitane Demone - Incendiary Lover

36 Dee D Jackson - Automatic Lover

37 Robert Plant - Trouble With My Lover

38 Marc Almond - Demon Lover

39 Labelle - Superlover

40 Marvin Gaye - Distant Lover

41 Peggy Lee - Lover

What's The Connection? Pills 1

This might be hard to swallow, but I started this WTC because my wife asked me if I had heard Eminem doing a song she had heard at work. I not only had heard it, I knew it was D12. Considering she's from Detroit, I was surprised she had never heard before that night. Either way it made me think of doing a connection of Pills songs. And here it is. A little rap, a little country, rock-a-billy, reggae, punk and pop. I figure you'll like something here. One pill to make you small and the ones mother gives you are no fun at all.

What's The Connection? Pills 1

01 Nicki Minaj - Pills N Potions

02 The Cramps - Bop Pills

03 Robert Johnson And Punchdrunks - Gladys' Pills

04 Horace Silver - Acid, Pot Or Pills

05 Mad Professor Meets Scientist - Too Many Pills!!

06 Ray Corvair Trio - Carl Needs A Pill

07 P!nk - Just Like A Pill

08 Nashville Pussy - Pillbilly

09 Ribzy - Cyanide Pill

10 Elvis Costello - Pills And Soap (Extended Version)

11 The Jam - The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)

12 Weathers - Happy Pills

13 Mickey Finn and the Blue Men - Pills

14 Cage The Elephant - Neon Pill

15 The Sensation Seekers - Purple Pill Party

16 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill

17 D12 - Purple Pills

18 Fred Eaglesmith - Alcohol And Pills

19 Wild Ones - Purple Pill Eater

20 Stepping Stones - Pills

21 Prince - My Little Pill

22 Twenty-Twenty - Yellow Pills

23 New York Dolls - Pills

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

25 Loretta Lynn - The Pill

Sugarcubes Family

This family pick is pretty cool, to me. The Sugarcubes were an interesting band. Sure they had some poppy hits and everyone knows Bjork and her quirky public self. But look beyond that and find some real artists. They came from punk anarchy. Friends with Crass. Were in some crazy completely non pop bands (see tracks 16-20). But they also were in some groups individually and in pairs that did cocktail lounge music. Bogomil was their drummer using an alias. Reptile was Magga (the "other" cuter girl in the Sugarcubes - she was also very nice in person) and her post Sugarcubes band. Einar was the lead singer for Purrkir Pillnik before the the Sugarcubes and then with Bjork in K.U.K.L. also pre-Cubes. He also did stuff with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson aka HÖH.  HÖH did stuff with Dave Ball of Soft Cell as Ornamental (not included, sorry) and with drummer Sigtryggur was in Þeyr (They're). Siggi, Einar and Hilmar were also Grindverk which they billed as dance music made for non-dancers. Einar later went into politics. Bjork is really the only one who became a worldwide pop icon. Don't hold it against her.

Sugarcubes Family

01 Sigtryggur Baldursson - Mysterynod

02 Bjork Gudmundsdottir & Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar - Luktar-Gvendur

03 Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet

04 Bogomil Font - Speak low

05 Bjork Gudmundsdottir & Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar - Pabbi Minn

06 Bjork - Army Of Me

07 Reptile - Allah

08 The Sugarcubes - Birthday (Icelandic)

09 The Sugarcubes - Regina

10 The Sugarcubes - Motor Crash

11 The Sugarcubes - Hit

12 The Sugarcubes - Motorcycle Mama

13 The Sugarcubes - Leash Called Love (Tony Humphries Mix)

14 Bjork - Venus As A Boy

15 Grindverk - Gesundhett Von K

16 K.U.K.L. - Holland (Latent)

17 K.U.K.L. - Anna

18 Tappi Tíkarrass - Dúkkulísur

19 Purrkur Pillnikk - Gluggagægir

20 Þeyr - Killer Boogie

What's The Connection? Tragic Tragedy

For you who aren't English majors, there is a difference between Tragic and Tragedy, but we have both here. This connection is both a tragedy and it's tragic. What's funny is that I was actually going to make a strategic WTC and got sidetracked. Don't ask. I got nowhere with the strategy. Except to confuse my little brain further than it already was. Nothing good in here. It's a major travesty. That's all you get today. Doo wop to industrial to disco to prog to rock. Like I said, a tragic tragedy.

What's The Connection? Tragic Tragedy

01 The Motels - Tragic Surf

02 The Fleetwoods - Tragedy

03 Sheppards - Tragic

04 Poesie Noire - Tragedy

05 Batmobile - Tragic Word Called Love

06 The Fall - Tragic Days

07 Surgical Meth Machine - Tragic Alert

08 Argent - Tragedy

09 Bee Gees - Tragedy

10 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Human-Induced Tragedy

11 China Crisis - Tragedy and Mystery

12 Ronson Hangup - Tragic

13 Thomas Wayne With The Delons - Tragedy

14 Steps - Tragedy

15 The Residents - Tragic Bells

16 Front 242 - Tragedy For You

17 Taylor Swift - Sad Beautiful Tragic

18 Marc Almond - Tragedy (Take A Look And See)

19 Dream Theater - Fatal Tragedy

20 Madonna - Tragic Girl

21 Flame Dream - Tragedy

22 Hanoi Rocks - Tragedy

Take It Easy Again

A little while back I made the pick that I called Slow Down To Look which was started with the Eagles Take It Easy. I had so many that I parlayed into a few more picks. This is one of them. It has the Lemonheads covering that Eagles song and a bunch more easy kind of of songs. And also songs that are about Good Times and especially about drinking for free, because that implies a free and easy time as well. Fridays, drinks and lots of easing. Similar Flatbed Ford on the cover, so you know they are related. Jazz, reggae, electronic dance, country to rock. It's all about taking it easy.

Take It Easy Again

01 Tom Scott - Breezin' Easy

02 Skyy - Easy

03 Three Dog Night - Easy to Be Hard

04 Nancy Sinatra - Nice 'N' Easy

05 The Velvet Underground - We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together

06 The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind

07 Cars - Good Times Roll

08 Earth, Wind & Fire - Good Time

09 Bryan Ferry - Easy Living

10 Dean Martin - For The Good Times

11 Plush - Free And Easy

12 Linda Ronstadt - It's So Easy

13 Rascal Flatts - Easy

14 Cabaret Voltaire - Easy Life

15 Bob Marley - Easy Skanking

16 Stranglers - Let Me Down Easy

17 Philip Bailey with Phil Collins - Easy Lover

18 Ringo Starr - Free Drinks

19 The Lemonheads - Take It Easy

20 The Upsetters - Cool And Easy

Roots Radics Pick

More associated with Tackhead and Adrian Sherwood. A couple of days ago I had a pick of Creation Rebel and this is almost the same band with a different name. Basically I could have put on tracks of almost every Scientist album and it would probably be Roots Radics. They have pages of credits. Some solos stuff for themselves and then tons with other artists. I put a bunch on, but it still barely covers what could have been put on. Style Scott and Flabba Holt are pretty much the names, so I have a track of the two of them here to round out the diversity.

Roots Radics Pick

01 The Roots Radics - More Dub

02 Mad Professor featuring Yellowman - Some Hot, Hot Girls

03 The Roots Radics - Gunman

04 Scientist & Prince Jammy - Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker

05 Creation Rebel - Black Lion Dub

06 Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa

07 The Roots Radics - King Tubby's Rockers

08 The Roots Radics - Radifaction

09 Mikey Dread - Stereo Dub

10 The Scientist - Flabba Is Wild

11 Junjo & Roots Radics - Set Your Dub On Fire

12 Papa Tad's - Kill Me With Dub Pa Tads

13 King Tubby Meets Roots Radics - Country Gal Dub

14 Linval Thompson Meets King Tubby - She's Got You

15 Gussie P Meets Roots Radics - Wood for the Fire Dub

16 The Roots Radics - Penitentiary  Dub

17 The Roots Radics with Scientist - Morning Glory

18 Michael Palmer - I'm Still Dancing

19 Alborosie Meets Roots Radics - Dub For The Radicals

20 Style Scott & Flabba Holt - Cool Down The Place

21 Scientist Meets Roots Radics - One Way

Bud

Over the last couple of weeks I have been listening to a lot of songs and bands from one genre, but also mixing in a few things I have been meaning to add to a mixtape that aren't really associated. It really was taking a few tracks I really have been liking, some that didn't fit onto other picks and some I left off other mixtapes, but I wanted to use. Like the Jackofficers (Butthole Surfers basically) didn't make it onto a few picks, but I just like the track here. The Jah Wobble with friends came up because I wanted to hear it next to the New Order cover. No reasoning behind it. And I've been wanting to use The Soup Dragons, The Untouchables and Special AKA together and here was another chance. The Dub Rogue and Doctor Pablo was when I was making the Style Scott pick a few days ago and just had to add it here. Yes, Bud is Dub backwards, since it's partially dub, but not all. Nothing to do with it, but Happy St. Nicholas day today!

Bud

01 Bill Laswell Meets Style Scott - Fourth Column

02 The Jackofficers - Time Machines (Pt. 1)

03 Forehead Bros. - Circular Motion

04 The Soup Dragons featuring Junior Reid - I'm Free

05 Anne Marie - Dangerous Dub

06 Creation Rebel - Starship Africa (Section 3)

07 Jah Wobble, The Edge, Holger Czukay - Snake Charmer (Reprise)

08 Special Aka - Free Nelson Mandela

09 Prince Far I - Heavy Manners

10 Dub Rogue - Style Scott (Style Dub)

11 Dub Pistols, Dubmatix, Gaudi - Blue Monday (Gaudi Stepper Dub)

12 Scientist & Prince Jammy - Mission Impossible

13 Style Scott & Flabba Holt - Stranger In Your Town

14 Untouchables - Free Yourself

15 Doctor Pablo & Dub Syndicate - Pressurized

16 Dub Syndicate featuring Andy Fairley - Total Precinct Of Sound

17 Headfake - Cycles

Creation Rebel Pick

I alluded to it yesterday. Creation Rebel, today's pick, is almost the same backup band as Roots Radics, which is very similar to The Arabs and as each were used as the band for many great reggae artists. This will focus with them as Creation Rebel, with a couple of tangents. I have a track or two in here with Prince Far I and they were called the Arabs on at least one of them. They were on a couple of Twinkle Brothers albums - one track here. I also added a Roots Radics track and a solo track of Style Scott and Flabba Holt as well as a track with them and New Age Steppers. All related to On-U Sound at one point or another if only tangentially in a couple of cases. I didn't include any Scientist tracks, but the same band is on there. I will make a Roots Radics pick sometime and add Scientist stuff on that one.

Creation Rebel Pick

01 Creation Rebel - Rebel Vibration

02 Twinkle Brothers - Mob Fury

03 Creation Rebel - Rebel Rouser

04 Creation Rebel - Space Movement (Section 4)

05 Creation Rebel - Starship Africa  (Section 1)

06 The Roots Radics - Weep And Wail

07 Creation Rebel - Black Lion Dub

08 Creation Rebel - Drum Talk

09 Creation Rebel - African Space

10 Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa

11 Creation Rebel - Dub From Creation

12 Creation Rebel - Beware

13 Creation Rebel featuring Prince Far I - Frontline Speech

14 Prince Far I - Don't Deal With Folly

15 Creation Rebel - Stonebridge Warrior

16 Style Scott & Flabba Holt - Night Nurse

17 Creation Rebel - Love I Can Feel

18 Creation Rebel with New Age Steppers - Chemical Specialist

19 Creation Rebel - See Me Now

Style Scott Pick

We're still in the Adrian Sherwood, Tackhead sphere. This pick is Style Scott. He got introduced to Sherwood by Prince Far I. He played in the backing band for Prince Far I (as both Creation Rebel and the Arabs). They were also known as Roots Radics. Depending on when and for whom they were playing. Scott is also Dub Syndicate. He played with Bill Laswell, Scientist, Bim Sherman, Bunny Wailer, Eek-A-Mouse, Gary Clail, Twinkle Borthers, Lee Scratch Perry, Barmy Army and more. Some of those people are on this pick. Obviously when Sherwood met Scott, he was impressed and used him everywhere. Now, I'm probably obliged to make picks for Roots Radics and Creation Rebel. This could get very expansive if I let it. I've already ignored Ari Up and the Slits and so many others. Sorry.

Style Scott Pick

01 Barmy Army - England 2 Yugoslavia 0

02 Dub Syndicate - Wadada (Means Love)

03 Bill Laswell Meets Style Scott - Fourth Column

04 Bim Sherman - Nightmare

05 The Roots Radics - Weep And Wail

06 Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa

07 Creation Rebel - Beware

08 Lee Scratch Perry - Party Time

09 Scientist - Steppers

10 Israel Vibration - There Is No End

11 Mikey Dread - Break Down The Walls

12 Scientist & Prince Jammy - Mission Impossible

13 Bunny Wailer - Cool Runnings

14 Black Uhuru - I Love King Selassie

15 Style Scott & Flabba Holt - Stranger In Your Town

16 Creation Rebel & New Age Steppers - Chemical Specialist

17 Doctor Pablo & Dub Syndicate - Pressurized

18 Eek-A-Mouse - Assassinator

Tackhead Covers 2

Ok, this pick is part two of the Tackhead covers. Yesterday it was the originals of all today's picks. You will notice that most of these are from the band as Tackhead. But there is also a track by the members of the band when they were Fats Comet. One track with all of Tackhead except for Keith LeBlanc who was absent for Barmy Army. There is one cover from The Chess Project which was a Keith LeBlanc one off, but had help from Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald. And one track from Dub Syndicate, which was sort of a Style Scott project but also had members of Tackhead and usually Adrian Sherwood as well. So you already have heard the originals from yesterday, here are all the covers. Notice they are in the same order as part one.

Tackhead Covers 2

18 Tackhead - Loose Booty (Adrian Sherwood Mix)

19 Tackhead - I Am Afraid Of Americans

20 Tackhead - Walk On The Wildside (Klb Mix)

21 Tackhead - For The Love Of Money

22 Tackhead - Funky President

23 Tackhead - Super Stupid

24 Tackhead - Fire

25 Tackhead - King Bee

26 Fats Comet - Stormy Weather

27 Tackhead featuring Doug Wimbish - Crosstown Traffic

28 Tackhead - Higher Ground

29 Barmy Army - Que Sera Sera (Re-Mix)

30 The Chess Project - Boom Boom Out Go The Lights

31 Gary Clail - Sixteen Tons

32 Dub Syndicate - Police In Helicopter (Dub)

33 Tackhead - Exodus (Dubvisionist Mix)

34 Tackhead - War

Tackhead Covers 1

This is more Tackhead associated stuff. Tackhead has covered quite a few other bands. In fact they have an album of almost all covers, but throughout all the albums they have covered a few bands. I love it when artists cover songs and just do it differently. So today I have the original versions of seventeen songs that Tackhead covers. Tomorrow I will pick the Tackhead versions. They are in the same order each day.

Tackhead Covers 1

01 Funkadelic - Loose Booty

02 David Bowie - I'm Afraid Of Americans

03 Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

04 O'Jays - For The Love Of Money

05 James Brown - Funky President

06 Funkadelic - Super Stupid

07 Ohio Players - Fire

08 Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee

09 Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather

10 Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic

11 Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground

12 Doris Day - Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

13 Little Walter - Boom, Boom Out Go The Lights

14 Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

15 John Holt - Police in Helicopter

16 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus

17 Bob Marley & The Wailers - War

Barmy Army Family Pick

I couldn't stay away. More of the On-U Sound, Tackhead, Adrian Sherwood pick. This time it's Barmy Army. A one off, which is too bad since I like it. I actually didn't know it was associated with Sherwood until after I bought the album. I got it because it was related to Soccer/Football. It has everyone from Tackhead except for Keith LeBlanc. Add on Style Scott and a few surprises and you have it. The first track is really Barmy Army with Primal Scream sampling Irvine Welsh, cursing up a storm, for another soccer associated track. A bunch of Barmy Army (basically half the album) and then Tackhead with the soccer track that inspired Sherwood to form Barmy Army in the first place. Scientist has a track from his World Cup album (good album) which has Roots Radics featured on it. I didn't add Dub Syndicate, but it would have been appropriate. Alien Jourgenson, Jah Wobble, Rolo McGinty, David Harrow all appear on the album on at least one track, so therefore Ministry, Invaders of the Heart, Woodentops and James Hardway (alias for Harrow). Could have added Bunny Wailer, Jazz Butcher and everything in the Tackhead posts over the last two weeks. Bill Laswell is not associated directly, but I had a chance to use a track with Style Scott so I seized it. Not all of this is Soccer oriented, but a lot is.

Barmy Army Family Pick

01 Primal Scream-Irvine Welsh-On-U-Sound - Full Strength Fortified Dub

02 Barmy Army - Billy Bonds M.B.E. (Extended Re-Mix)

03 Barmy Army - Sharp As A Needle

04 Barmy Army - Mind The Gap

05 Barmy Army - Devo

06 Barmy Army - Civil Liberty

07 Tackhead - The Game

08 Scientist - First Dangerous Match

09 Gary Clail - Who Pays The Piper

10 African Head Charge - Snake In The Goal

11 Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart - English Reprise

12 The Woodentops - Wheels Turning (Adrian Sherwood Remix)

13 Ministry - Over The Shoulder

14 Creation Rebel - Space Movement (Section 4)

15 Bill Laswell Meets Style Scott - Crooklyn Dub Syndicate

16 James Hardway - Vibe Merchant

Rai Pick

Back in the late 80's and early 90's I was exposed to Algerian pop music, specifically Rai. I had no idea what they were singing about, still no idea today, but I liked some of the music. It was danceable and I am crappy with lyrics anyway so I made up words to kinda sing along. I got to hear some Chaba's and some Cheb's (which I think are just feminine and masculine ways to say youth- tell me if I'm wrong because I'm not looking it up right now). Track two of this pick is the first one that I really liked. Later I found that Sting had done a track with Cheb Mami that was pretty good, but most of what I knew came from rare French associated labels. Makes sense since France is related to Algeria. As I was putting this together from the stuff I had, I heard about Rai N' B' but I haven't explored the genre yet. If you know about any tracks I should listen to, let me know. Sounds interesting.

Rai Pick

01 Cheb Hasni & Chaba Zahouania - El Baraka

02 Chaba Fadela - N'sel Fik

03 Cheba Nouria - N'zor Nebra

04 Cheb Mami & Samira Said - Youm Wara Youm

05 Rachid Taha - Ya Rayah

06 Rayan & Rima - Dana Dana

07 Abdel Ali Slimani - Moi Et Toi

08 Sting featuring Cheb Mami - Desert Rose

09 Babylone - La La

10 Chaba Zahouania - Goulou Limma

11 Cheb Khaled - C'est La Vie

12 Rachid Taha - Ecoute Moi Camarade

13 Cheb Nasro - N'Direk Amour

What's The Connection? Message 1

Here's a connection that has been lingering in the background for a bit. This WTC all has songs with Message in the title. Genre didn't matter. I restarted this because of the Tackhead picks over the last week or two since they were part of the band behind Grandmaster Flash, who obviously has a great message song. It's the one rap song that I can (mostly) recite by heart. I was better when I was younger and I miss a few lines nowadays, but I can usually get all of it. I'm pretty sure no one but me knows Couch Flambeau, but I played that song on my radio show way back when fairly often. The rest are just message songs I like. Some more than others. For example Journey (except for early Journey) is not big in my house. But I put it in anyway. Sue me. You can tell from the cover that I am an android user. Yes, I do use Textra daily.

What's The Connection? Message 1

01 Kevin Godley - Expecting A Message

02 Devo - Message of Hope

03 Lee Scratch Perry - Message From Yard

04 Couch Flambeau - Song With A Message

05 U-Roy - African Message

06 Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You

07 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - The Message

08 The Specials - A Message to You Rudy

09 Split Enz - Message To My Girl

10 Jimi Hendrix - Message To Love

11 Electronic - Get the Message

12 The Pretenders - Message Of Love

13 M.F.S.B. - Love Is The Message

14 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Messages

15 Earth, Wind & Fire - Sing a Message to You (Live)

16 O'Jays - Message In Our Music

17 Journey - Message of Love

18 Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages

19 The Police - Message In A Bottle

20 Cabaret Voltaire - Messages Received

Asian Dub Foundation

I really only knew about this band because of their tenuous connection to Adrian Sherwood. He helped out on their Tank album in the mid 2000's. I like the album. So I looked up some other things they did. I have to first say I do love South Asian music. I love Bhangra music and Bollywood. This is not that. Perhaps it's partially inspired by it, but it's not that. They rap, they are electronic, they are dancehall, they are Asian. They are from England. And lo and behold, they did a track with Sinead O'Connor. I had no idea. Anyway this is my pick of their tracks. I have no idea what their fans may like, or what made it to charts (if any). Just songs I liked from the albums I picked up. I purposely left out the Chuck D stuff. I didn't really quite like it. But, if you are a fan, let me know if I missed something else that I shouldn't have. If you are new to them, hopefully you get an appreciation for their stuff.

Asian Dub Foundation

01 Asian Dub Foundation - Operation Eagle Lie

02 Asian Dub Foundation - Rise To The Challenge

03 Asian Dub Foundation - Burning Fence

04 Asian Dub Foundation - Flyover

05 Asian Dub Foundation - Memory War

06 Asian Dub Foundation - Oil

07 Asian Dub Foundation - Naxalite

08 Asian Dub Foundation - Rebel Warrior

09 Asian Dub Foundation - Free Satpal Ram (Jazzwad Remix)

10 Asian Dub Foundation with Sinead O'Connor - Thousand Mirrors

11 Asian Dub Foundation - Fortress Europe

12 Asian Dub Foundation - Tank

13 Asian Dub Foundation - Can't Pay Won't Pay

14 Asian Dub Foundation - A New London Eye

15 Asian Dub Foundation - Black White

16 Asian Dub Foundation - Change

17 Asian Dub Foundation - Collective Mode

18 Asian Dub Foundation - Real Great Britain

Gaudi Pick

There is a tiny overlap with Adrian Sherwood and Gaudi, but I am using this pick to introduce you to him. He's a producer and engineer like Sherwood and somewhat musician. Does remixes and reggae style music. Italian living in London. Looks cool and has some cool sounds. He got sort of well known working with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan the guy who looks Jaba the Hut but has a voice like an angel. I included a track. He's also worked with the Orb, Mad Professor, Lee Scratch Perry, Youth, Bill Laswell, Deep Forest, Testa and the Dub Pistols. I included a track of each. He was also half of Marree Men. I also included a couple of tracks from his solo work. If you know of him, you'll like this comp and if you don't hopefully it will inspire you to look up his remixes and production work. He's not related to the architect Gaudi, but I did use some of his stuff in the background of the cover just to be weird.

Gaudi Pick

01 Gaudi & Testa - Bass Instinct

02 Mad Professor with Gaudi - Smoking High

03 Gaudi - Chaine A Chaine

04 Marree Men - Mind The Gap

05 Gaudi - Roots

06 Gaudi - Sufani

07 Deep Forest & Gaudi - Interstellar

08 Gaudi with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Bethe Bethe Kese Kese

09 Gaudi featuring Lee Scratch Perry And The Orb - I Start To Pray

10 Gaudi featuring Mad Professor - Cinematic Dub

11 Youth & Gaudi - Bass Weapon

12 Dub Pistols, Dubmatix, Gaudi - Blue Monday (Gaudi Stepper Dub)

13 Gaudi, Paolo Polcari (Almamegretta), Dr Cat featuring Bill Laswell - Echo Massage

14 Gaudi - Heaven

15 Gaudi - Memories In My Pentagram

16 Gaudi - Spiritual Orphans

17 The Orb - A Ghetto Love Story

Tackhead Family

First off, look at the previous ten postings. They are all related to this pick. There are some tracks on this pick that are repeated on the previous days. Some. I tried to get a few that didn't make it onto the main picks. So, Fats Comet has a track not on any of the ones before. But if you see one or two from any of the others before, pardon me. I just picked the ones I liked. Tackhead and Adrian Sherwood are so prolific, but I still have what I have and like what I like. My suggestion is to get all of the albums and decide for yourself. But until you do, here's my choice. Put them in a single playlist and put it on random or play all of them in BPM order or by energy or camelot key. You can't go wrong. I'm done with this tangent for awhile, so enjoy what you got. I'm on a new tangent tomorrow.

Tackhead Family

01 Tackhead - Tell Me the Hurt

02 Grandmaster Flash - The Message

03 Fats Comet - Dee Jay's Program

04 Doug Wimbish - Quasimodo

05 Beatmaster - Lipservice

06 Little Axe - Grinning In Your Face

07 Barmy Army - Sharp As A Needle

08 The Sugarhill Gang - Apache (Jump On It)

09 Doug Wimbish & Fats Comet - Don't Forget That Beat (Alternate Dub)

10 Mark Stewart - Fatal Attraction

11 Singers & Players - This Assembly

12 African Head Charge - Timbuktu Express

13 Adrian Sherwood - Starship Bahia

14 New Age Steppers - Fade Away

15 Keith LeBlanc - Taxcider

16 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System with Bim Sherman - Two Thieves and a Liar

17 Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate

African Head Charge Pick

This is another On-U Sound family pick. Most of the albums have Adrian Sherwood on them, usually in multiple capacities. But also several of the albums included members of Tackhead. Especially Skip McDonald, but also Keith LeBlanc and Doug Wimbish. But the band was a revolving door circling around Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah. It started with Sherwood and him, but everyone in the scene participated at one point or another. Not all the tracks on this pick have everyone from Tackhead on it. But most have at least Adrian Sherwood or one of the other guys from the Band. So it is an associated Tackhead family pick. It was hard for me to distill this down to such a small amount of tracks. I could listen to most all the albums in their entirety. So I tried to get something from most all the albums to give you a sense, if you don't know them. But well worth getting all their albums. But especially the ones on On-U Sound, the earlier albums and their "comeback" album from 2023. If you want to, there are a few compilations that put together two albums in one. And there also are some box sets. 

African Head Charge Pick

01 African Head Charge - Drums Of Defiance

02 African Head Charge - In 'I' Head

03 African Head Charge - Dub Some More

04 African Head Charge - World Peace

05 African Head Charge - Hold Some More

06 African Head Charge - Stebeni's Theme

07 African Head Charge - Timbuktu Express

08 African Head Charge - Makola Market

09 African Head Charge - Positive Thoughts & Mind

10 African Head Charge - You Learn

11 African Head Charge - Sankofa

12 African Head Charge - Off The Beaten Track

13 African Head Charge - Dinosaur’s Lament

14 African Head Charge - Dervish Chant

15 African Head Charge - Microdosing

16 African Head Charge - Heading to Glory

Adrian Sherwood Pick

More of the Tackhead family picks. Today it's Adrian Sherwood. The hardest and the easiest to make a pick for. Easy because so much is associated with Sherwood and hard because of the same reason. I left out anything I knew was just a remix of his. He has million of those from tons of artists. I tried to get only him with or in a band. Even that is hard. Some of the bands he was in involved him only twiddling dials. But like Eno, he twiddled well. Most of these bands/artists say Sherwood . But several we know for sure he was in but didn't say his name. Some are tracks from the individual artists picks that we used, but I also picked a few that I didn't use before. I said it before, but listen to this through and then listen with the other picks combined. It's very interesting.

Adrian Sherwood Pick

01 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - What's My Mission Now (Fight the Devil)

02 Adrian Sherwood - Hari Up Hari

03 Voice Of Authority - Stopping And Starting

04 The Near Jazz Experience & Adrian Sherwood - Beachcomber In Dub

05 Lsk & Adrian Sherwood - The Way Of The World

06 Gaudi featuring Adrian Sherwood - Dub's Nine Lives

07 Sherwood & Pinch - Shadowrun

08 Adrian Sherwood featuring Daddy Freddy & Ghetto Priest & Jen Jen - We No Normal (Anger Management)

09 Suns Of Arqa featuring Adrian Sherwood - Acid Tabla (Adrian Sherwood Mix)

10 Dub Syndicate - Health Food

11 Sherwood & Pinch - Lies

12 Adrian Sherwood - Starship Bahia

13 Denise Sherwood, Adrian Sherwood, On-U Sound - Sweet Mary Jane

14 Sherwood & Pinch - One Law For The Rich

15 Lee Scratch Perry And Adrian Sherwood - Lucky Tarzan

16 Adrian Sherwood - Animal Magic

17 Creation Rebel & New Age Steppers - Chemical Specialist

18 Gaudi featuring Adrian Sherwood - Dub Out Of Theremin

Keith LeBlanc Pick

Not too many more, probably of this Tackhead tangent. This pick is Keith LeBlanc, drummer extraordinaire. Like the other boys in Tackhead he was in the Sugarhill Gang studio and on a million songs for that label. A couple on here. He was also in Little Axe (see Skip McDonald post three days ago). Sorry no tracks here. I did get a few others that were good instead. Obviously some solo stuff, but also a couple of one of projects that I liked and think are pretty cool. He has the coolest (or stupidest) names for bands: Forehead Bros.? Dumb Guys? But also has done some stuff with people like Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Malcolm X, Jello Biafra, etc. I had to include some of that. And the more (to me) out there stuff like his blues on The Chess Project and things like Wood, Brass & Steel. C'mon who does that kind of stuff? So much I left out, but that's what this is about making the hard decisions for the moment. Just know that you could find a bunch more just as good (or better) if you even barely look. I mixed the rap in between the dub and industrial, but by bpm and energy.

Keith LeBlanc Pick

01 Keith LeBlanc & Jello Biafra - Message From Our Sponsor-Object-Subject

02 Interference - Global Game

03 Keith LeBlanc - Ending

04 Malcolm X & Keith LeBlanc - No Sell Out

05 Keith LeBlanc - Maneuvers

06 Forehead Bros. - Circular Motion

07 Keith LeBlanc & Melle Mel - What Order

08 Keith LeBlanc - Uh!

09 Dumb Guys - Rap O Matic (Dub 7' edit)

10 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Freedom

11 Keith LeBlanc - These Sounds

12 Wood, Brass & Steel - Theme Song

13 Keith LeBlanc - Scream

14 Fine Quality featuring Cuz - Aah Dance

15 Keith LeBlanc - Skin Stretch

16 Schaft featuring Keith LeBlanc - Thirsty Fly

17 The Chess Project - Boom Boom Out Go The Lights

18 Keith LeBlanc - Taxcider

Doug Wimbish Pick

Another pick from the Tackhead family. This time Doug Wimbish. Like some of the others, perhaps more, he played on albums from everyone. Also like many of the guys from Tackhead he played on pretty much every On-U Sound recording project. I put on a few solo songs, but more of the associated stuff. There just was so much. Early rap on Sugarhill. I put a few different songs than some of the others. I love the Grandmaster Melle Mel and almost forgot The Sequence. This time I added Barmy Army and the Tackhead required songs. Wimbish was also in Living Colour so you get a track from that. Nona Hendryx with a track not on the pick I made earlier this year. I almost added Depeche Mode, but instead added Mos Def and Candi Staton. Two covers that I liked. This comp is a little different sounding, but again, if you play it next to any of those other picks of the last few days, you'd hear some similarities.

Doug Wimbish Pick

01 Brand New Funk - Interlude

02 Tackhead featuring LSK - Rulers & Foolers

03 Living Colour - Who Shot Ya

04 Doug Wimbish - Revolution

05 Roots Manuva & Doug Wimbish - Spit Bits

06 Doug Wimbish - Quasimodo

07 Keith Leblanc - Move

08 Anne Marie - Dangerous Dub

09 Tackhead featuring Doug Wimbish - Crosstown Traffic

10 Jungle Funk - Trance

11 Barmy Army - Mind The Gap

12 The Sequence - Funk You Up

13 Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five - Hustlers Convention

14 Doug Wimbish & Fats Comet - Don't Forget That Beat (Alternate Dub)

15 The Static Seekers - Body Automatic

16 Headfake - Cycles

17 Mos Def - Sunshine

18 Nona Hendryx - If Looks Could Kill (D.O.A.)

19 Candi Staton - Suspicious Minds

Bim Sherman Pick

I cannot seem to break away from this tangent I am on. Today's pick is Bim Sherman. Who had plenty of albums and success before On-U Sound and plenty after, too. But also was featured on a few tracks with Tackhead, Dub Syndicate, Strange Parcels, Gary Clail & On-U Sound System. I added some early tracks and some later tracks on his own, plus tracks with the above. I said it before. The tracks with Gary Clail always stick in my head. One track that I posted before and the last track that I saved. Sherman just has that sound that I really love. And Adrian Sherwood takes good care of that, although when you listen to the none Sherwood produced tracks the voice just is captivating.

Bim Sherman Pick

01 Tackhead featuring Bim Sherman - Stealing

02 Bim Sherman - Mighty Ruler

03 Bim Sherman - Sit And Wonder

04 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System with Bim Sherman - Beef

05 Bim Sherman And The Strange Parcels - Man Next Door

06 Strange Parcels & Bim Sherman - More Is Insane

07 Bim Sherman - Lightning & Thunder

08 Bim Sherman - Slummy Ghetto Pt. 2

09 Bim Sherman - Keep On Trying

10 Bim Sherman - Can I Be Free (From Crying)

11 Bim Sherman - Lovers Leap

12 Bim Sherman & Dub Syndicate - Haunting Ground

13 Bim Sherman - Golden Locks

14 Bim Sherman - Just Can't Stand It

15 Bim Sherman - Across The Red Sea

16 Bim Sherman - Golden Morning Star

17 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System with Bim Sherman - Two Thieves and a Liar

Skip McDonald Pick

More of the Tackhead pick. The last several days have been one On-U Sound family pick. Not that they have been all On-U, they haven't been. But related, yes. Skip McDonald, or Little Axe, as he sometimes goes by, has definitely been associated with the whole cabal. Started with them in Sugarhill Gang, did a bunch of associated rap bands and songs. I include a couple. He also played with a ton of other bands as the studio go to guy. I only included a few. I didn't include Sinead O'Connor or Donna Summer or tons more. Search for him, though. He's played with a lot of people. He doesn't have much solo stuff under his own name. Mostly on the On-U compilations. The rest is under Little Axe. I love the Lee Perry, Little Annie and the Barmy Army. Some of the tracks on the previous days posts also include Skip, so check them out. Very incestuous. They all appear on each other's stuff. Sometimes uncredited or with made up names.

Skip McDonald Pick

01 Grandmaster Flash - The Message

02 The Sugarhill Gang - Apache (Jump On It)

03 Afrika Bambaataa - Funk You

04 Little Axe - Ride On (Fight On)

05 Little Axe - Midnight Dream

06 Little Axe - Grinning In Your Face

07 Little Axe - If I Had My Way

08 Little Axe - Speakeasy

09 Little Axe - Soul Of A Man

10 Skip McDonald - Hammerhead

11 Little Axe - Song To Sing

12 Little Annie - Give it to me

13 Doug Wimbish - Quasimodo

14 Barmy Army - Leroy's Boots

15 Bim Sherman - Lovers Leap

16 Daby Toure & Skip McDonald - Time Has Come

17 Lee Scratch Perry - Seven Devils Dead

18 ABC - Tower Of London

19 Will Downing - In My Dreams

Mark Stewart Pick

I'm obviously on a thread here over the last few days. This pick of Mark Stewart is also related to the On-U Sound stable. He was also in The Pop Group and part of New Age Steppers and other On-U Sound bands. But today, all you get is a few Pop Group songs and Mark solo and with Maffia. I put a couple of twelve inch versions because they were good, but also shorter, so I could add an extra song or so. I got a little from as many albums as I could. I didn't add any New Age Steppers (saved that for an upcoming family pick). This is harder than some of the stuff over the last few days, but it's all good. Each of these covers is different, but they have similar layouts.

Mark Stewart Pick

01 Mark Stewart - Dream Kitchen (Unreleased 12 Version)

02 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Hysteria

03 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Radio Freedom

04 Mark Stewart + Maffia - Liberty City

05 Mark Stewart - The Puppet Master

06 Mark Stewart - Stranger Than Love

07 Mark Stewart - These Things Happen

08 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Hypnotised (Unique New York 12 Version)

09 Mark Stewart - Babycino

10 Mark Stewart - The Lunatics Are Taking Over The Asylum

11 The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes

12 Mark Stewart - Gustav Says

13 The Pop Group - We Are Time

14 The Pop Group - Beyond Good And Evil

15 Mark Stewart - Mr. You're A Better Man Than I

16 Mark Stewart + Maffia - Jerusalem

17 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Paranoia

Gary Clail Pick

This is related somewhat to yesterday's pick. Gary Clail did play with Tackhead Sound System. He also is closely related to Adrian Sherwood, but he also worked with Paul Oakenfold. I included the club hit that they did, but put in the original version that has Billy Graham samples throughout it. That was added as an extra track on a Japanese pressing. One of my favorite tracks, but probably less known I saved for a family pick later. There was enough for here any way. Some of the On-U Sound System, Tackhead Sound System, solo stuff, some  singles and I love the Tennessee Ernie Ford cover (written by Merle Travis). It's a great cover. The one that gets caught in my head, though, is the one he does with Bim Sherman. How low can you go? Try playing this right after yesterday's pick. It works really well. I do have a couple of doubles, but I also have a track that doesn't appear there (and it easily could.)

Gary Clail Pick

01 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Reality

02 Gary Clail - Enough Is Enough

03 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Mind at the End of the Tether

04 Gary Clail - Half Cut For Confidence

05 Gary Clail Sound System - Control

06 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System with Bim Sherman - Beef

07 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - Bad Natured

08 Gary Clail - Speak No Evil

09 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Hard Left

10 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - False Leader (Parts 1 & 2)

11 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - Escape

12 Gary Clail - Who Pay The Piper

13 Gary Clail - Sixteen Tons

14 Gary Clail - Another Hard Man

Tackhead Pick

I could easily do a Tackhead family pick or two and probably one for each person associated with the band. Look them up if you don't know about these guys. If just for their association with Sugarhill Gang or with On-U Sound and Adrian Sherwood, they would be great. Their studio work is probably as varied as the boys behind the scenes at Motown. Here I took a track of them as Strange Parcels, a couple when they were Fats Comet. Plus with Keith LeBlanc, Mark Stewart, Gary Clail and DJ Cheese and all the rest from each of their albums. I added a few covers and a track they redid, but gave you the original version with Melle Mel. I left a  track or two for an up and coming family pick. Listening to it again last night, it really is a good sampling. I saw these guys live a couple of times in the 90's. They were good. So good.

Tackhead Pick

01 Tackhead - Loose Booty (Adrian Sherwood Mix)

02 Tackhead - Tell Me the Hurt

03 Tackhead - For The Love Of Money

04 Tackhead - Ticking Time Bomb

05 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Mind at the End of the Tether

06 Tackhead featuring Melle Mel - Original Sex

07 Tackhead - Super Stupid

08 Strange Parcels - Disconnection

09 Tackhead with DJ Cheese - King Of The Beat (Tackhead Remix)

10 Tackhead - Fire

11 Fats Comet - Rockchester

12 Fats Comet - Dub Storm

13 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Hard Left

14 Tackhead featuring Doug Wimbish - Crosstown Traffic

15 Keith LeBlanc - Major Malfunction

16 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Jerusalem

17 Tackhead - Strange Things

Dub Syndicate

English band Dub Syndicate is, for me, one of the most perfect dub reggae bands. Try the Mad Professor Dub Me Crazy Pick for another one. Forget Adrian Sherwood, or the Tackhead connections (although I will have a Tack>>Head pick coming soon). Forget the Lee Perry connections, even though I put two tracks on here, Don't think of the On-U Sound. Forget everything you know about them. Just put this compilation on and listen. There are twenty compilations they've put out (and they are all good), I might pick a different set tomorrow, but today it's this one. I should have played other tracks. I should have picked tracks from the other really good Lee Perry album with them. But I  didn't. It goes against my one CD length rule by almost 15 minutes, but forget all that. Just play it. But really any of their stuff. You can't go wrong.

Dub Syndicate

01 Dub Syndicate - Night Train

02 Dub Syndicate - Hey Ho

03 Dub Syndicate - Substyle

04 Dub Syndicate - Wadada

05 Dub Syndicate - 2001 Love

06 Dub Syndicate - Sound Clash

07 Dub Syndicate - One In A Billion

08 Dub Syndicate - Dubbing Is A Must

09 Dub Syndicate - Boggled Minds

10 Lee Scratch Perry & Dub Syndicate - Jungle

11 Lee Scratch Perry & Dub Syndicate - De Devil Dead

12 Dub Syndicate - No Bed Of Roses

13 Dub Syndicate - Time (Version)

14 Dub Syndicate - Togetherness

15 Dub Syndicate - Jamaican Proverb

16 Dub Syndicate - Roots Commandment

17 Dub Syndicate - No Dog Barks

18 Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate

What's The Connection? Because 1

No reason for this connection. I made it Because. So stupid. Seriously, I was thinking of the Beatles and Dave Clark Five and Patti Smith covering Bruce Springsteen. Not that they go together or anything, but because they all were cool songs I liked. I started looking for more songs and found a ton. I'm sure there is enough to do multiple volumes, but these are the ones I picked. It goes all over the place, but surprisingly still sounds kinda good. I will compile more as I feel like it.

What's The Connection? Because 1

01 Afroman - Because I Got High

02 War - Just Because

03 Magazine - Because You're Frightened

04 John Lennon - Just Because

05 The Orb - Before Because

06 Masami Tsuchiya - Because

07 Dean Martin - Because You're Mine

08 Tower Of Power - Because I Think The World Of You

09 Soft Boys - I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) [Live]

10 Rolling Stones - Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner

11 Echo & The Bunnymen - All Because Of You Days

12 David Bowie - Because You're Young

13 Robyn Hitchcock - Because You're Over

14 The Dave Clark Five - Because

15 Beatles - Because

16 Patti Smith Group - Because the Night

17 Frankie Yankovic - Just Because

18 Stevie B - Because I Love You (The Postman Song)

19 U2 - All Because Of You

20 Death In June - Because Of Him

21 Fatboy Slim - Because We Can

22 Cocteau Twins - Because of Whirl-jack