Repost: Easter Pick 1

Repost of Easter Pick with new link: Easter is not like Christmas. There are some albums and songs, but not nearly as many as as others. And this holiday also usually is associated with very religious and also very non-religious images. For some it is Jesus on the cross, for others it is Easter dinner and egg hunts or lots of chocolates or flowers. And for some it is Rabbits and for others it is Rising from the dead. This pick is a mish mash of all of that. I have songs about rising and songs about rabbits. I don't have any about dinner, but I do about redemption. So it's a mixed bag. I hope you enjoy the compilation no matter what your feeling is of this holiday. Enjoy your family whether you believe or not. At one time it meant I was going to read some selections from the good book, now it is about my family.

Happy Easter

01 Herb Alpert - Rise
02 Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay
03 Judy Garland & Fred Astaire - Easter Parade
04 Giorgio Moroder - Night Rabbit
05 Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
06 Florence + The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
07 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Redemption Song
08 Simple Minds - East at Easter
09 Parachute Club - Rise Up (Extended)
10 Brave Combo - I'm a Bunny Rabbit
11 Ray Anthony - The Bunny Hop
12 The Residents - Easter Woman
13 Gene Gray & The Stingrays - Surf Bunny
14 Marillion - Easter
15 Rosemary Clooney - Eggbert, The Easter Egg
16 Steve Hackett - Rise Again
17 Sparks - Pulling Rabbits out of a Hat
18 Dub Syndicate - Let The Spirit Rise
19 John Lydon - The Rabbit Song
20 Bob Crosby and the Bobcats - Peter Cottontail

What's The Connection? Purple 1

I have quite a few connections about different colors, so make sure you check them out, too. But today is first time with the color Purple. I automatically think of Mr. Purple himself: Prince. And of course he's on here. A bunch of psychedelic songs have purple in the title, including one of my favorites: Cerebral Corps from the late 80's/90's time frame. Jimi Hendrix of course. And not so much on this volume, but there are a bunch of people that covered Jimi (look for them in part 2). A newer one that I like is Soft Cell with the Pet Shop Boys. I kept hoping I missed Deep Purple doing a purple song, but no luck. No Purple Disco Machine or New Riders Of The Purple Sage either. I did include Nino Tempo & April Stevens and Sheb Wooley.

What's The Connection? Purple 1

01 Aebleo - Flight of the Purple Potato
02 Tangerine Dream - Pilots Of Purple Twighlight
03 Sorrows - Pink Purple Yellow & Red
04 Red Prysock - Purple Wail
05 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Purple Stain
06 The Bees - Voices Green And Purple
07 Supermax - Purple People
08 Kimberley Rew - Purple And Orange Stripes
09 Marvin Gaye - Purple Snowflakes
10 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
11 Niebiesko Czarni - Purple Hazy
12 Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain
13 Axel Boman - Purple Drank
14 Parkays - Purple Tigers
15 Soft Cell featuring Pet Shop Boys - Purple Zone
16 Wild Ones - Purple Pill Eater
17 Calcutta 16 - Ballad of the Purple Inn
18 Nino Tempo & April Stevens - Deep Purple
19 They Might Be Giants - Purple Toupee
20 Los Plantronics - Purple Creepers
21 Cerebral Corps - Pam's Purple Spyrograph
22 Sneb Wooley - The Purple People Eater
23 Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood - Violet Purple Rose

Disco (Space) 3

Yet another one of these Disco picks. part of the Leopard series and part of the Space series. This is the first that has an Earth Wind & Fire song on it. Not that they don't have enough space themed songs, they do. I love the Space themed disco (and the machine/robot disco, like yesterday). For more Space disco try Disco (Space) 1 and Disco (Space) 2. You can see what I had there (all new links, btw). This one has some big ones that could have been on the first one of these easily. Stars on 45, Boney M, Cerrone, Sun are all easy picks. Space Project is special, because I have colored vinyl which is cool. Only The Mahattan Transfer is iffy. It's a good song at the edge of space (and time) and it pretty much is disco, but still at the edge.

Disco (Space) 3

25 Earth Wind & Fire - Jupiter
26 Cloud One - Atmosphere Strut
27 Sun - Radiation Level
28 Plastic Bertrand - Tout Petit La Planete
29 Betoko - Space Invader (Original Mix)
30 Space Project - The Return of Space Raiders
31 Stars On 45 - Star Wars And Other Hits
32 Hypnosis - Pulstar
33 Boney M - Nightflight To Venus
34 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock (Instrumental 12inch version)
35 Manhattan Transfer - Twilight Zone-Twilight Tone
36 Crown Heights Affair - Galaxy Of Love
37 Bob James - Main Theme From Star Trek the Motion Picture
38 Cerrone - Trippin On The Moon

Disco Machine 2

Some more of the Disco Machine. Part two of this pick. You can find part one of Disco Machine here. Same metallic leopard cover and some machine like disco songs, plus a few just post disco. Michael Sembello and CCCP pretty much are at the edge of this. What I find funny is that disco became like this machine, pumping out songs that are still danceable today AND they made machine sounding songs that sounded like machines made it. Kind of weird that AI actually can make songs that don't sound like a machine, but are actually machine made. I think if I make a part three of this it would have to include Kraftwerk and Information Society. What do you think it should include?

Disco Machine 2

14 J Dilla - E=mc2
15 Jackson Five - Dancing Machine
16 West Street Mob - Let's Dance (Make Your Body Move)
17 Laserdance - Moon Machine
18 Herbie Hancock - Tell Everybody (Disco Version)
19 Casco - Cybernetic Love
20 CCCP - American Soviets (Mixx It)
21 Lipps Inc. - Funkytown
22 Giorgio Moroder - Automation
23 Debbie Deb - Lookout Weekend
24 Rockets - Future Woman
25 Rockets - Synthetic Man
26 Hot Butter - Popcorn
27 The Magic Disco Machine - Control Tower
28 Miracles - Love Machine
29 Michael Sembello - Maniac (Disco Version)

What's The Connection? What Party?

I guess part of the Party Connections is What Party. Basically "something" Party. And it is not surprising that there all sorts of parties out there. Birthday to Wild there are many. The funny one to me is how The Waterboys have a song called World Party and that's their "spinoff" band. They all seem fun, except for maybe Buck Naked's party. I think I will skip that one. Although I am sure that many of you will not want me to go Piero Umiliani's party or the one the Malibooz are throwing. Believe me it won't be pretty. Which is your favorite party?

What's The Connection? What Party?

01 Haruomi Hosono - Birthday Party
02 Chubby Checker - Dancin' Party
03 Shonen Knife - Bbq Party
04 Greg Hawkes - Block Party
05 Barenaked Ladies - Food Party
06 Annette - Beach Party
07 Val Volk - Rockin' Party
08 The Dickies - Poodle Party
09 The Hicksville Bombers - Real Rockin' Party
10 Three Aces & A Joker - Booze Party
11 Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalapeño Band - ¡Puro Party!
12 Clarence Reid - Funky Party
13 The Waterboys - World Party
14 Ohio Players - Street Party
15 Malibooz - Bikini Beach Party Tonight
16 Flim & the BB's - Surprise Party
17 The Neon Judgement - Fashion Party
18 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Punky Reggae Party
19 The Flamingos - The Boogaloo Party
20 Piero Umiliani - Topless Party
21 Rick Nelson - Garden Party
22 Television Personalities - Sooty's Disco Party
23 Eek-A-Mouse - Sensee Party
24 Kid Creole & The Coconuts - The Lifeboat Party
25 Wondermints - Ski Party
26 Charlie Feathers - Wild, Wild Party
27 Buck Naked  And The Bare Bottom Boys - Enema Party

Three Men In A Tub 2

I did a repost yesterday of part one of this pick. I was picking my favorite Dub Step songs, knowing nothing about Dub Step (see yesterday's post which actually was originally posted over a year ago). New links on this one. I didn't get negative feedback and I made another volume, but never posted part two (or part three which I made later). So I was listening to part one and two a week or so ago and remembered how much I liked this. I can't dance Dub Step, but I want to. I can maybe do a pretend Robot to the beat, but definitely not what some of those people do on Youtube and Rumble. As you listen, you will notice that I like certain parts of this genre. All the hoovers and weird stuff. I have no idea what they are called. A couple of same artists from volume one, but mostly new. Still need to look around someday and see if there actually is a chart of Dub Step. But having too much fun figuring it out myself. I've been collecting more for future volumes, so let me know who I should check out. Rub a Dub Dub!

Three Men In A Tub 2

18 Teddybears STHML - Move Over
19 Pegboard Nerds - Try This (Original Mix)
20 RoughSketch - Muscari [Hardcore 2010 Gabber]
21 Riot - Jazz Cat Funk (Original Mix)
22 Flux Pavilion featuring Example - Daydreamer (Dillon Francis Remix)
23 Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (WhiteNoise Remix)
24 Brain - Something For Your Mind (Kaylab Remix)
25 Excision & DZ - Yin Yang
26 Knife Party - Centipede
27 BYOB v J Majik & Wickaman - Save My Life (Dubstep Mix)
28 Noisestorm - Let it Roar
29 Panda Eyes - Weed n Fries
30 Rusko - Mr. Chips
31 Benny Benassi featuring Gary Go - Cinema (Skrillex Remix)
32 F.O.O.L - Fairytaler
33 Savoy & Sound Remedy featuring Jojee - Leaving You (Original Mix)
34 Krewella - Killin It
35 Tristam - Party for the Living

Repost: 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

Slow Poof 1

This is a kind of fun one for me. A pick of songs I call Slow Poof. It came from thinking of Puff Balls and watching clouds float by. Probably more ambient music, but just sort of. I was listening to Frankie Goes To Hollywood Power Of Love and thinking of the Art Of Noise and 10cc, Trevor Horn and ZTT. It just branched from there. Much of this isn't typical of either ballads or ambient music, but sort of inbetween that and world music. I never thought of the Frankie song being a Christmas song, but supposedly in some countries it is. I don't think any of the other ones would be considered Christmas, but then again, I didn't think Frankie was either. I have almost enough to make a part two, so give me suggestions as to what else would fit.

Slow Poof 1

01 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
02 Air - Ce Matin La
03 Yes - White Car
04 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love (Blank & Jones So8Os Reconstruction)
05 Spacetime Continuum With Terence McKenna - Archaic Revival
06 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part IV
07 Yello - The Race Ambient Loop Mix
08 Jam & Spoon - Stella
09 10cc - I'm Not In Love (Rework Of Art Mix)
10 Art Of Noise - Moments In Love
11 Glenn Gregory & Claudia Brucken - When Your Heart Runs Out Of Time
12 Godley & Creme - Cry (Extended Remix)

What's The Connection? Lovers 1

This all started from the Chic Family Pick and being limited on songs from Chic. That led to yesterday's Forbidden Loves connection. And while putting that one together I really wanted to use both Chic and a song by the Egyptian Lover in one comp. So this one came about. A few other artists on here that I really, really like. The Fall, Philip Bailey, Dean Martin, Cheap Trick. But let me talk about DuJour. Not a real band (check out Fake Bands) but I still crack up when I hear them. Josie and the Pussycats was an ok movie, but the soundtrack was good. I liked it a lot. The other band on here that deserves more accolades is Johnny Guitar Watson. I once made a good compilation of my favorite songs by him, one day I will post it. But everytime I listen to his songs, I am struck by his guitar. Just listen to this track. Wow!

What's The Connection? Lovers 1

01 Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover
02 Chicago - No Tell Lover
03 Johnny Guitar Watson - Superman Lover
04 Jimi Hendrix - Little Miss Lover
05 Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
06 Bauhaus - Passion Of Lovers
07 Taylor Swift - Lover
08 Chic - My Forbidden Lover
09 Atlanta Rhythm Section - Imaginary Lover
10 DuJour - Backdoor lover
11 Dean Martin - There's My Lover
12 Marc Almond - A Lover Spurned
13 The Egyptian Lover - The Lover
14 The Fall - An Older Lover
15 Echo & The Bunnymen - Lovers On The Run
16 Philip Bailey With Phil Collins - Easy Lover
17 Mary Macgregor - Torn Between Two Lovers
18 Marti Brom & Her Barnshakers - No Good Lover
19 Cheap Trick - World's Greatest Lover

What's The Connection? Forbidden Loves

Well, as I was getting my Chic family compilation together (yesterday) and posting it. I knew I was not putting all of my favorites from Chic. One of those is My Forbidden Lover. That became the beginning of this Connection. Pretty easy to get titles of songs with forbidden love or lover. Who knew that forbidden love was so popular. I even had to leave off a few. Hard to know exactly what a forbidden love means to each person, so I just depicted it with barbed wire hearts on the cover.

What's The Connection? Forbidden Loves

01 Third World - Forbidden Love
02 Nancy Wilson featuring Carl Anderson - Forbidden Lover
03 Alex Chilton - Forbidden Love
04 The Ventures - Forbidden Love
05 The Slickee Boys - Forbidden Love
06 Chic - My Forbidden Lover
07 Mark Stewart - Forbidden Love
08 Andy Williams - Forbidden Love
09 Moby Grape - Forbidden Love
10 Dead or Alive - My Forbidden Lover
11 Hank Snow with Kelly Foxton - Forbidden Lovers
12 Madleen Kane - Forbidden Love
13 Tapps - My Forbidden Lover (12'' Disco Mix)
14 Be Bop Deluxe - Forbidden Lovers
15 The Communards - Forbidden Love
16 The Darkness - Forbidden Love
17 Paul Van Dyk - Forbidden Love
18 Madonna - Forbidden Love
19 Loudness - Forbidden Love

Chic Family Pick 2

This is part two of the Chic Family pick that started yesterday (or kind of with the Power Station pick a few days ago) I tried to not double up on anything, but I put the same Robert Palmer track on and even though it's a different version, one Chic track yesterday. So lots of guest spots from Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers on this pick. A few tracks that I was surprised had one or both of them on it. You'll see below. I added a Chic megamix medley, because I liked it. One track from an unreleased Adam Ant album with them all over it. I didn't pick Backfired from Debbie Harry, but I love that song too. Several on this comp could have been replaced with another track from the same album, but I just liked these, today. Each of these volumes is in bpm order.

Chic Family Pick 2

14 Steve Winwood - Higher Love
15 Nile Rodgers - State Your Mind
16 Nile Rodgers with Chic - Sober
17 Belouis Some - Imagination
18 Grace Jones - I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)
19 Adam Ant - Brain Candy
20 Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
21 Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky (Radio Edit)
22 George Michael featuring Nile Rodgers - Fantasy
23 Rod Stewart - Lost In You
24 Philip Bailey - Welcome To The Club
25 Chic - Megachic (Chic Medley)
26 Madonna - Like A Virgin
27 Debbie Harry - The Jam Was Moving
28 Duran Duran - A View To A Kill
29 Mick Jagger - Hard Woman
30 Sheila B. Devotion - Spacer

Chic Family Pick 1

After yesterday's Power Station Pick, I kind of had to go this direction. So much of this could have been used yesterday, but instead you get today and tomorrow. Chic was basically Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. They played on so many tracks and produced even more. Some bands were basically Chic with other lead singers. They had some musicians that played on everything (for differences, see yesterday) but Tony Thompson for one played drums on most everything. I didn't single him out in this compilation. I did get one track from Norma Jean Wright who was their early lead singer but went on her own (with Chic help). I got some solo Rodgers and solo Edwards. The rest are tracks/albums that they played on. And take it from me, this is just a sampling.

Chic Family Pick 1

01 David Bowie - Modern Love
02 Bernard Edwards - You Don't Know Me
03 Nile Rodgers - The Land Of The Good Groove
04 Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out
05 Chic - Good Times (Original 12 inch Mix)
06 Nile Rodgers with Lady Gaga - I Want Your Love
07 Sister Sledge - Lost In Music
08 Chic - Jack Le Freak
09 Chic - Chic Mystique
10 Chic - Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)
11 Chic - I'll Be There
12 Norma Jean Wright - Saturday
13 Belinda Carlisle - Mad About You

Power Station Family Pick

Another Super group family Pick. This time The Power Station. Mostly featuring members from Duran Duran, Robert Palmer and Chic. The Taylors from Duran Duran, Tony Thompson from Chic (and everywhere else). Bernard Edwards, also from Chic,  also actually played in the band later, but I'm not including him, even though he was on production detail, so half the bands in the world charts at that time could have been fodder. I skipped that and instead I highlighted songs that Tony drummed on, but limited that, too since he played with so many of Edwards' projects. Andy and John had some solo stuff as well as Duran Duran, so put in a few. I'll probably have to expand this since they all played on each other's stuff at one point or another. I took most of that out except for Bowie and Ross, since it fit so well here.

Power Station Family Pick

01 Duran Duran - Come Undone
02 John Taylor - Losing You
03 Power Station - She Can Rock It
04 Diana Ross - Upside Down
05 Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
06 Chic - Good Times
07 David Bowie - Let's Dance
08 Power Station - Go To Zero
09 Andy Taylor - Take It Easy (Rock Mix)
10 Chic - Le Freak
11 Power Station - Get It On (Bang A Gong)
12 Power Station - Some Like It Hot
13 Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
14 John Taylor - Always Wrong
15 Andy Taylor - I Might Lie
16 Duran Duran - Ordinary World
17 Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
18 Robert Palmer - Bad Case Of Loving You
19 Robert Palmer - Johnny & Mary

What's The Connection? Get It On

Other than yesterday the last few days have kind of been related. Get On, Get Off. Today's connection about Getting It On. It sounds so seventies to me. Sorry, but there has to be doubles here. Some covers and some originals, well more covers than originals in this connection. From T-Rex to Marvin Gaye there are great songs with Get It On in the title. Funkadelic, Addrisi Brothers couldn't be more different. Kool & the Gang, Midas Touch and Zipper are all Banging a Gong with their own Get It On songs. The cover is a bit different than the last few days, but then, it had to be.

What's The Connection? Get It On

01 Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
02 Addrisi Brothers - We've Got To Get It On Again
03 Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It
04 Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
05 Midas Touch - The Nightlife (Let's Get It On)
06 Carry Zeigler - Bang A Gong (Get It On) (East Coast Swing)
07 New Ghetto Express - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
08 The Power Station - Get It On (Bang A Gong)
09 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Get It On
10 T. Rex - Get It On
11 Spencer & Hill - Get It On
12 Dead Or Alive - Getting It On
13 Zipper - Gettin' It On
14 Bill Wyman - Get It On
15 Blondie - Bang A Gong (Get It On) (live)
16 Ken Boothe - Let's Get it On
17 Maceo Parker - Let's Get It On

What's The Connection? St Patrick's Day Leprechauns

Do you know why the Irish are so cool? This day, celebrated by non-Irish people worldwide has not much if anything to do with St. Patrick, Ireland, the Irish, green beer etc. And yet the Irish don't complain about it, they don't whine about cultural appropriation. They embraced it. They accepted it as a way to celebrate being Irish. To bring people together celebrating Ireland. It didn't matter that it was all wrong. They sort that out as you come visit this beautiful place on earth, or as you buy them a beer. And probably sort you out about real Irish beer at the same time. Anyway, here are some songs about Leprechauns, St. Patrick and his day. While you drink green beer and look for pots of gold under rainbows, I'll be having a Guinness Stout after church. And explain the trinity with a Shamrock. We'll both have a good time.

What's The Connection? St Patrick's Day Leprechauns

01 Martin Short - Leprechaun Song
02 Snakefinger - Jesus Was A Leprechaun
03 Bassnectar featuring Sunru Skywaka - Leprechauns Arise
04 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Rockin' Rockin' Leprechauns
05 The Tossers - St. Patrick's Day
06 Rosemary Clooney - Shaun, Shaun, The Leprechaun
07 The Whitlams - Jumpin' Leprechauns
08 Savatage - St. Patrick's
09 Demonhead - Leprechauns
10 Ennio Morricone - St. Patrick's Day
11 The Monophonics - St. Patrick's Day
12 Enya - Triad (St. Patrick -Cú Chulainn-Oisin)
13 John Mayer - St. Patrick's Day
14 Pvris - St. Patrick
15 Dyro - Leprechauns & Unicorns
16 Mekons - St. Patrick's Day
17 Andy White - St. Patrick Good Luck
18 Dixie Dregs - Leprechaun Promenade
19 John Waite - St. Patrick's Day
20 Paolo Siani - The Leprechaun's Pot Of Gold
21 The Mahones - St. Patrick's Day Irish Punk Song

What's The Connection? Get Off

Completely the opposite kind of sentiment from yesterday's Get On, this connection still has some of the same artists but different songs. Get Off was started before, but posted second. It started with Foxy, but progressed quickly going in the branches of yesterday , today and tomorrow. No Spitfire this time, because all I could think of was Clint Eastwood and his Gran Torino saying Get Off My Lawn. Although no songs like that on here. And in most cases the sentiments of the songs had little to do with that and rather more Getting Off, although that wandered a bit. The cover reflects none of that.

What's The Connection? Get Off

01 Brian Setzer - Get It Off Your Mind
02 John Holt - I Can't Get You Off My Mind (Original Stereo Mix)
03 Debbie Hines - Get Off Your Butt
04 The The - I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind
05 Jackie Benson - Gotta Get You, You, You Off My Mind
06 Fall Out Boy - I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)
07 Prince & the New Power Generation - Gett Off
08 Cracker - Get Off This
09 Darondo - Get Up Off Your Butt
10 Blues Incorporated - Get Off My Back
11 Bloodline featuring Joe Bonamassa - Get Off Your Back
12 Daybreak - Everybody Get Off
13 Funkadelic - Get Off Your Ass and Jam
14 Solomon Burke - Got To Get You Off My Mind
15 James Brown - Get Up Offa That Thing
16 The Monkees - I Can't Get Her Off My Mind
17 Billy Cotton Band - I Can't Get Mississippi Off My Mind
18 Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud
19 Foxy - Get Off
20 The Cramps - Get Off The Road
21 Dead Kennedys - Mtv Get Off The Air
22 Josefus - Get Off My Case

What's The Connection? Get On

Not going to write much here today, but this connection is about Getting On. Get and On need to be in the title. I actually started Get Off first, but posting this one before that one. Turns out both have a few good songs from some good bands. So just listen instead of reading. Completely different covers for each. This one has a Triumph Spitfire with someone special Getting On the back. Suffice it to say I liked both. The car and the legs. I'm looking for a Spitfire Mk3 in good condition (1969-72), so let me know if you see one.

What's The Connection? Get On

01 Buzzcocks - Get On Our Own
02 Tracy Byrd - A Good Way To Get On My Bad Side
03 Yello - Get On
04 Prince - Get On The Boat
05 James Brown - Get On The Good Foot
06 Bo Galigher-T.S.B. Inc. - Oh! Baby-Get On Down
07 Free Spirit - Get On Up
08 Kenny G - Gettin' On The Step
09 The Esquires - Get On Up
10 Rob Base & DJ Ez Rock - Get On The Dance Floor
11 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Get On Top
12 Gloria Estefan - Get On Your Feet
13 Munich Machine - Get On The Funk Train
14 Jauz & Pegboard Nerds - Get On Up
15 Pitbull featuring Oobie - Get On The Floor
16 Bill Nelson - Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam
17 Nicki Minaj featuring Ariana Grande - Get On Your Knees
18 U2 - Get On Your Boots
19 The Electric Prunes - Get Me To The World On Time
20 Stranglers - (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)

What's The Connection? WTC 3.1415926535 (π or pie) 2

I promised part 2 of this connection last year. Here it is. Part two of Pi day. March 14 (3-14) is officially Pi day at our house. But we're geeks. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) there are no new songs about π. I know you are sad about that. The one track I know, I posted at last year's Pi day. It's track one. Like last year this WTC is about the other Pie. There are some good ones that I left off volume one. My favorite Pie song is by a band that I doubt you know, but that I really like: Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalapeno Band. Bay Area band that plays some great music including the song Chile Pie. Reminds me a lot of Skip and Flip, but definitely has their own spin on it. It's a very tasty track (ha ha ha). Took me awhile to track down the CD it's on. Actually got help from band members to get this song. Look for it again on Cinco De Mayo. I may play a couple of tracks this May.

What's The Connection? WTC 3.1415926535 (π or pie) 2

24 Mötley Crüe - Slice Of Your Pie
25 Billy Crash Craddock - Easy As Pie
26 Domino - Sweet Potato Pie
27 Das Damen - Wild Honey Pie
28 Rick Wakeman - Ice Pie
29 Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
30 The Nice - Country Pie
31 Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalapeño Band - Chile Pie
32 Madonna - American Pie
33 Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
34 Skip And Flip - Cherry Pie
35 James Taylor - Sweet Potato Pie
36 The Sherrys - Pop Pop Pop-Pie
37 Underworld - Cherry Pie
38 Killdozer - American Pie
39 Beatles - Honey Pie
40 The Ventures - American Pie
41 Insane Clown Posse - Piggy Pie (Old School)

What's The Connection? Jewelry 1

I made a couple of these connections when my wife was working with a company selling jewelry. My mom also makes jewelry, but she never got serious about selling any of it. Neither one did enough to justify continuing it except for fun. So these compilations just kind of sat here on the sidelines. But I decided to post them up here, whether you are self employed and selling jewelry or working some mlm like Premier Designs or some company just like it: here are some songs about Jewelry. Nothing to do with pirates, sorry. Diamonds, pearls, jewels, earrings, necklaces, rings and rubies.

What's The Connection? Jewelry 1

01 Fleetwood Mac - Jewel Eyed Judy
02 Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
03 Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
04 Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever
05 Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
06 Elvis Presley - Wear My Ring Around Your Neck
07 John Cale - The Jeweller
08 Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
09 Herb Alpert with Janet Jackson - Diamonds
10 Steely Dan - Green Earrings
11 T. Rex - Jewel
12 Television - Little Johnny Jewel
13 Electric Light Orchestra - Four Little Diamonds
14 Spandau Ballet - She Loved Like Diamond
15 Gary Lewis And The Playboys - This Diamond Ring
16 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Like A Diamond
17 Seals & Crofts - Diamond Girl
18 Cocteau Twins - I Wear Your Ring
19 The Replacements - Black Diamond
20 ZZ Top - Pearl Necklace
21 Prince - Diamonds and Pearls

What's The Connection? Landing

This is just the way my mind works. This connection came about because of the connection I posted the day before yesterday. That one was Jumping, this one is about Landing. So just a few about crash landings, a couple happy landings. Mostly just landings. I did notice as I was going through this that Prog bands like landing better than jumping. Take from that what you will. I like that there is some world music in here and also ex-The Fall Brix E. Smith with the Extricated (mostly ex-Fall members). And if you haven't heard her without Mark, it's time that you do. She's got some good music. As for the cover, I apologize in advance. It's just the way my mind wanders and it's tamer than I originally thought of it. Please leave a comment, it helps.

What's The Connection? Landing 1

01 The Ataris - Takeoffs And Landings
02 Mike Oldfield - First Landing
03 Stephen Kent - Landing
04 Ramases - Golden Landing
05 Parliament - The Landing (Of the Holy Mothership)
06 Jimi Hendrix - Crash Landing
07 Three Dog Night - Circle For A Landing
08 Enigma - The Landing
09 Moby - Landing
10 Golden Earring - Landing
11 John Lee Hooker - Landing Blues
12 Scientist - Landing
13 Dub Syndicate - African Landing
14 In Continuum featuring Steve Hackett and Jon Davison - Crash Landing
15 Miracles - Happy Landing
16 Brix & The Extricated - Crash Landing
17 Buckethead - Happy Landing
18 The Rubinoos - Crash Landing

What's The Connection? Your Thing

It's amazing how many people's things are the same. Like in real life, people want pretty much the same thing. Perhaps they define that thing differently or how to pursue that thing may be different, but there are only just a few things we all want. Several different things on this list and several of the same things, but they are all yours. A connection of Your Thing. Whether it's your thing, you doing your thing, shaking it, losing it, no matter what thing it is, it's always the Best thing. And the best way to appreciate that is with a cover that shows a completely different thing: Wednesday's Thing.

What's The Connection? Your Thing

01 English Beat - What's Your Best Thing
02 The Staple Singers - What's Your Thing
03 The Jackson 5 - It's Your Thing (1995 Soulsation Version)
04 Dave Barker & The Upsetters - Do your thing
05 Invaders - It's Your Thing
06 Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing
07 Walk the Moon - It's Your Thing
08 Milli Vanilli - It's Your Thing
09 Hank Johnson - You Lost Your Thing
10 Queen Latifah - Do Your Thing
11 Booker T. & The MG's - It's Your Thing
12 Aretha Franklin - It's Your Thing
13 Marva Whitney - Do Your Thing
14 Ohio Players - Do Your Thing
15 Basement Jaxx featuring Elliot May - Do Your Thing
16 Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Do Your Thing
17 Sam Moultrie - Do Your Own Thing
18 Peaches & Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing
19 The Temptations - Do Your Thing
20 Scorpio - It's Your Thing
21 Lyn Collins - Do Your Thing
22 Isaac Hayes - Do Your Thing

What's The Connection? Jump

I want to first say that I hate Daylight Savings, especially when we need to Jump forward. We aren't agrarian farmers for the most part, so it doesn't make sense. And I could have used this for Leap Day, in fact I was thinking of waiting to use this in four years. I'm too impatient for that, though. So you get this connection today. Happy Daylight Savings. Did you put your clock forward an hour already? Today's the day we jump ahead. So in honor of that, a CD's worth of Jump songs for your perusal. Jump on it now, because you have less time to listen to it today. Listen as you check all your clocks. On a personal side note, my family on my Dutch side has the name Sprong, which pretty much means: Jump. Just what you wanted to know. So all my passwords are variations of Jump and Jumpin'. And sorry about the cover. It started out as a background of a base jumper, but turned into this. Not to make light of that kind of jump, but to bring attention to it.

What's The Connection? Jump

01 Destiny's Child - Jumpin', Jumpin'
02 The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train
03 Cab Calloway - Jumpin' Jive
04 Montrose - Jump On It
05 Kris Kross - Jump
06 Louis Prima - Jump, Jive, An' Wail
07 Sugarhill Gang - Apache (Jump On It)
08 Pitbull - Jumpin
09 Joe Jackson - Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
10 Stacy Lattisaw - Jump To The Beat
11 David Bowie - Jump They Say
12 Van Halen - Jump
13 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Get Up and Jump
14 Musique featuring Jocelyn Brown - Keep On Jumpin'
15 Buckethead - Jump Man
16 Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love)
17 Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
18 House Of Pain - Jump Around
19 Nilsson - Jump Into The Fire
20 Shnazz - (I Want To) Jump On Your Bones
21 Barry Manilow - Jump Shout Boogie
22 Cheap Trick - You Say Jump

Commingled Pick 2

 A continuation of yesterday's pick. A Jazz and Rock Fusion becomes commingled. A few doubles here with artists. Zappa, George Duke, Return To Forever, because I couldn't make up my mind which track to use, so I used both. Combining the two gets you some old and some newer Commingled Jazz Rock. Not sure who is considered first, but Tony Williams and The Free Spirits are probably both in the running. Prince's Madhouse has quite a few to choose from. I was listening again and it reminds me of another comp I made called In-Frelling-Fix. I don't think there are any doubles, but if you like this one, you'll probably like that one. BTW, It would have been my brother's birthday, so Happy Birthday, bro.

Commingled Pick 2

15 Earthworks - Thud
16 Frank Zappa - Montana
17 Jimi Hendrix - South Saturn Delta
18 Madhouse - 24
19 The Tony Williams Lifetime - Beyond Games
20 Focus - Sylvia
21 The Crusaders - Street Life
22 Jeff Beck - Thelonius
23 The Free Spirits - I'm Gonna Be Free
24 George Duke - I Love You More
25 Gamalon - Billy's Saloon
26 Herbie Hancock - Hardrock
27 The Electric Flag - Killing Floor
28 Return to Forever - Majestic Dance

Commingled Pick 1

Just fooling around with some Jazz Rock Fusion and came up with the Commingled title, which just hit me as funny for this pick. Even though commingling funds is not a funny matter at all, in this case it's going to work. I was just looking around at songs I liked while listening to Ides of March. I had posted a Jim Petterik pick and, well, look at the comments there. I wanted to use that Ides Of March song and found all these others I liked. It quickly became big enough for two CD's worth and so this is the result. I made the cover with the blender mixing Jazz and Rock and it going all over the place. That seemed appropos.

Commingled 1

01 Chicago - Aire
02 Frank Zappa - Your Mouth
03 If - Fibonacci's Number
04 Colosseum - The Kettle
05 Steely Dan - Aja
06 Brand X - Euthanasia Waltz
07 Ides Of March - LA Goodbye
08 George Duke - Old Slipper
09 Nucleus - Elastic Rock
10 Soft Machine - So Boot If At All
11 Blood, Sweat & Tears - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
12 Chase - Get It On
13 Miles Davis - Black Satin
14 Return To Forever - After The Cosmic Rain

Deep Purple Airey Pick

In the keys department, it was only, really Jon Lord until he left and then it was Don Airey. Yesterday you got Lord, today the pick is Airey. And it's a good one. He played with Rainbow, had solo albums (sorry only one from them) and guested on a bunch of albums. I didn't know that he wrote the beginning of Ozzy's Mr. Crowley until I started on this journey. Only one Deep Purple track on here, but we could have picked a bunch. The music just speaks for itself. So, listen.

Deep Purple Airey Pick

01 Michael Schenker Group - Armed And Ready
02 Whitesnake - Here I Go Again '87
03 Quatermass II - Long Road
04 Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
05 Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
06 Ten - Silent Rain
07 Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
08 Don Airey - Adagio
09 Empire - One In A Million
10 Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
11 Judas Priest - Prophecy
12 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone
13 Brian May - Driven By You
14 Colosseum II - Put It This Way
15 Wishbone Ash - Mud-Slick
16 Living Loud - Every Moment A Lifetime
17 Cozy Powell - Na Na Na

Deep Purple Lord Pick

This pick of the Jon Lord is a deeper dive into the Keyboard family of Deep Purple. Not that there were tons of Keyboard players in the band. Pretty much almost every version of the band had Jon Lord in it. He had a few breaks and played for, or with, some cool dudes, which I have a sampling of below. He said he guested on more, but I have not been able to verify some. Like he said he played on the Kinks "You Really Got Me" which I'm pretty sure he didn't. Although he was on a track with them. He did play with George Harrison on a couple of tracks, also David Gilmour and Nazareth. He also played with his buddies. some of whom I added to the playlist.

Deep Purple Lord

01 Deep Purple - April
02 Paice, Ashton, Lord - Ghost Story
03 Artwoods - I Take What I Want
04 Santa Barbara Machine Head - Porcupine Juice
05 Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
06 Deep Purple - Lazy
07 Nazareth - Glad When You're Gone
08 Kinks - Bald Headed Woman
09 George Harrison - Circles
10 Jon Lord & The Hoochie Coochie Men - Gotta Find Me Some Fire
11 George Harrison - Brainwashed
12 Cozy Powell - 633 Squadron
13 David Gilmour - Murder
14 Boz - Karma Knows
15 Jon Lord - Chance On A Feeling
16 Deep Purple - Demon's Eye

Deep Purple Simper Pick

This will be the last of the Deep Purple deep dive into their bassists. This pick is concentrated around Nick Simper from version one of the band. Just three studio albums, but what albums they are! Simper played with Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, but really only appeared on one track (which is here) before Kidd died. Although he played in a tribute to Kidd for a little while. . Besides Deep Purple, he was in Warhorse, Johnny Simper's Fandango (not the other bands named Fandango) and Quatermass II. I always want to add an extra "r" in the latter band name, but it does not belong. He was also in some other bands, but not on any recordings that I could find, so I don't include them. This was enough.

Deep Purple Simper

01 Warhorse - St. Louis
02 Deep Purple - April
03 Deep Purple - River Deep, Mountain High
04 Warhorse - Back In Time
05 Warhorse - Vulture Blood
06 Deep Purple - Hush
07 Deep Purple - Mandrake Root
08 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Send For That Girl
09 Nick Simper's Fandango - Candice Larene
10 Nick Simper's Fandango - Just Another Day
11 Nick Simper's Fandango - Rocky Road Blues
12 Nick Simper's Fandango - Slipstreaming
13 War Horse - Ritual
14 Quatermass II - River

Deep Purple Hughes Pick 2

For part one of this pick see yesterday. This continues what I started then. Adding the HUghes Turner Project, collaborations with Gary Moore & Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy). Also that stupid song from that soundtrack with Akroyd and Hanks. It really is dumb. Another Deep Purple track, his guest appearances with Geoff Downes, Pat Travers, John Norum, Quiet Riot, Device, Pat Thrall and even him in super band Black Country Communion. It's quite the collection and has some hard rock, some funk and some "industrial" sounds. I didn't include his production work, but he had a bit of that too.

Deep Purple Hughes 2

15 Hughes Turner Project - Devil's Road
16 Gary Moore & Phil Lynott & Glenn Hughes - Out In The Fields
17 Dan Akroyd, Tom Hanks & Glenn Hughes - City Of Crime
18 Deep Purple - Burn
19 Glenn Hughes - Love Communion
20 John Norum - In Your Eyes
21 Glenn Hughes & Geoff Downes - Double Life
22 Glenn Hughes - I've Got You Under My Skin
23 Device featuring Glenn Hughes - Through It All
24 Pat Travers - Stevie
25 Black Country Communion - One Last Soul
26 Quiet Riot - Evil Woman
27 Glenn Hughes & Pat Thrall - I Got Your Number

Deep Purple Hughes Pick 1

For some reason, when I type Glenn Hughes it always turns out "GlennHUghs" It's just my fingers want it to be that way. I do fix it, but it gets annoying. Hughes was in version 3 and 4 of Deep Purple and this pick has a couple of tracks to reflect those periods. Mostly, Hughes guested everywhere. That is reflected in this family pick. He was in Black Sabbath, but not for long. He was in The Dead Daisies, California Breed and Trapeze. Got a sampling of that on these. Got his guest spots with Night Ranger, Motley Crue, Gov't Mule, KLF, Joe Bonamassa, etc. Tomorrow I even have the stupid soundtrack bit with Dan Akroyd and Tom Hanks.

Deep Purple Hughes 1

01 Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock In America
02 Deep Purple - Stormbringer
03 Mötley Crüe - Misunderstood
04 Gov't Mule with Glenn Hughes - No Reward
05 Glenn Hughes - Soul Mover
06 California Breed - Midnight Oil
07 Glenn Hughes - I Got It Covered
08 Trapeze - Black Cloud
09 Roger Glover with Glenn Hughes - Get Ready
10 The Klf - America What Time Is Love
11 Black Sabbath - No Stranger To Love
12 Phenomena - Did It All For Love
13 The Dead Daisies - Unspoken
14 Joe Bonamassa featuring Glenn Hughes - Heartbreaker

Purple Bass Family

About a week ago, I posted the Pick that I called Purple Guitar Family and posted it on the Butterboy site as well as in his My Compilations section. But today it's here: the Purple Bass Family Pick. The Guitar one followed the guitarists from Deep Purple and this one follows the Bassists. Their family pick. Recap is simple Nick Simper, Roger Glover, Glenn Hughes all were in different bands, did solo work and guest spots. This samples some of that. Now to be really clear, I am going to follow this up with a deeper dive of each. This one starts each bassist with a Deep Purple track from each version of Deep Purple. Five tracks and then eight tracks. So you know where each begins. Simper was on the first few albums, Glover was on more, but at least a few were after some time off, and Hughes was during his time off. You'll figure it out.

Purple Bass Family

01 Deep Purple - Hush
02 Warhorse - St. Louis
03 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Send For That Girl
04 Nick Simper's Fandango - Candice Larene
05 Quatermass II - River
06 Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo
07 Roger Glover with Dio - Love Is All
08 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone
09 Roger Glover with Glenn Hughes - Get Ready
10 Rainbow - I Surrender
11 Deep Purple - Burn
12 California Breed - Midnight Oil
13 Glenn Hughes - Love Communion
14 Trapeze - Black Cloud
15 Black Sabbath - No Stranger To Love
16 Phenomena - Did It All For Love
17 The Dead Daisies - Unspoken
18 Black Country Communion - One Last Soul

What's The Connection? Party Is Over

How do you know when the party is over? There are several clues and some of these songs in this Connection will give them to you. But frankly stopping a party, ending a party, leaving a party, stopping the party or not stopping it. After it's over or even the morning after it is over, whether you remember or not. That's what this WTC is about. Perhaps a party out of bounds, whether it was good or lousy someone has to spoil it by ending it. I was always better at starting parties than ending them. Hopefully, you were not the target of the permanent ink people that are just slightly less drunk than you, but managed to not pass out first. It's funny, but not fun.

What's The Connection? Party Is Over

01 The Rovers - Wasn't That A Party
02 Beatles - I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
03 Buckwheat Zydeco - The Party's Over
04 Willie Nelson - The Party's Over
05 Journey - The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)
06 Billie Eilish - When The Party's Over
07 Nat King Cole - The Party's Over
08 Manfred Mann - Morning After The Party
09 Raspberries - Party's Over
10 Heatwave - Party Poops
11 Billy Brown - Did We Have A Party
12 Turtles - We Ain't Gonna Party No More
13 Whistle - The Party Must Be Over
14 Pitbull featuring TJR - Don't Stop The Party
15 Black Eyed Peas - Don't Stop The Party
16 Veronica Unlimited - What A Lousy Party
17 English Beat - End Of The Party
18 Was (Not Was) - The Party Broke Up
19 D.O.A. - Let's Wreck the Party
20 Queen - Party
21 The Latinos - The Party's Over
22 Don Brandon - The Party Last Night
23 The B-52's - Party Out of Bounds
24 The Cure - The Funeral Party