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 Srt 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