Green Onions 1

This will be a fun collection for you. But it's not that it hasn't been done before. Several people with blogs like this one (see side panel for some clues of some that I visit) have done various kinds of "instro" comps. My pick isn't surf oriented though. I started with Green Onions by Booker T & The MG's (which they named by thinking of the funkiest thing they could at that moment) and compared each track to that. It did not have to sound exactly like that (or else I would have just made a pick with all the versions of it - although I do have quite a few versions of it over the next several volumes of this) but it had to be complimentary. So mostly no real vocals. It had to sound soulful and feel funky to me. A couple of tracks sound like Green Onions but have vocals, I let those slide. You tell me, on each volume, how I did. The cover is plain looking. No text on the cover (like no vocals), but I already broke that rule. I'm so clever. LOL! Not. But I think I am. Just pretend along with me.

Green Onions 1

01 Jack McDuff - Hunk O' Funk

02 The Meters - Cissy Strut

03 Young-Holt Unlimited - Soulful Strut

04 Jimmy Nicol - Husky

05 Rose Royce - Yo Yo

06 Funk Inc. - Thang

07 Instant Funk - Float Like a Butterfly (part 2)

08 The Funk Brothers - Home Cookin'

09 Dennis Landry - Concentration

10 Sonny Boy Williamson - Help Me (instrumental)

11 MFSB featuring The Three Degrees - TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia)

12 Gene Harris - Your Love Is Just Too Much

13 Bar-Kays - Soul Finger

14 Billy Preston - Outa-Space

15 The Rolling Stones - Stoned

16 Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band - Scorpio

17 Jimmy Mcgriff - I've Got A Woman

18 Isaac Hayes - Type Thang

19 The T-Bones - No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)

20 The Mar-Keys - Last Night

21 Booker T & The Mg's - Green Onions

22 Cliff Nobles And Co. - The Horse

23 Routers - Let's Go (Pony)

Skip Scarborough Pick

I knew about Skip Scarborough because of Earth Wind & Fire. I remember him being on the Spirit album. I was looking at album covers more closely by then. I had no idea how many songs he had written. In fact I thought he was dead for some reason. Turns out he wrote for several of the EWF albums and for a bunch of other bands and artists. I have a sampling of that on this pick. These are all songs he wrote or co-wrote. C'mon, Bill Withers alone puts him at the great level. Add bands like Con Funk Shun, the Emotions, Friends of Distinction, L.T.D. as well as artists like Anita Baker, Patti Labelle, George Benson, Nanci Wilson and you have an amazing catalog. I tried not to do too many of the covers and put the originals in here. I did put Nanci Wilson even though she covered the Emotions version. But I kept L.T.D. instead of George Benson. Choices. Lots of EWF!

Skip Scarborough Pick

01 Earth, Wind & Fire - Earth, Wind & Fire

02 Earth Wind & Fire - Love Music

03 Creative Source - You Can't Hide Love

04 Con Funk Shun - Secrets

05 The Friends Of Distinction - Love Or Let Me Be Lonely

06 Bill Withers - Lovely Day

07 Anita Baker - Giving You The Best That I Got

08 Deniece Williams - Love Notes

09 Patti Labelle - It's Alright With Me

10 Valerie Carter - So, So, Happy

11 Nancy Wilson - Don't Ask My Neighbors

12 The Dells - Stand Up And Show The World

13 The Emotions - Walking The Line

14 Mother's Finest - Love Changes

15 Phyllis Hyman - No One Can Love You More

16 Earth, Wind & Fire - Love's Holiday

17 The Friends Of Distinction - Love Can Make It Easier

18 Con Funk Shun - Can't Go Away

19 L.T.D. - Love Ballad

Pol's Prog Pick 13

This will be the last one for a while of my Prog Pick series. Don't despair, I have afew more picks coming up with prog music, but tomorrow it will not be prog. Thirteen has always been good luck for me, so for now it will end. The first track (or track 81) could and maybe should have been in the Not Prog, Prog series. Definitely a band not known for prog, the Eagles have a song that arguably is prog. You tell me. The rest are fairly prog. Catapilla not as well known as the others, but classic prog. Renaissance had many tracks that were prog. Nektar and Camel for sure. Uriah Heep I would consider a hard rock band, but this track is prog! I'm happy with this. I like to listen to it on random play: all thirteen volumes. I do have another one, but its not quite ready. Later.

Pol's Prog Pick 13

81 Eagles - Journey Of The Sorcerer

82 Catapilla - Naked Death

83 Uriah Heep - Salisbury

84 Renaissance - Ashes Are  Burning

85 Nektar - A Tab In The Ocean

86 Camel - Lady Fantasy (Encounter-Smiles For You-Lady Fantasy)

Pol's Prog Pick 12

Just a couple more left. This is pick number 12 of prog rock. I tried to get a bunch of songs I like that were from bands I hadn't picked yet. That didn't quite work out. Another Camel Track, another Crimson track, another Yes track, another Genesis track, and even a second Van Der Graaf Generator track. I failed that. But it's okay all of those are amazing prog picks. I did add Eloy, a German band that still exists today. But this is from their 1977 album Ocean. The Far East Family Band track came from a 1976 album called Parallel World. The band is known for being an early band of Kitaro's. This does not sound like Kitaro! The other band I hadn't put on before was Quill (no "The" before the name, that's another band). They kinda got gypped. They were at Woodstock, but there were problems with the equipment and they never made it onto the movie. They put out one album in 1970 (which now has cult status). I love this track, but it's short. There are two other bands called Quill with no "The". One is also sort of prog, but the other is ELO lite.

Pol's Prog Pick 12

73 Eloy - Poseidon's Creation

74 Camel - Ice

75 King Crimson - Starless

76 Yes - Awaken

77 Far East Family Band - Kokoro

78 Quill - Yellow Butterfly

79 Genesis - In The Cage

80 Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer

Pol's Prog Pick 11

This eleventh one of the Prog Pick series is a good example of how sometimes it seems random how I got to know music. These prog songs  may not be the most popular or from the most popular bands, but all of them had at least one great (to me) prog song. Probably Red Rider, Black Keys or Gary Moore are the most well known of these bands. The Red Rider with it's comparisons to Pink Floyd definitely made it available on the radio. All the others came because of people introducing me to the songs or band. That's why I love sharing this kind of stuff here. Somebody else may go, "Wow! I need to get this album, This is amazing!" Maybe you hate it or maybe you already know of all these, but I hope you get at least one "WOW!" when you are on this site. If you do, you're welcome. I envy you.

Pol's Prog Pick 11

61 Pure Reason Revolution - Aeropause

62 Airbag - All Rights Removed

63 Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe

64 RPWL - The Gentle Art Of Swimming

65 Crippled Black Phoenix - The Heart Of Every Country

66 Dworniak Bone Lapsa - Funny Farm

67 Mothership - High Strangeness

68 Desert Sessions - Girl Boy Tom

69 Gary Moore - The Prophet

70 John Lodge - In My Mind

71 Wax Fang - Majestic

72 The Black Keys - Weight Of Love

Pol's Prog Pick 10

WIth this pick getting to volume 10, we only have a few more to go. This volume of prog has just four tracks. Magma has the shortest track at just over nine minutes. I had a 21 minute Magma track on volume six. The last track is from Tangerine Dream. Most of their stuff is Electronic Music, but the Mellotron on this track definitely give it a prog feel. I consider it prog. Utopia, Todd Rundgren's band, was kinda progressive. At least on their first couple of albums. They became pretty rock later, but this thirty minute track is as prog as you get! The Yes track is one that most prog fans may not include in their picks, but I like it. This is the version that was redone with Trevor Horn and is basically one side of their album. They divided it up into several tracks for ease on the CD, but really it's meant to be heard as one and that's how it's presented here. 

Pol's Prog Pick 10

57 Magma - Hortz Fur Dehn Stekehn West

58 Utopia - The Ikon

59 Yes - Fly From Here (Complete Return)

60 Tangerine Dream - Cherokee Lane

Pol's Prog Pick 9

Coming around to the last few rounds of this prog rock pick. We're still numbering as if it's one long playlist, but each one is about a CD length, so several of these have few tracks. This ninth volume has medium amount of tracks. Robert Berry starts us off. He only appears once although his band band Hush is on my Pomp Rock compilation. Trillion is mostly considered Pomp rock, but I think this song kinda works in the Prog space. Mike Oldfield, Moody Blues and the Nice are on here again with other tracks. FM and Starcastle are two more bands that had more tracks that were considered AOR or Pomp Rock, but I think these songs could easily fit here.

Pol's Prog Pick 9

49 Robert Berry - Last Ride Into The Sun

50 Trillion - Child Upon The Earth

51 Triumvirat - Across The Water

52 Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Part One

53 Moody Blues - Legend Of A Mind

54 FM - Phasors On Stun

55 Starcastle - Fountains

56 The Nice - America-Second Amendment

Pol's Prog Pick 8

I can't believe that we're on number 8 already. It's crazy! This pick has another one from Hawkwind and Gentle Giant, both great tracks. A visit from The Nice. We've heard from ELP, but this extended version from the Nice tells you where they were headed. A track from Gong. And side one from Jethro Tull's masterpiece. I put the full album as one of my "long tracks" pick which I will have to post someday. Basically 17 tracks but really long tracks. I'd have to go against my one cd length rule. Oh well.

Pol's Prog Pick 8

43 Gentle Giant - The Advent Of Panurge

44 Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (Part 1)

45 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Part One

46 Hawkwind - You Shouldn't Do That

47 Gong - Master Builder

48 The Nice - The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack (Extended Version)

Pol's Prog Pick 7

The seventh one in a row. A CD worth of prog tracks on this pick. The shortest track on here is the Deep Purple. We had Van Der Graaf Generator here before, this time it's Peter Hammill from that band. Germany's Grobschnitt (for fun just say that name over and over again). Another Hawkwind track and you can bet there will be more. And, I said it was coming, more Yes. I saw them do this track (and the whole album in it's entirety) on the Yes cruise. Very fun and amazing shows. I have seen them live many times before. Mostly very good.

Pol's Prog Pick 7

38 Peter Hammill - Flight

39 Grobschnitt - Rockpommel's Land

40 Deep Purple - Child In Time

41 Yes - Close To The Edge

42 Hawkwind - Orgone Accumulator

Pol's Prog Pick 6

This will be a short write up for a short pick. So short I almost just typed "hort" (but caught it in time.) Prog picks of mine. Has nothing to do with anything except for I like these songs. All long songs except for the last one which is really short and that's the only artist today that is here for the third time. Knowing me, probably not for the last time. Magma from France. Don't hold it against them. The Flower Kings from Sweden. Focus from The Netherlands. BTW, they have some killer albums and even their 2019 album was pretty darn good. And Yes, whom we all know and love.

Pol's Prog Pick 6

34 Magma - Riah Sahiltaahk

35 The Flower Kings - The Truth Will Set You Free

36 Focus - Eruption

37 Yes - The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus)

Pol's Prog Pick 5

Just five tracks on this volume. And it also is volume five of this prog pick. Yesterday I told you that I would post Hatfield & The North, well, here they are. Great track and it's twenty minutes long. Some Jethro Tull (we'll have more later). Rick Wakeman, Marillion and Steve Hackett round it out. All just brilliant tracks. Notice that the tracks all have shorter titles on this one. Is it coincidence? And the cover is following in just the same vein as before.

Pol's Prog Pick 5

29 Hatfield & The North - Mumps

30 Jethro Tull - Baker St. Muse

31 Rick Wakeman - Battle-The Forest

32 Marillion - Grendel

33 Steve Hackett - Ace Of Wands

Pol's Prog Pick 4

This is the fourth one of the prog pick series. Each is one CD length long. The first few volumes in the last few days. I feel bad for the few people who don't like prog, because the next week or so will be all prog. And then who knows? Another King Crimson track today as well as a Yes track from Relayer. The Soft Machine is from the very first Soft Machine album I ever listened to. I wore out that side of the album. Brand X I always liked even though I had no idea that Phil Collins was in the band for some time. You can't go wrong with Hawkwind. And less known is National Health. But Bill Bruford was in the band in the very beginning (not long) and Dave Stewart from Hatfield & the North (who we will hear from in a later volume.)

Pol's Prog Pick 4

23 Soft Machine - Slightly All the Time

24 King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part I

25 Yes - The Gates of Delirium

26 National Health - Tenemos Roads

27 Brand X - Nuclear Burn

28 Hawkwind - Silver Machine

Pol's Prog Pick 3

Volume 1 and 2 of this prog pick was the last two days. I have another Pink Floyd and another Emerson Lake & Palmer and another Genesis. But the first Fank Zappa track. A more well known Caravan track (actually the first Caravan track I ever heard.) Some people might question my inclusion of these tracks by Colosseum, Traffic and Wishbone Ash, but I say they are prog here. Just listen to all of them in context of each other. Btw, are you starting to see the pattern in the covers?

Pol's Prog Pick 3

13 Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7)

14 Colosseum - The Kettle

15 Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)

16 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Inca Roads

17 Gentle Giant - A Cry For Everyone

18 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus

19 Traffic - Paper Sun

20 Genesis - The Carpet Crawlers

21 Wishbone Ash - Warrior

22 Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink

Pol's Prog Pick 2

Part two of this Prog pick starts with Rush. Over 20 minutes of classic prog. The second shortest on this disc. Van Der Graaf Generator is next. Notice that main protaganist Peter Hammill will show up again in volume 7. Caravan shows up here and also on volume 3. Yes shows up afew more times. This track from Yes is with the special lineup featuring Patrick Moraz. I have to say one of my favorite lineups. Relayer is one of my top three albums of Yes. You will notice that there is a similarity in covers, but they are different. Try to put them together. All the volumes do have it in common.

Pol's Prog Pick 2

09 Rush - 2112 (I. Overture II. The Temples of Syrinx III. Discovery IV. Presentation V. Oracle The Dream VI. Soliloquy VII. Grand Finale)

10 Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers

11 Caravan - Nine Feet Underground

12 Yes - Sound Chaser

Pol's Prog Pick 1

I'm not going to get into what prog is, or how I define it. You'll figure it out from these picks. And I don't say pick, because there are at least 13 or 14 of these ready to go. But that being said. Some of these will have just a couple of songs, because I limit the size by the time of the tracks. If it fits on a CD, then it fits in my compilation. The first volume has eight tracks. These are the prog songs I like. There will be duplicate bands as we go. Yes, for example, Pink Floyd, ELP, King Crimson all will appear more than once. Most are probably bands you know, if you know prog. Perhaps a few new ones. I hope so. Here we start.

Pol's Prog Pick 1

01 Genesis - Supper's Ready

02 King Crimson - 21St Century Schizoid Man

03 Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive

04 Yes - Starship Trooper

05 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 1st Impression, Parts 1 & 2

06 Camel - Rhayader Goes To Town

07 Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son

08 Quiet Sun - Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil

Dub Me Crazy Pick

Mad Professor an amazing dub producer, engineer and remixer who started his own studio and worked with a gazillion artists making great dub music. One of my favorite series he's done is the one he calls Dub Me Crazy. There are fourteen albums in this series. Well, sort of. Twelve originally and then one named Dub You Crazy in 2007 and another one that was Dub You Crazy 20-22. The last one was subtitled Covid Illusion. This pick includes my favorite from each of those albums. On a few of those albums I did two picks, because I could. If you like Dub reggae. He's a master. Easily on par with Scientist, King Tubby, Lee Perry, etc. He's got so many albums, I can't even count them all. I have 60 or so. Not even sure. Most all of them are good. Try any of the Dub Me Crazy ones, or any where he Meets someone. You may already know the one he did with Massive Attack (it's good) but they all seem to be. Anyway here's my pick.

Dub Me Crazy Pick

01 Mad Professor - Zion

02 Mad Professor - River Niger

03 Mad Professor - Beyond The Realms Of Dub

04 Mad Professor - Bengali Skank

05 Mad Professor - Rasta Chase

06 Mad Professor - Asylum Of Dub

07 Mad Professor - Fast Forward Into Dub

08 Mad Professor - Banana Republic

09 Mad Professor - War Cry

10 Mad Professor - Cosmic Ray

11 Mad Professor - Aztec Warrior

12 Mad Professor - Night In Cairo

13 Mad Professor - Holokoko Dub

14 Mad Professor - Cool Runnings Mandela

15 Mad Professor - Hi-Jacked To Jamaica

16 Mad Professor - Dub So Hard

17 Mad Professor - Blunt Dub

18 Mad Professor - Fake News Dub

19 Mad Professor - Runaway Slave

Not Prog, Prog 3

The last one of this series pick. Volume one and two were the last few days. Mostly songs that are from bands that are not known for prog rock, but did a song (or some a few) that could be considered prog. It's Not Prog, but it's really Prog. Mostly rock bands today (even Funkadelic which most people consider a Funk band, but they could really rock). A couple of newer tunes and the rest going back at least a few years. What am I talking about all of these were a few years back, I'm just thinking of when I first heard them. They were new then, but I'm old and these songs are all older now. Some way older.

Not Prog, Prog 3

14 Scorpions - Fly To the Rainbow

15 Funkadelic - You Hit the Nail on the Head

16 Radiohead - Paranoid Android

17 Led Zeppelin - In The Light

18 Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart

19 Midnight Oil - Scream In Blue

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

21 Black Sabbath - Megalomania

22 Styx - Lords Of The Ring

Not Prog, Prog 2

Part two and the Pick is short. One song (Billy Joel) is short too the rest are long. I like them all. Not much more to say, see yesterday and tomorow for more of these prog songs by bands not known for being prog.

Not Prog, Prog 2

10 Billy Joel - Prelude , Angry Young Man

11 Incubus - Follow (1st Movement Of The Odyssey)

12 Nobuo Uematsu - Dancing Mad

13 Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

Not Prog, Prog 1

These are Prog songs from non-Prog bands. And I suppose it's all some genre twisting by me to make these prog songs, but they are prog. Just listen to them. They are long. They are maybe AOR or Pomp Rock, but not really. Go back a few days to see the Pomp Rock picks. There are a few of them. And this Pick will have a few volumes, too. Remember, I divide these up by CD length. So over the course of the next few days there will be over twenty songs. Some you will automatically know, but listen to them today from a Prog rock standpoint. Tell me you get it.

Not Prog, Prog 1

01 Klaatu - Little Neutrino

02 Megadeth - Holy Wars...The Punishment Due

03 Metallica - To Live Is To Die

04 Blue Oyster Cult - Seven Screaming Dizbusters

05 Jane's Addiction - Three Days

06 Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

07 Boston - Foreplay-Long Time

08 Daft Punk - Contact

09 Alice Cooper - Halo Of Flies

To Catchy (3)

This is volume three of the Catchy Picks. Volume One (Too Catchy) was horrible. Volume Two Catchy was worse. And this pick is the worst so far. I can't even imagine how bad volume four will be. It went from Too, to Two, to To. What could I possibly use for Four? Tutu? I may not ever post four because I won't be able to come up with a suitable pun. Help! This volume has a couple of suggestions made by you, a couple that were recommended and were already on the list and some none of you thought of yet. I was surprised no one brought up one of the worst earworms ever: BabyShark. But here it is. Plus more!

To Catchy (3)

01 Ludacris feat. Mystikal & I-20 - Move Bitch

02 Imagine Dragons - Monster

03 Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Asereja) (Spanglish Version)

04 Queen - We Are The Champions

05 Piero Umiliani - Mah N? Mah N?

06 Nik Kershaw - The Riddle

07 Los del Rio - Macarena

08 The Dickies - Banana Splits

09 KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree

10 C&C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat

11 Pinkfog - Baby Shark

12 Europe - The Final Countdown

13 Kaoma - Lambada

14 The Time - Jungle Love

15 Katy Perry featuring Nicki Minaj - Swish Swish

16 Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

17 Tone Loc - Wild Thing

18 Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills

19 Justin Bieber & Ludacris - Baby

20 Baha Men - It's A Small World

21 LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking

22 Gershon Kingsley - Pop Corn

23 Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

Pomp Rock Pick 3

I really should be checking if I actually posted certain compilations or not. I have a bunch that I thought I posted but now I'm not so sure. I had a pick of New Prog. Did I already post it? I have no idea. I will have to check and post it if I didn't. I have series of Prog picks. I'll have to now check those. This volume of Pomp Rock has a few bands I've posted before, in volume one or two. One, Yes, that's pretty known for prog, but this track is pretty AOR and has a lot of pomp. Styx, Supertramp still more well known for their rock hits had great pomp songs. Hush is Robert Berry's early pomp/prog band from the Bay Area. Blue Oyster Cult, Babys, Toto and Ambrosia also less known for pomp rock or prog, but these songs prove they had it in them. 

Pomp Rock Pick 3

34 Speedway Blvd - Out Of The Fire

35 Toto - Hydra

36 Storm - Dangerous

37 The Babys - Every Time I Think Of You

38 Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son

39 Stencil Forest - The Pandemonium Shadow Show

40 Supertramp - Fool's Overture

41 Hush - Money

42 Yes - Wonderous Stories

43 Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

44 Styx - Come Sail Away

45 Ambrosia - Time Waits for No One

Pomp Rock Pick 2

I have a few that I am posting, frankly I thought I had posted them earlier, but somehow missed them and started work on pick volume 3 and 4, but never even posted number 1 until yesterday. I must be losing my mind. So here is volume two. I gave you my thoughts on Pomp Rock yesterday. Most of these bands would probably not be considered Prog rock nowadays, but they had elements of prog and still do now and again, but for sure there is a lot of Pomp in these songs.

Pomp Rock Pick 2

18 Saga - Scratching The Surface

19 Robert Berry - Last Ride Into The Sun

20 Morningstar - Through The Night

21 Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen

22 Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Talkin' Woman

23 Roadmaster - It Doesn't Mean A Thing

24 Nightwish - Nemo

25 Asia - Sole Survivor

26 Styx - Man Of Miracles

27 Magnum - Kingdom Of Madness

28 Zon - Back Down To Earth

29 White Sister - Can't Say No

30 Speedway Blvd - Speedway Boulevard

31 Spy - Ruby Twilight

32 Supertramp - Bloody Well Right

33 Balance - Ride The Wave

Pomp Rock 1

This pick of Pomp Rock is one of a couple in a row. They define Pomp Rock: “A genre of rock music, especially prevalent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, typically characterized by prominent keyboards and drums and heavy use of guitar effects, often regarded as bombastic or grandiose in its delivery.” The term was used mainly by the British music press to identify Symphonic/Progressive Rock played by American bands. In the US these bands usually were labeled as AOR. I didn't limit it to American bands, but these are all pretty much bombastic or grandiose songs. One of these bands is a San Jose band featuring Robert Berry. Look him up if you don't know him. Great guy, musician and fabulous studio.

Pomp Rock 1

01 Spy - Can't Complain

02 Touch - Don't You Know What Love Is

03 Sweet - Mother Earth

04 Roadmaster - Sweet Music

05 Hush - Who Holds The Light

06 Balance - In For The Count

07 Angel - Cast The First Stone

08 Morningstar - Let Me Dream

09 Emerson Lake & Palmer - Jerusalem

10 Starcastle - Stargate-Sunfield

11 Alpha Centauri - Hard Life

12 Journey - Majestic

13 Saga - On The Loose

14 Speedway Blvd - (Call My Name) Rock Magic

15 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

16 Electric Light Orchestra - Rockaria!

17 Supertramp - Dreamer

What's The Connection? Dancing 2

You have to go back a little ways to find my What's The Connection? Dancing 1, but it's there and it's good. This is part two of the WTC. I'm not sure if it's better, but it's also really good. Some amazing bands on here, old and new. Some rock, new wave, disco and more. They all have Dancing in the title. I was lazy with the cover, sorry. It works though. And song numbering continues on from part 1. On here, I'm a big Samantha Sang fan and the Motors with XTC. It's good.

What's The Connection? Dancing 2

23 Joe Walsh - Slow Dancing

24 Marc Almond - Idiot Dancing

25 Samantha Sang - You Keep Me Dancing

26 Rolling Stones - Dancing with Mr D.

27 Chic - My Feet Keep Dancing

28 Danny Kaye - The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing

29 Andrea True Connection - N.Y. You Got Me Dancing

30 Shalamar - Dancing In The Sheets

31 Giorgio Moroder - Forever Dancing

32 Chris and Cosey - Dancing on Your Grave

33 Cheap Trick - Dancing The Night Away

34 XTC - Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)

35 Pat & Mick - I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet

36 Bow Wow Wow - Elimination Dancing

37 Mick Jagger With David Bowie - Dancing In The Street

38 Commodores - Keep On Dancing

39 Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark

40 The Motors - Dancing The Night Away

41 David Bowie - John, I'm Only Dancing

42 Paul McCartney - Ballroom Dancing

43 Chris Spedding - Pogo Dancing

What's The Connection? Dance 1

Yesterday I had part 2 of the (Something) Dance Connection, This one is easier. It's all songs with Dance in the title. Not kinds of Dances, just songs about Dance. I do have another WTC about Dancing here. I like that too. But this is more to the point. I hope you like it. There are some really good tracks here. The cover is very similar to the other ones in this series. Notice something else. I always use Helvetica as the font in this blog. Not because it's my favorite font, but it just turned out that way.

What's The Connection? Dance 1

01 Martha And The Muffins (M+M) - Come Out And Dance

02 Rolling Stones - Dance

03 Commodores - Shut Up And Dance

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

05 Eagles - I Love To Watch a Woman Dance

06 Ohio Players - Everybody Dance

07 Don Henley - All She Wants To Do Is Dance

08 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody

09 Lady GaGa feat. Colby O'Donis - Just Dance

10 Johnny Warman - Will You Dance With Me

11 Foxy - Get Off Your Ahh And Dance

12 Walk The Moon - Shut Up and Dance

13 Chic - Everybody Dance (12'' Mix)

14 Isley Brothers - Move Over And Let Me Dance

15 Saturday Night Band - Come On Dance, Dance

16 Defunkt - Make Them Dance

17 Devo - Make Me Dance

18 Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance

What's The Connection? (Something) Dance 2

More of the WTC (something) and then Dance in the title. Part 1 (Something) Dance was earler this year. It had some good tracks. This might be even more diverse.Tiny Tim AND Patti Smith! C'mon! Dave Grusin and Garth Brooks! Ryuichi Sakamoto and King Tubby! That's going all over the map. But somehow it works. Same numbering and cover (almost) as the first part. But all new dance songs. I hope you enjoy them both. In case you want to know, I make all the covers in CorelDraw, but there are a ton of places on the web that allows you to make them for free. Search and you will find. I have fun with it and it only takes a couple of minutes more. Let me know if you appreciate them. I host files at Proton because I also host my mail there. I ised to use Krakenfiles and ufile, but didn't like their service and someone always had trouble getting the songs. Proton has been good for over a year now.

What's The Connection? (Something) Dance 2

20 Scorpions - Delicate Dance

21 Mad Professor - Lion Dance

22 African Head Charge - Elastic Dance

23 Material - Square Dance

24 Metallica - Devil's Dance

25 Tiny Tim - The Chicken Dance

26 Patti Smith Group - Ghost Dance

27 Toy Dolls - Sabre Dance

28 Drake - One Dance

29 David Bowie - Magic Dance

30 Dr Zeus - Lets Dance

31 The Clash - The Magnificent Dance

32 Dave Grusin - Mountain Dance

33 Garth Brooks - The Dance

34 Guess Who - Rain Dance

35 David Byrne - Faust Dance

36 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Mescal Dance

37 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Slat Dance

38 Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance

39 Death Cult - Ghost Dance

40 King Tubby - Rebel Dance

What's The Connection? Futbol (Soccer) 2

Part two of the Futbol or Soccer connection. If you want to know my background in Soccer see part 1 of Futbol (Soccer). But even though it's a good compilation it's probably not that interesting of astory and really has nothing to do with the songs I picked. A few of these are not World Cup or club anthems. The Vandals is one of those. It's just about soccer moms. Scientist had a whole album about soccer, but the album wasn't specifically ever chosen as an official World Cup theme.. But the songs are good. Hopefully you like all of them as much you did the first part. And with all these I'm sure I have barely scratched the surface. Did I miss one you love?

What's The Connection? Futbol (Soccer) 2

20 The Vandals - Soccer Mom

21 Simply Red - We're In This Together

22 Pop Will Eat Itself featuring BNegão - Reclaim The Game (Funk FIFA)

23 Rod Stewart - We Can Win

24 M'du - Mawe

25 New Order - Touched By The Hand Of God

26 Edoardo Bennato & Giorgio Moroder - Un 'estate Italiana (Official Song Of Fifa World Cup)

27 Chumbawamba - Top Of the World (Ole, Ole, Ole)

28 Anastacia - Boom (2002 FIFA World Cup)

29 Nelly Furtado - Forca

30 Herbert Groemeyer - Celebrate The Day

31 Shakira - Dare La La La (World Cup 2014)

32 Crazy Frog - We Are The Champions (Ding A Dang Dong)

33 Kasabian - Heroes

34 Scientist - World Cup Squad Lick Their Wounds

35 Right Said Fred - Stand Up (For The Champions)

36 K'Naan - Wavin' Flag (Coca-Cola Celebration Mix)

37 Los Ramblers - El Rock Del Mundial

What's The Connection? Shots 2

Just days ago I posted part one of this Shots Connection. If you didn't hear it yet got Shots 1. It's pretty good. Already everyone now has forgotten that we almost had an assassination. And here I am posting more about shots. Another AC-DC song and right after Nancy Sinatra. It's also close to a track from ABC (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao) artist Youth X Treme. Which I quite like., Zappa, Reed, Cabaret Voltaire all managed to secure a spot, too! I think you'll like this one.

What's The Connection? Shots 2

23 Frank Zappa - It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal

24 Bobbettes - I Shot Mr. Lee

25 Kid Cudi - Tequila Shots

26 Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff

27 Thievery Corporation - Warning Shots

28 The Residents - Double Shot

29 Nancy Sinatra - Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad

30 AC-DC - Shot In The Dark

31 Cabaret Voltaire - Fourth Shot

32 Youth X Treme - Shots BOOM BAM!!!

33 Buena Vistas - Hot Shot

34 Arthur ''Guitar Boogie'' Smith - Who Shot Willie

35 Lou Reed - The Last Shot

36 Henry Mancini - A Shot In The Dark

37 Lita Ford - Shot Of Poison

38 Wilco - A Shot in the Arm

39 Y&T - Hot Shot

40 Wolfgang Gartner - Hook Shot

41 Charms - Gimme That Shot

42 Shonen Knife - Jet Shot

43 The Beat - Big Shot

Polka Pick 2

A combination of old and new polkas. This pick is part two of the Polka compilations. Polka Pick Part 1 is here. This time a few more of Brave Combo, another Weird Al and the Polkaholics. You'll notice some pretty out there covers of the Doors and Pink Floyd, polka style. Some country polka and a few polkas from some soundtracks. I added Dean Martin and a few other older tracks to balance out the new ones. Not sure why, but none of them resonate with my mother-in-law as much as the Pennsylvania Polka does (which is on part 1,) but they're all pretty decent and get your foot tapping. Watch your step! I've been looking for a Brush Your Teeth polka. Do you know of one?

Polka Pick 2

29 Lords - Good Time Music

30 Dean Martin - The Sailor's Polka

31 The Casuals - Ice Cubes in Beer

32 James Last - Budweiser Polka

33 Six Fat Dutchmen - Jenny Lind Polka

34 Myron Floren - Accordion Man Polka

35 Fritz's Polka Band - Grandparent's Polka

36 The Polka Floyd Show - See Emily Play

37 Whoopee John - Ping Pong Polka

38 Rex Allen - Dude Ranch Polka

39 Richie Yurkovich Band - My Wife Is Happy Polka

40 Henry Mancini - Bier Fest Polka

41 The Wurzels - I Am A Cider Drinker

42 Balkan Beat Box - Bulgarian Chicks

43 Dirty Polka Band - The Dirty Polka

44 Buck Owens - Buck's Polka

45 Ebb Pilling & His Ozark Squirrel Shooters - Ozark Polka

46 John Kander & Fred Ebb - New York, New York (Polka Version)

47 Henry Mancini - Pie-In-The-Face Polka

48 Patti Page - Milwaukee Polka

49 Brave Combo - Potato Chips Polka

50 Brave Combo - Hosa Dyna

50 The Pogues - The Kerry Polka

51 kd Lang & The Reclines - Watch Your Step Polka

52 Weird Al Yankovic - Now That's What I Call Polka!

53 Brave Combo - People Are Strange

54 Gaelic Storm - John Ryan's Polka

55 Bowling For Soup featuring Brave Combo - Belgium Polka

56 The Polkaholics - Beer (Breakfast of Champions)

57 They Might Be Giants - The Famous Polka

58 The Toons - Punk Polka

Soft Cell Pick

Since I did a pick each for Dave Ball and Marc Almond, I kinda had to do my pick for Soft Cell. First, there are a number of long versions and singles on this. They are my favorite versions of those songs. The very first track was one of my all time favorites of the first album. I added tracks that I liked from their reunion album. Nothing from the most recent albums, but I did put some of those tracks on the last two day's picks. Sorry, none of the cool covers of Hendrix and Black Sabbath, I like them, but no more room. It's a CD. The cover art background is from a photo of a wall at my old hair salon (Faux): a wall of Purple Tuck and Roll. I loved it and it seemed appropos for these guys.

Soft Cell Pick

01 Soft Cell - Frustration

02 Soft Cell - It's A Mugs Game

03 Soft Cell - Tainted Love-Where Did Our Love Go

04 Soft Cell - Torch (Extended Version)

05 Soft Cell - What

06 Soft Cell - Monoculture

07 Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf

08 Soft Cell - Darker Times

09 Soft Cell - Down In The Subway

10 Soft Cell - Bedsitter

11 Soft Cell - Soul Inside

12 Soft Cell - You Only Live Twice

13 Soft Cell - Numbers

14 Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

Marc Almond Pick

Yesterday I had his cohort from Soft Cell, Dave Ball, but today the pick is all Marc Almond. What's great about him is he seems to guest everywhere. He has so many compilations it's not even funny. So why do another one? I kinda had to since I did one for Dave. And my pick is a bit different from all those other comps. I included a few Soft Cell tracks (none that are on yesterday's pick and none that are on tomorrow's pick.)It has my favorite "guest spots" and I am including in that guest of his and him guesting on other artist albums or singles. Just those alone are cool enough to set himself apart. I mean look at his company: X-TG (most of Throbbing Gristle), Pet Shop Boys, Rosenstolz, T-Total, Gene Pitney, Bronski Beat, Foetus, Buster Poindexter. Plus all his solo work. You could do multiple albums. But here are my favorites. Notice the background of the cover. I took that picture.

Marc Almond Pick

01 X-TG featuring Marc Almond - The Falconer

02 Marc Almond featuring Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart

03 Marc Almond - The Days Of Pearly Spencer

04 Marc Almond - The House Is Haunted By The Echo Of Your Last Goodbye

05 Marc And The Mambas - Black Heart

06 Marc Almond - A Lover Spurned

07 Marc Almond - Mother Fist

08 Rosenstolz & Marc Almond - Total Eclipse

09 Marc Almond - Jacky

10 Soft Cell featuring Pet Shop Boys - Purple Zone

11 T-Total Featuring Marc Almond - Baby’s On Fire

12 Soft Cell - Bruises On All My Illusions

13 Marc Almond & Buster Poindexter - Adored And Explored

14 Marc Almond - The Stars We Are

15 Marc Almond - Tears Run Rings

16 Bronski Beat And Marc Almond - I Feel Love

17 Soft Cell - The Night

18 Marc Almond & Foetus (Flesh Volcano) - Slut

19 Marc Almond - Bitter Sweet