Solo Beatles 2

Continuing the pick from yesterday, these are more of my favorite solo  beatles tracks. Not the Weirdest, not the Rockin-est, although there is some overlap with those picks. Just my favorites today. Things I couldn't fit on yesterday's solo beatles pick. I only used five songs from each Beatle. For George I did use one Traveling Wilbury track. It was originally destined as him solo, but ended up as a new project for him. So the first Traveling Wilbury track that got the whole project going. He wrote it and is featured on it, si I included it as one of his tracks. Also to keep up with yesterday's pick there is also one "new" Beatles track. I think I may like this one even better than yesterday's. Both volumes work together, so the numbering continues and the cover is the same. The order like yesterday is by BPM.

Solo Beatles 2

22 Paul McCartney - Dance Tonight

23 George Harrison - Apple Scruffs

24 George Harrison - Awaiting On You All

25 Paul McCartney - Every Night

26 George Harrison - Wah Wah

27 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)

28 John Lennon - #9 Dream

29 Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care

30 Ringo Starr - Oh My My

31 Paul & Linda McCartney - Another Day

32 Ringo Starr - Rewind Forward

33 Ringo Starr - Gone Are The Days

34 George Harrison - Beware Of Darkness

35 Paul McCartney - Coming Up (Full Length Version)

36 Paul McCartney & Wings - Jet

37 Ringo Starr - Free Drinks

38 John Lennon - Jealous Guy

39 Ringo Starr - In My Car

40 John Lennon - Imagine

41 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Woman

42 The Beatles - Now And Then

Solo Beatles 1

I guess, just like all my compilations, I say one thing and then change the rules. I think I'm staying within the rules I made for myself, but then I just throw them out when it's convenient. I have previous picks of songs that sound like the Beatles (Beatlesque) and from their sons (Beatlesons). This pick is my favorite songs from the Beatles after they broke up. It's not done like some people do (and I love) when they put together songs to make possible albums "if they only had stayed together". I had one major rule. Give George and Ringo the same amount of space. In this case it was five tracks each. I then added the Beatles track made "post-humorously". I know some people didn't like it, but I kinda did. There was no limit on which year it was made. They ended up being fairly popular songs, but that wasn't a concern. Just ones I liked. I did have a ton left over, so another volume will come.

Solo Beatles 1

01 John Lennon - Watching The Wheels

02 Ringo Starr - Back Off Boogaloo

03 John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over

04 Ringo Starr - Photograph

05 George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)

06 Paul McCartney - Listen To What The Man Said

07 Ringo Starr - No No Song

08 John Lennon - Instant Karma!

09 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord

10 Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy

11 Paul McCartney - Band On The Run

12 John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Thru The Night

13 Paul McCartney - Uncle Albert-Admiral Halsey

14 George Harrison - What Is Life

15 John Lennon - Mind Games

16 George Harrison - You

17 Ringo Starr - Devil Woman

18 Paul McCartney - Live And Let Die

19 George Harrison - Got My Mind Set on You

20 Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed

21 Beatles - Free as a Bird

A Good BJ Tape (Bob & Jenny Top 80's)

I made a lot of mixtapes throughout my life. And then I started making mixtapes on CD. Luckily I had friends that enjoyed getting them. But especially lucky was that I had several people that loved to make them, too. Bob and Jenny (and it was always the two of them) made some great ones. We made several for each other. This was a cassette tape and then I redid it on CD. They moved to one of the San Pedro islands near Seattle and I lost touch. Then I moved to another state and now it's unlikely we will ever get in touch with each other again, which is a shame as I liked them a lot. And this pick is one reason why it was so easy to say they had such good taste. They also redid furniture and it seemed like they could do anything. They used to have a company called Fruit & Nut (which is why the cover has both). Anyway what a great pick of music. I still enjoy it today.

A Good BJ Tape (Bob & Jenny Top 80's)

01 Everything But the Girl - When All's Well

02 Bill Nelson - Instantly Yours

03 Bauhaus - Rosegarden Funeral Of Sores

04 The Pogues - Bottle Of Smoke

05 Echo & The Bunnymen - Do It Clean

06 The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

07 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Taste Of Cindy

08 Tones On Tail - Performance

09 Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup

10 SPK - In Flagrante Delicto

11 Everything But The Girl - Apron Strings

12 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound

13 Bill Nelson - A Dip In The Swimming Pool Reactor

14 The Cure - A Forest

15 Plastics - Too Much Information

16 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking

17 Cocteau Twins - When Mama Was Moth

18 Joy Division - Sister Ray

19 Current 93 - Oh' Coal Black Smith

20 Les Negresses Vertes - Zobi La Mouche

21 Date Of Birth - Around + Around

22 Cliff Martinez - I'm Gonna Drawl

23 Eddie Jobson & Bill Nelson - Ieyasu

24 Lee Scratch Perry & Dub Syndicate - De Devil Dead

25 SPK - In the Dying Moments

Guitar Instrumentals

This started as something and ended as something different, sort of. My idea at first was to have instrumental guitar songs that I could use as intro music. Something I could just go to if I needed a song quickly to bring someone up to a stage as their intro music. I had already made a series of Beautiful Guitar Solos. The idea on this one was to have a driving song with good energy. You won't believe it but the original thought I had was also to steer a bit clear of surf music. It didn't quite work out that way. Listening back to the pick, it barely can be used as intro music, it definitely has surf music, even the energy part isn't quite all there. But I had already made it and I kinda liked what had come out. So here you go. Random guitar instrumentals that don't quite fit together, but you might like anyway.

Guitar Instrumentals

01 Link Wray - Rumble

02 Dick Dale - Miserlou

03 Eric Johnson - Cliffs Of Dover

04 Duane Eddy - Rebel-'Rouser

05 Jimmy Herring - Aberdeen

06 Frank Zappa - Black Napkins

07 Jimi Hendrix Experience - 3rd Stone From The Sun

08 John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Steppin' Out

09 Steve Vai - The Attitude Song

10 Jeff Beck - Led Boots

11 Racer X - Technical Difficulties

12 Freddy King - The Stumble

13 Van Halen - Eruption

14 The Shadows - Apache

15 Buckethead - Soothsayer (Dedicated To Aunt Suzie)

What's The Connection? Sweat

I took a couple of tries to get this connection the way I wanted. A couple of days ago I had made the Nona Hendryx pick and one of the songs reminded me of the Brick song on this WTC and that reminded me of Defunkt and C&C Music Factory as well as James Brown and the Sugarcubes which lead me down a rabbit hole. I stayed away from songs spelled like Sweat but really pronounced Sweet. Some was eliminated just by that. Surprising how many did that. The hardest one for me was Chubby Carrier who I had from a good Zydeco compilation, But for some reason the files for that album got corrupted and it took me three more tries to get the rips right. Half the album kept  making jittery noises. Arrgh! Oh well it worked out. I hope you enjoy this one!  I love that the cover is a screen grab from a great movie that I'm sure you recognize!

What's The Connection? Sweat

01 Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat

02 The Sugarcubes - Cold Sweat

03 Ohio Players - Sweat

04 Funkadelic - Fish, Chips and Sweat

05 Simple Minds - Sweat in Bullet

06 Prince - Black Sweat

07 Dav Kipp - No Sweat Baby

08 Batmobile - Cold Sweat

09 James Brown - Cold Sweat, Pt. 1

10 C&C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat

11 Sexbeat - Sweat

12 Brick - Sweat (Till You Get Wet)

13 Chubby Carrier - Make You Sweat Zydeco

14 The Boneshakers - Cold Sweat

15 Kris Kristofferson - Smokey Put The Sweat On Me

16 Lonnie Youngblood featuring Jimi Hendrix - Wipe The Sweat 1 (3)

17 Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat

18 Deep Feeling - Sweat, Dust And Red Wine

19 Nona Hendryx - I Sweat (Going Through The Motions)

20 The Mac Ladds - Sweaty Betty

21 Spinal Tap - The Sun Never Sweats

22 Skrillex & The Doors - Breakn' A Sweat

23 Tool - Sweat

The The Pick (updated)

I wasn't quite satisfied with the first iteration of this pick, so I redid it. I made some new song choices (added a single and something from the new album, removed some songs) Changed a couple of things and, well, here's the original write-up:

The first time I heard Matt Johnson and The The was on a compilation called Some Bizarre. I actually bought it because it had a Depeche Mode song and a Soft Cell song on it that I hadn't heard before. And I liked both of those bands. The one track by The The was kinda of weird (as was the rest of the album) but I liked it. Later when I saw the first The The album come out, I saw this cool artwork and remembered the song. It wasn't on the album. I bought it right away. I had no idea what I was in for. I listened to the album late at night with headphones on. Seinheisers, with yellow foam and open ears. And on a really long cord. I listened to the album and then I played it again. And again. Over and over. Several times. I was entranced by the songs, the voice. I thought everyone would or should be listening to this album. They didn't. I didn't hear a single song on the radio stations. I tried to make it my mission to play a song every time I was out. I don't think he caught on until a few albums later. I bought them all. This is my pick of The The songs. But get all the albums. They are great. I didn't realize until later that all these people I loved guested on these albums. Bonus!

The The Pick (updated)

01 The The - I've Been Waitin' For Tomorrow

02 The The - The Beat(en) Generation

03 The The - Infected

04 The The - 1$ One Vote!

05 The The - Armageddon Days (Are Here Again)

06 The The - The Whisperers

07 The The - Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave Of William Blake

08 The The - Red Cinders In The Sand

09 The The - The The

10 The The - I Saw The Light

11 The The - Kingdom of Rain

12 The The - Heartland

13 The The - Slow Emotion Replay

14 The The - Perfect

15 The The - This Is The Day

16 The The - Uncertain Smile

17 The The - I Want 2 B U

18 The The - Dogs Of Lust

Patti LaBelle Pick

Coming after yesterday's pick, this one isn't so surprising. Patti LaBelle sang with Nona Hendryx (or vice-versa) in several bands. There are a couple of tracks that repeat on this pick. But most are different. The Blue-Belles had one hit, so it repeats and Labelle (the band) had one huge hit and I couldn't skip it, so it's on here as well. The rest is all distinct. Labelle's collacoration with Laura Nyro is here. Patti with Michael McDonald is here (Yacht music at it's best). Patti and Grover Washington, Jr is here as well as my two favorites from the movies Leap Of Faith (great movie) and Beverly Hills Cop (another great movie) and both with excellent soundtracks. The nine minute Cat Stevens cover isn't from a movie, but I do love me some Cat Stevens, especially done like this! And never mind the Mindbenders cover (really Carole Bayer Sager).

Patti LaBelle Pick

01 The Blue-Belles - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman

02 Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles - Groovy Kind Of Love

03 Labelle - Moon Shadow

04 LaBelle - Lady Marmalade

05 Labelle - You Turn Me On

06 Labelle - Isn't It A Shame

07 Laura Nyro & Labelle - It's Gonna Take A Miracle

08 Michael McDonald and Patti Labelle - On My Own

09 Patti LaBelle - If You Asked Me To

10 Patti LaBelle - Stir It Up

11 Patti LaBelle - Ready For a Miracle

12 Patti LaBelle - Somebody Loves You Baby (You Know Who It Is)

13 Patti LaBelle - You Are My Friend

14 Patti LaBelle - If Only You Knew

15 Patti LaBelle - New Attitude

16 Patti LaBelle - Love, Need And Want You

17 Patti LaBelle with Grover Washington Jr - The Best Is Yet To Come

Nona Hendryx Pick

I think we've all heard Nona Hendryx whether or not we know it or not. She was part of The Blue-Belles, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, glam band Labelle (yes, Lady Marmalade) and a ton of guest vocal spots in addition to her own solo stuff. I became aware of the person when I heard her sing with Material (Bill Laswell) And loved the track so I put it on this pick. I didn't add it here but she did backing vocals with the Talking Heads, Jerry Harrison, Cameo and has songs with Peter Gabriel, Keith Richards. Just tons more. Including being on the Artists United Against Apartheid album and on the Sun City single. Here I concentrate on her solo stuff with a few tracks from Labelle over the years, one from the Blue-Belles and one each from Soul Clap and Material. There are a couple of tracks from soundtracks (Coming To America and To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar) both great. A lot of these tracks are written by her, but I included a few covers, too.

Nona Hendryx Pick

01 Nona Hendryx - Design For Living

02 Nona Hendryx - Transformation

03 Nona Hendryx - Baby Go-Go

04 Nona Hendryx - B-Boys

05 Nona Hendryx - Why Should I Cry?

06 Labelle - Lady Marmalade

07 Labelle - Messin' With My Mind

08 Nona Hendryx - Transparent

09 Material - Busting Out

10 Nona Hendryx - Keep It Confidential

11 Soul Clap featuring Nona Hendryx - Shine (This Is It)

12 Labelle - Turn It Out

13 Labelle - Space Children

14 Nona Hendryx - Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart

15 Labelle - Won't Get Fooled Again

16 The Blue-Belles - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman

17 Nona Hendryx - I Sweat (Going Through The Motions)

Hot Toddy Remixes

Continuing from yesterday's pick, this is the selection of remixes done by Hot Toddy (Chris Todd from Crazy P). He's done a few pretty nice remixes and these are a few of them that I have. One interesting track is from Crazy P bandmate Ron Basejam (Jim Baron). Decent song and good remix, just interesting because it's his bandmate and buddy. Either way it's a good addition to his solo stuff. Which one do you like best? And am I missing a good one?

Hot Toddy Remixes

13 Classixx - Supernature (Hot Toddy Remix)

14 D-Pulse - Velocity Of Love (Hot Toddy Mix)

15 Joey Negro & The Sunburst Band - Taste The Groove (Hot Toddy Mix)

16 Oh Yeah - Nothing But The Beat (Hot Toddy Vocal Remix)

17 J. Boogie's Dubtronic Science featuring The Pimps Of Joytime - Go To Work (Hot Toddy Mix)

18 Kraak & Smaak featuring John Turrell - Back Again (Hot Toddy Dub)

19 Novika - Miss Mood (Hot Toddy Radio Mix)

20 Soul Clap featuring Nona Hendryx - Shine (Hot Toddy Marimba Message Vocal Mix)

21 Ron Basejam - Deep & Meaningless (Spirit (Hot Toddy Remix))

22 Lovebirds - Want You In My Soul (Hot Toddy Remix)

23 Alain Ho - Into A Deep (Hot Toddy Remix)

24 Fred Everything featuring N'dea Davenport - Don't Nobody (Hot Toddy Remix)

Hot Toddy

This pick is about the artist known as Hot Toddy. Yesterday I had a pick of Crazy Penis, which is appropos since Chris Todd from that band is Hot Toddy. His solo music is similar to Crazy P, but also quite different. I picked some tracks from various albums and singles, as well as a couple of remixes he did of Crazy P tracks. He's become known for his remixes and tomorrow I will pick some of his remixes. BTW, today do not get confused, that one track has nothing to do with Eric Burdon, but it's still cool anyway. I'm not much of a whiskey drinker (a nice tequila is more my kind of speed) but I understand the hot toddy drink is quite refreshing. You will have to tell me. I do not know from personal experience. But the band is quite refreshing. Either way I designed the cover with cinnamon spice and lemon becuase that's what I hear is in the drink.

Hot Toddy

01 Hot Toddy - I Need Love

02 Hot Toddy - Sometime Last Night

03 Crazy P - Never Gonna Reach Me (Hot Toddy Mix)

04 Hot Toddy - Down To Love

05 Hot Toddy - Critical

06 Crazy P - Lady T (Hot Toddy Remix)

07 Hot Toddy - Mutha Sucka

08 Hot Toddy - Mindtrip

09 Ipg & Hot Toddy - Slow Motion Cowboy

10 Hot Toddy - Don't Spill The Wine

11 Crazy P - Love Is With You (Hot Toddy Remix)

12 Hot Toddy - Slave To You

Crazy (P)ick

Crazy P (or Crazy Penis as they were called originally) is an interesting band. They started in the 90's (Chris Todd and Jim Baron) and put out albums and singles until 2019 and toured after that. They had added a couple more members by their third album (including singer Danielle Moore who died tragically in August 2024). This is a sampling of songs from their albums and singles that I like. It covers them under both names. I just liked their sound throughout their career. I couldn't name it, but they have something. Todd is also known as Hot Toddy and Jim Barron is aka Ron Basejam. See tomorrow.

Crazy (P)ick

01 Crazy Penis - Never Gonna Reach Me

02 Crazy Penis - Lady T

03 Crazy P - The Witness

04 Crazy Penis - 3 Play It Cool

05 Crazy P - We Will F--k You Up

06 Crazy Penis - Stop Space Return

07 Crazy P - Like A Fool

08 Crazy P - One True Light

09 Crazy Penis - Heartbreaker (DJ Edit)

10 Crazy Penis - Can't Get Down

11 Crazy Penis - You Started Something

12 Crazy Penis - Bumcop

13 Crazy Penis - There's a Better Place!

14 Crazy Penis - Give It Up (Laid Instrumental Mix)

What's The Connection? Beatles Covers 3

This is the third volume of the Beatles covers pick. This connection, like the last couple of days is just songs written by the Beatles that I like. Most are from singles or album tracks. A couple in this series were on a compilation of Beatles tunes, but most were not. If you search for the ones that were on other covers albums, I'm sure you might find other covers you like. But again, these are the ones that I picked. One of them took me a while to track down. Skinyard's track was only on the B-Side of a single. I'm not sure it ever made it onto a CD. If it did, I didn't find it. I had played the track on my old radio show, remembered how much I liked it and started looking for it. I have the original version on my Beatles Rockin' Pick. I obviously like the track. I'm working on volume four, but it's not ready. If you have any suggestions (based on what you heard here) leave a comment and let me know.

What's The Connection? Beatles Covers 3

41 Plastics - Park-Eight Days A Week

42 Ike & Tina Turner - Come Together

43 Daniel Ash - Day Tripper

44 Oingo - I Am The Walrus

45 Badfinger - Come and Get It

46 Tater Totz - Tomorrow Never Knows (live)

47 Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends

48 Diana Ross - I Will

49 Jim Reid - And Your Bird Can Sing

50 Carpenters - Ticket To Ride

51 Ray Charles - Yesterday

52 Leningrad Cowboys - Yellow Submarine

53 Lonestar - She Said

54 Frank Sinatra - Something

55 Skinyard - Hey Bulldog

56 Richie Havens - Here Comes The Sun

57 Das Damen - Wild Honey Pie

58 Hoodoo Gurus - A Hard Day's Night

59 Ed Harcourt - Rain

60 Oasis - Helter Skelter

What's The Connection? Beatles Covers 2

Volume two of the WTC Pick of Beatles covers. I tried to not pick the same song or the same artist on each volume. That being said I did get the same artist who did more than one Beatles cover on subsequent volumes Echo & the Bunnymen and Siouxsie & the Banshees are great examples. I like them both. they both appear on volume one as well as this volume and both tracks are amazing on each volume. Again these tracks are just tracks I like. Some because they sound like the Beatles (but not) and some because they sound nothing like the original version. Space Negros sound very different for instance. You could do quite a few of these volumes. What would you put on my volume 4?

What's The Connection? Beatles Covers 2

22 Frank Zappa - Beatles Medley (live in Texas)

23 Nina Simone - Here Comes The Sun

24 10cc - Across The Universe

25 Robyn Hitchcock - A Day In The Life

26 Shonen Knife-Tater Totz - Strawberry Fields Forever

27 Echo & The Bunnymen - All You Need Is Love

28 Elvis Costello - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

29 Das Damen - Why Don't We Do it in the Road

30 Yes - Every Little Thing

31 The Damned - Help

32 Danielle Dax - Tomorrow Never Knows

33 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Helter Skelter

34 Laibach - One After 909

35 PErFect ThYroID - Come Together

36 Suggs - I'm Only Sleeping

37 Kristin Hersh - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey

38 Space Negros - Back In The USSR

39 Yellow Magic Orchestra - Day Tripper

40 U2 - Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Gun Mix)

What's The Connection? Beatles Covers 1

I have a few volumes of this connection and I also have some Beatlesque picks as well. And assorted Beatles family picks and more. Just search and you will find a few. These may or may not sound like the Beatles, but they were all songs written by Beatles. I make no claims about how good or bad they are, just that I like them. Some because they are so different and some because they aren't. I'm pretty sure that at least a couple in this series may not have been actual Beatles songs recorded officially by the group and just given to an artist. But either way you will get a flavor. I hope you enjoy this. For some reason anything Beatles related always get a decent number of people clicking on the links.

What's The Connection? Beatles Covers 1

01 The Three Wize Men - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

02 Echo & The Bunnymen - Ticket To Ride

03 Aerosmith - Come Together

04 Earth Wind & Fire - Got To Get You Into My Life

05 Cheap Trick - Daytripper (Live)

06 Cristina - Drive My Car

07 Bananarama - Help

08 Siouxsie & the Banshees - Dear Prudence

09 The Breeders - Happiness Is A Warm Gun

10 Throwing Muses - Cry Baby Cry

11 Clint Ruin-Lydia Lunch - Why Don't We Do It In The Road

12 801 feat Phil Manzanera & Brian Eno - Tomorrow Never Knows

13 The Jam - And Your Bird Can Sing

14 Colin Newman - Blue Jay Way

15 Beastie Boys - I'm Down

16 Leningrad Cowboys - Back in the USSR

17 Tater Totz-Shonen Knife - Rain

18 Sonic Youth - Within You, Without You

19 The Fall - A Day In The Life

20 Kate Bush - Peter Gabriel - Let It Be

21 kd Lang - The End

What's The Connection? Back To School

You have to go back a couple of years to find the last School connection I did. I don't have kids in school anymore, but it seems like it's back to school time again. So I made this WTC pick with the idea that these are songs about missing school, not wanting to go back to school, remembering school and anything I thought might pertain to Back to School, except for shopping, because no one wants to be reminded how much more everything costs over the last few years. Sorry, I just did.  Don't pay attention to my ramblings.  Several great songs on here. I was most impressed with the teenage sisters from Hello Sister. I think they might go somewhere. Go check them out. I heard they might have been on one of those talent TV shows, but what do I know? The rest you probably know.

What's The Connection? Back To School

01 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - High School Dance

02 Ohio Players - School Girl

03 The Donnas - I Don't Want To Go To School

04 The Trashmen - Be True To Your School

05 Cheap Trick - Daddy Should Have Stayed In High School

06 Busted - What I Go To School For

07 Jonas Brothers - What I Go To School For

08 Hello - Another School Day

09 Beyoncé - Schoolin' Life

10 Mungo Jerry - I Don't Want To Go Back To School

11 Soulja Boy - First Day Of School

12 Nerf Herder - High School

13 Fountains Of Wayne - Too Cool For School

14 The Naked Brothers Band - I Don't Want To Go To School

15 Jan & Dean - The New Girl In School

16 Eric Carr - Too Cool For School

17 Hello Sister - Middle Schooler

18 Kelsea Ballerini - High School

19 Jon And Vangelis - Back To School

20 Bowling For Soup - High School Never Ends (Radio Disney Version)

21 Vampire Weekend - Campus

22 Miley Cyrus - East Northumberland High

Fakin' Jamaican 5

I really like this pick. The whole series is good. Bands that play a reggaefied version of whatever they normally play. I started with white washed Jamaican music (ska, reggae) but any reggae rock would do as long as they weren't primarily reggae artists, but even that I've fudged over the years. This fifth one of the series is not the last, so enjoy what you get. Pretend about some of these. I know. I just liked the songs and put them in.

Fakin' Jamaican 5

89 The Guess Who - Follow Your Daughter Home

90 Yvonne Elliman - I'm Gonna Use What I Got To Get What I Need

91 Laid Back - Sunshine Reggae

92 Bad Manners - My Girl Lollipop (My Boy Lollypop)

93 311 - All Mixed Up

94 Ace Of Base - All That She Wants

95 Red Rat - Tight Up Skirt

96 Reel Big Fish - Sell Out

97 Graham Parker - Don't Ask Me Questions

98 Pretenders - Walk Like A Panther

99 Sean Paul - Gimmie the Light

100 Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride

101 John Cale - Graham Greene

102 Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl

103 Elton John - Jamaica Jerk-Off

104 Tim Curry - I Will

105 Lou Christie - Two Faces Have I

106 MU330 - KKK Highway

107 Steely Dan - Haitian Divorce

108 The Police - So Lonely

109 Mephiskapheles - The Bumble Bee Tuna Song

New Prog Pick 7

For a pick that was going to end with volume 4, it sure has gone on for awhile. New Prog 6 was four days ago. Two tracks from bands I've posted up here before. One artist (Fish) that was the singer of Marillion, so sort of posted him up before. And two tracks of bands that I haven't posted before. Galahad has some great tracks. Their first album was in 1991, but they had some amazing ones including one with John Wetton has a guest vocalist. This track was the title track of their 2007 album and it got a lot of attention. Really though, it's hard to find an album of theirs that isn't quite good if not excellent. Wobbler is from Norway and sound like Yes and King Crimson and ELP combined at times. This 20 minute plus track from 2017 is amazing. The rest of their four other albums are worth checking out!

New Prog Pick 7

40 Galahad - Empires Never Last

41 Transatlantic - Duel With The Devil

42 Fish - A Gentleman's Excuse Me

43 Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize

44 Wobbler - From Silence To Somewhere

What's The Connection? Silly 2

The second volume of Silly in this WTC.A couple of very silly songs that I even forgot I had. Ohio Players. I just completely blanked on that one. And notice how many Silly songs rhyme the titles? Willy, Billy, Lily, even Sally. You can find more yesterday. Anyway, I have a few more songs to make the next volume of silly, but I think today will be the end of Silly Connections for a little while. Notice how Silly the cover even is. Even more silly than yesterday. BTW, for a Crazy connecton.

What's The Connection? Silly 2

25 Salt 'n' Pepa - Silly Of You

26 Carlsberg - Silly Lily

27 Jay & the Americans - Silly Girl, Silly Boy

28 Nia Andrews - Silly Boy Blue

29 Tony Bennett - Silly Dreamer

30 Graham Parker - Silly Thing

31 Robbie Williams - Bag Full Of Silly

32 Ohio Players - Silly Billy

33 The Lettermen - Come Back, Silly Girl

34 Blue Swede - Silly Milly

35 Ronnie Lane - Silly Little Man

36 Bo Diddley - Silly Willy

37 Marilyn Mccoo & Billy Davis Jr - Silly Love Songs

38 Lady June - Some Day Silly 23

39 Boney M - Silly Confusion

40 Hootie & The Blowfish - Silly Little Pop Song

41 The Rascals - Silly Girl

42 Golden Earring - Don't Be Silly (Monitor Mix 1-82)

43 The Dead Milkmen - Silly Dreams

44 Dusty Springfield - Silly, Silly Fool

45 Iron Butterfly - Silly Sally

46 TLC - Silly Ho

47 Cilla Black - Silly Wasn't I

48 The Gap Band - Silly Grin

49 The Damned - Silly Kids Games

What's The Connection? Silly 1

I wanted this connection to be a little Silly, but it turned out to be a lot of Silly. More Silly than I realized. In fact I had to go to at least two volumes of Silly. Yesterday was a bit more serious. For me it started with Wings. The rest sort of fell into place after that. I completely forgot about a few of these until I started looking: Descendents and Toy Dolls spring to mind now. Monty Python, of course, came up right away. Yes. The cover is me. I always try to get people to make silly faces. When I was younger, I used to practice the looks in the mirror and my mom would tell me that my face would freeze in that position, but it never happened. And I tried. A Lot! It's a wonder I ever got married...

What's The Connection? Silly 1

01 Descendents - Silly Girl

02 Primus - Silly Putty

03 New Beatnicks - Silly Pete

04 Don Ray With The Hornets - Silly Dilly

05 Utopia - Silly Boy

06 Daniel Johnston - Silly Love

07 David Bowie - Silly Boy Blue

08 Roy Harper - Grown Ups Are Just Silly Children

09 Toy Dolls - Silly Billy

10 Jumping Pop-In - The Silly Chap

11 Deniece Williams - Silly

12 Janet Kay - Silly Games

13 Adrian Sherwood - Silly Billy (Activator Remix)

14 Monty Python - The Silly Walk Song

15 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Silly Thing

16 Wings - Silly Love Songs

17 Fun of It - Silly Baby

18 Lady GaGa featuring Rihanna - Silly Boy (Demo)

19 Enchantment - Silly Love Song

20 Prince - Silly Game

21 Alan White - Silly Woman

22 Sex Pistols - Silly Thing

23 10cc - Silly Love

24 Valerie Simpson - Silly Wasn't I

Remember 9/11

On this anniversary of 9/11, I have a pick of songs that are inspired by, written about 9/11. Some are just feeling patriotic songs. Either way they remind me of the horrible attacks on America. And to remind all of us, including me, that we have an open border and that an administration let in millions of unvetted aliens from around the world. We need to make sure nothing like this day ever happens again in our country. A similar thing happened in Israel and we need tomake sure it doesn't happen there either. In fact,  around the world we need to make sure that terrorists never get the chance to do it again. Vote people in who will stop it. Remember this day: September 11.

Remember 9/11

01 Lee Greenwood - America the Beautiful

02 Neil Young - Let's Roll

03 Michael Jackson - What More Can I Give

04 Yellowcard - Believe

05 Brad Paisley - American Flag on the Moon

06 Charlie Daniels Band - This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag

07 Juliana Hatfield - Hole In The Sky

08 Tori Amos - I Can't See New York

09 Paul McCartney - Freedom

10 Toby Keith - Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)

11 Alan Jackson - Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)

12 Bon Jovi - Undivided

13 Neil Diamond - America

14 Cher - Song For The Lonely

15 Lonestar - I'm Already There

16 Tom MacDonald & Adam Calhoun - American Flags

17 Gorillaz featuring D12 - 911

18 Eagles - Hole in the World

New Prog Pick 6

Well for those of you that love prog (I almost wrote Prego - I must be thinking of spaghetti), you will be happy with this pick, even if you don't know the bands. Just five tracks, but they are all very good. I'm not sure that I would put Ride into the progressive category, but this track certainly is. And yet I might pur them there. The other bands, there is no doubt that they are new prog. BTW, is the cover a horse? a hand? Just some ball of energy? What is it?

New Prog Pick 6

35 Pendragon - Indigo

36 Deyss - Vision In The Dark

37 Ride - Grasshopper

38 Quasar - Mission 14

39 Haken - Visions

Longest Rock

This pick is different than all my other picks. I am going against my "rules". Normally I have total number of songs that equal up to about a CD length. I make most of my  comps about that size. I have a few that are a cassette size in length (so about 90 minutes.) This pick is completely different. This one is only 17 tracks, but is four hours and forty-eight minutes long in one zipped file. They go from just over nine minutes long to over forty-three minutes long. These are my favorite long songs. Lynyrd Skynyrd starts us off and we end with Jethro Tull. Lots of rock, much of it prog. I know there are other songs that would fit on this, but this is my pick. I tried not to have live tracks. Otherwise a bunch of Grateful Dead or Allman Brothers might have made it on. No disco, no funk. No Funkadelic. Sorry. That might have to be another volume. I can just picture Isaac Hayes and Eddie Hazel-Funkadelic tracks. But I didn't do it yet.

Longest Rock

01 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

02 Outlaws - Green Grass & High Tides

03 Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain-Closer To Home

04 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Heard it Through The Grapevine

05 Led Zeppelin - In My Time Of Dying

06 Elton John - Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)

07 Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

08 Doors - The End

09 Deep Purple - April

10 Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile

11 Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida

12 Velvet Underground - Sister Ray

13 Rush - 2112

14 Yes - The Gates of Delirium

15 Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-9)

16 Emerson Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9

17 Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (Full)

J Metal

This pick started because my daughter turned me on to Babymetal. Loved the band. I had brought her to see the band Shonen Knife as she grew up. Got to meet the band. So we were already inclined to like Japanese bands made up of women. First I found a bunch of J Rock bands, but the metal side was still left. So I started looking for bands I liked that were metal and had (most if not all) female band members. These are the bands I came up with. If you have some other ones that I should have looked at, leave them in the comments.

J Metal

01 Hanabie - Osaki Ni Shitsurei Shimasu

02 Lovebites - Rising

03 Necronomidol - Tupilaq

04 Destrose - Headless Goddess

05 Galneryus - Hunting For Your Dream

06 Band-Maid - Choose Me

07 Unlucky Morpheus - Black Pentagram

08 Ladybaby - Nippon Manju

09 Mary's Blood - Marionette

10 Yellow Machinegun - My Eyes Under The Sands

11 Babymetal - Gimme Chocolate!!

12 Ladybaby - Haten ni Raimei

13 Passcode - Taking You Out

14 Exist†trace - Resonance

15 Hanabie - We Love Sweets

16 Nemophila - Revive

17 Aldious - We Are

18 Gacharic Spin - Mindset

19 Yellow Machinegun - Speak English Or Die

20 Bridear - Ignite

New Prog Pick 5

I was kind of done with the New Prog picks, but here it is, volume five of this pick and I have more to come. Sorry, lots of prog lately. Great if you love it, just waiting on hold if you don't. Steven Wilson and Procupine Tree on this one. Plus a bunch of other bands that I know you will love. But I am in a hurry today. I'll wait a bit for volume 6 of this pick, but it's coming.

New Prog Pick 5

26 All Them Witches - Rats In Ruin

27 Names - Final Stand

28 Twelfth Night - Creepshow

29 Black Mountain - Space To Bakersfield

30 Seedy Jeezus - Dripping From The Eye Of The Sun

31 Steven Wilson - Ancestral

32 Cosmos - Sequences

33 Porcupine Tree - Radioactive Toy

34 1000Mods - Reverb Of The New World

Reggae Dub Pick 4

All of these are reupped. This one is just upped, since I haven't posted it before. You can find links to Dub 1 and Dub 2 on the Dub 3 pick page. All new tracks (although I used the Mad Professor track here on my Mad Professor Dub Me Crazy pick as well). I used two tracks with Lee Perry. One with the Congos and one with the Upsetters. Aswad and Black Uhuru are not generally known as dub artists, but both of them had dub albums that are considered to be amazingly great in dub circles. The tracks on here are a couple of my favorites. King Tubby and Prince Jammy are on here a couple of times. Mad Professor shows up twice, too. Once with the Easy All Stars covering a Pink Floyd track (they have two albums covering Dark Side of the Moon) all good. A couple of tracks with Adrian Sherwood and a smattering of others to round this volume up.

Reggae Dub Pick 4

46 Congos - Fisherman Dub

47 Black Uhuru - Big Spliff

48 The Skatalites Meet King Tubby - Herb Man Dub

49 Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - Chapter Three

50 Prince Jammy - Throne Of Blood

51 Aswad - Dub Fire

52 Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa

53 Horace Andy - Rasta Dub

54 Easy Star All Stars - Money (Mad Professor Remix)

55 Yabby You - Deliver Me From My Enemies Version

56 Mad Professor - Asylum Of Dub

57 Linton Kwesi Johnson - Victorious Dub

58 Max Romeo - I Chase The Devil

59 King Tubby - African Roots

60 Scientist - Golden Goal

61 African Head Charge - Dinosaur’s Lament

62 Automaton - Asiyah Dub (Blinding The Starry Eyes Of God)

63 Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate

Rhythm Pop Pick 9

Way back when I made the other eight Rhythm Pop Picks. I had enough to make a couple more, but I kinda stopped. I thought it might be enough. I went back to my working folder and decided I was wrong. I still had more to post. So here is the next volume of the pick. Many of these have cool remixes of the songs that you might not have heard, but if you know these bands, you might have. I have to talk about one band. Until December. They didn't get that much attention. They deserved more. But they turned into Consolidated where they got a littl bit of traction (and changed their whole sound), but still not enough. This was their Rhythm Pop phaze. Very Danceable, Very pop. 

Rhythm Pop Pick 9

136 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me (Youth Mix)

137 Vitamin Z - Burning Flame

138 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Secret

139 Martini Ranch - Hot Dog (12 Inch Remix)

140 When In Rome - The Promise (Coliseum Mix)

141 Cetu Javu - Situations (Extended)

142 Yello - The Race (Razormaid Remix)

143 Camouflage - The Great Commandment (Extended Dance Remix)

144 Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon (Special K Mix)

145 Yazoo - Don't Go (12'' Version)

146 Until December - Heaven

147 Trans-X - Living On Video (Original Album Version)

148 Peter Murphy - Cuts you up

149 Cure - Just Like Heaven

Green Onions 5

The last of the funky green onion pick so far. I have more but not compiled. I especially have more versions of the song Green Onions. I just need a few more to put around them. I put four versons of the song on this one already. Velvet Underground, the 5,6,7,8's (some vocals), Bill Black's Combo and Al Kooper who does an amazing version. Quite longer and jamming. The other tracks fit well and you won't be disappointed. But I did need more help to get more of these kind of tracks and I am on to the next for now.

Green Onions 5

82 Gene Harris & The Three Sounds - Put On Train

83 Soulive & Karl Denson - Spark

84 Ronnie Laws - Tell Me Something Good

85 The Velvet Underground - Green Onions

86 Grant Green - In The Middle

87 Back Door - Slivadiv

88 Apollis - What It Is

89 African Music Machine - The Dapp

90 Charles Earland - Betty's Dilemma

91 The 5.6.7.8's - Green Onions

92 Les Cooper & the Soul Rockets - Wiggle Wobble

93 Bill Black's Combo - Green Onions

94 Ivan Boogaloo Joe Jones - You've Got It Bad, Girl

95 Al Kooper - Green Onions (Live)

96 Nucleus - Nosegay

Green Onions 4

We're getting to the fourth volume of the Green Onions pick. Several versions of the songs Green Onions, today it's Mongo Santamaria! Great version. The J.B.'s are here with a song that completely fits in this series (although just a few shouts of the title), as well as Just Brothers with a song that you will recognize because it's been used as a sample for a pretty well known other hit, Tell me you recognize it! a couple of other artists that you've heard before on this series. And some covers done instrumentally that otherwise might never have made it .

Green Onions 4

64 Hampton Hawes - Web

65 Mongo Santamaria - Green Onions

66 J.B.'s - Pass The Peas

67 Mel Brown - Son Of A Preacher Man

68 Ray Cameron - Coast To Coast

69 Wilbur Bascomb - Just A Groove In G

70 The Pazant Brothers & The Beaufort Express - Chick A Boom (instrumental)

71 Idris Muhammad - Super Bad

72 Jack McDuff - Oblighetto

73 Harold Alexander - New York Sister

74 Melvin Sparks - Whip! Whop!

75 Herbie Mann - Do It Again

76 Johnny Harris - Stepping Stones

77 O'Donel Levy - Marbles

78 Johnny Hammond Smith - Johnny Hammond Boogaloo

79 Just Brothers - Sliced Tomatoes

80 The Nite Liters - Theme For Angela

81 Alphonse Mouzon - Nightmare

Green Onions 3

Third volume of this pick of soul and funk (mostly) intrumentals. I don't know that my pick is all that different than everyone else's picks of this category. And it sure seems like everyone has one. I tried not to look too closely at them when I made mine. (Not at all, actually). Another Booker T & the MG's on this one and yet another version of Green Onions. This time Pink Floyd. Yes. I don't believe it either. Is it soul or funk? Maybe, but it is instrumental. Some of the other tracks are probably much closer to the feel of this series, but it is what it is.

Green Onions 3

44 Afrique - House Of Rising Funk

45 Olympic Runners - Grab It (instrumental)

46 O'Donel Levy - We've Only Just Begun

47 Creations Unlimited - Crystal Illusion

48 Black On White Affair - A Bunch Of Changes

49 Alphonze Mouzon - Funky Snakefoot

50 Booker T & The Mg's - Hip Hug-Her

51 Blackrock - Yeah Yeah

52 The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Hihache

53 Fuzzy Haskins - The Fuz And Da Boog

54 Jimmy Mcgriff - Groove Grease

55 Earth, Wind & Fire - Power

56 Mandrill - Mandrill

57 Klaus Weiss - Morning 1 & Morning 2

58 Mongo Santamaria - Night Crawler

59 James Clarke - Blow Up A Go-Go

60 The Rimshots - In Cold Blood

61 Crusaders - Full Moon

62 James Booker - African Gumbo

63 Pink Floyd - Green Onions

Green Onions 2

I can't remember the first time I heard Green Onions, but I remember very well hearing it in the movie American Graffiti with Wolfman Jack talking over it. It was just so cool. And then I remember the Blues Brothers playing it. And yes, of course, I loved the Blues Brothers. The fact that several of the MG's were in the movie just made it even better. Okay, Dan Akroyd talks through it, but that's okay. Another track by Booker T on this pick, of course they fit. And not the last appearance on this series. Herbie Mann, Jimmie McGriff, the Nite-Liters, Alphonse Mouzon, the Rimshots, O'Donel Levy and Jack McDuff all will appear again. 

Green Onions 2

24 War - Smile Happy

25 Tony Alvon & The Belairs - Sexy Coffee Pot

26 Herbie Mann - Turtle Bay

27 Billy Cobham - Lunarputians

28 The Nite-Liters - Excuse Me While I Do My Thing

29 The Krew Kats - Trambone

30 Roy Lee Johnson And The Villagers - Razorback Circus

31 James Brown - Straight Ahead

32 Jimmy McGriff - Sugar Sugar

33 O'Donel Levy - Playhouse

34 The Rimshots - Born Funky

35 Charles Earland - Warp Factor 8

36 Booker T & The Mg's - Time Is Tight

37 Jack McDuff - Mini Pads

38 Tony Aiken and Future 2000 - Time Tunnel

39 Charles Kynard - Your Momma Don't Dance

40 Grant Green - Blues For Abraham

41 Alphonze Mouzon - Nitroglycerin

42 Kool & The Gang - Wild & Peaceful

43 The Blues Brothers - Green Onions