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