What's The Connection? Auld Lang Syne 3 (Happy New Year)

Well part three repost comes on New Year's Eve. Not that anyone in their right mind would play all these version of Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve, but we all know that if you are here, you probably aren't in your right mind, so Happy New Year! You fit right in. Drive someone crazy by actually playing all three volumes! I will. And then my New Year Collection right after. If you don't have all of the collection, find them above, with all new links. And of course, the cover below. Three in one post!

What's The Connection? Auld Lang Syne 3 (Happy New Year)

51 Reel Big Fish - Auld Lang Syne

52 Barenaked Ladies - Auld Lang Syne

53 Byron Lee and the Dragonaires - Auld Lang Syne

54 Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne

55 Less Than Jake - The New Auld Lang Syne

56 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Auld Lang Syne

57 Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin - Auld Lang Syne (Live)

58 Brave Combo - Auld Lang Syne

59 Richard Cheese - Auld Lang Syne

60 Barbra Streisand - Auld Lang Syne (Ballad)

61 The Lonesome Travelers - Auld Lange Syne

62 Susan Boyle - Auld Lang Syne

63 Chris Isaak - Auld Lang Syne

64 Platters - Auld Lang Syne

65 Bill Keith - Auld Lang Syne

66 James Taylor - Auld Lang Syne

67 Mariah Carey - Auld Lang Syne - The New Year's Anthem

68 The Mermen - Auld Lang Syne

69 Kenny G - Auld Lang Syne

70 Frank Zappa - Auld Lang Syne (Live At The Palladium - 103181 - Show 2)

71 Cheap Trick - Auld Lang Syne

72 The Stylistics - Auld Lang Syne

73 Colbie Caillat - Auld Lang Syne

My Wedding Music 2

I posted the pick of my wedding music on my first anniversary of the year (I have two) although we didn't have a reception with this dancing until the second one. The first was in Vegas at the Little Wedding Chapel with Elvis. The reception was just drinking at a restaurant with a very few select freinds and family that were in the Vegas area at the time. The second time was six months later and was proper in a church and a real reception with a lot of friends and family with invitations and everything. I had made a few CD's for the DJ (a friend) and told him to play anything he wanted, but if he could, play from these if it fit or if he got requests for any of these. He did. The last track was a song that my mom and dad played on their wedding. A couple of the others on this pick were from weddings of our friends and family. The rest were just songs we connected with.

My Wedding Music 2

01 The Association - Cherish

02 Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe

03 Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There

04 Cure - Primary

05 The Champs - Tequila

06 Stevie Wonder - Knocks Me Off My Feet

07 Claudine Longet - I Love How You Love Me

08 Four Tops - Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)

09 Cure - Just Like Heaven

10 Paul Anka - Love Cats

11 The Association - Standing Still

12 Spinners - Then Came You

13 Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely

14 Four Tops - I Believe In You And Me

15 The Temptations - The Way You Do The Things You Do

16 Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

17 Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar

18 Doors - Love Me Two Times

19 Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady

20 Beatles - Something

21 Ray, Goodman & Brown - Special Lady

22 Louis Jordan - Choo Choo Ch'Boogie

23 Chet Baker - There's a Small Hotel

What's The Connection? Auld Lang Syne 2 (Happy New Year) repost

Yesterday it was part one being reposted of this WTC for New Year's Eve. Today it's part two. Part three will be on New Year's Eve (not tomorrow). I have a special surprise tomorrow. For now, enjoy these versions of Auld Lang Syne. No more stories, just get ready for New Year's Eve.

What's The Connection? Auld Lang Syne 2 (Happy New Year) repost

27 Bunny Sigler - Auld Lang Syne

28 Michael Doucet - Auld Lang Syne

29 Jimi Hendrix - Little Drummer Boy-Silent Night-Auld Lang Syne

30 MXPX - Auld Lang Syne

31 Idina Menzel - Auld Lang Syne

32 Mannheim Steamroller - Auld Lang Syne

33 Sun Ra - Auld Lang Syne

34 Bing Crosby - Auld Lang Syne

35 Billy Idol - Auld Lang Syne

36 Andrew Bird - Auld Lang Syne

37 Slade - Auld Lang Syne (You'll Never Walk Alone)

38 Ingrid Michaelson - Auld Lang Syne

39 Michael McDonald - Auld Lang Syne  O Tannebaum

40 Bobby Darin - Christmas Auld Lang Syne

41 Rod Stewart - Auld Lang Syne

42 Relient K - Auld Lang Syne

43 Pink Martini - Auld Lang Syne

44 Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Auld Lang Syne

45 Billy Joel - Auld Lang Syne

46 B.B. King - Auld Lang Syne

47 The Drifters - Auld Lang Syne

48 Marc Anthony - Christmas Auld Lang Syne

49 Die Toten Hosen - Auld Lang Syne

50 The Smithereens - Auld Lang Syne

What's The Connection? Auld Lang Syne (Happy New Year) repost

Around this time of the year I try to do a repost of my WTC Auld Lang Syne for the New Year. Search the site for Auld Lang Syne for the story behind this, if you want, but really it's just Auld Lang Syne songs. This year I will re-post three volumes. All with new links. Happy New Year!

What's The Connection? Auld Lang Syne (Happy New Year) repost

01 MFSB - 12;00 Countdown Medley

02 Guy Lombardo - Auld Lang Syne

03 Glenn Miller Orchestra - Auld Lang Syne

04 Tom Scott - Auld Lang Syne

05 Corky Hale - Auld Lang Syne

06 Joe Hackney - Auld Lang Syne

07 Highway Jazzmen - Auld Lang Syne

08 Arthur Lyman - Auld Lang Syne

09 Gary Hoey - Auld Lang Syne

10 Gilda Radner - Roseanne Roseannadanna

11 Alan Sherman - Old Lang's Sign

12 Michael Zanabili - Auld Lang Syne

13 Peter Buffett and the New World Ensemble - Auld Lang Syne

14 Bill Keith - Auld Lang Syne

15 Salsoul Orchestra - New Year's Medley

16 Boney M - Auld Lang Syne

17 Chas & Dave - Auld Lang Syne

18 Beach Boys - Auld Lang Syne

19 Phantom Of The Opera Cast - Auld Lang Syne

20 Jingle Cats - Auld Lang Syne

21 Gloria Estefan - Christmas Auld Lang Syne

22 Dan Fogelberg - Same Old Lang Syne

23 G-Clefs - I Understand (How You Feel)

24 UK Subs - Auld Lang Syne

25 Esquivel - Auld Lang Syne

26 Salivating Army Band (Tales From The Crypt) - Should Old Cadavers Be Forgot

Yo Bro 2

Here's the second part of this Bro Country pick. I almost called it Truck Yeah, but this title won out in my mind. A couple of the same bands, but mostly no doubles. And definitely no doubles on songs. Like yesterday I added a Br country song from the perspective of a girl as the last song. The video (if you haven't seen it) is hilarious. I don't follow the country charts much, but I am assuming these are all big hits. At least they are popular when I play them for people at my gigs. A couple of songs on these two volumes also appear on my Hayride Hootenanny series, but those aren't strictly bro country. Although they also are some fun country songs.

Yo Bro 2

24 Blake Shelton featuring Pistol Annies & Friends - Boys 'Round Here

25 Kidd G & Lil Uzi Vert - Teenage Dream 2

26 Jake Owen - Barefoot Blue Jean Night

27 Lee Brice - Parking Lot Party

28 Frankie Ballard - Sunshine & Whiskey

29 Florida Georgia Line - Get Your Shine On

30 Big & Rich - Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)

31 Sam Hunt - House Party

32 Dixon Dallas - Like Whiskey

33 Luke Bryan - Country Girl (Shake It For Me)

34 Chris Young - Aw Naw

35 Eric Church - Drink In My Hand

36 Jerrod Niemann - Drink To That All Night

37 Shaboozey - Let It Burn

38 Jason Aldean - Dirt Road Anthem

39 Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan - This Is How We Roll

40 Breland - My Truck

41 Justin Moore - Lettin' The Night Roll

42 Parmalee - Close Your Eyes

43 Dierks Bentley featuring Breland & Hardy - Beers On Me

44 Chris Janson - Buy Me A Boat

46 Chase Rice - Ready Set Roll

47 Brad Paisley - 4WP

48 Maddie & Tae - Girl In A Country Song

Yo Bro 1

This Yo Bro pick is my Bro Country compilation. I have two volumes of it being posted today and tomorrow. I suppose I knew most of these songs when they came out, but I was ignorant enough not to know they were all bro country songs. Just country songs I liked. Oh well. The last song on each volume is slightly different those are the versions done by country girls about bro country songs. In today's volume its about wanting to be a country truck girl. Tomorrow, it's a little different. I put them in because they fit even though they aren't bro's sing them. Hope your Christmas, yesterday, was good.

Yo Bro 1

01 Dustin Lynch - Hell Of A Night

02 Brantley Gilbert - Bottoms Up

03 Kip Moore - Somethin' 'Bout A Truck

04 Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party

05 Kane Brown - Lose It

06 Little Big Town - Pontoon

07 Tim McGraw - Truck Yeah

08 Dierks Bentley - Drunk On A Plane

09 Randy Houser - How Country Feels

10 Luke Bryan - That's My Kind Of Night

11 Trace Adkins - Honky Tonk Badonkadonk

12 Brad Paisley - River Bank

13 Hardy - Give Heaven Some Hell

14 Morgan Wallen featuring Florida Georgia Line - Up Down

15 Blake Shelton - Sure Be Cool If You Did

16 Thomas Rhett - Vacation

17 Cole Swindell - Chillin' It

18 Dallas Smith - Tippin' Point

19 Florida Georgia Line featuring Nelly - Cruise (Remix)

20 The Cadillac Three - The South

21 Branchez & Big Wet - Turn Up On the Weekend

22 Billy Currington - Hey Girl

23 Maggie Rose - Girl In Your Truck Song!!

Xmas (Christmas) Disco 3

Merry Christmas! A beautiful Christmas morning today and I am posting my pick for Xmas morning with a part three, part one of Xmas Disco came awhile ago and part 2 was just a few days ago, less than a week. Disco is a little bit of a misnomer. Some of these songs are not disco songs at all. But they are Christmas or Christmas related songs by at the minimum disco artists, if they aren't actual disco songs. The Bee Gees, for instance will always be associated with disco, but this ballady Christmas medley was done in the sixties way before they ever even thought of being involved with Saturday Night Fever. But I feel like it still could fit, so I shoved it in here. A couple of Orchestras who all seemed to join the disco craze in the 70's and made some cool Christmas medleys or full length albums segued for you ribbed dancing pleasure. I plucked out a few (leaving some for future comps) trying not to double up on songs. How many disco Sleigh Rides and White Christmases do we need on one playlist? Rhetorical. The answer is: one if possible. Anyway, Merry Christmas!

Xmas (Christmas) Disco 3

37 Bee Gees - Medley-Silent Night-Hark The Herald Angels Sing

38 Kool & The Gang - Joy To The World

39 Salsoul Orchestra - The Salsoul Christmas Suite

40 KC & The Sunshine Band - Last Christmas

41 The Henry Hadaway Orchestra - Medley-Turned On Toys

42 Commodores - The Christmas Song

43 Vincent Montana Jr. And The Philly Sound Orchestra & Chorus - Christmas Medley #1

44 The Mistletoe Disco Band - Sleigh Ride

45 Claudja Barry - Deck The Halls-O Come All Ye Faithful-Silent Night

46 The Roller Disco Orchestra - Silver Bells

47 The Trammps - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

48 Village People - Go Santa Go

49 Disco Christmas - The Twelve Days of Christmas

50 Mummy The Peepshow - Disco Holiday

51 Christmas Disco Collective - White Christmas (Disco Version)

52 Mirror Image - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

53 Universal Energy - Christmas For Space

O Holy Night 3

Christmas Eve and all through the house not a creature was stirring except on your stereo, listening to these versions of O Holy Night from this connection. Anyway this will be the only place ever that you will hear Rob Halford next to Sarah McLachlan. You are welcome. More Cantique De Noel and even a version by Dream Theater. Have a Merry Christmas tomorrow. Here are some other links to previous Xmas and related playlists over the years if you haven't picked them up already. Snow. Jesus. Amen. All with checked links.

O Holy Night 3

42 Irma Thomas - Oh Holy Night

43 Kenny G - Cantique De Noel (O Holy Night)

44 John Legend - O Holy Night

45 David Lanz & Paul Speer - O Holy Night

46 The Carpenters - O Holy Night

47 Bing Crosby - O Holy Night

48 Leontyne Price - O Holy Night

49 Mannheim Steamroller - Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night)

50 Sarah McLachlan - O Holy Night

51 Rob Halford - Oh Holy Night

52 Wynonna Judd - O Holy Night

53 Ellie Goulding - O Holy Night

54 Pentatonix - O Holy Night

55 Richard Palalay - O Holy Night

56 Perry Como - O Holy Night

57 Anita Bryant - O Holy Night

58 Franco Corelli - O Holy Night

59 Dream Theater - O Holy Night (XMas Demos)

60 Mario Lanza - O Holy Night (Cantique de Noel)

61 Angelique Kidjo - Zan Vevede (O Holy Night)

What's The Connection? Snow 3

It's been a while since I did part 2 of this Snow connection, but it's long overdue for volume three. Several of the same songs with different versions and a few more original versions. A little exotica, some Kate Bush, a few standards, even some piano music. Enjoy all the different versions, but same cover as all the other Snow WTC's. Numbering continues. Getting ready for Christmas. Maybe you will get snow. It doesn't look like we will here this year.

What's The Connection? Snow 3

42 Rosemary Clooney - Suzy Snowflake

43 Mew - Snowflake

44 George Shearing + Billy May - Snowfall + Snowfall Cha-Cha

45 Martin Denny - Snowflakes In Summer

46 John Zorn's Dreamers - Snowfall

47 Anuna - Winter, Fire & Snow

48 Kate Bush - Snowflake

49 Johnny Mathis - Snowfall-Christmas Time Is Here

50 The Coctails - First Snowfall

51 Tony Bennett - Snowfall

52 O'Neill Brothers - Snowflakes

53 The Glenn Miller Orchestra & Tex Beneke - Snowfall

54 Jools Holland with Edwin Starr - Snowflake Boogie

55 Esquivel - Snowfall

56 Ride - Like A Snowflake

57 Rippingtons - Snowbound

58 Sia - Snowflake

59 Darker My Love - Snow Is Falling

60 Carolyne Mas - Snow

O Holy Night 2

Volume two of this WTC. All songs with O Holy Night in the title. I have no idea (maybe you know), but several of these also say Cantique De Noel. Does that mean song of Christmas? I'm just not looking it up and guessing that the first word is Song or Singer. Cantor is similar. My guess is Italian, but my Italian is limited. Although I love the country. Very beautiful. Volume three will not be tomorrow, but will be soon.

O Holy Night 2

21 Joe Bonamassa - O Holy Night

22 Mariah Carey - O Holy Night

23 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - O Holy Night

24 Barenaked Ladies - O Holy Night

25 Tracy Chapman - O Holy Night

26 Weezer - O Holy Night

27 Donna Summer - O Holy Night

28 Luciano Pavarotti - O Holy Night (Minuit Chretien)

29 Richie Sambora - Cantique De Noel (O'Holy Night)

30 Kitaro - O Holy Night

31 Patti Smith - O' Holy Night

32 Faith Hill - O Holy Night

33 Rascal Flatts - O Holy Night

34 Il Divo - O Holy Night

35 Phenobarbidols - O Holy Night Parts 1 & 2

36 Mahalia Jackson - O Holy Night

37 Henry Mancini And His Orchestra - O Holy Night

38 Destiny's Child featuring Michelle Williams - O' Holy Night

39 Sarah Brightman - O Holy Night

40 Olivia Newton-John - O Holy Night

41 Jerry Butler - O Holy Night

O Holy Night 1

Lots of versions of this song. Today's connection is O Holy Night. A variety of versions over the next couple of days. Country, pop, rockabilly, soul, soca, rock. You get the picture. As we get closer to Xmas, more chances for getting you in the mood for the season. Notice the cover, it's of the Bethlehem star as astronomers would see it.

O Holy Night 1

01 Trans-Siberian Orchestra - O Holy Night

02 Al Green - O Holy Night

03 Tevin Campbell - O Holy Night

04 Marie Osmond - O Holy Night

05 Glen Campbell - O Holy Night

06 Diana Ross - O Holy Night

07 Byron Lee and the Dragonaires - Holy Night

08 Christina Aguilera - Oh Holy Night

09 Celine Dion - O Holy Night

10 Brian Setzer Orchestra - O Holy Night

11 Backstreet Boys - O Holy Night

12 Nat King Cole - O Holy Night

13 Russell Watson - O Holy Night

14 Brand New - O Holy Night

15 Andy Williams - O Holy Night

16 Randy Travis - O Holy Night

17 Sheryl Crow - O Holy Night

18 The Drifters - O Holy Night

19 38 Special - O' Holy Night

20 Daryl Hall & John Oates - Oh Holy Night

Xmas (Christmas) Disco 2

Just a bit early, but you need to have some time to play these songs. This pick is about Xmas disco songs. This is part two, for Xmas Disco 1 click to get there. It's not all disco, but disco artists, disco sounding and disco adjacent Christmas songs. I have several hours more, but I try to not repeat a song in these play lists, so a few songs repeat over and over and I can only use it once per pick. If you have any suggestions for more good "disco" Christmas songs, leave them in the comments. For more Xmas compilations, I'm pretty sure I updated them all. Have a Merry Christmas!

Xmas Disco 2

20 Earth, Wind & Fire - Everyday Is Christmas

21 Love Unlimited - It May Be Winter Outside

22 The Trammps - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

23 Ohio Players - Happy Holidays, Pts. 1 & 2

24 KC & The Sunshine Band - A Sunshine Christmas

25 Wham! - Last Christmas

26 Spice Girls - Christmas Wrapping

27 Salsoul Orchestra - Deck The Halls

28 Irwin The Disco Duck - Sleigh Ride

29 Village People - Village People (Wishing Merry Christmas to You)

30 Kool & The Gang - Home For The Holidays

31 Diana Ross & The Supremes - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

32 Christmas Disco Collective - Christmas Disco Medley

33 The Mistletoe Disco Band - Jingle Bells

34 Claudja Barry - Let It Snow-Frosty The Snowman

35 Disco Christmas - White Christmas

36 Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road

What's The Connection? Winter 1

We're definitely in Winter and Christmas is coming soon. So this connection of songs with Winter in the title is in order. No songs about a Winter Wonderland. In fact none of these songs are much about the holidays really. Well, maybe a couple. But that didn't matter it wasn't a criteria. I have anothe volume or two worth of Winter songs, but you will have to wait for awhile. Enjoy what you get.

What's The Connection? Winter 1

01 Beach Boys - Fall Breaks And Back To Winter

02 Housemartins - I Smell Winter

03 Yoko Ono - Winter Friend

04 The Colourfield - Monkey In Winter

05 Isaac Hayes - Winter Snow

06 Blood, Sweat & Tears - Sometimes In Winter

07 Death In June - Blood Of Winter

08 Dean Martin - A Winter Romance

09 Steve Miller Band - Winter Time

10 Donna Summer - Winter Melody

11 Robyn Hitchcock - Winter Love

12 Yazoo - Winter Kills

13 Linda Ronstadt - Winter Light

14 Queen - A Winter's Tale

15 Johnny Mathis - Long Winter Nights

16 Love Unlimited - It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring)

17 Rolling Stones - Winter

18 Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter

19 Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter

20 Brix & The Extricated - Wintertyde

21 Duran Duran - Winter Marches On

22 Cake - The Winter

Mad Professor Meets Pick

Ok, sometime back I did a Mad Professor pick of his Dub Me Crazy series. It's pretty good. I took a track from each of most of his Dub Me albums. This time I took a track from each of his albums where he "Meets" another artist. Or where another artist Meets the Mad Professor. He's got a lot of them. I picked one each from seventeen of them on this compilation. It'll have to do. You can hear the Mad Professor touch on each. What's cool is that some feature singers and players and some are other producers and mixers. Now he also has worked with a bunch of other artists (a couple of my favorites are with Scientist, Lee Perry, Massive Attack and Pato Banton) where the album did not say that he "met them". Some say Mad Professor vs or with the Mad Professor. I didn't include those for this one. Although I did notice that different versions of a few changed the cover. If one of them said Meets, I included it here, until I ran out of room.

Mad Professor Meets Pick

01 Mad Professor Meets Gaudi - Smoking High

02 Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor - Chucusteady

03 Sly & Robbie Meet The Mad Professor featuring Dean Fraser - Memphis Happiness

04 Ruts DC Meets Mad Professor - Whatever We Do

05 Mad Professor Meets Channel One - Cornmeal Dub

06 Horace Andy Meets Mad Professor - Babylon Bridge (Extended Discomix by Lee Kelly)

07 Lee Perry Meets The Mad Professor - Mark Of The Beast

08 Mad Professor Meets Prince Fatty - Dub Revolution

09 Mad Professor Meets Puls Der Zeit - Nordpol Emil

10 Mad Professor Meets Jah9 - The I Of The Storm-Selassie I Dub

11 Mad Professor Meets Mafia & Fluxy - Ursa Major

12 Cedric Congo Meets Mad Professor - Jah Lightning

13 Sublime Meets Mad Professor - Pawn Shop Dub (Mad Professor Mix)

14 Yabby You Meets Mad Professor & Black Steel - Winds of Dub

15 Mad Professor Meets Dark Fantom - Rude Boy Dub

16 Negus Roots Meets Mad Professor - Dubbing Jah

17 Alika Meets Mad Professor - The Lion of Judah (No le des fuerza a Babilonia)

What's The Connection? Trippin' 1

I must have been Trippin' when I made this connection. There is little rhyme and less reason behind these tracks. I was looking at the Cerrone track for awhile in my ideas folder. It's weird I usually bring out Supernature when I think of Cerrone, but this track was semi popular in certain areas. It was played by a friend and DJ who loved Freestyle in the Bay Area and I ended up glomming on to it as well. I'm not sure Glomming is a real word, but in this case I hope it is. It's perfect for how it happened. Tell me the relationship between Pizzaman and another artist on this list in the comments.

What's The Connection? Trippin' 1

01 Beach Boys - Let's Go Trippin'

02 Platnum - Trippin' (Nero Remix)

03 Curtis Mayfield - Tripping Out

04 Primal Scream - Trippin' On Your Love

05 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin'

06 The Pretty Things - Trippin'

07 ZZ Top - Trippin'

08 Bananarama - Tripping On Your Love

09 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin

10 Ringo Starr - Trippin' On Own Tears

11 Marvin Gaye - Ego Tripping Out

12 The Orb - Trippin' On Sunshine

13 Erasure - No Point In Tripping

14 The Mystic Moods Orchestra - Honey Trippin'

15 Pizzaman - Trippin On Sunshine

16 BT - Tripping The Light Fantastic

17 Johnny Guitar Watson - Tripping

18 Cerrone - Trippin On The Moon

19 London Fogg - Trippin'

20 Cheech & Chong - Trippin' In Court

Hmm

This pick became a mixtape because of another mixtape. On around November 10th or so, I made a pick I called Blecch! It had a song by M which is really Robin Scott. It was a remix of Pop Musik. It reminded me of some other music from Scott which I liked and put aside. I put them into a holding folder that already had some disco remixes in it. When I went back to listen, they kind of all fit together. I added a couple more tracks and voila! here this was. To myself, I had to say Hmm when it all worked out. Here is the result. For some reason I've been liking these compilation mixtapes with three letter titles. The background of the cover is a sponge! I added sparkles and a weird transparent symbol. I'm still saying...

Hmm

01 M (Robin Scott) - Neutron

02 M - Pop Musik Remix (12 inch)

03 Diana Ross - Love Hangover (Extended Alternate Version)

04 Fox The Fox - Precious Little Diamond

05 Ryuichi Sakamoto & Robin Scott - The Left Bank

06 Prince - Raspberry Beret (12 Version)

07 Foals - In Degrees (Purple Disco Machine Remix)

08 House of Prayers - Disco Stepper (Original Mix)

09 CJ & Co - Devil's Gun

10 Hi-Tension - British Hustle

11 Saturday Night Band - Touch Me On My Hot Spot

12 Cerrone - Trippin On The Moon

Aah!

This is fun. On many levels. The pick starts with a few ballady kind of songs and then the energy picks up. All of the songs are right about 130bpm and all have a Camelot key of 2A. Hence the title of this mixtape. But notice that song key and BPM do not mean the songs sound the same. First the obvious genre differences from rock to world, new wave to zydeco and yet they all kind of flow. There are probably only a couple of songs on here that would be universally known by most people. Most are lesser known artists or tracks. That's the best part. It just sounds so good together. It was a sound of relief that it did. Also why the title became what it is. I just like it.

Aah!

01 Bryan Ferry - This Love

02 Craig Armstrong & Elisabeth Fraser - Cruel Intentions-This Love

03 CTI - Slow

04 Bill Nelson - Art For Art's Sake

05 Bow Wow Wow - Elimination Dancing

06 Clifton Chenier - Take Off Your Dress

07 Depeche Mode - Precious (Motor Remix)

08 Sons Of Aqua - Asian Rebel

09 Cabaret Voltaire - Radical Chic

10 Foreigner - Cold As Ice

11 Hawkwind - You Shouldn't Do That

12 Kraftwerk - Aerodynamik (François K Aero Mix Instrumental)

13 Yello - Oh Yeah Oh' Six (Booka Shade Remix)

14 Leftfield - Afrika Shox

15 Rihanna featuring David Guetta - Right Now

16 Yo Yo Honey Singh - High Heels

Fishing For Bass

I was fooling around after the last couple of weeks. I had a few tracks that I didn't use, a suggestion of a track that I didn't use or know of and a couple of tracks that I had put aside for awhile now. That almost gave me a whole pick. So I rooted around to find a couple that would tie them together. I didn't find them, so instead I went a completely  different way and jammed them together. What was weird, is that it worked. I'm as surprised as you. I have been listening to it and it actually came together. As for the title. I do like to fish, but do not fish often. In fact, seldom do I fish and I think I have only caught one bass in my life. But the instrument the bass, I enjoy. But again, I have to confess: I play, but very poorly.

Fishing For Bass

01 Laraaji & Bill Laswell - Airbass

02 Asian Dub Foundation - PKNB (Dry and Heavy Connection Dub Mix)

03 Bernie Worrell - Bass On The Line

04 The Orb And Lee Scratch Perry - Golden Clouds (Youth Gigantic Dreadnaught Dub Mix)

05 Houseguests - What So Never The Dance

06 Bill Laswell - Space-Time Paradox

07 A Certain Ratio - Sounds Like Something Dirty

08 Blackbeard - Electrocharge

09 New Order - Temptation (12 Version)

10 Tom Tom Club - Dangerous (Dub)

11 Errol Flabba Holt - Super Special Dub

12 Les Claypool Frog Brigade - Whamola

13 Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell - Orion

14 Linton Kwesi Johnson - Historic Dub

Echo & the Bunnymen Pick 2

Continuing from yesterday's pick is part two of Echo & the Bunnymen. Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Pete de Freitas. Nothing solo, just the band even when all are not in it. They have some great albums from the first on. I like most of them. But especially these songs on both volumes. I know some are not going to be happy that I didn't include their favorite, but get the albums because the tracks are mostly all good. Even some of the newer albums, and I include the 90's to now as newer. Just because I like the albums before Reverberation as the superior ones, doesn't mean I don't like the others.

Echo & the Bunnymen Pick 2

20 Echo & The Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever

21 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Somnambulist

22 Echo & The Bunnymen - Bedbugs & Ballyhoo

23 Echo & The Bunnymen - Enlighten Me

24 Echo & The Bunnymen - It's Alright

25 Echo & the Bunnymen - All You Need Is Love

26 Echo & The Bunnymen - Don't Let It Get You Down

27 Echo & The Bunnymen - Soul Kitchen (Live)

28 Echo & The Bunnymen - Hang On To A Dream

29 Echo & The Bunnymen - Gone, Gone, Gone

30 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Game

31 Echo & The Bunnymen - Think I Need It Too

32 Echo & The Bunnymen - Over The Wall

33 Echo & The Bunnymen - Seven Seas

34 Echo & The Bunnymen - Silver

35 Echo & The Bunnymen - Foggy Notion

36 Echo & The Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace

37 Echo & The Bunnymen - Meteorites

38 Echo & The Bunnymen - Rust

Echo & the Bunnymen Pick 1

This pick is so far from being definitive that it's not even funny. I have another volume and a half that I would add to my favorites. But here is volume one. I know they have a bunch of good compilations already. Probably too many. But this is my version of a greatest hits with at least one rarer track that I don't normally see on the best of's. Volume two will come soon. I did not add anything except for the band proper. No solo stuff. Perhaps another volume will include that.

Echo & the Bunnymen Pick 1

01 Echo & The Bunnymen - Flowers

02 Echo & The Bunnymen - King of Kings

03 Echo & The Bunnymen - In The Margins

04 Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses

05 Echo & The Bunnymen - All Because Of You Days

06 Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange

07 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

08 Echo & The Bunnymen - Ticket To Ride

09 Echo & The Bunnymen - Of A Life

10 Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar

11 Echo & The Bunnymen - A Promise

12 Echo & The Bunnymen - Stormy Weather

13 Echo & The Bunnymen - I Want To Be There (When You Come)

14 Echo & The Bunnymen - Never Stop

15 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter

16 Echo & The Bunnymen - Rescue

17 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Back Of Love

18 Echo & The Bunnymen - Do It Clean

19 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Puppet

What's The Connection? Lovers 2

Here's part two of the Lovers WTC. I had a good time putting the first Lovers connection together and had enough left over to make a few of them, so finally here it is. Part two. Several good bands on this one and a good companion to part 1. Get that one too. A wide variety so enjoy it. I want to write more, but I am getting called away. Just listen to it. Let me know which Lover songs I haven't used yet, that deserve to be on another volume.

What's The Connection? Lovers 2

20 Half Pint - I Am Not a Substitute Lover

21 Vibrators - Automatic Lover

22 White Witch - Black Widow Lover

23 Greta Van Fleet - Lover, Leaver

24 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Little Miss Lover

25 Teddybears Sthlm - Automatic Lover

26 S.O.S. Band - Two Time Lover

27 AC-DC - Little Lover

28 Brazilian Girls - Lazy Lover

29 Erasure - When A Lover Leaves You

30 Carole Bennett - Haunted Lover

31 Frank Sinatra - Hey Jealous Lover

32 Richard Berry - Crazy Lover

33 Carol Jiani - Hit 'n' Run Lover

34 Dick Baker - Heartless Lover

35 Gitane Demone - Incendiary Lover

36 Dee D Jackson - Automatic Lover

37 Robert Plant - Trouble With My Lover

38 Marc Almond - Demon Lover

39 Labelle - Superlover

40 Marvin Gaye - Distant Lover

41 Peggy Lee - Lover

What's The Connection? Pills 1

This might be hard to swallow, but I started this WTC because my wife asked me if I had heard Eminem doing a song she had heard at work. I not only had heard it, I knew it was D12. Considering she's from Detroit, I was surprised she had never heard before that night. Either way it made me think of doing a connection of Pills songs. And here it is. A little rap, a little country, rock-a-billy, reggae, punk and pop. I figure you'll like something here. One pill to make you small and the ones mother gives you are no fun at all.

What's The Connection? Pills 1

01 Nicki Minaj - Pills N Potions

02 The Cramps - Bop Pills

03 Robert Johnson And Punchdrunks - Gladys' Pills

04 Horace Silver - Acid, Pot Or Pills

05 Mad Professor Meets Scientist - Too Many Pills!!

06 Ray Corvair Trio - Carl Needs A Pill

07 P!nk - Just Like A Pill

08 Nashville Pussy - Pillbilly

09 Ribzy - Cyanide Pill

10 Elvis Costello - Pills And Soap (Extended Version)

11 The Jam - The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)

12 Weathers - Happy Pills

13 Mickey Finn and the Blue Men - Pills

14 Cage The Elephant - Neon Pill

15 The Sensation Seekers - Purple Pill Party

16 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill

17 D12 - Purple Pills

18 Fred Eaglesmith - Alcohol And Pills

19 Wild Ones - Purple Pill Eater

20 Stepping Stones - Pills

21 Prince - My Little Pill

22 Twenty-Twenty - Yellow Pills

23 New York Dolls - Pills

24 Robby Fulks - She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died)

25 Loretta Lynn - The Pill

Sugarcubes Family

This family pick is pretty cool, to me. The Sugarcubes were an interesting band. Sure they had some poppy hits and everyone knows Bjork and her quirky public self. But look beyond that and find some real artists. They came from punk anarchy. Friends with Crass. Were in some crazy completely non pop bands (see tracks 16-20). But they also were in some groups individually and in pairs that did cocktail lounge music. Bogomil was their drummer using an alias. Reptile was Magga (the "other" cuter girl in the Sugarcubes - she was also very nice in person) and her post Sugarcubes band. Einar was the lead singer for Purrkir Pillnik before the the Sugarcubes and then with Bjork in K.U.K.L. also pre-Cubes. He also did stuff with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson aka HÖH.  HÖH did stuff with Dave Ball of Soft Cell as Ornamental (not included, sorry) and with drummer Sigtryggur was in Þeyr (They're). Siggi, Einar and Hilmar were also Grindverk which they billed as dance music made for non-dancers. Einar later went into politics. Bjork is really the only one who became a worldwide pop icon. Don't hold it against her.

Sugarcubes Family

01 Sigtryggur Baldursson - Mysterynod

02 Bjork Gudmundsdottir & Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar - Luktar-Gvendur

03 Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet

04 Bogomil Font - Speak low

05 Bjork Gudmundsdottir & Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar - Pabbi Minn

06 Bjork - Army Of Me

07 Reptile - Allah

08 The Sugarcubes - Birthday (Icelandic)

09 The Sugarcubes - Regina

10 The Sugarcubes - Motor Crash

11 The Sugarcubes - Hit

12 The Sugarcubes - Motorcycle Mama

13 The Sugarcubes - Leash Called Love (Tony Humphries Mix)

14 Bjork - Venus As A Boy

15 Grindverk - Gesundhett Von K

16 K.U.K.L. - Holland (Latent)

17 K.U.K.L. - Anna

18 Tappi Tíkarrass - Dúkkulísur

19 Purrkur Pillnikk - Gluggagægir

20 Þeyr - Killer Boogie

What's The Connection? Tragic Tragedy

For you who aren't English majors, there is a difference between Tragic and Tragedy, but we have both here. This connection is both a tragedy and it's tragic. What's funny is that I was actually going to make a strategic WTC and got sidetracked. Don't ask. I got nowhere with the strategy. Except to confuse my little brain further than it already was. Nothing good in here. It's a major travesty. That's all you get today. Doo wop to industrial to disco to prog to rock. Like I said, a tragic tragedy.

What's The Connection? Tragic Tragedy

01 The Motels - Tragic Surf

02 The Fleetwoods - Tragedy

03 Sheppards - Tragic

04 Poesie Noire - Tragedy

05 Batmobile - Tragic Word Called Love

06 The Fall - Tragic Days

07 Surgical Meth Machine - Tragic Alert

08 Argent - Tragedy

09 Bee Gees - Tragedy

10 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Human-Induced Tragedy

11 China Crisis - Tragedy and Mystery

12 Ronson Hangup - Tragic

13 Thomas Wayne With The Delons - Tragedy

14 Steps - Tragedy

15 The Residents - Tragic Bells

16 Front 242 - Tragedy For You

17 Taylor Swift - Sad Beautiful Tragic

18 Marc Almond - Tragedy (Take A Look And See)

19 Dream Theater - Fatal Tragedy

20 Madonna - Tragic Girl

21 Flame Dream - Tragedy

22 Hanoi Rocks - Tragedy

Take It Easy Again

A little while back I made the pick that I called Slow Down To Look which was started with the Eagles Take It Easy. I had so many that I parlayed into a few more picks. This is one of them. It has the Lemonheads covering that Eagles song and a bunch more easy kind of of songs. And also songs that are about Good Times and especially about drinking for free, because that implies a free and easy time as well. Fridays, drinks and lots of easing. Similar Flatbed Ford on the cover, so you know they are related. Jazz, reggae, electronic dance, country to rock. It's all about taking it easy.

Take It Easy Again

01 Tom Scott - Breezin' Easy

02 Skyy - Easy

03 Three Dog Night - Easy to Be Hard

04 Nancy Sinatra - Nice 'N' Easy

05 The Velvet Underground - We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together

06 The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind

07 Cars - Good Times Roll

08 Earth, Wind & Fire - Good Time

09 Bryan Ferry - Easy Living

10 Dean Martin - For The Good Times

11 Plush - Free And Easy

12 Linda Ronstadt - It's So Easy

13 Rascal Flatts - Easy

14 Cabaret Voltaire - Easy Life

15 Bob Marley - Easy Skanking

16 Stranglers - Let Me Down Easy

17 Philip Bailey with Phil Collins - Easy Lover

18 Ringo Starr - Free Drinks

19 The Lemonheads - Take It Easy

20 The Upsetters - Cool And Easy

Roots Radics Pick

More associated with Tackhead and Adrian Sherwood. A couple of days ago I had a pick of Creation Rebel and this is almost the same band with a different name. Basically I could have put on tracks of almost every Scientist album and it would probably be Roots Radics. They have pages of credits. Some solos stuff for themselves and then tons with other artists. I put a bunch on, but it still barely covers what could have been put on. Style Scott and Flabba Holt are pretty much the names, so I have a track of the two of them here to round out the diversity.

Roots Radics Pick

01 The Roots Radics - More Dub

02 Mad Professor featuring Yellowman - Some Hot, Hot Girls

03 The Roots Radics - Gunman

04 Scientist & Prince Jammy - Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker

05 Creation Rebel - Black Lion Dub

06 Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa

07 The Roots Radics - King Tubby's Rockers

08 The Roots Radics - Radifaction

09 Mikey Dread - Stereo Dub

10 The Scientist - Flabba Is Wild

11 Junjo & Roots Radics - Set Your Dub On Fire

12 Papa Tad's - Kill Me With Dub Pa Tads

13 King Tubby Meets Roots Radics - Country Gal Dub

14 Linval Thompson Meets King Tubby - She's Got You

15 Gussie P Meets Roots Radics - Wood for the Fire Dub

16 The Roots Radics - Penitentiary  Dub

17 The Roots Radics with Scientist - Morning Glory

18 Michael Palmer - I'm Still Dancing

19 Alborosie Meets Roots Radics - Dub For The Radicals

20 Style Scott & Flabba Holt - Cool Down The Place

21 Scientist Meets Roots Radics - One Way

Bud

Over the last couple of weeks I have been listening to a lot of songs and bands from one genre, but also mixing in a few things I have been meaning to add to a mixtape that aren't really associated. It really was taking a few tracks I really have been liking, some that didn't fit onto other picks and some I left off other mixtapes, but I wanted to use. Like the Jackofficers (Butthole Surfers basically) didn't make it onto a few picks, but I just like the track here. The Jah Wobble with friends came up because I wanted to hear it next to the New Order cover. No reasoning behind it. And I've been wanting to use The Soup Dragons, The Untouchables and Special AKA together and here was another chance. The Dub Rogue and Doctor Pablo was when I was making the Style Scott pick a few days ago and just had to add it here. Yes, Bud is Dub backwards, since it's partially dub, but not all. Nothing to do with it, but Happy St. Nicholas day today!

Bud

01 Bill Laswell Meets Style Scott - Fourth Column

02 The Jackofficers - Time Machines (Pt. 1)

03 Forehead Bros. - Circular Motion

04 The Soup Dragons featuring Junior Reid - I'm Free

05 Anne Marie - Dangerous Dub

06 Creation Rebel - Starship Africa (Section 3)

07 Jah Wobble, The Edge, Holger Czukay - Snake Charmer (Reprise)

08 Special Aka - Free Nelson Mandela

09 Prince Far I - Heavy Manners

10 Dub Rogue - Style Scott (Style Dub)

11 Dub Pistols, Dubmatix, Gaudi - Blue Monday (Gaudi Stepper Dub)

12 Scientist & Prince Jammy - Mission Impossible

13 Style Scott & Flabba Holt - Stranger In Your Town

14 Untouchables - Free Yourself

15 Doctor Pablo & Dub Syndicate - Pressurized

16 Dub Syndicate featuring Andy Fairley - Total Precinct Of Sound

17 Headfake - Cycles

Creation Rebel Pick

I alluded to it yesterday. Creation Rebel, today's pick, is almost the same backup band as Roots Radics, which is very similar to The Arabs and as each were used as the band for many great reggae artists. This will focus with them as Creation Rebel, with a couple of tangents. I have a track or two in here with Prince Far I and they were called the Arabs on at least one of them. They were on a couple of Twinkle Brothers albums - one track here. I also added a Roots Radics track and a solo track of Style Scott and Flabba Holt as well as a track with them and New Age Steppers. All related to On-U Sound at one point or another if only tangentially in a couple of cases. I didn't include any Scientist tracks, but the same band is on there. I will make a Roots Radics pick sometime and add Scientist stuff on that one.

Creation Rebel Pick

01 Creation Rebel - Rebel Vibration

02 Twinkle Brothers - Mob Fury

03 Creation Rebel - Rebel Rouser

04 Creation Rebel - Space Movement (Section 4)

05 Creation Rebel - Starship Africa  (Section 1)

06 The Roots Radics - Weep And Wail

07 Creation Rebel - Black Lion Dub

08 Creation Rebel - Drum Talk

09 Creation Rebel - African Space

10 Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa

11 Creation Rebel - Dub From Creation

12 Creation Rebel - Beware

13 Creation Rebel featuring Prince Far I - Frontline Speech

14 Prince Far I - Don't Deal With Folly

15 Creation Rebel - Stonebridge Warrior

16 Style Scott & Flabba Holt - Night Nurse

17 Creation Rebel - Love I Can Feel

18 Creation Rebel with New Age Steppers - Chemical Specialist

19 Creation Rebel - See Me Now

Style Scott Pick

We're still in the Adrian Sherwood, Tackhead sphere. This pick is Style Scott. He got introduced to Sherwood by Prince Far I. He played in the backing band for Prince Far I (as both Creation Rebel and the Arabs). They were also known as Roots Radics. Depending on when and for whom they were playing. Scott is also Dub Syndicate. He played with Bill Laswell, Scientist, Bim Sherman, Bunny Wailer, Eek-A-Mouse, Gary Clail, Twinkle Borthers, Lee Scratch Perry, Barmy Army and more. Some of those people are on this pick. Obviously when Sherwood met Scott, he was impressed and used him everywhere. Now, I'm probably obliged to make picks for Roots Radics and Creation Rebel. This could get very expansive if I let it. I've already ignored Ari Up and the Slits and so many others. Sorry.

Style Scott Pick

01 Barmy Army - England 2 Yugoslavia 0

02 Dub Syndicate - Wadada (Means Love)

03 Bill Laswell Meets Style Scott - Fourth Column

04 Bim Sherman - Nightmare

05 The Roots Radics - Weep And Wail

06 Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa

07 Creation Rebel - Beware

08 Lee Scratch Perry - Party Time

09 Scientist - Steppers

10 Israel Vibration - There Is No End

11 Mikey Dread - Break Down The Walls

12 Scientist & Prince Jammy - Mission Impossible

13 Bunny Wailer - Cool Runnings

14 Black Uhuru - I Love King Selassie

15 Style Scott & Flabba Holt - Stranger In Your Town

16 Creation Rebel & New Age Steppers - Chemical Specialist

17 Doctor Pablo & Dub Syndicate - Pressurized

18 Eek-A-Mouse - Assassinator

Tackhead Covers 2

Ok, this pick is part two of the Tackhead covers. Yesterday it was the originals of all today's picks. You will notice that most of these are from the band as Tackhead. But there is also a track by the members of the band when they were Fats Comet. One track with all of Tackhead except for Keith LeBlanc who was absent for Barmy Army. There is one cover from The Chess Project which was a Keith LeBlanc one off, but had help from Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald. And one track from Dub Syndicate, which was sort of a Style Scott project but also had members of Tackhead and usually Adrian Sherwood as well. So you already have heard the originals from yesterday, here are all the covers. Notice they are in the same order as part one.

Tackhead Covers 2

18 Tackhead - Loose Booty (Adrian Sherwood Mix)

19 Tackhead - I Am Afraid Of Americans

20 Tackhead - Walk On The Wildside (Klb Mix)

21 Tackhead - For The Love Of Money

22 Tackhead - Funky President

23 Tackhead - Super Stupid

24 Tackhead - Fire

25 Tackhead - King Bee

26 Fats Comet - Stormy Weather

27 Tackhead featuring Doug Wimbish - Crosstown Traffic

28 Tackhead - Higher Ground

29 Barmy Army - Que Sera Sera (Re-Mix)

30 The Chess Project - Boom Boom Out Go The Lights

31 Gary Clail - Sixteen Tons

32 Dub Syndicate - Police In Helicopter (Dub)

33 Tackhead - Exodus (Dubvisionist Mix)

34 Tackhead - War

Tackhead Covers 1

This is more Tackhead associated stuff. Tackhead has covered quite a few other bands. In fact they have an album of almost all covers, but throughout all the albums they have covered a few bands. I love it when artists cover songs and just do it differently. So today I have the original versions of seventeen songs that Tackhead covers. Tomorrow I will pick the Tackhead versions. They are in the same order each day.

Tackhead Covers 1

01 Funkadelic - Loose Booty

02 David Bowie - I'm Afraid Of Americans

03 Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

04 O'Jays - For The Love Of Money

05 James Brown - Funky President

06 Funkadelic - Super Stupid

07 Ohio Players - Fire

08 Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee

09 Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather

10 Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic

11 Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground

12 Doris Day - Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

13 Little Walter - Boom, Boom Out Go The Lights

14 Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

15 John Holt - Police in Helicopter

16 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus

17 Bob Marley & The Wailers - War