Rock, Freak, Boogie 1 (repost)

This repost of this disco pick is about Rock, Freak and Boogie. Sometimes all three. New links.

I grew up loving funk and disco. I like all kinds of music, but I have a soft spot for 70's disco and funk. When a band came out that sounded just like old classic disco (The Million Dollar Orchestra) with a title like Rock, Freak Boogie, I knew I had to come up with some of my favorite disco songs with rock, freak or boogie in the title. So that is the connection today. You will get two volumes. It took a little, but I ended up adding volume two of this. Look for it tomorrow. Enjoy and click on the cover I designed. BTW, make sure you comment on your favorite Rock, Freak or Boogie songs.

Rock, Freak, Boogie 1

01 Rick James - Super Freak  (12 inch Mix)
02 Gwen McCrae - Rockin' Chair
03 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
04 Silver Connection - Get Up and Boogie
05 Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat
06 KC & The Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man
07 Eddie Kendricks - Boogie Down
08 Jacksons - Blame It On The Boogie
09 Heatwave - Boogie Nights
10 Chic - Le Freak
11 GQ - Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)
12 A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
13 The Million Dollar Orchestra - Rock Freak Boogie
14 Earth Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland
15 Nitelife Unlimited - Dance, Freak And Boogie
16 Sylvers - Boogie Fever
17 Claudja Barry - Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes

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It's just a pick that's one off. That's supposed to be funny, but I will be the only one who gets it. Silly me, making stupid puns and jokes that only I will laugh at. Either way this mixtape of dance music. Call it House or EDM or Disco it is highly danceable. Couple of remixes, a couple of covers and some classics. All just over 120 bpm and less than 130 bpm. You could probably just put this on some evening and people would dance.

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01 Bob Musella - Baby Hot Stuff

02 Diplo featuring Sidepiece - On My Mind (Purple Disco Machine Remix)

03 House of Prayers - Disco Stepper (Original Mix)

04 Phats & Small - Turn Around (Hey What's Wrong With You) (Les Bisous Remix)

05 Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Intro

06 Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (Extended Version)

07 Justice - Waters Of Nazareth

08 Hardrive - Deep Inside (Original)

09 Underground Resistance - Timeline

10 Cybotron - Clear

11 Koen Groeneveld & Addy Van Der Zwan - We Go Back

12 Second Phase - Mentasm

13 Paperclip People - Throw

14 Plastikman - Spastik

15 Addy van der Zwan featuring The Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant (Original Mix)

What's The Connection? Shadow 1

I have to say I am completely copying another blog. I mean I was already thinking of and workin on this connection, but then I saw Moozler doing a Shadow playlist on his site and it made me finish this up. Unfortunately, I did have a duplicate on two songs with the two playlists Mooz made. His is quite different and quite good, so the dupes are on me. His is more on theme. Mine goes all over the place in genres and feel. I have more than one (as does he - see, I'm copying even more), but I don't know when I will finish part two. I think you will like all of them, because you are adventurous enough to crawl in the Shadows! I started with U2. I do love that song (and album.) Daniel Ash covering Nilsson is cool. EBTG, inbetween Joe Walsh and Cabaret Voltaire is genius. Dorothy Lamour and Nancy Sinatra on the same playlist as Wire? It's unusual. Last minute addition was Hawkwind with a song about a Roger Zelazny book!

What's The Connection? Shadow 1

01 Joe Walsh - Shadows

02 Everything But The Girl - Shadow On A Harvest Moon

03 Cabaret Voltaire - In The Shadows

04 Daniel Ash - Me And My Shadow

05 The Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow

06 Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing

07 Wire - Shadows

08 The Lurkers - Shadow

09 U2 - Shadows And Tall Trees

10 Dorothy Lamour - Moonlight And Shadows

11 Nancy Sinatra - The Shadow Of Your Smile

12 Cornell Hurd Band - Smokey Shadows

13 Four Tops - Standing In The Shadows Of Love

14 Bauhaus - The Three Shadows part 2

15 Electric Prunes - Shadows

16 Death In June - A Sad Place To Make A Shadow

17 Rick Wakeman - Tall Shadows

18 Stranglers - In the Shadows

19 Cat Stevens - Moonshadow

20 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Shadowtime

21 Hawkwind - Jack Of Shadows

22 Beatles - Cry for a Shadow

23 Joy Division - Shadowplay

Pigeonholed Basslines 2

Complicated story for this one. I redid both volumes of this pick and the Cut & Paste picks over the last couple of days. I wasn't happy with how they had turned out. In fact I had made the Pigeonholed Basslines picks years ago and never posted them. After deciding to post them, I noticed that they overlapped way too much. A little is okay in my book, but one was almost an exact duplicate of the other. So I redid all of them and posted them up over the last couple of days, culminating in this one. I like it better.

Pigeonholed Basslines 2

16 Black Eyed Peas vs Sugarhill Gang - My Humps vs Rappers Delight

17 Capital Cities - Stayin Alive

18 Chemical Brothers - Galvanize

19 S-Express - Theme from S-Express

20 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

21 Voice Farm - Free Love

22 Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (Ultimix)

23 Yazoo - Don't Go (Re-Mix + Re-Re-Mix)

24 Damian - The Time Warp 2 (Brand New Extended Version)

25 Pood Bhud Pflug - Duelling Techno

26 Time Zone - World Destruction

27 Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx)

28 Brian Eno & David Byrne - Help Me Somebody

Cut & Paste 2

I had done Cut & Paste part one some time ago, but I had too many duplicates between that and the Pigeonholed Basslines pick (see yesterday), so I redid both volume ones and then made this part two using the stuff I didn't use yesterday and the extra stuff I had in the previous Cut & Paste. So here is the new volume. See part one for the original story, nothing new here. It's just reworked and resampled stuff. All this probably doesn't make sense, but here it is anyway. I like the track from Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Totally fits. And if you want more Cut & Paste try the WSB (William S. Burroughs) pick too.

Cut & Paste 2

17 Evolution Control Committee - Rocked By Rape

18 New Pardesi Music Machine - Pump Up The Bhangra

19 Stock Aitken Waterman - Packjammed (With the Party Posse)

20 Art Of Noise - Beat Box (Diversion 1)

21 Coldcut - Say Kids What Time Is It

22 M.A.R.R.S. - Pump Up The Volume (12 inch Mix)

23 Steinski - The Payoff Mix

24 E.T.A. feat. Steve Martin & John Candy - I Can Take Anything

25 Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit

26 Simon Harris - Here Comes That Sound

27 Boris Badenough - Hey Rocky! (Ext. Mix)

28 Voice Farm - Free Love

29 Negativland - Yellow Black And Rectangular

30 Girl Talk - In Step

31 Touch Ritual - Departing Platform 5

32 Eric B And Rakim - Paid In Full (7 Minutes Of Madness Coldcut Remix)

Pigeonholed Basslines 1

This pick is interesting and was started some time ago. It was made around a song or two that didn't seem to fit in anything else I was doing at the time. They had different sounds and yet had similar attributes. Most had some sort of sampling in them and perhaps would later fit in with my Cut & Paste pick, but some did not. I am not happy with how that one turned out so I might redo it. There was too much overlap. I thought I had already posted this one, but I was wrong. So here it finally is.

Pigeonholed Basslines 1

01 Ctrl Z vs Screwface - StereoTypical

02 Primal Scream - Loaded (Weatherall Mix)

03 2 Skinnee J's - Mind Trick

04 Run DMC - Rock Box

05 EMF - Unbelievable

06 Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals

07 Cabaret Voltaire - Do Right

08 Herbie Hancock - Rockit (Mega Mix)

09 Non - Cleanliness and Order

10 Acid Horse - No Name No Slogan (Cabaret Voltaire)

11 The Todd Terry Project - Bango (To The Batmobile)

12 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock (Instrumental 12inch version)

13 Big Audio Dynamite - Stone Thames

14 Front 242 - Work 01

15 P.W.E.I - Beaver Patrol

LFT

This pick is a mixtape of songs I used and almost used on several other compilations. And also some newer tracks from artists that I picked up during the last year. A real mix of genres from dub and ambient to psychedelic garage to rock and roll. It sometimes doesn't seem to fit until it does. Listen to this one a few times before you dismiss it, because it really sounds good. A couple of tracks from Poltergeist (Echo & the Bunnymen's Les Pattinson and Will Sergeant one off side project). Some side projects of Style Scott that I wasn't sure I used on his pick. Some Sugarcubes side, side projects. Newer The The and Sweet that I liked. Random Depeche Mode and Yello that fit in. A Puerto Rican band that sounds like Jesus and Mary Chain. Old and new psychedelic tracks including an old favorite from the Seeds. Just cool stuff. The title means nothing. Just came to me.

LFT

01 Sweet - Destination Hannover

02 Bill Nelson - Wah-Wah Galaxy No.1

03 Dug Dug's - Lost In My World

04 Poltergeist - First Signs of the Plague

05 Davila 666 - Tu

06 Grindverk - Gesundhett Von K

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

08 Yello - Waba Duba

09 Twinkle Brothers - Mob Fury

10 Tame Impala - Elephant (Todd Rundgren Remix)

11 Ornamental - No Pain

12 Poltergeist - Your Mind Is a Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder)

13 Depeche Mode - Precious (Motor Remix)

14 Seeds - Up In Her Room

15 The Dub Project - Dervish

16 Will Sergeant - Fuzztronic

17 Gaudi featuring Adrian Sherwood - Butterfly Dub

Not Ian Pick

This is a continuation of the Echo & the Bunnymen family pick. It's not Ian. Mostly, I'd say it's Les Pattinson and Will Sergeant and their solo and side projects and a couple of guest spots. Although the title isn't quite true. I did for example add a bonus Echo & the Bunnymen live track like the others before. This time a cover of Velvet Underground and that means Ian is on that one for sure. One of my favorite side projects is the one of with both Pattinson and Sergeant called Poltergeist. Don't mistake them for the heavy metal band of the same name. I included three tracks including the title track from the album. I'd say it's the best album of non-Echo stuff released so far. If McCulloch would have sang on it, it would be up there as one of the best Echo recordings as well. Surreal Estate is Pattinson as are the guest spots with Hall and the Swans. Glide is Sergeant. And of course his solo outings. For Electrafixion (McCulloch and Sergeant in 1995) you get a track that's not on the other picks so again another one with Ian (I guess I lied about the title.)

Not Ian Pick

01 Will Sergeant - Assemblage Visual

02 Surreal Estate - Midas Touch

03 Electrafixion - Mirrorball

04 Will Sergeant - Dragonflies

05 Terry Hall - Sense

06 Will Sergeant - Favourite Branches

07 The Wild Swans - Liquid Mercury

08 Glide - A Golden Dawn

09 William Alfred Sergeant - Into The Seventies

10 Poltergeist - Dreamer Dreams of Spectrums

11 Poltergeist - Your Mind Is a Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder)

12 Echo & The Bunnymen - Heroin (Live)

13 Poltergeist - Cathedral

14 Glide - Wise Baby Dreams

15 Will Sergeant - Scene VI

16 Will Sergeant - Fuzztronic

17 Will Sergeant - Darkness

La Isla Del Encanto

Puerto Rico has been known as the Enchanted Island for some time. Although Belize's Ambergris Caye has also been called that (even in song: Madonna sings about San Pedro). But usually Puerta Ricans think of and sing of the Enchanted Island. The songs on this pick are either about Puerto Rico or are by Puerto Rican musicians and some are both. Even if an artist had a bigger hit, I used any songs I could find by them about the island. Some well known artists here and some you had no idea they were from La Isla Del Encanto. It's not hard to hear the Puerta Rican influence on most of these songs. But to me, Davila 666 sounds more like Scottish band The Jesus and Mary Chain than J-Lo. But there you go, all stereotypes are thrown out the window. Paul Jabara (Last Dance and It's Raining Men fame) was one of the artists not from Puerto Rico on this pick, but his song does fit.

La Isla Del Encanto

01 Bad Bunny - Me Porto Bonito

02 Davila 666 - Tu

03 Juanes - Juntos (Together)

04 Big Punisher featuring Tony Sunshine - 100 percent

05 Paul Simon - Born In Puerto Rico

06 Frankie Ruiz - Puerto Rico

07 Ozuna - 100 Preguntas

08 Daddy Yankee featuring Will.I.Am - Plane to PR

09 Jose González Y Banda Criolla (Puerto Rico) - Bomba Le Le

10 Daniel Lanois - San Juan

11 Jennifer Lopez - Plenarriqueña (Live in Puerto Rico)

12 Vaya Con Dios - Puerto Rico

13 Taino - Yo Soy Boricua Pa' Que Tu Lo Sepas

14 Menudo - En San Juan Me Enamore

15 Blondie - Puerto Rico

16 Paul Jabara - Honeymoon in Puerto Rico

17 Luis Fonsi - Persiguiendo El Paraiso

18 Marc Anthony - Lamento Borincano

19 Ricky Martin - Raza de Mil Colores

Babalu (Cuban Pick)

This Cuban music pick is called Babalu after both the Afro Cuban God Babalu Aye from the Santeria religion in Cuba and also a Cuban song that was done by a lot of people, but I always associated with Desi Arnaz (Ricky Ricardo from I love Lucy). Written by Margarita Lecuona, but also done by Yma Sumac, Johnny Mathis and Xavier Cugat among others. Around the time I made this originally Mask had come out, Buena Vista Social Club was popular and I had been visiting Miami Florida numerous times. So this is flavored by Cuban music flavored by Miami and the movies. 

Babalu (Cuban Pick)

01 Jim Carrey - Cuban Pete (C & C Radio Edit)

02 Todos Estrellas - Mami Me Gustó

03 Los Van Van - Par Encima Del Nivel (Sandunguera)

04 Mi Son - Mecánica de Amor

05 Perez Prado & His Orchestra - Guaglione

06 Lecuona Cuban Boys - Conga De La Havane (Ay Si Ay No)

07 Ibrahim Ferrer - Compositor Confundido

08 Afro Cuban All Stars - Alto Songo

09 Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñero - El Adiós de este Momento

10 Yerba Buena - Guajira (I Love U 2 Much)

11 Graciela Machito Y Sus Afro-Cubanos - Consternacion

12 Los Guaracheros de Oriente - Patria Querida

13 Celia Cruz - Bembelequa

14 Don Azpiazu & His Havana Casino Orchestra - El Manicero (The Peanut Vendor)

15 Beny Moré - Babarabatiri

16 Desi Arnaz - Babalu

17 Gloria Estefan - Mi Tierra

18 Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan

Mariachi Inspired (repost)

I actually posted this almost two years ago around Cinco De Mayo, but since today is officially Mariachi Day I figured I would post it again. And also because I needed to re-up it anyway. So new link, but same cover. Mariachi in most cases it means a group of musicians playing ranchera music, and usually many trumpets, a guitar and singers. But I have seen Mariachi bands with all guitars and as little as three players. And as many as a dozen players. Usually a few less than that though. These picks aren't necessarily Mariachi bands, but songs inspired by Mariachis.

Mariachi Inspired

01 Love - Alone Again Or

02 Freddy Fender - Before the Next Teardrops Falls

03 Molotov - Frijolero

04 Dwight Yoakam - Sorry You Asked

05 Los Lobos featuring Antonio Banderas - Cancion Del Mariachi (Morena De Mi Corazon)

06 Elvis Presley - Guadalajara

07 Devotchka - Bad Luck Heels

08 Metalachi - Crazy Train

09 Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire

10 Mariachi Mexicano - Mariachi Loco

11 Beck - Burro

12 Zander Schloss - Salsa Y Ketchup

13 Calexico - Crystal Frontier (Widescreen Version)

14 Doug Sahm and Band - (Is Anybody Going to) San Antone

15 Tubes - Malaguena Salerosa

16 Plugz - El Clavo Y La Cruz

17 Mariachi El Bronx - 48 Roses

18 The Mavericks - Dance The Night Away

19 Genesis - Illegal Alien

20 Vandoliers - Sixteen Years

21 Hot Banditoz - La Cucaracha Dance (Party Remix)

22 Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

23 Mariachi Mexteca featuring Hugh Cornwell - Golden Brown

Make America Great Again

This pick is perfect for today. I actually made it in 2016 but for my own enjoyment. It's all songs from the band America. My favorites of this band. The fact that it also hijack's a political movement is just a bonus. The fact that their last hit was a song called The Border is hilarious to me. Either way. I really do think this band deserves to be thought of as great, because they really are. And it's hard to be mad or upset about anything when you listen to such great vocal harmonies. So just play this compilation today and don't worry. Today's the Day that You Can Do Magic.

Make America Great Again

01 America - A Horse With No Name

02 America - Sandman

03 America - I Need You

04 America - Everyone I Meet Is From California

05 America - Ventura Highway

06 America - Don't Cross The River

07 America - Only In Your Heart

08 America - Muskrat Love

09 America - Another Try

10 America - Tin Man

11 America - Lonely People

12 America - Sister Golden Hair

13 America - Daisy Jane

14 America - Woman Tonight

15 America - Today's The Day

16 America - Amber Cascades

17 America - California Dreamin'

18 America - You Can Do Magic

19 America - Right Before Your Eyes

20 America - The Border

21 America - World Of Light

22 America - Paradise

What's The Connection? Dreams (repost)

Since tomorrow is Martin Luthor King's Day I though I would repost this WTC. This What's The Connection? is all about dreams and dreaming. Someone once asked me how I could like Kate Bush and Shonen Knife and Kenny Nolan at the same time. I don't know. I just do. These are my favorite Dream songs. And yes, I know I'm missing some fabulous songs. In just the Doo Wop genre there are probably enough to make another volume. Tell me your favorite Dream songs in the comments. Click on the cover I designed! And I know these aren't specifically about MLK, but you can get the flavor of having a dream. Click above to get MLK.

Dream Connection

01 Kenny Nolan - I Like Dreamin'

02 Stan Ridgway - The Impossible Dream

03 The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream

04 Gary Wright - Dream Weaver

05 Supertramp - Dreamer

06 Stompy Jones - Dream

07 Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour

08 Cheap Trick - Dream Police

09 Sweet Sensation - Sad Sweet Dreamer

10 Dean Martin - Send Me The Pillow You Dream On

11 Jacksons - Dreamer

12 The Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream

13 Kate Bush - The Dreaming

14 Mamas And The Papas - California Dreamin'

15 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

16 Simple Minds - New Gold Dream

17 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

18 Human League - Things That Dreams Are Made Of

19 Depeche Mode - Dreaming Of Me

20 The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)

21 Aerosmith - Dream On

22 Blondie - Dreaming

23 Shonen Knife - Daydream Believer

Ian McCulloch Pick

Part of the Echo & the Bunnymen pick is this Ian McCulloch pick. Go back a couple of days to see the family pick. Ian has a distinctive voice which I like and his solo and guest spots sound good. I do have to say, it's never as good as when he sings with the rest of the Bunnymen. Sorry Ian, but you need to do these solo spots only inbetween the "real" stuff. The Family pick doubles the stuff on here, but this adds several tracks. I do like the Cohen covers and Lennon (plus the bonus Echo & the Bunnymen Dylan and Television covers), but the rest would have been better with his buds. Listen to the Electrafixion track with Will Sergeant to get an idea.

Ian McCulloch Pick

01 Ian McCulloch - Pro Patria Mori

02 Ian McCulloch - Different Trees

03 Ian McCulloch - Honeydrip

04 Ian McCulloch - September Song

05 Ian McCulloch - Candleland

06 Ian McCulloch - Lover Lover Lover

07 Ian McCulloch - Love In Veins

08 Ian McCulloch - Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye

09 Ian McCulloch - Faith And Healing

10 Ian McCulloch - Suzanne

11 Electrafixion - Lowdown

12 Ian McCulloch - Proud To Fall

13 Ian McCulloch - Down By The River

14 Ian McCulloch - The White Hotel

15 Ian McCulloch - Jealous Guy

16 Ian McCulloch - The Flickering Wall

17 Ian McCulloch - Return To Sender

18 Manic Street Preachers featuring Ian McCulloch - Some Kind Of Nothingness

19 Fun Lovin' Criminals with Ian McCulloch - The Summer Wind

20 Echo & The Bunnymen - Friction (Live)

21 Echo & The Bunnymen - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Live)

Novel Approach

This pick takes off from yesterday's Reading and Books connection. These are all songs inspired by or about famous books. Most you'll know. Two about Camus' Le'tranger. The rest are each about one book. Although you could say that Cream might be about two books (from Homer to James Joyce). My pop always had a joke about the books For Whom The Bells Toll and The Rains Came (making fun of an uncle of mine). Elton is about Heinlein. Blue Oyster Cult is pretty well known to use scifi author Michael Moorcock as an inspiration for several songs. Led Zeppelin, the same with Tolkien. U2 with a chapter from Lord Of The Flies. We also have Dr. Seuss, Lewis Carrol, CS Lewis, Orwell, Twain, Huxley and even a novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Just a fun literary approach to making a playlist. Obviously I have more, based on the limited choices I made here.

Novel Approach

01 The Cure - Killing An Arab

02 Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet

03 Rush - Tom Sawyer

04 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Yertle the Turtle

05 Tuxedomoon - The Stranger

06 Steve Miller Band - Brave New World

07 Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

08 U2 - Shadows And Tall Trees

09 Cream - Tales Of Brave Ulysses

10 Frank Tovey - For Whom the Bell Tolls

11 David Bowie - 1984

12 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

13 Sir Douglas Quintet - The Rains Came

14 Steve Hackett - Narnia

15 Elton John - Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)

16 Madness - Animal Farm

17 Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs

18 Led Zeppelin - The Battle Of Evermore

19 Blue Oyster Cult - Black Blade

USSR (Uninterrupted Silent Sustained Reading)

I went to public schools. And we had a program as we grew up called USSR or Uninterrupted Silent Sustained Reading. It's not a commie plot. It was an hour of reading. I loved reading, so I loved USSR. You could ready anything you wanted as long as you were quiet and at least pretending to read. Most read. A few didn't, but most did. I think it was a ploy to get teachers a quiet hour to just relax from the punks we were. But I loved it nonetheless. This pick or connection (it's kind of both) is about books and reading. No specific books or authors which I will post later. It's in honor of today being Book Publishers day. Unfortunately, too many people never read a single book after getting out of school. Me? I read a lot. It's been harder since I got older and I have to wear reading glasses, but I try to read at least one or two books every week. Closer to one nowadays, but I try. Tell me your favorite authors or book titles in the comments.  And BTW, I just love Jimmy Fallon's song. I crack up everytime. My grandson is on the cover.

USSR (Uninterrupted Silent Sustained Reading)

01 King Crimson - Book Of Saturday

02 The Monotones - Book of Love

03 Funkadelic - Catchin' Book Fever

04 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Everyday I Write the Book

05 Dean Martin - My Heart Is An Open Book

06 Saga - Book Of Lies

07 Bo Diddley - You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover

08 Bill Nelson - Blowin' The Dust Off The Book Of The Future

09 Tim McGraw - If You're Reading This

10 Rockpile - When I Write The Book

11 Frank Sinatra - I Could Write A Book

12 Jimmy Fallon - Reading Rainbow

13 Crazy P - Scrap The Book

14 Magazine - The Book

15 Talking Heads - The Book I Read

16 Tages - I Read You Like An Open Book

17 Peter Gabriel - The Book Of Love

18 Echo & the Bunnymen - Read It in Books

19 Joe Walsh - Bookends

20 Belle & Sebastian - Wrapped Up In Books

21 Paul Weller - Books

22 Robyn Hitchcock & Bangalore - Book

23 Beatles - Paperback Writer

Echo & the Bunnymen Family

One of the bands that still plays and is brilliant to see live together or on their own or in any configuration they are in is Echo & the Bunnymen. I have posted playlist picks of them before but you should get every one of their recordings. They are all at minimum decent and most are brilliant. This is a sampling of them solo or in one of their side projects or as a guest musician. I added a couple of  E&theB live covers just for fun. I may do a concentrated pick focusing on Ian McCulloch later since he has a lot of solo work. Will Sergeant seems to be next with his output and Les Pattinson has less and Pete de Freitas died young and is on the least and not really represented here. He was on a couple of tracks of early Colourfield and Wild Swans (not the ones on here). For a long time all I ever had of Will Sergeant solo was Themes from Grind a great moody instrumental album, but since have found several albums with side projects of his. Definitely check out Poltergeist with Pattinson. Best Echo with no Ian in a while. Well worth looking for. Electrafixion is from the mid 90's and is McCulloch and Sergeant and what got them to make up and reform Echo back then. And solo Ian? Well just get the full albums. They'll do until he plays well with the others again.

Echo & the Bunnymen Family 

01 Surreal Estate - Midas Touch

02 Ian McCulloch - September Song

03 Ian McCulloch - Candleland

04 Will Sergeant - Dragonflies

05 Electrafixion - Zephyr

06 The KLF - What Time Is Love  (Echo & The Bunnymen Mix)

07 Terry Hall - Sense

08 Will Sergeant - Favourite Branches

09 The Wild Swans - Liquid Mercury

10 Glide - A Golden Dawn

11 Echo & The Bunnymen - In The Midnight Hour

12 William Alfred Sergeant - Into The Seventies

13 Poltergeist - Your Mind Is a Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder)

14 Ian McCulloch - Proud To Fall

15 Ian McCulloch - Down By The River

16 Ian McCulloch - Return To Sender

17 Will Sergeant - Scene VI

18 Will Sergeant - Fuzztronic

19 Echo & The Bunnymen - Run, Run, Run (Live)

20 Will Sergeant - Darkness

21 Echo & The Bunnymen - Paint It Black (Live)

What's The Connection? No Way

For the last week or so I have been posting Way connections, but today it's No Way. All songs with No Way in the title. There will be part two of this so be prepared. I have quite a few other songs that made the list including a few of the same song covered. Pretty sure there are no dupes on this one, however. BTW, I check all my files with anti-virus and blogger does too. I have noticed (not this website, but others I am connected with) that they are being blacklisted by Norton. Check your files, but then whitelist  them once you see it's bogus. And let the blog owner know.

What's The Connection? No Way

01 Foo Fighters - No Way Back

02 Shins - No Way Down

03 Colin Bass - No Way Back

04 Henry Sharpe - There Is No Easy Way

05 Bobbi Humphrey - No Way

06 Blur - There's No Other Way

07 The Dells - No Way Back (Ron Hardy Edit)

08 Ian Mcculloch - Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye

09 Asia - Sleeping Giant-No Way Back-Reprise

10 Yes - No Way We Can Lose

11 Adonis - No Way Back (Vocal)

12 Percy Faith Orchestra - No Way To Stop It

13 David Gilmour - There's No Way Out Of Here

14 Marie Knight - That's No Way to Treat a Girl

15 Wailing Souls - Jah Jah Give Us Life to Live (Don't Feel No Way)

16 LauV featuring Julia Michaels - There’s No Way

17 Sonic Youth - No Way

What's The Connection? Way 3

This connection proves that where there is a will there is a way. There are so many ways. Volume three already of songs with Way in the title and that doesn't include the other variations. You can tell that I am not even close to tapping out on this. I saved the Beatles, The Cramps, Fishbone and other favorites of mine for this volume. Sorry, but there will be more.

What's The Connection? Way 3

40 Yello - Way Down

41 Rascal Flatts - The Way

42 The Brothers Johnson - In The Way

43 Bob & Ben Frazier - Rocky Mountain Way

44 Chris Isaak - Love The Way You Kiss Me

45 The Neville Brothers - Hey Pocky Way

46 Blake Shelton - Love Gets In The Way

47 Beatles - Blue Jay Way

48 Neil Young - The Way

49 Corinne Bailey Rae - Love's On Its Way

50 Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are

51 Fishbone - Turn The Other Way

52 Emerson Lake & Palmer - Show Me The Way To Go Home

53 Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control

54 The Cramps - Wrong Way Ticket

55 Ringo Starr - Show Me The Way

56 King Tubby & Soul Syndicate - Dub The Right Way

57 Donna Summer - The Way We Were

58 Eddie Rabbitt - Every Which Way But Loose

59 Ben E. King - Show Me The Way

60 Stacy Lattisaw - Love On A Two Way Street

61 New Order - Way of Life

What's The Connection? Galaxy

Well, since yesterday was the Milky Way, I figured I would get another one in about the Galaxy today. Surprising or not, there are a few Galaxy songs out there. I always liked the Space Connections and I have a few Disco Space ones (including on that link a Galaxy song not used here). Dub songs sound like they are from another galaxy sometimes, so having Scientist and Mad Professor using that in a title is not too far away. I reused a Stephen Mallinder track here and a War track (follow the link to a complete War on Butterboy's amazing site). The Sweet track is a cool demo that I wish had been properly released, but sounds out of this world. More Way coming tomorrow. And more Galaxy coming when I finish volume two.

What's The Connection? Galaxy

01 Bill Nelson - Wah-Wah Galaxy No.1

02 The Orb - Reefer Spin In The Galaxy

03 The Monstars - Galaxys

04 Material - No Guts No Galaxy

05 Stevie Wonder - Galaxy Paradise

06 Curve - Galaxy

07 Paul Simon - Another Galaxy

08 War - Galaxy

09 Clint Black - Galaxy Song

10 Love Street - Galaxy

11 Chemical Brothers - Galaxy Bounce

12 Mad Professor Meets Mafia & Fluxy - Galaxy Of Dub (Mix Two)

13 Terminal One - Galaxy Game

14 Laser - Galaxy

15 Jimmy Roma - Beyond The Galaxy

16 Scientist - Galaxy

17 T. Rex - Galaxy

18 Hawkwind - Spiral Galaxy 28948

19 Passage Players - The Galaxy Around Us

20 Sweet - Galaxy (Demo Version)

What's The Connection? Milky Way

You knew this one was coming with all the other connections so far this last week. Since it is National Milk day, the Milky Way connection had to happen today. A few versions of the Church song and then some old and some new songs about the Milky Way. I am pretty sure none of them have naything to do with just milk, however. That was just complete coincidence.

What's The Connection? Milky Way

01 Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm - The Milky Way

02 Kitaro - Milky Way

03 Bill Nelson - Frankie Surfs The Milky Way

04 Weather Report - Milky Way

05 Magic Bus - Milky Way

06 Elvis Presley - Milky White Way

07 Syd Barrett - Milky Way

08 Church - Under The Milky Way

09 Sheer Elegance - Milky Way

10 Rick Springfield - Under The Milky Way

11 2 Fabiola - Milky Way (Stereo Mix)

12 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Milky Way

13 Sia - Under The Milky Way

14 Iron Butterfly - Beyond The Milky Way

15 Corrs - Love in the Milky Way

16 Mad Professor Meets Mafia & Fluxy - Dubbing In The Milky Way

17 Enigma - Goodbay Milky Way

18 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Walking on the Milky Way

What's The Connection? Way 2

Part two of the Way connection. I told you I had several of these waiting to go. Part one was a few days ago or so. This is obviously a continuation. The numbers start where the last one stopped. Some great artists and songs on this one, too. My favorite Jorge Santana song, Barry White and Wall Of Voodoo. UB40 and African Head Charge. Tower Of Power and Jim Croce. I'm sorry, where else can you find that combo? This is the way through the new year.

What's The Connection? Way 2

21 Cheap Trick - Way Of The World

22 Bill Nelson - The Way

23 King Missle - Jesus Was Way Cool

24 Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)

25 Tower of Power - East Bay Way

26 Michael Jackson - (I Like) The Way You Love Me

27 Jim Croce - Way We Used To Be

28 Jorge Santana - Love The Way

29 Bunny Sigler - By The Way You Dance

30 Earth, Wind & Fire featuring Kenny G - The Way You Move

31 Brenton Wood - I Like the Way You Love Me

32 The Strokes - The Way It Is

33 Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were

34 Augustus Pablo - Natural Way

35 Adult Net - It's The Way

36 Barry White - Just The Way You Are

37 Wall Of Voodoo - Look At Their Way

38 UB40 - The Way You Do the Things You Do

39 African Head Charge - The Best Way

What's The Connection? Long Way 1

Doing a bunch of Way connections and you knew that Long Way was coming. Both AC-DC and Supertramp were obvious choices for this, but several others you know are on this list either on volume one or volume two (coming later). Josie and the Pussycats were a cartoon that had several albums out like the Archies at the time. What I always liked about the original Josie "band" was that it had future Charlies Angels star Cheryl Ladd as one of the singers.

What's The Connection? Long Way 1

01 Alice Cooper - Long Way To Go

02 Kiss - Long Way Down

03 Don Henley - Long Way Home

04 Gaelic Storm - The Long Way Home

05 The Slickee Boys - Long Way To Go

06 Simple Minds - Come a Long Way

07 Parliament - Long Way Around

08 Jah Wobble featuring Animal - A Long, Long Way

09 Josie and the Pussycats - You've Come A Long Way Baby

10 Bloodhound Gang - Take The Long Way Home

11 Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Long Way Home

12 Todd Rundgren - A Long Time, A Long Way To Go

13 Bruno Mars - Take The Long Way Home

14 Foreigner - Long Long Way From Home

15 Brian Eno - Long Way Down

16 Deep Purple - The Long Way Round

17 AC-DC - It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)

18 Barenaked Ladies - Long Way Back Home

19 Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home

What's The Connection? Find The Way 1

After the new year many people are looking to set goals to find their way to a new them. We've got a few WTC we've done about the Way and Ways and today it's about Finding The Way. Whether it is The Way, A Way, My Way or Your Way, it all worked for this compilation. I can't say which of these is my favorite, but it's probably between Cameo or Rush. Although I like them all. You don't need a Magic 8-Ball to know where this is going. More Way is coming.

What's The Connection? Find The Way 1

01 Spin 1Ne 2Wo - Can't Find My Way Home

02 Jon & Vangelis - I'll Find My Way Home

03 Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home

04 Naomi Wilson - Gotta Find a Way

05 Buckwheat Zydeco - Finding My Way Back Home

06 Gaelic Storm - I Can't Find My Way Home

07 Avalanche - Finding My Way Home

08 Christina Aguilera - Love Will Find A Way

09 Ramsey Lewis - Love Will Find a Way

10 Giorgio Moroder - Love Will Find A Way

11 Batmobile - Can't Find My Way Back Home

12 Tavares - Got To Find My Way Back To You

13 The Profile - Got to Find a Way

14 Yes - Love Will Find A Way

15 Cameo - Find My Way (Tgif Version)

16 Paul McCartney - Find My Way

17 Pablo Cruise - Love Will Find a Way

18 Jefferson Starship - Find Your Way Back

19 Rush - Finding My Way

What's The Connection? Way 1

Yesterday, I posted the connection around Ways, today it is songs in the singular. All songs with Way in the title. Like I said yesterday, there are a lot of variations. I just picked some of may favorite ones. That's the way it goes on this blog. It is the perfect way for me to choose. I may have to find something a bit more hard tomorrow. Anytime I can find a way to add Dean Martin to a list, however is a good day. Just follow the path for the next several days.

What's The Connection? Way 1

01 Dean Martin - I Love The Way You Say Goodnight

02 Bryan Ferry - The Way You Look Tonight

03 Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are

04 Jacksons - Show You The Way To Go

05 Captain & Tennille - The Way I Want To Touch You

06 Johnny Cash - The Hard Way

07 Firefall - Strange Way

08 Journey - Just The Same Way

09 Scritti Politti - Perfect Way

10 Gaelic Storm - What A Way To Go

11 Fastball - The Way

12 Cameo - Find My Way (Tgif Version)

13 Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way

14 Temptations - The Way You Do The Things You Do

15 Yazz & The Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up

16 Pablo Cruise - Love Will Find a Way

17 Tom Tom Club - The Man With The 4-Way Hips

18 Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way

19 Santana - Everything's Coming Our Way

20 Barnstorm - Rocky Mountain Way

What's The Connection? Ways 1

On one of my social media sites someone suggested songs with Way in the title. Instead I went with it plural. I will do this connection several ways, however. So many directions I could take it. I have multiple versions of Evil Ways on this one, but reserved a couple for another volume. In fact several of these songs have multiple versions coming sometime in the future, if I can find the way to get there. I had fun with this one. 

What's The Connection? Ways 1

01 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Southern Ways

02 Quincy Jones & James Ingram - 100 Ways

03 Kiss - Strange Ways

04 Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

05 U2 - Mysterious Ways

06 Mandre - I Like Your Freaky Ways

07 Marine Girls - Lazy Ways

08 Buddy Holly - True Love Ways

09 Johnny Mathis - Evil Ways

10 Brook Benton - So Many Ways

11 Midnighters - Sexy Ways

12 Santana - Evil Ways

13 Supernaut - I Like It Both Ways

14 Cola Boy - 7 Ways To Love

15 Cal Tjader - Evil Ways

16 Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked

17 Toto - Mysterious Ways

18 Ok Go - A Million Ways

19 Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)

20 Train - 50 Ways To Say Goodbye

21 10cc - Lazy Ways

22 Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Don't Change Your Pretty Ways

Thunder Thumbs & Lightnin' Licks 2

Part two of the Brothers Johnson family pick. Yesterday was part 1 and I told you about the title there. What I didn't talk about was the two Beatles covers (one today, one yesterday). Or the track yesterday that I swear sounds like KC and the Sunshine Band got a little funkier. Their most well known hit was yesterday (Strawberry Letter 23), but the next most well known one is today. Unless you count Michael Jackson. They played on several tracks including Billie Jean (but that didn't make my list). Lots of soul, funk and jazz on today's volume. I spread it out over the two. The cover I made pieced together both Louis and George Johnson and some cool thunder and lightning.

Thunder Thumbs & Lightnin' Licks 2

17 Donna Summer - State Of Independence

18 Brothers Johnson - Come Together

19 Quincy Jones and James Ingram - One Hundred Ways

20 Brothers Johnson - I'll Be Good To You

21 Billy Preston - Will It Go Round in Circles

22 Bobby Womack - Daylight

23 Bill Withers - Hello Like Before

24 James Ingram - Party Animal

25 George Benson - Love X Love

26 The Crusaders - This Old World's Too Funky For Me

27 Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

28 Brothers Johnson - Stomp

29 Brothers Johnson - Ride-O-Rocket

30 The Isley Brothers - Dish It Out

31 Brothers Johnson - The Real Thing

32 Earl Klugh - Angelina

Thunder Thumbs & Lightnin' Licks 1

The nicknames for the Brothers Johnson are Thunder Thumbs & Lightnin' Licks. Louis on bass and George on guitar. Nicknames are too good to not make it the title of this pick. Those nicknames are also the title of a cool song in the movie: Mother, Jugs and Speed. It's got Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel and Bill Cosby in it. As well as Larry Hagman (sort of playing Bill Cosby). That movie would never get made today. But the music was great. They had tracks on a few different movies. The songs on this compilation all feature one or both of the Brothers. Some they wrote, but they played on all. They did a bunch of stuff with Quincy Jones, so you'll see some of the same artists that are on my Rod Temperton pick too, but only a couple of doubles in songs. I was going to do only one volume but I had too much I couldn't remove.

Thunder Thumbs & Lightnin' Licks 1

01 Brothers Johnson - Thunder Thumbs & Lightnin' Licks

02 Pointer Sisters - Don't It Drive You Crazy

03 Grover Washington Jr. - Knucklehead

04 Patti Austin with James Ingram - Baby, Come To Me

05 Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23

06 Herb Alpert - Love Is

07 Quincy Jones - Is It Love That We're Missin'

08 Brothers Johnson - Get The Funk Out Ma Face

09 Billy Preston - Struttin'

10 Brothers Johnson - You Make Me Wanna Wiggle

11 Steve Arrington - Feel So Real

12 Brothers Johnson - Ain't We Funkin' Now

13 Herbie Hancock - Hang Up Your Hang Ups

14 Brothers Johnson - Light Up The Night

15 Lee Ritenour - Wild Rice

16 Brothers Johnson - Hey Jude

Hankering For Hoo-Ha 1

I know some of you will be thinking of the urban dictionary meaning of Hoo-Ha, but it also means trouble or fuss or a disturbance, This country based pick is all about wishing for a fuss. I picked these top hits to play at your next fuss or disturbance. The songs aren't fussy or much about trouble. Perhaps a couple are. Mostly just good recent country that would be good at any kind of get together or just driving in your truck. I might have made these the next Hayride Hootenanny, but got stuck on this title instead. I liked it. Cover background looks tiki but it's from a shark Hoo-Ha. If you have kids you might recognize it.

Hankering For Hoo-Ha 1

01 Bryan Martin - We Ride

02 Tucker Wetmore - Wind Up Missin' You

03 Kelsea Ballerini & Lany - I Quit Drinking

04 Morgan Wallen - Last Night

05 Keith Urban - Messed Up As Me

06 Beyoncé - Texas Hold 'Em

07 Montgomery Gentry - One In Every Crowd

08 Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North Of Richmond

09 Jimmy Buffett - Why Don't We Get Drunk

10 Chris Young - Young Love & Saturday Nights

11 Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help

12 Ella Langley & Riley Green - You Look Like You Love Me

13 Travis Tritt - It's A Great Day To Be Alive

14 Toby Keith - Should've Been A Cowboy

15 Jessie Murph with Jelly Roll - Wild Ones

16 Luke Combs - Ain't No Love In Oklahoma

17 Jason Aldean - Try That In A Small Town

18 Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey

19 RaeLynn - God Made Girls

20 Brantley Gilbert - Kick In The Sticks

21 Jelly Roll - Need A Favor

22 Nate Smith - Bulletproof

23 Cody Johnson - Til You Can't

24 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)

Mad Professor Lee Perry Pick

This was my pick of Lee Perry as done with Mad Professor. You'll notice a few versions of the same song to show how different the productions could be. But all have that Lee Perry craziness and all of the Mad Professor wild concoctions all over them. As you can tell they have done several albums worth of music together. Some based on previous songs pre-Mad Professor. Adrian Sherwood also did an album or two with Lee Scratch Perry (along with Dub Syndicate) that are quite good as well, but the Professor, I think, has Perry's number dialed in. Enjoy the versions within this pick. They are quite different from the Mad Professor Meets pick from a couple of days ago, but just as great and definitely more wacky.

Mad Professor Lee Perry Pick

01 Mad Professor with Lee Scratch Perry - Fire 'Pon De Witch

02 Lee Perry with Mad Professor - Dub Those Crazy Baldheads

03 Mad Professor & Lee Perry - Dub Them Crazy

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

05 Lee Perry & Mad Professor - Jungle Safari

06 Mad Professor with Lee Perry - Techno Dub

07 Lee Perry & Mad Professor - Mad Man Dubwise

08 Mad Professor & Lee Perry - Cheerful Dub

09 Lee Scratch Perry - I Am Happiness

10 Lee Perry featuring Mad Professor - Super Ape Inna Jungle

11 Mad Professor & Lee Perry - Dubbing With The Super Ape

12 Lee Perry & Mad Professor - Super Ape In A Good Shape

13 Lee Perry featuring Mad Professor - I'm Not A Human Being

The New Year (Repost)

This is a repost of a connection back from years ago. There is a little overlap in theme, but I've tried to make this mostly about the day of New Year, not necessarily New Year's Eve. Although you could easily argue that several of these tracks could be New Year's Eve songs. This What's the Connection? is supposed to be New Year's Day. Starting the New Year. New resolutions, new goals, new start. It's brand new. But to many of us, it's also sleeping late feeling hungover or staying up and watching a parade. Eating leftover cold pizza (or is that only me?) Leave me a comment on how it is for you and if I missed a glaring song for the New Year. Click on the fresh as a daisy in the snow cover I designed. Looking forward to a year more of these compilations.

The New Year

01 Carole King - New Year's Day

02 Robbie Williams - New Year's Day

03 Sugababes - New Year (Non Christmas Version)

04 Taylor Swift - New Year's Day.mp3

05 Regina Spektor - New Year

06 Guided By Voices - What Begins On New Year's Day

07 Karen Souza - New Year's Day

08 Pentatonix - New Year's Day

09 Death Cab For Cutie - The New Year

10 Rupaul with Siedah Garrett - Brand New Year

11 Bill Nelson - The World Sleeps Late On New Years Day

12 Hurts - All I Want For Christmas Is New Year's Day

13 U2 - New Year's Day

14 Bon Jovi - New Year's Day

15 Van Morrison - Celtic New Year

16 Scary Gary Alan - New Year's Resolutions

17 Rob Thomas - New Year's Day

18 Cliff Richard - This New Year

19 A Great Big World - This Is The New Year

20 Otis Redding - New Year's Resolution