You Don't Understand, It's Gone

The title of this pick has nothing really to do with the content. It's a line from a stupid commercial that I quote to make my wife laugh. It usually doesn't work. But it's a factor of relief when it does. These are some of the tracks I didn't use for the Mounjaro-of-Rock picks I had over the past week called Semaglutide (probably will have another one or two later) and added in a few tracks that in no way represented that post-grunge sound at all, but just rock. A little southern rock and a couple of under-appreciated rock bands were also mixed in.

You Don't Understand, It's Gone

01 Rev Theory - Hell Yeah

02 Jimmy Eat World - Pain

03 Disturbed - Stricken

04 Dirty Honey - When I'm Gone

05 Filter - Welcome To The Fold

06 Saliva - Click Click Boom

07 Blackberry Smoke - Up In Smoke

08 Crazy Town - Butterfly

09 Scorpions - The Zoo

10 Black 'n Blue - I'll Be There For You

11 Linkin Park - Numb

12 Hurricane - I'm On To You

13 Autograph - Turn Up The Radio

14 Black Stone Cherry - Blind Man

15 Shinedown - Simple Man (Rock Version)

16 Alcatrazz - God Blessed Video

17 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps

18 Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls

19 Flyleaf - I'm So Sick

Fergie Frederiksen Pick

I'm not sure why I didn't take the chance at the extra alliteration possible to call it a family pick. Fergie Frederiksen Family would have sounded good, but I didn't. I actually started this because of the Jim Peterik connection. He's the reason that Fergie got to sing backup for Survivor. But before that he was in prog band Trillion. He's mostly known for being the other lead singer for Toto. I also figured out he was David London (doing disco for Casablanca records - the tracks here from the Can't Stop The Music soundtrack - The Village People starred in it). He appeared on a bunch of projects, I tried to pick a wide variety. He also wrote a few songs for other artists, but none of those are on here. His real name is Dennis, but Fergie became his nickname when a buddy thought his last name was Ferguson. It stuck.

Fergie Frederiksen Pick

01 Fergie Frederiksen - Blaze Of Love

02 Radioactive - On My Own

03 Le Roux - Don't Stand In My Way

04 Northern Light - Eye To Eye

05 AOR - Desperate Dreams

06 Joseph Williams - Goin' Home

07 Frederiksen-Phillips - Shot Down

08 Mecca - Velocitized

09 Frederiksen + Denander - Let Him Go

10 Survivor - American Heartbeat

11 David London - The Sound Of The City

12 Fergie Frederiksen - Elaine

13 Trillion - Hold Out

14 Angel - Should Have Known Better (Demo)

15 David London - Samantha

16 Fergie Frederiksen - Angel Don't Cry

17 Fergie Frederiksen - Follow Your Heart

18 Toto - Stranger In Town

Top Pick Albums 1985

Yesterday was my Top Pick songs and today it is my top ten pick albums for 1985. Like each month it is the top ten songs (to me) of those albums and then a second side (next ten) of my other favorite song of each. I do have to say that one of these albums I would not choose if it was now. And that is the Cocteau Twins. Not because I don't still love it, but that my rules changed later. In 1985 they put out The Pink Opaque, which is a compilation album. I separated those out later. At the time, I had an ep by them and this, in the US, was the first album I bought of theirs. I'm pretty sure I knew fairly quickly that it was a compilation though.FIshbone came out this year and I ended up seeing them live millions of times. They were so great. Saw them with the Chili Peppers many times, once on this tour opening for Run DMC (ask me about that show). Disappointed with Run DMC but the other two were brilliant. George Clinton was at the show. I partied with the man. PMRC was everywhere, New Order and Kate Bush hit their peak. It was a good year for albums.

Top Pick Albums 1985

01 Cocteau Twins - Lorelei

02 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Catholic School Girls Rule

03 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

04 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - My Wife And My Dead Wife

05 Nina Hagen - Universal Radio

06 Everything But the Girl - Kid

07 Frank Zappa - Porn Wars

08 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

09 New Order - The Perfect Kiss

10 Fishbone - (Modern Industry)

11 Cocteau Twins - Aikea-Guinea

12 Nina Hagen - 1985 Ekstasy Drive

13 Everything But The Girl - When All's Well

14 Fishbone - Ugly

15 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Jungleman

16 Kate Bush - The Big Sky

17 Frank Zappa - We're Turning Again

18 New Order - Love Vigilantes

19 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Taste Of Cindy

20 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Heaven

Top Pick 1985

It's right here at the end of the month and time for me to share my top picks of the year. These are from the year 1985. Like the last several months first it's my top picks of the year. The top twenty songs (according to me back then). It's from what I chose way back then. Looking back at it today, however, I don't think I would make any changes. Several of these could have been on my best album of the year choice, but they didn't quite make it.

Top Pick 1985

01 The Cure - Close To Me

02 Love & Rockets - Ball Of Confusion

03 The Smiths - How Soon Is Now

04 Faith No More - We Care A Lot

05 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Secret

06 Camper Van Beethoven - Where The Hell Is Bill

07 Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses

08 Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro

09 Chris Isaak - Dancin'

10 Killing Joke - Love Like Blood

11 Yoko Ono - Hell In Paradise

12 Prefab Sprout - Horsin' Around

13 Yello - Vicious Games

14 Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds

15 Alex Chilton - No Sex

16 Shriekback - Nemesis

17 Sisters Of Mercy - Walk Away

18 The Dukes Of Stratosphear - 25 O'clock

19 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

20 The Fall - Cruisers creek

What's The Connection? Roller Coasters 1

There were a lot of ups and downs and a few loop the loops making this connection about coasters. Roller Coasters. I always liked riding them, but never really looked to see how many songs there were about them. Makes sense if you think about it. It can be a metaphor or just about the thrill of the ride itself. It wasn't a steep drop to come up with these songs. The first song that came to mind was the Ohio Players and soon after I thought of the 13th Floor Elevators. And after that they just kept coming. Part two will follow soon after this one. I have around 50 tracks I could use already. Tell me about your best roller coaster ride in the comments. Or your worst one...

Roller Coasters 1

01 Primal Fear - Rollercoaster

02 Blood, Sweat & Tears - Roller Coaster

03 Justin Bieber - Roller Coaster

04 Showaddywaddy - Rollercoaster

05 Janet Jackson - Rollercoaster

06 B-Witched - Rollercoaster

07 Luke Bryan - Roller Coaster

08 Jump5 - Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride

09 The Partridge Family - Roller Coaster

10 Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster

11 Blink-182 - Roller Coaster

12 Everything But The Girl - Rollercoaster

13 Jonas Brothers - Rollercoaster

14 Bo Diddley - Roller Coaster

15 Cerrone - Roller Coaster

16 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Rollercoaster

17 Grid - Rollercoaster (Radio Edit)

18 The Ides of March - Roller Coaster

19 The 13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster (Mono Mix)

20 Echo & The Bunnymen - Rollercoaster

21 Bon Jovi - Roller Coaster

22 Bleachers featuring Charli XCX - Rollercoaster

Semaglutide 2

A couple of days ago, I posted part one of this pick. Is it really called buttrock? Or post-grunge? Or Dad rock? Who knows? Certainly not me. But I think of it as the Wegovy of rock. Kind of appetite suppressing weight loss of music. For sure the songs can be good, if not cheesy at times. Some are decent hits and at least one is completely AI. Usually one hit and the rest regional. I added a couple of older songs that don't fit what some people call buttrock, and yet they fit in nicely for the GLP of rock. That's why the title is what it is. I'll have at least one more of these, after that you will have to look for your own tracks or find my Bro-Country pick. I think that pairs well with these and a Lone Star beer.

Semaglutide 2

21 Good Charlotte - The Anthem

22 Candlebox - Far Behind

23 The Velvet Sundown - Dust on the Wind

24 Maroon 5 - This Love

25 Train - Hey, Soul Sister

26 The Wallflowers - One Headlight

27 Five For Fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy)

28 Theodore - Rockin Me

29 Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife

30 J Geils Band - Centerfold

31 Fuel - Shimmer

32 My Darkest Days - Casual Sex (Rock Mix)

33 Fastball - The Way

34 Creed - One Last Breath

35 Fastway - Say What You Will

36 Seether - Fake It

37 David Lee Roth - Goin' Crazy

38 AFI - Miss Murder

39 Daughtry - It's Not Over

40 Collective Soul - Shine

41 Switchfoot - Meant To Live

Five To Nine

Yes, I understand you think it's a weird title, but it will make sense by the end of this write-up. This pick started with two songs. The ones from Tom Tom Club and New Order. So started to think how can I get there from here? There were several ways I could go, but I decided to look at the Camelot mixing values. 5A to 9B. If you understand strictly Camelot mixing, you can jump either one number forward or back (5A to 6A is a good mix - keywise) or same number and move from A to B (9A to 9B). There is way more to it than that, but for the basic rule, that's about it. There is a Camelot wheel (search for it if you want to really dive in) that helps you move around with mixes. Obviously there is more than key, there is Energy of a song and BPM of a song. I paid very little attention to that on this mixtape. Within the keys, I adjusted for BPM and ignored energy altogether. Some worked itself out, others didn't at all. Oh, well. That's difference between DJ'ing a live party and picking a compilation for fun. Cover is a play on the Dolly Parton movie logo.

Five To Nine

01 Prince - Get Off (Dmc Remix) (Mixed By Ben Liebrand)

02 Tom Tom Club - Sunshine and Ecstasy

03 Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This

04 Plastics - Last Train To Clarksville

05 Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue

06 Ohio Players - O-H-I-O

07 Crazy Penis - You've Lost That Loving Feeling

08 Animotion - Obsession (12" Dance Remix)

09 Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement (Single Version)

10 Shriekback - Everything That Rises Must Converge

11 Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog

12 Wide Boy Awake - Chicken Outlaw

13 Eagles - Heartache Tonight

14 The Farm - Groovy Train

15 Foreigner - Hot Blooded

16 The Psychedelic Furs - All That Money Wants

17 New Order - Everything's Gone Green

Semaglutide 1

I started with thinking of a couple of bands that had decent songs, but weren't highly thought of as bands would be a good pick. Kind of corporate rock, pop rock or I guess what they call dad rock. Although that seemed like bad name. Maroon 5 and Matchbox 20 and Nickelback came to mind. Decent poppy rock songs from the 80's on. I had a couple of covers and it progressed from there. I found that they called some of this Buttrock (another stupid name) and there were examples. I added stuff from bands that didn't quite fit, but had albums that were pretty good and yet mostly unknown. I added them. Soon I had more than one playlist, so here's part one. I bet we could find at least one or two more volumes. I called it Semaglutide since that is sort of an appetite suppressor and I figured for some, it might reduce your hunger for rock. LOL! I crack myself up.

Semaglutide 1

01 Breaking Benjamin - The Diary Of Jane

02 Matchbox Twenty - Push

03 Nickelback - How You Remind Me

04 Three Days Grace - (I Hate) Everything About You

05 Trapt - Headstrong

06 Anberlin - The Feel Good Drag

07 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite

08 Shinedown - Second Chance

09 Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life

10 Spin Doctors - Two Princes

11 Stone Sour - Through Glass

12 Staind - It's Been Awhile

13 Lifehouse - Hanging By A Moment

14 Sugar Ray - Abracadabra

15 Hinder - Lips Of An Angel

16 Chevelle - The Red

17 Theory Of A Deadman - Not Meant To Be

18 Blink-182 - All The Small Things

19 Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry

20 Poison - Unskinny Bop

What's The Connection? Space Invaders

When they first came out, I played a few of the arcade video games. Defender was one of my favorites, but songwriters don't seem to have played it much. Most of these songs have nothing to do with the game Space Invaders, but several bands sang about it. We're going to include any mention of Space Invaders in the title as being about the game in this connection. Probably my second favorite arcade game. I originally only knew of Scientist and the Pretenders doing these songs, but over the years several more have done them. One day there will be enought to these for Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Qix, Defender, Frogger and maybe even Burger Time. But for now, you get this.

What's The Connection? Space Invaders

01 Scientist - Space Invaders Re-Group

02 Sugar Ray - Personal Space Invader

03 Spice Girls - Space Invader

04 Ace Frehley - Space Invader

05 The National - Space Invader

06 Alphonse Mouzon - Space Invaders

07 Betoko - Space Invader

08 Inner City Unit - Space Invaders

09 Teminite & MDK - Space Invaders

10 Pretenders - Space Invader

11 Hatiras - Spaced Invader

12 High Tension - Invaders From Space

13 I-F - Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass

14 Freestylers - Spaced Invader

15 Dub Syndicate - African Head Charge Don't Care About Space Invader Machines

16 Hit'N'Hide - Space Invaders

17 Aqua - Space Invaders (Ext. Mix '99)

18 Dub Syndicate - Crucial Tony Tries To Rescue The Space Invaders (With Only 10P)

Blame It On S.I.V.

I can't imagine that this can go any further, if only because this is 83 bpm and there isn't much five below that. Another five days and it must be the last of these. None of them are my fault. This one is blamed on SIV or Swine Influenza Virus. That's also got to be the end, unless there are going to be made up maladies added to this Blame It On playlist picks and I don't think I will stand for it. So enjoy or don't this last of these and make sure to not take responsibility if you do play it.

Blame It On S.I.V.

01 Cars - Drive

02 The Icicle Works - Out of Season

03 Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag

04 The B-52's - Devil in My Car

05 David Bowie - Young Americans

06 Lydia Lunch with Babes In Toyland - Witchy Woman

07 The Fall - Guest Informant

08 Echo & The Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever

09 Freur - Doot Doot

10 The Cure - Killing An Arab

11 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

12 Elvis Costello - (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea

13 Joy Division - Walked In Line

14 Hoodoo Gurus - What's My Scene

15 Klark Kent - Don't Care

16 Cage The Elephant - In One Ear (Promo Only Clean Edit)

17 Radiohead - Airbag

18 Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows

19 Pixies - Where is My Mind

Cunning Linguist

A few days ago, it was Bill Clinton's birthday and I posted a pick of songs about oral sex (from one point of view). I thought it would be only fair to post the opposite side. This is it. The cover has the opposite of a word salad since the title was cunning linguist (a person smart with words, unlike this sentence). Fun to make this.

Cunning Linguist

01 Melissa Ferrick - Drive

02 Ween - L.M.L.Y.P. (Shockedelica)

03 SwV - Downtown

04 Rihanna - Watch N' Learn

05 Lil Kim featuring Angie Martinez, Left Eye, Da Brat & Missy Elliott - Not Tonight (Remix)

06 112 - Peaches & Cream

07 Missy Elliott - Work It

08 Khia - My Neck, My Back (Lick It)

09 Consolidated - You Suck

10 Marvin Sease - Candy Licker

11 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

12 Karen Finley - Lick It

13 Azealia Banks featuring Lazy Jay - 212

14 20 Fingers with Roula - Lick It (20 Fingers Radio Mix)

15 Kaskade & Skrillex - Lick It

16 Wheeler Walker Jr - Eatin' Pussy-Kickin' Ass

17 Danny Brown - I Will

cVb

This pick is one of the three letter mixtapes I make. No rhyme or reason to the name this time, except that it is consecutive letters on the keyboard (and I must have hit the shift key in the middle). Mostly just tracks I had been thinking about putting in a playlist and just hadn't done it yet. Leftovers. I had the idea of using the Ohio Players and a cover of one of their songs, so that went in. I was also talking with my buddy (who also was working on my pool) and he had recently seen the Whispers with the O'Jays in concert (I never have seen either, unfortunately) so they were on my mind and that made me think of The Spinners and The Four Tops. The others were already there.

cVb

01 The Style Council - Blue Cafe

02 Alphaville - Big In Japan

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

04 Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene

05 Spinners - Could It Be I'm Falling In love

06 Ohio Players - Skin Tight

07 Tom Tom Club - L'Elephant

08 Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere

09 The Residents - This Is A Man's Man's Man's World

10 Air - Sexy Boy

11 The O'Jays - Used To Be My Girl

12 Heatwave - Gangsters Of The Groove

13 Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down

14 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Love Rollercoaster

15 Whispers - It's A Love Thing

16 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

17 The The - Kingdom of Rain

18 Grand Funk - Some Kind of Wonderful

19 Roman Holliday - One Foot Back In Your Door

Happy Birthday Bill Clinton!

Today is Bill Clinton's birthday and in his honor I compiled this pick. A playlist of blowjob songs. I did not have sex with that woman. Sure. Yesterday was cigars and now you know why. To get you ready for today. BTW, notice that the lettering of the title below has cigars in the background. I wonder what's in the background of yesterday's lettering? I love that he had the balls to do all of that in the oval office, especially with Hilary around. She's scary to me. And just in case, I am not at all suicidal. Love my life. In either case, Bill is not the first president to fool around, but he got caught and lied about it. No matter what else, let's wish him a happy birthday! All of these songs have to do with oral sex, blow jobs (BJ's), head or whatever you want to call it. Enjoy it!

Happy Birthday Bill Clinton!

01 NWA - Just Don't Bite It

02 Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

03 Betty Blowtorch - I Wanna Be Your Sucker

04 Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator

05 Nervous Eaters - Just Head

06 Funkadelic - No Head No Backstage Pass

07 Plies - Becky

08 Earl Wilson - Come In My Mouth

09 The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain

10 Madonna - Like A Prayer

11 Prince - Head

12 Thee Headcoatees - Come Into My Mouth

13 Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face (Unreleased Single Female Vocal Version)

14 Flo Rida Featuring Keisha - Right Round

15 N.E.R.D. - Brain

16 Nashville Pussy - You're Goin' Down

17 Lil Wayne featuring Static Major - Lollipop

18 The Cure - A Man Inside My Mouth

19 Shawnna - Gettin' Some Head

20 Liz Phair - Flower

21 Young Guns - Put It In Your Mouth

22 Akinyele - Put It In Your Mouth

What's The Connection? Cigars

There's not going to be much of an explanation of this connection today. Tomorrow all will be explained. They kind of go together in a weird way, which you will figure out. On the other hand, I do enjoy a nice cigar once in awhile. I met this couple, let's call them Tim & Kristi. They were nice and really knew cigars. They sent me a box of collector cigars that I smoked (and shared with other cigar friends). I will never forget how totally cool that was. And amazingly great cigars too. I wish I had such great taste to be able to get them that good. But that has nothing to do with this WTC (close but no cigar), although it is a cool story. There are a ton of Pink Floyd covers, but I only included the original and one cover, maybe another time.

What's The Connection? Cigars

01 Brad Paisley - The Cigar Song

02 Cæcilie Norby - Cuban Cigars

03 Travis - No Cigar

04 Klub Des Loosers - Cigar Smoke

05 Frank Zappa - Twenty Small Cigars

06 Lewis Hamilton - Cheap Cigars

07 Michael Schenker - Aardvark In A VW Smoking A Cigar

08 Lightnin' Hopkins - Cigar Chatter

09 Jethro Tull - A Small Cigar (Bonus Track)

10 Jeff Pitchell - Fat Cigars

11 The Smoke Wagon Blues Band - Cigar Store

12 Herman's Hermits - The Man With The Cigar

13 Nick Nicely - 49 Cigars

14 Pink Floyd - Have A Cigar

15 Thomas Dolby - Close But No Cigar

16 Weird Al Yankovic - Close But No Cigar

17 Rosebud - Have A Cigar (Special Disco Mix)

18 The Slackers - Cuban Cigar

19 Dr. Feelgood - Close But No Cigar

20 Millencolin - No Cigar

Blame It On U.T.I.

I keep thinking these might be over, but it's been another five days and five more beats per minute to drop down this pick to 88. It's not me. I blame it on a UTI. That's what it must be. The burning you are feeling is not the surf, country, garage, rockabilly, rock or pop. It's the UTI. Sorry. Hate when that happens. All in camelot key mixing order although the way this switches, it would be hard to mix this at all. Surprisingly, it still accidentally sounds pretty good.

Blame It On U.T.I.

01 Syd Barrett - Octopus

02 Kenny Chesney - Come Over

03 Electric Prunes - Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

04 Spinners - One Of A Kind (Love Affair)

05 Doug Clark & Hot Nuts - Baby Let Me Bang Your Box

06 Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party

07 Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Men

08 Boston - Smokin'

09 The Cramps - Daisys Up Your Butterfly_pn

10 The Multicoloured Shades - Miss Terry Shade

11 Alabama Shakes - Hold On

12 The Surfrajettes - Instant Coffee

13 Agent Orange - Bloodstains (Original Version)

14 Violent Femmes - Kiss Off

15 Cornell Hurd Band - If You Play With My Mind (You're Gonna Get Your Hands Dirty)

16 Deadsy - Tom Sawyer

17 Hall & Oates - Maneater

18 Love - Alone Again Or

19 Young Fresh Fellows - When the Girls Get Here

20 Marti Brom with Cornell Hurd Band - Kiss Me Big

21 Rascal Flatts - Mayberry

22 Orchid - Go Big Red

23 The Mad Hatters - I'll Come Running

What's The Connection? Disco 4

This is part four of the ever growing Disco connections. I have so many. These ones are mostly actual disco songs although they didn't have to be (and the rest of the WTC's definitely aren't all). Some hits and some deep cuts. And it includes one of my favorite Disco songs (Wilson Place Street Band) although it is cheesy. It is good to dance to. I hope I am dancing as long as Elmer Heinrich and his wife. They look so cute on his commercial. I doubt any of these songs were playing while they were dancing though. A couple in here that were suggested on previous volumes although I already had them in the queue. I expedited them appearing. There are more coming, I just don't know when.

What's The Connection? Disco 4

54 Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady

55 Hot Chocolate - Disco Queen

56 Skyy - Disco Dancin'

57 El Coco - Mondo Disco

58 Rick Dees - Disco Duck (Pt. 1)

59 Sweet Potato Pie - Hot Disco Night (Are You Ready)

60 Sil Austin - Disco Lady

61 J.A.L.N. Band - Disco Music (I Like It)

62 Dance Reaction - Disco Train (12'' Version)

63 Wilson Place Street Band - Disco Lucy

64 Paul Jabara - Shut Out-Heaven Is A Disco

65 Giorgio Moroder - La Disco

66 Idris Muhammad - Disco Man

67 The Salsa 78 Orchestra - Disco Inferno

68 TC & Company - Let's Go Disco

69 Disco Robot - Disco Robot (Extended Robot Mix)

70 Universal Robot Band - Disco Trek (Theme From Star Trek)

It Feels So Damn Good

The title of this mixtape pick comes from the lyrics of the Lydia Lunch song (with the Anubian Lights - they were pretty darn good live). Click on Lydia above for more of her songs and a story. These songs started all about the same Camelot key, but some veered off that I wanted to use, so it didn't stay that way. All things I was listening to recently. And it is troubling that they all fit together and it does feel good when that happens. The cover background is ice/snow that looked damn good, so I used it.

It Feels So Damn Good

01 Billy Joel - The Longest Time

02 Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me

03 Eric Burdon & War - Spill the Wine

04 Lydia Lunch With The Anubian Lights - Nothing But Trouble

05 ZZ Top - I'm Bad I'm Nationwide

06 Deep Purple - Hush

07 Supertramp - The Logical Song

08 Yello - Tied Up

09 The Cure - Let's Go To Bed

10 Sisters Of Mercy - More

11 Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo Afrojack & Nayer - Give Me Everything (Extended Floorfiller)

12 Romeo Void - A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing)

13 Devo - Knock Boots

14 Garbage - Special

15 Luxuria - Public Highway

16 The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

17 Klaus Nomi - Lightning Strikes

18 Fitz & The Tantrums - HandClap

19 Paul Engemann - Scarface (Push It To The Limit)

Blame It On T.S.S.

I'm pretty sure that T.S.S. is Toxic Shock Syndrome, but who knows? I am not responsible for this pick. Although I like some of the tracks on the playlist, I didn't pick them. It is the fault of TSS. Just like the last one of these, five days ago. Exactly the same except five bpm away at 93bpm, but also in camelot mixing order. As if you would ever mix some of these together (how does The Jam into The Coconutz possibly work?) I do enjoy the New Pardesi Music Machine into Lavay Smith: that's genius! But I had nothing to do with it...

Blame It On T.S.S.

01 New Pardesi Music Machine - Pump Up The Bhangra

02 Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers - Blue Skies

03 Stranglers - Golden Brown

04 Pat Boone - Stairway To Heaven

05 The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down

06 Kylie Minogue - Chocolate

07 Jackson 5 - I'll Be There

08 The Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

09 A Subtle Plague - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

10 Sammy Hagar - Heavy Metal

11 Siouxsie & the Banshees - Supernatural Thing

12 The Brides Of Funkenstein - Disco To Go

13 The Jam - Batman

14 The Coconutz - Everybody Hurts

15 AC-DC - Back In Black

16 Marshall Tucker Band - Searchin' For A Rainbow

17 David Bowie - Panic in Detroit

18 Joe Nichols - Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off

19 The Neville Brothers - Hey Pocky Way

20 Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee

Orange Man Bad

I wasn't sure I was going to post this, but here it is anyway. A playlist for people who just can't get over it. It's funny, there really are people that hate so much, that if Trump would single handedly cure cancer, they would try to get cancer to prove him wrong. I used to think there was a way to talk to people and at least debate rationally about it, but I am seeing more and more that there really is TDS. Those people would rather cancel you than talk rationally. I was not a Trump fan decades ago when I met him. In fact, I thought he was an arrogant ass. I was not important so I was almost ignored (I wired him up for a talk he gave and a radio interview.) He didn't leave a great impression on me. Later when he ran for office, I didn't vote for him and until I started checking what people were saying about him and realized it really was fake news I didn't support him. But after I saw that he was doing what he said he was going to do and I discovered what he actually did, I changed my mind. These songs won't change anyone's mind, but for those who opened their's, they will appreciate these songs. Anyone with TDS, will dismiss this and comment negatively or just block or cancel. That's okay. We know they are infected. Wow, longest intro for awhile.

Orange Man Bad

01 Eagles - Get Over It

02 Antisjw - Trump Derangement Syndrome

03 Kid Rock - We The People

04 Loza Alexander - Let's Go Brandon (Clean Edit)

05 Tasukete - Trump Derangement Syndrome (MAGA)

06 Tom MacDonald - Brainwashed

07 Lee Alex - Trump Derangement Syndrome

08 Eminem featuring Whitegold - Habits

09 Blue Strings - The Trump Derangement Syndrome Song

10 Emily Shettle with Joe Biden - My Mind's Going Blank Now

11 Joe Spallino - Trump Derangement Syndrome

12 Oliver Anthony Music - Rich Men North Of Richmond

13 Marty Robbins - Ain't I Right

14 Kamala Harris and Joe Biden - Word Salad

15 The Orange Pekoe Teabag Band - Trump Derangement Syndrome

16 Eagle Wing - Woke No More

17 Freedom Frequency - Trump Derangement Syndrome

18 Tom MacDonald & Ben Shapiro - Facts

19 Jason Aldean - Try That In A Small Town

20 John Rich - Progress

21 Mystery Potion - Trump Derangement Syndrome

22 Jokes On Wokes - Go Woke Go Broke (Radio Edit)

23 Austin Moody - I'm Just Sayin'

24 Lee Greenwood - God Bless The USA

BTW, I still don't forgive him for treating me like shit. I wish I could meet him again and tell him face to face about it. And before you make a judgement, I am a son of legal immigrants and a poc. I paid for my own way through college and have never been on welfare and believe me I do not have trust fund money. Not even close.

PB & Swiss

I fully realize this pick is not for everyone. I have different tastes than some. But both the music and the sandwich are delicious to me. It was an accidental sandwich. Toasted english muffin with peanut butter in the nooks and crannies and cheese just happened to meet the bite. Kind of like a peanut butter cup. Except cheese instead of chocolate. I've had both sharp cheddar and swiss since then, as well as gouda, but I keep coming back to the swiss. It's delicious. Have you tried this? Would you ever try it? As for the pick of the music on this mixtape, like peanut butter it's pretty straightforward and like swiss cheese nothing too crazy. Almost mild at times. But together does it work for you? It does for me. Try it, you might love it!

PB & Swiss

01 Tom Tom Club - You Sexy Thing

02 Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music

03 George Benson - Give Me the Night (12 inch version)

04 Pablo Cruise - Whatcha Gonna Do?

05 Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso

06 Reunion - Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)

07 KC And The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight

08 Air Supply - Lost in Love (7 inch version)

09 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Secret

10 Chicago - Saturday in the Park

11 Blondie - Heart Of Glass

12 Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down

13 AC-DC - Highway To Hell

14 Grateful Dead - Truckin'

15 Steely Dan - Peg

16 Queen - Killer Queen

17 Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'

18 Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit

19 Chic - Le Freak

20 Stranglers - 96 Tears

What's The Connection? OK 2

This is part two of the Okay connection (part 1 of OK WTC  is here). That will tell you a bit of a story. The continuing playlist has some great songs. Let me know which is your favorite in the comments and how it compares to volume one. This one has country (old and new), oldies, power pop, hip hop, rock and more. The cover is similar and the numbering continues.

What's The Connection? OK 2

24 Dwight Yoakam - That's Okay

25 Bernie Worrell - Ok, You Can Leave Now

26 Marc Anthony - That's Okay

27 Styx - I'm Okay

28 Lionel Richie - I'm Not Okay

29 Roy Orbison - She's Okay

30 Hank Williams - Everything's Okay

31 will.i.am featuring Triple Seven & Dante Santiago - It's Okay

32 Mark Knopfler - Today Is Okay

33 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Okay

34 Was (Not Was) - Are You Okay_

35 James Last - Okay

36 Chicken Shack - It's Okay With Me Baby

37 Peggy Lee - Alright, Okay, You Win

38 Sky Ferreira - Nobody Asked Me (If I Was Okay)

39 Shoes - Okay

40 Steve Aoki featuring Global Dan - I'll Be Okay

41 Usher - Okay

42 The Game featuring Junior Reid - It's Okay (One Blood)

What's The Connection? Disco 3

Part three of this connection. See some previous Disco connections here. Remember these may or may not be actual disco songs (it didn't matter) but did have to include the word Disco in the title. A couple of your recommendations showed up on this volume. I have a few more volumes of these coming eventually (at least seven are nearly ready to go.)

What's The Connection? Disco 3

35 Yellowman - Disco Reggae

36 Lou Reed - Disco Mystic

37 The Smiths - Death Of A Disco Dancer

38 Mad Professor - Disco Dude

39 Eagles - The Disco Strangler

40 Todd Rundgren - Disco Jets

41 Psychic TV - Ballet Disco

42 U2 - Discotheque

43 Lobo - The Carribbean Disco Show

44 The Fall - ESP Disco

45 Pet Shop Boys - Disco Potential

46 Waldorf - You're My Disco

47 LCD Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator

48 Red Elvises - Closet Disco Dancer

49 Kylie Minogue - Disco Down

50 Telex - Moscow Discow

51 Chubby Checker - (At The) Discotheque

52 Morrissey - The National Front Disco

53 Banda San Miguel - Disco Rayado

Blame It On R.S.I.

I thought these ended. It's not my fault and I won't take responsibility for this pick. Five days more and five less bpm: now down to 98 bpm. Pretty soon we'll run out of songs with the same bpm. Blame It On Repetitive Stress Injuries or RSI. It's probably what I will get unless I make this introduction very short. I'm glad there's a Tom Tom Club on this one. I notice they are in Camelot mixing order.

Blame It On R.S.I.

01 Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch

02 Congos - Congoman Chant

03 Jackson Five - I Want You Back

04 Tom Tom Club - Love To Love You Baby

05 UB40 - Superstition

06 Nina Hagen - Russian Reggae

07 Ryuichi Sakamoto featuring Iggy Pop - Risky (12 Inch Remix)

08 Run DMC - King of Rock

09 Velvet Underground - There She Goes Again

10 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Who Do You Love

11 REM - Everybody Hurts

12 The Orb - Ultraworld Nine-Star 6 & 7 8 9

13 2 Skinnee J's - Irresistable Force

14 Abecedarians - Where Whitey Ain't Allowed

15 Toots And The Maytals - Funky Kingston

16 The Barmy Army - Blue Moon

17 Los Humildes - Ambicion

18 New Seekers - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)

What's The Connection? Wake Up 2

Part two of this Wake Up connection. Go back a week or two for part one. This one continues with my favorite Wake Up songs. Wake me up was already posted. I have a few more to come. I obviously had to have the Everly brothers in here. A couple of the other tracks are also pretty obvious, but I'll bet there is at least one track or so, that you haven't heard before. Which is it for you?

What's The Connection? Wake Up 2

21 Tom Jones - I Wake Up Crying

22 Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie

23 Amy Winehouse - Wake Up Alone

24 Pau Hana - Wake Up My Darling

25 Fishbone - Wake Up My Child

26 Buzzcocks - Wake Up Call

27 Bill Nelson - The World Wakes Up

28 Queens Of The Stone Age - Wake Up Screaming

29 The The - I Want To Wake Up With You

30 Tom Petty - Wake Up Time

31 Cheap Trick - When I Wake Up Tomorrow

32 Lee Scratch Perry And Adrian Sherwood - Wake Up Call

33 Pet Shop Boys - I Want To Wake Up

34 Oingo Boingo - Wake Up (It's 1984)

35 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Wake Up and Live

36 George Harrison - Wake Up My Love

37 The Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo! (Single Edit)

38 Cranberries - Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

39 Megon McDonough - Wake Up And Dream

40 Maroon 5 - Wake Up Call

Ozzy Guest 2

This continues the pick from yesterday in honor of Ozzy Osbourne (may he RIP). These are not Black Sabbath tracks. Although he does guest on solo Tony Iommi and Bill Ward tracks. I have him on a duet with Kelly. And as a featured vocalist with many other artists. With the tracks yesterday and today, that is  most of what I have for Ozzy. He does have some solo album with more guests that I didn't use. But you can easily get those (and you probably already have those tracks anyway). Enjoy this fest of Ozzy! I'm a fan and figured someone else might get a kick out of all these in one place.

Ozzy Guest 2

17 Tony Iommi with Ozzy Osbourne & Wu-Tang Clan - For Heavens Sake 2000

18 Rick Wakeman featuring Ozzy Osbourne - Buried Alive

19 Dweezil Zappa & Ozzy Osbourne - Staying Alive

20 Black Label Society featuring Ozzy Osbourne - Stillborn

21 Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne - Changes

22 Frank Bruno, Billy Connolly and Ozzy Osbourne - Urpney Song

23 Bill Ward featuring Ozzy Osbourne - Jack's Land

24 Was (Not Was) with Kim Bassinger & Ozzy Osbourne - Shake Your Head

25 Infectious Grooves with Ozzy Osbourne - Therapy

26 Alice Cooper featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Joe Satriani and Slash - Hey Stoopid

27 Lita Ford with Ozzy Osbourne - Close My Eyes Forever

28 Billy Morrison featuring Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens - Crack Cocaine

29 Post Malone featuring Ozzy Osbourne & Travis Scott - Take What You Want

30 Motorhead & Ozzy Osbourne - I Ain't No Nice Guy

31 Coal Chamber featuring Ozzy Osbourne - Shock The Monkey

32 Busta Rhymes featuring Ozzy Osbourne - This Means War!!

33 Gary Moore featuring Ozzy Osbourne - Led Clones

Ozzy Guest 1

Since the passing of Ozzy Osbourne I have been listening to quite a bit of Black Sabbath and his solo stuff (as is every fan, I'm sure) But I started to think about some of his guest spots on other people's albums, tribute albums and then even some of his band mates solo albums. I threw in a couple of his own stuff that had him bringing in guests on this pick. Not everything, but a good sampling. At least on on this volume has Ozzy just on background vocals and on the Hurricane Relief track from 2005 he (and his daughter Kelly) only do a few lines each along with a bunch of other stars. I'll continue this tomorrow with even more tracks. I'm sure that eventually some record company will put these on a compilation with probably more tracks, but you have this for now.

Ozzy Guest 1

01 Slash featuring Ozzy Osbourne - Crucify the Dead

02 Ozzy Osbourne featuring Jeff Beck - Patient Number 9

03 Tony Iommi with Ozzy Osbourne & Phil Collins - Paranoid (live)

04 Rob Zombie with Ozzy Osbourne - Iron Head

05 Ozzy Osbourne with Zakk Wylde - Purple Haze

06 Primus with Ozzy Osbourne - N.I.B.

07 Bill Ward featuring Ozzy Osbourne - Bombers (Can Open Bomb Bays)

08 Mountain with Ozzy Osbourne - Masters Of War

09 The Crystal Method & Fuzzbubble with Ozzy Osbourne Dmx And Ol Dirty Bastard - Nowhere To Run

10 Billy Morrison featuring Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens - Gods of Rock N Roll

11 Iommi featuring Ozzy - Who's Fooling Who

12 Alice Cooper with Ozzy Osbourne - Wake The Dead

13 Ozzy Osbourne & Miss Piggy - Born To Be Wild

14 Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Sedgwick - Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

15 Ringo Starr with Ozzy Osbourne - Vertical Man

16 Hurricane Relief - Tears In Heaven

Triumphant Light

Another in the ongoing mixtape series that I call the wormhole playlists (behind the scenes) but never out loud or in public. It's based only on the covers and not the content of the songs. The titles all come from a phone game played around the world, so it's possible you recognize it. Ask for my friend ID if you play it. I titled this pick Triumphant Light from that game. I do like the cover background wormhole. I think it looks cool. There are a couple of deep deep cuts on here and a band most people have never heard. Some big hits and some regional hits. I like the couple of songs that are related to Kid Creole. Click that link for a few more. The TG remix is cool and ending with the Isley Brothers is even cooler.

Triumphant Light

01 Chocolate Milk - Action Speaks Louder Than Words

02 Love & Rockets - Ball Of Confusion

03 Stone Funkers - S.T.O.N.E.F.U.N.K. Theme

04 Nina Hagen - New York, NY

05 Olly Murs featuring Flo Rida - Troublemaker

06 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

07 INXS - Need You Tonight (Mixx It)

08 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - War

09 Shriekback - Nerve

10 The Residents - Harry The Head

11 Adult Net - White Night (Stars Say Go)

12 Gichy Dan - Cowboys and Gangsters

13 Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies

14 Throbbing Gristle - Hot Heels United (Carter Tutti Remix)

15 Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band - Deputy Of Love

16 Will.i.am - I Like To Move It

17 Isley Brothers - That Lady (Part 1 & 2)

Blame It On I.B.S.

This just isn't going to stop, is it? Too easy to blame someone or something else and not take responsibility. This time it's IBS which can't be fun for anyone. I know how important being regular is for me. I think that would be important even if I didn't feel like I had OCD. Go back a few. It's been five days and it's all new again, but at 103 bpm. I was looking for a house once and saw an ad from a real estate agent that said: "Yet Another Deal Of A Lifetime" (which would probably make a good title for another playlist pick.) I just couldn't help wondering how many deals of a lifetime there could be? Wouldn't there just be one? In this realtor's mind it had to be at least three (because of the word "yet"). Anyway, does that have anything to do with this pick? Who knows?

Blame It On I.B.S.

01 Strangeloves - I Want Candy

02 The Dickies - Banana Splits

03 Bombay Talkie - Chargiye

04 Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache

05 Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

06 Emma Bunton - Free Me

07 Montell Jordon - This Is How We Do It

08 Killer Pussy - Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage

09 Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca Cola

10 The Stylistics - You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)

11 Dr. Hook - Sexy Eyes

12 Scorpions - The Zoo

13 The Cramps - Jungle Hop

14 The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier

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

16 Tower Of Power - What Is Hip

17 Stranglers - Nice N Sleazy

18 Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me

19 Ramon Ayala - Un Puno De Tierra

20 Dweezil Zappa - Stayin' Alive

21 Mitzi Gaynor - I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair

What's The Connection? Hook 1

This connection is about the Hook. There are many hooks, but it does not include Hooked songs or Hooker songs. Those may come later. You'll have to decide if these pertain to hooks like on the end of fishing lines or in butcher shops. Or hooks like in each of these songs. Some are about hooking up or not hooking up. Some are about the hooks we put into people and a couple about something completely different. None are about Captain Hook, though. Again, you decide which one pertains most for each title.

What's The Connection? Hook 1

01 Iron Maiden - Hooks In You

02 Jeff Beck - Left Hook

03 Abraham - Hook & Boogie (Part 1)

04 Eddie Bo - Hook & Sling (Part 1)

05 Praxis - The Hook

06 P.O.D. - Rock The Party (Off The Hook)

07 X - Your Phone's Off The Hook, But You're Not

08 Farmer Nappy - Hookin' Meh

09 Bon Jovi - Hook Me Up

10 O'Jays - You Got Your Hooks In Me

11 London Cowboys - Hook Line & Sinker

12 Wolfgang Gartner - Hook Shot

13 Barenaked Ladies - Off the Hook

14 Just Boys - Hook, Line and Sink Her

15 Marillion - Hooks In You

16 Kelly Clarkson - I Do Not Hook Up

17 Nancy Sinatra - Hook and Ladder

18 Jody Watley - Off the Hook

19 Rolling Stones - Off The Hook

20 Lou Reed - HookyWooky

21 Tommy Wood - Can't Play Hookey

22 The Cure - Meat Hook