Rock and Roll Connection volume 1 repost

It was time to repost this one. Links were bad and it's just a good one from one of my early posts. So many songs with Rock and Roll in the title, that it would be impossible to gather them all, but here is  my attempt to come up with the best ones. This What's The Connection? will come in several volumes, so I hope you look forward to them all. I designed the album cover so click on that. Leave a comment on what other Rock n' Roll songs you like. These are some of the ones I like.

WTC Rock and Roll Volume 1

01 Reunion - Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)

02 Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)

03 Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll

04 Motorhead - Rock 'N' Roll

05 Kiss - Rock And Roll All Night

06 AC-DC - Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution

07 Rick Derringer - Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo

08 Edgar Winter - Keep Playin' That Rock 'n' Roll

09 The Byrds - So You Want To Be A Rock'N' Roll Star

10 Boston - Rock & Roll Band

11 Moody Blues - I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)

12 Huey Lewis And The News - The Heart Of Rock 'N' Roll

13 Paul Collins' Beat - Rock 'N' Roll Girl

14 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me

15 Bob Seger - Old Time Rock & Roll

16 Bad Company - Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy

17 Nashville Pussy - Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw

18 Ozzy Ozbourne - Rock 'n' Roll Rebel

19 Blue Oyster Cult - Cities On Flame With Rock & Roll

20 John Cale - Dirty Ass Rock 'N' Roll

21 Traffic - Rock and Roll Stew

22 Jesus and Mary Chain - I Hate Rock N Roll

Kinks Pick

Yesterday I posted a repost of my Kinks Kovers Kompilation. When I first posted it I was planning on posting this one, too. Something must have happened. So, years later here it is. Compare it to the Kovers version and also to any of the commercially available comps of theirs. It's a little different. Probably different from your favorites too. Something about this band. They are so good and yet so bad at the same time. Some of the best Rock ever written and also some of the most stupid songs ever. Some of both are on here, because I love the stupid ones as much if not more than the others. You tell me what your favorite Kinks song is.

Kinks Pick

01 Kinks - Don't Forget To Dance

02 Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

03 Kinks - A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy (Single Version)

04 Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion

05 Kinks - Everybody's Gonna Be Happy

06 Kinks - Sleepwalker

07 Kinks - Tired Of Waiting For You

08 Kinks - Stop Your Sobbing

09 Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman (Disco Mix Extended Edit)

10 Kinks - Sunny Afternoon

11 Kinks - Get Up

12 Kinks - Do It Again

13 Kinks - Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)

14 Kinks - I Need You

15 Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night

16 Kinks - You Really Got Me

17 Kinks - Better Things

18 Kinks - Juke Box Music

19 Kinks - Till the End of the Day

20 Kinks - Victoria

21 Kinks - Destroyer

22 Kinks - Lola

23 Kinks - Come Dancing

24 Kinks - A Well Respected Man

Kinks Kovers Repost

Repost: This was fun to do. But also frustrating at the same time. I like the Kinks and originally was making a pick of my favorite Kinks songs. But I got to the frustrating part. The Kinks are great songwriters and sometimes great at recording. They are too British for me at times and my favorites are sometimes not anywhere near the top listened to songs by the Kinks. I compare them to the Who, but the Who were better in the studio. For instance, You Really Got Me. A great song. But Van Halen does it way better than the Kinks. In fact I like that song done better by 801 with Brian Eno. And Stop Your Sobbing. There is no doubt that the Pretenders do a much better version of the song. So that's not true for every song. But definitely a few. So I took some of my favorite covers of Kinks songs and put this together. Not an end all be all covers collection, just some of my favorites. Many versions of songs on this one. Some of my favorites: Shonen Knife, The Fall, Stranglers, The Jam, Nancy Sinatra, etc.

Kinks Kovers

01 Queens Of The Stone Age - Everybody's Gonna Be Happy

02 Def Leppard - Waterloo Sunset

03 Buster Poindexter - Alcohol

04 David Bowie - Waterloo Sunset

05 Sonny & Cher - Set Me Free

06 Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing

07 Green Day - Tired Of Waiting For You

08 Yo La Tengo - King Kong

09 Stranglers - All Day & All Of The Night

10 The Standells - Sunny Afternoon

11 801 - You Really Got Me

12 Monks Of Doom - King Kong

13 The Hammersmith Gorillas - You Really Got Me

14 Bob Geldof - Sunny Afternoon

15 Van Halen - You Really Got Me

16 Big Star - Till The End Of The Day

17 Silicon Teens - You Really Got Me

18 The Sun - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman

19 The Fall - Victoria

20 Robbie Williams - Lola

21 Lee Rocker - Come Dancing

22 The Jam - David Watts

23 Ace Frehley - Lola

24 Patti Lupone - Superman (Wish I Could Fly) (Live)

25 Shonen Knife - Till The End Of The Day

26 Gary Lewis & The Playboys - A Well Respected Man

What's The Connection? Workin' 1 (repost)

This repost connection is about working. I included jobs, hours everything about work in the USA. That means not all of them have work in the title, but they are all about having to work. In the Coal Mine, In the Car Wash or in the office, it's all work. A couple where people are tired of working (for good, or just until the next day and are stopping for a drink at the bar to recharge) and at least one about finding work. One of my favorites is the Rush song from early pre-Neil Peart Rush. It shows where they were going and is the best early Rush you will find.

What's The Connection? Workin' 1

01 Huey Lewis and the News - Workin' For A Livin'

02 Loverboy - Working For The Weekend

03 Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money

04 Dolly Parton - 9 To 5

05 Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It

06 Junior Brown - Ain't Gonna Work Today

07 Dwight Yoakam - Let's Work Together

08 Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

09 John Conlee - Working Man

10 Rose Royce - Car Wash

11 Jim Croce - Working At The Car Wash Blues

12 Lee Dorsey - Working In The Coal Mine

13 Michael Jackson - Working Day And Night

14 Prince - Let's Work

15 The Silhouettes - Get A Job

16 The Vogues - Five O'Clock World

17 Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary

18 Rush - Working Man

19 Weird Al Yankovic - Dog Eat Dog

20 James Brown - Living In America

21 Grandmaster Melle Mel - We Don't Work For Free

What's The Connection? Tired

Repost: I think I must have been getting little sleep around the time I was making this Connection. All songs with Tired in the title. My favorites of the tired songs I own. I only give myself the room on a CD, even though no one uses CD's anymore. So go ahead and place these in your iPod or on your phone and enjoy feeling tired, or sick and tired. I remember when I started this that the Beatles I'm So Tired was the inspiration to start it, but The Kinks and Rocky Burnette tunes were the ones that kept me going. Love all three of those songs! BTW, those are my tired dogs on their bed. They did not always look like this. Most of the time they were constant wiggle butts. 

What's The Connection? Tired

01 Buck Owens - Tired Of Livin'

02 Canned Heat - I'm So Tired

03 The Chavis Bros - So Tired

04 Leroy Thomas - I'm Tired And Hungry

05 Mose Allison - So Tired

06 Dynamic Nutones - Sick & Tired

07 Junior Wells - So Tired

08 Savoy Brown - I'm Tired

09 Rod Stewart - So Tired

10 Slowdive - So Tired

11 Uriah Heep - So Tired

12 Black Sabbath - Sick And Tired

13 Johnny Guitar Watson - Too Tired

14 Rocky Burnette - Tired Of Toein' the Line

15 Kinks - Tired of Waiting for You

16 Johnny Winter - Tired Of Tryin'

17 LCD Soundsystem - Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up

18 Buckwheat Zydeco - I'm Just So Tired

19 Hoodoo Gurus - Waking Up Tired

20 Haircut One Hundred - So Tired

21 Pixies - I've Been Tired

22 Beatles - I'm So Tired

23 Neville Grant - Sick and Tired

24 The Rolling Stones - Looking Tired

Do You Wanna Dance Repost

Not much I can say about this pick. Do You Wanna Dance was a playlist I made years ago on cassette. I redid it on CD and now as a playlist. I loved making cassettes at the time. It took real time to record. As for this pick, it's just songs I considered to be danceable. I probably have played every one of these songs at a gig somewhere way back then. When you play this, you will feel your butt start to wiggle, because these are very danceable. Tell me what you like (or don't) and what you would place in it's stead. The cover is similar to the cassette I originally made. Moody red with a script like title.

Do You Wanna Dance?

01 Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way

02 Pseudo Echo - Funkytown

03 Soft Cell - Tainted Love-Where Did Our Love Go

04 Book Of Love - Tubular Bells

05 Depeche Mode - Route 66

06 S-Express - Theme from S-Express

07 2 Men A Drum Machine And A Trumpet - Tired Of Getting Pushed Around

08 The Romantics - What I Like About You

09 Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye

10 Chic - Jack Le Freak

11 New Order - Blue Monday

12 Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween

13 Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind

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

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

16 Otis Day & The Knights - Shout

Bliksem 1 (Repost)

Repost of this playlist pick I called Bliksem. That is Dutch for Lightning. Not because it has anything to do with weather at all. But I started with Blitzkreig Bop and Ballroom Blitz, which all kinda mean lightning in German. The idea was to get songs that matched in intensity, if not speed of those songs. I guess it could be RIYL those songs. You could possibly use this as a playlist to run, or ski, or just to drive to. In fact, a couple of these songs are in my On The Road Again series (all songs to take on the road). I did post them one day three years ago. So enjoy this pick, I left off a couple that I might use in volume two including one of my favorites: Betty Blowtorch. One day I might make volume 2 (I did make it already). So leave any suggestions, but for volume 3, but only until after you listen to the pick. It's kind of like the Beat This pick. It just sounds good together.

Bliksem 1

01 Judas Priest - Breaking The Law

02 Deep Purple - Highway Star

03 Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

04 ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses

05 Golden Earring - Radar Love

06 Jethro Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery

07 Styx - Renegade

08 J Geils Band - Must Of Got Lost

09 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

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

11 Electric Light Orchestra - Four Little Diamonds

12 AC-DC - T.N.T.

13 Brownsville Station - Smokin' In The Boys' Room

14 Jefferson Starship - Ride the Tiger

15 Sniff 'N' The Tears - Driver's Seat

16 Cheap Trick - Surrender

17 Heart - Barracuda

18 Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

19 The Knack - My Sharona

20 Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Recommended If You Like (RIYL) Get Closer (repost)

I do like these picks. Recommended If You Like or RIYL. It is a fun sort of compilation, but easy for you to skip. If you don't like the main song or the main band, you probably won't like the rest of the songs. It is designed to give you songs that sound similar in feel to the main comparison song/band, whatever. In this case it is Seals & Crofts Get Closer. When I first heard Seals & Crofts I thought it was pleasant enough music, but at the time I was listening to the Isley Brothers and, I'm sorry, they are better. I grew to like Seals & Crofts and this song got me to listen to more stuff like it. Not the same kind of stuff like our last RIYL a few days ago. I hope you like this one. Leave a comment about any choices I might have missed or a RIYL that you would like to hear.

Recommended If You Like Get Closer

01 Seals & Crofts - Get Closer

02 England Dan & John Ford Coley - Nights Are Forever Without You

03 Gordon Lightfoot - Carefree Highway

04 Jefferson Starship - Runaway

05 Randy Vanwarmer - Just When I Needed You Most

06 Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds - Don't Pull Your Love

07 Doobie Brothers - You Belong to Me

08 Firefall - Strange Way

09 Stephen Bishop - On And On

10 Kenny Loggins - This Is It

11 Ambrosia - You're the Only Woman

12 Chicago - Just You 'N' Me

13 Carly Simon - You Belong To Me

14 Walter Egan - Magnet And Steel

15 Bread - Lost Without Your Love

16 Pablo Cruise - Love Will Find A Way

17 Christopher Cross - Never Be The Same

18 Rita Coolidge - We're All Alone

19 Bob Seger - We've Got Tonight

20 Climax Blues Band - I Love You

21 Gino Vannelli - I Just Wanna Stop

22 Paul Davis - I Go Crazy

Beat This (RIYL Hoodoo Gurus Leilani) Repost

Repost: This is kind of a RIYL (Recommended If You Like) playlist. I put Hoodoo Gurus in the title, but really it may not have started with them. But it kind of doesn't matter with RIYL's because pick any song that you like and the rest should be a little matchie-matchie. It has to do with the drum sound. To me they all have a similar feel. I know they don't actually, but they all could easily follow another. The Adam and the Ants track was from a flexi disc, but the rest should be on one album or another. Although the Passengers does seem difficult to find outside of Australia. Anyway enjoy this pick and by all means make some suggestions for a future volume. Not sure why, but I have always liked the cover. Simple.

Beat This

01 Hoodoo Gurus - Leilani
02 Multi Coloured Shades - Teen Sex Transfusion
03 Butthole Surfers - Dum Dum
04 The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck
05 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Pump It Up
06 Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
07 Godfathers - This Damn Nation
08 Billy Idol - Mony Mony
09 Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
10 Go Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
11 Josie Cotton - Johnny, Are You Queer
12 The Pandoras - In And Out Of My Life (In A Day)
13 Passengers - Girlfriend's Boyfriend
14 Bongos - Space Jungle
15 Fleshtones - I've Gotta Change My Life
16 Jules and the Polar Bears - Good Reason
17 Adam and the Ants - A.N.T.S.
18 Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
19 Soft Boys - Give It To The Soft Boys
20 Figures On A Beach - In Camera Obscura
21 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

What's The Connection? Jungle repost

Repost of one of the first posts on this site back in November 2021: A wide variety of songs with Jungle in the title. This Jungle What's the Connection? was inspired by my listening to Bootsy Collins and the Jungle Brothers at this time (over and over again). I got mesmerized by the two albums (EP and album). So i started thinking of other Jungle songs I liked. This is what came out. I am positive that there are hundreds more. Tell me your favorite Jungle song in the comments. I added George of the Jungle theme song, because there was room at the end of the CD. As always click on the album cover. BTW, If you dig the Bootsy, I suggest getting the whole EP: the long versions are killer.

WTC? Jungle

01 Richard Cheese - Welcome To The Jungle.mp3

02 Electric Light Orchestra - Jungle.mp3

03 Steve Miller Band - Jungle Love.mp3

04 Jethro Tull - Bungle in the Jungle.mp3

05 Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie.mp3

06 The Chakachas - Jungle Fever.mp3

07 Morris Day & The Time - Jungle Love.mp3

08 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Jungle Man.mp3

09 Yello - Jungle Bill (Essential Version).mp3

10 The B-52's - Juicy Jungle.mp3

11 Bongos - Space Jungle.mp3

12 Brian Eno - Back In Judy's Jungle.mp3

13 The Cramps - Jungle Hop.mp3

14 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run through the Jungle.mp3

15 The Vines - In The Jungle.mp3

16 The Eternals - Rockin' In The Jungle.mp3

17 The Cadets - Stranded in the Jungle.mp3

18 Rico - Jungle Music.mp3

19 Bob Marley - Concrete Jungle.mp3

20 Bootsy's Rubber Band - Jungle Bass (Short Version).mp3

21 Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle.mp3

22 TeeVee Toons - George of the Jungle.mp3

More Smoke Again Repost

Repost: This is another one of those CD picks I made for a buddy of mine. We went to so many concerts together. If you want to know about the More Smoke reference, look at the explanation on yesterday's post. Some of the bands that we saw, include David Bowie, Lou Reed, Yoko Ono (he went under protest, but we got to meet her and Sean), Jonathan Richman, Joe Pop-O-Pie, Roxy Music, Nina Hagen, Kraftwerk, Tones On Tail and hundreds more. Always a good show and always a great time. On the way we'd usually listen to the new album or whatever they were promoting and later, who knew. This was just a follow up pick to the last one. I can't remember who was coming soon then. Might have been Shonen Knife, or maybe Zappa Plays Zappa. or Lost Sounds. So long ago, I don't remember which one for sure.

More Smoke Again

01 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso

02 Beck - Loser

03 Radiohead - Creep

04 The Humans - Get You Tonight

05 Fabulous Poodles - Mirror Star

06 The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

07 The Strokes - Hard To Explain

08 David Bowie - Fly

09 Shonen Knife - Mosquitoes

10 Lost Sounds - Energy Drink & The Long Walk Home

11 The Faint - Agenda Suicide

12 Wall Of Voodoo - The Good The Bad & The Ugly-Hang 'Em High

13 Rosenkrantz, Almond, Nina Hagen - Total Eclipse

14 Pink Coffee - Another Brick In The Wall

15 Kraftwerk - Mega Mix

17 Thee Headcoatees - Come Into My Mouth

18 Dweezil Zappa - Dick Cinnamon's Office

More Smoke Repost

Repost: My friend Phil and I would often go to concerts in the Bay Area. We have similar tastes in some music. We disagreed on a few things, but usually we were pretty much on the same wave length. Although he would rather listen to old Velvet Underground or Brian Eno rather than listen to new stuff if he had the choice, he was open to new music every now and again. When we drove to concerts, many times I would drive and since I had a CD player in my car, I would make a CD that had songs that I figured he would like if he heard them. Anyway one day I had tickets to see a band that he did not know (My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult). We had a drive from San Jose to the I-Beam in San Francisco and I put together this pick to play on the drive. A few bands he knew (but not these songs) and some he didn't know. I ended up naming it More Smoke, because the I-Beam show had so much smoke that you could barely see the band. I won't even talk about drunken-ness and Back Seat Betty's, but that happened.

More Smoke

01 Red Zone - News From The Red Zone

02 Frank Zappa - Variations On The Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression

04 The Sisters Of Mercy - Emma

05 Pop -O- Pies - Fascists Eat Donuts

06 Nina Hagen - Hare Krishna

09 Devo - Mongoloid

10 Yoko Ono - Why

11 Quiet Sun - Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil

12 Wall Of Voodoo - Dance You Fuckers

13 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Kooler Than Jesus

14 Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of

Mixmag 25 Years 2 Repost

This is the repost of the second half of the Mixmag pick of 25 years of dance club hits and mixes. It'[s their pick and I just found all the mixes and compiled them for my use. All in BPM order per disc. Now that it's a playlist you can reorder it as one and I did give you a playlist as separate discs and as one. Just add to yesterday's post and it's all there. It was never a mainstream magazine, but one known to DJ's and clubbers. Now the mag doesn't exist except online. Use as your guide to a nice set of classic mixes. 

Mixmag 25 Years Disc 2 

13 Frankie Knuckles featuring Jamie Principle - Your Love (12 inch)

14 Orbital - Chime

15 Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You

16 Underworld - Rez

17 Mylo - Drop The Pressure

18 Age Of Love - Age Of Love (Jam & Spoon Watch Out For Stella)

19 Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face

20 Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness

21 Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar '98 (Original Three N' One Mix)

22 The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

23 Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel

24 System F - Out Of The Blue (Original 12'' Version)

25 Tony De Vit - The Dawn (Paul Janes Remix)

Mixmag 25 Years 1 Repost

Repost: Mixmag was a magazine for dance music and clubbing. Unless you are completely in to that or are a club DJ you probably didn't subscribe. Now they are online only. They put out yearly lists and reviews of club songs and mixes. Sometime in their history they put out a list of 25 years of mixes. I collected them all and made two CD's worth of music. So kind of my pick, but really theirs. They are each in order of BPM, so you could use two discs to mix the whole thing. Today I post the first disc, and tomorrow the second. Great for a dance club set.

Mixmag 25 Years Disc 1

01 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

02 Felix Da Housecat with Miss Kittin - Silver Screen Shower Scene

03 Daft Punk - Around The World

04 Faithless - Insomnia (Monster Mix Edit)

05 Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)

06 Groove Armada - Superstylin'

07 New Order - Blue Monday

08 Layo & Bushwacka - Love Story (Vs Finally)

09 Liquid - Sweet Harmony

10 Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Sweeping Strings Remix)

11 Sasha - Xpander

12 Underworld - Born Slippy Nuxx

New Beat

New Beat crawled out of the late 80s at a tempo that dared you to dance to it anyway. There is always a sense with this music that the drop is coming, just not yet. Maybe later. The acid squelches and industrial edges in this pick lean into that tension, the kind that never fully resolves. It shares DNA with house, but the relationship is complicated in ways that are hard to explain without just playing the record. But here it is part of my house cleaning.

New Beat

01 Code 61 - Drop The Deal

02 Amnesia - Hysteria

03 Dirty Harry - D-Bop

04 Rhythm Device - Acid Rock

05 Explorers Of The Nile - We Are All Egyptians

06 L&O - Even Now

07 Acts Of Madmen - The Dream

08 Confetti's - Sound of C...

09 Taste of Sugar - Hmm Hmm

10 Tribe 22 - Aciiiiiiied (12' Version)

11 Lords Of Acid - I Sit On Acid

12 Tragic Error - Tanzen

13 Langsam - Straks (Two Years Behind)

14 A Split Second - Flesh (The Original Mix)

15 Erotic Dissidents - Move Your Ass & Feel the Beat

16 The Concrete Beat - I Want You!

Workout Class Physique

Another one from the workout class files. These were made years ago for a friend who ran a fitness center. She was not worried about offending anyone. Brutally honest, ran a tight class, and apparently fine with whatever this pick turned into. It starts like a normal workout and slowly goes sideways. By the time Dean Martin shows up you have completely lost the plot. The energy is right though. Hard to argue with the tempo when your heart rate is already up. Check out the other workout class picks if you need more. 

Workout Class Physique

01 Touch And Go - Would You...

02 The B-52's - Work That Skirt

03 Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker

04 Ministry - Work For Love (Sex Slave Edit)

05 Divinyls - I Touch Myself

06 KC And The Sunshine Band - (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty

07 AC-DC - Touch Too Much

08 Kylie Minogue Vs New Order - Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head

09 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah!)

10 Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch

11 Peaches And Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing

12 MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

13 Tubes - Don't Touch Me There

14 Hugh Cornwell - Touch Touch

15 Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right

16 Fabulous Poodles - Bionic Man

17 Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It

18 Mariah Carey - Touch My Body

19 Nina Sky featuring Jabba - Move Ya Body

20 Dean Martin - Hey Good Looking

mzG

The title is three letters because that is how these get named, as usual. Hit the keyboard, see what comes up. Leftover tracks needed a home and enough of them piled up to justify a post. At least one track was a suggestion by one of you for another post. Finally got on here. The Three Letter Mixtape series always gets a spiral of some sort on the cover, that part is easy. What I actually spent time on this week was trying to find a decent spirograph video, failing, trying to make one with AI, and failing again. Completely unrelated. My pick for a set that came together cleaner than the artwork research did.

mzG

01 Marshall Jefferson - Ride The Rhythm (Remix)

02 Kraftwerk - The Mix Medley (Razormaid Mix)

03 Sole Patrol - Step On It

04 DJ Funk - Work That Body

05 Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth (Deep House Mix)

06 DJ Polinate - Ready, Fire, Aim

07 Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted (House Mix)

08 2 Men a Drum Machine & a Trumpet - Tired of Getting Pushed Around (Mayhem Rhythm Remix)

09 Jaxine - Jack Me Free (Less Summer Mix)

10 Pink Coffee - Another Brick in the Wall

11 Coldcut with Yazz & the Plastic Population - Doctorin' the House

12 House Engineers - Hit the House

13 Rhythim Is Rhythim - It Is What It Is

Whoesque

Everyone knows the textbook formula for chasing that classic Mod violence. Crank the amplifiers until the tubes melt, swing your arm like a windmill, and let the rhythm section play like they are trying to break through a brick wall. But if you are looking to dig past the mid-sixties blueprint and find something that actually mirrors the massive, synth-driven, heavy-bellied swagger of a track like Who Are You, you are going to be looking for a very long time. Nobody else really possesses the structural engineering required to balance that kind of high-concept arena theatricality with raw, street-level dirt without the whole thing collapsing into a pretentious mess. This particular pick does not bother trying to clone the impossible, choosing instead to tear through the entire genetic family tree of bands who took those chaotic British cues and ran them straight into the red. It is a loud, incredibly arrogant sequence of tracks that holds its ground perfectly, even if it leaves you hunting for a ghost that nobody else could ever actually capture. If you want to trace how these thematic sonic experiments usually turn out when people try to borrow a legendary blueprint, you can check out the previous Zeppelinesque entry to see the path, but don't expect anyone on this list to suddenly pull a synthesizer out of their back pocket.

Whoesque

01 The Attack - Any More Than I Do

02 Cheap Trick - He's A Whore

03 Spacehog - In The Meantime

04 Buzzcocks - Harmony in My Head

05 Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air

06 The Pretty Things - Don't Bring Me Down

07 Small Faces - Tin Soldier

08 The Birds - You're On My Mind

09 Raspberries - I Don't Know What I Want

10 The Sorrows - Take a Heart

11 Les Fleur De Lys - Mud In Your Eye

12 Mott The Hoople - Violence

13 The Poets - That's The Way It's Got To Be

14 The Creation - Making Time

15 Alarm - Sixty Eight Guns

16 The Action - I'll Keep Holding On (Original 1966 7 Mono Single Version)

17 Eyes - When The Night Falls

18 The Move - Brontosaurus

19 The Jam - Standards

20 Faces - Pool Hall Richard

21 Nazz - Open My Eyes

22 The Clash - 1977

Them's Fighting Words 7 (Southern Rock Pick)

Do I really expect you to believe I sat on this project for ages just to drop another volume right on top of the last one? Pull the other one, it's got bells on. Still, if I am determined to keep milking this cow, this seventh pick manages to avoid turning into a total train wreck. Stacking legendary, worn-out road warriors against newer acts should make for a jarring mess, but the tracking holds its ground remarkably well. I am shocked the whole thing doesn't choke on its own fumes, but it moves along fine right up to the final needle drop. If you want to see where this sudden burst of energy started, you can go dig up the previous Them's Fighting Words posts, but let's see how long this unexpected sprint actually lasts before I disappear again.

Them's Fighting Words 7

104 Bean Pickers Union - Warrior

105 Elvin Bishop - Travelin' Shoes

106 Marshall Tucker Band - See You One More Time

107 Gregg Allman Band - Thorn And A Wild Rose

108 Atlanta Rhythm Section - Georgia Rhythm

109 Outlaws - (Ghost) Riders In The Sky

110 Hank Williams, Jr. - All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight

111 Dickey Betts - Duane's Tune

112 Alabama Shakes - Hold On

113 The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

114 Drive-By Truckers - Goddamn Lonely Love

115 Little Feat - Willin'

116 Henry Paul Band - Grey Ghost

117 Confederate Railroad - Trashy Women

118 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone

119 Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky

Them's Fighting Words 6 (Southern Rock Pick)

There is only so much mileage you can squeeze out of denim and dual-lead guitars before the formula starts to decay, but these tracks refuse to roll over quietly. Instead of trailing off into a tepid victory lap, this mid-series pick hits like a rowdy, beer-soaked barroom brawl that stays remarkably light on its feet. The pacing relies entirely on sheer momentum, letting legendary, worn-in grooves trade punches with younger, heavy-bellied rock outfits without dropping the ball. I am honestly surprised it didn't collapse under its own weight, but the whole thing holds together perfectly through the final chord. You can dig right into the earlier chapters of Them's Fighting Words to see exactly how we got here, so don't go stripping the gears just yet because there is still a whole lot more coming down the pike.

Them's Fighting Words 6 

88 Clutch - Electric Worry

89 Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell

90 Molly Hatchet - Fall of the Peacemakers

91 ZZ Top - La Grange

92 Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider

93 38 Special - Rockin' Into The Night

94 Georgia Satellites - Battleship Chains

95 Stillwater - Mind Bender

96 The Winters Brothers Band - Sang Her Love Songs

97 Atlanta Rhythm Section - Champagne Jam

98 Mountain - Mississippi Queen

99 The Georgia Thunderbolts - Looking For An Old Friend

100 Cry Of Love - Peace Pipe

101 The Black Crowes - Hard To Handle

102 Allman Brothers Band - Jessica

103 Blackfoot - Rattlesnake Rock 'N' Roller

Surf Beat 5

I was starting to think this concept had fully run its course, but this batch proves there is still some gas left in the tank. Forcing classic, reverb-drenched twang to sit right alongside abrasive, snotty punk rock should result in total structural failure, but instead, it creates a weirdly infectious friction. This particular pick functions like a high-speed collision where the aggressive energy of the underground perfectly mirrors the frantic velocity of the tides. It is a loud, messy collision of subcultures that somehow feels completely intentional by the time the final note cuts out. If you want to dive deeper into this chaotic surf dynamic, the full archive is waiting, though this might just be the absolute final ride unless you guys have some suggestions to keep it going.

Surf Beat 5

120 Los Straitjackets - Nocturnal Twist

121 The Surfaris - Scatter Shield

122 Slacktone - Bells Of St. Kahuna

123 Agent Orange - Miserlou

124 Moms I'd Like to Surf - Major Surf

125 The Adolescents - Amoeba

126 Aqualads - Surf! Surf! Surf!

127 Circle Jerks - Wild In The Streets

128 The Weirdos - Solitary Confinement

129 Ribsy - Collapse

130 The Razorblades - Grease Your Hair and Get Tattooed

131 The Atlantics - Flight Of The Surf Guitar

132 Big Boys - Which Way To Go

133 The Electric Firebirds - Let's Make It

134 Swami John Reis & The Blind Shake - Brown Room

135 King Curtis & the Noble Men - Beach Party

136 The Waikikis - Hawaii Tattoo

137 The Bitch Boys - The Final Ride

138 Bob Collins & Fabulous Five - If I Didn't Have A Dime

139 The Archies - Sugar, Sugar

140 Bert Weedon - 40 Miles of Bad Road

141 The Faction - California Dreamin'

142 Mister Neutron - Comanchero

143 Wounds - China Doll

144 Dick Dale - Nitro

145 Mailbooz - My Baby Came Back On the Last Wave Today

146 The Tarantulas - A Fistful Of Dollars (Overture)

147 The Surfrajettes - Word Salad

148 Frankie and the Pool Boys - Cat Fight

149 Insect Surfers - Mojave

Son Of A...Pick 2

I expected this one to fight me a bit more, but it settled into a surprisingly comfortable groove. When you stack tracks that lean heavily on a shared attitude, you usually brace yourself for a sonic headache, but the pacing here keeps the energy from completely collapsing in on itself. The pick anchors the whole mess, letting the older instrumental grooves and the aggressive, modern thumping bounce off each other without feeling like total whiplash. I honestly didn't think these styles could share the same space so smoothly, but they do. If you missed the first round of this bitch, it might be time to catch up.

Son Of A...Pick 2

21 Bowling For Soup - The Bitch Song

22 Nero - Bitch I'm Gone

23 The Ventures - Son Of A Preacher Man

24 Nashville Pussy - The Bitch Just Kicked Me Out

25 Sylvie Vartan & Axelle Red - Son Of A Preacher Man

26 Red Aunts - Little Drummer Bitch

27 Gaelic Storm - Son Of A Poacher

28 Prince - Billy Jack Bitch

29 Bloodhound Gang - American Bitches

30 Rodney Carrington - Big Mouth, No Arm, Son of a Bitch

31 Room Eleven - Bitch

32 Bobby Shmurda - Bobby Bitch

33 The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

34 Stranglers - Bitching

35 Mark Mothersbaugh - Queen Bitch

36 Benga - Smack Your Bitch Up (Official Video)

37 Progidy, Noisia, Kill the Noise, Tiesto, Aoki - Tornado My Bitch Up (Rudebrat Mashup)

38 Guns N' Roses - Back off Bitch

39 Cartman - Kyle's Mom's A Bitch

What's The Connection? Slippery

Slippery is one of those words that sounds exactly like what it means. You know the feeling - you step somewhere you should not have, or you put your faith in someone who turned out to be exactly what the word implies, and there you are on the floor wondering how you got there. Happens to the best of us, sometimes on the same day. The Connection shares one track with a slipping post from a while back, same song, same version, showing up again like it owns the place. Watch your step.

What's The Connection? Slippery

01 Ambitious Lovers - Slippery

02 Kidz In The Hall, Masta Ace - Slippery Shoes

03 Staple Singers - Slippery People (Club Version)

04 Lauren Watkins with John Morgan - Slippery Slope

05 Funk Society - Slippery Slope

06 Tiptoes - Born Slippery

07 Talking Heads - Slippery People (12'' version)

08 Surprise Chef - Slippery Dip

09 Chicago Afrobeat Project - Slippery People

10 Karl Bryan & The Crystalites - Slippery

11 Ultrasonic Grand Prix featuring Little Barrie & Shawn Lee - Slippery When Chet

12 Commodores - Slippery When Wet

13 Doobie Brothers - Slippery St. Paul

14 Guthrie Govan - Wonderful Slippery Thing

15 Pink Floyd - Slippery Guitar

16 Stavely Makepeace - Slippery Rock 70's

17 Phabo featuring Destin Conrad - Slippery

18 Migos featuring Gucci Mane - Slippery

19 Angie Stone - Slippery Shoes

20 Mood II Swing - The Slippery Track

Slide Guitar 2

There is something about a slide that makes everything feel like it happened a long time ago, even when it didn't. This pick covers a lot of ground - Delta gospel grime, desert highways, devotional drone, slow cinematic burn - and the slide guitar set holds together better than that list probably suggests. Also part of the instruments series, if that means anything to you. What is your favorite Slide Guitar song?

Slide Guitar 2

18 Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Got To Move

19 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Like A Rock

20 Zac Brown Band - All Alright

21 Pink Floyd - High Hopes

22 Rory Gallagher - Want Ad Blues (AKA Wanted Blues)

23 George Thorogood And The Destroyers - Bad To The Bone

24 Bonnie Raitt - Give It Up Or Let Me Go

25 Derek Trucks Band - Sahib Teri Bandi-Maki Madni

26 Sonny Landreth - Congo Square

27 Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas

28 Richard Marx - Don't Mean Nothing

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

30 Led Zeppelin - In My Time Of Dying

31 Chris Rea - Road To Hell

Ambient House

I followed Brian Eno down the ambient rabbit hole back when Music For Airports came out, then kept following it through the EG and Obscure catalogs for years. When house producers started going that direction it felt like two things I already loved finding each other. When Ricki started talking about clouds I was done. That is probably why I ended up caring about this whole pick series and the rest of the house stuff at all.

Ambient House

01 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

02 Global Communication - 1431

03 Leftfield - Melt (Remastered)

04 The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea  (Original 12' Version)

05 Aphex Twin - Xtal

06 808 State - Pacific State

07 Spacetime Continuum With Terence McKenna - Archaic Revival

08 Orbital - Belfast

09 Ultramarine - Hymn

Tech House

There is a school of thought that says you should be ready before you fire, and aim before that. I spent years not subscribing to it, which is how this whole house cleaning thing happened. You fire, you see where it lands, and that is how aim gets refined. This pick is in the same spirit. It went in the folder, it got pulled back out, some things got moved, and now it is what it is. The tech robot on the cover looks like he's figuring it out too.

Tech House

01 Oxia - Domino

02 Camelphat & Elderbrook - Cola (Club Mix)

03 Mark Knight & Funkagenda - Man With The Red Face (Original Club Mix)

04 DJ Polinate - Ready, Fire, Aim

05 Patrick Topping - Forget (Original Mix)

06 Fisher - Losing It

07 Shiba San - Okay (Original Mix)

08 Dubfire - Roadkill (Original Club Mix)

09 Green Velvet - Bigger Than Prince (Hot Since 82 Remix)

10 M.A.N.D.Y. Vs. Booka Shade - Body Language (Original Mix)

11 Azari & III - Hungry For The Power (Jamie Jones Ridge Street Remix)

Dave Alvin family

Most people have no idea that I am originally from Los Angeles, California. Although I did not know Dave Alvin or his brother or any of these associated bands in this pick from encounters in that area, it's hard to not cheer for that whole scene. I had a couple of times when I got to meet Dave Alvin (none in Southern California.) I did get to drink moonshine with him and a couple of the guys from X in Austin. That was probably the most fun, The other times were interviews. Anyway, this is not all of his projects and side projects, but it's a good sampling. And it does get the bulk of his most popular songs, if not always the version that was the most well known. It gives you something to search for. I put this in my Rockabilly section at home, but it's that and Roots and Americana all at once.

Dave Alvin family

01 Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - California's Burning

02 Dave Alvin - King Of California

03 Dave Alvin & Peter Case - Monday Morning Blues

04 Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Downey To Lubbock

05 Dave Alvin - Harlan County Line

06 Canned Heat with Dave Alvin - Blind Owl

07 Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin - All By Myself

08 Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin - World's In A Bad Condition

09 The Third Mind - Journey In Satchidananda

10 The Blasters - Dark Night

11 Knitters - The Call Of The Wreckin Ball

12 The Blasters - I'm Shakin'

13 Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - Marie Marie

14 X - 4th Of July

15 The Blasters - So Long Baby Goodbye

16 Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men - Out In California

17 Los Lobos featuring Dave Alvin - Somewhere In Time

18 The Pleasure Barons - Take A Letter Maria

19 The Blasters - American Music

What's The Connection? Holy 2

The word sounds different depending on who's singing it, and this volume has more range than it probably should. Rock, funk, art-pop, doom metal, and a Japanese all-female shred band all checked in, and the Connection holds up better than you'd expect from a word that's been claimed by everyone from the devout to the profane. The first holy one set a low bar, so this one had nowhere to go but up. It must be late or early, because I hate what I wrote here. Hopefully the music is better than what I came up with here.

What's The Connection? Holy 2

21 Bad Company - Holy Water

22 Scorpions - Unholy Alliance

23 David Axelrod - Holy Thursday

24 Dio - Holy Diver

25 Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper - His Holy Modal Majesty

26 Tom Tom Club - Holy Water

27 Amy Winehouse - Some Unholy War

28 Headswim - Holy Ghost

29 Kiss - Unholy

30 Madonna - Holy Water

31 Prince - The Holy River

32 Sam Smith & Kim Petras - Unholy

33 Death In June - Holy Water

34 Ian Gillan & Tony Iommi - Holy Water

35 Lovebites - Holy War

Almost Gosple 2

Gospel's a wide tent and this one parks right at the edge of it. Some of these artists would probably argue they don't belong here, but they do. There's enough choir, enough conviction, and enough of that feeling you can't quite name to hold it all together. I had fun with this pick. I was looking around for a specific feel and sound that is almost gospel. Well, some of it probably is. If I thought it might fit in a tent with Debra Winger and Steve Martin, it was probably okay. If you know, you know. Faith optional, good ears required. Happy Birthday Mom.

Almost Gosple 2

19 Michael Jackson - Will You Be There

20 U2 featuring New Voices of Freedom - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

21 Dottie Peoples & The Peoples Choice Chorale - He's An On Time God

22 Sounds Of Blackness - Hold On (Change Is Comin')

23 Fred Hammond - No Weapon

24 Hezekiah Walker - Grateful

25 Kirk Franklin - Brighter Day

26 Ai Factory Song - Many Men

27 Lamp House - Because I Got High 

28 Replayd Music - Words I Saved For You

29 BeBe & CeCe Winans - Addictive Love

30 Lauren Daigle - You Say

31 Tobymac - Feel It

32 Marc Cohn - Walking In Memphis

33 Solomon Ray - Goodbye Temptation

34 Travis Greene - Intentional

What's The Connection? Flowers 1

The old house had rose bushes out front that people would lean over the fence and just take. Ask first and fine, but just grab them and three dogs get sent out. They sounded dangerous. But boxers are just wiggle butts in reality. Anyway, help yourself to these flowers. No fence, no dogs. My mother's birthday is tomorrow, and there is no real Connection between stolen roses and barking boxers and me, except she loved all three and I thought of her the moment I started typing.

What's The Connection? Flowers 1

01 Fishbone - Black Flowers

02 Big Daddy - You Don't Bring Me Flowers

03 Chris Isaak - Black Flowers

04 Tom Petty - Wildflowers

05 Earth, Wind & Fire - Where Have All The Flowers Gone

06 Shriekback - Faded Flowers

07 Miley Cyrus - Flowers

08 Plasticland - Wallflowers

09 Chocolate Watch Band - Flowers

10 Budgie - Flowers In The Attic

11 The Cure - A Chain Of Flowers

12 Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers

13 Brad Paisley - Flowers

14 Knitters - Give Me My Flowers

15 Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

16 Prince - Elephants & Flowers

17 The Move - Flowers In The Rain

18 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Feasting On The Flowers

19 Echo & The Bunnymen - Flowers

20 Drivin' N' Cryin' - Count The Flowers

What's The Connection? Operator

Good luck explaining the cover to anyone under forty. Human telephone operators are basically gone, and the kind who could work a room and talk a stranger into a drink are not far behind. Even operators in the picking up people in bars sense are not really a thing anymore, are they? The Connection we make nowadays is probably by text or swiping one direction or another. I am not out there, so I have no idea which direction. Maybe you can tell me. Nobody gets put on hold anymore? They're just ghosted?

What's The Connection? Operator

01 The The - Helpline Operator

02 Bryan Ferry - All Night Operator

03 The White Stripes - Hello Operator

04 Bleep - The Operator

05 Tony & Tyrone - Please Operator

06 Was (Not Was) - Hello Operator

07 Stan Ridgway - Operator Help Me

08 Sade - Smooth Operator

09 Grateful Dead - Operator

10 Mikey Dread - Operator's Choice

11 Buzzcocks - Operator's Manual

12 Talking Heads - Dream Operator

13 Midnight Star - Operator

14 Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator

15 Mary Wells - Operator

16 Jim Croce - Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)

17 Real McCoy - Operator

18 Manhattan Transfer - Operator

19 Buckethead - Stun Operator

20 Keith Hampshire - Big Time Operator

21 Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Big Time Operator

Meat Loaf | Original Sin

Like yesterday this pick is imagining Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman actually made an album called Original Sin. In reality Steinman made it with a band he made that he called Pandora's Box. It was a decent album with a bunch of good songs. Several songs that Meat did later for his other albums. I left a couple of instrumentals and spoken word stuff that no one else did as Pandora's Box. There were a couple of covers, I put versions in that liked better. I remixed one of the covers. And Back To Hell. I put a couple of extra tracks in as a surprise and the ones I messed with in case you want the originals instead. You'll see. One extra track was the B-Side of a 12" (16 minutes long). Not for every day, but fun to listen to every now and then. I redid the cover. It's more in between styles of the original and what I imagine Meat Loaf would have used (Bat Out Of Hell influences).

Meat Loaf - Original Sin

01 Pandora's Box - The Invocation

02 Meat Loaf - Original Sin

03 Doors - Twentieth Century Fox (Original Sin Remix)

04 Love - My Little Red Book

04 Pandora's Box - Safe Sex

05 Meat Loaf - Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)

06 Meat Loaf - Back Into Hell-(Requiem Metal For) A Teenager In Love

07 Pandora's Box - I've Been Dreaming Up A Storm Lately

08 Meat Loaf & Marion Raven - It's All Coming Back To Me Now

09 Pandora's Box - The Opening Of The Box

10 Pandora's Box - The Want Ad

12 Meat Loaf - It Just Won't Quit

13 Pandora's Box - Pray Lewd

14 Meat Loaf - The Future Ain't What It Used To Be

Meat Loaf | Renegade Angel (Bad For Good)

In 1977 rock and roll was hit with a monster album by Meat Loaf (and Jim Steinman): Bat Out Of Hell. People wanted a followup album, but Meat Loaf was having issues (with his voice, his house, etc). Not important. But Steinman had an album pretty much written and was pressured to make the album. It took until 1981 to get released and he called it Bad For Good. It didn't do that badly, because people wanted it, but Steinman (and Rory Dodds and much of the same crew from Bat) wasn't Meat Loaf. Over the years after that album was released Meat recorded and released many of the songs on other albums. I always wondered what would the album sound like if they had released it together. This pick is as close as you will get. All the versions Meat did. Only two songs that he didn't quite do. One was The Storm (an instrumental) they did record an excerpt on Bat III. I put it here, but the Steinman album version is better, so it's here too. And the one song that never was redone: Dance In My Pants which kinda got panned and will remind you of another track in the first Bat. I put the Steinman version here. The Meat Loaf album was going to be called Renegade Angel, so that's what you get.

Meat Loaf | Renegade Angel (Bad For Good)

01 Meat Loaf - Seize The Night (The Storm Excerpt)

02 Jim Steinman - The Storm

03 Meat Loaf - Bad For Good

04 Meat Loaf - Wasted Youth

05 Meat Loaf - Lost Boys and Golden Girls

06 Meat Loaf featuring Jim Steinman - Stark Raving Love

07 Meat Loaf - Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)

08 Meat Loaf - Surf's Up

09 Jim Steinman with Karla DeVito - Dance In My Pants

10 Meat Loaf - Left In The Dark

11 Meat Loaf - Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through

Ait

I really can't believe I am having two of these within days of each other after not having any for a while, but here you go another mixtape pick that belongs in the three letter category for me. More rock and roll and all of it around 92 bpm. These edits fit well together and are in camelot key order (I almost typed odor.) Oops! A couple of these were big hits, but much of it are secondary should be hits. None stink. No way whatsoever to be able to explain the title. I have no reasons but there is some rhyme in here. BTW, track 18 is not named properly (it is those guys, that's right) But it is also G3. Saw a version of G3 in concert. They were great, but it was a different version. It's always Joe, but the guys with him change.

Ait

01 Jefferson Starship - Love Too Good

02 Triumph - Fight the Good Fight

03 Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight

04 Sammy Hagar - Three Lock Box

05 Digger and the Pussycats - Coming to Get You

06 J Geils Band - Freeze-Frame

07 Black Sabbath - War Pigs

08 AC-DC - Back In Black

09 Beatles - I'm Down

10 Living Colour - Cult Of Personality

11 Sweet - The 6-Teens

12 Switchfoot - Out Of Control

13 The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind

14 The James Gang - Funk # 49

15 Kneel Dung & Psychotic Pony - Paid For By A King

16 Scorpions - Every Minute Every Day

17 Maroon 5 - How

18 Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson - My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama

19 Pat Travers - I La La Love You