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

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

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

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)

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

Blame It On H.I.V.

This isn't my fault. Another five days went by and even though I thought no more of these were coming, here's another one. Blame this one on H.I.V.  Seems like yesterday, but it's been some forty years that everyone was worried about contracting Aids and that we were holding concerts and benefits to fight it. Now it's responsible for this mixtape pick. All of this playlist seems to be at 108 bpm. I can't find a reason why. Your guess is as good as mine. We'll have to see if there is another one of these in five days or not.

Blame It On H.I.V.

01 Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You

02 INXS vs Smokey Robinson - Need To Be With You Tonight

03 Perry Como - Magic Moments

04 Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are

05 Marlena Shaw - Yu-Ma-Go Away Little Boy

06 Tavares - More Than a Woman

07 Cameo - She's Strange

08 The Fatback Band - Freak The Freak The Funk

09 B.T. Express - Express

10 Diana Ross - Upside Down

11 Nina Hagen - Revolution Ballroom

12 Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok

13 The Weeknd - I Can't Feel My Face

14 UB40 - Hip Hop Lyrical Robot

15 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

16 Sweat Band - Freak To Freak (Single Version)

17 Brian Eno - No One Receiving

18 Bananarama - Cruel Summer

Blame It On F.L.U.

Every five days or so, like a miracle a new playlist pick has been getting posted that I have nothing to do with. This might be the last one. But don't blame me if it isn't. Blame this one on the FLU. The whole thing started almost a month ago at 118 bpm, but it wasn't me. Five days ago it went up as high as 153 bpm and that's high enough. Now it seems like it has dropped down 5 bpm from the random beginning. Too many weird things happening. Just emjoy it or don't. Doesn't matter to me. I probably will get the FLU. This one doesn't follow the rules again. I can't think of any disease or malady with the initials of F.L.U. Can you? (Influenza doesn't count here.)

Blame It On F.L.U.

01 Chocolate Milk - Blue Jeans

02 Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

03 Magazine - Shot By Both Sides

04 Big Daddy - Hit Me With Your Best Shot

05 KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight

06 Lydia Lunch - Spooky

07 Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love

08 Taste Of Sugar - Hmm Hmm

09 Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around And Fell In Love

10 Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

11 Foghat - Slow Ride

12 Neil Young - Like A Hurricane

13 Sun - Wanna Make Love (Come Flick My Bic)

14 Erasure - A Little Respect

15 The Buckinghams - Kind Of A Drag

16 Adrian Belew - Elephants

17 Sam & Dave - Soul Man

18 Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)

19 Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)

20 The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go

Blame It On P.O.X.

I take no responsibility for this pick, Not for the fact that it isn't even following the rules. I mean P.O.X. doesn't stand for something, it's not even an acronym. It's just short for Small Pox (or chicken pox). So it hasn't followed the rules at all. Well, I guess it's a malady or disease. And it obsolves me from taking responsibility, so in that sense it is. It is being posted five days apart from the last one. And the bpm is five away from the last one. But all that is just coincidence, I am sure. The songs don't match much so this must be over. But if it isn't, don't blame me.

Blame It On P.O.X.

01 OutKast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)

02 Inmates - Dirty Water

03 Abba - When I Kissed The Teacher

04 Frog Sandwich - Dorky Days

05 Waitiki - When First I Love

06 Joy Division - Transmission

07 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love

08 Untouchables - Free Yourself

09 Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits

10 Josie And The Pussycats - Road Runner

11 Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home

12 Black Eyed Peas - Pump It

13 Brian Setzer Orchestra - Brand New Cadillac

14 Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

15 Vandals - Ladykiller

16 Just Brothers - Sliced Tomatoes

17 Con Funk Shun - Can't Go Away

18 Ministry - Stigmata

19 Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

20 Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get

21 Rosie Ledet - You Can Eat My Poussiere (You Can Eat My Dust)

22 Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire

Blame It On A.L.S.

I will not take the blame for this pick. It's not my fault, once again. That's just the way it goes. That each song is the same bpm at 148 and that it just happens to be five more than the last one and that this is posted five days past the last one is ALL COINCIDENCE. And it certainly means I bear no responsibility for it. Although it is werid that just yesterday someone was talking about Feargal Sharkey. I will have to do something someday with some songs of his. All that being said none of these maladies and illnesses are anything fun, so don't take my flippance to have anything to do with the actual three letter diseases.

Blame It On A.L.S.

01 Revolting Cocks - Something Wonderful

02 Sleater-Kinney - Oh!

03 Kissing The Pink - Love Lasts Forever

04 Brian Eno & David Byrne - Help Me Somebody

05 Chuck Higgins - Pachuko Hop

06 Daryl Hall & John Oates - Sara Smile

07 Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

08 Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf

09 Bang! Bang! - Candystop

10 Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4

11 Malo - Nena

12 Rockpile - Teacher Teacher

13 The Undertones - Tearproof

14 Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

15 Beatnix - Stairway to Heaven

16 Devo - Mongoloid

17 Joy Division - Novelty

18 Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women

19 Roy Orbison with kd Lang - Crying

20 Scientist - First Dangerous Match

21 Sammy Hagar - Red

Blame It On T.K.O.

I am not to blame for this pick. And franksly I do not want to be. Out of all of them so far, I am least happy with this one. I think it has to do with Michael Franks (who I love, btw) but this song after listening to it a few times, just hasn't aged that well. Not just the content of a song about a joystick (do people still use joysticks?) in fact I have been looking for more than the three decent Joystick songs to make a video game connection. That's not happening soon. But the song is dated in it's sound and not in a good way. Not my fault though. It's upped another 5 bpm and another 5 days. Too bad.

Blame It On T.K.O.

01 Michael Franks - Now That Your Joystick's Broke

02 Ray Materick - Linda Put the Coffee On

03 Combustible Edison - Junglero

04 Inka Inka - Is This Justice

05 The Alan Parsons Project - Let's Talk About Me

06 Gaelic Storm - Devil Down Below

07 Antonio Carlos Jobim - Aguas De Marco

08 Klaus Nomi - Total Eclipse

09 Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute

10 Steve Morse Band - Heightened Awareness

11 The Ventures - Walk Don't Run 2000

12 Bananarama - No Feelings

13 Pixies - Vamos

14 Bee Gees - I Started A Joke

15 Iggy Pop - Candy

16 John Fogerty - Centerfield

17 Todd Rundgren - Bang The Drum All Day

18 Lou Reed - Don't Talk To Me About Work

19 Aerosmith - Draw The Line

20 Belinda Carlisle - Mad About You

21 Grateful Dead - Dark Star

22 Beach Boys - Rock And Roll Music

23 Big Daddy - Star Wars

24 Bob Welch - Sentimental Lady

Blame It On T.D.S.

Not sure how many more of these I will do, but I do like them. I have to take no responsibility for any of the songs on this pick, because I am blaming it on a malady, disease or condition. My wife was listening to this and said only in your brain do these songs make any sense together. I told her it wasn't my fault. I blamed it all on the orange man, which makes sense. It doesn't go together because of the BPM - They're all the same (133). It doesn't make sense because they are all in mixable camelot order, but they are. It definitely doesn't make sense that the Tubes, the Village People and the Fabulous Poodles are all on it and next to each other, touching. Yuck! But don't blame me. Unless you like it, but it's still not me.

Blame It On T.D.S.

01 Felix Da Housecat - Madame Hollywood (Tigas Mr Hollywood Version)

02 Elton John - The Bitch Is Back

03 Luxuria - Public Highway

04 Garbage - Boys Wanna Fight

05 Tones on Tail - OK This is the Pops

06 Tubes - Don't Touch Me There

07 Village People - Macho Man (Long Version)

08 Fabulous Poodles - Mirror Star

09 Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) (12 inch version)

10 The B-52's - Dirty Back Road

11 Frank Zappa - Cocaine Decisions

12 Herbie Mann - Do It Again

13 Adrian Belew - Op Zop Too Wah

14 The Jam - Away From The Numbers

15 Electric Light Orchestra - Shine A Little Love

16 Stranglers - Always The Sun (Long Hot Sunny Side Up...)

17 The Pandoras - In And Out Of My Life (In A Day)

18 Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle

19 Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons - Dawn (Go Away)

20 Who - I'm A Boy

Blame It On S.T.D.

Another volume of the Blame It On... playlist pick. Five days ago, I blamed it on A.D.D. and ten days ago I blamed it on O.C.D.  and today I blame it on S.T.D. The thing I am blaming it on has nothing to do with the actual songs played.I will probably run out of things to blame it on soon enough and then I will have to take responsibility (sure.) I have a few more of these lined up, but not at 128 bpm like this one. Just right to get an S.T.D. (I'm guessing.) And certainly this Midnight Star track might contribute. A couple of tracks that I really have to mention. First, the Poltergeist track which is also on the Echo & The Bunnymen Family Pick. I like this track, but they are not as big as the band they came from. And also lesser known is the band Until December which has a good story worth checking out.

Blame It On S.T.D.

01 Midnight Star - Slow Jam

02 AC-DC - Sin City

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

04 Wall Of Voodoo - Ring of Fire

05 Stranglers - Skin Deep

06 M.E.S.H. - Meet Every Situation Head On

07 Echo & The Bunnymen - Ticket To Ride

08 Walk The Moon - Shut Up and Dance

09 Philip Bailey with Phil Collins - Easy Lover

10 Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown

11 Until December - Heaven

12 Yello - Vicious Games

13 Duck Sauce - It's You

14 Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin' You

15 Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice (Orange Factory Radio Mix)

16 Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

17 The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling

18 Sensato featuring Pitbull & Sak Noel - Crazy People (PO Clean Radio Edit)

19 Sweet - Fox On The Run

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

Blame It On O.C.D.

Five days ago, I started a new series of mixtapes that I called Blame It On... Mostly because I didn't want to take responsibility for the choices (that I made all on my own). The picks are all mine, but in going along with recent developments in society, I wanted to blame external forces for something that is entirely in my control. No personal responsibility. Let me know how it's working. Are you falling for it? I started with Radioactive Goldfish (who I love). I got a promo from the band at CMJ or SXSW or one of those conventions and I've been playing them ever since. Tell their promo guys it worked. It was cool vinyl. The fact that it sounded even better, definitely helped. BTW, OCD (which should be called CDO - think about it) has nothing to do with all the songs being 123  BPM. That's probably coincidence, but it isn't my fault whatever it is.

Blame It On O.C.D.

01 Paul McCartney - Goodnight Tonight

02 Everything But The Girl - Wrong

03 Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise-Headhunter (Medley)

04 Chris Isaak - Dancin'

05 Killing Joke - Love Like Blood

06 Radioactive Goldfish - LSD Is The Bomb

07 Voice Farm - Free Love

08 Chris and Cosey - Synthaesthesia

09 CJ & Co - Devil's Gun

10 Nina Hagen - Cosma Shiva

11 Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice

12 The Ozark Mountain Daredevils - If You Wanna Get To Heaven

13 Cerebral Corps - Myopia

14 The Clash - Radio Clash

15 Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)

16 The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes

17 Butthole Surfers - Dum Dum

18 Lightning Seeds - Pure

Blame It On A.D.D.

I'm thinking this might be a new series of mixtapes, where I pick stuff and blame it on something or someone else. This one will be Attention Deficit Disorder. Look a squirrel! So there really is a connection between these songs. I'm just not telling you what it is. Good luck! BTW, the covers will be similar enough to know it's related, but they will each stand on their own. What do you think I should blame future ones on? Also just so you know the original Blame Connection is here.

Blame It On A.D.D.

01 Awolnation - Sail

02 Carter Tutti Void - T 3.2

03 David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

04 Was (Not Was) - Spy In The House Of Love (Streetsahead Mix)

05 Love & Rockets - So Alive

06 Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better

07 The B-52's - Mesopotamia

08 Thomas Dolby - Airhead

09 Yello - Jungle Bill

10 Concrete Blonde - Joey

11 Psychic TV - Papal Breakdance

12 Cabaret Voltaire - Sluggin' For Jesus

13 Department of Crooks - Plan 9 From Las Vegas

14 Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses

15 Figures On A Beach - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

16 Yaz - Situation