All I Really Want Is You (Repost of Love Songs)

This repost of a cassette turned CD, turned playlist of Love Songs has some great songs on it. Everything I wrote before about this pick still stands. So read it there. The link is updated on this page. Just for you on Valentines day (close enough). Doesn't matter who you love, this is appropriate.

All I Really Want Is You

01 Yardbirds - For Your Love

02 Paul Revere & The Raiders - All I Really Need Is You

03 Association - Never My Love

04 The Monkees - It's Nice To Be With You

05 Nat King Cole - (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons

06 The Platters - One In A Million

07 Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror

08 Association - Standing Still

09 Dire Straits - Hand In Hand

10 Roxy Music - To Turn You On

11 Association - Cherish

12 The Mojo Man - Sit Down, I Think I Love You

13 Everly Brothers - Devoted To You

14 The Rascals - A Girl Like You

15 Turtles - Happy Together

16 Chocolate Watch Band - I Ain't No Miracle Worker

17 Brian Eno - I'll Come Running

18 Roxy Music - All I Want Is You

19 Animals - I'm In Love Again

20 The Tremeloes - As You Are

21 Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter

Mercedes De Milo 4

It has been a while since I posted up one of these. The Mercedes De Milo pick started long ago, but has not stopped. Click on that link to find volume one where I tell the story. Even though it is long past the origins, I still have the PZA lalbel for this pick. Nostalgia, I guess. This one has a little mini connection going through it. See if you can guess what it is. Not too difficult. But I left you something like a Hi Lights Find The Difference. I used to love getting that magazine when I was a kid. Come to think of it, was that even the name of it? Goofus and Gallant I remember. First saw it at my Doctor's Office and we made mom get it for us. Sidetracked by the squirrel I see. Anyway these fit in nicely with the rest of the set. Someday I'll post volume 5. Any suggestions for it?

Mercedes De Milo 4

71 Robert Seidler - Christian Boy

72 Pixies - Where is My Mind

73 The Primitives - Crash

74 Violent Femmes - Add It Up

75 Young Fresh Fellows - Rock 'n' Roll Pest Control

76 Gun Club - Sex Beat

77 Los Lobos - Don't Worry Baby

78 Sha-Na-Na - Rock 'N' Roll Is Here To Stay

79 They Might Be Giants - Instanbul (Not Constantinople)

80 Cake - Rock N' Roll Lifestyle

81 Soft Boys - Rock 'n' Roll Toilet

82 Chris Isaak - Dancin'

83 The Del Fuegos - Don't Run Wild

84 Beat Farmers - Powderfinger

85 The Blasters - Dark Night

86 Buck Naked  And The Bare Bottom Boys - Bend Over, Baby (And Let Me Drive)

87 Pursuit Of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now

88 Gaelic Storm - Johnny Tarr

89 Pearl Harbor & The Explosions - Drivin'

90 A Drop In The Gray - All The Same

91 The Monochrome Set - He's Frank (Slight Return)

92 Paul Collins' Beat - Rock N Roll Girl

93 Chuck Berry - Rock And Roll Music

First Summer Potpourri

Imagine you recently started dating someone in college and before they leave for the summer: surprise, surprise you get an unexpected cassette thay secretly had made for you. They mail it to you so you get the pick after they have left. Whoa! That's pretty cool. This is such a cassette. I wasn't expecting it. It had really cool songs on it. Several that were new releases at the time. And it has a message. A message of longing, but still a bit unsure. Testing the waters to see if I felt the same about her as she did about me. And also wanting to impress me with her knowledge of music. It worked. I ended up driving hours and hours in a bus to go see her as soon as I could. If I wasn't as much of a simpleton, it probably could have lasted much longer. Either way it ended up lasting for years. I was smitten. This cassette was a good reason for the start of that. I still don't understand a couple of the choices, but the other 95% I totally do.

First Summer Potpourri

01 Elvis Costello - Girls Talk

02 The Inkspots - If I Didn't Care

03 Suzanne Fellini - Love On The Phone

04 The Chipmunks - Christmas Don't Be Late

05 Elvis Costello - My Funny Valentine

06 The Selector - On My Radio

07 Icehouse - Sister

08 Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

09 Sue Saad & The Next - Won't Give Up

10 Romantics - She's Got Everything

11 Graham Parker - Heat Treatment

12 The Sinceros - I Still Miss You

13 The Inmates - The Walk

14 Joe Jackson - Jumpin' With Symphony Sid

15 Elvis Costello - Big Boys

16 Romantics - When I Look In Your Eyes

17 Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him

18 The Motels - Forever Mine

Piece Of PZA 2

Part two of the Piece of PZA cassette. This pick of songs I really liked and that I thought this girl liked did not have the success I was hoping for. I was probably unredeemable by then. Totally my fault for the break up and even if this was a great collection of songs, there was no way it was going to bring that relationship back to life. Oh well, I was devastated for awhile, but I ended up with this pick of cool songs. Now you get the benefit of my desperate attempt to salvage something out of my emotional immaturity. I've improved, but still have a long way to go.

Piece Of PZA 2

10 Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman

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

12 Kool & The Gang - Celebration

13 Brothers Johnson - Stomp

14 The Contours - Do You Love Me

15 The Whispers - It's A Love Thing

16 Ray Parker Jr. - The Other Woman

17 Rose Royce - Do Your Dance

18 Rap Reiplinger - Loving You Is Surfing You

19 Heatwave - Sho'nuff Must Be Luv

Piece Of PZA 1

This was once a cassette. A pick for a girl. So this was side one of the 90 minute cassette. You can pretty much tell what I was listening to at the time. Early 80's soul pop funk mixed with a few seventies tracks. This was not what I would call a successful Cassette, because not too long after, she made that move away from me. I was still very smitten at the time so I always liked the playlist. Maybe it will work better for you. Either way the songs are good.

Piece Of PZA 1

01 Gap Band - Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)

02 Rick James - Give It to Me Baby

03 Prince - Let's Work

04 Brick - Sweat (Till You Get Wet)

05 Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money

06 Earth, Wind & Fire - Magnetic

07 Michael Jackson - Thriller

08 Shalamar - Make That Move

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

Mercedes De Milo 3

This is volume 3 of the Mercedes De Milo pick. By now you get the feel of these compilations. A little Louis Jordan to mix in with the new wave. Funny how what was once included in New Wave. Not sure if people would call some of this stuff new wave anymore, but back then there was a lot more leeway. I liked the loose definition better, so you can mix different types of music in together. I didn't quite make another volume of this, but you probably could easily enough. Give me your suggestions in the comments. Might be fun to do.

Mercedes De Milo 3

49 Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

50 Flesh For Lulu - Seven Hail Marys

51 Jags - Back of My Hand

52 Jason & The Scorchers - White Lies

53 Hoodoo Gurus - Tojo (Never Made It to Darwin)

54 Joe Jackson - I'm The Man

55 Alex Chilton - No Sex

56 Wire Train - Chamber Of Hellos

57 dB's - Amplifier

58 Guster - One Man Wrecking Machine

59 John Hegley and the Popticians - I Saw My Dinner On TV

60 Marshall Crenshaw - You're My Favorite Waste Of Time

61 Robyn Hitchcock - Listening To The Higsons

62 Louis Jordan - Beans And Cornbread

63 Translator - Everywhere That I'm Not

64 REM - Shiny Happy People

65 Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth

66 Harlequin - Innocence

67 Prism - Don't Let Him Know

68 Odds - Someone Who's Cool

69 Rockpile - Teacher Teacher

70 Tin Huey - I'm A Believer

Mercedes De Milo 2

I still kept the tag PZA, in case anyone was interested to see which ones were made or inspired by her, but by this volume it was just inspiration, she didn't have a hand in making this pick, I did, however, use the same criteria for picking out songs. And my album collection was growing at the time. I went from a few hundred albums to multiple crates of albums. I was trying to diversify, too. But much of what I was collecting was in this genre. Once a month I went to Tower Records and I would just go through asection I hadn't really gone through, Jazz, Classical, World etc. and pick out an album by the name and cover. No idea what was inside. Just pick it. I picked a few duds, but mostly I was lucky and picked some really cool stuff. None of that is on this pick, but just to get you an idea of where my head was at.

Mercedes De Milo 2

24 The Young Fresh Fellows - Amy Grant

25 Nick Lowe - I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass

26 Elvis Costello - Waiting For The End Of The World

27 Cracker - Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)

28 Lmnop - Please Believe Me

29 Barenaked Ladies - Get In Line

30 Dave Edmunds - Crawling From The Wreckage

31 Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around with Jim

32 Radiohead - Creep

33 The Endmen - Letter From Constance

34 Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen - Two Triple Cheese Side Order Fries

35 Violent Femmes - Country Death Song

36 REM - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

37 Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

38 Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World

39 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - My Wife & My Dead Wife

40 Swamp Zombies - Creep

41 Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls

42 Camper Van Beethoven - Where The Hell Is Bill

43 Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket

44 They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start

45 Richard Hell And The Voidoids - Blank Generation

46 Pianosaurus - Thriftshoppin'

47 The Replacements - Kiss Me On The Bus

48 Blink 182 - Another Girl Another Planet

Mercedes De Milo 1

In the 80's a girl made a cassette for me. She used some music her older brother had and put together a C60 and gave it to me. She named it after this mannequin I owned. Eventually I redid it with an extra 10 minutes or so, to make it full CD length. Using the same criteria. Adding songs that I liked. This pick grew over the years until I had three volumes. This is the very first one. The pick includes 80 new wave and oldies that fit the feel and flavor. Over the time we were together she made quite a few cassettes for me that I still have. I've since reconfigured them as CD's and now mp3 playlists and they are still cool. This was my first exposure to some of these songs. I knew some of the bands, but not all the songs at that time. Now it's hard to imagine not knowing everything from some of these artists. And yes, the cover is from a picture of the real Mercedes de Milo. No, the relationship did not end well, but she had some of the coolest cassettes ever. 

Mercedes De Milo 1

01 Missing Persons - Words

02 Plimsouls - Now

03 Danny And The Juniors - At The Hop

04 Humans - Get You Tonight

05 Human Sexual Response - Cool Jerk

06 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Seven Days Too Long

07 Squeeze - Piccadilly

08 Suburban Lawns - Janitor

09 Fleshtones - I've Gotta Change My Life

10 The Undertones - Tearproof

11 Elvis Costello - Mystery Dance

12 Josie Cotton - Johnny, Are You Queer

13 The Dell-Vikings - Come Go With Me

14 20-20 - The Night I Heard A Scream

15 Humans - I Live in the City

16 Paul Collins' Beat - It's Just A Matter Of Time

17 Yachts - Now I'm Spoken For

18 Jules and the Polar Bears - Good Reason

19 Plimsouls - Zero Hour

20 Fay Ray - Modern Lovers

21 Elektrics - Pretty Plastic

22 Fabulous Poodles - Mirror Star

23 The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

Fill It Up To The Rim

Most of these songs were on the Paper Moon soundtrack. I had a friend and we saw the movie Paper Moon together and loved the soundtrack. At the time we couldn't afford buying it, so we listened to the album at the library. We made a copy of the soundtrack but realized we had room an the cassette for more songs and added songs that seemed to fit in from our perspective. Eventually I had to own all the songs and I redid the cassette as a CD and now as a pick on this compilation. Any big fan will realize that the timeline of the movie doesn't correspond to the timeline of the soundtrack. I say that makes it inaccurate, but who cares? It still has that feel. At least one  of the songs does have an earlier versions by another artist, and you can see that in the replacement of My Mary: Milton Brown instead of Jimmie Davis. It was called Fill It Up To The Rim because we thought it was great coffee drinking music. And the tag line is from the old Folgers coffee ad. BTW this comp was also at Butterboy! I fixed the cover.

Fill It Up To The Rim

01 Paul Whiteman with Peggy Healy - It’s Only A Paper Moon

02 Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra - About A Quarter To Nine

03 Leo Reisman with Larry Stewart - (It'll Have To Do) Until The Real Thing Comes Along

04 Dick Powell - Flirtation Walk

05 Bing Crosby - Just One More Chance

06 Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra - One Hour With You

07 Victor Young and the Boswell Sisters - I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)

08 Ben Selvin with Charles Kaley - Blue Skies

09 Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Pistol Packin' Mama

10 Benny Goodman - Don't Be That Way

11 Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra - Object of My Affection

12 Hoagy Carmichael - Georgia

13 Paul Whiteman - A Picture of Me Without You

14 Blue Sky Boys - On The Banks Of The Ohio

15 Milton Brown - My Mary

16 Tommy Dorsey - After You've Gone

17 Enric Madriguera - Let’s Have Another Cup O’ Coffee

18 Johnny Hamp with Frank Luther - Sunny Side Up

19 Ted Weems - Piccolo Pete

20 Bing Crosby & The Anderson Sisters - Don't Fence Me In

Wick Wakeman Wecording

Ok, I promised a reason for such much Rick Wakeman. I always liked Yes, once I discovered them on my own. But I had no real reason to like Rick Wakeman. I had none of his albums. Like many people, at the time I barely even knew he was in the band. Had no idea who anyone was in any band. But sometime in the 80's (1981 to be exact) I professed my love of the band Yes to a girlfriend. She was surprised that I did not know Wakeman's solo stuff. She was very into making mixtapes and so she picked this collection. I re compiled it from higher quality sources much much later. After I had started collecting Wakeman's solo stuff. So this is the PZA pick of Rick Wakeman made for me in 1981 and what got me started on liking Rick Wakeman. I redid the cover just today, but left the spelling. Notice that there is only one double with my pick. Not why we broke up (or that she left me heartlessly). I was an idiot and emotionally even more stupid. But I did learn eventually. In the meantime, I got into some great music because of her.

Wick Wakeman Wecording

01 Rick Wakeman - Searching for Gold

02 Rick Wakeman - Crime Of Passion

03 Rick Wakeman - Birdman Of Alcatraz

04 Rick Wakeman - After the Ball

05 Rick Wakeman - Catherine of Aragon

06 Rick Wakeman - Catherine Howard

07 Rick Wakeman - Anne Boleyn

08 Rick Wakeman - Catherine Parr

09 Rick Wakeman - Merlin the Magician

Go For Baroque 2

Here's the other side of the cassette I started posting yesterday. Read the story of the pick in the other post. Here I will say that the cover was not originally designed by me. She designed the cassette cover. I scanned the words and used them over the notes that I found in some clipart. It was all hand drawn originally, but it didn't fit the new format. So I took what I could use and recreated the rest to make it fit. Not sure why, but I had the hardest time tracking down some of the songs on this side. I didn't have access to the original classical records she used, so I had to figure it out from the notes on the cassette, which did have some detail. And then began the tracking. Let me know what you think about these versions and tell me if you think you know some better versions I can listen to.

Go For Baroque 2

13 Yo-Yo Ma - Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 In G Major, Bwv 1007 - I. Prelude

14 Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra - Pachelbel Canon in D Major

15 Cynthia Freivogel - Vivaldi Four Seasons Winter (L'Inverno) complete

16 Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Halleluja!

17 Bremer Barockorchester with François Fernandez - Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen

18 Jean Rondeau - Scarlatti

19 Musica Amphion - Corelli 12 Concerti Grossi Op. 6 No. 8 Christmas Concerto

20 JS Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G

21 JS Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

22 JS Bach - Air On The G String

Go For Baroque 1

This was a cassette that an ex-college girlfriend made for me. This is side 1 of the cassette. She played violin and I knew next to nothing about classical music. She went home for the summer and we sent each other cassette compilations. She had some good ones. It took me awhile to recreate this, because I wanted to make sure I got the same sources she did for each track on her pick. I understand that the conductor and the symphony makes a real difference. I can't say if she chose these exact recordings because they happened to be in her parents' record collection or because they were her favorite versions of all time. I have no idea and it would take me years of figuring out which versions I like best. I am not that versed in classical music. Although way more than I was in the 80's. Her influence. I started making sure that at least one choice of new music per month was a classical record, So I ended up with quite a bit of that genre. Still am not the connoisseur although I work at it occasionally. Then, I sucked at being a boyfriend (too self obsessed) Probably still do, but I am more aware of it now. Either way, she did make some great compilations before she figured that out.

Go For Baroque 1

01 Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra - Pachelbel Canon in D Major

02 Munich Philharmonic - Beethoven Symphony #7 Allegretto

03 Yehudi Menuhin - J.S. Bach Concerto in E Major

04 Jean-Pierre Rampal - Greensleeves

05 Christopher Parkening - J.S. Bach Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring

06 Ettore Stratta - Vivaldi Concerto In G Adagio

07 Christopher Parkening - J.S. Bach Prelude No. VI

08 Ettore Stratta - Vivaldi Suite From The Four Seasons

09 Yehudi Menuhin - JS Bach Concerto In A(m) Andante

10 Yehudi Menuhin - JS Bach Double Concerto In D(m) LargoMa Non Tanto

11 Guiomar Novaes Bramberg Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven Piano Concerto #5 Mut II

12 Munich Philharmonic - Beethoven Symphony #6 Pastorale Allegro

Collections Of An Ass. Man.

This is one of those cassettes made by someone else for me, from my albums. At the time I was the Assistant Manager of a record store. This was early 80's, probably '81 or '82 and I was proud of having several hundred albums. Thinking about it, it must have been later in 1982 because the John Waite had just come out and she loved that album (so did I). This pick was made from those albums by an old girlfriend who also loved music. The title was chosen by her, the music chosen by her. But the albums I owned were all chosen by me. I was picking albums by their covers. I sometimes hadn't even heard the music at all. Kate Bush was one of those albums. I loved the cover and got it (using my discount at the store), then discovered I loved Kate Bush. Still one of my favorite artists. The cover is a recreation of what the cassette looked like. We were both proud that I was an Ass. Man. Young and dumb.

Collections Of An Ass. Man.

01 Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

02 Jackson 5 - I'll Be There

03 Dionne Warwick - Message To Michael

04 Mary Wells - My Guy

05 The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

06 Paul Revere & the Raiders - Louie Louie

07 Everly Brothers - ('Til) I Kissed You

08 Dionne Warwick - Going Out Of My Head

09 The Platters - Harbor Lights

10 Everly Brothers - Let It Be Me

11 Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream

12 Dionne Warwick - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

13 Everly Brothers - Like Strangers

14 Dionne Warwick - You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)

15 Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You

16 John Waite - Change

17 John Waite - Mr. Wonderful

18 Kate Bush - Them Heavy People

19 Kate Bush - L'Amour Looks Something Like You

VAN RHEEcordings

This is not the typical pick or connection on this blog. This was a cassette made by a friend (yes, a girl) out of the records I had at my home. I ended up listening to this quite often. Wore the thing out. I had to reproduce it based on a faded out home made cassette label that had water stains on it. But here it is (named after my first DJ company name) for me and now for you. The spelling and title is exactly how it was on the cassette, not my choice, although now it is my pick. The cover had to be redone, but it is reminiscent of the original. Hand lettered Times Roman on a dark red background.

VAN RHEEcordings

01 Prism - Don't Let Him Know

02 Elektrics - Pretty Plastic

03 Toto - Africa

04 Queen with David Bowie - Under Pressure

05 Asia - Cutting It Fine

06 Dire Straits - Hand In Hand

07 Electric Light Orchestra - Another Heart Breaks

08 Jules and the Polar Bears - Good Reason

09 Queen - Calling All Girls

10 Pearl Harbor & The Explosions - Drivin'

11 The Romantics - What I Like About You

12 Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

13 Tommy Tutone - Fat Chance

14 Paul Collins' Beat - Rock N Roll Girl

15 Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love)

16 Roxy Music - Avalon

17 The Cure - Boys Don't Cry