RIYL Y&T (Recommended If You Like Yesterday and Today) repost

Repost of this pick: Bay Area band (Oakland, Caifornia) Y&T also known as Yesterday and Today hasn't done much lately, but were and are influential in the area of heavy metal. At least one member of Metallica started playing because of this band. Anyway, as a California boy, I liked the band and I love making RIYL compilations every now and again. So here are my recommendations if you like Y&T. Or if you like one of these songs and don't listen to Y&T, perhaps you should. And try to find the albums of all these artists, they are all good. BTW this song by them isn't even the best or most popular, but it does rock.

RIYL Y&T

01 Y&T - Don't Stop Runnin'

02 Michael Schenker Group - Armed And Ready
03 Montrose - Bad Motor Scooter
04 Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
05 Krokus - Screaming In The Night
06 Helix - Rock You
07 Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
08 Motley Crue - Smokin in the Boys Room
09 Kix - Girl Money
10 Ratt - Round And Round
11 Black 'n Blue - Hold On To 18
12 Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy
13 Dokken - Into The Fire
14 King Kobra - Iron Eagle (Never Say Die)
15 L.A. Guns - Sex Action
16 Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize
17 Hush - Hot Tonight
18 Shnazz - (I Want To) Jump On Your Bones
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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

RIYL Uptown Funk (repost)

This repost is from the first year I was posting on this site. I like this RIYL pick. I still play it a lot. It just sounds good. Here's what I originally said about it: You know how you are listening to a song and it it really feels like you've heard the song before? I was listening to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' hit Uptown Funk and it kept bothering me. Not so much like Blurred Lines and Got To Give It Up sounded like they would make a good mash up, but I knew I had that vibe and sound in my head. So I started searching and remembering. This is the playlist pick that I came up with. Pretty much this is my Recommended If You Like Uptown Funk. Let me know what you would recommend in the comments below.

Uptown Funk 

01 Stevie Wonder - Superstition 

02 The Bar-Kays - Too Hot To Stop (Pt. 1) 

03 Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce (Pt. 1) 

04 Brass Construction - Get Up To Get Down 

05 Earth, Wind & Fire - GetaWay 

06 James Brown - Living In America 

07 One Way - Let's Talk 

08 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk 

09 Michael Jackson - Jam 

10 Skyy - Call Me 

11 Cameo - Shake Your Pants (Original 12' Club Mix) 12 The Time - Cool 

13 Prince - Partyup 

14 Gap Band - Party Train 

15 Sun - We're So Hot (Instrumental)

Take It Easy Too

It's sort of the part two of the Take It Easy pick, but that is also part of another pick (see link at previous link) which is also related to Life Is Good pick. I did number this continuing from part one which is deceptively called Again. So it's confusing. Mostly songs about taking it easy, slowing down, making things simple, although the music is not as breezy as all that. I have another I will post later on, but I was ready to get this one up.

Take It Easy Too

21 Larry Williams - Slow Down

22 The Fugees - Take It Easy

23 Christina Aguilera - Slow Down Baby

24 Jackson 5 - Breezy

25 Jimmy Nelson - Free And Easy Mind

26 Henry Sharpe - There Is No Easy Way

27 Depeche Mode - Easy Tiger

28 The Jam - Slow Down

29 Air - You Make It Easy

30 Nancy Sinatra - I Used To Think It Was Easy

31 Who - I'm Free

32 Michael Buble - Nice 'N Easy

33 The Motels - Slow Down

34 Henry Mancini - Slow And Easy

35 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man

36 Skatalites - Take It Easy

37 Doug Sahm And The Pharoahs - Slow Down

38 Selena Gomez - Slow Down

39 Commodores - Easy

40 Klaus Nomi - Simple Man

41 Boston - It's Easy

42 Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling

43 Triumph - Easy Life

Take It Easy Again

A little while back I made the pick that I called Slow Down To Look which was started with the Eagles Take It Easy. I had so many that I parlayed into a few more picks. This is one of them. It has the Lemonheads covering that Eagles song and a bunch more easy kind of of songs. And also songs that are about Good Times and especially about drinking for free, because that implies a free and easy time as well. Fridays, drinks and lots of easing. Similar Flatbed Ford on the cover, so you know they are related. Jazz, reggae, electronic dance, country to rock. It's all about taking it easy.

Take It Easy Again

01 Tom Scott - Breezin' Easy

02 Skyy - Easy

03 Three Dog Night - Easy to Be Hard

04 Nancy Sinatra - Nice 'N' Easy

05 The Velvet Underground - We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together

06 The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind

07 Cars - Good Times Roll

08 Earth, Wind & Fire - Good Time

09 Bryan Ferry - Easy Living

10 Dean Martin - For The Good Times

11 Plush - Free And Easy

12 Linda Ronstadt - It's So Easy

13 Rascal Flatts - Easy

14 Cabaret Voltaire - Easy Life

15 Bob Marley - Easy Skanking

16 Stranglers - Let Me Down Easy

17 Philip Bailey with Phil Collins - Easy Lover

18 Ringo Starr - Free Drinks

19 The Lemonheads - Take It Easy

20 The Upsetters - Cool And Easy

Slow Down To Look

This was fun to make, but perhaps not as easy to explain. I had a couple of  songs to start out with. The Eagles, Rupert Holmes, Jimmy Buffet, Toby Keith were there. I didn't want to just have a music of getting drunk songs, but more of an I'm buzzed and happy, not doing anything especially important feeling. So John Cruz came about, Zac Brown, Bob Marley. Notice that the version I have from John Cruz is his original version, not the live one with Jack Johnson and Jackson Brown (I just like it better). I almost added Joe Walsh, but decided it would make a better pick with him tomorrow. A couple of the songs I almost didn't add, but did anyway. And one I almost forgot, but am really glad I added (Queen). Too perfect for this. The title is from the Eagles and the cover I put together has Winslow in the background, although the Truck is from a different state. I always feel like Penn and Teller in Fool Us when I write these things. Enough information, but sort of in code.

Slow Down To Look

01 Israel Iz Kamakawiwo'ole - What A Wonderful World

02 John Cruz - Island Style

03 Jason Mraz - Have It All

04 Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song

05 Zac Brown Band - Toes

06 Queen - Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon

07 George Strait - Here For A Good Time

08 Ray Charles - Let's Go Get Stoned

09 Jack Johnson - Better Together

10 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Three Little Birds

11 Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Piña Colada Song)

12 Weezer - Island in the Sun

13 Eagles - Take It Easy

14 Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling!

15 Kenny Chesney - No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems

16 The Toyes - Smoke Two Joints

17 Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett - It's Five O'Clock Somewhere

18 Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville

19 Joe Nichols - Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off

20 Toby Keith - Red Solo Cup

21 John Denver - Rocky Mountain High

22 Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good

SoS

This is a pick of non related songs, except by the closeness of the Camelot Key to Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits. I didn't do a RIYL (Recommended If You Like) because the songs don't sound like that song, but they are mixable with that song. Sort of. I've listened to it several times and there are some surprising segues, but not too jarring. It's pretty listenable in that order, even though the BPM's vary, they tend to go up in energy and then drop back down with a key change. I tried to make it as smooth as possible, without staying completely true to the premise. Just fun. A few of the bands, I stayed away from their biggest hits, but for some it just worked out. Hopefully, there are a couple of tracks that will surprise you (in a good way). I like that the morse code is NOT Sultans of Swing. Although that would have been funny for the few people that know morse code.

SoS

01 King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight

02 Ambrosia - Biggest Part of Me

03 Santana - Flor D'Luna (Moonflower)

04 Association - Windy

05 Steely Dan - Do It Again

06 The Zombies - She's Not There

07 War - Low Rider

08 Badfinger - Day After Day

09 Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

10 Kissing The Pink - Big Man Restless

11 Gary Myrick And The Figures - She Talks In Stereo

12 Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band - I'm an Indian, Too

13 Chicago - Street Player

14 Earth Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland

15 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through The Jungle

16 Stranglers - All Day And All Of The Night

17 Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Passenger

18 Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy

19 Cars - Tonight She Comes

20 Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra

Bliksem 2 (Lightning)

Here it is part two of this pick I call Bliksem. See the first Bliksem to know why, but it's Dutch for lightning. I'm pretty sure there is one Dutch band on here, but that's not why I called it that. It has to do with the intensity of the songs. Listen and you will get it. I did put one band on here twice. And that's because I like the band and both songs are cool and match the criteria in my head. So look for the bonus track at 42. At least one track was suggested by comment on the last volume, so congrats.

Bliksem 2 (Lightning)

21 April Wine - Oowatanite

22 Thundermug - Africa

23 Focus - Hocus Pocus

24 Nashville Pussy - Go MotherFucker Go

25 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

26 Led Zeppelin - Poor Tom

27 Helix - Billy Oxygen

28 Bobby Comstock - Let's Stomp

29 Warpig - Rockstar

30 Brothers Osborne - It Ain't My Fault

31 Jethro Tull - Aqualung

32 Art Phag - Jungo Luv

33 Placebo - Every You Every Me (Single Mix)

34 Scorpions - Fuchs Geh Voran

35 Iggy Pop - The Passenger

36 System Of A Down - Revenga

37 Black Sabbath - Children Of The Grave

38 Wiretree - The Shore

39 Betty Blowtorch - Hell On Wheels

40 Gary Moore - Moving On

41 Queens Of The Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire

42 Betty Blowtorch - Shut Up & Fuck

RIYL Recommended If You Like Sad Sweet Dreamer

Another RIYL. This time if you like Sweet Sensation's Sad Sweet Dreamer these are my recommended picks. This is one of those bands that you wish they had something more. They kind of had another hit in Purely Coincidence, but it didn't sound like this hit. In fact it kind of sounded like the Sylvers. Just not the best of the Sylvers. But here on this track, they hit is just right. The 21 other tracks on this compilation all spike out from the one song. I'm not sure when I will post another one of these, but if you want to see more, leave a seed song in the comments and I may work on it if it excites me enough. BTW, the font I used in the covers is a cool one called Tom's New Roman. I wish he had more like it.

RIYL Recommended If You Like Sad Sweet Dreamer

01 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)

02 Vicki Lawrence - The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

03 Eddie Holman - Hey There Lonely Girl

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

05 The Commodores - Sweet Love

06 Sweet Sensation - Sad Sweet Dreamer

07 Stylistics - You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)

08 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died

09 Hot Chocolate - Every 1's a Winner

10 O'Jays - Use Ta Be My Girl

11 Brook Benton - Rainy Night In Georgia

12 Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Too Late To Turn Back Now

13 Dionne Warwick And The Spinners - Then Came You

14 The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again

15 Tavares - It Only Takes a Minute

16 John Paul Young - Love Is in the Air

17 The Tymes - You Little Trustmaker

18 Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)

19 The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl

20 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Who Loves You

21 Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her

22 Lobo - I'd Love You to Want Me

RIYL Recommended If You Like Sharing The Night Together

Another RIYL compilation. I pick the songs that I recommend if you like another song. This time the Baseline song is Dr. Hook Sharing The Night Together. Go back a couple of days and see another RIYL. Or search for RIYL and see the different ones I have posted. Easy to see if you want to check it out further. If you like the baseline song, or band, you will probably like the recommendations. No guarantees, but this isn't a toaster. I think you will like the other songs. Please leave your comments and tell me how I did. Or give me another baseline song to work on.

RIYL Recommended If You Like Sharing The Night Together

01 The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See

02 Atlanta Rhythm Section - So Into You

03 Toto - Georgy Porgy

04 Guess Who - These Eyes

05 Spinners - It's A Shame

06 Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music

07 Little River Band - Lonesome Loser

08 The Turtles - Happy Together

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

10 Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right

11 Firefall - You Are The Woman

12 Three Dog Night - One

13 Gerry Rafferty - Right Down The Line

14 America - Ventura Highway

15 Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle

16 Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years

17 Grass Roots - Midnight Confessions

18 England Dan Seals And John Ford Coley - It's Sad To Belong

19 Seals & Crofts - Diamond Girl

20 Orleans - Still The One

21 Ambrosia - Holdin' On To Yesterday

22 Dr Hook - Sharing The Night Together

Recommended If You Like Get Closer

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

RIYL Sister Golden Hair

This pick is from one of my favorite kind of comps. 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 America Sister Golden Hair. It reminds me of several other songs, Probably all of that band's out put for sure, But the rule on this one is that I cannot repeat a band. Lots of songs on here that I like and that sound like the base song in one way or another. I have a few of these that spun off this one, so sorry about that. Either you've hit a bonanza over the next couple of days or you are going to come back in a few days.

RIYL Sister Golden Hair

01 Cat Stevens - Peace Train

02 Michael Martin Murphy - Wildfire

03 Doobie Brothers - Black Water

04 Pure Prairie League - Amie

05 Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze

06 Little River Band - Reminiscing

07 Orleans - Dance With Me

08 Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown

09 Chicago - Saturday In The Park

10 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord

11 Firefall - Just Remember I Love You

12 Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You

13 Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble

14 Three Dog Night - Shambala

15 Nilsson - Without You

16 Dan Fogelberg - Longer

17 King Harvest - Dancing In The Moonlight

18 America - Sister Golden Hair

19 Eagles - Take It Easy

20 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Our House

21 Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

22 Sammy Johns - Chevy Van

Bliksem 1 (Lightning)

I call this playlist pick 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'll post them one day. So enjoy this pick, I left of f a couple that I might use in volume two including one of my favorites: Betty Blowtorch. One day I might make volume 2. So leave any suggestions, 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

Sixties Summer Love (Volume 3)

I recently got the Sixties Summer Love collection thanks to Butterboy. It's a two disc collection of some amazing love songs from the sixties, But I kept noticing that some of my favorites were not in there. So I decided to make a third disc full of songs in a playlist. This is the culmination of that decision. No rhyme or reason, just love songs from the sixties that weren't necessarily hits, but ones I liked and were not already on discs 1 & 2. On that premise, I also didn't change their cover, I just added a disc. I started the numbering after their first 50 songs.

Sixties Summer Love (Volume 3)

51 Turtles - You Showed Me
52 Yardbirds - For Your Love
53 Paul Revere & The Raiders - All I Really Need Is You
54 The Monkees - It's Nice To Be With You
55 Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror
56 Electric Prunes - I Happen To Love You
57 Association - Standing Still
58 The Mojo Man - Sit Down, I Think I Love You
59 The Rascals - A Girl Like You
60 Classics IV - Everyday With You Girl
61 Seeds - Fallin' In Love
62 Byrds - All I Really Want To Do
63 Chocolate Watch Band - I Ain't No Miracle Worker
64 Nazz - Hello It's Me
65 Hollies - Just One Look
66 The Zombies - I Want Her She Wants Me
67 Animals - I'm In Love Again
68 The Tremeloes - As You Are
69 Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good
70 Kinks - I Need You
71 Frank Zappa - Anything
72 Spiral Starecase - More Today Than Yesterday
73 Grass Roots - Feelings
74 The Rationals - I Need You
75 Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
76 The Applejacks - I Go To Sleep

What Plants Crave Connection (RIYL Brawndo - Idiocracy)

This Connection was inspired by me watching the movie Idiocracy too many times. From President Camacho to "Not Sure" (Joe) and Frito and the rest, this movie was always very funny to me and now seems to be coming true. Especially with so many people exhibiting TDS I had to make this playlist of  dumb, stupid, idiotic, moronic songs: because it has electrolytes. Like Brawndo. I had as much fun making this playlist as watching the movie. I've probably watched this movie more times than any other movie except four. If you like the movie, you might like these songs. But it's also a What's The Connection? Click on the album cover and comment below about other idiotic songs you like.

What Plants Crave

01 Sparks - Your Call's Very Important to Us.  Please Hold.

02 Beck - Loser

03 Radiohead - Creep

04 Swamp Zombies - Creep

05 Beatles - I'm A Loser

06 Young Fresh Fellows - Trek to Stupidity

07 Fred August Campbell & The Spur Of The Moment Band - The I-95 Asshole Song

08 Ginny Arnell - Dumb Head

09 Kevin Bloody Wilson - DILLIGAF

10 Paul Revere & the Raiders - Ballad of a Useless Man

11 Weird Al Yankovic - Dare To Be Stupid

12 Depeche Mode - Useless

13 Frank Zappa - Dumb All Over

14 Garbage - Stupid Girl

15 Adrian Belew - Incompetence Indifference

16 Devo - One Dumb Thing

17 Joy Division - Failures

18 KMFDM - Moron

19 Pop-O-Pies - World-O-Morons

20 The Mac Ladds - Village Idiot

21 Green Day - American Idiot

22 Funkadelic - Super Stupid

23 Tom Green - I'm An Idiot

(In case you were left hanging the four moveis I have watched more than this one: Animal House, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Welcome To Woop Woop, Fifth Element)

Beat This (RIYL Hoodoo Gurus Leilani)

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 one 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

RIYL Y&T (Recommended If You Like Yesterday and Today)

Bay Area band (Oakland, Caifornia) Y&T also known as Yesterday and Today hasn't done much lately, but were and are influential in the area of heavy metal. At least one member of Metallica started playing because of this band. Anyway, as a California boy, I liked the band and I love making RIYL compilations every now and again. So here are my recommendations if you like Y&T. Or if you like one of these songs and don't listen to Y&T, perhaps you should. And try to find the albums of all these artists, they are all good. BTW this song by them isn't even the best or most popular, but it does rock.

RIYL Y&T

01 Y&T - Don't Stop Runnin'
02 Michael Schenker Group - Armed And Ready
03 Montrose - Bad Motor Scooter
04 Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
05 Krokus - Screaming In The Night
06 Helix - Rock You
07 Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
08 Motley Crue - Smokin in the Boys Room
09 Kix - Girl Money
10 Ratt - Round And Round
11 Black 'n Blue - Hold On To 18
12 Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy
13 Dokken - Into The Fire
14 King Kobra - Iron Eagle (Never Say Die)
15 L.A. Guns - Sex Action
16 Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize
17 Hush - Hot Tonight
18 Shnazz - (I Want To) Jump On Your Bones

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RIYL Uptown Funk

You know how you are listening to a song and it it really feels like you've heard the song before? I was listening to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' hit Uptown Funk and it kept bothering me. Not so much like Blurred Lines and Got To Give It Up sounded like they would make a good mash up, but I knew I had that vibe and sound in my head. So I started searching and remembering. This is the playlist that I came up with. Pretty much this is my Recommended If You Like Uptown Funk. Let me know what you would recommend in the comments below.

Uptown Funk 

01 Stevie Wonder - Superstition 

02 The Bar-Kays - Too Hot To Stop (Pt. 1) 

03 Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce (Pt. 1) 

04 Brass Construction - Get Up To Get Down 

05 Earth, Wind & Fire - GetaWay 

06 James Brown - Living In America 

07 One Way - Let's Talk 

08 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk 

09 Michael Jackson - Jam 

10 Skyy - Call Me 

11 Cameo - Shake Your Pants (Original 12' Club Mix) 12 The Time - Cool 

13 Prince - Partyup 

14 Gap Band - Party Train 

15 Sun - We're So Hot (Instrumental)