No Jello Pick

This continues the Dead Kennedys solo family pick. This one obviously is all tracks with no Jello Biafra. Which leaves us with the three other main guys of the band: East Bay Ray, DH Peligro and Klaus Flouride. They each had solo albums or were in other bands. But I specifically did not include one band. the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Peligro played with the Chili Peppers (even wrote a couple of songs for one of their albums) but he left before he recorded those songs, so I do not include them (from Mothers Milk).Peligro also made three albums as Peligro. Klaus Flouride had a few solo albums going back the longest. And East Bay Ray played with several people as well as his solo shots. None of them as famous or well known as the DK's, but still cool. Maybe the Guitar Hero track...

No Jello Pick

01 Klaus Flouride - Shortnin Bread

02 Klaus Flouride - The Drowning Cowboy

03 Peligro - King of the Road

04 East Bay Ray - Echos

05 Peligro - Purple Haze

06 East Bay Ray - Shark Truck

07 John Singer,David Brian,Sheila Schat,Klaus Flouride - Dining Room Table

08 East Bay Ray and The Killer Smiles - Raising the Stakes

09 Klaus Flouride - Gruesome Stains

10 East Bay Ray & Ben Folds - Guitar Hero

11 Peligro - Coffee Shop

12 Peligro - Sum of Our Surroundings

13 Peligro - Night of the Monkey

14 Peligro - Cornfed Knuckle Head

15 Klaus Flouride - Dancing With Shauna Grant

16 East Bay Ray - Original Moon

17 Klaus Fluoride - Uncle Bill

18 Klaus Flouride - Keep On Walking

19 Peligro - Virid

Jello Biafra Pick 3

This last of this pick has a few more Jello spoken word parts sampled by various artists. Ice-T is my favorite of the selection. Brujeria is a pretty cool band. One more Lard track which is long as all get out., but doesn't see like it when you are listening. Another of the evil tracks from The Witch Trials (go get that ep, its so good). A few more tracks from bands that you've already heard in the previous few days. But add in Pansy Division, Bank Of Sodom and Le Butcherettes! just to rround things out. Hopefully you enjoyed the compilation. I have the other DK's solo work coming soon as well as a shorter pick of my DK's pick (even though there are several compilations of that stuff out there already.) Tell me in the comments what I missed.

Jello Biafra Pick 3

31 Jello Biafra And The New Orleans Raunch And Soul All Stars - Bangkok (Live)

32 Brujeria - Raza Odiada

33 Pansy Division with Jello Biafra - Average Men

34 Bank Of Sodom - How Do You Spell Relief

35 Jello Biafra & Melvins - McGruff The Crime Dog

36 Ice-T with Jello Biafra - Freedom Of Speech

37 Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon (With The Toadliquors) - Are You Drinkin' With Me Jesus

38 Jello Biafra - Rob Now Pay Later

39 Lard - I Am Your Clock

40 Jello Biafra & Melvins - Those Dumb Punk Kids (Will Buy Anything)

41 The Witch Trials - Humanoids From The Deep

42 Le Butcherettes featuring Jello Biafra - Spider-Waves

43 Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - Panic Land

44 Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down

Jello Biafra Pick 2

 Part two of the Jello Biafra solo pick. This one has more of the "Ministry" connection: 100 Homo DJ's, Lard, Revolting Cocks. More of the always enjoyable Mojo Nixon who surprisingly works well with Jello. A couple of instances of bands using Jello's spoken word as samples (more of that tomorrow, too.) NoMeansNo, Throw Rag, Melvins and DOA join the list of bands Jello has guested on. All decently good on their own. The rest are bands Jello joined or formed even if only for a short while. To me the highlights are the several really long tracks and the weakest ,(to me) is the Love Me, I'm a Liberal cover. And I usually am a sucker for covers. Take the one New Orleans zydeco classic. I love that!

Jello Biafra Pick 2

17 1000 Homo Djs - Hey Asshole

18 Tumor Circus - Swine Flu

19 Jello Biafra And The New Orleans Raunch And Soul All Stars - Don't Mess With My Toot Toot

20 Lard - The Power Of Lard

21 Jello Biafra With Mojo Nixon - Buy My Snake Oil

22 Coldcut featuring Jello Biafra - Every Home A Prison

23 Jello Biafra With NoMeansNo - The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy

24 Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - Satan's Combover

25 Throw Rag featuring Jello Biafra & Keith Morris - Children Of The Secret State

26 MotorPsycho - Punch

27 Jello Biafra & Melvins - Halo Of Flies

28 Jello Biafra with DOA - Wish I Was In El Salvador

29 Revolting Cocks featuring Jello Biafra - Dead End Streets

30 Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Love Me, I'm A Liberal

Jello Biafra Pick 1

One of the greatest punk bands ever is the Dead Kennedys. I was lucky enough to have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area to witness them live many times. I was able to meet Jello Biafra, hang out at the Fabulous Mabuhay Gardens, interview the band, even hosted Jello later as a Spoken Word artist. He was a brilliant artist, but an ass. No biggie, because he made some great music and had insightful stuff to say. He got a pass. Just like Trump said at one time, if you are a celebrity you can get away with everything. It's true, even with a minor celebrity like Eric. His band mates were a bit nicer, but more about them on a later post. This three volume pick will not feature anything by the DK's and also nothing from the spoken word section of Jello. Maybe I will do some of that later. This is only his solo stuff on his own, but mostly with other bands. There was no lack of offers, I am sure. Every One of these tracks features Jello on vocals.One of my favorites is The Witch Trials. Especially The Tazer.

Jello Biafra Pick 1

01 Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - The Terror Of Tinytown

02 Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - The Brown Lipstick Parade

03 Jello Biafra & Nomeansno - Jesus Was A Terrorist

04 Teenage Time Killers featuring Jello Biafra - Ode To Sean Hannity

05 Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Plastic Jesus

06 Tumor Circus - The Man With The Corkscrew Eyes

07 Jello Biafra And The New Orleans Raunch And Soul All Stars - House Of The Rising Sun

08 The Witch Trials - The Tazer

09 Jello Biafra with DOA - Full Metal Jackoff

10 Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - Dot Com Montecarlo

11 Jello Biafra with DOA - That's Progress

12 Jello Biafra With Steel Pole Bath Tub - Hazing For Success

13 Lard - War Pimp Renaissance

14 Jello Biafra & Melvins - Plethysmograph

15 Jello Biafra with Brown Town West - Jezebel

16 Lard - Forkboy

Richard Wright Pink Floyd Pick 2

Not going to say much today. Part 1 has a bit more of his solo stuff . This pick is strictly Pink Floyd tracks. Either Richard Wright sang on the tracks, or he wrote or co-wrote the songs. He had stopped contributing to Pink Floyd for awhile and was fired (and then rehired as a session player) for an album or so. And then rehired after Waters left. This pick covers the very early stuff until his last album contribution with Gilmour's Floyd after Wright died.

Richard Wright Pink Floyd Pick 2

09 Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly

10 Pink Floyd - Summer '68

11 Pink Floyd - See-Saw

12 Pink Floyd - What Do You Want From Me

13 Pink Floyd - Louder Than Words

14 Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky

15 Pink Floyd - Wearing The Inside Out

16 Pink Floyd - It Would Be So Nice

17 Pink Floyd - Remember A Day

18 Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine

19 Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

20 Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne

21 Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe, Eugene

Richard Wright Pink Floyd Pick 1

Continuing on with the Pink Floyd family pick this is Richard Wright solo and guest spots along with some key moments of his in Pink Floyd. David Gilmour said that Wright was the real heart of the band. I don't know about that, but he did have a few great moments in the band and  couple of guest spots, another band and his solo gig. Volume two will include more of the Floyd stuff. This one has Echoes which meant that I needed two volumes since it is too long. But it was co-written and partly sung by Wright so it had to be included. The Zee tracks are interesting because they are the collaboration of Wright and post punk artist Dave Harris (Fashion). I always had wondered what happened to Fashion (my favorite song was Sodium Pentathol Negative) and here is part of the group in another band that I didn't realize was him (and Wright) until later. Anyway it was great to hear Wright in a different setting that I like too.

Richard Wright Pink Floyd Pick 1

01 Zee - Confusion (Extended)

02 Richard Wright - Against The Odds

03 Richard Wright - Breakthrough

04 Pink Floyd - Echoes

05 Pink Floyd - Matilda Mother

06 David Gilmour - On An Island

07 Pink Floyd - Us And Them

08 Zee - Eyes Of A Gypsy

Roger Waters Solo Pick 1

Interesting thing about this pick (volume 1 and 2) is that you always hear that Roger Waters was a genius songwriter, but difficult guy to get along with. It sort of bears out and sort of doesn't. He seems to have a lot of guests play with him on tour and some on his solo albums, but he doesn't seem to get invited to play on other people's stuff very often. I might be missing a whole segment of his career. Oh well. He does have enough solo album work to easily fill two volumes of my pick of it. Which is exactly what I have done. Here's volume 1 of my pick of the Waters solo albums. Tomorrow I'll post volume 2.

Roger Waters Solo Pick 1

01 Roger Waters - Towers Of Faith

02 Roger Waters - Perfect Sense Part I & II

03 Roger Waters - 5.06 AM (Every Strangers Eyes)

04 Roger Waters - The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)

05 Roger Waters - Three Wishes

06 Roger Waters - Folded Flags

07 Roger Waters - Watching TV

08 Roger Waters - Home

09 Roger Waters - The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range

10 Roger Waters - Smell The Roses

11 Roger Waters - Who Needs Information

12 Roger Waters - The Powers That Be

13 Roger Waters - What God Wants, Part I

David Gilmour Solo Pick

Pink Floyd is so well known that it's hard to do a compilation that hasn't been done, but this pick starts a series of Pink Floyd family picks of mine. I'm starting it off with David Gilmour. This is my pick of his solo stuff. Only one Pink Floyd song and that's with David Bowie. In the next day or so, I will continue another complete side of Gilmour's. People get a "personal" feeling with Pick Floyd so don't get mad if I don't pick your favorites. It is after all my pick. I did not include the song that I picked for my Beautiful Guitar Solos compilation on this one. Although I must like that one too.

David Gilmour Solo Pick

01 David Gilmour - Today

02 David Gilmour - Smile

03 David Gilmour - Love on the Air

04 David Gilmour - A Pocketful of Stones

05 David Gilmour - You Know I'm Right

06 David Gilmour - Murder

07 David Gilmour - Mihalis

08 David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock

09 David Gilmour - Near The End

10 David Gilmour - Out Of The Blue

11 David Gilmour - Blue Light

12 David Gilmour - On An Island

13 David Gilmour - Short And Sweet

14 David Gilmour - There's No Way Out Of Here

15 David Gilmour - Arnold Layne (with David Bowie)