Infectious Pop Sensibilities 2

Part two of the series. Not sure that I will put any more up for now, so this will have to do in the meantime. Weird, different pop songs, that sometimes are borderline offensive and sometime are just pop songs that should have been hits (according to me, who is often wrong). Some rare songs, some easily found. Most on some album or another, but a couple of 45's in here. The cover is my idea of pop sensibilities, not sure that it's infectious. But oh well, it's my pick.

Infectious Pop Sensibilities 2

24 Red Zone - News From The Red Zone
25 Grotus - Good Evening
26 Evolution Control Committee - Rocked By Rape
27 Sparks - Your Call's Very Important to Us.  Please Hold.
28 Bill Nelson - Hard Facts From The Fiction Department
29 Jane Bond & the Undercover Men - Stuff We're Not Supposed To Know
30 Bongwater - Celebrity Compass
31 Negativland - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
32 Tom Waits - Step Right Up
33 Dead Milkmen - The Puking Song
34 King Missile - Detachable Penis
35 Zander Schloss - Salsa Y Ketchup
36 Monty Python - Sit On My Face
37 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - My Wife & My Dead Wife
38 Residents - Constantinople
39 Killer Pussy - Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage
40 Inflatable Boy Clams - Marin
41 Bonzo Dog Band - Big Shot
42 MCM and the Monster - Godzilla
43 Tigers - Spider In The Bath
44 Butthole Surfers - Kuntz
45 Aerosmith - Big Ten Inch Record
46 AC-DC - Big Balls

Infectious Pop Sensibilities 1

This is a series. Every time I start looking at making a new mix tape or CD or playlist pick, I end up with some new or old songs that just don't fit. But I like the songs. Sometimes I just cram them in but many times I put it in a side pile to figure out where they do fit. When I had too many, I started making this series. Stuff that I like, that I don't care if anyone else thinks it's popular or not. Sometimes it is and sometimes I smash my head and ask, Why isn't this a hit? But I also put aside stuff that I know will never be a hit, weird but I love it anyway. Here's disc one.

Infectious Pop Sensibilities 1

01 Sparks - Dick Around

02 Beat Farmers - Zeppelin Medley

03 The Flaming Lips - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

04 Ween - Pollo Asada

05 Inflatable Boy Clams - I'm Sorry

06 Cake - Rock 'N' Roll Lifestyle

07 Robyn Hitchcock - Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl

08 Beck - Loser

09 Devo - Beautiful World

10 Paula Yates with BEF - These Boots Are Made For Walking

11 Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet

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

13 Chumbawamba - Cartrouble

14 Stan Ridgway - The Coffee Song

15 Bauhaus - Party of the First Part

16 Wild Willi Becket & Jont - Averagely Surprised

17 They Might Be Giants - Instanbul (Not Constantinople)

18 Swamp Zombies - Creep

19 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

20 The Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman

21 Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling

22 Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant

23 Violent Femmes - Kiss Off

It's An Obsession 2

The second half of my playlist, It's An Obsession. All songs I was obsessing over in the 80's when I made the tape. I re-did it as a CD and then as a playlist. I listened to these songs and I obsessed over making tapes, so what does the title refer to? No idea. I don't know if now, I would put Billie Jean and Kissing The Pink on the same pick, but it made sense then. The cover is a recreation of the cassette label I made originally. See the first side yesterday for more of the story.

It's An Obsession 2

12 Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination

13 David Bowie - China Girl

14 Kissing The Pink - Love Lasts Forever

15 The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another

16 Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger

17 Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake

18 A Flock Of Seagulls - Modern Love Is Automatic

19 Devo - Through Being Cool

20 Kissing The Pink - Watching Their Eyes

21 David Bowie - Criminal World

22 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

23 Men Without Hats - The Great Ones Remember

It's An Obsession 1

This is another one of my old mixtape cassettes redone as a CD and then as a playlist pick. It's all just stuff I was listening to back then. Not sure of the timeline, but somewhere in the 80's is my guess. You might be able to figure it out by checking release dates of all of these, because it's probably mostly of that year. I'm also not clear on the memory of how I named this, but I was listening to these songs as if it was an obsession. Side 2 tomorrow.

It's An Obsession side 1

01 David Bowie - Let's Dance

02 Jump 'N The Saddle - The Curly Shuffle

03 Kissing The Pink - Big Man Restless

04 Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance

05 Depeche Mode - Told You So

06 Ric Ocasek - Something To Grab For

07 Human League - Hard Times

08 Eurythmics - This Is The House

09 Prince - Sexuality

10 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Messages

11 ABC - Poison Arrow

Eric Troyer

This pick of Eric Troyer is interesting. Not that many people may be aware of Eric Troyer. It's one of those things where looking at album covers helps (or maybe now, following wiki links) Eric Troyer has played with so many different artists, but probably is best known for being in ELO part 2. Being a big Jim Steinman fan I recognized that Troyer appeared on some Meat Loaf and Steinman productions, which meant Bonnie Tyler and Taylor Dayne and Celine Dion, too. Finding him on Air Supply and Billy Joel as well as John Lennon and Lou Reed solidified it for me. Suzanne Fellini was just the icing on the cake, with one of my favorite tracks of hers. So here's my pick of his stuff.

Eric Troyer

01 Electric Light Orchestra Part II - Hello

02 Meat Loaf & Cher - Dead Ringer for Love

03 The Orchestra - Jewel & Johnny

04 Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now

05 Eric Troyer - Mirage

06 Billy Joel - Tell Her About It

07 Taylor Dayne - Original Sin

08 Suzanne Fellini - Love On The Phone

09 Graham Parker - Temporary Beauty

10 ALEAtronic featuring Eric Troyer - Imagination

11 Gene Simmons - Radioactive

12 Electric Light Orchestra Part II - Honest Men

13 Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

14 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart

15 Lou Reed - New Sensations

16 Air Supply - Making Love Out Of Nothing At All

17 Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero

18 Jim Steinman - Bad For Good

19 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Woman

Carole King

Carole King is known for her songwriting and her own albums, especially Tapestry. All sorts of her great songs have been done by a variety of artists. I put this together when Nina Hagen covered one of her songs. I'm sure there are other compilations of Carole King songs, but these are my favorite picks. I included her singing some of her own hits, plus amazing songs like Natural Woman done by Aretha Franklin and put them next to tracks by the Motels and Nina Hagen. I hope you enjoy this playlist.

Carole King

01 Carole King - It's Too Late

02 The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow

03 Donny Osmond - Go Away Little Girl

05 Grand Funk - The Loco-Motion

05 James Taylor - You've Got A Friend

06 Bobby Vee - Take Good Care of My Baby

07 Carole King - Jazzman

08 The Drifters - Up On The Roof

09 The Everly Brothers - Crying In The Rain

10 Skeeter Davis - I Can't Stay Mad At You

11 Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good

12 The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday

13 The Righteous Brothers - Just Once In My Life

14 Chiffons - One Fine Day

15 The Cookies - Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)

16 Carole King - Sweet Seasons

17 Freddie Scott - Hey Girl

18 The Animals - Don't Bring Me Down

19 Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

20 Blood, Sweat and Tears - Hi-De-Ho

21 The Cookies - Chains 

22 Carole King - It Might As Well Rain Until September

23 Martika - I Feel The Earth Move

24 Grand Funk - Some Kind Of Wonderful

25 The Motels - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)

26 Nina Hagen - Giant Step

Electric Banana 2

Part two of the old cassette Electric Banana. I had some old songs and some new songs to surround a few Berlin tracks that I liked from their Pleasure Victim album. Not that the garage and new wave and punk sounded anything like Berlin, but somehow I believed it did. And listening to it again, I realize that it kinda goes, but kinda not. Anyway enjoy the cover and the tracks on this pick. I'm glad the c-90 cassette found new life on here for you.

Electric Banana 2

16 The Bangles - Want You

17 Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard

18 The Rockats - Go Cat Wild

19 Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

20 The Berlin Brats - Tropically Hot

21 Berlin - Pleasure Victim

22 Droogs - Set My Love On You

23 Stranglers - Walk On By

24 The Standells - Dirty Water

25 The Crowd - Suzy Is A Surf Rocker

26 Sex Pistols - (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone

27 Berlin - Masquerade

28 The Knickerbockers - Lies

29 Altered Images - Little Town Flirt

30 Guess Who - Shakin' All Over

31 Surf Punks - New Lead Guitar