What's The Connection? Boom 2

The continuing story of Boom volume 2. This connection has more of the favorite picks of Boom songs. There are tons more (leave any you would suggest in the comments.) I didn't know who Pat Travers was when I first saw him live. He opened up for a Day On The Green, but after seeing him play live, I was impressed. What a good show from a dude that was wearing a wrist watch. I was always struck by the fact that he didn't seem like a rock and roller, but boy did he rock. The only thing that troubles me about this compilation is the Yardbirds and the Animals both covering the same song so near each other. But differently than each other and John Lee Hooker. Oh, well.

What's The Connection? Boom 2

22 Dean Martin - Zing-A Zing-A Zing Boom

23 Charli XCX - Boom Clap

24 P.O.D. - Boom

25 Saliva - Click Click Boom

26 Pat Travers - Boom Boom Out Go The Lights

27 Snoop Dogg Feat. T-Pain - Boom

28 James Taylor - Baby Boom Baby

29 Abraxas Pool - Boom Ba Ya Ya

30 Pazant Brothers - The Pazant Brothers & The Beaufort Express - Chick A Boom

31 Brian Eno - Boomcubist

32 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow

33 Boys from the Bottom - Boom! I Got Your Girlfriend

34 The Jamaicans - Ba Ba Boom

35 Twinsets - Sophisticated Boom Boom

36 The Yardbirds - Boom Boom

37 The Danderliers - Chop Chop Boom

38 Lillian Hale - Don't Boom Boom

39 The Animals - Boom Boom

What's The Connection? Boom 1

All songs with Boom in the Title make this Connection. Volume one. When I finished this WTC, I realized that a couple of my very favorite Boom songs were not on this one. Granted I had Paul Lekakis, Krakftwerk, Perry Como and L'Trimm. I even had John Lee Hooker, but around this time I had already seen a special movie and the main song from that movie was not on this list. So tomorrow I do volume two.

What's The Connection? Boom 1

01 Juster - Boom Boom Boom

02 Goldo - Boom Da Boom

03 Shangri-Las - Sophisticated Boom Boom

04 Apache Indian - Boom Shakalak

05 DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - Boom! Shake the Room (Ultimix)

06 Perry Como - Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)

07 Dick Robertson - I Faw Down and Go Boom

08 Kraftwerk - Boing Boom Tschak

09 Hot Action Cop - Doom Boom

10 The Iguanas - Boom Boom Boom

11 The Chords - Sh Boom

12 L'Trimm - Cars With The Boom

13 Anastacia - Boom

14 Daddy Dewdrop - Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)

15 Nobody's Angel - Boom Boom

16 Paul Lekakis - Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)

17 Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom

18 Tom Tom Club - Booming And Zooming

19 Shaggy - Boombastic

20 John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom

21 Walt Solek - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay

What's The Connection? Hi-Fi Stereo

This is not really related to yesterday's Panned pick although one song repeats on this Connection. This is not so much how or if there is a stereo effect on the music, but more about the lyrics being about Stereo's or Hi-Fi's. The Cars track definitely fits in yesterday's and today's theme. There could be more. Leave suggestions for more of your favorites. By the way, my favorite out of all these has to be Gary Myrick. From the moment I heard the track I was hooked.

What's The Connection? Hi-Fi Stereo

01 Who - Quadrophenia

02 The Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy

03 Scientist - King Tubby's Hi-Fi

04 Dub Syndicate - Hi-fi Gets A Pounding

05 Cars - Moving In Stereo

06 Gary Myrick & The Figures - She Talks In Stereo

07 Elvis Costello - High Fidelity

08 Sparks - Stereo

09 La Tour - Allen's Got A New Hi-Fi

10 Bomfunk MC`s - In Stereo

11 Pavement - Stereo

12 SuperGrass - Pumping Up Your Stereo

13 Suzi Quatro - Fantasy In Stereo

14 Warrant - Love In Stereo

15 Mecano - Stereosexual

16 Specials - Stereotype

17 Cabaret Voltaire - Jack Stereo Unit

Panned

This pick was fun. I guess it started with Edgar Winter. Specifically listening to Frankenstein on my Sennheiser headphones, laying in my waterbed. I loved the way the song panned left and right in my head. I always looked for that effect as I collected albums. Recently I realized that I had plenty to make a CD of my favorites and this is it. Now translated to playlist. I am sure there are other songs that fit the bill (and I would love to hear which ones you would choose in the comments) but these were the ones I chose. I definitely say that you should put on a nice set of headphones to listen to this compilation. It's made for tweaking your ears.

Panned

01 The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot

02 The Orb - Ultraworld Nine-Star 6 & 7 8 9

03 Ott - The Queen Of All Everything

04 10cc - I'm Not In Love

05 Cars - Moving In Stereo

06 Kate Bush - Waking The Witch

07 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

08 Focus - Hocus Pocus

09 Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

10 Edgar Winter - Frankenstein

11 Led Zeppelin - Ramble On

12 Who - Baba O'Riley

13 Pink Floyd - Money

14 Yes - Sound Chaser (Single Edit)

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

Poke Pick

This was a writeup blurb for the first original version of this. I updated the pick and it now has more songs and is at Poke Pick (repost).

All songs picked for their relationship to Pokemon. My daughter and I played the Pokemon TCG. We were pretty good. We ran a Pokemon "Gym" at a local Toys R Us for quite a while until they decided to no longer host them. It was fun. At one time my daughter was in the top ten West Coast under nine players. I still have decks we made and played with. Of course, I made a CD of Pokemon related songs. I haven't kept up with it, but even though I am an old man, it was still fun. I have no idea what kind of new songs and artists have made Pokemon songs (please tell me of any "good" ones if you know.) As for the card game, I don't even know what the latest set is. Last I remember was Ruby? Or Sapphire? Or maybe one or two after that. We didn't make competition decks really much after Gym or Fossil or something like that. I always tried to make a Team Rocket deck, but they always kind of sucked. One year for Halloween, we dressed up as Team Rocket. Very Fun. Homemade costumes. Either way these were the songs.

Poke Pick

01 Billy Crawford - Pokemon Theme

02 Pokemon - 2 B A Master

03 Weird Al Yankovic - Polkamon

04 Vitamin C - Vacation

05 M2M - Don't Say You Love Me

06 B-Witched - Get Happy

07 Angela Via - Catch Me If You Can

08 NSync - Somewhere Someday

09 Youngstown (featuring Nobody's Angel) - Pokemon World

10 O-Town - Comin' To The Rescue

11 The B-52's - The Chosen One

12 Donna Summer - The Power Of One

13 Mandah - Lullaby

14 Pikachu's Rescue Adventure - Dance Of The Bellossom

15 Blessid Union Of Souls - Brother My Brother

16 Team Rocket - Team Rocket Motto

17 Team Rocket - Double Trouble