Panned 2

This is part two of this pick. All songs that have some sort of stereo effects (panning from side to side) that sound great when you wear headphones. Panned 1 explains a bit more. I had quite a bit left over from the first one and I did get some great recommendations in the comments. I used a bit of both in this one and volume three will use even more. I really do read the comments and check out the tracks you recommend. So do leave some good ones. Anyway here's volume two of this. Pretty easy to add 60's psychedelic tracks, they usually have some cool effects. But my favorite is the Velvet Underground where the effects do not really move. They are just panned left and right. I once had a classroom assignment where I had to tell a story. So I memorized that one and my class and the instructor did not know what to do with me. Storytelling class. Very fun, but I didn't get a good grade. Too bad, because I liked the class and I learned from the class. The professor was a blowhard and would never get fired because he had tenure.

Panned 2

15 Faces - Around The Plynth

16 Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (Stereo)

17 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Let It Ride

18 Velvet Underground - The Gift

19 Bjork - Headphones

20 The Flaming Lips - The Spark That Bled

21 Grass Roots - Let's Live for Today (Uncensored Version)

22 Gary Myrick & The Figures - She Talks In Stereo

23 Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen

24 Ten Years After - No Title

25 The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)

26 The Amboy Dukes - Journey To The Center Of The Mind

27 The Dukes Of Stratosphear - Bike Ride To The Moon

28 Tame Impala - Mind Mischief

29 The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

New Old Soul 1

I haven't a clue about sub genres. Sometimes it just seems made up. And this Pick is exactly that a made up sub genre: New Old Soul. Basically, for me, it means newer artists making soul music that sounds like old time soul from back in the day. I feel like an old man just saying that. Get off the lawn you whipper snappers! But some call some of these just soul or R&B or Neo Soul, or Retro-Soul. I have no idea what distinguishes one from the other, so I just put the ones I liked. It's number one, because it's the first one in what could be an infinite number of these eventually. Just depends on who keeps making songs like these and do I like them. Let me know if you have some songs that I should listen to.

New Old Soul 1

01 D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

02 Black Joe Lewis - Bitch, I Love You

03 John Legend & The Roots - Compared To What

04 Johnny Rawls - Your Love Is Lifting Me (Higher And Higher)

05 Cleo Sol - Why Don't You

06 Leon Bridges - River

07 Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

08 Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds - Sugar

09 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - How Long Do I Have To Wait For You

10 Raphael Saadiq - 100 Yard Dash

11 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - S.O.B.

12 St. Paul And The Broken Bones - Call Me

13 Eli Paperboy Reed - Come And Get It

14 Sir Featuring Kendrick Lamar - Hair Down

15 Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again

16 Durand Jones & The Indications - Is It Any Wonder_

17 Amaria - All For You

18 Lake Street Dive - Better Than

19 Tweed Funk - Fine Wine

20 John Nemeth - Come And Take It

21 Vintage Trouble - Blues Hand Me Down

Disco (Mirror) 8

This might be the last one in this series. I know there are several disco songs that I haven't picked yet that would fit, but I am kind of not thinking of them at the moment as great choices to play (and that I have played or danced to). So unless I get some crazy bug to do more (like you give me a reminder of a disco tune that I just have to put on another one of these. This will be the last, at least for now. Yesterday I added Mirror Ball and it had a link to previous versions of this. I probably shouldn't have put the Michael Jackson on this one, but I did. I already felt a bit weird adding the Pointer Sisters and ABBA, but it's worth it to get Cerrone and Idris Muhammad and some of the other lesser known disco club hits that I did include. Hope you like them.

Disco (Mirror) 8

90 Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited

91 Mr. President - Coco Jamboo

92 Scotch - Disco Band (12 inch version)

93 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

94 First Choice - The Player

95 Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love (Full Length Version)

96 Dan Hartman & Loleatta Holloway - Vertigo-Relight My Fire (12 inch version)

97 Idris Muhammad - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This

98 Supercharge - I Think I'm Gonna Fall (Full Length Disco Version)

99 ABBA - Voulez-Vous

100 Cerrone - Give Me Love

101 Phreek - Weekend (12 inch Extended Version)

Disco (Mirror) 7

I put this on the side for awhile, not because I didn't have enough songs (I have plenty to Pick from), but because I couldn't decide what to put on. I almost put on a special mix from the Bee Gees, but remembered that I said no Bee Gees on this series. A few big names on here. A couple of nice long mixes. Go back to Disco (Mirror) 6 to see some of the others I have on these comps. I especially like the Sky stuff, which should remind you of Earth, Wind & Fire since its related to Don Myrick. And several tracks that you probably don't know unless you were in Discos back in the day.

Disco (Mirror) 7

78 Shirley And Company - Shame Shame Shame

79 Dennis Parker - Like An Eagle

80 The Nolans - I'm In The Mood For Dancing

81 Sky - Boogie

82 Diana Ross - Love Hangover (Extended Alternate Version)

83 Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Running Away (Long Version)

84 Michael Jackson - Burn This Disco Out

85 MFSB - Love Is The Message (A Tom Moulton Mix)

86 Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

87 Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife

88 KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up

89 Gonzalez - Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet

What's The Connection? Cookies

Always around this time of year a few things happen. We eat a lot of holiday cookies, we bake a bunch and people bring them to work and we end up eating a ton. At the same time it's almost the end of the year so we think about setting goals. One of those goals usually also is that we feel guilty about eating all those cookies and so we make it a goal to eat better. That usually means no more cookies, or limited cookies. So before you set that goal I wanted to give you a last plate of cookies. This connection. Make it your cookie day today. Let me know in the comments about your favorite cookies to eat (and to bake) sometimes those are the same, sometimes not.

What's The Connection? Cookies

01 Sesame Street - C Is For Cookie

02 Ted Nugent - Girl Scout Cookies

03 Michael Franks - When The Cookie Jar Is Empty

04 Shonen Knife - Cookie Day (English Version)

05 R.E.M. - Milk & Cookies

06 Stevie Ray Vaughan with Lonnie Mack - Oreo Cookie Blues

07 Charo & the Salsoul Orchestra - Cookie Jar

08 Prince - Cookie Jar

09 John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu - Half Man-Half Cookie

10 Gym Class Heroes - Cookie Jar

11 Ashford & Simpson - Cookies And Cake

12 Isaac Hayes - Chocolate Chip

13 The Ventures - Cookies & Coke

14 Brother Soul - Cookies

15 Beastie Boys - Cooky Puss

16 Cheap Trick - Fortune Cookie (Demo)

17 Journey - Cookie Duster

18 Blue Oyster Cult - Cookie in Bottle

19 Jack Johnson - Cookie Jar

20 Booker T. Jones - Cookie

21 Parlet - Cookie Jar

21 Shonen Knife - I Wanna Eat Cookies (English Version)

What's The Connection? Sick Types

I started working on this connection some time ago. I got Covid and there's a whole story about that on some other post and it was still early before anyone really knew if it would be a pandemic or not and before anyone really understood if it was going to be very deadly to all people or not. I still think I lived because I was too stupid to figure out that I probably should have gone to the hospital. Got yelled at for that. But I had all the symptoms and I was what would be later called the at risk section of society. But there weren't many songs specifically about covid 19, but I did find all sorts of other types of things you could get. It's not about the type of people who get sick, but the types of sicknesses. For more click on Sick. I've had a couple of them. Pneumonia, Flu's, Cancer and diseases of the band, yes. Luckily no heart attacks or anthrax poisoning or asthma. You could probably do a whole Pneumonia connection on it's own, but I just put in a couple. I hope you enjoy these (the songs, not the diseases).

What's The Connection? Sick Types

01 Paul Revere & The Raiders - Come In, You'll Get Pneumonia

02 Jello Biafra - Swine Flu

03 Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

04 Device - Hanging On A Heart Attack

05 Fela Kuti - Yellow Fever

06 Kool & The Gang - Pneumonia

07 Artie Lange - Swine Flu

08 Toy Dolls - I've Got Asthma

09 Frank Zappa - Diseases of the Band

10 Huey Piano Smith And The Clowns - Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu

11 The Fibonaccis - Tumor

12 Gene Loves Jezebel - Influenza (Relapse)

13 Johnny Winter - Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu

14 Todd Rundgren - Influenza

15 Dead Kennedys - Government Flu

16 Gang of Four - Anthrax

17 Joe Jackson - Cancer

18 My Chemical Romance - Cancer

19 Twenty One Pilots - Cancer

20 M.I.A. - Bird Flu

What's The Connection? Sick Fever 2

The last thing we want is to get sick at the beginning of the year. So happy new year's day and I hope you are not sick with a fever. But if you are, or if you get a fever later this year, at least you will be armed with two connections of Fever songs. Volume one was a month or so ago. Here is the feverish link. And today is volume two. I like them both. This one does not have anything on fire, although you may feel like you are on fire with a high enough fever. Cool down, drink liquids and talk to your doctor. Also Soft Kitty helps. One of my favorites on here is Brian Eno's version of Fever and the Sylvers track right after it., but enjoy all of them. You can't enjoy Fela Kuti, but he's coming later.

What's The Connection? Sick Fever 2

23 African Head Charge - Fever Pitch

24 Merle Haggard - Ramblin' Fever

25 Mazaruni Featuring Mad Professor - Jungle Fever Getting Stronger

26 Kinkina - Jungle Fever

27 Motorhead - White Line Fever

28 Boney M - Caribbean Nightfever Megamix

29 Gamalon - Jungle Fever

30 The Cramps - Fever

31 Spinal Tap - Diva Fever

32 Pitbull - Jungle Fever (Ft. Wyclef Jean)

33 Donna Summer - Summer Fever

34 Ivor Biggun - Graffiti Night Fever

35 Brian Eno - Fever

36 Sylvers - Boogie Fever

37 Supermax - Reggae Fever

38 Bloodhound Gang - Yellow Fever

39 The Fall - White Line Fever