What's The Connection? Dance 1

Yesterday I had part 2 of the (Something) Dance Connection, This one is easier. It's all songs with Dance in the title. Not kinds of Dances, just songs about Dance. I do have another WTC about Dancing here. I like that too. But this is more to the point. I hope you like it. There are some really good tracks here. The cover is very similar to the other ones in this series. Notice something else. I always use Helvetica as the font in this blog. Not because it's my favorite font, but it just turned out that way.

What's The Connection? Dance 1

01 Martha And The Muffins (M+M) - Come Out And Dance

02 Rolling Stones - Dance

03 Commodores - Shut Up And Dance

04 Justice - D.A.N.C.E.

05 Eagles - I Love To Watch a Woman Dance

06 Ohio Players - Everybody Dance

07 Don Henley - All She Wants To Do Is Dance

08 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody

09 Lady GaGa feat. Colby O'Donis - Just Dance

10 Johnny Warman - Will You Dance With Me

11 Foxy - Get Off Your Ahh And Dance

12 Walk The Moon - Shut Up and Dance

13 Chic - Everybody Dance (12'' Mix)

14 Isley Brothers - Move Over And Let Me Dance

15 Saturday Night Band - Come On Dance, Dance

16 Defunkt - Make Them Dance

17 Devo - Make Me Dance

18 Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance

What's The Connection? (Something) Dance 2

More of the WTC (something) and then Dance in the title. Part 1 (Something) Dance was earler this year. It had some good tracks. This might be even more diverse.Tiny Tim AND Patti Smith! C'mon! Dave Grusin and Garth Brooks! Ryuichi Sakamoto and King Tubby! That's going all over the map. But somehow it works. Same numbering and cover (almost) as the first part. But all new dance songs. I hope you enjoy them both. In case you want to know, I make all the covers in CorelDraw, but there are a ton of places on the web that allows you to make them for free. Search and you will find. I have fun with it and it only takes a couple of minutes more. Let me know if you appreciate them. I host files at Proton because I also host my mail there. I ised to use Krakenfiles and ufile, but didn't like their service and someone always had trouble getting the songs. Proton has been good for over a year now.

What's The Connection? (Something) Dance 2

20 Scorpions - Delicate Dance

21 Mad Professor - Lion Dance

22 African Head Charge - Elastic Dance

23 Material - Square Dance

24 Metallica - Devil's Dance

25 Tiny Tim - The Chicken Dance

26 Patti Smith Group - Ghost Dance

27 Toy Dolls - Sabre Dance

28 Drake - One Dance

29 David Bowie - Magic Dance

30 Dr Zeus - Lets Dance

31 The Clash - The Magnificent Dance

32 Dave Grusin - Mountain Dance

33 Garth Brooks - The Dance

34 Guess Who - Rain Dance

35 David Byrne - Faust Dance

36 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Mescal Dance

37 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Slat Dance

38 Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance

39 Death Cult - Ghost Dance

40 King Tubby - Rebel Dance

What's The Connection? Futbol (Soccer) 2

Part two of the Futbol or Soccer connection. If you want to know my background in Soccer see part 1 of Futbol (Soccer). But even though it's a good compilation it's probably not that interesting of astory and really has nothing to do with the songs I picked. A few of these are not World Cup or club anthems. The Vandals is one of those. It's just about soccer moms. Scientist had a whole album about soccer, but the album wasn't specifically ever chosen as an official World Cup theme.. But the songs are good. Hopefully you like all of them as much you did the first part. And with all these I'm sure I have barely scratched the surface. Did I miss one you love?

What's The Connection? Futbol (Soccer) 2

20 The Vandals - Soccer Mom

21 Simply Red - We're In This Together

22 Pop Will Eat Itself featuring BNegão - Reclaim The Game (Funk FIFA)

23 Rod Stewart - We Can Win

24 M'du - Mawe

25 New Order - Touched By The Hand Of God

26 Edoardo Bennato & Giorgio Moroder - Un 'estate Italiana (Official Song Of Fifa World Cup)

27 Chumbawamba - Top Of the World (Ole, Ole, Ole)

28 Anastacia - Boom (2002 FIFA World Cup)

29 Nelly Furtado - Forca

30 Herbert Groemeyer - Celebrate The Day

31 Shakira - Dare La La La (World Cup 2014)

32 Crazy Frog - We Are The Champions (Ding A Dang Dong)

33 Kasabian - Heroes

34 Scientist - World Cup Squad Lick Their Wounds

35 Right Said Fred - Stand Up (For The Champions)

36 K'Naan - Wavin' Flag (Coca-Cola Celebration Mix)

37 Los Ramblers - El Rock Del Mundial

What's The Connection? Shots 2

Just days ago I posted part one of this Shots Connection. If you didn't hear it yet got Shots 1. It's pretty good. Already everyone now has forgotten that we almost had an assassination. And here I am posting more about shots. Another AC-DC song and right after Nancy Sinatra. It's also close to a track from ABC (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao) artist Youth X Treme. Which I quite like., Zappa, Reed, Cabaret Voltaire all managed to secure a spot, too! I think you'll like this one.

What's The Connection? Shots 2

23 Frank Zappa - It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal

24 Bobbettes - I Shot Mr. Lee

25 Kid Cudi - Tequila Shots

26 Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff

27 Thievery Corporation - Warning Shots

28 The Residents - Double Shot

29 Nancy Sinatra - Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad

30 AC-DC - Shot In The Dark

31 Cabaret Voltaire - Fourth Shot

32 Youth X Treme - Shots BOOM BAM!!!

33 Buena Vistas - Hot Shot

34 Arthur ''Guitar Boogie'' Smith - Who Shot Willie

35 Lou Reed - The Last Shot

36 Henry Mancini - A Shot In The Dark

37 Lita Ford - Shot Of Poison

38 Wilco - A Shot in the Arm

39 Y&T - Hot Shot

40 Wolfgang Gartner - Hook Shot

41 Charms - Gimme That Shot

42 Shonen Knife - Jet Shot

43 The Beat - Big Shot

Polka Pick 2

A combination of old and new polkas. This pick is part two of the Polka compilations. Polka Pick Part 1 is here. This time a few more of Brave Combo, another Weird Al and the Polkaholics. You'll notice some pretty out there covers of the Doors and Pink Floyd, polka style. Some country polka and a few polkas from some soundtracks. I added Dean Martin and a few other older tracks to balance out the new ones. Not sure why, but none of them resonate with my mother-in-law as much as the Pennsylvania Polka does (which is on part 1,) but they're all pretty decent and get your foot tapping. Watch your step! I've been looking for a Brush Your Teeth polka. Do you know of one?

Polka Pick 2

29 Lords - Good Time Music

30 Dean Martin - The Sailor's Polka

31 The Casuals - Ice Cubes in Beer

32 James Last - Budweiser Polka

33 Six Fat Dutchmen - Jenny Lind Polka

34 Myron Floren - Accordion Man Polka

35 Fritz's Polka Band - Grandparent's Polka

36 The Polka Floyd Show - See Emily Play

37 Whoopee John - Ping Pong Polka

38 Rex Allen - Dude Ranch Polka

39 Richie Yurkovich Band - My Wife Is Happy Polka

40 Henry Mancini - Bier Fest Polka

41 The Wurzels - I Am A Cider Drinker

42 Balkan Beat Box - Bulgarian Chicks

43 Dirty Polka Band - The Dirty Polka

44 Buck Owens - Buck's Polka

45 Ebb Pilling & His Ozark Squirrel Shooters - Ozark Polka

46 John Kander & Fred Ebb - New York, New York (Polka Version)

47 Henry Mancini - Pie-In-The-Face Polka

48 Patti Page - Milwaukee Polka

49 Brave Combo - Potato Chips Polka

50 Brave Combo - Hosa Dyna

50 The Pogues - The Kerry Polka

51 kd Lang & The Reclines - Watch Your Step Polka

52 Weird Al Yankovic - Now That's What I Call Polka!

53 Brave Combo - People Are Strange

54 Gaelic Storm - John Ryan's Polka

55 Bowling For Soup featuring Brave Combo - Belgium Polka

56 The Polkaholics - Beer (Breakfast of Champions)

57 They Might Be Giants - The Famous Polka

58 The Toons - Punk Polka

Soft Cell Pick

Since I did a pick each for Dave Ball and Marc Almond, I kinda had to do my pick for Soft Cell. First, there are a number of long versions and singles on this. They are my favorite versions of those songs. The very first track was one of my all time favorites of the first album. I added tracks that I liked from their reunion album. Nothing from the most recent albums, but I did put some of those tracks on the last two day's picks. Sorry, none of the cool covers of Hendrix and Black Sabbath, I like them, but no more room. It's a CD. The cover art background is from a photo of a wall at my old hair salon (Faux): a wall of Purple Tuck and Roll. I loved it and it seemed appropos for these guys.

Soft Cell Pick

01 Soft Cell - Frustration

02 Soft Cell - It's A Mugs Game

03 Soft Cell - Tainted Love-Where Did Our Love Go

04 Soft Cell - Torch (Extended Version)

05 Soft Cell - What

06 Soft Cell - Monoculture

07 Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf

08 Soft Cell - Darker Times

09 Soft Cell - Down In The Subway

10 Soft Cell - Bedsitter

11 Soft Cell - Soul Inside

12 Soft Cell - You Only Live Twice

13 Soft Cell - Numbers

14 Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

Marc Almond Pick

Yesterday I had his cohort from Soft Cell, Dave Ball, but today the pick is all Marc Almond. What's great about him is he seems to guest everywhere. He has so many compilations it's not even funny. So why do another one? I kinda had to since I did one for Dave. And my pick is a bit different from all those other comps. I included a few Soft Cell tracks (none that are on yesterday's pick and none that are on tomorrow's pick.)It has my favorite "guest spots" and I am including in that guest of his and him guesting on other artist albums or singles. Just those alone are cool enough to set himself apart. I mean look at his company: X-TG (most of Throbbing Gristle), Pet Shop Boys, Rosenstolz, T-Total, Gene Pitney, Bronski Beat, Foetus, Buster Poindexter. Plus all his solo work. You could do multiple albums. But here are my favorites. Notice the background of the cover. I took that picture.

Marc Almond Pick

01 X-TG featuring Marc Almond - The Falconer

02 Marc Almond featuring Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart

03 Marc Almond - The Days Of Pearly Spencer

04 Marc Almond - The House Is Haunted By The Echo Of Your Last Goodbye

05 Marc And The Mambas - Black Heart

06 Marc Almond - A Lover Spurned

07 Marc Almond - Mother Fist

08 Rosenstolz & Marc Almond - Total Eclipse

09 Marc Almond - Jacky

10 Soft Cell featuring Pet Shop Boys - Purple Zone

11 T-Total Featuring Marc Almond - Baby’s On Fire

12 Soft Cell - Bruises On All My Illusions

13 Marc Almond & Buster Poindexter - Adored And Explored

14 Marc Almond - The Stars We Are

15 Marc Almond - Tears Run Rings

16 Bronski Beat And Marc Almond - I Feel Love

17 Soft Cell - The Night

18 Marc Almond & Foetus (Flesh Volcano) - Slut

19 Marc Almond - Bitter Sweet