New Prog Pick 5

I was kind of done with the New Prog picks, but here it is, volume five of this pick and I have more to come. Sorry, lots of prog lately. Great if you love it, just waiting on hold if you don't. Steven Wilson and Procupine Tree on this one. Plus a bunch of other bands that I know you will love. But I am in a hurry today. I'll wait a bit for volume 6 of this pick, but it's coming.

New Prog Pick 5

26 All Them Witches - Rats In Ruin

27 Names - Final Stand

28 Twelfth Night - Creepshow

29 Black Mountain - Space To Bakersfield

30 Seedy Jeezus - Dripping From The Eye Of The Sun

31 Steven Wilson - Ancestral

32 Cosmos - Sequences

33 Porcupine Tree - Radioactive Toy

34 1000Mods - Reverb Of The New World

Reggae Dub Pick 4

All of these are reupped. This one is just upped, since I haven't posted it before. You can find links to Dub 1 and Dub 2 on the Dub 3 pick page. All new tracks (although I used the Mad Professor track here on my Mad Professor Dub Me Crazy pick as well). I used two tracks with Lee Perry. One with the Congos and one with the Upsetters. Aswad and Black Uhuru are not generally known as dub artists, but both of them had dub albums that are considered to be amazingly great in dub circles. The tracks on here are a couple of my favorites. King Tubby and Prince Jammy are on here a couple of times. Mad Professor shows up twice, too. Once with the Easy All Stars covering a Pink Floyd track (they have two albums covering Dark Side of the Moon) all good. A couple of tracks with Adrian Sherwood and a smattering of others to round this volume up.

Reggae Dub Pick 4

46 Congos - Fisherman Dub

47 Black Uhuru - Big Spliff

48 The Skatalites Meet King Tubby - Herb Man Dub

49 Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - Chapter Three

50 Prince Jammy - Throne Of Blood

51 Aswad - Dub Fire

52 Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa

53 Horace Andy - Rasta Dub

54 Easy Star All Stars - Money (Mad Professor Remix)

55 Yabby You - Deliver Me From My Enemies Version

56 Mad Professor - Asylum Of Dub

57 Linton Kwesi Johnson - Victorious Dub

58 Max Romeo - I Chase The Devil

59 King Tubby - African Roots

60 Scientist - Golden Goal

61 African Head Charge - Dinosaur’s Lament

62 Automaton - Asiyah Dub (Blinding The Starry Eyes Of God)

63 Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate

Rhythm Pop Pick 9

Way back when I made the other eight Rhythm Pop Picks. I had enough to make a couple more, but I kinda stopped. I thought it might be enough. I went back to my working folder and decided I was wrong. I still had more to post. So here is the next volume of the pick. Many of these have cool remixes of the songs that you might not have heard, but if you know these bands, you might have. I have to talk about one band. Until December. They didn't get that much attention. They deserved more. But they turned into Consolidated where they got a littl bit of traction (and changed their whole sound), but still not enough. This was their Rhythm Pop phaze. Very Danceable, Very pop. 

Rhythm Pop Pick 9

136 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me (Youth Mix)

137 Vitamin Z - Burning Flame

138 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Secret

139 Martini Ranch - Hot Dog (12 Inch Remix)

140 When In Rome - The Promise (Coliseum Mix)

141 Cetu Javu - Situations (Extended)

142 Yello - The Race (Razormaid Remix)

143 Camouflage - The Great Commandment (Extended Dance Remix)

144 Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon (Special K Mix)

145 Yazoo - Don't Go (12'' Version)

146 Until December - Heaven

147 Trans-X - Living On Video (Original Album Version)

148 Peter Murphy - Cuts you up

149 Cure - Just Like Heaven

Green Onions 5

The last of the funky green onion pick so far. I have more but not compiled. I especially have more versions of the song Green Onions. I just need a few more to put around them. I put four versons of the song on this one already. Velvet Underground, the 5,6,7,8's (some vocals), Bill Black's Combo and Al Kooper who does an amazing version. Quite longer and jamming. The other tracks fit well and you won't be disappointed. But I did need more help to get more of these kind of tracks and I am on to the next for now.

Green Onions 5

82 Gene Harris & The Three Sounds - Put On Train

83 Soulive & Karl Denson - Spark

84 Ronnie Laws - Tell Me Something Good

85 The Velvet Underground - Green Onions

86 Grant Green - In The Middle

87 Back Door - Slivadiv

88 Apollis - What It Is

89 African Music Machine - The Dapp

90 Charles Earland - Betty's Dilemma

91 The 5.6.7.8's - Green Onions

92 Les Cooper & the Soul Rockets - Wiggle Wobble

93 Bill Black's Combo - Green Onions

94 Ivan Boogaloo Joe Jones - You've Got It Bad, Girl

95 Al Kooper - Green Onions (Live)

96 Nucleus - Nosegay

Green Onions 4

We're getting to the fourth volume of the Green Onions pick. Several versions of the songs Green Onions, today it's Mongo Santamaria! Great version. The J.B.'s are here with a song that completely fits in this series (although just a few shouts of the title), as well as Just Brothers with a song that you will recognize because it's been used as a sample for a pretty well known other hit, Tell me you recognize it! a couple of other artists that you've heard before on this series. And some covers done instrumentally that otherwise might never have made it .

Green Onions 4

64 Hampton Hawes - Web

65 Mongo Santamaria - Green Onions

66 J.B.'s - Pass The Peas

67 Mel Brown - Son Of A Preacher Man

68 Ray Cameron - Coast To Coast

69 Wilbur Bascomb - Just A Groove In G

70 The Pazant Brothers & The Beaufort Express - Chick A Boom (instrumental)

71 Idris Muhammad - Super Bad

72 Jack McDuff - Oblighetto

73 Harold Alexander - New York Sister

74 Melvin Sparks - Whip! Whop!

75 Herbie Mann - Do It Again

76 Johnny Harris - Stepping Stones

77 O'Donel Levy - Marbles

78 Johnny Hammond Smith - Johnny Hammond Boogaloo

79 Just Brothers - Sliced Tomatoes

80 The Nite Liters - Theme For Angela

81 Alphonse Mouzon - Nightmare

Green Onions 3

Third volume of this pick of soul and funk (mostly) intrumentals. I don't know that my pick is all that different than everyone else's picks of this category. And it sure seems like everyone has one. I tried not to look too closely at them when I made mine. (Not at all, actually). Another Booker T & the MG's on this one and yet another version of Green Onions. This time Pink Floyd. Yes. I don't believe it either. Is it soul or funk? Maybe, but it is instrumental. Some of the other tracks are probably much closer to the feel of this series, but it is what it is.

Green Onions 3

44 Afrique - House Of Rising Funk

45 Olympic Runners - Grab It (instrumental)

46 O'Donel Levy - We've Only Just Begun

47 Creations Unlimited - Crystal Illusion

48 Black On White Affair - A Bunch Of Changes

49 Alphonze Mouzon - Funky Snakefoot

50 Booker T & The Mg's - Hip Hug-Her

51 Blackrock - Yeah Yeah

52 The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Hihache

53 Fuzzy Haskins - The Fuz And Da Boog

54 Jimmy Mcgriff - Groove Grease

55 Earth, Wind & Fire - Power

56 Mandrill - Mandrill

57 Klaus Weiss - Morning 1 & Morning 2

58 Mongo Santamaria - Night Crawler

59 James Clarke - Blow Up A Go-Go

60 The Rimshots - In Cold Blood

61 Crusaders - Full Moon

62 James Booker - African Gumbo

63 Pink Floyd - Green Onions

Green Onions 2

I can't remember the first time I heard Green Onions, but I remember very well hearing it in the movie American Graffiti with Wolfman Jack talking over it. It was just so cool. And then I remember the Blues Brothers playing it. And yes, of course, I loved the Blues Brothers. The fact that several of the MG's were in the movie just made it even better. Okay, Dan Akroyd talks through it, but that's okay. Another track by Booker T on this pick, of course they fit. And not the last appearance on this series. Herbie Mann, Jimmie McGriff, the Nite-Liters, Alphonse Mouzon, the Rimshots, O'Donel Levy and Jack McDuff all will appear again. 

Green Onions 2

24 War - Smile Happy

25 Tony Alvon & The Belairs - Sexy Coffee Pot

26 Herbie Mann - Turtle Bay

27 Billy Cobham - Lunarputians

28 The Nite-Liters - Excuse Me While I Do My Thing

29 The Krew Kats - Trambone

30 Roy Lee Johnson And The Villagers - Razorback Circus

31 James Brown - Straight Ahead

32 Jimmy McGriff - Sugar Sugar

33 O'Donel Levy - Playhouse

34 The Rimshots - Born Funky

35 Charles Earland - Warp Factor 8

36 Booker T & The Mg's - Time Is Tight

37 Jack McDuff - Mini Pads

38 Tony Aiken and Future 2000 - Time Tunnel

39 Charles Kynard - Your Momma Don't Dance

40 Grant Green - Blues For Abraham

41 Alphonze Mouzon - Nitroglycerin

42 Kool & The Gang - Wild & Peaceful

43 The Blues Brothers - Green Onions