What's The Connection? Get Up 1

Lots of songs that could be included on a connection of Getting Up. I wanted to use Jorge Buccio's Napkin Song since the main lyric is Get Up repeated over and over. But it doesn't have it in the title. But that's what started this WTC. I kept these to songs that started with Get Up. Most don't have anything else in the title although a few include an "and" something. I did break that random rule at least once. Which of these Get Up songs gets you up?

What's The Connection? Get Up 1

01 Bone Thugs featuring 3Lw - Get Up And Get It

02 Dropkick Murphys - Get Up (Live)

03 Go-Go's - Get Up And Go

04 Dramatics - Get Up and Get Down

05 Silver Convention - Get Up and Boogie (12 Disco Version)

06 Mount Holly - Get Up

07 Freedom - Get Up and Dance

08 Alejo Aponte - Get Up

09 Disco Circus - Get Up And Dance

10 REM - Get Up

11 Digital Emotion - Get Up Action (7')

12 Prince - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine

13 Bingo Players featuring Far East Movement - Get Up (Rattle)

14 Kinks - Get Up

15 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Get Up and Jump

16 Bramsam - Get Up And Dance Now

17 Skrillex & Korn - Get Up (Original Mix)

18 Van Halen - Get Up

19 John Oxford & Frank Syman - Get Up and Go

Pancakes From Heaven

As far as I am concerned Pancakes From Heaven are the pancakes from the Netherlands called Poffertjes. You can see some pictured on the cover. I made them at home. Not the same as you can get all over the Netherlands. It just tastes different when someone else makes them. But they still taste like a bit of heaven. Nothing to do with the music on this pick, although it is a little slice of heaven listening to these tracks. A little bit of all over and I think you'll like it. A couple of covers, a couple mashups, some pop, some quiet storm, some oldies, some newies.

Pancakes From Heaven

01 Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do For Love (Long Version)

02 Storm and The Balls - Anarchy En Espanol

03 Tom Jones - Delilah

04 Michael Franks - The Lady Wants To Know

05 Billy Joel - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

06 Dean Martin - Everybody Loves Somebody

07 Paul Anka - Lovecats

08 Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse - Valerie

09 Linda Ronstadt - Rock Me On The Water

10 INXS vs Smokey Robinson - Need To Be With You Tonight

11 Tony Bennett - The Shadow Of Your Smile

12 Nancy Sinatra (with Lee Hazlewood) - Some Velvet Morning

13 Black Eyed Peas vs Frank Sinatra - I Got New York

14 Lydia Lunch - Spooky

15 Nouvelle Vague - I Melt With You

16 Manhattan Transfer - Operator

17 The Casualties of Jazz - Black Sabbath

18 Annette Funicello - Jamaica Ska

19 Van Morrison - Precious Time

20 Jorge Buccio - The Bullshit Song

Northern Soul Originals 1

First download yesterday's pick. It has all the same songs, but different artists. These are the Northern Soul classic originals. Not to say that none of them weren't done by other people and perhaps before these versions, but these are the versions that were played. Some were (or are) rarer versions. I mean everyone has heard the Rolling Stones and they wrote the song, but the Wayne Gibson version is the Northern Soul hit (I use the term lightly since they weren't hits except at thos Northern Soul clubs. Compare these versions with the covers yesterday and get an idea of what it was like. I do want help to find more of these songs that were covered by others (specifically I do not need more versions of these exact songs - I have enough). Some of these songs, I like the original version better, but for some yesterday's covers were way better. What do you think?

Northern Soul Originals 1

01 Showstoppers - Ain't Nothin but a Houseparty

02 R. Dean Taylor - There's a Ghost in My House

03 The Capitols - Cool Jerk

04 Gil Scott Heron with Brian Jackson - The Bottle

05 Dobie Gray - The In Crowd

06 The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)

07 The Human Beinz - Nobody But Me

08 Freda Payne - Band of Gold

09 Fontella Bass - Rescue Me

10 Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up

11 The Impressions - You've Been Cheatin'

12 Chairmen Of The Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time

13 The Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You

14 The Contours - Just A Little Misunderstanding

15 Wayne Gibson - Under My Thumb

16 Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run

17 Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up

18 Gloria Jones - Tainted Love

19 Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - The Night

20 Kim Weston - Helpless

21 Judy Street - What

22 Chuck Wood - Seven Days Too Long

Northern Soul Covers 1

I knew some of these songs in this pick were covers, but did not know much about a Northern Soul dance movement. Might have liked to go dancing at one of these clubs. Heck, I kinda feel like I want to see if there is a call for it in Texas. Would be kind of fun to set up dancing lessons and play these old songs. Well, these are not the originals, but rather the covers of some of these Northern Soul Hits. Although many of these songs were not originally hits and that was the point. Most everyone, by now has heard Soft Cell's version of the old Gloria Jones song, so I didn't include it. Instead you get the Scorpions. Tomorrow look out for the Northern Soul original versions of these songs. Most of these songs, I have multiple covers, but I am still working on other songs not here that I can use for a part two. So if you have suggestions, I'll take them.

Northern Soul Covers 1

01 The J. Geils Band - (Ain't Nothin' But A) Houseparty

02 The Fall - There's a Ghost in My House

03 Human Sexual Response - Cool Jerk

04 Christians - The Bottle

05 Cheap Trick - The In Crowd

06 Kid Rock - Sugar Pie Honey Bunch

07 The Dickies - Nobody But Me

08 Belinda Carlisle - Band Of Gold

09 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Rescue Me

10 Yazz and the Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up (7 Edit)

11 Phil Collins - You've Been Cheatin'

12 Kylie Minogue - Give Me Just A Little More Time

13 Bonnie Pointer - Heaven Must Have Sent You

14 Busta Jones - Just A Little Misunderstanding

15 Ministry - Under My Thumb

16 The Knack - Nowhere To Run

17 The Flying Lizards - Move On Up (Single Edit)

18 Scorpions - Tainted Love

19 Lene Lovich - The Night

20 Manhattan Transfer - Helpless

21 Soft Cell - What

22 Dexys Midnight Runners - Seven Days Too Long

What's The Connection? Roller Coasters 2

Go back a week or so and find part one of this connection of Coasters. The first 22 tracks had some good ones, including the Ohio Players, This time I include that same song, but covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. A great version. I also have Robert Plant, Jonathan Richman, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, REO Speewagon as well as Neal Morse and Spyro Gyra among the bands today. A different feel today than the last volume, but that's good.

What's The Connection? Roller Coasters 2

23 Robert Plant - Rollercoaster

24 Sparrow - Roller Coaster

25 Jonathan Richman - Roller Coaster By The Sea

26 Wishbone Ash - Roller Coaster

27 The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Roller Coaster

28 Red House Painters - Rollercoaster

29 Chairmen Of The Board - Roller Coaster

30 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Love Rollercoaster

31 REO Speedwagon - Give Me A Ride (Roller Coaster)

32 Eric Church - Roller Coaster Ride

33 Belle & Sebastian - The Rollercoaster Ride

34 Ryan Adams - Rollercoaster

35 Little Walter - Roller Coaster

36 The Lilac Time - The Rollercoaster Song

37 Aimee Mann - Rollercoasters

38 The Mighty Lemon Drops - Rollercoaster

39 Merle Haggard with the Strangers - Roller Coaster

40 Neal Morse - Rollercoaster

41 Spyro Gyra - Rollercoaster

42 Sleater-Kinney - Rollercoaster

What's The Connection? Disco 5

As you probably surmised there are several previous volumes of this connection. You can find Disco on this blog by clicking there. These today are more of the tracks that are disco or disco feeling, plus have the word Disco in the title. See some of the previous WTC's for more info. Similar cover and the numbering continues. That's all today. I'm feeling lazy.

What's The Connection? Disco 5

71 Eddie Bo - Disco Party Part 1

72 David Shire - Night on Disco Mountain

73 Dexter Wensel - Disco Lights

74 Scotch - Disco Band (12 inch version)

75 Cosmic Hoffman - Space Disco

76 Eastside Connection - Frisco Disco

77 Disco Warriors - Cumbaya Disco

78 Casio Social Club - Rock The Discotheque

79 Universal Robot Band - Disco Boogie Woman

80 Kylie Minogue - Your Disco Needs You

81 Krishna Dharti Pe - Disco Dancer

82 Ritchie Family - I Feel Disco Good

83 Isaac Hayes - Disco Connection

84 Cyndi Lauper - Disco Inferno

85 Nightlife Unlimited - Disco Choo Choo

Sacramental Anathema

The title for this pick came from the juxtaposition of something being very important and hated. Not that any of these songs are hated, but just the idea that something could be, religiously, hated and revered at the same time. You don't see the two words used next to each other very often, so I liked that idea. I started with Brewer & Shipley and part of their lyrics of this song talks about marijuana in a generic sense and they talk about how it was a sacrament for them. That's what got me going on this tangent. The rest of the songs just fit within key mixing range. So it goes on the Camelot scale from 8A, 8B, 9A to 9B. The first track by Steve Miller and the last track by Billy Joel were recommended by a similar songs finder and the rest fell inbetween. I actually made several changes as I went along, ending with this mix of mostly rock and country hillbilly.

Sacramental Anathema

01 Steve Miller Band - Livin' In The USA

02 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Breakdown

03 Dorothy Shay - (You'll Be Just) Another Notch In Father's Shotgun (Effen You Don't Marry Me)

04 John Mayer Trio - Try

05 Traffic - Paper Sun

06 The Zombies - She's Not There

07 Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open the Door

08 Knitters - Love Shack

09 Eagles - The Best Of My Love

10 Elvis Presley - Anyway You Want Me (That's How I Will Be)

11 Jackson Browne - Cocaine

12 Led Zeppelin - I'm Gonna Crawl

13 Chris Isaak - Only The Lonely

14 Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing

15 Frank Zappa - Be In My Video

16 Ritchie Valens - La Bamba

17 Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line

18 Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

19 Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim

20 Uncle Rainbow - Rock and Roll

21 J Geils Band - Give It To Me (single mix edit)

22 Billy Joel - Big Shot