Coffee Crystal

Just a fun mixtape, named after a cool microscope photo of an espresso coffee crystal. That is what I am drinking daily. Yummy. The songs All range in the 9A to 11B area of the Camelot scale, but are all different BPM's and energy levels. Mostly they are songs I have been listening to recently. I just wanted to add them into one pick. A couple of Texas Soul songs, some rock, a couple of country tunes (does Jessica Simpson count as country since she was wearing daisy dukes for her video?) There's even some ska. Is the Partners in Kryme song a video game song or a comic book song? No idea, but probably both and who cares, it's kinda cool (in a nerdy way.)

Coffee Crystal

01 Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11

02 The Gap Band - I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up & Dance

03 Yello - The Race

04 Heatwave - Boogie Nights

05 Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooooh

06 Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant

07 Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power

08 The Farm - Groovy Train

09 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea

10 Texas Tornados - (Hey Baby) Que Paso

11 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

12 Keith Urban - Kiss A Girl

13 Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You

14 Selecter - On My Radio

15 Devo - Whip it

16 Jessica Simpson - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

17 Golden Earring - Radar Love

18 Joe Jackson - It's Different for Girls

19 Drifters - You're More Than A Number in My Little Red Book

20 Pretenders - Brass in Pocket

21 Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down

22 Colbie Caillat - Bubbly

Genetic Apex

Let me see, how long has it been since I made another wormhole mixtape? I think the last one was August 3rd and there were several before that. All pretty good, if I say so myself. I wasn't too sure when I was making these picks, but I listen back and they are nice mixes. This one has a little Texas soul on it. I am listening to quite a bit of that as I figure out the differences between Northern Soul, Popcorn, Carolina Beach music and Lowrider. They all have some overlap but are distinct. It's interesting. Anyway this has some pop prog, some yacht, some new wave and even some bossa nova. And yet it all seems to flow. Best of all, for you, it's not all hits. Some deep cuts that are quite good on here as well. I won't go into how I named these, look at previous posts to see that.

Genetic Apex

01 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - So In Love

02 Caballo Dorado - No Rompas Mi Corazón (Achy Breaky Heart)

03 Alison Gold - Chinese Food

04 Yes - Going For The One

05 Agent Orange - Everything Turns Grey

06 Earth, Wind & Fire - Sunshine

07 Bowling For Soup - Gilligan's Island Theme

08 The Cure - Wrong Number

09 Talking Heads - Air

10 Maggie Estep - Hey Baby

11 Robert Fripp - You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette

12 Temptations - Ain't Too Proud To Beg

13 Corcovado Frequency - Start Me Up-Brown Sugar (Remix)

14 O'Jays - Love Train

15 ABC - When Smokey Sings

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

17 Steely Dan - Doctor Wu

18 Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrel - Blurred Lines

19 Kinks - Tired Of Waiting For You

20 Michael Oldfield - Heaven's Open

21 Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet

22 Texas Tornados - Little Bit Is Better Than Nada

Patat Met Pindasaus

I think I was craving this while I was making this mixtape pick. For those of you who have never had this tasty treat: It's Fries with an Indonesian peanut butter sauce. In some places Frites, in others it's Patat, but best served in a pointed cone of paper. Messy and a pain, but delicious and worth every bite. If it sounds weird, just get over that and try it. What does it have to do with these songs? Nothing. Although there is a song on here with Dutch lyrics. I can never get the fries to be just right at home. The sauce I have down. So all I can think of is eating this and it's just a few thousand miles away from me (about 5000). If you are in Nederland, just do me a favor and eat one of these today. Send me a picture if you can. I'll live vicariously through you.

Patat Met Pindasaus

01 Machine - There But For The Grace Of God Go I

02 Shriekback - Nemesis (Extended Mix)

03 Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

04 Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Passenger

05 Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx)

06 Earth Wind & Fire - Magnetic

07 Soft Cell - It's A Mugs Game

08 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cry

09 Joe Jackson - Memphis

10 Madness - Baggy Trousers

11 Psychic TV - Good Vibrations

12 Kate Bush - Sat In Your Lap

13 Tones on Tail - War

14 Joy Division - Novelty

15 Met en Zonder - Meneertje Pils

16 Soft Cell - What

Act Your Age 3

For this solemn day in United States history (9-11) I decided to not do something solemn. I am posting part three of the immature pick I call Act Your Age. Earlier immature volumes are here. This volume has more of the Growing Up, Almost Grown and All Grown songs. I did put in a couple of Forever Young songs. I do have a Teen and Kid song and a couple of songs about growing old. Check out the previous ones (pull them out and listen to them too) and let's not dwell on catastrophes too much today. Mourn if you want to, reflect if you want to, but most of all be a little immature.

Act Your Age 3

45 Elvis Costello - All Grown Up

46 The Dixie Cups - All Grown Up

47 Roy Orbison - Growing Up

48 Fall Out Boy - Growing Up

49 Manic Street Preachers - Just A Kid

50 Rod Stewart - Forever Young (1996)

51 Blink-182 - Dammit (Growing Up)

52 Simple Plan - I'm Just A Kid

53 Sammy Hagar - Growing Up

54 MGMT - Kids

55 David Bowie - Growin' Up

56 Camera Obscura - Teenager

57 The Killers - When You Were Young

58 INXS - Stay Young

59 Alphaville - Forever Young

60 Garbage - When I Grow Up

61 They Might Be Giants - Hope That I Get Old Before I Die

62 Florida Georgia Line - Grow Old

63 Pretenders - Forever Young

64 Eurythmics - Grown Up Girls

65 Hall & Oates - I'm Just A Kid

66 Ruben And The Jets - Almost Grown

Shark Skin

It's sharp? Rough? Nah. I just found this cool closeup of shark skin under a microscope by accident and thought, that would make a cool background for a pick. A few leftover songs, a couple of covers I discovered I had (like Deee-Lite). A couple of Canadian bands. A song from Golden Earring that I hadn't listened to since Kooymans died. Look for my pick. DeanMartin. And the rest just songs I wanted to throw on and fit BPM-wise. It doesn't seem like it will flow, but somehow, it does.

Shark Skin

01 Burning Sensations - Pablo Picasso

02 Dean Martin - Standing On The Corner

03 Deee-Lite - You Sexy Thing

04 Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra - Object of My Affection

05 Redbone - Come And Get Your Love

06 Bananarama - Cruel Summer

07 Pointer Sisters - Yo Ho (Pirates of the Caribbean)

08 Urge Overkill - Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon

09 David Shire - Salsation

10 The Banana Splits - I Enjoy Being A Boy

11 Santa Esmeralda - Sevilla Nights

12 Lee Marvin - Wand'rin' Star

13 Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World

14 will.i.am - Bang Bang

15 Brownsville Station - Smokin' In The Boys Room

16 Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)

17 Eddie Money - Two Tickets To Paradise

18 Golden Earring - When The Lady Smiles

19 Gino Vannelli - Jack Miraculous

20 Odds - Heterosexual Man

21 Shinedown - 45

Stopped Playing These

This was interesting to me, especially since I like many of these songs (ok, some not as much). This pick includes songs that these bands at one point or another stopped playing live at their shows. All for different reasons, too. Some because they hated the song and never wished it to become a hit or even a single (think REM). Some because the fans liked the song, but only because they misinterpreted what the song was really about (think Beastie Boys), some because they were ashamed of the lyrics in today's climate (think Rolling Stones). There are a couple who decided that they didn't feel it was a song they could stand behind anymore, because they changed and some because they changed vocalists and didn't want to tarnish the previous dead singer (think AC-DC). Most of these were decent hits, too. Can you think of any songs an artist stopped playing?

Stopped Playing These

01 Paramore - Misery Business

02 Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man

03 Billy Joel - Tell Her About It

04 Radiohead - Creep

05 Heart - All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You

06 Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum

07 Weird Al Yankovic - Fat

08 Depeche Mode - People Are People

09 Madonna - Like A Virgin

10 REM - Shiny Happy People

11 Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot

12 Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar

13 Foo Fighters - Big Me

14 Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)

15 Bob Dylan - Hurricane

16 AC-DC - It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'roll)

17 Eminem - Cleanin' Out My Closet

18 Led Zeppelin - Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)

19 Ariana Grande - Put Your Hearts Up

What's The Connection? Shakes 1

I was inspired by a post on Butterboy's blog by Oniswa, so I made this connection. It has completely diferent tracks. Just my interpretation of it. Listen to both. I can't speak for the other one, but there were so many songs about the shakes (and I am pretty sure none of these have to do with Arby's Orange Creamsicle shakes, even though that's what's on the cover). When I started it, I wanted to use some of my favorites, but not duplicating any from the previous pick. I should say that KC was the first I thought of, but it really was The Cars. Not that it was my very favorite of these. It just popped into my head. The Limbomaniacs are probably the one band that's least known here. But this ep was produced by Bill Laswell. And this isn't even close to their best song, but it fits here.

What's The Connection? Shakes 1

01 The Cure - Shake Dog Shake

02 Gap Band - Shake

03 Limbomaniacs - Shake It

04 Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump

05 Los Lobos - Shakin' Shakin' Shakes

06 Luke Bryan - Country Girl (Shake It For Me)

07 The Bar-Kays - Shake Your Rump To The Funk

08 KC And The Sunshine Band - (Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty

09 George Clinton - Do Fries Go With That Shake

10 Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease

11 The Jacksons - Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)

12 Was (Not Was) - Shake Your Head (Let's Go To Bed)

13 The Time - Shake!

14 Cameo - Shake Your Pants

15 New Order - Shake It Up

16 Baauer - Harlem Shake

17 Pitbull featuring Oobie - Shake It Up

18 Cars - Shake It Up

19 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off