Adrian Sherwood Pick

More of the Tackhead family picks. Today it's Adrian Sherwood. The hardest and the easiest to make a pick for. Easy because so much is associated with Sherwood and hard because of the same reason. I left out anything I knew was just a remix of his. He has million of those from tons of artists. I tried to get only him with or in a band. Even that is hard. Some of the bands he was in involved him only twiddling dials. But like Eno, he twiddled well. Most of these bands/artists say Sherwood . But several we know for sure he was in but didn't say his name. Some are tracks from the individual artists picks that we used, but I also picked a few that I didn't use before. I said it before, but listen to this through and then listen with the other picks combined. It's very interesting.

Adrian Sherwood Pick

01 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - What's My Mission Now (Fight the Devil)

02 Adrian Sherwood - Hari Up Hari

03 Voice Of Authority - Stopping And Starting

04 The Near Jazz Experience & Adrian Sherwood - Beachcomber In Dub

05 Lsk & Adrian Sherwood - The Way Of The World

06 Gaudi featuring Adrian Sherwood - Dub's Nine Lives

07 Sherwood & Pinch - Shadowrun

08 Adrian Sherwood featuring Daddy Freddy & Ghetto Priest & Jen Jen - We No Normal (Anger Management)

09 Suns Of Arqa featuring Adrian Sherwood - Acid Tabla (Adrian Sherwood Mix)

10 Dub Syndicate - Health Food

11 Sherwood & Pinch - Lies

12 Adrian Sherwood - Starship Bahia

13 Denise Sherwood, Adrian Sherwood, On-U Sound - Sweet Mary Jane

14 Sherwood & Pinch - One Law For The Rich

15 Lee Scratch Perry And Adrian Sherwood - Lucky Tarzan

16 Adrian Sherwood - Animal Magic

17 Creation Rebel & New Age Steppers - Chemical Specialist

18 Gaudi featuring Adrian Sherwood - Dub Out Of Theremin

Keith LeBlanc Pick

Not too many more, probably of this Tackhead tangent. This pick is Keith LeBlanc, drummer extraordinaire. Like the other boys in Tackhead he was in the Sugarhill Gang studio and on a million songs for that label. A couple on here. He was also in Little Axe (see Skip McDonald post three days ago). Sorry no tracks here. I did get a few others that were good instead. Obviously some solo stuff, but also a couple of one of projects that I liked and think are pretty cool. He has the coolest (or stupidest) names for bands: Forehead Bros.? Dumb Guys? But also has done some stuff with people like Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Malcolm X, Jello Biafra, etc. I had to include some of that. And the more (to me) out there stuff like his blues on The Chess Project and things like Wood, Brass & Steel. C'mon who does that kind of stuff? So much I left out, but that's what this is about making the hard decisions for the moment. Just know that you could find a bunch more just as good (or better) if you even barely look. I mixed the rap in between the dub and industrial, but by bpm and energy.

Keith LeBlanc Pick

01 Keith LeBlanc & Jello Biafra - Message From Our Sponsor-Object-Subject

02 Interference - Global Game

03 Keith LeBlanc - Ending

04 Malcolm X & Keith LeBlanc - No Sell Out

05 Keith LeBlanc - Maneuvers

06 Forehead Bros. - Circular Motion

07 Keith LeBlanc & Melle Mel - What Order

08 Keith LeBlanc - Uh!

09 Dumb Guys - Rap O Matic (Dub 7' edit)

10 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Freedom

11 Keith LeBlanc - These Sounds

12 Wood, Brass & Steel - Theme Song

13 Keith LeBlanc - Scream

14 Fine Quality featuring Cuz - Aah Dance

15 Keith LeBlanc - Skin Stretch

16 Schaft featuring Keith LeBlanc - Thirsty Fly

17 The Chess Project - Boom Boom Out Go The Lights

18 Keith LeBlanc - Taxcider

Doug Wimbish Pick

Another pick from the Tackhead family. This time Doug Wimbish. Like some of the others, perhaps more, he played on albums from everyone. Also like many of the guys from Tackhead he played on pretty much every On-U Sound recording project. I put on a few solo songs, but more of the associated stuff. There just was so much. Early rap on Sugarhill. I put a few different songs than some of the others. I love the Grandmaster Melle Mel and almost forgot The Sequence. This time I added Barmy Army and the Tackhead required songs. Wimbish was also in Living Colour so you get a track from that. Nona Hendryx with a track not on the pick I made earlier this year. I almost added Depeche Mode, but instead added Mos Def and Candi Staton. Two covers that I liked. This comp is a little different sounding, but again, if you play it next to any of those other picks of the last few days, you'd hear some similarities.

Doug Wimbish Pick

01 Brand New Funk - Interlude

02 Tackhead featuring LSK - Rulers & Foolers

03 Living Colour - Who Shot Ya

04 Doug Wimbish - Revolution

05 Roots Manuva & Doug Wimbish - Spit Bits

06 Doug Wimbish - Quasimodo

07 Keith Leblanc - Move

08 Anne Marie - Dangerous Dub

09 Tackhead featuring Doug Wimbish - Crosstown Traffic

10 Jungle Funk - Trance

11 Barmy Army - Mind The Gap

12 The Sequence - Funk You Up

13 Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five - Hustlers Convention

14 Doug Wimbish & Fats Comet - Don't Forget That Beat (Alternate Dub)

15 The Static Seekers - Body Automatic

16 Headfake - Cycles

17 Mos Def - Sunshine

18 Nona Hendryx - If Looks Could Kill (D.O.A.)

19 Candi Staton - Suspicious Minds

Bim Sherman Pick

I cannot seem to break away from this tangent I am on. Today's pick is Bim Sherman. Who had plenty of albums and success before On-U Sound and plenty after, too. But also was featured on a few tracks with Tackhead, Dub Syndicate, Strange Parcels, Gary Clail & On-U Sound System. I added some early tracks and some later tracks on his own, plus tracks with the above. I said it before. The tracks with Gary Clail always stick in my head. One track that I posted before and the last track that I saved. Sherman just has that sound that I really love. And Adrian Sherwood takes good care of that, although when you listen to the none Sherwood produced tracks the voice just is captivating.

Bim Sherman Pick

01 Tackhead featuring Bim Sherman - Stealing

02 Bim Sherman - Mighty Ruler

03 Bim Sherman - Sit And Wonder

04 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System with Bim Sherman - Beef

05 Bim Sherman And The Strange Parcels - Man Next Door

06 Strange Parcels & Bim Sherman - More Is Insane

07 Bim Sherman - Lightning & Thunder

08 Bim Sherman - Slummy Ghetto Pt. 2

09 Bim Sherman - Keep On Trying

10 Bim Sherman - Can I Be Free (From Crying)

11 Bim Sherman - Lovers Leap

12 Bim Sherman & Dub Syndicate - Haunting Ground

13 Bim Sherman - Golden Locks

14 Bim Sherman - Just Can't Stand It

15 Bim Sherman - Across The Red Sea

16 Bim Sherman - Golden Morning Star

17 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System with Bim Sherman - Two Thieves and a Liar

Skip McDonald Pick

More of the Tackhead pick. The last several days have been one On-U Sound family pick. Not that they have been all On-U, they haven't been. But related, yes. Skip McDonald, or Little Axe, as he sometimes goes by, has definitely been associated with the whole cabal. Started with them in Sugarhill Gang, did a bunch of associated rap bands and songs. I include a couple. He also played with a ton of other bands as the studio go to guy. I only included a few. I didn't include Sinead O'Connor or Donna Summer or tons more. Search for him, though. He's played with a lot of people. He doesn't have much solo stuff under his own name. Mostly on the On-U compilations. The rest is under Little Axe. I love the Lee Perry, Little Annie and the Barmy Army. Some of the tracks on the previous days posts also include Skip, so check them out. Very incestuous. They all appear on each other's stuff. Sometimes uncredited or with made up names.

Skip McDonald Pick

01 Grandmaster Flash - The Message

02 The Sugarhill Gang - Apache (Jump On It)

03 Afrika Bambaataa - Funk You

04 Little Axe - Ride On (Fight On)

05 Little Axe - Midnight Dream

06 Little Axe - Grinning In Your Face

07 Little Axe - If I Had My Way

08 Little Axe - Speakeasy

09 Little Axe - Soul Of A Man

10 Skip McDonald - Hammerhead

11 Little Axe - Song To Sing

12 Little Annie - Give it to me

13 Doug Wimbish - Quasimodo

14 Barmy Army - Leroy's Boots

15 Bim Sherman - Lovers Leap

16 Daby Toure & Skip McDonald - Time Has Come

17 Lee Scratch Perry - Seven Devils Dead

18 ABC - Tower Of London

19 Will Downing - In My Dreams

Mark Stewart Pick

I'm obviously on a thread here over the last few days. This pick of Mark Stewart is also related to the On-U Sound stable. He was also in The Pop Group and part of New Age Steppers and other On-U Sound bands. But today, all you get is a few Pop Group songs and Mark solo and with Maffia. I put a couple of twelve inch versions because they were good, but also shorter, so I could add an extra song or so. I got a little from as many albums as I could. I didn't add any New Age Steppers (saved that for an upcoming family pick). This is harder than some of the stuff over the last few days, but it's all good. Each of these covers is different, but they have similar layouts.

Mark Stewart Pick

01 Mark Stewart - Dream Kitchen (Unreleased 12 Version)

02 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Hysteria

03 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Radio Freedom

04 Mark Stewart + Maffia - Liberty City

05 Mark Stewart - The Puppet Master

06 Mark Stewart - Stranger Than Love

07 Mark Stewart - These Things Happen

08 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Hypnotised (Unique New York 12 Version)

09 Mark Stewart - Babycino

10 Mark Stewart - The Lunatics Are Taking Over The Asylum

11 The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes

12 Mark Stewart - Gustav Says

13 The Pop Group - We Are Time

14 The Pop Group - Beyond Good And Evil

15 Mark Stewart - Mr. You're A Better Man Than I

16 Mark Stewart + Maffia - Jerusalem

17 Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Paranoia

Gary Clail Pick

This is related somewhat to yesterday's pick. Gary Clail did play with Tackhead Sound System. He also is closely related to Adrian Sherwood, but he also worked with Paul Oakenfold. I included the club hit that they did, but put in the original version that has Billy Graham samples throughout it. That was added as an extra track on a Japanese pressing. One of my favorite tracks, but probably less known I saved for a family pick later. There was enough for here any way. Some of the On-U Sound System, Tackhead Sound System, solo stuff, some  singles and I love the Tennessee Ernie Ford cover (written by Merle Travis). It's a great cover. The one that gets caught in my head, though, is the one he does with Bim Sherman. How low can you go? Try playing this right after yesterday's pick. It works really well. I do have a couple of doubles, but I also have a track that doesn't appear there (and it easily could.)

Gary Clail Pick

01 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Reality

02 Gary Clail - Enough Is Enough

03 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Mind at the End of the Tether

04 Gary Clail - Half Cut For Confidence

05 Gary Clail Sound System - Control

06 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System with Bim Sherman - Beef

07 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - Bad Natured

08 Gary Clail - Speak No Evil

09 Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Hard Left

10 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - False Leader (Parts 1 & 2)

11 Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - Escape

12 Gary Clail - Who Pay The Piper

13 Gary Clail - Sixteen Tons

14 Gary Clail - Another Hard Man