What's The Connection? True 2

Yesterday I posted a connection of all true songs (songs with True in the title) and it was pretty good and all over the place in genres and the connection continue today. These are all different, but continue with the numbering (as will the next couple) but are all more or less in the same category and feel as each other. They sort of all just belong. I do want to say that right about at the time this song of their's came out the Red Hot Chili Peppers were one of the bands I was seeing live a lot (them and Fishbone) and this album was just so good. Got mine autographed and they slurred all over it, lol! Don't think they would do that today. Also notice the cool Buddy Holly cover at the end (I'll post Buddy's version tomorrow).

What's The Connection? True 2

17 Teenage Fanclub – God Knows It’s True
18 The Undertones – True Confessions
19 The Icicle Works – One True Love
20 Bangles – Some Dreams Come True
21 Aztec Camera – Birth Of The True
22 Ric Ocasek – True To You
23 Tom Verlaine – True Story
24 The White Stripes – Well It’s True That We Love One Another
25 X – True Love
26 Red Hot Chili Peppers – True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes
27 Steel Pulse – Rumors (Not True)
28 UB40 – Tell Me Is It True (Fugees Remix)
29 Roxy Music – True To Life
30 World Party – All Come True
31 The The – True Happiness This Way Lies
32 Tracey Thorn – It’s All True
33 Radiohead – True Love Waits
34 Erasure – True Love Ways

What's The Connection? True 1

Lots of True songs available. Before I even begin, I have at least four volumes of this connection. I'll post this one first with a variety of genres and then do a couple more aimed at specific ones. I met Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde a couple of times. She and James Mankey were really nice, down to earth, real people. She told me they came up with their name because it was hard and soft at the same time. I probably have said this story before, but hung out a couple of times during their first tour in various places. They always had time. Go check out my Hardly Soft pick from a few years ago, it actually has the same song here and there, but the rest are different.

What's The Connection? True 1

01 Spandau Ballet - True
02 New Order - True Faith (Shep Pettibone Mix)
03 Concrete Blonde - True
04 Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
05 Cabaret Voltaire - Everything Is True
06 Bill Nelson - When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True
07 Stevie Wonder - Never Had a Dream Come True
08 Jimmy Ross - First True Love Affair
09 Prince - Strange But True
10 Ladytron - True Mathematics
11 Ray Gant & The Arabian Knights - I Need A True Love
12 Sly & The Family Stone - Color Me True
13 Hot Chocolate - We Had True Love
14 Al McCarther - His True Love For You
15 Daryl Hall & John Oates - You Make My Dreams (Come True)
16 The Beach Boys - Be True To Your School

Top Pick Albums 1988

In 1988 I started a new part to my top picks of the year. I still did the top songs (see yesterday's post) and I still did the top albums, but I added the top compilations of the year. So the top compilations I was able to get in 1988 with the top albums I got that year. Somehow or another an extra track was thrown in for the top albums, so it wasn't the top ten albums but rather the top 11 albums. So you get one extra track. Every year after this one, I did the same thing until I stopped doing these each year. I included all the album covers and I know that M+M were really 1987, but I couldn't get it until 1988, so it stays. Click on ONE of the covers, you'll get both if you choose well.

Top Pick Albums 1988

01 The Primitives - Crash
02 Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana - Why Be Lonely
03 The Sugarcubes - Birthday
04 Ministry - You Know What You Are
05 Everything But The Girl - I Always Was Your Girl
06 Pere Ubu - We Have The Technology
07 Pixies - Gigantic
08 M.E.S.H. - Meet Every Situation Head On
09 Luxuria - Public Highway
10 Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Killing Jar
11 Sinead O'Connor - Troy

Top Pick Compilations 1988

12 The Damned - Smash It Up, Pts. 1 & 2
13 The Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe
14 Alphaville - Big In Japan
15 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Sidewalking
16 Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit)
17 The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
18 Human League - Don't You Want Me
19 Cabaret Voltaire - Gut Level
20 Joy Division - Novelty
21 Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach

Top Pick 1988

Happy Thanksgiving! But it's the last Thursday of the month and I am still doing my Top Picks of the year, this month being 1988. If you are looking for Thanksgiving songs go back one day and there are some there. But these are my top picks of songs for the year 1988. It's what I picked then, not neccesarily what I would pick if I was doing it over today. But they are mostly pretty decent. It's what I owned then of songs released in 1988 for my availibility. Tomorrow the Top Album Picks of '88. Almost no one has heard of Red Zone, but I listened to that track a lot back then. A few songs that actually reached the top 40, a few covers, some house music and a couple of medley's (four). And Spock, sampled!

Top Pick 1988

01 Red Zone - News From The Red Zone
02 Ultra Vivid Scene - Walkin' After Midnight
03 King Blank - Bagman
04 Information Society - What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)
05 Was (Not Was) - Spy In The House Of Love
06 Book Of Love - Tubular Bells-Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls (Regan's House Medley)
07 Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel-Route 66 (Mega-Single Mix)
08 Escape Club - Wild Wild West
09 The Fall - Carry Bag Man
10 Pato Banton - Don't Sniff Coke
11 Ofra Haza - Galbi
12 John Hegley and the Popticians - I Saw My Dinner On TV
13 S-Express - Theme from S-Express
14 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Brides Of Frankenstein (US Release Megamix)
15 The Bollock Brothers - God Created Woman
16 The Replacements - Cruella DeVille
17 a;Grumh... - Another Brick in the Wall Part II
18 Pursuit Of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now
19 Debbie Harry - Liar, Liar
20 Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones-On-45 Mega Mix)

Thanksgiving 3

Happy Thanksgiving to you, tomorrow, even if you might not be in the United States. It's a fun one to celebrate. It is a time to bring family and community together and be thankful for the opportunities we have been provided throughout our lives. Especially in the United States, it is still a land of opportunity. Previous years of Thanksgiving picks have had songs about thanks and things and food. This year no different, but new songs and one old song already posted one year. And this Friday is Black Friday (no new songs for that but a link today to the old pick of that.) I think most people nowadays are doing that shopping online, but knock yourself out if you want to do that early on Friday.

Thanksgiving 3

48 The B-52's - Big Bird
49 Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You've Got
50 REO Speedwagon - Flying Turkey Trot
51 Destiny's Child - Apple Pie a la Mode
52 Brian Setzer Orchestra - My Favorite Things
53 Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
54 The Lennon Sisters - My Favorite Things
55 Ringo Starr - Thankful
56 Natalie Cole - Be Thankful
57 Ministry - What A Wonderful World
58 Ray Charle featuring James Taylor - Sweet Potato Pie
59 Joe Cocker - Thankful
60 Garth Brooks - What I'm Thankful For (The Thanksgiving Song)
61 Kenny G & Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
62 New Kids On The Block - Thankful
63 Foetus - Be Thankful
64 Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant Massacree (LP Version)

Newfangled Again 7 (repost)

Repost and updated and I'm sorry to say it, but this was the last of this pick. No more Newfangled Again. Unless I get really inspired while posting and listening to this series again. We'll see. Let me know how it went for you. Let me know if you want to see more. Anyway, I like this one, because I finally added Brian Eno to it and that always makes any pick better. That and newish Bowie. A cool band from the Netherlands. It's all fun. I had a blast making and playing this. I hope you do too. And especially I hope that it helps lead you down a rabbit trail looking for other cool stuff. There's so much of it out there. Go find it!

Newfangled Again 7

132 Ok Go - Here It Goes Again
133 U2 - I Will Follow
134 TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
135 Quit Your Dayjob - Coconut
136 Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
137 Wire - Sand in My Joints
138 The Fratellis - Skinny Girls
139 The Dears - You And I Are A Gang Of Losers
140 Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire
141 The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
142 Feargal Sharkey - You Little Thief
143 Shiny Toy Guns - Dont Cry Out
144 The Rapture - Whoo! Alright - Yeah...Uh Huh
145 The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love (Phones' Wolf At The Door Remix)
146 Klaxons - Golden Skans
147 Heideroosjes - De Portier (Blij Dat Ie Blaffen Kan)
148 The Long Blondes - Once And Never Again
149 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Satan Said Dance
150 David Bowie - I'm Afraid Of Americans (V1)
151 Be Your Own Pet - Bicycle Bicycle You Are My Bicycle

Newfangled Again 6 (repost)

Reposted and updated. We're in the home stretch on this pick series. Newfangled Again could be ongoing, but eventually I stopped and went on to other picks. Remember I said it comes in waves. Old is new and new is old. It's just the way life works. Every now and again we see something really new sounding and even that just seems new. My experience talking, which just means I'm old. For a while there some of these songs in this entire series were considered to be punk, I'd say not really. Some were considered new wave, again I'd say not really, but perhaps closer. Indie or power pop might be considered as a classification, but nah. It could be all of the above or it just could be rock. You decide. My decision still stands, It's:

Newfangled Again 6

110 Kinky - I Say Hey
111 Angels And Airwaves - The Adventure
112 Cute Is What We Aim For - The Curse Of Crowds
113 Dogs Die In Hot Cars - I Love You 'Cause I Have To
114 Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
115 Silversun Pickups - Well Thought Out Twinkles
116 Hawthorne Heights - Saying Sorry
117 Bloc Party - Helicopter
118 TV On The Radio - Province
119 The Killers - When You Were Young
120 Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
121 The Dears - Whites Only Party
122 The Smiths - This Charming Man
123 The Zutons - You Will You Won't
124 The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down
125 Hellogoodbye - Here In Your Arms
126 Iggy and The Stooges - Search and Destroy
127 Ok Go - A Million Ways
128 Plan B - Let It Go
129 Rocco Deluca - Gift
130 Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
131 The Feeling - Fill My Little World