78: the Ghetto part 4

Hi.

Part 4 today of the ghetto chronicles.

Some funky, some reggae and some...well, some "other" I guess.

A version sung in French of the tune everyone knows from Elvis,

and the intro from Macy Gray sounds (to me) just like it's taken from

"It's a man's world" from James Brown.

The Carlos Garnett song I found (amongst many other great LP's)

on the amazing Ile Oxumare spot (see the links!)

So here it is, hope you like it.

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1. Boris Gardiner - Ghetto Funk (3:03)

2. Carlos Garnett - Ghetto Jungle (4:38)

3. Combo Modern - Ghetto Stomp (gerardo frisina remix) (5:32)

4. Dick Rivers - Dans Le Ghetto (3:05)

5. Duralcha - Ghet-to Funk (3:05)

6. Jon Lucien - Ghetto Song (2:21)

7. Lee Mortimer - About The Ghetto (6:15)

8. Linval Thompson - The Children Of The Ghetto (2:21)

9. Macy Gray - Ghetto Love (3:08)

10. Tom Browne - Ghetto Horn (D-Influence Full Version Remix) (6:22)

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77: Happy Birthday!

Hi.

Yesterday we celebrated the birthday of a certain,

very special person, and in honour of that

10 of her all-time favourite songs here.

So, once again, happy birthday Leen

and loads of many happy more to come!

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1. Ben Harper - Excuse Me Mr. (5:26)

2. Bran Van 3000 - Astounding (5:57)

3. Gare Du Nord - Pablo's Blues (5:02)

4. Jeff Buckley - So Real (Live & Acoustic) (4:22)

5. John Lennon - Cold Turkey (5:01)

6. Kelis - Millionaire (ft. Andre 3000) (3:44)

7. Lou Reed - Take A Walk On The Wild Side (4:13)

8. Shirley Bassey - Where Do I Begin (awayTEAM Mix) (5:36)

9. Stranglers - Golden Brown (3:25)

10. Streets - Same Old Thing (3:22)

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celebrate!

76: wah wah chronicles part 8

Hi.

Today part 8 of the wah wah chronicles.

Once again quite a funky bunch,

but that's how we like it best!

The Curtis Mayfield cover by Lou Donaldson is especially GOOD :-)

Enjoy.

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1. Andre Williams - I Don't Need Mary (Juana) (2:40)

2. Billy Cox - Touch Me (2:50)

3. Cosa Nostra - Get Down And Do It (6:34)

4. Crown Heights Affair - Super Rod (Instrumental) (3:27)

5. Freddie Cruger - The Hustle (6:56)

6. Hampton Hawes - J.B.'s Mind (9:31)

7. Lou Donaldson - If There's A Hell Below (We're All Going To Go) (9:01)

8. Masterfleet - Well Phace I (3:31)

9. Oteil & The Peacemakers - Pull Together (5:11)

10. Sarah Webster Fabio - Sweet Songs (5:10)

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wah part 8

75: Parrrty!

Hi.

After adding another year (with it's ups & downs) to my life

I feel like I can "get away" with just anything :-)

I mean, today I'm not feeling the need for a theme or stuff like that,

I'm just celebrating great tunes and feel-good music.

So, I suggest you DL this selection, grab a beer, or light a spliff,

(do both?)

put these 10 songs on real LOUD and party for nearly an hour!

(or you might vacuum the whole place while you're at it, I don't care)

Point is, please enjoy this and hopefully I'm off for another great year...

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1. Club Bangahs - Drop Dem Draws (3:13)

2. Earl Zinger - Galaxy (4:25)

3. F.B.I. - Keep On Running (9:17)

4. Galactic - Love On The Run (5:45)

5. Hazy Malaze - Hookin Up & Checkin In (4:33)

6. Houston Person - I No Get Eye For Back (11:22)

7. Juju Orchestra - What Is Hip ft. Carolyn Leon & Terry Callier (4:54)

8. Mardi Gras.BB - Funkin' Up Your Mardi Gras (3:10)

9. Nina Simone - Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter (5:19)

10. Rockers Hi-Fi - Transmission Central (4:41)

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parrrrty!

74: as a kid...

Hi.

As my birthday is coming up very shortly,

I was taking a trip to memory lane and

to the music I listened to when I was (so much) younger...

As you can see I've always had a "thing" for epic songs that

took a whole album side (LP's I'm talking).

Vinyl is still something special,

though I substituted many of my LP's for CD's.

Due to the length of some of these 10 songs I had to split it

in 2, so you need both parts for the whole package.

For me, today these are a few songs that DID the matter,

but still haven't lost their sweetness.

Enjoy.

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1. Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well Part I+II (9:05)

2. Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun (12:40)

3. Kevin Ayers - Song For Insane Times (4:01)

4. Man - C'mon (Live) (19:03)

5. Pink Floyd - Echoes (23:29)

6. Supertramp - Aries (7:37)

7. Uriah Heep - Salisbury (16:17)

8. Utopia - Singring and The Glass Guitar

(An Electrified Fairy Tale) (18:21)

9. Wishbone Ash - Sometime World (6:52)

10. Yes - Sweetness (4:35)

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part 1 & part 2

73: Jungle. part 1

Hi.

Today some songs about the jungle(s) that surrounds us.

Some jungle(s) feel quite comfortable,

some feel like they're killing us,

but all these songs in some way reveal that "universal" jungle(s).

I'm sure some more jungle-posts will shine a much brighter light

on those "jungle" feelings all together.

It's a jungle out there, no doubt,

but we all have to get our own piece of peace in that,

so let's hear it for the first 10 (jungle) songs...

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1. 24-7 Spyz - Jungle Boogie (3:34)

2. Blackalicious - Deep In The Jungle (6:46)

3. Charlie Mariano - Electric Funk Jungle (6:11)

4. Clearlight - Jungle Bubbles (2:42)

5. Irvine Weldon - Jungle Juice (8:13)

6. John Scofield - Jungle Fiction (5:38)

7. Lee Perry - Jungle Fever (2:21)

8. Mandingo - King Of The jungle (2:59)

9. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Jungle Suite (1:56)

10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Jungle Man (4:07)

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jungle part 1

72: Assorted Drugs And Other Stuff pt.2

I kicked the habit, sure, though some other vices

are probably too sweet to quit...

So now we're stuck here with another 10 songs bout drugs,

for good or for bad, pro or contra,

or for that matter, in or out of rehab :-)

Enjoy.

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1. Atlee Yeager - Wake Me Mama (4:11)

2. Ben Harper - The Drugs Don't Work (4:37)

3. Drive-By Truckers - You And Your Crystal Meth (2:19)

4. James Brown - Let's Go Get Stoned (2:44)

5. Joe South - Coming Down All Alone (4:14)

6. John Butler Trio - Used To Get High (4:27)

7. John Fitch & Associates - Stoned Out Of It (2:24)

8. Mfalme - Junk Man (dealing in junk) (4:12)

9. Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done (3:55)

10. Rolling Stones - Hot Stuff (5:22)

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71: wah-wah chronicles pt.7

Hi.

Today part 7 of the (never ending?) wah-wah chronicles.

It's a rather funky bunch, so enjoy this for your weekend!

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1. Andre Williams - It's Gonna Be Fine In '69 (2:51)

2. Animal Liberation Orchestra - Natural Gas (4:03)

3. Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Sobremesa (4:00)

4. Cougars - Right On (2:50)

5. Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band - Guitar Big Band (3:26)

6. Labelle - Too Many Days (3:00)

7. Neal Creque - Rafiki (4:56)

8. Papa Grows Funk - Say B'uh (I Jus' Playin) (5:04)

9. Ram - Love Is The Answer (2:40)

10. Sarah Webster Fabio - Jujus -Alchemy of the Blues (Instr) (5:11)

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wah pt.7

70: some instrumentals, part 2

Hi.

Today a rather random selection of songs with no words.

From jazzy to poppy, from funky to trippy...

The "cry your heart out song" here is by Charles Mingus,

from the ALL CLASSIC '59 album Ah Um.

Strongly & highly recommended de moi.

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John Medeski and Billy Martin are playing without

their fellow inmate Chris Wood on the 2007 album

Mago, all very good stuff!

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Let the 10 instrumentals do the talking from here on and enjoy.

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1. Billy Larkin & The Delegates - Tarantula (2:21)

2. Billy Martin & John Medeski - Bamboo Pants (4:23)

3. Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (5:44)

4. Dino Saluzzi Rosamunde Quartet - Milonga Delos Morenos (3:09)

5. Emperor Penguin - Beats From The Bungalow (3:17)

6. Garage A Trois - The Dwarf (4:13)

7. Gentle Rain - Jelly (4:28)

8. Herbie Hancock - Hornets (19:35)

9. Red Snapper - They're Hanging Me Tonight (6:07)

10. Traffic - Tragic Magic (6:43)

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Link removed by dee-em-cee-ay request!

69: all things come to mind, that's right...

Hi.

Today a tribute to what's probably the

last GREAT album the

Soft Machine made:

7.

That's right.

Being it post 69 for me gives you somewhat to think of

(but not too much).

Gathered here are 10 songs that keep the number seven in mind,

plain & simple...

Enjoy this bunch of songs that pretend to have the

number 7 as a similarity...

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1. Brother Jack McDuff - Seven Keys For Seven Door (10:07)

2. Chris Squire - Lucky Seven (6:52)

3. Eivind Aarset - Sign Of Seven (6:26)

4. Larry Young - Seven Steps To Heaven (10:19)

5. Lonnie Smith - Seven Steps To Heaven (5:47)

6. Nostalgia 77 - Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes) (4:21)

7. Return to Forever - Beyond the Seventh Galaxy (3:14)

8. Ronald Snijders - Seven Wings (7:36)

9. Soulive - One in Seven (5:15)

10. Wojciech Karolak - Seven Shades Of Blue (4:03)

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68: Covers Twice As Nice, part 6

Hi.

Today once more a 10 track, 5 (different) song selection.

Your ears open for the Meat Puppets doin' Nilsson!

How (awfully alienated) "off" can you get?

Hilarious, though.

Undisputed Truth always played LOTSA coversongs,

(check their albums!)

but being "invented" by "mr. Temptations" Norman Whitfield,

that may come as no surprise, I guess...

Enjoy these "twice as nice" again.

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1. Beautiful South - Everybody's Talkin' (2:34)

2. Eagle Eyed Cherry - To Love Somebody (4:06)

3. Gerald Wilson Orchestra - California Soul (4:08)

4. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Flesh Failures (3:04)

5. Junior Byles - Fever (2:52)

6. Lightspeed Champion - The Flesh Failures (4:06)

7. Meat Puppets - Everybody's Talkin' (2:41)

8. Patti Drew - Fever (2:43)

9. Roberta Flack - To Love Somebody (6:43)

10. Undisputed Truth - California Soul (3:55)

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twice as nice pt.3

67: wah wah chronicles pt.6

Hi.

Part 6 of the wah-wah story.

I'm beginning to grow a little deformation in my ears,

no matter what music I put on lately,

my "inner radar" is always on the "hearout" for wah :-)

Even in the Santana track, which is very strange:

I've had and listened to that album like forever,

only to hear it this time with a fat wah-wah in it...

I swear I payed no attention to it the other 1000 times I heard it...

Enjoy.

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1. Baby Charles - No Controlling Me (3:53)

2. Blue Jays - What Do You Want? (3:32)

3. C.K. Mann - Funky Highlife (2:01)

4. Dust Bros. - 33 1/3 God (3:50)

5. In Crowd - Mango Walk (3:12)

6. Inganda Kenya - Shalode (3:45)

7. Isaac Hayes - Look Of Love (11:11)

8. Jesse Anderson - Mighty Mighty (2:09)

9. Santana - Look Up (To See What's Coming Down) (3:00)

10. The Interns - Soul Drippins (2:44)

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wah pt.6

65: wah-wah chronicles part 5

Hi.

Part 5 of tha Wah-Wah chronicles!

In some songs you've gotta WAIT a bit for it,

but there's wah in each one of them...

All kinda funky again, so enjoy!

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1. Athur Adams ft. James Jamerson - Home Brew (4:50)

2. Cleveland Eaton - The Love Gangster (2:52)

3. Fabulous Originals - It Ain't Fair But It's Fun Pt1 (2:08)

4. Hazy Malaze - I Get A Feeling (3:42)

5. Houston Person - The Houston Express (5:49)

6. Isaac Hayes - Chocolate Chip (instrumental) (5:34)

7. Olde Scottish - Wildstyle (8:02)

8. Prophets Of Soul - Ain't No Sunshine (3:51)

9. Rare Earth - I Couldn't Believe What Happened Last Night (12:21)

10. Riot - Put Your Gun Down Brother (4:32)

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wah-wah part 5