The Power Of Cheese (32 AM Radio classics from the early & mid 60s.) Don’t Touch Me There (Soulful folk meets schmaltzy 70’s.) Don’t Touch Me There, Vol. 2 (The 1970’s: from the sublime to the appalling.)
OLDIES (mostly)
Month: December 1999
WORLD BEAT | JAM
Concrete Jungle Boogie (Beat-heavy music from all over the globe.) Dreadful Sounds (Roots reggae. Mostly.) Twirl & Skank (Reggae / Hippie music mashup.) Time Warped! (Beat-centric music, mostly from the early–80’s.) Rhythm Air Guitar (Light-ish, Rhythmic-ish, Jam-my.)
MIXED BAG | UPBEAT
Girls Girls Girls (It started-out as a Girl Group thing, but somewhere it just went off the rails.) City At Night (Spooky, funky, occasionally synthy. Downtown After Dark driving music. Inspired by the Beck tune “Scarecrow” — which sounds a lot like the Doors’ “LA Woman,” which includes the lyric, “City at night.” Now you know.) … Read More
MIXED BAG | WILDLY ERRATIC
Spontaneous Compression 5 (From breezy pop and soulful folk to nasty funk. And most points in between. Largely created, as the title indicates, spontaneously, this one features quite a number of unlikely juxtapositions and — hopefully — happy surprises.)
CONCEPT MIXES | UPBEAT
Girls Girls Girls (It started-out as a Girl Group thing, but somewhere it just went off the rails.) City At Night (Spooky, funky, occasionally synthy. Downtown After Dark driving music. Inspired by the Beck tune “Scarecrow” — which sounds a lot like the Doors’ “LA Woman,” which includes the lyric, “City at night.” Now you know.) … Read More
NO-APOLOGY FEEL-GOOD MIXES
Sounds Good To Me #13 (New & old material. Catchy tunes. And, above all, great-feeling records.) Sounds Good To Me #16 (Same formula as above.) Sounds Good To Me #18 (Same formula as above.) Sounds Good To Me #17 (Same formula as above.) (Photo by Haley899)
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (mostly)
Pub Rock (Mostly British late–70’s / early–80’s roots r’n’r.) Grunts, Groans & Guitars (It’s a Guy Thing.) It Came From The Garage (New Wave + Punk from 1966 to 1984.)
SOUL | R&B | FUNK
Smoove B – Get Busy (70s Funk megamix.) Race Music (Killer Soul + R&B from the 50s and 60s.)
BRUNCH & MIMOSAS
Ice Cream Social (Music from, perhaps, the bandstand of a 1920’s seaside resort. Or a Downton Abbey lawn party.) Ice Cream Social 2 (The delightfully insouciant sequel)
ALT COUNTRY (mostly)
Cowabunga (Hipster Alt Country & Folk.) Get Me A Beer, Darlin’ (Hawnky Tawnk for manly men.) Beach Country (Country with a dash of beachy pop.)