H.E.A.L. Civilation Vs. Technology 1991

1. Big Daddy Kane/Freddy Foxx/Harmony/Kid Capri/KRS-One/LL Cool J/
MC Lyte/Queen Latifah - Heal Yourself
2. Sister Carol - I Am What I Am
3. Ms. Melodie - Anti-Ho
4. Skadanks - Whole World African
5. Heather B. - Don't Hold Us Back
6. Bigga Don/Kevin B/Mickey Jarrett/Reverend Badoo/Shabba Ranks/Shell Thunder/Sleepy Wonder - Know Your Culture
7. Kushite/Musik G./Sky High & Mau Mau - O' Freedom
8. Melody Makers/Ziggy Marley - One Bright Day
9. DMC/Grand Daddy I.U./Kid Capri/Kool Moe Dee/KRS-One/Ms. Melodie/
Salt-N-Pepa/Ziggy Marley - Family Got to Get Busy
10. Ready Z - Correct Education
11. Simone - Family
12. Harmony/KRS-One/Michael Stipe - Civilization Vs. Technology
13. Billy Bragg/DJ Woody Dee/The Athenians - Tighten up Your Wig

Aceyalone - All Balls Don't Bounce 1995

1. All Balls
2. Anywhere You Go
3. Deep and Wide
4. Mr. Outsider
5. Annallillia
6. Knownots
7. Arythamaticulas
8. Greatest Show on Earth
9. Mic Check
10. Call It Cali
11. Headaches & Woes
12. I Think
13. Makeba
14. B-Boy Kingdom
15. Keep It True

Bessie Smith - Beale Street Mama 1996

The same advances that make life better usually make the heartache worse. I've been enjoying these remastered tracks from the 1920's and wondering who had it worse - Bessie or Lauryn Hill. 21 Adjectives to describe Bessie Smith's style - Distraught, Gutsy, Dramatic, Weary, Reflective, Intense, Passionate, Organic, Intimate, Earnest, Melancholy, Cathartic, Angst-Ridden, Carefree, Earthy, Confident, Rousing, Boisterous, Raucous, Sexy, Irreverent

1. Downhearted Blues
2. Gulf Coast Blues
3. Beale Street Mama
4. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
5. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
6. Bleeding Hearted Blues
7. Midnight Blues
8. Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
9. St. Louis Gal
10. Graveyard Dream Blues
11. I'm Going Back to My Used to Be
12. My Sweetie Went Away
13. Any Woman's Blues
14. Frosty Morning Blues
15. Haunted House Blues
16. Easy Come, Easy Go Blues
17. Rocking Chair Blues
18. Sorrowful Blues
19. Bo Weavil Blues
20. Hateful Blues

Multiplication Rock 1973

To lighten things up here's something to help the children of today. Don't think I forgot you kiddies but please stop asking if the long-promised kid's blog will ever see the light of day. Everything in time. For now, practice counting. There's still only eight of us http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=o&q=Counting left including one known clone. Back in the day you couldn't get this funkin lesson until Rhino released the lot on CD in 1997. Let me just add that if anyone ever thought Electric Company would be better as a disco/vocabulary/Heroes style show, well then, your time is now. Free Letterman & RIP Blossom Dearie ...

1. Lynn Ahrens - Schoolhouse Rocky
2. Bob Dorough - Elementary, My Dear
3. Bob Dorough - Three Is a Magic Number
4. Bob Dorough - The Four-Legged Zoo
5. Bob Dorough - Ready or Not, Here I Come
6. Bob Dorough - My Hero, Zero
7. Grady Tate - I Got Six
8. Bob Dorough - Lucky Seven Sampson
9. Blossom Dearie - Figure Eight
10. Grady Tate - Naughty Number Nine
11. Bob Dorough - The Good Eleven
12. Bob Dorough - Little Twelvetoes

Image jacked from Soul Strut - original LP cover. Two tracks, "My Hero, Zero" and "Three Is A Magic Number" had been edited for TV to keep each video within three minutes. The LP featured both songs in their full, unedited forms. The LP version of "The Four-Legged Zoo" has a slightly different ending than the television version.

America Is Dying Slowly 1996

Number eight in the Red Hot Blue Series. Wash your hands while you're at it.

1. Biz Markie, Chubb Rock, Prince Paul - No Rubber, No Backstage Pass
2. Pete Rock & The Lost Boyz - The Yearn
3. Wu-Tang Clan - America
4. Goodie Mob with Big Rube - Blood
5. Coolio - I Breaks 'Em Off
6. 8Ball & MJG - Listen to Me Now
7. Mobb Deep, L.E.S. & ACD - Street Life
8. Money Boss Players - Games
9. Spice 1, Celly Cel, 187-Fac, Ant Banks, & Gangsta P - Check Ya Self
10. Common & Sean Lett - (Lately) I've Been Thinking
11. Organized Konfusion - Decisions
12. De la Soul & Da Beatminerz - The Hustle
13. O.C. & Buckwild - What I Represent
14. Sadat X, Fat Joe, Diamond D - (Stay Away From The) Nasty Hoes
15. Domino - Sport That Raincoat
16. Mac Mall - Suckas P.H.

Bonus Round - Count how many things in this video raise your level of paranoia, fear or doubt. No guessing. Know your facts.

Git Beats Feat. LadyBug Mecca "America"

Joe Sedelmaier/Laura Kightlinger April 30 2009

Last night I saw some short films and a tribute to Joe Sedelmaier at one of DFW's film festivals (third coast, baby!) Laura Kightlinger had a new short that was excellent. The best part was seeing her wearing a mask so she didn't have to risk breathing the same air as us DFW movie goers. I have to say she looked way better in her mask than MF DOOM. Here's a spot to show some love for Sedelmaier. Don't think you could air this ad in today's American ad market. Just say no to swine flu and always wear a rubber.

Si Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba, Vol . 1 2006

1. Juan Pablo Torres Y Algo Nuevo - Son a Propulsion
2. Irakere - Bacalao con Pan
3. Los Van Van - Y No le Conviene
4. Los Reyes '73 - Adeoey
5. Combo Tiempos Nuevos - De La Fiesta La Mejor
6. Grupo Monumental - Si, Para Usted
7. Tainos - Amor Mio
8. Ricardo Eddy Martinez - Tambo Iya
9. Orquesta Riverside - En Casa del Trompo No Bailes
10. Juan Pablo Torres Y Algo Nuevo - Y Viva La Felicidad
11. Juan Pablo Torres Y Algo Nuevo - Rompe Cocorioco
12. Los 5-U-4 - Baila, Ven y Baila
13. Sintesis - Con la Luz Del La Manana
14. Jorge Reyes - Pocito 11
15. Grupo Los Yoyi - El Fino
16. Grupo de Experimentacion Sonora Del Icaic - Sondeando
17. Mirtha Y Raul - Casina y Epidecus

10cc - 10cc 1973

1. Rubber Bullets [Long Version]
2. Johnny Don't Do It
3. Sand in My Face
4. Donna
5. The Dean and I
6. Headline Hustler
7. Speed Kills
8. The Hospital Song
9. Ships Don't Disappear in the Night (Do They?)
10. Fresh Air for My Mama

Disco Party: The Best of the TK Collection 1993

Happy Record Store Day. I did my part today. Do yours. Dig for vinyl. Dig for cassettes. Just don't stop.

1. T-Connection - Do What You Wanna Do
2. The Ritchie Family - Lady Luck
3. Foxy - Get off Your Ahh and Dance
4. George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
5. Peter Brown - Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me
6. Eli's Second Coming - Love Chant
7. KC & the Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight
8. Ralph MacDonald - Calypso Breakdown
9. The Ritchie Family - Best Disco in Town
10. Connection - Disco Magic
11. Buzzy Bunch/Celi Bee - Superman
12. Jimmy "Bo" Horne - Gimme Some
13. George McCrae - Kiss Me (The Way I Like It)
14. Betty Wright - Where Is the Love

The Weird World of Blowfly 1971

One of funk's original masked supervillains stopped by Denton this past Thursday. If you don't know about the man with the odes to the procreation of God's creations you need to listen closer. These hymns can help you two put the fertility back in Easter. 1-16 OG; 17-19 from the 1995 reissue





1. Weird World
2. My Baby Keeps Farting in My Face
3. Hold on It's Running
4. Hole Man
5. The Eating Song (Yum-Yum)
6. Shitting on the Dock of the Bay
7. To-To-To-To-To (The Fart Song)
8. I Don't Want No Woman to Give Me Nothing
9. The Eater
10. Spermy Night in Georgia
11. Odd Balls
12. Baby Let Me Do It to You
13. It's a Faggot's World
14. A Child's Dick
15. The Sperm Is Gone
16 Outro
17. Jingle Fuckin' Bells
18. Queer For The New Year
19. Fonky Party

Young Black Teenagers - 1990

Never Black, no longer young but still backed by the Bomb Squad. They kind of lost whatever remaining credibility they had when the second LP's big single was "Tap the Bottle", a celebration of drinking out of the bottle complete w/ instructions. Trust me, the only guy that can pull off singing about food or drink is Weird Al.

1. Punks, Lies & Video Tape
2. Korner Groove
3. Traci
4. First Stage of a Rampage Called the Rap Rage
5. Nobody Knows Kelli
6. Daddy Kalled Me Niga Cause I Likeded to Rhyme
7. Chillin' Wit Me Posse
8. Mack Daddy Don of the Underworld
9. Loud and Hard to Hit
10. My TV Went Black and White on Me
11. Proud to Be Black
12. To My Donna
13. My Color TV

Twin Peaks OST (TV) Angelo Badalamenti 1990

1. Twin Peaks Theme [Instrumental]
2. Laura Palmer's Theme [Instrumental]
3. Audrey's Dance [Instrumental]
4. The Nightingale
5. Freshly Squeezed [Instrumental]
6. Bookhouse Boys [Instrumental]
7. Into the Night
8. Night Life in Twin Peaks [Instrumental]
9. Dance of the Dream Man [Instrumental]
10. Love Theme from "Twin Peaks" [Instrumental]
11. Falling

Randy Brecker - Into the Sun 1995

1. Village Dawn
2. Just Between Us
3. The Sleaze Factor
4. Into the Sun
5. After Love
6. Gray Area
7. Tijuca
8. Buds
9. Four Worlds
10. Hottest Man in Town: Prophecy/Growth/Realization/The Horn/Finale

24-7 Spyz - Gumbo Millenium 1990

1. John Connelly's Theory
2. New Super Hero Worship
3. Deathstyle
4. Dude U Knew
5. Culo Posse
6. Don't Push Me
7. Spyz on Piano
8. Valdez 27 Million?
9. Don't Break My Heart!
10. We'll Have Power
11. Racism
12. Heaven and Hell
13. We Got a Date
14. Some Defenders' Memories

Lumpy Gravy 1968

From wikipedia - Lumpy Gravy uses sound effects and dialogue to link highly dissimilar musical themes. Some orchestral parts have a jazz-like feel while other sections show tonal and atonal classical music influences. On first listening, the album may appear to have no musical structure. But after repeated listening the album's unique flow begins to make more sense. Zappa's first instrument was drums. Through careful attention to rhythm, dynamics, pacing, and technology, he was able to bring sound elements together in a way that was almost without precedent. The closest parallels would be cartoon music soundtrack recordings of the 1930s-1950's, such as the work of Carl Stalling, and the music of Zappa's favorite classical composer, Edgard Varèse. Zappa also acknowledged the influence of John Cage in his use of random and chance processes. While editing the work Zappa randomly strung together some blocks of recorded material. Other Zappa albums such as Läther use these types of musical elements in a similar way. But the radical nature of Zappa's musical structures are at their most extreme on this album because Lumpy Gravy is composed of many short segments.

Duodenum, also known as "Lumpy Gravy Main Theme" was probably recorded at Zappa's own Studio Z, which he operated in Rancho Cucamonga, California, circa 1963-1964. This tune was originally written as the theme for Zappa's unfinished 1964 film project Captain Beefheart vs. The Grunt People. The 'surf music' style ending of the album was also recorded at Zappa's Studio Z. The blues harmonica fragment, "Another Pickup", comes from a 1966 live recording of The Mothers of Invention at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. Sounds of bells, coughing and "snorks", recorded in New York City, were leftovers from an animated television commercial for Luden's cough drops. This advertisement, called "The Big Squeeze", won Zappa a Clio Award for sound in 1967. Though Zappa was not credited as a performer on the disc, he probably did play guitar and percussion on some of these additional recordings.


There are several thematic and musical links between Lumpy Gravy and We're Only in It for the Money. Both have extensive use of dialog, editing and musique concrète. On the back cover of Lumpy Gravy, Frank says in a speech bubble, "Is this phase 2 of We're Only in It for the Money?" The 'surf music' instrumental finale appears in a vocal version on We're Only in It for the Money under the title "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance". One short orchestral section of Lumpy Gravy was also used in the song "Mother People" on We're Only in It for the Money.

Lumpy Gravy, Part One – 15:48

The Way I See It, Barry/Duodenum/Oh No/Bit Of Nostalgia/It's From Kansas/Bored Out 90 Over/Almost Chinese/Switching Girls/Oh No Again/At the Gas Station/Another Pickup/I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again

Lumpy Gravy, Part Two – 15:51

Very Distraughtening/White Ugliness/Amen/Just One More Time/A Vicious Circle/King Kong/Drums Are Too Noisy/Kangaroos/Envelops the Bath Tub/Take Your Clothes Off

Rap Archives, Vol 1. 1996

What we're going to do right now is go back. If you never saw a good live hip-hop show then you never saw a real MC. It's never too late to find one. Here are some examples.

1. Intro
2. Doug E. Fresh/Slick Rick - Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh at the Lincoln Project, NY 1984
3. Zulu Nation - Zulu Nation Anniversary at the Roxy, Bronx, NY 1984
4. Force MC's - Force MC's at the Harlem World, Manhattan, NY 1981
5. Busy Bee/Kool Moe Dee - Kool Moe Dee vs Busy Bee at the Harlem World, Manhattan, NY 1981
6. Fu Kwan/The Real Roxanne - Fu Kwan vs Roxanne
7. Big Daddy Kane/Biz Markie - Biz Markie & Big Daddy Kane at the Mansonic Temple, NY 1986
8. Kool Moe Dee/TLA Rock - Kool Moe Dee & TLA Rock at LL Cool J's BDay 1987
9. LL Cool J - LL Cool J at LL Cool J's B'day Lan, Philly 1987
10. Master Don - Master Don at the Y.M.C.A., Manhattan, NY 1983
11. Run-DMC - Run-DMC at Madison Square Garden, NY 1986
12. DJ Cheese - DJ Cheese Live at UK Fresh, Wembley, London, England 1986
13. Boogie Down Productions - Boogie Down Productions at the Masonic Temple, NY 1986
14. The Message, the Word!!

Joshua Redman - Beyond 2000

1. Courage (Asymmetric Aria)
2. Belonging (Lopsided Lullaby)
3. Neverend
4. Leap of Faith
5. Balance
6. Twilight... And Beyond
7. Stoic Revolutions
8. Suspended Emanations
9. Last Rites of Rock 'N' Roll
10. A Life?

Insomnia - The Erick Sermon Compilation Album - 1996

1. Various Artists - Intro
2. Redman - Funkorama
3. Xross-Breed - The Vibe
4. Passion - As the...
5. Jamal & Calif - Beez Like That (Sometimes)
6. Keith Murray - It's That Hit
7. The Wixtons - Up Jump the Boogie
8. Various Artists - Caller's Interlude
9. L.O.D. - I Feel It
10. DuO - On the Regular
11. Tommy Gunn - Fear
12. Domo - Ready for War
13. Erick Sermon - Reign

We're Only in It for the Money 1967/1985

When this was released on CD in 1985 the censored bits from 1967 were restored but all new rhythm tracks were laid down as well. ... so it's not OG but still pretty good. For those that slept, Zappa was a sampler long before hip-hop. I'd like to think if he were still with us he'd be making lots of cash from those sampling his original work plus backing some massive cross-genre pieces. Since we'll never know, don't sleep.



1. Are You Hung Up?
2. Who Needs the Peace Corps?
3. Concentration Moon
4. Mom & Dad
5. Telephone Conversation
6. Bow Tie Daddy
7. Harry, You're a Beast
8. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
9. Absolutely Free
10. Flower Punk
11. Hot Poop
12. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
13. Let's Make the Water Turn Black
14. The Idiot Bastard Son
15. Lonely Little Girl
16. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
17. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Reprise)
18. Mother People
19. The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny

Redd Foxx - Sly Sex 1960

The Holy Golf Game
People That Eat
Pushed For Money
Brains And Money
Licked Husband
The Rabbit And The Lion
The Particular Eater
Women's Exercises
Shooting For Fun
Government Fun
Honeymoon Fun
Big Posse

Johnnie Taylor - Live at the Summit Club

After Taylor was bumped from Wattstax he ended up playing in a club in front of LA regulars who, according to the notes, were "fur-lined players and ice cold hustlers." This 1972 show did not get its due until 2007. Two parts - 320 - in case you know don't know it goes.

1. Introduction by Rufus Thomas
2. Take Care of Your Homework
3. Little Bluebird
4. Steal Away [Version 1]
5. I Don't Wanna Lose You
6. Who's Making Love
7. Hello Sundown
8. Steal Away
9. Stop Doggin' Me
10. Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone

Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. - New Funky Nation 1990

Greatest six-man Samoan hip-hop group ever.

1. Six Bad Brothers
2. Rated R
3. Don't Mess
4. New Funky Nation
5. Once upon a Drive By
6. T.R.I.B.E.
7. Walk the Line
8. R.A.I.D.
9. Psyko Funk
10. Riot Pump
11. Pickin' up Metal

In Yo' Face!: The History of Funk, Vol. 5

1. Sly & the Family Stone - Loose Booty
2. Con Funk Shun - Ffun
3. Parliament - Flash Light
4. George Duke - Dukey Stick, Pt. 1
5. Fatback - I Like Girls
6. The Brides of Funkenstein - Disco to Go
7. The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost
8. Chuck Brown/Soul Searchers - Bustin' Loose, Pt. 1
9. The Gap Band - Shake
10. Bernie Worrell - Insurance Man for the Funk
11. The Ohio Players - Take de Funk off, Fly
12. Rick James - Bustin' Out (On Funk)
13. Cameo - I Just Want to Be
14. Sly & the Family Stone - The Same Thing (Makes You Laugh, Makes You Cry)
15. Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce, Pt. 1

Great Moments in Jazz [Atlantic] Disc Two 1988

1. David "Fathead" Newman - Hard Times
2. Hank Crawford - Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees)
3. Mose Allison - Your Mind Is on Vacation
4. Eddie Harris - Listen Here
5. Yusef Lateef - Live Humble
6. Eddie Harris/Les McCann - Compared to What
7. Freddie Hubbard - Up Jumped Spring
8. Billy Cobham - Stratus
9. Jean-Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger
10. The Manhattan Transfer - Birdland
11. Passport - Rockport
12. Gerald Albright - Softly at Sunrise
13. Ahmad Jamal - Perugia

Skip Murphy and Company presents Church, Preach, Tabernacle 2006

Good stuff from the 1$ bin. More than Fun = Funny.

1. I'm Serious About Mines (feat. Threats)
2. I'll Fight a Midget
3. Wiggie Wiggie Wiggie
4. Mama Get Off the Phone
5. Church, Preach, Tabernacle
6. Stoop Down
7. What's the Name of That Thing
8. Slap Happy Thang
9. 2 Cool 2 Be Embarrassed
10. Skippy Muffy
11. Fetch Me That Doggy Bone
12. Smokey Gumbo
13. Ever See a One Eye-d Woman Cry
14. Cut That Cake
15. Keep Doing What Ya Doing
16. Big Slammy
17. Okey Dokey Sweetmeat
18. Hang Dangalang
19. Goodie Don't Fail Me Now
20. The Work Song
21. Big Leg Girl Under My Christmas Tree
22. Leroy the Gold Tooth Reindeer
23. Big Bald Head Girl (Christmas Mix Rehearsal)
24. Girl I Don't Trust Yo Lips (Bonus)

The Last Poets - Right On!

Today's PSA is brought to you by Milk. Milk hit the world with another megapost - this time on The Last Poets and so now I have no excuse not to bust these facts. Awhile back I noticed when listening to Right On! that the first tracks were mislabelled on the CD. Below is the proper tracklisting for tracks one through seven. 8 through 18 were straight. Track #7 was the inspiration for the Jungle Brother's Black Woman from Done by the Forces of Nature. I'm kind of partial to the last track - #18. Since knowledge is infinite then on any given day street knowledge can be > book knowledge. You just have to know what day it is.

1. David Nelson/The Last Poets - Intro
2. Felipe Luciano/The Last Poets - Jibaro/My Pretty Nigger
3. Gylan Kain/The Last Poets - Been Done Already
4. Felipe Luciano/The Last Poets - Hey Now
5. David Nelson/The Last Poets - Die Nigga!!!
6. Felipe Luciano/The Last Poets - Un Rifle/Oracion-Rifle Player
7. Gylan Kain/David Nelson/The Last Poets - Tell Me Brother/Black Woman
8. Gylan Kain/The Last Poets - James Brown
9. David Nelson/The Last Poets - Soul
10. David Nelson/The Last Poets - Today Is a Killer
11. Gylan Kain/The Last Poets - Little Willie Armstrong Jones
12. Felipe Luciano/The Last Poets - Puerto Rican Rhythms
13. David Nelson/The Last Poets - Poetry Is Black
14. Felipe Luciano/The Last Poets - Jazz
15. Gylan Kain/The Last Poets - The Shalimar
16. David Nelson/The Last Poets - Into the Streets
17. Gylan Kain/The Last Poets - Alley
18. Felipe Luciano/The Last Poets - The Library

Texas Funk 1990

While slowly ascend from the depths of computer hell (thanks for the assist, Santa) here's a funk compilation from Texas.

1. Big Bys - Spit
2. BillyGoat - Leche
3. Sprawl - Shum
4. Retarted Elf - Thunder Pimp
5. Fleshmop - Feeble Minds
6. DoDat - School's Out
7. Slackface - Time
8. Joe Rockhead - Red Zone
9. Bouffant Jellyfish - Meat and Power
10. Sticky People - Brandy Dance
11. DayLights - Spiritual
12. Sprawl - The Guise of a Salesman
13. Slackface - Loud and Proud
14. BillyGoat - Clothes Off
15. Retarted Elf - High Road
16. Bigboys - Funk Off
17. Bouffant Jellyfish - Whatever
18. Sprawl - The Government Issued a Drought
19. DoDat - Whistle (live)
20. Slackface - Planet Xenon

Moog 2004 redux

Unlike the first disc, these songs were not made for the documentary. They are examples of past moog masterpieces. You may know #3 from Gang Starr's Just to Get a Rep. See what kind of condition you find yourself in before any baking during the 18:38 long final track.

1. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
2. Gary Numan - Cars
3. Jean-Jacques Perrey - E.V.A.
4. Devo - Mongoloid
5. New Order - Blue Monday
6. They Might Be Giants - Baroque Hoedown
7. Yes - Close to the Edge

Roy Hargrove Quintet - With the Tenors of Our Time 1993

Ron Blake tenor sax = 1, 5 & 6
Roy Hargrove flugelhorn = 2,4, 7 &10

1. - Soppin' the Biscuit feat. Stanley Turrentine
2. - When We Were One feat. Johnny Griffin
3. - Valse Hot feat. Branford Marsalis, Ron Blake (2nd solo)
4. - Once Forgotten feat. Ron Blake, tenor & soprano saxophone
5. - Shade of Jade feat. Joe Henderson
6. Greens at the Chicken Shack feat. Johnny Griffin
7. Never Let Me Go feat. Rodney Whitaker, bass
8. Serenity feat. Joe Henderson
9. Across the Pond feat. Joshua Redman
10 Wild is Love feat. Stanley Turrentine
11. Mental Phrasing feat. Ron Blake, Joshua Redman (2nd solo)
12. April's Fool

Bill Cosby - I Started Out as a Child 1964

Happy blog birthday week to me. Hope to post more soon and even launch a spinoff. For now I'll be cleaning up dead links etc. Anything urgent should be left in the comments to this post.
1. Sneakers
2. Street Football
3. The Water Bottle
4. Christmas Time
5. The Giant
6. Oops!
7. The Lone Ranger
8. Ralph Jameson
9. Medic
10. My Pet Rhinoceros
11. Half Man
12. Rigor Mortis
13. The Neanderthal Man
14. T.V. Football
15. Seattle

BDP - Live Hardcore Worldwide

1. KRS-One Intro
2. Lick a Shot
3. The Eye Opener
4. Jack of Spades
5. My Philosophy
6. I'm Still #1 [Freestyle]
7. Poetry
8. House Nigga's
9. Criminal Minded
10. Jimmy
11. The Bridge Is Over
12. Ya Know the Rules
13. Kenny Parker (Intro)
14. South Bronx
15. Reggae Medley [Includes 9mm]
16. Super Hoe
17. Up to Date
18. Why Is That?
19. Stop the Violence
20. Bo Bo Bo
21. Come to the Teacher
22. Breath Control
23. Self Destruction
24. KRS-One Outro

Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On 1971

Tracks one thru twelve were on the original 1971 LP. The rest were not. Hope you vote(d).

1. Luv N' Haight
2. Just Like a Baby
3. Poet
4. Family Affair
5. Africa Talks to You "The Asphalt Jungle"
6. There's a Riot Goin' On
7. Brave & Strong
8. (You Caught Me) Smilin'
9. Time
10. Spaced Cowboy
11. Runnin' Away
12. Thank You for Talkin' to Me Africa
13. Runnin' Away [Single Version]
14. My Gorilla Is My Butler [Instrumental]
15. Do You Know What? [Instrumental]
16. That's Pretty Clean [Instrumental]

Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra - Waltz Darling 1989

Don't be fooled by the cover. It may not be a shit jazz cover, but it is certainly one of the worst I've seen in awhile. I prefer the second half over the first. Track 6 has that Barry White bassline that's been used countless times since '89; and the guest contributions include Bootsy (natch), N'Dea Davenport (one of her first!), Jeff Beck and Dave Stewart. The release brings back some memories of those who thought hip-hop needed more house music. It didn't really work out that way, now did it?


1. House of the Blue Danube feat. Bootsy Collins
2. Something's Jumpin' in Your Shirt feat. Bootsy Collins and Lisa Marie
3. Waltz Darling feat. Lourdes and Pretty Fatt
4. Shall We Dance?
5. Deep in Vogue feat. Lourdes and Willie Ninja
6. Call a Wave feat. Gina Cie
7. Algernon's Simply Awfully Good at Algebra feat. Miss Ndea
8. I Like You in Velvet

Moog 2004

All Hail Dr. Robert Moog - original pioneer of his craft.
1. 33 - Abominatron
2. Stereolab - Variation One
3. The Moog Cookbook - Bob's Funk
4. Jean-Jacques Perrey/Luke Vibert - You Moog Me
5. Psilonaut - The Sentinel
6. Meat Beat Manifesto - Unavailable Memory
7. Bernie Worrell/Bootsy Collins - When Bernie Speaks
8. Electric Skychurch - Endless [I Love Bob Mix]
9. The Album Leaf - Micro Melodies
10. Charles Clouser - I Am a Spaceman
11. Plastiq Phantom - Sqeeble
12. Bostich - Realistic Source
13. Pete DeVriese - You Have Been Selected
14. Money Mark - Nanobot Highway
15. Baiyon - Mixed Waste 4.2
16. Tortoise - Beautiful Love
17. Roger O'Donnell - Another Year

Brave Combo - Box of Ghosts 2003

Many standards and styles on this one. For those days you need to check the hip-hop and let the glockenspiel rock.

1. Rondo a la Turca [Polka]
2. The Gnossienne #3 [Disco]
3. Dance of the Hours, Pt. 1/Pt. 2 [Cha Cha Cha and Polka]
4. Polovetsian Dance [Latin Reggae]
5. Pavane for a Dead Princess [Rock]
6. Musetta's Waltz
7. Hungarianella [Tarantella Shuffle]
8. Barcarole [Lounge Salsa]
9. Swan Lake [Tango]
10. Waltz in C Minor [Jazz Waltz]
11. Romeo and Juliet
12. Slavonic Dance [Reggae Rock]
13. William Tell Overture [Polka]
14. Fear (Air on a G String) [Meditation]
15. Habanera [Twist][Live]

Rapmasters Volume 1: Best of the Jam

Still looking for any other volumes. Post links in comments.

1. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two
2. Kid 'N Play - Gittin' Funky
3. Salt-N-Pepa - Get up Everybody (Get Up)
4. Big Lady K - On a Mission
5. Dana Dane - Cinderfella Dana Dane
6. Run-D.M.C. - Tougher Than Leather
7. Doug E. Fresh - Lovin' Every Minute of It
8. Stetsasonic - Sally
9. The Real Roxanne - Respect
10. Hurby's Machine/Super Lovers - Let the Drummer Get Ill

Michael Brecker - Don't Try This at Home 1988

1. Itsbynne Reel
2. Chime This
3. Scriabin
4. Suspone
5. Don't Try This at Home
6. Everything Happens When You're Gone
7. Talking to Myself
8. The Gentleman & Hizcaine

The Hurricane 2000

1. Black Thought/Common/Dice Raw/Flo Brown/Jazzyfatnastees/Mos Def/Roots - Hurricane
2. Black Star - Little Brother
3. Aaron Hall/Kelly Price - Love Sets You Free
4. Jazzyfatnastees - I Don't Know
5. Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Isolation
6. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
7. K-Ci & JoJo - One More Moutain (Free Again)
8. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
9. Ray Charles - Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
10 Etta James - In the Basement
11. Melky Sedeck - Still I Rise
12. Ruth Brown - I Don't Know
13. Clark Anderson - So Amazing
14. Christopher Young - The Suite

Vendetta - Mic Geronimo 1997

I bought this for a hundred times more than Polarity. Thought I would post some production and guest star notes. Take heed of the album cover - never let your foot get more space than your face. Will not help sell product.

1. Nothin' Move But the Money, prod. by Sean "Puffy" Combs and Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool
2. Vendetta, prod. by The Legendary Traxster
3. Survival, prod. by Havoc of Mobb Deep
4. Life in Lessons, prod. by Irv Gotti, co-prod. by Lil Rob
5. For Tha Family, prod. by K-Def
6. Street Life feat. Monifah, prod. by Chris Large
7. Be Like Mic, prod. by P & Time, co-prod. by Chris "Ju Ju" Whitney
8. Unstoppable, prod. by Pete Rock
9. Single Life feat. Jay-Z & Carl Thomas, prod. by Irv Gotti, co-prod. by Lil Rob
10. Things Ain't What They Used to Be prod. by Prince Kaysaan, Royal Flush
11. How You Been? prod. by Buckwild
12. - Usual Suspects feat. DMX, Ja Rule, The Lox & Tragedy Khadafi, prod. by Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool

Sun Records - The Ultimate Blues Collection 3 2003

1. Joe Hill Louis - Keep Your Arms Around Me
2. Rufus Thomas - Married Woman
3. Elvin Parr's In The Groove Boys - I'm a Good Man
4. Sleepy John Estes - Policy Man Blues
5. Woodrow Wilson Adams - The Last Time
6. Willie Nix - Prison Bound Blues
7. Raymond Hill - I'm Back Pretty Baby
8. Walter Horton - In the Mood
9. Jimmy And Walter - Before Long
10. Houston Stokes - We're All Gonna Do Some Wrong
11. Earl Hooker - Blue Guitar
12. Albert Williams - Rhumba Chillen
13. Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago
14. Little Junior One Hand - Sittin' Drinkin' and Thinkin'
15. Earl Hooker - Move on Down the Line
16. Mose Vinson - 44 Blues
17. Houston Boines - Carry My Business On
18. Little Junior's Blue Flames - Feelin' Bad
19. Coy "Hot Shot" Love - Wolf Call Boogie
20. Little Milton - Lookin' for My Baby
21. Billy Love - Hart's Bread Boogie
22. Pat Hare - Bonus Pay
23. Billy "The Kid" Emerson - Little Fine Healthy Thing
24. Roscoe Gordon - Hey Hey Girl
25. Frank Frost - Just Come on Home

The Chambers Brothers - Love, Peace and Happiness 1969

1. Have a Little Faith
2. Let's Do It (Do It Together)
3. To Love Somebody
4. If You Want Me To
5. Wake Up
6. Love, Peace and Happiness
7. Wade in the Water
8. Everybody Needs Somebody
9. I Can't Turn You Loose
10. People Get Ready
11. Bang Bang
12. You're So Fine
13. Medley: Undecided/Love! Love! Love!

Larry McCray - Ambition 1991

This debut LP from McCray was originally released in 1991.

1. Nobody Never Hurt Nobody With the Blues
2. Count on Me for Love
3. One More Lonely Night
4. Sally's Got a Friend in New York City
5. Country Girl
6. Ambition
7. I Don't Mind
8. Frustrated Baby
9. Keep on Walking
10. Me and My Baby
11. Secret Lover
12. The Sun Rises in the East

DJ Red Alert's Propmaster Dancehall Show 1994

Another bargain basement find from 1994.



1. Resident Alien - Pum Pum Master
2. Sliver/Sugarbear & Silver Fi Di Red Alert
3. Shabba Ranks - Mi Nuh Romp With It
4. Patra - Love All the Men
5. Cutty Ranks - Living Condition [Special Red Alert Remix]
6. Visious - The Glock
7. Skaka II - Black Busta
8. Silver & Kash/Sugarbear - Papa Props
9. Naturally/Red Rox - Let's Chill
10. Daddy Sylva - Stretch to Fit
11. Red Rox/Screechy Dan - Pose Off
12. Bobby Konders/Mike Jarrett - Mack Daddy
13. Rayvon/Shaggy - Big Up

Groove Collective - Groove Collective 1994

Nice release from March of 1994.
1. Rentstrike
2. Balimka
3. Nerd
4. Rahsaanasong
5. Ms. Grier
6. Whatchugot
7. El' Golpé Avisa
8. Genji Monogatari
9. Buddha Head
10. Saturday Afternoon

Lowrider Video Soundtrack Volume 7 1994

1. A.L.T./JV/Kid Frost/Rocky Padilla/Slow Pain - Bump Dat Ass
2. C-Note - She's a Freak
3. Chicano Soul N Power/Soul & Power - Chicano 2 da Bone
4. JV/Slow Pain - One Night Stand
5. Deuce Mob - My 64
6. Kozme - Klip to da Krome
7. D Lyrical - Tales from the Blindside
8. A.L.T./S.O.L. - It's Madness
9. Latin Alliance/War - Low Rider (On the Boulevard)
10. Hispanic M.C.'s/War - Don't Let No One Get You Down
11. A.L.T. - All Night
12. Kid Frost - Thin Line
13. Deuce Mob - Latin Nights
14. Toddy Tee - Just Say No
15. Kid Frost - No Sunshine

The Crusaders - Groove Crusade 2003

1. Put It Where You Want It
2. Don't Let It Get You Down
3. Way Back Home
4. Street Life
5. Chain Reaction
6. Scratch [Live]
7. Creole
8. Greasy Spoon
9. I Felt the Love
10. Free as the Wind
11. So Far Away

Bulworth 1998

So I went used CD shopping after some crate digging turned up nada. Found some great stuff for $2 a pop, but this just rates as ok since it's the clean version. Enjoy track #2 which samples the 1983 country/pop hit (#1 for the year) "Islands in the Stream". The rest of the tracks aren't just throwaways since this was supposed to be a serious, social commentary flick. I think the film fails on some levels due to a generation gap more than anything else and ends up as kind of your Grandpa's version of Dangerous Minds for politics. Don't front on the soundtrack, though.


1. Dr. Dre & LL Cool J - Zoom
2. Mya/Ol' DB/Pras - Ghetto Supastar That Is What You Are
3. Canibus & Youssou N'Dour - How Come
4. Kam/KRS-One/Method Man/Prodigy - Bulworth (They Talk About It While We Live It)
5. Witchdoctor - Holiday/12 Scanner
6. RZA - The Chase
7. Eve - Eve of Destruction
8. Mack 10 & Ice Cube - Maniac in the Brainiac
9. Anonymou$/Nutta Butta - Freak Out
10. Black Eyed Peas - Joints & Jam
11. Cappadonna - Run
12. B Real - Lunatics in the Grass
13. Public Enemy - Kill Em Live
14. D-Fyne - _______ Are Hustlers Too

The Big Gundown - Reggae Inspired by Spaghetti Westerns 2004

It so happens I never posted reggae here until this post. This has been the hottest summer since 1998 around here so I guess the time is right. Without Jamaica I couldn't be a hip-hop fanatic so it's nice to see the U.S. give something back by the way of the Italian Western. You know how ridiculous those hip-hop westerns looked compared to the superior urban warrior movies? Trust me, Jamaican artists didn't make the same mistake. Will a few understand what I'm talking about? Or is it just the 100F/38C days getting to me? It's a rhetorical question. Don't even try to answer. Do listen to some good songs about money, love and death backed by cool reggae.

1. Sir Lord Comic - Django Shoots First
2. Crystalites - Dollar a Head
3. The Upsetters - Dollar in the Teeth
4. The Upsetters - Return of Django
5. Crystalites - A Fistful of Dollars
6. King Stitt - Lee Van Cleef
7. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Clint Eastwood
8. Crystalites - The Undertaker
9. Ramon & The Crystalites - The Overtaker
10. Ramon & The Crystalites - Undertaker's Burial
11. The Upsetters - For a Few Dollars More
12. Roy Richards - Death Rides a Horse
13. The Hippy Boys - Death Rides a Horse
14. Johnny Lover & The Destroyers - Franco Nero
15. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Kill Them All
16. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Eight for Eight
17. Crystalites - The Bad
18. Johnny Lover & The Destroyers - Nevada Joe
19. Crystalites - Stranger in Town
20. Eldorados - Savage Colt
21. Andy Capp - The Law
22. The Upsetters - A Taste of Killing
23. The Upsetters - Return of the Ugly
24. Lloyd Charmers - Dollars & Bonds
25. Lloyd Charmers - Vengeance
26. Joe White & The Crystalites - They Call Me Trinity

Next School Settin' an Example 1990

I have this theory that LONS took some of the shine off this group's success or lack thereof. Just listen to the title track with the Lord Jamar sample and tell me LONS didn't take the concept behind Next School to the next level and then some. LONS imploded after the second LP but Next School only released one full-length before moving on. Remember to pay your tuition if you enroll in Funk University.


1. Funk University
2. Kick The Base
3. Profits Of Unity
4. Settin' An Example
5. Girls, Girls, Girls
6. Take Me Home
7. Good To Go
8. Go Next School
9. Isn't It Funny
10. Young Adults
11. Versatylin' Stylin'
12. Next School Shuffle
13. United Nation