Art Decade

F.A.T.: Satan's Dream [1977] F.A.T.: Feelings [1977] Eric "Fat" Gallon released his sole solo effort under the name F.A.T. Th...

David Ruffin: Walk Away From Love "So I'm leaving This time I'm playing it smart I'm gonna walk away from love Before love ...

American Beauty: I Rule! (1970 Firebird) [1999] For summer's last hooray...

Jackson C. Frank : Milk And Honey [1965] John Frusciante: Dying Song [2003] Off the soundtrack to Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny . Gal...

Sly & The Family Stone: If You Want Me To Stay A top 20 hit, "If You Want Me to Stay" was a 1973 single by Sly & the Famil...

Gavin Bryars: String Quartet No. 1 "Between the National and the Bristol" [1986] Released on Three Viennese Dancers , Gavin wrote ...

Big Audio Dynamite: Medicine Show Off the first post-Clash Mick Jones record, by Big Audio Dynamite. Great wri-thum riff by Mick, and it als...

Joe Jackson: You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) A truly inspirational Joe Jackson song, when at that time weren...

Ten City: That's The Way Love Is '88 dance song. Only heard on BLS in '88, because they were played at the Garage, and Chief Roc...

The East St. Louis Gospelettes: Have Mercy On Me Today's selection comes to us courtesy of my man DJ Wicz , who has put together a fabul...

Dead Kennedys: Holiday In Cambodia [1980] Dead Kennedys: Too Drunk To Fuck [1981] Nouvelle Vague's version of TDTF led me back to DK, a ...

Stevie Wonder: Lookin' For Another Pure Love [1972] "Things you cherish most in your life, Can be taken if they're left neglect...

Richie Havens: Going Back To My Roots Described as the 25th most Balearic recording of all-times by djhistory.com, and as a "real toe-t...

Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation: Smash

Siouxsie & The Banshees: Christine [1980] Seminal New Wave. Buy Kaleidoscope here .

Casino Music: Faites Le Proton [1979] With: Gilles Riberolles - Guitar Eric Weber - Bass Jean-Michel Lemeur - Drums Anatole Mundi - Piano Bu...

The Police: Synchronicity II Lyrically and musically, this song was a stroke of "g". Well done, lads.

ULTIMATE ALBUM SIDE PLUS TWO Orlandivo: Orlandivo [1977] Lado A: Tudo Jóia Um Abraço No Bengil Gueri-Gueri Tamanco No Samba* Juazeiro bonus...

Tina Turner: Backstabbers [1979] Off Tina's less-than-successful 1979 foray into disco. Buy other Tina here .

Howard Tate: Stop produced by Jerry Ragovoy This is the mono mix, taken from the box set Beg, Scream & Shout .

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Alarm Will Sound: Gwely Mernans [2005] Alarm Will Sound: Jynweythek Ylow [2005] Alarm Will Sound is an interesting young orchestra of virtuo...

TWO FOR TUESDAY Pilot: January Canada According to my sources, January was Pilot's biggest hit in the UK, although it sank like a stone ...

Bryan Ferry: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall [1973] Here's another Dylan cover. 24 years before releasing Dylanesque Bryan Ferry releas...

Joe Cocker: Seven Days [1982] I was mildly amused to see a poster advertising a Joe Cocker concert in a city I visited this summer. I hope ...

Billy Paul: East written by T.W. Brown produced by Gamble-Huff from the album Going East

Leonard Cohen: Master Song [1968] I recently realized that Leonard Cohen has never appeared on this blog. This one's off his debut. Buy...

The Bălănescu Quartet: Computer Love from Possessed

Jerry Garcia & David Grisman: Milestones [1992] Seems appropriate. Buy So What here . I am back with a Mac and it turns out that bloggi...

Rolling Stones: Hot Stuff from Love You Live recorded "live" in Paris, June, 1976 artwork by Andy Warhol If anyone's in the ma...

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Family Fodder: Cerf Volant from Monkey Banana Kitchen

Gabor Szabo: Love Theme From Spartacus * Sombrero Sam # Country Illusion @ * written by Alex North # written by Charles Lloyd @ written by W...

Calexico: Sunken Waltz [2003] Calexico: Dub Latina [2003] Music for a hot summer afternoon. These both come from 2003's Feast of Wire al...

Percy Faith: First Light [1973] from the album pictured above written by Freddie Hubbard arranged & conducted by Percy Faith

The Beach Boys: Sail On Sailor [1973] Greetings. I just got the Holland/Carl and the Passions CD and have been listening to it a lot lately ...

CAN: I Want More and More [1976] Cobbled together from tracks 1 and 4 off of Flow Motion . Michael Karoli taking a page from Bo Diddley ...

Toots & The Maytals: Get Up, Stand Up [1979] from the classic Pass The Pipe Reggae Sunsplash 2K7 continues (we seem to have heeded Davy ...

The Wombles: Womble Of The Universe (in which Orinoco dreams he is an astronaut) [1974] from the album Keep On Wombling words & music by...

The Mighty Clouds Of Joy - Mighty High from the album Kickin' , recorded at David Studios, Atlanta, GA written by David Crawford and Ric...

The Tennors: Weather Report [early '70s?] Pressure And Slide [1967] This goes out to "andy", who in response to last Thursday...

Blind Willie Johnson: In My Time Of Dying [1927] recorded in Dallas, Texas I just got back from a bit of travelling, and this was my go-to t...

Barrington Levy: Here I Come [1985] My favourite part: when the beat kicks back in two bars "early" at the 2:26 mark.

The Who: Eminence Front [1982] This was supposed to be one of the first songs on this site, and then I saw that it had been a Bumrocks joint...

The Original Broadway Cast of Hair : Frank Mills What A Piece Of Work Is Man The Flesh Failures There's a dizzying array of vocal and in...

Bo Diddley: Bring it to Jerome [1955] A high-five to 'The Orginator' with a song for pal & bandmate Jerome Green who contributes...

The Tennors: Ride Yu Donkey

Kraftwerk: Metal On Metal [1977] written by Ralf Hütter This was taken from Dread Meets B-Boys Downtown . I like the way it's mastered o...

The Carpenters: Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem Of World Contact Day) [1977] from the album Passage bonus b...

Shocking Blue: Love Buzz [1969] from At Home