I can't help it... I love Batman and therefor I love songs about Batman....
Tracklist:
01. Intro 02. Jean & Dean- The Joker Is Wild 03. Adam West- The Story Of Batman 04. Nelson Riddler- Batman Riddles The Riddler 05. Gate Wesley And Band- Do The Batman 06. 60's Batman Radio Spot 07. Sonora Dinamita- La Cumbia De Batman 08. Nelson Riddler- Batgirl (Recorded from VHS) 09. Bobby Valentin- Batman Boogaloo
Here's a 30 minute podcast/streaming-medley, with some great songs about sex, drugs and alcohol, to start off your weekend!
From country about LSD (?!) to reggea about pussy, from RnB about getting wasted to 60's pop about marijuana.
I think this is something I'll do more often, probably once every two weeks.
Have a good one ;)
(Don't do drugs though, drugs are bad...)
Tracklist:
01. Intro 02. Rosco Gordon- Let's Get High 03. Wendell Austin- LSD 04. Mighty Tom Cats- Cheeba Cheeba (Abe Twist Edit) 05. Mike Clifford- Mary Jane 06. Max Romeo- Play With Your Pussy 07. Sugar Billy Garner- I Got Some (Satisfaction) 08. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women 09. Soul Bros- Chicken and Booze (Abe Twist Edit) 10. Tom Waits- Jockey Full Of Bourbon 11. The Cramps- New Kind Of Kick 12. Johnny Cash- Cocaine Blues 13. Slyde- Sex & Drugs (feat. Chaz G & Lady Posh & Mr. Colin Owens)
I recently discovered "Heart Trouble" by the Welsh band "Eyes of Blue" on this fantastic compilation of rare 60's beat, freakbeat, RnB, psych & soul, called "Go Gear! vol.5" (released on a label called "13th Dimension"). When I heard it for the first time I immediately fell in love with the song.
The original single was released in 1967. Sadly there's not a whole lot of information to be found on the internet about this group.
As I first listened to the tune I noticed that the lyrics sounded familiar to me, and not much later it came to me: Funkadelic's "You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure" from the band's "Cosmic Slop"-album (released in '73) has taken a good bit of the lyrics of this song.
After some more searching I found out that the original tune was written by the Parliaments and released in 1965, two years before the release of Eyes Of Blues' version.
The Parliaments, who's style at that time would be best described as Northern Soul, would later on turn into Parliament and Funkadelic; two bands consisting of the same members, recording for different labels, and as we all know, were the main performers of the soul- and funk subgenre known as P-Funk. So that's were it all comes together...
Have a listen to all three tunes, they are equally great:
Eyes Of Blue- Heart Trouble:
The Parliaments- Heart Trouble:
Funkadelic- You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure:
PS. Later on George Clinton did another solo version of "Heart Trouble" which is just too awful to post here...
01. Bettye Lavelle- Do Your Duty 02. Cyril Neville- Gossip 03. Black Nasty- Party On 4th Street (pt.1) 04. Sugar Billy Garner- I Got Some 05. Sugarpie Desanto- The Woo-Pee 06. African Pop Session- African Voodoo 07. Tony Camillo's Bazuka- Dynomite 08. Baby Huey- Hard Times 09. Fuzzy Huskins- The Fuzz and da Boog 10. Howart Tate- I'm Your Servant 11. Marsha Hunt- Oh No! Not The Beast Day 12. Keith Mansfield- Loot's The Root 14. Sugarpie Desanto & Etta James- In The Basement, Part One 15. The Jimmy Castor Bunch- The Bertha Butt Boogie Pt.1
A very goodlooking blog about the love for blaxploitationgenre; the films and the music that comes with it. So very much to see, learn, listen and do in here.
The blog has no less than 27 Contributors, an extensive library of downloadable OST's, excellent and clear lay-out, loads of information about the films as well as screenshots from every single movie, a beautiful movie photo-album and they've even put a resource-roll on there.
Another 15 funky tracks in the Abe Twist series :) Tracklist:
01. Spanky Wilson- Sunshine Of Your Love 02. Guy Morris & Band- Cool It 03. Sly & The Family Stone- Underdog 04. Timebox- Beggin' 05. Sugar Pie DeSanto- Soulful Dress 06. Bo Diddley- I'm High Again 07. Brian Auger- Tiger 08. Underground Express- I Never Found A Girl (to love me the way you do) 09. Dum Dum- Art The Grass 10. Ernie Hawks- Soulful Trip Part 2 11. Lulu- Feeling Alright 12. Kris Peterson- Mama's Little Baby (Is A Big Girl Now) 13. Esther Marrow - Chains of Love 14. Ground Hog- Bumpin (Vocal) 15. Placebo- Humpty Dumpty
