Get your bass harmonica on son.

All Time Fave

Can't beat this ever.

I like some cheese

For example, these songs...

More Love

Early Kraftwerk

I LOVE this!!!

I don't even like punk that much, but this is pretty damn punk. FEEL IT!!!

This too...



Commonwealth!



The Walrus

A LITTLE SOMETHING

Just a few of my favorite songs.

30th Century Man; The Scott Walker documentary

Man o man...

Scott Walker, what can I say?

Everyone should watch it. Seriously!

Slow and Mellow

I grew up with this kind of stuff in my house, a lot of so-called "Soft Rock". It's my guilty pleasure. I love almost all of it. I even threw two parties in honor of all things Soft and Smooth from the 1960s - 1980s. Here are some of my all time favorites.

Wichita Lineman (I love this song so much, here are different versions)







The original still the best!







The simplicity of this song is perfect. This song always gets me.

Free Association

Love
Sex
Death
Bed
Hotdog
Smile
Facsimile
Metaphors
That Roar
on the road again
I always cry when you tell me that you'll be...
beginning me to bring you back home.
oscillations
meditations
chili breath
monster dragon
little dudes procrastinating on a vision
what's the purpose of you stopping me?
square waves and sine waves
who cares
you're not that pretty
but yes I am
tall buildings
collapsing like a house of cards
alphabet city
alphabet street
pyschoalphadiscobeta
pyschobetabuckdownbaby
we're on a mission
you know?

Long Island Wildin

De La Soul completely threw me for a loop when they included this on Buhloone Mindstate. I loved that track then still love it now. Takagi Kan sounds like Popeye at the beginning.



they sampled a small section of this and slowed it down.

Is it in?

Jimmy Bo Horne yall.





also used by Jungle Brothers and Force of Nature.

Drums, drums, drums, drums

After all these years, I still love drums. Thick, heavy, loud, ass shaking drums. Hip hop was all about the break beats, the part of the song that was just drums. Then there was some electronica genre in the 90s called Breakbeat (which threw me for a loop b/c it had nothing to do with actual break beats... are you confused yet?) Here are some gems. Some are at the beginning of the track, others are more towards the middle.



play at 1:29

Anatomy of a Song:

This is a hip hop classic from a bygone era. JVC Force out of Long Island, New York released the single "Strong Island" in 1987 using 3 essential elements, which I will list the youtube tracks to. To anyone who was into hip hop during the so-called golden era, this is one of the most essential tracks, but to the casual fan, this song may have fallen under the radar.

I've always loved that song and when I heard the original sample sources, it just demonstrated how simple-yet-effective hip hop was at taking something classic and reconstructing it in a new and exciting way.

JVC Force "Strong Island"


Freda Payne "Unhooked Generation"


Freda Payne "The Easiest Way To Fall"