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Prodded by Both Sides Now, I put together twenty-six songs about fools, of which there have been an abundance during what Mr Kasem calls the Rock Era. The Mothers track is not the original from Freak Out!, but the doo-wop remake from Cruising with Ruben and the Jets. The original photo is “The Pigeon Crowd” by Andrew*, borrowed under Creative Commons.

Track listing for 111140-2:

1. Brenda Lee: Fool #1
2. Dino, Desi and Billy: I’m a Fool
3. The Rolling Stones: Fool to Cry
4. The Shirelles: Foolish Little Girl
5. Elvin Bishop: Fooled Around and Fell in Love
6. Ike and Tina Turner: A Fool in Love
7. The Main Ingredient: Everybody Plays the Fool
8. Freddie and the Dreamers: If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
9. Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love
10. Connie Francis: Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
11. Joe Barry: I’m a Fool to Care
12. The Drifters: Fools Fall in Love
13. Led Zeppelin: Fool in the Rain
14. Aretha Franklin: Chain of Fools
15. The Beatles: The Fool on the Hill
16. The Tams: Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
17. Lesley Gore: She’s a Fool
18. Bobby “Blue” Bland: I Pity the Fool
19. The Bobby Fuller Four: Love’s Made a Fool of You
20. Lulu: Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool For You Baby)
21. Sanford Clark: The Fool
22. Debbie Gibson: Foolish Beat
23. The Mothers of Invention: How Could I Be Such a Fool
24. The Demensions: My Foolish Heart
25. The Doobie Brothers: What a Fool Believes
26. Rick Nelson: Fools Rush In

If you’ve been through here before, you’ve probably noticed one or more of the Major Babes series, which includes songs incorporating girls’ names.

Captain Obvious, more of a purist than I, has restricted his mix tape to songs where the name is the entire title, starting with Dylan’s “Delia” (from 1993’s World Gone Wrong) and finishing with “Rebecca” by Summer at Shatter Creek, aka Craig Gurwich. Despite this restriction, the collection is far more eclectic than anything I’m likely to come up with. Highly recommended.

Once again, we have a small collection of longer-than-average songs, illustrated with some longer-than-average legs. (Bless you, Hanes.) Nine tracks on this disc, minimum six minutes each: a couple of them exceed ten minutes.

Track listing for 111139-2:

1. The Chambers Brothers: Time Has Come Today
2. Steely Dan: Deacon Blues
3. Sugarloaf: Green-Eyed Lady
4. The Temptations: Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone
5. Arbogast and Ross: Chaos (Parts 1 and 2)
6. George Benson: This Masquerade
7. The Who: Underture from Tommy
8. The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin
9. Jackson Browne: The Load-Out/Stay

This one sounds simple, ends up less so. The idea: create a fake band and their first album. Here’s how it works:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
   The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
   The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
   The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

I admit to having fudged a bit on the last item. Not wishing to step on some photographer’s copyright, I took the third photo in the current list with a suitable Creative Commons license.

Anyway, here’s the Wikipedia entry, here’s the quote (from its own page), and this is the original photo. Behold:

Not available on iTunes.

(Via Steph Mineart. Crossposted from here.)

Darrell “Whisky Prajer” Reimer has an eclectic mix to suggest, mostly but not entirely new stuff, from Bettye LaVette to the reconstituted Dinosaur Jr. Definitely worth your attention.

The title, of course, sends up Talking Heads, yet I resisted the temptation to include “Burning Down the House,” which qualifies as a song about a building. On the other hand, “Mayonaise,” in its Corganized form, isn’t really about food at all. Evidently the process of constructing these things is starting to get to me.

Track listing for 111138-2:

1. The B-52’s: Love Shack
2. The Association: Broccoli
3. Average White Band: Cut the Cake
4. The Four Tops: 7 Rooms of Gloom
5. Smashing Pumpkins: Mayonaise
6. Madness: Our House
7. Dee Dee Sharp: Gravy
8. Wendy Rene: Bar B Q
9. Jim Lowe: Green Door
10. Tin Tin: Toast and Marmalade for Tea
11. The Clique: Sugar on Sunday
12. Cathy Carr: Ivory Tower
13. The Marathons: Peanut Butter
14. Susan Christie: I Love Onions
15. Frijid Pink: House of the Rising Sun
16. Trini Lopez: Lemon Tree
17. The Drifters: Three Thirty Three
18. The Newbeats: Bread and Butter
19. Freddie and the Dreamers: A Windmill in Old Amsterdam
20. The Warner Bros.: Oleo Margarine
21. The Clash: Rock the Casbah
22. Jan and Dean: Popsicle
23. Bow Wow Wow: I Want Candy
24. Parliament: (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) We Want the Funk

Yes, really:

Mixaloo is a company which allows you to create mix tapes or playlists from music tracks on the web. You can share these mix tapes in your blogs or social networking profiles, when someone buys these tracks you will get paid from the sale. The current share is 50/50 between you and mixaloo. Creating playlists is free and you can create any number of playlists, but if your visitors or friends wants to hear them they have to buy these tracks.

You can search for artists, albums or tracks and select the tracks you want to add to the mix. Mixaloo has around 3 million songs in their catalog so you have better chance of finding your favorite music tracks.

It took about an hour to assemble 15 tracks from the Mixaloo library, and about thirty seconds to hack together a piece of artwork. I really don’t expect anyone to shell out $14.85 (which is, by coincidence, 99 cents per track) for this mishmash, but what the heck. The results are on the sidebar. You’ll need Windows Media Player 9 or higher.

Long-time sound (and video) guy Marc Wielage once observed that there were dozens of songs containing the words “hold on” or some variation thereof, so it was a relatively simple matter to assemble two dozen or so “hold” songs and then trim off enough to fit CD length. The young lady has been on hold for I don’t know how long.

Track listing for 111137-2:

1. The Miracles: You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
2. 38 Special: Hold On Loosely
3. The Beatles: I Want to Hold Your Hand
4. Argent: Hold Your Head Up
5. Ambrosia: Holdin’ On to Yesterday
6. Mel Carter: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
7. Carolyne Mas: Hold On
8. Ian Gomm: Hold On
9. Wilson Phillips: Hold On
10. Johnny Nash: Hold Me Tight
11. DeBarge: Who’s Holding Donna Now?
12. Eddie Money: Baby Hold On
13. The Grass Roots: Baby Hold On
14. Simply Red: Holding Back the Years
15. Fleetwood Mac: Hold Me
16. Toto: Hold the Line
17. Joe Tex: Hold What You’ve Got
18. Thompson Twins: Hold Me Now
19. Electric Light Orchestra: Hold On Tight
20. Sam and Dave: Hold On I’m Comin’
21. Richard Marx: Hold On to the Years

The Sound Salvation Army, who describe themselves as “a few crazy Canadians who think we know what’s best for rock and roll”, have kicked off their inaugural mix tape with four songs on the subject of radio, a phenomenon that you may remember used to be carried on actual radio waves.

They lead off with Elvis Costello’s “Radio Radio,” which makes sense, and eventually they will have 13 tracks.