Today is my mom's birthday so I wanted to put together some songs that remind me of her for different reasons, enjoy.

1. Got To Be There - Michael Jackson
2. Star Trek Theme - Alexander Courage
3. Can't Help Falling In Love - Lick the Tins
4. Julia - The Beatles
5. Somewhere - West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim
6. Un bel di - Madame Butterfly - Maria Callas - Giacomo Puccini
7. Consolations no. 3 - Franz Liszt

1. Jason and Amy-True Blood Original Score-Nathan Barr
2. Kaze Wo Atsumate-Happy End
3. The Girl From Ipanema-Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto
4. Sleepwalk-Santo and Johnny
5. Some Enchanted Evening-South Pacific-Ezio Pinza
6. Deep Blue Day-Brian Eno
7. Kolopa-George Ka'inapau

If you'd turned me upside down circa 1996, shook me, good chance these ALBUMS would have fallen out of my parka pockets. And a WALKMAN. 'Cuz these are CASSETTES, folks, CASSETTES. 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, ought's be damned, I've restricted the unrestricted tunes contained here in uncontainable formless form to releases released in that storied era, the 1990's. Specifically, the early to mid nineties, right before ROCK AND ROLL RADIO took a nosedive into a steaming pile of DUNG (feces) from which it has yet to extricate itself. Not that there wasn't crap back then (heyheyheylikebeinstoned) but must we bathe in it? So there's some whininess here, some sparkle, anthemic rave-ups, some angst, sarcasm, not to mention some gnarly off-kilter guitar and some MELODY, you know how we do. This isn't a comprehensive 90's compilation by any stretch of the imagination, just shit I like. The albums from which I've raped these songs all have an extra special place in my heart. Enjoy>>>

1. Get Me - Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been? - 1993
2. Bury Me - The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish - 1991
3. Hyperballad - Bjork - Post - 1995
4. The Ballad of Red Buckets - Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura - 1995
5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle - Nirvana - In Utero - 1993
6. She Walks On Me - Hole - Live Through This - 1994
7. When Yer Twenty-Two - The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart - 1993
8. Burnout - Green Day - Dookie - 1994
9. Miss Williams' Guitar - The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass - 1995
10. Elevate Me Later - Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - 1994
11. Holiday - Weezer - Blue Album - 1994
12. Unwind - Sonic Youth - Washing Machine - 1995

1. Greenlander - Pavement
2. Black Out - Pavement
3. Serpentine Pad - Pavement
4. Stereo - Pavement
5. Perfume-V - Pavement
6. Heaven Is A Truck - Pavement
7. Best Friend's Arm - Pavement
8. Grounded - Pavement
9. Lonesome Era - Pavement
10. She Believes - Pavement
11. You Are A Light - Pavement
12. Unfair - Pavement

1. The Black Rider - Tom Waits
2. Voodoo Lady - Ween
3. Right Place, Wrong Time - Dr. John
4. 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians
5. Bill's Corpse - Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
6. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite - The Beatles
7. O Death - Ralph Stanley
8. Strange Days - The Doors
9. Hellhound On My Trail - Robert Johnson
10. Sing It Again - Beck
11. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
12. Chewin' the Apple of Your Eye - The Flaming Lips
13. Life In a Glass House - Radiohead

never made it but, uh...

1. Eight Miles High - The Byrds
2. Combination of the Two - Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Co.
3. The Crystal Ship - The Doors
4. A Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles
5. Out Ta Get Me - Guns N' Roses
6. Alone Again Or - Love
7. D's Car Jam/ Anxious Mo-Fo - The Minutemen
8. Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
9. California Sun - The Rivieras
10. Frontwards - Pavement
11. With Arms Outstretched - Rilo Kiley
12. Don't Worry Baby - The Beach Boys

1. I Was A Lover - TV On the Radio
2. See No Evil - Television
3. I'm Waiting for My Man - The Velvet Underground
4. Call On Me - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
5. Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
6. 53rd and 3rd - The Ramones
7. You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory - Johnny Thunders
8. Run Nigger - The Last Poets
9. Hard To Explain - The Strokes
10. Washing Machine - Sonic Youth

go to sleep

1. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk - Pink Floyd
2. Tremoloa Debut - Broken Social Scene
3. Frosty the Snowman - Burl Ives
4. The Black Angel's Death Song - The Velvet Underground
5. X.Y.U. - Smashing Pumpkins
6. Tempo No Tempo - Os Mutantes
7. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down - Miles Davis
8. Che Gelida Manina, La Boheme - Puccini
9. The Unanswered Question - Charles Ives

1. #9 Dream
2. Strawberry Fields Forever (demo)
3. Isolation
4. In My Life
5. Watching the Wheels
6. Real Love (demo)
7. Jealous Guy
8. Free As A Bird (demo)
9. Mind Games

Spring is in the air...

1. Panis et Circensis - Os Mutantes
2. Buggin' - The Flaming Lips
3. Thirteen - Big Star
4. Coming Up Roses - Elliott Smith
5. Starman - David Bowie
6. Grazin' In the Grass - Hugh Masekela
7. The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
8. (I'd Go the) Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
9. Venus - Television
10. The Crystal Cat - Dan Deacon

Side A

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was an American jazz trumpeter, singer and entertainer. His bold, virtuosic and highly expressive style of trumpet playing was largely responsible for jazz music's shift from an ensemble style of play to one that was more soloist-centric and his creative improvisations, groundbreaking at the time, still stack up against the innovations of the modern era. In addition to these contributions, his distinctive singing voice is recognized the world over and he was instrumental in popularizing "scat singing", a highly syncopated style of improvisational singing, which has influenced countless singers and musicians. The selections featured here showcase his earliest recordings with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and his much admired Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings and give us a glimpse of his later excursions into the popular music format.

"My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn."
Louis Armstrong

1. Dippermouth Blues (1923) -King Oliver and His Creole Jazz Band (Joe Oliver)
2. Potato Head Blues (1927) - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven (Louis Armstrong)
3. Heebie Jeebies (1926) - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (Boyd Atkins)
4. West End Blues (1928) - Louis Armstrong w/Earl Hines & Zutty Singleton (Joe Oliver)
5. La Vie En Rose - Louis Armstrong (Edith Piaf)
6. Summertime - Louis Armstrong (George Gershwin)

Side B

John Coltrane (1926-1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and musical theoretician. His aggressive and fiery playing style, often described as cascading "sheets of sound", was extremely influential in the jazz world and the echoes of his influence have extended to psychedelic and progressive rock, hip hop, funk and beyond. Coltrane was one of the first to use modal systems in jazz music and an understanding of his system for reharmonizing song structures for maximum harmonic complexity (Coltrane Changes) remains a rite of passage for many jazz musicians. A restless searcher, John Coltrane explored and attempted to express the spiritual and existential questions that drove him through his music and in his later years, Coltrane was at the vanguard of the free-jazz movement.

"I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed."
John Coltrane

1. My Favorite Things (1961) - John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Steve Davis, Elvin Jones (Richard Rodgers)
2. Giant Steps (1960) - John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, Tommy Flanagan, Art Taylor (John Coltrane)
3. Countdown (1960) - John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, Tommy Flanagan, Art Taylor (John Coltrane)
4. A Love Supreme pt. 1 - Acknowledgement (1965)- John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones (John Coltrane)
5. Love (1965) - John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones (John Coltrane)

1. Lilacs - Sergei Rachmaninoff
2. Everything Happens To Me - Thelonious Monk
3. Gymnopedie no. 1 - Erik Satie
4. Dream - John Cage
5. Isle of Joy - Claude Debussy

1. Ain't No Half Steppin' - Big Daddy Kane
2. Microphone Fiend - Eric B. and Rakim
3. Dwyck - Nice and Smooth/Gangstarr
4. I Get Around - Tupac and Digital Underground
5. Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called Quest
6. 4th Chamber - Wutang Clan
7. 93 'til Infinity - Souls of Mischief
8. Who Got the Props - Black Moon
9. This Is Something for the Radio - Biz Markie
10. Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Naughty By Nature
11. I Got It Made - Special Ed
12. The Gas Face - 3rd Bass
13. The Rhythm - Kwame
14. They Reminisce Over You - Pete Rock and CL Smooth
15. All For One - Brand Nubians
16. So Watcha Sayin' - EPMD
17. The International Zone Coaster - Leaders of the New School
18. La Di Da Di - Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh