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That was The Blasters. A great rockabilly retro band. Worth checking out their material. Marie, Marie off of their '81 self titled 2nd album.

Great tune to listen to on a Friday or Saturday night before heading out for a night of drinking and maybe getting lucky.

Excellent Santana playlist, zzaa09. I'll add to that playlist Santana performing the instrumental Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) live to highlight Santana's marvelous guitar on that track. Off of their '77 Moonflower double album.

The '86 film Platoon similarly had a superb soundtrack. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles with The Tracks Of My Tears off of their '65 Going To A Go-Go debut LP.

Of course the '94 Forrest Gump film had all of the popular Vietnam war protest songs and more. The Rooftop Singers with their '63 single Walk Right In.

You could always count on director Quentin Tarantino to have a good soundtrack to his movies. Charlie Feathers with That Certain Female from the 2003 Kill Bill Vol. 1 movie.

Nine Inch Nails with the Joy Division cover Dead Souls.

Another great movie soundtrack was from the '94 movie The Crow. The Cure with Burn.

Pulp Fiction had an awesome soundtrack as well. Maria McKee with If Love Is A Red Dress Hang Me In Rags.

One of the best movie soundtracks in my opinion. Tito & Tarantula with After Dark.

Another fine blues playlist, Mutt Daeng. Johnny Winter performing Be Careful With A Fool live on Danish TV in '70.

I loved their early stuff. Their cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's Don't Start Me Talkin' off of their '69 The Climax Chicago Blues Band debut album. I think Mutt Daeng would approve.

Illusions are fine as long as they're real. And the women here are quite real, I can assure you. So it all is. Eurythmics with the title track of their '83 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) LP. Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree I travel the world and the seven seas Everybody's looking for something Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to be abused

Nice selection, zzaa09. One of my favourite Bonnie Raitt tunes. But better than her studio recording, in my humble opinion, is her live duet with John Prine at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago in January '85.

ZZ Top I believe holds the record for the longevity of a group of musicians. For 51 years, it was composed of vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard and bassist-vocalist Dusty Hill, until Hill's death in 2021. What, no accompanying tune to your post? Well, allow me, then. Gimme All Your Lovin' performed live at the 2013 Montreux Festival.

Flaco Jimenez did a nice cover version of Carmelita featuring Dwight Yokam on vocals with Jimenez on accordion. Off of Jimenez' '92 Partners album.

The studio version is equally superb with the Eagles' Glenn Frey on acoustic guitar and David Lindley on banjo. Some interesting history on Warren Zevon's father: Zevon was born in Chicago, the son of Beverly Cope (née Simmons) and William Zevon. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine, whose original surname was Zivotofsky. William Zevon worked as a bookie who handled volume bets and dice games for the notorious Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen. He worked for years in the Cohen crime family, in which he was known as Stumpy Zevon, and was best man at Cohen's first wedding.

It's been a while since I've played this delicate, dark and beautiful Mexican flavoured '76 live performance of Carmelita by Warren Zevon with David Lindley on guitar. The studio version is on Zevon's '76 self-titled debut. Give this a bit a volume so that you don't miss the crispness of each tone of Lindley's soft guitar strumming.

That one's kinda a sleeper for me. Brian Eno with Put A Straw Under Baby off of his '74 Taking Tiger Mountain album. Had I been born as an adult this would have been the lullaby my parents would have put me to sleep by.

Been digging through your piles of old 45's, MJCM? Thanks for all your hard work!

Mick? Keith made an artform of a craggy face. I hear he didn't even need any make-up when he was cast in the Pirates of the Caribbean.

I've a clock at home. Does anyone here know how to turn back the hands? If anyone does please PM me.

One more for today. Beware, though, I've been known to lie in the past. From Dutch DJ and record producer Armin Van Buuren I'm selecting the entire electro house music '99 Boundaries Of Imagination CD. Mostly due to the fact that all the tracks more or less blend together. Back in the early 2000's my then girlfriend and I used to party at Hollywood Awards disco in Huai Khwang on Ratchdaphisek between soi 6 & 8. Soi 6 & 8 formed a "U" with Hollywood at the bottom. Dance Fever was right next door. Soi 6 & 8 were lined with small clubs and restaurants. It catered to Thai clientele. You'd see some farang, but not too many during those years. It was a large club with two levels. After 10 PM it would be wall to wall people, almost to the point where if you passed out you'd probably never hit the floor. The raw energy in the place was palpably felt. Featured shows were staged with both all female casts and a mix of guys and girls. A DJ filled in between shows. They had multiple restrooms, the ladies next to the men. Every time I went I'd hang off to the side at an empty table and simply watch the flow of females going in and out. I don't think I have to describe to anyone here what Thai lady's all dolled up on a night out look like. But the shear volume of drop dead gorgeous ladies going in and out was always staggeringly jaw dropping. Since my girlfriend was a party animal she knew a lot of the help so our party would always receive first class treatment. Of course that was also due to regular tipping. I don't know if it still works the same these days but we would always be drinking whiskey, soda and coke. We'd purchase fifths of Johnnie Walker Black Label and what we didn't finish in a night would get labeled and put on a shelf until our next return. Again, it's been quite a while since that time but I recall celebrating one of our friend's birthday and as a group of 12 we arrived at 10 PM and stayed until the 2 AM closing. Four hours of non-stop drinking plus snacks and the grand total came out to a mere 8k with an exchange rate of USD 1 : THB 42.5. I have no idea how many bottles of JW we went through. Ah, the good old days. Ratchadaphisek was broad with 4 lanes in each direction. When all of the clubs shut down at 2 AM, and that was a prime area of Huai Khwang Thai night life with soi 4 hosting another massive cluster of bars, only a single lane was open. Ratchadaphisek would turn into a car park for taxis. But we'd be off for a bite to eat and then hit some more bars for a few rounds of pool afterwards. Sunrises were always beautiful. Anyway, the whole point of this story was that this particular Armin Van Buuren CD would remind me of Hollywood as the music was very similar to that played by the DJs. When I had to return to the States once for a 6 month stretch I would listen to this CD many times with a heavy sense of sad nostalgia, only wanting to be back home once more. I think everyone here knows what that feels like. @bannork had at one time mentioned that music always brings back certain memories. I never realised that before so I blame him for instigating this lengthy accounting within me.

Enigma with I Love You... I'll Kill You off of the excellent '94 The Cross Of Changes CD. My then 16 year old daughter had bought this in a record shop on our trip to Austria back '97 and turned me on to it. I stole the CD from her.

Most excellent choice, LeungKen. Your serve, my volley. Orinoco Flow off of her '88 Watermark album.