Dot to dot
A few years ago, I began keeping a notebook of musical segues based around a common theme or feeling, rather than generic conventions. As I recall, the inspiration for this was reading about the eclectic musical mixes of Grandmaster Flash at the 1970s New York block parties where hip-hop was born; of Frankie Knuckles at The Warehouse in Chicago (birthplace of House); and of David Mancuso at The Loft, the original disco, in early 1970s Manhattan (Do you spot a common thread here?). I have recently relocated this notebook, so here, in all its glory (or otherwise) is the list of connections:
Status Quo - Pictures of matchstick men <> Ol' Dirty Bastard - Hippa to da hoppa <> Lambchop - Garf.
Brecht/Weill - Benares Song <> Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet child o'mine.
Stone Roses - I wanna be adored <> Aneka - Japanese boy.
Prefab Sprout - Cars and girls <> David Bowie - Young Americans.
Petula Clark - Downtown <> Pet Shop Boys - West end girls.
Leviticus - The Burial <> Kwesi - Lovely (Dreem Teem) <> Fugees - Ready or not.
Bjork - Bachelorette <> Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal <> Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse.
Steps - 5,6,7,8 <> Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five - White lines.
The Verve - Bittersweet symphony > Massive Attack - Unfinished sympathy > Bim Sherman - Bewildered > Kishare Kumar - Chingare koi bhadke > Ennio Morricone - The ecstasy of gold > The Verve - Bittersweet symphony...
Kraftwerk - Antenna <> Nirvana - Serve the servants.
DJ Fresh Trax - 10 B&H <> Splodgnessabounds - Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps please.
Supergrass - Moving <> Bizarre Inc. - Playing with knives.
Manic Street Preachers - A design for life <> The Human League - The dignity of labour (parts one to four).
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - More, more, more of your love <> Velvet Underground - Waiting for the man.
Kate Bush - Sat in your lap <> Tricky - Aftermath <> Japan - Ghosts
Sterling Holloway (Ka) - Trust in me <> Screaming Jay Hawkins - I put a spell on you <> Phuture Pfantasy Club - Got the bug.
John Coltrane - India > The Byrds - Eight miles high > Orange Juice - Salmon fishing in New York.
Chic - Just out of reach <> Chet Baker - My ideal <> Simple Minds - Someone, somewhere in summertime.
Embrace - Come back to what you know <> Lighthouse Family - High.
Kato - Disco Tech <> The Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven.
Judas Priest - Electric eye <> Scanner - Mass observation <> Photek - The hidden camera.
K.C. and the Sunshine Band - Shake your booty > The Tweets - The Birdie Song.
Madness - Embarassment > Pixies - Gigantic > Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Orange claw hammer > Van Morrisson - Brown eyed girl.
Associates - waiting for the love boat > Front 242 - Join in the chant.
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary <> Van Dyke Parks - Riverboat <> Primal Scream - Rocks.
Elvis Costello - Tokyo storm warning > Robert Wyatt - Blues in Bob minor > The Human League - Being boiled > Roy Budd - Get Carter > Marvin Gaye - "T" plays it cool > The Mighty Upsetter - Enter the dragon.
Scott Walker - Time operator <> Little Feat - Long distance love.
Blondie - Call me > Jimi Tenor - Sugar daddy > Gary Glitter - Do you wanna touch me (oh yeah)? > Oasis - Hello > Young Gods - Did you miss me? > (Add N to X) - King Wasp > Wire - I am the fly > Elastica - Connection.
John Cale - Chinese envoy > Peter Gabriel - Games without frontiers.
Funkadelic - Maggot brain > Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Like a hurricane (Weld) > Liquid - Sweet harmony > Van Morrison - Beside you > The Sons of Light - Land of love.
Yvonne Printemps and Noel Coward - I'll follow my secret heart > Bjork - Hunter.
John Martyn - One world <> Genius/Gza - Cold world.
Massive Attack - Man next door > Company Flow - Last good sleep.
UB40 - One in Ten <> Chumbawamba - Top of the world <> Jah Wobble - I love everyone.
><(Earthling - First Transmission)><
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha > The Modern Lovers - Road runner > Stereolab - Super electric.
The Jaynettes - Sally go round the roses < The Velvet Underground - European son to Delmore Schwarz > Can - Father cannot yell.
The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park <> The Fall - In the park.
The Heptones - Party Time > Allen Toussaint - When the party's over.
Jimmy Ruffin - What becomes of the broken hearted? > Scott Walker - The Old Man's back again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist regime) > Shane MacGowan and The Popes - The snake with eyes of garnet.
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - (You're love is like a) Heatwave > The Byrds - Why.
Bahrainian pearl divers singers - Khatfat-Shra <> Miles Davis - Black satin.
Northend - Tee's happy - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message.
Butthole Surfers - Johnny Smoke <> Van Morrison - Madame George <> DJ Shadow - Lost and found.
Blur - Bank holiday > Max Boyce - Ode to Barry Island > Morrissey - Every day is like Sunday.
OMD - This is Helena <> The Champs - Tequila.
Anne Briggs - The recruited collier <> Kate Bush - Army Dreamers.
Miles Davis - Sivad (excerpt) > Sistas with Voices - I'm so into you > Flowered Up - Weekender > Bocca Juniors - Substance.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - People ain't no good <> John Cale - Thoughtless kind.
Barry Adamson feat. Jarvis Cocker - Set the controls for the heart of the bass <> Stone Roses - I am the resurrection <> Magazine - The light pours out of me <> Blue Cheer - I am the light.
Tim Buckley - Moulin Rouge <> Jeff Buckley - Je n'en connais pas le fin.
Alabama 3 - Hypo full of love <> Parliament - P. Funk (wants to get funked up).
The Beatles - She's leaving home <> The Raincoats - Family treet.
Blur - Song 2 <> Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Going to a go-go.
Ben E. King - Stand by me <> Jimi Hendrix Experience - If six was nine.
Four Tops - Still water (love) <> The Housemartins - Caravan of love <> Keith Hudson - Depth charge.
The Verve - Sonnet > Geaorge Michael/Astrud Gilberto - Desafinado > Sam Cooke - Wonderful world > Grace Jones - I'm not perfect (but I'm perfect for you).
Pulp - Mis-shapes <> Smoke City - Underwater love <> The Byrds - Everybody's been burned.
Beloved - Hello > The Clash - White man (in the Hammersmith Palais) > The White Noise - My game of loving > The Associates - Q Quarters > Morrissey - Interesting drug > Body Lotion - Ik wil hakke! > John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Toilet piece.
Status Quo - Pictures of matchstick men <> Ol' Dirty Bastard - Hippa to da hoppa <> Lambchop - Garf.
Brecht/Weill - Benares Song <> Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet child o'mine.
Stone Roses - I wanna be adored <> Aneka - Japanese boy.
Prefab Sprout - Cars and girls <> David Bowie - Young Americans.
Petula Clark - Downtown <> Pet Shop Boys - West end girls.
Leviticus - The Burial <> Kwesi - Lovely (Dreem Teem) <> Fugees - Ready or not.
Bjork - Bachelorette <> Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal <> Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse.
Steps - 5,6,7,8 <> Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five - White lines.
The Verve - Bittersweet symphony > Massive Attack - Unfinished sympathy > Bim Sherman - Bewildered > Kishare Kumar - Chingare koi bhadke > Ennio Morricone - The ecstasy of gold > The Verve - Bittersweet symphony...
Kraftwerk - Antenna <> Nirvana - Serve the servants.
DJ Fresh Trax - 10 B&H <> Splodgnessabounds - Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps please.
Supergrass - Moving <> Bizarre Inc. - Playing with knives.
Manic Street Preachers - A design for life <> The Human League - The dignity of labour (parts one to four).
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - More, more, more of your love <> Velvet Underground - Waiting for the man.
Kate Bush - Sat in your lap <> Tricky - Aftermath <> Japan - Ghosts
Sterling Holloway (Ka) - Trust in me <> Screaming Jay Hawkins - I put a spell on you <> Phuture Pfantasy Club - Got the bug.
John Coltrane - India > The Byrds - Eight miles high > Orange Juice - Salmon fishing in New York.
Chic - Just out of reach <> Chet Baker - My ideal <> Simple Minds - Someone, somewhere in summertime.
Embrace - Come back to what you know <> Lighthouse Family - High.
Kato - Disco Tech <> The Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven.
Judas Priest - Electric eye <> Scanner - Mass observation <> Photek - The hidden camera.
K.C. and the Sunshine Band - Shake your booty > The Tweets - The Birdie Song.
Madness - Embarassment > Pixies - Gigantic > Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Orange claw hammer > Van Morrisson - Brown eyed girl.
Associates - waiting for the love boat > Front 242 - Join in the chant.
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary <> Van Dyke Parks - Riverboat <> Primal Scream - Rocks.
Elvis Costello - Tokyo storm warning > Robert Wyatt - Blues in Bob minor > The Human League - Being boiled > Roy Budd - Get Carter > Marvin Gaye - "T" plays it cool > The Mighty Upsetter - Enter the dragon.
Scott Walker - Time operator <> Little Feat - Long distance love.
Blondie - Call me > Jimi Tenor - Sugar daddy > Gary Glitter - Do you wanna touch me (oh yeah)? > Oasis - Hello > Young Gods - Did you miss me? > (Add N to X) - King Wasp > Wire - I am the fly > Elastica - Connection.
John Cale - Chinese envoy > Peter Gabriel - Games without frontiers.
Funkadelic - Maggot brain > Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Like a hurricane (Weld) > Liquid - Sweet harmony > Van Morrison - Beside you > The Sons of Light - Land of love.
Yvonne Printemps and Noel Coward - I'll follow my secret heart > Bjork - Hunter.
John Martyn - One world <> Genius/Gza - Cold world.
Massive Attack - Man next door > Company Flow - Last good sleep.
UB40 - One in Ten <> Chumbawamba - Top of the world <> Jah Wobble - I love everyone.
><(Earthling - First Transmission)><
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha > The Modern Lovers - Road runner > Stereolab - Super electric.
The Jaynettes - Sally go round the roses < The Velvet Underground - European son to Delmore Schwarz > Can - Father cannot yell.
The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park <> The Fall - In the park.
The Heptones - Party Time > Allen Toussaint - When the party's over.
Jimmy Ruffin - What becomes of the broken hearted? > Scott Walker - The Old Man's back again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist regime) > Shane MacGowan and The Popes - The snake with eyes of garnet.
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - (You're love is like a) Heatwave > The Byrds - Why.
Bahrainian pearl divers singers - Khatfat-Shra <> Miles Davis - Black satin.
Northend - Tee's happy - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message.
Butthole Surfers - Johnny Smoke <> Van Morrison - Madame George <> DJ Shadow - Lost and found.
Blur - Bank holiday > Max Boyce - Ode to Barry Island > Morrissey - Every day is like Sunday.
OMD - This is Helena <> The Champs - Tequila.
Anne Briggs - The recruited collier <> Kate Bush - Army Dreamers.
Miles Davis - Sivad (excerpt) > Sistas with Voices - I'm so into you > Flowered Up - Weekender > Bocca Juniors - Substance.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - People ain't no good <> John Cale - Thoughtless kind.
Barry Adamson feat. Jarvis Cocker - Set the controls for the heart of the bass <> Stone Roses - I am the resurrection <> Magazine - The light pours out of me <> Blue Cheer - I am the light.
Tim Buckley - Moulin Rouge <> Jeff Buckley - Je n'en connais pas le fin.
Alabama 3 - Hypo full of love <> Parliament - P. Funk (wants to get funked up).
The Beatles - She's leaving home <> The Raincoats - Family treet.
Blur - Song 2 <> Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Going to a go-go.
Ben E. King - Stand by me <> Jimi Hendrix Experience - If six was nine.
Four Tops - Still water (love) <> The Housemartins - Caravan of love <> Keith Hudson - Depth charge.
The Verve - Sonnet > Geaorge Michael/Astrud Gilberto - Desafinado > Sam Cooke - Wonderful world > Grace Jones - I'm not perfect (but I'm perfect for you).
Pulp - Mis-shapes <> Smoke City - Underwater love <> The Byrds - Everybody's been burned.
Beloved - Hello > The Clash - White man (in the Hammersmith Palais) > The White Noise - My game of loving > The Associates - Q Quarters > Morrissey - Interesting drug > Body Lotion - Ik wil hakke! > John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Toilet piece.
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