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Isaac Hayes - Shaft (1971)

The soundtrack to *the* blaxploitation film. Not that I've seen the original film either... this too needs to be fixed. I'm undecided about this one... I'm not a huge fan of this sort of 70's music, but Isaac Hayes has done a stunning job piecing this thing together I almost forgot. Having said that... it's not something I'm ever going to listen to again, with the exception of Theme from Shaft

It's not my thing, but I can see why it's in the 1001 albums to listen to. 3/5

1. He's So Fine (1:56)
2. Monkey Island Swing (1:42)
3. Lambada (3:32)
4. Cemetery (2:11)
5. Ghost Ship (2:04)
6. Doctor Who (1:11)
7. Non Non Rien N'A Changé (3:12)
8. A Final Word (3:04)
9. Video Girl (2:56)
10. Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing) (2:48) <-- this is wrong :O
11. farting (0:02)
12. yozakura harahara (6:07)
13. Dancing Lasha Tumbai (Ukraine) (3:00)
14. Call Me Hung Up (Madonna Vs. Blondie) (3:35)
15. Gimme Some Supermassive Green Onions (2:26)
16. Monkey Iland - AtariST edit (1:50)
17. Pokemon Tower (2:20)
18. Theme of Shion Town (1:48)
19. Sugar Plum Fairy (1:59)
20. Inuyasha Renga (7:27)
21. Villiviini (3:29)
22. Mambo No. 5 (2:10)
23. Playboy Playgirl (5:10)
24. Zelda 64: Ocarina Boogie (OC ReMix) (4:15)
25. She's A Lady (2:54)
26. My Only Vice (Is the Fantastic Prices I Charge for Being Eaten Alive) (2:51)
27. Theme of Dragon Roost Island (Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) (4:21)
28. Kotake and Koume's Theme (3:46)
29. Theme from Shaft (4:37)
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This is a playlist journal of RALPH magazine's The 101 Best Shagging Songs in October issue. (check magazine for more info)

1. Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
2. Beasts of Bourbon - Hard for You
3. Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
4. Dr. Octagon - Girl Let Me Touch You
5. Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get It Started
6. Flight of the Conchords - Business Time
7. Tenacious D - Fuck Her Gently
8. Salt-N-Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex
9. Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
10. James Brown - Sex Machine
11. Portishead - Music to Fuck to
12. Bloodhound Gang - Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo
13. Divinyls - I Touch Myself
14. Devo - Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth
15. Prince - Darling Nikki
16. The Vapours - Turning Japanese
17. Cyndi Lauper - She Bop
18. Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
19. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
20. Ween - With My Own Bare Hands
21. Micheal Jackson - Beat It
22. Olivia Newton John - Physical
23. Salt-N-Pepa…

This evening we'll all be watching (or at least I'll be watching, I don't know about all you libertarian fuckwads out there on the internets) Obama make his acceptance speech in front of a crowd of 75,000 at Invesco Field in Denver (curiously enough the city where the New World Order will emerge from their underground bunkers at Dever International Airport then take over the world).

In celebration of the event and because acoustic sets by Springsteen and Bon Jovi don't quite cut it for me, I have compiled a playlist of songs to listen to get one's self in the mood for watching the speech.

Now what was the criteria for selecting these tunes? I felt they could be related to Obama in some way (Theme from Shaft), be vaguely political (Dollars & Cents and Cosmonaut), be explicitly political (Fight the Power), be about my pessimistic view of the electoral process (Everything Falls Apart), or be concessions to the Hillary crowd (Kool Thing). …

Isaac Lee Hayes (* 20. August 1942 in Covington, Tennessee; † 10. August 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee)

aka Isaac Hayes died yesterday.

beside his Theme from Shaft he was very famous in the 70s. He played with Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Carla Thomas and many others.

His latest release was Raw And Refined from 1995.

He died in the age of 65 and was found in his fitness room.

Man - you made it.

It is so distressing to hear two well-loved African-American entertainers pass away over this weekend...

First, there was Bernie Mac. Though I haven't seen any of his comedy routines in full length or followed his TV sitcom, I did managed to catch his low-key yet substantial roles in films as diverse as the Ocean's Trilogy (with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, et.al.) , Charlie's Angels Full Throttle (where he did a good job as the 2nd "Bosley") and even the under-rated Bad Santa. My impression of him was that he was the heir apparent to Bill Cosby, only without The Cos' pompous sanctimoniousness.

A great character actor/stand up comedian was missed...

What really floored me this very morning when I logged onto Yahoo! was that Isaac Hayes has likewise succumbed to natural causes next to his exercise treadmill in his Memphis, TN home.

Starting out as a backup keyboardist at the legendary soul label Stax, Hayes's star rose when he started penning such hits like Sam & Dave's Hold On I'm Comin' and Soul Man
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1-What's Going On

2-Baba O'Rilley

3-Without You

4-Black Dog

5-Brown Sugar

6-'Til I Die

7-Walk Away

8-Mushroom

9-Theme from Shaft

10-Dawn

11-Roundabout

12-Super Bad

13-Family Affair

14-Maggot Brain

15-Behind Blue Eyes

bonus:

16-We Won't Get Fooled Again

17-Right Off

18-Into the Void

19-How Do You Sleep?

20-Bitch

The description and playlist below are from the weekly radio show (A Brief History Of…) that my friend and I host on WSUM 91.7fm Madison (the University of Wisconsin's radio station). We selected songs we felt were either historically important or just representative of each specific topic. Please comment if you feel we missed something or just to give your opinion. Remember, however, that we do this show in an hour (about 50 minutes of music). Track length is a major factor in our decisions (shorter is usually better). Thanks!

A Brief History of…The Rise of Disco examines the musical and social conditions that gave rise to disco, the now controversial genre of dance music from the mid and late 70s. The first segment of the show explains disco’s origins in smooth Southern Soul and especially in the soul sound of Philadelphia International Records. It also explains the social context in early 1970s America that fostered the development of such an apparently trivial genre. …