YouTube MixTape Vol. 3- All About the Ladies

Okay, I got an itch to do another YouTube MixTape. Volume Three is my first theme compilation and It's all about the ladies this time. So here ya go, every song will be by a female or a female lead. I'm also trying out just using a playlist with one player embedded. Just pick the video from the sidebar. Let me know if you like that format better. Aight suckas here we go!



Oaktown .357 "Juicy Gothca Crazy"
Oh man, this brings back some really cool memories. This was jam back in the Hammertime days. I like the mix with the guys chanting the chorus better, but this is still legit. This is one of those songs that if you're not dancin or groovin to this song and actually listen to the lyrics, this song is just nasty yo! Even today it's rare that songs are so open about the poonanny. "Like a horse when I ride, he knows where I sit". Word!

The Sundays "Here's Where the Story Ends"
The Sundays were such an underrated band. I am still totally in love with Harriet Wheeler's voice. I hadn't heard this song in years before I put this compilation together and her voice is still one of the most beautiful I have ever heard. How the Cranberries blew up but not the Sundays is beyond me.

T.L.C. "Creep"
Seriously, I have an irrational affection for this song. Watching this performance , I realized how much I missed the overalls look. That needs to come back yesterday. The baggy overalls look with a backwards baseball cap and some Docs...now that's how a hottie rolls yo!

The Go-Go's "Vacation"
I had a Belinda Carlisle poster in my room in high school. This was post-Go Go's, post "Mad About You" and in her red hair phase. It was pretty much just a close up of her face and she was chewing on a cardigan sweater. I didn't even like her music all that much at the time. I swear I wish future-me could punch past-me in the face sometimes.

Ani DiFranco "Gravel"
Ani rocks. Period. If you don't agree with me, I will fight you.

Letters to Cleo "Here and Now"
An overlooked gem from my favorite period of rock music. This song embodies everything that was great about the mid 90's, the look the sound, and little girls who talk shit. Kay Hanley, ended up doing vocals for quite a few movies in the years that followed, like this one...

Josie and the Pussycats "Three Small Words"
This song was once made the example by my friends in San Fran about how I'll like anything pop-punk as long as it has a cute girl voice to it. We were watching TV and the commercial came on and they all pretty much yelled "That's a Paj song!". It was embarrassing, but true. Rachel Leigh Cook does an awesome job lip-synching here. Say what you want about the movie, but I enjoyed it! Who's my big rock star? Lately, Rosario Dawson has been in a disproportionate amount of my favorite movies. Sin City, Rent, Clerks 2, what gives?

Tanya Donnely and Juliana Hatfield "Josie and the Pussycats"
A theme within a theme. This is another one from "Saturday Morning Cartoon's Greatest Hits". Do I really need to explain why else this video is here?

Dream "This is Me" (Remix)
Okay, so this is a little bubblegum, but sometimes that's how I roll. The Peter Piper hook does it for me in this song. It just works really well and it gets rotation on my iPod...shut up! I can even tolerate Diddy jumping around and dancin for no reason.

Fiona Apple "Paper Bag"
Just an awesome singer and artist. So what if she went a little crazy a few years ago? I think I've liked her more since then.

L'Trimm "The Cars That Go Boom"
In my top five of songs that are sooo bad they're awesome. First of all you can't beat the name. I think these chicks were from Florida so the accents are fake. It's also unbelievable that this ever got on the radio, but I remember blasting it when I was in high school. A part of me still wishes that girls dressed like that, too. Someone remembered this song and it's part of one of my favorite mashups. Still the original on it's own kicks ass.

Beyonce "Check on It"
Whenever Beyonce and Jay-Z are shown together at an NBA event, Charles Barkley is sure to follow with a comment about how Jay-Z is the luckiest man in the world. Chuckster has gone as far as to say "All I wanna know is when ya see someone that pretty, how can you go to Brokeback Mountain?" Word, Chuck. Word! Anyway this song is a seriously undeniable force of bootylicious that I gotta put it on.

Fergie "London Bridge"
The jam of the moment right now. Do you think that Martika, the Kid and Ryan are sitting at home shaking their heads in disbelief on the transformation Fergie's made from her Stacey Ferguson Kids Incorporated days. Anyway, I'm over it now. She still looked her best in the "Shut Up" video, but I ain't complainin'.

Tori Amos "Silent All These Years"
One of my favorite concerts of all time. I'm not even one of those huge Tori fanatics. I was more a fan of Sandman and the Tori-inspired "Death" character fueled my admiration. This song I didn't truly "get" until I heard the version from the Rare on Air compilation. Hearing just her and the piano while cruising down the highway, I had goosebumps listening to this song.

JoJo "Leave"
Usually there is nothing I hate more than little kids singing about love. I blame this one on Degrassi marathons on The N. They kept showing this video over and over in between the episodes and I was hooked. It's a really smooth song and the "Who?" and "Why?" in the background make me smile.

Dixie Chicks "There's Your Trouble"
Guilty pleasure here. I honestly think I can only name one other Dixie Chicks song (the Earl song) but I have loved this song ever since I first heard it. I like the idea of them alot more in recent years, but I'm prolly still not gonna buy an album or anything.

The Breeders "Saints"
I had to put a Kim Deal song on here just because she is the indie rock goddess. I thought about Gigantic, Cannonball, and Divine Hammer, but I settled on Saints. This is a song where you had to be there to remember. I played the hell out of the Last Splash album and this is another song that helps define the era for me.

Tegan and Sara "Where Does the Good Go"
I like the song, but I really love the clip with the acoustic guitars and the patter. They are just amazingly talented and I really hope they blow up. This particular song was the closing song of a Grey's episode, which reminds me that I'm gonna have to start recapping that show in a few weeks.

J.J. Fad "Supersonic"
This song used to be in the Paj dating test. For real, yo! If the girl could finish the "S, is for Super!" portion of the song, then she was good to go. Well, the two that passed weren't the greatest of experiences, so that portion of the test was phased out. This song is the third of the hip-hop girl group one hit wonders and it's the best of the three. It might make my top ten all-time. Seriously I dig this that much. For the suspicious minds out there who are now starting to realize that I did this whole mix tape as an excuse to have this, Juicy, and Cars That Go Boom on my blog. I only gots one thing to say...shhhhhhhhh.

Gretchen Wilson "Redneck Woman"
I was in Nashville for a wedding and in our downtime we went around the town a bit. It just coincidentally happened to be during the CMT/CMA festival or something? Anyway it was Countrified and Countrified for Nashville is really a spectacle. Anyway, I was just walking along the sidewalk and there is this girl singing this song. I had no idea what this song was at the time, but anyway this girl was auditioning on the sidewalk trying to get discovered and all of a sudden she starts singing this song all up in my grill. I was wearing a hoodie and just rollin' how I do and I guess I stood out as someone who would likely repress her "redneck" ways. So I played along, and shrugged, shuffled, and head titled through the song. I even got a Hell Yeah directed at me by about a dozen uppity redneck women...was quite the surreal experience.

The New Pornographers "All For Swinging You Around"
It's my favorite song by my favorite indie band of the last five or so years. This song makes me wanna jump around. I just wish this video wasn't so booty whack! I mean the slumber party chicks could at least have tried to double dutch. Come on! Still Neko Case's voice is the shit and any excuse to listen is a good one.

Olivia Newton John "Xanadu"
Okay, ignore the 80's immersion here, but Olivia Newton John was the first crush. I've seen Grease and Xanadu almost as many times as I've seen the Warriors. I'm pretty sure the Warriors didn't claim the #1 spot until college. This is just an awesome piece of video. It has ONJ, Gene Kelley, Swan from the Warriors, and Ozone from Breakin'. It's been years since I've seen the entire movie, but I'm definitely tracking this DVD down suckas! You haven't heard the last of Xanadu on Tortilla Chips and Milk.

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