Tom Tom Club was an offshoot band led by Talking Heads bassist and drummer, and husband and wife, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz. This mix begins with their "Wordy Rappinghood".
Other stuff: The Delfonics' sweet "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)", a song that samples that called "Holla" by Ghostface Killah, Three Dog Night's smash hit cover of Nilsson's "One", PJ Harvey's lusty "This Is Love", the upbeat "Things Are Getting Better" by N*E*R*D, Boston's
classic rock staple "More Than A Feeling", Stevie Wonder's wise "look Around", an laternate version of Jimmy Cliff"s classic "The Harder They Come" called "The Bigger They Come The Harder They Fall", a live version of Bob Dylan's "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" with The Rolling Thunder Revue, Sleater-Kinney with a cover of Boston's "More Than A Feeling", the raunchy "Let It Bleed" by The Rolling Stones, Modest Mouse's odd and witty ode "Bukowski", Johnny Cash's cover of U2's "One", Nirvana's sweetly melancholic "Dumb", Cateano Veloso's Nirvana cover "Come As You Are", the sly "Death Of A Clown" by The Kinks, the pretty "Skyway" by The Replacements, Dory Previn's wistful "Lady With The Braid", Barbara Lewis' yearning "Make Me Belong To You", and the regretful "Candy Apple Red" by Tom Waits.
