"Joanne" by former Monkee Michael Nesmith was his only top 40 single as a solo artist, reaching number 21 on the Billboard charts in October 1970. This mix features a cover by Kim Deal of The Breeders recorded with just her acoustic guitar in Steve Albini's studio in Chicago in 2018.
Ultra were the one-time duo of Kool Keith and Tim Dog, who relased their one and now rare album Big Time in 1996. "Ain't Nobody Happenin''" from that album features Motion Man as well.
The rest: a stripped-down mix of Smokey Robinson's single "Cruising", the menacing "Ambitionz Az A Ridah". the gritty disco single "Miss Broadway" by Belle Epoque, Kim Carnes' hit 1980 cover of Smoneky Robinson's "More Love", a cover of Gl Scott Heron's "The Bottle" by Brother To Brother, the defiant "Ain't Nobody Straight In LA" by The Miracles, OMC's breezy 1995 single "How Bizarre", the frenetic "Nudes" by The Performing Ferret Band, the moody spoken word "Blue Montage" performed by poet Langston Hughes with Leonard Feather, the aptly-titled "Beats To The Rhyme" by Run-D.M.C., the 1968 non-album single "Do It Again" by The Beach Boys, the stomping glam rock track "Little Bird" by studio group The Damned, the elegiac album outtake "Midnight To Stevens" by The Clash, the winsome Jimme Rodgers meetup called "The Carter Family & Jimmie Rodgers In Texas (take 4), a cover of Smokey Robinson's "Ooh, Baby, Baby" by The Five Stairsteps, a cover of Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Stevie Wonder's version of the pop standard "Sunnny" and a cover of Stevie Wonder's 1984 single "I Just Called To Say I Love You" by John Prine.
