Photo by avitania
Last night’s CHS meet up at Vermillion was a hit! A handful of brave souls brought mix CDs of their favorite Capitol Hill-inspired songs and then exchanged CDs by drawing names out of a cup (or was it a helmet?). There were a few common artists (e.g., Tom Waits, various Ben Gibbard projects) but no common song or artist across all albums. We realized that we’re all fairly greedy and decided that at the next exchange we should bring multiple copies of our mix in order to get more in return. In the meantime, we’ll have to exchange our playlists instead:
Title: Running Up That Hill (prepared by Final Answer)
1. Formed a Band (Art Brut)
2. One More Time (French Kicks)
3. Dogs of Ba, remix (Mirah)
4. Metal Beds (S)
5. Convenient Parking (Modest Mouse)
6. Posse on Broadway, remix (Diplo)
7. Spectacle (Anna Oxygen)
8. Parentheses (Blow)
9. Fishing the Sky (The Appleseed Cast)
10. The Postman (The American Analog Set)
11. 1969 (Boards of Canada)
12. Southside Revival (Blue Scholars)
13. Dance (ESG)
14. Amour Du Sol (Yelle)
15. Kids (MGMT)
16. (This Is) the Dream of Evan and Chan (Dntel)
17. Plea From a Cat Named Virtute (The Weakerthans)
18. Running Up That Hill (Chromatics)
19. About a Girl (Nirvana)
RyanInTheSky’s mix
I Do Not Like Rock — Six-String Samurai
Love Me Tender — Nicholas Cage
Fork Lift Test — Dieselhed
If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me — George Jones
Islands In The Stream — Kenny Rogers
The Waist and the Knees — Game Theory
Anthrax — Gang of Four
The Only Living Boy in New Cross — Carter the Unstoppable Sex Mac
Rollin’ on Chrome — Aphrodelics
What New York Couples Fight About — Morcheeba
Introducing Mr Bond — Octopussy
Hit It Run — Run DMC
Flash’s Theme [1991 Remix by Mista Lawnge] — Queen
Hey Jayne Mansfield Superstar! — Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Love in a void — Siouxsie & the Banshees
She Said — The Cramps
Alliwannadois Fuck Your Hair [Live] — The Judybats
We Used to Be Friends — The Dandy Warhols
Divine Thing — The Soup Dragons
After All — The Frank & Walters
Where Have All The Good Times Gone — David Bowie
Love that song.
And here’s the Uncle Vinny playlist:
Name — Artist
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go — Madeleine Peyroux
God Knows (You Gotta Give To Get) — El Perro Del Mar
Do Not As I Do — Hanne Hukkelberg
Traffic — Chad Vangaalen
Tobiume — Susumu Yokota
Three Faces of Lécuona: La Comparsa – No. 3 — Chucho Valdés
Raça Negra — Virginia Rodrigues
Ol’ 55 — Tom Waits
Roscoe — Midlake
Rivers Of Babylon — The Melodians
Enlightenment — Sun Ra
My Moon My Man — Feist
House Full Of Time — Guitar
Time, forward! (Film score, 1967) — Moscow New Choir
No Regrets — Aesop Rock
Rosies — Amon Tobin
Moonshake — Can
Looking forward to checking out Yancy’s playlist… it is my destiny!
I can’t speak to that, but it was fun to make the CD, and fun to get together with everyone.
Great pics, avitania. Sorry we didn’t get to talk much, but I’m looking forward to listening to your CD!
Here’s what I came up with:
1. The Garden / Cut Chemist
2. What Up Man / The Cool Kids
3. Ride A White Horse / Goldfrapp
4. Do the Whirlwind / Architecture In Helsinki
5. take time / The Books
6. Figure 8 / Duplex
7. Out There On The Ice / Cut Copy
8. Graveyard Girl / M83
9. The Earthquake of ’73 / Fruit Bats
10. Two Weeks / Grizzly Bear
11. Cachito / Juan Garcia Esquivel
12. Time To Get Away / LCD Soundsystem
13. Heretic Pride / The Mountain Goats
14. John Saw That Number / Neko Case
15. Day The Train Jumped The Tracks / Split Lip Rayfield
16. New Madrid / Uncle Tupelo
17. Jockey Full Of Bourbon / Tom Waits
18. The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton / The Mountain Goats
Not as Hill-centric as final’s, but I haven’t lived here very long; did see the Mountain Goats at Neumos, so that’s something . . .
Looking at those playlists I really wish my burner hadn’t crapped out on me. Good times.
Someone should have included Vermillion by Mercury Rev. Meeting site appropriate, and all.
If I hadn’t been in the company of people I’d just met, I would have licked the bowl. ;)
Here’s my playlist, which ended up being heavy on the female voices… guess I was feeling estro-centric that evening :)
1. “Am I Robot?” – Goodnight Electric
2. “Sweet Child O Mine (Mylo Club Mix)” – Flatpack
3. “Do You Like Boys?” – Freezepop
4. “Job Application” – Meryn Cadell
5. “Don’t Stop Believin'” – Petra Hayden
6. “What Would Jay-Z Do?” – Ben Lee
7. “Obey the Moderator” – Optimus Rhyme
8. “Seattle” – Public Image Ltd.
9. “Down With the Sickness” – Richard Cheese
10. “Toxic” – Juliet Turner
11. “Whatever You Want” – Vienna Teng (lyrics inspired by Office Space!)
12. “Pure” – Marsheaux
I was actually surprised that Sir Mix-a-Lot wasn’t on everyone’s playlist! It wasn’t on mine, but I *did* title my mix “No Posse On Broadway” :)
Hey team. I enjoyed getting to meet some more people from around the community. Good times.
A funny side-note: I totally didn’t know that the CD exchange had the “Capitol Hill” theme to it…you know, that we were to choose artists that were to be from around the Hill. Ha–that would explain why a lot of the artists I chose were from such locales as Dallas, Louisville/Lexington KY, Seattle, and the West Coast. Oh well…enjoy the music nonetheless…I just tried to make a solid CD of stuff that I liked, because really, it’s all about me :)
Let’s do another get together sometime. Peace.