Special Music for Special People

Saturday March 1 8PM SLT The Velvet

Songs for Shaun Faulkes

I've known cute little Shaun since he was a noobie nooba noob. So when Orson Pfohl asked me to step in and cover his set at The Winchester as a last minute favor I thought to myself, "Self, what sort of songs do you want to play tonight?" Since Shaun used to DJ after Orson (and habitually skipped his sets), I met Shuan at the Win and we've been talking about music a lot lately, I deciede to try and lure Shaun out of his SL hiding by dedicating my set to songs for him. And it worked! He came out for the last half.

And let me tell you ladies...that Shaun Faulkes can sure tip!

1. The Auteurs "Unsolved Child Murder"
2. Sigur Ros "Staraifur"
3. David Bowie "All the Young Dudes"
4. French Kicks "1985"
5. Mogwai "Hunted By a Freak"
6. The Smiths "The Boy With the Thorn In His Side"
7. Black Kids "I've Underestimated My Charm (Again)"
8. Blur "End of a Century"
9. The Cure "Close to Me"
10. Kylie Minogue "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
11. Ghostland Observatory "Dancing On My Grave"
12. Feist "My Moon My Man"
13. Massive Attack "Teardrop"
14. Architecture In Helsinki "Same Old Innocence"
15. Of Montreal "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games"
16. Kings of Convenience "Little Kids (Ladytron remix)"
17. Ride "Vapour Trail"
18. Tegan & Sara "You Wouldn't Like Me"
19. The Godfathers "Birth, School, Work, Death"
20. The New Pornographers "All For Swinging You Around"
21. LCD Soundsystem "All My Friends"
22. Gnarls Barkley "Who Cares?"
23. The Helio Sequence "Keep Your Eyes Ahead"
24. The Jesus & Mary Chain "Gimme Hell"
25. Dionne Warwick "I Say A Little Prayer"
26. Nancy Sinatra "As Tears Go By"
27. Belle & Sebastian "Dirty Dream Number Two"
28. Sonic Youth "Kool Thing"
29. Big Star "The Ballad of el Goodo"

A Night with John Hughes in the 80s

Do you know how many music cues are in the average John Hughes movie? Or how difficult it is to find any songs from the Rave-Ups or Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy's 80s albums? Lucikly for me a lot of you showed up for John Hughes night at The Velvet, setting right so many teen injustices. Here's the list of teen classics.

1. Big Audio Dynamite "Bad"
2. Killing Joke "Eighties"
3. Billy Idol "Rebel Yell"
4. INXS "Do Wot You Do"
5. The Smiths "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"
6. Danny Hutton Hitters "Wouldn't It Be Good"
7. Echo & the Bunnymen "Bring on the Dancing Horses"
8. The Vapors "Turning Japanese"
9. David Bowie "Young Americans"
10. The Specials "Little Bitch"
11. New Order "Shell-Shock"
12. Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark "If You Leave"
13. Wang Chung "To Live & Die In L.A."
14. Suzanne Vega f/ Joe Jackson "Left of Center"
15. Altered Images "Happy Birthday"
16. General Public "Tenderness"
17. Spandau Ballet "True"
18. The Thompson Twins "If You Were Here"
19. Flesh for Lulu "I Go Crazy"
20. Oingo Boingo "Weird Science"
21. Kim Wilde "Tuning In Tuning On"
22. Yello "Oh Yeah"
23. New Order "Thieves Like Us"
24. Oingo Boingo "Wild Sex (In the Working Class)"
25. The Del Fuegos "Nervous and Shakey"
26. Sigue Sigue Sputnik "Love Missle F1-11"
27. Wang Chung "Fire In the Twilight"
28. The Dream Academy "The Edge of Forever"
29. The Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink"
30. The Rave-Ups "Positively Lost Me"
31. Simple Minds "Don't You (Forget About Me)"

Double Happiness Party

I DJed a party for Double Happiness Jeans that was broadcast as a mixed reality event to their party at Sundance. This was the culmination of their SL experiment on slave labor and marketing. See photos of the event at Sundance on WireImage.

The Double Happiness crowd were great fun - a big thanks to them for inviting me!

1. The Fashion "Solo Impala"
2. Justice "D.A.N.C.E. (Benny Blanco mix f/ Mos Def and Spank Rock)"
3. The Wombats "Kill the Director (CSS remix)"
4. CSS "Knife"
5. White Williams "Headlines"
6. The Go! Team "Doing It Right"
7. LCD Soundsystem "Someone Great"
8. Black Kids "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You"
9. MGMT "Electric Feel"
10. New Young Pony Club "The Bomb"
11. Hot Chip "Ready for the Floor"
12. Colin Munroe "I Want Those Flashing Lights"
13. Georgie James "Need Your Needs"
14. Junior Senior "Can I Get Get Get"
15. Death Cab for Cutie "World Shut Your Mouth"
16. Spoon "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb"
17. Les Savy Fav "Patty Lee"
18. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Down Boy"
19. Santogold "Creator"
20. Blaqstarr f/ Rye Rye "Shake It To the Ground"
21. CSS "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex"
22. The Rosebuds "Push It"
23. Oasis/LCD Soundsystem "Wonderwall vs. Tribulations"
24. Bonde Do Role "Solta O Frango"
25. Feist "I Feel It All"
26. The National "Mistaken for Strangers"
27. Radiohead "Ceremony"
28. Band of Horses "No One's Gonna Love You"
29. Rilo Kiley "Breakin' Up"
30. Kate Nash "Pumpkin Soup"
31. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists "Colleen"
32. The Whigs "Like a Vibration"
33. Foals "Balloons"
34. Del the Funee Homosapien "Bubble Pop"
35. Kid Sister f/ Kanye West "Pro Nails"

The Win Is Back!

I was so proud to DJ for a bit on the night of the grand reopening of The Winchester! It's back, make sure you go by!

1. Morrissey "You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side"
2. Sons & Daughters "Killer"
3. Lush "500 (Shake Baby Shake)"
4. Black Kids "Hit the Heartbreaks"
5. Kid Sister f/ Kanye West "Pro Nails"
6. Tom Tom Club "Genius of Love"
7. Santogold "Creator"
8. Jamie Lidell "When I Come Back Around"
9. New Order "Temptation"
10. Kills "U.R.A. Fever"
11. Gang of Four "Natural's Not In It"
12. PJ Harvey "Down by the Water"
13. Pixies "Wave of Mutilation"
14. Kate Bush "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)"
15. The The "Dogs of Lust"
16. Love and Rockets "So Alive"
17. Stanton-Maria "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
18. Suede "Trash"
19. Les Savy Fav "What Would Wolves Do?"
20. Peter Bjorn & John "Young Folks"
21. Broken Social Scene "Stars and Sons"
22. Ryan Adams "This Is It"
23. R.E.M. "Turn You Inside-Out"
24. The Whigs "Like a Vibration"
25. that dog "One Summer Night"
26. Vampire Weekend "A-Punk"
27. The Primitives "Crash"
28. LCD Soundsystem "Someone Great"
29. MGMT "Time to Pretend"
30. Blur "For Tomorrow"
21. CSS "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex"

Wintertime Mix

This mix took two tries on two different nights to play. I swear, the Galaxie 500 song was crashing SL. It was amazing.

1. Pavement "Coolin' By Sound"
2. Galaxie 500 "Listen, The Snow Is Falling"
3. Kristin Hersh "Winter"
4. The Pipettes "A Winter's Sky"
5. Neil Finn "Hole In the Ice"
6. Vashti Bunyan "Coldest Night of the Year"
7. Beck "Cold Brains"
8. Josh Rouse "Winter In the Hamptons"
9. The Verve "A Northern Soul"
10. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals "Magnolia Mountain"
11. The Bangles "Hazy Shade of Winter"
12. Ride "Like A Daydream"
13. The Cure "Cold"
14. Siouxsie & the Banshees "Melt!"
15. Joy Division "Ice Age"
16. Kate Bush "Under Ice"
17. The Clientele "Winter on Vistoria Street"
18. Mercury Rev "Holes"
19. Enon "Natural Disasters"
20. The Rolling Stones "Winter"
21. Nicole Atkins "Cool Enough"
22. Peter Bjorn & John "Chills, The"
23. Stiff Little Fingers "Cold"
24. Minus the Bear "Ice Monster"
25. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Cold Light"
26. Motor Industries "Fitter Happier"
27. Readymade FC f/ Feist "Snow Lion"
28. Charlatans "Polar Bear"
29. Sea Wolf "Winter Windows"
30. Buffalo Tom "Frozen Lake"
31. The Pernice Brothers "Snow"

Le Sigh - the Crushed Out Playlist

Who's got a crush?

1. Marshall Crenshaw "Whenever You're On My Mind"
2. The Perishers "Trouble Sleeping"
3. Tegan & Sara "Living Room"
4. The Wonder Stuff "Don't Let Me Down, Gently"
5. Tommy James & the Shondells "I Think We're Alone Now"
6. Stars "My Favourite Book"
7. Architecture in Helsinki "Heart It Races"
8. Roxy Music "Love Is the Drug"
9. Silversun Pickups "Three Seed"
10. The Smiths "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"
11. Big Star "Thirteen"
12. Kings of Convenience "Gold for the Price of Silver (Erot Collaboration)"
13. The Psychedelic Furs "Heaven"
14. Kate Nash "Pumpkin Soup"
15. Richard Hawley "Serious"
16. Feist "Secret Heart"
17. A Flock of Seagulls "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph of You)"
18. New Young Pony Club "Ice Cream"
19. The Rapture "Pieces of the People We Love"
20. Erasure "Heavenly Action"
21. Saint Etienne "You're In A Bad Way"
22. Modern English "I Melt With You"
23. Camera Obscura "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken"
24. Pulp "Like a Friend"
25. Nouvelle Vague "Ever Fallen In Love?"
26. Call And Response "I Know You Want Me"
27. Coconut Records "Easy Girl"
28. The Dandy Warhols "Bohemian Like You"
29. Happy Bullets "If You Were Mine"
30. Talking Heads "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
31. Pixies "Here Comes Your Man"
32. Beck "Think I'm In Love"
33. The Cure "Six Different Ways"
34. PJ Harvey "One Line"
35. Devastations "Mistakes"
36. TV on the Radio "Province"
37. U2 "Two Hearts Beat As One"
38. that dog "Gagged and Tied"

Best of 2007

I'm catching up on old posts! Here's my set from the Velvet of my top 55 songs of 2007. It caused much debate and speculation on my mental wellness.

55. Nicole Atkins "Neptune City"
54. Black Moth Super Rainbow "Sun Lips"
53. The Fashion "Solo Impala"
52. The Go! Team "Doing It Right"
51. Tegan & Sara "Nineteen"
50. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists "Colleen"
49. LCD Soundsystem "Someone Great"
48. Animal Collective "Peacebone"
47. Menomena "Rotten Hell"
46. New Young Pony Club "The Bomb"
45. Soulsavers "Revival"
44. Okkervil River "Our Life Is Not A Movie or Maybe"
43. Bonde Do Role "Solta O Frango"
42. Kate Nash "Foundations"
41. Vampire Weekend "Oxford Comma"
40. Cansei De Ser Sexy "Knife (Grizzly Bear cover)"
39. The White Stripes "Conquest"
38. Kanye West "Can't Tell Me Nothing"
37. Amy Winehouse "Tears Dry On Their Own"
36. Charlotte Gainsbourg "Everything I Cannot See"
35. The Shins "Australia"
34. Beirut "Elephant Gun"
33. Rilo Kiley "Breakin' Up"
32. M.I.A. "Paper Planes"
31. The Killers "Shadowplay"
30. Georgie James "Need Your Needs"
29. New Pornographers "Challengers"
28. Arctic Monkeys "Flourescent Adolescent"
27. Cold War Kids "Hospital Beds"
26. St. Vincent "What Me Worry"
25. Malajube "FIlle A Plumes"
24. Jamie T "Calm Down Dearest"
23. Bat for Lashes "What's A Girl to Do?"
22. Junior Senior "Can I Get Get Get"
21. Spoon "Don't You Evah"
20. Shout Out Louds "Tonight I Have to Leave It"
19. Stars "My Favourite Book"
18. Ryan Adams "Everybody Knows"
17. Mark Ronson "Oh My God"
16. The National "Brainy"
15. Minus the Bear "Knights"
14. Pinback "Good to Sea"
13. Rilo Kiley "Dreamworld"
12. Amy Winehouse f/ Pharoahe Monch "Rehab (remix)"
11. Band of Horses "No One's Gonna Love You"
10. Feist "I Feel It All"
9. R. Kelly "Real Talk"
8. Peter Bjorn & John "Amsterdam"
7. Black Kids "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You"
6. Kanye West "Flashing Lights"
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Down Boy"
4. Santogold "LES Artistes"
3. Modest Mouse "Dashboard"
2. Klaxons "Gravity's Rainbow"
1. Justice "D.A.N.C.E."