Date: 2009-06-22 15:17 Subject: Music Monday: The PaizoCon Mix Challenge Playlist! Security: Public Location: Work Music: Gainsbourg: Melody Nelson Tags: gainsbourg, marie laforet, music, os mutantes, ween

Here's the complete playlist from the PaizoCon Mix Challenge. I threw down the gauntlet to Paizo.com's awesome online community, asking those who attended PaizoCon to put together a 4-song mix to share with other audiophiles at the convention.

The rules were simple:

1. 4 songs.
2. All songs 5 minutes or under.
3. Deep cuts will be better received than mainstream stuff everyone has heard.
4. No fruity elf music or background soundtrack songs to play while RPGing.

That #4 caused some cognitive dissonance with the gamers involved, but after all was said and done everyone followed the instructions and we had a great time. The combined tracks went something like 3 hours in total, with more than 40 songs. I think next year more people will participate, and I'll probably reduce it to 2 songs per person. The event ended at about 2:00 AM, and everyone was tired by the time we finished (though the homebrew "Pathfinder" beer and Maker's Mark certainly helped pass the time).

Anyway, here's the complete track listing, in no particular order:


Marie Laforet: Marie Douceur - Marie Colère
Nightwish: Wishmaster
Serge Gainsbourg: Ballade De Melody Nelson
Ween: Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?
Blackstar: Thieves in the Night
Buddy Guy: Feels Like Rain
Clutch: The Yeti
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley: All Night
Depeche Mode: I Feel You
Devo: Automodown/Spacegirl Blues
Dr. Zeus: Kangana
Garbage: Vow
Joe Darwish: The Ken Song
Les Claypool featuring Henry Rollins: Delicate Tendrils
Nightwish: Elvenpath
Nightwish: Nemo
Os Mutantes: El Justiciero
Rebirth Brass Band: Do Whatcha Wanna
Robert Earl Keen: Mr. Wolf & Mamabear
Steve Earle: Lungs
TV on the Radio: Wolf Like Me
Amorphis: Sampo
The Atomic Fireballs: The Man With the Hex
Butthole Surfers: Theme from Underdog
Cold War Kids: Saint John
doubleDrive: Tattooed Bruise
doubleDrive: Inside Out
Gang of Four: Guns and Butter
Gogol Bordello: Sally
Green Day: Peacemaker
Guns N' Roses: Riad N' the Bedouins
Iron Maiden: Montsegur
mclusky: Lightsabre Cocksuckin' Blues
Nine Inch Nails: Where is Everybody?
Sleater Kinney: One Beat
Smashing Pumpkins: Ava Adore
Steve Earle & the Dukes: F the CC
Fantomas: The Godfather
Oingo Boingo: Yodel
Neko Case: This Tornado Loves You
Julie Fowlis: Hug Air A'Bhonaid Mhoir
Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit
Susumu Hirasawa: Dropfilled with Memories

And, in the spirit of Music Mondays, here are YouTube links to my four submissions:

Marie Laforet: Marie Douceur - Marie Colère

Serge Gainsbourg: Ballade de Melody Nelson (embedding disabled by request, bastards)


Ween: Mister, Could You Please Help My Pony?


Os Mutantes: El Justicero

Slimming it down to two next year. The assembled audience really dug the Mutantes track and the Paint it Black cover, but I think old Serge may have sailed about 30 meters over everyone's head. People seemed to dig the baseline, though, which is something.

Like all of PaizoCon, the Mix Challenge was a hell of a lot of fun, and something I now look forward to on an annual basis.

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PS: I'm gearing up to relaunch Paperback Flash, my experimental book collecting/reading blog some time this week. I scanned in a bunch of new covers late last week, and should have some thoughts up very shortly. Do keep an eye out for that!

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