The Elevator Club

OK, so after a few last-minute changes (I’ll miss you, Bruce Hornsby) here’s the final playlist for my high school reunion:

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1. George Michael - “Faith”
2. The Cure - “Why Can’t I be You?”
3. Robert Palmer - “Addicted to Love”
4. Steve Winwood - “Back in the High Life Again”
5. Bon Jovi - “Livin’ on a Prayer”
6. INXS - “New Sensation”
7. Peter Gabriel - “Sledgehammer”
8. Club Nouveau - “Lean On Me”
9. Talking Heads - “Stay Up Late”
10. Tracy Chapman - “Talkin’ Bout A Revolution”
11. R.E.M. - “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It”
12. Duran Duran - Girls on Film [Night Version]
13. Madonna - “Like a Prayer”
14. Grateful Dead - “Touch of Gray”
15. Belinda Carlisle - “Heaven Is A Place On Earth”
16. Guns n’ Roses - “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
17. Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - “(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life”

- mike
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…:: step inside ::… listen.

My 20th (!) high school reunion is coming up soon, and we’ve been working on a CD of music from the era. Here’s where we’re at:

We’re missing Madonna and Michael Jackson, but I can’t decide if we need ‘em.

- mike
elevatorclub.com
…:: step inside ::… listen.

I listen to a lot of music.

I discard most of it and keep the best. Then I go home and load the tracks I love onto my turntables and see what they sound like when they’re performed. It’s basically practice, but I try to make the sets as tight as I can. The only catch is that I’m not completely familiar with what I’m playing so sometimes the energy dips in strange places. I record these sets and listen to them on my iPod so I can hear what works and what doesn’t. This makes me better over time.

Here’s a recording from the other weekend that turned out really well (right-click to download the mp3 file to your computer).

- mike
elevatorclub.com
…:: step inside ::… listen.

One of the highlights of Sander Kleinenberg’s set on the Space Terrace was a remix of Elton John’s “Rocket Man”. It’s been the talk of many WMC bloggers but no one seems to know the remixer.

- mike

elevatorclub.com

…:: step inside ::… listen. 

OK, so this post isn’t about music at all. It’s about someecards.com, which is the single best greeting card site I’ve ever seen.

The breakup cards in particular are genius. It’s about time someone did greeting cards for breakups (I’m still aloud to laugh even though my plan is to never breakup again, right?).

- mike
elevatorclub.com

…:: step inside ::… listen.