pickin' n' scratchin'

While we're on the subject of old, silly themed party mixes... how about this very special, very silly mix I cooked up this past May for the awesomely successful, never-to-be-repeated Spring Chicken Dance Party at the Roost (in West Philly.)


Penny vs. Penny

It's pretty self-explanatory. You may have realized, but then again you may not, just how funky chicken music can get. One thing I certainly didn't realize until I started putting this thing together, is that there is apparently an entire genre of Polish chicken techno music that exists on YouTube. (of course there is.) Tell me what it tastes like?

download it here

Chicken - Mississippi John Hurt
Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan
Bird Flu - M.I.A.
Super Chicken - Cee-Lo
I Move Chickens - Gucci Mane
Fry Dat Chicken - Ms Peachez
Crow Black Chicken - Ry Cooder
Truncated Life of a Modern Industrialized Chicken - Herbert
Chicken Grease - D'Angelo
Little Red Rooster - Sam Cooke
Ham 'n' Eggs - A Tribe Called Quest
Fried Chicken - Busta Rhymes
Chicken Noodle Soup - DJ Webstar ft. Young B
Chicken Dance - The Emeralds
Thunder Chicken - The Mighty Imperials
Chicken Strut - The Meters
Barnyard Boogie - Louis Jordan
Chicken Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn
Know Your Chicken - Cibo Matto
The Rooster - Big Boi
Do The Funky Chicken - Rufus Thompson
Chicken Half - Sugarman 3
Thousand Year Egg - Simian Mobile Disco
Chicken and Meat - Das Racist
Chicken Lady - Vitalic
?some techno thing?
Chicken Walk - Hasil Adkins
Chicken Dream Inside Egg - Pink Skull
random youtube chicken techno track #1 (Oli Chang?)
Chicken With Its Head Cut Off - The Magnetic Fields
random Polish youtube chicken techno track #2
Chicken Dance - Jack Fetterman and the In Hi-Fi Music Direction
Chicken Payback - The Bees
Chicken Soup With Rice - Carole King

oh, and I'm kinda bumming about not having included the thoroughly righteous Sly Stone song, "Chicken" – so you should listen to it here (and ignore the visual weirdness):


[h/t to Tom 'n' Jojo for hepping me to that one along with The Bees' "Chicken Payback"]

bonjour. bonjour. bonjour. bonjour. bonjour. bonjour. comment-allez-vous?

allo allo! about a year ago (sheesh!) j'ai DJed une trés swanky function pour le Gershman Y dans Philadelphia, part of le Jewish Film Festival, aprés d'une screening of le film Gainsbourg. which, by the way, i thought was pretty fun but also super weird and too long. hm, maybe i should give it another viewing. anyway. basically i played a whole heap of french musique, vintage et moderne, for theoretical (and to some extent actual) dancing purposes.

alors! le traque-listé c'est below. and you can download the whole dang (fairly silly, and, unsurprisingly, rather serge-heavy, but still super fun) set [1 hr 37 m] right here, parfait for your next froo-froo frenchy soirée [try right-clicking if it gives you trouble].

also, this joke/img is still pretty great:
Serge Gainsbourg, «Pauvre Lola»
Dimitri from Paris, «Sacre Francais»
Jane Birkin, «Orang Outan»
Serge Gainsbourg, «Requiem Pour Un Con»
Serge Gainsbourg, «Initials B.B.»
Clothilde, «Saperlipopette»
France Gall, «Jazz a GoGo»
Air, «Love»
Serge Gainsbourg, «Bonnie & Clyde» [Herbert's Fred and Ginger Mix]
Saint Germain, «Rose Rouge»
Phoenix, «If I Ever Feel Better»
Komeda, «It's Alright Baby»
Serge Gainsbourg, «Eurotico-tico» [Instrumental]
Charlotte Leslie, «Les filles c'est fait pour faire l'amour»
Stereolab, «Emperor Tomato Ketchup»
Cosette, «Idealisation»
France Gall, «Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son»
Holden, «Je Te Reconnais»
Serge Gainsbourg, «Cannabis»
Serge Gainsbourg, «Aux Armes Et Caetera»
Serge Gainsbourg, «Shu Ba Du Ba Loo Ba»
Francoise Hardy, «Tout Ce Qu' On Dit»
Serge Gainsbourg, «Mambo Miam Miam»
Stone, «Fille ou Garcon»
Johnny Hallyday, «Itsy Bitsy P'tit Bikini»
Johnny Hallyday, «Noir C'est Noir»
Frank Alamo, «Heureux Tous Les Deux»
Serge Gainsbourg, «New York USA»
The End, «Les Sambassadeurs»
Dimitri from Paris, «Le Rythme et La Cadence»
Daft Punk, «Crescendolls»
Vitor Hublot, «Aller Simple»
Cerrone, «Supernature»
Yelle, «A Cause de Garçons»
Les Rythmes Digitales, «Jacques Your Body» [Cassius Remix]
Johnny Hallyday, «T'Aimer Follement»
Daft Punk, «Around The World»
Francoise Hardy, «Je Veux Qu'il Revienne»
Justice, «DVNO»
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, «Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus»
Air, «Playground Love»
Francoise Hardy, «Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles»