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The 2009 Compilation
PDX Pop Now! is thrilled to announce the track list for the 2009 Compilation. As always, we feel that this compilation represents a variety of both new and well-know Portland artists. We hope you like it as much as we do!
The compilation will be released on June 4. The compilation will be available for purchase ($8) at local retail outlets and online at CD Baby. Proceeds from sales of the album go towards funding the festival and the rest of our activities.
Disc 1
1. The Mint Chicks – Hot on Your Heels
2. At Dusk – For A Reason
3. aed & Quiet Countries – Moving Day
4. M. Ward – For Beginners
5. Luck-One and Dekk – The Coolax
6. Dirty Mittens – The Dock
7. Ethan Rose & Laura Gibson – Sun
8. Third Angle New Music Ensemble performing Bryan Johanson – The Rat Catcher’s Dance
9. The Thermals – You Dissolve
10. Thrones – Trmph Lfe
11. Mirah – Generosity
12. Magic Johnson – Las Malas
13. Chilly Willy – Grab and Glow
14. Ravishers – Keep You Around
15. Silentist – Hex
16. Dykeritz – Chasing the Wheel Away
17. Explode Into Colors – Paper (Hot Sax Version)
18. The Cysts – Human Garbage
19. Caleb Klauder – Can I Go Home with You
20. Plankton Wat – Dawn of the Golden Eternity
21. Chervona – Reality Show
Disc 2
1. Jared Mees And The Grown Children – The Tallest Building In Hell
2. What’s Up? – Seasoning’s Greeting
3. Blue Skies for Black Hearts – Jenny and Steve
4. Starfucker – Boy Toy
5. Lightheaded – HardRock
6. Grouper – Rising Height
7. Lovers – Igloos For Ojos
8. Sandpeople – Hate Aside
9. Blue Giant – Target Heart
10. Cootie Platoon – Divided
11. Benoît Pioulard – Idyll
12. Ah Holly Fam’ly – EIEIO
13. Breakfast Mountain – J Hollerday
14. Gejius – Let Down
15. Tara Jane O’Neil – Dig In (ft The Ecstatic Tambourine Orchestra)
16. MY-G – Take Back Our City (ft Liv Warfield)
17. Bird Announced Land – Sweet Dreams
18. Blue Cranes – Broken Windmills
19. The Taxpayers – Black Batons
The 2008 Compilation
This two-disc collection, a rich – though by no means exhaustive – sampling of our city’s vibrant music community, serves up both rare treats from artists you probably know well and tantalizing bites from names you’ll probably want to get to know a lot better.
The compilation is available for purchase ($8) at local retail outlets and online at CD Baby. Proceeds from sales of the album go towards funding the festival and the rest of our activities.
DISC 1
01 Au – “Are Animals”
02 Blue Cranes – “S.T.I.L.L.”
03 Meth Teeth – “Unemployment Forever”
04 The Joggers – “Golden Wage”
05 A Weather – “Spiders, Snakes”
06 New Bloods – “Oh, Deadly Nightshade!”
07 Portland Cello Project feat. Heather Broderick – “For Misty”
08 Copacrescent – “Do My Thing”
09 Y La Bamba – “Fasting in San Francisco”
10 Valet – “We Went There”
11 Strength – “Wilderness”
12 Swim Swam Swum – “Not in Your Way”
13 Andy Combs and The Moth – “Let’s Ride”
14 Still Pending – “Drivin’ to California”
15 Yellow Swans – “Velvet Water”
16 Kelli Schaefer – “Lasso the Moon”
17 Nick Caceres – “The Victorian Hoedown”
18 Blitzen Trapper – “Crushing the Wheat”
19 Sandpeople – “The Count”
20 Panther – “Puerto Rican Jukebox (Lips and Ribs Remix)”
DISC 2
01 Devin Phillips – “Frenchmen Street Strut”
02 Bodhi – “Nadine”
03 SubArachnoid Space – “Honorable Mention”
04 Fist Fite – “Grandma Surprise”
05 Braille – “The IV”
06 Eliot Rose – “Brightness and the Blood”
07 Pseudosix – “Apathy & Excess”
08 Horse Feathers – “Road to Ruin”
09 Hey Lover – “She’s the Girl for Me”
10 Dragging an Ox Through Water – “Houses & Homonculi”
11 Southern Belle – “Sunnyside”
12 Pink Martini – “Hey Eugene (Watch Your Back)”
13 YACHT – “Ring the Bell (Premix)”
14 Living Proof feat. Liv Warfield – “Sky High City (Bluebird)”
15 Faux Hoax – “Foxworthy”
16 JonnyX and the Groadies – “Castle/Face”
17 The Woodlands – “Until the Day Dims”
18 Chromatics – “Night Drive”
19 Talkdemonic – “Silvertone”
20 Guidance Counselor – “Pull Over”
Special thanks to CD Forge for manufacturing the CDs, Stumptown Printers for printing the packaging, Emek for the amazing artwork, Gus Elg at Sky Onion for the mastering, and all the artists for donating their wonderful music.
If you have any thoughts, comments or questions, please send the comp committee an e-mail.
The 2007 Compilation
DISC 1
01 Swim Swam Swum – “Without Your French”
02 Lips and Ribs – “Battle in Nagoya”
03 Modernstate – “SSMF”
04 Menomena – “Wet and Rusting”
05 Syndel – “Lemme Hear It”
06 World Court – “Maps”
07 The Hand That Bleeds – “Shattered Love Trance”
08 The Ocean Floor – “A Simple Adventure”
09 Laura Gibson – “Come by Storm”
10 Mirah and Spectratone International –
“Community”
11 Evolutionary Jass Band – “Phyllis’ Frindge”
12 Old Time Relijun – “The Tightest Cage”
13 Black Elk – “Toss You to the Wolves”
14 Ethan Rose – “Ceiling Song 3 (Excerpt)”
15 Lifesavas – “No Surprise”
16 Alela Diane – “Up North”
17 YACHT – “See a Penny (Pick it Up)”
18 Starfucker – “Rawnald Gregory Erickson the
Second”
19 Colin Meloy (of The Decemberists) – “Culling
of the Fold”
DISC 2
01 Junkface – “ATAMAKATAHIZAASHI”
02 Kristin Hersh – “Blackstone”
03 Sweater! – “Mediterranean”
04 Panther – “How Well Can You Swim?”
05 Ohmega Watts – “4 Days in Geneva”
06 Run On Sentence – “Carrie Pt. II”
07 Exploding Hearts – “(Making) Teenage
Faces”
08 Derby – “If Ever There’s a Reason”
09 The Hugs – “North”
10 Eric John Kaiser – “L’Odyssee”
11 Ferocious Eagle – “Bastards”
12 The Better to See You With – “Garden”
13 Hungry Mob – “To the People”
14 Klezmocracy – “Hava Netze B’machol”
15 Wilding & AED – “Broken Branches”
16 The Robot Ate Me – “Empty Feelings”
17 Alan Singley – “Never Knew”
18 Nice Boys – “Johnny Guitar”
19 31Knots – “Sanctify”
20 White Rainbow – “Mystic Prism”
21 The Shaky Hands – “Soul”
Artwork: Dan Stiles
Mastering: Gus Elg at Sky Onion
The 2006 Compilation
Disc 1
- Blitzen Trapper—On A Dime
- The Thermals—Product Placement
- Sweater!—Kill It Now
- Siren’s Echo—All My
- Stephen Malkmus—Mets To Infinity
- The Joggers—We’ve Been Talked Down
- Toothfairy—Camp Hormones
- Menomena—Shirt
- Leviethan—This Town That Town
- Treva Jackson— Drive
- Talkdemonic—Ending The Orange Glow
- Vursatyl (of Lifesavas)—Mr. Gusto
- The Planet The—Dreams of Your Co-Workers
- Tea For Julie—Pollyanna
- Tara Jane O’Neil—Bluelight Room
- The Shaky Hands—The Sleepless
- LKN—Circumstance
- Paint and Copter—Manzier
- Horse Feathers—Finch on Saturday
- Nice Nice—Down, Down, Down Pt. 1
Disc 2
- Rocketship—Our New Track
- Blue Skies for Black Hearts—Here Comes the Rain
- Junior Private Detective—Aftermath
- The Kingdom—Higher
- Hello Damascus—Randy
- Laura Gibson—Hands in Pockets
- Colin Meloy—Barbara Allen
- Electric Ill—Nurban Gowns
- Viva Voce—From the Devil Himself
- Ms. Su’ad—Sweat the Design
- The Blow—Babay (Eat a Critter, Feel It’s Wrath)
- Copy—Closet Face
- Chevron—Cylvia Poggili
- Small Sails—Aftershocks + Afterthoughts
- We Quit—We Looked Around
- Jackie-O Motherfucker—Hey! Mr. Sky
- Cool Nuts—More Than Music
- Swimmers—Hot Pocket
- Mach Fourth Marching Band—Space Hole
Artwork: Mike King
The 2005 Compilation
Disc 1
- “Rollercoaster” – Sleater-Kinney
- “I’m So Low” – The Minders*
- “While We Have The Sun (4-track home)” – Mirah*
- “Pile of Gold” – The Blow*
- “Uh-Oh” – Nice Nice
- “To Destruction” – Dolorean
- “Radio Radio” – Swords
- “Clawz” – Please Step Out of the Vehicle*
- “Second Sickness” – Desert City Soundtrack
- “Evil Falls” – Holy Sons*
- “Windows & Walls” – Modern State
- “Daydreams With Daffodils (Stepperz Remix)” – YACHT*
- “Lovin’ Machine” – Glass Candy
- “No Sound” – 31 Knots
- “Just Expect” – Copy*
- “Why’d You Have to Die?” – Toothfairy*
- “Descender” – Point Line Plane
- “These Trees Are For Resting” – Alan Singley
- “Mountaintops in Caves” – Talkdemonic
- “Chemical Reaction” – Spooky Dance Band
Disc 2
- “Alive With Pleasure” – Viva Voce
- “It’s Over” – The Gossip*
- “God and Country (live)” – The Thermals*
- “A Plague Upon the White House” – Blues Goblins*
- “Sista Social Theme Song” – Menomena*
- “Gore Appeal” – Die Monitr Batss
- “To An Angel on No Condition” – Lkn
- “The Untold Story” – Myg feat. Mikah 9, Sleep*
- “Hi-Fi” – M. Ward
- “Emma” – Sexton Blake
- “Smallest Man” – Sunset Valley*
- “Move your Body” – The Snuggle Ups*
- “Freilechs Von Der Chuppe” – Shicky Gnarowitz and the Transparent Wings of Joy*
- “Laughing Gasping” – Wet Confetti*
- “What We’ll Admit” – Jessica Jones
- “I Am the Only Master of the Ten-Key” – Binary Dolls
- “Cardboard Box” – Point Juncture, WA
- “A Gilded Age” – Norfolk & Western
- “Homebody” – Cajun Gems
- “All of These Things” – The Helio Sequence*
- “From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) (Demo)” – The Decemberists*
Artwork: Tyler Stout
The 2004 Compilation
Disc 1
- The Thermals — How We Know
- YACHT — I Love A Computer
- Binary Dolls — El Paso
- The Helio Sequence — Don’t Look Away
- Libretto (featuring Lifesavas) — Volume
- talkdemonic — mutiny sunshine
- Lack Thereof — Let U Down As Good As I Did
- Loch Lomond — Sourire
- The Joggers — No Dice
- Sarah Dougher — Oh My Glory
- Jeremy Wilson — Angel in a Box
- Pseudosix — Run Rebel
- M. Ward — Vincent O’Brien
- Tea For Julie — Hello
- Viva Voce — Red D-Lish
- Corrina Repp — Lost at Sea
- The Sensualists — You Are Love
- The Decemberists — Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
Disc 2
- The Shins — Turn a Square
- The Planet The — Toledo Vader
- Davies vs. Dresch — My Friend is My Hairstylist
- Alarmist — Bikini Apocalypse
- Blitzen Trapper — Pink Padded Slippers
- Per Se — Adelaide
- Orange & Allred — Milk Slippers
- Quasi — 23 & 24
- Tara Jane O’Neil — Famous Yellow Belly
- Swords — Immigracion
- e*rock — living, breathing, etc.
- Wow & Flutter — Voice of Reason
- Wet Confetti — Apple Disaster
- Kind of Like Spitting — In the Red
- System and Station — The Art of Letting Go
- Sunset Valley — Mr. Extreme Jeans
- Lifesavas — Skeletons
Artist: Guy Burwell
If you have any thoughts, comments or questions, please send the comp committee an e-mail.