You are totally the target demographic for Kia's new "urban passenger vehicle" the SOUL. To prove how well Kia knows its potential customer base they are putting on an awesome concert series in a warehouse at 3030 New York Avenue NE.
Here is the Lineup:
Thursday, 9/17 - Ponytail (DJ - Dave Nada) -( FREE BUT YOU HAVE TO RSVP HERE)
Friday, 9/18 - Wale (DJs - Stereofaith, Reed Rothchild, Chris Burns)-FREESaturday, 9/19 - Dan Deacon, The Creepers (Nouveau Riche DJs day - Gavin Holland, Steve Starks and Nacey)-FREESunday, 9/20 - MGMT (DJ CA$$IDY and Dave Nada) -for whihc you have to test drive a KIA soul to get in
WELL PLAYED KIA.
We have five pairs of tickets to giveaway for Sunday's MGMT show! AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
All you have to do is tell me your all time top cruising jam- after Tom Cochrane's "Life Is A Highway"
http://www.kiasoulcollective.com/
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
Low Rider, blasting it while in my lime green bug. One of these things is not like the other....
My all time favorite driving songs are The Eagles "Take It Easy", Ryan Adams "Let it Ride" and Foghat "Slow Ride" (always reminds me of Dazed and Confused too!)
AC/DC - "Highway to Hell"
"gold lion" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. don't know why, but it gets you in a good mood
mm.. you know this is entirely weather and location dependant. but since there are still remnants of summer and in my book this a classic and i'm a closet hoodrat with sub woofers. (who also loves MGMT)
masta ace - born to roll
http://www.lyricstime.com/master-ace-born-to-roll-lyrics.html
mr november, blasting in my dodge charger
My non-car related pick is "Supermassive Black Hole" by MUSE because it always makes me move & have fun while I'm driving. Best car related song is hands down "Drive My Car" by the Beatles!
-Liza
Now please can you please make my lifetime & give me tickets to see one of my fave bands MGMT next Sunday (Time To Pretend also great to listen to in the car!)
Speed Demon by Michael Jackson!!
"Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman
great song to let your tears race backwards toward your temples while in a convertible.
"Barnacle Goose" - Born Ruffians
The thong song by sisqo
Class, I know
Thunder Road-Bruce Springsteen. Just makes you want to skip school.
Ice Cube, "It Was a Good Day." Except for the breakfast with no hog part. 2nd place perhaps some "Sittin on Chrome" by Masta Ace. Both of these while cruising slooooooooow.
"California Dreamin'" by The Mamas & the Papas
It's a classic...
Power of love-Huey Lewis and the news pumping out of my green Geo Metro.
geto boys- mind playin' tricks on me
I second the Ryan Adams driving song...that song is niceeee.
Oh yea, Honey House (my band) is playing Sunday as well...during the day. You should come out.
It's so hard to just pick one, but I'll go with Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Y Control" - gets me pumped up for wherever it is I'm going, always.
it's almost too obvious but soo good-
the gwyneth paltrow and huey lewis version of "cruisin".
"Date with a Night" Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Any song from "Is This It" by the Strokes
If I were in a car chase, any of these songs would suffice.
So hard to pick one... but "Edge of Seventeen" by the enchanting Stevie Nicks really gets me going!
This boy is Exhausted -- The Wrens
Oh, and please pick me, cuz I don't know how to drive. A Kia test drive for me would pretty much definitely end in tragedy.
And...Califorina Dreamin' is a pretty good choice too, Natasha.
shut up and drive - rihanna
lolz.
Golden Earing - Radar Love
"Khe Sanh" by Cold Chisel.... Classic Australian Rock
Down 71 (The Getaway) - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
The police sirens, the gun shots, the thuggish-ruggish yells. It's all so exciting when driving through suburbia, and yet not so cool when driving down the 1300 block of Columbia NW. That block has it's own soundtrack.
Tom Petty's Running Down a Dream...classic. Bonus points if I'm listening on cassette.
moody motorocycle by human highway
Friday Night at The Drive In- Jens Lekman
i get a girl boner (whilst driving) from built to spill's "joyride." however, i do not binge drink and drive like doug martsch tells me to. built to spill perhaps > tom petty?
Jesus Built My Hot Rod - Ministry, oh yes he did!!!!!!
Ding a ding dang, my dang a long ling long.......
Easy: Soul Decision's "Faded"
What up middle school!?!?
North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
gardenhead/leave me alone- Neutral Milk Hotel
where are the tickets??!
MGMT - "Indie Rokkers" for just rolling around with the windows down, speakers up, warm wind blowing.
or
Jay-Z "Heart of the City" - speakers WAY up
Modest Mouse - Paper Thin Walls
(but really The Moon And Antarctica in its entirety.)
Danjer Mouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life. After the intro I realize I'm going 20 over the speed limit.
Whoever you are - Geggy Tah
The Strokes - "The Modern Age"
The opening guitar rush once got me so amped that I broke 85mph (in a '92 toyota tercel!!) without even knowing it. Unfortunately, a cop did and wrote me my first and only speeding ticket - $90.
The moral of this story -- only listen to really depressing shit like eliot smith when driving a high-powered machine like a toyota on a freeway.
i mean ELLIOTT smith -- two l's, two t's
"Born to Run" - Bruce Springsteen
Ideal for highway driving, when you gotta get somewhere fast.
"Keep the Car Running" Arcade Fire
Santana - Hope You're Feeling Better.
The pavement fell apart as I left tracks in my '79 VW Bus.
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
i wonder what the judging criteria is for the tickets.. just personal preference on song choice, or reason for choice, or type of car + song combo, or just overall quality of response?
pink houses - john mellencamp
move on up, the version by lettuce ft dwele
i'd say-overall quality of response as judged by us and the kia people.
60 Miles An Hour - New Order
Born To be Wild- Steppenwolf
Immigrant song, Led Zeppelin in my '67 mustang with the top down.
"My Girls" by Animal Collective.
it's so intense!
The Weight - The Band
"Don't Stop Me Know" by Queen
Errr, I mean Now.
"Shoot Your Gun" by The 22-20s
"Kids" EM_GEE_ EM_ TEE
"Southside"
Moby
or "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" Jay Z
Hook me up BYT? Pretty please?
the guy who said radar love should win. just pissed its not me
Road Trippin' - Red Hot Chili Peppers
(Hannah took my first choice)
"The Distance" by CAKE!
Kurt Vile - Freeway
so perfect! makes me feel like I'm going on an epic roadtrip even when I'm just going to the grocery store.
Obviously "ridin' spinners" by Three 6 Mafia while my friends sip sizzurp in the back of my hybrid.
Or, when I am not feeling hood "radar love" - Golden Earring
Crossroads - Cream
Wanted Dead or Alive while driving around on my scooter. (on a steel horse I ride... really corny.)
ridin - chamillionare
Ludacris - MOVE BITCH!
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M83 "We Own the Sky"
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"Why don't we do it in the road"-The Beatles
"Gin and Juice"- Snoop Dogg...come on lemme get those tix!
Sunshowers-MIA
not just 'dirt of your shoulder' but the 'bittersweet symphony' + 'dirt off your shoulder' mash up, aptly titled 'bittersweet dirt off your shoulder' by jay-z + the verve.
Ice cube - today was a good day!
Route 66 - Depeche Mode
I'll take the highway w/Dave Gahan anyday!
Eminence Front, The Who
Steppenwolf - born to be wild
it's too hard to choose just one. um off the top of my head: jay-z - big pimpin. britney spears - break the ice. santogold - starstruck.
Minus the Bear "Spritz!!! Spritz!!!"
TIGHT jam. Lyrics remind me touring...
Pints of Guinness Make You Strong - Against Me!
Quantic- Tell it like you mean it
ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE mike and the mechanics.
"The Sound of Settling" by Death Cab for Cutie - because I'm terrified of contentment.
"fuck the pain away" - Peaches
huh, what?
"Animals" by Miike Snow (the Punks Jump Up Remix)
No question: "Speaking in Tongues" by Eagles of Death Metal
"right on" - marvin gaye
...even if i don't win, it's still the best song on this page. fact.
Justice- Stress
Without a question.
BT w Tori Amos "Blue Skies" en route to the beach
Little Joy, "For no ones better sake" - the entire album is great for summertime driving, especially in California.
Organ Donor - DJ Shadow
"little red corvette," by prince, obviously. never cruise without a dutch, either
"Speed of Light" by Alphawezen
California - Phantom Planet...I know it should be disqualified for being the OC theme song, but what a great jam
muse - knights of cydonia.
get out of the way.
Born to Run
Life in the Fast Lane - The Eagles with its sweet riff blasting through the windows of my beat up Jetta.
"Free Fallin'" Tom Petty
somebody to love - queen
Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones
Chinatown Bus by Bishop Allen
Holding out for a Hero, by Bonnie Tyler.
birds of prey - von iva
As my car recently took a turn for the worse, I'd like to take a moment to remember driving into Chicago in summers past (I'm new to the city) to the tunes of Daydream Nation, Smashing Pumpkins (Cherub Rock - Epic; Starla - Gorgeous), and, since I'm not completely stuck in the 90s, Radiohead's Idioteque.
My dearly-departed Felix,
I miss you.
The Who - Emminence Front
The First Single- The Format
If the Kia people are reading these, does this mean we are helping them pick a track for the Kia Soul commercial?
I second whoever said Thunder Road but to be original I'll go with the Ruby Isle version of Solsbury Hill.
anything Steely Dan
Late of the Pier - Space and the Woods
Midnight Rider by the Allman Brothers Band
NEIL YOUNG- OUT ON THE WEEKEND
lest we forget baha men's 2000 seminal single, "who let the dogs out?"
artists who grapple with life's big questions: whose dogs are these? have they had their shots? but more importantly, who let them out?
commendable.
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!
Major Lazer - "Hold The Line"
Float On - Modest Mouse
Even with the latest hullabaloo...
Flashing Lights-Kanye West
"Seventeen Years" Ratatat
Me behind the wheel + this song = kind of dangerous
The Band, The Weight
Depeche Mode, Never Let Me Down Again
"taking a ride with my best friend..."
Love Island by Fat Boy Slim!
"Kingpin" Wilco
Lisztomania- Phoenix
I don't know about all time, but lately there's been something terribly soothing (despite its cheesiness) about rolling down the windows in perfect DC summer/fall transition weather and blasting a newly remastered version of the Beatles "Drive My Car" in original mono.
I hope to do this in my new Kia Soul, which I'm sure I will be set on buying should I happen to attend this event. (That one's for you, Kia suits)
"Don't Stop Believing" by Journey
My favorite passenger-side cruising song is The Fresh Prince's "Ring My Bell". Ya see, I'd ride with my parents down the FDR Drive in my dad's Jeep with this song on 11 and the roof off. I swore the car was hopping to the bass. Good times.
Crap. I don't have a driver's license because I'm from NYC and didn't need one (this excuse is no longer valid since I moved here 2 years ago.) Dayum. Otherwise I'd go over and test-drive a KIA right now.
So we are talkin all time favorite car jam? Meaning couldn't be anything recent cause it couldnt have been all time favorite before this year or so.
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" Bobby McFerrin by day
Old school with Robin Williams
"We Trying to Stay Alive" The Fugees by night
Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
Touch them up and go - UH OH - ch-ch-chang chaaaang
let's be honest. JT's SexyBack on top volume with the windows down in our Subaru Outback is what the real playas play.
The theme song from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. You can't listen to this song and not be in a good mood.
Heavy metal "takin a ride" by don felder. Rocking out to it right now.
RADAR LOVE!
Running down a dream - Tom Petty