April 2025 Spin Challenge – Well, this is puzzling…

Day 23 - The first video uploaded to YouTube, titled "Me at the zoo", was posted on April 23, 2005. Spin any artist that you discovered on YouTube or one whose videos you enjoy. Feel free to post a link

The Beasties made great videos. Beavis and Butthead made every video better.

Beastie Boys ~ Ill Communication

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Day 15 - It’s tax day in the US. Spin any record or song that mentions taxes or money / finances or a record on the IRS label


billy woods - Aethiopes (signed)

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Right from the jump of the first verse of "Versailles," Woods lays into the dichotomy of the upper and lower class:

Money went same as it came
Money spent, it was all pocket change
End of the day, day-traders make minimum wage
Pennies on the dollar once it's all said and paid
Penny stocks, stocking cap pulled over the face
Out of habit, the presidents facing the same way
Somebody made a killing, I just dug the grave
Capital gains, and gains (And gains, and gains)
Skim the indictment for old code names
Little Sambo grinning on a can of pomade
Dueling banjos open the stock exchange
Paper chasing, it hard to stay on thе same page (It is)
"No hard feelings" the turn of phrasе, Twain adapted for the stage
...

 
Day 22 - Earth Day is 4/22 - spin a record on recycled vinyl or one with a earth related image on its cover

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Chunky Shrapnel
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Stretching things a little bit in order to make it work with my own personal subchallenge... King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has put many pressings out on recycled wax—I even have a few—but this is not one of them. It does, however, feature "A Brief History Of Planet Earth" taking up the entirety of the D-side.
 
Day 23: YouTube Anniversary

Logic - Under Pressure

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YT was never my way of discovering new music but Logic was one of the few examples. Around the time he signed to Def Jam, I saw his name pop up online (probably on a Complex list), heard his mixtapes on YouTube (before I knew sites like DatPiff existed) and became a fan. I started falling off the hype train when The Incredible True Story came out (the concept of that album did nothing for me) and fell off completely when the Suicide Hotline Song became a hit.
 
Day 24 - Merch match day! Spin any artist and post a photo of the record with a piece of band merch that you own (t-shirt, cups, poster, program etc)

I'll use this since it was just reissued with extra material.

This hat was given to the road crew on this tour. One was passed on to me...

Jimmy Page And The Black Crowes - Live At the Greek



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Day 23 - The first video uploaded to YouTube, titled "Me at the zoo", was posted on April 23, 2005. Spin any artist that you discovered on YouTube or one whose videos you enjoy. Feel free to post a link

Les Cowboys Fringants "Les Antipodes" (2020 La Tribu)
Staying in Québec for this selection, with another local icon. Les Cowboys Fringants were the most important québécois band of the 21st century. They play a type of neo-trad sound, with songs often having sociopolitical local themes that are explored with beautiful poetry. To say they were important is underselling it. They produced so many classics across their 11 studio albums. They were basically to Québec what the Tragically Hip were to Canada. The death of lead singer Karl Tremblay to cancer a few years ago, while the band was at the height of their popularity, was national news. His passing touched people in the province the same as Gord's did in Canada. For this prompt, I'm featuring the track L'Amérique Pleure (America is crying)- a song about the dire state of society viewed through the eyes of a trucker on 4 hours of sleep travelling from Florida to Québec, seeing the inequalities and wondering how people manage to find a will to live. One particularly well written line is about seeing a car on fire and a death on the I95 and people just honking their horn because they're in a hurry to go nowhere. He then wonders how much of his own family life he's missing while away (a stranger in his own home). The video captures the melancholy of the song through a sad country line dance evening. Love that song so much. 🍁

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Day 24 - Merch match day! Spin any artist and post a photo of the record with a piece of band merch that you own (t-shirt, cups, poster, program etc)

Staying on the theme of inequalities and people finding the will to live that @Turbo just touched on, this album is a brilliant character study of the rural south. When it was released in 2004 one of my locals ( Lous Records) had a drawing for a signed print of the album cover, with art by the late, great Wes Freed. I somehow was lucky enough to win it, and its signed by the band members at the time - Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, Jason Isbell, Shonna Tucker, and the EZ-B. Definitely a prized possession.

I've got a bunch of posters up and around my office, but this one hasn't moved from behind the turntable.

Drive~By Truckers ~ The Complete Dirty South

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Day 24 - Merch match day! Spin any artist and post a photo of the record with a piece of band merch that you own (t-shirt, cups, poster, program etc)

The Tragically Hip "In Violet Light" (2002 Universal; 2017 reissue)
I have a Hip t-shirt... is that surprising? It's actually lucky it's not in the wash because I wear it all the time. Seems fitting to follow-up my last few selections with this record. As mentioned a few days ago, Feist covered the beautiful "It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken", featured on this record. And yesterday, I talked about the similarities in the impact of Gord's passing with that of Les Cowboys Fringants's Karl Tremblay. People often end their Tragically Hip explorations with Phantom Power - the classic era. 6 records were released afterwards, and at least two of those are just as worthy of your attention - In Violet Light in one of those. "It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken" is an all-time Hip classic, and "The Darkest One", "Silver Jet", "Use it Up" and "The Dire Wolf" would be at home on their classic era records. In Gord we trust. 🍁

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Day 16 - The Temple of the Dog album is released on April 16, 1991. Spin any supergroup or collaboration, a song that is a tribute to another artist, or any artist who appeared at a tribute concert.


Seaside Lovers - Memories in Beach House

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A collaboration between Akira Inoue (井上昭), Masataka Matsutoya (松任谷正隆), and Hiroshi Sato (佐藤博); all of whom are contributors to the city pop scene. This sounds exactly like the album artwork...a Balearic lounge paradise.

 
Turbo said:
Day 24 - Merch match day! Spin any artist and post a photo of the record with a piece of band merch that you own (t-shirt, cups, poster, program etc)

The Tragically Hip "In Violet Light" (2002 Universal; 2017 reissue)
I have a Hip t-shirt... is that surprising? It's actually lucky it's not in the wash because I wear it all the time. Seems fitting to follow-up my last few selections with this record. As mentioned a few days ago, Feist covered the beautiful "It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken", featured on this record. And yesterday, I talked about the similarities in the impact of Gord's passing with that of Les Cowboys Fringants's Karl Tremblay. People often end their Tragically Hip explorations with Phantom Power - the classic era. 6 records were released afterwards, and at least two of those are just as worthy of your attention - In Violet Light in one of those. "It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken" is an all-time Hip classic, and "The Darkest One", "Silver Jet", "Use it Up" and "The Dire Wolf" would be at home on their classic era records. In Gord we trust. 🍁

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"It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken" is the song that put an end to my foolish resistance to The Hip in my younger days. It was on a mixtape in my buddy's car as we were driving in Alberta from Innisfail to Red Deer and immediately upon hearing it I asked him to stop at Future Shop before we got to th le theater so I could buy this CD, my first Hip album.
 
Rip_City said:
Day 16 - The Temple of the Dog album is released on April 16, 1991. Spin any supergroup or collaboration, a song that is a tribute to another artist, or any artist who appeared at a tribute concert.


Seaside Lovers - Memories in Beach House

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A collaboration between Akira Inoue (井上昭), Masataka Matsutoya (松任谷正隆), and Hiroshi Sato (佐藤博); all of whom are contributors to the city pop scene. This sounds exactly like the album artwork...a Balearic lounge paradise.

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So good! The vinyl pressing is quality too!
 
Day 24 - Merch match day! Spin any artist and post a photo of the record with a piece of band merch that you own (t-shirt, cups, poster, program etc)

Sun Ra – Stray Voltage
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I finally have the house to myself for the first time in over a week... let's get WEIRD! This is a particularly "out there" release, and I am here for it with my t-shirt and my toy.

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Day 18 - Spin any record by an artist that you have not yet seen live but want to


Kali Malone - Living Torch

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She's on my small bucket list of performers (about 10 on there right now) but it'll probably never happen in Portland. To my knowledge, there isn't an organ in town where the quality would measure up gracefully to her standards. There is one in Seattle apparently, as she did perform there two years ago.

 
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