April 2021 Challenge Thread

Day 22: Genre Adultery - play a record that deviated from that artist’s usual sound or style

Snoop Dogg "Bush" (2015 Doggy Style Records)

Snoop's Pharrell-produced electro-funk record and it's a scorcher. Guest spots by Stevie Wonder, Charlie Wilson and Kendrick among others. And, YES, the "Gwen Version" is on this!!

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Day 22: Genre Adultery

Play an record that deviated from that artist’s usual sound or style

OK, I've been looking for an excuse to play this one for a bit, perfect theme for it. Jenny Lewis is one of my favorite indie rock voices in the game. She produces some exceptional solo albums and has a really cool viewpoint to a lot of her music. However, near the end of the 2000s, we were certainly seeing a shift in her overall tone as she shifted from Indie-Rock front woman with Rilo Kiley to her own solo career. Her collaboration with the Watson Twins was much more of a soul-inspired affair than Rilo Kiley, and Acid Tongue was borderline alt-country in spots. I think at this point she was trying a lot of collaborations and often not really finding her voice - Rilo Kiley was on a hiatus that turned into an official break up (please come back...), the shifts between her projects (Rabbit Fur Coat to Under the Blacklight to Acid Tongue) were pretty stark and different.

Then came Jenny and Johnny. I find this album absolutely fascinating although it's probably her least regarded side project (maybe beyond NAF), but also that she ended up recording with a long term partner again. They ended up dating for twelve years and this hit the mid-point of the relationship, a little bit like how she and Sennett formed Rilo Kiley and the relationship ended after their second album of four. The sound is really unlike pretty much anything else she's ever put out. It's not my favorite Jenny Lewis project (More Adventurous) or even my favorite non Rilo Kiley collab (Rabbit Fur Coat is formative for me), but the album itself really deserved some more ears on it. They really worked well together as musicians: it's punchier and as rocking, if you will, as Lewis or Rice has ever been. An exceptionally stylish album where Jenny feels...I guess happier than I ever really hear her otherwise except maybe for NAF. It's loose, it's got some good rock tinges, it's just a really easy listen and still works.

I do wish it turned out happier for her overall but I suspect that she's at peace with her journey and how The Voyager and On The Line turned out in the aftermath.

(Just Like Zeus is a bop still)

Jenny & Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now

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Day 22: Genre Adultery
play a record that deviated from that artist’s usual sound or style

Portishead - Third

While maintaining their amazing level of craft and quality, Portishead drop trip hop and make something more experimental on this one.

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Day 22: Genre Adultery
play a record that deviated from that artist’s usual sound or style
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
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Wilco had always been progressing forward. Every album since their debut felt like it was build on the foundation that had come before and after A Ghost Is Born you really had to wonder where else the could go from there? A noisy cacophony a’la Neil Young’s Arc or Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music? Where would they go next? Turns out what was next was a back to basics AOR album, initially it was a bit of a let down as it sounded like something from a different era but after giving it a chance you realize they made a brilliant AOR album, it might not be cutting-edge but it’s still some damn fine music.
 
Day 22 - Genre Adultery

This not only doesn’t sound like anything Miles created before (or after), but it doesn’t sound like anything ever recorded before or after. No one knows what genre to call it. It’s also my favorite Miles album and one of the best albums I’ve ever heard.

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Day 22: Genre Adultery

While Twitch was a step in the right direction from their first album With Sympathy, it was still a bit on the pop/dance side of things

This is where they went full industrial...only to switch to a more metal sound a few albums later.

Ministry ‎– The Land Of Rape And Honey
Sire ‎– 7599-25799-1, 1988

European release

Pressed at Record Service Alsdorf

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Day 22: Genre Adultery
play a record that deviated from that artist’s usual sound or style

I thought this would have been spun already, but I'll take it!

Sturgill Simpson seems to bend and flex with every album. I need to get his latest bluegrass volumes, but here is his venture into Rock & Anime.

Sturgill Simpson - Sound And Fury

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cul8er said:
Day 22: Genre Adultery
play a record that deviated from that artist’s usual sound or style

I thought this would have been spun already, but I'll take it!

Sturgill Simpson seems to bend and flex with every album. I need to get his latest bluegrass volumes, but here is his venture into Rock & Anime.

Sturgill Simpson - Sound And Fury

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One of the first albums I thought of, but I don't actually own a copy! 😂
 
I dont check the theme until I go to play the record so all day I was expecting something to do with Earth day and had a album in mind. Now I have no idea what to play lol
 
Day 23: “I was served lemons, but I made lemonade”

We all know the old saying, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”, and I’m sure we all know more than a few artists that have been able to take all the shit life throws at them and turn it into a beautiful work of art.

Play a great record that was born out of hard times for the artist in question

...it only makes sense that I go with the album that inspired this theme:

Beyoncé - Lemonade

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I was gonna go with a different record and leave this for someone else to scoop, but naaaahhh, I decided to be greedy today.
 
Day 23: “I was served lemons, but I made lemonade”

This one was a bit tough. But I'm going with Rumours.

With the recent divorce of McVies, Buckingham and Nicks with whatever their relationship was, and even Fleetwood had his marriage issues at the time. All the cocaine probably didn't help things.

But they made a great record.

Fleetwood Mac ‎– Rumours
Reprise Records ‎– 517787-1, 1977/2011

2 x 45 RPM

Cut by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman at AcousTech Mastering
Pressed at Pallas

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