April 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge - Intertextuality and You

April 18: Angela Carter, Wolf-Alice
  • “She grew up with wild beasts. If you could transport her, in her filth, rags and feral disorder, to the Eden of our first beginnings where Eve and grunting Adam squat on a daisy bank, picking the lice from one another’s pelts, then she might prove to be the wise child who leads them all and her silence and her howling a language as authentic as any language of nature. In a world of talking beasts and flowers, she would be the bud of flesh in the kind lion’s mouth: but how can the bitten apple flesh out its scar again?”

This passage brings to mind seeing Jonsi on the "Go" tour. One of the most visually memorable tours that I'd seen. Full screen animations of animals/forests/etc. playing behind him during the show which really fit the tone of the album.

Jonsi ~ Go

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April 17: Nnedi Okorafor, Mother of Invention
  • “Anwuli closed her eyes and listened to her house sing for a bit, and soon she calmed and felt better. “Music is all we’ve got,” she sang back to Obi 3. And the sound of her own voice pushed away the fact that she and her baby would probably be dead by morning, and it would be all her fault. Pushed it away some.
  • Music and Obi 3. Those were all she and her unborn baby had had for nine months. Since she’d learned she was pregnant and stupidly told her fiancé, who a minute later blurted to her that he was married with two children and couldn’t be a father to her child, too.”
Kraftwerk "The Man-Machine" (1978 Kling Klang; 2020 reissue)

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April 18: Angela Carter, Wolf-Alice
  • “She grew up with wild beasts. If you could transport her, in her filth, rags and feral disorder, to the Eden of our first beginnings where Eve and grunting Adam squat on a daisy bank, picking the lice from one another’s pelts, then she might prove to be the wise child who leads them all and her silence and her howling a language as authentic as any language of nature. In a world of talking beasts and flowers, she would be the bud of flesh in the kind lion’s mouth: but how can the bitten apple flesh out its scar again?”
Curtis Mayfield "Super Fly" (1972 Curtom)
Little Child Running Wild

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April 19: Jeanette Winterson, The Agony of Intimacy
  • “‘It’s funny.’ She said, a short Scotch cupped in her long fingers, ‘how we live in no-fault culture that is also a blame culture. My experience is that the no-fault applies to the men, and the blame applies to the women. But you can’t say that post-feminism. And maybe I am just bitter.’”
The first thing that popped into my head...

You get away with shit I never will
You think that I do these things to men just to be cruel?
‘Cause it’s always got to be about wanting another man
But she just needs some space, why can’t I be like that?
You just need to get laid, why can’t I be like that?




I adore this woman's music. She's a 5 foot firecracker that owns everybody.

Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine

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April 14: Nicola Barker, G-String

“Put on that dress
I'm going out dancing
Starting off red
Clean and sparkling he'll see me
Music playing make it dreamy for dancing
Must be a way that I can dress to please him
It's hard to walk in the dress, it's not easy
I'm spilling over like a heavy loaded fruit tree"

PJ Harvey - Dry

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April 19: Jeanette Winterson, The Agony of Intimacy
  • “‘It’s funny.’ She said, a short Scotch cupped in her long fingers, ‘how we live in no-fault culture that is also a blame culture. My experience is that the no-fault applies to the men, and the blame applies to the women. But you can’t say that post-feminism. And maybe I am just bitter.’”
The Neptune Power Federation "Le Demon 💘 De L'Amour" (2022 Cruz Del Sur Music)
An album about love with a demon seems to suit the idea of the agony of sex with gods.

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April 19: Jeanette Winterson, The Agony of Intimacy
  • “‘It’s funny.’ She said, a short Scotch cupped in her long fingers, ‘how we live in no-fault culture that is also a blame culture. My experience is that the no-fault applies to the men, and the blame applies to the women. But you can’t say that post-feminism. And maybe I am just bitter.’”
In light of the last Supreme Court Justice hearing compared to the Brett Kavanaugh one (which the linked song was written in response to), this continues to ring true.

Fiona Apple ~ Fetch the Bolt Cutters

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April 15: William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
  • “"I want some poison," she said to the druggist. She was over thirty then, still a slight woman, though thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eyesockets as you imagine a lighthouse-keeper's face ought to look. "I want some poison," she said.”
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

Since nobody else did, I will. Features the song "A Rose for Emily."

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April 18: Angela Carter, Wolf-Alice
“She grew up with wild beasts. If you could transport her, in her filth, rags and feral disorder, to the Eden of our first beginnings where Eve and grunting Adam squat on a daisy bank, picking the lice from one another’s pelts, then she might prove to be the wise child who leads them all and her silence and her howling a language as authentic as any language of nature. In a world of talking beasts and flowers, she would be the bud of flesh in the kind lion’s mouth: but how can the bitten apple flesh out its scar again?”

The first album that popped into my head from this prompt is the Where The Wild Things Are OST by Karen O, but since I unfortunately don't have that on wax I hope one of you will play it for this. But Wolf-Alice then had me thinking of Courtney Love and finally of Shirley Manson, as they both could pull off a music video that had this story as a theme. And since the newest Garbage album has a song called wolves, they won out. I actually really enjoy this album the more I listen to it. I still stand by my original review that the lyrics are kind of cringey give our ages, but had it come out in the 90s I wouldn't have thought so. And since I love 90s music this is the closest I've gotten to a new album that has that sound in a while so I'll take it. Also Angela Carter was an amazing writer and her adult retellings of fairy tales are excellent.

Garbage - No Gods No Masters
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April 19: Jeanette Winterson, The Agony of Intimacy
  • “‘It’s funny.’ She said, a short Scotch cupped in her long fingers, ‘how we live in no-fault culture that is also a blame culture. My experience is that the no-fault applies to the men, and the blame applies to the women. But you can’t say that post-feminism. And maybe I am just bitter.’”
This passage made me think of Betty Davis and Shirley Scott. I don’t have Betty on vinyl, but I’ve got Shirley. Shirley was one of the great jazz organists of her day, but I always felt she got short shrift compared to her male contemporaries despite her long discography.

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April 16: Horacio

Moya, Hypertension
  • “I went back to the stationary bicycle. I bought a Walkman. I thought that a little bit of music could help me. I chose my favorite cassettes. But the situation barely improved. While my eyes were closed, I forgot that I was pedaling like a lunatic on that tiny patio, I enjoyed my favorite songs, and I even sang along; but if I opened my eyes for any reason, and came back to myself, I was immediately attacked by an anxious desire to climb off the bicycle.”
Hot Chip - In Our Heads

I usually listen to audiobooks on my runs, but I'll play this one because when I do play music it's a possibility.

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April 19: Jeanette Winterson, The Agony of Intimacy
“‘It’s funny.’ She said, a short Scotch cupped in her long fingers, ‘how we live in no-fault culture that is also a blame culture. My experience is that the no-fault applies to the men, and the blame applies to the women. But you can’t say that post-feminism. And maybe I am just bitter.’”

Given the talk of Zola Jesus on @ayayrawn's status tonight I thought this was a fitting album to play. This is her Live at Roadburn from 2018 and I highly recommend it.

A few weeks back she tweeted the following which really resonated with the quote from today for me. I don't know how to invert the tweets, but bottom to top is the order these go in.
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April 17: Nnedi Okorafor, Mother of Invention
  • “Anwuli closed her eyes and listened to her house sing for a bit, and soon she calmed and felt better. “Music is all we’ve got,” she sang back to Obi 3. And the sound of her own voice pushed away the fact that she and her baby would probably be dead by morning, and it would be all her fault. Pushed it away some.
  • Music and Obi 3. Those were all she and her unborn baby had had for nine months. Since she’d learned she was pregnant and stupidly told her fiancé, who a minute later blurted to her that he was married with two children and couldn’t be a father to her child, too.”
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

Time for two hours of ambient, starting with a "Requiem for Dying Mothers."

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