April 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge - Intertextuality and You

April 20: Thomas Pynchon, Entropy
  • “Downstairs, Meatball Mulligan’s lease-breaking* party was moving into its 40th hour. On the kitchen floor, amid a litter of empty champagne fifths, were Sandor Rojas and three friends, playing spit in the ocean* and staying awake on Heidseck and benzedrine* pills. In the living room Duke, Vincent, Krinkles and Paco sat crouched over a 15-inch speaker which had been bolted into the top of a wastepaper basket, listening to 27 watts’ worth of The Heroes’ Gate at Kiev*. They all wore hornrimmed sunglasses and rapt expressions, and smoked funny-looking cigarettes which contained not, as you might expect, tobacco, but an adulterated form of cannabis sativa*. This group was the Duke di Angelis quartet. They recorded for a local label called Tambú and had to their credit one 10" LP entitled Songs of Outer Space*.”
The Flaming Lips "American Head" (2020 Warner Records)
A party, lots of drugs and chaos...

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Hemotep said:
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.
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My first thought for Wolf Alice day was the soundtrack for the excellent animated movie Wolfwalkers, but I don't have that on wax either. Putting it out there for someone to play too.
 
April 20: Thomas Pynchon, Entropy
  • “Downstairs, Meatball Mulligan’s lease-breaking* party was moving into its 40th hour. On the kitchen floor, amid a litter of empty champagne fifths, were Sandor Rojas and three friends, playing spit in the ocean* and staying awake on Heidseck and benzedrine* pills. In the living room Duke, Vincent, Krinkles and Paco sat crouched over a 15-inch speaker which had been bolted into the top of a wastepaper basket, listening to 27 watts’ worth of The Heroes’ Gate at Kiev*. They all wore hornrimmed sunglasses and rapt expressions, and smoked funny-looking cigarettes which contained not, as you might expect, tobacco, but an adulterated form of cannabis sativa*. This group was the Duke di Angelis quartet. They recorded for a local label called Tambú and had to their credit one 10" LP entitled Songs of Outer Space*.”
I'd imagine these lyrics from Aftermath U.S.A. would apply to Meatball Mulligan once he woke up from the party...

When I crawled out of bed this morning
I could tell something wasn't right
There were cigarettes in the ashtrays
They weren't your menthol lights
There were beer bottles in the kitchen
And broken glass on the floor
Someone must have slipped me something
Passed out a couple days before

The car was in the carport sideways
Big dent running down the side
Never seen anything as frightening
As when I took a look inside
Smell of musk and deception
Heel marks on the roof-line
Bad music on the stereo
All the seats in recline

Drive~By Truckers ~ A Blessing and a Curse

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Day 17: Nnedi Okorafor, Mother of Invention

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
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First thing that came to mind was Zappa’s former band. Unfortunately, not being a huge Zappa fan, his solo album, Hot Rats is the only one of his albums I own on vinyl. Thankfully, Zappa’s primary collaborator on this album was former Mothers of Invention multi-instrumentalist, Ian Underwood so in that sense I guess it still kinda works.
 
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?”
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

Featuring "I'm an Animal," along with other tracks where she identifies with forces of nature.

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imtheocean said:
April 20: Thomas Pynchon, Entropy
  • “Downstairs, Meatball Mulligan’s lease-breaking* party was moving into its 40th hour. On the kitchen floor, amid a litter of empty champagne fifths, were Sandor Rojas and three friends, playing spit in the ocean* and staying awake on Heidseck and benzedrine* pills. In the living room Duke, Vincent, Krinkles and Paco sat crouched over a 15-inch speaker which had been bolted into the top of a wastepaper basket, listening to 27 watts’ worth of The Heroes’ Gate at Kiev*. They all wore hornrimmed sunglasses and rapt expressions, and smoked funny-looking cigarettes which contained not, as you might expect, tobacco, but an adulterated form of cannabis sativa*. This group was the Duke di Angelis quartet. They recorded for a local label called Tambú and had to their credit one 10" LP entitled Songs of Outer Space*.”
I'd imagine these lyrics from Aftermath U.S.A. would apply to Meatball Mulligan once he woke up from the party...

When I crawled out of bed this morning
I could tell something wasn't right
There were cigarettes in the ashtrays
They weren't your menthol lights
There were beer bottles in the kitchen
And broken glass on the floor
Someone must have slipped me something
Passed out a couple days before

The car was in the carport sideways
Big dent running down the side
Never seen anything as frightening
As when I took a look inside
Smell of musk and deception
Heel marks on the roof-line
Bad music on the stereo
All the seats in recline

Drive~By Truckers ~ A Blessing and a Curse

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You seem like the right guy to ask this. Where would one begin if he wanted to give the Drive-By Truckers a go?
 
Turbo said:
You seem like the right guy to ask this. Where would one begin if he wanted to give the Drive-By Truckers a go?
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Ooh, good question! I got hooked on my love of Neil Young - who feeds directly into Southern Rock Opera as a reoccurring character along with Lynyrd Skynrd (sp?) and the general dichotomy of the south. The follow ups to that Decoration Day or Dirty South are good choices - you've got 3 great songwriters with Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, and Jason Isbell. All three have great ruminations on being from the south, and how that experience shaped them (and others perceptions of them).

@avecigrec What do you think???
 
imtheocean said:
Ooh, good question! I got hooked on my love of Neil Young - who feeds directly into Southern Rock Opera as a reoccurring character along with Lynyrd Skynrd (sp?) and the general dichotomy of the south. The follow ups to that Decoration Day or Dirty South are good choices - you've got 3 great songwriters with Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, and Jason Isbell. All three have great ruminations on being from the south, and how that experience shaped them (and others perceptions of them).

@avecigrec What do you think???
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So basically Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day and Dirty South to start with?

I'm not sure if this is sacrilege or not, but the bits I know of DBT reminds me of The Tragically Hip (which is not surprising since the Tragically Hip kind of mix southern sounds with Canadiana), which makes me think they should be up my alley.
 
Turbo said:
So basically Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day and Dirty South to start with?

I'm not sure if this is sacrilege or not, but the bits I know of DBT reminds me of The Tragically Hip (which is not surprising since the Tragically Hip kind of mix southern sounds with Canadiana), which makes me think they should be up my alley.
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Yep! And the DBT website has some great content for context of the songs too.

Commentary on the albums song by song (different album per link)

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - New Album 'Welcome 2 Club XIII' available to order now.
www.drivebytruckers.com www.drivebytruckers.com
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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - New Album 'Welcome 2 Club XIII' available to order now.
www.drivebytruckers.com www.drivebytruckers.com

Commentary on the 20th anniversary of Southern Rock Opera:

www.drivebytruckers.com

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - New Album 'Welcome 2 Club XIII' available to order now.
www.drivebytruckers.com www.drivebytruckers.com
 
Turbo said:
So basically Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day and Dirty South to start with?

I'm not sure if this is sacrilege or not, but the bits I know of DBT reminds me of The Tragically Hip (which is not surprising since the Tragically Hip kind of mix southern sounds with Canadiana), which makes me think they should be up my alley.
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imtheocean said:
@avecigrec What do you think???
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The Dirty South was my gateway and remains my absolute favourite. You can't go wrong with any/all of the 3 previously mentioned: throw in Brighter Than Creation's Dark and you've got the best of the best - but even their "worst" is pretty damn solid.

As for reminding you of The Hip, I don't think that's sacrilegious in the least. When I first saw them a year before Downie died, Patterson Hood actually paid him a really touching tribute during the show. Had me welling up a bit.
 
Day 20: Thomas Pynchon, Entropy

Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
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I was about to spin a Hüsker Dü 10” (there is a lot of different ways you could go with this one) but changed it up last second, mainly because it’s 4/20 and working weed into todays challenge seemed like the right thing to do.
 
Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
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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I have dipped out of this months challenge as I have to much on, sadly my mother passed away at the end of Jan and we are busy sorting out her estate so have had no time to listen to any records but I have been lurking and have to say this is great and going straight on the want list
 
Smartiepants said:
I have dipped out of this months challenge as I have to much on, sadly my mother passed away at the end of Jan and we are busy sorting out her estate so have had no time to listen to any records but I have been lurking and have to say this is great and going straight on the want list
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Sorry for your loss! Sending good thoughts to you and your family. Looking forward to when you can join us again.
 
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