Audio Killed the Visual Star: The August 2023 Vinyl Challenge

[gafacaode]

13 - BREAK: play a record featuring an established tv actor

Tricky one for me. This is what I got: Rhys Ifans is "best known for his roles in Notting Hill (1999), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), and Enduring Love (2004) as well as his portrayals of Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), the supervillain Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), and Grigori Rasputin in The King's Man (2021). Other roles include Hector DeJean in the Epix thriller series Berlin Station, Mycroft Holmes in the CBS series Elementary, and Ser Otto Hightower in the HBO series House of the Dragon."
He was briefly the SFA's front man and he pops up on an answering machine message on their first album.


Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic

 

[Wes C. Attle]

13 - BREAK: play a record featuring an established tv actor

Phantom Planet - Phantom Planet Is Missing



Jason Schwartzman on drums

 

[Turbo]

13 - BREAK: play a record featuring an established tv actor

Jenny Lewis "Joy'All" (2023 Blue Note)
Jenny was a child actress during the 80's and early 90's.

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

8. Invader Zim



The Dead 60s - S/T / Space Invader Dub

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

13 - BREAK: play a record featuring an established tv actor

Phantom Planet - Phantom Planet Is Missing

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Jason Schwartzman on drums

Also singer Alex Greenwald was in an episode of Sabrina The Teenaged Witch (and Donnie Darko).

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

13 - BREAK: play a record featuring an established tv actor

Jenny Lewis "Joy'All" (2023 Blue Note)
Jenny was a child actress during the 80's and early 90's.

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A classic Golden Girls episode…

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

A classic Golden Girls episode…

Also, @Turbo was nice enough to play a Jenny Lewis solo album meaning someone could still play Rilo Kiley since Guitarist Blake Sennett was on Boy Meets World.

 

[avecigrec]

10. The Boondocks

Spectacular Diagnostics – Ancient Methods


"Wonder Drugs"

 

[avecigrec]

11. The Get Down

Kurtis Blow – Kingdom Blow

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 12: The Wire

Missy Elliott - Under Construction



1) construction workers use nail guns & other assorted tools
2) this album came out in November 2002, just a few months after The Wire premiered
3) the 2nd track features an actor from that show

 

[avecigrec]

12. The Wire

Steve Earle – Washington Square Serenade


With a nod to both @Turbo and @TenderLovingKiller® - As mentioned prior, Earle was an actor on the show who drew from his own experience with addictions to bring Waylon to life, while his cover of the Tom Waits-penned "Way Down In The Hole", featured here, also served as theme song for the shows fifth and final season.

 

[avecigrec]

13. BREAK: play a record featuring an established tv actor

Phylicia Allen – Josephine Superstar


Phylicia Ayers-Allen, better known as Phylicia Rashad, is best known to most as having played Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show.

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

9. House, M.D.




Morphine - Cure For Pain

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

10. The Boondocks




Warren Zevon - Life'll Kill Ya

 

[avecigrec]

14. Avatar: The Last Airbender

Joe Henderson featuring Alice Coltrane – The Elements

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 13: play a record featuring an established tv actor



Janet Jackson - “Come Back to Me”

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 14: Avatar: The Last Airbender

A bit of a strange pick here, but I decided to go with an artist & album that, similar to Toph‘s parents’ attitude toward their daughter in that clip, I really underestimated…

Calvin Harris - Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1



This album is a lot of fun and has been in my summer rotation since it came out, whereas most of Calvin Harris’ work before this didn’t interest me very much. Too bad Vol. 2 wasn’t nearly as great as this (or all that good tbh).

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

11. The Get Down

You can kill or you can be kind...



Samantha Fish - Kill Or Be Kind

 

[MyWifeHatesTrain]

11. The Get Down

You can kill or you can be kind...



Samantha Fish - Kill Or Be Kind

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How's the pressing? I like her stuff, but Rounder ain't the best pressings in the world.

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

How's the pressing? I like her stuff, but Rounder ain't the best pressings in the world.

It's not bad. The recording on some songs is kinda dirty to begin with and that's kinda cool on blues records. A date with the Humminguru definitely eliminated what a lot of folks would hear and immediately think 'noisy pressing'.