August 2020 Challenge Thread - The Dog Days of Vinyl Playing

D Jilla said:
Day 13 - Hitchcock/scary

This album features some seriously creepy vocals from Atilla Csihar (famous for the equally creepy vocals on Mayhem’s De Mysteriis album). Here, he kind of sounds like Emperor Palpatine 😂

This album really has it all, including a side-long Alice Coltrane tribute and a mix of 33/45 rpm depending on side (which could be scary to anyone with a manual speed change TT).

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I ALMOST picked this for today’s theme. Great album!
 
Day 12 - XTC - English Settlement (catch-up)

Could have gone any number of ways, and I might have picked Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher if someone already hadn't. So I will go with a perfect album that sounds utterly amazing on nice, classic black wax. This album sounds so much richer and fuller on vinyl than in the digital realm.
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August 14 - Fortnight - Play a long album.

I had to dig into the girlfriend's Broadway soundtracks and choose the one she wouldn't necessarily make us listen through in order. I'm also saving Fiddler for when I really need a mean culpa later.

So I'm having some Skimbleshanks with my morning coffee. Thanks Cats (plus Hamilton just got taken)

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Day 14: Fortnight - Play a long album.
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
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At right around 2 hours and 15 minutes if you include the Apple Jam (and why would you not?), All Things Must Pass might be a huge album but it is all essential. George was bursting at the seams with creativity after leaving his former group and this album is the culmination.
 
August 14 - Fortnight - Play a long album.

Kaleidoscope, New Spirits Known & Unknown (Soul Jazz Records, 2020 3lp Compilation)

Its been a while since I bought a 3lp set. This one from Soul Jazz Records is a compilation that highlights the best jazz coming from the UK scene (with Makaya McCraven thrown in for good measure). It's really fantastic and makes you want to hunt down each individual release.

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Reluctant catch-up.

Can I be real with you all for a minute?
Like, uncomfortably real?

Since Tuesday night, I have not wanted to hear any music. At all. It is the first time in 10 years that I can recall that happening, and it's because I don't want music I enjoy to be attached to a painful time.

Schools are reopening. I am an elementary music teacher. And my wife and I have come to an unfortunate conclusion that, if schools reopen here and I am forced to teach in person, I will have to isolate from the family and be integrated fully back in ten days after schools close.

It is a difficult decision, but I have two small children and my in-laws live on the top floor of my house. I would never be able to live with myself if someone died or ended up with lifelong blood or neurological disorders. But that doesn't make it any easier. The thought of not holding my 1-y.o. son, singing my 3-y.o. daughter to sleep, getting to spend ANY time with my wife... for an unknown amount of time? It is beyond painful. I don't want music attached to that.

I am pushing myself to complete this month starting tonight.

DAY 12 - THANKFUL FOR VINYL

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I bought this on CD the day before my senior prom. I remember driving my date home and leaving her house as the sun was coming up while listening to "Grapefruit Moon." I remember singing "Old Shoes" at the top of my lungs when I graduated college and drove away from the building for the last time. I remember being very inebriated several hours later and confronting the massive souls inside of "Rosie" and "Lonely."

But it didn't feel like these songs were in the room with me until I bought this vinyl copy halfway into my master's degree. So warm and vivid, like they were mere feet away from me.

I read once that after they recorded the closing number, the instrumental "Closing Time," the musicians were too afraid to speak or make any sound for a half hour after finishing it because it felt like they had captured that lightning in a bottle. All I know is that I didn't know until tonight how desperately I needed to hear that song tonight.

Also, can I remark, based on my recent events, the ironic album name choice for my pick?

DAY 13 - SOMETHING THAT SCARES YOU

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Unsane's first self-titled album.
Even without the cover, this music is terrifying. "White Hand" may be the creepiest song on the record and it's the closer... definitely does not leave you with an easy feeling.

If you know about this album cover, you don't need to see it.
If you don't know about it, just be warned: it is a real photo and you cannot unsee this shit.
 
MadLucas said:
Reluctant catch-up.

Can I be real with you all for a minute?
Like, uncomfortably real?

Since Tuesday night, I have not wanted to hear any music. At all. It is the first time in 10 years that I can recall that happening, and it's because I don't want music I enjoy to be attached to a painful time.

Schools are reopening. I am an elementary music teacher. And my wife and I have come to an unfortunate conclusion that, if schools reopen here and I am forced to teach in person, I will have to isolate from the family and be integrated fully back in ten days after schools close.

It is a difficult decision, but I have two small children and my in-laws live on the top floor of my house. I would never be able to live with myself if someone died or ended up with lifelong blood or neurological disorders. But that doesn't make it any easier. The thought of not holding my 1-y.o. son, singing my 3-y.o. daughter to sleep, getting to spend ANY time with my wife... for an unknown amount of time? It is beyond painful. I don't want music attached to that.

I am pushing myself to complete this month starting tonight.

DAY 12 - THANKFUL FOR VINYL

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I bought this on CD the day before my senior prom. I remember driving my date home and leaving her house as the sun was coming up while listening to "Grapefruit Moon." I remember singing "Old Shoes" at the top of my lungs when I graduated college and drove away from the building for the last time. I remember being very inebriated several hours later and confronting the massive souls inside of "Rosie" and "Lonely."

But it didn't feel like these songs were in the room with me until I bought this vinyl copy halfway into my master's degree. So warm and vivid, like they were mere feet away from me.

I read once that after they recorded the closing number, the instrumental "Closing Time," the musicians were too afraid to speak or make any sound for a half hour after finishing it because it felt like they had captured that lightning in a bottle. All I know is that I didn't know until tonight how desperately I needed to hear that song tonight.

Also, can I remark, based on my recent events, the ironic album name choice for my pick?

DAY 13 - SOMETHING THAT SCARES YOU

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Unsane's first self-titled album.
Even without the cover, this music is terrifying. "White Hand" may be the creepiest song on the record and it's the closer... definitely does not leave you with an easy feeling.

If you know about this album cover, you don't need to see it.
If you don't know about it, just be warned: it is a real photo and you cannot unsee this shit.
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That blows. I am sorry that you have to deal with this. My brother is a Teacher too and that really sucks. It’s a shame we as a country haven’t taken this threat seriously enough to have it under control. Godspeed to you, your family, the rest of your schools faculty and your students hopefully everyone close to you can get this unscathed.
 
Day 14: Long Album

I don't really know the total duration of this 3 LP release, but it seems long to me.

Goblin ‎– Profondo Rosso (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Waxwork Records ‎– WW054, 1975/2018

Complete and expanded 3 LP set

Cut by Anne-Marie Suenram

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