August 2020 Challenge Thread - The Dog Days of Vinyl Playing

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 15: The Day the Panama Canal Opened - Play an album that makes you think of water.
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue

Album: Pacific OCEAN Blue
Artist: a Solo Record by a BEACH BOY. The only one who actually SURFED.
First Track: “RIVER Song“
Is that wet enough for ya?

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

Day 14: Fortnight

Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways

Seems a fine opportunity to play his most recent masterpiece, also featuring his longest song...

 

[MadLucas]

It was a "catch-up while the baby is sleeping and the missus takes the daughter to the beach" morning.

DAY 14 - A LONG ONE



I've needed a reason to spin this one again, thank you.

DAY 15 - WATER WATER



Too on the nose?
I just really wanted to hear "A Familiar Face," my favorite track they ever recorded.

 

[LeSamourai]

August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock's birthday - Play something scary! (make-up)

Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

Wolves can be scary, it's got this demon thing on the cover, plus there are songs about rituals and cannibals! Then there's the word that strikes fear into the hearts of all boomers who like to complain about the young 'uns these days- ZOOMER.

 

[tvham]

Day 15: The Day the Panama Canal Opened - Play an album that makes you think of water.

Saint Etienne- Sound of Water


Some of you may know that I’m a huge Saint Etienne fan, so this was an easy choice. It’s a bit of an underrated gem in their catalog, but one that I find myself coming back to often.

As Simon Reynolds writes on the album sleeve ‘A soft soundclash of electronica and acoustica, programming and orchestration, “Sound of Water” glistens and ripples with exquisite nuances’

Highlights for me are Heart Failed (in the back of a taxi), Don’t Back Down, How We Used to Live, and Just a Little Overcome.

 

[LeeVing]

Day 12 - Appreciating Vinyl

Fell behind...for some reason everything is a struggle this week.

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - The Harrow and the Harvest.

This is an AP pressing and it sounds amazing. Delicate and present, just a beautiful record.

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When I see this I always think this is a Baroness album I don't have.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

DAY 15 - WATER WATER

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Too on the nose?
I just really wanted to hear "A Familiar Face," my favorite track they ever recorded.

I was unaware this band existed until recently (I think they were referenced in a review for the new Rolling Blackouts CF album) but they are great I am trying to find a copy for a reasonable prices also super surprised they were from Pennsylvania and not somewhere in the UK.

 

[LeSamourai]

also super surprised they were from Pennsylvania and not somewhere in the UK

To be fair, Pennsylvania was part of England a while back!

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

To be fair, Pennsylvania was part of England a while back!

Now I am gonna have to give The Kinks’ Arthur a spin, aren’t I?

 

[MadLucas]

I was unaware this band existed until recently (I think they were referenced in a review for the new Rolling Blackouts CF album) but they are great I am trying to find a copy for a reasonable prices also super surprised they were from Pennsylvania and not somewhere in the UK.

Order directly from the band, I think five of their albums are currently in print. The first three, for me, are regular and essential listening. Hope you enjoyed this rabbit hole!

 

[debianlinux]

15 - Water

I had intended to not repeat anything from the previous challenge but I can’t help myself with this album. It’s about my most favorite album to begin with and water is a recurring theme in nearly every song. Still owe catchup on a couple days but will have to pull some records out of storage to hit those.

Florist - Emily Alone

 

[cul8er]

August 15 - The Day the Panama Canal Opened - Play an album that makes you think of water.

Beach House makes me think of water because, well... they're Beach House ... a house on the beach, which is near water.

Beach House - 7

 

[Nee Lewman]

Day 15

water

if I have to explain this...


Lapsley - Through Water

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 15: The Day the Panama Canal Opened

Mick Jenkins - The Water(s)



A bit too on the nose, I know, but it fits and I haven’t played this in a long while sooooo...

 

[Piratenovelist]

Day 15

The Panama Canal Opened

Currents ~ eisley

 

[wmeugene]

Day 13: Richard Swift - The Hex (catch-up)

Hexes can be scary and this is a posthumous album, so there's that. I dont have a lot of scary stuff or horror soundtracks, so I knew this would be a challenge.

 

[Bluecloud777]

August 16 - Leo - Play an album that is loud and demands to be the center of attention.

Metallica "Hardwired... to self- destruct"

Definitely not an album I could listen to running in the background while doing something else. Great songs!

 

[debianlinux]

16 - Loud

This is one of my likely top 10 for 2020 that will make no lists ever. It’s mostly what you expect from this band with a bit more opening and closing naked synths and a couple slower songs. If This Decision and I Wanna don’t grab you there’s not much else this band can do for you.

The Lovely Eggs - I Am Moron

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

Day 15: Water

Baroness - Blue Record

Not really my normal Sunday morning jam, but it is one of my favourite metal records ever.

 

[Skeletonframes]

August 14 - Fortnight - Play a long album.

Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die

at 1 hour 17 minutes, this is a loooong one. Much like Biggie himself claims to be in half the tracks on this record. Wacka wacka wacka.

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.



August 15 - The Day the Panama Canal Opened - Play an album that makes you think of water.

John Williams - Music from the motion picture JAWS

I mean, what else could I pick?

Duh DUH. Duh DUH. Duh duh Duh duh Duh duh......