Choose Your Own Adventure - The October 2024 Spin Challenge

[Rip_City]

27-Oct

Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians



Not just a xylophone, but four of them (in the standard ensemble configuration).


Point total: 1.5

 

[ranbalam]

28-Oct Hard: Play an album by a musician who has crossed-over into acting

Tom!


Points 86.5

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

30-OctOn this date in 2016, With the Cubs in the World Series for the first time since 1945 (they hadn't won since 1908), longtime fan Eddie Vedder leads the crowd in "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch. Expert: Play a song by a musician who has performed as part of a World Series.

Of course Black Pumas felt the national anthem needed a variant...



Black Pumas - S/T



MTD Tally - 318

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

29. Expert: Play an album by a musician who died before their 25th birthday.

The Allman Brothers Band – The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East
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Low hanging fruit for Expert mode, but perfectly fits the prompt.

Points: 295

Sooooo............you finally listened to it.

 

[avecigrec]

Sooooo............you finally listened to it.

Had to happen!

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Had to happen!

And?

 

[avecigrec]

And?

It's absolutely ridiculous that it took me so long. Worthy of all the hype and praise. The C and D sides are especially tasty.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

It's absolutely ridiculous that it took me so long. Worthy of all the hype and praise. The C and D sides are especially tasty.

Now do Eat A Peach. you need to experience the audacious joy of the 26 minute “Mountain Jam” stretched across two auto coupled sides.

 

[CrazyDiamond84]

It's absolutely ridiculous that it took me so long. Worthy of all the hype and praise. The C and D sides are especially tasty.

Yep..'Elizabeth Reed,' and that version of 'Whipping Post' is one of my favorite things ever!

 

[imtheocean]

30-Oct On this date in 2016, With the Cubs in the World Series for the first time since 1945 (they hadn't won since 1908), longtime fan Eddie Vedder leads the crowd in "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch. Expert: Play a song by a musician who has performed as part of a World Series.

Low
Hanging
Fruit

Recorded at Wrigley Field during the 2016 season.

Point Total



Pearl Jam ~ Let's Play Two

 

[Turbo]

30-Expert: Play a song by a musician who has performed as part of a World Series.

The Pretenders "Learning To Crawl" (1984 Sire; 2012 MOFI reissue)
Chrissie Hynde sang the national anthem during the 1995 World Series.

 

[Rip_City]

28-Oct

Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk (signed)



One of my favorites of the year. Mica Tenenbaum of Magdalena Bay uses masks during live performances, during both the Mercurial World and Imaginal Disk tours. For this album cycle, she has used facepaint as well.


Point total: 2.5 (I hate this for me)

 

[Rip_City]

29-Oct

Prince - Purple Rain



Ranked in the top50 on the greatest guitarist lists of Rolling Stone, Forbes, uDiscoverMusic, and several other "guitar" websites.


Point total: 2

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 30: Hard (Baseball)

Bruce Springsteen - “Glory Days”



Point total: 90

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 27: Expert: Play an album where the drummer uses rutes or plays crotales.
Total Points: TK
Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 28: Expert: Play an album by a band who played in a movie as characters from their band (i.e. not a band that makes an appearance in a movie, but like Korn solving mysteries in a South Park episode). Total Points: TK

Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement has some weird movie out called Pavements It’s a combo of a Documentary and a Docudrama but the band is in it as “the band”…I think. I haven’t seen it yet.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 29: Expert: Play an album by a musician who died before their 25th birthday. Total Points: TK

Metallica - Kill 'Em All

Metallica’s original bassist Cliff Burton died as the result of a tour bus crash in 1986 he was 24.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 30: Expert: Play a song by a musician who has performed as part of a World Series.
Total Points: TK

Jay-Z - The Blueprint

Jay-Z performed during the pregame of game 2 of the 2009 World Series.

 

[avecigrec]

30. Expert: Play a song by a musician who has performed as part of a World Series.

Alicia Keys – Alicia


Looks like @TenderLovingKiller® and I were on similar wavelengths.

Points: 318

 

[ranbalam]

29-Oct Medium: Play a Southern Rock album.




Points - 87