December 2020 Challenge Thread: Let's Go Out With A Bang (The return of the raffle!)

waruv said:
Day 3: Ozzy's 72nd Birthday - Damn he's getting old haha, play something from The Prince of Darkness or the oldest album in your collection

Time to play the technicality game.

Ozzy Osborne was the lead singer of Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath is responsible for War Pigs
Which is the opening sample used on...

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I'm going to go with 6 degrees of War Pigs too!

I've seen a few bands cover War Pigs. This band, Flaming Lips, Dresden Dolls come to mind. I was supposed to see Mac Sabbath this year, but Covid obviously knocked that out.

Anyway, Temple of the Dog only had one real tour for their 25th anniversary, and I was lucky enough to catch one of the LA shows. They played this album in full, plus a bunch of covers. David Bowie - Quicksand, Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand, Cure - Fascination Street, Baby Lemonade - Syd Barrett, a few Mother Love Bone Songs, and War Pigs. So for Ozzys birthday I'll play the album and watch the cover.

Temple of the Dog ~ Temple of the Dog

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I considered playing Charles Bradley because why not, but fuck it Ozzy was what i needed before my rheumatology appointment this morning (still trying to figure out what’s up RA still seems likely).
 
Day 03: Ozzy's 72nd Birthday

Ozzy Osbourne / Randy Rhoads ‎– Tribute (Epic, 1987 First UK Signed Pressing)

Here's one which I cant see being posted today, a tribute album to guitarist Randy Rhoads. Rhoads died in a plane crash whilst touring with the group. I was due to see Ozzy live in London but it was cancelled due to his ill health.

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Day 3: Oldest album in your collection

Frank Sinatra - No One Cares

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Frank Sinatra - No One Cares

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This is my fathers copy, from 1959. The oldest record in my collection. I am not a big Sinatra fan but like this record, probably because it is his most depressing. Frank called it a collection of suicide songs.
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Day 3 - Ozzy's Birthday - Play Ozzy or something old

Art Blakey & The Afro-Drum Ensemble "The African Beat" (1962; original stereo pressing)

I was struggling with this. I have no Ozzy, Sabbath and found nothing related in my collection. So I took the out of playing something old. I went through my discogs, and I believe this is the oldest piece of wax I own in terms of when it was actually pressed and released. But it's arguably about as far from Ozzy as you could possibly get.

This is an original 1962. The vinyl is quite beat-up with a nasty scratch in side 1 but it plays. Let's just say the dust and scratches make it the heavy metal of afro-jazz and call it a day.

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TenderLovingKiller® said:
Day 03: Ozzy's 72nd Birthday
Damn he's getting old haha, play something from The Prince of Darkness
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
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To echo @Lee Newman sentiment I need more Ozzy in my collection. I went with the only record I had featuring the Prince of Darkness. I am very happy that no one spun it yet.
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Lemme give this another shot...
Day 03: Ozzy's 72nd Birthday
Damn he's getting old haha, play something from The Prince of Darkness
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
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Like I said I don’t (as of yet) have much Ozzy on wax but I have a good amount in my digital library. I decided to go with this so I could hear the great Randy Rhoads shred! 🤘
 
Day 3: Ozzy's 72nd Birthday
Damn he's getting old haha, play something from The Prince of Darkness or the oldest album in your collection

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

Instead of Ozzy, I'm going with the Prince of Darkness himself, Satan, who we all know is present any time there's a backmasked message, right? Well, the track "1969" has a backmasked vocal sample about the Branch Davidians, and then there's the track "The Devil is in the Details." Not to mention that the CD version is 66:06 long because of the silent final "song." Of course, it's just BoC taking the piss and including samples of stuff they find interesting, but some people seem to have taken it quite seriously.

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Also, this talk of the devil and getting old reminds me of a Spanish idiom that I like: "Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo" > basically "The devil knows more from age (experience) than from being the devil."
 
Day 1: N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time Submission Due Date

I didn't vote. I'm not really a fan of lists.

Phil Manzanera / 801 ‎– 801 Live
Polydor ‎– PD-1-6148, 1976/1977

US White Label Promo

Pressed at Columbia, Terre Haute

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