December Vinyl Spins Challenge

Wicked Dreamer said:
Day 30: Unloved

Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love

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My dad got this a few months ago, but neither of us had played it yet before today.
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I had this on cassette back in the day. I was so confused when I heard Running on Empty in college. I was like is this a Joe Jackson thing where there are two very different guys?
 
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Day 29
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Amaro Freitas - Y’Y

My memory ain’t so good but I do remember this being the first album that WOWed me this year. And it was a very good year from my perspective. For example, I like Kacey a lot and Deeper Well is my most listened album by her and it’s not in my top ten. (Hell I just looked and it was #15!)

Anyhow, this album demands your attention and I think as a result, I connected with it in a very spiritual way that is rare and too far between honestly. I feel the exploration and the self reflection in a way that most instrumental music doesn’t do. It was an a ha moment musically not dissimilar to the first time I heard Fugazi or Sgt Pepper or Pet Sounds or Kind of Blue. It remains a fascinating album that excites me every time I listen to it.
 
Day 31
IMG_4935.jpegHiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow

This is when I fully came on board with HGM. I had heard and liked Heart Like a Levee. Vinyl Den (Dualtone’s amazing Record Club before they merged with Magnolia to turn The Drew Holcomb Record Club into stale Americana Record Club) sent this record to me. MC Taylor’s optimism was important to me during the first Trump administration. He doesn’t really write political music, but it’s clear that politics inform it. He said of this album, “Love is the only way out. I’ve never been afraid of the darkness, it’s just a different kind of light, and if some days that belief comes harder than others, hallelujah anyhow.”
 
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Day 29: Album of the Year

Play your album of 2024

Redd Kross - s/t

I've been a bit behind the curve in getting my list together and just missed the great 2024 add up in the other thread, and I see TLK used Rosali which could very well be my best of the year. And a couple others have used some of my other possibilities. So I'll go with this one that has a lot of great moments!

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Day 30: Unloved

Play an album that you bought this year but haven't either spun yet or given enough love to if you've spun them all!

Okkervil River - Down The River Of Golden Dreams

This one was sitting around after picking up in the Target sale. Think I have the Okkervil's I need now.

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Wes C. Attle said:
Day 31: New Year's Eve
Play an album to ring in the bells.

James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up

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Made it to the end! First time in a while. Thanks, @Joe Mac! Happy New Year, everyone!!
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The Commitments movie got me on the path to this record via Dark End of the Street. So great.
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Day 29: Album of the Year
Play your album of 2024

Rosali - Bite Down
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There were several contenders this year but Rosali was the album I kept coming back to again and again.
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This was definitely my most streamed of any new album. "coming back to again and again" is well put.
 
Day 30: Unloved

Play an album that you bought this year but haven't either spun yet or given enough love to if you've spun them all!

Moby – Reprise
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I dont love Moby, but I do love Amythyst Kiah, who sings on this, and Deutsche Grammophon so when this came up for cheap in a blowout bin I figured it was worth a pickup but this is the first time I've played it!
 
avecigrec said:
Day 30: Unloved

Play an album that you bought this year but haven't either spun yet or given enough love to if you've spun them all!

Moby – Reprise
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I dont love Moby, but I do love Amythyst Kiah, who sings on this, and Deutsche Grammophon so when this came up for cheap in a blowout bin I figured it was worth a pickup but this is the first time I've played it!
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Well now I have to listen to this. Is Gwen on it too?
 
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