February 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread - Games People Play

Day 6: Mastermind

mewithoutYou - It's all crazy! It's all false! It's all a dream! It's alright!

Vocalist/lyricist Aaron Weiss pens some of the most thoughtful, original, and ultimately self-aware lyrics of any artist I know. He seems like an incredibly intelligent and interesting dude.

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Day 6 : Mastermind

M J Lallo - Take Me With You

MJ Lallo — SÉANCE CENTRE

Artist page for MJ Lallo.
www.seance-centre.com www.seance-centre.com

M J is a serious cool lady who used voice modulation to create all sorts of sounds. She composed some NASA documentary tunes as well. This album is where she uses voice modulation to create a sound scape. All the music on this album was produced between 1982 and 1997.

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Day Six - Mastermind - Play a record by an artist that strikes you as being very intelligent

Esperanza Spalding - Exposure

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I was originally going to post her Emily's D+ Evolution album, which I think is superior, but this one allows me to better speak to her brilliance. I've been a fan, been following her career since 2008. Over the years, reading and listening to interviews, it's always been obvious that she is very intelligent. With this album though I came to understand her as musical genius. I hate that term. It's used so frequently and carelessly. With this album, though, what she set out to do was enter the studio empty, with no songs, not even sketches, and emerge 77 hours later with a complete 10 song album, live streaming the entire thing. We watch her sit on couch, hum out a melody and then develop that melody into a full song. What blew me away was the recording of the song Heaven In Pennies. The song has a complex arrangement, and the band, which included Robert Glaspar, was having a difficult time remembering where to go next. So Esperanza, who had only just written the song, decided that she would play her bass section, while singing, and simultaneously direct the band. It was breathtaking. There used to be a more complete clip of it all online, but thats since been taken down. This clip remains, which isn't as complete but still provides a great view of what happened in that session.

 

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Day Six - Mastermind

Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School ~ Warren Zevon

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To many he may just be “the werewolf guy”, but to me he’s much more. His verbose sense of lyrics and storytelling is refreshing.

Sometimes the songs are damn weird (see Jeannie Needs A Shooter) , but he hit sometimes hard enough to draw blood. It’s an honesty I wish some more artists had that I listen to.

This album has collaborations with Joe Walsh and Jackson Browne. I still think about his cover of A Certain Girl because it’s so good.

He may be known mainly for Excitable Boy, but his self titled is great and this album is very good.







 
Day Seven - Scattergories - Play an artist or album that starts with the letter I roll on the big die. Edit: The letter is M

I'll go with items in a refrigerator.

Here down south, you better bring the Duke's. And don't even think about trying to pass off that poser Miracle Whip bullshit...




Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

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Day 5 - Five Card Draw
Play something with a drawing on the cover or play something related to poker

Madison Cunningham - Who Are You Now

A concertgoing friend suggested to see Madison Cunningham together last October. She bought this for me at the merch table, and waited around for ~5 min after the show to get this (beautifully) autographed, of course.

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Day Six - Mastermind
The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site
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Besides being an incredibly witty and literate songwriter, John K. Samson is a founding member of Arbeiter Ring Publishing (ARP Books) - a worker-owned and operated independent book publisher and distributor that specializes in progressive, radical and anarchist literature, has championed two winning novels in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's annual Canada Reads competition, been a writer-in-residence at the University of Winnipeg and been an adjunct professor with the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. He also played bass in Propagandhi, is married to Christine Fellows (also an amazing singer/songwriter, composer and current adjunct professor with the UBC Creative Writing Program), puts on a helluva show and is really quite a sweetheart. And he's smart!
 
Day Seven - Scattergories - Play an artist or album that starts with the letter I roll on the big die. Edit: The letter is M

1) articles of clothing - mask
2) desserts - malted milk balls
3) car parts - muffler
4) things found on a map - mountains
5) athletes - Mickey Mantle
6) 4-letter words - melt
7) items in a refrigerator - mayonnaise
8) farm animals - mink
9) street names - main street
10) things at a beach - muscle men
11) colors - mauve
12) tools - measuring tape

MF DOOM MM.. FOOD?

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