February 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread - Games People Play

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Day 16 - Operation - Play something smooth and steady

If you were alive in 1976 and listened to the radio, there's no way you could avoid this one.

Even the Russian judge awards a 10 in smoothness and steadiness...




Fun fact - Bobby Womack wrote the song Breezin'.

George Benson - Breezin'

 

[imtheocean]

Day 16 - Operation - Play something smooth and steady

A solid @Yer Ol' Uncle D recommendation, excellent piano renditions of Grateful Dead songs.

Holly Bowling ~ Better Left Unsung

 

[Turbo]

Day 16 - Operation - Play something smooth and steady

Helado Negro "Far In" (2021 4AD)

 

[Turbo]

And now I'm thinking what a wasted opportunity is was to not spin Smooth Operator.

 

[imtheocean]

And now I'm thinking what a wasted opportunity is was to not spin Smooth Operator.

I was going to spin Brain Salad Surgery since it was "Operation" day, but that is neither smooth nor steady.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 13: Euchre
Play something from the midwest

Jay Bennett - The Palace At 4AM (Part 1)

Born in Rolling Meadows Died in Urbana, a Midwest kid through and through.


Looks like their are many variations that I was completely unaware of…

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 14: Hungry Hungry Hippos
Playing something about eating, hippos, marbles or an endless urge.

Kacey Musgraves - A Very Kacey Christmas

Fun Fact: after drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was killed, the government released his four hippopotamus (from his private zoo) to roam free. As of 2019 there was around 100 of their offspring roaming the wilds of Colombia. Side note: Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos is gonna be the name of my new psych garage rock band.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 15: Pay Day
Play an expensive record OR one that you bought during a record buying spree.

I spent (what felt like a lot at the time) $60 on this album back in 2019. According to Discogs that has turned into a very good price…

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 16: Operation
Play something smooth and steady

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

This is some smooth indie sad guy rock. The whole album floats perilously close to Smooth Jazz/New Age territory in the best way imaginable.

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 16: Operation

Young Gun Silver Fox - Canyons



Some smooth Yacht Rock for today…

 

[rightasra1n]

Day 16 - Operation - Play something smooth and stead

Greentea Peng - Man Made



All vibes on this one.

 

[ranbalam]

Day 16 - Operation - Play something smooth and steady

Sade - Diamond Life

Don't worry @Turbo I wasn't going to let the opportunity slip by.

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

Day 16: Operation

Jeff Parker & the New Breed - Suite for Max Brown

 

[Rip_City]

Day 16 - Operation
Play something smooth and steady

Erika De Casier - Sensational



If you're not familiar with Erika like I wasn't prior to 2021:

 

[Piratenovelist]

Day 16 - Operation

John Coltrane - Blue Train

 

[LeeVing]

I got a little behind with my Korn playing and spent a lot of my off time playing Dying Light 2...but I'm gonna try to catch up over the next few days.

Day Eight - Crazy Eights - Play a record by an artist you are crazy about. .

I think XTC is the band I have the most items of...close to 140 items in total. That's CD's, 7", EP's, LP, Compilations they appear on, different country variations of an album.

I didn't really need this version of this album and there isn't really any benefit from playing it over the regular CD...but it was XTC and cheap, so I had to have it.

XTC – Oranges & Lemons
Virgin – CDVT2581, 1989

UK/EU 3" box set

 

[Smartiepants]

Day 16 - Operation
Play something smooth and steady

 

[Smartiepants]

Day 17 - Battleship - Play something aquatic
close enough

Foals – Holy Fire​

Label:	Warner Bros. Records – 825646522248, Transgressive Records – 825646522248
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country:	UK & Europe
Released:	8 Feb 2013
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Indie Rock

 

[LeeVing]

Day Nine - Backgammon - Play something complex

I figured I'd go with some jazz for this day, as it's a genre I don't play too often.


Sun Ra – Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Impulse!/ABC Records – AS-9270, 1965/1974

Reissue white label promo

Cut at Kendun Recorders
Pressed at Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 17: Battleship
Play something aquatic

Silver Jews - American Water