February 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread - Games People Play
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sarcasticfairyprincess
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Day 3: Life
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
imtheocean
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Day Three - The Game of Life - Play a record that deals with or has a song that deals with mortality
This album is all about mortality, Lou wrote it about dealing with the loss of 2 friends over the period of a year, Doc Pomus and "Rita", and the experiences they and he went through.
Some amazing and honest lyrics on this album, but as I've learned over the years the two lines that close the album out are the truest:
There's a bit of magic in everything
and then some loss to even things out
Also included is our well worn game of Life, a game I cannot picture Lou Reed ever playing...
Lou Reed ~ Magic and Loss
This album is all about mortality, Lou wrote it about dealing with the loss of 2 friends over the period of a year, Doc Pomus and "Rita", and the experiences they and he went through.
Some amazing and honest lyrics on this album, but as I've learned over the years the two lines that close the album out are the truest:
There's a bit of magic in everything
and then some loss to even things out
Also included is our well worn game of Life, a game I cannot picture Lou Reed ever playing...
Lou Reed ~ Magic and Loss
ranbalam
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Nice, that was one of my main options for today. I have another....we'll see if anyone gets to it before I get off work.
imtheocean
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I highly recommend this book, if you haven't read it yet. Crafted around intertwining the historical events of the south and the Truckers history, it delves deep into the "Southern Thing" and spends quite a bit of time covering Southern Rock Opera and Skynyrd.
Day 3 : Life
Ugh, y’all, I am going to see Billie Eilish tonight and I don’t want to play a downer, so I will compromise. With songs like Watch it Die and All Good Soldiers, this album explores the absurdity of the modern condition and how that absurdity gets twisted in ways that harm us—and even lead to our deaths.
Bad Religion- Recipe for Hate
Ugh, y’all, I am going to see Billie Eilish tonight and I don’t want to play a downer, so I will compromise. With songs like Watch it Die and All Good Soldiers, this album explores the absurdity of the modern condition and how that absurdity gets twisted in ways that harm us—and even lead to our deaths.
Bad Religion- Recipe for Hate
avecigrec
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@Yer Ol' Uncle D,
I'd like to second this recommendation. A fantastic read and full of great insights!
TenderLovingKiller®
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Day 03: The Game of Life
Play a record that deals with or has a song that deals with mortality
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
Before:
After:
Play a record that deals with or has a song that deals with mortality
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
Before:
After:
Nee Lewman
बैस्टर्ड
Risk
This may come as a surprise, but I had not listened to this band before this record and I bought this record not because of the hype machine around it but an elegant post from @GatorJim about how important the band was to him and why this was his most anticipated album of the year.
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
This may come as a surprise, but I had not listened to this band before this record and I bought this record not because of the hype machine around it but an elegant post from @GatorJim about how important the band was to him and why this was his most anticipated album of the year.
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Nee Lewman
बैस्टर्ड
The Game of Life
“Colors fade away
And things that were aren’t here today
But time, it doesn’t matter anymore
I’ll meet you where we were before”
The Staves - Dead & Born & Grown
“Colors fade away
And things that were aren’t here today
But time, it doesn’t matter anymore
I’ll meet you where we were before”
The Staves - Dead & Born & Grown
BjorgenFjorgen
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Day 3: The Game of Life
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Wicked Dreamer
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Day 3: The Game of Life
David Bowie - Blackstar
“You Want It Darker” was actually my first choice because I thought this one would’ve been scooped first.
David Bowie - Blackstar
“You Want It Darker” was actually my first choice because I thought this one would’ve been scooped first.
Turbo
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This was the other recorded I had in mind for today too. I might just spin it anyway.
Smartiepants
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Day 03: The Game of Life
an album from one of our favourites that very few would know or even heard of
Tensheds-Deathrow Disco
an album from one of our favourites that very few would know or even heard of
Tensheds-Deathrow Disco
ranbalam
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Day Three - The Game of Life - Play a record that deals with or has a song that deals with mortality
Willie addresses his own mortality all through this record.
"I don't wanna be the last man standing. Then again, maybe I do."
I don't have the original version my family had from when I grew up, but we played this version a LOT when my son was young.
Willie addresses his own mortality all through this record.
"I don't wanna be the last man standing. Then again, maybe I do."
I don't have the original version my family had from when I grew up, but we played this version a LOT when my son was young.
BjorgenFjorgen
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They're both masterpieces!
rightasra1n
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Day Two - Risk - Play something you bought without listening to first/went in blind.
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To...
I was only a couple years old when this album came out and it wasnt something anyone I knew was listening to when I was growing up. But as a teen and young adult, I would always see people online making reference to TTD and to this album. I think I may have even downloaded it but never got around to listening to it. A few years back, I happened to see it while doing some digging at the record store and it was like $5 or something, so I said "What the hell. Let's see."
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To...
I was only a couple years old when this album came out and it wasnt something anyone I knew was listening to when I was growing up. But as a teen and young adult, I would always see people online making reference to TTD and to this album. I think I may have even downloaded it but never got around to listening to it. A few years back, I happened to see it while doing some digging at the record store and it was like $5 or something, so I said "What the hell. Let's see."
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Hemotep
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Day 3 - Life
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
The Art of Dying
There'll come a time when all of us must leave here
Then nothing sister Mary can do
Will keep me here with you
As nothing in this life that I've been trying
Could equal or surpass the art of dying
Do you believe me?
This is one of my favorite songs on this album. My first couple ideas for today were already played and I ended up glad cause this is really hitting my mood right. Thanks to @Ethos99 for donating this to the pifsgiving prize pool. It really is a masterpiece.
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
The Art of Dying
There'll come a time when all of us must leave here
Then nothing sister Mary can do
Will keep me here with you
As nothing in this life that I've been trying
Could equal or surpass the art of dying
Do you believe me?
This is one of my favorite songs on this album. My first couple ideas for today were already played and I ended up glad cause this is really hitting my mood right. Thanks to @Ethos99 for donating this to the pifsgiving prize pool. It really is a masterpiece.
