Matt M
Santa Extraordinaire
PLAY THEM ALL!!!! It really is a great box set. I need to see the In Utero for an amazing deal so I can grab that too.
February 2025 Spin Challenge
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Matt M
Santa Extraordinaire
You guys are killing it today, this is one of the best!
avecigrec
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Day 3 - National Golden Retriever Day - Play a record that you keep coming back to, like that retriever endlessly chasing the ball.
FKA Twigs – Eusexua
Yeah, it's only been out for a week and a half, but I've listened to it at least 25 times during said week and a half so it counts, dammit!
FKA Twigs – Eusexua
Yeah, it's only been out for a week and a half, but I've listened to it at least 25 times during said week and a half so it counts, dammit!
Rip_City
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I'll participate for at least a few days.
Day 1 - Black History Month - Play something by a Black artist, something that has influenced your listening over the years.
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud
Despite having a contentious relationship with jazz music (especially with owning too many jazz LPs) over the past three years, Alice will always be a mainstay.
She is one of my top50 artists all time.
Day 1 - Black History Month - Play something by a Black artist, something that has influenced your listening over the years.
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud
Despite having a contentious relationship with jazz music (especially with owning too many jazz LPs) over the past three years, Alice will always be a mainstay.
She is one of my top50 artists all time.
Rip_City
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Day 2 - Groundhog Day - Play a cover song.
Björk - Post
"It's Oh So Quiet" was originally recorded by Betty Hutton in 1951. Yes, I know it is firmly out of place with the record's electronic/trip-hop focus and even hated by some. But the daring eccentricity and unpredictability, alternating between wonderful restraint and equally wonderful lunacy is among the most joyous moments I've ever come across on an art pop record.
Björk - Post
"It's Oh So Quiet" was originally recorded by Betty Hutton in 1951. Yes, I know it is firmly out of place with the record's electronic/trip-hop focus and even hated by some. But the daring eccentricity and unpredictability, alternating between wonderful restraint and equally wonderful lunacy is among the most joyous moments I've ever come across on an art pop record.
Wicked Dreamer
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Day 3: National Golden Retriever Day
Prince - For You
Whenever I play through an artist’s discography, if I just stop somewhere and not come back for a while I tend to start again at the beginning, which is why this is one of my most played Prince albums despite not being one of my favs.
Prince - For You
Whenever I play through an artist’s discography, if I just stop somewhere and not come back for a while I tend to start again at the beginning, which is why this is one of my most played Prince albums despite not being one of my favs.
Rip_City
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Day 3 - National Golden Retriever Day - Play a record that you keep coming back to, like that retriever endlessly chasing the ball.
Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt
My #5 last year. I had it in rotation early in the year but it fell out around June or so; revisiting back in October had me fawning over its singular, unconventional song composition once again. Just under 27min long and in this time, the Danish singer/songwriter and violist traverses an art pop landscape with a trip-hop, electroacoustic, and ambient pop Venn diagram connecting it all together. Hypnotic and mystifying. "Give My All" and "Everything Is Unreal" are a pair of my favorite songs of 2024. I've played this a lot at work in lieu of trying 2025 releases.
Very excited to see her in Portland just a few days before taking off to Japan for spring vacation. Hoping to get this inked by Astrid before/after.
Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt
My #5 last year. I had it in rotation early in the year but it fell out around June or so; revisiting back in October had me fawning over its singular, unconventional song composition once again. Just under 27min long and in this time, the Danish singer/songwriter and violist traverses an art pop landscape with a trip-hop, electroacoustic, and ambient pop Venn diagram connecting it all together. Hypnotic and mystifying. "Give My All" and "Everything Is Unreal" are a pair of my favorite songs of 2024. I've played this a lot at work in lieu of trying 2025 releases.
Very excited to see her in Portland just a few days before taking off to Japan for spring vacation. Hoping to get this inked by Astrid before/after.
LeeVing
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Day 3 - National Golden Retriever Day - Play a record that you keep coming back to, like that retriever endlessly chasing the ball.
And I'll probably buy this again if they release it with some difference...like a 2 LP 45 cut of the Steven Wilson mix. I don't really have a way to play the Atmos Blu Ray release, but I still got it.
XTC – Skylarking
Ape House – APELPR113, 1986/2024
200 gram release of Steven Wilson's stereo mix.
Cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering
And Chewie isn't impressed with picture time...
And I'll probably buy this again if they release it with some difference...like a 2 LP 45 cut of the Steven Wilson mix. I don't really have a way to play the Atmos Blu Ray release, but I still got it.
XTC – Skylarking
Ape House – APELPR113, 1986/2024
200 gram release of Steven Wilson's stereo mix.
Cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering
And Chewie isn't impressed with picture time...
Yer Ol' Uncle D
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Day 4 - Rosa Parks Day - Play something that stood its ground and fought for what's right.
Don't be no drag...
This is a reggae record that's pretty guitar heavy. Daddy like...
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Easy Skanking In Boston '78
Don't be no drag...
This is a reggae record that's pretty guitar heavy. Daddy like...
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Easy Skanking In Boston '78
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LeeVing
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Day 4 - Rosa Parks Day - Play something that stood it's ground, and fought for what's right.
He seems to have something to say when something needs to be said.
Neil Young – Decade
Reprise Records – 3RS 2257, 1977
Cut by Jay Maynard at Capitol Mastering
Pressed at Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles
He seems to have something to say when something needs to be said.
Neil Young – Decade
Reprise Records – 3RS 2257, 1977
Cut by Jay Maynard at Capitol Mastering
Pressed at Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles
4080
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Day 4 - Rosa Parks Day - Play something that stood it's ground, and fought for what's right
Public Enemy "Fear of a Black Planet"
If you're going to stand up for something make sure even the people not listening can hear you! PE has been fighting the good fight forever and sadly their themes are still as relevant today as they were back then!
Public Enemy "Fear of a Black Planet"
If you're going to stand up for something make sure even the people not listening can hear you! PE has been fighting the good fight forever and sadly their themes are still as relevant today as they were back then!
Poly-Rythmo
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Day 4 - Rosa Parks Day
Fela Kuti and Afrika 70 - Zombie
Nuff said.
Fela Kuti and Afrika 70 - Zombie
Nuff said.
Piratenovelist
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I’d love to participate! Just need to catch up so this is my official hey I’m gonna try post haha
imtheocean
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Day 4 - Rosa Parks Day - Play something that stood it's ground, and fought for what's right
This concert was held 7 years to the day after the Watts Uprising and set to commemorate that event and the societal awareness that came from it. Every movement has a start.
Various Artists ~ Wattstax: The Living Word
This concert was held 7 years to the day after the Watts Uprising and set to commemorate that event and the societal awareness that came from it. Every movement has a start.
Various Artists ~ Wattstax: The Living Word
