I Don't Know Them: The June 2024 Vinyl Challenge Thread

Day 16: Always Be My Baby
a song that's often been acclaimed as one of her best but doesn't really do anything for me. on the flip side, play a record you love that not many other people seem to like (from your pov)

Roxy Music "Manifesto" (1979 Polydor UK)
I'm not sure what the general thought is on this, but it always seemed to me that Roxy Music fans didn't appreciate the records that were released after the band returned from their break. Sounds quite different from the early iteration of the band. The transition to what they'd become isn't complete, and it's not as accomplished as Avalon, but I really enjoy spinning this one. Some great tracks with Angel Eyes and Dance Away, plus some deep cuts I really like - Trash and Ain't That So.

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Day 16
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Wilco - Schmilco

Mostly because I’m still on a high from YHF being the generator pick on Friday and getting the chance to really delve into the album and its place in the canon. This and AM (which while slightly disappointing to me on release is a low key masterpiece - a band shedding the ghost of its former self before beginning the journey to becoming a hell of an important band in its own right) have the lowest scores on Allmusic. I spent way more time with this than Star Wars back when they arrived on the scene. It’s a sneaky album… it’s laid back and more morose than its immediate predecessor but just as varied and complicated.

(It’s also got a special place in my heart as it was the first Wilco album I owned on vinyl - being the first one released after I got back into the medium)

 
Day 14: Fantasy
Play a hip-hop or hip-hop inspired record

Childish Gambino – Because The Internet
Glassnote – GLS-0152 01, 2013/?

This is the non-limited / non-RSD release

Cut by Wes Garland at NRP
Pressed at United

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Day 17: Forever
this song made #9 on Billboard’s airplay chart, but didn’t chart on the Hot 100 thanks to Billboard’s idiotic rules on radio-only hits then. play a record or artist you first heard through the radio

This prompt reawakens some prehistoric memories.

I first started seriously getting into music when I was about 12 years old. My family had a classic console stereo with an AM/FM tuner and a turntable. As a 12-year-old in 1972, new music discovery consisted of radio. There were some records in our household, but 99% weren't quite my vibe. So if I wanted to hear new music, it was over the airwaves.

If I wanted to hear a song whenever I wanted, you had to have that thing on LP (not happening at that moment in time) or you had to have a recording.

I had a shoebox cassette recorder with an external mic not unlike the pic below...

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Long story short, I'd set up in front of the stereo console with the shoebox recorder and mic and tape stuff off the speaker system so I could hear it whenever I wanted. Thinking back, this is probably the primitive germination of my live taping mindset. I'm thankful that gene was nurtured.

AM radio wasn't the greatest fidelity, but back then you could dial in late night and pick up stations from literally 1000's of miles away. Lots of diverse stuff to hear outside of my little rural Western NC town. One of the first bands I made a connection with over AM radio was Creedence Clearwater Revival. And I taped a lot of their songs on that old shoebox recorder.

I bought my first LP at 13 and things changed. But the influence and musical appreciation I gained over AM radio still shapes what I dig today.



Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willie And The Poor Boys

This album peaked at #3 on the US charts.

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Day 17: Forever
this song made #9 on Billboard’s airplay chart, but didn’t chart on the Hot 100 thanks to Billboard’s idiotic rules on radio-only hits then. play a record or artist you first heard through the radio

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III

I remember hearing Lollipop and A Milli constantly when this record came out my senior year of high school.

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Day 15: One Sweet Day
Play a record dedicated to a loved one (whether by the artist or by yourself)

"Dedicated To The Memory Of Tobe Hooper R.I.P." is etched in the runout of side A

While Waxwork Records is planning to release the first ever score to the original movie (that isn't a bootleg) - this is the score to the 2000 documentary about the movie.


Fun fact relevant to this month's theme - The cinematographer of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Daniel Pearl, is credited as the cinematographer for a variety of Mariah Carey's videos.

Mark Fox – Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (Original Soundtrack)
Pure Destructive Records – PDR008, 2018

"Look what your brother did to the door!" variant, limited to 200 copies.

Cut by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering

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Day 16: Always Be My Baby
Play a record you love that not many other people seem to like (from your pov)

For some reason, this is on the bottom of a lot of The Jam album rankings - and I have no idea why. I may have a bias in that this was one of my first albums of theirs.

The Jam – This Is The Modern World
Polydor – PD-1-6129, 1977

White Label Promo

Pressed at Columbia, Pitman

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Day 16: Always Be My Baby
Play a record you love that not many other people seem to like (from your pov)

I don't know that it's not liked, but you don't see this album referenced as much in Neil conversations. I spent a lot of time with it (and the DVD from the tour) when my son was super young and colicky, and consequently lots of late nights trying to get him to sleep. One of those albums (especially Razor Love) that spoke to me at just the right time.

Neil Young ~ Silver & Gold

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Day 17: Forever
Play a record or artist you first heard through the radio

For the most part, the 2000's were pretty much a blur. My wife and I started dating, got married, moved to Oregon, and had a baby by 2006. So...I got busy adulting. I really didn't have much of a life outside of work, but I did have Sirius in my car, so I would occasionally here something new to me that I hadn't heard before.


I think it was their cover of Holy Diver that at least piqued my interest when I heard it on Octane - and being poor, I went straight to downloading obtaining their albums via whatever peer-to-peer service was good at the time (I used Soulseek a lot).

This was also during the time when I'd go shoot pool with friends and play the whole of Dio's Holy Diver album in order on the jukebox. So hearing this cover was kinda interesting.

I really hadn't delved into the whole Metalcore sub-genre much at the time, so I really wasn't too familiar with them.

I was glad to see Run Out Groove release at least 2 of their albums, via their vote system 3/4 years ago. Most of their output is still OOP, though.

Killswitch Engage – As Daylight Dies
Run Out Groove/Roadrunner Records – ROGV-111, 2006/2021

Limited/Numbered to 6450, #195

Cut by Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering
Pressed at Record Industry

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Day 17: Forever

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While it didn’t make the Hot 100 because of no physical single release, it made the top 10 on both Billboard & R&R’s CHR airplay charts.

Anyway, here’s my pick for today…

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - “Two Tribes”

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I first heard of this song & FGTH through the radio. …well, GTA Radio specifically.


(it’s the first song in the station’s rotation, so you don’t have to search for it)
 
Day 18: Honey
the first song/video to present a sexier image of Mariah as she would soon be free from the constraints she faced under her label boss/ex-husband Tommy Mottola. play a record that accompanied an image change.

St. Vincent - St. Vincent

Annie changes up her look/image, every new album cycle.

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Day 17: Forever
Play a record or artist you first heard through the radio

Growing up in LA in the 70's I was blessed with not one, but two powerhouse radio stations, KMET and KLOS. Both had great DJ's (Jim Ladd worked at both over the years) and played the deep long cuts that you wouldn't hear on other stations. Driving around in the Pinto Wagon listening to Led Zeppelin is a core childhood radio memory.

Led Zeppelin ~ ZOSO

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