January 2023 Spinning Challenge: Welcome To 2023

imtheocean said:
Day 19: Readers & Writers
Play an album, or an album by an artist, with literary aspersions.

Mike Watt does have a photography book he released, but I'm choosing this as I just finished the Minutemen chapter of this book last night. Really gets into the passion and drive that fueled them.

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Such an excellent read! I just finished this (finally, I started reading it a over a year ago but got distracted) a couple months ago. I think I own at least one album from each band featured except for Big Black (which I need to rectify). The most bonkers chapter is (understandably) the one about The Butthole Surfers. They were crazy. There is also a chapter in The Beastie Boys Book about the Butthole Surfers saving them from getting jumped after a show in NYC by the Beasties jumping into the Butthole Surfers car. I now assume it’s the insane touring car they describe in Our Band Could Be Your Life. It’s funny how all these things fit together.
 
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Day 19: Readers & Writers
Play an album, or an album by an artist, with literary aspersions
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Aceyalone and Mumbles "A Book of Human Language" - feels like a book come to life, dude can rap his ass off and paint vivid pictures with his words...the whole record having one producer really helps pull it all together, like a book you can't put down.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Such an excellent read! I just finished this (finally, I started reading it a over a year ago but got distracted) a couple months ago. I think I own at least one album from each band featured except for Big Black (which I need to rectify). The most bonkers chapter is (understandably) the one about The Butthole Surfers. They were crazy. There is also a chapter in The Beastie Boys Book about the Butthole Surfers saving them from getting jumped after a show in NYC by the Beasties jumping into the Butthole Surfers car. I now assume it’s the insane touring car they describe in Our Band Could Be Your Life. It’s funny how all these things fit together.
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The Black Flag chapter was bonkers too, just how intense Henry Rollins was (is) and how antagonistic the relationship was between the band and the audience. Went down a rabbit hole of watching Black Flag live show videos after reading that.

I do wish I had seen Butthole Surfers in their prime. Gibby Haynes was in town a few weeks ago with the Paul Green Rock Academy and after watching some videos of recent shows they had done, I couldn't bring myself to go.
 
imtheocean said:
The Black Flag chapter was bonkers too, just how intense Henry Rollins was (is) and how antagonistic the relationship was between the band and the audience. Went down a rabbit hole of watching Black Flag live show videos after reading that.

I do wish I had seen Butthole Surfers in their prime. Gibby Haynes was in town a few weeks ago with the Paul Green Rock Academy and after watching some videos of recent shows they had done, I couldn't bring myself to go.
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Yeah, most interesting fun fact of the Black Flag portion is the Ian McKay and Rollins worked together at a DC area ice cream shop, that was some hardcore soft serve.

Surgical videos, LSD, and pissed fill wiffleball bats. I don’t know if I woulda necessarily enjoyed a prime era Butthole Surfers album but I sure as shit enjoyed reading about it.
 
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Day 19: Readers & Writers
Play an album, or an album by an artist, with literary aspersions. (@Joe Mac is “aspersions” a typo for aspirations?)

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
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Included are two books I received over the Christmas holiday (I haven’t cracked open either yet); Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns and The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan. Lots of Bobby D stories and musings heading my way in 2023. Dude also won a Nobel Prize for Literature so there’s that too.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Day 19: Readers & Writers
Play an album, or an album by an artist, with literary aspersions. (@Joe Mac is “aspersions” a typo for aspirations?)

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
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Included are two books I received over the Christmas holiday (I haven’t cracked open either yet); Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns and The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan. Lots of Bobby D stories and musings heading my way in 2023. Dude also won a Nobel Prize for Literature so there’s that too.
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I’m not actually sure what I meant. It was late I was tired. I obviously didn’t mean aspersions but it wasn’t quite aspirations either. Maybe notions? Kinda like Morrissey poncing about thinking he’s the reincarnation of Joyce or Wilde or whatever. Or writing stuff that’s very literary or alludes/tips a hat to writers/writing. Dylan’s a good choice, he kinda fits all that garbled nonsense that I’ve just written.
 
imtheocean said:
Day 19: Readers & Writers
Play an album, or an album by an artist, with literary aspersions.

Mike Watt does have a photography book he released, but I'm choosing this as I just finished the Minutemen chapter of this book last night. Really gets into the passion and drive that fueled them.

Amazon product ASIN 0316787531
Minutemen ~ Double Nickels on the Dime

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This book is next on my list!
 
Day 19: Readers & Writers
Play an album, or an album by an artist, with literary aspersions.

Margo Price - All American Made

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Margo doesn't just have literary aspirations, she recently release a memoir called Maybe We'll Make It that's been very well received.

This New York Times article is a fascinating look at Margo.

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The Unstoppable, Unsinkable, Uninhibited Margo Price

Country songs are often filled with tragedy and hard times. Price has detailed her own catalog of traumas in a memoir and her music, but also turns her lens outward on a new LP, “Strays.”
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Day 19: Readers & Writers
Play an album, or an album by an artist, with literary aspersions.

The Roots "Phrenology" (2002 MCA; 2020 club reissue)
Had to do some research for this prompt. Found out that Questlove apparently wrote a book called Mo' Meta Blues. Not sure if it's any good but gives me the excuse to spin The Roots.

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Turbo said:
Day 19: Readers & Writers
Play an album, or an album by an artist, with literary aspersions.

The Roots "Phrenology" (2002 MCA; 2020 club reissue)
Had to do some research for this prompt. Found out that Questlove apparently wrote a book called Mo' Meta Blues. Not sure if it's any good but gives me the excuse to spin The Roots.

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He's written a few now. Music is History is one of the next up in my non-fiction pile.

I loved Mo Meta Blues. I actually read it during a festival after a particularly long-haul festival season one year. My friends had their RV parked backstage at the last festival of the season and I sat at their card table with a box of wine and read all weekend when I wasn't performing, or hosting the Saturday night main stage.
 
Day 19: Readers & Writers
Play an album, or an album by an artist, with literary aspersions.

Luddites – Luddites
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Luddites vocalist bill bissett has written over 50 books of poetry (plus who knows how many chapbooks) and edited dozens more. He also published a literary periodical in the sixties called blewointment which eventually blossomed into blewointment press which he sold in 1983. He's been an important figure in the Vancouver and Toronto poetry scenes for decades and is an absolute trip. I've seen him perform nearly a dozen times and hope I get at least that many more.

My son attended his first, and so far only, poetry show at 2 years and 2 months old when bill performed about half an hour away from my folks' place:
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Day 20: It’s Friday, Let’s Party
Play something that makes you dance.

I wouldn't have normally pegged this as a dance album, but I was spinning it the other day and my teenager came in and started dancing around to Jeepster, so I'm spinning it again today and embracing the boogie.

T. Rex ~ Electric Warrior

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Day 20: It’s Friday, Let’s Party
Play something that makes you dance.

VA - DFA Compilation #2
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All of the DFA comps are amazing but #2 was always my favorite. I was stoked when they announced the release and am giddy to finally be cracking it open for a spin. This bad boy is cut at QRP and sounds absolutely booming!

If you need me I will be doing the Cabbage Patch in the kitchen while I make some lunch!

 
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