July 2020 Record Challenge (The Raffle Strikes Back)

JULY 16
UNPOLISHED PRODUCTION
Play something lo-fi

Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith

I was going to play this one yesterday, but I was beaten to the punch. Elliott was such a great songwriter that his songs shine whether basement-recorded lo-fi and full of tape hiss (like this album), or meticulously recorded with layers of strings in a studio. This one turns 25 this month.

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jamieanderson1968 said:
Day 16 - Unpolished / Lo-fi
Guided By Voices - Devil Between My Toes
So lo-fi it come only in a paper sleeve. Actually this is from the Scat GBV boxset from 1995. Did I miss someone else posting a GBV record?
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No, no one else played Guided By Voices.
There was talk among other members as to if I was going to play GBV as I am known as a massive fan of GBV and Pollard (own about 75 vinyls of GBV, Pollard, and Pollard related projects, not counting 7" singles... which makes it a shame that I am missing several white whales), and I think they were trying to allow me to do that and not have too many people play the same band on lo-fi day.
I ended up playing Sentridoh anyway.
Thank you for representing GBV with this pick! For the record, if I had played GBV, I'd have played Sandbox.
 
gaporter said:
It's interesting seeing people interpret today's theme as identifying lo-fi as a genre, I meant in more in a technical sense, like an album with not great sound quality or very bare-bones production. I'm not sure how I would define lo-fi as a musical style tbh.
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i have opinions and they are strong but I don’t want to diss anyone’s picks in here despite me feeling strongly they deserve it!

I’ll just leave this instead of the wall of text I wrote first:
www.last.fm

lo-fi wiki | Last.fm

Find out the history of lo-fi music, facts, and prominent artists. Listen online to lo-fi music and get recommendations on other music you'll love.
www.last.fm www.last.fm
 
debianlinux said:
i have opinions and they are strong but I don’t want to diss anyone’s picks in here despite me feeling strongly they deserve it!

I’ll just leave this instead of the wall of text I wrote first:
www.last.fm

lo-fi wiki | Last.fm

Find out the history of lo-fi music, facts, and prominent artists. Listen online to lo-fi music and get recommendations on other music you'll love.
www.last.fm www.last.fm
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I feel deb’s judgement weighing down on me and welcome it 😂
 
MadLucas said:
No, no one else played Guided By Voices.
There was talk among other members as to if I was going to play GBV as I am known as a massive fan of GBV and Pollard (own about 75 vinyls of GBV, Pollard, and Pollard related projects, not counting 7" singles... which makes it a shame that I am missing several white whales), and I think they were trying to allow me to do that and not have too many people play the same band on lo-fi day.
I ended up playing Sentridoh anyway.
Thank you for representing GBV with this pick! For the record, if I had played GBV, I'd have played Sandbox.
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It was a toss up between Sandbox and Devil, but I hadn't listened to Devil in ages.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
LOL! No, but he sure as hell used that wiki page to justify his position. Though the Wiki pages cited sources are spurious. I think one of them was the All Music Lo-Fi page that contradicts the point of the album being listed as Lo-Fi. It was a whole thing. I think @GentleSenator (amongst others) wanted to punch us with the all the back and forth. Like how could anyone classify “Good Vibrations” as Lo-fi?
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you, my friend, were reasonable when sorting that fiasco on discogs out. mr. lo-fi was the nutter.
 
JULY 16
UNPOLISHED PRODUCTION
Play something lo-fi

Free Cake For Every Creature - Talking Quietly of Anything With You

Extremely twee local DIY indie rock. I saw their last show ever in May of last year in batting cages that moonlighted as a DIY venue but has since closed (RIP). This album was my first ever entry into Discogs, which I've only ever done in emergency situations.


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DAY 17
LET THE MUSIC DO THE TALKING
Vitamin String Quartet - Performs Radiohead's In Rainbows
Haven't pulled this out in a long time, but with the boxset of the original album currently on its way to me, I figured this would help get me hyped for it! I got this pretty cheap at a record store a few years ago, it was more or less one of those "why not?" kind of purchases. I will say this is a fairly solid reinterpretation of the album, but I am a sucker for strings. It's obviously not a replacement for the original in any way, shape or form, but that's not really what these kind of releases are supposed to be anyway. It's fun to put on and just listen to casually, especially when it's renditions of an album you know like the back of your hand.
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July 15 Solo

Sting " The Soul Cages"

This is one of my favorite Sting records. I think he had some great records after the split of The Police.

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July 16th
Lo-Fi

Chester Watson "Project 0"
This is an amazing lo-fi hiphop album.

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July 17th

Instrumental

Melt yourself down "Melt yourself down"

Incredible rhythms, makes me wanna get up immediately and move. It includes a few sung lines, but no traditional songs with lyrics. Really great album. ❤

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gaporter said:
DAY 17
LET THE MUSIC DO THE TALKING
Vitamin String Quartet - Performs Radiohead's In Rainbows
Haven't pulled this out in a long time, but with the boxset of the original album currently on its way to me, I figured this would help get me hyped for it! I got this pretty cheap at a record store a few years ago, it was more or less one of those "why not?" kind of purchases. I will say this is a fairly solid reinterpretation of the album, but I am a sucker for strings. It's obviously not a replacement for the original in any way, shape or form, but that's not really what these kind of releases are supposed to be anyway. It's fun to put on and just listen to casually, especially when it's renditions of an album you know like the back of your hand.
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Soon to be member of the diskbox crew!
 
17 - Instrumentals

My collection may 30% such music (electronic) but my listening shelf is pretty sparse of it these days. Also, a great deal of what I’ve kept over the years has reached that too valuable to play status I keep battling in my mind. At any rate, here’s a less than stellar record by a pretty stellar artist I recently landed as a double lp with cd for $8 new and shipped so how could I say no?

Ulrich Schnauss - A Long Way to Fall

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JULY 14
😍
Play an album about/with a lot of songs about love

Garth Brooks - No Fences

This album is chock full of songs about some sort of love.
There's the song where a woman loves a man, but he's been lovin other women, so she waits up for him during a thunder storm.
There's the song where spurned, rejected, and forgotten lovers go to the bar to nurse their wounds and maybe start the vicious cycle of loving and losing all over again.
There's the song where two people are madly in love. They've found their soul mate in one another and they want to tell the whole world about how much they are in love and that they are straight bangin on the regular!
There's the song about someone in love, but the other person does not share their feelings. They are a victim of love, blinded by their desire, unable to see that the other person doesn't feel the same. Love is a game and there must be a loser or some such shit.
There's the song where the creep shows up to his ex-lover's fancy party uninvited and brags about how all his friends are gutter-people. He realizes no one wants him there so says he do the honorable thing and leave.......after he drinks their booze for an hour, first.
There's the song about the guy who loves himself and his hobbies more than the woman he left at home. He starts the song talking about how he repeatedly chooses his rodeo fun over his lover and he seems pretty okay about. Like, "this is how I am you're the idiot who chose to be with me".
There's the song about how sometimes you love the wrong person and, even if it doesn't seem so at the time, sometimes losing that love is the best thing that can happen to you. Because then you see that person later in life at a football game and think, "boy am I glad I avoided that train wreck" or some such shit.
There's the song about people dancing with their lovers and thinking the whole time about how they're going to leave them or that they wish to.
There's the self-loathing sad-sack song about how a love is lost and all the guy can do is feel sorry for himself and pine for her like a jackass.
Then the last song might be about fuckin wolves or some such shit. Maybe not, I don't know I'm too busy crying and divorcing my wife because all love is hopeless. Except that one love where you bang all the time and work on filling your house. Or some such shit.

.....we'll find some country music on the radi-adi-oooooh!!
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JULY 17 - LET THE MUSIC DO THE TALKING

Lee Morgan - City Lights (Blue Note, 1957 First Mono Pressing)

I just love this record from start to finish. Its different to a lot of his other albums (still hard bop) and I think the inclusion of Curtis Fuller on trombone plays a key part in this. Killer music.

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JULY 17
LET THE MUSIC DO THE TALKING
Play something instrumental

Forest Swords - Compassion

I have a lot of instrumental electronic and post rock in my collection, since my speakers are in the living room and reading on the couch is my default listening activity. Today, I felt like spinning Forest Sword's sophomore album, which I guess technically has samples of humans singing, but they're warped and chopped to the point of being part of the soundscape.

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