July 2020 Record Challenge (The Raffle Strikes Back)
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tvham
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TenderLovingKiller®
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Day 18: POETRY IN MOTION
Play an album with great lyrics
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
A master storyteller.
Play an album with great lyrics
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
A master storyteller.
BjorgenFjorgen
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With his arms outstretched? With his arms outstretched? ....shoot.
jamieanderson1968
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Day 18 - Poetry in motion
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Sadly, like so many things, his North American tour has been cancelled. A weird record for Nick and the band, almost ambient. I don't listen to Ghosteen often but when I do it hits like a sledgehammer.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Sadly, like so many things, his North American tour has been cancelled. A weird record for Nick and the band, almost ambient. I don't listen to Ghosteen often but when I do it hits like a sledgehammer.
LeSamourai
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You know, if this Dylan guy's lyrics are so good, maybe they should give him some kind of award for them or something!
TenderLovingKiller®
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and He MIGHT swing by to pick it up... if he feels like it...maybe (but probably not).You know, if this Dylan guy's lyrics are so good, maybe they should give him some kind of award for them or something!
LeSamourai
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JULY 18
POETRY IN MOTION
Play an album with great lyrics
Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
I decided to go with Isaac Brock today, because his lyrics can take you from the trailer park to the stars and back, sometimes in the same song, and he has a penchant for clever, quotable one-liners that is rare outside of hip-hop. It's also interesting to see how, on this album and The Lonesome Crowded West, he paints humanizing portraits of rural isolation and resentment that could be about today (but, really, it's just that it was always there).
POETRY IN MOTION
Play an album with great lyrics
Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
I decided to go with Isaac Brock today, because his lyrics can take you from the trailer park to the stars and back, sometimes in the same song, and he has a penchant for clever, quotable one-liners that is rare outside of hip-hop. It's also interesting to see how, on this album and The Lonesome Crowded West, he paints humanizing portraits of rural isolation and resentment that could be about today (but, really, it's just that it was always there).
tonythegamer
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Day 18:
An album with great lyrics:
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
The chronicles of a star’s downward spiral into drugs, alcohol, and prostitutes is such a genuinely fascinating look into Danny Brown’s psyche.
Getting the next few days out of the way again:
Day 19:
An album that makes me think of aliens:
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of The Human Race
The cover has an alien on it! But there’s also lots of sounds and lyrics on this album that give me space and alien vibes.
Day 20:
Play a metal album:
Gojira - Magma
not my favorite by the French progressive death metal band, but still a pretty solid effort by them. I’d be enjoying the shit out of From Mars to Sirius if I could find it for a decent price shipped to the US.
An album with great lyrics:
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
The chronicles of a star’s downward spiral into drugs, alcohol, and prostitutes is such a genuinely fascinating look into Danny Brown’s psyche.
Getting the next few days out of the way again:
Day 19:
An album that makes me think of aliens:
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of The Human Race
The cover has an alien on it! But there’s also lots of sounds and lyrics on this album that give me space and alien vibes.
Day 20:
Play a metal album:
Gojira - Magma
not my favorite by the French progressive death metal band, but still a pretty solid effort by them. I’d be enjoying the shit out of From Mars to Sirius if I could find it for a decent price shipped to the US.
Rip_City
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July 18: Poetry in Motion
Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket of Fruit
I believe our host @gaporter said that she could've selected this album for today's theme or a later theme, but she chose a Rosenstock release for today's theme so I'll take the opportunity to go with the suggestion! Perhaps not the most accessible release to dive in head first for a taste of their craft, but Jamie Stewart's use of diction and spoken word delivery is pretty twisted.
Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket of Fruit
I believe our host @gaporter said that she could've selected this album for today's theme or a later theme, but she chose a Rosenstock release for today's theme so I'll take the opportunity to go with the suggestion! Perhaps not the most accessible release to dive in head first for a taste of their craft, but Jamie Stewart's use of diction and spoken word delivery is pretty twisted.
gaporter
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I remember at the beginning of last year, a friend of mine asked me to keep him updated on new or upcoming releases to check out. One week I told him an album by a "sort of experimental" group I liked called Xiu Xiu was coming out in a few days and he was like "oh cool I'll check it out."
He suddenly didn't ask me for as many recommendations after that
day 18 - poetry in motion
pink floyd - the dark side of the moon
the music is great, of course, but this album would not have had the staying power it has had without the timeless lyrics that can resonate with pretty much everyone. and lines like ‘and then one day you find ten years have got behind you / no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun’ hit a lot different at 42 than they do when you’re 32. pretty amazing to think roger was in his late-20s when he wrote them.
pink floyd - the dark side of the moon
the music is great, of course, but this album would not have had the staying power it has had without the timeless lyrics that can resonate with pretty much everyone. and lines like ‘and then one day you find ten years have got behind you / no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun’ hit a lot different at 42 than they do when you’re 32. pretty amazing to think roger was in his late-20s when he wrote them.
debianlinux
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19 - Aliens
Tough one. I went with Big Thief’s - UFOF as it’s in the title and a recurring theme on the album. It’s the better of the two albums released last year regardless of the amnesiac year end lists that could only recall the second album they dropped in the same year.
Tough one. I went with Big Thief’s - UFOF as it’s in the title and a recurring theme on the album. It’s the better of the two albums released last year regardless of the amnesiac year end lists that could only recall the second album they dropped in the same year.