July 2020 Record Challenge (The Raffle Strikes Back)

JULY 19
I WANT TO BELIEVE
Play something that makes you think of aliens 👽

Probably in the minority, but I thought this LP - actually a record that Grohl recorded totally solo in one week - was the apex of Foo Fighters. Still remember hearing a couple of these songs for the first time on Pearl Jam's Self Pollution radio broadcast.



Foo Fighters - S/T

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Day 19 - I WANT TO BELIEVE: Play something that makes you think of aliens
Sort of a cheat since tvham did the original just before me, but I have not listened to the 2003 Ken Scott mix in a while and I had it all teed up. So I am counting it as a different record and you cannot convince me otherwise, just like aliens, you just have to believe.

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Day 18 - Poet

I thought I was going to go with Dylan, Waits, Joni or some other hero of mine, but decided to go with a newer choice.

Nathaniel Rateliff - And It's Still Alright

He brought me in with the song SOB, locked me in with the album Tearing at the Seams and now has become one of my favorite current artists, with his lyrics being a huge reason. I feel many of his lyrics on a personal level; he writes with such grace while bearing his pained heart and worried mind.

This album is fantastic and his show at Ann Arbor Folk Fest, just he and his guitar, was breathtaking and beautiful.

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"They say you learn a lot out there
How to scorch and burn
Gonna have to bury your friends
Then you'll find it gets worse
Standing out on the ledge
With no way to get down
You start praying for wings to grow
Oh, baby, just let go"
 
JULY 15
GO IT ALONE
Solo album by someone from a previously established band

JULY 16
UNPOLISHED PRODUCTION
Play something lo-fi

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Luke LaLonde - The Perpetual Optimist

Gonna go for a twofer this quiet Sunday morning. Artists from different times that dropped the band for a moment and created a more intimate lo-fi record. Where Springsteen's tackles a setting and an atmosphere more than an introspective nature, the opposite is true for LaLonde's. Bruce howls about the every day pain and loneliness of life in the America not shown on television while Lalonde wails about the seeming emptiness of being alive today while we kill our planet and our tomorrow. Both artist's with something on their mind that they needed to shed the restraints of the sound they created with their bands in order to express.

......radio relay towers won't you lead me to my baby.....
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...you gotta turn it up so loud, because ONE DAY YOURE GONNA DIIIEEE......
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JULY 19 - I WANT TO BELIEVE

Tim Maia ‎– Racional Vol. 2 (Unoffical, 2017 Pressing)

I have shared this album and the story linked to it before. This album was recorded during his time as a member of the Racional religion (really a cult). As part of his beliefs, he quit drugs and alcohol (not bad so far), painted all his instruments white and only wore white clothes (ok...) and would perform with his band in the middle of the night, standing in fields to attract aliens with the sound of his funky music (...and I'm out). After he discovered the founder was stealing a good chunk of donations (hundreds of thousands of pounds, if not more) Maia was so embarrassed that he quit and destroyed all the albums he could get hold of.

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