July 2020 Record Challenge (The Raffle Strikes Back)

gaporter said:
DAY 19
I WANT TO BELIEVE
Well I had hoped my copy of Benjamin Clementine's I Tell a Fly had come in by now because it is a good fit for this theme but in lieu of that, Imma break the rules! CDs are fun sometimes 👽
Outkast - ATLiens
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I had that same pioneer changer for years and years and finally sold it on Craigslist when the kids started coming.
 
Catch-up with minimal explanation.

DAY 18 - POETRY

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Red House Painters, Down Colorful Hill. This album was life-changing for a 17-year-old boy who did not know that it was okay for men to be this honest, this bare. "Medicine Bottle," "24," and "Michael" especially.

DAY 19 - I WANT TO BELIEVE

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Stereolab are definitely known for their Space-Age-Batchelor-Pad-Retro sounds, but this album start to finish sounds like a lunar mission that that makes some new friends along the way.
 
JULY 19
I WANT TO BELIEVE
Play something that makes you think of aliens 👽

Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet

Their music is always a trip, but I mainly picked this one because the mention of Mars in the title, the first planet to disappoint with its lack of aliens. There are also tracks like "The Stars Our Destination." Now, if you'll excuse, I'm headed back to space.

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DAY 20
METAL MONDAY
Khemmis - Hunted
I enjoy metal music but I find I don't own many straightforward metal albums. Some of my favorite "metal" additions to my collection are metal hybrids at best (notably John Zorn's jazz-grindcore experiment Painkiller and Poppy's I Disagree) so the conclusion to be drawn from that is I like metal aesthetics in other genres more than the genre itself. But that's not entirely true and this album helps show why. This was @Goatfish's pick for his Needles & Grooves AOTM and it's brilliant (as all the picks are). For the forumgoers(?) who are not familiar with metal it was a great entry point, accessible without being overly commercial, and for those who were more in tune with metal music prior to the month, it's just a damn good metal album. It stands as one of the few directly metal records I own and is a constant reminder I should probably own more. The album has a massive feeling to it that crushes the listener in a sea of heavy riffs and epic vocals. It's great to turn up loud and just get sucked into completely. I held off on getting it for some time but my waiting paid off since I ended up getting a pressing that sounds as awesome as it looks. Many thanks once more to @Goatfish for the exposure to this amazing pick. His guess thread was also the first one I actively followed and participated in so this pick will always have an added place in my heart for that. Leave it to me to get all sentimental and feely on the metal day.🤘🤘🤘
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DAY 20
METAL MONDAY

Of Mice & Men "Cold world"

This American band seems to belong to the sub genre of Metalcore. I've seen them play for the first time while streaming a festival from Poland a few years ago. They have been full of energy and have given a great performance. The lyrics are great, also dark and thoughtful. Their band name is taken from the John Steinbeck novel.

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20 - Metal

I had exactly 2 options and Khemmis got grabbed already, haha. I can appreciate metal but in general it’s not my speed so to speak and it’s not something the household is going to tolerate well when I want to throw a record on. I only have this record because I essentially got it for the cost of shipping at some point. I have, however, spun it several times thanks to its brevity.

Tool - Opiate

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gaporter said:
DAY 19
I WANT TO BELIEVE
Well I had hoped my copy of Benjamin Clementine's I Tell a Fly had come in by now because it is a good fit for this theme but in lieu of that, Imma break the rules! CDs are fun sometimes 👽
Outkast - ATLiens
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You’re pulling my trick! Also those pioneer CD players with the 6CD cassette is a proper throw back, my dad used to have a full system with one of them that he got back in the very early 90s, it’s still running in the house now since my bro took it over too, childhood nostalgia!
 
JULY 17
LET THE MUSIC DO THE TALKING
Play something instrumental

MIKEL - Zelda & Chill

Tunes from the Legend of Zelda universe adapted into chill beats. There's only one disappointing track on this whole album and that's Gerudo Valley. It's still good, but the original Gerudo Valley music is so good it's hard to do it any justice when changing it. If you've ever popped on one of those 3 hour "Lo-fi Hip Hop to Study and Chill and Smoke to" youtube videos, this is for you.

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JULY 18
POETRY IN MOTION
Play an album with great lyrics

The Weakerthans - Fallow

John K Samson was the first songwriter that we noticed was writing prose just as much as lyrics. When Left and Leaving came out my friend was reading lyrics from the insert on the way home from the store and it was as if he was reading straight from one of the poetry books that our pretentious, college-going, "higher-intellect" selves had strewn across our floor. I think that was what drew us to the band in the first place, really. It was indie-rock for the "smart crowd". Or at least the crowd that thought they were smart because they listened to things like The Weakerthans and Radiohead and left all that juvenile punk and pop drivel in the past. Oh the irony of being so so lame by thinking you're so so cool.

Those were the days of Napster and Limewire and there was a song that floated around our group of friends in mp3 form called Maryland Bridge and I have not been able to find it anywhere in the physical realm. It is very very good.

...stop the hardwood floors lop-sided grin.....
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Day 20 - METAL MONDAY: Play a metal (or metal-adjacent) album 🤘

Ratt- Invasion of Your Privacy

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Out of the Cellar is the album that put Ratt on the map but I actually prefer the follow up Invadion of Your Privacy. Some parts of the album haven’t held up well but Lay It Down is still a jam.
 
DAY 20 - METALLLLLL!

Having already played Morbid Angel this month, someone else spinning Khemmis, and all my other metal on CD or cassette, it fell to Maiden or Sabbath.
Then it was a question of this album, from the under-loved Paul DiAnno era, or my favorite Bruce album (Somewhere In Time).
I stand by this choice.

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Waaaay behind, going to try to catch up.

Day 12: Thanks, Tipper Gore

Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

While this RSD vinyl edition doesn't have the parental advisory sticker, the original CD in 2005 did. Don't think I have any records with the sticker, amazingly.

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Joe Mac said:
You’re pulling my trick! Also those pioneer CD players with the 6CD cassette is a proper throw back, my dad used to have a full system with one of them that he got back in the very early 90s, it’s still running in the house now since my bro took it over too, childhood nostalgia!
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My old pioneer 6 disc still works 30 years on m my sister has it now
 
Day 20: METAL MONDAY
Play a metal (or metal-adjacent) album 🤘
Orphans Of Doom - II
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I haven’t purchased much new Metal this past year but I grabbed this a few months ago during a sale from an upcoming KC metal label The Company. It rips. FYI: The N&G Metal thead is a great resource for those looking to explore the genre further.
 
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