July 2021 Vinyl Spin Challenge: Summer Breeze Makes Me Feel Fine

[LeSamourai]

July 20 - The moon landing was fake
Play something spacey or makes you think of sci-fi

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

Self-explanatory choice, I think...

 

[AndySlash]

july 23 - amazing cover



don gibson - look who’s blue

the actual cover has seen better days but i love this artwork by robert engle.

 

[Turbo]

July 23 - Amazing cover.
Play a record with great artwork (bonus points if it is not Peter Seville, Reid Miles or Vaughan Oliver designed)

Rolling Blackouts C.F. "Hope Downs" (2018 Sub Pop)
We all know those classic album covers so I thought I'd go with something more contemporary for today's theme. There's something that grabs me about that half-empty (or is it half-full) pool on the cover. The mostly empty pool and dead leaves floating it the remaining water evokes the end of the summer holidays. But Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever's jangle pop has some optimism to it.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

July 23 - Amazing cover.
Play a record with great artwork (bonus points if it is not Peter Seville, Reid Miles or Vaughan Oliver designed)

Rolling Blackouts C.F. "Hope Downs" (2018 Sub Pop)
We all know those classic album covers so I thought I'd go with something more contemporary for today's theme. There's something that grabs me about that half-empty (or is it half-full) pool on the cover. The mostly empty pool and dead leaves floating it the remaining water evokes the end of the summer holidays. But Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever's jangle pop has some optimism to it.

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Just from a photograph perspective, that is perfect composition

 

[gafacaode]

July 21 - Lollapalooza (Vancouver 1992)
Play a band that you love seeing play live

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, October 2018, São Paulo, best concert I've ever been to.

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Nice uplifting album to start the weekend with

 

[gafacaode]

Nice uplifting album to start the weekend with

My wife's reaction when I'm listening to Nick Cave:
Are you okay?

 

[gafacaode]

July 22 - Today’s Tom Sawyer/He gets high on you
Play something that makes you want to play air guitar/drums/key-tar

Let's air guitar the shit out of this house!!!!

The Cult - Sonic Temple

 

[LeSamourai]

July 21 - Lollapalooza (Vancouver 1992)
Play a band that you love seeing play live

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

I saw him on this tour, and the experience made me feel like I always imagined I was supposed to feel during all those years at church...

 

[Turbo]

July 22 - Today’s Tom Sawyer/He gets high on you
Play something that makes you want to play air guitar/drums/key-tar

Let's air guitar the shit out of this house!!!!

The Cult - Sonic Temple

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That and Electric are two albums I've had on my wishlist forever. The price of the reissues never seem to drop. How does the pressing sound?

 

[LeSamourai]

July 22 - Today’s Tom Sawyer/He gets high on you
Play something that makes you want to play air guitar/drums/key-tar

Bask - Ramble Beyond

These guys have 3 albums, and they are all riff city- let the air guitar heroics begin!

 

[gafacaode]

That and Electric are two albums I've had on my wishlist forever. The price of the reissues never seem to drop. How does the pressing sound?

This is the pressing I have:
Sonic Temple by The Cult. #DiscographicApp
The Cult – Sonic Temple (2019, 30th Anniversary, Vinyl)

And it appropriately rocks!
It's the kind of record you put on and can't help but smile from the moment Sun King starts. Edie is such an amazing song.
I also have this Electric pressing:
Electric Peace by The Cult. #DiscographicApp
The Cult – Electric Peace (2013, Gatefold, Vinyl)

And it sounds great too. The Peace version is great and I kinda like it more.

 

[Kris]

July 21 - Live
I go to pretty much every show within 100 miles so it guts me to not be at tonight’s show, but I’m sure I’ll see them soon enough.
Remember when iTunes did a free song a week? It was one from this album one week. I think it was “Closer to You”. I’ve been a fan since!

Brandi Carlile - Brandi Carlile

 

[avecigrec]

Today’s Tom Sawyer/He gets high on you

Idris Muhammad - House Of The Rising Sun


Other than that one bit of that one Phil Collins song, I don't think any song has hit me with the urge to air drum more than "Sudan" does.

 

[avecigrec]

Amazing cover

Ashley Henry - Beautiful Vinyl Hunter


So many directions one could go with this prompt! This is the one that came to mind for me this evening, I love its textures very much.

 

[RowBearToe]

July 24 - Speaking of covers... - Play a record with a great cover song on it.

Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas

Lianne's cover of Weird Fishes by Radiohead is fantastic!

 

[gafacaode]

July 23 - Amazing cover.
Play a record with great artwork (bonus points if it is not Peter Seville, Reid Miles or Vaughan Oliver designed)

I'm going with a classic one.

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

 

[gafacaode]

July 24 - Speaking of covers...
Play a record with a great cover song on it.

Aladdin Sane has Bowie covering the Stones and my initial impulse was to go with Pinups next, a whole album of Bowie doing covers.
But this album has him doing Neil Young and The Pixies!

David Bowie - Heathen



And the artwork is great too!

 

[LeeVing]

July 24 - Speaking of covers...

I was originally thinking of something else, but I have this in my "new-to-me" stack and want to start filing them away.

I skipped a lot of his solo stuff after The Sinister Urge, so this is the first time I've heard this one all the way through as I go back and pick up what I can....I think Hellbilly Deluxe 2 is the last that hasn't had a reissue...and 2010 copies are a bit pricey.

Rob Zombie ‎– Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
Zodiac Swan Records ‎– B0018101-01, 2013

Cut by Ron McMaster

 

[Hemotep]

July 24 - Speaking of covers...

I was originally thinking of something else, but I have this in my "new-to-me" stack and want to start filing them away.

I skipped a lot of his solo stuff after The Sinister Urge, so this is the first time I've heard this one all the way through as I go back and pick up what I can....I think Hellbilly Deluxe 2 is the last that hasn't had a reissue...and 2010 copies are a bit pricey.

Rob Zombie ‎– Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
Zodiac Swan Records ‎– B0018101-01, 2013

Cut by Ron McMaster

I've regretted not just getting the boxset that had Hellbilly Deluxe 2 in it when udiscover let you stack those discounts last year. Don't know why that's the only way to buy it still.

And I love this cover, but they sent me three picture discs of this as replacements no matter how I explained I ordered the regular edition and they kept sending me the wrong thing anyway.