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

July 3 - I’m Jim Morrison, I’m Dead.
Play the album/song you want played at your funeral

"I wanted to write a song that presented a resigned, even joyful look at doom," recalls David Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "At our deaths and at the apocalypse... (always looming, folks). I think it succeeded."

I never thought about this really but, Road to Nowhere could be it.
Are we going nowhere? Are we going to paradise?

Talking Heads - Little Creatures

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gafacaode said:
July 2 - Here comes the summer winter (in the Northern Southern hemisphere)
play something that makes you think of summer. If you live south of the equator play something that makes you think of winter.

Sigur Rós - Agætis Byrjun

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EDIT: Aaaaaaand album was cut short by wife. "Why are we listening to whales singing?"
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Our copy of this is my wife's, but I get similar response if she comes home to me playing Sun Ra:

"Why are they abusing their instruments like that?"

"Are they beating saxophone players in a hockey bag?"

"Is this the one where they drop a dozen pianos off a bridge?"

Etc.
 
July 4 - I’m so Bored with the U.S.A. - Play a record by a non-USian artist.

She was technically born here but lived nearly all of her life in the U.K. This was posted in the non-definitive thread and I can verify it is a robust, strong, great pressing of one of my favorite albums of the year. Kind of irksome that some songs are missing and that it was kinda pricy to get but she feels like a star waiting to happen.

Celeste - Not My Muse

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I need to catch up with yesterday's... but it made me realize that I've never thought about music for my funeral. I was raised in a religion where funerals have only hymns played, and never, ever "worldly" music, so I've never even considered the possibility before! (Same is true of weddings, my wife and I don't have a "wedding song" or anything like that.)
 
waruv said:
July 4 - I’m so Bored with the U.S.A. - Play a record by a non-USian artist.

She was technically born here but lived nearly all of her life in the U.K. This was posted in the non-definitive thread and I can verify it is a robust, strong, great pressing of one of my favorite albums of the year. Kind of irksome that some songs are missing and that it was kinda pricy to get but she feels like a star waiting to happen.

Celeste - Not My Muse

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Did you wait for the later pressing that includes "Stop This Flame" or did you pick up the early pressing?
 
LeSamourai said:
I need to catch up with yesterday's... but it made me realize that I've never thought about music for my funeral. I was raised in a religion where funerals have only hymns played, and never, ever "worldly" music, so I've never even considered the possibility before! (Same is true of weddings, my wife and I don't have a "wedding song" or anything like that.)
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I never really thought about it either so it was tough to pick yesterday.

But since I like to think of more useless things, I had given thought to what my entrance song would be (think entrance song for a wrestler, but instead the theme that's played in any room to announce that you're about to enter).

It's this, because you know, I like the incongruity with the actual me.

 
waruv said:
Sadly, the early press. I took a shot and didn't win. At some point I'll have to pick up the full album even as good as this one sounds
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I ended up waiting and it worked out for a change. If it's any comfort, the later press is the one I was referring to in the non-definitive thread, so that pressing is very nice too if ever you decide to update yours.
 
Turbo said:
I never really thought about it either so it was tough to pick yesterday.

But since I like to think of more useless things, I had given thought to what my entrance song would be (think entrance song for a wrestler, but instead the theme that's played in any room to announce that you're about to enter).

It's this, because you know, I like the incongruity with the actual me.

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I've yet to have actual need for an entrance song, but this has been my pick for 20+ years anyway!

 
July 3 - I’m Jim Morrison, I’m Dead.
Play the album/song you want played at your funeral

Clint Mansell - The Fountain

The closing track, "Together We Will Live Forever," would make a great piano solo for a funeral.

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