June 2020 Record Challenge Thread (The RAFFLE continues!)

DAY 10 - PUBERTY

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You know, it's interesting. I actually really liked all of my parents music, and strangely as years have passed they have come around to most of mine. Both of my parents at some point have borrowed a CD or two of mine: Portishead, Pedro the Lion, Tom Waits, The Ocean Blue...
I think this is one of those albums that is destined to be mine only and I am okay with that. It has been 25 years and this album has only grown on me with every passing listen.

EDIT: Yes, I realize the first song on this album is called "Puberty."
 
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Day 10 – Puberty – gosh parents, your music sucks, did you rebel? Play an album that takes you back to those teenage years.

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Eric B & Rakim "Don't Sweat the Technique"

Admittedly most of my rebellious coming of age music way played exclusively on cassette but this at least fits the timeframe! I have no idea why I haven't bothered to build a collection of music of my youth, it's an odd blind spot of mine that every time I feel like correcting I always go down a different rabbit hole and buy completely different records saying to myself, next time, next time I'll pull the trigger, I just never do it!
 
Thursday (11) – Hype up a bassist or keyboardist that doesn’t get enough credit

When talking about The Smiths most people just mention singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr. Bassist Andy Rourke doesn't seem to be in the spotlight that much.
For today I've chosen an album he recorded together with marvelous Dolores O' Riordan from the Cranberries. 💜 It was released in 2016, two years before her unfortunate death.

D.A.R.K. "Science agrees"
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Day 11 - underrated bassist/keyboardist

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

I think the Funk Brothers are the most underrated band. They played on many of the greatest records ever made but are pretty much unknown. They were Motowm's house band and supposedly played on more number one hits than basically anybody. Well worth checking out the documentary below. One of my favourite ever gigs were seeing them at the Royal Festival Hall in 2004 with a whole range of singers performing classic Motown songs. James Jamerson, Bob Babbitt, Earl van Dyke, Jack Ashford et al - these guys were the real deal.



 
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Skeletonframes said:
I really like this album. I listened to this one yesterday as my Africa pick, but didn't post yet. That's okay. Now, I just get to listen to another album from that brilliant box in it's place. BONUS!
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I've only re-listened to ghostly once, despite loving the ghostly label, but I've already given this zamrock a good three play throughs and have loved every second of it.
 
Day 10 - Puberty – gosh parents, your music sucks, did you rebel? Play an album that takes you back to those teenage years

Linkin Park - [Hybrid Theory] (Warner Bros. Records, 2014 Signed Pressing)

I am currently 2 days into a spring clean of my record collection (selling off the ones I no longer listen to) and stumbld across this record which fits the challenge. As an early teen I used to rock out to Linkin Park thinking they were the coolest band of all time......ah hindsight. After a couple of years I moved onto different music, but regardless I have listened to this album as a kid hundreds of times and I still feel nostalgic listening.

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Selaws said:
Day 10 - Puberty – gosh parents, your music sucks, did you rebel? Play an album that takes you back to those teenage years

Linkin Park - [Hybrid Theory] (Warner Bros. Records, 2014 Signed Pressing)

I am currently 2 days into a spring clean of my record collection (selling off the ones I no longer listen to) and stumbld across this record which fits the challenge. As an early teen I used to rock out to Linkin Park thinking they were the coolest band of all time......ah hindsight. After a couple of years I moved onto different music, but regardless I have listened to this album as a kid hundreds of times and I still feel nostalgic listening.

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I love LP, and my son would kill for that signed LP........very nice :)
 
Day 8 - Jazz

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Impressions of Japan

Say what you will about Vinyl Me Please customer service and....well service in general, but they really knock it out of the park on some releases (when you actually receive them). This is one of those. Didn’t think much of it, but keep the Classics track as an add-on because it’s been 90% remarkable. I got this sucker and it probably saw more spins than any other record in the first few weeks I had it.

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Day (10) – Puberty – gosh parents, your music sucks, did you rebel? Play an album that takes you back to those teenage years.
Björk - Homogenic (1997)

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My musical taste still works as a joke today in my family. At the end of the 90s, when my sibling were listening to cumbia and nu metal, I would blast "Pluto" as a possessed.
Twenty-something years later, when we're talking about music, somebody in my family always starts screaming "UUUUUUHHHHHH AAAAAHHHH AAAAAGGGHHHH" imitating the chorus of that song.
My mom says that Björk ruined my hability to understand music.
 

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Day 9 - Gatefold Art.
The Mothers Of Invention - We’re Only In It For The Money

A funny one this, as the inside gatefold is actually supposed to be the outside but execs didn’t like the hairy old men in dresses aping the Beatles concept so it was switched.


Honourable mention to Lotusflow3r/MPLsound which reminds me of the old website I originally got these tunes from.


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Day 11 - Hype up a bassist or keyboardist that doesn’t get enough credit

Jutta Hipp - At The Hickory House Volume 1 (Blue Note, 1956 First Mono Pressing)

I decided to bring the big guns today. While many jazz fans will be familiar with this incredible and rare recording by the pianist Jutta Hipp, they might not be aware of who the bassist is. Introduced at the beginning, "with the help of a bass man from England", Peter Ind plays fantastically on this album, never attempting to take away from Jutta but instead providing a constant and melodic bass. Ind worked with other musicians in the US, mainly Lee Konitz, and later returned to England to set up his own label, Wave. He also worked as in sound engineering for the labels Atlantic, Verve, Bethlehem, and Warwick. At 91 years of age he is still active (he played a live performance in London for his 90th birthday) playing music, painting and writing books. Most recently, he has entered the social media world by setting up an Instagram account and a Youtube channel which includes a fantastic 1hour 24min documentary. Please check his music out and give his accounts a follow (he only has 52 subscribers on Youtube but I bet we could add to that easily as a group!!), I bet it would mean a lot to him.

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