June 2020 Record Challenge Thread (The RAFFLE continues!)

Wednesday (17) – Older Adolescent: Ahh college and the introduction to godspeed, how did your tastes change.

Spent my college daze in Chapel Hill. At the time, freshmen were required to live on campus. At the end of your first year, you had to enter a lottery to stay in the dorm. We were promptly booted and ended up in an apartment. This brought the amenity of cable TV and just happened to coincide with the launch of MTV.

Now, y'all are gonna think I'm crazy, but for the longest time MTV actually showed music. Nothing but, in fact. 24/7. No contrived reality bullshit. Just music. Music.

A few bands were out front in the video movement. They saw visuals as a way to enhance the music, not be the music which lead to so much contrived garbage and that's a whole other conversation for a later date.

One of those bands was The Psychedelic Furs. I'd heard of them but never really been exposed. The video for Pretty In Pink from this record was an MTV staple and the 80s Alternative door was kicked in for me.

The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk



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Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
Wednesday (17) – Older Adolescent: Ahh college and the introduction to godspeed, how did your tastes change.

Spent my college daze in Chapel Hill. At the time, freshmen were required to live on campus. At the end of your first year, you had to enter a lottery to stay in the dorm. We were promptly booted and ended up in an apartment. This brought the amenity of cable TV and just happened to coincide with the launch of MTV.

Now, y'all are gonna think I'm crazy, but for the longest time MTV actually showed music. Nothing but, in fact. 24/7. No contrived reality bullshit. Just music. Music.

A few bands were out front in the video movement. They saw visuals as a way to enhance the music, not be the music which lead to so much contrived garbage and that's a whole other conversation for a later date.

One of those bands was The Psychedelic Furs. I'd heard of them but never really been exposed. The video for Pretty In Pink from this record was an MTV staple and the 80s Alternative door was kicked in for me.

The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk



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MadLucas said:
"We can't deny there are spirits in this house."
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Oh man, this just triggered me :D I had a weird vinyl related experience that I can only put down to me sleep-walking (which I've never done before, that I'm aware of).

I have a cabinet with sliding doors that houses my vinyl and turntable. I also have a display cabinet separate to that with a little glass door on it. For a while now I've had the "The Place Beyond the Pines" LP sitting in it facing outwards, just because. Yesterday evening I slid the doors open to play a record and noticed the soundtrack LP was sitting alongside my other records. The spine was facing in so the back was facing me, definitely not how I'd have moved it. The night before I'd been playing records too, and it wasn't there.

I hadn't even noticed that it wasn't in the usual spot. I do not recall moving this. I wasn't drunk. My fiance was over at the time and I asked her if she moved it, "Definitely not." What the hell? Spooky.
 
Thursday (18) – Hype up an *artist* that created some art for a band you love.

One of my favorite covers. This was designed by Dean Stockwell, the actor you may know from 100's of movies like Blue Velvet, Married To The Mob and Paris, TX. He was also a child star in the 40's and on the TV series Quantum Leap.

Neil wanted something that would parody rock and roll excess and Dean came up with the concept - Neil, a star in America, passed out face-down on a glass floored bar next to a spittoon with a clear night sky above. It works.

Neil Young - American Stars 'N Bars

As the official release of the shelved NY album Homegrown is upon us, here's a song that escaped those sessions and was reworked for ASAB...



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Day 16: Prints

This is a ~ 23” x 33” poster that is included in this 3xLP Japanese only compilation.

Not sure who painted it...it could be credited on the reverse, but it's the complete lyrics of the set and other writings all in Japanese.

Bob Dylan ‎– Eleven Years In The Life Of Bob Dylan
CBS/Sony ‎– SOPI 11~13, 1973

Japanese-only 3 LP compilation - with poster

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Day 18 – Hype up an *artist* that created some art for a band you love.

This man doesn't need to by hyped AT ALL, but any chance to talk about him is more than welcome. Stanley Mouse has created some of the most iconic album art and rock posters EVER!
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Journey, Grateful Dead, Steve Miller Band and many more :)
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Day 17: Older Adolescent

My musical tastes didn't really change once I started college - I started off still living at home going to a Junior College to get some credits...that lasted a year and a half, then I needed to get out.

Even moving away didn't really change what I was into at the time. The "techno" stuff mentioned above happened a few years later - after I had flunked out of college (the first time...Third time's the charm, right?)

Rage Against The Machine ‎– Evil Empire
Epic ‎– E 57523, 1996

Original US pressing

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Day 17: Artist.

Going with another that I have on my wall. Andrew Swainson has done the artwork around various XTC related releases over the last 20+ years, starting with the 1998 box set Transistor Blast.

XTC ‎– Apple Venus Volume One
Ape House ‎– APELP118, 1999/2018

Cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering

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I originally bought the "Jaws" print - but he also sent these 2 others that I need to find frames for still.

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While the artwork below is from Andy Partridge, Andrew Swainson made the screen prints.

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Day 18: Artist

Wes Freed has done a bunch of covers for the Drive-By Truckers. I think his art took me in as much as the music did initially, definitely set the mood before you even put the album on.

When this album came out in 2004, one of our local record stores (Lous Records in Encinatas, CA!) did a giveaway for a signed print of the cover which I somehow won. Signed by the lineup at the time - Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, Brad Morgan, and Jason Isbell.

Good album for playing loud - and given that my neighbor started jackhammering up their backyard at 8:30 this morning, that's exactly what I'm doing.

Drive-By Truckers ~ The Dirty South

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AnthonyI said:
Day 18 – Hype up an *artist* that created some art for a band you love.

This man doesn't need to by hyped AT ALL, but any chance to talk about him is more than welcome. Stanley Mouse has created some of the most iconic album art and rock posters EVER!
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Journey, Grateful Dead, Steve Miller Band and many more :)
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This is my favourite from the same family. Such a great style.
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Day 18 – Hype up an *artist* that created some art for a band you love.

Lee Morgan - City Lights (Blue Note, 1957 First Mono Pressing)

If theres one thing that I have learnt during this run, its that @Poly-Rythmo is always one step ahead of me when it comes to these posts! I too planned on sharing one by Lee Morgan today, with artwork by Reid Miles. I chose 'City Lights' as it actually moves away from the usual design's they went for (which tended to be a cropped photo of the musician with a coloured filter). Instead, with this one they had Morgan pose (without his instrument) and overlaid numerous fluorescent theatre lights in a collage effect. Its not a technique or style that's really seen that often with Reid Miles' Blue Note output, and one that always interested me. Was it an experiment to see if they liked it? Either way, I think its pretty cool.

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Thursday (18) – Hype up an *artist* that created some art for a band you love.

Sublime - 40 Oz. To Freedom

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Artist: Opie Ortiz (also the singer of Long Beach Dub Allstars)

"Opie Ortiz is the man responsible for creating the large "Sublime" tattoo (which also serves as the Sublime album cover and primary band logo) stretched across Bradley Nowell's back. "I wanted to tattoo my friend's and thought of the places it would hurt the most," says the 27 year old Ortiz. "So I told Brad to get it on his stomach, really big. But he was too chubby and tattooing through fat is hard, so i conned him into getting it on his back - it was easy and he was stoked. We were drinking beers and he didn't seem to mind." Ortiz also created the "Brad memorial piece" tattoos for Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh, which depicts an old mic stand and a winged guitar with Brad's name on it. These identical pieces can be found on Eric's right arm, and covering Bud's back. For their album covers, Sublime has relied on Ortiz's inspired artwork. The glowing sun on the cover of 40oz's to freedom, for instance was originally an airbrushed t-shirt design, and the drunken clown on the inside cover of Sublime was originally a sketch doodled during a stoned-out conversation about how they had spent their summer vacations. Ortiz is dissapointed that MCA wouldn't let him do something "really wild" for Second Hand Smoke, but says he is nevertheless pleased with the album's result. Currently Ortiz has taken off from his tattoo artist job at Sharky's Tattoos in Sunset Beach, California, to sing in his first band, the Long Beach Dub All Stars, though he'll return to his first love soon. "I've been doing this since I was 15," says Ortiz. "I love it, especially the pyschedelic stuff with bright colors. My mom always wanted me to be an artist."
 
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