June 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge - Red (N&G's Version)

17 – The Moment I Knew- Now we’re into the Deluxe cuts. This is the first track once you get past the standard edition and it does make sense to why it was cut originally given it’s a bit reminiscent of a portion of All Too Well. Play a Deluxe or Expanded Album

High on Fire - Art of Self Defense

This version has a 2nd LP that contains a couple of bonus tracks and their 1999 self-titled demo.

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15 – Starlight I was this many days old when I learned this was about Ethel and Bobby Kennedy. Go figure right? Given she says as much in the lyrics that just proves I don’t listen to lyrics that well, so

Play an album where you don’t really listen to the lyrics

Kinda cheating but, I'm really in the mood for it.

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda

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13 – The Lucky One – Sharing a title with an Allison Krauss song and is one of the rare Swift songs that appears to be about someone that isn’t in her personal circle in some way.

Play an album that had (either for you or others) substantial anticipation prior to its release.

The 4 year wait since their last album created some substantial anticipation with me...and it turned out to be a great album, too.

Mastodon – Hushed And Grim
Reprise Records – 093624877790, 2021

Deluxe variant - clear vinyl and gold foiled sleeve

Cut by Joe Nino-Hernes at Sterling Sound

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14 – Everything Has Changed The second of two duets on this album, this one with Ed Sheeran, is about that feeling of finding someone new who really rattles up your world.

Play an album that changed how you listen to music.

The summer of 1991 was right before I began high school. Gone were the days of playing outside and riding bikes with friends and started the days of friends getting drivers licenses and cars. More just hanging out in the house listening to music or hanging out in a parking lot listening to music...thinking we were getting away with smoking underage.

This album started my journey to listening to music - and owning more and more albums. I know people think it was a weaker form of Metallica, but it got me on my journey...I did purchase all the previous albums - in longbox CD form, eventually that year, but also got me into more music.

This is the year of Nevermind, Badmotorfinger, Sailing The Seas Of Cheese, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Ten, Steady Diet Of Nothing, Out Of Time, Loveless...etc.

It was a great year to get into music, unfortunately I was in the middle of nowhere Illinois. Sam Goody/Musicland in the mall about 20 miles away was really the only source of music, as there wasn't any local shops in town. I mowed a lot of lawns that summer.

Metallica – Metallica
Elektra – 61113-1, 1991

Cut at Sterling Sound
Pressed at Specialty Records Corporation

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Play an album where the artist is shifting their identity (Musically or Otherwise)

Metallica - Metallica

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Halfway through this when I see that @LeeVing just played it for another prompt. I’m still going with it.

Many “thrash Metallica” fans lost their minds when Metallica put this out. They lost their minds even more with Load and again with Reload. I think it’s all enjoyable, it’s nice that they gave us a variety to pick from depending on your mood. But what do I know? I enjoy St Anger.
 
15 – Starlight I was this many days old when I learned this was about Ethel and Bobby Kennedy. Go figure right? Given she says as much in the lyrics that just proves I don’t listen to lyrics that well, so

Play an album where you don’t really listen to the lyrics

I'm gonna be straight with you all....I really don't listen to lyrics all that much. I rarely memorize them. I usually get them totally wrong if I try to sing along. I don't even look at lyric sheets if they are included. Back when I had all the time in the world I'd sit down with the cd sleeve and read along with the song, play it on repeat and get all the words down. But I just don't like to do that anymore.


I may hum or nod my head...but rarely will I ever actually sing along with music.



I didn't really need this new reissue, but I wanted to see if it was a repress of the 2020 reissue, and it is. It also goes along with all the other colored reissue that they are releasing.

Slipknot – Slipknot
Roadrunner Records – RR 8655-1, 1999/2022

Pressed by Precision/GZ

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18 – Come Back…Be Here: The track is another one that draws on themes of other songs (distance in relationships eventually crumbling them), albeit with a very different tone to it. Play an album about or that references New York

Antique store haul comes through. There’s so real cool minutiae on this one. It was recorded in 1971 at The Gaslight, a club in Greenwich Village that closed down the same year, so he was likely among the last performers there. It’s been repressed and released in other formats over the years but only the first couple pressings reference NY in the title. The club hosted luminaries in its short time including Dylan and Joni, and by the end was a go to for the folk-blues contingent.

It was also the inspiration for The Gaslight Anthem’s band name.

Just a rock solid set of blues.

Mississippi Fred McDowell - Live in New York

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18 – Come Back…Be Here: The track is another one that draws on themes of other songs (distance in relationships eventually crumbling them), albeit with a very different tone to it
Play an album about or that references New York

I'll leave Lou for someone else this time. I'm putting my trust in y'all that it'll be represented.

Here's another NY band, recorded live in NY, performing a song about NY. The NYC hat trick...



LCD Soundsystem - The Long Goodbye Live At Madison Square Garden

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16- Begin Again – The title pretty-indicative of what you’re getting. This is also one of the small handful of songs that still linked itself to the country world before she went full on pop.

Play an album where the artist is shifting their identity (Musically or Otherwise)


Aretha's debut on Atlantic and transition from the jazzy thing she was doing on Columbia to full-on R&B.

Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

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18 – Come Back…Be Here: The track is another one that draws on themes of other songs (distance in relationships eventually crumbling them), albeit with a very different tone to it
Play an album about or that references New York

The Strokes Is This It (2001 RCA; 2014 RCA reissue)
Includes New York City Cops plus this album is as "New York" as any.

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17 – The Moment I Knew- Now we’re into the Deluxe cuts. This is the first track once you get past the standard edition and it does make sense to why it was cut originally given it’s a bit reminiscent of a portion of All Too Well.

Play a Deluxe or Expanded Album

ROG expanded edition, it rocks

The Donnas - Spend the Night

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18 – Come Back…Be Here: The track is another one that draws on themes of other songs (distance in relationships eventually crumbling them), albeit with a very different tone to it

Play an album about or that references New York

PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

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18 – Come Back…Be Here: The track is another one that draws on themes of other songs (distance in relationships eventually crumbling them), albeit with a very different tone to it

Play an album about or that references New York

Sunflower Bean - Headful Of Sugar

The background cover photo is from Coney Island, Brooklyn NY.

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13 – The Lucky One – Sharing a title with an Allison Krauss song and is one of the rare Swift songs that appears to be about someone that isn’t in her personal circle in some way. For one of my money one of her most interesting tracks for the variance if nothing else. Also, 13 is a big Swiftie "number watch" - she often releases songs, merch, album announcements, etc. on the 13th of the month.

Play an album that had (either for you or others) substantial anticipation prior to its release.

RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke

Deadringer was one of the CDs I played 1,000 times my freshman year of college, so I was very much anticipating more RJD2.

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17 – The Moment I Knew- Now we’re into the Deluxe cuts. This is the first track once you get past the standard edition and it does make sense to why it was cut originally given it’s a bit reminiscent of a portion of All Too Well.

Play a Deluxe or Expanded Album

Foster The People - Torches X

Deluxe edition expanded with about 5 versions of "Pumped Up Kicks."

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14 – Everything Has Changed The second of two duets on this album, this one with Ed Sheeran, is about that feeling of finding someone new who really rattles up your world.

Play an album that changed how you listen to music.

Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret

This album was one of my gateway drugs into indie rock.

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8 – Come Back…Be Here: The track is another one that draws on themes of other songs (distance in relationships eventually crumbling them), albeit with a very different tone to it
Play an album about or that references New York

Low hanging fruit. But so good.

Lou Reed ~ New York

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11 – Holy Ground – Time heals all wounds right? This one is about looking through the bad in the past to recognize the good that was and getting a bit of healing from it, so…



Play an album that someone else introduced you to (even if you don’t talk to them anymore)

Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails

So I met my best friend in 2000 (and yes, we still talk multiple times a week even if by text), right before senior year of high school and a band that he was really into that I didn't know a thing about was Jimmy Eat World. I remember listening to this album and Clarity a bunch with him that last year of high school. Good times!

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