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

21 – Ronan – The story behind this one is particularly tough. It’s worth reading in full but she wrote this about a three-year old who died of cancer after an eight-month battle. She has only performed it a handful of times and is something very different than nearly anything else she’s put out. On that somber note

Play an album that reminds you of your childhood

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

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I can't even pontificate the number of times I've heard "Don't Know Why" in my youth, from the CD in my parents' car, grocery shopping, radio, and in school.
 
21 – Ronan – The story behind this one is particularly tough. It’s worth reading in full but she wrote this about a three-year old who died of cancer after an eight-month battle. She has only performed it a handful of times and is something very different than nearly anything else she’s put out. On that somber note

Play an album that reminds you of your childhood

This one came to mind after recent back & forth with @Hemotep . Brings me right back to flipping through my folks record collection. We may never pass this way again indeed...

Seals & Crofts ~ Diamond Girl

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21 – Ronan
Play an album that reminds you of your childhood

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings

This record belonged to my sister, probably given to her by a boyfriend when the album came out. I know she hated it, but I would sneak into her room and listen to it. When she moved out I swiped it from her. Wish I swiped one of her ABBA or Bobbie Gentry albums instead, because this one is garbage. I dislike Aerosmith except for a couple of songs. Seasons on Wither, is about the only song that I really like on this album and it is a good one.
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21 – Ronan
Play an album that reminds you of your childhood

Simon & Garfunkel - The Concert in Central Park

This was the first album I asked for when I was a kid. It probably is what sparked my love of live albums. My dad would play his Simon & Garfunkel albums when I was little and I loved them, but right before he died his stylus broke and it was at a time when you couldn't really get or find replacements anymore because the technology was disappearing. So after he died I wanted to hear them again and when I got this on CD I listened to it pretty much non-stop for years.
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Wicked Dreamer said:
Day 21: “Ronan”

USA for Africa - We Are the World

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Borrowing from my dad’s collection today. An album & song to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia that is also equally guilty for giving off a good amount of sound pollution in the process. the Prince song is pretty good though.
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This is an excellent read on the coordination / making of We Are The World. Much better than the song itself, but maybe not as good as the Prince track.

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'We Are the World': Inside Pop Music's Most Famous All-Nighter

35 years ago, during another world health crisis, 45 artists gathered for one of the most extraordinary recordings in music history.
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Hemotep said:
21 – Ronan
Play an album that reminds you of your childhood

Simon & Garfunkel - The Concert in Central Park

This was the first album I asked for when I was a kid. It probably is what sparked my love of live albums. My dad would play his Simon & Garfunkel albums when I was little and I loved them, but right before he died his stylus broke and it was at a time when you couldn't really get or find replacements anymore because the technology was disappearing. So after he died I wanted to hear them again and when I got this on CD I listened to it pretty much non-stop for years.
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If you're a Paul Simon fan, I highly recommend the book Paul Simon - The Life by Robert Hilburn. I thought it was a fantastic read. Lots of insight into his relationship with Garfunkel, and a great account of that concert.
 
21 – Ronan
Play an album that reminds you of your childhood

This was my mom's copy. She was into Joni, as well as Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Babs, and so many other artists that shaped my early music life. Next came my sister who had an influence as well with Styx, Elton John, The Knack and most of all Genesis. I was going to play Abacab today, but since it's 100 degrees outside, The Hissing of Summer Lawns seemed appropriate.
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ranbalam said:
If you're a Paul Simon fan, I highly recommend the book Paul Simon - The Life by Robert Hilburn. I thought it was a fantastic read. Lots of insight into his relationship with Garfunkel, and a great account of that concert.
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@Hemotep I may have a copy of this I could send your way even. If you're interested.
Barring anything unforeseen it should be NM, unread
But it'll be a week or two before I can get to my books in storage to check.
Pretty sure I still have it in the box to trade in to the shop that's still not taking trade-ins since covid began.
 
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 “new to you” discovery from 2022.

Ronnie Foster - Two Headed Freap

Didn't know about this until picking up this BN Classic. Funky AF.
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avecigrec said:
@Hemotep I may have a copy of this I could send your way even. If you're interested.
Barring anything unforeseen it should be NM, unread
But it'll be a week or two before I can get to my books in storage to check.
Pretty sure I still have it in the box to trade in to the shop that's still not taking trade-ins since covid began.
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I think I remember seeing a copy at the bookstore across the street from me and it might be cheaper than shipping if it's a used copy. So I'll check that out first. But thank you for the offer and I'll let you know!
 
21 – Ronan – The story behind this one is particularly tough. It’s worth reading in full but she wrote this about a three-year old who died of cancer after an eight-month battle. She has only performed it a handful of times and is something very different than nearly anything else she’s put out. On that somber note
Play an album of a philanthropic nature

Like every Red Hot release, all proceeds from this 10LP behemoth went to AIDS/HIV research and support.

What a fun record...

Day Of The Dead

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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 you gave away or sold that you then re-bought (or want to!)

Flobots - Fight With Tools

I sold my copy of this last week to help fund my system upgrade, and then they announced a new pressing is dropping Friday. So I'll be buying it again cause I love this album. Streaming it tonight in the meantime.

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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

Kikagaku Moyo - Live At Levitation

Yep, not here for the lyrics.

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21 – Ronan – Play an album that reminds you of your childhood

A bunch of goofy ass kids on an Air Force base in Louisiana wearing tube socks, skateboarding, breakdancing on cardboard, and playing Laser Tag. Someone got the tape for Christmas and it spent a considerable amount of time in the boombox. It was a point of pride to rap the entirety of Paul Revere during lunch break at school.

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill

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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

I listened to the first two discs this morning, so I'll finish it off with the third now. I'm loving this album so far and am hoping the extras on disc three keep the vibes pumping.

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Original Lost Elektra Sessions Deluxe
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20 – State of Grace (Acoustic Version) – Making me think of four themes for a song, rude as heck.
Play an album with strong literary or mythological references

The Plastik Beatniks – All Those Streets I Must Find Cities For
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Featuring the voice and words of Bob Kaufman, one of my all-time favourite American poets.

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"Kaufman was a jazz-inspired street poet who adhered to an oral tradition—he proclaimed his poetry in coffee houses and on the streets, seldom writing his poems down. City Lights Bookstore originally published his poems. In addition to the broadsides Abomunist Manifesto (1959), Second April (1959), and Does the Secret Mind Whisper? (1960), his works were collected in Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness (1965), The Golden Sardine (1967), and The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956–1978 (1981); they were republished in Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems by Bob Kaufman (1996). His work has been translated into French, and he gained a strong following in France."

"[H]e was known as the "black American Rimbaud."
 
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)

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

It feels like every one of the first several Beastie Boys albums was a shift in identity and what they were doing musically.
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