March 2021 Challenge Thread

March 16: Forgotten FOMO - play something that FOMO made you buy, but haven't really listened to much
Gorillaz - Demon Days
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I am sure there are plenty of others that would fit the bill too. I enjoy The Gorillaz, but prior to getting deeper into the record buying community did I realize how bad I needed Demon Day on vinyl. This album is fine (TBH, I enjoy Dan The Automator’s production on their Debut more) I just remembered being sucked into the hype around it when it was finally released on wax and since adding it to my collection I’ve probably spun it twice maybe.

“DARE” is still a banger though!
 
March 17: St. Patrick's Day - The luck of the Irish...play something Irish...or Green.

My Bloody Valentine - m b v

A good day to play one of Dublin's loudest bands.

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TenderLovingKiller® said:
Looking back at the performance now, with the band surrounded by Stargazer Lilies (a common flower found at funerals) their set had a elegiac and reverent tone; it seems like an obvious end point for both the band and sadly Kurt.
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I've always thought about this performance as having such a dark foreboding sense about it. And that brief, terrified look he has at the 4:50 mark adds to all of that. Shiver indeed.
 
March 17: St. Patrick's Day - The luck of the Irish...play something Irish...or Green
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
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Not wanting revive “The Troubles” but Northern Ireland is part of Ireland (geographically speaking) and even though Van is Protestant he grew up on the Island so I am gonna go with this one...and if that doesn’t work, it’s on green wax too.
 
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Day 15 - The Ides of March
Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.

Supposedly the release of this, their debut album, sounding as muddy as it does caused Jerry Nolan to leave the band, which limped along for a bit but ended not much later. Expected it to sound a lot worse than it does with that reputation.

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March 14: National Pi Day

Discogs tells me this is "Math Rock". I guess...it sounds math rock-ish to me. I picked this up at a Goodwill or thrift store only because it was on the Homestead Records label which I knew from Big Black releases.

Phantom Tollbooth ‎– One-Way Conversation
Homestead Records ‎– HMS081, 1987

Cut by Chris Gehringer at Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs
Pressed at Hauppauge Record Manufacturing Ltd.

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Day 16 - FOMO
Oh Sees - Dead Medic

Hard category for me. I'm pretty good at not jumping on stuff that I don't like. I guess I have a couple of pre-orders I don't spin much but that is more being excited about an artist's next release than FOMO. For a while I would generally buy anything Thee Oh Sees put out, including 12"s like this so I don't miss them, as they haven't all had another press. Generally I really like them, some more than others though. Broke that trend last year for some reason, hopefully I don't come to regret it. /ramble

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The title track on this has a beeping that makes me double check that an alarm isn't going off. 🤣 Still a great jam.
 
March 15: The Ides of March - play an album that marked the beginning of the end for a band


OK...I was going to go with Reload originally, but I had to take a hard look and really come to terms that Load just isn't that good. The End started with this one.

I really wanted to like Load when it came out. The 5 year wait for a new album was hard. While it was no where near the Black Album, it had a few good tracks...but one could tell it was missing something...and it wasn't just their long hair. I'm sure they couldn't come up with anything that could compete to the metal juggernaut that was the Black Album. 30 years later, it still sells better than most albums.

Reload seemed like throw-away songs....B-Side tracks not even good enough for Load, it probably shouldn't have been released.

And then St. Anger with the shit snare drum and the drama with Jason Newsted quitting, the documentary and the "performance enhancement coach" that got a bit too involved, the Garage Days rehash, that Lou Reed thing - really?, the symphony stuff, and Napster. I'm sure I'm missing other stuff.


They somewhat redeemed themselves with Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, but they haven't gotten back to what they once were.

Metallica ‎– Load
Elektra ‎– 61923-1, 1996

Cut at Sterling Sound
Pressed at Specialty Records Corporation

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March 15: The Ides of March - play an album that marked the beginning of the end for a band

Beck - Guero

I love this album, and a lot of what has Beck has done since it came out. HOWEVER, it was the first time since making it big with Mellow Gold that he wasn't surprising, as each album had conquered a new style or sound, but here he provided something that felt like an update on the Odelay style.

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