March 2021 Challenge Thread

March 19: I'm Feeling Pretty today...Play a record with the prettiest, coolest, most interesting color combination.
Beachwood Sparks - The Tarnished Gold
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It’s a beautiful record; I don’t know if quite captures the “Tarnished Gold” color scheme it was reaching for but it’s gorgeous nonetheless.
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March 18: That new record smell. Play a recently opened album

Middle Kids "today you're the greatest"

I've received their new album already on Wednesday, but didn't have time to spin it until now. Sounds very good so far.

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I've been scooped... BUT I DON'T CARE, I'M PLAYING IT ANYWAY!!!

March 18: That new record smell. Play a recently opened album.

Middle Kids - Today We're the Greatest

Just got this in the mail today, spinning it now.

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March 19: I'm Feeling Pretty today

I have some other "prettier" records, but I always thought that this classic black and white combo was a very good choice for the score of this movie.

A lot of releases just have odd color choices, but I love the way this looks, as some labels have been going a bit too far with combining color effects - and just making the record a mess. Sometimes less is more.

Unknown Artist ‎– Night Of The Living Dead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Waxwork Records ‎– WW050, 2018

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Pressed at GZ/MRP

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Gonna skip another couple days for now, 'cause I just got this yesterday and really want to play it now.

Day 18: New record smell

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Streetcore

The Clash were the band that started me down this whole musical obsession path, around my 14th birthday when I bought London Calling and Super Black Market Clash on CD. I continued to listen to them throughout my teenage years and early adulthood, but really only the albums I already knew and not delving much deeper. Only last year, right before the pandemic, did I finally sit down and listen to Sandinista! all the way through. Around then I also listened to this, Joe's final album, recorded before his death but finished and released afterward. Loved it immediately and have been listening regularly since, but only just bought since I'd been on a strict vinyl diet. Really happy to have this one now. There are a lot of great tunes on it, but I always tear up at the video below.

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March 15: The Ides of March

The Band - Stage Fright

I should preface this by saying that I like basically all of the Band's albums, and especially Northern Lights - Southern Cross. But this, their third, while really good, is a pretty far cry from the heights of their first two records. By most accounts the drugs and alcohol had really taken hold by this time already and they weren't nearly as tight a unit. And whereas every song on the first two is incredible, there is some weak songwriting here to go along with the title track and "The Shape I'm In."

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March 20: First Day of Spring - Play an album that reminds you of the Spring season.
Alabaster DePlume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
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This album musically, thematically, and aesthetically feels like Spring. It makes me wanna hike up Mount Rainier and pick a bouquet of wild asters.
 
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