March 2021 Challenge Thread

March 20: First Day of Spring - Play an album that reminds you of the Spring season.

Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans

Based on the cover and the vibe of the album...

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March 20: First Day of Spring - Play an album that reminds you of the Spring season.

Spring here is very much about leaving our frozen hidey caves and feeling open and free and possibly going for a nice long drive. Hard to think of a major current star better suited to this

Harry Styles - Fine Line

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March 21: National Teenager Day - Play something from your teen years.

This record came out in '77 when I was 16. It contains what is still my favorite Cheap Trick song. That tune was featured in a low budget Matt Dillon movie about teenage delinquents called Over the Edge in 1979.

Here's the music/film mashup...

Cheap Trick - S/T




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March 21: National Teenager Day - Play something from your teen years

Sandra "Into a secret land"

I had bought this album being around 12 to 13 years old. Great pop songs from the 80s by German singer Sandra. I still enjoy most of these songs today. It was released in 1988 but I've bought it a few years later.

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March 21: National Teenager Day - Play something from your teen years.

I thought about this one way more than I should have. Oddly enough, my teenage years were not spent listening to most of the great and terrible music of 2000 to 2007. I was very much a 70s soft pop/rock head in my teens. However, I think Jack Johnson was the gateway to a lot of my musical journey. I was first interested as we were both born in Hawaii and Flake was a fun song but it wasn't a big leap from that to both the James Taylor type music that was all over my teens and the singer songwriter acoustic jams that still litter my last.fm today.

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March 21: National Teenager Day - Play something from your teen years.

Creeper Lagoon - I Become Small And Go

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I had just received my driver’s license and was driving from a friend’s house one night when Marco Collins played this song on the radio and I thought it was the most perfect thing I had ever heard. I assumed everyone else listening at that moment agreed and that it would be in the Top 10 requested countdown the next night, but I never heard it on the radio again. With no Spotify/YouTube available and online ordering in its primitive stages, I drove to every store in town but no one had ever heard of it and I began to question if I had dreamt it all. The few bars of the song remaining in my memory were fading. I eventually found one single copy tucked away under the wrong artist at a Borders and it was $16 (which seemed outrageous at the time, I got the vinyl copy years later for only $10) but I snatched it and it was my favorite record. I later wrote an embarrassing review on the internet that I could never figure out how to delete and would haunt me in future interviews (“so... I googled your name (the interviewer presents a print-out of the review)... looks like you really like music”).

The Dust Brothers had released this album on their short-lived record label and the band went on to put out a wider-released second record on Dreamworks. Ian Sefchick was a member and has since moved on to mastering at Capitol and his initials are in a lot of dead wax.

 
March 16: Forgotten FOMO

Os Novos Baianos - É Ferro Na Boneca!

VMP had put out (I think) their second album, Acabou Chorare, a while earlier and I really loved it immediately and it became one of my most played records since I got back into the hobby. So when they announced their debut I quickly jumped on it, though I haven't clicked with it nearly as much.

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March 21: National Teenager Day - Play something from your teen years.

Doves -The Last Broadcast

I turned 20 while on a church mission where I wasn't allowed any secular music, but that last teenage summer before heading out, I was just as music-obsessed as ever. One of the albums that I listened to again and again during those last months, and which would swim around my music-deprived brain the next two years, was this one.

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