Day 14: THE LOUDNESS WAR RAGES ON Rick Rubin turned 59 today on Thursday! Honor the legendary producer by playing something that he produced. (Or something else that's bound to shatter some eardrums).
Slayer - Reign In Blood
When I think of loud and Rick Rubin, this is gonna be the first record to comes to mind.
Day 15: BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH Et tu, Brute? Play an album that references death or murder.
Willie Nelson - The Red Headed Stranger
Before side one ends, The Preacher, the main protagonists of this, Willie Nelson’s best and maybe the first ever Country concept album; had already killed his cheating wife, his cheating wife’s lover, and a woman attempt to pet his dead wife’s pony. Quite a body count.
MARCH 15
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
Et tu, Brute? Play an album that references death or murder.
Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Lots of references to life and death on this album (Viva la Vida, Cemeteries of London, Death and All His Friends, etc)
Probably the last true great Coldplay album though I still listen to and enjoy them all!
So I really need to start getting through my "new adds" tote and I've been looking for a good excuse to play this one. An all-time classic, and while only one song explicitly references a death (or the deceased) in the title, I feel like the themes are kind of woven into several of the songs and even the genres
The Allman Brothers Band – The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East
MARCH 14
THE LOUDNESS WAR RAGES ON
Rick Rubin turned 59 today on Thursday! Honor the legendary producer by playing something that he produced. (Or something else that's bound to shatter some eardrums).
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
As far as Rick Rubin productions go, I have 0 albums on vinyl, and apparently only 3 on CD, 2 of which have already been played, so I'm just playing something loud.
Day 14: THE LOUDNESS WAR RAGES ON Rick Rubin turned 59 today on Thursday! Honor the legendary producer by playing something that he produced. (Or something else that's bound to shatter some eardrums).
Slayer - Reign In Blood View attachment 132450
When I think of loud and Rick Rubin, this is gonna be the first record to comes to mind.
Day 14: THE LOUDNESS WAR RAGES ON Rick Rubin turned 59 today on Thursday! Honor the legendary producer by playing something that he produced. (Or something else that's bound to shatter some eardrums).
Well, this soundtrack has plenty of songs that deal with mortality in one form or another. But we all know the one...
Ralph Stanley's chilling version of O Death.
MARCH 16
LOVE STINKS
Play a break-up album or one with songs about heartbreak.
Julia Jacklin - Crushing
Definitely in the upper-echelon of 2010s breakup records. "Don't Know How to Keep Loving You" and "Turn Me Down" are excellent.
Conveniently enough, it is the next record in the collection playthrough.
Between the albums released in 2012 and in 2021, the band went from being a duo to a solo act after their romantic and musical partnership was dissolved.
MARCH 16
LOVE STINKS
Play a break-up album or one with songs about heartbreak.
I love "love songs" that are about...like...destructive love, which sits it on that precipice of a break-up song or that may even be a breakup song beyond the control of the parties involved. Probably because it's just the opposite of my life and it's more enthralling to see it from the outside than to be in the tornado. A song like Neko Case's "This Tornado Loves You" or pretty much the entirety of Amy Winehouse's Back to Black fall in here as do several of the songs on this gem of the 2010s
Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
