March 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread - Here It Goes Again

MARCH 4
GENRE ROULETTE
Play an album that is impossible to categorize under a single genre.

I'm cheating and streaming this cause the vinyl isn't out yet. But I can't get enough of their new album. It has metal and glam rock foundations, but while songs are possible to classify their whole albums are tough because they pull from a lot of different genres. The last song on this album, for instance, has some country in it.

The Neptune Power Federation - Le Demon De L'Amour

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MARCH 5
THE 90S CALLED, THEY WANT THEIR ALBUM BACK
Play an album that you feel is quintessentially 90s.

So I'm gonna take a bit of a different direction here. The 90s were my formative childhood years, and as such, the world moved fast and changed a ton for me. I think it's true for music. Outside of maybe the 60s, the music that was dominant at the beginning and at the end changed more than most other decades. We also had a spate of artists lost too soon, some of which have been featured already.

Let's play an album that, to me, echoes a lot of what music was moving from and was Queen's last album with (archival) Freddie doing the vocal lifting.

Queen - Made in Heaven

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Day 04: GENRE ROULETTE
Play an album that is impossible to categorize under a single genre.

Cornelius - Fantasma
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Cornelius falls in the same category as Beck, Cornershop, BV3K and others that kinda followed their muse without genre or stylistic boundaries. He could fit comfortably in the Electronic, Hip-hop, Alternative or World section of your local record shop.
 
MARCH 3
DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – Cheek To Cheek
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Never been big on the crooners nor am I a huge Lady Gaga fan, and never in a million years did I imagine I would own a Tony Bennett album, but I love this one unabashedly!

Their recent release didn't re-capture the magic for me, but this one here will always be a gem.
 
Day 05: THE 90S CALLED, THEY WANT THEIR ALBUM BACK
Play an album that you feel is quintessentially 90s.

The Lemonheads - It’s A Shame About Ray
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I tuned 18 in December of 1999, The 90s were the decade of my childhood and as such a decade that I spent a lot of time looking up to and emulating the Gen Xers that were 5 to 10 years my senior. The Lemonheads and Evan Dando in particular was one of those idols. I was happy to received the 30th anniversary of this album just yesterday. Seems like the perfect selection for today but let’s be honest, I was gonna spin it today regardless.
 
MARCH 5
THE 90S CALLED, THEY WANT THEIR ALBUM BACK
Play an album that you feel is quintessentially 90s.

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea

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Not just my favorite 90's band but my favorite band all time, this is probably Toad's most beloved album by their fans and kicks off with my favorite Toad song Fly From Heaven. It also features other great 90's staples like Fall Down, Something's Always Wrong, Crowing, and Windmills.
 
tvham said:
MARCH 5
THE 90S CALLED, THEY WANT THEIR ALBUM BACK
Play an album that you feel is quintessentially 90s.

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea

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Not just my favorite 90's band but my favorite band all time, this is probably Toad's most beloved album by their fans and kicks off with my favorite Toad song Fly From Heaven. It also features other great 90's staples like Fall Down, Something's Always Wrong, Crowing, and Windmills.
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This was the first band I ever saw live. Love Battery and Green Apple Quick Step opened for them, just to make it even more “that’s so 90s”
 
MARCH 5
THE 90S CALLED, THEY WANT THEIR ALBUM BACK
Play an album that you feel is quintessentially 90s.

I want to play like half of my collection for this prompt, but I picked this album because it paved the way for a bunch of music that I love that came out after it, and it's not remembered quite as much as the greats from the decade, although I think it belongs up there with them.

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MARCH 5
THE 90S CALLED, THEY WANT THEIR ALBUM BACK
Play an album that you feel is quintessentially 90s.

A collection of tracks from No Doubt, Mudhoney, Presidents of the United States of America, Better Than Ezra, Sebadoah and more as played on KEXP in Seattle. That's pretty 90's. And a soundtrack to a great movie about Marco Collins as well.

The Glamour and the Squalor ~ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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MARCH 4
GENRE ROULETTE
Play an album that is impossible to categorize under a single genre.

Rosalía - El mal querer

Pop, electronic, and flamenco.

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