May 2020 Record Challenge Thread (PRIZE RAFFLE AT THE END!)

Day 4 Album from my Sr Year.

The Mid 90s were a crazy time. We grew up before the internet and were largely unsupervised roaming the streets in packs with no one to whip out a cell phone to record the insane stuff we did.A ton of great music that year .
Anyway I caught my friends little brother smoking weed and he traded me this tape to not snitch. I had heard Juicy on the Box a few times ( and I wasn’t gonna snitch anyway) ) so I took his tape. Put it in my Yellow Sony Sportsman and must have listened to it 1000 times that summer. It just blew up every car was bumping it, every kid with a boom box was blasting it. It was just a banger from the 1st to last track. Still is . As soon as the weather gets nice I’ll still here Ready to Die being bumped by passing cars. Really glad to own this one on vinyl, probably my favorite record that I own.
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Senior Year
The Rolling Stones / Tattoo You
1981
Damn this challenge is making me feel old!
Anyway, one of the last great Stone’s albums that they pieced together with leftover stuff from the 70’s. One side rock, the other side ballads, it contains one of my favorite songs, “Waiting on a Friend” with the great Sonny Rollins on sax.
 
Day 4: An Album from Senior Year

This album came out in February of my senior year in 2003. I bought it day 1 because I was big into emo and album featuring Gibbard was an easy blind buy (on CD of course). This album really helped me bridge the gap between HS and college.

I think technically the album I listened to most senior year was Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz, but that one’s never made its way into my vinyl collection.

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Day 4 - ‘08! What!? ‘08! Yes that really was our class chant XD

Beach House - Devotion

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Honestly a pretty disappointing year coming off the powerhouse 2007. I didn’t even listen to this album back then, but it absolutely puts me in a happy place. And the 2nd most beautiful piece of vinyl I have (Eddie Gale is still the champ).
 
Day 4 - An album from your senior year in high school
Weezer - Weezer [Green album] (2001)

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So, school is different here so I took the last year of secondary school, before going to university.
I may or may not have chosen the color of the wall of my living room thinking of this album.
And i must say that, twenty years later, i still have a crush on Brian Bell.
 
LeSamourai said:
I just want to say thanks for posting this, because this is right up my alley, and I'm always especially happy to discover Argentine music! (I lived there for a couple years)
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So happy to hear that you liked his music! Check his album of Radiohead covers, that one is actually good. And I think (but I might be wrong AF here) that you can get his two vinyl on Bandcamp, in case you want to have some Argentine contemporary jazz in your collection. (Scalandrum, the jazz band of Piazzolla's grandson, also released a vinyl last year)
 
Day 4: An album from your senior year of high school

My final year of secondary school was September 2000 to July 2001. This pair came out during that time, Kid A in October 2000 and Amnesiac in June 2001 right in the middle of my A Level final exams. Still love them and so felt the need to play them both!

Radiohead Kid A

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Radiohead - Amnesiac

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Day 4: An album from your senior year of high school


So my A level years were 1987-1989 , so this pick is from 1989 and it’s got a lot to answer for ......

So in 1989 I was still happily buying vinyl , despite those shiny CD things that my best mate was buying , and gleefully demonstrating on his new Pioneer 6 CD autochanger ....off I popped to Woolworths to buy this 2nd album from the hot goth Julianne Regan and co , popped back home , picked up the needle ...dropped it ..and my god it sounded awful , distortion and hiss ..dodgy copy ..back to Woolworths, 2nd copy ...back home ..same again ....repeat 5 times. On swap attempt 6 , Woolworths record counter lady ..looked down on this teenage boy ..”sorry son ..that’s the last one ..But I’ll let you have the CD instead as a swap and won’t charge you the extra ..”

The temptation got me , “yes I thought , it’s got two extra tracks and I can get my mate to tape it for me too, and I’m up £10” ..didn’t matter that I hadn’t got a CD player see..I was a few months away from my first job (still there 31 years later..) and the thoughts of a new HiFi like my mates were thus planted .....

So this album and it’s terrible batch of pressings resulted in a 20 year gap of buying vinyl , the trading in of a few gems (Zeppelin 4 on Atlantic Plum etc) and missing out on all those rare 1990’s vinyl pressings...and yes I’ve still got the CD of this (which sounds as good as the day it was brought) and finally picked up this album on vinyl with some trepidation for £3 ..and finally got one that played thru ...Ladies and Gents ... I Give You...

All About Eve “Scarlet and other Stories” 1989 (the cd years starts...)


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Day 4: An album from your senior year of high school.

Sting ~ Bring on the Night (1986)

Sting effortlessly mixes/rewrites older Police songs with his newer (at the time) material. But what really makes this live album shine is the work of Branford Marsalis & Kenny Kirkland. The first track (Bring on the Night --> When The World is running down) is a great example of that.

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Day 4: An Album From Your Senior Year Of High School

Kanye West ‎– 808s & Heartbreak (Roc-A-Fella Records, 2008 First Deluxe Edition Pressing)

Senior year at high school was 2008. I was looking at the music released that year and while there were some solid releases, the majority of the charts seemed to be filled with one-hit wonders. I had 2 options today based on records that I actually own on vinyl, 'Rising Down' by The Roots (which is an incredible album) and '808's & Heartbreak' by Kanye West. I don't think I was even aware of the roots in 2008, but I certainly knew of Kanye's music and still remember when 'Love Lockdown' hit the charts. I have always enjoyed Kanye's music, but around the time of 'Yeezus' I began to enjoy his newer releases less and less, to the point where my expectations are always low. At the beginning he was just a geeky kid looking for acceptance, writing and producing songs that actually meant something, with some solid themes. Now he seems to be all about bragging and pushing his 'greatness' on the world, leaking this into his music. Anyway, that cant take away from his earlier music which I still like to this day.

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