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

Day 14: Rated M for Mature.
Limp Bizkit-Significant Other

Much more immature than mature, but all the discussion being had here about parental advisory stickers and such growing up made me think about this. It's crazy as a teen the difference between what they allowed us to consume in the media compared to now where anybody with an internet connection can find any kind of porn or explicit music they want. In high school, my friends parents were much more strict than mine, and refused to let him go with me to a Limp Bizkit and Eminem concert. I of course threw on my red Yankee hat and helped sneak him out of the house and come up with whatever crazy lie we could think of to get to the show. Mostly nostalgia listening, but there are still some songs I genuinely love on this album (ie. Rearranged).
Bonus story. I remember Blockbuster blocking my try at renting the movie 'Wild Things.' They called my parents up to explain to them that the movie contains sexual content, and see if they approve of me to rent it. I was denied!
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CrazyDiamond84 said:
Day 14: Rated M for Mature.
Limp Bizkit-Significant Other

Much more immature than mature, but all the discussion being had here about parental advisory stickers and such growing up made me think about this. It's crazy as a teen the difference between what they allowed us to consume in the media compared to now where anybody with an internet connection can find any kind of porn or explicit music they want. In high school, my friends parents were much more strict than mine, and refused to let him go with me to a Limp Bizkit and Eminem concert. I of course threw on my red Yankee hat and helped sneak him out of the house and come up with whatever crazy lie we could think of to get to the show. Mostly nostalgia listening, but there are still some songs I genuinely love on this album (ie. Rearranged).
Bonus story. I remember Blockbuster blocking my try at renting the movie 'Wild Things.' They called my parents up to explain to them that the movie contains sexual content, and see if they approve of me to rent it. I was denied!
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Ha, I remember spending a night at a friend’s house in middle school where I landed my first kickflip and then watched Wild Things at night. Definitely a banner day in my adolescent life 😂
 
Day 12 - FOMO

This live Bowie LP was sold exclusively at the Brooklyn Museum to support a Bowie exhibit, so when they put it up on the museum website briefly, I grabbed it without a thought.

It’s a cool thing to have, but there are probably a dozen better live Bowie albums out there, many of which I don’t have. The content’s not particularly notable or even well recorded. The one thing it does have going for it is that it’s a single LP, so if I want to hear live Bowie without making a 3 LP commitment, this works well.

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On the parents just don't understand sub-thread, the weirdest musical moment I had with my parents growing up was when I was early in high school (Sophomore year, I believe) I was buying a number of CDs with my Mom in tow and she threw a fit that the Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bullocks was in there. Mind you, I already had explicit CDs and other punk music, but she made a huge deal and made me march it back to the rack. I was so confused at the time.
 
CrazyDiamond84 said:
Day 14: Rated M for Mature.
Limp Bizkit-Significant Other

Much more immature than mature, but all the discussion being had here about parental advisory stickers and such growing up made me think about this. It's crazy as a teen the difference between what they allowed us to consume in the media compared to now where anybody with an internet connection can find any kind of porn or explicit music they want. In high school, my friends parents were much more strict than mine, and refused to let him go with me to a Limp Bizkit and Eminem concert. I of course threw on my red Yankee hat and helped sneak him out of the house and come up with whatever crazy lie we could think of to get to the show. Mostly nostalgia listening, but there are still some songs I genuinely love on this album (ie. Rearranged).
Bonus story. I remember Blockbuster blocking my try at renting the movie 'Wild Things.' They called my parents up to explain to them that the movie contains sexual content, and see if they approve of me to rent it. I was denied!
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Shout out to the Swiss kid in my middle school who was the first to have a CD burner and label maker and sold bootleg CDs on my school bus for $3 each. I still have this CD and Chocolate Starfish bootleg from him somewhere...
 
CrazyDiamond84 said:
I made a little money freshman year by letting the first kid with a CD burner borrow from my huge CD collection to copy the CDs.
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Not only was I banned from ever having any explicit content stickers on music, my stepmother wouldn't allow anything other than church music and the 90s adult contemporary station she liked, and all R-rated movies and most PG-13s were out of bounds. One time she got home while the radio was on, and a Matchbox 20 song was playing (this was around 1999 or 2000), and I got in trouble for listening to "psychedelic music." She once sent me to a church summer camp, where I got a CD of insipid church-themed attempts at soft pop music, and when I put it on my stereo she walked by my room, heard it, and grounded me, despite my protestations that it was from the church camp she sent me to. I eventually figured out that if I played the oldies station, even though she didn't like it, she had no way to object to it morally, because it was older and cleaner than her station.

Eventually, I started buying CDs, and I kept them hidden the one place she would never find- the bottom of my dirty clothes hamper (she would never, ever do my laundry, so it was safe).

I then left for college and started spending all my money on music, for some reason.
 
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Day 14: Rated M for mature

Elbow - Cast of Thousands

I was gonna blast some Big Boi, but given the fact that everyone's home, I decided to go for an album from a band that has always come off as mature to me, Elbow, and not "mature" as in sex and swears. There's a careful craft to their music, and a world-weariness that speaks to me more in my late 30s than it did when I first heard them in my 20s.

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第十四天： excuse me, adults only in here

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I remember when this first came out the cover took me by surprise ... Is that really Blackbear and Posner ???? Indeed it is!!! Instant cop without a single listen. Once it came in I spun it and it was on repeat all summer two years ago. The song nobody knows felt like it was written about me , the beats were fantastic and while the lyrics can be a bit too sexual for my tastes I kept coming back for more. I didn't realize how limited this pressing is as I have someone on discogs message me almost monthly to sell it to them, but I cant, I love this album so much
 
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Day 14: Rated M for mature

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Schoolly D "Smoke Some Kill"

Yeah I just went with some filthy rap! This is really not a record I should have been listening to when it came out but what can you do? The original gangster rapper bringing the heat on this one! Best $5.99 someone spent!!
 
Day 13 - Conversational

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Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years

This was the exact album in my head when I picked this theme. Paul simon is probably my favorite songwriter of all time because of how personal, intimate and conversational his songs feel but at the same time he sings them with this sly smile and charm that I love endlessly
 
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