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

wmeugene said:
Day 2: Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks, Volume 8: 05/02/1970, Harpur College, Binghamton, NY

What is spookier than a skeleton floating in mid-air on a flying carpet in the clouds I ask you?

50th anniversary of this monster show, one of the greatest live shows by any band of all time.
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I think this is my favorite Dick’s Picks release, love the acoustic set.
 
Day 2: Spooky Half-o-ween

I'm currently packing up my M's, so what better time to crack open this one for the first time? The Marshmallow Ghosts is an ever-evolving Halloween-centric project out of Graveface Records that always has something new to offer when October 31 rolls around. With rotating members from across The Appleseed Cast, Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Casket Girls and more, it's equal parts ethereal, psychedelic, and avante-pop.

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Selaws said:
Day 2: We are about halfway to Halloween Play a “Spooky” Album

Dio ‎– Holy Diver (Vertigo, 1983 first UK pressing)

I was going to spin 'Bobby (Boris) Pickett And The Crypt-Kickers ‎– Monster Mash' or 'The Munsters - S/T' but I thought it might be a bit too on the nose, so instead I went with 'Dio ‎– Holy Diver'. I first became aware of Dio during his cameo in the Tenacious D 'Pick Of Destiny' film (I listened to Black Sabbath but never really looked into each member, although I obviously knew of Ozzy). I went on a rabbit hole and though 'Holy Diver' was just pure rock and a killer track. Years later I found this album at a carboot and spun it a few times. Years after that @Murfocakes brought it up on the forum and I started to listen to it again. Its just pure firey rock!!

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Every time this album pops up I feel that I should have it more and more. ok
 
Day 2: We are about halfway to Halloween. Play a “Spooky” Album

Murder by Death - Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing

Though they leaned a lot more heavily into their alt-country and Southern Gothic leanings within a couple albums, Murder by Death's debut was a more experimental indie-rock record, bookended by the horror-film-soundtrack vibes of "Those Who Stayed" and "Those Who Left." I also think this was only the second album I bought new, after yesterday's entry.

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Day 2: Spooky

Michael Jackson - Scream

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A Halloween-themed compilation of MJ’s ‘scariest’ tracks (namely a couple of songs about monsters and the rest about Michael’s own paranoia), including “Thriller”, “Dirty Diana”, “Scream” and “Leave Me Alone”.

Sidenote: something that always bugged me about this compilation was that for some reason they didn’t include “Morphine” & “Is It Scary”, his two most unsettling & underrated songs, yet they included “Unbreakable” & “Xscape” despite neither being ‘spooky’ in any sense of the word.
 
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Day 2: Play a "spooky" album.

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

BoC albums all float in some kind of aether where analog warmth and clinical cold overlap, and the voices of the dead and the living haunt, bending and warping around you. A lot of music is scary in many ways, but I think this album is one of the few musical experiences I would qualify as uncanny- the kaleidescope of voices -some as normal as a child counting, others coming from millennarian doomsday cults- add to the overall air of strange familiarity. The fact that I can't tell whether it's soothing or unsettling is what makes this a truly "spooky" experience.

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DAY 1 - FIRST ALBUM YOU BOUGHT
Ok so... the first record I ever bought was actually Nirvana's Bleach but that copy was involved in an unfortunate incident involving spilled milk (don't worry, I didn't cry over it) so I'm instead going with the first record I ever added to my Discogs collection :)

Gorillaz - The Fall
This is the original pressing from RSD 2011. They were numbered and I am the proud owner of #1196 ^_^
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This is far from Damon's best work, but I do love the concept behind it and it has some great songs. I love the experimental instrumentals and the somber and surreal tone of it really resonates with me. "Hillbilly Man" is one of the most underrated Gorillaz songs imo.
 
DAY 1 - FIRST ALBUM YOU BOUGHT
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I'd say I was in the 7th grade so let's say the summer of 98. As most middle schoolers I wanted to be interesting, but did not have enough money to buy a tiger. I settled for Goodwill and flea market finds. This album was picked up to for a quarter along with a Looney Tunes cup. I played it few times on my mom's setup, and then it sat in crate that slowly began to fill as summer sales rolled in and out over my formative years.
 
Day 2: Spooky

Very lucky to find a short window of time to spin this today. First 70-degree of the year gave my wife and son a perfect excuse to be playing outside while I stayed inside cooking and listening to Bloody Kisses, one of my favorite metal albums:

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Side A of disc 1 (“Christian Woman” and “Black No. 1”: 2 songs, about 20 minutes long) has got to be one of the best sides of my entire collection.
 
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