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

Lee Newman said:
Doing some Catch Up

Day 27 - ugly

So probably would have played Masseduction. Don’t really have any straight up offensive covers. More likely to say they are boring. That being said this one is just a bit of what the hell? The vault version was even weirder with a metallic Vorhees flavor.
Also, I like this much maligned record. Even I thought it was a bit much and just plain weird when it was released, but it’s less odd every time. It reminds a lot of 808’s and Heartbreaks - it was just so out there at the time it was hard to swallow.

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Ha, I strongly considered choosing this one - I didn't because I kept the shrink on with the hype sticker, which is just a black bar across the face (which in turn hides some of the terribleness).

I also like this one quite a bit. 808s is interesting comp. I've also thought about another album we both like: Trans.
 
Catch Up
Day 29 - Hope

To me, Sharon Jones was the living embodiment of hope. She was proof that you should never give up on your dreams and her rise was instrumental in what I like to think of as our second golden age of soul music. She was not only an inspiration to folks like Bradley and Fields, but also brought an honesty to soul instead of neo throwback sensibilities leading us to the amazing work we see from the Colemine artists and those of the label she started.

She also pummeled cancer the first round. Hence this album. In fact, if you look at “Retreat!” as a song about Cancer instead of a worthless man, you realize how fierce she was, a force of nature in human form.

Like Bowie, Prince and Prine, I miss the fuck out of her every day.
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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Give the People What They Want
 
D Jilla said:
Ha, I strongly considered choosing this one - I didn't because I kept the shrink on with the hype sticker, which is just a black bar across the face (which in turn hides some of the terribleness).

I also like this one quite a bit. 808s is interesting comp. I've also thought about another album we both like: Trans.
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I never really think of Trans that way, though I probably should. 808s and BHR had the full force of their label marketing behind it. Trans was just kind of released and allowed to flounder on its own. It’s release is much more akin to Paul’s Boutique to me. The label didn’t know what to do with it so just put it out there. It didn’t do well, but eventually built its own mystique. Who knows what would have happened if people had actually heard Trans.
 
Day 29: An album that makes you feel nostalgic

Fair play to my parents ...as a child of the 70s ...I grew up in a house of cool music , Hi Fi and booze ..so this album always takes me back to the 70s and warm summer nights , homemade wine , shandy bass and a packet of crisps ..and this is my dads record I purloined


Santana “The Third album”


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Day 29: An album that makes you feel nostalgic.

This album makes me nostalgic for something I never experienced, it's that well written.

Growing up in Southern California in the 70's, we had plenty of Neil Young around, but only a little Skynyrd. This album transports you right to a vision of the south in the 70's, musically and culturally.

Drive-By Truckers ~ Southern Rock Opera

"Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
Rock stars today ain't half as real
Speaking their minds on how they feel
Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil"

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Lee Newman said:
I never really think of Trans that way, though I probably should. 808s and BHR had the full force of their label marketing behind it. Trans was just kind of released and allowed to flounder on its own. It’s release is much more akin to Paul’s Boutique to me. The label didn’t know what to do with it so just put it out there. It didn’t do well, but eventually built its own mystique. Who knows what would have happened if people had actually heard Trans.
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I didn't really appreciate Trans till I learned the story behind it. Knowing how much of it was built around him trying to communicate with his son adds a huge element to it.
 
Day 28: An album that’s full of hope

Public Service Broadcasting / The Race For Space

The album starts with JFK’s speech about choosing to go forward with the space program. I mean, if you can’t find hope in that, then where can you?

It continues with clips talking about Yuri Gagarin (I’m sure I misspelled that) who happens to be one of my personal heroes. Imagine being the first person to be sent into space? The amount of bravery and craziness to do that‽ Especially after what happened to poor Laika.

And the track that really gets me. I mean REALLY gets me.....The Other Side. About the first lunar orbit, I believe? The music goes so well with the historical sound clips that they use and when they’re waiting To hear back from the space ship as it goes around the dark side of the moon.....oh my god....I tear up almost every time.

“Now we’re in the period of our longest wait.”

...


“Apollo control Houston we’ve acquired signal, but uhhh, no voice contact, yet, we’re standing by...”

“Apollo 8. Apollo 8. This is Houston Houston. Over”

“Roger Houston, we read you loud and clear how do you read us?”



“We’ve got it. We’ve got it. Apollo...8 is in lunar orbit...there’s a cheer in this room...”

The feeling is indescribable. Honestly. I love this album.


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Day 28: Hope
Sublime-Sublime

This could be today's nostalgia theme as well, but Im sure I've got plenty others for that.
April 29, 1992. 28 years later after the ensuing riots after the LA Rodney King beating from the police, and this country continues to show that we have made no progress. Thought we had a little, but that changed a few years ago. Here's to the hope things do start looking up.IMG_20200529_122649.jpg
 
Day 29 - Nostalgia

I’ve loved this record since it came out (meaning I started playing it when I was 9!). I’m guessing I’ve logged at least 1000 full listens of this record (in fact, until middle school years, this was the only album I’d play through without skipping tracks). I’ve never even come close to getting sick of it. It reminds me many different times in my life.

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Day 29: An album that makes you feel nostalgic

My Morning Jacket - Z

This, along with At Dawn and It Still Moves, instantly bring me back to driving down country roads late at night for a couple summers in my early 20s. Couldn't imagine better soundtracks for that, and one reason why I still love this band so much. When I first joined VMP in the fall of 2017, I had to swap my first month for this record.

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