May 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge - A Crash Course for the Ravers

[avecigrec]

Day 12 - Ashes to Ashes
Do you remember a guy / that's been In such an early song?
Iron & Wine – The Shepherd's Dog


Pedal steel and guitar player Paul Niehaus played on the Justin Townes Earle side of yesterday's 7" and also joins Sam Beam for this exquisite Iron & Wine outing.

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Day 12 - Ashes to Ashes
Do you remember a guy / that's been In such an early song?
Play a record connected in some way to the record you played yesterday

Day 11 - Space Oddity
I’m stepping through the door / and I’m floating in a most peculiar way
Play an album about being ‘lost’

Underappreciated artist who paints vivid pictures of lost misfits who often don't realize they're lost at all.

He comes by it naturally - his dad wrote Lonesome Dove.



James McMurtry - Too Long In The Wasteland

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Yesterday I went with James McMurtry's debut record. It was produced by John Mellencamp.



John Mellencamp - Scarecrow

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane
Play a debut record

Debut. Follow up. Transitional LP. Final record. They only needed one to hit for the cycle...

I like to think Chris and Andy are at the bar sharing a laugh...



Temple Of the Dog - S/T

 

[Potato-Socks]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
Play a debut record

Brandy [1994] - by Brandy
I've always wanted to write the word "eponymous". Sooo, ya. This is Brandy's eponymous first album

 

[Jan]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane
Play a debut record

the Thermals - More Parts per Million
Shows that a record does not need to be particularly audiophile to hit hard. For most parts it sounds like its recorded in a K-Mart self-recording booth , but it´s just a pure adrenaline rush from start to beginning

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane
Play a debut record

Debut. Follow up. Transitional LP. Final record. They only needed one to hit for the cycle...

I like to think Chris and Andy are at the bar sharing a laugh...



Temple Of the Dog - S/T

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The first few bars of Hunger Strike immediately takes me back to the early 90’s, being 22 and living in Vancouver.

 

[Smartiepants]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane
Play a debut record
Wasn't cool enough to get in early with this band so just the bog standard pressing for this one

Idles – Brutalism​

Label:	Partisan Records – PTKF2155-1
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country:	UK & Europe
Released:	10 Aug 2018
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Alternative Rock, Punk, Post-Punk, Noise

 

[Turbo]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane
Play a debut record

Marshall Crenshaw Marshall Crenshaw (1982 Warner Brother Records; 2009 MOFI remaster)
Fantastic pressing of an essential power pop debut.

 

[jfitzy]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane

Whitney Houston

 

[imtheocean]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane
Play a debut record

One and done. Left quite a legacy.

The La's ~ The La's

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 12: Ashes to Ashes
Do you remember a guy / that's been In such an early song?
Play a record connected in some way to the record you played yesterday

Kurt Vile - (Watch My Moves)

Kurt Vile was the lead guitarist for War On Drugs for their debut album, Wagonwheel Blues he subsequently left the group to focus more of his attention on his main group, The Violators.

 

[Angsty]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane
Play a debut record

Anita Baker - Rapture

 

[DrainedPatience]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane

Ghost - Opus Eponymous

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 13: Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane
Play a debut record

The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

Sometimes you hit a home run on your first attempt.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
Play a debut record

Sade - Diamond Life

Her debut (obviously), but she also went on to appear in the movie Absolute Beginners and on the soundtrack.

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 13: Absolute Beginners

Charlotte Day Wilson - ALPHA



Her debut full-length LP, which came out just last year!

 

[tvham]

Florence & the Machine - Lungs


One of my favorite debut albums...ever? Florence's voice just melts me, I could listen to her read the phone book.

 

[Turbo]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
Play a debut record

Sade - Diamond Life

Her debut (obviously), but she also went on to appear in the movie Absolute Beginners and on the soundtrack.
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What pressing is that? An original Canadian 80's pressing?

 

[Potato-Socks]

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
Play a debut record

Sade - Diamond Life

Her debut (obviously), but she also went on to appear in the movie Absolute Beginners and on the soundtrack.
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WOW, Brandy, Whitney, Anita, and Sade, all on the same day. It's Friday the R&B-teenth!

 

[Turbo]

WOW, Brandy, Whitney, Anita, and Sade, all on the same day. It's Friday the R&B-teenth!

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