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

[avecigrec]

Day 20 - Modern Love
God and Man / No Religion
Brian Ritchie – Sonic Temple & Court Of Babylon


The bassiest atheist's second solo album features a couple of solid digs at Christianity and preachers in the songs, "No Resistin' A Christian" and "Christian For One Day," the latter of which closes with the lines:

"Three hundred sixty-four days, might is right God's will be done.
But there's one day we put things behind us, this day's for family and fun.
Christmas is soon upon us. How I wish that Christ was here.
He could see how nice we can be that one day of the year.

Christian for one day a year."

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Day 21 - Station To Station
Play something that is European, interpret however you want

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Says it on the cover

 

[gafacaode]

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’

I'm stranded on my own
Stranded far from home

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded

 

[imtheocean]

Day 21 - Station To Station
It's too late to be hateful / The European canon is here
Play something that is European, interpret however you want

The Smiths ~ "Louder Than Bombs"

 

[avecigrec]

Day 21 - Station To Station
It's too late to be hateful / The European canon is here
Bruit ≤ ‎– The Machine Is Burning And Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again


Hailing from Toulouse, France.

 

[gafacaode]

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

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #191 - I just heard about Chris Bailey's death. What an amazing voice, what an amazing scream. Can you tell us something about what he meant to you as a young musician in Australia?

Dear Dan, One week ago today, I was standing in front of a photo on display in the Stranger Than Kindness - The Nick Cave Exhibition in...

www.theredhandfiles.com

The Birthday Party - Junkyard

 

[gafacaode]

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

TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

 

[tvham]

Day 21 - Station To Station
It's too late to be hateful / The European canon is here
Play something that is European, interpret however you want

Christine and the Queens



I was first introduced to Christine and the Queens when their song Tilted appeared in a fantastic episode of the series Better Things. A bit of info on Chris stolen from Wikipedia:

Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier, known professionally as Christine and the Queens or occasionally simply Chris, is a French singer and songwriter.

In 2016, Christine was ranked number 1 in Vanity Fair's list of most powerful and influential French people who "promote French genius", ahead of the country's president.

 

[LeeVing]

Day 17 - John, I’m Only Dancing (again)
Play something that makes you want to dance

I don't dance, but if I did I'd dance to this...or at least most of the tracks.

Madonna – The Immaculate Collection
Sire/Warner Records – RB1 26440, 1990/2020

Cut by Ian Sefchick at Capitol Mastering
Pressed at Record Industry

 

[Potato-Socks]

Day 21 - Station To Station
Play something that is European, interpret however you want

Steve Grossman [1994] - Time To Smile
Grossman is a masterful tenor player who was wisely invited as the first musician to play for the French record label "Dreyfus Jazz". This is a flippin' great straight-ahead jazz album that will probably never get another release, or remaster, because Steve Grossman simply does not have enough name recognition.

 

[ranbalam]

Day 21 - Station To Station
Play something that is European, interpret however you want

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 21: Station to Station

Otis Redding - Live in Europe

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Day 22 - Blackout
I'm under Japanese influence and my honour's at stake
Play something related to Japan

Narration by Michi Hirota. Bowie at his caustic best...



David Bowie - Scary Monsters

 

[LeeVing]

Day 18 - Little Wonder
Play something little or small.

With the search not working I had to skim the the previous posts, so I'm not sure if this one got played.

Small Faces – Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
Immediate – Z12 52008, 1968

Pressed at Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria

 

[LeeVing]

Day 19 - Look Back In Anger
"You know who I am," he said / The speaker was an angel
Play something angry

Angry music from someone that makes people angry.

And I agree that he's a piece of shit and have no reason not to believe Evan Rachel Wood, but I still like the music. (I haven't watched Phoenix Rising, yet, but I will as the director of that doc made West Of Memphis - which I love.) Roman Polanski is a pedo and a rapist, but Rosemary's Baby is an amazing movie that I watch somewhat regularly. I try to separate the art from the artist, if I can...sometimes it takes a while, sometimes it never happens.

Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar
Nothing Records – B0017874-01, 1996/2013

Hot Topic Exclusive

Pressed at GZ

 

[LeeVing]

Day 20 - Modern Love
God and Man / No Religion
Play something (anti-)religious or spiritual

"Judith" is about Maynard's mother Judith Marie Keenan, who suffered a stroke and was restricted to a wheelchair for the rest of her life, yet still believed in Christianity.

A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms
Virgin – 7243 8 49253 1 4, 2000/2008

Cut by Ron McMaster at Capitol Mastering
Pressed at Rainbo

 

[gafacaode]

Day 14 - The Jean Genie
New York's a go-go and everything tastes right
Play something that is about New York or related to it

Bob Dylan - Springtime in New York

 

[Potato-Socks]

Day 22 - Blackout
Play something related to Japan

Sonny Rollins In Japan [1973] - Sonny Rollins
Not a very widely distributed Sonny Rollins album, because it was only ever released in Japan, which is a shame because it's one of the best live Sonny albums out there. Also, the recording quality on this CD may be one of the best I've heard.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Day 22 - Blackout

I'm under Japanese influence and my honour's at stake
Play something related to Japan

David Bowie - All Saints
The track Crystal Japan, originally written for a commercial in Japan. It was also left off the Scary Monster album and replaced by It’s No Game Pt 2

 

[LeeVing]

Day 21 - Station To Station
Play something that is European, interpret however you want

Australian Daevid Allen was a founding member of UK's Soft Machine, but was refused re-entry back to the UK after a European tour because he previously overstayed his visa. He settled in Paris and started Gong.

Gong – Gong In The 70's
Culture Factory – CFL1LP, 2006/2022

#RSD22 - 2500 copies
Daevid Allen compiled this in 2005 for a CD release benefitting Tim Blake after his car crash.

LP1 is a live show the "You" album line-up
LP2 is various rehearsal recordings

Pressed at GZ