N&G AOTM /// Vol. 60 - June 2024 /// U.N.K.L.E.'s "Psyence Fiction"

MadLucas said:
Congratulations @Hemotep for getting the closest with the clues.

In related news, the album of the month IS........


U.N.K.L.E.'s Psyence Fiction!
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When I started researching clues for this album, I honestly was not sure if they were going to be impossible to decipher or if the album was going to be guessed in a single day. The reality is that they seem to fall somewhere in the middle... people had fantastic interpretations of the clues that I had not considered, but sometimes were not exactly hitting the nail on the head.

Let's dive in with this.

CLUE 1 - Heavy Metal movie poster
CLUE 5 - John Candy

The movie Heavy Metal is a series of vignettes, much in the way that the album of the month is a collection of collaborations. Also, and I'm surprised no one even jokingly made this connection, the name itself of the album of the month is printed on the poster (albeit in a different spelling)!
John Candy was featured in one of the heavy metal vignettes and the interpretation of him being "Uncle Buck" was actually spot on...
In other words: Uncle (Buck) was featured in a Science Fiction movie.
I also would have accepted that metal musician Jason Newsted is featured on the track "The Knock (Drums Of Death Part Two)."

CLUE 2- Weird Al Yankovic - "Twister"

Actually, no one was close to my original intent of this clue.
This is a style parody cover of a commercial song, performed in the style of The Beastie Boys, whose Mike D features on "The Knock (Drums Of Death Part Two)."
The fact that the song in itself is a cover of a song from a commercial points directly to track 6 on this album, "Getting Ahead In The Lucrative Field Of Artist Management," which is the audio of the commercial for the game Ball Buster by the company Megos.



CLUE 3 - Tricky - "Hell Is Around The Corner," Massive Attack - "Eurochild"

On a surface level, I anticipated that there would be at least one person to point to the album being British in origin and/or having some sort of emphasis on hip hop, trip hop, downtempo, or electronica.
What I was really getting at was the lyrical content. Both songs feature some of the same lyrics, as Tricky recycled his content from one performance for another. On the album of the month in question, Mike D does the exact same thing when he reuses the rhythmic rhyme delivery schemes on "The Knock (Drums of Death Part Two)" as featured on the Beastie Boys song "Intergalactic."





CLUE 4 - At The Drive-In - "Napoleon Solo"

Napoleon Solo is the name of one of the main characters from the series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which is where the band appropriate their name from.

CLUE 6 - Frank Zappa - "Apostrophe"

A heavily sampled song featured across the album, particularly on both "Drums Of Death" tracks.

CLUE 7 - Badly Drawn Boy - "Pissing In The Wind"

Badly Drawn Boy is a featured performer on the album.

CLUE 8 - Drum Solo Of Life, but the opposite of it

Yup. Drums of life are the opposite of drums of death.

9. www.whosampled.com
10. Sun Ra is sampled on the album

Now that you know what the album is, I hope you will do a deep dive into source materials like I did :)

WRITE-UP AND RELATED SWAPTIONS COMING IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO!
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I looked for a thread to post this in and decided this was the place.
Shared a couple of cold ones with Frank yesterday. Didn’t get a profile picture but the nose was there. Frank lives and now drinks beer.
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