November 2020 Challenge Thread: The End Is Near

thefsb said:
Is that appliance an accessory to playing records?
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If you mean the hand hoover it has an attachment on it called the vinylvac that's supposed to suck the dust out of the grooves of records. As a lot of my collection is either old, or second hand, or both, I find it quite useful, particularly as it cost about 20 bucks and my skates remain cheap!
 
Day 7: Midwest Represent
Play an album from an act that originated in one of the midwestern US states.

Cincinnati a second time.

Robert Christgau - he's smart....

"Wussy have been the best band in America since they released the first of their five superb albums in 2005, only nobody knows it except me and my friends. I'm oversimplifying, of course. Wussy are a moderately big deal in their unhip Cincinnati hometown, and in part because so many of my friends are rock critics, their 2011 Strawberry finished 109th in the 2011 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll--not bad for a band never once mentioned in Pitchfork. (Ever.) Nevertheless, they remain dishearteningly obscure. When I say I consider Wussy the best band in America I mean I like or love--no, make that love or really like--just about every one of the 46 songs on those five albums: Funeral Dress, followed by Left for Dead, Wussy, the unplugged start-to-finish remake Funeral Dress II, and Strawberry. We're talking Beatles-Stones consistency here." - Robert Christgau

Wussy - Left For Dead

If'n you like to rock, step right up....



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Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
Day 7: Midwest Represent
Play an album from an act that originated in one of the midwestern US states.

Cincinnati a second time.

Robert Christgau - he's smart....

"Wussy have been the best band in America since they released the first of their five superb albums in 2005, only nobody knows it except me and my friends. I'm oversimplifying, of course. Wussy are a moderately big deal in their unhip Cincinnati hometown, and in part because so many of my friends are rock critics, their 2011 Strawberry finished 109th in the 2011 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll--not bad for a band never once mentioned in Pitchfork. (Ever.) Nevertheless, they remain dishearteningly obscure. When I say I consider Wussy the best band in America I mean I like or love--no, make that love or really like--just about every one of the 46 songs on those five albums: Funeral Dress, followed by Left for Dead, Wussy, the unplugged start-to-finish remake Funeral Dress II, and Strawberry. We're talking Beatles-Stones consistency here." - Robert Christgau

Wussy - Left For Dead

If'n you like to rock, step right up....



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Hey! I have this record! (Thanks to you, I love it!)
 
Day 8: Sound-Track Sunday

Where Is My Mind?

Pixies ‎– Surfer Rosa
4AD ‎– CAD 803, 1988/2004

Cut by John Dent at Loud Mastering

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This piano cover is also popping up in movies and TV shows like Mr. Robot.



 
Day 8: Sound-Track Sunday
Play an album that includes a track that's prominently featured in a film soundtrack.

Curtis Mayfield - Soundtrack to the Movie Super Fly.

This is kind of not fulfilling the assignment, as it's an entire soundtrack and not just one track, but this disc is never off the turntable here. The film is quite difficult to find in Europe, so I've never seen it, although I really love movies like Shaft, the taking of Pelham 1,2,3. , or the French Connection, as well as the British versions like Performance, Get Carter ( the original, natch). It was a toss up between this and the soundtrack album for Performance, quite honestly. I might play that later, it is Sunday morning after all.DSCN0107.JPG
 
Day 8: Sound-Track Sunday
Play an album that that includes a track that's prominently featured in a film soundtrack.
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The album Focus II by Focus opens with the song Hocus Pocus which was pretty much the only reason I watched the movie Baby Driver.

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The big action sequence that features the song is built around the music, including timing gunshots. Skip the first two videos below if you're not into gratuitous violence. And these two videos include important spoilers.

It's nice when an underrated old act gets new life. The same song found a new audience 7 years earlier in 2010 as it was used in a Nike ad for the 2010 World Cup that I understand had a pretty big audience. That's the 3rd video below.





 
Day 8 - Sound-Track Sunday

The title track off of this LP is featured in the movie Vanilla Sky. When I first saw the movie, I had no idea what this song was. This was in the days before Shazam, and when I bought the soundtrack on CD, lots of great tunes, but not this one.

A few years later, someone recommends this album to me and I buy it blind. Then, holy shit, there’s that song. These days, it’d take me a minute or two to figure it out. Sometimes I think I prefer the old way - it’s hard to know what’s meaningful and what’s going to stick with you when you’re inundated with information.

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Best clip I could find:
 
Day 8: Sound-Track Sunday

Chef - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Milan, 2014 First Pressing)

Took me a while to track this down at an affordable price. Its a killer mix of tracks which all have a Latin flair to them, just superb!

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