November Challenge Thread: All-Stars Edition!

20. On the topic of spoken word, the genre was a huge gateway to classic American punk for young me, thanks to Henry Rollins and Jello Biafra finding secondary careers in touring and recording spoken word shows. Many years later, I would find myself sharing a stage with Joey Shithead at a spoken word festival in Calgary.
  • Play some punk

Fugazi - Repeater (signed)

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Post-hardcore, if you want to get technical. Signed by Joe Lally and Brendan Canty after having seen James Brandon Lewis and The Messthetics perform last year in February.

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Nee Lewman said:
Well? Thoughts?
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On the album in general or the pressing?

I have an early 80s pressing that I listened to a couple of weeks ago and it still sounds great. Have not done a direct A/B comparison yet but the new Rhino version is definitely dead quiet. The new version sounds great but there is a bit of sibilance on some of the vocals I found when listening to it on headphones. Also Ron's guitar intro on 1969 really hard pans for a few seconds on the new pressing and it is very annoying. The panning is hard left and then hard right where as the older versions it is a little less exaggerated.
 
Day 09: Play something linked to your Day 8 album and indicate how it links, bonus internet points if you can tie it to David Bowie.

Silver Jews - Starlite Walker
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Pavement members and fellow Whitney Museum security guards and UVA graduates Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich would join with Dave Berman on what would extensively become Dave’s primary means of artistic expression on the Silver Jews Debut album.

Like Bowie, Berman was also named “David”.
 
Day 16: Worst

jamieanderson1968 said:
We Built This City hits #1 in the Billboard charts today in 1985. This (Jefferson) Starship song is often called (by me at least) the worst #1 in history.
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I actually really like “We Built This City” tho that just may be because my parents played it a lot when I was a kid. It’s hard to pick a single worst #1 hit out of all the ones that’ve charted and between songs like “Mr. Custer”, “The Ballad of the Green Berets”, “Try That In A Small Town” & “Torn Between Two Lovers”, I’m not short on choices.

I’m a bit short when it comes to bad albums tho, since I usually don’t go out of my way to buy them. Here’s one that I have thanks to a career-spanning box set…

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Mardi Gras

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Only two songs on here worth keeping & those ended up being the singles.
 
Day 17 -
  • Play something by somebody who was murdered.
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

On December 8, 2004, Damageplan was performing at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio. Nathan Gale, a deranged fan, rushed onto the stage as the band played the first song of its setlist and shot Abbott multiple times with a Beretta 92FS, a 9mm semi-automatic pistol.

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Day 12: Play a Peel session or a record that somebody here hyped you to that you now absolutely love.
Mogwai - Government Commissions - BBC Sessions 1996-2003
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Many of the tracks included here were recorded as part of John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 program. His voice kicks off the album by introducing the band.

 
Matt M said:
Day 17 -
  • Play something by somebody who was murdered.
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

On December 8, 2004, Damageplan was performing at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio. Nathan Gale, a deranged fan, rushed onto the stage as the band played the first song of its setlist and shot Abbott multiple times with a Beretta 92FS, a 9mm semi-automatic pistol.

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Man, that was a sad day.
 
21. On November 21st, 1976, Rocky starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, and Carl Weathers premiered in New York City. Sly’s younger brother Frank features in the film and on the soundtrack (and the soundtracks to many of Sly’s other films.)
  • Play a soundtrack or something featured in a movie, or
  • Play something by somebody with a famous sibling,
Twofer! Plus a Sly connection.

Sylvester Stallone was in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. As was Sean Gunn, who is James Gunns brother.

Various Artists ~ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

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