November Challenge Thread: All-Stars Edition!

November 24

@Skalap started us off with Vol. 0

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Mark de Clive-Lowe - Heritage

You can read all about the album in his thread for the album:

Your prompt today is to play an album that represents your musical heritage.
 
23. On November 23rd, 1970, A&M and Island Records released Tea for the Tillerman, the 4th, and most well-known, album by Steven Demetre Georgiou, better known as Cat Stevens, and now known as Yusef, Yusef Islam, or Yusef Islam/Cat Stevens
  • Play an artist who has changed their name for stage

Because Charles Michael Kittredge Thompson IV just didn't quite match the vocal...



Pixies - Doolittle

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November 24
Your prompt today is to play an album that represents your musical heritage.


Some of my earliest musical memories as a youngster were delivered via this big body Zenith countertop radio playing in our kitchen every morning...

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Fun fact - it still works.

My dad's station of choice - WJRI, 1340 on your AM dial. We got your late 60s local radio usuals - the weather, school updates including what was for lunch that day, local news and sports, the ever-popular Swap Shop and a healthy, regular dose of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

What was officially considered 'punk rock' surfaced years later, but I can tell you listening to this song as a kid, the way it made me feel, the subject matter, and today seeing the visual of Tom frantically sawing his guitar and Doug and Stu, one of the greatest rhythm sections in music history, driving this thing along, it is totally punk rock...



Creedence Clearwater Revival - At The Royal Albert Hall April 14, 1970

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Bonus Fantasy records buffoonery.

In 1980 they released Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Royal Albert Hall Concert. Small detail - the tape they used was actually a show recorded in Oakland. Whoopsies. They quickly pulled the record and rebranded it as The Concert. I have an OG before they discovered the err of their ways...

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November 24
Your prompt today is to play an album that represents your musical heritage.


The Who - The Kids are Alright
I have told the story before of how seeing this movie in 1979 set me on a different musical path. After seeing the movie, later that night I was introduced to Who's Next and never looked back. Within a couple of months I had a tape with The Clash's Give 'em Enough Rope and was listening to that non-stop. By the end of 1980 I had London Calling and a couple of Bowie albums.

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