November Challenge Thread: All-Stars Edition!

Day 6: @Hemotep ran last months challenge, (in)famous for its use of Crumhorns and Shwams. I won’t be that cruel, but will take it as a start.
  • Play an album that features an unusual instrument.
Depeche Mode "Construction Time Again" (1983 Sire Japan)
How to make this day even worse? Fucking crumhorns. So we're not going to do that (spoiler alert: I can't even do that). Depeche Mode's "Everything Counts" includes both a xylophone and a melodica.

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Day 6: @Hemotep ran last months challenge, (in)famous for its use of Crumhorns and Shwams. I won’t be that cruel, but will take it as a start.
  • Play an album that features an unusual instrument.
I need some weirdness and dissonance today.

Tom used some unusual percussion on this, including a vehicle brake, octobans, bell plates, and metal aunglongs.

Percussion Instruments -

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Tom Waits ~ Swordfishtrombones

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Turbo said:
Day 6: @Hemotep ran last months challenge, (in)famous for its use of Crumhorns and Shwams. I won’t be that cruel, but will take it as a start.
  • Play an album that features an unusual instrument.
Depeche Mode "Construction Time Again" (1983 Sire Japan)
How to make this day even worse? Fucking crumhorns. So we're not going to do that (spoiler alert: I can't even do that). Depeche Mode's "Everything Counts" includes both a xylophone and a melodica.

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I almost went with Some Great Reward, but I couldnt find proof the sound in Blasphemous Rumors was an actual ventilator being disconnected.
 
Day 6: Hemotep ran last months challenge, (in)famous for its use of Crumhorns and Shwams. I won’t be that cruel, but will take it as a start.
  • Play an album that features an unusual instrument.

Ellen Fullman - The Long String Instrument

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Played on a "long string instrument" consisting of a wooden box resonator with long strings extending from it at waist height. These strings are played with rosin-covered hands, where the fundamental frequency as well the overtone frequency series are played while playing, creating a dissonant, yet rich sound texture.
Apropos description of my current headspace.

Performance of a composition using this instrument about a decade ago in Detroit:
 
Day 1: When Needles & Grooves was first launched in May 2019, @RenegadeMonster got right into it with a spin challenge that started with the following prompt: "New Beginnings. Post an album that is associated with new beginnings".
  • New Beginnings. Post an album that is associated with new beginnings. Or, look back in your post history to see the first album you posted about on N&G, and play that album.
Nine Inch Nails – Broken
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On April 9, 2021, I'd been a member of this community for just under two weeks and joined @Wicked Dreamer's Challenge Thread, in progress, on day 9 for 45 Friday with the 7" included here. I'd just gone and traded in records at my local for the first time ever that morning and came home with this, among other things.

This was going to be my opening spin all along but seems extra appropriate for today (and is my first spin since getting ready for trick or treating!)
 
Day 6: @Hemotep ran last months challenge, (in)famous for its use of Crumhorns and Shwams. I won’t be that cruel, but will take it as a start.
  • Play an album that features an unusual instrument.
David Bowie - Heathens

David famously played a Stylophone on Space Oddity. He broke it out again on this album and one of my favourite of his later tracks, Slip Away. Proud that I took until day 6 before I broke out a Bowie album.
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Day 3: @Kris hosted our November 2021 challenge, focusing “days of the month”. November 3rd is when Daylight Savings time ends.
  • Play an extra-long album to fill in that extra hour of your day.
Blue Öyster Cult – 50th Anniversary - Live In NYC - First Night
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I'm sure I have longer, but my box sets are buried further than I care to dig at the moment. This one runs just shy of 2 hours––although, combined with Second Night, which I've not yet picked up, and Third Night, which comes out next month, the full 50th Anniversary - Live In NYC will find itself running nearly 6 hours long!
 
Day 4: Play an artist that you have traveled (or would travel to, given the opportunity) go see.

Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship

The farthest from home I've ever been to a concert was in 2022 when my wife and I took a trip to Portland, and I noticed Tortoise was playing while we would be there... unfortunately, as we were all seated and waiting for the show to start, someone came out and told us members of the band had just tested positive for covid and the show would be postponed... so I still haven't seen Tortoise live. :(

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LeSamourai said:
Day 4: Play an artist that you have traveled (or would travel to, given the opportunity) go see.

Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship

The farthest from home I've ever been to a concert was in 2022 when my wife and I took a trip to Portland, and I noticed Tortoise was playing while we would be there... unfortunately, as we were all seated and waiting for the show to start, someone came out and told us members of the band had just tested positive for covid and the show would be postponed... so I still haven't seen Tortoise live. :(

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I also missed this show, and then they rescheduled when I was on vacation. Missed it twice!
 
Day 4: @waruv gave us the June 2022 challenge based on Taylor Swift. Mrs. ImTheOcean is traveling to Vancouver in December to see the last night of Taylors tour.
  • Play an artist that you have traveled (or would travel to, given the opportunity) go see.
King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson)
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In August of 2001 I hopped on a Greyhound from Vancouver to Seattle to catch the second night of a Tool/King Crimson double bill with norhing more than the clothes on my back, a return bus ticket for an hour or two after the show, my concert ticket, and $0.71 in my bank account. I was mostly going for Tool, but had just discovered King Crimson about three months before the shows were announced so I was especially excited to see them, knowing how impactful they were on Tool. Nobody I met in line had any idea who King Crimson were, but they got a well-deserved standing ovation at the end of their set!
 
Day 5: @D Jilla hosted November 2020 when the US last had a presidential election. I think we’ve learned the last few years that its important to use your voice.
  • Play something pointedly political, or by someone who has used their voice for change.
Bad Religion – How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
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Would have been appropriate yesterday; seems extra appropriate today!
 
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