October 2020 Challenge Thread: Let’s Get Weird

Curious, getting ready for tomorrow’s spiritual pick and I was wondering if there are any kind of religion thread are on here or I didn’t see one. Would anyone be interested in one. I haven’t been to church in a pretty long time but these gospel albums are stirring up some feelings.
 
Day 8 | Paul Hogan’s Birthday
TLC - CrazySexyCool
No, no one from TLC is from down under. I don’t actually own a single record from an Australian artist. But this album, and specifically “Waterfalls”, always reminds me of Australia.

I had a friend from Australia when we were kids. He had troubles learning at school when he first moved to America. His parents chalked it up to jet-lag. But even as weeks and months passed and he was still having problems, his parents kept insisting it was jet-lag. I think eventually they found out he had some minor learning disability and got it sorted out, but the nickname Jet-Lag had stuck by then.

Anyways, my cousin and I spent much of the summer of 1995 hanging out with him playing hoops, watching The Sandlot over and over, and playing Shaq-Fu on Super Nintendo. We also must’ve watched the “Waterfalls” music video over a hundred times. That song was on MTV all the time that summer. We each innocently claimed a member as our girlfriend. I liked Chili, my cousin liked Left Eye, he liked T-Boz. I moved away a few years later and haven’t seen or heard from him since, but to this day, anytime I catch The Sandlot or hear “Waterfalls”, I always remember my jet-lagged Aussie friend.

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Day 09: Soul Sister
Sister Rosetta Tharp died on this date 47 years ago. Spin something spiritual

More than likely, gonna hip everyone to someone new.

Leo "Bud" Welch died at the age of 85. His first record was released when he was 82.

This record was released posthumously, two years after he left us. It's a collection of gospel songs that simultaneously praise and kick ass.

It's beautiful. It rocks. It's highly recommended. And it'll lift your soul.

Leo "Bud" Welch - The Angels In Heaven Done Signed My Name



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debar22 said:
Day 8 | Paul Hogan’s Birthday
TLC - CrazySexyCool
No, no one from TLC is from down under. I don’t actually own a single record from an Australian artist. But this album, and specifically “Waterfalls”, always reminds me of Australia.

I had a friend from Australia when we were kids. He had troubles learning at school when he first moved to America. His parents chalked it up to jet-lag. But even as weeks and months passed and he was still having problems, his parents kept insisting it was jet-lag. I think eventually they found out he had some minor learning disability and got it sorted out, but the nickname Jet-Lag had stuck by then.

Anyways, my cousin and I spent much of the summer of 1995 hanging out with him playing hoops, watching The Sandlot over and over, and playing Shaq-Fu on Super Nintendo. We also must’ve watched the “Waterfalls” music video over a hundred times. That song was on MTV all the time that summer. We each innocently claimed a member as our girlfriend. I liked Chili, my cousin liked Left Eye, he liked T-Boz. I moved away a few years later and haven’t seen or heard from him since, but to this day, anytime I catch The Sandlot or hear “Waterfalls”, I always remember my jet-lagged Aussie friend.

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Ha I also had a crush on Chili . Left eyes sister went to my school and I sat next to her in home room I was always bugging her to set me with her, she said she’d put a good word in for me but it never worked out for some reason lol.
 
Day 8 Soul Sistas

I was listening to both of these and couldn’t decide which to put up so I’ll just put up both I’ve had a long sort of strange history with religion. I went to a Christian school from k-8th grade My mom sings in a Baptist church choir, and my wife was raised Catholic, I personally have no bad history with the church but I know people that have . My church/school was kind of goofy but sweet ( think Ned Flanders ) It really left me very unprepared for the Philly School system though .
Anyway some of these songs still resonate with me and we can all use some of the advice they give especially now whether you are religious or not. Songs like put a little love In your heart, Let there be Peace on Earth and that title track on Mavis Have a little Faith are really wonderful songs that can help us get through some of the awful times a lot of us are going through.

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