October 2020 Challenge Thread: Let’s Get Weird

Day 4 soundtrack sunday

My initial thought was to grab The Big Lewbowski but as you can guess I listen to that more than most of my soundtracks and I have a pretty decent selection to choose from. So I went with one of my favorites that I haven’t spun in a while and don’t bust it out too often. Fun fact....this is the only album I own that still has the shrink on it. I just can’t bring myself to take off that K mart sticker.

Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

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Day 5 | Dig Them Horns
Donald Byrd - Stepping Into Tomorrow
Back when I first started collecting records a little over 15 years ago, I was young, broke and had no clue what I was doing. I spent a lot of time at Goodwill and thrift stores and flea markets picking up any trashed $0.50 records that looked interesting. Occasionally, I’d venture into real record stores and dig in the dollar bins and stare longingly at the racks full of records I couldn’t afford.

One weekend, at a stall at the Kane County Flea Market, there was an older dude sitting on a stool off to the side with a small crate of records by his feet. It looked like his wife ran the stall, and he was just along to help and brought some records to sling. I flipped through the records quickly, and the only name that looked familiar to my inexperienced eyes was Donald Byrd. I pulled this record out and asked the guy how much. When he saw which record I pulled, his eyes kind of lit up and said he couldn’t believe people had been flipping past that record all morning and how it was a such a great record and everything. He asked for $3, and I gladly paid it, so proud of myself, feeling like I was now a real crate digger.

That was the only record I bought that day, but I couldn’t wait to get home to play it. I didn’t really know what to expect when i listened to it, but by the time it got to “Think Twice”, I thought to myself that this was the kind of record I would put on when I would host fancy dinner parties. Obviously, younger me had a much different vision of what life would be like for future me. I’ve since purged my collection of a lot of the turds I picked up during those initial years. This record is one of the few that I’ve kept. It could probably use an upgrade (it looks like VG- and plays like VG at best), but I love this record and it holds sentimental value to me. Even as I listen to it right now, I’m thinking that I could play this at fancy dinner party someday.

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Day 05: Dig Them Horns
Spin an LP that predominantly features brass or woodwind instrumentation

From Allmusic.com:
A loose-knit group of musicians drawn from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings(Dave Guy, Homer Steinweiss, Fernando Velez, Bosco Mann), El Michels Affair(Leon Michels, Toby Pazner), Antibalas (Nick Movshon, Aaron Johnson) and the Budos Band (Mike Deller, Daniel Fodder), the Menahan Street Band was assembled by producer Thomas Brenneck. Recorded in Brenneck's Menahan Street. apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the conglomerate band blended a whole array of influences into a fresh approach to instrumental soul music that is as odd and quirky as it is familiar. The group's debut album, Make the Road by Walking, was released on Dunham Records, an imprint of Brenneck's own Daptone label, in 2008. After Jay Z sampled the album's title track for his hit single "Roc Boys (And the Winner Is…)", the band invested their royalty money from the song in building a studio. Brenneck launched the all-analog Dunham Sound Studios, and the band worked there for many months on the completion of their 2012 sophomore album The Crossing.

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DAY 1
SWEATER WEATHER
The Weeknd - After Hours
Even though this album was released in March, I generally tend to associate The Weeknd's music with the fall. Besides being a self-professed king of the fall, his last couple albums before this one have been released either during or very close to the fall season. And plus it's just sort of the vibe his music gives off - even the Weeknd's poppiest hits to me don't sound like bright summer jams, to me his music is best heard when the temperatures cool down and the leaves are falling. And I also have been looking for an excuse to spin this new arrival 😁
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Day 03: The Wide World of Sports
We have The MLB post Season, NBA Finals, Football, and EPL all going on right now. Spin something that reminds you of sports.

Hootie & The Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
"I'm such a baby, yeah the Dolphins make me cry"
I always remember seeing the music video for this when I was younger, and thinking it was so cool that they got Dan Marino to be in it.IMG-1600.jpg
 
Day 05: Dig Them Horns - Spin an LP that predominantly features brass or woodwind instrumentation

Johnny Griffin - A Blowing Session

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I’d say this is a pretty decent lineup of horns:

Johnny Griffin, John Coltrane. Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan. Plus this is one is the prettiest VMP releases ever.
 
tvham said:
Day 05: Dig Them Horns - Spin an LP that predominantly features brass or woodwind instrumentation

Johnny Griffin - A Blowing Session

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I’d say this is a pretty decent lineup of horns:

Johnny Griffin, John Coltrane. Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan. Plus this is one is the prettiest VMP releases ever.
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I ALMOST grabbed this off my shelf but changed my mind last minute. Great minds!
 
Day 04: Soundtrack Sunday
Spin a soundtrack

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports

So I was today years old when I realized that I have exactly zero soundtracks in my collection. Gonna have to change that soon.
In the meantime, I will be a bit creative and use this album because it is basically an airport soundtrack, right? Sure, lets go with that.IMG-1602.jpg
 
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