Party up moodge, it’s the June 2023 Vinyl Challenge!!

Day 27
Warren Peace (War and Peace) was the stage name of Geoff MacCormack, a long time friend of David’s and collaborator with him in the 70s.
Play a pun or a literary allusion

No shortage of literary allusions in Dylan's work. Besides the title characters in this song coming from Alice In Wonderland, you've also got this line:

Well, they're going to the country, they're gonna retire
They're taking a streetcar named desire

Bob Dylan ~ Love & Theft

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Day 28
There is no X related Bowie fact, so FREE PLAY!!

Au contraire mon frère.

There's an episode of The X-Files called 'Scary Monsters' whose central character is a boy named Tommy and concludes with a scene paying homage to the TV scene in 'The Man Who Fell To Earth".

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Scary Monsters

"Scary Monsters" is the fourteenth episode of the ninth season of The X-Files. Leyla Harrison, an FBI agent with a passion for the X-Files that Mulder and Scully investigated, alerts Scully, Doggett and Reyes to a case she believes is an X-File involving a young boy with an overactive...
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I already played Scary Monsters this month, but I'll stick with something that has a TV tie-in - Bowie covered by Jessica Lange in American Horror Story: Freak Show...



David Bowie - Live Santa Monica '72

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Day 26: Velvet Underground - Play a cover

The Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees
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So first I was gonna play a Bowie cover but I don’t own The Godzilla soundtrack so I couldn’t play The Wallflowers cover of “Heroes” and I think Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged cover of “The Man Who Sold The World” (which was my first exposure to that particular song) would be something that others might wanna play. Then I thought about doing a Velvet Underground cover (because lord knows I have a good amount of those strewn throughout my collection) but then I saw saw @imtheocean post Flaming Lips which made me almost break out my RSD 7” on pink vinyl of Mastodon covering “A Spoonful Weighs A Ton” but this morning I wasn’t ready for the heavy stuff and saw @Turbo posted a Sade cover and Beachwood Sparks does a beautiful Byrds-esque rendition of “By Your Side” so that’s what I finally settled on.
 
Day 25
June 25, 2004 - Last performance of the Reality tour and last full Bowie concert ever, retiring completely from live performing in 2006.
Play something that is “last”

Wye Oak - Every Day Like the Last

This singles compilation just came out, is good, and has "last" in its name.

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Day 26
Velvet Underground - David received a promo copy of the first VU album in 1966 and quickly added “I’m Waiting for the Man” to his live repertoire, even recording it as an unreleased single. This and later “White Light/White Heat” were played at least once over every subsequent tour until 2004.
Play a cover

Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There

An album with multiple covers from a band with a history of great covers.

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