September 2021 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread: This Thread. This Thread Is The Place. The Place Where Everything. Everything Always Happens.

Day 1 - “Girlfriend Is Better”

Stop making sense, stop making sense. Stop making sense, making sense.
“Stop Making Sense” (the album) was released 37 years ago in September 1984. Play a concert album.
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Oscar Peterson Trio with Roy Eldridge, Sonny Stitt and Jo Jones - “At Newport” (1957)

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Angsty said:
Day 1 - “Girlfriend Is Better”

Stop making sense, stop making sense. Stop making sense, making sense.
“Stop Making Sense” (the album) was released 37 years ago in September 1984. Play a concert album.
———
Oscar Peterson Trio with Roy Eldridge, Sonny Stitt and Jo Jones - “At Newport” (1957)

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Wouldn't get you the full bonus imaginary points for Day 9, but that's a Montreal legend right there.
 
Day 1 - “Girlfriend Is Better”

Stop making sense, stop making sense. Stop making sense, making sense.
“Stop Making Sense” (the album) was released 37 years ago in September 1984. Play a concert album.
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Back on the champagne thread grind after a few months off. Very rad and unique theme @Turbo.

The Kinks - Live At Kelvin Hall

Probably my least spun from the mono collection box but it's still The Kinks

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Day 1 - “Girlfriend Is Better”
Stop making sense, stop making sense. Stop making sense, making sense.
“Stop Making Sense” (the album) was released 37 years ago in September 1984. Play a concert album.

Had been meaning to snag this for a while and got a steal on a used copy on Discogs that arrived yesterday. Just in time for today's challenge!

Widespread Panic Live from Austin, TX

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Day 2 - “Road To Nowhere”
Play an album that references driving, the road and/or traveling.

Forgive the long lyric post but what a goddamn great song by Ray Davies.

Click the link and sing along...

Sitting alone in my hotel
Looking in the mirror wondering, "Well,
After all this time you never thought you'd still be out on the road?"
Like a gypsy I was born to roam
Like a wanderer with no fixed abode
I think about the friends I've left behind on the road
Well, the road's been rocky along the way
It's been a long, hard haul on the motorway
But if it gets too smooth it's time to call it a day
The bed and breakfasts and the greasy spoons
(The road)
The loser bars and the noisy rooms
(The road)
The casualties who did too many lines
(The road)
Wasted talent on women and wine
I think of all the friends I've left behind
Whenever it's time to get back out on the road
Started playing blues in a coffee bar
I took a trip down Charing Cross Road
With my imitation Gretsch guitar
And my head full of songs and my eyes full of stars
I saw a band called the Rolling Stones
I thought, "That's it, I'll get a band,
I'm leaving home, I'm out on the road"
The motorways all over this land
(The road)
Far away places like Wigan and Birmingham
(The road)
Didn't have no name, didn't have any fans
(The road)
Didn't have no money so we slept in the van
All those early gigs we ever played
Sometimes we were lucky if we even got paid
On the road
Pete played on the bass guitar
Liked to get around, mixing with all the stars
But Mrs. Avory's child was all fingers and thumbs
But solid as a rock, setting time on the drums
While Dave the Rave hit the rock 'n' roll riffs
Yours truly strummed away with a slightly limp wrist
On the road
Everyday is when I can't get used to it
Everyday is when I can't get away
Another day, another freeway to face
That's the road
Well, life is a road, it's a motorway
And the road gets rocky along the way
But if it gets too smooth it's time to call it a day
Jimi Hendrix, The Who, the Led Zeppelin and Free
They took the road so it's alright by me
Some are survivors, some are debris
If you play in a band that's the road that you take
Living in it, eating in it, sleeping in it
You wake up in the morning, what do you see?
The road
Life is a road, it's a motorway
Lost a lot of good friends along the way
All the families and homes that I've left behind
To the wives and the lovers and friends who had their time
I say, "You take your road and I'll take mine"
(You take your road and I'll take mine)
You take your road and I'll take mine
(You take your road and I'll take mine)
Life is a road, it's a motorway
And the road gets rocky along the way
But if it gets too smooth it's time to call it a day
Observed all the various phases from
Flower power, heavy metal and acid rock
And still all the critics keep saying
"Are they still around? When they gonna stop?"
It's just the dedicated followers of fashion who like putting down
All the well respected men who came dancing and are still on the road
Sometimes I get suicidal
Now everyone is a rival
Different cars, different bars and hotels
Corporations, big business and egos
When it all gets too bad I think back
When we were all each other had
When we started out on the road
And there's gas in my tank and I've still got a way to go
Another hotel, it's time to check out soon
As I look around the room
I think of all the friends I've left behind
On the road




The Kinks - Live The Road

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Day 2 - “Road To Nowhere”
Well, we know where we're goin' but we don't know where we've been.
Play an album that references driving, the road and/or traveling.

"The Passenger" always makes an appearance in any playlist I make for travelling.

Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
Virgin/UMe – B0026275-01, 1977/2017

Cut by Ian Sefchick

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Day 2 - “Road To Nowhere”
Well, we know where we're goin' but we don't know where we've been.
Play an album that references driving, the road and/or traveling.

Bruce Springsteen "The River" (1980 Columbia; 2015 reissue)
Several songs that reference driving, the road and travelling on this album: "Sherry Darling", "Out In The Street", "Crush On You", "The River", "Cadillac Ranch", "Stolen Car", "Ramrod", "The Price You Pay", "Drive All Night" and "Wreck On The Highway".
Remaster is cut by Chris Bellman and pressed at MPO.

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Day 2 - “Road To Nowhere”
Well, we know where we're goin' but we don't know where we've been.
Play an album that references driving, the road and/or traveling.

Was almost scooped there, @Turbo

Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run

Like The River, there’s tons of references to traveling, driving and roads/streets/highways. Almost every single song on here fits the bill.

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Day 1 - “Girlfriend Is Better”

Wilco - Live At The Troubadour L.A. 1996

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Kinda dropped off last month as I was banished to my room (sans stereo) for a couple weeks. The state of Florida had heard about someone that was living here that hadn’t had Covid yet and they finally found me. I thank the vaccines for the very mild symptoms I had. Anyyyways…

This is a great concert record from the very early days of Wilco.
 
Turbo said:
Day 2 - “Road To Nowhere”
Well, we know where we're goin' but we don't know where we've been.
Play an album that references driving, the road and/or traveling.

Bruce Springsteen "The River" (1980 Columbia; 2015 reissue)
Several songs that reference driving, the road and travelling on this album: "Sherry Darling", "Out In The Street", "Crush On You", "The River", "Cadillac Ranch", "Stolen Car", "Ramrod", "The Price You Pay", "Drive All Night" and "Wreck On The Highway".
Remaster is cut by Chris Bellman and pressed at MPO.

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LOL! ANY Springsteen woulda probably work fine.
 
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