September 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge - 'Cause you can't, you won't, and you don't stop!

[imtheocean]

Day 29: “I burn the competition like a flame thrower, my rhymes age like wine as I get older. I’m getting bolder, competition is waning, I got the ball and I see the lane in.”

Orgone "Lost Knights" (2022 3 Palms Records)
Includes the song "Burn" as well as "Crusader" which could invoke competition. Also, I'd happily go bowling while this is playing. Nobody fucks with the Turbo.

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Taking a little time to listen to this today.

 

[Turbo]

Taking a little time to listen to this today.

I love Orgone. Every one of their records is rooted in funky soul but it's always a different flavor. This one is in the Funkadelic realm.... good stuff.

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Day 28: “Me and Dawn in the shack and we got it goin’ on, Quincy’s in the hot tub like its ‘73”



The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Day 29: “I burn the competition like a flame thrower, my rhymes age like wine as I get older. I’m getting bolder, competition is waning, I got the ball and I see the lane in.”

Bonus literary interlude...



The Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 29: “I burn the competition like a flame thrower, my rhymes age like wine as I get older. I’m getting bolder, competition is waning, I got the ball and I see the lane in”

Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming



An artist that found success late in life (as he got older) with the first song (and one of his more well-known songs) titled “The World (Is Going Up in Flames)”.

 

[avecigrec]

Day 29: “I burn the competition like a flame thrower, my rhymes age like wine as I get older. I’m getting bolder, competition is waning, I got the ball and I see the lane in.”

Dave – We're All Alone In This Together


Dave performed with a flame thrower guitar at the Brit Awards and it was awesome!

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Day 30: “Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten, from the Battery to the top of Manhattan. Asian, Middle-Eastern, and Latin, Black, White, New York you make it happen.”

Good times, @imtheocean.

The ultimate love letter to NYC...



Lou Reed - New York

 

[imtheocean]

Day 30: “Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten, from the Battery to the top of Manhattan. Asian, Middle-Eastern, and Latin, Black, White, New York you make it happen.”

You know who really made it happen? The guys who sold loose joints in Central Park during this show and donated 1/2 their proceeds to the city. Unsung heroes.

Thanks all for humoring me this month. It was fun to set it up dig deeper into the Beastie Boys catalog, and to see where the lyrics took us. Looking forward to seeing what @Wicked Dreamer has cooked up for October!

I'm just going to assume that everyone posted enough this month to get in the drawing, and will pick someone at random next week for the Beastie Boys book!

Simon & Garfunkel ~ The Concert in Central Park

 

[tvham]

Day 30: “Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten, from the Battery to the top of Manhattan. Asian, Middle-Eastern, and Latin, Black, White, New York you make it happen.”

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water



Many thanks to @imtheocean for the fun month!

When I think of NYC bands, Simon and Garfunkel top the list. And Only Living Boy in New York is one of my all time favorite songs!

 

[Turbo]

Day 30: “Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten, from the Battery to the top of Manhattan. Asian, Middle-Eastern, and Latin, Black, White, New York you make it happen.”

The Strokes "Is This It" (2001 RCA; 2014 reissue)
A quintessential New York album.

 

[Turbo]

The month went by super fast! I thought the challenges would be tougher because of the free association, but they ended up being quite reasonable to meet. A credit to the universality of Beastie Boys lyrics. Thanks for putting this together @imtheocean , it was fun.

Here's what my month looked like:



Missing on the 23rd: Automagik - Fluorescent Nights

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

October thread is up!

 

[avecigrec]

Day 30: “Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten, from the Battery to the top of Manhattan. Asian, Middle-Eastern, and Latin, Black, White, New York you make it happen.”

The Bogie Band featuring Joe Russo – The Prophets In The City



The Bogie Band featuring Joe Russo is a new collaboration between old friends. Stuart Bogie's fiery arrangements meet Russo's dynamic drumming with a ten-piece ensemble utilizing only wind and percussion instruments. Bogie and Russo are joined by a cadre of players whose resumes run through some of New York City’s most beloved bands, including Antibalas, The Dap-Kings, Red Barat, Budos Band, St. Vincent and David Byrne's American Utopia. The nine tracks constructed on their debut album, The Prophets In The City, are riotous and jubilant, pushing the boundaries of wind music.

“The music we’ve created here revels in the human mysteries that unfold in New York City, basking in its connections, ironies, and myths,” explains Bogie. “Through observing its humanity, we hope to invoke the underlying world of the spirits.”

Indeed, The Prophets In The City presents a soundtrack to life in NYC that is at once ancient and immediate. The music paints images of crowded streets, joy and fury together on the sidewalk, golden light shining through scaffolding, and characters that carry mysteries and truths in their hearts. The dynamic arrangements are built on the propulsion of Russo’s drumming, alternating through transcendental minimalism, raucous humor and revelatory wonder; passages of bold gleaming brass ring back and forth in overtone rich harmonies, conjuring new melody in the listener’s imagination.

 

[avecigrec]

Thanks @imtheocean for putting this month together. I loved the theme and am quite pleased with what it brought out in my spins. Way much fun!

Here's a thing:


*Day 1: **Day 2: **Day 23:

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 30: “Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten, from the Battery to the top of Manhattan. Asian, Middle-Eastern, and Latin, Black, White, New York you make it happen”

Nas - Stillmatic



One of the greatest rappers of all time, in or outside NY.

Shoutout to @imtheocean for a great challenge, I hope I’ll see y’all in the October thread!

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Thanks @imtheocean I have been out of town and away from my records so I won’t be able to finish but it was a blast up until we left.

Big Thanks to @Wicked Dreamer for stepping g up and hosting us next month!

 

[ranbalam]

Thanks for running the September Challenge @imtheocean , I missed the finish line but really liked your prompts all month long. Nice one.

 

[imtheocean]

Alright! Drawing is done, random number generator told me that Post #211 is the winner. Which means that @avecigrec gets either a copy of the Beastie Boys book, or a coupon for a Cookie Puss!

Congrats! Message me so we can figure out the details!

 

[avecigrec]

Alright! Drawing is done, random number generator told me that Post #211 is the winner. Which means that @avecigrec gets either a copy of the Beastie Boys book, or a coupon for a Cookie Puss!

Congrats! Message me so we can figure out the details!



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Well, shit! Way cool, thank you!! Message incoming.