Strange Musical Tales: The September 2023 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread

Day 24 - THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE (Lovecraft, 1932)
Story of a mathematics student that rents a room in the attic of the “Witch House”, a building with a mysterious past. The protagonist discovers that the attic room allows for trans-dimensional travel.
Play something that references a house, preferably haunted and/or a room and/or landlords and/or tenants and/or mathematics and/or unusual dimensions and/or play something from a 10” record.

The Hot Rats "Turn Ons" (2009 Fat Possum; 2020 RSD expanded reissue)
Album of cover versions that names a room in "Mirror In The Bathroom". "Up The Junction" also mentions moving into the basement, which both is a room and alludes to the idea of being a tenant somewhere. "Bike" refers to "a room of musical tunes". There is also technically another Tennant (as in Neil Tennant), as Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls" is covered. Plus, this is on 10".

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Day 22 - FROM BEYOND (Lovecraft, 1920)
The narrator relates his meeting with scientist Crawford Tillinghast, who created an electronic device that emits resonance waves allowing people to perceive other dimensions.
Play something that relates to science and/or includes an electronic instrument and/or a theremin.

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

The title, the electronics, and a track has a theremin - "The Knock (Drums of Death, Pt. 2)". All tentacles checked!

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Day 20 - THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME (Lovecraft, 1934)
The story introduces the Ythians, an alien race that can travel through space and time by switching bodies with other beings. They are long extinct but continue to persist through human minds.
Play something that references time and/or the past and/or the future and/or aliens.
Sorry, I didn't check the backpages...hopefully this hasn't been played.
This one is a grower, but it's climbing the ranks of his releases.

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - The Future
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Day 23 - GHOSTBUSTERS (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
Ghostbusters includes several cosmic horror tropes, notably the idea of an apartment building built by an insane architect as a gateway for the multi-dimensional being Gozer. But the protagonists actually win in this story.
Play something that references or reminds you of marshmallows and/or slime and/or ghosts and/or New York and/or features a cool car and/or anything related to Bill Murray.

Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm

I guess, technically, refried ectoplasm would be what we got in the Ghostbusters sequels and reboots...

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Day 24 - THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE (Lovecraft, 1932)
Story of a mathematics student that rents a room in the attic of the “Witch House”, a building with a mysterious past. The protagonist discovers that the attic room allows for trans-dimensional travel.
Play something that references a house, preferably haunted and/or a room and/or landlords and/or tenants and/or mathematics and/or unusual dimensions and/or play something from a 10” record.

Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead

A dead landlord haunting sounds horrible...

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Day 25 - THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (Lovecraft, 1927)
A meteorite crashed in the hills 50 years prior, poisoning the vegetation and animals. A sample from the meteorite obtained by a scientist emits a strange colour…
Play something that references colours and/or is pressed on multi-colored vinyl and/or is trippy and/or relates to aliens.

Pixies "Trompe Le Monde" (1991 4AD; 2021 reissue)
Album is pressed on multi-coloured vinyl. The hype sticker references the colour of the vinyl. That cover also has a trippy je-ne-sais-quoi going for it. Very "cosmic horror" too. The music itself could also be described as trippy. And, includes the song "Motorway to Roswell" so there's aliens as well. Boom. Four tentacles.

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Day 25 - THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (Lovecraft, 1927)
A meteorite crashed in the hills 50 years prior, poisoning the vegetation and animals. A sample from the meteorite obtained by a scientist emits a strange colour…
Play something that references colours and/or is pressed on multi-colored vinyl and/or is trippy and/or relates to aliens.

Getting on a plane, so I can’t spin any fancy wax. Going with something never pressed to vinyl that was an early favorite of my kids

They Might Be Giants ~ Here Comes Science.

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imtheocean said:
Day 25 - THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (Lovecraft, 1927)
A meteorite crashed in the hills 50 years prior, poisoning the vegetation and animals. A sample from the meteorite obtained by a scientist emits a strange colour…
Play something that references colours and/or is pressed on multi-colored vinyl and/or is trippy and/or relates to aliens.

Getting on a plane, so I can’t spin any fancy wax. Going with something never pressed to vinyl that was an early favorite of my kids

They Might Be Giants ~ Here Comes Science.

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I was unabashedly in love with this (and Numbers and Alphabet) long before I had kids! They're so good!!
 
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