Strange Musical Tales: The September 2023 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread

[BazookaTooth]

Day 4 - LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Matt Ruff, 2016)
Lovecraft’s stories have influenced a lot of science-fiction, horror, and fantasy, but the elephant in the room is that he was known to have racist beliefs. As a response to this, various authors have reappropriated the cosmic horror themes and ideas from his works into empowering storylines. Examples of this are Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country (which was also adapted into an HBO series) and Victor LaValle’s The Ballad Of Black Tom.
Play something empowering and/or something by a black artist.

 

[Wes C. Attle]

Day 4 - LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Matt Ruff, 2016)
Play something empowering and/or something by a black artist.

Dijon - Absolutely

 

[avecigrec]

Day 4 - LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Matt Ruff, 2016)
Lovecraft’s stories have influenced a lot of science-fiction, horror, and fantasy, but the elephant in the room is that he was known to have racist beliefs. As a response to this, various authors have reappropriated the cosmic horror themes and ideas from his works into empowering storylines. Examples of this are Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country (which was also adapted into an HBO series) and Victor LaValle’s The Ballad Of Black Tom.
Play something empowering and/or something by a black artist.

This record sounds middling to poor, but my wife chose Nina for today and I only have this and the VMP release.
What Nina record should I get next?

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I'd like to know the answer to this question too. I, too, only have the VMP. I really like the track Baltimore so I've eyed that late-70's record for a while.

Pastel Blues the Acoustic Sounds Series version.

Nina Simone - Pastel Blues

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2020 Vinyl release of "Pastel Blues" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

 

[avecigrec]

Pastel Blues the Acoustic Sounds Series version.

Nina Simone - Pastel Blues

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2020 Vinyl release of "Pastel Blues" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

This is one of my "essential to every record collection" titles, and the AS version is top shelf.

 

[gafacaode]

Day 4 - LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Matt Ruff, 2016)
Lovecraft’s stories have influenced a lot of science-fiction, horror, and fantasy, but the elephant in the room is that he was known to have racist beliefs. As a response to this, various authors have reappropriated the cosmic horror themes and ideas from his works into empowering storylines. Examples of this are Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country(which was also adapted into an HBO series) and Victor LaValle’s The Ballad Of Black Tom.
Play something empowering and/or something by a black artist.

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

 

[gafacaode]

Day 4 - LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Matt Ruff, 2016)
Lovecraft’s stories have influenced a lot of science-fiction, horror, and fantasy, but the elephant in the room is that he was known to have racist beliefs. As a response to this, various authors have reappropriated the cosmic horror themes and ideas from his works into empowering storylines. Examples of this are Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country (which was also adapted into an HBO series) and Victor LaValle’s The Ballad Of Black Tom.
Play something empowering and/or something by a black artist.

This record sounds middling to poor, but my wife chose Nina for today and I only have this and the VMP release.
What Nina record should I get next?

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I'd like to know the answer to this question too. I, too, only have the VMP. I really like the track Baltimore so I've eyed that late-70's record for a while.

I have this one:

Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2017 Vinyl release of "Little Girl Blue" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

It is a great pressing but it's going for crazy prices on Discogs right now

 

[LeSamourai]

Day 4 - LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Matt Ruff, 2016)
Lovecraft’s stories have influenced a lot of science-fiction, horror, and fantasy, but the elephant in the room is that he was known to have racist beliefs. As a response to this, various authors have reappropriated the cosmic horror themes and ideas from his works into empowering storylines. Examples of this are Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country (which was also adapted into an HBO series) and Victor LaValle’s The Ballad Of Black Tom.
Play something empowering and/or something by a black artist.

Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady

Check and check.

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 4: LOVECRAFT COUNTRY

Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Day 4 - LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Matt Ruff, 2016)
Play something empowering and/or something by a black artist.



Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Day 5 - BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP (Lovecraft, 1919)
Play something that references dreams and/or nightmares and/or sleep and/or asylums.

1. Sleep To Dream...



Fiona Apple - Tidal




2. Sanitarium Blues...



Death Valley Girls - Street Venom

 

[Hemotep]

Day 3 - AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS (Lovecraft, 1931)
One of the most influential Lovecraft stories, featuring the discovery of mysterious alien ruins that the protagonists cannot understand, a trope that reappeared in countless sci-fi works like Alien, The Thing, or The Expanse.
Play something related to sanity/insanity and/or about the frigid cold of winter and/or makes you think of winter and/or aliens.

Frozen Planet...1969 - From The Center of a Parallel Universe

 

[imtheocean]

Day 4 - LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Matt Ruff, 2016)
Lovecraft’s stories have influenced a lot of science-fiction, horror, and fantasy, but the elephant in the room is that he was known to have racist beliefs. As a response to this, various authors have reappropriated the cosmic horror themes and ideas from his works into empowering storylines. Examples of this are Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country (which was also adapted into an HBO series) and Victor LaValle’s The Ballad Of Black Tom.
Play something empowering and/or something by a black artist.
Various Artists ~ Wattstax: The Living Word

 

[Turbo]

Day 5 - BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP (Lovecraft, 1919)
The story features an asylum intern that used a two-way telepathic communication machine on a nearly dead criminally insane patient.
Play something that references dreams and/or nightmares and/or sleep and/or asylums.

Drugdealer "Raw Honey" (2019 Mexican Summer)
Includes the songs "Lost In My Dream" and "London Nightmare".

 

[imtheocean]

Day 5 - BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP (Lovecraft, 1919)
The story features an asylum intern that used a two-way telepathic communication machine on a nearly dead criminally insane patient.
Play something that references dreams and/or nightmares and/or sleep and/or asylums.

Includes the song "I Don't Sleep, I Dream". And it also includes "What's the Frequency, Kenneth" based on an 1986 attack on Dan Rather and what his assailant yelled at him. The guy who did this (who ended up later killing an NBC Stagehand) claimed that television studios were beaming signals into his brain, but he surprisingly did not end up in an asylum - he was sentenced to a 12.5 to 25 year prison sentence for the murder, and was released on parole in 2010.

R.E.M. ~ Monster

 

[avecigrec]

Day 2 - THE DUNWICH HORROR (Lovecraft, 1928)

King Crimson – The Young Persons' Guide To King Crimson

• "Book Of Saturday"
• "Coda From Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part I," "The Night Watch" and "In The Court Of The Crimson King" all sound like they could be legends parsed from texts in the library at Miskatonic University
• Cover features a weird creature

 

[gafacaode]

Day 5 - BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP (Lovecraft, 1919)
The story features an asylum intern that used a two-way telepathic communication machine on a nearly dead criminally insane patient.
Play something that references dreams and/or nightmares and/or sleep and/or asylums.

Bird dream of the Olympus Mons

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde

 

[Wes C. Attle]

Day 5 - BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP (Lovecraft, 1919)
Play something that references dreams and/or nightmares and/or sleep and/or asylums.

The Dream Syndicate - The Days Of Wine and Roses

 

[avecigrec]

Day 3 - AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS (Lovecraft, 1931)

Snotty Nose Rez Kids – Trapline

• "Crazy"
• "Aliens Vs. Indians"
• Originally from Kitamaat, which means "people of the snow" in Tsimshian

 

[jfitzy]

Day 1 - THE KING IN YELLOW (Robert Chambers, 1895)
Play something that references kings and/or stars, preferably black, and/or references or is related to the colour yellow.

Great theme, I love cosmic horror!

King Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader

 

[jfitzy]

Day 2 - THE DUNWICH HORROR (Lovecraft, 1928)
Play something that references a weird creature and/or a legend that you might find in a dark book in the library at Miskatonic University and/or play something that is based on a book, or references books and/or libraries.

Behemoth - The Satanist

This album checks off all the boxes for today’s prompt. Behemoth is a biblical beast. There’s tons of biblical references and imagery in the lyrics and they read like something you’d find written down in an evil book hidden away somewhere.