Strange Musical Tales: The September 2023 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread

Day 2 - THE DUNWICH HORROR (Lovecraft, 1928)
One of the central tales in the Cthulhu mythos, and one of the few where the protagonists defeat the monster of the story. Along the way, the protagonists consult the Necronomicon at Miskatonic University.
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.
Jeremy Enigk - Return of the Frog Queen

An album full of mysticism featuring a tome like cover

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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.

Hater - You Tried

This band from the cold shores of Malmo, Sweden released one of my favorites from the last few years that I don't think many have heard. The album features the kind of hooks that can only come from the Scandinavians and one of the stand-out tracks is titled Mental Haven.



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DAY 6 - THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD (Lovecraft, 1927)
Depicts the obsession of Charles Dexter Ward with an old ancestor that practiced dark magic.
Play something that references magic and/or wizards and/or ancestors and/or the occult.

Frankie And The Witch Fingers "ZAM" (2019 Greenway Records)
Includes the track "Dark Sorcerer", which covers the concept of magic, wizards and the occult. In fact, the lyrics of the album as a whole have a dark magic and occult feel to them.

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DAY 6 - THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD (Lovecraft, 1927)
Depicts the obsession of Charles Dexter Ward with an old ancestor that practiced dark magic.
Play something that references magic and/or wizards and/or ancestors and/or the occult.

Wikipedia on the song "Black Sabbath":

According to the band, the song was inspired by an experience that Geezer Butler had in the days of Earth. Butler, obsessed with the occult at the time, painted his apartment matte black and placed several inverted crucifixes and pictures of Satan on the walls. Ozzy Osbourne gave Butler a black occult book, written in Latin and decorated with numerous pictures of Satan. Butler read the book and then placed it on a shelf beside his bed before going to sleep. When he woke up, he claims he saw a large black figure standing at the end of his bed, staring at him. The figure vanished and Butler ran to the shelf where he had placed the book earlier, but the book was gone.

Then you follow up this track with The Wizard, which was influenced by Gandalf / Lord of the Rings.

Black Sabbath ~ Black Sabbath

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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.

Rudolph Johnson - Spring Rain
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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.

Alastor - Onwards and Upwards

Features the song Nightmare Trip 🤘🤘🤘
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DAY 6 - THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD (Lovecraft, 1927)
Depicts the obsession of Charles Dexter Ward with an old ancestor that practiced dark magic.
Play something that references magic and/or wizards and/or ancestors and/or the occult.

Bewitcher - Heavy Metal At the Speed of Satan
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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.
One for Dreams - Makaya McCraven - Dream Another
And it's such a dreamy album, so great.

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And one for Nightmares - King Crimson - One More Red Nightmare

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