Strange Musical Tales: The September 2023 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread

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.
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YESSS!!!!

So which one of you has the machine?

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Day 7 - REVIVAL (Tim Seely & Mike Norton, 2012)
Comic series centered around the idea of the dead coming back to life in a small Wisconsin town, and the investigation into why this is occurring, along with the religious zealots that latch on the phenomenon and the media and government response.
Play something that references zombies and/or the undead and/or any sort of news media and/or small towns and/or the government.

Root Boy Slim - When You Date the Undead

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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.


Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy

I like this album a lot but I don't listen to it often as it's not the most chill experience. Sides A and B are on LP1 @33, C and E are on LP2 @45, D and F are on LP3 @33. I respect the ambition, but this is certainly the vinyl dark arts when listening on a belt drive without even mentioning the time traveling doppelganger themes on the album. Also there's a song with Magic in the title. The song is 1 minute on the album but they released the video as the entire Side B of the album which is 15 minutes long.



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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.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
 
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.


Here is a band that probably just a few have heard. The band was featured by a now defunct Feedbands label. It was a cool idea, have bands submit their songs and have listeners such as myself (and at least a few others here) vote for our favorite to be pressed on vinyl. It was a crazy, insane idea, and probably the dream projects by both the label and artists. It lasted for a few years anyway, they pressed about 70 records. Cool while it lasted.

Here is Mind Cinema - Sleep Clinic

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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.

"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" - Then & Now (2002) - Oliver Jones & Skip Bey

This song references the terrifying legend of the Leprechauns. I used to see Skip Bey in jazz clubs around Montreal in the early 90s. Unfortunately, he passed away too early. This is the only album I could find with him on bass.

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