The April 2023 Record Spin Challenge: "Want to go around again? I do."

April 11 - Teenage Angst. Play an album that you listened to as a teenager that gave you the feels

The original version I bought of this when it first came out is lost to time and a non-air conditioned storage unit. But this is the band the spent the most time in my walkman as a teenager by a long shot, the marching band kid in me loved the horn section and the general outsider vibe of the band. And two songs on this album in particular (Who do You Want to Be and Sweat) bring me right back to the intensity of my first mosh pit when seeing Oingo Boingo for the first time at the Hollywood Palladium w/ my friend Jim.

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Oingo Boingo Setlist at Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles

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Oingo Boingo ~ Good For Your Soul

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April 12 - First Loves. Play an album that you would want to be playing in the background if you could fall in love (even if unreciprocated) for the first time as a teenager all over again.

As established in the above prompts, my formative years were spent listening to Oingo Boingo, playing Trombone in Marching Band, and potentially getting obsessed with a Cyborg who only wants to vomit and die. Not to mention the hours spent in the computer lab with the TRS-80's and Apple IIs.

So I definitely needed all the help I could get in the romance department and really should have paid attention to this album earlier.

Al Green ~ Let's Stay Together

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imtheocean said:
April 10 - Be Kind To Your Inner Child. Play the album you would give to yourself as a child or that you want to share with your child.

Doubling up on King Gizzard today. Teenage me would have been obsessed with this album, especially Han-Tyumi. And while I've tried to share it with my kids, leading with "Do you want to listen to Vomit Coffin" puts them off for some reason.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard ~ Murder of the Universe.

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Gotta say, I think this is an intense pick. This album fried my brains for a little bit. I respect it a lot but the idea of sharing this album with anyone - especially a younger me who hadn't figured out how to deal with neuroses yet - with the intent that they get out of it what I did seems borderline sadistic to me.
 
Phaneronic said:
Gotta say, I think this is an intense pick. This album fried my brains for a little bit. I respect it a lot but the idea of sharing this album with anyone - especially a younger me who hadn't figured out how to deal with neuroses yet - with the intent that they get out of it what I did seems borderline sadistic to me.
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Agreed, you definitely need to know your audience with an album like that and looping it in with the "inner child" prompt may have missed the mark a bit. My 'kids' are 16-26 and into D&D, Sci-Fi, Fantasy etc. which is the angle I'd approach it at for them, and that really would have been the perspective I'd have looked at it as well if teenage me was introduced to it.
 
April 13 - First Heartbreak. Play an album that you would give to your heartbroken teenaged self after getting dumped/rejected.

Phil Collins / Genesis came up earlier this thread. A few weeks after my first real girlfriend and I broke up I went to see Genesis at Dodger Stadium with a friend. As it turns out, out of the tens of thousands of seats in the stadium she was a few rows in front of my friend and I on a date with someone else. They didn't play any Phil solo stuff that night, but "I Don't Care Anymore" has always been a great 'dealing with a rejection' song - and probably something I would have sung embarrassingly awkwardly and loudly had they played it.

Phil Collins ~ Hello, I Must Be Going

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imtheocean said:
Agreed, you definitely need to know your audience with an album like that and looping it in with the "inner child" prompt may have missed the mark a bit. My 'kids' are 16-26 and into D&D, Sci-Fi, Fantasy etc. which is the angle I'd approach it at for them, and that really would have been the perspective I'd have looked at it as well if teenage me was introduced to it.
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It's tied for my favorite Gizz album and I think at 16 it would have hit just right. It hits right at 40 too though ❤️
 
imtheocean said:
April 13 - First Heartbreak. Play an album that you would give to your heartbroken teenaged self after getting dumped/rejected.

Phil Collins / Genesis came up earlier this thread. A few weeks after my first real girlfriend and I broke up I went to see Genesis at Dodger Stadium with a friend. As it turns out, out of the tens of thousands of seats in the stadium she was a few rows in front of my friend and I on a date with someone else. They didn't play any Phil solo stuff that night, but "I Don't Care Anymore" has always been a great 'dealing with a rejection' song - and probably something I would have sung embarrassingly awkwardly and loudly had they played it.

Phil Collins ~ Hello, I Must Be Going

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I too would have sang it at the top of my lungs.
 
Hemotep said:
I too would have sang it at the top of my lungs.
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They did open that show with Mama, that performance is burned in my brain. I'm sure I was getting out some (misplaced) aggression on that one.

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Genesis Setlist at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

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April 14 - First Job. Either play the album you first bought with your own money, or an album that reminds you of your first job.

Camping out for the new KBCO Studio C album each year was one of the best parts of living in Colorado. This is still hands down one of the best series of music I've ever heard. My collection was complete up until about 11 years ago. I need to fix that. If they ever pressed these to vinyl, I'd sell a kidney to get them.

Currently listening to:
KBCO Studio C Volume 1

James Taylor - Something In The Way She Moves
Blue Rodeo - What Am I Doing Here
David Wilcox - Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Something To Say
Chris Whitley - Poison Girl
Jellyfish - The King Is Half-Undressed
Peter Himmelman - Woman With The Strength Of 10,000 Men
Roger McGuinn - Without Your Love
Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song
Lowen & Navarro - Walking On A Wire
Will T. Massey - Coffee Break
An Emotional Fish - Blue
Texas - Walk The Dust
Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Bittersweet

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threesunrises said:
April 13 - First Heartbreak. Play an album that you would give to your heartbroken teenaged self after getting dumped/rejected.
Pretty sure I did spin this over and over when my first ever bf and I split. (I think the relationship lasted about 3 weeks) :LOL:

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OMG, scooped. I almost played it for the falling in love prompt, but then decided it was better played as a breakup album. But, I'm a few days behind in posting so I'll have to think harder when I catch up!
 
imtheocean said:
April 13 - First Heartbreak. Play an album that you would give to your heartbroken teenaged self after getting dumped/rejected.

Phil Collins / Genesis came up earlier this thread. A few weeks after my first real girlfriend and I broke up I went to see Genesis at Dodger Stadium with a friend. As it turns out, out of the tens of thousands of seats in the stadium she was a few rows in front of my friend and I on a date with someone else. They didn't play any Phil solo stuff that night, but "I Don't Care Anymore" has always been a great 'dealing with a rejection' song - and probably something I would have sung embarrassingly awkwardly and loudly had they played it.

Phil Collins ~ Hello, I Must Be Going

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This is exactly what I had in mind for this prompt... back to the drawing board.
 
April 13 - First Heartbreak. Play an album that you would give to your heartbroken teenaged self after getting dumped/rejected.

The Cure "Disintegration" (1989 Elektra; 2020 Rhino reissue)
If only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart all my pictures of you

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ok, for real this time…

Day 10: Be Kind to Your Inner Child

Ni-Ni-Ni-Ni-N-Ni-NI-Ni… NICKELODEOOOON!

V/A - The Best of Nicktoons

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If I ever have a kid, Imma definitely show them the cartoons (most of them Nicktoons) I grew up with! I’d play them my VHS tapes of Blues Clues, Rugrats & Rocko’s Modern Life if I still had them…
 
April 14 - First Job. Either play the album you first bought with your own money, or an album that reminds you of your first job.

First Job? Taco Bell, rocked one of these beauties along with the brown tuffskins while I washed dishes. Safe to say I never looked this excited at work, except maybe when the manager would buy us booze after work closed.

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Given that Taco Bell is pretty far from real mexican food, I'll go with another caucasian take with some hispanic influences. This album nails the recipe though, and is way better than a burrito supreme.

Beck ~ Guero

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