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

Day 18: April 18 - Hangovers. Play an album about alcohol, poor choices, or regrets.

Jason Collette - Idols of Exile
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Remember in the mid-oughts following the release of Broken Social Scene’s seminal album You Forgot It In People? That launched the whole Toronto A&C scene into the indie mainstream spotlight for a few years until hipster gazed moved further East to Montreal? I loved a lot of those BSS related artists/bands, The Stars, Feist, The Metric, Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning solo albums and this Jason Collette, Collette was my favorite of the bunch and I feel he’s often overlooked but this album just hits all the right notes for me. Warm singer-songwriter indie rock. As you might’ve expected he brings in most of his BSS brethren to assist with charming record including a duet with The Metric’s Emily Haines on this track (though the live version below he duets with an apt replacement in Leslie Feist…
 
Hemotep said:
"I'll bring the red wine you bring the ludes
Your mother's doctor must be quite a dude
We'll hang the 'Don't Disturb' outside our door
I'm gonna rock you till your pussy's sore"

Jesus, Rod! My grandma owned this album 🤢
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So Rod Stewart writes:
"You're really young, let's have sex"
"You're kind of old, let's have sex"
"You like me? Ok, let's have sex"

Did I miss any?
 
April 16 - College. Play an album that you either first heard on a college radio station, or that you think all college students should be forced to listen to today

The Postal Service - Give Up

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I had a radio show when I was in college (brag: I had the highest listenership of all the shows! (I had distant friends and family who just wanted to hear my voice)) and we all played the crud out of the promo CD before the album’s release
 
ranbalam said:
I was going to say the same thing; I do like this more every time I play it.
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It's brilliant. I would've loved to have seen the stage show he wrote most of the tunes for.

My friend and I were deep in the research stages of trying to write a show (that fizzled - for now anyway) about gold mining history around our province when this came out so it felt very fortuitous to have this as a major part of my soundtrack at the time.
 
April 15 - First Car. Either play an album that mentions cars/transportation, or an album you would blast when driving your first car
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The Strokes "Is This It" & "Room on Fire" - my first car was a hand me down Ford Focus that I drove into the ground! The best part of that car was it had a cassette player! I dubbed Is This It on one side and Room on Fire on the other and let that tape rock until it (almost) popped! I think I still have it in a box somewhere, probably plays VG+++
 
ranbalam said:
So Rod Stewart writes:
"You're really young, let's have sex"
"You're kind of old, let's have sex"
"You like me? Ok, let's have sex"

Did I miss any?
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For everyone who hates on rap and hip hop for having sexual lyrics, there's an awful lot of dirty lyrics (and way way way too many songs about underage girls) in white music that gets completely ignored by the morality police. I use these kinds of examples in my classes on race and my students are always shocked by the filthy lyrics they can find in music from the 70s and 80s.
 
Hemotep said:
For everyone who hates on rap and hip hop for having sexual lyrics, there's an awful lot of dirty lyrics (and way way way too many songs about underage girls) in white music that gets completely ignored by the morality police. I use these kinds of examples in my classes on race and my students are always shocked by the filthy lyrics they can find in music from the 70s and 80s.
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Did anyone forget the original definition of “rock and roll”? 😆

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Alan Freed

Alan Freed did not coin the phrase rock and roll; however, by way of his radio show, he popularized it and redefined it. Once slang for sex, it came to mean a new form of music. This music had been around for several years, but Freed’s primary accomplishment was the delivery of it to...
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