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

April 9 - Rebirth. Play the album you would want to be playing during your birth in the soundtrack to your life, if you got to go around again.

I really struggled with this one (thus the reason I'm posting a day late) If I were to go around again, I hope I wouldn't die in an abandoned bus, but I would want to live my life the way I want to. I can't complain about this life, I'm very fortunate, but too much bad shit happened, so much loss that changed its trajectory. I'd like a chance to do it the way I wanted, make mistakes, learn from them and do it my way.

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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.

The Disney remake, which has drastic changes from the Hans Christian Andersen story. A girl wants what she wants, goes for it, and after a lot of crap, she realizes her dream.

This was the first movie we took our oldest daughter to in a theatre, I remember they re-released it in theatres and we decided to go. I had never seen it before, but was thrilled to enjoy it with my little girl (she was maybe 3yrs old at the time) My all time fave Disney film is Beauty and the Beast, (we took both of our daughters to see it on Broadway - their first ever play) but this fits better.

ETA: That little girl is now a Vice President at a major bank in NYC. I could not be more proud of both of my girls - they did and continue to do so well

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April 9 - Rebirth. Play the album you would want to be playing during your birth in the soundtrack to your life, if you got to go around again.

I probably could have pondered on this for a couple days, but instead went with my first thought.

Bob Dylan - New Morning

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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.

Interesting prompt.
I wish I had taken up piano when I was a wee lad. Maybe if I heard Bill Evans from birth I'd have gone that way. Not that I regret being a drummer, that's been in me forever....but man, to play really well at the piano looks so fun.
Plus, I did play Peace Piece for my son somewhat often when he was a tot.

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April 9 - Rebirth. Play the album you would want to be playing during your birth in the soundtrack to your life, if you got to go around again
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Wu Tang Clan "Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)" - Wu Tang Again?!? Ah YEAH, again and again!!! I'm sure everyone in the delivery room would appreciate bringing forth the motherfucking ruckus!
 
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
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LCD Soundsystem "This is Happening" - I am going to play this for my daughter one day and let her know Dance Yourself Clean was not only her parents first (unofficial) dance at their wedding but it was also the first song on the playlist I made for our trip to the hospital the day she was born, well it was the day before but we didn't know that at the time!

The other thing I hope she'll understand one day is why I made a 3 hour playlist for a 15 minute trip!
 
April 8 - Buddha's Birthday. Play an album by a musician who is/was Buddhist/influenced by Buddhism, or played at one of the Tibetan Freedom Concerts.

When I think of Buddha, his principles of life and musicians who practice and epitomize Buddhism, I'm sure I'm like everyone else here and immediately think Courtney Love...



Hole - Live Through This

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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.

I get that this is a weird pick to share with a child, but as a child who was raised in an extremely religious family, being able to share this with myself as a child and prove that demons weren't going to get me because of it would probably have made little kid me much less anxious about all the bullshit stories they force-fed us all the time. Plus this album rips, so that too 🤘🤘🤘

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
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April 11 - Teenage Angst. Play an album that you listened to as a teenager that gave you the feels.

Opening lyrics of the title track: Is it an horrific dream, am I sinking fast?...
I listened to this album incessantly, it's a miracle that it's still in amazing condition. (This is my OG) I picked this up some time in early '84, shortly after my dad suddenly and unexpectedly died. I'd heard Change, and I think Mad World (thanks to MTV) but when I finally had the entire album to spin, I couldn't stop.

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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.

Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" (1971 Tamla Motown; 2022 50th anniversary reissue)
I grew up in a pretty monocultural environment, not being exposed to much funk and soul beyond the standard 80's pop hits. Purple Rain and Thriller were definitely part of my repertoire at the time, but I wasn't familiar with much more. I started exploring funk & soul after moving away to university, starting with the likes of James Brown, Curtis Mayfield and Isaac Hayes, the whole thing exploding for me during the late 90's with the modern funk revival led Soul Fire, Daptone and the Poets of Rhythm. But if only I had heard this timeless classic earlier....

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April 9 - Rebirth. Play the album you would want to be playing during your birth in the soundtrack to your life, if you got to go around again.

The Burning Hell – Baby
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I overthought this one for a long time, reluctantly settling on something else until it hit me that the answer was obvious the whole time! "Old World" would provide the soundtrack to my birth and its lead-up.

I remember back when I was in the womb
It felt like I was the first baby on the moon
Blood cells were the stars and the placenta was the earth
and I had amniotic fluid as my space food

and I made all kinds of plans for when I got out
the things I would do the things I’d talk about (when I learned to talk)
and for when I learned to walk I planned the places I would go to
like new Brunswick and the mall and the Toronto zoo.

And from the uterus I planned out the world I would create
I’d ride a scooter or a bus and I would go on dates
And in the evenings I’d stay in and concentrate
On drafting plans for my own benevolent state

Yes I wanted to see that new world
That big brown black green and blue world
I was getting bored with the small old world I was in
I wanted to make that new world

My world would be a place where everyone would play saxophones
But never soprano saxophones just tenors and baritones
And once in a trumpet and a rusty old French horn
Would play a solo and make us shake our little bones

I was an ambitious little unborn child
When the doctor did the ultrasound I winked and I smiled
Then I just relaxed and laid back for a while
I was patient cause that was kind of my style

But to be honest I was looking forward to getting out of there
And doing things like growing teeth and a bit of hair
But I was also thinking that the whole birth thing was unfair
Cause it would be over so quickly after so much time to prepare

And then I was finally born into the disease of the world
And so were thousands of other little boys and girls
And we shook our little fists at the sky and cried and hurled our insults
and our anger and took our flags and banners and unfurled them and they said:

“Take us back to the old world!
We don’t want this ugly new world!
We were much happier back then, and we want back in,
Take us back to the old world!”
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Day 11 - Teenage Angst

Fiona Apple was more or less the first musical artist I had to myself - not the first I discovered, but the first that seemed in independent preference. I'm sure I can't be the only one for whom her works brings to mind those sharp-yet-squidgy feelings. I was going to play Extraordinary Machine, I was listening to both around the same time, but decided this fit the prompt better and it's been longer since I heard it anyway.

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes WIll Ever Do

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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.

Although my wife claims I wouldn't have liked her as a teenager, I don't agree with her because she's awesome. But if I were to have met her and fallen in love with her then, Prince probably would have been playing in the background. When we first met and were falling in love, I introduced her to Future Islands and that was probably the first and last band I introduced her to that she loves. If she had other taste in music, I'd have probably wanted something a little heavier playing. And heavy music that fits my soundtrack of life and my first falling in love scene would probably include some King Buffalo because they are one of the best bands putting out music today and fit the emotional tenor for me.

King Buffalo - Longing for the Mountain
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