The February 2024 Record Challenge Thread - Silver Screen Edition Part Deux

Monday February 5th
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller: "Live moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you might miss it."

BAD is playing in the background of the garage scene. It's not nearly as iconic as the Yello track, but still works!

Big Audio Dynamite ~ This is Big Audio Dynamite

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Friday February 2nd
Groundhog Day

Phil: "Well it's groundhog day....again."

The Dismemberment Plan - Change

The band's name comes from the list of insurance options Ned Ryerson offers to our time-trapped protagonist, including the "optional death and dismemberment plan."

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Monday February 5th
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Play something you'd spin if you decided to shirk any Monday responsibilities you have/play hooky

I finished off my 3 night shifts over the weekend and spent most of Monday sleeping on and off....but had I'd been awake I would have shirked some responsibilities with playing some new records that I haven't had time to get to...

This is one that I just got in the mail all the way from Lithuania

Kal-El – Witches Of Mars
Majestic Mountain Records – 2019/2024

"Red Planet" variant - limited to 250

Pressed at XDiSC

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Tuesday February 6th
The Player

Griffin Mills: "I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process"

There's no doubt that the Foo Fighters have great hooks and intensity, but I find them very forgettable lyrically.

Foo Fighters ~ Greatest Hits

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Day 05: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns
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Growing up 100 miles south of the Windy City made Ferris Bueller’s Day Off a favorite of mine and most kids my age growing up. We all daydreamed about ditching school, “borrowing” a friends dad’s 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder and having a blast in Chicago. The Smith Westerns debut album (made by some Chicago teenagers) harnessed the same youthful wild eyed energy as Ferris.
 
Saturday February 3rd
Forrest Gump: "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get"
Plan an eclectic compilation

Red, Hot + Blue - A Tribute to Cole Porter

I was so happy to see this get a vinyl release. It's definitely eclectic. Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry, Tom Waits, David Byrne, U2 and a ton more.

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Sunday February 4th
Psycho
Norman Bates: "We all go a little mad sometimes, haven't you?"
Play something by an artist with a certain madness about them

Sure, Syd was the certifiable madman, but Roger sure wrote about it a lot.

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Tuesday February 6th
The Player

Griffin Mills: "I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process"

Our Lady Peace - Gravity

Still one of my favorite bands who I listen to regularly, but 22 years ago they put out this album. It and everything after, with few exceptions, has suffered lyrically. It's similar to Smashing Pumpkins post-Machina. Get a good song writer and the great band/singers they have would do excellent things with it, but the band leaders need to give up being the main writers it pains me to say.

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Tuesday February 6th
The Player
Griffin Mills: "I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process"
The B-52's "The B-52's" (1979 Warner Brothers; 2011 MOFI reissue)
I really like early B-52's and their brand of new wave. 1979 may be my favorite year in music overall. But sometimes I just wish the lyrics were a little less weird so this would get to the turntable as often as London Calling, Entertainment, Fear Of Music, Candy-O, The Wall, Eat to the Beat, Rust Never Sleeps, Armed Forces, Damn The Torpedoes, Look Sharp!, Regatta de Blanc, Deguello, fuck what a great year that was. I didn't even mention Tusk, Setting Sons, Lodger and The Pleasure Principle (guess I did now). Anyway, I suppose the crazy lyrics are the charm with the B-52's, but because of it I need to be in the mood for their brand of oddity. That being said, one can always find the time for singing along to an ode to a rock lobster.

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Tuesday February 6th
The Player

Play anything this movie brings to mind.


M*A*S*H is one of my favorite movies (never really liked the TV show, though) and Gosford Park is one of my wife's favorite movies, so we both really like Robert Altman as a director. He seems to not really have memorable scores to his movies, because I own zero.

I haven't watched The Player in years, but I do like it. It reminds me of the behind the scenes writer issues that the original Alien had - no actual writers were murdered, though.

Jerry Goldsmith ‎– Alien (Original Soundtrack From The Twentieth Century-Fox Film)
20th Century Fox Records ‎– T-593, 1979

Cut by Stan Ricker
Pressed at RCA, Indianapolis

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A very well done playlist of the making of Alien... Episode 3 discusses the writers and re-rewriters. They even use small clips from The Player.
 
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