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

Friday February 9th
That Thing You Do!
Radio DJ - "Here's something new. A local Erie band's got a new record out. Just won the Mercyhurst talent show a few weeks ago. THis is Erie's own OOOOneders!"

Leon Russell – Stop All That Jazz
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This album introduced the world to The Gap Band, who would go on to release their debut album on Leon Russell's Shelter Records a short while later.
 
Saturday February 10th
Punch Drunk Love
Barry - "I Sometimes cry a lot..."

Pink Floyd "The Wall" (1979 CBS Japan)
For some reason when I recall Punch Drunk Love, first thing I remember is the pudding scheme that provides the central drive of the story. And then I think, how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

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Sunday February 11th
National Lampoon's Vacation

Play something fucking fun!

Mouse Rat AKA Andy and the D-Bags, The Andy Andy Andys, Andy Dwyer Experience, Angel Snack, Crackfinger, Death of a Scam Artist, Department of Homeland Obscurity, Everything Rhymes with Orange, Nothing Rhymes with Orange, Threeskin, Fourskin, Fiveskin, Flames For Flames, Fleetwood Mac Sex Pants, God Hates Figs, Hand Grill Suicide, Jet Black Pope, Just The Tip, Malice In Chains, Muscle Confusion, Ninjadick, Puppy Pendulum, Penis Pendulum, Possum Pendulum, Razordick, Tackle Shaft, Punch Face Champions, Rad Wagon, Two Doors Down, and Teddy Bear Suicide.

Mouse Rat – The Awesome Album
Dualtone – 80302-02299-14, 2021

"Flush With Cash" variant

Pressed at Precision/GZ

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Sunday February 11th
National Lampoon's Vacation

Clark Griswald: I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fuckin' fun park and you want to bail out! Well I'll tell you something, this is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun! I'm gonna have fun, and you're gonna have fun. We're all gonna have so much fuckin' fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn smiles! You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of your assholes! Hahaha. I gotta be crazy, I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose! Praise Marty Moose! Holy shit!

Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah you say? My oh my, what a fucking wonderful day. One of the medleys on this excellent cover album has Sun Ra and his Arkestra doing Pink Elephants on Parade, Harry Nillson covering Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah, and James Taylor playing Second Star to the Right. So many other good covers on this too.

Various Artists ~ Stay Awake

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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."

Hum - Electra 2000

This past Monday a storm knocked out power at my work but not where I live or at my kids' schools, and this was one of the albums I blasted to enjoy having the house to myself for a day.

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Wednesday February 7th
Best in Show

Harlan Pepper (quoting his mother) "Would you stop namin' nuts!"

Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog

Going to play this one based on the title, in honor of the poor dog with the horrible yuppie owners and his tendency to bark his head off at the wrong times.

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Sunday February 11th
National Lampoon's Vacation
Clark Griswald: I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fuckin' fun park and you want to bail out! Well I'll tell you something, this is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun! I'm gonna have fun, and you're gonna have fun. We're all gonna have so much fuckin' fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn smiles! You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of your assholes! Hahaha. I gotta be crazy, I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose! Praise Marty Moose! Holy shit!

Shad – Tao
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Sure he's erudite, thoughtful and clever but most importantly Shad is fucking fun! How else are you going to wind up with a song like "Black Averageness"

 
Day 12
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Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Most days, I have an idea of what I’ll play for the challenge the day before. As I shut down the hifi last night, pulled Walking Man by James Taylor off the shelf as I’ve been working through albums released in 1974 as a listening project and it was one I owned that struck my fancy at the time.

Then I went to update the generator thread with today’s album. Then I read the Rolling Stone review for it:
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Paranoid

Check out our album review of Artist's Paranoid on Rolling Stone.com.
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And this got me thinking about how bananas the 70s really were. There was an explosion of music during the 70s that is a manifestation of that nuttiness. So here we are spinning Sabbath for the challenge thread. And really any reason to spin Sabbath is a good thing.
 
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