The March Record Spin Challenge - The Grammy Award for Album of the Year Challenge

Day 2
Jon Batiste – WE ARE
Jon Batiste won with an album that celebrates the music of the past, play another album that does

Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
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The Coin Coin project is an expansive “panoramic sound quilting” that digs as deeply into the past as it does into the present.
Mississippi Moonchile takes the next leap forward in Roberts' iconoclastic and complex project of memory and recuperation, where historical and contemporary musical tropes, fragmentary spoken and sung narratives, and Matana's cascading alto saxophone are supported by prodigiously talented players on piano (Shoko Nagai), trumpet (Jason Palmer), double bass (Thomson Kneeland), drums (Tomas Fujiwara) and operatic tenor voice (Jeremiah Abiah). While demarcated by 18 titles and track IDs, the album presents an uninterrupted, incantatory swirl of through-composed music, where thematic structure and free improvisation are propelled in continual and fluid co-existence.
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Day 2
Jon Batiste won with an album that celebrates the music of the past, play another album that does

DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike

Sampling, at its best, celebrates the sounds from the past while transforming them into something new.

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Day 3
Taylor Swift – Folklore
Taylor Swift took a sharp turn into the indie sphere and win her 3rd AOTY, play another album where an artist successfully changed genres

Buffy Sainte-Marie – Illuminations
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Stepping out of straightforward acoustic folk and country, this was one of the first albums to make prominent use of the Buchla synthesizer (and the first quadraphonic vocal album released!) Buffy has long been at the forefront of electronics and multimedia, and this album very much laid big groundwork for that. One of Wire magazine's '100 Albums that Set the World on Fire While No-One was Listening.'
 
Day 4
  • Judy Garland – Judy at Carnegie Hall
    • Judy was the first female artist to win AOTY, play an album by a female artist you love
Since I just finished the fantastic Muscle Shoals documentary (it's free on Amazon Prime for a few more days if you have it), gotta go with Aretha backed by Spooner Oldham and the rest of the boys down at Fame Studios.

Arethea Franklin ~ I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You

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Day 5
  • Vaughn Meader – The First Family
    • This is a political comedy album, play another political album
Caustic political themes disguised as agitpop you can totally dance to...

Gang Of Four - Entertainment!



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  • Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
    • Kacey Musgraves gained a lot of indiehead cred with Golden Hour, play another album where an artist became cool to like
Johnny Cash was cool, and then he wasn't cool for decades, and then he became a god...

Johnny Cash - American Recordings I-VI Box Set





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Day 5

Play another political album

I usually get out my original 1996 US pressing, but I'll go with the VMP release this time around. It's not a bad repress of the original 1996 EU release as it is.

Rage Against The Machine – Evil Empire
Epic – 88985324561, 1996/2016

VMP exclusive - numbered to 1500, #40

Pressed at Record Industry (from their own Sony/CBS, Haarlem plates)

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Play another album where an artist became cool to like

I pay no attention to who or what is "cool".
 
Day 3
Taylor Swift – Folklore
Play another album where an artist successfully changed genres

Beck - Sea Change

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My dad was a fan of the zaniness and energy of Odelay and Midnite Vultures, so he was quite disappointed when we went to see him live in 2002 and it was an evening full of slow breakup songs
 
Day 5

Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves gained alot of indiehead cred with Golden Hour, play another album where an artist became cool to like

Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

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Michelle Zauner's project has been around for over seven years, but didn't really break through to radio and television coverage (especially centered around her memoir Crying in H Mart) until this album cycle. Now, Jubilee has a Target exclusive pressing, an indicator to me that you've made it to the big time.
 
Day 5

Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves gained alot of indiehead cred with Golden Hour, play another album where an artist became cool to like

The explosion of popularity of the Grateful Dead with this album can't be understated. Unfortunately it made things untenable for them in the long run.

Grateful Dead ~ In The Dark

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Day 5
Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves gained alot of indiehead cred with Golden Hour, play another album where an artist became cool to like

Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here.

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People keep saying this sounds like Pink Floyd. I confess I’m not Pink Floyd’s number one fan, but I don’t remember them ever sounding like this:

 
Day 6
  • Barbra Streisand – The Barbra Streisand Album
    • Barbra would eventually become an EGOT winner but she got her start on the stage, play an album by an artist who also has been in a Broadway show
  • Bruno Mars – 24K Magic
    • There have only ever been 2 years in which no white men were nominated for AOTY and those were the 2018 and 1999 Grammys. Play an album by an artist who isnt a white male

Lets double up today. Not sure if Anais was in the Broadway production of this, but I think having sole credit for a broadway production is pretty impressive too.

Anais Mitchell ~ Hadestown

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