The Return of the Challenge Thread - December 2019

[cul8er]

Day 25 - Got Presents? Secret Santa?
Play a record someone gave you.

Thanks again Santa!

Here's the whole package:

Dear Santa,

This is truly wonderful! Thank you so much! You are awesome!

Eels - Beautiful Freak
Detroit Rising - A Cosmic Jazz Funk Adventure
Local Natives - Vinyl Gratification
Chvrches - Project Unfollow

Plus some delicious candy, some fantastic vinyl coasters, and something more to come?!

I love it all. Thank you very much, you're the very best!

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I've spun them all in the past couple of days. Here is Local Natives ‎– Vinyl Gratification

Cheers!

 

[AndySlash]

day 26 - greensleeves



mark kozelek - mark kozelek sings christmas carols

the perfect christmas record for the miserable listener



(actually it’s a pretty beautiful record)

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

FINALLY caught up after all the holiday madness. May have bent the themes alittle but here is my spam post of records

Day 23 - Family Time



Billy Joel - The Stranger

Only artist I can think of that everyone in my family enjoys. Weve seen him live together multiple times

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

Day 24 - Christmas Music
So I dont any a single holiday album. So I decided to do 3 days of albums I got as presents



Sir Robin and the Longbowmen - Sir Robin and the Longbowmen

Got this from a member of the vmp forum for secret santa last year. Sadly can't recall the members name or if they are on this forum. If they are I want you to know how happy I am you introduced me to this band/album

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

Day 25 - Present under the tree



Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon

Asked my parents for this and l4l so I can finally complete lana's discography on vinyl

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

Day 26 - Holiday album



FKA Twigs - MAGDALENE

Now for an album from my secret santa this year! One of my favorite records this year and it sounds amazing on wax

 

[Poly-Rythmo]

Day 27 - clean up

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Something to blast the cobwebs away. My favourite group of all time alongside Poly-Rythmo, but I don't play them enough, largely as my family aren't fans. As good an album as ever was made (IMO)

 

[ByersVinyl]

Day 26
For me it's Christmas until i say its not. Family fun until 2nd January !
Always spin this at Christmas....

 

[gafacaode]

Day 27 - The Clean-up.

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

day 26 - greensleeves

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mark kozelek - mark kozelek sings christmas carols

the perfect christmas record for the miserable listener



(actually it’s a pretty beautiful record)

His version of "2,000 Miles" has quickly become one of my favourite Christmas songs.

 

[cul8er]

Day 27 - The Clean-up.
Play a record you spin while cleaning your house.

Cut through the grease with ... The Black Keys ‎– Thickfreakness
The can on the cover is a grease cleaner for your hands.

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

Day 27 - Clean Up



Feist - Let it Die

 

[Souljacker]

Day 27 - The Clean-up.
Play a record you spin while cleaning your house.

 

[ByersVinyl]

Day 27 Clean up

it was not a thorough clean, more a “move presents off the sofa and onto floor”

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 27: Clean Up

So whenever I get to cleaning, I usually put on my earbuds and play something at random on my phone, because when I put a record on I usually can’t hear it over the vacuum. So in the spirit of that, I went with the Discogs randomizer and...

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis



It actually landed on a Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions greatest hits CD set I have, but close enough!

 

[Matt M]

Day 25 - Got presents? Play a record someone gave you. Got this from someone in the neighborhood!

The National - Cherry Tree

 

[LeeVing]

Day 27: The Clean-up.

Got this in the mail today...spinning it while breaking down all the shipping boxes I've gotten in the past few weeks.

Twin Temple ‎– Twin Temple (Bring You Their Signature Sound.... Satanic Doo-Wop)
Rise Above Records ‎– RISELP225, 2018/2019

Purple vinyl limited to 700

Cut by Noel Summerville
Pressed at GZ

 

[AndySlash]

day 27 - garbage



garbage - garbage

garbage.

 

[Poly-Rythmo]

Day 28 - needs a reissue

Orchestre Baobab - Mohammadou Bamba

This both needs a reissue, and is getting one! This is one of my top 3 ever African records and everything is great on it - the title track is beautifully melancholy but the album also has some of the Senegalese group's best upbeat songs. And the cover is just wow (it's on the wall in our entrance so had to photograph it there). This should be reissued in February, and I'd wholeheartedly recommend anybody with an interest in African music to check it out.

 

[gafacaode]

Day 28 - That needs a reissue.