April 2025 Spin Challenge – Well, this is puzzling…

[scotthilk]

Day 28 - Spin any record that was gifted to you

Get Dead – Dancing With The Curse
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The legendary @scotthilk added this as a bonus to my PIFsgiving box last year!

HELLLLL YESSSSSSS

 

[ranbalam]

Day 27 - Spin any album from the 70’s, an artist who has been making music since then or any 7”

I love the Wilson remix.

 

[ranbalam]

Day 28 - Spin any record that was gifted to you

This was my most recent PIF claim, and first spin. So happy to have a copy of this.
Thanks again @avecigrec !

 

[avecigrec]

Day 28 - Spin any record that was gifted to you

This was my most recent PIF claim, and first spin. So happy to have a copy of this.
Thanks again @avecigrec !

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I'm so happy you have a copy of this too!

 

[ranbalam]

Day 29 – We are in Atlanta to see Pearl Jam! Spin any artist that you have traveled for or would love to travel to see. Can be another city, state or country

Detroit to Chicago for Tom in 1999. Downtown seemed like the song to play tonight.

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Day 30 - April showers bring May flowers - spin an artist / album / song that mentions any type of precipitation or has rain / clouds / or expression of weather on the album cover.

Good times @threesunrises.

RIP Mike Peters, lost today to cancer. Thanks for everything.



The Alarm - Electric Folklore Live

 

[Turbo]

Day 30 - April showers bring May flowers - spin an artist / album / song that mentions any type of precipitation or has rain / clouds / or expression of weather on the album cover.

Caribou "Suddenly" (2020 merge)
One of the tracks is named "Cloud Song" and another "Sunny's Time", and the cover has a pool with some ripples from a drop of water (rain?). I think that covers the prompt. Caribou's Dan Snaith is from Dundas Ontario, a suburb of Hamilton. Suddenly is an excellent entry into Caribou's discography. The electronic production is characteristic Caribou, but the hooks are everywhere here and Snaith completely sheds the hesitancy to fully use his vocals, which is featured on every track. Suddenly is peak form Caribou in my opinion, the logical evolution from the albums Our Love and Swim, which preceded it.

 

[Turbo]

So this is what my month ended up looking like, with @threesunrises's prompts and my self-imposed Canadian artist feature. I ended up being able to feature Canadian musicians from all of the country's regions, which I'm very happy about. Thanks for running @threesunrises ! Much appreciate the work you put into the challenge. Now to try and solve the puzzle...

 

[imtheocean]

Day 30 - April showers bring May flowers - spin an artist / album / song that mentions any type of precipitation or has rain / clouds / or expression of weather on the album cover.

Recorded during a torrential downpour at Bonnaroo.

“I’ll never forget it” reflects Jim James “We’re playing & the sky just rips open & rain starts pouring down. People are losing their minds because they’re so happy to be getting soaked. We are playing on stage with no shoes on, and the whole stage is covered in water, and everybody is petrified that we are going to get electrocuted, but it was such a transcendent moment that we just didn’t even care.”

My Morning Jacket ~ MMJ Live Vol 3.: Bonnaroo 2004 (Mud and Rain Variant)

 

[imtheocean]

Thanks so much for the fun month @threesunrises ! Happy anniversary, and that looked like an absolutely fantastic setlist from the show last night to celebrate it with.

Time to focus on the puzzle....

 

[LeSamourai]

Day 27 - Spin any album from the 70’s, an artist who has been making music since then or any 7”

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

 

[LeSamourai]

Day 28 - Spin any record that was gifted to you

St. Vincent - Todos nacen gritando

My wife got me this for my birthday this year (I'm a Spanish professor).

 

[Rip_City]

Day 30 - April showers bring May flowers - spin an artist / album / song that mentions any type of precipitation or has rain / clouds / or expression of weather on the album cover.


Suso Sáiz -  Rainworks



Experimental cloud structure on the cover, and the closing track "A Rainy Afternoon." Rain sounds and swaths of thunder can be heard across this ambient/electroacoustic 2xLP.

 

[Rip_City]

Thank you for hosting the April challenge, @threesunrises.

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 30: Rain

Prince and the Revolution - “Purple Rain”

 

[avecigrec]

Day 30 - April showers bring May flowers - spin an artist / album / song that mentions any type of precipitation or has rain / clouds / or expression of weather on the album cover.

Robert Hunter – Tales Of The Great Rum Runners


"Keys to the Rain"

 

[avecigrec]

Thanks @threesunrises! That was a lot of fun, and I hope you'll run one of these again.
I added an extra subchallenge for myself to only play first spins for this challenge, between fresh grabs and backlog.
Here's what my month looked like:

 

[ranbalam]

Day 30 - April showers bring May flowers - spin an artist / album / song that mentions any type of precipitation or has rain / clouds / or expression of weather on the album cover.



Thanks for running April @threesunrises !!

See you all in the May thread, hosted by yours truly.