First:
Happy Birthday,
@Selaws!
Second:
Gonna catch up as I was out of town doing some real social distancing on my gf's family property about an hour outside of civilization and cell phone service.
August 1 - In honor of our July's host, play an album related to "blue" or "grass."
The Lucksmiths - Naturaliste
I decided to go with the
blue descriptor for this day, because I don't have a single album that falls under the bluegrass umbrella. This is the blue limited edition from a crowd-fund that they did last year. #82/500. Not my favorite Lucksmiths album, but very pretty music regardless. And since this one got funded, hopefully they'll look further back in their catalog and release some of the real early gems on vinyl.
"Ba-ba-bada-ba-ba" goes the backing vocal, I'm trying not to be so antisocial
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August 2 - Coloring Book Day - Play an album that uses a unique adjective to describe its color.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
Pressed on "Vomit Splatter" colored vinyl, this is the Gizz fellas psych-rock story of a human that encounters a creature, becomes an "altered beast" along with the creature, loses all humanity and craves only flesh, merges with the orginal altered beast and they both die and are returned to the earth. But, that's not all. There's also the story of the Lord of Lightning that turns someone into a fire creature dubbed The Balrog. The Balrog is fuckin pissed that he's now a Balrog, so he fights the Lord of Lightning. He loses bad and is turned into a smoking corpse. The end.
But wait, there's more!!
In a dystopian future where no nature exists and the entirety of civilization has been turned into digital beings, the last human is born and is turned into a cyborg. The cyborg begins to miss its humanity and wants back the two things that it deems as the most "human" traits. Being able to die and being able to.........vomit? Well, it creates another machine to do the vomiting for it. Called the Soy-Protein Munt Machine. It built a machine made of soy-protein, born from a test tube into a vat, to live and to heave and die just like that. The machine doesn't want to just vomit all the time, so the cyborg plugs itself in and becomes one with the machine to vomit and vomit and vomit and vomit and vomit.
It pukes so much it bursts and fills the universe with puke and kills the universe with puke. puke. happily ever after. cool.
For all its revoltion, warp, and taboo....part of me wants to be altered, too
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August 3 - Play a 3rd album or single by an artist.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Float Along - Fill Your Lungs
I've decided to stay in Australia today, as all 3 albums have been by bands from "down under". This is the 3rd album from the Gizz-boys and one of my favorites by them. Riff heavy tracks open and close the album with no vomit to be found. Phew.
Just float along and take a deep breath
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the pictures don't do it justice. Also - it sounds incredible 
