Matt M
Santa Extraordinaire
Day 4 - Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, play a "sweet" album
Nicole Atkins - Italian Ice
Nicole Atkins - Italian Ice
August 2020 Challenge Thread - The Dog Days of Vinyl Playing
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Matt M
Santa Extraordinaire
Such a fantastic album, I need to pick up the 3 LP of this and Black Love.
tvham
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August 4 - Chocolate Chip Cookie Day - Play a "sweet" album.
Jellyfish - Bellybutton
Sticky sweet album, from the glorious pop tunes to the front and back cover.
Jellyfish - Bellybutton
Sticky sweet album, from the glorious pop tunes to the front and back cover. 
BjorgenFjorgen
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Day 1: Blue Grass
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
I played this last month and I don't love to repeat so soon, but this record is too perfect. The cover, "Teeth in the Grass", and the adjacent genre. Plus, late summer is the best time for this album.
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
I played this last month and I don't love to repeat so soon, but this record is too perfect. The cover, "Teeth in the Grass", and the adjacent genre. Plus, late summer is the best time for this album.
Gavaxeman
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August 1 - In honor of our July's host, play an album related to "blue" or "grass."
Sorry for late start - but here’s a clever blue and green link up
Sorry for late start - but here’s a clever blue and green link up
Tj.
Well-Known Member
Day 4: Chocolate Chip Cookie
This one was sweet enough to make my top 10 for 2018
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
This one was sweet enough to make my top 10 for 2018
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
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Gavaxeman
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August 2 - Coloring Book Day - Play an album that uses a unique adjective to describe its color.
Had to be done - a white “white” album - and keeps up the Clapton connection from day 1
Had to be done - a white “white” album - and keeps up the Clapton connection from day 1
BjorgenFjorgen
Well-Known Member
Day 2: Colouring book
Charlie Rouse - Bossa Nova Bacchanal
In mango melt and grape melt, only adding to the laid-back tropical vibes of this great album.
Charlie Rouse - Bossa Nova Bacchanal
In mango melt and grape melt, only adding to the laid-back tropical vibes of this great album.
Gavaxeman
Well-Known Member
August 3 - Play a 3rd album or single by an artist.
The Rolling Stones “Out of Our Heads” 1965
The Rolling Stones “Out of Our Heads” 1965
Gavaxeman
Well-Known Member
August 4 - Chocolate Chip Cookie Day - Play a "sweet" album.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions “Blood and Chocolate” 1986
Elvis Costello & The Attractions “Blood and Chocolate” 1986
TrainFan73
Frothy
Day 4
Sweet
Richard Edwards - Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset
Sweet
Richard Edwards - Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset
LeSamourai
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August 4 - Chocolate Chip Cookie Day - Play a "sweet" album.
Hatchie - Sugar & Spice
Sweet in name and sound.
Hatchie - Sugar & Spice
Sweet in name and sound.
Wicked Dreamer
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I should’ve made myself a batch of cookies to go with today’s theme, but I didn’t have time. Nonetheless...
Day 4: Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
I mean...
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
Day 4: Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
I mean...
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
Bluecloud777
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August 5 - Neil Armstrong's birthday - Play an album that takes you to outer space.
ELO "Time"
This record takes you out of time and space into the year 2095. It's a fascinating journey.
One song is called "Ticket to the moon". It was released in 1981.
ELO "Time"
This record takes you out of time and space into the year 2095. It's a fascinating journey.
One song is called "Ticket to the moon". It was released in 1981.
Poly-Rythmo
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Day 5 - outer space
Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse
Her cover of Radiohead's Bloom makes me think of space for some reason. There's also a song called The Space Between The Fish and The Moon. And some really cracking jazz.
Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse
Her cover of Radiohead's Bloom makes me think of space for some reason. There's also a song called The Space Between The Fish and The Moon. And some really cracking jazz.
Skeletonframes
Active Member
August 4 - Chocolate Chip Cookie Day - Play a "sweet" album.
Jawbreaker - Dear You
I don't really have anything that I would call "sweet", so this is close enough, I guess. It's that old adage from High Fidelity...."which came first the music or the misery". I swear I have music that is happy, just none very sweet.
And the only thing sweet about this album is that the band's name "could" be thought of as a reference to a hard candy. No idea why they chose Jawbreaker as their name, but I doubt it has anything to do with Willy Wonka. The songs themselves...not very sweet. I would words more like angry, self-pitying, pretentious, yearning, confused, morose, ......sour? But, not sweet.
I don't think I hate you enough to commit you to me
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August 5 - Neil Armstrong's birthday - Play an album that takes you to outer space.
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space
I played this for a different month, but I can't NOT play it for an album that takes me to outer space. I mean, it literally leads me from the first manned spaceflight to the final Apollo mission using audio dialogue from the actual events. For anyone with any sense of wonder in them at all, I cannot recommend this album enough.
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard
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Jawbreaker - Dear You
I don't really have anything that I would call "sweet", so this is close enough, I guess. It's that old adage from High Fidelity...."which came first the music or the misery". I swear I have music that is happy, just none very sweet.
And the only thing sweet about this album is that the band's name "could" be thought of as a reference to a hard candy. No idea why they chose Jawbreaker as their name, but I doubt it has anything to do with Willy Wonka. The songs themselves...not very sweet. I would words more like angry, self-pitying, pretentious, yearning, confused, morose, ......sour? But, not sweet.
I don't think I hate you enough to commit you to me
August 5 - Neil Armstrong's birthday - Play an album that takes you to outer space.
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space
I played this for a different month, but I can't NOT play it for an album that takes me to outer space. I mean, it literally leads me from the first manned spaceflight to the final Apollo mission using audio dialogue from the actual events. For anyone with any sense of wonder in them at all, I cannot recommend this album enough.
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard
August 5 - Neil Armstrong's birthday - Play an album that takes you to outer space.
Sun Ra - The Definitive 45s Collection - Vol.2: 1962-1991
Just check out some of song titles on this comp: Space Loneliness, Rocket #9, Blues on Planet Mars, Saturn Moon, Journey to Saturn...
Sun Ra - The Definitive 45s Collection - Vol.2: 1962-1991
Just check out some of song titles on this comp: Space Loneliness, Rocket #9, Blues on Planet Mars, Saturn Moon, Journey to Saturn...
waruv
Well-Known Member
Day 5 - Neil Armstrong's Birthday (Space)
There is only one real choice for me if I need to space out and embrace my inner Lindsey Weir.
The Grateful Dead - American Beauty (courtesy of my girlfriend's father)
There is only one real choice for me if I need to space out and embrace my inner Lindsey Weir.
The Grateful Dead - American Beauty (courtesy of my girlfriend's father)