Scooped! I was just gonna post this! I’m old and I only know him as the gray haired dude too.
December 2020 Challenge Thread: Let's Go Out With A Bang (The return of the raffle!)
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Day 4: Concept Album
It's as good a day as any to break the seal on this one. I have a lot of mixed feelings on Kanye and have tried to come to terms with all of his...self I guess. I've also never been a huge fan of his music (brilliant but not my speed) so it was easy to ignore it... Except for this. I still think this is one of the greatest albums of all time. The musicality, features, production and the entire flow is just on another level.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
It's as good a day as any to break the seal on this one. I have a lot of mixed feelings on Kanye and have tried to come to terms with all of his...self I guess. I've also never been a huge fan of his music (brilliant but not my speed) so it was easy to ignore it... Except for this. I still think this is one of the greatest albums of all time. The musicality, features, production and the entire flow is just on another level.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
TenderLovingKiller®
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Day 04: Concept Album
Play a concept album
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
This was the album where The Flaming Lips actually clicked for me. Prior to this release I had really only enjoyed a few songs (though a friend picked up Ziareeka from Columbia House and I did rather enjoy the logistics if not the actual end project). Something about this album though click right away. I also love the concept. Initially I thought it to be rather straightforward futuristic anime type story about a woman battling robots. I would later learn that while it was about that it was also an allegorical story about a woman’s fight against cancer (the pink robots sent here to destroy us, are in fact cancer) listening to it after this discovery added much more weight to the songs and the album overall. “Do You Realize”especially became even more powerful from within this contextual realization. Also, the songs are all really damn good.
Play a concept album
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
This was the album where The Flaming Lips actually clicked for me. Prior to this release I had really only enjoyed a few songs (though a friend picked up Ziareeka from Columbia House and I did rather enjoy the logistics if not the actual end project). Something about this album though click right away. I also love the concept. Initially I thought it to be rather straightforward futuristic anime type story about a woman battling robots. I would later learn that while it was about that it was also an allegorical story about a woman’s fight against cancer (the pink robots sent here to destroy us, are in fact cancer) listening to it after this discovery added much more weight to the songs and the album overall. “Do You Realize”especially became even more powerful from within this contextual realization. Also, the songs are all really damn good.
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LeeVing
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I have not...been meaning to.
Rip_City
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Day 4: Concept Album
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
This one lacks a bit of stringency on being a concept album, as it details the protagonist hearing mixed messages on a drive beginning from Los Angeles all the way to Joshua Tree, while changing radio stations. Perhaps a drive simply made for getting away from his/her personal problems?
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
This one lacks a bit of stringency on being a concept album, as it details the protagonist hearing mixed messages on a drive beginning from Los Angeles all the way to Joshua Tree, while changing radio stations. Perhaps a drive simply made for getting away from his/her personal problems?
imtheocean
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Did you know they did a musical based on this? I was lucky enough to see it when they ran it, and thought it was really well done, especially the technical aspects / puppetry of the robots. Strong mix of Yoshimi, Soft Bulletin, and Mystics songs. I was surprised given the popularity of 'concept' musicals based on albums that it never made it further than the initial run.
Gavaxeman
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catch up post
Day 3: Ozzy's 72nd Birthday
Damn he's getting old haha, play something from The Prince of Darkness or the oldest album in your collection
Sabbath vol 4 - a lovely vertigo first press which is one of the best sounding records I own (brought as a canny 11 year old in 1982)
Day 3: Ozzy's 72nd Birthday
Damn he's getting old haha, play something from The Prince of Darkness or the oldest album in your collection
Sabbath vol 4 - a lovely vertigo first press which is one of the best sounding records I own (brought as a canny 11 year old in 1982)
TenderLovingKiller®
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That is rad and surprising. I would have loved to see it.Did you know they did a musical based on this? I was lucky enough to see it when they ran it, and thought it was really well done, especially the technical aspects / puppetry of the robots. Strong mix of Yoshimi, Soft Bulletin, and Mystics songs. I was surprised given the popularity of 'concept' musicals based on albums that it never made it further than the initial run.
imtheocean
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Day 4: Concept Album
The Who ~ Quadrophenia
The Who ~ Quadrophenia
Gavaxeman
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Catch up
Day 1: N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time Submission Due Date
Play one of your all time favorite albums (and submit your list to @Woob_woob!)
Whitesnake when they were good from 1980 - no 48 on my top 50
Day 1: N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time Submission Due Date
Play one of your all time favorite albums (and submit your list to @Woob_woob!)
Whitesnake when they were good from 1980 - no 48 on my top 50
gafacaode
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Scooped!
ranbalam
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Day 4 - Concept Album
King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Based on a short story written by their drummer (Jerry Gaskill) which I admittedly have never read.
I haven't spun this in forever, it was a staple among my friends and I back when it came out in the late 80s. I remember seeing these guys at a dive bar on a Wednesday sometime around that era, they were an awesome trio.
King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Based on a short story written by their drummer (Jerry Gaskill) which I admittedly have never read.
I haven't spun this in forever, it was a staple among my friends and I back when it came out in the late 80s. I remember seeing these guys at a dive bar on a Wednesday sometime around that era, they were an awesome trio.
jamieanderson1968
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15 year old me is sitting in his dark basement bedroom with The Real Me blasting in the headphones
Eriatarka
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Day 4: Concept Album
Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast (Re-Mistressed)
“Cruelty and the Beast is a concept album based on the legend of the Hungarian "blood countess" Elizabeth Báthory. The album features guest narration on certain passages by Ingrid Pitt in-character as Báthory, a role she first played in the Hammer film Countess Dracula in 1971.”
Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast (Re-Mistressed)
“Cruelty and the Beast is a concept album based on the legend of the Hungarian "blood countess" Elizabeth Báthory. The album features guest narration on certain passages by Ingrid Pitt in-character as Báthory, a role she first played in the Hammer film Countess Dracula in 1971.”
TenderLovingKiller®
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Concept: WEEEEEEED