June 2019 Vinyl Challenge

Day 4 - Tight Rhythm Section

Nate Mendel & William Goldsmith. Not just tight, but inventive with the way they approach their parts. Hasn’t been a rhythm section like them in rock since The Who, and I am hard-pressed to think of one since.

I am choosing their more underrated release with Sunny Day Real Estate, commonly known as LP2.

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Day 5 - String Theory
Play an album with a string section featured in at least one song.

I came up with a lot of songs that had string sections but wanted to dig a little deeper. Classical was too easy so I went way back to old school Electric Light Orchestra.

A lot of folks only know Electric Light Orchestra as their latter day ELO self via records like A New World Record & Out Of The Blue.

In actuality, Electric Light Orchestra began as some crazy amalgam of rock and classical that ended up sounding like psychedelic chamber music. Their first few LPs walk this path before detouring down a more formulaic, commercial one.

Check out this wacky, wonderful stuff...



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Day 5 - String Theory

Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

This record doesn't sound amazing, but it was one of my absolute favourites in high school so it's nice to have. The first track is a string version of the "theme" or leitmotif they used throughout their first four (I think) records.

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