May 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge - A Crash Course for the Ravers

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May 2022 Vinyl Spin Challenge - A Crash Course for the Ravers

Based on the Talking Heads themed challenge that @Turbo did last year, all of this month’s challenges are based around David Bowie lyrics, songs or albums. Interpret however you like.

Day 1 - Lazarus
Look up here, I’m in heaven
Play something by an artist who had a 2nd career, chance or just a long time between albums.

Day 2 - Suffragette City
Don’t lean on me man / cos you can’t afford the ticket
Play a record that was very expensive or you got cheap and is now stupid pricy

Day 3 - Prettiest Star
All because of what you are / The prettiest star
Marc Bolan played guitar on the original recording in 1970.
Play something with a ‘special guest’ or a 'collab' as the kids call it these days

Day 4 - Bombers
Seemed a good idea / To drop a bomb on the wasteland here
Play a record that is considered a bomb but that you love

Day 5 - Sound and Vision
Blue, blue electric blue / That’s the colour of my room
Play a ‘blue’ record

Day 6 - Candidate
But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache / Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay
Play something with strange or non-sensical lyrics

Day 7 - I’m Waiting for the Man
Feel sick and dirty / more dead than alive
David recorded many covers over the years. Some to help a friend (Iggy Pop) and some because he loved the songs (Velvet Underground)
Play a cover

Day 8 - Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol looks a scream / Hang him on my wall
Play a namedropping song

Day 9 - Panic in Detroit
Panic in Detroit / I asked for an autograph
Play an album that is connected to Detroit or is signed

Day 10 - Red Sails
Red sails / Thunder Ocean
Play something ‘red’

Day 11 - Space Oddity
I’m stepping through the door / and I’m floating in a most peculiar way
Play an album about being ‘lost’

Day 12 - Ashes to Ashes
Do you remember a guy / that's been In such an early song?
Play a record connected in some way to the record you played yesterday

Day 13 - Absolute Beginners
I'm an absolute beginner / And I'm absolutely sane
Play a debut record

Day 14 - The Jean Genie
New York's a go-go and everything tastes right
Play something that is about New York or related to it

Day 15 - Brian Eno birthday May 15
Along with the Berlin trilogy, Eno helped produce 1. Outside. A cyber noir concept album with a government official investigating if a murder is an “art crime”.
Play something criminal

Day 16 - Robert Fripp’s birthday May 16
And you, you can be mean / And I, I'll drink all the time
Robert Fripp famously played the iconic lead guitar on ‘Heroes’
Play something with a riff (any instrument) that is highly recognizable

Day 17 - John, I’m Only Dancing (again)
But don't get me wrong / I'm only dancing
Play something that makes you want to dance

Day 18 - Little Wonder
Stinky weather fat, shaky hands / Dopey morning doc, grumpy gnomes
The song is about the 7 dwarves from Snow White.
Play something little or small.

Day 19 - Look Back In Anger
"You know who I am," he said / The speaker was an angel
Play something angry

Day 20 - Modern Love
God and Man / No Religion
Play something (anti-)religious or spiritual

Day 21 - Station To Station
It's too late to be hateful / The European canon is here
Play something that is European, interpret however you want

Day 22 - Blackout
I'm under Japanese influence and my honour's at stake
Play something related to Japan

Day 23 - Seven
I got seven days to live my life / Or seven ways to die
Play an artists 7th album

Day 24 - Love You Till Tuesday
I was very lonely till I met you on Sunday / My passion's never-ending and I'll love you till Tuesday
Play a song that mentions a day of the week

Day 25 - The Man Who Sold The World
Although I wasn't there / He said I was his friend
A song that Nirvana made famous
Play a cover song that may be more well know than the original

Day 26 - Bring Me the Disco King
Killing time in the seventies
A song about getting rid of your past.
Play something from the 1970s

Day 27 - Starman
He’d like to come and meet us / but he thinks he’d blow our minds
Play something sci-fi

Day 28 - Uncle Floyd / Slip Away
Oogie knew there's never ever time / Some of us will always stay behind / Down in space it's always 1982
Plays something from the 80s. Bonus points if it was released in 1982

Day 29 - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Stars are never sleeping / Dead ones and the living
Play something about stars

Day 30 - Kooks - Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones born May 30 1971
We bought a lot of things / To keep you warm and dry / And a funny old crib on which the paint won't dry
Play a lullaby (interpret this any way you want)

Day 31 - Diamond Dogs released on this day in 1974
Play something canine related
 
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Day 1 - Lazarus
Look up here, I’m in heaven
Play something by an artist who had a 2nd career, chance or just a long time between albums.

This is still in rotation from yesterday and it fits, so...

Musician. Writer. Poet. Filmmaker. Actor. Shaman. Lizard King. Drunkard.

Also, this set smokes. Bruce Botnick's mastering is sublime. Top-shelf sound and pressing. So much fun to listen to these songs flesh out.

The Doors - L.A. Woman Sessions

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Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
Musician. Writer. Poet. Filmmaker. Actor. Shaman. Lizard King. Drunkard.

Also, this set smokes. Bruce Botnick's mastering is sublime. Top-shelf sound and pressing. So much fun to listen to these songs flesh out.

The Doors - L.A. Woman Sessions

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I was contemplating getting this when I was buying other RSD releases last week but didn't.

Glad to see it still available at many online shops....and I was waiting a bit to get paid on Friday, so it has now been ordered.
 
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Day 1 - Lazarus

It was about 14 years since his last score for Ghosts Of Mars when this was released. He's made a 2nd career out of it with the help of his son and god son, releasing 4 solo albums and scoring all 3 of the new Halloween movies.

John Carpenter – Lost Themes
Sacred Bones Records – SBR-123, 2015/2017

Cut by Sam John at Precise Mastering
Pressed at Rainbo

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Day 1 - Lazarus

Weezer - Pinkerton

Lead singer going to Harvard after this album, a long time until the next one, and a completely different career trajectory, this one has it all.

My favorite Weezer album and one where the initial negative reviews were unfortunate to say the least.
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Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
Day 1 - Lazarus
Look up here, I’m in heaven
Play something by an artist who had a 2nd career, chance or just a long time between albums.

This is still in rotation from yesterday and it fits, so...

Musician. Writer. Poet. Filmmaker. Actor. Shaman. Lizard King. Drunkard.

Also, this set smokes. Bruce Botnick's mastering is sublime. Top-shelf sound and pressing. So much fun to listen to these songs flesh out.

The Doors - L.A. Woman Sessions

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@Yer Ol' Uncle D wins the prize with being first out of the gate!
 
wmeugene said:
Day 1 - Lazarus

Weezer - Pinkerton

Lead singer going to Harvard after this album, a long time until the next one, and a completely different career trajectory, this one has it all.

My favorite Weezer album and one where the initial negative reviews were unfortunate to say the least.
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That Leak unit is sexy
 
Day 1 - Lazarus
Look up here, I’m in heaven
Play something by an artist who had a 2nd career, chance or just a long time between albums.

D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD "BLACK MESSIAH" (2015 RCA)
It was 14 years since the release of Voodoo when songs from Black Messiah surprise-dropped right before Christmas 2014.

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Day 1 - Lazarus
Look up here, I’m in heaven

Sam Phillips - Martinis & Bikinis

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This is her seventh album but only the third under this name. She had a prior career as a contemporary Christian singer using her given name. The photos from the cover/inserts got the attention of someone in Hollywood which landed her a role as a villain in Die Hard With A Vengeance.

 
Day 1

Lazarus

Gordon had been an in demand sideman during the 40s and the hey day of bebop. The 50s saw him battle drug addiction and in& out of prison.

He re-emerged in the 60s to begin the first of three resurgences! Blue Note made him a leader of ensembles and he made some of the finest Hard Bop records with them.

This album comes from his second phase with Blue Note when he was primarily based in Europe.

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Dexter Gordon - One Flight up
 
Lee Newman said:
Day 1

Lazarus

Gordon had been an in demand sideman during the 40s and the hey day of bebop. The 50s saw him battle drug addiction and in& out of prison.

He re-emerged in the 60s to begin the first of three resurgences! Blue Note made him a leader of ensembles and he made some of the finest Hard Bop records with them.

This album comes from his second phase with Blue Note when he was primarily based in Europe.

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Dexter Gordon - One Flight up
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In my opinion this is one of the best Tone Poet reissues
 
Day 1 - Lazarus
Look up here, I’m in heaven
Play something by an artist who had a 2nd career, chance or just a long time between albums.

Well this was fun to learn. When Jim Martin left Faith No More he became a competitive giant pumpkin grower. But since that probably doesn't pay the bills it looks like he's also a landbastard.

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Day 1 Lazarus
The Breeders - Last Splash
Kimm Deal played bass and occasionally sang next to black Francis in the Pixies. Her second career started as z side project with pod but after the Pixies imploded became her second career fully with the Last Splash and the iconic cannonball
 
Got a little too busy to complete the April challenge, but I’m gonna try my best to complete this month’s…

Day 1: Lazarus

Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds

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Not as extreme as some of the other artists that’ve been played so far, but JT likes to take his time in between albums, ranging from 4-7 years in-between (outside of the 20/20 Experience two-parter). He also spent most of the 7 years between FSLS & The 20/20 Experience acting in films which he still does today.
 
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