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

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

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

Miss you, Mark. Thanks for everything...



Screaming Trees - Clairvoyance

 

[Potato-Socks]

Day 29 - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Play something about stars

Word of Mouth [1981] - Jaco Pastorius

God damn this album. A masterpiece.

 

[gafacaode]

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

Some Brazilian music for a change.
This one is considered a classic and it's my favorite from this band. Their guitarist (Edgar Scandurra) is freaking amazing.
It includes Manhãs de Domingo (Sunday Mornings).

Ira! - Psicoacústica

 

[Wes C. Attle]

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

Superdrag - In The Valley Of Dying Stars

 

[Turbo]

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

The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995 Virgin; 2014 reissue)
Lots of stars all over this... on the cover, LP2 is called Twilight to Starlight, track "By Starlight", without counting all of the references to the night in general in tracks like "Tonight Tonight", "We Only Come Out At Night" and "Farewell and Goodnight" and LP1 themed around the night.

 

[jfitzy]

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

Willie Nelson - Stardust

 

[gafacaode]

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

Debatable if their take on You Really Got Me is more well known than the Kinks' original but, I'm going with it.

Van Halen - S/T

 

[gafacaode]

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

Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 29: The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

“there’s a Starman waiting in the sky…”

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

 

[ranbalam]

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

 

[gafacaode]

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

Unkle - Psyence Fiction

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Day 29 - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Play something about stars

3ds - Hellzapoppin (Outer Space)


The 7in for Outer Space (which I also have) has a great cover of Eno's Baby's On Fire

 

[imtheocean]

Day 28 - Uncle Floyd / Slip Away
Plays something from the 80s. Bonus points if it was released in 1982

Released in 1982. Extra bonus points for the Tower Records price tag still on it...

Missing Persons ~ Spring Session M

 

[tvham]

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

Stars - The Five Ghosts



How about something by Stars? Possibly my favorite Stars album, Dead Hearts is such a fantastic, melancholy way to kick off the album.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

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

Stars - The Five Ghosts

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How about something by Stars? Possibly my favorite Stars album, Dead Hearts is such a fantastic, melancholy way to kick off the album.

Double challenge score!!

 

[avecigrec]

Day 29 - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Stars are never sleeping / Dead ones and the living
Willie Nelson – Somewhere Over The Rainbow


I was just about to hit play on Stardust when I remembered @jfitzy had played it already but I wanted some dinnertime Willie; fortunately he sings "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on this one, so here we are!

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Glad Willie broke out his pair of dress New Balance runners.

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Glad Willie broke out his pair of dress New Balance runners.

 

[Turbo]

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)

The Cure ᴹᴵᵡᵊᴰ ᵙᴩ (1990 Elektra)
Open with an extended mix of the track Lullaby.

 

[Wes C. Attle]

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

Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Furnace Room Lullaby



This one is particularly special to me because it has TWO songs about my hometown