October 2021 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread: Let's Get Lexical, Lexical

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

29. Pertinacious - (adj.) holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same." - Angus Young




AC/DC - Powerager

 

[Turbo]

29. Pertinacious - (adj.) holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action

MC Solaar "Qui Sème Le Vent Récolte Le Tempo" (1991 Polydor; 2021 reissue)
In the song "Bouge de là", the protagonist encounters various people from different walks of life with the pertinacious opinion that he should just "get out of here". So he eventually leaves so he can figuratively return reborn.

This spin is dedicated to @avecigrec for discussing this record in the French music thread.

 

[imtheocean]

29. Pertinacious - (adj.) holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action

Kicking off Halloween weekend with this debut album, which set a course for his entire career and created a persona that Jay held firmly to.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins ~ At home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 29. Pertinacious - (adj.) holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

@Yer Ol' Uncle D beat me to the idea of a band making the essentially the same album over and over again. Lemmy & Co. figured if their brand of pertinacious speed metal still rips why mess with the formula?

 

[ranbalam]

Day 29. Pertinacious - (adj.) holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Black Sabbath is always very Black Sabbath-ey

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

30. Timorous - (adj.) showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence

Super underrated band with the likes of Nick Lowe, Ian Gomm and Brinsley Schwarz doing the heavy lifting.

For those of you who didn't know British alt-country pub rock was a thing...




Brinsley Schwarz - Nervous On The Road

 

[imtheocean]

30. Timorous - (adj.) showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence

XTC may have stopped touring due to Andy Partridges' discomfort with touring and stage fright, but that didn't stop them from continuing to make confident music in the studio.

XTC ~ English Settlement

 

[SpintheBlackcircle]

30. Timorous - (adj.) showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence
Worried about you
"Sometime I wonder why you do these things to me
Sometime I worry girl that you ain't in love with me
Sometime I stay out late, yeah I'm having fun
Yes, I guess you know by now that you ain't the only one"

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Day 30. Timorous - (adj.) showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence

The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964-1971

A “19th Nervous Breakdown” sound like quite a timorous situation.

 

[Potato-Socks]

30. Timorous - (adj.) showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence

Jazmine Sullivan's song "Lost One" tells of someone's timorous reaction to an inevitable breakup, going so far as to beg their ex to

"Go out and fuck different people
To cope and ignore all precautions"




BTW, this album causes me such ambivalence. It's easily one of the best albums I've heard in 2021, however there's no indication whatsoever that it will ever get a physical release . Come to think of it, maybe I'll just burn some high-quality files on CD, and print out some cover art to quell my need for physical media .

Oh, oh, oh, I just found a great live video:

 

[gafacaode]

23. Internecine - (adj.) destructive to both sides of a conflict

When she stepped outside
Raised her eyes to the sky
The fatal stare is somewhere up there
Looking for someone to die
Soap and water
Will never get rid of that spot
That she's got
It's a clean kill
It's a clean kill
It's a clean kill
But it's not clean

Coriky - S/T

 

[gafacaode]

24. Panjandrum - (n.) a person who has or claims to have a great deal of authority or influence

I'm surprised no one picked him for this prompt (or did I miss the post? Or was it too obvious?).

David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps

 

[LeSamourai]

27. Sibylline - (adj.) prophetic and mysterious

Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On

The whole vibe of this album has always felt mystical and sibylline to me, full of mantra-like choruses and slippery guitar lines. There's even a track titled "The Prophet."

 

[gafacaode]

25. Autarky - (n.) self-sufficiency, independence

I'm going back to Ian Mackaye and Dischord Records for this one. Fiercely independent.

Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing

 

[ranbalam]

30. Timorous - (adj.) showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence

Supertramp - Just Another Nervous Wreck - from Breakfast in America

 

[gafacaode]

26. Laconic - (adj.) using very few words

The ocean is laconic, no talking, all action!

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

 

[LeSamourai]

28. Rapprochement - (n.) an establishment or resumption of harmonious relations

Low - Drums and Guns

"Let's bury the hatchet / like the Beatles and the Stones..."

 

[Turbo]

30. Timorous - (adj.) showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence

Courtney Barnett "Tell Me How You Really Feel" (2018 Milk! Records)
The track "Crippling Self-Doubt And A General Lack Of Confidence" is as timorous as it gets.

 

[LeSamourai]

29. Pertinacious - (adj.) holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action

Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions

Going digital because the title of this album is too perfect for the word of the day... and now a reminder that I really need to pick this one up on vinyl, because it's a great album by one of post-rock's greatest.

 

[avecigrec]

29. Pertinacious - (adj.) holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda


Alice Coltrane was incredibly pertinacious in her Vedic studies and pursuits in the wake of husband John's passing, adopting the Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, opening the Vedantic Center in California, in 1975, and serving as swamini (spiritual director) of Shanti Anantam Ashram which she and the Vedantic Center founded in 1983.