Strange Musical Tales: The September 2023 Vinyl Spin Challenge Thread

Day 15 - THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN (Lovecraft, 1921)
An old mute cellist named Erich Zann plays strange music at night to keep unknown creatures from entering his apartment building.
Play something that features a cello, a violin, a fiddle and/or a string section and/or you would consider as being “strange” music.

Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood

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Day 20 - THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME (Lovecraft, 1934)
The story introduces the Ythians, an alien race that can travel through space and time by switching bodies with other beings. They are long extinct but continue to persist through human minds.
Play something that references time and/or the past and/or the future and/or aliens.


The (spoiler alert) third act of this movie involves a fight against a Alien Starfish (Starro) that takes over human minds. The album itself was supposed to look like Starro but it looks like someone stepped on him.

Various Artists ~ Suicide Squad Soundtrack

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Day 20 - THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME (Lovecraft, 1934)
Play something that references time and/or the past and/or the future and/or aliens.

"Psychedelic Switch" - The Loveliest Time (2023) - Carly Rae Jepsen

Exchanging minds with an alien race must indeed feel like a "Psychedelic Switch". ALSO, the word "time" is in the tittle, so... double boom!

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Day 20 - THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME (Lovecraft, 1934)
The story introduces the Ythians, an alien race that can travel through space and time by switching bodies with other beings. They are long extinct but continue to persist through human minds.
Play something that references time and/or the past and/or the future and/or aliens.


The (spoiler alert) third act of this movie involves a fight against a Alien Starfish (Starro) that takes over human minds. The album itself was supposed to look like Starro but it looks like someone stepped on him.

Various Artists ~ Suicide Squad Soundtrack

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Man, I love that freakin' movie!
 
Day 20 - THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME (Lovecraft, 1934)
The story introduces the Ythians, an alien race that can travel through space and time by switching bodies with other beings. They are long extinct but continue to persist through human minds.
Play something that references time and/or the past and/or the future and/or aliens.

Daft Punk "Discovery" (2001 Virgin; 2014 reissue)
"One More Time" references time. Plus Daft Punk are robots from the future. And aliens I think. If not, the awesome video for "One More Time" features aliens.

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Day 16 - ALIEN (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Alien oozes with cosmic horror influence. From the discovery of the ruined alien ship being a trope out of At The Mountains Of Madness to H.R. Giger’s designs owing a clear debt to Lovecraft, Alien is basically a modern ode to cosmic horror.
Play something about space and/or features grotesque designs and/or monsters and/or aliens.

Grotesque design it is

Ramones - Acid Eaters

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Day 17 - THE HAUNTER IN THE DARK (Lovecraft, 1936)
Story features a relic found in Egyptian ruins, the Shining Trapezohedron, which is in the possession of a cult, and which can summon a terrible being originating from the depths of time and space.
Play something that in any way features a trapezoid, pyramid, triangle and/or a prism and/or is related to Egypt in any way and/or cults.

Check out this track list!

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Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1

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Day 18 - UZUMAKI (THE SPIRAL) (Junji Ito, 1998)
Unsettling manga set in a small Japanese village that centers around the strange effects of spirals on the town folks.
Play something that features spirals and/or is related to Japan and/or comes from Japan.

Hailing from Japan with a surf rock take on Kraftwerk!



The Routes - The Twang Machine

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gafacaode said:
Day 18 - UZUMAKI (THE SPIRAL) (Junji Ito, 1998)
Unsettling manga set in a small Japanese village that centers around the strange effects of spirals on the town folks.
Play something that features spirals and/or is related to Japan and/or comes from Japan.

Hailing from Japan with a surf rock take on Kraftwerk!



The Routes - The Twang Machine

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OMG that's awesome!
 
Day 19 - THE CALL OF CTHULHU (Lovecraft, 1926)
Play an album that cannot be described easily and/or that spans multiple different styles and/or genres and/or play something that references or is about the color green and/or tentacles and/or aliens.

Deafheaven - Sunbather

A mix of black metal, shoegaze and post-rock. A painfully beautiful record.

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Day 19 - THE CALL OF CTHULHU (Lovecraft, 1926)
The story is presented as a manuscript by a narrator that put together notes left behind by a deceased relative. This is where the extra-terrestrial being Cthulhu makes an appearance. Cthulu is referred to a “thing that cannot be described”, although hints are provided in that it is a green, sticky spawn of the stars with flabby claws, a squid-head with writhing feelers and appears like a stumbling mountain.
Play an album that cannot be described easily and/or that spans multiple different styles and/or genres and/or play something that references or is about the color green and/or tentacles and/or aliens.

Lone - Galaxy Garden

This track references a specific tentacled alien, and the cover seems to be some sort of neon anemone-like space creature (with a bit of green).

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Day 20 - THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME (Lovecraft, 1934)
The story introduces the Ythians, an alien race that can travel through space and time by switching bodies with other beings. They are long extinct but continue to persist through human minds.
Play something that references time and/or the past and/or the future and/or aliens.

Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future

The album title gives us both the future and the past.

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