The April 2023 Record Spin Challenge: "Want to go around again? I do."

[avecigrec]

April 29 - Happy Death Day! Play an album about death or one that is about the future.

Steve Earle & The Dukes – J.T.


In the wake of Justin Townes Earle's untimely death his dad recorded an album of his songs, plus a new one of his own about the last time they spoke

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Day 29: Happy Death Day!

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

 

[Wes C. Attle]

April 28 - We're getting older now. Play an album about growing old, or by a very old musician

Paul McCartney (age 80yo) - Ram

I know there’s older musicians out there but this album fits the mood of the night tonight. It’s funny to think that 64 once sounded old for him

 

[ranbalam]

April 29 - Happy Death Day! Play an album about death or one that is about the future.

Rob Crow's Gloomy Place - You're Doomed, Be Nice

 

[Hemotep]

April 29 - Happy Death Day! Play an album about death or one that is about the future.

Rob Crow's Gloomy Place - You're Doomed, Be Nice

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I love Rob Crow. Everything he touches is good imo.

 

[ranbalam]

I love Rob Crow. Everything he touches is good imo.

So many great vocal hooks on this record. When I first got it, I played it at least weekly.

 

[Hemotep]

April 29 - Happy Death Day! Play an album about death or one that is about the future.

I'm sitting in the airport waiting to board the plane to Vegas for my insane layover. And I'm streaming this (I do have it on vinyl) because I'm clearly a masochist. It's strangely appropriate given what I'm doing, but man does this album hurt even in the best of times. Too fitting for today for so many reasons.

Mount Erie - A Crow Looked at Me

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

April 29 - Happy Death Day! Play an album about death or one that is about the future.

Nick Cave is capable of soul crushing music.

Sadly, it's often created from circumstance.

Can you imagine losing a child? How about two?

RIP Arthur. RIP Jethro.



Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

April 29 - Happy Death Day! Play an album about death or one that is about the future.

I'm sitting in the airport waiting to board the plane to Vegas for my insane layover. And I'm streaming this (I do have it on vinyl) because I'm clearly a masochist. It's strangely appropriate given what I'm doing, but man does this album hurt even in the best of times. Too fitting for today for so many reasons.

Mount Erie - A Crow Looked at Me
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Such a brutal album in it’s own right. I would be a mess.

 

[4080]

April 29 - Happy Death Day! Play an album about death or one that is about the future

Sufjan Stevens "Carrie & Lowell" - adding onto this upbeat day of record spinning! I think this more than qualifies as a death day soundtrack!

 

[Wes C. Attle]

April 29 - Happy Death Day! Play an album about death or one that is about the future

Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Song: “Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking”

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

Good times, @Hemotep. Thinking about you, brother.

April 30 - It's Your Funeral. Funerals suck. I always thought I'd rather just force all my loved ones to listen to some albums I've preselected for them while they think about how great I was. Play the album you'd force your loved ones to listen to at your funeral.

I believe about every emotion and message I'd want to leave behind is somewhere in these grooves.

Adios, amigos...



Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Weld

 

[gafacaode]

April 18 - Hangovers. Play an album a song about alcohol, poor choices, or regrets.



Nicole Atkins - Slow Phaser

 

[gafacaode]

April 19 - Working, but Poor. Play an album a song about being poor and/or working class.

A working class hero is something to be

Tin Machine - S/T

 

[gafacaode]

April 20 - 420. Play an album to smoke a joint/bowl/bong/gravity bong to.

Peter Tosh - Legalize It

 

[Turbo]

April 30 - It's Your Funeral. Funerals suck. I always thought I'd rather just force all my loved ones to listen to some albums I've preselected for them while they think about how great I was. Play the album you'd force your loved ones to listen to at your funeral.

Talking Heads "Speaking In Tongues" (1983 Sire; 2013 Rhino)
Well, I'd obviously order some Talking Heads while people are mingling. And lots of funk. Upbeat stuff.

 

[Turbo]

Thanks for organizing @Hemotep ! See you all in next month's thread.

This is my April:

 

[gafacaode]

April 21 - Gateway Drugs: Shrooms. Play an album that either reminds you of nature

Hauschka - A Different Forest

 

[Wes C. Attle]

April 30 - It's Your Funeral. Play the album you'd force your loved ones to listen to at your funeral

The Roches - The Roches
Song: “Quitting Time”



Ideally, a choir would be hired to perform this at the funeral, of course



Thanks for the whirlwind of emotions this month, @Hemotep !!

 

[gafacaode]

April 22 - Gateway Drugs: Cocaine! Play an album a song that is about cocaine



George Thorogood and The Destroyers - Move It On Over