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Post by ganews on Jun 17, 2022 17:23:08 GMT -5
My quarantine is ending. Let's have a positive Record Club: the theme for July is "life, birth, and rebirth".
Two picks each, I'll put up the poll toward the end of next weekend. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jun 17, 2022 17:47:01 GMT -5
I can't find any free online streaming of Kevin Drumm's Horror of Birth, so you guys are spared a spoilsport harsh-noise nomination. Instead, I'll go with: Flipper - Album - Generic Flipper ( 1982) Featuring "Life Is Cheap", "Living for the Depression", and probably their greatest tune, the hopeful "Life" |
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Post by ganews on Jun 18, 2022 14:03:34 GMT -5
Digable Planets, "Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)". Contains the song "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jun 18, 2022 17:32:53 GMT -5
Joanna Newsom, "Divers". Lots of themes of life and birth, along with death.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jun 20, 2022 16:28:09 GMT -5
Was struggling to think of another one for this theme but I think this works as its one I always want to listen to during spring and summer when things start to renew:
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
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Post by repulsionist on Jun 20, 2022 18:13:14 GMT -5
I deleted my previous post naming a desire to have everyone listen to Carcass' The Reek of Putrefaction with its song "Excreted Alive" as punitive jest. I was also strongly considering Wendy O. William's WOW with the proto-Bon Jovi "It's My Life". Instead, I'm meeting sincerity with sincerity.
Billy Cobham, Life and Times (1976) - theme met with title and title track
The Dirtbombs, Party Store (2011) - contains two songs, covers, containing the word "life"
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 20, 2022 20:30:58 GMT -5
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid (2017)
A concept album about a human lifetime, and one of my favorite albums from that year.
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2022)
I suppose not strictly a concept album, but it is concerned with themes of life and death. Also probably my favorite album of the year to this point.
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Post by Jimmy James on Jun 21, 2022 9:09:21 GMT -5
Fucked Up- David Comes to Life ( 2011) |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jun 21, 2022 22:50:51 GMT -5
Fucked Up- David Comes to Life ( 2011) What a great selection of albums we have going. I mean, I couldn't care less about 99.9% of hardcore but I like this Fucked Up record. Life is good! |
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Post by Prole Hole on Jun 22, 2022 11:02:52 GMT -5
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside, featuring Room For The Life, the title track (allusion to birth), and The Man With The Child In His Eyes (more birth).
Lightning Seeds - The Life Of Riley
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 22, 2022 11:30:03 GMT -5
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside, featuring Room For The Life, the title track (allusion to birth), and The Man With The Child In His Eyes (more birth). Lightning Seeds - The Life Of Riley Sadly, I think we already did the good Kate Bush album The Kick Inside in November 2015 C.E.by the Gregorian calendar. |
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Post by Prole Hole on Jun 22, 2022 11:32:18 GMT -5
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside, featuring Room For The Life, the title track (allusion to birth), and The Man With The Child In His Eyes (more birth). Lightning Seeds - The Life Of Riley Sadly, I think we already did the good Kate Bush album The Kick Inside in November 2015 C.E.by the Gregorian calendar.Ah damn - well remembered and thank you, Rando. The other one still stands though. |
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Jun 26, 2022 6:26:01 GMT -5
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life (1976). A stone-cold undeniable classic. "I Wish". "Isn't She Lovely". Album of the Year Grammy. Rolling Stones' #4 album ever. I guess what I'm saying is people seem to like this album an awful lot and they're not wrong.
Macy Gray - On How Life Is (1999). Her debut. The one with "I Try" and "I've Committed Murder".
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Post by ganews on Jun 26, 2022 20:33:35 GMT -5
Hole, "Live Through This"
Poll goes up in the morning.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Jun 26, 2022 21:58:37 GMT -5
Macy Gray - On How Life Is (1999). Her debut. The one with "I Try" and "I've Committed Murder". You're forgetting the standout not-a-single-for-some-reason "Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak."
As for me, I'm going to throw a hat in the ring for Black Box Recorder's The Facts of Life (2000). One of my 25 or so favorite albums ever, and one that renders something like 90% of indie pop obsolete through its mere existence. This one has three songs with life in the title - "Sex Life," the title track, and "Straight Life" - and they're all great, as are the other eight tracks on the album. An additional, extremely good reason to vote for this album - it is only thirty-nine minutes and fifty-two seconds long.
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Post by ganews on Jun 27, 2022 9:34:37 GMT -5
note that the Digable Planets album also has the timely, pro-choise track "La Femme Fetal":
It was 8:49 on a beautiful 9th day of July
There was not a cloud to speak of so the orange sun hung
Lonely in the sky
I was laying prone in my catbeat home
Listening to fine nappy Jackie and his jazzcat's horn
Sliding in a tape of Bird on Verve when suddenly rang my phone
Hello Butterfly, the voice said
Slip on some duds, comb out your fro and slide on down to my pad
The vibe here is very pleasant and I truly request your presence
A problem of great magnitude has arose
And as we speak it grows
Damn, what could it be I thought
A juice I bought and rolled on down to her spot
Seeing bros I know slapping fives I arrived and pressed G-5
And there was Nikki
Lookin' some kind of sad with tears fallin' from her eyes
She sat me down, and dug my frown and began to run it down
"You remember my boyfriend Sid, that fly kid who I love
Well our love was often a verb and spontaneity has brought a third
But due to our youth an economic state, we wish to terminate
About this we don't feel great, but baby, that's how it is
But the feds have dissed me
They ignore and dismiss me
The pro-lifers harass me outside the clinic
And call me a murderer, now that's hate
So needless to say, we're in a mental state of debate"
"Hey, beautiful bird" I said, digging her somber mood
"The fascists are some heavy dudes
They don't really give a damn about life
They just don't want a woman to control her body
Or have the right to choose
But baby that ain't nothin'
They just want a male finger on the button
Because if you say war, they will send them to die by the score
Aborting mission should be your volition
But if Souter and Thomas have their way
You'll be standing in line unable to get Welfare while they'll be out
Hunting and fishing
It has always been around, it will always have a niche
But they'll make it a privilege, not a right
Accessible only to the rich
Hey, Pro-lifers should dig themselves
Because life doesn't stop after birth
And to a child born to the unprepared
It might even just get worse
The situation would surely change if they were to find themselves in it
Supporters of the H-Bomb, and fire-bombing clinics
What type of shit is that? Orwellian, in fact
If Roe v. Wade was overturned, would not the desire remain intact
Leaving young girls to risk their healths
And doctors to botch, and watch as they kill themselves
I don't want to sound macabre
But hey, isn't it my job
To lay it on the masses and get them off their asses
To fight against these fascists
So, whatever you decide, make that move with pride
Sid will be there and so will I
An insect 'til I die
Rhythms and sounds
Spinning around
Confrontations
Across the nation
Your block
My block
Dreadlocks
What a shock
Land of the free
But not me, not me
ETA: poll up
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