Dreaming of Monday

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“Well, I guess it’s all laid out in Black and White.” 

I’m staving off boredom again, trying not to repeat any covers from this post

How many of these albums can you name? One is a 12″ single and another may or may not be a bootleg...answers below

Top row:

Savages - Adore Life; Deerhunter - Halycon Digest; Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said; Rammellzee vs. K-Rob - Beat Bop; Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to; Madness - One Step Beyond; Tool - Ænima; Richard Davies - There’s Never Been a Crowd Like This; Beach House - Bloom; Minutemen - Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat

Second row:

Thee Oh Sees - Live in San Francisco; Super Furry Animals - mwng; Mad Season - Above; Antony & The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now; Jaydiohead - Jay Z x Radiohead; Jay Z - The Black Album; Prince - Dirty Mind; Phoenix - Alphabetical; Joy Division - Closer; Songs: Ohia - Didn’t It Rain

Third row:

The Black Keys - The Big Come Up; Sharon Van Etten - Are We There; Tortoise - TNT; Ramones - Ramones; Santana - Santana; The Specials - The Specials; Beastie Boys - Check Your Head; Jessie Ware - Devotion; The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat; Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

Fourth row:

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme; The Who - Quadrophenia; Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies; Patti Smith - Horses; The XX - XX; David Bowie - Blackstar; The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express; R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi; Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds; Fela Kuti and Afrika 70 - Sorrow, Tears and Blood

Bottom row:

Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness; Nilsson - Son of Schmilsson; Nirvana - Bleach; Wipers - Youth of America; Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room; PJ Harvey - Let England Shake; The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart; The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole; Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night; LCD Soundsytem - LCD Soundsystem

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The Halloween vinyl post had me inspired to do more. This one is called “No Talking, Just Heads”

If I’m missing a really good one, let me know. (note this is 12″ vinyl only)

Top row, left to right:

Shiva Burlesque - Mercury Blues; The Roots - Phrenology; The Smiths - Rank

2nd row:

Fela Kuti - Army Arrangement; PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love; Various - No Alternative; Tift Merritt - Tambourine; Peter Gabriel - So; Funkadelic - Maggot Brain; Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

3rd row:

Sonic Youth - Dirty; R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (12″); Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind; The Waterboys - A Pagan Place; Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright; Beck - Sea Change; Jorge Ben - Fôrça Bruta

4th row: 

U2 - War; Ray La Montagne - Gossip in the Grain; Unrest - Cath Carroll; Archers of Loaf - Curse of the Loaf; Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies; Björk - Telegram; Brian Eno - Before and After Science

5th row:

Janis Joplin - In Concert; Jeff Buckley - Grace; Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends; Madonna - Madonna; Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer; David Bowie - Hunky Dory; Adele - 21

6th row:

Bob Marley - Kaya; Sondre Lerche - Sondre Lerche; Erkyah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh; Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not; Van Morrison - His Band and the Street Choir; Nas - Illmatic; Dinosaur Jr - Whatever’s Cool with Me

7th row: 

Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair; Spiritualized - Let It Come Down; Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison; Suckers - Wild Smile; Frank Zappa - Apostrophe; Daryl Hall & John Oates - H2O; Solange - A Seat at the Table

8th row:

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life; Hole - Live Through This; Swans - The Seer; Tyler, the Creator - Igor; Sharon Van Etten - Tramp; Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain; Various - Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack

9th row:

Ibeyi - Ibeyi; Nick Cave - From Her to Eternity; The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland; Angel Olsen - All Mirrors; Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now; Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread; King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

10th row:

Happy Mondays - Live; Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville; Radiohead - The Bends; Otis Redding - The Soul Album; Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel; Dr. John - The Lost Broadcast: Ultrasonic Studios; Fiona Apple - Tidal

11th row:

Elvis Costello - King of America; Phil Collins - Face Value; Joni Mitchell - Blue; Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen; Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On; De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

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I’m not saying I was bored today, but I did put together this picture of Halloween-themed vinyl.

From l-to-r, top row:

Ray LaMontagne - Trouble; Baroness - Yellow & Green; R.E.M. - Monster; Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork; Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (12″ single); King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King; Swans - The Seer; Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking; Alain Goraguer - La Planète Sauvage; Various - A Clockwork Orange

second row:

Metallica - Master of Puppets; Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea; Neko Case - Hell-On; Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy; Rush - Fly by Night; Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (3/”Melt”); Screaming Trees - Invisible Lantern; Songs: Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co.; Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies; Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna

third row:

Mark Lanegan Band - Phantom Radio; Roxy Music - Avalon; Nirvana - Incesticide; Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction; Graveyard - Graveyard; Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime; Nilsson - Son of Schmilsson; Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been; Funkadelic - Maggot Brain; Mastodon - Emperor of Sand

fourth row:

Supergrass - Supergrass; Bonnie “Prince” Billy - I See a Darkness; The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse; Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum; Misfits - Misfits; Cypress Hill - Black Sunday; The Connells - Fun & Games; Grimes - Visions; Dead Man’s Bones - Dead Man’s Bones; UFO - Strangers in the Night

bottom row:

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath; Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica; The Ponys - Turn the Lights Out; Alice in Chains - Dirt; Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities - Lucas; Animal Collective - Sung Tongs; XTC - Black Sea; Windhand - Grief’s Infernal Flower; The Warlocks - Phoenix Album; Tool - Undertow

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Alice in Chains - Over Now

After 1,357 “song of the day” posts across two blogs (and one listener - Hi Mom!), I’m taking an indefinite hiatus to focus on cheese.

From 1995′s self-titled album 

RIYL Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Mad Season

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Brad - Raise Love

From 1993′s Shame, this is the side project of Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard. Spoiler alert - it sounds nothing like Pearl Jam.

RIYL Mother Love Bone, Satchel, The Afghan Whigs

or watch on YouTube

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Throwing Muses - Snakeface

From another criminally underrated masterpiece, 1995′s University. I’ve sung its praises before, but listening to it today reminded me of its greatness.

RIYL Pixies, PJ Harvey, Yo La Tengo

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The dB’s - We Were Happy There

From 1982′s Repercussion. I’ve said it before, but these guys deserve their own cult - their first two albums are power-pop masterpieces and remain criminally underrated.

RIYL early R.E.M., The Feelies, The Bongos

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Fishbone - Pouring Rain

From 1988′s Truth and Soul. It is amazing to me that the band that wrote a song as beautiful as this (and this) is also responsible for a song in which the chorus is “may your dog’s colon be familiar with the warmth of your breath.” But with Fishbone you’ve got to take the bad with the good, and the good (this album, The Reality of My Surroundings) is so damn good.

RIYL James Brown, Pharrell Williams, Curtis Mayfield

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Ty Segall - And, Goodnight

This 12-minute jam closes out 2018′s Freedom’s Goblin, and despite the song title, it’s actually a cover of his own “Sleeper.”

RIYL Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Thee Oh Sees, The Grateful Dead

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Califone - The Orchids

From 2006′s Roots and Crowns. Broke this LP out for the first time in a while, and damn if it’s not as good as the best of Red Red Meat. And damn if I wasn’t surprised to find out just now that this song is a cover.

RIYL Sun Kil Moon, Grizzly Bear, Will Oldham

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Ryley Walker - Captain

From 2018′s The Lillywhite Sessions, a collection of covers from an unreleased Dave Matthews Band album. I’ve been a RW fan for a few years, and although I have a soft spot for DMB, I wasn’t so sure about this (you can read more about it here). But damn if it isn’t really good, and I think this song has the best singing of any Walker song I’ve ever heard.

RIYL Dave Matthews Band (natch), Anna St. Louis, Wilco

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Ramones - Commando

From 1977′s Leave Home. I used to get by on a Ramones compilation, but then I bought the first four albums (LH is #2) and they are all so damn good.

RIYL Buzzcocks, X, Misfits

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The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside

From 1965′s Begin Here. Pretty good advice, but I’d probably start with Odessey and Oracle.

RIYL The Beach Boys, Belle & Sebastian, Elliott Smith

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Guided by Voices - Paper Girl

From 1989’s Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (aka disc 3 of Box)

RIYL Neutral Milk Hotel, Rogue Wave, Sebadoh

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Boubacar Traoré - Solo de Kar Kar

From 1999′s Maciré

RIYL Ali Farka Touré, William Tyler, early Bob Dylan

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Hand Habits - Placeholder

From the recently released LP, also called Placeholder. Coincidence?

RIYL Angel Olsen, Molly Burch, Kevin Morby

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Massive Attack - Radiation Ruling the Nation

Feeling kind of basic today. From 1995′s No Protection, a remix record of 1994′s Protection.

RIYL Air, Björk, DJ Shadow