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@@plasticsoundwavecult Of course, it was the fact that it was on that other album that it was a hit. I could have mentioned that when I brought up the song (the success of which is most likely why the US label decided to repackage a version of their Emmerdale album) but “Lovefool” was only ever on the follow-up to Life, First Band On The Moon.

While I was editing, I noticed I did a lot of mentioning of Japan, and I think, in fact, it would be correct to say each of the albums were only initially released in their home country and Japan. So I would have taken that as a connection too, but the Black Sabbath was the intended answer. A point for you!

@@murdockreviews Nice job.

Thanks. And thanks also for watching!

@@plasticsoundwavecult Thanks. I can’t believe how long this one ended being.

@@murdockreviews The early clue would be that I individually mentioned the connective tissue in regards to both bands. So it wasn’t a case where I mentioned half of it, hoping someone might infer it applies to both bands. I never thought we’d be big on UA-cam, but I did think it might gather momentum over time where each video might reliably see views in the hundreds. It’s okay that it hasn’t happened, but I feel like I’m rushed each and every week with that two-day turnaround, and in the last two weeks I had to do each one on Wednesday (and Eric’s videos come out in the evening on Monday for me on the East Coast) due to busy Thursdays. I approach it with less of a sense of fun, more of a sense of duty. I think the new schedule will help bring the fun back.

The clues were there. Yeah I’d like to branch out a bit and talk about some of the things I find interesting about unusual album covers, marketing, colored vinyl, etc. though it it’s mostly about the music, there are certain things that only a CD can pull off, or only a record can pull off. Hopefully others find them interesting too.

@@TheDigitalGramophone I think that’s close enough for the point-it was more specifically that the band name is in the lyrics, which, you’re right, isn’t a dazzlingly clever connection. I had to make this on Wednesday for a an album I got handed on Monday, so I went with the first viable connection that came to mind. I think I learned of VF by looking at Allmusic’s ‘similar to’ list of bands for Alvvays, maybe after their first record, when I wanted more stuff in that vein. I definitely didn’t hear it until a few years after it came out, though. I got the second much more recently, but I have enjoyed it. More polished, which is the direction these things always go in, but still some pretty fun pop music.

@@plasticsoundwavecult The irony of those who feel they represent the moral high ground, who want to point fingers and accuse others of depravity.

@@plasticsoundwavecult It hits me a little like classical, in that it sounds great when paired with visuals, like movie soundtracks, but on its own it leaves me wanting more.

@@murdockreviews That’s it. Not the most precise connection, so I was prepared to accept anything along those lines that mentioned India, whether it was the heritage of the bandleaders or the blending of Indian music into western music, or the use of Indian instruments.

@@plasticsoundwavecult Maybe I’ll find an opportunity to play some Real Estate on an episode of CC. I think you’d like them.

@@murdockreviews I think I vaguely remember learning in the past ten years that the remix was the familiar version to European audiences, but that memory only got knocked loose by doing my research. But I don’t think I’d ever heard it before yesterday.

@@GSPonsonby one of the few CD singles I ever bought.

@@murdockreviews I did let 10,000 Hz Legend play right after I played Moon Safari (just continuing through my iTunes library), and the song “Radian” caught my ear in a way it hadn’t ever done before. Slow beginning, but the last half has some of that Moon Safari quality.

@@GSPonsonby Yes, it's a gorgeous track. '10,000 Hz Legend' always felt a bit like Air's "prog" album to me.

Eric actually came up with the idea (I figured out which album to use for it). I was going to use an album with a song called "Leave Me Alone" on it, but it didn't seem very inspired.

You broke my streak of about 5 straight weeks without so much as a guess. Yes, it's having the band and album title encoded in the artwork.

@@GSPonsonby yay. Hope you're having a great weekend.

@@plasticsoundwavecult UA-cam sees what’s in your heart. It won’t allow you to leave a thumbs-up that you don’t mean.

@@plasticsoundwavecult I believe the LP has the same slipcase. I checked before making my speculation that they couldn’t place text over the Basquiat image.

Queen and ABBA kind of had the same fate for me in the later '80s to the early '90s. Eventually I got over myself.

Looking forward to it.

@@plasticsoundwavecult You might recognize a couple from a greatest hits that you didn’t know you knew.

@@emelle1283 A good one indeed. Thanks for watching.

Enjoy! Don't say I never did nothin' for ya!

That's the wider connection that can be tightened down. Good for a point unless someone (or you) can give me that more specific connection.

@@GSPonsonby okay,more specifically, both bands were from Cardiff.

You hit the three-quarters-of-the-way mark. The easy version was just that they both have a song called "How Do You Sleep?" The full version was that both songs are diss tracks about former collaborators. (I read that Murphy intentionally re-used the title in reference to Lennon's track about McCartney.)

@@GSPonsonby cool 🙂

I like that it is a more eyebrow-raising connection-John Lennon to LCD Soundsystem?!-but is a pretty rock solid connection nonetheless.

@@plasticsoundwavecult Really listen to “Divorce Song.” Such a deft character study in not a lot of lines.

“Never Said,” from Guyville, isn’t a million miles from a Sheryl Crow song, with the background harmonies and more polished sound. I’ve had that thought before. After Whip-Smart, I felt like I had two Liz Phair albums that I already wasn’t listening to, so I stopped following her. But I think I was betrayed by the media surrounding it, which invariably referenced the “blowjob queen” line, and that what was novel about it was its directness as opposed to its incisiveness. It took longer than it should have for me to take it in more holistically, and not just listen for the naughty bits.

I think that qualifies as a successful guess. Yeah, Eric’s album immediately made me think of this one for the obvious reason, and I thought it would be a good one to talk about, so I didn’t try to come up with something more devious, even though the connection is right in your face.

It was too much to keep in mind as peripheral information, plus I think I was hanging onto the H&C EP, where the US one was longer than the antipodean version.

To everything, turn, turn, turn…

The rules aren’t too tough, but they’re a little looser than a strict so-and-so appeared on both albums, or whatshisname produced both albums (though the connections *can* be exactly that kind of thing). Sometimes it’s something superficial like ‘both albums have a picture of an eye on the cover,’ or ‘both albums have a number in the title’; sometimes it’s something more devious like ‘these albums are both the last ones made by the original line-ups.’ It’s tough to come up with something golden every time. My brother and I started this because we’re both music lovers and collectors, but we live on opposite coasts, and this keeps us actively engaged with each other. Plus our tastes don’t overlap exactly, so we get to explore some titles from the other’s collection. So you can play by guessing what the connection is (I didn’t really clue it in at all this week, but it is a shallow one than can be figured out without knowing anything about the music on either album). Or you can just talk about Red Hot + Blue if you like. That’s cool too. Mostly I appreciate you stopping in and leaving a comment!

@@nonsuchned94 You got the connection right. Nicely done. I thought it fun (for the game; frustrating for me in real life) that two releases came on either end of the CD era. And yeah, that EDGE thing definitely got wrung dry by the corporations.

@@GSPonsonby In the late 2000s, the organizers of Milwaukee's Summerfest decided to do their own Lalapalooza- but it had to also be "safe" as it was taking the place of a downtown festival that caused problems (huge fights, general mayhem) They called it Edgefest and booked lackluster acts. People stayed away in droves and it never happened again.

You are probably correct in thinking she is a woman.

It’s a good ‘un. Really good atmosphere.

That’s the one.

A noble effort, but not what I was looking for. But thanks for watching, and playing along. Cheers!

Lol. I try to keep open ears and open mind when approaching stuff that’s new to me, but I certainly can relate to hearing music that has no appeal to me at all.

The thing I have in mind is more lifestyle-based; however-looking into it-there may be some accuracy to your guess. Obviously Billie has her brother, and I found something that Howard's brother "played bass," but I can't find when or in what capacity. I'll let Eric determine whether that is good for a point.

@@GSPonsonby No worries. If that is not the connection you had in mind, i don't think it's a point.

I'd have to get more Billie to have more Billie to talk about, but you never know. Thanks for stopping in and leaving a comment!

I feel like I’ve had a run where I’ve had more to say about your album choice than my album choice.

@@GSPonsonby I’ve listened to the Eilish and have some interesting thoughts on it.

I have their full catalogue, plus Asides Besides (which featured the indispensable "John Cope"), and even the remix album that (as I understand it) Mark Hollis absolutely hated. I bought Laughing Stock on its release day. It shared a release day with some big, anticipated album, I don't remember which, so the Ann Arbor music store where I purchased it stayed open until midnight to start selling it right away. Everyone was there for the big album, but I asked for Talk Talk, and they confusedly fished their one copy up from the shipment. I do find value in the first two records, too. Even though they were more of-the-time synth pop, I thought it was really good of-the-time synth pop, and the atmospherics of tracks like "Tomorrow Started" from It's My Life and the title track from The Party's Over were early signposts of what they'd eventually become, in my opinion. Thanks for stopping in!

Close enough for a gold star. I tried to make it extra clear that Jim Paterson appeared on the album but had quit the band, because the very specific connection is that only one founding member was in the band for the album in question. With Savoy Brown, it was natural (fast, but natural) turnover over eight albums gradually replacing all the other members. It just made me laugh that in Dexys case it was only the second record, and everyone left because they couldn’t take Rowlands’ bullshit.

@@GSPonsonby 😄 clearly a difficult chap.

I look forward to hearing them, then. But what I really want to know is, did my thumbnail make you chuckle? The Too-Rye-Ay / Yippee-Ki-Yay conflation got stuck in my head, so I had to do something with it.

"True Love Wars" may be my single favorite Erasure B-side. My collection is deep enough that I could definitely compile my 20 favorites; I have a playlist that is just Erasure B-sides that is 29 songs long, and doesn't include every last B-side that I have. But Wild is the one era where the B-sides strike me as largely better than what made it onto the album. As far as the slightly misleading video title, I hate having to play the UA-cam game. As you can see, I don't get a ton of views, so something that invites a curious click is still important. Early on, we would only reveal the connection within the video, but trying to maintain that mystery meant literally no one was enticed enough by the title and thumbnail to watch the video in the first place. Even after three years of doing this, I'm still a teeny tiny channel, and trying to figure out how to title the videos honestly, but also in a way that makes folks interested to watch. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!

Huzzah! It was an easy lob of a connection, in part because I didn't have time to do a well-researched connection, and in part because it had been weeks since I'd gotten a correct guess.

@@GSPonsonby 😄 thanks for making it possible.