National Album Day - A DIS community experience

Music
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First bought: Green Day - Dookie
Last bought: Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin (just before he was on Spotify!)
Desert island: Deerhunter - Microcastle
Last listened to: Interpol - Maurader
2018: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (Meg deserves to be a bigger star than she is)

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First bought: Now 4
Last bought: Pigs x 7 - King of Cowards
Desert island: Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Last listened to: Half Man Half Biscuit - No-One Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin’ Hedge Cut
2018 Recommendation - Mudhoney - Digital Garbage

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Good to know there are others who remember and confess to library copies. I was introduced to Autechre via library rentals - and the 2 quid sales! - I have first edition FSOL ISDN from there (albeit covered in library stickers). Another experience youngsters will never have.

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45

First bought: EMF - Schubert Dip
Last bought: Gwenno - Le Kov
Last listened to: Beak - >>>
Desert island: Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Recommended 2018: Windhand - Eternal Return

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First album: Guns n roses. Appetite for destruction.
Last album bought: Tomorrow we Sail. The Shadows.
Desert Island album: The God Machine. Scenes from the second story.
Last album listened to: Ancestors: Suspended in reflections.
2018 recommendation: Zeal & Ardor: Stranger fruit.

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47

Really like that Dawnwalker album.

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48

First album: Bon Jovi. Slippery When Wet*
Last album bought: The Chills. Snowbound
Desert Island album: Magnetic Fields. 69 Love Songs
Last album listened to: The Go-Betweens: 1978-1990**
2018 recommendation: Alien Weaponry. Tu (for something a little bit different - a bunch of teenagers playing death metal and singing in Maori about colonialism and the New Zealand Wars).
*I’m not counting pop compilation albums.
**If we’re counting Spotify, then it’s the new Spiritualized one

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49

Such a great record! :heart:

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50

First album: Not sure, as I bought 4 that day, probably Metallica - …and Justice For All
Last album bought: Slow Crush - Aurora
Desert Island album: Radiohead - In Rainbows
Last album listened to: Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
2018 recommendation: Black Moth Super Rainbow - Panic Blooms

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My First: ELO - A New World Record
My Last: Mudhoney - Digital Garbage
My Everything (Desert Island album): Tool - Aenima
Last album listened to: Unreqvited - Stars Wept To The Sea
2018 recommendation: Mesarthim - The Density Parameter

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x2

Yep, a genuine lost classic that one.

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First album: Bon Jovi - Crossroads
Last album: Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
Desert island album: Autechre EPs 1991-2002
Last album listened to: Jazzanova - The Pool
2018 shout: Let’s East Grandma - I’m All Ears

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First album bought: The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden (1)
Last album bought: Murmur - REM
Desert island album: As the Roots Undo - Circle Takes the Square
Last album listened to: **The Lookout - Laura Veirs **
2018 shout: Orpheus vs The Sirens - Hermit and the Recluse (2)

  1. on cassette, from Woolworths, with my own money.
  2. Double Negative - Low is probably number 1, but I don’t think anyone needs telling about how great that is.
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First album: Queen - Greatest Hits
Last album bought: Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
Desert Island album: Weezer - Blue
Last album listened to: Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
2018 recommendation: Lucy Dacus - Historian

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First album: Abba - The Singles
Last album bought: Dire Straits - S/T
Desert Island album: The Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis
Last album listened to: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2018 recommendation: Kendl Winter - Stumbler’s Business

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First album: Michael Jackson - Bad
Last album bought: Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
Desert Island album: REM - Automatic for the People
Last album listened to: Kurt Vile - Bottle it in
2018 recommendation: Olafur Arnalds - Re:member

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Yeah, I had a fair few library copies as a kid - and then at college, the library would charge you to borrow CDs, but tapes were free as no one was interested in them anymore. Was great if you still had a Walkman to just be able to take out Led Zep’s back catalogue of whatever for a couple of weeks. The late 90s equivalent of streaming.

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