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Welcome back to LWA ROTW. This week, the Discogs Randomizer gives us Talking Heads' 77. The first time I'd ever heard Talking Heads was when Take Me to the River (from their second album, More Songs About Building and Food) was played on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 millions of years ago. I remember thinking it was cool that they took an old soul song and twisted it to fit their sound. And that's kinda what Talking Heads do, take their influences and combine them into something different. That said, my first Talking Heads album was Speaking in Tongues (1983)....

I first learned of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings in 2007 when 100 Days, 100 Nights was released. Instantly hooked, I went to the internet to see if they were touring. Turned out the answer was yes, they were coming to my town (and on my birthday of all days), but it was sold out. I kept at it and eventually scored a ticket. I went alone on my birthday and it was completely worth it. I totally kept up would see them a couple more times. This week, the Discogs randomizer gives us Soul of a Woman, the final Sharon...

Welcome to October! Inspired by that scene in High Fidelity, I started making this mix a few years ago, put a handful of tracks together and kinda forgot about it. I was looking for inspiration for this month's mix and decided to revisit this. I expanded it to a lot more than a handful. It's all the greatest album-opening tracks of all time! Jokes, it's just stuff I like, so your mileage may vary (like all of my other mixes). But hopefully you like it. Or someone likes it. Or not....whatever works!

So, I was trying to think of the subject for this week's ROTW and was coming up empty. It's been a bit of a whirlwind this week, and I didn't really give it much thought until last night. Decided to use Discog's randomizer to see what it would give me. Basically, if you have your collection listed on Discogs, it'll pick a random title from your collection for you. It landed on Realistic, Ivy's 1995 debut album.  I remember hearing Get Enough on the radio in 1995 and it took me a little bit to track down the song, but eventually...

Seeing as how Hounds of Love had its 40th anniversary this week (16 Sept 1985), I thought I'd put this one on. I found her just randomly flipping channels at a friend's house. The Babooshka video was playing and I saw this woman in chainmail, just shrieking and letting it all fly. Captivating, to say the least. I somehow managed to find out her name, went down to my Tower Records and looked through her catalog. Saw that she had a new album coming, so I came back a week or two later and picked up Hounds of Love. Poppy,...