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Digital LoFI

For what may be my final #SpaceAceSunday (forever? for a while?), I am publishing the massive post on my memories of the 80s Boston post punk scene that I was working on when J died. As I speak to in my Author's Note, the Digital LoFi blog had become in a lot of ways a conversation between J and I. Not surprisingly, when he died I put aside the post, not sure if I would finish it. And when I picked it up I found I just wanted to address J directly. So I did. To say I'm bummed he didn't stick around long enough for me to share it with is an understatement. But I know he would have been excited to read it and had lots of thoughts.

"Not saying he would’ve liked all the bands, records I’m writing about, but he loved to talk shop."

This one is for J.

digitallofi.com/blog/2024/11-n

Digital Lofi24: Notes On My Boston Rock Scene
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1001 Other Albums

The next album SpaceAce submitted to this project is number 1025 in The List.

You might notice that, compared to the number for the previous SpaceAce Sunday, this one comes in quite farther down The List. SpaceAce’s intent with his original submissions for the project was largely to bring us all up to speed on what was going on in UK folk/folk rock in the 60s and 70s. While we still have a couple more from this area coming up in future SpaceAce Sundays, most of his later additions were trying to fill other gaps in The List that still remained after the dust had settled a bit.

I can’t remember the exact context,* but one day while chatting on Mastodon we were both shocked/appalled to realize that no one had yet added a Hüsker Dü album to The List – a Bob Mould album, but no Hüsker Dü. I could’ve picked one myself but SpaceAce volunteered as tribute. Turns out, he picked the same one I would’ve.

Zen Arcade is the second album from Hüsker Dü, and is both a double album and a concept album, a hardcore opera, if you will. If you’re new to this band or just wanting to relisten to something of theirs, you really can’t go wrong choosing an album, they’re all the correct choice. But, thanks to SpaceAce, the choice is made for us today.

In memory of our dearly missed friend, let’s raise a glass and take a listen together.

*Isn’t it ironic (don’t you think), seeing as “husker du” apparently means “do you remember”.

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/10/06/spaceace-sunday-husker-du-zen-arcade-1984-us/

The cover art is a drawing of three human figures in a car junkyard. All three figures are simply black silhouettes, but the cars and background are coloured in with pencil crayons. The band logo is in the top left corner, with the album name underneath in black letters over a series of horizontal lines.
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1001 Other Albums

The next album SpaceAce submitted to this project is the second studio album from Scottish psychedelic folk band The Incredible String Band, number 487 in The List.

For those who have seen my toots particularly around January, you may know that I’m a huge David Bowie fan. Around when he left us, I came across the list of 25 of Bowie’s favorite albums (as told to Vanity Fair in 2003), saved the list on my desktop, and added a few of the albums to my playlist/collection. However, after having to retire the ol’ laptop, I sort of forgot about that list, at least until yesterday, when I randomly put on Tucker Zimmerman’s wonderful Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman. And then, when I sat down today to take a listen to SpaceAce’s next submission, lo and behold, within a couple clicks around to look it up, there that list was again.

While I’d have loved to hear SpaceAce’s comments on this album, we’ll have to make do with Bowie’s:

O.K., here’s the album with the trippiest cover. Color’s all over the place on this one, a real eye dazzler. Probably executed by the art group known as “the Fool.” Pretty much locked into a time capsule for many years—it’s uplifting to find that this strange assortment of Middle Eastern and Celtic folk-mystic stuff stands up remarkably well now. A summer-festival “must” in the 60s, myself and T. Rexer Marc Bolan both being huge fans.

We’ll listen to the debut album of this band later down the road, as it’s also in The List. But, for now, in memory of our dearly missed friend (and Bowie), let’s raise a glass and take a listen together.

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/09/29/spaceace-sunday-the-incredible-string-band-the-5000-spirits-or-the-layers-of-the-onion-1967-scotland/

The cover art is a very colorful, trippy, psychedelic painting. There's some sort of winged figure in the top center, with the Earth in the center of their torso. They are flying above an eye, the band name, and an assortment of plants growing. The roots of the plants are also shown, one of them being a large onion. The album name is not on the front cover.
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