Listening Chain Challenge
Posted by: GraemeH on 08 December 2013
Let's see if this works:
I'm listening to the album Above. The challenge is to suggest the next album you will listen to which has a link to it. The link must be described by you and can be as obvious (eg. same artist - potentially boring) or as un-obvious (some hitherto unknown/unexpected connection - potentially interesting), or as oblique as you like.
Points for the most unexpected/clever/funny connections.
G
This plain didn't crash.
Manfred Mann's Plain Music, Plains Music
Manfred's longest standing band was from earth, this one originated from the sky, made a splash and gave us music from heaven (though maybe not this album).
Hot Tuna, Pair a Dice Found
What about something by Fish after a Hot Tuna?
steve
Good choice, I love Vigil.
Janitors padlock the gates
For security guards to patrol
Del Amitri, Nothing Ever Happens
Del Amitri, Change Everything
I bought Del Amitri's first album in 1985 along with the first album from The Dream Academy (both on vinyl at the time). One member of this wonderful band was the lovely Kate St-John, who played woodwinds on a plethora of other albums.
Strangely, she only sang background vocals on one title of this album:
Thomas Fersen, Le jour du poisson
EDIT: Argh ! Fatcat got me, forget Thomas Fersen, back to the drawing board.
Fuego was a model of Renault cars in France. Sort of half-cult (but still a Renault...). Let's choose something classier.
James Taylor Quartet, Hammond-ology
The JTQ's first single was a funk version of Herbie Hancock's main theme from this:
Explosive stuff! (bonus points for seasonal tie-in?)
good luck finding it on Amazon
(You're cheating, Jan ! No way you actually listened to the album you proposed, but I'd like to hear it too.)
Higgnobel.
Scientist, Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
(I thought I had Scientist vs Mad Professor, but it seems not.)
... a visual tie-in, and one of my all-time favourite electronic musicians. BUY IT !
Taking things up a notch, what about "Super Collider", the 12-inch from Radiohead:
EDIT: Dang! Kevin's post broke this link to Sam Roberts, which also featured another topical tie-in, and also the album title come to think of it.
Radiohead were the opening act for Alanis Morissette's 1996 tour. Alanis was later to host the 2004 Juno Awards, where Sam Roberts scooped up three Junos. Both are Canadian. Impressive work Kevin 
Alanis Morrisette's big seller Jagged Little Pill was released on Maverick Records, a label co-founded by this old slapper:
Like a virgin
I own this and play it often.
I say:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
And Servant.
Depeche Mode, Some Great Reward
The same year Some Great Reward came out -- 1984 --, another british band fond of classy synth pop released its last masterpiece. Compare the titles and the actual fate of the respective bands...
Ultravox, Lament
EDIT: Damn', Jan !