Joe Fray
@josephfray.bsky.social
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Wizards winning a meaningless preseason game by 30 something
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Is he dressing as Gritty?
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It's our anniversary, and there was a Bad Bunny album released on this date, but it was the one @beckyhammer.bsky.social hates, so I really dodged a bullet
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Today's album of the day is Colors by Beck, released on this date in 2017
Becky's face in a hexagon covered with blue and yellow blobs
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Rename the middle school after Cass Elliot (but not John Phillips)
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Today's album of the day is Tusk by Fleetwood Mac, released on this date in 1979
Larry Vigon, who served as the album's designer, reached out to Peter Beard after seeing some of his artwork in one of his journals, which included sundry items such as feathers, dried leaves, and newspaper headlines. Beard, who specialised as a documentary photographer, was enlisted by Vigon to supply images for the album sleeve and spent two weeks in the recording studio taking Polaroids of the band and its inner circle. He also augmented this footage with images of elephant tusks. During one of those sessions, Beard took a photo of Caillat's dog biting his leg, which ultimately became the cover art for Tusk. Fleetwood had originally promised Nicks that the cover art would feature an image of her twirling and dancing; Nicks later told Caillat that she placed a curse on his dog for "stealing her cover".
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I'd never really heard much ABBA aside from the major singles, and well, turns out there's a reason for that
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Today's album of the day is Arrival by ABBA, released on this date in 1976
The album cover shots were taken of the group posing in and out of a Bell 47 helicopter at the Barkarby Airport, northwest of Stockholm. The now-renowned "mirrored-B" copyrighted ABBA logo, an ambigram designed by Rune Söderqvist in 1976, was also premiered on this album cover.
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I had it there! I hated it, but I was like 14
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The Postal Service told the City what it was going to take to move the post office, and then there was silence
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And that one old lady who really wanted to dance with you
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Wait, hey, Becky, where are you?
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Oh man, she nailed my two primary interests: Alexandria parks and postal property
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Still remember where I was sitting when I first heard "Just a Girl" on the radio and thought "oh, yeah, this shit is gonna rule"
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Today's album of the day is Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt, released on this date in 1995
The album photography and portraits were taken by photographer fine artist Daniel Arsenault. Gwen is featured in the foreground while the rest of the band members are standing in an orange grove in the background. Gwen pushed for Eric to be included on the album cover—a source of tension for the band—reasoning that although he had left the band, he had still contributed substantially to the album. Eric is seen near the back of the picture, looking away from the camera. The pictures on the cover and in the liner notes were taken on city streets in their native Orange County (namely Anaheim and the City of Orange) and in orange groves. The red dress Gwen wears on the cover was loaned to the Hard Rock Cafe and was later displayed at the Fullerton Museum Center in an exhibit titled "The Orange Groove: Orange County's Rock n' Roll History".