Joe Fray

Lafayette has fallen!

Tracks 1 and 2! What a way to open an album!

I know, I know, but he's been dead for years, and this album is foundational

A young Michael Jackson in a tuxedo stands in front of a brick wall

Today's album of the day is Off the Wall by Michael Jackson, released on this date in 1979

Same

China Miéville's Perdido Street Station in front of a basket of shells

Like if Kurt Gödel wrote a book about artificial general intelligence, quantum computing, dream moths, bird men, and interdimensional spiders. 3.5 stars!

A can of Wicked Weed Twist, a Belgian-style wheat

This came next (since we're in NC)

This album somehow became one of my primary yardwork listens, and it gets me so fucking hyped to pull dandelions

Gogol Bordello Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike in black on a yellow background but the "y" is a hand holding a slingshot

Today's album of the day is Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike by Gogol Bordello, released on this date in 2005

1 THE BEATLES 1 2 SHAGGY HOT SHOT 3 BACKSTREET BOYS BLACK & BLUE 4 NOW SERIES (US) NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! VOL. 5 5 LIMP BIZKIT CHOCOLATE STARFISH AND THE HOT DOG FLAVORED WATER 6 LINKIN PARK HYBRID THEORY 7 STAIND BREAK THE CYCLE 8 ENYA A DAY WITHOUT RAIN 9 NSYNC CELEBRITY 10 NELLY COUNTRY GRAMMAR

The 2001 year-end Billboard album charts was a disaster

Shaggy looking happy but oddly yellow

Today's album of the day is Hot Shot by Shaggy, released on this date in 2000

The Einstein monument in DC

"Groove is in the Heart," greatest use of a slide whistle in popular music?

A starry backdrop with Towa Tei, Lady Miss Keir, and Supa DJ Dmitry posed

Today's album of the day is World Clique by Deee-Lite, released on this date in 1990

I also sent this to @oconnell.bsky.social earlier. I will be taking no questions

"I am so humbled and honored and grateful for the opportunity again to play the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States." Rascal Flatts' Gary LeVox

I've been trying

"Incomplete" by the Backstreet Boys, final answer

Fla-t-t-t-ts

Guys, help, she's making me listen to Rascall Flats

Think these guys might have been onto something

The album cover shows the Beatles with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, "I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters 'HELP'. But when we came to do the shot, the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up with the best graphic positioning of the arms." On the UK Parlophone release, the letters formed by the Beatles appear to be "NUJV", while the slightly re-arranged US release on Capitol Records appeared to indicate the letters "NVUJ", with McCartney's left hand pointing to the Capitol logo.

Today's album of the day is Help! by The Beatles, released on this date in 1965

While that's clearly the most important rule, its breaking of the parallelism is killing me

Hold up...

It's beautiful

Think these guys might have been onto something

The cover for Revolver was created by German-born bassist and artist Klaus Voormann, one of the Beatles' oldest friends from their time in Hamburg during the early 1960s. Voormann's artwork was part line drawing and part collage, using photographs mostly taken over 1964–65 by Robert Freeman. In his line drawings of the four Beatles (McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr, clockwise from top-left), Voormann drew inspiration from the work of the nineteenth-century illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, who was the subject of a long-running exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum in 1966 and highly influential on fashion and design themes of the time. Voormann placed the various photos within the tangle of hair that connects the four faces. Turner writes that the drawings show each Beatle "in another state of consciousness", such that the older images appear to be tumbling out from them. Voormann's aim was to reflect the radical departure in sound represented, particularly by "Tomorrow Never Knows", and his choice of a black-and-white cover was in deliberate defiance of the preference for vivid colour. When he submitted his work to the Beatles, Epstein wept, overjoyed that Voormann had managed to capture the experimental tone of the Beatles' new music.

Today's album of the day is Revolver by The Beatles, released on this date in 1966

Was it Becky?

My moon is too big!