Monday Night Album Club 053
The Monday Night Album Club on the 22nd of May 2023 was a listening party held on the Community Garden Radio Discord and on Community Garden Radio. It was the fifty third edition of the Album Club, and the album chosen was "Race For Space" by Public Service Broadcasting. The pre-mix was curated by Tuftii.[1]
It was the twentieth album club to be broadcast directly on Community Garden Radio. This show celebrated the one year anniversary of album club starting in the discord.
Background
Public Service Broadcasting's "Race for space" was the winner of the first inaugural Copa Album Club tournament. They beat Rage Against The Machine 14 to 11.
Pre-pre-mix
To line up the show, some music was played before the start of album club:
- Eels - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues Open in Spotify
- Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way Open in Spotify
- Vampire Weekend - A-Punk Open in Spotify
- Weezer - Keep Fishin' Open in Spotify
CAC Update
To start the show this week, we heard from tuftii and Macs McCoist for what happened in this week's CAC final. Public Service Broadcasting beat Rage Against The Machine 14 to 11 which means this week's album choice was Public Service Broadcasting.
After the CAC update, tuftii and Macs launched into their own rendition of Three Lions called "Three Albums" about the glory of album club.
(Thank you so much to Macs for all of their incredible input over the last 9 weeks of CAC).
Pre-mix
This week's premix was the same as the premix that was played on the original album club featuring PSB Monday Night Album Club 022. In between the tracks, gardeners had sent in voice notes to chat about album club.
- Beastie Boys - Intergalactic - Remastered 2009 Open in Spotify
- Messages from Allie from Sexual Ealing and SpiderDuckie.
- Air - Kelly Watch the Stars Open in Spotify
- Message from Sarlichin
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight Open in Spotify
- Message from Toby
- Radiohead - Black Star Open in Spotify
- Message from Kathryn from South Shields
- David Bowie - Space Oddity - 2015 Remaster Open in Spotify
- Answerphone message from Sting.
- The Beatles - Across The Universe - Remastered 2009 Open in Spotify
- Message from Macs.
- Blur - The Universal Open in Spotify
- Messages from Mrs Dennis The Newsagent and Bunj
- Electric Light Orchestra - Ticket to the Moon Open in Spotify
The album
The vote
The vote for next week contained the following three albums:
- Alex Lahey - The Answer Is Always Yes
- Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine
- The National - First Two Pages Of Frankenstein
And the three tracks chosen to play from those albums were:
- Alex Lahey - Congratulations Open in Spotify
- Arlo Parks - Weightless Open in Spotify
- The National, Phoebe Bridgers - Your Mind Is Not Your Friend (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) Open in Spotify
People's Penultimate Pick
Scott from Devon chose Revenge Wife - Fantasy Girl Open in Spotify
Tuftii's Tail End Track
- I Am Kloot - Proof Open in Spotify
References
- ↑ Taken from the Discord server, #music channel.