Planet Rotations #215: 10 Days of Goth

In the age of digital music, we tend to skip through albums, listening to one or two tracks - missing some of the deeper cuts that may be brilliant. We are huge fans of the album format, and love to experience the entire collection the way the artist intended. Listening to one or two songs is like randomly reading a few chapters of a book and expecting to understand the completed work. Like all music lovers, we love to share what we're listening to and discover some new things from friends.

Keeping with the Halloween spirit, for the last 10 days Sarah and I have been on a total Goth marathon - #10DaysofGoth. So we'd like to present you with our very first all-Goth feature of Planet Rotations. Below you will find 15 albums that we each selected from the past 10 days of listening - the first 5 rows are mine, the second 5 are Sarah's. You'll also notice a Spotify player at the bottom, which features a song from each album. This is an ongoing playlist that you can follow directly on Spotify. Please put your own lists in the comments below, or interact at the Life On This Planet Facebook or Twitter. 

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Bret's 15
Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor

The Cure - Faith

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju

Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

The Damned - Phantasmagoria

The Tear Garden - To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide

The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife

All About Eve - s/t

Mephisto Walz - The Eternal Deep

Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out

Audra - s/t

Gary Numan - Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind)

Zola Jesus - Versions

Sarah's 15
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears

The March Violets - The Botanic Verses

Lebanon Hanover - Tomb for Two

Peter Murphy - Wild Birds: 1985-1995

Rosetta Stone - Adrenaline

Koban - Abject Obsessions

Zola Jesus - Taiga

Delirium - Best of

Purity Ring - Shrines

The Tear Garden - Tired Eyes Slowly Burning

VNV Nation - Burning Empires (Standing)

Collide - Beneath the Skin

Audra - s/t

Dead or Alive - Rip it Up

Darkher - Realms

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Saturday Night Music Club #37: Goth Night - Year 3

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Goth Episode of the Saturday Night Music Club. I look forward to this one all year long, and this year's records were quite outstanding. 

As always, the episode begins with the trivia contest - will Jaymz channel his teenage goth self for a victory of over Dream Pop Jesse? Or will Nu Metal Jonathan pounce on the whole squad with some amazing knowledge in the genre! If you'd like to check out any of the albums we featured, I've provided clickable album covers below the video. Enjoy!

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Featured Albums

Virgin Prunes - ...If I Die, I Die

Coil - Love's Secret Domain

Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside

Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold and Manipulate

The Cure - Wild Mood Swings

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Saturday Night Music Club #36: Third Anniversary Episode!

Three years! Wow! Thank you for tuning in over the last 36 episodes of Saturday Night Music Club - there are plenty more to come.

Because it's the third anniversary, we decided to feature 'third records' - meaning the album has to be third album in an artist's catalog.

As always, the episode begins with the trivia contest! If you'd like to check out any of the albums we featured, I've provided clickable album covers below the video. If you missed our giant Best Albums of 2016...so far feature, then click here. Enjoy!

Featured Albums

Sunny Day Real Estate - How it Feels to be Something On

Ann Peebles - Straight from the Heart

Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger

Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap

Tilly and the Wall - o

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power

INXS - Shabooh Shoobah

Genesis - Nursery Cryme

Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxa

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Planet Rotations #213 & 214

In the age of digital music, we tend to skip through albums, listening to one or two tracks - missing some of the deeper cuts that may be brilliant. We are huge fans of the album format, and love to experience the entire collection the way the artist intended. Listening to one or two songs is like randomly reading a few chapters of a book and expecting to understand the completed work. Like all music lovers, we love to share what we're listening to and discover some new things from friends.

Normally, Sarah and I post 5 records each, but since we're a week behind, we're going with a dozen each - the first 4 rows are my picks, the second 4 are hers. You'll also notice a Spotify player at the bottom, which features a song from each album. This will be an ongoing playlist that you can follow directly on Spotify. Please put your own lists in the comments below, or interact at the Life On This Planet Facebook or Twitter. 

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Bret's 12
Placebo - Life's What You Make It

Moby - These Systems are Failing

Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions - Bavarian Fruit Bread

The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come

The Cure - Wish

Cocteau Twins - Four-Calendar Cafe

Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven

New Order - Technique

U2 - No Line on the Horizon

The Cure - The Head on the Door

Placebo - Meds

The Modern Lovers - s/t

Sarah's 12
Still Corners - Dead Blue

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures

The Mission - Another Fall from Grace

Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt

Alpha - Come from Heaven

Julee Cruise - Floating into the Night

Violet Indiana - Roulette

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

Violet Indiana - Casino

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee Again

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Planet Rotations #212

In the age of digital music, we tend to skip through albums, listening to one or two tracks - missing some of the deeper cuts that may be brilliant. I am a big fan of the album format, and love to experience the entire collection the way the artist intended. Listening to one or two songs is like randomly reading a few chapters of a book and expecting to understand the completed work. Like any music lover, I love to share what I'm listening to and discover some new things from friends 

If you've been following the LOTP Facebook page, then you already know that Sarah Quarrie is collaborating with me on the blog. So here are 6 records from both of our playlists for this week - the first 2 rows are mine, the second 2 are hers. You'll also notice a Spotify player at the bottom, which features a song from each album. This will be an ongoing playlist that you can follow directly on Spotify. Please put your own lists in the comments below, or interact at the Life On This Planet Facebook or Twitter. 

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Bret's 6
Shelleyan Orphan - Century Flower

Lana Del Rey - Paradise

New Order - Music Complete

Grimes - Art Angels

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Shelleyan Orphan - Helleborine

Sarah's 6
Cat's Eyes - Treasure House

Ed Harcourt - Furnaces

The Pictish Trail - Future Echoes

Warpaint - Heads Up

Merchandise - A Corpse Wired for Sound

Cat's Eyes - s/t

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