Scott Turner, the writer, graphic designer and OTBKB contributor, who
organizes the pub quiz at Rocky Sullivan's in Red Hook has really
outdone himself this time.A list of his favorite music complete with
album covers. Cool

Greetings Pub Quiz Right And Wrong Reconfigurers…

It's
springtime, a really fine time of the year.  The thermies and heavy
coats are off on their closets-and-trunks summer vacations.  The
baseball season is underway in earnest.  This afternoon, Brooklyn is being buffeted by the brawniest of April showers.  We'll see just what May flowers these cats-and-dogs showers beget.

Springtime's a great time for music.  Summer's prolly the
best, the freedom days of no heavy clothes, harsh cold, or teachers'
dirty looks.  Music and summer are perfect comrades.  Remember, the
songs we'll remember the Summer of '09 by are almost ready to go.
 

But springtime, and all of that hope-springs-eternal hype.  Which,
honestly, it does, even when we know better.  Every baseball team
starts out tied for first, that crush looks even better this morning,
someone is said to have risen from the dead, and the city starts
hopping from excitement, not just to stay warm.

There are springtime record albums that have played roles — good or bad and never forgettable — in the many Aprils, Mays and Junes I've
been around .  There are some artists who just seem linked to certain
seasons, something ethereal in their sound or the mundanities of album
release dates.

I'm The Man, Joe Jackson
Beat Crazy, Joe Jackson
Blaze of Glory, Joe Jackson
Chieftains 5, The Chieftains
Fear of a Black Planet, Public Enemy
London Calling, The Clash
Sandinista, The Clash
Setting Sons, The Jam
This Day and Age, D. L. Byron
Get Happy, Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Escape Artist, Garland Jeffreys
Don't Call Me Buckwheat, Garland Jeffreys
John Cougar, John Cougar
LKJ In Dub, Linton Kwesi Johnson
Forces of Victory, Linton Kwesi Johnson
Waiting for Columbus, Little Feat
Survival, Bob Marley & the Wailers
Stranger In Town, Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Blue Sky Mining, Midnight Oil
Earth and Sun and Moon, Midnight Oil
Guero, Beck
That Summer soundtrack, Various Artists
Electric Version, The New Pornographers
Dirt, Silver & Gold, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Gold, Ohio Players
Street Signs, Ozomatli
Downtown: The Greatest Hits of Petula Clark, Petula Clark
Regatta de Blanc, The Police
The Cars, The Cars
Live from Yugoslavia, The Anti-Nowhere League
Breakfast in America, Supertramp
MPLA, Tapper Zukie
Live and Dangerous, Thin Lizzy
Egypt, Youssou N'Dour
Manorisms, Wet Willie
Abbey Road, The Beatles

So pull up the deck chair, enjoy the later and later sunsets, pour yourself a Fresca (means "fresh" in Portuguese, Italian and Spanish), and pop one of these vinyl masterpieces on the turntable.