Hello and welcome to Your Old Pal Will's Vinyl-O-Matic Season 5, Episode 19. I hope you're doing well. At long last, we get underway with our voyage through Albums with Titles that begin with the Letter D as in Delta. Speaking of D, this week's listener challenge is all about Dance. You're having a dance party right now... what are your Top 3 songs that you're going to play. Leave a comment in the show notes, which can be found by visiting vinylomatic(dot)com(slash)s05e19. Let's get going with the music. First up, we have a duo that normally uses a drum program, but in this wonderful instance are joined by The Jesus Lizard drummer Mac McNeilly.

Yes, that's right. Long time listeners of Vinyl-O-Matic will now that the very first album I purchased with my own money was Damn the Torpedoes. And of course, I'm going to play "Even the Losers". Before that, we heard Nadja and the title track from their 2012 Broken Spine Productions album Dagdrøm. We now take our journey down to Indonesia.

Welcome back, friends. If you cast your minds back, you will recall that we heard a number from the Columbia Masterworks album Dancers of Bali featuring the Gamelan Orchestra of Pliatan, released in 1952. This is another record from the Djerassi Foundation that somehow made it into my collection. That was followed up by Freakwater and their rendition of "Wild and Blue" from the album Dancing Underwater, originally recorded in 1991 and released by Thrill Jockey in 1997. After Marianne Faithfull's groundbreaking album Broken English, the Island Records decided to tame her sound a bit with the follow-up album Dangerous Acquisitions. It's fine, but it lacks a certain something. We heard a song she co-wrote with Steve Winwood called "For Beauty's Sake", which would be an accurate description of the production values of this record. Rounding out the set, we heard from The Human League and "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" from their 1982 breakout album Dare. And now for some hi-fi lo-fi.

Yup, that was Mr. Tom Jones from an early 80s album entitled Darlin' on which he sports a creepy leather western look. Yikes. Before that, we heard "Breathe" from the moolti-platinum Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon on Harvest Records from 1973. We had some more off-season Christmas music, this time with the more timely rendition of John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" from his 2016 album on Suicide Squeeze entitled Dark Sacred Night. At the top of the set, we had The Folk Implosion with "Insinuation" from their 1997 Communion Label release Dare to Be Surprised. Next up, we have some more Daves.

We made it! That set began with Dave Mason and a track from his album Dave Mason entitled "Every Woman" which is kinda... well, very early 70s lyric-wise. We had another Dave, David Gilmour, and his song "There's No Way Out of Here" from his 1978 self-titled solo album. Nomeansno brought us "Beauty and the Beast" from their 1988 Alternative Tentacles EP The Day Everything Became Nothing. Finally, we heard the excellent Lee Ranaldo song "Hey Joni" from Sonic Youth's landmark 1988 album Daydream Nation on Enigma/Blast First Records. If you have any questions or comments about what you have heard, please drop me a line: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. Show notes for this episode, archived episodes, and newsletter sign up can all be found by pointing your browser in the direction of vinylomatic(dot)com. When next we meet, our journey continues through albums with titles that begin with the letter D as in Delta. Join me, won't you?