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function importAlbums() {
return [
{
artist: "Mr. Fingers",
title: "Ammnesia",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 21),
image: "images/2022-01-21.jpg",
trivia: "<em>Ammnesia</em> was the first album released by <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Heard\">Larry Heard</a> as Mr. Fingers. The song \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwObuf_hgfE\">The Juice</a>\" was recently popularized on TikTok."
},
{
artist: "Drake",
title: "Views",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 22),
image: "images/2022-01-22.jpg",
trivia: "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxpDa-c-4Mc\">Drake</a> is a Canadian rapper most known for purchasing hundreds of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaliyah\">Aaliyah</a> t-shirts that in turn helped fund the infamous Toronto DIY venue Halo Halo. You can't fact check this, but it's true."
},
{
artist: "Beyoncé",
title: "Lemonade",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 23),
image: "images/2022-01-23.jpg",
trivia: "<em><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9:_Lemonade\">Lemonade</a></em> is the sixth album from Beyoncé, and her second \"visual\" album. The album received universal critical acclaim, including MTV\'s best music of the year for the song \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZJPJV__bQ\">Formation</a>\""
},
{
artist: "Drexciya",
title: "Neptune's Lair",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 24),
image: "images/2022-01-24.jpg",
trivia: "<em>Neptune\'s Lair</em> is the second album from Detroit-based techno duo <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexciya\">Drexciya</a> and their first on the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tresor_(club)\">Tresor</a> label. While relatively late in their career, tracks like \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Kg_BvCuy4\">Andreaen Sand Dunes</a>\" capture them in all their aquatic glory."
},
{
artist: "Boards of Canada",
title: "Music Has The Right To Children",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 25),
image: "images/2022-01-25.jpg",
trivia: "Internet people spend their entire lives trying to figure out what synthesizers are used on Boards of Canada's <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mt1uPu5r3DeEptU-yQ5_DYLS5t_qU0C30\">breakthrough album</a> from 1998."
},
{
artist: "Steely Dan",
title: "Katy Lied",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 26),
image: "images/2022-01-26.jpg",
trivia: "Who are these children that scheme and run wild? What are the secrets they trace in the sky? And why do you tremble each time they ride by? Throw out <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzAJqKll6hI\">your gold teeth</a> and see how they roll."
},
{
artist: "Kanye West",
title: "808s & Heartbreak",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 27),
image: "images/2022-01-27.jpg",
trivia: "To be honest I've never listen to this album on account of its title."
},
{
artist: "Bill Evans - Jim Hall",
title: "Undercurrent",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 28),
image: "images/2022-01-28.jpg",
trivia: "It's easy to lose an hour staring at the Grammy-winning cover directed by <a href=\"https://www.montrosepress.com/obituaries/frank-gauna/article_5e9d3746-46c8-11e4-a17a-bbeb390d7a94.html\">Frank Guana</a>. Frank started as an impressionist painter and created the artwork for many children's albums before temporarily injuring his hand and forcing him to dip into photography."
},
{
artist: "Don Cherry",
title: "Organic Music Society",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 29),
image: "images/2022-01-29.jpg",
trivia: "<i>Organic Music Society</i> is an album of <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwPpO8wOdeE\">transformation</a>; Don's escape from the spectre of heroin into a spiritual collaboration with <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moki_Cherry\">Moki Cherry</a>, a Swedish textile artist whose art adorns the incredible cover. An excellent book, <i><a href=\"https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/merch/blank-forms-06-organic-music-societies\">Organic Music Societies</a></i>, documenting this era and scene was recently published."
},
{
artist: "Funkadelic",
title: "Cosmic Slop",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 30),
image: "images/2022-01-30.jpg",
trivia: "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOr6jFg7Nno&list=OLAK5uy_n3_bCT4_FrNN0XJgB54HCl3n-ZbHxdgO4\"><i>Cosmic Slop</i></a> was the first in what would become a long series of collaborations between illustrator <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Bell\">Pedro Bell</a> and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkadelic\">Funkadelic</a> / George Clinton."
},
{
artist: "Neil Young",
title: "On the Beach",
date: new Date(2022, 0, 31),
image: "images/2022-01-31.jpg",
trivia: "I'm always wondering why Neil took his <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLi6stJrF5A&list=OLAK5uy_kCObOBgM25TWIdQM6_s5_0Mc1QPxSji_k\">shoes off</a>."
},
{
artist: "Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble",
title: "The Malcolm X Memorial",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 01),
image: "images/2022-02-01.jpg",
trivia: "After leaving <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra\">Sun Ra's Arkestra</a> in 1961, Philip Cohran moved to Chicago, establishing the windy city as a new hub for spiritual jazz. Originally released in 1968, <i><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi-wJ2F2n8k\">The Malcom X Memorial</a></i> is a dedication to the political and spiritual life of Malcom X."
},
{
artist: "Bad Brains",
title: "Pay to Cum!",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 02),
image: "images/2022-02-02.jpg",
trivia: "Debut single from hardcore legends <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Brains\">Bad Brains</a>. While the title track \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rAaW9AQDEE\">Pay to Cum!</a> is a blistering example of early American hardcore, the b-side is... a ballad? Nonetheless, <i>Pay to Cum!</i> remains one of the most sought after punk singles."
},
{
artist: "Curtis Mayfield",
title: "Curtis",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 03),
image: "images/2022-02-03.jpg",
trivia: "Debut solo album from the man who brought social consciousness to soul. Released in 1970, <i>Curtis</i> contains the gutting \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzsmciMNAGU\">(Don't Worry) If There Is A Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go</a>\" alongside the sanguine \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw\">Move on Up</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Sade",
title: "Diamond Life",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 04),
image: "images/2022-02-04.jpg",
trivia: "Judging by some of the foibles on this website, I would not say that I am a \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A\">Smooth Operator</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "A Taste of Honey",
title: "A Taste of Honey",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 05),
image: "images/2022-02-05.jpg",
trivia: "A Taste of Honey were the first black group to win a Best New Artist Grammy (1979). Their <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhD58dP9kq8\">self-titled debut</a> was the most successful <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizell_Brothers\">Mizelli Brothers</a> production."
},
{
artist: "TLC",
title: "CrazySexyCool",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 06),
image: "images/2022-02-06.jpg",
trivia: "I will always <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4\">chase waterfalls</a>. Specifically <a href=\"https://waterfallsofontario.com/\">these ones</a>."
},
{
artist: "Guy",
title: "Guy",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 07),
image: "images/2022-02-07.jpg",
trivia: "The album that invented <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_jack_swing\">New JacK Swing</a> and launched the career of producer <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Riley\">Teddy Riley</a>. Every copy of the album came with exactly one <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5oJO94R3I\">Teddy jam</a> and a <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obYOYgW9MvY\">piece of [teddy's] love</a>."
},
{
artist: "Main Source",
title: "Breaking Atoms",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 10),
image: "images/2022-02-10.jpg",
trivia: "Main Source's debut album is notable for two reasons: it features the first appearance of <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta3srWr4sJQ\">Nas</a> and is, on a technicality, a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Cut_(producer)\">Canadian</a> album."
},
{
artist: "50 Cent",
title: "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 11),
image: "images/2022-02-11.jpg",
trivia: "So come give me <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm8PH4xAss\">a hug</a>."
},
{
artist: "D'angelo",
title: "Voodoo",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 12),
image: "images/2022-02-12.jpg",
trivia: "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxVNOnPyvIU\">How does it feel</a> to have D'angelo courting you?"
},
{
artist: "Method Man",
title: "Tical",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 13),
image: "images/2022-02-13.jpg",
trivia: "According to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/methodman/status/940094957724975104\">this Method Man tweet from 2017</a>, <em>Tical</em> is slang for \"trees\" in Staten Island and not <a href=\"https://erowid.org/chemicals/pcp/\">PCP</a> as everyone on the entire earth has been saying since 1994."
},
{
artist: "The Supremes",
title: "Meet the Supremes",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 14),
image: "images/2022-02-14.jpg",
trivia: "<em>Meet the Supremes</em> is the debut album from Motown's most commercially successful group."
},
{
artist: "John Coltrane",
title: "A Love Supreme",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 15),
image: "images/2022-02-15.jpg",
trivia: "~~~ * <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fth9UUa1Mfw\"><em>a. love. supreme.</em></a> * ~~~"
},
{
artist: "Organized Konfusion",
title: "Stress: The Extinction Agenda",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 16),
image: "images/2022-02-16.jpg",
trivia: "As a Canadian, the ubiquitous presence of snow in the video for \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCNbvTCbsFI\">Stress</a>\" resonates with my core existential experience: crush, kill, and destroy the snow on my driveway."
},
{
artist: "Elizabeth Cotton",
title: "Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 17),
image: "images/2022-02-17.jpg",
trivia: "Debut album from one of the greatest blues musicians. Elizabeth played her guitar upside down and wrote the hit \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUK8emiWabU\">Freight Train</a>\" when she was just 11 years old."
},
{
artist: "Eryka Badu",
title: "Worldwide Underground",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 18),
image: "images/2022-02-18.jpg",
trivia: "Slept-on mid-period album from Eryka, whose first half features several <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51OITPsjEu0\">languid</a> <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbVIsYRP5P4\">groovers</a>."
},
{
artist: "Mark Morrison",
title: "Return of the Mack",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 19),
image: "images/2022-02-19.jpg",
trivia: "While touring for his massive hit \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1D9wWxd2w\">Return of the Mack</a>,\" Mark wisely decided to bring a gun aboard a plane, a decision that cost him 3 months in jail as his hit peaked the charts. Afterwards, he was seen performing while holding a gun and wearing a t-shirt that said \"<a href=\"https://thebestmoviesnevermade.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/revenge-of-the-mack-the-mark-morrison-story/\">Only God Can Judge Me</a>\""
},
{
artist: "Fugees",
title: "The Score",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 20),
image: "images/2022-02-20.jpg",
trivia: "<em><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UfVr5Xib50\">The Score</a></em> is the best selling hip-hop album of all time."
},
{
artist: "Tracy Chapman",
title: "Tracy Chapman",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 21),
image: "images/2022-02-21.jpg",
trivia: "You gotta make <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOAlaACuv4\">a decision</a>: leave tonight or live and die this way."
},
{
artist: "Irma Thomas",
title: "In Between Tears",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 22),
image: "images/2022-02-22.jpg",
trivia: "Irma is the 'Soul Queen of New Orleans'"
},
{
artist: "Dr. Dre",
title: "The Chronic",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 24),
image: "images/2022-02-24.jpg",
trivia: "The debut solo album from the <a href=\"https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/did-dr-dre-actually-start-the-burning-man-festival/\">creator of Burning Man</a>, <em>The Chronic</em> defined West Coast's G-funk sound with tracks like \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F0CAEoF4XM\">Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang</a>\"."
},
{
artist: "Zapp",
title: "Zapp",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 25),
image: "images/2022-02-25.jpg",
trivia: "Debut album from the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapp_(band)\">Troutman brothers</a> who whose song \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK6wOG_aDl8\">More Bounce to the Ounce</a>\" would create the foundation for a future <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-funk\">G-Funk</a> era."
},
{
artist: "Frank Ocean",
title: "Blond",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 26),
image: "images/2022-02-26.jpg"
},
{
artist: "James Brown",
title: "The Payback",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 27),
image: "images/2022-02-27.jpg",
trivia: "Brown's 37th album, now considered a high-point in his career, was rejected by movie producer Larry Cohen for \"not being funky enough\" according to James Brown. <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ks03zsg1o&list=OLAK5uy_kEfri-fD4l3pKEYHurT8YeqPCsuKn3oVA\">Is it funky?</a>"
},
{
artist: "Maestro Fresh-Wes",
title: "Symphony in Effect",
date: new Date(2022, 1, 28),
image: "images/2022-02-28.jpg",
trivia: "Do not under any circumstance allow your <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsPS0lN-ulY\">back bone to slide</a>."
},
{
artist: "Joni Mitchell",
title: "Song to a Seagull",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 1),
image: "images/2022-03-01.jpg",
trivia: "Debut album from the lady of the canyon. <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NK0asxf2zk&list=OLAK5uy_lNB_iUvoSM0WB1esZ4oZ5mWYJkpPzDqqY&index=1\">Be my king?</a>"
},
{
artist: "Michael Jackson",
title: "Off the Wall",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 2),
image: "images/2022-03-02.jpg",
trivia: "Michael Jackson's first collaboration with with producer <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones\">Quincy Jones</a> is not to be mistaken by the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi_Wada\">Yoshi Wada</a> album of the <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WEyg2mLYJ8\">same name</a>."
},
{
artist: "Brian Eno",
title: "Here Come the Warm Jets",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 3),
image: "images/2022-03-03.jpg",
trivia: "Debut <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SWrIB75vc8&list=OLAK5uy_moR9X6cxRuocK1f6IA8WkC7iOkCALADcw\">solo album</a> from famed British producer and noted man-with-quite-a-skull <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno\">Brian Eno</a>."
},
{
artist: "Heart",
title: "Little Queen",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 4),
image: "images/2022-03-04.jpg",
trivia: "1977 sophmore album from the Wilson sisters et al., who are often mistaken for Canadians but are actually Americans who trekked north following a draft-dodging lover. <em>Little Queen</em> contains their hugely successful power-ballad \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeMvMNpvB5M\">Barracuda</a>\"."
},
{
artist: "Jodeci",
title: "Forever My Lady",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 5),
image: "images/2022-03-05.jpg",
trivia: "Debut album by the group that <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLiPhj2_ozQ\">broke everyone's heart</a>. Also check this <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTJ_Bukem\">LTJ Bukem</a> remix of \"<a href=\"https://www.discogs.com/release/509068-Jodeci-Feenin-LTJ-Bukem-Remix\">Feenin'</a>\"."
},
{
artist: "Glenn Gould",
title: "The Goldberg Variations",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 6),
image: "images/2022-03-06.jpg",
trivia: "The breakthrough album by Canada's most <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould\">eccentric</a> pianist, and one of the most famous players of the 20th century. Glenn's grunts, groans, and croons can be <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEkXet4WX_c\">heard throughout</a> the recording."
},
{
artist: "Steve Reich",
title: "Music for 18 Musicians",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 7),
image: "images/2022-03-07.jpg",
trivia: "Reich's first album for the ECM label and a <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILpCKQlDmhc\">breakthrough album for minimalist music</a>. It was included in a list of David Bowie's 25 favourite albums. The piece involves <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_18_Musicians\">a lot of breathing</a> and contratry to the title, should be performed with more than 18 musicians, according to Reich."
},
{
artist: "Judee Sill",
title: "Judee Sill",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 8),
image: "images/2022-03-08.jpg",
trivia: "Debut album from the much beloved <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judee_Sill\">cosmic robber</a>. The album was the first release on David Geffen's Asylum Records and features exceptional <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5CalHct6FA\">vocal processing</a>. Desert island material for sure."
},
{
artist: "Radiohead",
title: "OK Computer",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 9),
image: "images/2022-03-09.jpg",
trivia: "Radiohead's most commercially successful album."
},
{
artist: "MF Doom",
title: "Operation: Doomsday",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 10),
image: "images/2022-03-10.jpg",
trivia: "Debut album from the masked super villain. RIP."
},
{
artist: "Arcade Fire",
title: "Reflektor",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 11),
image: "images/2022-03-11.jpg",
trivia: "I don't know what to say about this album. It's Canadian."
},
{
artist: "David Bowie",
title: "Heroes",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 12),
image: "images/2022-03-12.jpg",
trivia: "I first heard the song \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI\">Heroes</a>\" in the 1995 Etnies skateboarding video <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iElGgEUmWA\">High-5</a>, featuring Tom Penny."
},
{
artist: "Cybotron",
title: "Enter",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 13),
image: "images/2022-03-13.jpg",
trivia: "OK, this was a tough one. <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybotron_(American_band)\">Cybotron</a> is the Detroit-based elctro group formed by <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Atkins\">Juan Atkins</a> and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis_(techno_artist)\">Richard Davis</a>. <em>Enter</em>, their proto-Techno debut released in 1983, contains the inexplicable and essential jammer \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpHtVWqY4dI\">Cosmic Cars</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Harmonia",
title: "Musik von Harmonia",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 15),
image: "images/2022-03-14.jpg",
trivia: "Debut album from Krautrock supergroup <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_(band)\">Harmonia</a>. I always got a 'lo-fi beats to chill to' vibe from \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf7ukxGkhfw\">Watusi</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Stereolab",
title: "Dots And Loops",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 16),
image: "images/2022-03-16.png",
trivia: "Released in 1997, <em><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdnX8-HDgaY&list=OLAK5uy_mT8vNMuTyC-PLafWLfx7YIxcHL4N00SmA\">Dots And Loops</a></em> was <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereolab\">Stereolab</a>'s fifth and album first entry on the Billboard 200. A classic in the genre of \"weird band goes pop,\" <em>Dots And Loops</em> has had lasting significance."
},
{
artist: "Ultramagnetic MC's",
title: "Critical Beatdown",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 17),
image: "images/2022-03-17.jpg",
trivia: "Scorching 1988 debut from <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool_Keith\">Kool Keith</a>, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ced-Gee\">Ced Gee</a>, TR Love, and Moe Love, who together became <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramagnetic_MCs\">Ultramagnetic MC's</a>. The album is known for its bizarre lyrics, as depicted by all the brain stuff on \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_wfhfErbSE\">Travelling At The Speed of Thought</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Devo",
title: "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 18),
image: "images/2022-03-18.jpg",
trivia: "I have a <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwx_Qq56YTA\">gut feeling</a> you suckers struggled to get the punctuation right on this, the Brian Eno-produced debut from the band that would eventually give us \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QLzthSkfM\">Whip it</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Red Hot Chili Peppers",
title: "Blood Sugar Sex Magik",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 19),
image: "images/2022-03-19.jpg",
trivia: "Are you a chili or are you a pepper? As a kid I'd listen to \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvohMXgcBo\">Under the Bridge</a>\" while playing <em>Street Fighter II<em>."
},
{
artist: "Pharoah Sanders",
title: "Karma",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 20),
image: "images/2022-03-20.jpg",
trivia: "We all hope the <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViweO33oo2Y\">creator has a master plan</a>."
},
{
artist: "Led Zeppelin",
title: "Led Zeppelin",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 21),
image: "images/2022-03-21.jpg",
trivia: "I guarantee that if you turn on your radio right now, they're playing Led Zeppelin."
},
{
artist: "Madonna",
title: "Like A Virgin",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 22),
image: "images/2022-03-22.jpg",
trivia: "Maybe if I was more of a <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-lDYPR2P8\">material girl</a> I would try and monetize this website."
},
{
artist: "DJ Shadow",
title: "Endtroducing",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 24),
image: "images/2022-03-24.jpg",
trivia: "DJ Shadow's landmark 1996 debut that set the bar for instrumental hip-hop. Tracks like \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InFbBlpDTfQ\">Midnight in a Perfect World</a>\" and \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfwXxRNVqi4\">Organ Donor</a>\" still sound fresh today."
},
{
artist: "The Police",
title: "Ghost in the Machine",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 25),
image: "images/2022-03-25.jpg",
trivia: "Not to be mistaken with the anime of a different name."
},
{
artist: "Rush",
title: "Rush",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 26),
image: "images/2022-03-26.jpg",
trivia: "Were you tricked by the color of \"Rush\"? The first pressing of Rush's 1971 debut came out on their own imprint, <a href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/342538-Moon-Records-18\">Moon Records</a>, in a pressing of 3,500. In some later pressings the \"Rush\" on the cover is purple."
},
{
artist: "Herbie Hancock",
title: "Head Hunters",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 27),
image: "images/2022-03-27.jpg",
trivia: "Landmark and genre-defining jazz-funk album from 1973. Released, remarkably, 10 years into Herbie's career, <em>Head Hunters</em> became one of the best selling jazz albums of all time. See \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYRrIBqKsJ4\">Chameleon</a>\" or \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppJQKfqhFfE\">Watermelon Man</a>\" if you haven't before."
},
{
artist: "Björk",
title: "Post",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 28),
image: "images/2022-03-28.jpg",
trivia: "Björk's second album, <em>Post</em>, is <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0saUw2GTTE\">possibly maybe</a> the album from her I listened to most as a kid."
},
{
artist: "Neu!",
title: "Neu!",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 30),
image: "images/2022-03-30.jpg",
trivia: "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQCTTvUqhOQ\">Driving</a> 1972 debut from Dinger and Rother after their split from Kraftwerk."
},
{
artist: "Townes van Zandt",
title: "Our Mother The Mountain",
date: new Date(2022, 2, 31),
image: "images/2022-03-31.jpg",
trivia: "Second album from the one of the saddest dudes. Peep \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW4XgQvcDsQ\">Our Mother The Mountain</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Shirley Collins, Davey Graham",
title: "Folk Roots, New Routes",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 1),
image: "images/2022-04-01.jpg",
trivia: "The most ambitious crossover event in folk history. Hear \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdMMvKpgBqE\">Nottamun Town</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Syl Johnson",
title: "Is It Because I'm Black?",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 2),
image: "images/2022-04-02.jpg",
trivia: "One of the deepest cuts of all time. Listen: \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxvquwCqC2w\">Is It Because I'm Black</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Pink Floyd",
title: "Meddle",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 3),
image: "images/2022-04-03.jpg",
trivia: "You have to respect a band that steps into a studio without any ideas and walk out with a <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53N99Nim6WE\">23-minute jammer</a>. "
},
{
artist: "Metallica",
title: "Kill 'Em All",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 6),
image: "images/2022-04-06.jpg",
},
{
artist: "Zamfir",
title: "The Lonely Shepherd",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 7),
image: "images/2022-04-07.jpg",
trivia: "The album that clutters every dollar bin and thrift store across the country. The album that became Gheorghe Zamfir's international breakthrough release. And the album that was featured during a key scene in Tarantino's <em><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsgHyzwmbnQ\">Kill Bill</a></em>."
},
{
artist: "Bob Marley & The Wailers",
title: "Legend",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 8),
image: "images/2022-04-08.jpg",
trivia: "Quintessential compilation of Bob's greatest works."
},
{
artist: "The Beatles",
title: "The Beatles",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 9),
image: "images/2022-04-09.jpg",
trivia: "I had to do it."
},
{
artist: "Britney Spears",
title: "...Baby One More Time",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 10),
image: "images/2022-04-10.jpg",
trivia: "Hopefully you got some help from the hype sticker off this 2017 reissue."
},
{
artist: "Ramones",
title: "Ramones",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 11),
image: "images/2022-04-11.jpg",
},
{
artist: "Def Leppard",
title: "Hysteria",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 13),
image: "images/2022-03-13.jpg",
trivia: "This was my first favorite album."
},
{
artist: "Hole",
title: "Pretty on the Inside",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 14),
image: "images/2022-03-14.jpg",
trivia: "A friend and I debated whether this was grunge or not."
},
{
artist: "Julie",
title: "Julie Is Her Name",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 15),
image: "images/2022-03-15.jpg",
trivia: "Debut album from Julie London. Spawned London Records' biggest hit, \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCGNYJOrebA\">Cry Me A River</a>.\"",
},
{
artist: "MIA",
title: "Kala",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 16),
image: "images/2022-03-16.jpg",
trivia: "MIA's third album from 2007 that contained her breakthrough hit \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y\">Paper Planes</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Muddy Waters",
title: "Electric Mud",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 17),
image: "images/2022-03-17.jpg",
trivia: "Muddy Waters went pyschedelic on his fifth album, <em>Electric Mud</em>, featuring <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Connection\">Rotary Connection</a> as his backing band. \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmY4lnFvdy8\">I Just Want To Make Love To You</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "La Monte Young",
title: "The Well-Tuned Piano",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 18),
image: "images/2022-03-18.jpg",
trivia: "I didn't make you suffer the entire title of La Monte Young's 5xLP endurance test, <em>The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC</em>. I watched <a href=\"https://www.ubu.com/film/young_well-tuned.html\">the video</a> and, no, he does not take a bathroom break nor is he wearing a diaper."
},
{
artist: "Backstreet Boys",
title: "Backstreet's Back",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 19),
image: "images/2022-03-19.jpg",
trivia: "They're <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6samPEMpM\">back</a>, baby."
},
{
artist: "Billy Joel",
title: "Glass Houses",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 21),
image: "images/2022-04-20.jpg",
trivia: "What do I say about this record? I see <em>Glass Houses</em> in dollar bins the world over and am troubled by the future where it costs $20."
},
{
artist: "Miles Davis",
title: "On The Corner",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 22),
image: "images/2022-04-21.jpg",
trivia: "A lot of living with adhd is <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfaR_lIV87M\">Thinkin' of One Thing and Doin' Another</a>"
},
{
artist: "The Turtles",
title: "Happy Together",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 23),
image: "images/2022-04-23.jpg"
},
{
artist: "The Cars",
title: "The Cars",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 24),
image: "images/2022-04-24.jpg"
},
{
artist: "Missy Elliott",
title: "Supa Dupa Fly",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 25),
image: "images/2022-04-25.jpg",
trivia: "Missy's 1997 debut, featuring the <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHcyJPTTn9w\">hit with the same name</a>.",
},
{
artist: "Prince",
title: "Batman™ (Motion Picture Soundtrack)",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 26),
image: "images/2022-04-26.jpg",
trivia: "Huge soundtrack, great movie.",
},
{
artist: "Slayer",
title: "Reign In Blood",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 27),
image: "images/2022-04-27.jpg",
trivia: "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7cWi41XGCM\">Listen at maximum volume</a>.",
},
{
artist: "Portishead",
title: "Dummy",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 28),
image: "images/2022-04-28.jpg",
trivia: "Portishead's 1994 debut, featuring my favourite track from them: \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw8GucJ4f7E\">It Could Be Sweet</a>.\"",
},
{
artist: "Van Morrison",
title: "Blowin' Your Mind!",
date: new Date(2022, 3, 30),
image: "images/2022-04-30.jpg",
trivia: "Van's debut album featuring his hit \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6W7ZzSUizA\">Brown Eyed Girl</a>.\" To be honest I'd never seen this album cover in my life before this."
},
{
artist: "Alice Coltrane",
title: "Universal Consciousness",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 1),
image: "images/2022-05-01.jpg",
trivia: "Alice's fifth album. <em>Universal Consciousness</em> features a beautiful balance between the hard, free improvisation of its title track and the lovely, meandering drones in \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj2HHescM3Y\">Sita Ram</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Autechre",
title: "Amber",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 2),
image: "images/2022-05-02.jpg",
trivia: "Second album from the British electronic duo everyone loves to file. Released in 1994, <em>Amber</em> is considered the genuine first album Autechre released on Warp Records. Here's a song bearing the name of my town: \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_segRH6LKA\">Montreal</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Clipse",
title: "Hell Hath No Fury",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 3),
image: "images/2022-05-03.jpg",
trivia: "Second cook book from the best chefs in Virginia. The Neptunes went <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich\">Reich</a> minimal with the productio on <em>Hell Hath No Fury</em>, as exemplified by \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdJjqApa3e0\">Mr. Me Too</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Blondie",
title: "Parallel Lines",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 4),
image: "images/2022-05-04.jpg",
trivia: "Second album from Blondie featuring their hit \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhkbDMISl8\">Hanging On The Telephone</a>,\" itself a cover of a song with <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emy5mA8Ixtc\">the same name</a> by The Nerves. I prefer the Blondie version."
},
{
artist: "13th Floor Elevators",
title: "The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 5),
image: "images/2022-05-05.jpg",
trivia: "The August 1966 debut from the 13th Floor Elevators is the first album to describe its music as \"psychedelic.\" Featuring the electric-jug ladened hits like \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVpHNEPzDM\">You're Gonna Miss Me</a>\" or my favorite, the somber \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkLRPDuuP2c\">Don't Fall Down</a>.\""
},
{
artist: "Nirvana",
title: "Bleach",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 6),
image: "images/2022-05-06.jpg",
trivia: "Debut album from everyone's favourite guy."
},
{
artist: "P J Harvey",
title: "Rid of Me",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 7),
image: "images/2022-05-07.jpg",
trivia: "Harvey's 1993 breakthrough album."
},
{
artist: "The Doors",
title: "Strange Days",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 8),
image: "images/2022-05-08.jpg",
trivia: "Debut album from the people whomst'd are strange."
},
{
artist: "Tortoise",
title: "Millions Now Living Will Never Die",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 9),
image: "images/2022-05-09.jpg",
trivia: "Breakthrough 1996 album from indie rock alum Tortoise. Or at least I think it was the breakthrough. It's the cover I know but I've never listened to this band."
},
{
artist: "Whitney Houston",
title: "Whitney",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 10),
image: "images/2022-05-10.jpg",
trivia: "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3giaIzONA\">I wanna dance with somebody</a>."
},
{
artist: "Grateful Dead",
title: "American Beauty",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 13),
image: "images/2022-05-13.jpg",
trivia: "Get on the bus."
},
{
artist: "The Rolling Stones",
title: "Voodoo Lounge",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 14),
image: "images/2022-05-14.jpg",
trivia: "The song \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NepcAaKXNuM\">Thru and Thru</a>\" was featured in an episode of <em>The Sopranos</em>."
},
{
artist: "Lucinda Williams",
title: "Happy Woman Blues",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 15),
image: "images/2022-05-15.jpg",
trivia: "Lucinda's second LP on Folkways and her <a href=\"https://www.discogs.com/release/13210145-Lucinda-Williams-Happy-Woman-Blues\">most expensive</a>."
},
{
artist: "Animal Collective",
title: "Merriweather Post Pavilion",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 16),
image: "images/2022-05-16.jpg",
trivia: "The Animal's 2008 breakthrough album featuring an anthem <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE\">for dads</a>."
},
{
artist: "Queens Of The Stone Age",
title: "Songs For The Deaf",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 17),
image: "images/2022-05-17.jpg",
trivia: "Fewer albums embody the male college spirit like <em>Songs for The Deaf</em>."
},
{
artist: "Corona",
title: "The Rhythm Of The Night",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 18),
image: "images/2022-05-18.jpg",
trivia: "Yeah, I didn't know she had a whole LP either. But, wow, this scene from <em><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grGiq0yTaj4&t=258s\"></a></em> is incredible."
},
{
artist: "Mulatu Astatke",
title: "Mulatu Of Ethiopia",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 19),
image: "images/2022-05-19.jpg",
trivia: "Legendary 1972 album that introduced the world to <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ApwZaao0Q8\">Ethiopian jazz</a>."
},
{
artist: "Al Green",
title: "I'm Still In Love With You",
date: new Date(2022, 4, 20),
image: "images/2022-05-20.jpg",
trivia: "Al's fifth album from 1972 featuring the hit \"<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQl54ozhwZg\">Love And Happiness</a>.\""
}
];
}