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Donna Orchard
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mother, early childhood music specialist and songwriter, singer. I live in Winnipeg. 🌪️ she/her
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My phone is a nerd
Phone notification: keep listening at high volume? Headphone volume has been high for longer than recommended which can damage your hearing
April 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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It looks like it's so cold in Winnipeg that demagorgons have comfortably settled
January 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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15/20
Album cover for First Take by Roberta Flack. Cover has bright yellow border around a photo of Roberta Flack, a young Black woman with a short afro wearing a floral dress, playing piano on a stage with two young Black men playing upright bass and drums behind her
January 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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14/20
Album cover for "The Wall" by Pink Floyd. White brick background with red scrawling letters
January 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Album cover for Led Zeppelin I. Grainy black and white picture of the Graf Zeppelin with red text "Led Zeppelin" in upper left-hand corner
January 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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12/20
Album cover for The Halluci Nation. Cover is an embroidered patch on some pavement. The patch is turquoise, red, yellow, an black and reads The Great Seal of the Halluci Nation
January 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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11/20
Album cover of "The Stooges". Orange font on blackground over picture of all four of the Stooges, closeup
January 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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10/20

(This is one of the greatest classical recordings ever made)
Album cover of Berlioz, Les Nuits d'été and Mahler, five Wunderhorn songs and five Rückert songs, sung by Jan DeGaetani Mezzo soprano. The Eastman Chamber Ensemble conducted by David Effron. Plain white text on purple background, with picture of deGaetani, an older but very beautiful white woman with short silver curls
January 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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9/20
Album cover for Appetite for Destruction by Guns n Roses. Drawing of all five band members' skulls on a purple and gold cross on a black background
January 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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8/20 (why did I mess up the numbers so bad lol)
Album cover for Hi, How are you by Daniel Johnston. Cover is a black and white drawing of a weird little alien guy who kind of looks like a frog with eyes at the end of antennae. Handwritten black text on white background also reads "the unfinished album" and Sept 83
January 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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7/1
Album cover for Kick out the Jams by MC5. Collage of all five band members performing live, including an American flag and the name MC5 in large red white and blue font
January 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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6/1
Album cover for 74 Jailbreak by AC/DC. Picture of guitarist Angus Young shirtless in red velvet shorts playing guitar live
January 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Whooooops forgot about this, better finish:
Album cover for Schubert Lieder performed by Kathleen Battle and James Levin on Deutsch Grammophen. Battle is a stunning beautiful Black woman sitting on a marble staircase wearing a gorgeous black taffeta dress
January 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

4/20
"Stratas Sings Weill". Black and white album cover with Teresa Stratas wearing a newsboy cap with hair tucked under it and black trench coat, leaning against a brick wall and looking down. Text under the title reads: "Y Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz Conductor"
December 16, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

3/20
Album cover for "The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society". All four members of the Kinks are standing in a row with what looks like a lens effect superimposed over them, a series of concentric rings
December 15, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

2/20
Album cover for the motion soundtrack to "Xanadu" featuring Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra. Art deco blue background with maroon trim and art deco fonts
December 13, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

1/20
Album cover of "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop. Black and white photo of Iggy Pop around age 30 or so with just his head and shoulders and Iggy wearing a black shirt and shit eating grin.
December 12, 2024 at 4:07 PM