Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Time: 7:55 PM
Song: Fantasy
Artist: Sunfield
Mode of Consumption: Listening to vinyl album “D93 Basement Tapes II”
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/1TCUtUGRW0Rc3xaVDrQ3ff?si=2cf20238f8cd4e29
I am pricing records tonight, so I flipped through one of the crates of albums in the basement that I want to listen to before either keeping or selling.
“D93 Basement Tapes II” was in a crate with albums I bought from someone in Rock Island a year or two ago. I wasn’t sure if the band was D93 or if the Basement Tapes II was the band.
Turned out, it was neither. The album was produced by D93, a radio station in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1981. The artists featured were all local bands. The proceeds from the album were donated to the United Way.
Maybe the most surprising is that the quality is good, and the songs are all solid, guitar driven rock tunes.
The band names are fun: Clue. Sleeper. The Goforbroke Band. Tussle.
I have to imagine for these groups that inclusion on this record was huge, even though the release was likely limited to the Dubuque area. I imagine there were dreams that the right record executive would see your band name on the back of this slickly produced album and then connect with the lyrics or the tune. Maybe just hear that thing they want to hear to find the band and make them stars.
I did a search through Spotify, and only the Sunfield song has been uploaded to it. So, they’ve lasted long enough to enter the streaming world.
It’d be fun to do a deep dive into all these bands and figure out where their careers went. Was this the highlight?
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