Wednesday 16 April 2014

Now he's making lots of noise playing along with the Art School boys

Here are the runners and riders for the next @lpgrp vote. The theme is New Romantic / Synth Pop.

The listening session will be 9pm, Sunday 4th May. 

You can vote for five albums by sending the numbers (not names!) of your choices to the @lpgrp Twitter account (via a direct message or an ordinary tweet mentioning @lpgrp). 

You are allowed to vote for the albums you nominated. 

The deadline for voting is 8pm, Monday 21st April.


1. ABC - Lexicon of Love
2. A-ha - Scoundrel Days 
3. The Associates - Sulk
4. Austra - Feel it Break 
5. Blue Nile - Hats    
6. Bronski Beat - The Age of Consent 
7. The Cars - Candy-O 
8. Casiokids - Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar
9. Chromatics - Night Drive
10. Dalek I - Compass Kumpas 
11. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration 
12. Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again 
13. Depeche Mode - Ultra
14. Duran Duran - Duran Duran
15. Fad Gadget - Fireside Favourites
16. Fischerspooner - #1 
17. John Foxx - Metamatic 
18. French - Local Information 
19. Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
20. Human League - Dare
21. Human League - Reproduction
22. Human League - Travelogue
23. Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
24. Japan - Tin Drum
25. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
26. The Knife -  Silent Shout 
27. Kraftwerk - Computer World
28. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine 
29. League Unlimited Orchestra - Love & Dancing
30. The Magnetic Fields - Distant Plastic Trees 
31. New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies
32. Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle 
33. OMD - Architecture and Morality
34. OMD - Dazzle Ships 
35. Pet Shop Boys - Actually  
36. Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
37. Les Rhythmes Digitales - Darkdancer 
38. Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call 
39. Soft Cell - The Art of Failing Apart 
40. Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret  
41. Sparks - No.1 in Heaven 
42. St Etienne - Fox Base Alpha 
43. Suicide - Suicide (1st album)
44. Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love
45. Tears For Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
46. The The - Soul Mining 
47. The Thompson Twins  - Into the Gap
48. Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
49. Tubeway Army - Replicas 
50. Ultravox - Systems of Romance
51. Ultravox - Vienna
52. Various Artists - After Dark 2
53. Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's 










Monday 7 April 2014

Norman Wisdom, Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee

The theme for @lpgrp’s May session is ‘New Romantic and Synth Pop’.

The listening session will be 9pm, Sunday 4th May.

We need to create a shortlist. Please send me the name of two Synth Pop albums you’d like to nominate. Use a direct message or a tweet mentioning 'lpgrp' to contact me. Your deadline is 6pm, Tuesday 15th April . Once the shortlist is ready, I’ll publish further details about how to vote. 

As much as I love Boards of Canada and their ilk, I think this category is more about pop than electronica. It's quite a broad theme though - some great recent synth albums as well as some real classics from the 1980s and beyond.