The listening session will be at 9pm, Sunday 3rd March.
You can vote for five albums by sending the numbers 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, Tuesday 19th February.
1. The Antlers – Hospice (Death seen through the eyes of a
nurse and patient in hospice)
2. David Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the
Spiders from Mars (Oscillating career path of certain Martian arachnids)
3. Robert Calvert - Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters (Germany's
purchase of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter)
4. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (inspired by a Japanese
folk tale, and centres on two song cycles)
5. The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love (a woman falls in
love with a shape-shifting forest dweller)
6. Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030 (Deltron Zero's struggles
against corporations that rule the universe in the year 3030)
7. The Eccentronic Research Council - 1612 Underture (Pendle
Witch Trials)
8. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life (Factory worker David
& girlfriend Veronica build a bomb to blow up a lightbulb factory)
9. South San Gabriel - The Carlton Chronicles (About a sick
cat)
10. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (State of the Union
address)
11. Grandaddy -The
Sophtware Slump (Failure of humans and the emergence of technology)
12. Luke Haines - 9½ Psychedelic Meditations on British
Wrestling of the 1970′s and Early ’80′s. (Growing up, back then)
13. Hawkwind – Live Chronicles (The Chronicle of Elric and
the Black Sword books by Michael Moorcock)
14. Darren Hayman and The Long Parliament - The Violence (
Cromwell/ Civil War/Witch Trials)
15. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (Story album about lives of four friends)
16. Isis – Oceanic (Man
falls in love, then finds out lover is in incestuous relationship with her
brother, commits suicide by drowning)
17. Jóhann Jóhannsson - IBM 1401 - A User's Manual (The artist’s
father’s work at IBM)
18. Soweto Kinch - A
Life In The Day Of B19 - Tales Of The Tower Block (documenting the lives
of three inner-city Birmingham men)
19. The Kinks - Arthur (Decline of the British Empire)
20. The Kinks - Face to Face (Class and Britishness)
21. Lift To Experience - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads (Three Texas
boys' experience in a biblical apocalypse)
22. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (self-explanatory)
23. Anais Mitchell – Hadestown (A folk opera based on the
Orpheus myth)
24. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (An android sent back in
time to save the world and rescue freedom and love from an evil dictatorship)
25. Morton Valence - Bob & Veronica Ride Again (Lover’s adventures as she tries to forget her past)
26. The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee (The further breakdown
of the Alpha Couple's relationship)
27. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (Story of an imagined USA c.2023)
28. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger ('Stranger' on the
run after killing his wife and her lover)
29. Neon Neon - Stainless Style (DeLorean)
30. Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring (Break-up
and redemption)
31. The Pretty Things - S.F Sorrow (A life story)
32. Lou Reed - Berlin (Tragic couple and family caught up in
a cycle of drugs, prostitution, violence and death)
33. Lou Reed and John Cale – Songs for Drella (Andy Warhol's
interpersonal relations and experiences)
34. St Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House (The inhabitants
of said block of flats)
35. Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska (Ordinary, blue collar
characters who face a challenge or a turning point in their lives)
36. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (Everyday love
and loss in modern urban Britain)
37. The The-Infected (Narrative on man’s lust for greed and
power)
38. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (American Civil War Drama)
39. The Turtles - Battle of the Bands (They pretend to be a
different band in each of the songs)
40. The Upsetters - Super Ape (Nature will always prevail)
41. Various (folk) Artists - The Transports (Transportation
of criminals to Australia – written by Peter Bellamy)
42. Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S (A boy in a wheelchair hacks a military
satellite)
43. Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds (The story of Earth (or
at least Surrey) being invaded by Martians)
44. XTC – Skylarking (Song cycle about the life cycle)
