Row Fisherman Row

Here is the reggae Top Ten. The listening session will be at 9pm, Sunday 7rd April.

1st (15 votes): The Congos - Heart of the Congos
2nd (12 votes): The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana
3rd= (11 votes): The Upsetters - Superape & Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston
5th= (10 votes): Culture - Two Sevens Clash & Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
7th (9 votes): Various Artists - 'The Harder They Come' Soundtrack
8th (8 votes): Misty in Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovision
9th (7 votes): Big Youth - Screaming Target
10th= (6 votes): Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of Victory & Augustus Pablo & King Tubby - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

No, She Went Of Her Own Accord

Here are the runners and riders for the next @lpgrp vote. The theme is 'Reggae'.

The listening session will be at 9pm, Sunday 7rd April.

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, Sunday 24th March.

1. The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana

2. Dr Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town

3. Aswad - New Chapter of Dub

4. Big Youth - Natty Cultural Dread

5. Big Youth - Screaming Target

6. Dennis Brown - Visions of Dennis Brown

7. Burning Spear  - Marcus Garvey

8. Johnny Clarke - Authorised Rockers

9. The Congos - Heart of the Congos

10. Culture - Harder Than The Rest  

11. Culture -  Two Sevens Clash

12. Mikey Dread – African Anthem

13. Mikey Dread - World War III

14. Easy Star All Stars – Dub Side of the Moon

15. Easy Star All Stars - Radiodread

16. Echo Dek - Primal Scream

17. Keith Hudson - Playing it Cool, Playing it Right

18. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
19. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of Victory

20. Bob Marley & the Wailers- Exodus  

21. Bob Marley & the Wailers – Live!

22. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread

23. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising  

24. Tommy McCook - Blazing Horns

25.  Misty in Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovision

26. Augustus Pablo & King Tubby - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

27. The Paragons - On The Beach

28. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry - From The Secret Laboratory

29. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry - Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread

30. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Dub Syndicate - Time Boom X De Devil Dead

31. Max Romeo & the Upsetters - War In A Babylon

32. Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution

33. Steel Pulse-True Democracy

34. Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston

35. Peter Tosh - Legalize It

36. Prince Far I - Psalms for I

37. UB40-Labour of Love II

38. The Upsetters - Superape

39. Various Artists - The Harder They Come Soundtrack

40. Yellowman - Mister Yellowman

 

Reggae Got Soul

The theme for @lpgrp’s April theme is ‘Reggae’.

The listening session will be 9pm, Sunday 7^th April.

First, we need to create a shortlist. Please send me the names of two reggae albums you’d like to nominate. Use a direct message or a tweet mentioning 'lpgrp' to contact me. Your deadline is 10am, Sunday 10^th March. Once the shortlist is ready, I’ll publish details about how to vote. 

I shall be disallowing compilation albums this month!

Hope to hear from you soon. 

Interesting Concept

Here are the Top 12 concept albums as voted for by @lpgrp characters:

1st (19 votes) David Bowie's The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars

2nd (15 votes): Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump

3rd= (14 votes): Mountain Goats' Tallahassee, Antlers' Hospice, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Lou Reed's Berlin

7th (13 votes): Neon Neon's Stainless Style

8th= (12 votes): XTC's Skylarking, Lift to Experience's Texas Jerusalem Crossroads & The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs

11th (10 votes): Luke Haines's 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and Early 1980s.

12th (9 votes) The Streets' A Grand Don't Come For Free