The Only Ones

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

The listening session will be at 9pm, Sunday 12th May. This is not the traditional first Sunday in the month as the 5th is slap-bang in the middle of a Bank Holiday weekend.

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, Wednesday 24th April.

1	Because	Mad Scared Dumb and Gorgeous
2	Blind Faith	S/T
3	C.A. Quintet	Trip Thru Hell
4	Chagall Guevara	S/T
5	Ciccone Youth	The Whitey Album
6	Death From Above 1979	You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
7	Dennis Wilson	Pacific Ocean Blue
8	Derek and the Dominoes	Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
9	Flotation Toy Warning	Bluffers Guide To The Flight Deck
10	The For Carnation	S/T
11	Golden Dawn	Power Plant
12	Jeff Buckley	Grace
13	King Biscuit Time	Black Gold
14	Late of the Pier	Fantasy Black Channel
15	Life Without Buildings	Any Other City
16	Lift To Experience	Texas Jerusalem Crossroads
17	Lowell George	Thanks, I'll Eat It Here
18	Mary Margaret O'Hara	Miss America
19	Michael Head & the Strands	Magical World of The Strands
20	My Vitriol	Finelines
21	One Dove	Morning Dove White
22	Relatively Clean Rivers	S/T
23	Ron Cornelius	Tin Luck
24	Scott Fagan	South Atlantic Blues
25	Seahorses	Do It Yourself
26	Skip Spence	Oar
27	Spirea X	Fireblade Skies
28	Stockholm Monsters	Alma Mata
29	Stump	A Fierce Pancake
30	Temple Of The Dog	S/T
31	The Avalanches	Since I left You
32	The Blades	Last Man In Europe
33	The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy	Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
34	The La's	S/T
35	The Last Shadow Puppets	The Age Of The Understatement
36	The Monks	Black Monk Time
37	The Postal Service	Give Up
38	The Redskins	Neither Washington Nor Moscow
39	The Sex Pistols	Never Mind The Bollocks
40	The Stairs	MexicanRnB
41	Willis Alan Ramsey	S/T
42	Wolfgang Riechmann	Wunderbar
43	World of Twist	Quality Street
44	Young Marble Giants	Colossal Youth

45     Youth Movies                            Good Nature

 

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