It's in the post...

Here are the runners and riders for the next @lpgrp vote. The theme is Post-Punk.

The listening session will be 9pm, Sunday 8^th September. 

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, Monday 19th August.

1. The Associates – The Affectionate Punch

2. The Associates – Sulk

3. The B-52's - The B-52's

4. Bauhaus – Mask

5. The Birthday Party - Junkyard

6. Boomtown Rats - Fine Art of Surfacing

7. Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up  

8. The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge

9. The Chameleons  - Strange Times

10. Cocteau Twins - Garlands

11. John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle & Bop

12. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - This Year’s Model

13. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

14. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

15. The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column

16. Echo & The Bunnymen – Crocodiles

17. The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)

18. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

19. Gang of Four – Entertainment

20. Human League - Travelogue

21. Husker Du - Zen Arcade

22. Into Paradise - Churchtown

23. The Jam - In the City

24. Japan - Quiet Life

25. Josef K - The Only Fun In Town

26. Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions

27. Killing Joke - Killing Joke

28. Magazine - Real Life

29. Mission Of Burma - Vs

30. The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique

31. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
32. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance

33. The Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
34. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box/Second Edition

35. The Raincoats - The Raincoats

36. Eric Random meets the Bedlamites - Earthbound Ghost Need
37. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Join Hands

38. The Slits – Cut

39. The Slits - Return Of The Giant Slits

40. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

41. Sonic Youth - Sister

42. The Specials - More Specials

43. Suicide – Suicide

44. Talking Heads - 77

45. Talking Heads - Fear of Music

46. Talking Heads - Remain In Light

47. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

48. The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder

49. Television - Marquee Moon

50. Television Personalities -  ...And Don't The Kids Just Love It
51. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

52. Wire - Chairs Missing

53. Wire - Pink Flag
54. XTC - The Black Sea
55. XTC - Drums and Wires

Aim for politicians fair who'll treat your vote hope well

The theme for @lpgrp’s September session is ‘Post-Punk’.

The listening session will be 9pm, Sunday 8^th September. With so many @lpgrp regulars at End of the Road Festival the week before, we're straying from the traditional first Sunday in the month.

First, we need to create a shortlist. Please send me the names of two post-punk albums you’d like to nominate. Use a direct message or a tweet mentioning 'lpgrp' to contact me. Your deadline is noon, Monday 12th August. Once the shortlist is ready, I’ll publish details about how to vote.

Here are lots of post-punk lists from the Rate Your Music site in case you want your memory jogging.

Look forward to hearing from you!

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard...

August's @lpgrp session's theme will be Creation Records.

There's obviously a finite number of albums on Creation so we shall make this a straight vote this month - with no nominations. Treat, if you will, the Creation back catalogue as your shortlist. There's a Wikipedia discography here and an Xfm list here. 

Please send me the titles of your THREE favourite Creation releases by 6pm, Wednesday 17^th July. Either send me a DM or an ordinary tweet (mentioning @lpgrp) with your choices.

The Creation Records listening session will be 9.30pm, Sunday 4^th August.

1981

Evening all...

July’s @lpgrp theme is ‘1981’ so I'll be taking votes for records with an original release date of 1981.

This month will be a straight vote with no nomination process. I'll take up to 5 votes from everyone. Please rank in order of preference.

First preference will receive 5 votes, second preference will receive 4 votes and so on. Please send votes either by DM or twitter mention.

Deadline for voting will be 8pm on Wednesday 19 June. Listening session will take place on Sunday 7 July at 9:00pm.

Thanks very much – looking forward to receiving your votes.

PS Here are some links to 1981 album lists. These might jog your memory a tad.

Rate Your Music's Best of 1981 - Quite a lot of 'metal' to plough through. Huge list though.

Slicing Up Eyeballs Best of 1981 - More of a 'college rock' feel to this list.

NME's Top 50 of 1981

Brevity is the Soul of Wit

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

The listening session will be at 10pm, Sunday 9th June (a week later than usual).

You can vote for four 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 29th May.

 

1. Biff Bang Pow! - Songs for the Sad Eyed Girl

2. The Boo-Radleys – Ichabod & I

3. Broadcast 2000 – Building Blocks

4. The Broken Family Band - Jesus Songs

5. Danielle Dax - Jesus Egg That Wept

6. Danse Society – Seduction

7. Dark Dark Dark – Bright Bright Bright

8. Dinosaur Jr – Fossils

9. Electric Prunes - Release Of An Oath

10. Eluvium – An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death

11. The Fall – Slates

12. The Fatima Mansions – Bertie’s Brochures

13. Felt – Poem of the River

14. First Aid Kit - Drunken Trees

15. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson

16. Grandaddy - Excerpts From the Diary of Todd Zilla

17. The Hucksters - Seventh Sense

18. Lilys - A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns

19. Megafaun – Heretofore

20. Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff

21. Nine Inch Nails – Broken

22. Orange Juice – Texas Fever

23. The Orchids -  Lyceum

24. The Physics House Band - Horizons / Rapture

25. The Pixies – Come On Pilgrim

26. Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair

27. The Shamen - Phorward

28. Sonic Youth – Sonic Youth

29. Sons & Daughters - Love the Cup

30. Tracey Thorn – A Distant Shore

31. Throwing Muses – The Fat Skier

32. Turn - Check My Ears

33. Various Artists  - Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus

 

 

 

Lovin' you is easy cause you're beautiful

The theme for @lpgrp’s June session is ‘Mini-Albums’.

The listening session will be 10pm, Sunday 9^th June. I know it’s normally the first Sunday in the month but it’ll be tricky to fit in nominations and polling before the 2^nd.

First, we need to create a shortlist. Please send me the name of one mini-album you’d like to nominate. Use a direct message or a tweet mentioning 'lpgrp' to contact me. Your deadline is 6pm, Sunday 19^th May. Once the shortlist is ready, I’ll publish details about how to vote. 

House rule for this month: mini-albums – for our purposes - shall be no more than 30 minutes long AND contain eight tracks or fewer. EPs (and Rush albums) do not qualify.

Hope to hear from you soon. 

I Am The One And Only - You Can't Take That Away From Me

Here are the results of the ‘One Album Wonders’ vote to decide which album will be played during the group’s May session.

Please join us on Sun 12 May at 9pm for communal spin of Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants. Good company and convivial chat guaranteed. Note that due to the Bank Holiday (and in a break from tradition) the next session is on the 2nd rather than the 1st Sunday in May. Thanks!

Here is the Top Ten run-down.

1^st Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (16 votes)

2^nd= Michael Head & the Strands – The Magical World of the Strands (12 votes)

2^nd = Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue (12 votes)

4^th The La’s – The La’s (11 votes)

5^th= The Monks - Black Monk Time (10 votes)

5^th= Lift To Experience - Texas Jerusalem Crossroads (10 votes)

7^th= Jeff Buckley – Grace (9 votes)

7^th= The Avalanches - Since I Left You (9 votes)

8^th Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America (8 votes)

9^th= The Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks (7 votes)

9^th= Life Without Buildings – Any Other City (7 votes)

9^th= The For Carnation - The For Carnation (7 votes)

Thanks for voting, y’all. See you on the 12^th!