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

The listening session will be 9pm, Sunday 3rd November. 

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, Friday 25th October.

Number	Artist	Title
1	A House	On My Big Fat Merry-Go-Round
2	A House	I Am The Greatest
3	Ash	1977
4	Ash	Trailer
5	B*witched	B*witched
6	Bats	Red In Tooth & Claw
7	Boxcutter	Glyphic
8	Christy Moore	Ride On
9	Christy Moore	Smoke and Strong Whiskey
10	Clancy Brothers, The	In Person At Carnegie Hall
11	Damien Rice	O
12	Daniel O'Donnell	The Jukebox Years
13	David Holmes	The Holy Pictures
14	David Holmes	Let's Get Killed
15	David Kitt	The Big Romance
16	Desert Hearts	Let's Get Worse
17	Divine Comedy, The	A Short Album About Love
18	Divine Comedy, The	Absent Friends
19	Dubliners, The	A Drop Of The Hard Stuff
20	Duke Special	Songs From The Deep Forest
21	Ernie Graham	s/t
22	Fatima Mansions	Valhalla Avenue
23	Fatima Mansions	Viva Dead Ponies
24	Fatima Mansions	Only Losers take The Bus
25	Frames, The	Fitzcarraldo
26	Frank and Walters, The	Trains, Boats and Planes
27	Gemma Hayes	Night On My Side
28	High Llama, The	Gideon Gaye
29	James Vincent McMorrow	Early In The Morning
30	Jedward	Planet Jedward
31	JJ72	s/t
32	John Beag	The Winds Of Freedom
33	Mellow Candle	Swaddling Songs
34	Microdisney	The Clock Comes Down The Stairs
35	Microdisney	Everybody is Fantastic
36	My Bloody Valentine	Isn't Anything
37	My Bloody Valentine	Loveless
38	Pogues, The	Rum Sodomy And the Lash
39	Rory Gallagher	Live In Europe
40	Simple Kid	SK1
41	Sinead O'Connor	The Lion and the Cobra
42	So Cow	s/t
43	Stiff Little Fingers	Inflammable Material
44	That Petrol Emotion	Chemicrazy
45	Them	Them Again
46	Them	The Angry Young Them
47	Therapy	Troublegum
48	Thin Lizzy	Black Rose
49	U2	Unforgettable Fire
50	U2	Achtung Baby
51	Undertones, The	Positive Touch
52	Undertones, The	The Undertones
53	Van Morrison	St Dominic's Preview
54	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks
55	Van Morrison	Veedon Fleece
56	Van Morrison	Moondance
57	Villagers	Live At The Workman's Club
58	Virgin Prunes	Baby Turns Blue
59	Waterboys, The	Fisherman's Blues
60	Whipping Boy	Heartworm

Call me, call me by my name...

Good evening lads and lasses.

October's @lpgrp session's theme will be Eponymous Albums - in other words albums named simply after the artist.

We shall make this a straight vote this month but, as there are so many eponymous albums to choose from, you can vote for your FIVE favourites.

Please send me the titles of your FIVE favourite eponymous releases by 6pm, Wednesday 18th September. Either send me a DM or an ordinary tweet (mentioning @lpgrp) with your choices.

The Eponymous listening session will be 9pm, Sunday 6th October. 

Here is Wikipedia's mighty list of eponymous albums. And here is Rate Your Music's even mightier list. 

The Houston Press blog lists 25 'Essential Eponymous Albums' - worth a look. 

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