Urban75 Album of the Year 2014 - The Results

[belboid]

apologies for all the delays - I had to book eight nights in New York while posting. It got in the way a tad as mrs b thought her birthday treat was a higher priority than this. Sometimes i wonder why I go out with her....

 

[Orang Utan]

The spotify playlist is now 600 songs.
I'm gonna have a fun two weeks off!

 

[marty21]

The spotify playlist is now 600 songs.
I'm gonna have a fun two weeks off!

please rank them 1-600

tvm

 

[belboid]

My top 30

Gruff Rhys – American interior
Hookworms – The Hum
Shellac – Dude Incredible
Beck – Morning Phase
Bo Ningen – III
The Delines - Colfax
Mogwai – Rave Tapes
Royal Blood – Royal Blood
Trash Kit – Confidence
Fat White Family – Champagne Holocaust
Goat – Commune
Honeyblood – Honeyblood
Swans – To Be Kind
Neneh Cherry – Blank Project
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos
Drive-By Truckers – English Oceans
Eels – The Cautionary Tales of Mark E Everett
Sharon Van Etten – Are We There?
St Vincent – St Vincent
Kogumaza - Konokon
Pixies – Indie Cindy
Jack White – Lazaretto
Gulp – Gulp
Black Lips – Underneath the Rainbow
Plague Vendor – Free To Eat
She Keeps Bees – Eight Houses
Caribou – Our Love
September Girls – Cursing the Sea
Lykke Li – I Never Learn
Pere Ubu – Carnival of Souls

 

[Orang Utan]

please rank them 1-600

tvm

I missed a bunch out so now its 659!

 

[killer b]

I like how using the browser version of Spotify with an ad block results in no adverts.

 

[flypanam]

Great work belboid great list.

my list is as follows...

1. A Silver Mount Zion - Fuck off get free we shine a light on everything.
2. Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche - Zubberdust
3. Kevin Drum and Jason Lescallett - The abyss
4. Gold bears - Dalliance
5. Perfect pussy - Say yes to love
6. Ought - More than any other day
7. Pypy - Pagan day
8. Jakob - Sines
9. Sunn 0))) and Ulver - Terrestrials
10. Ritual howls - Turkish leather

I fucked up on the ratings and had winged victory at joint first too.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Wonderful thread belboid

 

[redsquirrel]

it's a disgrace that the silver mt zion album isn't top 30 (although I'm very pleased by the placing of Battle Trance - who else voted for it?)

I did, but I guess there must be a few more of us. Anyway you should definitely listen to the Delines, it made the (joint) number one for another ex-U75 poster too.

My list was

1. The Delines - Colfax
2. Dean Blunt - Black Metal
3. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos
4. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
5. Swans - To Be Kind
6. Battle Trance - Palace of Wind
7. Warpaint - Warpaint
8. Cold Specks - Neuroplascity
9. The Bug - Angels and Devils
10. Mogwai - Rave Tapes
11. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else
12. Shellac - Dude Incredible
13. Carla Bozulich - Boy
14. Chain and the Gang - Minimum Rock N Roll
15. Gallon Drunk - The Soul of the Hour
16. Xylouris White - Goats
17. Angel Olson - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
18. Band of Holy Joy - East Listening
19. Land Observations - The Grand Tour
20. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold

Really pleased that the Delines got so high, I guess it's not album which is breaking new ground but it's just so good at what it is. Every time I listen to it I just get swept along into it's little world, just beautiful.

I guess these things always say as much about the person as the music, when I was compiling my list I realised that while from a lot of different genres's a theme running lot of the stuff (particularly the top three), sort a laid back, drift off into a private space feel. These last few months have been really mental and the music that I've rated the most has probably been stuff that has just made me forget about stuff.

Anyway thanks belboid , though I can't believe that the Delines didn't make your cut.

 

[redsquirrel]

I've only heard Mogwai and I thought it was poor (and I love Mogwai)

Give it another listen, when it first came out at the beginning of the year I didn't think it was poor but I was a little disappointed but re-listening to it when I was compiling my list I realised that I had underrated it.

 

[killer b]

Basically, no one voted for sunn 'n' Scott did they?

 

[redsquirrel]

I think you were on the money when you said it was than the some of it's parts. Just didn't click for me at all, not terrible but just a bit dull really (which is probably worse in some ways).

 

[Voley]

Thanks for that belboid. Lots of stuff I've never heard to explore there.

 

[redsquirrel]

On The Bug news just spotted that he and Dylan Carson (from Earth) have collaborated on a couple of tracks
(not sure if danny la rouge will be interested?)

 

[danny la rouge]

On The Bug news just spotted that he and Dylan Carson (from Earth) have collaborated on a couple of tracks
(not sure if danny la rouge will be interested?)

Thanks for keeping me up to date with the Earth news this year.

 

[redsquirrel]

Thanks for keeping me up to date with the Earth this year.

No probs, wasn't sure if you were a Bug fan or not but I thought I'd let you know. The Earth album kind of snuck under radar IMO.

 

[starfish]

I have the same thoughts every year about this thread.
1. Where do you all hear this stuff. Im lucky if i recognise a couple of the albums?
2. How do you find the time to listen to them all?

Always like the thread though.

 

[danny la rouge]

No probs, wasn't sure if you were a Bug fan or not but I thought I'd let you know. The Earth album kind of snuck under radar IMO.

I liked London Zoo, but haven't kept up to date with his doings.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I have the same thoughts every year about this thread.
1. Where do you all hear this stuff. Im lucky if i recognise a couple of the albums?
2. How do you find the time to listen to them all?

For me, Spotify has transformed my ability to find and listen to new music. £10 a month for as much new stuff as I can possibly cram into a day? It's a no brainer as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Indeliblelink]

My list was -

01 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
02 Millie & Andrea - Drop The Vowels
03 Run The Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
04 Todd Terje - It's album time
05 Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
06 Caustic Window - Caustic Window
07 Thomas P Heckmann - The lost tales vol. iii
08 Automatic Tasty - The Rites Of Wrong
09 Aphex Twin - Syro
10 Zamilska - Untune
11 Sinoia Caves - Beyond the black rainbow OST
12 Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
13 Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19
I should of had the Innercity Ensemble - II album in there too.

Hadn't heard the Sleaford Mods or Angel Olsen ones before this thread and now really like them
cheers belboid

 

[killer b]

I liked London Zoo, but haven't kept up to date with his doings.

This is his first new album as the bug since that (he's done a couple as king midas sound inbetween) so listen to the new one and you're pretty much up to date. The earth collab sounded ok, but not earth (lol) shattering.

 

[belboid]

Anyway thanks belboid , though I can't believe that the Delines didn't make your cut.

mm, it made Number 6, which aint bad. Would have been higher but for, A: me overplacing the Shellac, it shouldn't really but at 3, and, B: Sandman's Coming, which I absolutely hate, and comes close to ruining the album. If it was closer to the beginning or the end, I could ignore it more easily, but being right in the middle....

 

[belboid]

I have the same thoughts every year about this thread.
1. Where do you all hear this stuff. Im lucky if i recognise a couple of the albums?
2. How do you find the time to listen to them all?
Always like the thread though.

Spotify, 6Music (well, they introduced me to the wonderful Trash Kit - listen to them everybody - & Honeyblood), support bands and other people on here, mainly.

£10 a month for as much new stuff as I can possibly cram into a day? It's a no brainer as far as I'm concerned.

or less than that if you listen via an adblocked browser!

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

or less than that if you listen via an adblocked browser!

True, but I like using the iPad/phone app etc.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Plus I'd rather pay something back...

 

[belboid]

Plus I'd rather pay something back...

aye, I liked the fiver deal, that seemed reasonable. A whole tenner....

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

aye, I liked the fiver deal, that seemed reasonable. A whole tenner....

Is less than 2 CD's

 

[belboid]

Is less than 2 CD's

aye, but dont forget that I'm an old fart who still actually buys CD's

 

[Buddy Bradley]

The unplaced Number 1's were:

The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream (I thought this had an outside chance of being Number 1 – how wrong I was)

That was my number one - clearly the rest of you have no taste at all.

My "To Listen To" playlist is now 4,914 tracks long...

 

[belboid]

Basically, no one voted for sunn 'n' Scott did they?

One person did, but only at number 25 or so, so it got nary a single point.

The Thom Yorke only got one vote as well (rather higher up), and I'm surprised no one but me mentioned Fat White Family - have we all decided they're racists, so fuck 'em, then?

Silver Mt Zion came 52nd