Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Just chucked in my 20 also-rans.
Urban75 Album of the Year 2020
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Hmm. Not what we're here for but that Raymond Scott compilation looks exciting.
mate just dig in wherever - I found so many great albums I'd not come across otherwise from that list.
splonkydoo
Well-Known Member
Don't think I have listened to one new album this year. Hmm...
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Blimey, I'm impressed by how well those Australians seem to be chanelling the pure spirit of Hard Skin there.
If Fiona & the Apples aren't right up there then this place really is very different from the internet echo chambers I'm familiar with.
I've not seen much chat about it on here, doubt it's even going to make top 10
Yeah I've liked your selection from it, just considering right now if Irreversible Entanglements have the best album of the year. And unless I find something very special very soon, it's looking that way.
I'm not getting through all that by midnight though...
Well you've got 9 hours, listen to two at once* and you can get a list of 20 together.
*I've done this before to meet belboid's deadlines. But never listen to more than two at once, that's getting silly.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Nick Cave albums that don't exist are my favourite kind of Nick Cave albums.
splonkydoo
Well-Known Member
I got excited when I realised I had listened to a new album this year! Only to again remember that it's a re-release/compilation...
Nick Cave is a reliable number 1, but Radiohead have lost it - they were number 3 last time they released an album (2016)
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
The second run through is complete. Some shift from the mid-week charts, with a couple of things moving clearly ahead. Although there is still plenty of time for that to change.
All my clever planning and lining up the inevitable choices in advance has gone to pot as you bunch of eclectic mofo's have included barely any of them. I've got lots of 'who the fuck are they?'s' to go look up.
All my clever planning and lining up the inevitable choices in advance has gone to pot as you bunch of eclectic mofo's have included barely any of them. I've got lots of 'who the fuck are they?'s' to go look up.
I think the recent year's charts have been the best ever actually - always some real curveballs, and the obvious press acclaimed top albums often don't appear at all.
I remember looking back at a mid-00s rundown and finding The Fratellis there. Fairly sure such a lapse wouldn't happen now.
I remember looking back at a mid-00s rundown and finding The Fratellis there. Fairly sure such a lapse wouldn't happen now.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
just had a look through the first few, back when it was more amateurishly run. I'd forgotten all about Clor (and I own it) and have no recollection of I'm from Barcelona at all.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
The last few years have always had a few gems that I'd not heard of that are now firm favourites.
I'm From Barcelona were a brief craze on the boards, possibly clandestino had something to do with them?
Clor were pushed heavily by twistedAM (and were also pretty good tbf, I think - I've not listened to them in many years)
Clor were pushed heavily by twistedAM (and were also pretty good tbf, I think - I've not listened to them in many years)
in 2008, Elbow were number 6. Elbow!
Reissue of Raymond Scott's The Jingle Workshop: Midcentury Musical Miniatures 1951-1965 found here:
raymondscott.bandcamp.com
He wrote jingles (and music for cartoons) in the 50's often with a bit of electronic wizardry. Cheesy as it sounds, it in fact fantastic.
The Jingle Workshop: Midcentury Musical Miniatures 1951-1965, by Raymond Scott
82 track album
raymondscott.bandcamp.com
He wrote jingles (and music for cartoons) in the 50's often with a bit of electronic wizardry. Cheesy as it sounds, it in fact fantastic.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
My fave album of the year. A Girl Called Eddy won’t get a look in but I’ve discovered through the threads this year some stuff I wouldn’t normally have heard tbh so all’s well that ends well
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
Was it? Oh bollocks. It must have been in the brief 2020 pre-pandemic: window feels like about three years ago.
I always wondered what happened to her and then she popped up again this year. Her first or second EP was very good.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
First was one of those records you just think wow. But i think she did the right thing in doing something different for a long awaited second album and its musical references are spot on; Carol King/Steely Dan,/Laura Nyro etc and that luscious Chrissy Hyde voice at times. Brilliantly unfashionable but class in that genre .
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
That Clor album is one of the most criminally underrated lost pop gems of recent times. A perennial favourite for me.
Last year, yes, straight away, but not this year.
