Urban75 Album of the Year 2020

[killer b]

I saw Clor supporting the Prodigy at Brixton Academy. I don't think it was really their audience tbh

 

[Favelado]

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 don't understand that Fiona Apple album. I gave it a spin (stream really) the other day and it was the dullest wet indie. I was bored very quickly. Do I persist? Is it going to grow on me?

 

[belboid]

Just played the Clor album again. It is very noughties, tries a bit too hard in places, but bloody brilliant in others. Top hole.

 

[belboid]

fucking hell, but you're an annoying bunch.

Another last minute spate of votes comes in and it's all change again. There has been a demand for signature verification, and a general disbelief at 'dumps' in the middle of the night. However all voters have been verified, and if they want to vote for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, they're perfectly entitled to.

Ballots postmarked the 18th may be accepted, dependent upon protestations from Taylor Swift.

 

[billy_bob]

Next year, we should group all voters according to their favourite genre, assign a certain number of votes to each genre group based on the proportion of releases that year belonging to that genre as a percentage of total releases, with appropriate weighting for popularity of the genre relative to the genre average, and use that to determine the winners instead of simple popular majority.

Simple and fair. I'm sure it could save belboid a lot of trouble.

 

[Favelado]

I just did a search for Ana Roxanne and no results came up. That's one of my albums of the year. Great ambient album.

 

[Dr. Furface]

I just did a search for Ana Roxanne and no results came up. That's one of my albums of the year. Great ambient album.

She curated/presented a great Late Junction back in November, you can find it on that BBC Sounds app

 

[belboid]

We should be all ready for tomorrow night. Interesting... interesting...

In the meanwhile, here's a little pop quiz. Who said, earlier tonight:

"So that's what you've been doing all day, the Urban seventy-fucking-five album of the year list. Well, thanks a lot for being helpful."?

 

[Raheem]

Was it Chris Witty?

 

[killer b]

what time are we starting belboid ?

 

[hash tag]

Next year, we should group all voters according to their favourite genre, assign a certain number of votes to each genre group based on the proportion of releases that year belonging to that genre as a percentage of total releases, with appropriate weighting for popularity of the genre relative to the genre average, and use that to determine the winners instead of simple popular majority.

Simple and fair. I'm sure it could save belboid a lot of trouble.

Agree with separate genre's but a lot of extra work for someone. Much of my taste is hard rock but have also being toying with country rock this
year and my voting has reflected this. I would guess it is quite different from most peoples selections on here.

 

[marty21]

We should be all ready for tomorrow night. Interesting... interesting...

In the meanwhile, here's a little pop quiz. Who said, earlier tonight:

"So that's what you've been doing all day, the Urban seventy-fucking-five album of the year list. Well, thanks a lot for being helpful."?

Tell this mystery person that we are all very fucking grateful

 

[Indeliblelink]

what time are we starting belboid ?

I keep expecting him to say it's been cancelled due to Covid-19.

 

[killer b]

Tell this mystery person that we are all very fucking grateful

steady on, let's see if our faves have a decent placing first

 

[marty21]

steady on, let's see if our faves have a decent placing first

I have high hopes for the Bobby Crush Christmas album .

 

[belboid]

what time are we starting belboid ?

Hopefully making a start around six, or maybe eight.

 

[neonwilderness]

Hopefully making a start around six, or maybe eight.

Like a Tory press conference

 

[belboid]

I will definitely not be interrupting Strictly

 

[extra dry]

Apparently I will be including a lot of ‘chamber psych’ this year, although I have no idea what that actually is.

It's so good, you'll be amazed, have a few drinks brfore too get in mood

 

[stavros]

Oh bollocks, I forgot to submit anything.

I still reserve the right to criticise whatever wrongness others may have voted for.

 

[twistedAM]

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)

Yeah I did go on about Clor a wee bit!! Barry Dobbin has a new album coming out soon with his current outfit Barringtone. I think it's taken longer to release than Chinese Democracy as he formed the band pretty soon after Clor split. Heard a few tracks - Clor fans should really like it.

 

[killer b]

Yeah I did go on about Clor a wee bit!! Barry Dobbin has a new album coming out soon with his current outfit Barringtone. I think it's taken longer to release than Chinese Democracy as he formed the band pretty soon after Clor split. Heard a few tracks - Clor fans should really like it.

it appears to have been released in August in fact!

 

[twistedAM]

it appears to have been released in August in fact!

Lol..what a weird year. I've been unable to keep track of things. I was supposed to do the album launch party back in April. Let me know what you think. Some bangers on there imo.

 

[twistedAM]

Anyone kind of know what their album of the year would be as soon as they heard it? I think I did, 2nd and 3rd place were quite easy too.

I thought the Jerskin Fendrix album would be hard to beat soon as I heard it and whilst I haven't really kept track of albums this weird year, I haven't heard anything to better it.
Loud and Quiet magazine voted it number one as well.

 

[killer b]

I thought the Jerskin Fendrix album would be hard to beat soon as I heard it and whilst I haven't really kept track of albums this weird year, I haven't heard anything to better it.
Loud and Quiet magazine voted it number one as well.

a lot going on here - going to check out the rest of the album now, ta.

(didn't find much to grab in in the first few songs of the Barringtone LP though - might have liked it a decade ago...)

 

[killer b]

Hopefully making a start around six, or maybe eight.

It is around 6 now.

 

[belboid]

Some people. All the patience of a mayfly.

Urban75 Album of the Year 2020 - the Results

Here we go then. Four hundred votes cast in total, almost three hundred different albums nominated. And they all boil down to these. But before we start, let's just take a moment to remember some of the musical greats who have passed this year. Have a bit of the late, great, Toots Hibbert who...

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[belboid]

d'oh!

 

[belboid]

double d'oh

 

[SpookyFrank]

30 Soccer Mommy - Color Theory

Pop inflected indie rock.

This isn't the results thread dude.

Great record though.