Urban75 Album of the Year - 2024

[belboid]

Yes, it's that time of year again! Welcome to the twentieth iteration of the Urban75 Album of the Year.

You know the score by now. And, frankly, we all have a pretty good idea of the result too. Well, it's down to two really isnt it?

But who will be this seasons Chelsea (the best of the rest?) and which of the two pre-season favourites will hold the other off? Will the eighties legends beat the team that wins whenever it turns up? It's all to play for and there is no state power determining the outcome here (although I am open to offers).

So, please send me lists - it doesn't matter how long they are, 1 album or 30, they all count. Scoring willl follow the belted formula (I considered knotoid, but it sounded silly).

As per,

Votes cast on this thread will not be included, PM'ed ones only.

I do not promise not to fuck it up.

A reminder of those rules again:

1. You PM me a list of your favourite records that were released prior to December 15 2024. In order, from 1 to whatever number you feel like. SOMETIME BEFORE DECEMBER 15TH.
2. I assign points based on your orders of preference. NOTE: If you simply submit a list, unnumbered, I will assume it is in order of 1 to whatever, unless you tell me different
3. Sometime nearer Christmas I give you a rundown, TOTP style, of the top 30, and you lot bicker, complain, and heckle.

Some existing lists:

The Best Albums Of 2024

MOJO's team of writers select the 50 best albums of the year. 50. Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Youth - Spaceship To Mars 49. Joan As Policewoman - Lemons Limes And Orchids

www.mojo4music.com

The best albums of 2024, ranked

Bidding farewell to 2024, The Independent’s music critics Mark Beaumont and Helen Brown count down the best albums of the year

www.independent.co.uk

Albums of the Year 2024 | Rough Trade UK

Rough Trade's favourite albums of 2024 featuring SOPHIE, The Smile, Laura Marling, Ezra Collective, Fontaines D.C., Charli XCX, IDLES and more.

blog.roughtrade.com

Sorry, they're a bit shit. They dont seem to be out there yet.

 

[belboid]

apologies to Knotted, but you know what teenagers are like, they always come home for Christmas

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm making my list, I'm checking it twice. Thanks belboid.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Any chance a mod could fix the title?

Spent an age using the search facility, no results. Browsed the festive forum, nothing.

Get on it!

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[hitmouse]

1. You PM me a list of your favourite records that were released since December 15 2024. In order, from 1 to whatever number you feel like. SOMETIME BEFORE DECEMBER 15TH.

That narrows the selection down a fair bit.

 

[braindancer]

Quietus have posted their top 100 today...

Ex-Easter Island Head at no. 1 - an absolutely superb album that will definitely feature highly on my list too - so good to know that the Quietus and I think alike .

I know around 15 of the 100 - so over the coming weeks I'll check out the other 85. Always some gems to discover - though, at the cost of subjecting one's ears to quite a bit of 'what the fuck is this and why would anyone ever want to listen to it?'....

 

[hitmouse]

Quietus have posted their top 100 today...

Ex-Easter Island Head at no. 1 - an absolutely superb album that will definitely feature highly on my list too - so good to know that the Quietus and I think alike .

I know around 15 of the 100 - so over the coming weeks I'll check out the other 85. Always some gems to discover - though, at the cost of subjecting one's ears to quite a bit of 'what the fuck is this and why would anyone ever want to listen to it?'....

I know 3 out of the top 19, fairly impressed with that rate tbh.

 

[hitmouse]

Looking at it again, I think I know 3 out of the top 19, 4 out of the top 100. I was going to say "Blimey, the Quietus' opinion of Chat Pile has fallen off since 2022", but I've just checked and they didn't actually chart either year, I just wrongly assumed that they must be one of the rare bands where my music taste and the Quietus' actually cross over. At least we'll always have Charli XCX and Xiu Xiu, I suppose.

 

[Knotted]

Rate Your Music currently have

1) Magdalena Bay
2) Geordie Greep
3) Charli XCX

Being a wiki they've always got a list running.

The Geordie Greep fellow is amazing but like most music now it sounds like its made of plastic. I need some grot.

 

[Knotted]

Thanks belboid , I'm assuming you're happy to run this.

 

[belboid]

Quietus have posted their top 100 today...

Ex-Easter Island Head at no. 1 - an absolutely superb album that will definitely feature highly on my list too - so good to know that the Quietus and I think alike .

I know around 15 of the 100 - so over the coming weeks I'll check out the other 85. Always some gems to discover - though, at the cost of subjecting one's ears to quite a bit of 'what the fuck is this and why would anyone ever want to listen to it?'....

I actually own nine of them. Which is about six more than normal