Urban75's Album of the Year 2012 - the polls are open

[ska invita]

@danny if its allowed im voting for it

 

[danny la rouge]

I've heard of most of those, can't say I could tell them apart.

However, two of these are in my list:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/nov/26/guardian-best-albums-2012-40-21

 

[danny la rouge]

@danny if its allowed im voting for it

Like I said. Obvious.

 

[heinous seamus]

Only heard one new album this year I think Bloody good record though.

(Thirteen Lost and Found by RM Hubbert if anyone cares)

 

[ska invita]

now i think about it Batchain isnt really in keeping with the spirit of this, which is about music made now - the fact it got stuck and only just came out is just a quirk. also i havent heard it!! but im sure its ace

 

[danny la rouge]

now i think about it Batchain isnt really in keeping with the spirit of this

Really?

I think I need adjudication on this. It affects my vote. Teller!

 

[ska invita]

Really?

I think I need adjudication on this. It affects my vote. Teller!

as usual ive mainly bought reissues ,i wasnt trying to grass you up!

 

[danny la rouge]

as usual ive mainly bought reissues ,i wasnt trying to grass you up!

I've mainly bought re-issues, too. But I submitted 10 new releases, if Batchain Puller is allowed. If not, I'll submit another new release.

(My exclamation "Teller!" was aimed at Belboid, btw, in reference to his roll here. If I was aiming it at you, I'd say "clype". ).

 

[belboid]

@danny if its allowed im voting for it

See OP - if you think it's an album, I'll let you have it. Could be a good year for 'lost' albums - Can as well, X-TG...

(written from an annoying queue for ATP chalets, missing Shellac )

 

[marty21]

posted on wrong thread

 

[danny la rouge]

See OP - if you think it's an album, I'll let you have it. Could be a good year for 'lost' albums - Can as well, X-TG...

Cool. My nomination stands, then.

 

[sim667]

Bugger, i totally forgot an album in my list

 

[billy_bob]

Ill listen, ta for the suggestion

I'm incredibly jealous - being able to start from scratch with the entire swans back catalogue ...do let us know how you get on.

 

[killer b]

He didn't like it.

 

[butchersapron]

Time to get rid then. Second year running that's there's only been one possible winner.

 

[billy_bob]

He didn't like it.

Oh yes

 

[miniGMgoit]

I lied. I've got 2 albums released this year. Gallon Drunk and The Laurels.

 

[belboid]

Y

Bugger, i totally forgot an album in my list

You may resubmit. Once. After thdt you can fuck off

 

[ska invita]

Anyone come across this LP: Memory by Lazer Sword? Check it out and consider it for your lists!! http://musicmp3.ru/artist_lazer-sword__album_memory.html

 

[Voley]

If that Dexys Midnight Runners heap of crap wins I'm going to kill you all.

 

[ska invita]

If that Dexys Midnight Runners heap of crap wins I'm going to kill you all.

ha ha

 

[Voley]

It's not a re-issue. Batchain Puller wasn't issued until early this year. (You may be thinking of Batchain Puller/Shiny Beast, which was a different album, recorded at a different time, with a different playlist).

The original album was "lost" in legal purgatory until 2011. Finally, in February 2012, it was at last released in its intended form.

I prefer Shiny Beast tbh. 'Owed T'Alex'- one of my all time fave Beefheart tunes - is loads better on the later version. And it's got 'Tropical Hot Dog Night' and 'You Know You're A Man', both of which are fucking great. I like the 'Bat Chain Puller' version of 'Floppy Boot Stomp' a lot though.

'Bat Chain Puller's still loads better than pretty much everything else I've heard this year, though. It'll be very high on my list of possibly two albums.

 

[redsquirrel]

if swans don't win this, I'm flouncing.

Agreed, unless the X-TG is superb it has to be #1.

 

[twistedAM]

Not heard that many this year but like Sharon van Etten, Daughn Gibson and Father John Misty. Macklemore is good for a laugh.

 

[redsquirrel]

Pretty decent Top 50 list here.

Anybody heard the Goat album?

 

[The39thStep]

If that Dexys Midnight Runners heap of crap wins I'm going to kill you all.

in my top 5 , unlike The Swans

 

[danny la rouge]

Pretty decent Top 50 list here.

Anybody heard the Goat album?

That's a good list. Haven't heard the Goat, but if it's better than Om, then I'm going to like it.

 

[SpookyFrank]

That Swans album is good but I get the impression several people around here have got sucked into an unofficial contest to see who can like it the most. It is good but it's not the sort of thing I could listen to a lot, there just aren't enough tunes.

 

[belboid]

Pretty decent Top 50 list here.

it is indeed, and their inclusion of The Lost Tapes had convinced me that it was okay to include albums recorded, but not released, years ago. As a rule - and in previous years I think - I have refused to accept such things. But this year, what with the Can, the Captain, the Cope (okay, that ones so dull it wont even make my list) and especially the X-TG - which is, at least, only a couple of years old - I have reconsidered. Well, that and the amount of times I've been told off in previous years for going "But that's not an album"

 

[danny la rouge]

That Swans album is good but I get the impression several people around here have got sucked into an unofficial contest to see who can like it the most. It is good but it's not the sort of thing I could listen to a lot, there just aren't enough tunes.

I've now acquired it and given it a good listen, and I do like it, but it wouldn't be my number one.