Next Album Club and Vote

Greetings Album Clubbers: The albums have been chosen for the next Album Club: they are 'All This Time' (2006) by Heartless Bastards, chosen by Cath; and 'Break It Yourself' (2012) by Andrew Bird, chosen by Jo. If you haven't already got the albums I'll do my best to get them to you as soon as  I can. Cath has agreed to host and we're trying to finalise a date at the moment that will be convenient to as many people as possible. This will be our twentieth meeting, and people have suggested that it might be time for another retrospective Greatest Hits poll. Obviously, with comings and goings and absences and so on, not everybody has heard everything. There’s no ultimately fair way to do it, and it is just a bit of fun, so please do your best and don’t get too hung up on the procedures. Vote for TEN of the thirty-eight albums listed below, giving a score of 10 to your favourite, 9 to your second favourite, and so on all the way down to1 for your tenth favourite. Ignore all the rest! Please return your votes to me and I’ll collate. Results should be available at Meeting No. 21, sometime in September / October. Best wishes, Gerry * Adam Ant, The Blueblack Hussar Alabama 3, Exile on Coldharbor Lane Andrew Bird, Break It Yourself Antony and the Johnsons, Now I Am a Bird Apple of My Eye, Devils Carole King, The Colour of Your Dreams David Bowie, Diamond Dogs Duke Special, Songs from the Deep Forest Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Imperial Bedroom Frank Sinatra, In the Wee Small Hours Garth Brooks, No Fences Guillemots, Through the Windowpane Heartless Bastards, All This Time The Hoodoo Gurus, Stoneage Romeos Jackson Browne, Late for the Sky James, Seven J.C. Bach, St Matthew Passion Kate Bush, Never For Ever Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Rattlesnakes Muse, The Resistance Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Patty Smith, Horses Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon Primal Scream, Screamadelica Roy Bailey, Never Leave a Story Unsung R.L. Burnside, Come On In Rodriguez, Cold Fact Roy Harper, Folkjokeopus Ron Sexsmith, Cobblestone Runway Slade, Slayed? Sixteen Horsepower, Folklore The Smiths, The Queen is Dead Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Sparklehorse, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot The Streets, A Grand Don’t Come for Free The Style Council, Café Bleu Tom Petty, Wildflowers Whipping Boy, Heartworm
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Next Album Club

Next Album Club is 8.00pm Friday 2 May at Fiona and Tom's house. Choices are Cold Fact (1969) by Rodriguez,  and Seven (1992) by James.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Message from Tom on his 'Diamond Dogs' choice

I did a summary of my thoughts on Diamond Dogs but left it at work, so here goes again - a potted version: I was a wee nipper of 10 when I prised my first Bowie album off my brothers - Ziggy Stardust. It was my first ‘serious’ album, my only other possessions to that point being Billion Dollar Babies (Alice Cooper) and I think some Slade and Sweet. Suddenly, as Bowie’s albums came out thick and fast in the early 70s I had a discography by an exceedingly cool dude. Unfortunately it meant I had to keep restyling my hair to keep up with things. All of the albums at this time were played to the point that the vinyl virtually wore out: Space Oddity, Hunky Dory, The Man who Sold the World, Ziggy and Aladdin Sane could all have made it as my Bowie album. But then in 1974 along came Diamond Dogs a full 10 years before 1984 and Brezhnev and the US doing their usual sabre rattling. Here was an album which may have been an accurate reflection of the future with half men/half dogs wandering the streets, assaulting the glass fronts of Love Me Avenue and the concept and the glam rock along with Bowie’s vocal range made it one of the best ... Ladies and Gentleman, I commend to you Diamond Dogs .... lots of thumbs up please.

 

 

Choices for next Album Club

Titles are in for next Album Club. They are: Roy Harper, Folkjokeopus (1969) - chosen by Jim; and David Bowie, Diamond Dogs (1974) - chosen by Tom. Date and venue to follow.