VOTE FOR YOUR TOP FIVE ALBUMS!!
Vote for your favourite five albums. Make your selections clear please as it makes tallying up the scores easier. If you list a whole bunch of albums without making your selections clear I’ll take the first five mentioned as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. No joint positions please. Sorry to be a pedant.
Your album of the month will get five points, 2nd placed album four points, 3rd placed album three points, 4th placed album two points and 5th one point. If you name only one album I’ll give that five points. If you name two albums I’ll score them with five and four points etc. You get the message.
My choices:
1. Ratboys - Singin’ To An Empty Chair
2. Howling Bells - Strange Life
3. Hen Ogledd - Discombobulated
4. Heavenly - Highway To Heavenly
5. Velocity Girl - Simpatico (remastered and expanded)
I really love the new Ratboys album and I only heard of them and got into them with their previous one. It’s a brilliant pop, rock, country album. I hadn’t really put them on my speakers since I saw them live one cold Sunday in late 2023. I heard this album once through and immediately bought a ticket for their Garage gig in a few months.
I haven’t really heard many albums this month and the Howling Bells’ new one is a pretty good album. I saw them live at the album’s launch a couple of weeks ago. The album and band are still pretty good. I’ve still good memories of a very hot gig of theirs at The ICA about 20 years ago.
I liked the Hen Oglede album but will need more time with it.
The Heavenly album comes out tomorrow and I like the new tracks available. I’m seeing them at The Lexington tonight and have always enjoyed Amelia Fletcher bands and whenever she’s a guest live.
I’ll be cheeky and put the recent Velocity Girl reissue from 1994 as my fifth pick. It came out in summer 1994 and that album was a big part of my summer soundtrack of that long summer after finishing A’Levels and starting uni.
Always a lot of great recommendations from you guys about albums that I’ve missed or overlooked. Not sure what’s out tomorrow. I’ll see what you guys are listening to.
Please forgive any shameless bumps of this thread during the week. I’ll keep this thread open until Sunday 8th March and so you’ll have over a week to listen to tomorrow’s releases if there’s anything out before choosing.
Vote now!! (Or later in the week) but make your choices clear please.