They're women that have never sung professionally before at that point... It doesn't bother meSara wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:18 pm Interesting to read about the history of the culture and music, but I found the singing a bit nasal to my ears. Don't know if that's something to do with the style, or just the particular singers on the album.
Been a longtime fan of Toumani Diabaté. The Mandé Variations are unaccompanied, which makes the sound of the kora more intense and immediate. I would have picked it for '08, but African music generally gets ignored on here.
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The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition Of Phrases
Can't see this one picking up many votes
Can't see this one picking up many votes
Re: Album of 2008 (Part II) - NOMINATE NOW!
Not saying the singing is bad... don't think not having done it professionally makes any difference, when they've been singing their traditional music for generations.The Subhuman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:38 pm They're women that have never sung professionally before at that point... It doesn't bother me
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Re: Album of 1988 (Part II) - Rook & SG to VOTE.
ALBUM OF 2008
NOMINATE NOW
THOSE THAT HAVE NOMINATED ARE IN BLUE
Elbow 'The Seldom Seen Kid' - 64
Kings Of Leon 'Only By The Night' - White Riot
The Long Blondes 'Couples' - Marie
Weezer 'Red Album' - Rook
Duffy’s 'Rockferry' - Sniffer
Natural Snow Buildings 'Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches' - Sara
The Killers 'Day & Age' - Mrs 64
The Gutter Twins 'Saturnalia' Muppet
Mogwai 'The Hawk is Howling' - Cussie
The Garifuna Collective 'Umalali' - faaip
Hey Rosetta! 'Into Your Lungs' - Onemore
The Zac Brown Band - The Foundation - Bob Hirst
Titus Andronicus 'The Airing of Grievances' - SG
Goldfrapp 'Seventh Tree' - MJS
The Caretaker 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' - Durly
Nine Inch Nails 'The Slip' - 1304
BB
Rook
White Riot
SG
Muppet
Cussie
Onemore
MJS
Airedale
64
Faaip
Sara
1304
Mrs 64
Marie
Durly
BobHirst
Madron
Sniffer Clarke
These albums have been nominated in pt 1 and are disqualified from this poll
Gaslight Anthem 'The 59 Sound' 64
Adele '19' Mrs 64
Black Keys ‘Attack and Release’ Cat
Portishead 'Third' Faaip
Gnarls Barkley 'The Odd Couple' Azkal
Calexico 'Carried To Dust' Sara
Half Man Half Biscuit 'CSI Ambleside' Finn
Last Shadow Puppets 'Age of the Understatement' BB
Raconteurs 'Consoler of the Lonely' John
Fleet Foxes 'Fleet Foxes' Durly
Joe Bonamassa 'Live From Nowhere in Particular' Gandi
Frightened Rabbit 'The Midnight Organ Flight' Ges
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig' 1304
Metallica 'Death Magnetic' Haighy
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition 'Apti' MJ
Bon Iver 'For Emma, Forever Ago' Onemore
Anyone can nominate, a single album from 2008 please not listed above in either list.
NOMINATE NOW
THOSE THAT HAVE NOMINATED ARE IN BLUE
Elbow 'The Seldom Seen Kid' - 64
Kings Of Leon 'Only By The Night' - White Riot
The Long Blondes 'Couples' - Marie
Weezer 'Red Album' - Rook
Duffy’s 'Rockferry' - Sniffer
Natural Snow Buildings 'Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches' - Sara
The Killers 'Day & Age' - Mrs 64
The Gutter Twins 'Saturnalia' Muppet
Mogwai 'The Hawk is Howling' - Cussie
The Garifuna Collective 'Umalali' - faaip
Hey Rosetta! 'Into Your Lungs' - Onemore
The Zac Brown Band - The Foundation - Bob Hirst
Titus Andronicus 'The Airing of Grievances' - SG
Goldfrapp 'Seventh Tree' - MJS
The Caretaker 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' - Durly
Nine Inch Nails 'The Slip' - 1304
BB
Rook
White Riot
SG
Muppet
Cussie
Onemore
MJS
Airedale
64
Faaip
Sara
1304
Mrs 64
Marie
Durly
BobHirst
Madron
Sniffer Clarke
These albums have been nominated in pt 1 and are disqualified from this poll
Gaslight Anthem 'The 59 Sound' 64
Adele '19' Mrs 64
Black Keys ‘Attack and Release’ Cat
Portishead 'Third' Faaip
Gnarls Barkley 'The Odd Couple' Azkal
Calexico 'Carried To Dust' Sara
Half Man Half Biscuit 'CSI Ambleside' Finn
Last Shadow Puppets 'Age of the Understatement' BB
Raconteurs 'Consoler of the Lonely' John
Fleet Foxes 'Fleet Foxes' Durly
Joe Bonamassa 'Live From Nowhere in Particular' Gandi
Frightened Rabbit 'The Midnight Organ Flight' Ges
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig' 1304
Metallica 'Death Magnetic' Haighy
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition 'Apti' MJ
Bon Iver 'For Emma, Forever Ago' Onemore
Anyone can nominate, a single album from 2008 please not listed above in either list.
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Not on Spotify but is on you tube
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Reached disc twoThe Subhuman wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:56 pm I've still got a fair bit to do, but, so far, it's a fairly weak line up.
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Nothing from this year from me I'm afraid
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I'm going back to 505, I saw them at Sheffield and they were amazing.
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Nine Inch Nails 'The Slip'
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Re: Album of 1988 (Part II) - Rook & SG to VOTE.
ALBUM OF 2008
NOMINATE NOW
THOSE THAT HAVE NOMINATED ARE IN BLUE
Elbow 'The Seldom Seen Kid' - 64
Kings Of Leon 'Only By The Night' - White Riot
The Long Blondes 'Couples' - Marie
Weezer 'Red Album' - Rook
Duffy’s 'Rockferry' - Sniffer
Natural Snow Buildings 'Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches' - Sara
The Killers 'Day & Age' - Mrs 64
The Gutter Twins 'Saturnalia' Muppet
Mogwai 'The Hawk is Howling' - Cussie
The Garifuna Collective 'Umalali' - faaip
Hey Rosetta! 'Into Your Lungs' - Onemore
The Zac Brown Band - The Foundation - Bob Hirst
Titus Andronicus 'The Airing of Grievances' - SG
Goldfrapp 'Seventh Tree' - MJS
The Caretaker 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' - Durly
Nine Inch Nails 'The Slip' - 1304
BB
Rook
White Riot
SG
Muppet
Cussie
Onemore
MJS
Airedale
64
Faaip
Sara
1304
Mrs 64
Marie
Durly
BobHirst
Madron
Sniffer Clarke
These albums have been nominated in pt 1 and are disqualified from this poll
Gaslight Anthem 'The 59 Sound' 64
Adele '19' Mrs 64
Black Keys ‘Attack and Release’ Cat
Portishead 'Third' Faaip
Gnarls Barkley 'The Odd Couple' Azkal
Calexico 'Carried To Dust' Sara
Half Man Half Biscuit 'CSI Ambleside' Finn
Last Shadow Puppets 'Age of the Understatement' BB
Raconteurs 'Consoler of the Lonely' John
Fleet Foxes 'Fleet Foxes' Durly
Joe Bonamassa 'Live From Nowhere in Particular' Gandi
Frightened Rabbit 'The Midnight Organ Flight' Ges
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig' 1304
Metallica 'Death Magnetic' Haighy
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition 'Apti' MJ
Bon Iver 'For Emma, Forever Ago' Onemore
Anyone can nominate, a single album from 2008 please not listed above in either list.
NOMINATE NOW
THOSE THAT HAVE NOMINATED ARE IN BLUE
Elbow 'The Seldom Seen Kid' - 64
Kings Of Leon 'Only By The Night' - White Riot
The Long Blondes 'Couples' - Marie
Weezer 'Red Album' - Rook
Duffy’s 'Rockferry' - Sniffer
Natural Snow Buildings 'Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches' - Sara
The Killers 'Day & Age' - Mrs 64
The Gutter Twins 'Saturnalia' Muppet
Mogwai 'The Hawk is Howling' - Cussie
The Garifuna Collective 'Umalali' - faaip
Hey Rosetta! 'Into Your Lungs' - Onemore
The Zac Brown Band - The Foundation - Bob Hirst
Titus Andronicus 'The Airing of Grievances' - SG
Goldfrapp 'Seventh Tree' - MJS
The Caretaker 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' - Durly
Nine Inch Nails 'The Slip' - 1304
BB
Rook
White Riot
SG
Muppet
Cussie
Onemore
MJS
Airedale
64
Faaip
Sara
1304
Mrs 64
Marie
Durly
BobHirst
Madron
Sniffer Clarke
These albums have been nominated in pt 1 and are disqualified from this poll
Gaslight Anthem 'The 59 Sound' 64
Adele '19' Mrs 64
Black Keys ‘Attack and Release’ Cat
Portishead 'Third' Faaip
Gnarls Barkley 'The Odd Couple' Azkal
Calexico 'Carried To Dust' Sara
Half Man Half Biscuit 'CSI Ambleside' Finn
Last Shadow Puppets 'Age of the Understatement' BB
Raconteurs 'Consoler of the Lonely' John
Fleet Foxes 'Fleet Foxes' Durly
Joe Bonamassa 'Live From Nowhere in Particular' Gandi
Frightened Rabbit 'The Midnight Organ Flight' Ges
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig' 1304
Metallica 'Death Magnetic' Haighy
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition 'Apti' MJ
Bon Iver 'For Emma, Forever Ago' Onemore
Anyone can nominate, a single album from 2008 please not listed above in either list.
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Re: Album of 1988 (Part II) - Rook & SG to VOTE.
ALBUM OF 2008
VOTE NOW
THOSE THAT HAVE NOMINATED ARE IN BLUE
Elbow 'The Seldom Seen Kid' - 64 - 10
Hey Rosetta! 'Into Your Lungs' - Onemore - 5
The Long Blondes 'Couples' - Marie - 4/b]
The Killers 'Day & Age' - Mrs 64 - 4
Kings Of Leon 'Only By The Night' - White Riot - 3
Duffy’s 'Rockferry' - Sniffer - 3
The Gutter Twins 'Saturnalia' Muppet - 1
Weezer 'Red Album' - Rook
Natural Snow Buildings 'Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches' - Sara
Mogwai 'The Hawk is Howling' - Cussie
The Garifuna Collective 'Umalali' - faaip
The Zac Brown Band - The Foundation - Bob Hirst
Titus Andronicus 'The Airing of Grievances' - SG
Goldfrapp 'Seventh Tree' - MJS
The Caretaker 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' - Durly
Nine Inch Nails 'The Slip' - 1304
Anyone can VOTE, top 5 please in order from the above list
VOTE NOW
THOSE THAT HAVE NOMINATED ARE IN BLUE
Elbow 'The Seldom Seen Kid' - 64 - 10
Hey Rosetta! 'Into Your Lungs' - Onemore - 5
The Long Blondes 'Couples' - Marie - 4/b]
The Killers 'Day & Age' - Mrs 64 - 4
Kings Of Leon 'Only By The Night' - White Riot - 3
Duffy’s 'Rockferry' - Sniffer - 3
The Gutter Twins 'Saturnalia' Muppet - 1
Weezer 'Red Album' - Rook
Natural Snow Buildings 'Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches' - Sara
Mogwai 'The Hawk is Howling' - Cussie
The Garifuna Collective 'Umalali' - faaip
The Zac Brown Band - The Foundation - Bob Hirst
Titus Andronicus 'The Airing of Grievances' - SG
Goldfrapp 'Seventh Tree' - MJS
The Caretaker 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' - Durly
Nine Inch Nails 'The Slip' - 1304
Anyone can VOTE, top 5 please in order from the above list
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There's 7 albums up there I've never listened to before this poll, never listened to any work by the artists ...That's comfortably a first for me and as I think the KoL was the dropping off point for them, a very weak album compared to what went before, plus the Elbow only being their 4th best and not in the class of the first three ... that makes it very difficult
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Not that impressed with much of it to be honest, mateThe Subhuman wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:16 am There's 7 albums up there I've never listened to before this poll, never listened to any work by the artists ...That's comfortably a first for me and as I think the KoL was the dropping off point for them, a very weak album compared to what went before, plus the Elbow only being their 4th best and not in the class of the first three ... that makes it very difficult
Kings of Leon, Killers, Mogwai, Goldfrapp & Elbow are all much weaker than some of their other works imo!
I rate my nomination by Elbow (their most popular album) 6th out of their 9 studio albums, even so, it's my favourite album in the pile.
There are four surprises amongst the nominations which I hadn't heard previously, with three of them featuring in my votes.
Elbow
Hey Rosetta
Kings Of Leon
Long Blondes
Gutter Twins
The Garifuna Collective 'Umalali' just missing out!
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There’s nothing there really that should win an album of the year, even second time around. The Garafina did win a number of awards.1964white wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 12:46 pm Not that impressed with much of it to be honest, mate
Kings of Leon, Killers, Mogwai, Goldfrapp & Elbow are all much weaker than some of their other works imo!
I rate my nomination by Elbow (their most popular album) 6th out of their 9 studio albums, even so, it's my favourite album in the pile.
There are four surprises amongst the nominations which I hadn't heard previously, with three of them featuring in my votes.
Elbow
Hey Rosetta
Kings Of Leon
Long Blondes
Gutter Twins
The Garifuna Collective 'Umalali' just missing out!
I could have gone Hold Steady but even that is patchy despite it having their masterpiece on it. It feels forced at times.
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I’ve still some to listen to
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I considered The Hold Steady album, not their strongest album by far.The Subhuman wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 1:11 pm There’s nothing there really that should win an album of the year, even second time around. The Garafina did win a number of awards.
I could have gone Hold Steady but even that is patchy despite it having their masterpiece on it. It feels forced at times.
Re: Album of 2008 (Part II) - VOTE NOW
Elbow
Killers
Duffy
Long Blondes
Hey Rosetta
Killers
Duffy
Long Blondes
Hey Rosetta