Saturday 18 October 2014

Say, Planet Rock - It's the sure shot

Here are the runners and riders for the next @lpgrp vote. The theme is Hip-Hop.

The listening session will be 9pm, Sunday 2nd November. 

You can vote for five albums by sending the numbers (not names!) of your choices to the @lpgrp Twitter account (via a direct message or an ordinary tweet mentioning @lpgrp). 

You are allowed to vote for the albums you nominated. 
The deadline for voting is 8pm, Thursday 23rd October.



1. Aim – Hinterland
2. Atmosphere - Lucy Ford:The Atmosphere EP’s
3. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
4. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
5. Blitz the Ambassador – Stereotype
6. Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
7. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
8. Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap
9. cLOUDDEAD - Ten
10. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
11. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles
12. Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
13. Danger Mouse & Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
14. De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising
15. Dessa - Castor, the Twin
16. The Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
17. The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hiphoprisy is the Greatest Luxury
18. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
19. DLS - Buhloone Mindstate
20. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
21. El-P  - Cancer4Cure
22. El-P - Fantastic Damage
23. Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
24. Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
25. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - The Message
26. Ice Cube – The Predator
27. Jeru the Damaja - Wrath of the Math
28. Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5
29. Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
30. King Sun - XL
31. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter lll
32. Madvillain – Madvillainy
33. Main Source - Breaking Atoms
34. Mantronix - The Album
35. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
36. Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
37. Nas - Illmatic
38. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
39. OutKast - Aquemini
40. OutKast – Stankonia
41. P.O.S – Audition
42. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
43. Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
44. Quakers – Quakers
45. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
46. Real Live - The Turnaround
47. Run DMC - Raising Hell
48. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels
49. A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
50. Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown
51. Us3 – Hand on the Torch
52. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)


Tuesday 7 October 2014

It Takes a Nation of MIllions to Hold the Lpgrp Nominating Process Back

The theme for @lpgrp’s November session is ‘Hip-Hop’.
The listening session will be 9pm, Sunday 2nd November.
We need to create a shortlist. Please send me the name of two hip-hop albums you’d like to nominate. Use a direct message or a tweet mentioning 'lpgrp' to contact me. Your deadline is 9pm, Wednesday 15th October. Once the shortlist is ready, I’ll publish further details about how to vote. 

Here's a mighty list of hip-hop albums - straight outta Gloucester.