The festive cock 50 has started. Please send me a list of your favourite albums of the year and I will collate them into one chart by 31st December I look forward to hearing what you've been listening to... Thanks James Submissions to: jfel2@yahoo.co.uk
These are the full details as sent to the email list: Dear All About time we started the Festive Cock 50 for 2013 don't you think? Life is chaotic. Incredible things happen in all of our lives - but some things must stay the same surely? I think this is the eighth year of the the Festive 50. I've met up with quite a few of you this year - but not enough.... Perhaps next year we should have a Stormcock meet that isn't just before a Roy/Nick gig. Be good to spend more time with such a good group of interesting people. There are not enough of us left. Anyhow - you know the rules - if you don't, they are below. I look forward to hearing from you. I really do.... Please email me your votes directly jfel2@yahoo.co.uk don't tell anyone who you are voting for or it's not as exciting! Last year's chart to follow..... Much love James PS? I'm only really interested in what album is going to be second in the chart - because we already know what?will be?number one, don't we? These are the rules: ?Any album released in any format in 2013 can be included. This DOES include reissues. You send me your top 20 or top 10 or top 7 or top 3 or whatever for the year. You do not have to have bought it- it might be a Spotify job - but you should have at least listened to it a few times or why would you vote for it? I write your votes down and I add up all the votes & work out the top 50ish using a really complicated mathematical formular. Final Chart published on the mailing list on 31st December. Usually an album will need 2 or 3 votes to get into the bottom of the charts. The best thing is that it starts a conversation. We all get to chat about what people have voted for & we get to listen to stuff we had never thought of listening to. Lots of people email me to say that the chart really affects what they listen to throughout the year. We haven't all got the same taste - but we are certainly not a dull lot. And we all have a love of interesting music... As I always say- I promise you our communal taste is damn good. SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE 28th DECEMBER 2013 (allowing for Xmas present last minute votes) CHART ANNOUNCED 31st DECEMBER 2013 We all live happily ever after & the world is a better place etc Please email me your votes on jfel2@yahoo.co.uk Looking forward to it Thanks James
This is last year's chart out of interest... Festive Cock 50 (well 34 really) 2012 #17= Anais Mitchell - Young Man In America Grizzly Bear – Shields Muse - The 2nd Layer Lau - Race the Loser Patti Smith – Banga Sharon Van Etten – Tramp Roy Harper - Live in Concert at Metropolis Studio Simone Felice - Simon Felice Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited 2 Comus - Out of the Coma Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Big Moon Ritual Kate Rusby – 20 Bob Dylan – Tempest Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day Peter Hammill – Consequences The Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now Martyn Joseph - Songs For The Coming Home #16 Mumford & Sons - Babel #15 Alt-J (∆) - An Awesome Wave #10= Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge Lana Del Rey – Born To Die King Crimson – Larks Tongues in Aspic (40th Anniversary edition) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (reissue) Dexys - One Day I'm Going To Soar #6= Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls Neil Young - Americana Show of Hands - Wake The Union The XX – Coexist #4= Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball #3 First Aid Kit: The Lion's Roar #2 Roy Harper – HQ (re-mastered) #1 Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
Well the early votes are in and it is a cracker already. Oddly just received an almost identical top 5 from two separate people. What is going on? Match fixing? I'm really confused by the number of Steve C's now and who does the radio show and who lives on an island and who is from the south north west or east. Apart from that - all is going quite smoothly James
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25364624 Some of you may include this if you have't submitted your choices yet? Happy yuletube everyone! Andi https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...a.88114218199.108598.603053199&type=1&theater
Well I know James doesn't necessarily need our lists to be in any particular order; but just for my sake, I thought I'd list my 15 in the order of best to worse ( though obviously there aren't any bad ones in the list, otherwise I wouldn't have suggested them ! ) and surprisingly to me (?) Roy's new CD is not top of the list .... though it is a very close second after JW's new one ( such a superb album ) and Nick's was moved to the 4th position ... to make way for Jimi Hendrix ( so I hope he'll not be too upset ! ) !?
Thanks to everyone - this is it: FESTIVE COCK 49 for 2013 1 Roy Harper - Man and Myth 2 Nick Harper – Riven 3 Jonathan Wilson - - Fanfare 4 Laura Marling - Once I was an eagle 5 David Bowie – The Next Day 6= Richard Thompson - Electric Linda Thompson - 'Won't Be Long Now' 8= The Island Years, John Martyn Midlake - 'Antiphon' Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer Child Ballads, 11= Wolf People - Fain Chris Wood- None The Wiser Billy Bragg - Tooth & Nail 14 Villagers - Awayland 15= The National - 'Trouble Will Find Me' Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away Phosphorescent – Muchacho 18= Bob Dylan - Another Self Portrait Steve Earle - The Low Highway 20= Prefab Sprout - Crimson/Red James Blake - Overgrown John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts 23 John Smith - Great lakes 24 Artic Monkeys – AM 25 = Nik Turner - Space Gypsy Martin Simpson - Vagrant Stanzas Justin Currie - Lower reaches Mavis Staples - One True Vine Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record - Daft Punk - Random Access Memories 31= Lisa Knapp – Hidden Seam Johnny Marr - The Messenger Lorde - Pure Heroine Laura Veirs - Warp & Weft Savages – Silence Yourself Bella Hardy - Battleplan Steve Mason - Monkey minds in the devil's time Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Dear River Thea Gilmore - Regardless Lucy Ward - Single Flame Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost David Byrne & St Vincent – Love This Giant 43= Valerie June - Pushin' Against a Stone KT Tunstall - Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon Purson – The Circle and the Blue Door The Beatles - On Air - Live At The BBC Vol 2 King Crimson - The Road To Red Jethro Tull - Benefit Eels - 'Wonderful, Glorious'
Just out of interest - ignoring the top 3 that more or less everyone voted for - My favourites of the year were: Villagers (not an easy listen but absolutely magnificent - also frightening live) Phosphorescent (opening for Neil Young in Hyde Park in the Summer- not to be missed) and Midlake (wasn't expecting such a strong solo effort - really impressive) But most importantly, I have listened to a lot of new stuff that I never knew about eg Lisa Knapp, The Anais Mitchell one, Lucy Ward and Chris Wood (who was heading for #4 until his votes dried up in the last week!) - thanks for the recommendations.
