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@RichardS7370 Evening Rich, my #5albums80s4 1 cure head on the door 2 MBV isn’t anything 3 spacemen 3 playing with fire 4 spacemen 3 perfect prescription 5 Lloyd Cole rattlesnakes

Hi folks, hope everyone is well. It’s now time for #5albums80s4 the 4th of 5 semi finals with a view to finding the best album of the 80’s. A list of 100 albums follows in the thread, your challenge is to select your top 5 in order of preference from the list. Here’s my picks…

@RichardS7370 5 could equally have gone to the cure / Lloyd Cole / sonic youth /mary chain

@RichardS7370 Morning Rich, too many runners up but my #5albums80s3 1 smiths meat is murder 2 wedding present George best 3 morrissey viva hate 4 wedding present bizarro 5 clash combat rock

Hi folks, apologies for the delay, but it’s now time for #5albums80s3 this being the 3rd of 5 semi finals to ultimately decide on the best album of the 1980’s. Please see the list of 100 albums in this round within the thread, your task is to pick your top 5 in order. Mine are…

@RichardS7370 Morning Rich , my #5albums80s2 , easy picks for some of my all time favourites 1. JAMC Psychocandy 2Smiths Queen is Dead 3Smiths s/t 4Cure Disintegration 5Cure Kiss Me

Evening folks and welcome to #5albums80s2 the 2nd of 5 semi finals with the goal to ultimately determine the best album of the decade. Please see attached list of 100 albums in this round, your task is to pick your top 5 in order from the albums available on the list. Mine are…

@RichardS7370 Evening - my #5albums80s1 1 Spacemen 3 sound of confusion 2 Stone Roses s/t 3 Kate Bush hounds of love 4 Cocteau Twins victorialand 5 Cocteau Twins blue bell

Hi folks, hope everyone is well. It’s time for the 1st of 5 semi finals in our 80’s album poll #5albums80s1 to ultimately decide the best record of the decade. 100 albums are on the list (see below in thread), your challenge is to select your top 5 in order of preference. Mine…

@RichardS7370 Evening, my #5albums90sFinal 1 Spiritualized - ladies & gents 2 Sundays - reading, writing 3 MBV loveless 4 Screamadelica 5 DJ Shadow endtroducing

Hi folks, we’ve made it to #5albums90sfinal with 100 albums remaining in contention for the crown of the best album of the 90’s (well according to music twitter at least!). The album list follows, your task is to select your favourite 5 in order, adding the hashtag. Here’s mine…

@oliver_shergold Raise for sure, I’ve never understood the shoegaze label being applied to them, they were around at the right place and right time I guess but seemed to me to have more in common with US bands like eg Buffalo Tom

My music question for today. Swervedriver. Shoegaze or not, which do you prefer out of Mezcal Head and Raise? I think I lean slightly towards Raise.

@RichardS7370 Hi Rich My picks for #5albums90s5 1 Spiritualized pure phase 2 Dinosaur Jr – where you been 3 Aphex Twin SAW 85-92 4 Portishead Dummy 5 Lush Spooky

Evening folks, hope everyone is well. 80 albums from the 90’s have already qualified for the final. We need 20 more so it’s now time for #5albums90s5 to complete the line up. From the attached list pick your top 5 albums in order of preference adding the hashtag, my choices are..

@RichardS7370 Evening Rich , my #5albums90s4 … tough this week 1 Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen 2 Dinosaur Jr Green Mind 3 MBV Loveless 4 JAMC Honeys Dead 5 Wu Tang Enter the Wu Tang

Hi folks, well there’s the European Championship footy final and Wimbledon finals this weekend, but we all know what the main event is right 😉 it’s time for #5albums90s4 the 4th of 5 semi finals to determine the greatest 90’s album. Pick your top 5 from the attached list, mine…

@RichardS7370 Morning Rich, mt #5albums90s3 1 Bonnie Prince Billie I see a darkness 2 Primal Scream screamadelica 3 teenagefanclub bandwagonesque 4 beastie boys ill communication 5 cypress hill black sunday

Hi folks, hope you’re well, it’s time for #5albums90s3 the 3rd of 5 semi finals to find the best album of the 90’s. A list of 100 albums follows, your task which has been described as even tougher than getting an England midfield to gel, is to pick your top 5 in order. Mine are…

@RichardS7370 Evening Rich, my #5albums90s2 … 1Spiritualized LGM 2DJ Shadow Endtroducing 3GZA Liquid Swords 4Bjork Debut 5Sonic Youth Goo

Evening folks, hope everyone is well. It’s time for our 2nd of 5 semi finals in our quest to find the best album of the 90’s, let’s play #5albums90s2 At the end of the thread, you’ll find a list of 100 albums in this group, your task is to pick your top 5 in order. I’m going…

@RichardS7370 Hi Rich , my #5albums90s1 1 Sundays - Reading Writing 2 Mercury Rev - yerself is steam 3 Beth Orton - Trailer Park 4 Sigur ros agaetis byrjun 5 New FADS pigeonhole

Hi folks, it’s time to start our quest to find the best album of the 90’s. 500 albums have qualified from previous poll results, we’ll start with 100 albums in this first semi final as we play #5albums90s1 The task is to pick your top 5 in order from the selection in the thread..

@RichardS7370 Morning, my #5albums21cFinal , 1 Bon Iver for emma forever ago 2 Courtney Barnett Sometimes I just sit 3 Fleet Foxes s/t 4 Flaming Lips Yoshimi 5 Arctic Monkeys whatever people say … 6== avalanches/Yeah Yeah Yeahs/PJ Harvey

Hi folks, here we go then, it’s time for #5albums21cFinal Please see the list of 100 albums that have made the final within the thread, your task is to pick your top 5 in order, so we can crown one lucky album the best of the century so far. Here’s my selections to kick us off…

@RichardS7370 Evening Rich my #5albums21C5 I normally try and avoid doubling up on the same band but … 1 the go team thunder lightning strike 2 fleet foxes helplessness bliues 3 vampire weekend s/t 4 vampire weekend contra 5 fleet foxes s/t

Hi folks, it’s time for #5albums21C5 the 5th and final of the semi finals to determine the best album of the 21st century so far. Please see attached in the thread the runners and riders in this round, your task is to pick your favourite 5 in order of preference. Here’s mine…

@RichardS7370 Hi Rich , my #5albums21C4 1Yard Act the overload 2Dry Cleaning New Long Leg 3Flaming Lips Yoshimi 4Yeah Yeah Yeahs show your bones 5Sufjan Stevens javelin

Hi folks, it’s time for #5albums21C4 voting, this being the 4th of 5 semi finals to find the best album of the 21st century so far. Please see the list of 100 albums in this semi final within the thread, your task is to pick your top 5 in order of preference. Here’s my picks…

@RichardS7370 Hi Rich, my #5albums21C3 … 1 Spiritualized everything was beautiful 2 Courtney Barnett Sometimes I just sit 3 PJ Harvey uh huh her 4 MIA Kala 5 Belle & Seb Life Pursuit

Hi folks, it’s time for #5albums21C3 the 3rd of 5 semi finals with the end goal to determine the best album of the 21st century so far. Please see list of 100 albums in this round at the end of the thread, your challenge is to name your top 5 in order of greatness. Here’s mine…

@RichardS7370 Hi Rich, my #5albums21c2 1 Spiritualized and nothing hurt 2 Bon Iver for emma forever ago 3 Spiritualized let it come down 4 Wet Leg s/t 5 Pains of being pure at heat s/t

Hi folks, it’s time for the 2nd of 5 semi finals to find the best post millennium album, as we play #5albums21C2 Please review the list of 100 albums at the end of this thread, your task is to pick your top 5 in order and reply including the hashtag. Here’s my choices first…

@RichardS7370 Hi Rich, my #5albums21C1 , concentrated at the beginning of the alphabet for no apparent reason 🧐 1camera obscura lets get out of this country 2diiv oshin 3arctic monkeys whatever people say … 4avalanches since I left you 5alvvays s/t

Hi folks and a happy new year to all. It’s time for our competition to find the best album of the 21st century, with 5 groups of 100 albums followed by a final. First up is #5albums21C1 the first group, pick your top 5 in order including hashtag (album list to follow) Mine are..

@RichardS7370 #5albums23 1 flyyng colours you never know 2 helicon god intentions 3 beach fossils bunny 4 the hold steady price of progress 5 panda bear / sonic boom reset in dub 6 == hello mary, sufjan stevens, drop nineteens, hilary woods, slowdive

Hi folks, it’s poll time! Here we go with #5albums23 name your top 5 albums from this year in order (artist and album title please). The top 20 albums from the year will qualify for our post millennium tournament coming up in January. Here’s my top five choices to kick us off…

@RichardS7370 Evening Rich , my #5AlbumsFinal before I change my mind again 1 Vu & nico 2 jamc psychocandy 3 spiritualized Ladies and gents 4 smiths st 5 mbv loveless

Hi folks, we started this musical journey in March 2021, 2 and a half years and 65 polls later, we’ve arrived at #5albumsFinal Pick your top 5 albums from the list of 100 finalists detailed in this thread. For the final time (for now at least 😉) here’s my fantastic five…