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The Record Club

A book club for your ears.

Here is a complete list of the albums selected, and gigs attended, since the club convened in April 2012.

 

2020


 

Club meeting: February 2020

Category:

Artist: GoGoPenguin

Album: Man Made Object


Club meeting: February 2020

Category:

Artist: Motörhead

Album: Ace of Spades


Club meeting: September 2020

Category:

Artist: Rolling Stones

Album: Let It Bleed


Club meeting: September 2020

Category:

Artist: Beirut

Album: No No No


Club meeting: September 2020

Category:

Artist: Chuck Berry

Album: After School Session


Club meeting: September 2020

Category:

Artist: Goran Bregovic

Album: Champagne for Gypsies


2015


Club meeting: January 2015

Category: Genre-bender

Artist: Radiohead

Album: The Bends


Club meeting: January 2015

Category: Classic

Artist: Pink Floyd

Album: The Dark Side of the Moon


Club meeting: January 2015

Category: Wildcard

Artist: D’Angelo And The Vanguard

Album: Black Messiah


Club meeting: January 2015

Category: New release

Artist: Royal Blood

Album: Royal Blood


2014


Club meeting: August 2014

Category: [Played at Glastonbury]

Artist: Sylvan Esso

Album: Sylvan Esso


Club meeting: August 2014

Category: Classic

Artist: DJ Format

Album: Music for the Mature B-Boy


Club meeting: August 2014

Category: Wildcard

Artist: Rancid

Album: …And Out Come the Wolves


Club meeting: August 2014

Category: New release

Artist: Mr Scruff

Album: Friendly Bacteria


2013


Club meeting: February 2013

Category: New release

Artist: Dr John

Album: Locked Down


Club meeting: February 2013

Category: Classic

Artist: The Jam

Album: All Mod Cons


Club meeting: February 2013

Category: Wild card

Artist: Os Mutantes

Album: Os Mutantes


2012


Club meeting: October 2012

Category: Wild card

Artist: Tinariwen

Album: Imidiwan: Companions


Club meeting: October 2012

Category: New Release

Artist: Mumford & Sons

Album: Babel


Club meeting: October 2012

Category: Classic

Artist: The Rolling Stones

Album: Exile on Main St.


Club meeting: June 2012

Artist: Jack White

Album: Blunderbuss

Gig: The Correspondents playing The Secret Garden, Battersea


Club Rules

  1. The Club welcomes, indeed actively encourages, constructive criticism of fellow members' (‘Clubbers’) taste in music.

  2. Clubbers should refrain from nominating 'Best of' or 'Greatest Hits' compilations, giving preference instead to an album in its entirety, as originally intended by the artist(s).

  3. Club meetings involve selecting albums for the listening pleasure of fellow Clubbers. Following the inaugural meeting selection of a single significant album - Jack White’s monumental Blunderbuss - in 2012 Clubbers subsequently agreed to select one album per person, extending the collective auditory experience and fostering a shared love and respect of fellow Clubbers’ taste. After all, what part of life is more gratifying, generous, and joyful than sharing good music? Albums are now chosen under the following categories:

    1. Classic: A record that must pass the eardrums of every Clubber.

    2. New release: Fresh out, like the green shoots of Spring.

    3. Wild card: Left field, experimental, unpredictable. Is this really music?

    4. Genre-bender (est. January 2015): A genre-defining album, a seminal moment in music that begins to carve a new path.