100. Top 100 (The ones that got away)

At 100 listens we break from the form to celebrate with a change of pace. 

Individual bangers from albums that didn't make the cut.

Album Club Hot 100 

Brothers Gonna Work it Out

Fave Album picks

The brothers were asked to rate a top five. Hey there 'aint no rules ya'll. It's just what takes a brother 

N.B. There were rules. You couldn't choose your own albums.

Chris (selected since joining on 73) 

1. (Selection 82)  Amaro Freitas, Rasif

2. (Selection 84) Jon Hassell/Brian Eno, Fourth World Vol 1 Possible Musics

3. (Selection 99)  Nico, Chelsea Girl

4. (Selection 76)  Sunda Arc, Tides

5. (Selection 90)  Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra, Promises

Jeremy

1. Gene clark - No other 

2. Taking Heads - Stop Making Sense

3. Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda 

4. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Clear Spot

5. Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert

"Gene clark - No other - (the album I have returned to more than any other). Taking Heads - Stop Making Sense - (a perennial favourite), Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda   (a new and wonderful discovery), Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Clear Spot (peak album club for me, early summer / lockdown vibes). Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (one of the first albums Chloe introduced me to all those years ago)"

Jonty

1. Gene Clark - No Other

2. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert 

3. Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot

4. Lee hazlewood - Cowboy In Sweden

5. Grace Jones - Night Clubbing

"I find it hard to verbalise why I like them. I guess... Grace Jones is an artist I’ve grown up with and so that is simple nostalgia. Keith Jarrett blew me away with a style of music I was a bit dismissive of to be honest. So that was an education. I love the rawness of the beefheart album... great songs and lyrics. Cowboy in Sweden is just wonderfully weird again country is not normally my thing. And Gene Clark has just been on my stereo so many times since hearing it. And I can’t seem to tire of the production and song writing."

Sam

1.Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert 

2.Gene Clark - No Other

3.Nick Drake - Pink Moon

4.David Alexrod - Song Of Innocence 

5. The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You

"Jarrett blew my mind. Full lockdown, gave me a massive lift. Had to be number one."

Scott

1. Keith Jarrett - the Koln Concert

2.  Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell

3. Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot

4. Nils Frahm - All Melody

5. Can - Future Days

Simon

1. Eartheater Phoenix: Flames are Dew Upon My Skin

2. Clinic Internal Wrangler

3. Fiona Apple Fetch the Boltcutters

4. Solange Seat at the Table

5. Spacemen 3 Play With Fire

"Well because I didn’t know them inside out (unlike Bowie, Jarrett, Stones and so on) and they’re fucking great. I had never even heard of Eartheater and now I’m a massive fan. Got tickets for her November gig in London and everything."

Raal 

1. Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidananda

2. Captain Beefheart, Clear Spot

3. Gene Clarke No Other

4.  Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters

5. Telemachus, Boring & Weird Historical Music

"I found this impossible so I've limited myself to those that I remember as the most enjoyable listens on the night. Journey to Satchidananda was an amazing discovery that I have listened to repeatedly and so is a stand out. Clear Spot and No Other I knew inside out but listening with friends some of who were listening for the first time was sublime. The commentary on the the night of Head Hunters was pant wetting and again an album I didn't know and now love. And Boring and Weird Historical Music is an album I will probably never listen to again, but it was a slice of mental delicious weirdness that album club is all about. Longley gets 3 in my five, chapeau"

Roger

1. Listen number 6: Keith Jarrett, Koln Concert

2. Listen number: 29 Clarke, Iradelphic 

3. Listen album number 43: Blackalicious, Nia 

4. Listen album number 87: Bob Dylan, Highway 61

5. Listen album number 99: Nico, Chelsea Girl

The Art of the Reveal 

Album Club Auteur Award 2021

And the nominees in order of appearance are...

17. "Golden Shot" by Jeremy nominated by Jonty

The movie that started it all. Jeremy significantly raised the stakes on this reveal, poise, drama, flawless production and an admirable performance from the director himself as the steely eyed archer.  

51 'Last Man Standing' by Jonty Tacon nominated by Sam, Simon

The first reveal to use stop motion animation and a work of sublime melancholic drama. A classic six way split enacted on a beautifully lit turntable, the movie even manages a delicious 'omage the classic Usual Suspects movie. 

 69. "Pack Cutter" by Sam nominated by Jeremy, Raal, Roger

Anarchic, haunting and genre defining short in which Director Sam Rutter not only stars but plays all roles.  Part Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, part East Enders omnibus we enter a twilight world of human puppetry and cockney grotesque that lingers longer on the palette than is entirely desired.  

"Unsettling" - The Hovarian

76. "Windscreen", by Sam nominated by Chris

Another entry by challenging film maker. Rutter again uses his signature vertical framed 'portrait' aspect in violent disregard for the horizontal aspect of the windscreen. Thus narrowing the field, he makes it difficult for the viewer to see the unfolding action as the windscreen wipers brutally destroy the faces of his friends. 

93. "Off the Rails" by Raal nominated by Scott

Deploying the surprisingly rarely used lego as his clay, Harris brings to life a hedonistic lego diorama of a space disco festival. Though the director considered it something of a failure in that drama of the reveal itself struggled to live up to the cinematic spectacle, it remains an ambitious and somewhat ostentatious reveal that is unlikely to be repeated.

And the Album club Auteur Award goes to.... Sam Rutter for Pack Cutter. Congratulations Sam