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REVIEW - ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
Here is the Grooves round-up of the year in music.
Pop Album of the Year
Beyonce, B’Day
Beyonce showed she’s more than just the most toned abs in pop by slamming out another great album, her second solo. Despite naming it after a bottom bath, it was consistently good – how does she do it?
After “rinsing” the hits, Irreplaceable and Beautiful Liar, the best tunes after constant play had to be Upgrade You and Get Me Bodied. And the videos to her songs are second to none. Perfect for getting ready to go out.
Indie Album of the Year
Klaxons, Myths of the Near Future
This London foursome, who derive their name from the Greek for “to shriek”, did their time gigging in Camden pits after the release of their debut album in January.
Seen everywhere for months in these parts, their fans helped establish the trend for acid-coloured clothing that became synonymous with the nu-rave scene.
They went on to win the Mercury Music Prize. See what a bit of graft in the right places can do?
Urban Album of the Year
Kanye West, Graduation
Dizzee Rascal, Maths + English
Hard to choose between these two, but Dizzee’s got to go in ’cos he’s flying the English flag yadayada, and his Maths + English album had some choicely titled songs including... actually, better not.
Meanwhile Kanye, despite a tacky album sales-off with 50 Cent, went on to prove he was number one in more ways than one. When I saw him over the summer I realised just how many hits the wonky-faced rapper has. Graduation is a grower.
R’n’B Album of the Year
Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad
Although anyone with the name Ella may never forgive this Barbadian golden girl (pictured), for the rest of us Brits we’ve been given a glorious anthem for our rain-soaked land. That’s if anyone can bear to listen to the 10-weeks-at-the-top hit Umbrella (’ella, ’ella) again.
The girl’s a star, albeit a reluctant one by the sounds of it.
Oldies Album of the Year
Paul McCartney, Memory Almost Full
Drive My Car, that rollicking 1960s hit, was the track chosen by the grandpa of the pop world McCartney to open his secret gig in Camden.
But he didn’t shy away from the tracks on his new album Memory Almost Full for good reason. Despite releasing it through an arm of Starbuck’s label – boo! hiss! – the album reminded everyone why he is the Guinness Book of Records’ most successful pop artist of all time.
His performance at the Electric Ballroom this year was one of the best I’ve seen all year, and could certainly teach some young bucks a lesson or two.
Most Depressing Album of the Year
High School Musical 2 Cast
Haven’t listened to it but apparently its the seventh most bought album of the year.
Evil.
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