[Friday On The Turntable] Future Islands - Singles

Welcome to this week's Friday On The Turntable feature! For those of you that follow my blog on Facebook, you'll recall that each Friday I post a featured record that I'm currently enjoying. To enhance the experience, I've been filming short videos - discussing a brief history of the record, my favorite tracks and what it means to me. The video is embedded below - and don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel here. 

In this week's episode, I'm discussing 'Singles' - the new album (on 4AD Records) from the Baltimore Synthpop group known as Future Islands. Please enjoy.

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Planet Rotations #137

In the age of digital music, we tend to skip through albums, listening to one or two tracks - missing some of the deeper cuts that may be brilliant. I am a big fan of the album format, and love to experience the entire collection the way the artist intended. Listening to one or two songs is like randomly reading a few chapters of a book and expecting to understand the completed work. Like any music lover, I love to share what I'm listening to and discover some new things from friends. Here's my playlist for this week. Please put your lists in the comments below, or interact on Facebook or Twitter.

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Ranking JAMES - from Stutter to The Morning After The Night Before

Today marks the tenth edition of a special series within my weekly feature, Friday On The Turntable - instead of looking at one album, I am featuring all of the studio albums from the Manchester band - James - and ranking them. It was a mammoth task, and proved frustrating when putting albums that I love against other ones that I love. Nonetheless, I've provided a ranked list - from #11 (good) - #1 (the best). 

If you would like the short / textual version of the list, please scroll past the video. If you would like to watch my video discussion, check out the embedded video below - and be sure to click 'Subscribe' on my Youtube channel - for immediate access to all of my video posts. As always, I look forward to reading your comments and feedback. Click on any of the album titles if you'd like to purchase them. At the very bottom of this article is a link to a James playlist that I created in Spotify, which features my 3 favorite songs from each album - along with a couple other songs that I wanted you to hear. :)

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#11: Stutter (1986)

3 Favorite Songs: Johnny Yen, So Many Ways, Scarecrow

#10: Strip-mine (1988)

3 Favorite Songs: What For, Fairground, Ya Ho

#09: Gold Mother (1990)

3 Favorite Songs: Come Home, Top Of The World, Crescendo

#08: The Morning After The Night Before (2010)

3 Favorite Songs: Tell Her I Said So, Ten Below, Porcupine

#07: Millionaires (1999)

3 Favorite Songs: Just Like Fred Astaire, Surprise, Someone's Got It In For Me

#06: Pleased To Meet You (2001)

3 Favorite Songs: The Shining, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), English Beefcake

#05: Wah Wah (1994)

4 Favorite Songs: Pressure's On, Jam J, Honest Joe, Basic Brian

#04: Hey Ma (2008)

3 Favorite Songs: Hey Ma, I Wanna Go Home, Boom Boom

#03: Whiplash (1997)

3 Favorite Songs: Lost A Friend, Waltzing Along, Avalanche

#02: Seven (1992)

3 Favorite Songs: Seven, Sound, Don't Wait That Long

#01: Laid (1993)

3 Favorite Songs: Sometimes, Out To Get You, Lullaby

MY JAMES PLAYLIST:

The video for 'Hey Ma':

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