Top Ten Welsh Albums of 2008

[Ceri Shaw]

Nominate your favorite Welsh or Welsh American album of 2008 here. Nominations are open till Jan 1st. Voting will take place during January. Feel free to throw in a few youtube links if you can find them. The idea is to showcase the musical explosion that has taken place in recent years and give people a few ideas for christmas presents.

I'll kick off by nominating the most obvious choice. "Rockferry" by Duffy ( released March 2008 )

Heres the title track from YouTube.

Rockferry

And heres her homepage.

Duffy Official Site

Rockferry

[Brian y Tarw Llwyd]

Albums, eh? I suppose I can't nominate robert's video of "Welshmen Can't Rap" then, can I?
hehe

[Ceri Shaw]

errrrm...no 'fraid not. We'll need a whole new category for that one.....lol.

[ArthMawr]

Send Away the Tigers - Manic Street Preachers


Dang - That was 2007, ok wait a second...

[ArthMawr]

Neon Neon

Neon Neon - should be the Americymru theme album since it is a collaboration between Gruf of Super Furry Animals and Producer Boom Bip from over by here.

The Album is called Stainless Steel and is inspired by the Delorean motor car, amongst other things

Neon Neon - I Lust U

[The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society]

Though they have split up now SKEP - SGEP was bloody good: http://www.myspace.com/skepband

Howl Griff is good too: www.myspace.com/howlgriff

[The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society]

Just heard a bloody great new Welsh band called The Peth (http://thepeth.com)

It was formed by the Super Furry Animals drummer Dafydd Ieuan and Rhys Ifans.

There first CD - 'The Golden Mile' was released last month. Have a listen at there MySpace site: www.myspace.com/thepethband

[dave martin]

i went to best buy today and that was the featured album on the pa , brian jones and mary hopkins love child?

[The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society]

Odd, I was in best buy over the weekend and they had the Stereophonics playing while I was there..

[The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society]

The Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir has got to be a contender too. They got nominated for the Brit Classical Awards this year and the 'Voices of the Valleys' CD's were really good.

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[David Thomas Jones]

Thanks Tafia for putting the Fron forward however Voices of the Valley was nominated for a Classical Brit in 2007 it went gold within three days and is now double platinum. Voices of the Valley Encore was nominated for a Classical Brit award in 2008 and has also gone platinum our third album Voices of the Valley Home released in November went straight into the UK Classic Charts at number one. We've got our fingers crossed for a third Classical Brit nomination however if we get it I doubt if it will be a case of third time lucky for a Welshman we will more than likely be up against the Priests (three Irish priest and the Vatican choir) which are the big crossover act of 2008.

[The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society]

The new Tom Jones CD '24 Hours' should definately be nominated, classic 60's sounding Tom brilliant!

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