York Musicians Social Group

Like a book club, but with albums!

This month’s albums:
- The Rolling Stones 'Sticky Fingers'
- Cocteau Twins 'Heaven or Las Vegas'

We’ll most likely be meeting at Royal Oak (on Goodramgate) upstairs in the Parlour Room, but please check back here closer to the time to confirm.

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How does it work?

We vote on two albums per month - a 'main' album, plus a personal recommendation from a member.

We meet on the second Thursday of the month. We announce the albums in advance, so you have the option to listen in your own time, but we also play them as background music at the social.

At each meeting, everyone has the opportunity to nominate a 'main' album for the next month's meeting, which we then vote on.

Similarly to most book clubs, discussion of the albums generally takes up a pretty small proportion of the evening! We have even been known to forget to bring them up entirely... So please feel free to join us regardless of how interested you are in this month’s albums. It's really just a fun way to get together and share recommendations at the same time, and we always love having new people.

Having said all that, if you'd like a more interesting and profound description of Album Club, along with quotes and general nostalgia, please read the below from our most loyal member...

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And now, the optional deep bit: technology has revolutionised our lives. But it also means we have almost unlimited choices - and "the paradox of choice suggests that an abundance of options actually requires more effort to choose and can leave us feeling unsatisfied with our choice" (thanks, Google). For example... music! If a song doesn't grab you on the first listen, why would you listen to it again, when Spotify has 100 million songs available for no extra cost or energy? "Next..." Albums - particularly those widely considered to be classics - are created as a unit, with songs in a particular order by design, and we believe that an album is an important milestone in an artist's career as well as a document of the time in which it was made; as well as being the soundtrack to many lives, possibly including some of the members of this group. Album Club is a way to set aside time to choose and talk about some of these albums: what they mean to us, or even what we thought of our first - and possibly only - listen.

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Please contribute £2 each time you attend a social if you're able to. There will be a card reader at some socials, otherwise you can use one of the links below. Thank you ❤

Each month we nominate and vote on a 'theme' for a playlist. Anyone who wants to can suggest songs of that theme to be added, and then we listen to the playlist at the social.

This month we'll be doing something a bit different - in honour of Playlist Club's first birthday! Instead of voting on a new theme, we'll take it in turns to pick out a theme at random from the (very large!) pool of nominations we've had over the last year, and then choose a song of that theme.

We'll meet a little earlier than usual this time - from 7.30pm - so we have more time for more songs 😍

We usually meet at Royal Oak (on Goodramgate) in the Parlour Room upstairs, but please check back here closer to the time to confirm.

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Please contribute £2 each time you attend a social if you're able to. There will be a card reader at most socials, or you can use one of the links below. Thank you ❤