Favourite Albums/Songs of 2008

I have a very pop/Billboard Top 40 taste in music, and my 2008 favorite was definitely Beyonce. Loved her latest album! :bigsmile:

Darkness And Starlight - Black Mages
Pretty. Odd. - Panic At The Disco (dunno why people hate this)
Stop Drop and Roll!!! - Foxboro Hot Tubs
Rotation - Cute Is What We Aim For
All Hope Is Gone - Slipknot
Ultra Beatdown - DragonForce
Not really a great year for music, only full higlight being slipknot really

Antidotes, by Foals, is probably my number one. Listen to it if you can.

Oh wait, you can.

Darkness and Starlight by TBM

Only one I liked, sorry

Endless Possibilities - Jaret Reddick

Here are the albums I remember from the top of my head - there are probably more:

- "Jukebox" - Cat Power
- "Oracular Spectacular" - MGMT
- "Santogold" - Santogold
- "This Is For the White in Your Eyes" - Choir of Young Believers

... and that's all I can remember right now (dammit!). There are definitely more than those ones.

Gregory and the Hawk - Moenie and Kitchi
M83 - Saturdays Youth
Helios - Caesura

That's about all I can think of. And it's pretty funny that I just started listening to most of those albums at the end of the year and I'm loving them. Especially Gregory and the Hawk. SO GOOD. I'm never going to stop listening to "Two Faced Twin" or "Doubtful" or "Oats We Sow" or "Gray Weather"

I downloaded Portishead's "Third" but I didn't like it that much, really. :S

The Walkmen - You & Me is an awesome album. One of the best I have heard in years.

for me the final list ends up being something like:

1. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
2. Krallice - s/t
3. Deathspell Omega/S.V.E.S.T. - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum
4. Cynic - Traced in Air
5. Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky
6. Enslaved - Vertebrae
7. Mirrorthrone - Gangrene
8. A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
9. Coldworld - Melancholie²
10. Ihsahn - angL

with honourable mentions to (in alphabetical order) Darkestrah, The Fall of Troy, Hollenthon, Leviathan, Meshuggah, Hollenthon, Ihsahn, The Mars Volta, Mgła, Nyktalgia, Opeth, Origin, Sigur Rós, and Skepticism. If you're a fan of metal it would come out as a strong year; otherwise it'd have been pretty bleak.

I'm pretty Sure Kamelot - Ghost Opera was 2008, maybe late 2007 though.

I'll go with that. :p

Viva la Vida, definitely! Cemeteries of London might be my favorite song ever now.