Favourite Albums/Songs of 2008

As in albums that came out this year.

Choices?

My Best Albums of 2008 list:

1. Hold On Now, Youngster... (Los Campesinos!)
2. For Emma, Forever Ago (Bon Iver)
3. Third (Portishead)
4. The Midnight Organ Fight (Frightened Rabbit)
5. The Chemistry of Common Life (F***ed Up)
6. This Is It... (Marnie Stern)
7. The Seldom Seen Kid (Elbow)
8. Vampire Weekend (Vampire Weekend)
9. Visiter (Dodos)
10. Dear Science (TV on the Radio)
11. Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (Sigur Ros)
12. Sea Lion (The Ruby Suns)
13. Volume One (She & Him)
14. Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. (Deerhunter)
15. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Los Campesinos!)
16. Arm's Way (Islands)
17. Dig Lazarus Dig (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
18. Acid Tongue (Jenny Lewis)
19. Vivian Girls (Vivian Girls)
20. Seventh Tree (Goldfrapp)

I didn't listen to much new this year, but "mc chris is dead" from mc chris is one of the best albums I've heard in ages. It's almost endlessly listenable.

Oracular Spectacular by MGMT and Fate by Dr. Dog.

High five on Oracular Spectacular. That's a great album.

Acid Tongue - Jenny Lewis.

This wasn't a good music year. I'm gonna have to say "Who Killed Amanda Palmer" by Amanda Palmer.

Murs - Murs for President is awesome
Nas - Untitled

I thought Modern Guilt was disappointing in my early listening sessions with it, but—as Beck has done a couple of times in the past—this album grew on me immensely. Maybe it actually is a good album, or maybe it’s because I’m a little blinded by a long-awaited deluxe Odelay, but I really do enjoy Modern Guilt these days. Ladies complain about size, but what would they know

Did I like any other albums this year? Probably not.

Oh, I did like Viva la Vida. I never owned a Coldplay album before this one, and I only bought it because of Violet Hill.. which isn’t much of a surprise, I suppose. But unlike other times I’ve bought any album for just one song (I have never done this, but I’m sure somebody else has), I like to listen to other songs on the wrap. Hey, I won’t name them, but I’ll say that I like most of ’em.

I don’t know. I can’t think of anything else. That ain’t to say that 2008 was a splurge of bad albums or anything like that. You know what I mean? I could think of a few good and pretty good albums, but nothing I’d pipe into that favorites Baggie. Am I getting through to anyone here or... probably should stop huh.

Oh yeah do not forget I Am... Sasha Fierce. Nah, I’m just kidding around. Man. Good title, though.

I really liked the Thursday/Envy split, and United Nations' first album is good.

I was lazy in terms of new music this year. I hope to change this for 2009.

viva la vida and Darkness and Starlight are the only ones I've really listened to, and Viva la Vida is definitely my favorite <3

My 2008 list.

Not going to order them, there were a lot of great albums but none that I can really say killed me. I know Merriweather Post Pavilion will be my number one next year, though. Anyway, good music year for me:

Katie Stelmanis - Join Us
Both Final Fantasy EPs.
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
The Present - World I See
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
F---ed Up - Chemistry of Common Life
Nü Sensae - 1-Sided 12"
U.S. Girls - Introducing...
Thee Oh Sees - The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In
Vivian Girls - s/t
Pre- Epic Fits
Adventure - s/t
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Nobunny - Love Visions
Simon Bookish - Everything/Everything
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
Eric Copeland - Alien in a Garbage Dump

There's probably more, but oh wells.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Rye

This wasn't a good music year. I'm gonna have to say "Who Killed Amanda Palmer" by Amanda Palmer.

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http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/31MZbunKXML.jpgthe frankisum ep by frankmusik.

ACDC - Black Ice
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Muse - H.A.A.R.P.
Theory of a Deadman - Scars & Souvenirs
The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Nickelback - Dark Horse

:)

Viva la Vida! <3

Hypoterm - Another Side

Artist Linkage

Streaming Linkage

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.