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    Default 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)
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    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.


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    Oracular Spectacular by MGMT and Fate by Dr. Dog.

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

    Acid Tongue - Jenny Lewis.

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


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    Murs - Murs for President is awesome
    Nas - Untitled

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    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.

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    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.

    Jellyfish swim by.

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    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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rye View Post
    This wasn't a good music year. I'm gonna have to say <s>"Who Killed Amanda Palmer" by Amanda Palmer.</s>
    the frankisum ep by frankmusik.

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    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


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    Viva la Vida! <3

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