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michaelicious:
So it's December again which means it's time to start finalising your lists so you can post them in list threads on the internet that no one reads! I thought it was appropriate to start a new thread because it would just be more special this way.

I thought we could do something fun and instead of just listing your top 10 albums, list other things too! Mine are pretty uncreative, but feel free to be as creative as you want. I ain't buggin'.

My year in lists:

Top 10 Albums:
1. Parts & Labor - Receivers - "Fuck yeah, motherfucker!" are pretty much the only thoughts that cross my mind when this album is playing. Adding Sarah Lipstate on guitar was a smart move. Every song is anthemic and noisy and amazing. This album sounds like it is from the future.
2. Women - Women - Probably one of the best debut albums I have ever heard. This album is weird. It's got poppy little gems like "Group Transport Hall" then when you start to get comfortable they get all US Maple like "January 8th". These dudes pretty much killed live too.
3. Times New Viking - Rip It Off - I know some people can't seem to get past how lo-fi this album is, but once you get used to having tinnitus this album is amazing! This album is so catchy and emphatic and sincere and wonderful from start to finish.
4. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea - I think this is my new favourite Jews album. It's so well put-together and they seem like they are having a lot of fun!
5. The New Year - The New Year - These jerks never disappoint me. Another beautiful, understated record from the Messrs. Kadane.
6. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane - Chad VanGaalen has always made interesting albums, but this is his first album that is a truly great album. It's focused and well-paced and most of these songs are catchy as hell.
7. Laura Barrett - Victory Garden - This album is so strange and inviting. The main istrument is the kalimba! That might seem like it's gimmicky but no way, man. Laura plays it with such skill - you might even venture to say virtuosity - that it's never boring. Her voice is dreamy and comforting like a lullabye.
8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lied Down in the Light - I don't wanna live to see the day when Will Oldham releases an album that doesn't make my top 10.
9. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer - I never thought that this album would make my list because I kinda hated it at first. I am glad because there was a time in my life when I would have said Wolf Parade was my favourite band.
10. Futureheads - This Is Not the World - A lot of people didn't like this album, but fuck them. This album is great! It's catchy, the guitars sound awesome, some of the songs sound like classic Futureheads while others move forward to a poppier direction.

Top 5 EPs:
1. Maps & Atlases - You and Me and the Mountain
2. Times New Viking - Stay Awake
3. Bottomless Pit - Congress
4. You Were Always - Ghost Lanes
5. Hooded Fang - Hooded Fang

Top 10 Songs:
1. Women - Group Transport Hall/Shaking Hands
2. Maps & Atlases - You and Me and the Mountain
3. Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh
4. Times New Viking - R.I.P. Allegory
5. Futureheads - Radio Heart
6. Wolf Parade - The Grey Estates
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - For Every Field There's a Mole
8. Born Ruffians - Barnacle Goose
9. Chad VanGaalen - Bare Feet on Wet Griptape
10. Jenny Lewis - See Fernando

Best Album Art:
You Were Always - Ghost Lanes
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

Awesome albums from 2007 I didn't hear until 2008:
1. Animal Names - Ballet Bones
2. Bowerbirds - Hymn for a Dark Horse
3. Look Mexico - This Is Animal Music
4. Kickball - Everything Is a Miracle Nothing Is a Miracle Everything Is
5. Germans - Cape Fear
6. Antelope - Reflector
7. Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink (even though I think it was actually a reissue and the album came out in 2006 originally)
8. Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
9. Amiina - Kurr

Kyros:
I love lists! This thread came just in time too since I just got finished making a mix of my favorite songs from the past year.  Anyways here we go:

2008: Top 10 Albums

10) Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08
9) TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
8 ) Times New Viking - Rip it Off
7) Deerhunter _ Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
6) Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
5) Q-Tip - The Renaissance
4) Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
3) Women - Women
2) Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
1) Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster..

I'm gonna hold off on any small blurbs for now, but I will say that clearly Los Campesinos! is my favorite new band to come along in a while.  Also the debuts of Women and Vivian Girls were fucking mind blowingly good.


Favorite Songs of '08 That Fit on 1 CD

1) The Storm - High Places (High Places)
2) Choir Practice - Lackthereof (Your Anchor)
3) Suffering Jukebox - Silver Jews (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
4) We Fight / Love - Q-Tip (The Renaissance)
5) Bones of Man - Chad VanGaalen (Soft Airplane)
6) Painted Shut - Jay Reatard (Matador Singles '08)
7) My Year in Lists - Los Campesinos! (Hold On Now, Youngster..)
8 ) Comrade Elvis - Hilotrons (Happymatic)
9) Give the Drummer Sum - Black Milk (Tronic)
10) Rooks - Shearwater (Rooks)
11) Singer Songwriter - Okkervil River (The Stand Ins)
12) Out of Reaches - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (Real Emotional Trash)
13) We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - Los Campesinos! (We Are Beautiful,  We Are Doomed)
14) Angry Swan - Bottomless Pit (Congress EP)
15) Nowheres Nigh - Parts & Labor (Recivers)
16) The Package is Wrapped - Marnie Stern (This is It...)
17) Celebrate the Body Electric - Ponytail (Ice Cream Spiritual)
18) Black Rice - Women (Women)
19) Nothing Ever Happened - Deerhunter (Microcastle)
20) Shout Me Out - TV on the Radio (Dear Science,)
21) The End of All Things - Times New Viking (Daytrotter Sessions)

Christophe:
Top three people who influenced my music taste in 2008
1. Tommydski
Silkworm. Bedhead. 'Nuff said.
2. Michaelicious
Whom without I would not have heard North of America and Algernon Cadwallader. Mad props for the "angular" music, broham.
3. Uhh...
Quick, someone upload a bunch of awesome albums to the mediaf!re thread so I can worship you!

Top seven albums of 2008 that I heard (because I could only count seven)
Women- Women
Make Believe- Going to the Bone Church
Deerhunter- Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
We Versus The Shark- Dirty Versions
Jay Reatard- Singles 06-07/Matador Singles 08
Future of the Left- Last Night I Saved Her From Vampires
Algernon Cadwallader- Some Kind of Cadwallader

I need to listen to more music from this year.

Patrick:
I don't think I have enough music from this year to make a top 10. I AM NOT FEELING VERY LOVED HERE.

spoon_of_grimbo:
i don't get the amount of people saying that 2008 was a bad year for music, or they've not heard anything they like (not necessarily you guys that have posted, just in general, from who i've spoken to and seen posted on other forums).  personally, i've been spoiled for choice this year.  i'll post a few lists on here tomorrow if i get a chance, i'm about to head out atm.

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