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QC Listravaganza 2008!
Puki:
hm...top 10 albums of 2008, by the amount of time spent listening to them, not from 2008 necessarily :
1. Beirut - the Flying Club Cup
2. Pips, Chips and Videoclips - Pjesme za Gladijatore
3. Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Black Label Society - Mafia
6. the Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (and At War With the Mystics - for the sake of unbiasedness they don't take two places)
7. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
8. Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
9. the Delgados - the Great Eastern
10. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
top 5 bizarre intimate moments songs of 2008:
1. Of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
2. Shivaree - All Because You Told Me So
3. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
4. System of a Down - Violent Pornography
5. Under Byen - Plantage
top 5 favourite music videos I saw in 2008:
1. Pips, Chips and Videoclips - Zdenka i vanzemaljci
2. Beirut - Nantes (on blogoteque, kind of a music video)
3. Arcade Fire - Rebellion
4. Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage (not official, but it rocks)
..and there I realised I don't watch too many music videos.
Hm. Wait, I'll think of some other list yet.
spoon_of_grimbo:
MY TOP 30 ALBUMS of 2008
1. Glass and Ashes - "Glass and Ashes"
2. Ginger - "Market Harbour"
3. The Gaslight Anthem - "The '59 Sound"
4. Banner Pilot - "Resignation Day"
5. Off With Their Heads - "From the Bottom"
6. Dillinger Four - "C I V I L W A R"
7. Less Than Jake - "GNV FLA"
8. Fighting With Wire - "Man Vs. Monster"
9. The Riot Before - "Fists Buried In Pockets"
10. Torche - "Meanderthal"
11. The Bronx - "The Bronx III"
12. Bridge and Tunnel - "East/West"
13. The Night Marchers - "See You In Magic"
14. Clouds - "We Are Above You"
15. Protest the Hero - "Fortress"
16. The Loved Ones - "Build and Burn"
17. Rise Against - "Appeal to Reason"
18. Blacklisted - "Heavier than Heaven, Lonelier Than God"
19. Alkaline Trio - "Agony & Irony"
20. Genghis Tron - "Board Up the House"
21. Ninja Gun - "Restless Rubes"
22. Calexico - "Carried to Dust"
23. Teenage Bottlerocket - "Warning Device"
24. Git Some - "Cosmic Rock"
25. In Flames - "A Sense of Purpose"
26. LaGrecia - "On Parallels"
27. Virgins - "Miscarriage"
28. United Nations - "United Nations"
29. All That Remains - "Overcome"
30. Pendulum - "In Silico"
MY TOP 10 EPs/MINI-ALBUMS of 2008
1. Sylosis - "The Supreme Oppressor"
2. Anchor Arms - "Cold Blooded"
3. 65daysofstatic - "The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties"
4. Bossk - ".2"
5. The Gaslight Anthem - "Señor and the Queen"
6. Tom Gabel - "Heart Burns"
7. Iron Chic - "Demo"
8. Narrows - "Narrows"
9. Rinoa - "Rinoa"
10. DESA - "Routes to Rapture"
MY TOP 6 COMPILATION/LIVE/"OTHER" ALBUMS of 2008
1. Hot Water Music - "'Til the Wheels Fall Off"
2. Rocket from the Crypt - "All Systems Go, Vol. 3"
3. The Wildhearts - "Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before, Vol. 1"
4. Rocket from the Crypt - "R.I.P."
5. Planes Mistaken for Stars - "We Ride to Fight! The First Four Years"
6. The Dresden Dolls - "No, Virginia"
THE RUNTS OF THE 2008 LITTER...
Some albums I've enjoyed, but for whatever reason (usually its the case that I have to "be in the right mood" for them, which isn't an insult, just how it is), haven't recieved enough listenage to warrant making my top 30. Given more time, some would probably have made the top 30. Here they are, in no order of preference:
36 Crazyfists - "The Tide and Its Takers"
The Ascent of Everest - "How Lonely Sits the City"
The Automatic - "This Is a Fix"
Cheap Girls - "Find Me a Drink Home"
Cult of Luna - "Eternal Kingdom"
Frank Turner - "Love, Ire and Song"
Fucked Up - "The Chemistry of Common Life"
The Gutter Twins - "Saturnalia"
The Hold Steady - "Stay Positive"
Jaguar Love - "Take Me to the Sea"
Johnny Truant - "No Tears for the Creatures"
The Legacy - "Beyond Hurt Beyond Hell"
Mogwai - "The Hawk Is Howling"
Monikers - "Wake Up"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!"
The Offspring - "Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace"
Polar Bear Club - "Sometimes Things Just Disappear"
Russian Circles - "Station"
Sigur Rós - "Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust"
Thrice - "The Alchemy Index Vols. 3 & 4: Air & Earth"
A YEAR LATE...!
My Top 10 of kickass records from 2007 which I meant to check out at the time, but only actually got around to picking up this year.
1. The Swellers - "My Everest"
2. Young Livers - "The New Drop Era"
3. The Menzingers - "A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology"
4. The Gaslight Anthem - "Sink or Swim"
5. 65daysofstatic - "The Destruction of Small Ideas"
6. Hour of the Wolf - "Waste Makes Waste"
7. The Ocean - "Precambrian"
8. Chuck Ragan - "Feast or Famine"
9. Rosetta - "Wake/Lift"
10. Attack in Black - "Marriage"
BAND OF THE YEAR AWARD: The Gaslight Anthem
All three of their records have made my lists in some form another this year, and they're one of the few bands that are truly living up to all the hype they're getting.
RUNNER-UP: Glass and Ashes - They weren't my album of the year for nothing! And they've broken up, at least for the time being, which sucks.
BEST ALBUM ARTWORK: Blacklisted - "Heavier than Heaven, Lonelier than God"
Just epic. And sums up the feel of the album its title amazingly.
RUNNER-UP: Clouds - "We are Above You" - Is that a tall pile of pancakes with syrup!? *MOVES CLOSER* ...Wait, no it's a menacing-looking tower with tentacles growing out of it. Nice!
N.B. Torche's album might have got in here, were it not for the fact that it's damn near impossible to get the foldy-out-bits back in the case without damaging them!
CUNTRAG OF THE YEAR AWARD: William Control
Yep, that over-dramatic vocally-talentless goth gimp from Aiden has started a solo project that, somehow, is even worse than his day-job. Dodgy electro-goth-pop drivel that no-one should have to hear.
RUNNER-UP: Ollie Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon - His band are terrible enough, but now all of a sudden I can't open up a magazine without seeing his gormless mug staring back at me, advertising his shit dayglo clothing company.
THE "WTF?!" AWARD: Sigur Rós, for the "Gobbledigook" video
Apparently that's how shit goes down in Iceland. Pretty cool!
RUNNER-UP: Tom Gabel - Tom, I love your songs, but WTF were you thinking when you put that drum machine in there?!
MrBlu:
I don't do lists well but I'll try.
Top 10 favorite artists That I discovered this year:
1...
Ok, can we skip this and just say that Lauryn Hill is the best ever? Or BSS?
Skibas_clavicle:
Don't we already have this thread?
Skibas_clavicle:
I believe it's 15 pages long.
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