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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.

[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.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

that thread was JUST top albums of 2008.

this is a listravaganza.


a listravaganza.

[Puki]

a listravaganza.

Where instead of just listing your top 10 albums, you list other things too!

I think I broke it. Damn.

[Be My Head]

Cynic - Traced In Air


Everything else was SHIT in comparison, even Opeth.


Okay, I'm just too lazy to compile everything into lists, plus I only listened to maybe 16 or 17 releases, not enough to truly have a "best of", since everything was quite good.

[valley_parade]

WAHHH I CAN'T FIND A COPY OF THE MALKMUS ALBUM SHANE UPLOAD IT FOR ME

Lazy fuck.

[Patrick]

A lazy fuck is when one participant doesn't even move and expects their partner to do everything. Me? I'm just an asshole.

[Jackie Blue]

          INTERNET!
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[look out! Ninjas!]

Top 10 Albums

No particular order though. Too hard, too many styles.

Klmit 1918 - Just in case we'll never meet again
Jesu - Why are we not perfect
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
The Presets - Apocalypso
Russian Circles - Station
Supercontinent  - Vaalbara
Women - Women
The Grates  - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won
Dungen - 4
Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini

This is a list of albums I've listened to and were tagged as 2008 in my itunes library. I have somewhere around 100 albums I'm yet to listen to, many from this year.

Favourite person by a long way is a guy who calls himself Mogwai, who runs the thesirenssound.com blog. This has been the main source of my musical enjoyment this year.

My "why did I not know of these guys years ago" pick is, by a fucking mile, Mono.
They last released an album in 2006 (but are working on one now) and make absolutely beautiful music.

[Jackie Blue]

Top three people who have set me on the track on basically all the music I listen to nowadays the music I listen to:

Tommy
Khar
JC

dude i am so not sending you a christmas card

[valley_parade]

Jens, your list seems to be lacking a certain Japanese rock band. 


(Then again Mono didn't put anything out this year)

[Jackie Blue]

Dude Mono put out that awesome live DVD this year!

[valley_parade]

I meant more in the form of albums, Jackie.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

top ten albums, in no particular order:

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

DJ Frane - Journey to the Planet of Birds

The Black Keys - Attack & Release

Mr. Bear - These Machines

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippers

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippers

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippers

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippers

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippers

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippers


I probably could have tried a little harder but most of the other new music i listned to this year, although good, wasn't really top-ten material. then again i could be forgetting something crucial since my iPod broke last week and i lost all my music.

[Jackie Blue]

songs of the year

i will possess your heart (ALBUM VERSION, not shitty single edit) - dcfc
golden age - tvotr
you on the run - black angels
we are the pipettes (us version)
i love you, i'm going to blow up your school - mogwai
alcohol - millionaires
singer-songwriter - okkervil river
council estate - tricky
get-well-cards - conor oberst
magazines - hold steady
graveyard girl - m83
messeji (japanese vers.) - boris
something about ghosts - matt elliott


songs of the year from other years

been it - cardigans
waydown - catherine wheel
silk rd. - grails
life of crime - cub
gagged and tied - that dog.
lucky guy - muffs
north american scum - lcd soundsystem
a call to arms - black angels
loaded - primal scream
come together (as seen live in atlanta this year) - spiritualized


subforum of the year

gabbly

[TheFuriousWombat]

Man, I was so disappointed with that MONO DVD. It just didn't do it for me. And I love that band and their live shows so much. Even seeing myself in the DVD wasn't as exciting as I had hoped. On a much more positive note, they have a new album coming out on Temporary Residence in March. It features an orchestra on 75% of it and is surely going to be amazing. It's 7 tracks, only two of which are under 10 minutes and I'm already predicting it to be epic and wonderful and on my '09 'Albums of the Year' list.

Anyway...lets try some lists I guess. I might do best/favorite songs later but...probably not.

Albums of the Year (this still might change) EDITED: TOP 30 with some order adjustments as well. This order is a little iffy....
30. Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
29. Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin
28. Marnie Stern - This is....
27. Seaworthy - Codes Adrift
26. Aughra - Proof of Dark Matter
25. Stars - Sad Robot EP
24. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
23. Eksi Ekso - I am Your Bastard Wings
22. Helios - Caesura
21. Barn Owl - Raft of Serpents
20. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
19. Higuma - Haze Valley
18. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
17. Gregor Samsa - Rest
16. The Tumbled Sea - Songs by the Tumbled Sea
15. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
14. Shearwater - Rook
13. Steven R. Smith - Anchorite
12. Young Widows - Old Wounds
11. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
10. Taiga Remains - Ribbons of Dust
9. The North Sea - Gated Community
8. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
7. Max Richter - 24 Post Cards in Full Color
6. Deerhunter - Microcastle
5. Bohren un der Club of Gore - Dolores
4. The Drift - Memory Drawings
3. The Alps - III
2. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
1. Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures

Shows of the Year (sadly I didn't get to very many and they were almost all on campus so...it's a limited selection) EDITED: I added two more
12. New Monuments w/ Herons at SMOG, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
11. Jeffrey Lewis and the Jackles at The Root Cellar, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
10. Mount Eerie w/ Julie Doiron and Calm Down it's Monday at Bard Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
9. Sigur Ros at the Grand Ballroom, NY
8. Clues w/ Elfin Saddle and Ramona Cordova at SMOG, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
7. Thee Silver Mt. Zion.... w/ Vic Chestnut and someone else whom I forget at The First Unitarian Church, PA
6. Efterklang at The First Unitarian Church, PA
5. Shearwater with Hospital Ships at The Old Gym, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
4. Wolf Parade with Wintersleep at Terminal 5, NY
3. Gregor Samsa w/ Olafur Arnalds at Le Poisson Rouge, NY
2. Stars with Bell X1 at the Trocadero, PA
1. Stars of the Lid w/ Hammock at Le Poisson Rouge, NY

Best Music Blogs of the Year (for me anyway, and in terms of being sources for music)
3. Victory Rose http://victoryrosemusic.blogspot.com/
The Sigur Ros fanboy in me forced me to put this on the list. Dozens of super high quality, remastered live SR shows from the band's entire run thus far. Lotsa rarities and cool stuff. Also a fair amount of stuff from other bands. Live recordings, all great quality, by MONO, EitS, The Books, Low and more.

2. Beautifull Noise http://beautifullnoise.blogspot.com/
Pretty self explanatory. Lots of pretty, epic and awesome electronic, "post-rock" and so on

1. Left out in Left Field http://pavidsson.blogspot.com/
Unfortunately all the back content was recently removed but, before that happened, this blog served as an endless source of brilliant new and old ambient, drone, electronic, experimental and found sound albums. Really, it was my Mecca.

Best Things I discovered Musically This Year (a short list. I sort of stuck to my guns this year):
2. "Hardcore" music of various kinds
I used to blow off anything with screaming/growling/roaring/ect. vocals as not worth my time. Luckily I've seen the light and found joy in bands like Meshugga, Converge, Envy, Genghis Tron, Amanda Woodward and plenty of others. It's intense, cathartic and honestly, in the right mood, intensely enjoyable.
1. Jazz
This was the year I really started listening to jazz and collecting old jazz LPs. There's a huge used record store near my house that is literally overflowing with cheap, awesome jazz records, almost all in great condition. I've spent hours searching through bins, buying random stuff, and playing it endlessly on my record player and I couldn't be happier. I feel like I'm taking a sort of logical step but in the opposite direction in that I've been listening to lots of music clearly inspired/grounded in certain jazz sensibilities for a long time (notably, for example, The Drift and Bohren and the Club of Gore) but hadn't too deeply explored jazz itself. Well, I'm glad that's changed!

EDIT:
More stuff

Most listened to artists of the year (not the best necessarily)
10. Explosions in the Sky
9. MONO
8. Stars
7. Stars of the Lid
6. Do Make Say Think
5. Okkervil River
4. Eluvium
3. Tarentel
2. The Drift
1. Sigur Ros

[Patrick]

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

I need to go back and listen to this again. I remember at first listen I was like "Oh FUCK yeah, that is some enormous guitar sound" and then I forgot about it. And now when I go listen to it I stop paying attention and I'm like "Fuck this, I want some Weezer instead."

[Scandanavian War Machine]

dude do it.

Jack White does some really cool guitar things this time around. particularly, the solo in "the switch and spur" and the psychedelic/slide thing he does in "hold up"

good shit.

[alli]

THE "WTF?!" AWARD:  Sigur Rós, for the "Gobbledigook" video
Apparently that's how shit goes down in Iceland.  Pretty cool!

uhm...no?

[spoon_of_grimbo]

THE "WTF?!" AWARD:  Sigur Rós, for the "Gobbledigook" video
Apparently that's how shit goes down in Iceland.  Pretty cool!

uhm...no?

that was a joke, i don't actually expect iceland to be full of naked hippies...  and that award is "WTF" in the "how fucking cool is that?!" sense, not negative...

[alli]

THE "WTF?!" AWARD:  Sigur Rós, for the "Gobbledigook" video
Apparently that's how shit goes down in Iceland.  Pretty cool!

uhm...no?

that was a joke, i don't actually expect iceland to be full of naked hippies...  and that award is "WTF" in the "how fucking cool is that?!" sense, not negative...

yeah, i was hoping that was a joke, otherwise you´d be kinda stupid 

[TheFuriousWombat]

Man, their videos lately have been really bad. seriously.

[sean]

On a much more positive note, they have a new album coming out on Temporary Residence in March. It features an orchestra on 75% of it and is surely going to be amazing. It's 7 tracks, only two of which are under 10 minutes and I'm already predicting it to be epic and wonderful and on my '09 'Albums of the Year' list.

SHIT YES

[AanAllein]

The Obligatory Top Ten Albums

1. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
2. TV On The Radio - Dear Science,
3. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
4. Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea
5. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
6. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
7. This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
8. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont'd
9. Islands - Arm's Way
10. UpC+DownC+LeftC+RightC+ABC+Start - Embers

Black Francis - Svn Fngrs may have made the list, but at only 20 minutes I wasn't really confident in classifying it as an 'album' even though it's not really an EP.

Top Ten New Songs of '08:

1. Wolf Parade - California Dreamer
2. Flobots - Handlebars
3. Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists
4. MGMT - Kids
5. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
6. Tapes 'n' Tapes - Le Ruse
7. TV On The Radio - Halfway Home
8. UpC+DownC+LeftC+RightC+ABC+Start - McDoomish
9. Tokyo Police Club - Nursery, Academy
10. Does It Offend You Yeah? - Epic Last Song

Top Ten Most-Listened To Songs of '08:
(as per last.fm)

1. Okkervil River – Black
2. Gang of Four – Anthrax
3. The National – Mistaken for Strangers
4. Vampire Weekend – Campus
5. MGMT – Time to Pretend
6. Does It Offend You Yeah? – Dawn Of The Dead
7. Does It Offend You Yeah? – Epic Last Song
8. Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma   
9. Mark Ronson – Apply Some Pressure (ft. Paul Smith)
10. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart

Top Five Old Albums I First Listened to This Year:

1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
2. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
3. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
4. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
5. Nirvana - In Utero

I think I posted my favourite five gigs in the live thread earlier...maybe I will dig it up later and amend it to this post

[De_El]

Hah! My top ten most listened songs of '08 (according to Last.FM) are kind of ridiculous.

1. "Transmission" - Joy Division
2. "Dead Souls" - Joy Division
3. "Ceremony" - Joy Division
4. "Disorder" - Joy Division
4. (a tie) "New Dawn Fades" - Joy Division
the last five are all tied
6. "Naki Kyoku" - Boris
6. "The Only Mistake" - Joy Division
6. "Candidate" - Joy Division
6. "These Days" - Joy Division
6. "Ceremony" - New Order

I knew I listened to Joy Division a lot but I had no idea how disproportionately more I listen to them than a lot of other things.

[Joseph]

alcohol - millionaires

Really?

[sean]

Hmmm I haven't made a list yet but it will probably include such things like this-

A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Daturah - Reverie
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
That TVonR once I get to listening it
That Helios album once I get to listening to it
Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
That Up C Down C Left C Right C ABC + Start album once I get to listening to it
 Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling

Man I really can't remember what else was released this year.

[Patrick]

Man, Sigur Ros. I like their music. I like the Icelandic language. I even like the gibberish Jonsi spouts when he gets bored with regular old Icelandic (I assume the guy is CONSTANTLY just saying shit because that is the only way I can imagine getting sick of such an amazing-sounding language).

Fuck trying to read Sigur Ros song titles though. "Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust"? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT, GUYS, HOW DO YOU SAY IT

[Christophe]

Super-Awesome (Or Super-Horrible) Musical Oddities of 2008

1: Chuggo
His outrageous song shot this Canadian rapper into the sky
AHHHH C'MON FUCK A GUY

2: Brokencyde
Peanut Butter and Jelly are two of the most unlikely partners yet put together, they make sense. Screamo and Crunk? Yeah motherfucking right.

3: Complete
Three words: HOOOOOOOOOOOOOGIE. BOOOOOOOOOOGIE. LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND.

4: That Scientific Attempt to Record the Most Annoying Song Ever
Do all your shopping... AT WAL-MART!

I know there's more, so keep them coming...

[Joseph]

I think I may have mentioned it on this forum before (definitely have on the PRF), but one of my best friends buys drugs from Chuggo.  He got a copy of the entire album for free.  Immortal Technique guests on it!

Appartently Chuggo also owns some illegal after-hours clubs and things.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

i'm considering getting that UpCDownC... album, since i heard "get to the chopper" and really liked it.   is the rest of the album as good?

[AanAllein]

i'm considering getting that UpCDownC... album, since i heard "get to the chopper" and really liked it.   is the rest of the album as good?

Yeah it's probably the third best song on the album

[Christophe]

I think I may have mentioned it on this forum before (definitely have on the PRF), but one of my best friends buys drugs from Chuggo.  He got a copy of the entire album for free.  Immortal Technique guests on it!

Appartently Chuggo also owns some illegal after-hours clubs and things.

Yeah, that was me who quoted Chuggo and you who mentioned it on EA.

Does he dip the drugs in mayonnaise?

[Jackie Blue]

Hah! My top ten most listened songs of '08 (according to Last.FM) are kind of ridiculously awesome

fixed

[De_El]

I would not dispute that.

[Jackie Blue]

Despite respectable efforts by veterans such as De_El, OIC and TFW, ultimately this thread proved to be a disappointment, landing it squarely in the bottom 5 of the year for me.

[sean]

Why, low quality of bands chosen?

Also that Up C album is not on my list at all anymore. It's a solid release but it is just not that good. With all the praise I've heard about it I thought it would be like, their first album times 10 or something.

[Joseph]

25 Great Albums from 2008 Which I Will Order With Possible Additions By New Years
AIDS Wolf - Cities Of Glass
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light
Boris - Smile
Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
The Constantines - Kensington Heights
Current 93 - Birth Canal Blues
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
Final Fantasy - various EPs
Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
Joan Of Arc - Boo Human
John Zorn - The Dreamers
Ladyhawk - Shots
Loma Prieta - Last City
Make Believe - Going To The Bone Church
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
The Mountain Goats - Heratic Pride
My Disco - Paradise
Parts & Labor - Recievers
Retribution Gospel Choir - Retribution Gospel Choir
Sloan - Parallel Plays
Sun Kil Moon - April
TV On The Radio - Dear Science,
Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers

10 Best Live Shows Of 2008
1. Shellac w/ A Place To Bury Strangers @ La Sala Rossa
2. AIDS Wolf w/ Various @ Various Venues (saw them multiple times, each time was noteworthy)
3. Joan Of Arc w/ Winning @ The Media Club
4. The New Year @ Le Divan Orange
5. A Silver Mt. Zion @ La Tulipe
6. Parts & Labor w/ Special Noise @ Zoobizzare
7. Mount Eerie w/ Calm Down It's Monday (Julie Doiron) @ La Sala Rossa
8. Destroyer w/ Frog Eyes @ The Commodore Ballroom
9. Handsome Furs @ Drawn & Quarterly
10. Nina Nastasia @ Le Cagibi

More to come.

[sean]

5. A Silver Mt. Zion @ La Tulipe

That is just not fair.

[David_Dovey]

Jeesus it seems I have had a surge of new albums from this year pass over my desk in the past few weeks so I would not be surprised if I don't have a best of 2008 list before June 2009.

[Jackie Blue]

i srsly cannot believe no one else has even mentioned m83

what is wrong with you people

[Joseph]

i srsly cannot believe no one else has even mentioned m83

what is wrong with you people

Oh good lord that album is great.

Fuck me.

I can't believe I left that off.

Seriously.