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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: michaelicious on 30 Nov 2008, 22:25
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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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/jesusvsthepolice/ghostlanes.jpg)
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/jesusvsthepolice/lookoutmountainlookoutsea.jpg)
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
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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)
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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.
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I don't think I have enough music from this year to make a top 10. I AM NOT FEELING VERY LOVED HERE.
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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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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.
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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?!
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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?
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Don't we already have this thread?
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I believe it's 15 pages long.
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that thread was JUST top albums of 2008.
this is a listravaganza.
a listravaganza.
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a listravaganza.
Where instead of just listing your top 10 albums, you list other things too!
I think I broke it. Damn.
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Cynic - Traced In Air
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Traced_In_Air_Cover.jpg)
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.
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WAHHH I CAN'T FIND A COPY OF THE MALKMUS ALBUM SHANE UPLOAD IT FOR ME
Lazy fuck.
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A lazy fuck is when one participant doesn't even move and expects their partner to do everything. Me? I'm just an asshole.
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INTERNET!
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:-D
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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.
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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
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Jens, your list seems to be lacking a certain Japanese rock band. :-D
(Then again Mono didn't put anything out this year)
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Dude Mono put out that awesome live DVD this year!
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I meant more in the form of albums, Jackie.
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
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THE "WTF?!" AWARD: Sigur Rós, for the "Gobbledigook" video
Apparently that's how shit goes down in Iceland. Pretty cool!
uhm...no?
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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...
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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 :laugh:
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Man, their videos lately have been really bad. seriously.
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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
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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
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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.
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alcohol - millionaires
Really?
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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.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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?
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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
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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?
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Hah! My top ten most listened songs of '08 (according to Last.FM) are kind of ridiculously awesome
fixed
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I would not dispute that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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5. A Silver Mt. Zion @ La Tulipe
That is just not fair.
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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.
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i srsly cannot believe no one else has even mentioned m83
what is wrong with you people
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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.
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Okay fine I can make a list.
Top 10 albums that I only really started listening to this year but are actually older:
1. The Beatles - Revolver
2. Gotye - Like Drawing Blood (no kidding, one of the best things I've heard in 5 years)
3. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
4. The Band - The Band
5. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
6. Runrig - The Highland Connection (the production is mostly shit on this album and fuck Runrig's old drummer, but still very good and worth listening to if only for "The Twenty-Five Pounder" alone)
7. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West ("Cowboy Dan" fuck yesss)
8. Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
9. Cake - Prolonging The Magic
10. Merle Haggard - 16 Biggest Hits (sue me, it's a Greatest Hits compilation, but it's worth losing elitist hipster cred)
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that loma prieta album that dark flame mentioned is some mad shit!!! i got the download of it a while ago, but admittedly, it kinda got lost somewhere in the depths of my laptop... where'd you pick it up man? if you own the CD that is?
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i srsly cannot believe no one else has even mentioned m83
what is wrong with you people
these are things that i cannot remember
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7. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West ("Cowboy Dan" fuck yesss)
I've always been sure this was their best album. Convincing other people of this is exceedingly difficult and I never quite got why. Sure, "The Moon..." is a great album but it really fails to capture the intensity and energy of TLCW on a lot of levels. And yeah, Cowboy Dan is awesome (and even better live since they usually finish it with a crazy improv jam and it's so awesome). Point is, any year that you can get into this album is a good year musically, as far as I'm concerned.
On an unrelated note, I wish I hadn't forgotten that m83 album either. It's definitely great.
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That's odd, all the people I know who have listened to Modest Mouse longer than "Float On" pretty much agree they peaked with LCW and it's been a steady downhill ride since then.
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I didn't listen to a lot of new stuff this year so the top five albums I listened to in 08 were:
1. Zen Arcade by Hüsker Dü
2. Double Nickels On The Dime by Minutemen
3. Low by Bowie
4. You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr
5. Entertainment! by Gang Of Four
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Top 10 albums
HEALTH//DISCO
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colour
Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning - Something For All Of Us
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Anoraak - Nightdrive With You
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Air France - No Way Down
Honorable mentions: Ladyhawke, Portishead, Midnight Juggernauts, Yelle, Frightened Rabbit, The Drift
Top 5 mediaf!re thread albums
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Weakerthans - Left And Leaving
Radical Face - Ghost
Four Tet - Ringer
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
edit: Why the fuck am I the first to mention Lindstrom?
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i srsly cannot believe no one else has even mentioned m83
what is wrong with you people
Ehhhhh. Doesn't do it for me.
Okay, here goes:
Top five albums
1. Dungen - 4
It's grown on me SO much in the past few weeks that it's not even funny. I can't get "Det Tar Tid" out of my head, and I don't consider that a bad thing
2. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Fuck you guys, I liked it. I'm not even sure why I like it, but I do.
3. Sigur Ros - that thing with the long name
It seems so different from Takk... and everything before it, but it also comes off so right.
4. Boris - Smile (both versions)
It's Boris. Nuff said. I only wish they'd found a way to fit "Floor Shaker" in (it's on the new live album and the "Statement" single).
5.Everybody Out! s/t
Easily the best punk rock album in five years. Chris Sweeney from Dead Pets and Rick Barton, ex-Dropkick Murphys. It's fun, raucous, and old-school as fuck.
Honorable mention:
Hanggai - Introducing Hanggai
Dunno who put this in the mediaf!re thread, but THANK YOU. "Wuji" is another one of those songs that refuses to leave my head.
Top fivesix shows
1. Everybody Out! (Newbury Comics, Braintree MA)
75 kids jammed into a record store, birthday cake and punk rock. Well worth the time spent on the Red Line and the taxi fares. Plus Newby's had 25% off all vinyl. I made out quite well that day. I think I actually got a MGMT single on white vinyl for free. Cool.
2. Fu Manchu/Burning Brides/Some band with a white dude with dreads (Middle East downstairs, Cambridge MA)
The most fun I've had at a show in a long time. The first band..I can't remember, but they weren't too good. Burning Brides ripped, and the Fu played their normal fuzzy-as-fuck rock until about 1:30.
3. Dropkick Murphys/Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (Tsongas Arena, Lowell MA, evening show)
The crowd wasn't into TL at all, but they played a fuck of a set, ending with a Stiff Little Fingers cover. Dropkick were Dropkick, and it was St. Paddy's week. Pretty awesome. Shame about the crowd, though.
4. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks/John Vanderslice (Mass MoCA, North Adams MA)
MoCA brings one good show to my town a year, and this was it. I love Vanderslice, and Malkmus absolutely tore the place apart with his set.. Plus, I finally got to see the drumming greatness of Janet Weiss live.
5. Dropkick Murphys/Everybody Out!/Big D & The Kids Table (Tsongas Arena, Lowell MA, afternoon show)
I think Dropkick played a better set this show than they did in the evening. The crowd was better, too. This was the first time I'd seen or heard Everybody Out!, and I pretty much fell in love after the first song. Big D were nigh horrid. I think the singer was stoned off his ass, or at least it seemed like it. This ranks lower than the evening show only because I like TL/Rx more than Everybody Out!.
6. Bill Chapman Trio (Cup and Saucer, North Adams, MA)
Live jazz with breakfast the first Sunday of every month. Can you complain about that? Nope.
Shane's "that guitar sounds awesome" bits of the year
1. Amon Amarth - "Varyags of Mikklagaard" (1:38-2:25)
The riff is awesome, then they get all harmonizing and shit, repeat the intro..mmm.
2. The Sword - "The Sundering" (0:31-0:39)
I like the run at the end, it almost sounds like the whole thing is just falling apart.
EPs/singles/whatnot of the year
1. Sebastian Grainger & The Mountains - American Names
2. Boris - Statement 7"
3. Lagwagon - I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen To Lagwagon
4. Polymaths - So Long, Castle Road
5. Jay Reatard/Deerhunter split
6. Nadja - Long Dark Twenties
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2. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Fuck you guys, I liked it. I'm not even sure why I like it, but I do.
Probably because it's a really good album!
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I was so confused when p4k gave it a kinda shitty score.
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Shane you really gotta stop reading Pitchfuck.
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If not for p4k I wouldn't know AC Newman's got a new album out next month!
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I was so confused when p4k gave it a kinda shitty score.
Sarcasm? They always give great albums mediocre scores, and vice versa.
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I can't make a 2008 albums list yet
TOP BANDS I WAS OBSESSED WITH AT SOME POINT THIS YEAR
1. Sloan
2. Okkervil River
3. The Radio Dept.
4. Beulah (carried over from 2007)
5. The New Year
6. Bedhead
7. The Wedding Present
8. Why?
9. Built to Spill (carried over from 2007)
10. Low
TOP TEN SONGS FROM THE LAST SIX MONTHS ACCORDING TO LAST.FM
1. The Magnetic Fields – All My Little Words
2. Okkervil River – Song of Our So-Called Friend
3. The Radio Dept. – I Wanted You to Feel the Same
4. The Radio Dept. – The City Limit
5. The Magnetic Fields – I Don't Want to Get Over You
6. TV on the Radio – Love Dog
7. The Wedding Present – Dare
8. Why? – Fatalist Palmistry
9. The Radio Dept. – South Side
10. Okkervil River – It Ends With A Fall
LOOK AT HOW SAD I AM
TOP NON-2008 ALBUMS (NEW DISCOVERIES AND OLD FAVORITES)
1. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
2. All Sloan
3. Beulah - Yoko
4. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
5. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
6. The 1900s - Cold & Kind
7. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
8. The Golden Dogs - Big Eye Little Eye
9. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
10. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
TOP 2008 ALBUMS I HAVEN'T HEARD YET
1. DEERHOOF
FUCK
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I was so confused when p4k gave it a kinda shitty score.
Pitchfork did something stupid? I'm aghast.
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I can make more lists, yay. Thanks to last.fm for actually tracking this shit.
Top 15 tracks from Dec. 2007 - Dec. 2008
1. Cake – Mexico
2. Cake – Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
3. Wilco – Impossible Germany
4. Cake – Stickshifts and Safetybelts
5. Cake – Friend Is a Four Letter Word
6. Cake – The Distance
7. Pavement – Transport Is Arranged
8. Lagwagon – Never Stops
9. Cake – She'll Come Back to Me
10. Cake – Walk on By
11. Cake – Comanche
12. Pavement – Spit on a Stranger
13. Pavement – Starlings of the Slipstream
14. Mad Caddies – Spare Change?
15. Pavement – Date With Ikea
Top 15 artists from Dec. 2007 to Dec. 2008
1. Cake
2. Pavement
3. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
4. The Beatles
5. Broken Social Scene
6. Modest Mouse
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Alan Jackson
9. Architecture in Helsinki
10. Wilco
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers
12. The Dismemberment Plan
13. Jimi Hendrix
14. Third Eye Blind
15. Smash Mouth
Good holy fuck, I listen to a lot of Cake.
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Lagwagon – Never Stops
YES!!! A MILLION TIMES YES!!!
what a song.
and that mad caddies one is underrated too!
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My top ten last.fm tracks this year are all Silkworm.
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They always give great albums mediocre scores, and vice versa.
But I'm still not sure why.
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Ok so I needed to make this and get it out of my system so I could make a Top 10 albums of 2008 list. It's by no means perfect, there's one or two tracks I am not 100% sure about their year of origin, but they're all tagged as 2008 in my itunes so I had to assume.
Top 10 Remixes of 2008, in order from 1-10
Justice - DVNO (LA Riots Remix)
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)
MSTRKRFT - Bounce (Mansion Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco - It's the Beat (Shit Robot Remix)
MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)
Herve - Cheap Thrills (Detboi Remix)
Digitalism - Pogo (Digitalism's Robotic Remix)
Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters (Don Rimini' Ectoplasm Remix)
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Crookers Remix)
Marlena Shaw - California Soul (Diplo/Mad Decent Remix)
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Digitalism - Pogo (Digitalism's Robotic Remix)
Brett, can you upload a copy of that for me?
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Digitalism - Pogo (Digitalism's Robotic Remix)
Brett, can you upload a copy of that for me?
Here you go (http://hypem.com/search/pogo%20robotic/1/)
And since we all like lists, here's my top 10 remixes from 08
Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane remix)
The Outrunners - These girls are dressed to kill (Russ Chimes remix)
M83 - Graveyard girl (Yuksek remix)
Anoraak - Nightdrive with you (GRUM's new wave remix)
Bag Raiders - Fun punch (Bag Raiders remix)
Cut Copy - Lights & Music (Moulinex remix)
Winona - Without you (Kris Menace remix)
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Joakim remix)
The Kills - Cheap and cheerful (Fake Blood remix)
Decalicious - La favière 76 (Larsz Chaptier rmx)
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My top ten favorite lists here:
10. valley_parade's Top five albums
9. TheFuriousWombat's Music Blogs of the year
8. Hat's Top 10 Remixes of 2008
7. Jackie Blue's songs of the year
6. Daft pun's Top 10 albums
5. squawk's 'TOP BANDS I WAS OBSESSED WITH AT SOME POINT THIS YEAR'
4. Patrick's 'Cake filled lists'
3. spoon_of_grimbo's list from Band of the Year to the WTF award
2. Puki's top 5 bizarre intimate moments songs of 2008
1. AanAllein's The Obligatory Top Ten Albums (my top ten list looks exactly like his)
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Yessssssssssss top 10!
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Honorable mention:
Hanggai - Introducing Hanggai
Dunno who put this in the mediaf!re thread, but THANK YOU. "Wuji" is another one of those songs that refuses to leave my head.
You're welcome!
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My top 10 artists of the last 6 months according to last.fm
1 Opeth
2 Porcupine Tree
3 3 (wow, the band "3" is in third place, damn.)
4 久石譲 (Joe Hisaishi)
5 Bloodbath
6 Cynic
7 Kreator
8 Pearl Jam
9 The Flaming Lips
10 Deerhoof
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2008 Top 10 Albums
1. Spiritualized- Songs in A&E
2. God is an Astronaut- God is an Astronaut
3. Earth- The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
4. sgt.- Stylus Fantasticus
5. Fucked Up- The Chemistry of Common Life
6. Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours
7. Fuck Buttons- Street Horrrsing
8. Ufomammut- Idolum
9. Girl Talk- Feed The Animals
10. Mountain Goats- Heretic Pride
...and some more
11. Nine Inch Nails- Ghosts I-IV
12. Opeth- Watershed
13. The Hold Steady- Stay Positive
14. Hot Chip- Made in the Dark
15. Atmosphere- When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
16. Funeral For a Friend- Memory and Humanity
17. Meshuggah- obZen
18. Laura Marling- Alas I Cannot Swim
19. Mogwai- The Hawk is Howling
20. Death Cab For Cutie- Narrow Stairs
21. The Presets- Apocalypso
22. Boris- Smile
23. Mouth of the Architect- Quietly
24. Ladyhawke- Ladyhawke
25. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Top 5 EP's
1. Jesu- Why Are We Not Perfect?
2. Tangled Thoughts of Leaving- Tiny Fragments
3. sleepmakeswaves- In Today Already Walks Tomorrow
4. SebastiAn- Motor/Momy/Army
5. Mountain Goats- Satanic Messiah
2007 Albums first heard in 2008
1. LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
2. Baroness- The Red Album
3. Shellac- Excellent Italian Greyhound
4. Dillinger Escape Plan- Ire Works
5. Holy Fuck- LP
6. Maserati- Inventions For the New Season
7. The Panics- Cruel Guards
8. Danger- 09/14/2007
9. Digitalism- Idealism
10. Future of the Left- Curses
The last.fm bullshit:
Artists-
1. 2manydj's
2. Fugazi
3. Patton Oswalt
4. Spiritualized
5. Girl Talk
6. Minutemen
7. Opeth
8. mclusky
9. LCD Soundsystem
10. Hüsker Dü
Albums:
1. Spiritualized- Songs in A&E
2. Patton Oswalt- Feelin' Kinda Patton
3. The Dillenger Escape Plan- Ire Works
4. Fugazi- The Argument
5. 2manydj's- As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2
6- Girl Talk- Night Ripper
7- Hot Chip- Made in the Dark
8- mclusky- The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire
8- Girl Talk- Feed The Animals
10- Minutemen- What Makes a Man Start Fires?
10- Future of the Left- Curses
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All of my lastfm charts. Can't be bothered to make a Top Ten list yet.
Top Ten Artists
1. Silkworm
2. Okkervil River
3. The Beatles
4. The Mountain Goats
5. Belle & Sebastian
6. Mitch Hedburg
7. The Who
8. Flogging Molly
9. Bob Dylan
10. Jawbreaker
Top Ten Tracks
1. Bedhead - Felo de Se
2. The Queers - Punk Rock Girl
3. The Lucksmiths - California in Popular Song
4. The Presidents of the United States of America - Cleveland Rocks
5. Elvis Costello - Allison
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flower Pt. 1
7. Lemuria - Buzz
8. The Refreshments - Suckerpunch
9. Okkervil River - Plus Ones
10. Joey Cape - The Ramones Are Dead
Top Ten Albums Listened
1. Silkworm - Firewater
2. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
3. The Who - Tommy
4. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
5. Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
6. Bedhead - Bedheaded
7. Mitch Hedburg - Mitch All Together
8. The Beatles - The White Album
9. The Lucksmiths - First Frost
10. Silkworm - Developer
There must have been a glitch somewhere because there is no way I listen to The Who that much. If I did then it wasn't Tommy, it was Live at Leeds.
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7. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West ("Cowboy Dan" fuck yesss)
I've always been sure this was their best album. Convincing other people of this is exceedingly difficult and I never quite got why. Sure, "The Moon..." is a great album but it really fails to capture the intensity and energy of TLCW on a lot of levels. And yeah, Cowboy Dan is awesome (and even better live since they usually finish it with a crazy improv jam and it's so awesome). Point is, any year that you can get into this album is a good year musically, as far as I'm concerned.
This was my view for a very long time, but as of recent days I'm actually starting to prefer Building Nothing. It could just be my mental state, or it could be that every single fucking song on that record is two steps past brilliant.
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If not for p4k I wouldn't know AC Newman's got a new album out next month!
You mean this album?
http://www.mediafire.com/?kjomzmzoldn
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Yeah, someone had it in the mediafire thread a week or two ago. I'm really digging it.
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Top (Metal) albums of 2008 because I hardly listen to listen to anything besides metal, in alphabetical order by artist and also including my parenthesized opinions of each:
After the Burial - Rareform (8-string guitars play polymetric metal with hardcore influences)
Archons - The Consequences of Silence (somebody's been listening to Quo Vadis...)
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare (better than United in Regret, not as good as A Celebration of Guilt or A Diamond For Disease, but still really solid)
As Eden Burns - The Great Celestial Delusion (shredtastic but still tasteful Lone Star melodic death)
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery (one of the more solid brutal death releases from this super group)
Before the Dawn - Soundscape of Silence (great progressive melodeath)
Cynic - Traced in Air (CYNIC)
Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living (makes you sad and stuff)
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds (holy shit tech-death release of '08)
Eluveitie - Slania (makes me feel like I'm at a metal renaissance festival)
Embrace the End - Ley Lines (tech metal with heavy punk/hardcore influences)
Evergrey - Torn (better than their previous - super solid prog/power/groove/gothenberg)
The Faceless - Planetary Duality (amazing tech-death concept album about inter-dimensional beings)
Fellsilent - The Hidden Words (polymetric Meshuggah worship with more melody)
Genghis Tron - Board Up the House (best electrogrindcore (yeah i made this label up) album of 08? yessir)
Gojiria - The Way of the Flesh (groovy french metalles)
Hour of Penance - The Vile Conception (my favorite brutal death album is from these italianos)
Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus (best progressive black metal album about battling gods of '08)
Mirrorthrone - Gangrene (best one-man-band release this year - sounds like there's twenty people playing stuff at once)
Misery Signals - Controller (probably my favorite-est album of 08 - i uploaded this in the mediaf!re thread along with my semi-extended views on this)
Moonspell - Night Eternal (best black/gothic album, 'Scorpion Flower' is probably the catchiest song I've heard this year)
Opeth - Watershed (OPETH, complete with jammin organ solos)
Prey for Nothing - Violence Divine (best Israeli melodic death debut album of 08)
Septic Flesh - Communion (best 'I've never heard this band before this album but this shit is awesome' album of the year - super atmospheric greek metal)
Serpentcult - Weight of Light (female fronted DOOM. I think they tune to F# or something. Makes your hair stand up from being so low)
Stormlord - Mare Nostrum (best nautically themed metal album)
Textures - Silhouettes (if meshuggah actually put songwriting first and we're really good at it, this is what they would sound like)
Veil of Maya - The Common Man's Collapse (groovin rifftastic polymetric album of 08)
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soooo, these are my 20 favourite albums of 2008 (alphabetical)
Autechre - Quaristice
Richard Barbieri - Stranger Inside
Bass Communion - Molotov & Haze
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Dolores
Celeste - Nihiliste(s)
Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Cynic - Traced in Air
Demians - Building an Empire
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Gojira - The Way of all Flesh
Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle part 1
No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
Opeth - Watershed
The Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
Portishead - Third
Russian Circles - Station
Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir
This Will Destroy you - s/t
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
John Zorn - The Dreamers
aaaaand: just for the sake of it's existence (and attention-whoring of course), I'll post a list of all the CD's I bought this year
it's pretty long
03.01.08 Pink Floyd - Meddle
03.01.08 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
07.01.08 No-Man - Carolina skelettons
07.01.08 No-Man - Housewives hooked on heroin
07.01.08 No-Man - Heaven taste
07.01.08 No-Man - Dry cleaning ray
12.01.08 Bass Communion - Dronework
12.01.08 Steven Wilson - Cover version I
12.01.08 Steven Wilson - Cover version II
12.01.08 Steven Wilson - Cover version III
12.01.08 Steven Wilson - Cover version IV
12.01.08 Steven Wilson - Unreleased electronic music
12.01.08 Manau - Panique Celtique
15.01.08 Eivind Aarset - Sonic Codex
15.01.08 Nils Petter Molvaer - Solid Ether
18.01.08 Siebenbürgen - Loreia
19.01.08 Ephel Duath - Pain Remixes the known
28.01.08 Rush - R30
28.01.08 King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king
28.01.08 Red Sparowes - Every red heart shines...
28.01.08 The Mars Volta - Frances the mute
28.01.08 The Mars Volta - De-Loused in cromatorium
28.01.08 The Mars Volta - Amputechture
28.01.08 NIN - The downward spiral
28.01.08 Kyuss - Blues for the red sun
28.01.08 Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse
28.01.08 Korum - Son of the breed
30.01.08 Anata - Dreams of death and dismay
31.01.08 Emperor - IX Equilibrium
31.01.08 Emperor - Anthems to the welkin at dusk
04.02.08 Cult of Luna - Salvation
04.02.08 Jesu - Conqueror
04.02.08 Alchemist - Embryonics
04.02.08 Alchemist - Organasm
04.02.08 Khanate - Things Viral
04.02.08 Skullflower - Tribulation
04.02.08 Death - Leprosy
04.02.08 Extol - Synergy
04.02.08 Extol - Undeceived
04.02.08 Akercocke - Choronzon
04.02.08 Darkthrone - A blaze in the northern sky
06.02.08 S/T - Space fidelity
06.02.08 S/T - In goats we trust
06.02.08 S/T - „4. August 2007“
12.02.08 Bass Communion - Pacific Codex
21.02.08 Excrementory Grindfuckers - Guts, Gore & Grind
22.02.08 No-Man - Flowermix
22.02.08 Yes - Tales from topographic oceans
22.02.08 Yes - The yes album
22.02.08 Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
22.02.08 Pink Floyd - Atom heart mother
22.02.08 Pink Floyd - The piper at the gates of dawn
22.02.08 Pink Floyd - A saucerful of secrets
22.02.08 Pain of Salvation - The perfect element
22.02.08 Rush - Grace under pressure
23.02.08 No-Man - Loveblows & Lovecries
29.02.08 Mouse on Mars - Idiology
04.03.08 Porcupine Tree - We lost the skyline
05.03.08 Fredrik Thordendal's special defects - Sol niger within
05.03.08 MiRthkon - The illusion of joy
06.03.08 ISIS - Holy Tears
06.03.08 ISIS - Celestial
06.03.08 Autechre - Quaristice
06.03.08 Jan Garbarek - Visible World
06.03.08 Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
06.03.08 Fates Warning - Parallels
06.03.08 Clawfinger - Two sides
11.03.08 Watchtower - Demonstrations in Chaos
12.03.08 Neurosis - A sun that never sets
15.03.08 ISIS - Live 4
19.03.08 Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
03.04.08 Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
03.04.08 Iron Butterfly - In-a-gadda-da-vida
08.04.08 Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (digi)
14.04.08 Indricothere - Indricothere
15.04.08 Ozric Tentacles - There is nothing / live ethereal
15.04.08 Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence / become the other
15.04.08 Ozric Tentacles - Pungent effulgent / Strangeitude
16.04.08 The Use of Ashes - Untitled
17.04.08 Atrocity - Todessehnsucht
17.04.08 Pelican - Pelican
19.04.08 Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (Promo)
20.04.08 Killing Joke - Killing Joke
21.04.08 Celeste - Nihiliste(s)
25.04.08 Portishead - Third
25.04.08 Portishead - Roseland NYC live
25.04.08 Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
25.04.08 No-Man - Lost longs: volume one
25.04.08 No-Man - Radio sessions 1992-96
25.04.08 ISIS + Aereogramme - In the fishtank 14
26.04.08 Porcupine Tree - Sampler 2005
26.04.08 Sunn O))) - Flight of the behemot (Japan)
26.04.08 Sunn O))) - White 1 (Japan)
29.04.08 Ulver - Perdition City
02.05.08 The Ocean - Precambrian
02.05.08 Edge of Sanity - Infernal
02.05.08 Alchemist - Jar of Kingdom
02.05.08 Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
02.05.08 Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
02.05.08 Marillion - Anoraknophobia
02.05.08 Damn the Machine - Damn the Machine
02.05.08 Event - Scratching at the Surface
02.05.08 Devin Townsend - Terria
02.05.08 Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
02.05.08 Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector
02.05.08 Talvin Singh - Ha
06.05.08 Sigillum S - „23120“
06.05.08 No-Man - Schoolyard ghosts
14.05.08 ISIS - Mosquito Control
14.05.08 ISIS - Oceanic Remixes
14.05.08 House of Low Culture - Submarine immersion techniques
14.05.08 Jesu - Silver
14.05.08 Jesu - Lifeline
15.05.08 Meshuggah - Nothing (rerelease)
15.05.08 Disillusion - Back to times of splendor
24.05.08 Dinosaur Jr. - Just like Heaven (single)
26.05.08 Psychotic Waltz - Dark Millenium
26.05.08 Darkstar - Marching into Oblivion
26.05.08 Sieges Even - Lifecycle
26.05.08 Into Eternity - The Scattering of Ashes
26.05.08 Anekdoten - Nucleus
26.05.08 Anekdoten - Vemod
28.05.08 Björk - Telegram
29.05.08 Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
03.06.08 Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
03.06.08 Zero Hour - Specs of Pictures burnt beyond
05.06.08 Massive Attack - Teardrop
06.06.08 Björk - Selma Songs
09.06.08 The Deserts of Träun - Part III: The Lilac Moon
09.06.08 Nymphomatriarch - Nymphomatriarch
09.06.08 !T.O.O.H.! - Order and Punishment
09.06.08 Alarum - Eventuality
09.06.08 Ashes Divide - Keep telling myself It's alright
09.06.08 Neuraxis - Trilateral Progression
13.06.08 Björk - Possibly Maybe 1
13.06.08 Björk - Possibly Maybe 2
13.06.08 Björk - Possibly Maybe 3
13.06.08 Björk - Hidden Place 1
13.06.08 Björk - Hidden Place 2
13.06.08 Björk - Hidden Place
13.06.08 Björk - Pagan Poetry 1
13.06.08 Björk - Pagan Poetry 2
13.06.08 Björk - Pagan Poetry
13.06.08 Björk - I Miss You 1
13.06.08 Björk - I Miss You 2
13.06.08 Björk - Joga
13.06.08 Björk - Isobel
13.06.08 Björk - It's Oh so Quiet
13.06.08 Björk - Greatest Hits
13.06.08 Björk - Alarm Call 1
13.06.08 Björk - Alarm Call 2
13.06.08 Björk - Alarm Call 3
13.06.08 Björk - Hyperballad 1
13.06.08 Björk - Hyperballad 2
13.06.08 Björk - All is Full of Love 1
13.06.08 Björk - All is Full of Love 2
13.06.08 Björk - Live Box
13.06.08 Björk - Bachelorette 1
13.06.08 Björk - Bachelorette 2
13.06.08 Björk - Cocoon 1
13.06.08 Björk - Cocoon 2
13.06.08 Björk - Volta
13.06.08 Radiohead - Kid A (limited)
13.06.08 Radiohead - Amnesiac (limited)
13.06.08 Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (limited)
13.06.08 Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
13.06.08 The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
13.06.08 NIN - Survivalism
13.06.08 Pink Floyd - The Wall
13.06.08 Pink Floyd - Pulse
13.06.08 Björk - Human Behaviour
13.06.08 Björk - Big Time Sensuality 1
13.06.08 Björk - Big Time Sensuality 2
13.06.08 Björk - Venus as A boy
14.06.08 Björk - Hunter
14.06.08 Björk - Best Mixes from Debut
14.06.08 Björk - It's Oh so Quiet
14.06.08 Porcupine Tree - On The Sunday of Life (Delec CD 008)
14.06.08 Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair (Delec CD 020)
14.06.08 Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves sideways (Delec DCD 082)
14.06.08 Porcupine Tree - Signify (Delec DCD 084)
14.06.08 Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream (1st Press)
14.06.08 Queensryche - Bridge (Pic-7“)
17.06.08 The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
17.06.08 Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
17.06.08 Deftones - Deftones
17.06.08 Yes - Live from the House of Blues
17.06.08 Eels - Electro-shock blues
17.06.08 Eels - Souljacker
19.06.08 Opeth - Watershed Package
01.07.08 Skyclad - Irrational Anthems
02.07.08 Skyclad - Folkémon
04.07.08 Bass Communion / Freiband - Haze Shrapnel (3“)
07.07.08 My Dying Bride - Meisterwerk 1 (Promo)
07.07.08 Spock's Beard - Don't try this at home (Promo)
11.07.08 Leftfield - Leftism
11.07.08 Underworld - Oblivion with bells
15.07.08 Autechre - Chiastic Slide
16.07.08 Demians - Building an empire
16.07.08 Abigail's ghost - Selling insincerity
16.07.08 The Pineapple Thief - Thightly unwound
16.07.08 Gordian Knot - s/t
16.07.08 Zero Hour - Dark deceiver
21.07.08 Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
21.07.08 Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
21.07.08 MUM - The szabotnik 15 mission
21.07.08 Eat Static - Implant
22.07.08 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
22.07.08 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works II
22.07.08 Aphex Twin - I Care because you do
22.07.08 Aphex Twin - The Richard D. James Album
22.07.08 Aphex Twin - Come to daddy
22.07.08 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
22.07.08 Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash
23.07.08 Burial - Burial
23.07.08 Venetian Snares - The Chocolate Wheelchair Album
29.07.08 Aphex Twin - Drukqs
29.07.08 Air - Moon Safari
29.07.08 Esoteric - The Manacal Vale
02.08.08 Underworld - A Hundred days off
02.08.08 Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
05.08.08 Boards of Canada - Skam EP
06.08.08 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
07.08.08 Gas - Nah und Fern
07.08.08 Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
12.08.08 The Grassy Knoll - The Grassy Knoll
13.08.08 Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
13.08.08 Agalloch - The Mantle
13.08.08 Ulver - Lyckantropen Themes
19.08.08 Nils Petter Molvaer - Np3
21.08.08 Continuum - Continuum
21.08.08 Bass Communion - Molotov & Haze
21.08.08 Bass Communion / Muslimgauze - Bcvsmgcd
21.08.08 Steven Wilson - Cover Version V
24.08.08 Ulver - Themes from William Blake's the marriage of heaven and hell
27.08.08 Summoning - Minas Morgul
27.08.08 Genesis - Invisible Life
27.08.08 No-Man - Lovesighs
27.08.08 This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
29.08.08 Kronos - Colossal titan strife
29.08.08 Entombed - Left Hand Path
29.08.08 Suffocation - Human Waste
02.09.08 Muslimgauze - Armsbazzar
02.09.08 Ulver - Blood Inside
07.09.08 Squarepusher - Do you know Squarepusher
09.09.08 Nachtmystium - Assassins
09.09.08 The Grassy Knoll - Short stories
09.09.08 Absorption - s/t
09.09.08 Jettatura - Squadra Fantasma
09.09.08 Low Rider Bycicle - Flyover Statesman
11.09.08 Muslimgauze - Observe with Sadiq Bey
11.09.08 Muslimgauze - Zuriff Moussa
11.09.08 Muslimgauze - Return of Black September
11.09.08 Muslimgauze - Zul'm
12.09.08 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
12.09.08 The Grassy Knoll - Happily Ever After
12.09.08 Synaptic - Distortion of Senses
24.09.08 Bass Communion & Pig - Live in Mexico City
24.09.08 Alarm will Sound - Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin
29.09.08 Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
29.09.08 Satie's Fraktion - Nails
30.09.08 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing DVD-A
02.10.08 Krallice - Krallice
02.10.08 Manes - Vilosophe
03.10.08 Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to children
07.10.08 Ulver - Teachings in Silence
07.10.08 Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer
07.10.08 Urfaust - Drei Rituale Jenseits des Kosmos
07.10.08 King Crimson - Lizard
07.10.08 Gorod - Leading Vision
07.10.08 Textures - Silhouettes
07.10.08 Riverside - Out of Myself
08.10.08 Octopus - Bonsai
08.10.08 Octopus - Coda
14.10.08 Venetian Snares - Winter in the belly of a snake
14.10.08 Boards of Canada - In a beautiful place out in the country
14.10.08 Red Sparowes - Ath the soundless dawn
16.10.08 Venetian Snares - Doll doll doll
22.10.08 Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding
22.10.08 John Zorn - The Dreamers
22.10.08 Russian Circles - Station
23.10.08 Cynic - Focus (Remaster)
24.10.08 Eno - Stea.Alto
24.10.08 This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
24.10.08 This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain
25.10.08 E.S.T. - Tuesday Wonderlang
25.10.08 Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords
25.10.08 Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist
28.10.08 Venetian Snares - Horse and Goat
28.10.08 Squarepusher - Feed me weird things
28.10.08 Squarepusher - Selection sixteen
01.11.08 Tool - Lateralus DLP
01.11.08 Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring
04.11.08 Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves
04.11.08 Aphex Twin - Classics
10.11.08 John Zorn - Kristallnacht
10.11.08 Paysage d'hiver - Die Festung
10.11.08 Aphex Twin - On
10.11.08 Aphex Twin - On Remixes
12.11.08 Bass Communion / Fear Falls Burning - Split
12.11.08 Bohren & der Club of Gore - Dolores
12.11.08 Bohren & der Club of Gore - Midnight Radio
12.11.08 Squarepusher - Music is Rotted one Note
12.11.08 Squarepusher - Budakhan Mindphone
12.11.08 Autechre - Confield
12.11.08 Venetian Snares - Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits...
13.11.08 Malicorne - L'extraordinaire tour de france d' adelard...
19.11.08 AFX - Analord 1-11
19.11.08 Squarepusher - Hello everything 3LP
19.11.08 Cynic - Traced in Air
21.11.08 Kammarheit - The Starwheel
21.11.08 Bass Communion - II & III
27.11.08 Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
29.11.08 Richard Barbieri - Stranger Inside
29.11.08 Stearica - Oltre
29.11.08 Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
29.11.08 Augury - Concealed
29.11.08 Indukti - S.U.S.A.R.
29.11.08 Nahemah - The Second Philosophy
29.11.08 Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence
29.11.08 Death - The Sound of Perseverance
29.11.08 Reverend Bizarre - Harbringer of Metal
29.11.08 Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt
29.11.08 Teeth of Lion Rule the Divine - Rampton
29.11.08 Nortt / Xasthur - Hedengang/A Curse for the Lifeless
29.11.08 Goatsnake - Flower of Disease
29.11.08 Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
29.11.08 Anata - The Conductor's Departure
29.11.08 Ocrilim - Annwn
29.11.08 Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican / The Law
29.11.08 Sieges Even - Sophisticated
29.11.08 Mortiis - Crypt of the Wizard
05.12.08 The Ocean - Fogdiver
13.12.08 The Tuss - Rushup Edge
13.12.08 Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
13.12.08 John Zorn - The Crucible
13.12.08 Darkstar - Heart of Darkness
13.12.08 Opak - Prologe
17.12.08 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... (deluxe edition)
17.12.08 Distance - My Demons
17.12.08 Squarepusher - Just a souvenir
17.12.08 Autechre - Tri Repetae
17.12.08 Nadja - Radiance of Shadows
17.12.08 Scale the Summit - Monumentum
20.12.08 Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
20.12.08 Trans Am - Surrender to the Night
20.12.08 Gojira - The Way of all Flesh
30.12.08 Genesis – 1970-1975 (7 SACD / 6 DVD - Box)
30.12.08 Nils Petter Molvaer - Recoloured
30.12.08 Triosk – The Headlight Serenade
30.12.08 Archive – Live at the Zenith
30.12.08 Peter Gabriel – Passion
30.12.08 Waltari – Release Date
30.12.08 A Perfect Circle – eMotiv
30.12.08 Beneath the Massacre – Evidence of Inequity
30.12.08 The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your own Hole
30.12.08 The Chemical Brothers – Come with Us
30.12.08 Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes
30.12.08 Tori Amos – American Doll Posse
30.12.08 Marillion – Marillion.com
30.12.08 30 Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie
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Otay!
My favourite albums from this year, two thousand and eight
1. Quiet Village - Silent Movie
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows (CD release on January 1st, so it totally counts)
3. Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior
4. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
5. This Will Destroy you - s/t
6. Deerhunter - Microcastles / Weird Era Contd.
7. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
8. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
9. Autechre - Quaristice
10. The Bug - London Zoo
Almost made it
Subtle - ExitingARM
Why? - Alopecia
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
NWN2 Storm of Zehir orchestral OST
Black Milk - Tronic
2562 - Aerial
Best EP by a band that blows
Stars - Sad Robots EP
Chuck Klosterman likes it so it must be good
Guns'n'Roses - Chinese Democracy
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I forgot that possibly the best show I saw in '08 was at the Church of Paul the Apostle in NYC where Gavin Bryars' "Sinking of the Titanic," John Adams' "Christian Zeal and Activity" and Johnny Greenwood's "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" were performed (the latter most in its American debut). It was a pretty much perfect show. It was also my introduction to "Sinking of the Titanic" which was mesmerizing live, especially since the old church pews were creaking as people moved and shifted slightly in their seats, adding to the whole effect (conjuring a sinking ship) in an incredible way. "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" was brilliant as well. At one extended point all the violinists and violists held their instruments like guitars and strummed away with incredible intensity, the most unusual yet coolest use of pizzicato I've ever seen. I've never seen an orchestra used to such an effect in person before. Witnessing the transformation of a group of acoustic instruments into a gorgeous, humming, mechanical sounding white noise machine is a pretty fantastic experience to be sure.