Fave record of 2008?

[MC Moot]

You can only pick one...for me,off the top of my head,I'd say the Santogold (http://www.myspace.com/santogold) record was probably it...it's a solid record end to end,song for song,joint for joint...exceptionally diverse and organic...at times I hear shades of Sleater Kinney,Luscious Jackson and MIA if she was mad talented...(y)

[RobMoney$]

Chinese Democracy

[MC Moot]

Chinese Democracy

Cut it out Axl,seriously,those braids have cut the circulation to your brain...

[Kid Presentable]

You can only pick one...for me,off the top of my head,I'd say the Santogold (http://www.myspace.com/santogold) record was probably it...it's a solid record end to end,song for song,joint for joint...exceptionally diverse and organic...at times I hear shades of Sleater Kinney,Luscious Jackson and MIA if she was mad talented...(y)

Yeah it's good; albums that switch up like that are always mad interesting, but it does it well (in a way I hadn't really heard since Check Your Head). Creator bangs. The rest is solid listening.

Chinese Democracy was good too, but I know that's more of an anomaly and reveals how incredibly uncool my tastes are. And that reissue of Pacific Ocean Blue - like I could even pretend to have known about it originally, but it's fucking good. My vote goes to The Beach Boy or Santogold.

[jennyb]

I'ma g'head & say -- Third by Portishead

I was unsure they could bring back all the magic they'd once had, and I was pleasantly surprised and found myself listening to it much more than I'd anticipated. "We Carry On" is easily my fave cut off it with "Small" coming in a close 2nd. Their music is just so sexy and mysterious, I love it. Their performance at Coachella this year was nothing short of perfection.

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

probably 'alopecia' by why? or 'microcastle' by deerhunter.

[camo]

When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Life_Gives_You_Lemons...) - Atmosphere

[Drederick Tatum]

Sebastien Tellier or Dennis Wilson.

[mate_spawn_die]

i've only heard a small amount of albums this year...

but i'm pretty sure "Sexuality" by Sébastien Tellier is my favorite

[adam_f]

The Renaissance- Q-Tip

[SobaViolence]

The Renaissance- Q-Tip

solid, but i gotta go with Dear Science by TV On The Radio

[Gareth]

hercules and love affair "hercules and love affair" or erykah badu "amerykah.."
favourite songs are probably wiley "rolex" or shawty lo "foolish" or t.i ft rihanna "live your life" or booka shade "charlotte" or m83 "kim & jessie" or something

[adam_f]

Originally posted by SobaViolence
solid, but i gotta go with Dear Science by TV On The Radio

Because you're gay.

[Nygel]

its been a long year, so i only remember what came out recently

thus

Day and Age, i liked it lots.

[mikizee]

Oh i dunno... theres a few I liked.... the Bon Iver record was pretty good

[Caribou]

probably 'alopecia' by why?

Hellz yeah, great album. I didn't know 'em but then saw them live and then 'The Vowels pt2' got stuck in my head... <3

I haven't listened to a lot of other new albums this year, but these are the ones I liked (Screw you, I AM making a list):

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Sigur Ros - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
The Dodos - Visiter
Foals - Antidotes
Jamie Lidell - Jim
Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors

[Lex Diamonds]

Chase & Status - More Than A Lot

or

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (CD dropped in January)

[MC Moot]

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (CD dropped in January)

that's funnier than the Chinese Democracy suggestion,just dreadful scene poseur,poxy tossin,rubbish...

no offense,of course...;)

[AceFace]

ima say

The Presets - Apocalypso and
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours.

i loved both of them so much this year. they make me happy happy!

[Lex Diamonds]

that's funnier than the Chinese Democracy suggestion,just dreadful scene poseur,poxy tossin,rubbish...

no offense,of course...;)
Wow, you're a total dick. You start a thread about the "best record of 2008" just so you can show everyone that you like Santogold. Then you call MGMT poseur?

Newsflash, mini-penis: I've been down with MGMT and Santi White since long before all these poser cunts (including you) and MGMT are infinitely better than that pop starlet sellout. If you think Santi is so cool now check out what she used to be doing 5-10 years ago, working with GZA and Jean Grae and shit. She sold out and adopted the punk/indie vibe so poser pricks like you would think her album was the hottest new thing.

[camo]

I think MGMT are past the poseur stage anyways. They're more into the Dido territory of 'background music at a dinner parties hosted by people in their 30s/40s who still tragically think that they're hip'.

[Caribou]

Santogold is a poser and a sellout as is everyone who works with Mark Ronson and/or Pharrell. Some of her songs are ok, but I think it's mostly her indie 'stylishness' that gets her so much attention. Can nobody hear that her voice is really annoying?!

MGMT arn't much better tbh. Again, some songs are ok, but it's all been done before, and better as well. They were rubbish live and I hate all the 14 year old girls who have crushes on them because they dress 'weird' and wear headbands.

[b i o n i c]

i think paddy and mooty should duke this out(y)

[MC Moot]

Wow, you're a total dick. You start a thread about the "best record of 2008" just so you can show everyone that you like Santogold. Then you call MGMT poseur?

Newsflash, mini-penis: I've been down with MGMT and Santi White since long before all these poser cunts (including you) and MGMT are infinitely better than that pop starlet sellout. If you think Santi is so cool now check out what she used to be doing 5-10 years ago, working with GZA and Jean Grae and shit. She sold out and adopted the punk/indie vibe so poser pricks like you would think her album was the hottest new thing.

Actually I started the thread to pick up on something I may have missed,really that's all...sold out?...you're a laugh..the record is great her history as a producer only strenghtened the product...MGMT is horrible,that's all kid,full stop...a video has never made want to physically assault someone before,so I'll give them that...now go do some blow and hire a stripper with ya wanna be crew...(y)

[Lex Diamonds]

My statement stands. What have the videos got to do with the class of the albums? Santogold has produced some horrible visuals in her career. Considering musical quality, Santogold's album is just going through the pop art motions and MGMT's blows it out of the water. You can try as hard as you like to look cool but that doesn't validate your wack opinions.

[MC Moot]

^Oh christ man,give over,the only thing that's wack is your propensity for hurling juvenille,warantless insults that make the idea of entertaining or engaging you in meaningful debate or discussion to be an excersise in futilty...in short,you've got no chops little doggy,lay down or grow up...(y)

[camo]

I love it how Padster brings out the (broken) wordsmith in people.

Sure, the guy mainly communcates in dick and fart put downs but c'mon he's not a imbecile that you can crush under a few eloquent words :rolleyes:

[rirv]

Is it not meant to be about the music rather than the scene, the style or whoever else likes it? Music is something you listen to for enjoyment. Poseur scene cunts are the ones who like music because it reflects on them in a certain way. Hating on a band because the aforementioned poseurs are into it is exactly the same. Being anti-scene is as played out as being on the scene. Bleugh.

That is how I can listen to U2 and Paul Simon in good conscience.

[jennyb]

Oh i dunno... theres a few I liked.... the Bon Iver record was pretty good

oh my god yessssssssssssssssssssss (y)

[Calimero jr.]

Cult Of Luna (http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Cult+of+Luna) - Eternal Kingdom

[taquitos]

i've had pacific ocean blue for like 6 years hahaha nany nany boo boo

so badass it deserves a new page.

ps. i hated everything that came out this year

[Kid Presentable]

^^*waits for the other music illuminati*

I tried to like MGMT. That Electric Feel was alright.

[MC Moot]

^^*waits for the other music illuminati*

I tried to like MGMT. That Electric Feel was alright.

See i think if you have to try they've already failed...

All you need to know about MGMT: A deviously correct assesment...

The timeline continues: Steve Lillywhite signs them to Columbia in 2006, the two Wesleyan graduates pick Dave Fridmann as their producer, put together a five-piece touring band, and then they make Oracular Spectacular and it is logically a bloated, uncomfortable, saturated throwback to no genre, time period, or movement in particular. Now, I may have a bias against Dave Fridmann because I hate him, but the last thing MGMT ever needed to make the jump to clean production and a hefty recording budget was an engineer with absolutely no idea of restraint and an asinine urge to lard-up every pinprick of space with ceaseless synth lines and pointlessly contrapuntal licks and power chords and other assorted cosmic whistles or doody. Sure, the record’s a slog to get through, a lot less fun then all the Timothy Leary psychedelia would have us assume, but what’s so infuriating is how instead of playing with tropes inherent in LSD cultism or 80s prog or commercial electro-pop, the band just shitstreams it into an unassailable, monotonous din. The organ drone and fuzz of “Time To Pretend” is the same as that of “The Youth,” which does the same thing as the—yeah, I know—chirping kids voices of “Kids” or the barreling “tribal” drums of the dumbly intergalactic “4th Dimensional Transition.” Shit just fills space with lazy signposts, weaving around Prince falsettos and programmed beats with no real interesting rhythm or motive besides, I dunno, go fast.

And I could continue to rag on the band, detail how every song follows the same blueprint or compare the multi-multi-tracked, echoed vocals to Jim James’s because they kind of sound the same but James builds intimacy through admitting to his arena-ready cords and never flexing while MGMT just have squealing, dirty underwear for voices set to Jim Morrison mugs, but I’d be ignoring the nugget of fun that made me want to buy their tee-shirt in the first place. Somewhere in, say, “Electric Feel” or in the collusion of voices that make up the chorus of “The Youth,” there’s a narrow purpose: to make us dance, taking loping strides at each booming “ooh,” or perhaps to sincerely touch our hearts with a simple melody both anthemic and careful. But MGMT mostly just seem like a coupla jerks, hiding bland, confused songwriting behind theatrics and cock rings. And by cock rings I mean Dave Fridmann.

By Don Simacola

(y)

[Guy Incognito]

album - dig out your soul - oasis. I dont care if you all hate them, its their second best album after definitely maybe

Single - Wearing my rolex - wiley

[taquitos]

i guess it's obvious that my smugness earlier was intended to be comical? i hope it's obvious, anyway. whatever.

[Kid Presentable]

it was funny

[MCScoobyT]

I like 30H!3's LP Want
and M.I.A.'s single Paper Planes

[HEIRESS]

The Pack A.D. - tinytype/funeral mixtape
The Dodos - Visiter
Hayden - In Field & Town
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever ago
Black Mountain - In the Future

[basd]

I think Benny Benassi's "Rock N Rave" was a good surprise.
...or The Carter 3...

[Lex Diamonds]

^Oh christ man,give over,the only thing that's wack is your propensity for hurling juvenille,warantless insults that make the idea of entertaining or engaging you in meaningful debate or discussion to be an excersise in futilty...in short,you've got no chops little doggy,lay down or grow up...(y)
You know what else is "wack"? Your propensity for being a narrow minded hater. That article you quoted sounds like something Maddox would write. It's so meaningless it could almost be one of your wannabe-cultured masturbatory board posts.

[jabumbo]

i was a big fan of My Morning Jackets' "Evil Urges". those guys are pretty much awesome

[MCScoobyT]

i was a big fan of My Morning Jackets' "Evil Urges". those guys are pretty much awesome

That is a great LP! Noice call.

[adam_f]

Originally posted by MCScoobyT
That is a great LP! Noice call.

Were you born when N'sync was popular?

[yeahwho]

How Deep is your Love? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCj0F0o9u-8&feature=related)

[Gareth]

i like about half of the songs on the MGMT album
i don't really like the santogold album...but i do like the diplo mix

[AceFace]

oh oh oh! i need to add one more to my best of list.

Black Kids - Partie Traumatic. Geez that album is awesome. not a bad song on there and it makes me shake my bootay.

[easy 3]

I think I've probably listened to Modern Guilt by Beck mostly this year.

[MC Moot]

I think I've probably listened to Modern Guilt by Beck mostly this year.

Me as well…it’s in my top 5 for sure along with:

The Supreme Genius Of King Khan and the Shrines

Real Emotional Trash :Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks

NYC: Brazilian Girls

[AceFace]

so weird how we're all different. i was completely underwhelmed by that Beck album. bought it and have listened to it maybe 3 times.

[MC Moot]

so weird how we're all different. i was completely underwhelmed by that Beck album. bought it and have listened to it maybe 3 times.

Diversity should be celebrated and embraced...unless of course you love something I don't...;)

[easy 3]

so weird how we're all different. i was completely underwhelmed by that Beck album. bought it and have listened to it maybe 3 times.

I think it might be a bit morose for some people - which is fair enough - I should proabably just cheer up.

I'm quite surprised to see you mention the Presets - under the influence of an electro-pop-loving girlfriend I've been to see them live twice this year and they're not bad - I don't know how well known they are in the US? Out of the sort of stuff she's been playing me I'd say that Crystal Castles are probably my favourite - I listen to that album a bit.

I could do with more Hip Hop really - I liked When life gives you lemons by Atmosphere and the Cool Kids was alright - I still haven't heard Q-Tip.

Portishead and TV on the Radio otherwise.

[MC Moot]

What about Fleet Foxes?...anyone buy it?...I'm seeing it dropped on quite a few year end lists...

[Caribou]

What about Fleet Foxes?...anyone buy it?...I'm seeing it dropped on quite a few year end lists...

I've only just got it, and it's an absolutely amazing album. The harmonies...so pretty. <3
At certain points it reminded me of Pet Sounds.

[RobMoney$]

These lists on here are always so predictable.
Everyone tries to out "indie" everyone else.

Scraping the bottom of the "thread-idea" barrel here, aren't we?


The fact that the thread starter goes on to lamely criticize everyones taste in music takes the lameness to an entirely other level of suckness.


Congrats Moot.

[Caribou]

Psssh, You're just jealous of our Indieness. I bet you only listen to stuff that, like, millions of other people have listened to. Boooring! :rolleyes:

[yeahwho]

These lists on here are always so predictable.
Everyone tries to out "indie" everyone else.

Scraping the bottom of the "thread-idea" barrel here, aren't we?


The fact that the thread starter goes on to lamely criticize everyones taste in music takes the lameness to an entirely other level of suckness.


Congrats Moot.

If I had a band of any sort of talent I would name it after your remark to DS earlier this year "Campus Fuckface" but since I don't even know how to play a kazoo I'm stuck just waiting for somebody else to "entertain me".

The video I supplied is cool because that one Gibb snorted so much coke he has 4 nostrils (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCj0F0o9u-8&feature=related).

[Lex Diamonds]

Psssh, You're just jealous of our Indieness. I bet you only listen to stuff that, like, millions of other people have listened to. Boooring! :rolleyes:
The irony is more people listen to this "indie" music than anything else.

[Planetary]

only recently got into it but new kings of leon is mine :)(y)

[RobMoney$]

Psssh, You're just jealous of our Indieness. I bet you only listen to stuff that, like, millions of other people have listened to. Boooring! :rolleyes:


I just don't follow the line of thinking that says the LESS a band is known, the better they are? I mean if that's the case, why help promote them by telling anyone how good they are?

[RobMoney$]

The irony is more people listen to this "indie" music than anything else.


They listen to what NME or Rolling Stone magazine tell them to listen to.
I don't see what's so "indie" about that?

[RobMoney$]

If I had a band of any sort of talent I would name it after your remark to DS earlier this year "Campus Fuckface" but since I don't even know how to play a kazoo I'm stuck just waiting for somebody else to "entertain me".

hahaaaa

[MCScoobyT]

Were you born when N'sync was popular?

I was born when Star Wars: A New Hope was popular. I was banging your mom and your sister when N'sync was popular, you should remember since you still live at home!
NOICE

Come on Adam F, I just said I liked the same 'evil urges' record as someone else, and then you come with some wack wanna-be diss. Um, l liked the Q-Tip record to, so you don't need to get all bitter and emotional.

and if you don't like noice, go bitch to Mike D.

on another note: I also liked the Gnarls Barkley record, and that new Common, The Switches and Bloc Party.

[Savage Jimmy]

Probably either NEW LEXICON by Paint It Black or HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN LONELIER THAN GOD by Blacklisted

[Documad]

i was a big fan of My Morning Jackets' "Evil Urges". those guys are pretty much awesome

Jesus, I forgot that I bought it. I bought so many CDs this year that I haven't properly listened to. I need to bring them to work because that's the only way I'll ever play them front to back these days.

That Sigur Ros CD is my least favorite of theirs, but I listen to the live double CD thing all the time -- I think that came out in 2007 though. :confused:

so weird how we're all different. i was completely underwhelmed by that Beck album. bought it and have listened to it maybe 3 times.

That happened to me with the last few Beck albums. I have to stop buying them. I also have to stop buying tickets to see him. I haven't truly enjoyed one of his shows since the Sea Change tour.

[RoryMC]

Beck has been a huge disappointment since Sea Change. Very mediocre.

The best album for me has to be Do You Like Rock Music? by British Sea Power. It was released in January and it hasn't really left the record player since.

Vampire Weekend's effort was really good too, as was Fleet Foxes, Q-Tip and Wire.

One album that really surprised me was Glasvegas. I never thought I'd like it but It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry has to be one of my favourite songs of the year.

I'll compile a top 5 later.

[Lex Diamonds]

They listen to what NME or Rolling Stone magazine tell them to listen to.
I don't see what's so "indie" about that?
The answer is: nothing. These people are deluded, and the Hacienda is turning in its grave.

[Caribou]

I just don't follow the line of thinking that says the LESS a band is known, the better they are? I mean if that's the case, why help promote them by telling anyone how good they are?


Eh, dude... I was joking. :|

Maybe I am a little bit in the 'Indie scene' or whatever, but I spread the word on bands that I love. A bit too enthousiastically, some might say.
And ofcourse a band isn't better when they're unknown. But bands that are well known tend to get overplayed, which makes it meaningless after a while.
For instance Kings of Leon's Sex on Fire: Wonderful song, but after hearing it 20 times a day I no longer feel excited when I hear it.
Like when you eat peanutbutter sandwiches every day because you love them, and after a couple of months you get tired of it and don't eat peanutbutter for years.

Yeah, whatever. :o

[AceFace]

I just don't follow the line of thinking that says the LESS a band is known, the better they are? I mean if that's the case, why help promote them by telling anyone how good they are?

you know... people like what they like. i like some pop when i hear it, but i gravitate toward indie dance and electro b/c.. that's what sounds good to me. i don't seek it out b/c it's different and unknown, i seek it out b/c it really gets me dancing and makes me happy.

don't overthink it!

[AceFace]

I think it might be a bit morose for some people - which is fair enough - I should proabably just cheer up.

I'm quite surprised to see you mention the Presets - under the influence of an electro-pop-loving girlfriend I've been to see them live twice this year and they're not bad - I don't know how well known they are in the US? Out of the sort of stuff she's been playing me I'd say that Crystal Castles are probably my favourite - I listen to that album a bit.



werd, i like my beck a little more quirky and dancey. like The Information. i LOVED that record.

i loved that Cryastal Castles too, but it's hit or miss on the whole record. i play them often in my sets.

[MC Moot]

These lists on here are always so predictable.
Everyone tries to out "indie" everyone else.

Scraping the bottom of the "thread-idea" barrel here, aren't we?


The fact that the thread starter goes on to lamely criticize everyones taste in music takes the lameness to an entirely other level of suckness.


Congrats Moot.

Thank you and now shut up fatty...your blowing wind...this thread is self apparent and a simple attempt,as I've mentioned before,to see what people of a like mind dug this year...that's it,that all...if you read anything else into it it's only your personal disposition reflected through a weak guise...and for the record I made light of 2 posters toasts...one because I thought they were foolin and the other cause I loath it...

[camo]

The answer is: nothing. These people are deluded, and the Hacienda is turning in its grave.

Just like those trendy cunts that live in the trendy Hacienda apartments in Manchester.

'Hey errm uum guys...the Hacienda was across the road, you are like errrrm living where there was an old snooker hall...you paid how much!?!?!'

[MCScoobyT]

Ting Tings

[gbsuey]

First thing that i thought was mgmt - electric feel

but it could be vampire weekend - a punk

but also i know i've forgotten something

actually i'm sure i could remember guite a few-that James Pants track-We're Through is awesome, so in Wiley-money in my pocket. I'm too indecisive.

And stop fucking arguing about everything.

[dave790]

Personally, I think MGMT are shockingly overrated. Heard the album a bunch of times and saw them live...I also think anyone who takes them seriously should be shot. Not my bag at all.

It's Dig Out Your Soul. Can't think of anything else with 6-7 actually solid and great tracks.

[gbsuey]

i still haven't heard all the album. don't know if i take them seriouly or not-just like what i've heard that's all. i did read they can go a bit strange live.

[yeahwho]

Bon Iver/Skinny Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pelzrd1wWIA)

[mate_spawn_die]

^ that's nice

it's still too early to say...

i've only heard the first 5 tracks of this benji hughes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Love_Extreme) album and i already love it

that's a good sign

listen (http://www.myspace.com/benjihughes) (i like "you stood me up" and "tight tee shirt")

[jabumbo]

Ting Tings

oh yes, i enjoy this one too. while its not the most solid throughout, i really enjoy a number of the songs

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

Beck - Modern Guilt
Everclear - The Vegas Years
Weezer - The Red Album

[Drederick Tatum]

DSR is stuck in the 90s.

[AceFace]

oh yes, i enjoy this one too. while its not the most solid throughout, i really enjoy a number of the songs
it is indeed not solid, that's why it's not worthy of being a record of the year.

i dislike about as many songs as i like. some songs seem too simple. there's one song, can't remember the name of it, but it seems like at any point it's gonna bust into something else, a more interesting beat maybe, but it never happens. it's awful.

[RoryMC]

I think I'm ready to compile my top 10 as I don't think there will be any stellar albums in the next month or so.

1. British Sea Power -- Do You Like Rock Music?
2. Vampire Weekend -- Vampire Weekend
3. Wolf Parade -- At Mount Zoomer
4. The Walkmen -- Me & You
5. The Dodos -- Visiter
6. Clinic -- Do It!
7. Fleet Foxes -- Fleet Foxes
8. Q-Tip -- The Renaissance
9. Bon Iver -- For Emma, Forever Ago
10. No Age -- Nouns

Notable mentions (in no order):

Tim Vanhamel -- Welcome to the Blue House
M83 -- Saturdays=Youth
Glasvegas -- Glasvegas
dEUS -- Vantage Point
Hercules and Love Affair -- Hercules and Love Affair
TV on the Radio -- Dear Science
Lupe Fiasco -- The Cool
Why? -- Alopecia
Esau Mwamyway and Radioclit are the Very Best
Kanye West -- 808s and Heartbreaks
Wire -- Object 47
Okkervil River -- The Stand Ins
Oxford Collapse -- Bits
Eagles of Death Metal -- Heart On
The Gutter Twins -- Saturnalia

I think I've compiled quite a comprehensive yet definitive list of albums that have really blown me away this year. 2008 has been an outstanding year for music, on par with 2005 (which has to be one of my favourite years for music on record).

British Sea Power's Do You Like Rock Music, released on January 14, hasn't left my CD player, MP3 player playlist or my head since I first heard it. Not only that, I have managed to see them twice this year; the first at Glastonbury, the second here in Southampton. Their Southampton gig has to be one of the best gigs I've ever been to. Anyway, the album is just class from start to finish. The album's real opener, Lights Out for Darker Skies, is a genuine tour-de-force of sheer power that sets the pace for the rest of the album perfectly. The stand-out track is definitely Waving Flags - a piece of majestic, atmospheric rock. It's like hang-gliding over the mountains of Spain. Incredible.

Arguably the act of 2008, Vampire Weekend have gone from strength to strength since the release of their debut album in January. Mansard Roof, a keen favourite for 120 Minutes viewers since mid-2007, is a pure piece of Beach Boys throw-back pop while A-Punk, Oxford Comma and The Kids Don't Stand A Chance will be the songs we all look back on to remember 2008. Sheer class.

After producing my favourite album of 2005 (Apologies to the Queen Mary), it was always going to be hard for Canadian indie kings Wolf Parade to surpass my expectations. Sophomore efforts are usually dire affairs (Unless you're Radiohead or the Beastie Boys) but Wolf Parade tried hard to better their debut and, you know what?, they nearly succeeded. California Dreamer is the album's stand out track for sure while songs like Language City, Fine Young Cannibals and Bang Your Drum clearly show how talented frontman Spencer Krug is and I eagerly anticipate what they can produce in the future.

The Walkmen are one of my favourite bands. Bows + Arrows is one of the finest albums produced in the 21st century, in my opinion, and they are back on form with You & Me. Frontman Hamilton Leithauser has the best voice in music at the moment. You can feel his passion, and the rest of the band's for that matter, throughout the record. It is a record that will grab you by the lapels and not let go. I urge you to listen to it. On the Water, In the New Year and Canadian Girl are my picks for stand out tracks.

Visiter by The Dodos completes my top 5 albums for 2008 list and could have slotted in at number three if Wolf Parade and The Walkmen hadn't produced stunning albums. Not to everyone's taste, the energetic two-piece have created a unique sound that puts them apart from many other acts around at the moment. Their charm is frantic, penetrating drum beats (see Fools) and distorted guitar action mixed in with raw, grating vocals. This band is as raw as you'll get right now and they can only go on to greater things.

Song of the year: Waving Flags (British Sea Power)
Runner-up: It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry (Glasvegas)

Disappointment of the year: This Is Not The World (The Futureheads)
Runner-up: Vantage Point (dEUS)

Top 5 songs of 2008:

1. British Sea Power -- Waving Flags
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w2n-7K0Ef6Y (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w2n-7K0Ef6Y)

2. Glasvegas -- It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DkOoTn...eature=related (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DkOoTnTKv1M&feature=related)

3. Tim Vanhamel -- Like a Fire
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVowW5FAAE (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVowW5FAAE)

4. Wolf Parade -- California Dreamer
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=us6e9JqmuRw (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=us6e9JqmuRw)

5. No Age -- Teen Creeps
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5ReEL_...eature=related (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5ReEL_...eature=related)

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Also, Pitchfork have released their top 50 albums of the year award. Fleet Foxes was an expected number one but I am surprised at the Dodos and Wolf Parade omissions.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/148001-the-50-best-albums-of-2008

[saz]

cloudland canyon - lie in light
david gilmour - live in gdansk
buffalo killers - let it ride
dungen - 4
black mountain - in the future
dead meadow - old growth
brian jonestown massacre - my bloody underground
brightblack morning light - motion to rejoin
dead confederate - s/t
bonnie prince billy - wilding in the west
darker my love - 2
black keys - attack & release
outrageous cherry - wide awake in the spirit world
the quarter after - changes near
pontiak - sun on sun


still much more to check out, including two ry cooder albums, supergrass, the herbaliser, and mercury rev amoungst others.

[Waus]

Albums I bought from 2008:

Ratatat - LP3
Beck - Modern Guilt
The Dodos - Visiter
Rivers Cuomo - Alone: The Home Recordings
Ladytron - Velocifero

I haven't really regretted any of them, although the Ladytron one hasn't gotten much play. I think The Dodos are the only one that qualifies for best of 2008 just because I'd never heard them before.

[AceFace]

oh yeah, that LADYTRON is awesome!

[TAL]

Weezer is the only album from this year that I've listened to.

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

DSR is stuck in the 90s.

Guilty!

[nypb]

Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads

[YoungRemy]

The Raconteurs- Consolers of the Lonely.

[invisi3ill]

Beck - Modern Guilt

Dieselboy - Substance D

Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

Meshuggah - obZen

[milkboy009]

Ok either
Vampire Weekend
or
Jake One- White Van Music

You can't put Vampire Weekend in and not sing along and bounce up and down.

White Van Music is an amazing Hip Hop album. It spans all hip hop genres yet melds them all together somehow. All the beats are well thought out with intros, outros, and amazing scratches/ samples.

[easy 3]

Thanks for recommending that Jake One album - I'll have to check that out somehow (it's hard since so many record shops closed down) - I'm usually into all the Rhymesayers stuff.

I forgot to mention Flying Lotus' Los Angeles - its a quality piece of instrumental hip hop type stuff - I liked Prefuse 73's Preparations too (although I'm more into some of his other stuff) especially the Interregnums bonus CD thing.

[BangBangBunny]

It might not be supergroundbreaking but the new Al Green - Lay It Down is rock solid all the way through. The instrumentation is tremendous, it's truly an album and not just a collection of tracks.

Great for those special times when you are looking to get the drippy off your hangstick too!


Peace,
BBB

http://www.myspace.com/daywithwine

[Waus]

British Sea Power's Do You Like Rock Music... The stand-out track is definitely Waving Flags - a piece of majestic, atmospheric rock. It's like hang-gliding over the mountains of Spain. Incredible.

I forgot I got that album. Yeah - that song was amazing, the rest of the album was okay, but it didn't stick with me. Overall what makes it great is just the impression I get of steampunk romanticism, the feel of the music more than any one specific part.

I also got BJM's "My Bloody Underground" which is a stupid name for the album. Most of it feels kind of thrown together and the best parts (IMO) are the droning tracks that are reminiscent of what they did better with His Satanic Majesties' Second Request.

[saz]

i thought it was a great name for the album and it's their best stuff to date, along with and this is our music and we are the radio.

[paul jones]

Mr Blobby

[adam_f]

I also like the debut album from the Knux.

[Gareth]

haha i just watched justice "a cross the universe"
it's pretty funny
bouchon, their tour manager, is badass...reminds me of vic mackey
the bus driver has some good scenes
and some dude gets bottled

[DIGI]

Meshuggah - obZen

haha.


ahhhhh, that's rich.


do you wear jncos and hang out at mall arcades?

[b-grrrlie]

I've listened to way too little to new music this year, haven't even heard the Glasvegas album, which was
oh-so hyped by Swedish press and voted the best of the year everwhere...
Both Beck and Primal Scream were dissappointments and I've hardly listened to them more than a couple of times...
But Nick Cave's Dig! Lazarus! Dig!!! and Markus Krunegård's Markusevangeliet were good,
Markus' single Jag är en vampyr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDfT2xtO6Ss) being my song of the year.

[Waus]

i thought it was a great name for the album and it's their best stuff to date, along with and this is our music and we are the radio.

What? He just combined "Velvet Underground" with "My Bloody Valentine." He already did a MBV-alike album anyways. I still say it's stupid, and so is "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request" for a name.

[jabumbo]

I also like the debut album from the Knux.

i dig this as well. the first handful of tracks are really excellent. it sort of tails off after about halfway, but none of the songs are that terrible.

i do enjoy the upbeat nature of it all

[saz]

What? He just combined "Velvet Underground" with "My Bloody Valentine." He already did a MBV-alike album anyways. I still say it's stupid, and so is "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request" for a name.

no, you're just simplifying the album name. i like it, i think it's fine. he didn't already do "a mbv-alike album", but anton does favour psychedelia, drone, eastern and middle eastern influences, progressive rock and the like.

[Waus]

no, you're just simplifying the album name. i like it, i think it's fine. he didn't already do "a mbv-alike album", but anton does favour psychedelia, drone, eastern and middle eastern influences, progressive rock and the like.

You don't think Methodrone was "a mbv-alike album?" I just sort of thought that was kind of a general assumption. That's what it felt like to me.

I think Anton makes deliberately stupid choices for song names and album titles. You have to admit that taking The Rolling Stones' "Their Satanic Majesties' Request" and just adding a 'Second' to it is dumb. Or brilliant. Probably just dumb.

[saz]

methodrone certainly had a psychedelic shoegaze flavour to it, but my bloody valentine aren't the only band who are into psychedelic shoegaze. so, saying that methodrone is mbv-like is not really fair. i liked the satanic title.

[mate_spawn_die]

I'ma g'head & say -- Third by Portishead

I was unsure they could bring back all the magic they'd once had, and I was pleasantly surprised and found myself listening to it much more than I'd anticipated. "We Carry On" is easily my fave cut off it with "Small" coming in a close 2nd. Their music is just so sexy and mysterious, I love it. Their performance at Coachella this year was nothing short of perfection.

i love that album too..i think my favorite track is "The Rip"


dungen - 4
darker my love - 2

after reading this list i noticed...

2 - darker my love
third - portishead (sorta counts...it has a 3 on the cover)
4 - dungen

[Videodrome]

the best record i got in 2008 was the black keys - attack and release.

[invisi3ill]

haha.


ahhhhh, that's rich.


do you wear jncos and hang out at mall arcades?


being a meshuggah fan for almost 20 years, the answer would be 'No, smartass.'

[laura]

elbow - the seldom seen kid

[ET]

Fucking hell no way can I pick just one.

Flying Lotus, Max Tundra, Portishead, Dungen, Kanye, the Tim and Eric album, Santogold, M38... I can't decide and I know I forgot to mention more.

[roosta]

If you think Santi is so cool now check out what she used to be doing 5-10 years ago, working with GZA and Jean Grae and shit. She sold out and adopted the punk/indie vibe so poser pricks like you would think her album was the hottest new thing.

I reject this kind of thinking. You give me any artist who is doing the same shit they did 10 years ago and i'll give you a hasbeen (mostly). To condemn someone for moving on and trying out new shit as a sell-out is wrong. She was on a hip-hop tip for a while, but now is branching out in new directions. Thats not selling out. That's evolving. I don't like Kanye's new direction, but its better than him doing chip-munk soul samples for the rest of his life.

Anyways, as for my record of the year...i dunno. I only casually flirt with new music, and i can't even remember what did or did not drop last year. Plus i tend to be about 1 year behind everything.

I liked Neon Neon. MGMT was good, but the big singles/songs were by far the best, the rest was semi-dissapointing.

Dunno if i even checked out any 'new' hip-hop this year. Oh...the Wax Tailor album (i think thats 2008). Well, its new for me.

[mate_spawn_die]

chip-munk soul samples

i hate that shit

[scotty]

This should be pretty easy given I only bought one record this year that could be considered 'new': Havilah - The Drones.

It seemed like every time I turned the radio to triple J I heard fucking cut copy or the presets or midnight juggernauts or some shit. Why should I bother with that when I got the human league, new order and pet shop boys.

[mikizee]

Cut Copy can lick my hairy white ass

[DIGI]

The Black Keys--Attack and Release
Eagles of Death Metal--Heart On

[RoryMC]

Cut Copy can lick my hairy white ass

I don't get Cut Copy at all. Their earlier stuff is a lot more enjoyable but they are getting proverbially wanked over at the moment.

[Gareth]

i like them