Top 10 for 2008
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:55 pmI didn't put this in the "top 10" section since this isn't all new wave (only some of the reissues)
Top 10 albums:
1. Keane – [i]Perfect Symmetry[/i]
2. Flight Of The Conchords – [i]Flight Of The Conchords[/i]
3. Death Cab For Cutie –[i] Narrow Stairs[/i]
4. The Last Shadow Puppets – [i]The Golden Age Of The Understatement[/i]
5. Coldplay – [i]Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends[/i] + [i]Prospekt’s March[/i] EP
6. Beck – [i]Modern Guilt[/i]
7. R.E.M. – [i]Accelerate[/i]
8. Travis – [i]Ode To J. Smith[/i]
9. Sloan – [i]Parallel Play[/i]
10. Nada Surf – [i]Lucky[/i]
Top 10 singles:
1. Coldplay – “Viva La Vida” (screw you, Satriani!)
2. Keane – “The Lovers Are Losing”
3. Travis – “Something Anything”
4. R.E.M. – “Supernatural Superserious”
5. Nada Surf – “Whose Authority”
6. Weezer – “Pork And Beans”
7. Keane – “Spiralling”
8. Death Cab For Cutie – “No Sunlight”
9. Franz Ferdinand – “Lucid Dreams”
10. The Raconteurs – “Salute Your Solution”
Top 10 reissues:
1. Devo – [i]This Is The Devo Box[/i] (Japanese import)
2. Simple Minds –[i] Themes[/i] box set (UK import)
3. Yaz – [i]In Your Room[/i] box set
4. U2 – deluxe editions of [i]Boy[/i], [i]October[/i], [i]War[/i] and [i]Under A Blood Red Sky[/i]
5. OMD – [i]Messages[/i] CD+DVD (UK import)
6. Ultravox – [i]Vienna[/i] and [i]Rage In Eden[/i] reissues (UK imports)
7. R.E.M. – [i]Murmur[/i] Deluxe Edition
8. Beck – [i]Odelay[/i] Deluxe Edition
9. The Art Of Noise – [i]Who’s Afraid Of…[/i] (Japanese mini-sleeve import)
10. The Mighty Lemon Drops – reissues with bonus tracks of [i]World Without End[/i],[i] Laughter[/i], [i]Sound...[/i] and [i]Ricochet[/i]
"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"
Top 10 albums:
1. Keane – [i]Perfect Symmetry[/i]
2. Flight Of The Conchords – [i]Flight Of The Conchords[/i]
3. Death Cab For Cutie –[i] Narrow Stairs[/i]
4. The Last Shadow Puppets – [i]The Golden Age Of The Understatement[/i]
5. Coldplay – [i]Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends[/i] + [i]Prospekt’s March[/i] EP
6. Beck – [i]Modern Guilt[/i]
7. R.E.M. – [i]Accelerate[/i]
8. Travis – [i]Ode To J. Smith[/i]
9. Sloan – [i]Parallel Play[/i]
10. Nada Surf – [i]Lucky[/i]
Top 10 singles:
1. Coldplay – “Viva La Vida” (screw you, Satriani!)
2. Keane – “The Lovers Are Losing”
3. Travis – “Something Anything”
4. R.E.M. – “Supernatural Superserious”
5. Nada Surf – “Whose Authority”
6. Weezer – “Pork And Beans”
7. Keane – “Spiralling”
8. Death Cab For Cutie – “No Sunlight”
9. Franz Ferdinand – “Lucid Dreams”
10. The Raconteurs – “Salute Your Solution”
Top 10 reissues:
1. Devo – [i]This Is The Devo Box[/i] (Japanese import)
2. Simple Minds –[i] Themes[/i] box set (UK import)
3. Yaz – [i]In Your Room[/i] box set
4. U2 – deluxe editions of [i]Boy[/i], [i]October[/i], [i]War[/i] and [i]Under A Blood Red Sky[/i]
5. OMD – [i]Messages[/i] CD+DVD (UK import)
6. Ultravox – [i]Vienna[/i] and [i]Rage In Eden[/i] reissues (UK imports)
7. R.E.M. – [i]Murmur[/i] Deluxe Edition
8. Beck – [i]Odelay[/i] Deluxe Edition
9. The Art Of Noise – [i]Who’s Afraid Of…[/i] (Japanese mini-sleeve import)
10. The Mighty Lemon Drops – reissues with bonus tracks of [i]World Without End[/i],[i] Laughter[/i], [i]Sound...[/i] and [i]Ricochet[/i]
"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"