Your Top 10 Albums of 2008?

[Frau_Blucher]

Mojo has just dropped their list. For reference...

1 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2 - The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
3 - Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
4 - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago [2007]
5 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
6 - The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
7 - Glasvegas - Glasvegas
8 - The Week That Was - The Week That Was
9 - The Bug - London Zoo
10 - Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark
11 - Portishead - Third
12 - Don Cavalli - Cryland
13 - Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
14 - British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
15 - Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves - Roll With You
16 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
17 - Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
18 - Pete Molinari - A Virtual Landslide
19 - Beck - Modern Guilt
20 - TV on the Radio - Dear Science
21 - Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali
22 - Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
23 - Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
24 - Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
25 - Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
26 - Peter Broderick - Home
27 - M83 - Saturdays=Youth
28 - Neon Neon - Stainless Style
29 - Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals [2007]
30 - The Night Marchers - See You in Magic
31 - Duffy - Rockferry
32 - Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left
33 - Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon, the Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy by Magic
34 - Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
35 - Our Broken Garden - When Your Blackening Shows
36 - MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
37 - Gavin Bryars & Philip Jeck & Alter Ego - The Sinking of the Titanic [2007]
38 - Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
39 - Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
40 - The Black Keys - Attack & Release
41 - The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
42 - Juana Molina - Un Día
43 - Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
44 - Goldmund - The Malady Of Elegance
45 - Metallica - Death Magnetic
46 - James Hunter - The Hard Way
47 - Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
48 - AC/DC - Black Ice
49 - The Neil Cowley Trio - Loud... Louder... Stop
50 - Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

[popreactor]

I'm up for it, just have to calculate my top 50!

[popreactor]

1.MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
2.Blondfire- My Someday
3.Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours
4.Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
5.The Last Shadow Puppets- The Age of Understatement
6.Black Kids- Partie Traumatic
7.The Foxglove Hunt- Stop Hertbeat
8.M83- Saturdays Youth
9.British Sea Power- Do You Like Rockmusic?
10.Clinic- Do It
11.Xiu Xiu- Women as Lovers
12.B. Eno & D. Byrne- Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
13.Beck Moden Guilt
14.Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles
15.TV on the Radio- Dear Science
16.The Charlatans- You Cross My Path
17.dEUS- Vantage Point
18.The Dears- Missiles
19.John Maus- Love Is Real
20.The Presets- Apocalypso
21.The Ting Tings- We Started Nothing
22.I’m form Barcelona- Who Killed Harry Houdini
23.Hercules And The Love Affair-Hercules & The Love Affair
24.The Notwist- The Devil You and Me
25.Coldplay- Viva La Vida...
26.Goldfrapp- The Seventh Tree
27.Glasvegas- Glasvegas
28.Sparks- Exotic Creatures of the Deep
29.The Cure- 4:13 Dream
30.The Whip- X Marks Destination
31.The Magnetic Fields- Distortion
32.The Raconteurs- Consolers for the Lonely
33.Portishead- Third
34.Wild Beasts- Limbo Panto
35.The Duke Spirit- Neptune
36.South- You Are Here
37.Supergrass- Diamond Hoo Ha
38.Scarlett Johansson- Anywhere I Lay My Head
39.The Verve- Forth
40.Wire- Object 47
41.Neon Neon- Stainless Style
42.Mystery Jets- 21
43.The Dirty Secrets- The Dirty Secrets
44.Brett Anderson- Wilderness
45.Ladytron- Velocifero
46.Santogold-Santogold
47.The Kills- Midnight Boom
48.Aimee Mann-@#%&*!Smilers
49.Hot Chip- Made in the Dark
50.The B-52’s- Funplex

Great albums from 2007>Radiohead- 'In Rainbows'
>The Hives- The Black and White Album
Albums I did not pay much attention to which are probably good:
Sigur Ros- Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
Bon Iver- For Emma
Elbow- Seldom Seen Kid
Foals- Antidotes
Death Cab For Cutie- Narrow Stairs
Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend

[tileboy]

I bought more individual songs than cd's, but here are the five I did purchase.

Wire- -Object 47
The Kills-Midnight Boom
Duke Spirit-Neptune
Black Angels-Directions to See a Ghost
Hot Chip-Made in the Dark

Just bought Gaslight Anthem-59 Sound.

[Frau_Blucher]

Holy crap, great call on Wire TB. Total brainfart on my part. Now where to fit in that and The Duke Spirit...that one's been growing on me like crazy the last couple of weeks. Can't wait to see them next week.

[DJ Lestat]

Ok OK I'll have just one more drink ..........of your next wave kool-aid!

1. Plushgun - Self Titled EP
2. The Foxglove Hunt - Stop Heartbeat
3. The Daysleepers - Drowned in a sea of sound
4. The Sessions - Self Titled
5. Glasvegas - Self Titled
6. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
7. The Dirty Secrets - Self Titled
8. The Presets - Apacolypso
9. Keane - Perfect Symmetry
10. Ladytron - Velocifero

It was a pretty good year for releases and hopefully next year we'll get to hear sophomore releases from some 07 bands like The Fields/Mary Onettes/etc. I know the Cinematics are working on an early 09 release.

Carry on lads



Always remember you are unique....just like everyone else.

[Ollie Stench]

I can't even think of 4 2008 releases that I bought let alone 10.

[coop41]

I actually liked a lot of discs this year:

[b]1. My Teenage Stride - Ears Like Golden Bats</B> (Actually a 2007 release technically but this easily was played 10 times more than any other disc in 2008 - Brilliant!!!)
[b]2. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound [/b]
[b]3. Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event[/b]
[b]4. The Metros - More Money Less Grief[/b] (Not to be confused with the 80's band)
[b]5. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music[/b] (Seeing them live 3 times sold me!)
6. Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
7. Dear & The Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times
8. Late Of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
9. What Made Milwaukee Famous - What Doesn't Kill Us
10. Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
11. Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows
12. Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
13. The Fratellis - Here We Stand
14. The Killers - Day & Age
15. Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger


[b]Others worth a listen:[/b]

Carbon/Silicon - The Last Post (2007)
Lil' Wayne - The Carter III (seriously)
Northern Portrait- Napolean Sweetheart Ep
Mystery Jets - Twenty One
Coconut Records - Nighttiming

Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery
Sons And Daughters - This Gift
Housse de Racket - Forty Love
Tom Gabel - Heart Burns Ep

Coldplay - Viva La Vida...
Wire - Object 47
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

Nick Cave - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
The Foxglove Hunt - Stop Heartbeat
The Ting Tings- We Started Nothing
R.E.M. - Accelerate
My Teenage Stride - Lesser Demons Ep

Throw Me The Statue - Moonbeams (2007)
Make Model - The LSB Ep
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell



A couple 2007 releases were included because it's my list!!

[Frau_Blucher]

There seems to be some sort of mistake coop...you have both the Killers and Coldplayed listed. [:o)]

[TheMunDial]

I counted down my Top 30 new-to-me artists of 2oo8...

Part 1: http://alfinyomouf.com/?p=56

Part 2: http://alfinyomouf.com/?p=77

Happy reading!

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[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by TheMunDial[/i]
<br>I counted down my Top 30 new-to-me artists of 2oo8...

Part 1: http://alfinyomouf.com/?p=56

Part 2: http://alfinyomouf.com/?p=77

Happy reading!
[/quote]
Very cool reading Alf and very refreshing spin on what a personal 2008 list really would looke like. Plus, "the torrential unhappiness of joy"...brilliant!

[djcraig]

It's rare these days that I'd buy an entire album of anyone. Perhaps the trauma of buying too many CDs on blind faith only to ask myself where all the music went still hasn't worn off.

I will nominate a [b]Breakthrough Artist Of The Year[/b], though:

<big><big><big>Sia</big></big></big>

She continues to amaze me with her voice, lyrical content and incredible videos. The girl is a seemingly fearless risk taker, leaping into ideas other might run from. She also gets my vote for Video Of The Year for [b]"Soon We'll Be Found"[/b]:

<embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtvmusic.com:273725" width="320" height="271" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashVars="></embed>

[schwenko]

[quote][i]Originally posted by TheMunDial[/i]
<br>I counted down my Top 30 new-to-me artists of 2oo8...

Part 1: http://alfinyomouf.com/?p=56

Part 2: http://alfinyomouf.com/?p=77

Happy reading!

---

It's THRILLING! It's GLORIFICENT! It's the best thing to happen to the Internet since the New Wave Outpost! Click away and taste unbridled euphoria!

http://ALFINYOMOUF.com
[/quote]

Good call on Sally Shapiro!!

[schwenko]

my top 10 list isn't even 10 entries long[:(]
not necessarily in order-

1. Wire- Object 47
2. Goldfrapp-Seventh Tree
3. Heaven 17- Naked As Advertised
4. The Ting Tings (possibly- i haven't received the cd yet, based upon the performance I saw
5. Perfume-The Game

[coop41]

[quote][i]Originally posted by schwenko[/i]
<br>my top 10 list isn't even 10 entries long[:(]
not necessarily in order-

1. Wire- Object 47
2. Goldfrapp-Seventh Tree
3. Heaven 17- Naked As Advertised
4. The Ting Tings (possibly- i haven't received the cd yet, based upon the performance I saw
5. Perfume-The Game

[/quote]

I'm guessing time constraints kept you from putting them in order[:D][:o)]