Your Top 10 Albums of 2008?

[cubby]

Alright, here is my list

1. My Morning Jacket-Evil Urges, I know they are not next wave but my fav anyway
2. Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes, amazing that a band this young made an album like this. Brillant!!
3. TV On The Radio-Dear Science
4. BSP-Do You Like Rock Music?
5. Elbow-Seldom Seen Kid
6. Goldfrapp-Seventh Tree
7. Ting Tings-We Started Nothing
8. Hercules and Love Affair-Hercules and Love Affair
9. Kings of Leon-Only By the Night-Another non next wave fav
10. The Airborne Toxic Event-The Airborne Toxic Event

Honorable Mention
M83-Saturdays=Youth
Bob Mould-District Line

Favorite Songs:

MGMT-Kids
My Morning Jacket-Highly Suspicious
Elbow-One Day Like This
Ting Tings-That's Not My Name
Goldfrapp-Happiness
Fleet Foxes-White Winter Hymnal
TV on the Radio-Crying
Hercules and Love Affair-Blind
The Airborne Toxic Event-Does This Mean Your'e Moving On?
Bauhaus-Black Stone Heart
Kings of Leon-Crawl
Les Savvy Fav-What Would Wolves Do?
Delta Spirit-Trashcan
Santogold-LES Artistes
BSP-No Lucifer
M83=Kim and Jesse

[Frau_Blucher]

I'd been avoiding TOTR. The last album grated on me at times. It sure seems to appear on a lot of year-end lists though. The few tracks I've heard do seem a bit more melodic.

[Retro_NRG]

[quote][i]Originally posted by djcraig[/i]
<br>I will nominate a [b]Breakthrough Artist Of The Year[/b], though:

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

[/quote]One Word..

(((Wow)))

(I'll be keeping tabs on her)

Thanks![:D]

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[Frau_Blucher]

I'm starting to see The Bug's "London Zoo" on some critics' year-end lists. Its really hard and twisted reggae/dub/dance beat thing is not really my cup of tea except in certain moods, but some folks around here might like the combo. It's on the Ninja Tune label, one of my favorites of the 90s, producing folks like Coldcut, 9 Lazy 9, The Herbalizer, etc.

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[Retro_NRG]

[quote][i]Originally posted by coop41[/i]
<br>I actually liked a lot of discs this year:

[b]3. Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event[/b]

[/quote]Man is it just me or is Mikel Jollett channeling Paul Westerberg? (especially with 'Gasoline')

Me Likes! VERY MUCH!

IMHO: This has turned out to be a very promising year indeed![8D]

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[djcraig]

Blir,

At least one critic agrees with you...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/lucy_jones ... um_of_2008




<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>

[TheMunDial]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>[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!
[/quote]

Thanks.

You know, I gave Fleet Foxes one listen-through after my friend hyped it up, but it wasn't my cup o' joe at all.

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[jaybag]

My 10 favorite songs of 2008 (counted down Casey Kasem style):

10. Louis XIV: "Air Traffic Control"
9. Coldplay: "Viva La Vida" (horribly overexposed but still brilliant)
8. Amanda Palmer: "Ampersand"
7. Ladytron: "Ghosts"
6. Joe Jackson: "Invisible Man"
5. Ben Folds: "Cologne"
4. Gonzales: "Working Together"
3. MGMT: "Time To Pretend"
2. These Modern Socks: "No One's Gonna Miss Me"
1. Red Box: "The Sign" (I cheated a little here - this song hasn't even been officially released but I was able to hear the unfinished version and it's amazing. The album, assuming it's released in 2009, WILL be my favorite of the year).

Ten best albums:

10. Ladytron: "Velocifero"
9. Gabriella Cilmi: "Lessons To Be Learned" (guilty pleasure; 17-year-old Australian with tons of talent, put out a great debut album. She might wind up as the next Britney in which case I'll regret putting this here someday.)
8. Hey Rosetta!: "Into Your Lungs"
7. Glasvegas: "Glasvegas"
6. Friendly Fires: "Friendly Fires"
5. Cut Copy: "In Ghost Colours"
4. Ben Folds: "Way To Normal" (HATED it when I first heard it, it really grew on me)
3. The Republic Tigers: "Keep Color"
2. Teitur: "The Singer"
1. These Modern Socks: "Picking A Lock At The Speed Of Light"

[Quite Life]

<h2>I got the Last Shadow Puppets CD for Christmas and I have that thing on loop ever since... Only one mention for the Foals CD??? good mentions alll but the Kills CD i only like thier hit track Cheap and Cheerful.


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[Quite Life]

Has anyone gave mention to the Crystal Castles CD everyone raves about the CD but I this its just so so

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[coop41]

Just got around to listening to Stay Positive by The Hold Steady and it would have definitely been on my Top 10 of 2008. Another solid rock record. I kind of stayed away as their previous effort was hyped to death and I didn't think it was all that great. This one is!

[zill]

I have to ask, am I the only person on this planet that just doesn't get the Fleet Foxes? I've tried to like their music but it just leaves me yawning.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by zill[/i]
<br>I have to ask, am I the only person on this planet that just doesn't get the Fleet Foxes? I've tried to like their music but it just leaves me yawning.
[/quote]
It's gotta be listened to over a high quality sound system, preferably something like a Googlephonic Stereo with moon-rock cartridge needle and the greatest number of speakers before infinity. We're talking something with high motherfucking dynamic range. It doesn't play well over computer speakers or shitty headphones. One also cannot go about to intently listen to it to see if it's good. There must be some transformational event that accompanies a more-unconsidered absorbtion of the goodness that causes a thunderstruck dawning and perhaps even an exclamation like "S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!"

[coop41]

[quote][i]Originally posted by zill[/i]
<br>I have to ask, am I the only person on this planet that just doesn't get the Fleet Foxes? [/quote]

uh, no

[tileboy]

[quote][i]Originally posted by coop41[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by zill[/i]
<br>I have to ask, am I the only person on this planet that just doesn't get the Fleet Foxes? [/quote]

uh, no
[/quote]


I think I make three. This could be the making of a full fledged Fleet Foxes backlash.