Top 10 for 2008

[Surly]

I 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"

[Frau_Blucher]

I put Script Of The Bridge head and shoulders above any other reissue this year...

1. The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
2. The Nerves - One Way Ticket
3. VA - Some Bizarre Album
4. Information Society - Apocryphon (Electro Roots 1982-1985)
5. New Order - Reissues Box (5x2CD)
6. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
7. Yaz - In Your Room Box
8. Blancmange - Mange Tout
9. John Fox - In Mysterious Ways (Deluxe Ed)
10. Ultravox - Vienna

More on the other lists here:

http://nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25576 for singles

http://nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25324 for albums

[SwampThing]

More Top 10 list's

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2008.shtml

Scroll to the bottom (Blir will be thrilled that Fleet Foxes made the most #1 choices compiled from 40 different spources)

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[Wayne]

[quote][i]Originally posted by SwampThing[/i]
<br>More Top 10 list's

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2008.shtml

Scroll to the bottom (Blir will be thrilled that Fleet Foxes made the most #1 choices compiled from 40 different spources)

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Also there's another thread on this forum over here:

http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25576

[playloudrepeat]

The top two are well ahead of the rest here...

1. Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson, Rattlin' Bones
2. Flogging Molly, Float
3. Willie Nile, Live from the Streets of New York
4. Josh Ritter, In the Dark: Live at Vicar Street
5. Kathleen Edwards, Asking for Flowers
6. Scott Kempner, Saving Grace
7. Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears, Flight of the Knife
8. Jeff Larson, Left of a Dream
9. Lindsey Buckingham, Gift of Screws
10. Fire Bug, Season for Change