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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Andy on October 15, 2008, 11:27:33 PM
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ok, time to start cramming al the music i've been neglecting. what are some strong contenders?
I think my front runner so far is The Grouch- Show You the World. or The Cool Kids- Bakesale EP.
I can't remember when the top two albums for me were both hip hop, but i'm sure i'm forgeting some.
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The Week That Was
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oooooooh, we should do a soundopinions style top albums list. starting dec 15th or so everyone list their top ten in order and we assign them weighted values and come up with an overal FOT top 25 (or so) albums for the year.
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it would also be awesome to have some anonymity to get more truthful top 10s, but I think anything we did that allowed that (PM or email) may kind of discourage participation .
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You could let people vote for a list of candidates (music, not politicians), or hold the contest on f*t*h*n. (Is that allowed?)
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i'd rather not limit the potential pool of albums, and taking it down to chinatown would exclude some people. i'&l bet we can make it work in a thread. now, I just need some dfk knowledge on a fair weighting system.
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i'd rather not limit the potential pool of albums, and taking it down to chinatown would exclude some people. i'&l bet we can make it work in a thread. now, I just need some dfk knowledge on a fair weighting system.
Wouldn't the easiest way be to make your #1 choice worth 10 points, #2 = 9, etc? Or there's the Pazz & Jop method where you just distribute 100 pts. amongst the 10 in any way you see fit.
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yeah, either way would work. I like to make things 10 times more difficult to gain 1% more fairness or accuracy.
In other words: I'm dumb.
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Humorless music thread.
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Humorless music thread.
nice contribution
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#1 worth 20
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#10 worth 2
Up to 5 honorable mentions worth 1.
One wild card spot assigned a value at random from 1-20.
One of your top ten albums will actually detract from the album's overall score. That album will be voted on by your peers and sent to the list's arbitrator via PM.
Two albums will be selected at random from the Pitchfork year-end list and given 100 points.
Two albums will be selected at random from the Pitchfork year-end list and barred from competition.
Should Billy Joel release an album between now and year's end, that album automatically wins.
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Thus far it's Abe Vigoda or Wild Beasts for me.
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Humorless music thread.
nice contribution
I thought so.
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I just want some music recommendations! Also, does it have to be new music?
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I am officially recommending this:
Hank IV - Refuge in Genre (http://www.goner-records.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3955)
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MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
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Alright top ten so far...
1. The Week That Was- ST
2. Fleet Foxes- ST
3. Thomas Function- Celebration
4. Ladytron- Velocifero
5. Vampire Weekend- ST
6. TI- Paper Trail
7. Metallica- Death Magnetic
8. Dandy Warhols- Earth to the Dandy Warhols
9. Submarines- Honeysuckle Weeks
10. Wale- Mixtape About Nothing
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Humorless music thread.
nice contribution
Cheap shot. I apologize.
Probably based on my fear of rating systems. I'm a numera-dummy.
Listening to the new Deerhoof right now. Liking it a lot. Nice to hear them with two guitars again.
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A few off the top of my head:
Times New Viking - Rip It Off
The Music Tapes - Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
Eat Skull - Sick to Death
No Age - Eraser 7"
The Barbaras - Summertime Road 7"
2007 was such a great year for music that I think 2008 has been kind of a year for collective breath-catching.
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Listening to the new Deerhoof right now. Liking it a lot. Nice to hear them with two guitars again.
Agreed.
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I saw Deerhoof last weekend. Fun band but there's only so much of that one can take.
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The Pets - Misdirection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKQqcKZtNB4
Also:
Cheap Time - Cheap Time
Sloan - Parallel Play
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Here's some I enjoyed in alphabetical order:
Abe Vigoda, Skeleton
Bellafea, Cavalcade
Karl Blau, Nature's Got Away
The Chap, Mega Breakfast
Clinic, Do It!
Cloudland Canyon, Lie In Light
El Guincho, Alegranza!
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
The Futureheads, This Is Not The World
Harvey Milk, Life...The Best Game In Town
Lindstrøm, Where You Go I Go Too
Madlib, WLIB AM: King Of The Wigflip
Man Man, Rabbit Habits
Roots Manuva, Slime and Reason
Odd Nosdam, Pretty Swell Explode
Oneida, Preteen Weaponry
Paarvoharju, Laulu Laakson Kukista
Pas Chic Chic, Au Contraire
Portico Quartet, Knee Deep In The North Sea
Singer, Unhistories
Stereolab, Chemical Chords
Tobacco, Fucked Up Friends
There's some others but I can't remember them right now.
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I cast my vote for Thomas Function
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Wildildlife - Six
Witch - Paralyzed
The Root - Rising Down
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Wildildlife - Six
Was that this year? Excellent record either way.
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The Root - Rising Down
Wait, did ?uest kick everyone else out?
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Clinic : Do it
Blitzen Trapper : Furr
Fleet Foxes : S/T
Crooked Fingers : Forfeit/Fortune
the Walkmen : You and Me (I think thats what it is called)
Jay Reatard : Singles '08
Jay Reatard : In the Red Singles
Breeders : Mountain Battles
Stephen Malkmus : Real Emotional Trash
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As much as I'd love to go with something super obscure/noisy/extreme, I gotta go with Velocifero by Ladytron for altogether best album I heard released in 2008.
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I cast my vote for Thomas Function
i cast my vote first.
The Barbaras - Summertime Road 7"
also, dibs on the barbaras. (PS- always a treat as a live show)
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Son Lux-At War With Walls and Mazes
Rokia Traore-Tchamantché
Ilya Monosov-Seven Lucky Plays, or How to Fix Songs for a Broken Heart
Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago
Horse Feathers-House With No Home
Beach House-Devotion
Compilations can go on here right? If so...
African Scream Contest: Raw And Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin And Togo 70's
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...was neither released nor reissued this year. But I "discovered" it this year:
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
So brilliant. I wish I would have been cool.
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I don't know why Thomas Function hasn't gained more critical acclaim. Pitchfork will probably pick up on them a year from now and try to adopt them as their own a la Jay Reatard.
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Tell Tale Signs/Bob Dylan.
Even his knock-offs are better than what everyone else is offering.
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Son Lux-At War With Walls and Mazes
Rokia Traore-Tchamantché
Ilya Monosov-Seven Lucky Plays, or How to Fix Songs for a Broken Heart
Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago
Horse Feathers-House With No Home
Beach House-Devotion
Compilations can go on here right? If so...
African Scream Contest: Raw And Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin And Togo 70's
I saw 'nem Beach Houses last night and they were great. Also great from last night: Tickley Feather (http://www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather) and Kría Brekkan (http://www.kriabrekkan.com/).
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Son Lux-At War With Walls and Mazes
Rokia Traore-Tchamantché
Ilya Monosov-Seven Lucky Plays, or How to Fix Songs for a Broken Heart
Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago
Horse Feathers-House With No Home
Beach House-Devotion
Compilations can go on here right? If so...
African Scream Contest: Raw And Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin And Togo 70's
I saw 'nem Beach Houses last night and they were great. Also great from last night: Tickley Feather (http://www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather) and Kría Brekkan (http://www.kriabrekkan.com/).
i saw Beach House almost a year ago and enjoyed it. upon leaving, i could not get to my car fast enough:
"that seemed really slow."
"ive never heard them, but i read about them in pitchfork."
"that made me sleepy."
"it was okay...different."
i dont think anybody enjoyed it. :-\
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oh, i forgot:
(http://www.messandnoise.com/images/3000332/400x400-c.jpeg)
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I don't know why Thomas Function hasn't gained more critical acclaim.
They seem a little too saccharine, but that's probably just me.
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The Raveonettes don't get enough non-Rachael Ray-related attention. Lust, Lust, Lust is my likely album of the year.
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The Raveonettes don't get enough non-Rachael Ray-related attention. Lust, Lust, Lust is my likely album of the year.
Oh, yeah I liked that album too. I heard them for the first time this year. A friend of mine said that with all my interest in 60's pop I should check them out. Thumbs up. They manage to do a vintagish Phil Spector/Warhol/Jesus and Mary Chain-inspired thing without seeming overly vapid and silly. Really fun, good times music!
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Here's some I enjoyed in alphabetical order:
Stereolab, Chemical Chords
I've lost track of Stereolab... although I love them very much. Haven't heard anything since Margerine Eclipse. Thanks for reminding me that I need to play some Stereolab catch-up. They make for great wintertime music, as well.
Also, I love how this thread is so diverse. Falls all over the music spectrum. I like how un-boring we are!
(http://diversity.e-consultation.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/diversity-is-imp-small.jpg)
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Here's some I enjoyed in alphabetical order:
Stereolab, Chemical Chords
I've lost track of Stereolab... although I love them very much. Haven't heard anything since Margerine Eclipse. Thanks for reminding me that I need to play some Stereolab catch-up. They make for great wintertime music, as well.
I think Chemical Chords is the only thing they've put out since Margerine. It's a good album, I can't imagine a Stereolab fan not liking it (although you pretty much know what you're going to get with their albums at this point).
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Here's some I enjoyed in alphabetical order:
Stereolab, Chemical Chords
I've lost track of Stereolab... although I love them very much. Haven't heard anything since Margerine Eclipse. Thanks for reminding me that I need to play some Stereolab catch-up. They make for great wintertime music, as well.
I think Chemical Chords is the only thing they've put out since Margerine. It's a good album, I can't imagine a Stereolab fan not liking it (although you pretty much know what you're going to get with their albums at this point).
I was certain there was one in between Margerine and now. I checked, and there's one called Fab Four Suture (thanks, allmusic!) that I guess we'll both be checking out, Jbissell!
But yeah, Stereolab is pretty predictable. And that's not a bad thing.
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Here's some I enjoyed in alphabetical order:
Stereolab, Chemical Chords
I've lost track of Stereolab... although I love them very much. Haven't heard anything since Margerine Eclipse. Thanks for reminding me that I need to play some Stereolab catch-up. They make for great wintertime music, as well.
I think Chemical Chords is the only thing they've put out since Margerine. It's a good album, I can't imagine a Stereolab fan not liking it (although you pretty much know what you're going to get with their albums at this point).
I was certain there was one in between Margerine and now. I checked, and there's one called Fab Four Suture (thanks, allmusic!) that I guess we'll both be checking out, Jbissell!
But yeah, Stereolab is pretty predictable. And that's not a bad thing.
Haha, funny you mention Fab Four Suture. After that post I found it in my big folder of albums I downloaded but haven't listened to yet. It's weird, there are times when I have a problem with a band being predictable and beating their sound into the ground, but I've never had that problem with Stereolab.
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Also in 2008, AH Kraken was good and I warmed up to Thee Oh Sees. Portishead and Nick Cave reaffirmed that they still matter.
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Also in 2008, AH Kraken was good and I warmed up to Thee Oh Sees. Portishead and Nick Cave reaffirmed that they still matter.
agreed. i saw Thee Oh Sees at Goner, my first TOS live show, and i loved it. i didnt buy a record though, and i regret it.
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Also in 2008, AH Kraken was good and I warmed up to Thee Oh Sees. Portishead and Nick Cave reaffirmed that they still matter.
I recently got to see Thee Ohsees and Intelligence do a combined set- taking turns doing songs and collaborating on some. Ohsees did Block of Ice and Intelligence did their version right after. It was a dream come true. Too bad it was in Fargo, North Dakota on a Sunday and there were only seven people out to see them.
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My biggest reluctance regarding Thee Oh Sees was that I really, really liked The Coachwhips and wish they were still around, even if their effective schtick was "done".
But I got over it. ;D
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I've listened to less new music this year than ever, but two standouts have been Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down's We Brave Bee Stings and All and Tim Fite's Fair Ain't Fair.
also, Mogwai's new one and that last Walkmen. And that Langhorne Slim album.
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I also liked Tim Fite- Fair ain't fair.
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Just a quick point about Fab Four Suture by Stereolab; it's not really an album as such and more a complilation of 10"s they did. Umm, I think the new record is the best thing they have put out since Dots and Loops way back 1997 or 1998 I think. Just a great band really, can't wait to catch them in December.
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A lot of these are reissues, and I'm trusting iTunes to be right about the year:
The Black Hollies - Casting Shadows
The Black Keys - Attack & Release
Big Dipper - Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology
Cheap Time - st
Crystal Stilts - st
David Byrne/Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
Jay Reatard - Singles 06/07
Santogold - st
Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 - st
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar: 1970-76
TL/Rx - Rapid Response EP
Willie Nelson - Stardust (Legacy Edition)
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Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 - st
Yes.
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This is about it for '08 so far:
Bon Iver – For Emma Forever Ago
Vivian Girls – s/t
Bonnie Prince Billy – Lie Down in the Light
Max Richter – 24 Postcards in Full Colour
Q-Tip – The Renaissance
Cheap Time – s/t
about three songs from Portishead - Third
Reissues:
Arthur Russell – Love is Overtaking Me
Group Inerane – Guitars From Agadez
African Scream Contest
Jay Reatard – Singles 06-07 (but not 08)
Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines
Plus what I’ve heard of the Nigeria Special comps
I also liked "Honey" by Erykah Badu
Dirtbombs album was kind of a letdown, except for "Everlovin' Man."
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My top 10 is almost done. I fear absolute ridicule from the FoTs as I'm still a relative newcomer on the boards (and my listening tastes vary quite a bit from I'd say about 90% of everybody here...). But I have been thinking this topic over for a while now. To be posted soon!
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about three songs from Portishead - Third
I hear that. Never got into that properly, should give it another go.
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My top 10 is almost done. I fear absolute ridicule from the FoTs as I'm still a relative newcomer on the boards (and my listening tastes vary quite a bit from I'd say about 90% of everybody here...). But I have been thinking this topic over for a while now. To be posted soon!
Just looking at the lists so far, there is a fair amount of variation. So far of the 40 or so albums that have been listed so far, at least 10 are from artists I don't care for. I imagine most people feel the same way...I also imagine my list will be the only one that includes the Nada Surf album that came out this year. I doubt much ridicule will be put to type for anyones list, though very possibly it will be thought by readers.
Overall, though, I don't think 08 was a very good year for music or movies. I look at all the lists and they seem kind of poor.
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Nada Surf had a new album this year?
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I couldn't pull a top 10 movie or album list out of my butt if I tried, not from this year. That's not to say I haven't seen movies this year I really liked or heard some good albums, but not 10 in either case. Not yet at least - although there's a new Fall Out Boy record coming out next week! :o
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Not in order of preference:
1. Ladyhawk - Shots
2. Times New Viking - Rip It Off
3. Hank IV - Refuge in Genre
4. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles 08
5. Deerhunter - Microcastles/Weird Era Cont.
6. Menahan Street Band - Make the Road by Walking
7. Dungen - 4
8. Greg Dulli - Live at Triple Door
9. Soundtrack of Our Lives - Communion
10. Black Mountain - In the Future
11. Howlin' Rain - Magnificent Fiend
12. Andrew Daly - Nine Sweaters
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Overall, though, I don't think 08 was a very good year for music or movies. I look at all the lists and they seem kind of poor.
I agree, albeit as a matter of opinion rather than judgment. This year's "big releases" didn't really pique my interest. My top ten list is non-existent – I’ll say Autechre’s Quaristice was my “favorite” album of the year, even though no one seems to agree about that.
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Tell Tale Signs/Bob Dylan.
Even his knock-offs are better than what everyone else is offering.
I am developing my top 20-25, but Mike stole what is probably my number one. I am still considering between 2-3 choices for the top spot.
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Not in order of preference:
Then why number them?!?!?!! You people are giving me the math/gaslight treatment, aren't you?
dave
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math/gaslight treatment
Do tell.
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Overall, though, I don't think 08 was a very good year for music or movies. I look at all the lists and they seem kind of poor.
I agree, albeit as a matter of opinion rather than judgment. This year's "big releases" didn't really pique my interest. My top ten list is non-existent – I’ll say Autechre’s Quaristice was my “favorite” album of the year, even though no one seems to agree about that.
I liked it quite a bit, although I don't know if it would be in my top 10.
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Nas- Untitled and Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid and The Flight of the Conchords
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I refined mine to a top 12.
01. Wild Beasts, Limbo, Panto
02. Abe Vigoda, Skeleton
03. Singer, Unhistories
04. Lindstrøm, Where You Go I Go Too
05. Hank IV, Refuge In Genre
06. Crystal Antlers, EP
07. Wooden Shjips, Vol. 1
08. Eat Skull, Sick To Death
09. Pas Chic Chic, Au Contraire!
10. Cloudland Canyon, Lie In Light
11. Flying Lotus, Los Angeles
12. Portico Quartet, Knee Deep In The North Sea
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...was neither released nor reissued this year. But I "discovered" it this year:
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
So brilliant. I wish I would have been cool.
OK I finally got over the name and "discovered" Jay Reatard 2006-2007 Singles.
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Here are some of my faves:
Beach House - Devotion
Vivian Girls - S/T
Deerhunter - Microcastle
The Accidental - There Were Wolves
The Capstan Shafts - Fixation Protocols
The Black Angels - Directions to See a Ghost
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
Helvetia - Acrobats
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (forgot this one)
Also like the latest Stereolab and Mogwai albums, but I wouldn't rank them up there.
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EVERYONE POST YOUR TOP 10's.
I'll do the math stuff. You have until the 25th.
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I've been really liking that tune "Sister Morphine" from the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers that I got from the library. I know it's not a whole album, and was released over 35 years ago, but I'd still like to submit it. I really haven't listened to much else this year.
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NO RULES!!!!!!
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Grampall Jookabox, Ropechain
Bizarre hybrid of stompin' blues and folk and hip-hop. Album that bewildered at first and gradually became a favorite.
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I will post the other 9 when I think of them.
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Some 2008 stuff.
Autechre - Quaristice
Big Dipper - Supercluster (this should count)
Wire - Object 47
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Eat Skull - Sick to Death
Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07
That's all I can think of that actually came out in 2008.
Some older stuff I was turned on to in 2008:
Strapping Fieldhands - Wattle & Daub
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Facing Future
The Threshold HouseBoys Choir - Forms Grows Rampant
Black Tambourine - Complete Recordings
And that's ten, so I'll stop.
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1. Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07
2. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
3. Passion Pit - Chunk of Change
4. Evangelicals - The Evening Descends
5. Beach House - Devotion
6. Kanye West -808's & Heartbreaks
7. Q-Tip - The Renaissance
8. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
9. Andrew Daly - Nine Sweaters
10. Pacific Division - Sealed For Freshness
Honorable Mentions: The Cool Kids, The Dirtbombs, Vivian Girls, Future Islands, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
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Am I the only one that likes J. Charles Reatard's Matador Singles '08 more than Singles 06-07?
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God, I'm so sickeningly British.
- Laura Marling: Alas, I Cannot Swim
- Los Campesinos!: Hold On Now, Youngster
- Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
- The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement
- Get Well Soon: Rest Now, Weary Head
- Glasvegas: s/t
- The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
- She & Him: Vol. I
- Spiritualized: Songs in A&E
- British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music?
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The 08 singles started out amazingly strong and then lost energy. They're pretty great, still, I think.
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Too early to make a proper top 10, but I've been listening a lot to:
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Sonar Kollektiv Orchester - Guaranteed Niceness
DiskJokke - Staying In
Duminie DePorres & Theo Parrish - Et tu Brute
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Albums with a couple of great cuts but failed to impress overall: Hercules and Love Affair, Morgan Geist, Matthew Herbert Big Band, Jazzanova, Benga, Erykah Badu, Portishead, James Pants, Koushik, Madlib, Raphael Saadiq, Rhymefest
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My No Rules Top-Ten
(Albums I Enjoyed/Discovered in 2008)
1. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
2. Broadcast - The Noise Made by People (thanks Stupornaut)
3. Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail (Moves Too Fast to See)
4. Autechre - Quaristice
5. Underworld - Everything, Everything
6. Fall of Saigon - s/t
7. Brian Eno - Discreet Music
8. Iron Curtain - Desolation
9. Portishead - Third
10. Muslimgauze -Wish of the Flayed
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1. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
2. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
3. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
4. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
5. Vampire Weekend - s/t
6. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
7. Ludacris - Theater of the Mind
8. Portishead - Third
9. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
10. Weezer - Red album
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The 08 singles started out amazingly strong and then lost energy. They're pretty great, still, I think.
I think they actually hit their stride in the middle of the run - singles #3 and 5 are my favorites.
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Alphabetically:
Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines
the Barbaras - Summertime Road
Big Dipper - Supercluster
Blood on the Wall - Liferz
caUSE co-MOTION! - It's Time!
the Dirtbombs - "Ever Lovin' Man"
Earles & Jensen - Just Farr a Laugh Vol. I & II
Eat Skull - Sick To Death
Ghostfinger - the Feeler
Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08
Monotonix - Live Shows
Nobunny - Love Visions
Times New Viking - Rip It Off & Stay Awake
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the Barbaras - Summertime Road
Shit, add that to my list as well.
I also like the Pierced Arrows (Dead Moon w/ a new drummer) album.
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Possibly on the list too:
DJ/Rupture
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My God did this year suck.
I liked a lot of albums but loved only a few.
1. The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust
2. Ximena Sarinana - Mediocre
3. Blood on the Wall - Liferz
4. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
5. Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
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In order for me to include your lists, you have to send me copies of all the cd's you're listing. PM me for address. No pirated or burned albums, please.
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Year-end lists always make me realize how much I haven't heard this year. Here are my top three:
1. Lemuria - Get Better
2. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
3. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
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I've have never heard a worse analysis of this year in music than the one provided by All Songs Considered.
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Here are your favorite records, shovellers. (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/148094-2008-pitchfork-readers-poll)
01. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
02. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes / Sun Giant EP
03. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
04. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
05. Deerhunter: Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
06. Portishead: Third
07. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
08. Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
09. M83: Saturdays=Youth
10. No Age: Nouns
11. Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
12. Sigur Rós: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
13. The Walkmen: You & Me
14. Dodos: Visiter
15. Wolf Parade: At Mount Zoomer
16. WHY?: Alopecia
17. The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
18. Norse Savage: Salute to Odin
19. Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping
20. Okkervil River: The Stand Ins
21. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III
22. Beach House: Devotion
23. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles
24. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
25. Beck: Modern Guilt
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I've have never heard a worse analysis of this year in music than the one provided by All Songs Considered.
A summary of the show:
You know what band is great, Bon Iver?
Boy, I sure do love the Fleet Foxes.
We should probably also mentioned My Morning Jacket to cover all our bearded guy bases.
That Coldplay record was just ok, but we should probably talk about it for a while anyways.
Mentioning Santogold & TV on the Radio covers our minority demographic right?
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I've have never heard a worse analysis of this year in music than the one provided by All Songs Considered.
A summary of the show:
You know what band is great, Bon Iver?
Boy, I sure do love the Fleet Foxes.
We should probably also mentioned My Morning Jacket to cover all our bearded guy bases.
That Coldplay record was just ok, but we should probably talk about it for a while anyways.
Mentioning Santogold & TV on the Radio covers our minority demographic right?
Also, Guy + Guitar = Neil Young
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I didn't think it was so awful. Here's mine
1 David Holmes The Holy Pictures
2 Super Furry Animals Hey Venus
3 Bob Dylan Tell Tale Signs
4 Lambchop OH
5 Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark
6 The Hold Steady Stay Positive
7 Sigur Ros Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endlaust
8 Nick Cave Dig Lazurus Dig
9 Bonnie "Prince" Billy Lie Down in the Light
10 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping
11 TV on the Radio Dear Science
12 Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid
13 Four Tet Ringer
14 The Clash Live at Shea Stadium
15 My Morning Jacket Evil Urges
16 Ron Sexsmith Exit Strategy of the Soul
17 Mogwai The Hawk is Howling
18 Okkervil River The Stand Ins
19 Oneida Preteen Weaponry
20 Dungen 4
21 Magnetic Fields Distortion
22 Sam Phillips Don't Do Anything
23 Destroyer Trouble in Dreams
24 Stephen Malkmus Real Emotional Trash
25 Matmos Supreme Balloon
I have a short Dirtbombs story. Maybe I will call it in this week.
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If Dave can list 25 in his top ten list, I can add that I forgot to add the great Parallax Error Beheads You by Max Tundra.
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South of Heaven was the best album of the year the twentieth year in the row!
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1. Portishead - Third
2. Marnie Stern - This Is It ...
3. Gentleman Jesse & his Gentlemen - Introducing ...
4. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 1
5. Times New Viking - Rip It Off
6. Long Blondes - Couples
7. R.E.M. - Accelerate
8. Jake One - White Van
9. Cheap Time - s/t
10. Ludacris - Theater of the Mind
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these weren't on my list but I liked them a lot too
19 Oneida Preteen Weaponry
Also,
I wish my dad was cool enough to listen to Oneida records
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A local newspaper asked me to submit a list for their entertainment section. (Yes, I actually the pride of Staten Island.) This is what a sent them. I'll probably write up an expanded version on my blog sometime before President's Day.
In no particular order other than the order they occurred to me:
1 Thomas Function Celebration (Alive)
2 Prisonshake Dirty Moons (Scat)
3 Thee Oh Sees The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In (Castle-Face Records / Tomlab Records)
4 Meth Teeth Bus Rides EP (Sweet Rot)
5 Vivian Girls s/t (Mauled By Tigers/In the Red)
6 Oxford Collapse BITS (Sub Pop)
7 Hank IV Refuge in Genre (Siltbreeze)
8 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Primary Colours (Goner)
9 Nothing People Anonymous (S-S)
10 Lines Memory Span (Acute reissue)
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you guys like some weird shit.
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its why my secret santee didnt get any music from me. but a lot of this music was on my 2008 favorites lists.
except vampire weekend. its a fun album, but not a favorite.
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The greatest song of the year was this, however. I think everyone can agree with this.
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58[/youtube]
Blackout Crew, 'Put A Donk On It'
They rehearse in the same building as us, they were part of a community outreach programme that could arguably be said to have caused long-term damage with tunes like this.
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The greatest song of the year was this, however. I think everyone can agree with this.
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58[/youtube]
Blackout Crew, 'Put A Donk On It'
They rehearse in the same building as us, they were part of a community outreach programme that could arguably be said to have caused long-term damage with tunes like this.
sweet
I like that.
don't u have a band Gibby?
post some chune mate
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The greatest song of the year was this, however. I think everyone can agree with this.
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58[/youtube]
Blackout Crew, 'Put A Donk On It'
They rehearse in the same building as us, they were part of a community outreach programme that could arguably be said to have caused long-term damage with tunes like this.
sweet
I like that.
don't u have a band Gibby?
post some chune mate
I'm going to link you to my old band because the new band are still recording/in demo stages (ie. not ready for the human ear) - http://www.myspace.com/versusrome
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The greatest song of the year was this, however. I think everyone can agree with this.
They rehearse in the same building as us, they were part of a community outreach programme that could arguably be said to have caused long-term damage with tunes like this.
sweet
I like that.
don't u have a band Gibby?
post some chune mate
I'm going to link you to my old band because the new band are still recording/in demo stages (ie. not ready for the human ear) - http://www.myspace.com/versusrome
sounds super polished
is music ur full time gig?
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its why my secret santee didnt get any music from me. but a lot of this music was on my 2008 favorites lists.
except vampire weekend. its a fun album, but not a favorite.
True enough. Vampire Weekend lost its flavor faster than a stick of gum for me.
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sounds super polished
is music ur full time gig?
You reckon? Those four tunes on Myspace cost about $200 to put down. I'm a student and occasional temp, music is just a hobby. Thanks for listening though.
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so the Sound Opinions guys both picked Nick Cave as the album of the year? I thought it was unlistenable. They swoon over anything this guy does.
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so the Sound Opinions guys both picked Nick Cave as the album of the year? I thought it was unlistenable. They swoon over anything this guy does.
Nick Cave is worse than Tom Waits IMO.
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I liked the nick cave album, but it's not favorite material. Oh yeah, Omar's post reminded me how awesome meanderthal is.
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I liked the Nick Cave album but every time I heard it I like it a little bit less. They were pretty disappointing live too.
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1. The Week That Was- ST
2. Fleet Foxes- ST
3. Vampire Weekend- ST
4. Beck- Modern Guilt
5. Rivers Cuomo- Alone II
6. Submarines- Honeysuckle Weeks
7. Thomas Function- Celebration!
8. Metallica- Death Magnetic
9. Lemuria- Get Better
10. Dandy Warhols- Earth to the Dandy Warhols
11. Clinic- Do It!
12. TI- Paper Trail
13. Magnetic Fields- Distortion
14. Jim Noir- ST
15. Islands- Arm's Way
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so the Sound Opinions guys both picked Nick Cave as the album of the year? I thought it was unlistenable. They swoon over anything this guy does.
Those guys have pretty abysmal taste in rock (especially DeRogatis), overshadowed only by their abysmal taste in hip-hop. And, for a show that continually prides itself on being the "World's Only Rock & Roll Talk Show," they sure spend a lot of time talking about folks like Britney Spears, Kanye West and Beyonce.
I'm interested to hear the negative talk about Cave. I've never liked him but I know lots of folks who drool over everything he does and, as Andy said, these two certainly seem to follow suit. I always just figured it was because they're lyric guys and I'm not.
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Nick Cave was my number 8, but that's really just degrees of "lesser hate". Since I hate everything, I can still be in the cool kids' club.
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I like sound opinions pretty much because they talk about mainstream pop and music industry news. Also the new britney spears album is pretty good.
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so the Sound Opinions guys both picked Nick Cave as the album of the year? I thought it was unlistenable. They swoon over anything this guy does.
Those guys have pretty abysmal taste in rock (especially DeRogatis), overshadowed only by their abysmal taste in hip-hop. And, for a show that continually prides itself on being the "World's Only Rock & Roll Talk Show," they sure spend a lot of time talking about folks like Britney Spears, Kanye West and Beyonce.
My tastes tend to line up with a fair amount of what those two recommend; given that they're just trying to be the Siskel and Ebert of rock criticism (not the highest of ambitions) I'd say they do a fine job of it. In any case I'll almost always forgive some backwards judgment calls as long as the critic brings some passion to the discussion and doesn't try to hide his or her biases, and I think DeRo and Kot fit that bill better than 90% of the rock writers out there.
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a lot of people are putting Beck on their 2008 favorites list and i dont get it. i wanted to like it, but...its not happening after the first half of the album.
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Nick Cave was my number 8, but that's really just degrees of "lesser hate". Since I hate everything, I can still be in the cool kids' club.
For the record, I love Nick Cave.
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a lot of people are putting Beck on their 2008 favorites list and i dont get it. i wanted to like it, but...its not happening after the first half of the album.
I'd give it a 6, maybe 7 out of 10. I just didn't love many albums this year.
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Also the new britney spears album is pretty good.
You think so? I like a couple tracks just like every other Britney album but I thought Blackout was really good and was disappointed to see her handlers bring her back to sugary pop.
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1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. The Features - Some Kind of Salvation
3. Marnie Stern - this is it and i am it and...
4. Tilly and the Wall - O
5. Beck - Modern Guilt
6. The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
7. Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
8. The Walkmen - You and Me
9. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
10. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
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here are mine:
1) The Magnetic Fields, Distortion
2) Belle & Sebastian, The BBC Sessions
3) Vivian Girls, Vivian Girls
4) Beck, Modern Guilt
5) Love Is All, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
6) Stereolab, Chemical Chords
7) Jennifer O’Connor, Here With Me
8) Crystal Stilts, Alight Of Night
9) Marnie Stern, This Is It…
10) Mount Eerie, Lost Wisdom
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2008 was no 2007. The beck album was good (which equates to "meh." for me in terms of beck albums), but will probably make my top 10 because this year was weak.
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in no order:
1) Vivian Girls
2) Quintron
3) Hank IV
4) Cheap Time
5) Lamps
6) Mystery Girls
7) Thomas Function
8) Eddy Current Suppression Ring
9) Kanye West
10) Q-Tip
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I can't believe no-one caught my shovel joke.
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I'm changing my answer because I actually thought about it for a little while instead of just searching my iTunes and copying and pasting the names of ten albums that came out in '08. Chris L, I respectfully slap you with my silken glove over the Dirtbombs' record -- "Leopardman at C&A" and "Le Fin Du Monde" are fine tunes. Though I could have lived without that 10-minute noise noodle on side two.
1) The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
2) The Black Keys - Attack & Release
3) v/a - Love, Peace, & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music (reissue comp)
4) The Black Hollies - Casting Shadows
5) Big Dipper - Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology (reissue)
6) Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Rapid Response EP
7) Santogold - s/t
8 ) v/a - Disco Not Disco: 1974-1986 (reissue comp)
9) Hank IV - Refuge in Genre
10) Cheap Time - s/t
11) v/a - Well Hung: 20 Funk Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary (reissue comp)
12) Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07
13) Beck - Modern Guilt
14) Bonde do Rolê - s/t
15) Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 - s/t
16) Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
17) Vivian Girls - s/t
18) Wavves - s/t
19) Metallica - Death Magnetic (yes you read that right)
20) Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar (reissue)
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2) The Black Keys - Attack & Release
4) The Black Hollies - Casting Shadows
5) Big Dipper - Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology (reissue)
6) Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Rapid Response EP
7) Santogold - s/t
12) Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07
18) Wavves - s/t
these are also on my favorites of 2008 list.
it was hard to make a list of favorites this year. lots of reissues, EPs, and comps (all grey areas for me) that were good.
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I'm changing mine too... sorry Andy. I spaced on a couple albums and rethought a couple.
1. The Week That Was- ST
2. Fleet Foxes- ST
3. Vampire Weekend- ST
4. Ladytron- Velocifero
5. Dandy Warhols- Earth To the Dandy Warhols
6. Rivers Cuomo- Alone II
7. Beck- Modern Guilt
8. TV On the Radio- Dear Science
9. Clinic- Do It!
10. Thomas Function- Celebration!
11. Metallica- Death Magnetic
12. Islands- Arm's Way
13. Lemuria- Get Better
14. Submarines- Honeysuckle Weeks
15. TI- Paper Trail
16. Magnetic Fields- Distortion
17. Jim Noir- ST
18. Wale- Mixtape About Nothing
19. REM- Accelerate
20. Madonna- Hard Candy
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I can't believe no-one caught my shovel joke.
"But I'm Linus, and I write for Shovel.com."
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18. Norse Savage: Salute to Odin
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18. Norse Savage: Salute to Odin
I did Google for it. But then I forgot why I was doing that.
Also the new britney spears album is pretty good.
You think so? I like a couple tracks just like every other Britney album but I thought Blackout was really good and was disappointed to see her handlers bring her back to sugary pop.
I haven't thought about it too much, and the music isn't stunning. (Though it's better than a lot of stuff that's charting now, like TI.) I just like how the album embraces what a pile of shit she is.
Oh yes. TV on the Radio: I don't get it. They're pretty good, but so dry and kinda boring. I don't understand how they keep being people's top faves. They're a "solid addition to a mixtape" kind of band. But this from a Britney Spears fan apparently.
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I think it's just the year. TV on the Radio is average in my book as well but I can get through the album and I like a couple tracks a lot and the rest are ok. That's good enough for my top 10 this year.
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Oh yes. TV on the Radio: I don't get it. They're pretty good, but so dry and kinda boring. I don't understand how they keep being people's top faves. They're a "solid addition to a mixtape" kind of band. But this from a Britney Spears fan apparently.
Totally agree. I like their music well enough, but I don't find myself coming back to it very often.
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Oh yes. TV on the Radio: I don't get it. They're pretty good, but so dry and kinda boring. I don't understand how they keep being people's top faves. They're a "solid addition to a mixtape" kind of band. But this from a Britney Spears fan apparently.
Totally agree. I like their music well enough, but I don't find myself coming back to it very often.
I find myself liking their albums more after I see them live. I think they're one of the better live bands going right now.
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Someone was kind enough to type in the Wire's 2008 Rewind. Now if someone would be kind enough to put together a torrent of all these albums, thanks.
The Wire 2008 Rewind
01. The Bug - London Zoo [Ninja Tune]
02. Philip Jeck - Sand [Touch]
03. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace [no label]
04. John Butcher - Resonant Spaces [Confront]
05. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna [Social Registry]
06. The Advisory Circle - Other Channels [Ghost Box]
07. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager [Constellation]
08. William S. Burroughs - Real English Tea Made Here [Audio Research Editions]
09. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent [Sanctuary]
10. The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases [Install]
11. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion [Hospital Productions]
12. Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern [Raster-Noton]
13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! [Mute]
14. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground [Constellation]
15. Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon, the Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy By Magic [Crammed Discs]
16. Autechre - Quaristice [Warp]
17. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music [Keysound]
18. Luomo - Convivial [Huume]
19. Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur [AUM Fidelity]
20. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland [Die Schachtel]
21. Lukas Ligeti - Afrikan Machinery [Tzadik]
22. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair [DFA]
23. Group Inerane - Guitar From Agadez (Music of Niger) [Sublime Frequencies]
24. Jandek - Glasgow Sunday 2005 [Corwood]
25. Robert Ashley - Concrete [Lovely Music]
26. Tricky - Knowle West Boy [Domino]
27. Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me [Audika]
28. Scorces - I Turn Into You [Not Not Fun]
29. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull [Southern Lord]
30. Terry Riley - The Last Camel In Paris [Elision Fields]
31. Malcom Goldstein - A Sounding of Sources [New World]
32. Christina Carter - Masque Femine [Many Breaths]
33. Stereo Image - s/t [Frog Man Jake]
34. Harvey Milk - Life... the Best Game In Town [Hydra Head]
35. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend [XL]
36. Emeralds - Solar Bridge [Hanson]
37. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 2 [Tzadik]
38. Portishead - Third [Universal]
39. Toumani Diabate - The Mande Variations [World Circuit]
40. Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and FIRE 3 [Editions RZ]
41. David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dust [Drag City]
42. Vajra - Live [PSF]
43. Murcof - The Versailles Sessions [Leaf]
44. Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness [Bo' Weavil]
45. Peter Rehber - Works for GV 2004-2008 [Editions Mego]
46. Alva Noto - Unitxt [Raster-Noton]
47. Mark Stewart - Edit [Crippled Dick Hot Wax]
48. Sick Alps - US EZ [Siltbreeze]
49. Ellen Fullman & Monique Buzzarté - Fluctuations [Deep Listening]
50. Sao Paulo Underground - The Principle Of Intrusive Relationships [esthetics]
Avant Rock
Aufgehoben - Khora [Holy Mountain]
Burning Star Core - Challenger [Plastic/Hospital]
Birchville Cat Motel - Four Freckle Constellations [Conspiracy]
Black Mountain - In the Future [Jagjaguwar]
The Dead C - Secret Earth [Ba Da Bing]
Eat Skull - Sick To Death [Siltbreeze]
Fabulous Diamonds - Fabulous Diamonds [Siltbreeze]
Growing - All The Way [Social Registry]
Hair Police - Certainty Of Swarms [No Fun Productions]
The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace [no label]
Hototogisu - Under the Rose [Blossoming Noise]
Religious Knives - Remains [No Fun Productions]
Scorces - I Turn Into You [Not Not Fun]
Alexander Tucker - Portal [ATP]
Valet - Naked Acid [Kranky]
Critical Beats
Louis Guillaume - Soulpoint [SD Records]
Joker & Rustie - Play Doe [Kapsize 12"]
King Midas Sound - Cool Out [Hyperdub 12"]
DJ Koze - I Want To Sleep [International Records Recordings 12"]
Martyn - Vancouver/Natural Selection [3024 12"]
Peverelist - Infinity Is Now/Junktion [Punch Drunk 12"]
Rustie - Zig Zag [Wireblock 12"]
Trim - Soulfood Vol. 3 [no label]
Scuba - Twitch (Jamie Vex'd Remix) [Hotflush 12"]
Shackleton - Death Is Not Final [Skull Disco 12"]
Shackleton - Soundboy's Suicide Note [Skull Disco 12"]
Skream - Skreamizm Vol. 4 [Tempa 2x12"]
Tobias - I Can't Fight The Feeling EP [Wagon Repair 12"]
Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco [Perlon 12"]
Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants [Si Es Drum 12"]
Electronica
Benge - Twenty Systems 1968-1988 [Expanding]
Blevin Blectum - Gular Flutter [Aagoo]
Bochum Welt - ROB [Rephlex]
Byetone - Death Of A Typographer [Raster-Noton]
Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto [Touch]
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles [Warp]
Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals [Type]
Machinefabriek - Dauw [Dekorder]
Matmos - Supreme Balloon [Matador]
Move D - Drøne [Modern Love]
Theo Parrish - Sound Sculptures Vol. 1 [Sound Signature]
Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour [Fat Cat]
Schlammpeitziger - Schingstelle Für Rauschabzug [Sonig]
snd - 4, 5, 6 [snd]
Tape - Luminarium [Hapna]
Global
Les Amazones De Guinee - Wamato [Sterns]
Ammasu Akapoma Group - The Music Of Ammasu: Brong Ahasu, Ghana 1976 [Country & Eastern]
Balla Et Ses Balladins - The Syliphone Years [Sterns]
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - Pujo [Felmay]
Zerfu Demissie - Akotet [Terp]
Frank Denyer - Music For Shakuhachi [Another Timbre]
Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger) [Sublime Frequencies]
Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon... [Crammed]
Seant Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 - Many Things [Tot Ou Tard]
Melingo - Maldito Tango [Naïve]
Rail Band - Mansa [Sterns]
Sam Shalabi - Eid [Alien8]
Amadou Sodia - Ca Va Se Savoir [Sterns]
Terakaft - AKh Issudar [IRL]
Umalali - The Garifuni Women's Project [Cumbancha]
Hiphop
Clipse presents Re-Up Gang - Clipse Presents Re-Up Gang [Koch]
Cool Kids - Winterfresh [no label]
Peedi Crakk - Welcome to Crakk's House [no label]
Giggs - Walk In Da Park [SN1]
Charles Hamilton - It's Charles Hamilton [no label]
Alicia Keys - Teenage Love Affair [J-Records]
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III [Cash Money/Universal]
Madlib - Madvillany 2 [Madlib]
MIA featuring Jay-Z
Boyz (Remix) [no label]
9th Wonder & Buckshot - The Formula [Duck Down]
Proton - Read & Purple Mixtape Volume 1 [no label]
Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto [Stones Throw]
TI featuring Kanye West, Jay-Z & Lil Wayne - Swagga Like Us [Grand Hustle]
Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing [no label]
Yo! Majesty - Futuristically Speaking...Never Be Afraid [Domino]
Jazz & Improv
Michael Adkins Quartet - Rotator [HatOLOGY]
Butcher/Muller/va der Schyff - Way Out Northwest [Drip Audio]
Charles/Grydeland/Wallumrød/Zach - Dans Les Arbres [ECM]
Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra - Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra [Thrill Jockey]
Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton - Phases Of The Night [Intakt]
Mary Halvorson Trio - Dragon's Head [Firehouse 12]
Mazen Kerbaj/Birgit Uhler/Sharif Sehnaoui - 3:1 [Creative Sources]
K-Space - Infinity [Ad Hoc]
Ingrid Laubrock - Sleepthief [Intakt]
Chris McGregor Septet - Up To Earch [Fledg'ling]
Mike Osbourne - Force Of Nature [Reel Recordings]
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune [AUM Fidelity]
Howard Riley - Three Is One [ASC]
Franz Paul Schubert & Gunter 'Baby' Sommer - Hic Sunt Leones [Jazz Haus]
Seymour Wright - Seymor Wright Of Derby [no label]
Modern Composition
Robert Ashley - Concrete [Lovely Music]
Carrier Band - Voice Coil [Deep Listening]
Gloria Coates - Symphony No 15 [Naxos]
Anthony Coleman - Lapidation [New World]
Frank Denyer - Silenced Voices [Mode]
James Dillon - The Soadie Waste [NMC]
Ron George - The Floating Bubble [Innova]
Malcolm Goldstein - A Sounding Of Sources [New World]
Mauricio Kagel - Acustica [Zig Zag Territories]
Annea Lockwood - A Sound Map Of The Danube [Lovely Music]
Olivier Messiaen - Organ Works [Delphian]
Eliane Radigue - Chry-Ptus [Schoolmap]
Eliane Radigue - Naldjorlak [Shiiin]
'Blue' Gene Tyranny - The Somewhere Songs/The Invention Of Memory [Mutable]
Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and FIRE 3 [Edition RZ]
Outer Limits
AFCGT - AFCGT [no label]
Astral Social Club - Model Town In A Field Of Mud [Textile]
John Baker - The John Baker Tapes Vols 1 & 2 [trunk]
Excepter - Debt Dept [Paw Tracks]
Ron Geesin - Biting The Hand: BBC Radio Broadcasts 1969-1975 [Hux]
G*Park - Reuters [Tochnit Aleph]
Russell Haswell - Second Live Salvage [Editions Mego]
The Hub - Boundary Layer [Tzadik]
Kikuri - Pulverised Purple [Victo]
Jacob Kirkegaard - Labyrinthitis [Touch]
Richard Skelton - Marking Time [Preservation]
sh*t and Shine - Küss Mich, Meine Liebe [Load]
Howard Steltzer - Bond Inlets [Intransitive]
Volcano The Bear - Amidst The Noise and Twigs [Beta-Lactam Ring]
Zeitkratzer - Electronics [Zeitkratzer]
Dub Top 10
Jimmy Radway & The Fe Me Time Allstars - Dub I [Pressure Sounds]
Johnny Osbourne - Truth & Rights [Heartbeat/Studio One]
Augustus Pablo - The Mystic World Of Augustus Pablo: The Rockers Story [Shanachie]
Deadbeat - Roots & Wire [Wagon Repair]
Culture - Culture & The Deejays At Joe Gibbs 1977-79 [17 North Parade]
Gussie P - Roots & Dub Vol 1 [Sip A Cup]
Henry & Louis - Increments [2 Kings]
Pale Rider - Listen Keenly [Cassava Outernational]
Vibronics - UK Dub Story [Scoops]
The Might Diamonds - The Mighty Diamonds Inna De Yard [Inna De Yard]
Size Matters Top 10
Little Claw - Why Not [Physical Sewer 7"]
Screw - Bans Of The River [Shagrat 10"]
Billy Childish & The Musicians Of the British Empire Vs Halo Of Flies [Amphetamine Reptile 7"]
Elisa Ambrogio & Karl Bauer - Yankee Psychic Hygene [Spirit of Orr 7"]
Zaimph - Bird Of Prey [Arbor 7"]
United Light - Untitled [Alt Vinyl 8"]
Martin Creed - Ooh [Smart Guy/White Columns]
Lightning Strike Lightning - The Moon [L'Animaux Tryst 7"]
Zola Jesus - Poor Sons [Die Stasi 7"]
Anals - Commando Of Love [Sweet Rot 7"]
Compilations
African Scream Contests: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From 70s Benin & Togo [Analog Africa]
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music: Fith A-Chronology [Sub Rosa]
An England Story: The Culture Of The MC In The UK 1984-2008 [Soul Jazz]
Art Of Field Recording Vol 1 [Dust To Digital]
Bollywood Steel Guitar [Sublime Frequencies]
Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels [Numero Group]
Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985 [Strut]
Discovered: A Collection Of Daft Punk Samples [Rapster]
Dreams Come True: Classic First Wave Electro 1982-1987 [Domino]
Dubstep Allstars Vol 6: Mixed By Appleblim [Tempa]
Fabric 39: Robert Hood [Fabric]
Give Me Love: Songs Of The Brokenhearted Bahgdad 1925-1929 [Honest Jon's]
Last Kind Words 1926-1953 [Mississippi]
Life Is A Problem [Mississippi]
Living Is Hard: West African Music In Britain 1927-1929 [Honest Jon's]
Love, Peace & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music [Normal]
Mary Anne Hobbs Presents Evangeline [Planet Mu]
Messthetics Greatest Hiss: Classics Of UK Cassette Culture DIY 1979-1982 [Hyped to Death]
Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump [Strut]
Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of the Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-1979 [Soundway]
Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria [Soundway]
Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me: Female Blues Singers Rarities 1923-1930 [Sub Rosa]
Rough Trade Shops: Counter Culture 07 [Counter Culture]
Shadow Music Of Thailand [Sublime Frequencies]
Sleeping Bag Records: Greatest 12" Mixes [Sleeping Bag/Acrobat]
Sprigs of Time: 78s From the EMI Archive [Honest Jon's]
Steppa's Delight [Soul Jazz]
The Very Best Of Hugh Tracey [SWP]
Victrola Favorites: Artifacts From Bygone Days [Dust To Digital]
Wierd Compilation Vol 2: Analogue Electronic Music 2008 [Wierd]
Reissues
23 Skidoo - Seven Songs [LTM]
808 State - Quadrastate [ZTT]
A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology [A Guy Called Gerald Music]
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 1985-1992 [R&S]
Arabian Prince - Innovative Life: The Anthology 1984-1989 [Stones Throw]
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les Stances A Sophie [Soul Jazz]
Kevin Ayers - Songs For Insane Times: Anthology 1969-1980 [Island]
Basic Channel - BCD2 [Basic Channel]
Jorge Ben - Jorge Ben (1969) [Dusty Groove]
The Blue Notes - The Ogun Collection [Ogun]
Anthony Braxton - Complete Arista Recordings [Mosaic]
Anne Briggs - Anne Briggs [Water]
Burzum - Anthology [Candlelight]
Ornette Coleman - The Croydon Concert [Free Factory]
Shirly & Dolly Collins - The Harvest Years [EMI]
Kid Creole - Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1974-1983 [Strut]
Dredd Foole - Kissing the Contemporary Bliss [Family Vineyard]
Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting [DGM/Panegyric]
Gas - Nah Und Fern [Kompakt]
Harry Pussy - You'll Never Play This Town Again: Live Etc. 1997 [Load]
Thomas Leer - Contradictions [Cherry Red]
Liquid Liquid - Slip In And Out Of Phenomenon [Domino]
Loop - Heaven's End [Reactor]
Ewan MacColl/Charles Parker/Peggy Seeger - Radio Ballads [Topic]
Chris McGregor Group - Very Urgent [Fledg'ling]
Model 500 - Classics [R&S]
Grachan Moncur III - Evolution [Blue Note]
Conlon Nancarrow - Studies For Player Piano [Other Minds]
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - The Voudon Effect: Funk & Sata From Benin's Obscure Labels 1973-1975 [Analog Africa]
Mike Osbourne Trio - The Willisau Concert [Ogun]
Evan Parker - Conic Sections [Psi]
Bernard Parmegiani - L'Oeuvre Musicale [INA]
Washington Phillips - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? [Mississippi]
Pole - 1 2 3 [~scape]
Ragga Twins - Ragga Twins Step Out [Soul Jazz]
Skullflower - IIIrd Gatekeeper [Crucial Blast]
Steinski - What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective [Illegal Art]
Sun Ra - Some Blues But Not The Kind That's Blue [Atavistic]
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar 1970-1976 [Soundway]
Yoshi Wada - Off The Wall/Lament For The Rise And Fall Of the Elephantine Crocodile [EM/Omega Point]
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue [Columbia Legacy]
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom/Old Rottenhat/Schleep [Domino]
http://www.lemmingtrail.com/mb/174676/
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It was nice of the Wire to include all of those subcategories--their main list didn't have enough people I haven't heard of.
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Wait, The Caretaker and Theo Parrish are considered 2008? Well I'll be!
Also: I don't get the Ricardo Villalobos love.
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every album listed in this thread was on my list last year.
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Chris L, I respectfully slap you with my silken glove over the Dirtbombs' record -- "Leopardman at C&A" and "Le Fin Du Monde" are fine tunes. Though I could have lived without that 10-minute noise noodle on side two.
Yeah, I'll definitely give you those. On the whole it wasn't that bad but I was hoping for a little more, minus the filler noise jam.
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The Wire 2008 Rewind
2008 was so bad I find it completely plausible that a Jandek live album was the 24th best release of the year.
Also, where's Kanye West's italo disco album, or whatever it is?
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The Wire 2008 Rewind
2008 was so bad I find it completely plausible that a Jandek live album was the 24th best release of the year.
Also, where's Kanye West's italo disco album, or whatever it is?
In cut-out bins, if there is a God.
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No love for the Mae Shi from anyone? I thought their album HLLLYH was pretty awesome.
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i like the mae shi the same way tv on the radio was described: better live.
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i like the mae shi the same way tv on the radio was described: better live.
Are they still playing 15 min. shows?
I do like the new album; Run to Your Grave is one of my favorite songs this year.
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i like the mae shi the same way tv on the radio was described: better live.
Are they still playing 15 min. shows?
I do like the new album; Run to Your Grave is one of my favorite songs this year.
I saw 'em last weekend and they played a full set. And unfurled a parachute over the whole crowd (and themselves).
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I think Nick Cave is pretty great ~ and Dig, Lazarus, Dig! is particularly good. Thing is, you're pretty much preaching to the choir with this guy. The folks buying his albums have been buying them for ten years or more. You either like him or you don't.
Same goes for Beck, I suppose, who I've never been able to stand personally.
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i like the mae shi the same way tv on the radio was described: better live.
Are they still playing 15 min. shows?
I do like the new album; Run to Your Grave is one of my favorite songs this year.
I saw 'em last weekend and they played a full set. And unfurled a parachute over the whole crowd (and themselves).
I saw them 3 or 4 years ago and a "full set" lasted 12 minutes (which actually was probably a perfect length). I guess their songs have gotten longer since then.
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Okay, here are my top ten, Andy (in Omar style):
01.
Kría Brekkan - Apotropaíosong Armor (Self-Released CD-R)
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02.
The Music Tapes - Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes (Merge)
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03.
Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
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04.
Times New Viking - Rip It Off/Stay Awake (Matador)
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05.
Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. (Kranky)
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06.
Tickley Feather - Tickley Feather (Paw Tracks/Badmaster)
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07.
Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts/Alight of Night (Woodsist/Rough Trade)
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08.
Beach House - Devotion (Carpark)
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09.
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride (4AD)
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10.
Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls (Mauled by Tigers/In the Red)
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I also really like:
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E (Spaceman)
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton (Post Present Medium)
Eat Skull - Sick To Death (Siltbreeze)
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)
The Barbaras - Summertime Road (Goner)
No Age - Eraser (Sub Pop)
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Merge)
Thee Oh Sees - The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In (Castle-Face)
I feel total indifference towards:
Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, Beck, Girl Talk, et cetera ad infinitum.
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Okay, here are my top ten, Andy (in Omar style):
You omitted an important component of "Omar style":
10.
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#8
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I was listening to the Ambrosia Worst Song Ever entry podcast from mid-07 last night at work and DJ Cinnabuns (sp?) recommended this guy.
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actual purchased music listed here!!!
new releases
titus andronicus THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES
wavves WAVVES
hank iv REFUGE IN GENRE
cheap time CHEAP TIME
the hospitals HAIRDRYER PEACE
indian jewelry FREE GOLD
raphael saadiq THE WAY I SEE IT
caethua QUEENLY WOMAN CROWNED AND UNCROWNED
good luck INTO LAKE GRIFFY
fabio orsi AUDIO FOR LOVERS
old stuff put out again
big dipper SUPERCLUSTER
aphex twin SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS '85-92
sir victor uwaifo GUITAR BOY SUPERSTAR
willie nelson STARDUST
david bowie LIVE IN SANTA MONICA '72
v/a WELL HUNG: 20 FUNK ROCK ERUPTIONS FROM BENEATH COMMUNIST HUNGARY VOl. 1
v/a IVG VOL. 1: FUTUR ANTERIEUR FRANCE 75-85
gas NAH UND FERN
dennis wilson PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE
PEANUT BUTTER WOLF PRESENTS LADIES FIRST! (ran out of steam)
probably a lot of other things but thats what came to mind
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Wale is the artist of the year.
biggest musical dissapointment: No El Che from Rhymefest.
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Random Order:
Thee Oh Sees The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In
Clinic Do It!
Black Keys Attack and Release
The Dials Amoeba Amore
Dan Melchoir und das Menace Christmas for the Crows
Drive-by Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Ladyhawk Shots
Black Mountain In The Future
Old Time Relijun Catharsis in Crisis
Dead Meadow Old Growth
Also: Bottomless Pit Congress ep
Disappears 2008 7inch
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I was really feeling that Raphael Saadiq album until I heard the line: "Don't know bout' you/I need some sex/Some sex with you."
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I've liked everything I've heard off US Girls album, but it's on vinyl only, I think. :'(
Perhaps 2009 will be the year I break down and begin buying vinyl.
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Top Albums (no particular order)
No Age - Nouns (SubPop)
Fucked Up - Chemistry of Common Life (Matador)
Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls (Mauled by Tigers/In the Red)
BORIS - Smile (Japanese version)
Sic Alps - US Ez (Siltbreeze)
Eat Skull - Sick to Death (Siltbreeze)
WHY? - Alopecia (Anticon)
Cheap Time - Cheap Time (In the Red)
Gentleman Jesse & His Men - s/t (Douchemaster)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down in the Light (Drag City)
Top Singles/EP's
The Barbaras - Summer Time Road 7" (Goner)
XYX - Sistema de Terminacion Sexual 7" (S-S)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Rapid Response EP (Touch & Go)
Box Elders - Hole in my Head 7" (self-released)
Mutators split 12" with Shearing Pinx (Ugly Pop)
Top Reissues/Compilations:
Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology (Merge)
Jay Reatard Singles 06/07 (In the Red) and the Matador Singles 2008 collection
Danielson - Trying Hartz (Secretly Canadian)
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Oh, I just noticed that Death Sentence: Panda! had an album this year. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but it goes straight up the list anyway. I was familiar with most of these songs already and they all kick ass.
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1. The Shivers - Beaks to the Moon
2. Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
3. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
4. Vivian Girls - S/T
5. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill
6. The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
7. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
8. The Dodos - Visiter
9. Gentleman Jesse & His Men - S/T
10. Black Milk - Tronic
Honorable mentions for TV on the Radio, Portishead, Shearwater, The Cool Kids, The Walkmen, Scott Tuma, The Mountain Goats, Paavoharju, Micah Blue Smaldone, and The Weird Weeds.
Favorite reissues/compilations/etc.
Andy Daly - Nine Sweaters
Big Dipper - Supercluster
Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07/Matador Singles 08
King Khan & the Shrines - The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (Legacy Edition)
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches EP (Definitive Edition)
Portastatic - Some Small History
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Brightblack morning light — 'Motion to Rejoin'
Alexander Tucker — 'Portal'
Life is a problem comp. (mississippi recs.)
Eat Skull — 'Sick to Death'
Hospitals — 'Hairdryer Peace'
The Clean comp. (mississippi recs)
and THIS winter-synth-soundtrack album from Mutant Sounds
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2008/07/angel-rada-upadesa-lp-1979-venezuela.html
So good!
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Oh, I just noticed that Death Sentence: Panda! had an album this year. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but it goes straight up the list anyway. I was familiar with most of these songs already and they all kick ass.
My first ever performance was supporting these guys (and gal). Love them, the album is nuts.
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1 Vivian Girls- Vivian Girls
2 TV on the Radio- Dear Science
3 Hank IV- Refuge in Genre
4 Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
5 Times New Viking- Rip It Off
6 Beck- Modern Guilt
6 Portishead- Third
6 The Dirtbombs- We Have You Surrounded
9 Marnie Stern- This Is It…
10 Deerhunter- Microcastle/Weird Era Cont
10 Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
10 Thomas Function- Celebration
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I'll post the full rankings later.
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I know the vivian girls! It's so funny that they are blowing up...
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I'm changing my answer because I just heard 3 new albums that I like better:
1) The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
2) The Black Keys - Attack & Release
3) v/a - Love, Peace, & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music (reissue comp)
4) The Black Hollies - Casting Shadows
5) Big Dipper - Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology (reissue)
6) Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Rapid Response EP
7) Santogold - s/t
8 ) v/a - Disco Not Disco: 1974-1986 (reissue comp)
9) Hank IV - Refuge in Genre
10) Cheap Time - s/t
11) v/a - Well Hung: 20 Funk Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary (reissue comp)
12) Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07
13) Dengue Fever - Venus on Earth
14) Bonde do Rolê - s/t
15) Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 - s/t
16) Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
17) Vivian Girls - s/t
18) Wavves - s/t
19) Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
20) v/a - Nigeria 70 - Lagos Jump (reissue comp)
21) The Clash - Live at Shea Stadium (1982 concert)
Plus it's 21 records because I'm indecisive and have no respect for the rules.