Top 10 Albums of the year as voted on by the FOT....

[Martin]

Here are your favorite records, shovellers.

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

[jbissell]

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?

[yesno]

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

[dave from knoxville]

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.

[yesno]

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.

[Omar]

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South of Heaven was the best album of the year the twentieth year in the row!

[namethebats]

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

[Gregory]

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

[Pride of Staten Island]

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)

[Andy]

you guys like some weird shit.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

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.

[Gibby]

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.

[Trembling Eagle]

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

[Gibby]

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