Your actual 2008 top ten albums (released in any year)

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I hope this one doesn't flame out, but here goes:

What are your top ten (or fifteen, or twenty) albums of 2008 that were released whenever?  I'll start:

1) The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
2) The Black Keys - Attack & Release
3) Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
4) Guided by Voices - Mag Earwhig
5) Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
6) The Nuggets Comp. (cheating, I know, but it's up there)
7) Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
8 ) Miles Davis - Jazz on the Screen (w/ Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers; I'm not entirely sure what this is, I got it at a flea market and it's awesome)
9) v/a - Love, Peace, & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music
10) Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living With The Living (two years running, not even close to sick of it yet!)
11) The Monkees - The Birds, The Bees, & The Monkees
12) Bad Brains - Rock for Light
13) The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
14) The Beatles - Rubber Soul
15) The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd.
16) Santogold - s/t
17) Blondie - Parallel Lines
18) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
19) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
20) New Bomb Turks - Destroy, Oh Boy!!!

[masterofsparks]

1. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
2. The Stooges - Fun House
3. The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
4. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
5. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
6. Kyuss - Sky Valley
7. Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
8. Monster Magnet - Spine of God
9. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
10. ZZ Top - Tejas
11. New Bomb Turks - Destroy Oh Boy
12. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
13. AC/DC - Powerage
14. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
15. The Saints - Eternally Yours
16. Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
17. The Gories - Houserockin'
18. The Hellacopters - By the Grace of God
19. Thin Lizzy - Fighting
20. The Brought Low - Right on Time

I'm sure I'm leaving out 20+ albums that I absolutely can't live without, but this is as of right now.

[yesno]

8. Monster Magnet - Spine of God

I'd like to imagine you got into this because of me.

I'm still working through all the great stuff FOTs sent me at a few albums per week.  I don't remember who gave me what.   Off the top of my head I think Grote gave me the Swell Maps LP which is awesome (I'd only heard them on comps before) and MOS introduced me to a whole world of rock I'd never heard of from made-up places like Sweden.  And if you sent me that Trader Horne album, MOS, I will see you at the Renaissance Faire.

[snogrog]

Hmm. interesting. Gonna need some time to figure this one out...

[Scot]

numbered, but in no particular order ...

1) Cheater Slicks, "Forgive Thee"
2) Gaunt, "I Can See Your Mom From Here"
3) Television Personalities, "And Don't The Kids Just Love It"
4) Stooges, "Funhouse"
5) Oblivians, "Soul Food"
6) Velvet Underground, "White Light/White Heat"
7) Minutemen, "The Punch Line"
Neil Young + Crazy Horse, "Rust Never Sleeps"
9) Fastbacks, "Very Powerful Motor"
10) The Fall, "Grotesque"
11) Angry Samoans, "Back From Samoa"
12) Redd Kross, "Born Innocent"

listened to 'em all ZILLIONS of times. will probably do so again that many more ...

[jbissell]

In no particular order, the albums I listened to the most this year:
1. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
2. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions/Singles 06-07/Singles 08
3. Big Dipper - Supercluster
4. Mission of Burma - Vs. (reissue)
5. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (Legacy Edition)
6. The Replacements - Let It Be (reissue)
7. The Shivers - Beaks to the Moon
8. Andy Daly - Nine Sweaters
9. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Abattoir Blues Tour
10. The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded/Ultraglide in Black
11. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
12. Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On
13. Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend
14. Ike & Tina Turner - Workin' Together
15. Fire on Fire - EP
16. Björk - Vespertine Live
17. The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale
18. King Khan & the Shrines - The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines
19. Ghostface - Supreme Clientele
20. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

[emdasher]

1. The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust
2. Wussy - Funeral Dress
3. The 1900s - Cold & Kind
4. Dump - A Plea For Tenderness
5. Wussy - Left For Dead
6. Ass Ponys - The Known Universe
7. Tindersticks - Curtains
8. Rose Melberg - Cast Away the Clouds
9. The Softies - It's Love
10. Ximena Sarinana - Mediocre

Something like that.

[Gibby]

EDIT: misunderstood the question

Kevin Ayers, Joy of a Toy
Wild Beasts, Limbo Panto
Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything
The Fall, Complete Peel Sessions
Fennesz, Endless Summer
Astoveboat, New Bedford
Blue Pine, Blue Pine
Budgie, Never Turn Your Back On Your Friends
William Basinski, The River
The Icarus Line, Mono

[iAmBaronVonTito]

this is going to be an insane list, but i do know what my favorite album of next year is going to be.



hint: formerly Greg Oblivian

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Yeah, it's an oddly difficult question to articulate.  Maybe I'm just dense.

I've heard good things about that Gang Gang Dance record, and liked the track DJ/rupture played a couple of weeks ago -- I'll check it out.

[Chris L]

this is going to be an insane list, but i do know what my favorite album of next year is going to be.



hint: formerly Greg Oblivian

I thought this would be my favorite album of this year.   What's the dang hold-up?

[gravy boat]

this is going to be an insane list, but i do know what my favorite album of next year is going to be.



hint: Ted Leo

yes.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

this is going to be an insane list, but i do know what my favorite album of next year is going to be.



hint: formerly Greg Oblivian

I thought this would be my favorite album of this year.   What's the dang hold-up?

true story.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

personally, i like the arcade fire: http://www.miroir-noir.com/

...and enjoyed both albums more than once this year.

[jbissell]

Yeah, it's an oddly difficult question to articulate.  Maybe I'm just dense.

I've heard good things about that Gang Gang Dance record, and liked the track DJ/rupture played a couple of weeks ago -- I'll check it out.

It's going to be in the top half of my top 10.