Your 2008 Favorites
Dec 18, 2008 at 3:05 AM Post #77 of 100
VA - Nightmare Revisited
T.I. - Paper Trail
Vibe Squad - Bass Love
3Oh!3 - Want
Nas - Untitled
VA - African Swim
Bruce Haack - Haackula (you have no idea how gleefully I edit this in, and yes its only by technicality that I'm allowed to do so)

not like I have varied tastes or anything....
also, how flamed would I get for asking "what is portishead" ?
 
Dec 18, 2008 at 3:20 AM Post #78 of 100
about two weeks ago outside of a restaurant I over heard a conversation where someone genuinely didn't know what google was. "you don't know what google is??" his friend exclaimed.


you don't know what Portishead is??
start with the album Dummy
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Dec 18, 2008 at 4:48 PM Post #80 of 100
Well, now that the year is about done, I'll settle on this list (in no particular order)

LP's

Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love (the all-analog reissue)
Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind
Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel - Dual Hawks
Old 97's - Blame It On Gravity
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive

CD's

Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs
Grateful Dead - Winterland '73 Box
 
Dec 18, 2008 at 7:12 PM Post #82 of 100
The best of 2008:

1. Krisiun - Southern Storm
2. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
3. Death Angel - Killing Season
4. Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
5. Hexen - State of Insurgency
6. Misery Index - Traitors
7. End of Man - Power, Corruption and Lies
8. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
9. Enslaved - Vertebrae
10. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh

from the pretty good to somewhat average:

1. Metallica - Death Magnetic
2. Testament - The Formation of Damnation
3. Amon Amarth - Twilight of The Thunder God
4. Meshuggah - ObZen
5. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
6. Draconian - Turning Season Within
7. Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
8. Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
9. Hail of Bullets - ...Of Frost and War
10. Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master

from the disappointments to the utter crap:

1. All That Remains - Overcome
2. Judas Priest - Nostradamus
3. Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy
4. In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose
5. Cynic - Traced In Air
6. Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
7. Kataklysm - Prevail
8. Trivium - Shogun
9. Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
10. Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie
 
Dec 18, 2008 at 9:02 PM Post #83 of 100
1Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
2The Walkmen - You and Me
3Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
4Pete and the Pirates- Little Death
5The dodos- visiter
6Deerhunter- microcastle
7Beach House- Devotion
8Crystal Castles- crystal castles
9Fu*k Buttons -Street Horrrsing
10Portishead -3rd
11Atlas Sound -Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Can Not Feel
12Opeth - Watershed
13Born Ruffians- Red Yellow And Blue
14Nada Surf- Lucky
15Okkervil River- The Stand
16British Sea Power- Do You like rock music?
17No age -Nouns
18Fleet foxes- Fleet Foxes
19Cut Copy- In Ghost Colors
20Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
 
Dec 19, 2008 at 12:18 AM Post #86 of 100
Here's my Top Ten, in alphabetical order:

A Man About a Horse - Does Not Exist
Bob Mould - District Line
Fleet Foxes - Self Titled (This takes the #1 spot, this year)
Shearwater - Rook
Glen Campbell - Meet Glen Campbell
Grand Archives - Self Titled
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns

Honorable mention: REM - Accelerate, Ringo Starr - Liverpool 8, Russian Circles - Station, James - Hey Ma, Kings of Leon - Only By the Night, Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid, The B-52's - Funplex, Disturbed - Indestructible, Travis - Ode to J. Smith, Vampire Weekend - Self Titled.
 
Dec 19, 2008 at 1:12 AM Post #87 of 100
Standouts for this year:

Fleet Foxes - self titled (definitely favorite of the year)
NIN - Ghosts I-IV
TV On the Radio - Dear Science
Portishead - Third
Boris - Smile
Sunn O))) - Domkirke
Deerhunter - Microcastle
The Black Keys - Attack and Release
John Zorn - Film Works Vol XIX
John Zorn - The Dreamers
Broken Social Scene Presents Brendan Canning - Something For All of Us
Beck - Modern Guilt
David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos

remasters I enjoyed:
lots of Blue Note jazz on vinyl by Steve Hoffman (amazing!)
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Art Pepper - The Way It Was (MFSL)
 
Dec 19, 2008 at 1:42 AM Post #88 of 100
In order

1.) TV on the Radio- Dear Science
2.) Shearwater- Rook
3.) Portishead- Third
4.) The Kills- Midnight Boom
5.) The Walkmen- You & Me
6.) Hayden- In Field & Town
7.) No Age- Nouns
8.) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
9.) Thomas Function- Celebration
10.) Gentlemen Jesse and His Men- Gentlemen Jesse and His Men
11.) The Mountain Goats- Heretic Pride
12.) Constantines- Kensington Heights
13.) Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours
14.) Titus Andronicus- The Airing of Grievances
15.) The Hold Steady- Stay Positive
16.) Times New Viking- Rip It Off
17.) The Black Keys- Attack & Release
18.) British Sea Power- Do You Like Rock Music?
19.) Benga- Diary of an Afro Warrior
20.) Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel- Dual Hawks (This would be a lot higher if it was just a Centro-Matic release)

So I'm a sucker for a good noise/power punk album, so what?
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Also, inexplicably I haven't got around to that new Okkervil River record, I assume when I do listen it will be around my top 10.
 
Dec 19, 2008 at 8:28 AM Post #90 of 100
Favorite has to be TV on the Radio's Dear Science.

other favorites include

Plant Life- Time Traveller
Subtle- Exciting Arm
Deus- Vantage Point
Constantines- Kensington Heights
Blitzen Trapper- Furr
Thalia Zedak Band- Liars and Prayers

I'll have to wait for much of 2008 as i have resolved to only buy second hand. I am sick of finding CDs considerably cheaper after buying them new.
 
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