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[vurt]

Yeah, the Darkbloom list is great. I really need to revisit the Black Dog. Seems like I missed something the first time around.

[Badger]

I really need to revisit the Black Dog. Seems like I missed something the first time around.

Grower of the year for me

[Montana]

The Year in Darkbloom

50 Eclectic Good-to-Great 2008 Releases (with a few honorable mentions)

So what I realized in compiling this list was that 2008 had no real obvious favorite record for me; that I listened to more records than usual, and liked a lot of them, but didn't have a strong opinion on ordering them. So the lineup after the top 10 is pretty arbitrary, but I guess that's always the case. Anyow, a pretty solid year all things considered.

1. Portishead Third
2. Sun Kil Moon April
3. Meshuggah obZen

4. Black Dog Radio Scarecrow
5. Black Keys Attack and Release
6. Ladytron Velocifero

7. Jacaszek Treny
8. Distant System Spiral Empire
9. Sahg Sahg II
10. The Bug London Zoo
11. Gang Gang Dance St. Dyphnia
12. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
13. Boris Smile
14. Benga Diary of an Afro Warrior

15. Mico Nonet The Marmeleade Balloon
16. Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part I (4th World War)
17. Stereolab Chemical Chords
18. Entheogenic Flight of the Urubus
19. Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
20. Wetnurse Invisible City
21. Luomo Convivial
22. Kings of Leon Only By the Night
23. Dday One Heavy Migration

24. Ellen Allien Sool
25. Gavin Bryars/ Philip Jack/ Alter Ego The Sinking of the Titanic
26. Wire Object 47
27. Rudi Arapahoe Echoes from One to Another

28. Ishq Timelapse in Mercury
29. Fantan Mojah Stronger
30. Al Green Lay it Down
31. Lair of the Minotaur War Metal Battle Master
32. Earthless Live at Roadburn
33. Saviors Into Abbadon

34. Evan Marc/ Steve Hillage Dreamtime Submersible
35. Hammers of Misfortune Fields/ Church of Broken Glass
36. Black Milk Tronic
37. Orbit Constructions Andromeda
38. Coffins Buried Death

39. Melvins Nude with Boots
40. Foreign Exchange Leave it All Behind
41. Quiet Village Silent Movie
42. Motörhead Motörizer
43. Samothrace Life's Trade
44. Flying Lotus Los Angeles

45. Metallica Death Magnetic
46. Colourform Visions of Surya
47. Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill

48. Christopher Willits/ Ryiuchi Sakamoto Ocean Fire
49. School of Seven Bells Alpinism
50. Roots Manuva Slime and Reason

Honorable mentions: Juana Molina Un Dia, Cavalera Conspiracy Inflickted, Bill Frisell History Mystery, Glasvegas s/t, Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely, Enslaved Vertebrae, The Ocean Precambrian, Intronaut Prehistoricisms, Harvey Milk Life...The Best Game in Town (coming around to it at last), Torche Meanderthal, Deadbeat Roots and Wire, Cyne Starship Utopia, Fennesz Black Sea, Goldfrapp 7th Tree, Daedalus Love to Make Music ToNicolay and Kay Time: Line, Vadim Bodarenko Smoking Music, Krallice s/t, Wold Stratification, Witchfinder General Resurrected, Dr. Dog Fate, Waylon Jennings Jr. Waylon Forever, Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life, Fucked Up the Chemistry of Modern Life, I Awake The Core, Rae Davis Positive Thinking, Susana Flower of Evil, Stephan Mathieu Radioland, Sleeping Dog Polar Life, The Shortwave Set Replica Sun Machine, the Week that Was s/t, Michna Magic Monday, Durutti Column Sunlight to Blue, Blue to Blackness, Gregor Samsa Rest, Q-Tip The Renaissance

......after posting his list, Vivian and his life force mate sacrifice a cat in the name of our dark lord.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

"dark lord"

"Diary of an Afro Warrior"

[taste the waste]

Nice list, VD. (WHOA.) The fact that your name is a Nabokovian anagram is reason enough for me to trust your musical taste without any questions asked. I'll check out whatever I've missed on that list for certain. Fuck you in so many ways, Montana.

[Vivian Darkbloom]

"dark lord"

"Diary of an Afro Warrior"

Have you heard it?

[theremin]

I have to get to that benga.

[richard]

I have to get to that benga.

Hey man.. thanks for answering my PM, as well as uploading the album I asked you for. I REALLY appreciate it.

[theremin]

I have to get to that benga.

Hey man.. thanks for answering my PM, as well as uploading the album I asked you for. I REALLY appreciate it.

it's on my agenda.

But only because I appreciate sarcasm so much

[Soundscape]

Viv, A lot of your list has me curious. You have a rateyourmusic.com account or blog or anything? I'm on the fence on how soon I want to post my list, since most of it is pretty set (i.e...not very likely much movement will occur in the top 50 at this point..51-100 otoh, a lot of activity has been taking place). maybe a reasonable goal should be sometime next week if not earlier just to get it out of the way as I'm packing/moving right now.

[Montana]

I bet Viv is the #1 customer at his local Renaissance Festival.



"#1 this year dude is Landshire of Burkinghelm. It's fucking awesome"

[Montana]

[simulated stereo]

Mine.

1. Boris--Smile
2. TV on the Radio--Dear Science
3. Earth--The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
4. M83--Saturdays=Youth
5. Brian Eno/David Byrne--Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
6. Jesu--Why Are We Not Perfect
7. Sigur Ros--Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
8. The Roots--Rising Down
9. Portishead--Third
10. Wire--Object 47
11. Genghis Tron--Board up the House
12. Lambchop--OH (Ohio)
13. The Fall--Imperial wax Solvent
14. Melvins--Nude With Boots
15. Al Green--Lay It Down
16. Lindsey Buckingham--Gift of Screws
17. Gnarls Barkley--The Odd Couple
18. Clinic--Do It!
19. Jackson Conti (Madlib Ivan "Mamão" Conti)--Sujinho
20. Beck--Modern Guilt

[scarymuppet]

Been going through people's lists, looking for stuff I might like, and Shugo Tokumaru seems awesome. Can anyone up it?

[77 or 88]

Been going through people's lists, looking for stuff I might like, and Shugo Tokumaru seems awesome. Can anyone up it?

this looks good

http://rapidshare.com/files/133358243/0ugorar.rar.html

[SonicAlligator]

Mine.
19. Jackson Conti (Madlib Ivan "Mamão" Conti)--Sujinho

Good call man. One of my favorites this year. Papaya is a groovin'.

[undo]

my list, official until edited:


1. hlllyh - the mae shi
2. alopecia - why?
3. paper trail - t.i.
4. dear, science - tvotr
5. 808’s and heartbreak - kanye west
6. made in the dark - hot chip
7. the stand-ins - okkervil river
8. midnight organ fight - frightened rabbit
9. trouble in dream - destroyer
10. microcastle - deerhunter
11. with blasphemy so heartfelt - jessica lea mayfield
12. stay positive - the hold steady
13. nouns - no age
14. a kid named cudi - kid cudi
15. evil urges - my morning jacket
16. the red album - weezer
17. tronic - black milk
18. in ghost colors - cut copy
19. viva la vida - coldplay
20. at mount zoomer - wolf parade
21. glasvegas - glasvegas
22. do you like rock music? - british sea power
23. furr - blitzen trapper
24. in the future - black mountain
25. nu amerykah - erykah badu
26. saturdays = youth - m83
27. where you go i go too - lindstrom
28. jim - jamie lidell
29. miles benjamin anthony robinson - miles benjamin anthony robinson
30. the rhumb line - ra ra riot
31. laulu laakson kukista - paavoharju
32. third - portishead
33. the mixtape about nothing - wale
34. we are beautiful, we are doomed - los campesinos!
35. hold on now, youngster - los campesinos!
36. the renaissance - q-tip
37. welcome to mali - amadou and mariam
38. meanderthal - torche
39. evil jeanius - blue sky black death & jean grae
40. brighter than creations dark - drive-by truckers
41. shallow graves - the tallest man on earth
42. the ‘59 sound - gaslight anthem
43. little joy - little joy
44. day & age - the killers
45. untitled - nas
46. tha carter iii - lil wayne
47. receivers - parts and labor
48. lookout mountain, lookout sea - silver jews
49. cardinology - ryan adams
50. some racing, some stopping - headlights

Also, if you can please format your numbered countdown as ARTIST - RELEASE NAME, that will really help me out when tabbing them.

[54cermak]

Disappointed I'm not seeing The Sea and Cake's Car Alarm on some lists! If you've given up on them previously, you need to hear this one.

[brobee]

Also, if you can please format your numbered countdown as ARTIST - RELEASE NAME, that will really help me out when tabbing them.

my bad. i'll fix that after work.

[swede]

that BON IVER record is certainly appearing on a lot of lists...