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[mouthbreather]

1. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash 2. Boris - Smile 3. Portishead - 3 4. Smoking Popes - Stay Down 5. Melvins - Nude With Boots 6. Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game in Town 7. Earth - The Bee Made Honey In The Lion's Skull 8. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today 9. Koufax - Strugglers 10. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue 11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! 12. Buffalo Killers - Let It Ride 13. Disfear - Live the Storm 14. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 15. Parts & Labor - Receivers 16. Local H - 12 Angry Months 17. Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded 18. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager 19. Dead Meadow - Old Growth 20. The Sword - Gods of the Earth 21. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia 22. The Goslings - Occasion 23. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing 24. Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild 25. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing 26. Sam Phillips - Don't Do Anything 27. Throw Me A Statue - Moonbeams 28. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals 29. Elvis Costello and The Imposters - Momofuku 30. Calexico - Carried To Dust 31. The Duke Spirit - Neptune 32. Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider 33. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion 34. Randy Newman - Harps & Angels 35. Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune 36. Grails - Take Refuge In Clean Living 37. Cat Power - Jukebox 38. Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers 39. Black Mountain - In The Future 40. Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments 41. Women - s/t 42. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too 43. Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams 44. Skeletons - Money 45. Man Man - Rabbit Habits 46. Magic Lantern - High Beams 47. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night 48. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel 49. Indian Jewelry - Free Gold! 50. Glen Campbell - Meet Glen Campbell

[James D]

What order can we expect things to go Paul? - Misc. - Compilations + Re-issues - Singles - Albums I forget

[Simakos]

update: i love these 2 Portishead songs i have.

[stphone]

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[petras]

1. Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us 2. O my Heart - Mother Mother 3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 4. She & Him - Volume One 5. Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust 6. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping 7. Conor Oberst – Conor Oberst 8. Beck - Modern Guilt 9. Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun 10. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue 11. Tilly and the Wall - O 12. R.E.M. - Accelerate 13. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie 14. Old 97's - Blame It on Gravity 15. Weezer - Weezer (Red Album) 16. Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams 17. The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely 18. Portishead - Third 19. Calexico - Carried to Dust 20. Roger Clyne - Turbo Ocho 21. Black Keys - Attack and Release 22. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! 23. Camille - Music Hole 24. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? 25. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours The new baby made it a really tough year to listen to new music, more often then not I turned to the old standbys this past year instead of new stuff. That said it was still a pretty good year but not as great as the last few years going back to 04 for me anyways.

[Music Saves]

01) Blitzen Trapper - Furr 02) Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash 03) Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul 04) Paul Westerberg - 49:00 05) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 06) Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst 07) The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement 08) Elvis Costello - Momofuku 09) Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams 10) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid 11) Clinic - Do It! 12) Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends 13) The Cure - 4:13 Dream 14) R.E.M. - Accelerate 15) British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? 16) The Walkmen - You & Me 17) The Duke Spirit - Neptune 18) Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha 19) She & Him - Volume 1 20) Islands - Arms Way 21) Weezer - Weezer 22) Spiritualized - Songs In A & E 23) Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer 24) The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely 25) Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads 26) Dungen - 4 27) Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust 28) Hello Blue Roses - The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty 29) Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off 30) The M's - Real Close Ones 31) Travis - Ode To J. Smith 32) Beach House - Devotion 33) Peter Moren - The Last Tycoon 34) Colin Macintyre - The Water 35) The Verve - Forth

[Asher Ford]

I know I said final list earlier, but I just noticed that I somehow deleted Evangelista's album Hello, Voyager from my rankings. Please sub it for Blitzen Trapper - Furr at #17.

[BGwaves]

BG's 2008


1. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

2. Melchior Productions Ltd. - No Disco Future

3. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Freedomland

4. Recloose - Perfect Timing

5. The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow

6. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
7. Growing - All The Way
8. Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco
9. Move D and Benjamin Brunn - Songs From The Beehive
10. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles

11. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
12. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music
13. El Guincho - Alegranza
14. Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us
15. Bill Dixon w/ Exploding Star Orchestra - s/t

16. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
17. Luomo - Convivial
18. Nomo - Ghost Rock
19. Matmos - Supreme Ballroom
20. Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too

Honorable Mentions:
SND - 4,5,6
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Para One - La Naissance des Pieuvres
Booka Shade - The Sun And The Neon Light

[amotin]

1 British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? 2 Cut Copy In Ghost Colours 3 Girl Talk Feed The Animals 4 Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue 5 Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer 6 Hercules and Love Affair Hercules and Love Affair 7 Sebastien Grainger Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains 8 Futureheads This is Not the World 9 Weezer Weezer 10 Death Cab For Cutie Narrow Stairs 11 Rivers Cuomo Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo 12 Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak 13 TV On The Radio Dear Science 14 Teenagers Reality Check 15 Black Kids Partie Traumatic 16 Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster 17 Pop Levi Never Never Love 18 The Heavy Great Vengeance & Furious Fire 19 The Raconteurs Consolers Of The Lonely 20 Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy 21 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend 22 MGMT Oracular Spectacular 23 Nada Surf Lucky 24 My Morning Jacket Evil Urges 25 Kylie Minogue X 26 The Cure 4:13 Dream 27 Be Your Own Pet Get Awkward 28 Hot Chip Made in the Dark 29 Miley Cyrus Breakout 30 Madonna Hard Candy 31 Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It 32 Coldplay Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends 33 She & Him Volume One 34 Kings of Leon Only By the Night 35 Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple 36 Q-Tip The Renaissance 37 Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads 38 The Killers Day & Age 39 Britney Spears Circus 40 Smoking Popes Stay Down 41 Frank Black SVN Fngrs 42 Make Model Products Of Kin 43 Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip Angles 44 Nine Inch Nails The Slip 45 Broken Social Scene Presents Brendan Canning Something For All Of Us... 46 R.E.M. Accelerate 47 Destroyer Trouble in Dreams 48 Louis XIV Slick Dogs and Ponies 49 Ladyhawke Ladyhawke 50 Black Keys Attack & Release 51 Alphabeat This is Alphabeat 52 Bloc Party Intimacy 53 Jamie Lidell Jim 54 The Dirtbombs We Have You Surrounded 55 AC/DC Black Ice 56 Zeigeist The Jade Motel 57 Beck Modern Guilt 58 Secret Machines Secret Machines 59 The Knux Remind Me In 3 Days... 60 The Cool Kids The Bake Sale 61 Helio Sequence Keep Your Eyes Ahead 62 Tapes N Tapes Walk It Off 63 Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed 64 The Features Some Kind of Salvation 65 Neon Neon Stainless Style 66 Kelley Polar I Need You to Hold On While the Sky is Falling 67 The Virgins The Virgins 68 Ghostland Observatory Robotique Majestique 69 Albert Hammond Jr. ?Como Te Llama? 70 Dirty Pretty Things Romance At Short Notice Paul, if Alone II or anything else doesn't count, please just bump everything up.

[Paul]

What order can we expect things to go Paul?

- Misc.
- Compilations + Re-issues
- Singles
- Albums

I forget

We decided to switch this up a little this year, but I think this is how it is going to go:

Sunday December 21: Singles blurbs (and possibly/hopefully album blurbs) are assigned
Monday December 22: Singles Results #100-71
Tuesday December 23: Singles Results #70-41
Friday December 26: singles blurbs due by Friday morning (very last day that album blurbs would be assigned), Singles Results #40-1
Saturday December 27: Comps./Reissues Results (this may get put on Sunday with the misc. polls)
Sunday December 28: Miscellaneous Poll Results
Monday December 29: Album Results #100-41
Tuesday December 30: album blurbs due by Tuesday morning, Album Results #40-1

[Paul]

Just a reminder that tomorrow (Saturday) is the last day to vote! If you've already voted in the albums poll, don't forget about the singles, compilations, and miscellaneous polls. Turnout has picked up in the last few days, but we can always use more votes.

[Hans Christian Anderson]

1. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
2. Boris - Smile
3. Portishead - 3
4. Smoking Popes - Stay Down
5. Melvins - Nude With Boots
6. Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game in Town
7. Earth - The Bee Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
8. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
9. Koufax - Strugglers
10. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue

11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
12. Buffalo Killers - Let It Ride
13. Disfear - Live the Storm
14. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08
15. Parts & Labor - Receivers
16. Local H - 12 Angry Months
17. Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
18. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager
19. Dead Meadow - Old Growth
20. The Sword - Gods of the Earth

21. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
22. The Goslings - Occasion
23. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing
24. Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild
25. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
26. Sam Phillips - Don't Do Anything
27. Throw Me A Statue - Moonbeams
28. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
29. Elvis Costello and The Imposters - Momofuku
30. Calexico - Carried To Dust

31. The Duke Spirit - Neptune
32. Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
33. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
34. Randy Newman - Harps & Angels
35. Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune
36. Grails - Take Refuge In Clean Living
37. Cat Power - Jukebox
38. Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
39. Black Mountain - In The Future
40. Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments

41. Women - s/t
42. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
43. Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
44. Skeletons - Money
45. Man Man - Rabbit Habits
46. Magic Lantern - High Beams
47. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
48. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
49. Indian Jewelry - Free Gold!
50. Glen Campbell - Meet Glen Campbell

great list MB, one of my favorites yet.

update: i love these 2 Portishead songs i have.

nice to hear you dig it. do yourself a favor and get the whole thing. just a phenomenal piece of work.



on another note i love to see all the recent top 10 votes "the bees made honey in the lion's skull" is getting. hell of a record that is.

[UselessRocker]

An Open Letter to Useless Rocker from The Airborne Toxic Event:
Dear Useless Rocker,

Thanks for typing up a Top 50 Albums of the Year list. It’s clear that you are a good writer and it’s clear that you took a lot of time going over your favorite '08 albums. We are fans of the SOMB, but we decided a long time ago not to take year-end lists too seriously. Your list does not include many, many bands we admire (Dr. Dog, the Flaming Lips, Silversun Pickups, Cold War Kids, Black Kids, Bright Eyes [ironic, no?] just to name a few), so now we’re among them. Great.

This band was borne of some very very dark days and the truth is that there is something exciting about just being part of this kind of thing. There’s this long history of dialogue between bands and writers so it’s a bit of a thrill that you have such a strong opinion about us.

We hear you live in Los Angeles. We’d love for you to come to a show sometime and see what we’re doing with these lyrically moody and dramatic songs. You seem like a true believer when it comes to music and writing so we honestly think we can’t be too far apart. In any case, it would make for a good story.

all our best–

Mikel, Steven, Anna, Daren, Noah
the Airborne Toxic Event

AND NOW, USELESS ROCKER'S TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2008



50. The Futureheads - This is Not the World
49. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
48. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
47. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
46. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
45. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
44. R.E.M. - Accelerate
43. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
42. Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
41. Foals - Antidotes
40. Quinn Walker - Laughter's an Asshole/Lion Land




39. Rhymefest - Man in the Mirror
38. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
37. Alexis Taylor - Rubbed Out
36. The Fireman - Electric Arguments
35. School of Language - Sea From Shore
34. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
33. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
32. Emeralds - Solar Bridge
31. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
30. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement



29. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
28. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
27. Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
26. Krallice - Krallice
25. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
24. Boris - Smile
23. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
22. My Disco - Paradise
21. Dan Friel - Ghost Town



20. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
19. Royal Bangs - We Breed Champions
18. The Dodos - Visiter
17. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
16. The Week That Was - The Week That Was
15. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreaks
14. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
13. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
12. Paul Westerberg - 49:00 of Your Life
11. Weezer - The Red Album



10. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
9. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager
8. Parts & Labor - Receivers
7. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
6. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
5. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
4. Harvey Milk - Life..the Best Game in Town
3. Why? - Alopecia
2. Portishead - Third

AND USELESS ROCKER'S NUMBER ONE ALBUM OF 2008:





1. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness

[Plate]

sup deadline 50. Neon Neon - Stainless Style 49. Times New Viking - Rip It Off 48. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust 47. Women - S/T 46. Rokia Traoré - Tchamantche 45. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too 44. Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel 43. Beck - Modern Guilt 42. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull 41. James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes 40. Torche - Meanderthal 39. Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies 38. No Age - Nouns 37. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna 36. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak 35. Black Milk - Tronic 34. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light 33. Vampire Weekend - S/T 32. Fleet Foxes - S/T 31. Toumani Diabaté - The Mandé Variations 30. The Virgins - S/T 29. Weezer - Weezer [Red Album] 28. The Killers - Day & Age 27. Hercules and Love Affair - S/T 26. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer 25. Cyne - Pretty Dark Things 24. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping 23. Brendan Canning - Something for All of Us... 22. Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash 21. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It 20. Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom 19. Constantines - Kensington Heights 18 . Q-Tip - The Renaissance 17. Blitzen Trapper - Furr 16. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 15. The Teenagers - Reality Check 14. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life 13. Why? - Alopecia 12. Empire of the Sun - Walking On a Dream 11. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours 10. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel 9. TV on the Radio - Dear Science 8. Invincible - Shapeshifters 7. Portishead - Third 6. Benoît Pioulard - Temper 5. Vivian Girls - S/T 4. Sun Kil Moon - April 3. Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont. 2. M83 - Saturdays = Youth 1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)

[Pavement Ist Rad]

AND NOW, USELESS ROCKER'S TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2008

Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is how you make a list with a bunch of indie rock shit on it.

"Nice work," as certain folks might say.

[killerparties]

Jesus Christ, there are way more awesome lists than terrible lists this year (especially the last twenty or so pages), when the hell has that ever happened? Was shitty music this year so shitty that people actually realized how shitty it was and stopped voting for it? Or were there only awesome albums? (I say this now, but the top four are gonna be like Coldplay, Radiohead [somehow], tv on the radio, and fleet foxes. Not that the latter three are shitty bands, but c'mon.)

[Pavement Ist Rad]

I think it was the "Elite music discussion/share thread" that made so many people reassess their approaches to music listening.

[Dread]

Not me! 1. The Stills - Oceans Will Rise 2. Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets 3. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid 4. Weezer - The Red Album (should note that it would be the DELUXE version of the album at #4. Not including the bonus tracks would sink it a bit. But whatever, count it at #4) 5. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges 6. Lovedrug - The Sucker Punch Show 7. The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues 8. Paper Rival - Dialog 9. Copeland - You Are My Sunshine 10. Earlimart - Hymn and Her 11. What Made Milwaukee Famous - What Doesn't Kill Us 12. Guillemots - Red 13. Arizona - Glowing Bird 14. Starflyer 59 - Dial M 15. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends 16. Andy Yorke - Simple 17. Nada Surf - Lucky 18. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia 19. Sleepercar - West Texas 20. Beck - Modern Guilt

[UselessRocker]

Not me!

[Pavement Ist Rad]

Hey, man. Weezer. Respect.

BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THE RED ALBUM WOULDN'T EVEN BE CLOSE TO TOP FIVE WORTHY WITHOUT "THE SPIDER."